skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few years ago, I noticed that train companies in Japan had started using synthesized voices for some announcements on trains and at stations. (Probably the same thing is happening in other places, but I haven't travelled outside Japan for a long time.) The voices were clearly artificial and sometimes made ridiculous mistakes—such as reading the name of the train company JR East in English as “junior east”—but over time I realized that they also had advantages over prerecorded human voices.

Once, I was riding a two-car local train through a rural part of Kyushu when the train was delayed by heavy rain up ahead. Soon there were audio announcements with artificial voices about the delay in Japanese, English, Chinese, and Korean. Both the Japanese and English sounded a bit strange—the English especially because it was clearly machine translated—but the meaning was clear and they served their purpose. (I couldn't assess the Chinese or Korean.)

The pitch of the artificial voices must have been chosen for good audibility in a noisy environment, as they were easier to understand than most live announcements by human conductors on trains.

Professional human voice actors certainly would have been better, but there is no way they could have been arranged at a reasonable cost for up-to-the-minute train delay announcements in even one language, let alone four.
I will. A picture of what would be useful?
I think 'let it crash' means if your worker process encounters an error, let the supervisor process worry about the error handling. Don't be defensive in worker.

A lot of copy paste here from Joe Armstrong's thesis:

Worker process does the job. Another process, the supervisor process, observes the worker. If an error occurs in the worker, the supervisor takes actions to correct the error.

1. There is a clean separation of issues. The processes that are supposed to do things (the workers) do not have to worry about error handling.

2. We can have special processes which are only concerned with error handling.

3. We can run the workers and supervisors on different physical machines.

4. It often turns out that the error correcting code is generic, that is, generally applicable to many applications, whereas the worker code is more often application specific.
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1. Exceptions occur when the run-time system does not know what to do.
2. Errors occur when the programmer doesn’t know what to do.

The basic idea is: Try to perform a task. If you cannot perform the task, then try to perform a simpler task.

To each task we associate a supervisor process- the supervisor will assign a worker to try and achieve the goals implied by the task. If the worker process fails with a non-normal exit then the supervisor will assume that the task has failed and will initiate some error recovery procedure. The error recovery procedure might be to restart the worker or failing this try to do something simpler.

Thesis: https://web.archive.org/web/20041204143417/http://www.sics.s...
It happens to you too if you live there long enough. Likewise if you spend a lot of time outside in the cold you too can walk around in shorts and sandals in freezing temperatures with no ill effects (as long as it’s dry with low winds)
> I'm afraid I don't understand what you're saying or what the point of your bashing is. GNOME and KDE and XFCE and whatnot are not political parties and are not opposed to each other.

They surely where born that way, GNOME only exists due to the original Qt license.

Then Gtk+ was always the go to framework for C devs, while KDE was embraced by C++ community on GNU/Linux.

Murray did a very good job for the C++ refugees on GNOME/Gtk, but that has always been a minority versus being on KDE land.
I’ve also noticed an ironic overlap between the “solar is toxic” and “windmills can’t be recycled” crowd with being pro-nuclear
If you die 17 days after vaccination, that's probably not related to the vaccine itself.

Second, you haven't accounted for the fact that teenagers can transmit the virus. Even if the vaccine is "worse" the virus for teenagers (which is not necessarily true), stopping the pandemic can mean fewer deaths in the long run.
Sorry, I am not trying to be funny or anything, but by "coke" do you mean soft drinks or cocaine?
LOL what a bunch of sad, lying losers those vloggers are!
Which could be easily coded on a ESP32, a device much better than typical MS-DOS PCs.
In my industry, unfortunately, this has led to some level of bias and mistrust against employees of Chinese origin. The problem is, as you state, there have been multiple cases of individuals working for a company, getting access to key formulations, processes and then a couple of years later, the exact same product starts getting made in China.
I don't have one of those. My memory is awful. Fortunately though, realising this is what pushed me to get better at writing documentation. I write it for my own benefit, and everyone else on my team also benefits.
PostgreSQL docs. And google.
You just replicated my DG/UX experience with IBM X Windows terminals in 1995.

Maybe we don't have to be frozen in time and rather use modern tooling?
> if you look at the data from neighboring countries.

Which neighboring countries, exactly? Minority languages in Spain were suppressed for decades under the Franco government, and intermittently under assorted Spanish monarchies and republics before that. Germany had a diglossia between Hochdeutsch and assorted local tongues, and some of those local tongues still exist because the state saw them as legitimate regional dialects of the standard language. Italy never put nearly as much of a premium on suppressing the regional languages whose literature had contributed to Standard Italian, and those dialects have survived much better than e.g. Sardinian or Franco-Provencal.
It's not really about being rich but availability (at least at first). The vaccine costs between $3 and $20[1] which is accessible for most of the third-world and even in most countries in Africa.

