skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you actually might hurt the project by doing this.

The main motivation for contributing to open source is altruism and/or the desire to contribute to something meaningful and/or have something for your resume.

By paying people, you make it about the money, and likely the money is far below what someone with the skills to really contribute could make. That gets them thinking not about the money and not about how fun it would be to contribute.
I wonder if some jurisdiction has a law against transporting stolen goods, and someone could twist that into saying that moving the coins from one address to another qualifies, and consider that a new crime, with the clock starting today.
Even Roger Ebert fell hard for Cosmology of Kyoto
The exchange of the 36% of assets for the token is a kind of fraud called conversion. [1] That it happened to work out is honestly completely irrelevant. Just as Madoff wouldn't have gotten off scott free if he'd happened to find a way to make people whole.

[1] http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/elements-conversion
I used one of the TTS pre-trained models to turn the Frankenstein e-book from Project Gutenberg into a podcast, and it worked pretty darn well (especially when I compared it with the terminal "say" command). Here's my write-up:

https://www.charlieharrington.com/flow-and-creative-computin...

And the podcast RSS feed:

https://whatrocks.github.io/castellan/podcastjr.xml

It's great when these ML models link to a Google Colab notebook. It makes it super easy and dare-I-say fun to try them out.
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I'm confused by the photo. Newtonian impact depth says an impactor of equal density to the target will only penetrate to its own length. How come the aluminum ball clearly went way deeper than that?
The very same! He wrote a whole series of books about German — a history of German, a grammar of German, a dictionary of German, and, yes, a collection of old German stories.
Voiceless phonemes(?) tend to become voiced when they're between two vowels. Boise natives hypercorrect to say Boy-see, when most folks from outside the area say Boy-zee.

Historic shifts like that are loafes -> loaves.
Very nice execution. Love the aesthetic. IMO the source attribution could still be better. For example I follow one of the sources (RyanCelcius). Many of their original playlist visuals (e.g. rare tapes series) stand on their own merit and deserve to be seen.
How does this compare to ESPNET2? (https://colab.research.google.com/github/espnet/notebook/blo...)

Do you support multiple speakers?

Also, do you mind if I email you and ask you a few questions about Coqui TTS?
Making a company that makes money is a huge accomplishment.
The open southern border is a deliberate plan to change those patterns.
Well, that's because it's completely inadequate for it's intended use (due to its 2-3 tx/sec cap) forcing people into L2.
Roll back is one reason I choose AWS Cloudformation over Terraform. And also I do not see the reason for Terraform in my use case as we run only on AWS. No point in not using AWS native tools.
I know of plenty of people who consider taxes "elicit money", and we spend that money EVERYWHERE
I'm not so worried about it.

There's certain number of "tar-baby" subjects/opinions that can get someone downvoted on HN really quick... like suggesting Peter Thiel is an asshole, or saying anything negative about crazy libertarians.

But HN is ALL about discussion. It's a relatively safe place to float an idea and hear some provocative opinions. The techno-libertarians don't actually bite.

Stackoverflow, on the other hand, has higher stakes. People are trying to figure something out at work and running into a brick wall. If they make the mistake of posting an earnest question they make themselves vulnerable and have a good chance of being humiliated and made to feel like shit by some smug prick who's having a bad day. You really need to put on some psychological armor before attempting to question or answer on Stackoverflow. It's an intrinsically toxic environment.
It's funny. You should watch it too. It isn't a documentary, but it's about a forensic accountant who is chasing down a crooked billionaire, while colleagues who focus on flashy street-level enforcement get all the accolades.
I see what you mean, but I think the “fading” is meant to systematically steer downvotes away from meaning plain disagreement. Whether it succeeds is another issue.

The fading indicates that what an HN downvote means is “I think people shouldn’t see this/this shouldn’t be part of the thread”. Whether it’s bc the post is off topic, flame bait, trolling, just plain boneheaded, etc., is kind of beside the point, although ideally it isn’t simply disagreement.

But that means replying to a post you downvote makes no sense. Why further a conversation you’re trying to bury?

Also, if an opinion is so unpopular it gets downvoted into oblivion, maybe a forum based on votes just isn’t the right venue for it. Start a blog.
you and I both know that could never happen, it would get contracted out to Oracle or something
Also, drugs.

