skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea here is not to use it instead of actors for the final product, but to use this instead of existing solutions for placeholder audio. Recording and editing dialogue is a rather lengthy and costly endeavour. In big titles you typically have some manner of placeholder dialogue audio, usually computer generated, during development.

The existing ones I've worked with have all sounded very robotic, flat, and emotionless. It makes it very hard to hear how well something works when there's no character or emotion to the words. It also breaks immersion even when you (like me, who works as a graphics programmer) are working on entirely different parts of the game.
Don't tell people... They will destroy it.
> it’s not clearly unacceptable

How do you prevent anyone saying they are a journalist to avoid getting arrested for unlawful protest.
I don't think it necessarily implies a balance of power. Even without that, it makes sense for a company to allow the candidate to ask lots of questions to make sure it would be the right job for them and they're likely to be happy and stick around
Britons with a first dose of Covid vaccine have become infected with variants
Would be great to allow for it to save to worm storage.
Both docker and flatpak are quite new in comparision to APT. Nix isn't really new, but gained traction lately, so in comparision to APT i would say It too is "new". We're not there yet, but i i believe shipping your dependencies with your application is how it'll all pan out for a lot of things. Even if it's a security nightmare not being able to update the dependencies for the entire system.

EDIT: And being new, there facilities aren't as mature, userbase smaller, so not enough work is put into packaging the latest versions. Since they also take on the goal of sandboxing the barrier for entry might be higher.
> Every crash that is not deliberate is an accident.

If you were to define the word "accident" as "everything not deliberate", then, sure ok. But that's not how the word is typically used.

There are vanishingly few real accidents in traffic. Nearly all crashes are also not intentional.

The vast middle is crashes due to driver incompetence or negligence. Not intentional, but totally avoidable if the driver had done their job (pay attention, be lucid, have suitable skills).

People like to call things "accidents" because it shifts blame to destiny. But reality is that nearly all crashes could have been avoided by the driver.
> As a Symfony dev I agree. And the process to convert PHP into a Java-esqe Kotlin-esque language is continuing. Why not use a different language if you like it rather than change PHP?

The audacity of PHP 5.3 developers. How dared they!
The audacity of PHP 5.4 developers. How dared they!
The audacity of PHP 5.5 developers. How dared they!
The audacity of PHP 5.6 developers. How dared they!
The audacity of PHP 7.0 developers. How dared they!
The audacity of PHP 7.1 developers. How dared they!
The audacity of PHP 7.2 developers. How dared they!
The audacity of PHP 7.3 developers. How dared they!
The audacity of PHP 7.4 developers. How dared they!
The audacity of PHP 8.0 developers. How dared they!
The audacity of PHP 8.1 developers. How dared they!

/s

(sorry, couldn't help. this particular argument is sooooo silly...)
The Pacific Ocean isn't too far away. How hard is it to build desalination plants to increase supply? How long would it take, and how expensive would it be, to increase the water supply so there's no shortfall and some reasonable safety margin?

Would desalination capacity built in Pacific coastal cities like LA or SF be able to alleviate shortages with all the new water being used locally? Or would you actually have to pipe the water away from the ocean to inland desert areas like Las Vegas and Phoenix? Are there pipelines for this already, or would they have to be built?
Ibm cloud is especially bad. Tried api connect. There is no way! To get any logs, debug information or anything! Nothing! Zero! You only get what the api endpoint tells the client... It's insane..
In my experience, most books on speed reading are such that you can just skip the entire book without losing anything important.
The publisher continues to deny but it’s an open secret by now that she’s Anita Raja. The only question is the degree of involvement from her husband Domenico Starnone (also a writer), since his style is very close to her style; but Raja has also been a long-time editor for Starnone, so the overlapping might be entirely organic.
Networkless Mobile Payments with Minimal Changes in Trusted Execution Env (Tee)
I wonder how an order like this can be implemented. How do you know who is a journalist without detaining them first to verify credentials.
Correction: I meant *I think that makes debugging not fluid.
> What would you say about the device?

It's not a general purpose device - which is OK with me - no need to be distracted by games or web browsing.

If you don't care about linux or privacy, the kindle is way cheaper, and most any tablet with apps has more general utility.

I mainly wanted an ebook reader with a big e-ink screen.

What I found was more than I expected -- you can scribble or highlight your PDF files. The paper/writing part is pretty fun. Write in the margins. I've found myself drawing/sketching for no reason.

Another motivation was openness. You are not forced to use their cloud service or run an app.

In fact, they provide the root password and you can ssh into it. Out-of-the-box you are into-the-box.

It's linux-based, and people have written modifications for it.
Not if they help generate new housing, which it seems some of them do.
That's really interesting, thanks for sharing. I did not have the pleasure(?) of working in the industry back then, as is true of most developers these days.