> so I’m not exactly full of hope for the future right now

Don't be. The vaccine is being used as a political tool currently (Pfizer good, Sinovac bad, etc...) and to restrict/grant movement around countries.

1: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/18/belgian-minist...
More than "a club to stop people criticising the government", it's used extensively by the rich and powerful to stop anyone from criticising them.

Another funny thing about it is that the truth is not a defense. So even if Unsworth was a pedo and Musk could prove it, that would not be a defense against a defamation case. All that is needed is to show that the person making the defamatory remark intended to cause the victim to lose face.
Which statement was baseless? That any of these outcomes apply only to a (non-trivial) subset of users is implied.
The science indicates that everyone will be safer wearing a mask. So it's not anti-science. It's just overly cautious and mostly unnecessary.
If you want to see SkyMall open aliexpress and with no search terms start scrolling. Some of my favorites: a watch with a lighter flame, toilet with motion sensor that switches a blue led on and champagne squirt gun.
Mods please change title to “Ink programming language” (currently says “Dot Ink...”).

The language is called “Ink”; “dotink” is just the domain name.

As also mentioned in the author’s comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27798704 .
I agree, the level of scientific curiosity over this is much lower than expected.
then delete A1, surely.
– Daddy, why IRC proto specs are so inconsistent?

– Hush! We are busy in ircops war!
It's so weird how long the reach is. Just yesterday I was looking up a product on a company's website on my phone. Then I went to use my desktop and logged into facebook and there was an ad for the product I was looking at on my phone's web browser.
They'll get it right. Eventually.

10 years? 50 years? 100 years?

Only a matter of time now.
>“There is currently no evidence that Sars-CoV-2 has a laboratory origin . . . There is a substantial body of scientific evidence supporting a zoonotic [animal-to-human] origin for Sars-CoV-2,” they conclude.

Feel like this false dichotomy of "it was either wet market or created as a chimera virus in the lab" is not persuasive to the many people who think it likely was a natural virus that got pushed into the world because it was being handed by humans in a lab.
If you mean classic PHP CGI, sure. But almost all PHP sites today run on mod_php/PHP-FPM on Apache (or equivalents on nginx) which doesn't run a fresh CGI process-per-request, but multiplexes requests onto a single PHP process instead. The overhead of parsing PHP code for each request would be brutal.
> 71 percent of superagers smoke

Possibly something with how nicotine/tobacco interacts with the brain?
ask HN: How to sort all of the forks of a GitHub repo
How do we sort all of the forks of a GitHub repo by their most recent and/or active characteristic?
I was excited about this and then found out it needs the child to use an app. I'm sure this is hard to get away from, but if my kid gets ahold of a phone, it will inevitably turn into a challenge keeping them away from Minecraft or whatever other game they are seeking. Is that only my child that does that?

I really wish there were things that taught the concepts of programming with the tactile interface of Legos but didn't necessarily require an app. I know Legos on their own do part of that, but I wish they could do robotics without the app.
EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales (2017)
there's a lot of content on A1 that was bought and purchased over the last 15 years or so!
A Year in the Metabolist Future of 1972 (2014)
$20k for 20kW including installation and inverter and all wiring? That's really cheap, usually its 2x that.
At any rate, I suppose it's oddly reassuring Facebook is so inaccurate.

Facebook's ad market tools give advertisers plenty of power to choose who to advertise to. If advertisers didn't want your demographic cohort to see their ad they could easily filter you out. Rather than seeing this as inaccuracy, it might be more prudent to ask why they haven't. It's probably just that the advertiser hasn't configured their ad settings very well, but it's also possible that they believe skeptical people will return to their church in a crisis and they're building brand recognition or something.
I think the remarkable thing is that vaccine development and manufacturing is one of the smallest costs of the pandemic.

For example the cost of a dose of Biontech Pfizer vaccine is roughly the same as the cost of getting a single antigen test performed in Germany (both roughly 20 EUR).

With the variants/mutations it seems we should invest much more in vaccine capacity to avoid spending 2022 in another lockdown.

> there still aren't the doses to vaccinate the planet any time in the imminent future let alone the on-the-ground infrastructure to deliver them everywhere

I think the vaccinations campaigns everywhere (in the developed world at least) have shown that the infrastructure to vaccinate everyone is there if only we have enough supplies of vaccines.
They can tell by where you shop and where you live.
Cool, thanks for explaining it. I only know Swedish very superficially so I couldn't really tell how Elfdalic it sounds to native speakers.