The caffeine addicts will be desperate when the beans stop flowing.
Maybe figured that coinbase IPO would dominate crypto news for the day and any reporting on this would be drowned out, possibly?
Google's FeedBurner loses its email subscription service
The bakery AI company applying its solutions to cancer made the New Yorker recently.
There are extremophiles, I guess, but once you've adapted to living in that environment, you aren't adapted for normal existence any more!
Once, when asked, “Why is your neck crooked?”, the Camel said, “What do I have that is not?”
But what exchange (in its right mind) would take those bitcoins? They're permanently tainted, and are likely very hard to convert into fiat currency, and therefore have, I expect, near zero value.
Wouldn’t they have some trouble getting it into an exchange to change it to XMR?

I assume that even if they moved some portion of it, say 10 BTC, to N different wallets, those transactions would be traceable to the exchange?

I’m not sure how XMR works but then the exchange would know at least which wallet the XMR was sent to.

I’m also not sure of the law surrounding a P2P transfer (IE receiving stolen property) but I’m guessing you might be SOL if you did a trade with them on a P2P platform as well...

Very interested if someone in the know would like to chime in
Spot on. Most bounties are tiny and, as a FOSS developer myself, look discouraging or even a little bit insulting.
From Mark Rosenfelder (https://www.zompist.com/spell.html):

> Many people expect … to predict the spelling from the pronunciations-- not realizing that few orthographies meet this goal. It's far from true of Spanish, for instance, which is often held up as an example of a good orthography. I stopped fervently admiring Spanish orthography when I saw a sign in a Mexican bakery with about one spelling mistake every third word.

So, no, hardly bijective!
Personally, I think the "karma" and up/down voting of comments is a cool feature but they need to be taken with a grain of salt.

It's fun to see a submission get upvoted and get karma points and disappointing to see one get buried, and frustrating to see a post get buried and than another covering the same topic go big, but taken in perspective to what's truly important the points are trivial.

The main reason I visit HN most days, and generally several times a day, is to find something interesting and most days I do, and some of what I find and learn here is important.

I never come here looking for stuff to down vote. That's kind of hard to even imagine because you'd almost have to pass over the interesting and important to do that.

Be interesting to be able to see how many down votes a user has made. That could make one a bit less trigger happy.
The valuations are in part a leading indicator of inflation, as governments print money. It's no good having cash, buy a stream of inflation adjusted revenue.

Also whatever the opposite of trickle down economics is. As more concentrated wealth chases investment opportunities, prices go up.
newer versions of gnome-terminal have a feature where it will hold your paste buffer in the linefeed before executing anything, does not matter how long or how many line breaks there are. You can then inspect what you just paste into the terminal, even edit it, before actually executing it.
Things have been a lot more equitable since pg was running the show.

Although to be fair sometimes you come along a bit late and people don't actually see your comment. If it's not still on the first page of their threads list they're probably never going to notice it. Maybe there should be a message when someone logs in to let them know what flags are against their account.
You pay for some of these (like dangling IP addresses not in use) and some others have a max quota (like security groups).
Buttons are going to look like buttons again? Depth and borders are back? Can't wait for this!
>“A manager on Strategic Response mused to myself that most of the world outside the West was effectively the Wild West with myself as the part-time dictator – he meant the statement as a compliment, but it illustrated the immense pressures upon me.”

>She often felt responsible when civil unrest took hold in places she didn’t prioritize for investigation and action.

"Hard to be God".
I have one and have a similar problem. These things take months to lose battery. I often change around where I put cables and etc between the times needed to charge it.
As someone who lives in the mosquito-infested South, I’m very skeptical about this. I don’t like the idea of there being MORE mosquitoes, especially after all of the effort we take to get rid of them.
Maybe it uses homomorphic encryption?
All their comments start dead. People call it shadow banning or hell banning. And some other accounts have [banned] after the name but keep commenting.
I didn't say it requires consensus but rather that it's often present. Absence of it doesn't disqualify it because eventually consistent systems are definitely "distributed systems". I guess my quandary is between what I would consider embarrassing parallel scale out problems vs distributed systems that often do some sort of coordination even if that is loose coordination in the case of things like p2p protocols ala BTC, bittorrent, etc.
Definitely a lower bound. In reality cases have probably been several multiples higher (and mortality rate several multiples lower).
I can't help but be negative when the numbers don't lie. Cars are a (very convenient) child killer.

"safety not great" is an understatement
> I wonder if the focus on (very rare) side effects is part of an effort to lay the groundwork for doing that without a huge backlash from rich country citizens.

But that focus also undermines the use of these vaccines in poorer countries. Who will want the thing that the rich countries rejected as substandard?
From what I've seen, Linus has always been mostly quite reasonable and constrictive, even before his 2018 "refection" that some others mentioned. Most of the time it was direct, but helpful, polite, and constructive. This is probably a big contributor to Linux's success.

