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> locked down platforms are fundamentally less powerful and less suitable for innovation than open platforms

Locked down platforms can iterate faster than open platforms.

Eg. Email vs. Slack. Email hasn't change fundamentally in decades but slack is growing and adding useful (to some) features.

Many HN crowd say they don't want/need change, but customer bases tend to disagree.
I think the question is about a "documentary" using synthesized voices presented as if they are recordings. You'd have the same issue with impersonation by a human; it is presenting one thing as something it is not.

Getting away from the specifics of this case, cheap impersonation of arbitrary individuals getting easier raises lots of questions... all those TV spy shows "voice print cloning" stuff becoming more real will make a lot of things involving non-face-to-face trust more interesting.
Using MAME

> Once you've built defender you can now use the rom files in the `redlabel' directory to play defender on MAME. If you're on Ubuntu you can also install MAME with apt:

> sudo apt install mame
That seems like an impossible thing to do - how would you define "your voice" and how much would it have to be changed to no longer be considered "your voice"?

What would happen between two people that sound similar, or even identical, to our imperfect human senses?
It's too bad that that mechanism is almost entirely worthless.
I’ve seen almost all his shows, so I’d say I’m quite familiar with his voice.
The snippets in question do not sound like him at all.
Imagine you're a company looking for software as a cloud service. Suppose the best software for the purpose only does 70% of what you want. So you contact the company who runs that cloud service and pay them to develop the additional features and specific business logic you need. Then you contract with them to manage private servers with your build on them. At no point have you seen or purchased source code - not even for the 30% new features that were written on your behalf. Those are entwined with, and only work as a result of, the other 70%. You're basically using a black box that's maintained by another company, and trusting in that company's competence and goodwill. That's essentially what the situation was here. If you sold your company and touted your special build of the software as a feature, and passed the contract along to the buyer, that would be fine. But if you misrepresented the situation and said you owned 100% of the code and were selling that along with the right to distribute it, that would be fraud.

Of course, you could have gone the more expensive route and hired your own team of coders to write the whole thing from scratch, under whatever license you wanted, and then you would own the source. But if a company needs document software or meeting software in the cloud, how many pay to reinvent the wheel and roll their own?
I'd hesitate to rely on your advice here. Here's a relevant story:

https://a16z.com/2014/02/06/why-i-did-not-go-to-jail/

More specifically to this exact discussion, see California Civil Code 3399:

> When, through fraud or a mutual mistake of the parties, or a mistake of one party, which the other at the time knew or suspected, a written contract does not truly express the intention of the parties, it may be revised on the application of a party aggrieved, so as to express that intention, so far as it can be done without prejudice to rights acquired by third persons, in good faith and for value.

This would allow an employer to seek reformation. It's not clear to me as a layperson if this reformation could apply retroactively or not.

Or this interpretation of the consequences of a recent case in Virginia: https://www.virginiabusinesslitigationlawyer.com/when-negoti...

The actual decision: https://www.virginiabusinesslitigationlawyer.com/wp-content/...

The facts of this case do not mirror exactly what we're talking about here, so I'm definitely not trying to give legal advice. Maybe this wouldn't apply -- reading through it, it's a bit more egregious than what we're talking about here.
Never heard of this but will definitely give it a go now thats for sure. Amazons full of fakes
Interesting. I didn't realize they were purchased by NPR.

I had used Pocket Casts years ago, when Apple first screwed up theirPodcasts app. But they fixed it and I went back. But after the 14.5 screw up, I switched permanently to Pocket Casts.

Hopefully they will maintain it well and not screw it up.
I think you underestimate the desire of people to conform, to push their political agenda through their work, etc.

Big companies aren't at risk from losing money for quashing unpopular speech - it's exactly why unpopular speech is the speech that generally needs protecting.
Since I personally believe fly.io has the most potential in redefining how apps are deployed (though, with no disrespect I don’t believe it’s quite there yet) … is there any plans to providing a PaaS like offering where I can deploy my favorite web framework to your edge network and you handle the OS, Database, App server, etc.

Said another way, I just write my web app code and fly.io handles literally everything else. (I don’t even mess with docker etc. Just my app code and be done)
This video goes into a lot of detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSg5UfFM7NY
I'm not familiar with the series, my opinion comes from my time working in the industry. Based on what I saw there I do not believe that any profitably-extractable reserves will be left unexploited simply because their current owners decide to take them off the market, too many powerful interests have too strong an incentive to change any such policy one way or another.
But what does "picking at random" mean? If you think it's obvious that you can just make infinitely many random choices at the same time, you're endorsing the axiom of choice.

(If you think you can make one random choice at a time, you're endorsing the axiom of finite choice, which is just true. Determinism doesn't matter here, but "at the same time" matters a lot.)
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I've gone the opposite way: I've stopped using my card for almost all purchases and have gone cash only.
Assembling something to run under an emulator is not really the same thing.

The post then says:

> You can also assemble it into the 11 rom files that would have been loaded onto the arcade cabinet’s ROM board.