(I'm guessing exposure to Danish also makes Danish easier to understand for Swedes)
No doubt they either take the a financial incentive from the Chinese regime or receive “an offer they can’t refuse” such as make a video saying a, b and c or we’ll jail you and your family.
Yes, but it doesn’t provide baseload elevator and therefore requires backup power plants which cost extra money.

Germany has invested a lot in wind and solar and as a result they have the highest electricity prices in the world:

> https://www.statista.com/statistics/263492/electricity-price...

Yet, Germany’s energy sector is seven times dirtier than France’s:

> https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ghg-emissions-by-sector?t...

France has 50 million tons of CO2 per year, Germany 350 million tons of CO2 per year in the energy sector.

Germans pay over 30 cents/kWh, the French pay about 20 cents/kWh.
Exactly. The whole idea of structured experimentation (basically science) is relatively new and most people don't spontaneously do it unless trained to do so. Just look at the wide variety of easily falsifiable beliefs that still find widespread acceptance.
Can't wait for the comments here to get locked for breaking the rules. It's funny - if they want censorship all they need to do is send commenters to make toxic conversation and lock the entire topic.
To pick a nit, I don't think that it's the churches per se that do most of the advertising (though they probably do some), it's mostly Evangelical publishers, etc. selling to church-goers.
> there is zero reason to put masks on kids in schools.

Young kids have a low chance of getting serious symptoms (though Delta has been impacting adolescents and older more than prior variants), but have been shown to get and transmit COVID as much as older people, so there is a public health reason even if there isn't a strong reason (especially at younger ages) for the kids own protection.
There are multiple options to store energy from day to night, including pumped storage. The really big challenge is to store energy from summer to winter. When you store energy to use it at night, you only need to store about 12 hours worth of energy consumption, when you store it for winter, you are talking about months of consumption.
1. Sweets and food should not be used as reward and punishnent in the first place. So that not eating them is not emotionally punishment, but just healthy thing to do.

2. Cue meltdown in many kids with that tactic - you bring up ecpectation and then crash it.

3. Have you people even interacted with kid? What it is with adults who seek to design punishment into situation where there is already compliance or which is about unimportant bs?
That was a highly political move and indeed not Germany's finest moment. Also, why build a plant with a useful life of less than 20 years? That year spells out how desperate things are for coal right now.

In any case, 1.1GW pales in comparison to the amount of renewables coming online every year. Also, Germany is actually shutting down more coal than that this year (1.5GW). That 2038 deadline is part of a plan to shut down most of their remaining coal plants: https://www.mining.com/germany-to-shut-1-5-gw-of-coal-genera....

Call this a last 'success' for the coal lobby. They are going to lose most of the coal capacity by 2038 but they got to have a new plant. I'm sure that made sense in somebody's head when they agreed to take the plant into operation but only until 2038. That plant had already been built so they were negotiating about taking it into operation at all. They won that battle but then lost the battle about shutting down all of the coal plants. In any case, this might end up being the last coal plant Germany ever built. This being a relatively modern plant, it might also be the last one they will shut down.

That might happen a lot sooner than 2038 too. There will be elections in Germany at the end of this summer. Conservative CDU, and its coal friendly sister party CSU who were responsible for pushing this through, might find themselves having to negotiate with the green party over exactly this topic. And depending on how things go, they might have to swallow their pride and compromise. Like they compromised with SPD before.

Shutting down coal in Germany is a hot topic. Shutting down brown coal, which is the nastiest form of coal, doubly so. That's the real hot potato politically. My impression is that there will be lots of haggling over that final shut down year during every election between now and 2038. So, that deadline might start shifting a bit. Since that's only 17 years from now, I'd say 2030 is a nice round number to shoot for. Given some political will, that might actually happen. In the grand scheme of things whether its 2030 or 2038 won't actually matter a whole lot. It's going to be definitely a thing of the past somewhere in that time-frame.

I imagine at some point it also becomes a "lets just rip off the band-aid and get it over with" kind of thing for politicians. The less coal remains, the less power the coal lobby will have to preserve what remains. They are losing power every year. 1.5GW this year.
But you can recycle them. Even says so in the article… so we just need a good recycling program. Not an option with fossil fuels, or nuclear or your super special unknown future energy source
Since you have no concerns about nuclear energy I would in fact propose to ramp up construction of such production and waste storage facilities - in your area. The rest of us can pay you for the additional energy you will generate far away from us, for us.
I've been mentally planning all of this in my head for when I move to a place with enough space. The amount of detail and research provided in one page is nothing short of astounding. I know I would have never done anything close to this level of work had I done it myself. This level is something else entirely.
I’m waiting impatiently for an accessible musical vocal synthesizer in a hardware box. I.e.: one that would have both piano and computer keyboards, or midi and usb inputs.