It's just that on occasion he would rant and rave to people and call them retards or whatnot. People get a bit of a skewed perception because only those messages make the news and are famous, but that's not really representative of all the messages.

And when he did rant and rave, it was pretty much always towards established contributors who had screwed up somehow; people who in his opinion ought to know better, and most of the time he did have a good point. I don't approve of his style, but it's not like he would randomly call people idiots. It's not as if you ever ran the risk of being scolded by Linus if you were a new contributor sending a patch or anything.

tl;dr: Linus has always been like this, and was just occasionally an asshole.
Yeah, I absolutely love my OP-1. Drum machines, synths, everything I need for sketching out ideas anywhere I might happen to have some free time. Before the Lost Year, it was great to bring on trips: You can do some great stuff on an airplane.

I believe George Harrison said the ukulele is the best instrument for songwriting - it's portable, self-contained, and incredibly easy to work with. The OP-1 hits a similar spot for me: It's a bicycle for songwriting.
The ABC: https://www.abc.net.au/news/

And SBS: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/
A $1.2M Bank Error Buys a House, and an Arrest, Officials Say
That’s not really homomorphic encryption, IIUC. In homomorphic encryption, you don’t even need decryption and re-encryption steps.
Right, because gold is really going to help when there are no police going around arresting thieves and murderers. I'm sure the guy who tells you he can get you out is not going to take your gold and do nothing to get you out, assuming he doesn't just kill you and take your gold, shoes, weapons, and whatever other supplies you are carrying.

Get real. When governments collapse gold is not even remotely as useful as people seem to assume. There is no hedge against a failure of civilization. When things break down like that, you need to think on your feet and start organizing people (or joining up with a group someone else organized) to stand guard against the roving gangs of murderers, rapists, and thieves. "Trade" beyond the level of barter involving food, fuel, medicine, and weapons does not enter the picture until some new form of government can be established and some semblance of order is restored.
Going to be hard to do real-time audio analysis over postmessage
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here.

Cars are not safe. They're the number one killer.

In contrast, how many people are killed by the automobile alternatives of cycling, public transit? Seems that those are safe to me.
And not just the terminal. Why on Earth people thought that the regular PC keyboard and the mouse required anything more complex than the good old RS-232.
> I want this to run my own shell scripts.

That's really the only use case for this tool that I could get behind, and I commend you for your diligence.
> Property rights work like minecraft, you purchase the right to blocks of 1 meter cubes. Supposedly this solves the issue of obstructing someone's view.

How would this work in practice? If someone buys the rights to all second floor voxels, will they be able to veto any apartment construction plans? Someone else may own third floor through 100th floor voxels, but unless they find a way to build a hovering skyscraper, they cannot build it without the consent of the second floor voxel owner.
Obama was that forward thinking, charismatic, enlightened leader that people wanted to work for. The White House Digital Service was by any metric a resounding success. But the pay did suck.

The problem with the government paying "Google salaries" is who gets them? Is an IRS auditor really worthy of half a million a year in comp? What about the DEA agent deep under cover and risking his life, much more deserving... right?

So you create a new branch of the government where keyboard warriors bang out solutions to government problems. Why is one of these hot-shots making what an entire department of inspectors is paid at the USDA? The resentment from other agencies will be a hard barrier to overcome. They also have no incentive to help your new Rockstar Agency to get access to all the data they need so they can put government employees out of work.

Not to mention, is it really beneficial to the tax payer to try and compete with tech companies? If FAANG companies start to suffer a talent drain, they will just re-up and double whatever the government offers.
I don't have this experience. Can you give an example of a previously-valid codebase that failed typechecking unexpectedly on a recent MyPy update, that wasn't a result of a false negative bug in MyPy?
It is a day of true irony: https://twitter.com/RichardHeartWin/status/13823814747338219...
For more concrete data: If you look at their current "key ideas" page,[1] they go over 4 categories of high-impact careers (notably including government/policy) and then say "if you think none of the categories above are a great fit for you, we’d encourage you to consider earning to give. It’s also worth considering this option if you have an unusually good fit for a very high-earning career."

This post[2] suggests 80k's key researchers think about 15% of people interested in EA would be the best fit for earning to give, while 10% of people attending an EA-themed conference were perfectly planning to.

I don't think criticizing effective altruism based on the assertion that it's mostly about earning-to-give is reasonable given those numbers or the framing in 80k's "key ideas" post.