If I wanted to run this on an emulator, surely the assembled code would be identical, but the use of the word "also" suggests they are doing something else here.
Apparently more than one "Love, Death + Robots" episode was based on Alastair Reynolds' work. "Beyond the Aquila Rift", for example.

I also spotted references to other scifi authors. There's one episode from the first season that is almost 100% something Bradbury would have written (without me telling you which one, can you guess which episode I'm thinking of? Just to doublecheck my own perception), and of course "Pop Squad" from the second season is based on the short story of the same title by Paolo Bacigalupi (from "Pump Six and Other Stories").

And I'm sure I'm missing many more!
The third-party API rule is the most baffling in all of Apple’s App Store regulations. It’s ridiculous that you can’t make and monetise alternative clients to popular services, as if the first party client is always going to be the best.
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Compare this with the famous quote:

> Every time I fire a linguist, the performance of our speech recognition system goes up. - Fred Jelinek
I have sections of my desk and kitchen drawers for that. Admittedly they are poorly organised with just about any junk thrown in.

The next step would be to more closely tailor the set of tools more closely to my actual needs, like a commercial workshop would. Get rid of the cruft and make sure what you keep is the best tool for each job with no more redundancy than you need.

A lot of tools I have two of are because I cheaped out the first time and it didn’t cut it. Some of them are multitools that do every job poorly, they are just a waste of space.

Then get dividers or foam inserts for the drawers.
Curious to how this will play. Even more interesting if it ever goes to court. Both Apple and Amazon are under a lot of regulatory pressure these days and this arrow flies through the heart of both cases.
No, they should host everything until legally obligated otherwise. If CP was legal they should host it, and if you have moral qualms with that notion you should write your local representative and let them know what content should be regulated.
I've been trying to use it for a while. It worked for a few days, but then up to now it'd want to make extremely slow initial backups (30 hours for 200gb) that would fail to upload at the end (they're there locally, but each time I click "backup now" it does another initial backup). A friend of mine has had a similar experience and ended up using Restic.

Which is such a shame because Time Machine is great in theory (though I'm not a fan of the standard UI at all you can still mount the sparsebundle and it would be great).
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It is an honest definition of memory safety. The fact that you can not write a non trivial Rust program without unsafe dependencies is not an argument against that definition.

Most languages considered memory safe have some sort virtual machine model where non trivial programs can be written without any use of unsafe. The virtual machine implementation itself may be unsafe of course, but that is a pretty solid boundary. In Rust, that boundary is easily crossed by anyone, for any reason, to the point where it sips into 50% of dependencies, as this paper shows.

I am not saying that C# evades this issue in principle, obviously it has the same functionality, it is just not used as liberally. Concurrency is orthogonal.
> you can't distribute the binaries yourself

You can :) You just have to include a copyright notice unless you purchase an exemption.
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> The 88s keys already cover almost the entire range of human hearing. Adding just one more octave (a few keys below and above the range) would basically cover it all.

This was surprising for me, I thought no way is this almost the range of hearing.

But a quick calculation showed it to be right: The range of human hearing is approximately from 20Hz to 20kHz which is ~10 octaves (20*2^10 ~= 20k). 10 octaves would need 120keys, so ~2.5 Octaves more than the 88 keys range.
>I find the constant use of the term "glitch" in the title and the lack of actual details of what happened extremely infuriating.

I found this thread fascinating: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27011790

"Glitch" == "I want to obscure the cause of that unwanted behavior."
If they're taking suggestions, I have a rather lengthy list of "features" I'd like to see gone (or at least be able to disable).
After reading this you might feel depressed. Maybe this will cheer you up : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcMMzrzgOQo
>> I can do anything I want without Apple, Visa, Google and even Amazon and Microsoft.

Really? How can you even know which services or products depend in some way on GCP, Azure, or AWS (not to mention product and services that are built using other services that depend on those)?
Yes, this is the dream. We're definitely not there yet.

This is especially important for DBs. What I'd really love is for us to work with DB "owners" to jointly provide managed DBs. One thing I hate about AWS is that they have a lopsided, parasitic relationship with the people who build interesting databases.
Describing something someone said "come[ing] off as racist" doesn't make the person who said it a racist. We all (and I mean that) say things that are racist, and we don't even realize it, but most of us don't endorse an explicitly racist ideology either. I doubt you do, and certainly never claimed you did.
Do a detailed post-mortem, ensure you can learn from it. Remember that the correctness of a decision is about whether you made the right choice with the information you had at the time, not whether the project succeeded. Many projects succeed in spite of poor decisions, not because of them. If there are things you could have done at the time to improve the chances of success, acknowledge them and ensure you do them next time.

You have a good track record, so do not feel bad about one failure. No-one succeeds every time, and the occasional failure is necessary to ensure we learn how to deal with adversity and become more resilient.
>Having a BCI would improve my quality of life immensely.

Current BCI tech is nowhere near the fidelity of non-BCI control methods (e.g. eye tracking). If you're serious about it, look into them.
This is why I switched away from Windows, and then Mac, to GNU. I loved both of them, but I got tired of things changing without me asking them to.