There are so many hardware lead/bass/drum synthesizers being released these days, and hardly any (hardware) vocal synthesizers that I know of.
This is incorrect. It is entirely possible to cheat and feel a sense of accomplishment.

- You can cheat to finish a game and still enjoy the fact that you finished the parts that you didn't need to cheat by.

- You can figure out how to cheat the game (ie, hex editing) yourself, and get a sense of accomplishment from that.

It is entirely possible to both cheat at a game and have a sense of accomplishment related to that game. Just because it isn't something _you_ would do, doesn't mean it isn't true for others.

Personally, I spent days mapping out the save file for Bard's Tale back in the day and manipulating it to my heart's content. It was fun, and I enjoyed it.
Solar is an excellent personal power solution, it is not a system solution.
I also don't understand how this can be in legal in the sense of the GDPR, but AFAIK there are multiple German news sites which use this pattern (e.g. Golem, Heise and Spiegel from the top of my head).
Clarence Thomas takes pivotal role in new Supreme Court
I'd like to thank the author for their clear, simple explanation. I haven't had to think about allocating memory since university and am not practiced thinking about it in my software but now I feel like I have useful ways to think about why processes just disappear sometimes.
Where'd you find this? The study?

I ctrl+f'ed a bunch of the links and I didn't see the word smoke.
Hard to build, not a lot of places near cities where this can be done large scale and mainly: you really cant store that much energy there, both getting the water and producing power from it later is not that efficient.

Pumped storage is not a solution except for some specific places in the world.
This discourse supporting and whitewashing fascism should not be supported. There was a democratic government running composed by differente parties, and military and fascists prepared and achieved a coup d'etat. Government had to take a decission as mandated by their voters in democratic election so a war started.

Just saying both parts where opposite extremes is a plain lie like saying police at the congress detaining Trump/Qanon fans at this winter riot was just a crash between two "extreme political ideas".
It's even weirder when you think you wouldn't be able to take your ham sandwiches now
> It's very rare when I see progressive churches advertise.

You’d just be setting your money on fire. You’re trying to find the people at the intersection of progressive attitudes and serious commitment to Christianity. Progressive churches have lower commitment because they have minimal to zero differences in morality with progressives who don’t go to church and they’re less likely to have children continue in the faith. Same phenomenon as how the Jewish assimilation treadmill goes Orthodox > Conservative > Reform > Secular > does not identify as Jewish.
Spaniard here. There was reactionary right wing military coup d'etat that try to take control of the country, and failed. So, we had endured a bloody civil war. On the one side, the nationalists, there was mix of right wing factions... Carlists, monarchic, right wing republicans, falangists (Spanish version of nazis). On the other side, there was a mix of force loyal to the republic and far left wing factions... socialists, communist and anarchists.

Both sides, did some awful and unmoral things, but the nationalists did a lot more awful things. Like bombing fleeing refugees. Also, the nationalists ended consolidating around the falangists and pro-nazis ideologies, and getting military help from fascists Italy and Nazis. When we ended the civil war, we had to endure a fascist regime to the end of 70's. And we endure yet some sequels of this.

So, please, don't reduce the civil war as "hate and violence between neighbors in the name of extreme political ideas". It's was an bloody military uprising against the legit government that the people elected, that ended with fascists on power.
The same reddit thread that gets trotted out by Musk worshippers every time someone points out he's not an engineer.

It's full of quotes saying stuff like "he understands a lot about spaceflight and aerodynamics" and similar weasel statements.
Having worked in a handful of factories, including in very energy intense sectors (aluminum and semiconductors), I'd say that's not the norm. Smelters are a notable exception, as they can be turned down/off relatively quickly as long as the metal in process doesn't solidify - in which case the line will be down for months and will be very expensive to fix and startup again. I could see it being more common on commodity products or when the order book is light.

Energy pricing varies by region, but is sometimes based on consumption during the grids' highest couple consumption days in the last year. In those cases, curtailing production can have a huge impact on total cost for the next year. It's a bit of a guessing game, but there is an industry around energy consulting for factories and forecasting which days will be the highest consumption (typically the hottest days).
Would DC lines between countries solve this?
I find it really weird how you seem to think you’re the arbiter of how much people care, when they can share their opinions, and what opinions are valid.

Perhaps you should keep those ideas to yourself and only concern yourself with your own level of contribution to the topic at hand. I don’t need you to mind my comments.
Will EdgeDB have a http api? I want to use postgres with a serverless app but there are practically no options
It's possible they are actually perplexed. At least in my experience, there are a good number of people who can't hold in their head different perspectives on a topic. They just can't. The world is simple and black and white in their mind. And they aren't necessarily just plain old dumb, and they aren't uneducated. They just see black and white everywhere.

That is perplexing.