Do you hold out hope for a similar transition to a better local development workflow? What do you think it might look like?
Problem is aws or gcp or azure do not follow any standard spec for their services.

Ideally, they should first come up with a spec - and provide reference implementation.

Every provider will implement solutions for these standard specs. That way customers can use services for the spec. Customers can move between providers or work with multiple providers at the same time. Level playing field & let the best provider win the customer loyalty.

But, all providers want to lock in customers. So, we are at the wrong end of the stick.
This looks great. Just wondering if you can share any details on what hosting / architecture you're running this on? Is each user's space running in it's own container or everything in the same DB for example?
Ah I was wondering what the significance of that was. I figured maybe some meme I was not familiar with.

Also the is the first time I have heard of a “pangram”.
Gnome has been on this UI course for years. Personally I can't stand it, it breaks a lot of sensible UI conventions and assumes either trackpad or a touchscreen, perhaps they think everyone is on a laptop all the time.

Luckily there are so many alternatives, so I don't see why Gnome being bad is a motivation to drop Linux altogether?

Why not give KDE a go? The KDE Neon distribution is extremely solid (it's the latest Ubuntu LTS with the KDE repository perfectly integrated).

Another solid choice of distro with KDE as the default[1] DE is openSUSE, which I consider the most sensible and well-designed distro out there.

I've heard good things about OpenMandriva as well, which also has KDE as the default DE.

[1] Officially there is no default, but SUSE and its derivatives are traditionally KDE distros.
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Ask HN: What are your resources for learning modern C and C++?
I haven't written any C and C++ code over a decade. Mostly out of personal interest I would like to revisit these two languages and aproach them as a new programmer, see how the standards and best practices have evolved (if at all). Are there any modern resources for doing that you know of, or am I approaching it the wrong way?
Singapore is essentially a city state so is very limited in how much of that rainfall can be stored long term. If you look on a satellite map you'll see that the undeveloped land is already dominated by water catchment and storage: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Singapore/@1.3931232,103.7...

The same is true in many pacific islands, they get plenty of rainfall but it's not always storable or predictable, a lot comes at once from a cyclone/hurricane for instance, but you might get 2 of them a year and then nothing for a decade.
Which again is a poor way to go about things.
It's the render output from a LEGO CAD app like LDraw or BrickLink Studio.
You will not find many places that are pro Bitcoin (wsb has fully banned discussion of it). Regardless, there is still a nihilistic cohort that pay attention to it in most places. All confirmation bias is in the Bitcoin focused subreddits if you seek that.
Did you read “Crime and punishment” by Dostoevsky? It’s about this very thing. What is crime without attribution - of success as much as of guilt...?
Twitter thread by one of the authors https://twitter.com/pankaj/status/1384019781909585921

PS: the title had to be edited because it exceeded HN's max char count by 2
The point is Canada's water is not close enough to the places in the USA that would need that water for it be compelling to invade Canada for their water.
Facts don’t change people’s minds. Here’s what does
The other 90% are the better than average programmers who don't need such training wheels. /s
Better ski touring (and even just alpine skiing) boots have inner soft parts that are heat-moldable to fit perfectly to everyone's unique feet. Ski shops all have these heat machine specifically for this, but there are tutorials on how to even do it at home with just rice, socks and microwave in case you shop online (with almost no risk of destroying it as usual)
Cybersecurity Weather Forcast
I guess that could be a form of lossy text compression - where the end result is not completely right (the letters not being completely in the right order) but it's good enough to be able to read the text.
No pressure, I just want to let you know the option is there if you want it (and that counts for other HN users as well). Contact details are in my profile.

I recognize the guilt feelings. Be careful of vicious cycles related to this. For me feeling guilty about not being productive or honoring commitments was a huge factor in not being able to sleep. And not being able to sleep well impacted productivity the next day, leading to more guilt feelings and less sleep. At some point social activity can be impacted as well leading to isolation.
> what is to stop me threatening to resign every time I don’t get my way? To which I calmly explain that he didn’t have to pay (Ie. I could just quit).

This might be my English failing me but I can't understand your answer; it doesn't seem like it's actually addressing the question that was asked to you.

Could you elaborate a little further? I was met with that question before and would like to learn how to handle it well.
I used to not believe in therapy because of the two sessions I had in the past, but it has started to sound like the way to go when I realized they were probably just bad therapists. I did reach out to a psychotherapist I know. Unfortunately, it’s a conflict of interest or something because I know her? I gave up after that, but will definitely go that route if things get worse or I come across someone reputable.