[1]: https://80000hours.org/key-ideas/#career-categories
[2]: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/LrKFNQxjETPvzXQcv/...
Yeah but they break those laws for their own gain, not for you.
> the channels with the most followers have the loudest voice

Sure, but I don't people people are entitled to have their videos promoted for them. The fact that you can have your video hosted for free, and share it to anyone in the world is already great enough. While on average louder voices get the most attention, plenty of smaller creators have managed to get important messages out.

> drowing in shills and scammers

That seems like a hyperbole? Do you honestly feel this way browsing Youtube or Twitter? I'm not saying they don't exist but they're fairly rare in my experience.

> more community centric model

I agree, reddit's model works kinda well. Youtube has tried that in the past (though I guess they got rid of it?), and Twitter is experimenting with it now (Birdwatch). I also like the Facebook supreme court model for handling edge cases.
...why would I want to accept Bitcoin in that case? Pretty sure I am going to want either some other country's currency -- because I still need to buy imported food or fuel or whatever -- or things have gotten so bad that I no longer hand reliable enough Internet service to make use of Bitcoin.
Sorry, but there is quite a bit of difference between "we don't like the way you explained your fix for the issue" and "screw you, buy a new phone".
You can't stop at the user story. Actually that sentence is not a user story at all.

It just says 'user' which is way too generic.

It's missing the "why" which can inform the developer a lot about the actual AC for this story both when discussing the story prior to starting estimation and later when it turns out that some AC is unclear or missing.

The 'standard' format of 'As a <type of user> I want <do X> so that <I can do/get/see etc Y>'

Of course it's very possible to write utterly bad user stories in this format too and to write good ones that do not follow it slavishly.

So why do these users want to import legacy data and who is this user?

Let's say this is an import that only ab admin can do.

As an Admin I can import legacy data.

Better. Let's say our system only has one level of admin so that this is actually completely clear and not ambiguous.

So why does he want to do this? Since we don't know the context you had in mind I will invent one. Let's say that this is an on premise (not cloud/SaaS) issue tracking system that and it has an export feature and we want to be able to import from the old legacy format that has since changed. People routinely use this export/import to create a data dump for backuo purposes and the problem is that only the same version of our software can read them.

As an Admin I want to import legacy data so that I can use old data dumps from previous versions in a newer version instance.

Much better. Let's add some imaginary AC:

* should be able to read version 0.8 to 1.3 data formats (no need for <= 0.7 as those were EOL'd 2 years ago)

* add to both current master as well as the release branches for 1.4 through 1.7

* user should be able to import any size file (we've routinely seen customers with dumps in the 2gb+ range)

* show a progress indicator on screen while the import is running

These could be some initial AC that can now be discussed with the team. The team might tell you that 0.8 had a real dumb quirk and if we could skip implementing that it would save us weeks of implementation and testing time. Also support it on 1.4 would suck because of that big refactoring that happened in 1.5 and it would basically mean writing the legacy import twice instead of cherry picking it with minimal conflicts.

And so on and so forth. Depending on how you work and what roles your org has there might be a design attached for the progress indicator and such or you're expected to whip something up. Or you tell the PO that he should check the current feature set because we already have a progress indicator there and this is just about adding new (old) file format support! And then he tells you that the indicator was only added in 1.6 which suddenly makes this a hidden backport of other features and you might split the story into more than one or say 'screw it' and remove that AC (you get the indicator in versions where it exists but no backporting).
When using Terraform you should think of your IaC as the plans to build or rebuild your infrastructure, not an extension. I built mine in a way where I can destroy all the infrastructure in a plan and then reapply. You don't have to worry about rollbacks when you can just rebuild everything without affecting your end service.
Hacker news gets it wrong by letting some clown go around moderating for viewpoint.
mRNA is rapidly degraded once in the body (really anywhere that isnt cold storage), existing for hours to days at most after injection. There isnt a really plausible reason why there would be no serious short term side effects reported after hundreds of millions of shots, but a hidden risk of long term serious side effects.
Exactly, movies and books fool the brain.

The feelings you feel have nothing to do with real life when you have all the senses, including proper visual. Just like the 2D uncanny valley pictures of robots aren't real in 3D ( good money as an artist if you could do a 3D uncanny valley )

'Metalhead' in real life would just be about stress and other common emotions.

Check out Screamers (1996) if you like Metalheads
terraform was a great idea but the language makes devops folks have to do a lot of extra work, purely due to language design features. Terragrunt helps with a lot of that, but combined with the version churn, long-standing bugs, and more, I really wanted an alternative that was small, and simple.

Also: why isn't the state file created at command invocation by querying AWS for the state? Or at least have an option to generate the simplest TF for your current AWS state.
the bet is whether US regulators have the panache to regulate a financial market anymore.