EDIT: Am I supposed to add this edit section on HN? I forgot to mention why I think I feel guilt. I think it’s because I’m not hitting my timeline and there’s no money coming in. The lack of income is by choice though. I wanted to build out and polish a product I know clients will pay for, but it’s not coming together fast enough. So taking time off when I’m “behind” just feels terrible.
Why Specifications Don't Compose
Source code:
https://github.com/monarc-project/stats-service

Some explanations:
https://dashboard.monarc.lu/help
It looks like your vendor is not keeping up with the times.
> Scheduling-wise, optimize meetings for less productive periods (late afternoon, first thing in the morning pre-coffee, right after lunch, etc.).

Wait, you just mentioned all times. I'm most productive late in the afternoon. Not everyone is the same.
> Don't want to do a mandatory evacuation when there's a wildfire near your house? Just say you're press and exempt from the evacuation order.

So let them. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. The government's job is to make people aware of the risk, not to stand between worthy recipients and their Darwin award.
I love this post and how it shows that playful exploration can produce interesting results (and learning along the way).

I've often felt that getting learners to ask "What if" rather than "Why" leads to a much more fun and fulfilling experience while covering the same content.
Sure it is, when Canada becomes part of the US and people who live where the water isn't just get to move there.
> I can think of many cases where there was not a fuckup yet vehicles collide.

And yet the examples are extreme cases, which while do happen, are very rarely the cause of crashes.

The vast majority of crashes is not because someone had a seizure, it's because they weren't paying attention or were incompetent.
Your product looks great. Just had a brief skim over your main page and have seen one grammar error... "We understand that every second counts when you're on the field." should be "...in the field.".
I would recommend ensuring grammar etc is correct, as this could easily turn away potential customers, regardless of how great your product is.
Sounds like a YC startup idea to me. Small bots that carry waste through the dry sewers.

I'm both joking (haha), and I'm not joking (maybe there are tech solutions)
You miss the point. Take over Canada and make it part of the US. Move the people, not the water.
They are definitely not homogeneous over such distances. They are very complex and rapidly varying in time and space.
You didn't mentioned it was within the same compile unit, just parallel code generation.

In any case, have a look here,

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/cgthrea...
Where I'm from used to be communist... I have a good idea how it works... There's a way the country presents itself to its people and outside and the reality is most often very different.
Ambiguous Cylinder Illusion – How It Works
> How much pollution is too much? I feel we are a long way from that point still, in India.

I would argue: any pollution that isn't factored into the cost of the energy production. If it's not priced in then there's no rational acting in the market, which (for better or worse) is the mechanism that we're using to figure out which energy systems to deploy.

Even with that in mind, renewables like solar and wind are already easily cost-competitive with coal in many locations and getting more so every day (by most current measures of levelised cost of energy).
You don't understand ? I don't know, maybe a decade of not listening to its actual user instead of pouring ton of work for fantasied ones ?

Responsive design and Tablet were the rage and going to replace every other computer. Fast-forward, has was predictable, it did not. Gnome needs to go back to the drawing board and revise assumptions made 10 years ago. And, no, keyboard shortcut do not compensate bad design.

If Gnome is niche on the desktop, it is non-existent on touch devices. The project needs to get over that and start to cater to it's actual user base.

See, user too can be very opinionated ;-)
Miscounting fs when "of" is present is actually a fairly well known psychological effect (see e.g. https://sharpbrains.com/blog/2006/09/10/brain-exercise-brain...). It's because the sound of the letter is different, and that makes me think deaf people will be more likely to count correctly.

I still prefer "The five boxing wizards jump quickly".
For the kind of discussions we have on HN (the insightful, informative ones), text is by far the best format. Both in terms of expressiveness and ease-of-consumption. The asynchronous nature of text comments give people time to think before responding.

I'd classify audio discussions (such as those on Clubhouse) more as entertainment, than informative.
I have to do something different, maybe press harder because some of my strokes are almost invisibly thin. Same problem with pencil. I do like a fat magic marker, and mechanical pencil is fine.

Thinking about it, in the past decade or two, I haven't ever written much more than my signature. Maybe in the future writing will only be done for pleasure, like listening to vinyl.
It depends on motivation: is my motivation to learn something new or play around for fun? Then I'll choose whatever I'm interested in learning.

If the motivation is to build something I actually need independent of the stack - in other words, something I expect to be paid for building, or has some other utility - then I'll use what I know. That doesn't mean I won't learn new things, but I'll learn those things in order to get the job done, rather than for their own sake. That doesn't rule out small experiments - for example, trying out an individual library to accomplish a task - but the overall stack will be something I'm familiar with.
Nunc: Pay-as-you-play gaming servers, for the cloud era
If you're interested in this sort of thing, you might also be interested in Archivy [1], which is somewhat similar but it (thankfully) doesn't upload your stuff to archive.org

[1] https://archivy.github.io/
I hadn't seen that; thanks!
Funnily enough this resonates with me a lot. I definitely suffer from overthinking. This one time I saw a pregnant woman get pepper sprayed during the HK protests on Reddit and was so mad I couldn’t sleep till 3 am. I’m not Chinese and I know there’s nothing significant I can do about what happened, but things like that stick with me for way too long. Long enough for me to bring it up now and I don’t know how to handle it sometimes.

What does the feet shaking do for you?
"Democratizing Tragedy of Commons at scale"
The Man Behind the Green Revolution
> FLoC is a new thing which is just being rolled out, so it's a lot easier for people to resist adding a new thing that makes the internet more crappy and less private.

What exactly about FLoC is making the internet less private though? Every time I see the technology it seems that it's deliberately built to keep private data in your Chrome browser and leak significantly less than anything else Ad related right now.

Also, why is WordPress allowing so many ad and anlytics tracking plugins and not considering those as security issues?
Build your own unit test platform? The true story of .NET nanoFramework
These screens are awesome. I did a design a few years ago, aiming for super low cost and easy build. Made a few units but it needs more refinement: https://splapr.com/
silicon valley toilet paper. :)

https://dilbert.com/strip/2001-03-15
Your answer would make sense if the OP were asking what stack to use for project X, but they're asking what stack _to learn_ and familiarise themselves with in preparation for whichever project next comes up.
I spend a sizeable proportion of my work time with it in my hands, drawing my plans.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/19/india-suffers-...

> India leads the world in pollution-linked deaths– followed by China and Nigeria – according to a report published on Wednesday that estimated the global impact of contaminants in the air, water and workplace.

[...]

> India and China led in the number of pollution deaths, with about 2.3 million and 1.8 million respectively, followed by Nigeria, Indonesia and Pakistan.

Air pollution in India is complicated, because there's a mix of industrial and domestic sources. But these numbers feel to me like India urgently needs to do more work to reduce pollution.
I'm not sure what Turing completeness argument has to do with anything. Turing machine is also Turing complete. You are going to make GPUs like that.

We are talking about a simple fact - Apple don't care to collaborate on Vulkan, neither when designing their GPUs nor for their OS. I see no point to further argue about facts. And I see criticism of that as completely valid.
But 'Seing Nature' didn't made the same revolution on our knowledge as 'the Origin of the species'. Neither has the same historical or cultural impact in our society. There are still a lot of people releasing fake news about Darwin for promoting some religious agenda, so educate ourselves in his work to be able to disclose those liars is even more relevant now than ever.

Why not read both books in a row starting with the origin?. Is a reasonable goal, will be intellectually rewarding, and everybody could do it in a month.
Ask HN: How/where to read more fact and history – and less opinion online?
Hi HN,

I, like many of us I'm sure, read a lot online, and I (mostly) enjoy it. Whether that's social media, news sites, blogs, etc.
However, I have increasingly noticed how much of what I read online is opinion, rather than facts, as you would expect from the likes of Social Media, blogs etc.

Does anyone have any tips (opinions?) on great places to find interesting factual or historical content?

Perhaps without the 'entry fee' of a book - more places to start learning about something, before then taking the book route!

Thank you.
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Like the '400' model built into a keyboard released fairly recently?
What about after the second dose?
It's common to shape the sole of performance cycling shoes, but not by way of scanning. I had a pair done a while back which where made by me stepping on a heated rubbery platform that slowly took the shape of my feet. The thing I stood on was then used to vacuum-shape a carbon fibre insole.

It's probably been around for a while, by it was alien technology to me at the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vmLO7SQ32o
If you’re part of a press organisation you’ll have things like risk assessments and training to mitigate those risks, fall back plans, people who know where you are and are responsible for your safety, people who liase with emergency services, etc

If you can prove you belong to such an organisation that’s great, you’re press. In the U.K. press have a card to prove this, issued on behalf of the police. It doesn’t give you any rights by law, but if the police started locking down the press like they do in countries without guarantees on the freedom of the press - China, Myanmar, USA, etc, then it becomes a political matter.
Civil disobedience means breaking the law for a good reason and taking the punishment when it comes.

The modern method of suppressing it is to impose a penalty of twenty years in prison and three generations of bankruptcy for anyone caught ruffling the wrong feathers, when the offense in question would otherwise justify a night in jail or a modest fine. That's a problem we need to solve for everybody and not just state-sanctioned journalists.
I haven't looked into the question myself, but admit I misread your comment to mean "barely graduated high school" not "barely [more than] high school graduates."

I do know that there is no "US police academy" or standardized national training curriculum; it's all at the state level, and within states even municipalites can have their own requirements and standards.
> We should keep in mind why Google invests in FLoC, though.

Is that really so hard to figure out? Google wants to continue running their Ad network and they've been under attack for collecting data.

FLoC seems to significantly reduce the need to data collection while still enabling their core business to continue.

I might be wierd, but this still seems like a major win to me - since I care about my data not being stored somewhere off my devices and FLoC keeps it on my terminal equipment. And it allows my Firefox to send customized or faked data.