This is my workstation, not a playground.
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Good to know, thanks. I tried to buy a copy in 2016 and it took me over 6 months to find a copy for less than £60. I had a couple of friends wanting copies too, so I don't think it was just me failing to google.

There seems to be a limited number on ebay and amazon at hte moment for the £10 mark which seems far more reasonable.
>> The fine art of not giving a shit trumps all other virtues.

That's pretty much where I'm at. Assertiveness might be needed once in a while but if it's some sort of daily thing for you there's probably something not right in your life.

It's like in Caddyshack when Carl thinks the groundskeeper is asking him to kill all the golfers on the course so he has to start to push back a little bit but when he figures out that its just gophers instead of golfers he's OK with it, "We can do that. We don't even need a reason".

That's my attitude towards product managers these days. Sure, we don't even need a reason. They come to me with some poorly thought out unspecced idea that doesn't make much business sense or solve any problem that anyone has ever had, so OK, you know what team? We're gonna ship some fucking code.
The parent wants it both ways: the connotation of entitlement in collecting a product that was paid for (by calling it "insurance"), but without actually paying for it.
Started making something similar then joined a new company (Brex) and we use https://github.com/bors-ng/bors-ng which is open source and works great. It merges huge batches of PRs and can automatically bisect them if they fail CI checks to find divide and conquer and merge in fewest batches possible. It’s written in Elixir.
> The solid boosters were ahead of the technology curve.

It was the wrong curve. RP1 based engines like F-1 would have been far better to get of the ground.

> The overall package was compromised by USAF / .mil requirements but otherwise was an advanced product for its time.

There were many mistakes made. Space fans love to blame the military and politics. But if you actually go back, NASA leadership made plenty of questionable choices.

The biggest issue with the shuttle is the basic architecture.
and I thought it was gonna be some new app/technology whereby something glows or luminescenes brighter if you are turned on by the other person on a date . . . . (necklace ?)
I see they compare against various pruning techniques in related work, but do they compare accuracy and/or parameter reduction in their evaluation against lottery ticket approaches (whatever the state of the art is there)?
No I meant in my original comment.
There's plenty of investments. It's called suburban sprawl, and some people even think it's a tax ponzi scheme.
no noo, it was once in a millenium flood! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Central_European_flood ... Poland was mostly hit because of brilliant idea to build in the flood plains. Image in that wiki article from Kozanow. Here in 2010 again

https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozan%C3%B3w#/media/Plik:Powod...

"This area was treated - also due to the fact that it is located in a depression - as a floodplain in the event of catastrophic floods that sometimes occur here, caused by the flooded waters of the Odra or Ślęza, flowing not far west of Kozanów. The decision to build up Kozanów with tall apartment blocks [14] made of prefabricated slabs turned out to be fateful. After twenty years, the catastrophic flood of the millennium of 1997 flooded Kozanów and its vicinity [15]. The estate was the most disadvantaged area of the city, the water was reaching the first floor in some places. During the 2010 flood on May 22, Kozanów was partially flooded again."
It’s absolutely fucking idiotic to pretend that Google’s policy is slowing down research on the virus.

I get that you’re just a dishonest asshole, arguing in bad faith. But give us a break.. literally nobody is stupid enough to think that this slowed down real research on the virus.
I would guess 150 years. I think by the beginning of next century we'll have the engineering prowess to use large-scale geoprojects to basically set the climate to whatever we want. (As long as we don't suffer a massive world-wide societal or economic collapse in the interim).
>Out of all the celebrities, Bourdain would have viscerally despised this.

I would just like to point out the irony in this comment. You're speaking on behalf of a dead person in objection to someone else speaking on behalf of that person.

We can debate the ethics of this whole thing without trying to lay claim to what Bourdain would have thought.
It was 64k of core memory originally, but it was later replaced by redundant 4x 64k CMOS memory.

https://youtu.be/RWUnC2uf3XY?t=406
In addition to what the sibling comment says, you indeed often can find dependencies with no `unsafe` keyword usage whatsoever, and libraries that do so will tout this as a feature. Fortunately for your purposes the broader Rust population (including library authors) is mostly composed of people who are more-or-less skeptical of wanton `unsafe` usage in the first place (as should be self-evident, as otherwise they'd probably just be using C or C++!).
> to others this is a period where the internet was thoroughly weaponized by misinformation agents to undermine democracy and civil societies around the world.

If you said something like this in the 1940s, you'd get a bunch of people nodding their heads in agreement and using it to justify the McCarthy hearings.

Maybe I'm naive, but I still believe the lesser of the two evils is to err on the side against censorship.

Also, if you've spent any time with crazy conspiracy theorists, you'd know that letting the government/corporations/media act as censors just adds fuel to that fire.
Major pet peeve of mine too.... Blue leds on appliances are an instant deal breaker for me. Green looks cheap. Fortunately starting to see some white led displays on appliances, but hard to come across still.
come. on. fhqwhgads.
If the same number of people are chasing the same number of apartments but making more money, the natural conclusion is that the price of the apartments will go up. If the same number of people are chasing _more_ apartments, the price of the apartments will go down (ignoring induced demand, but I think this is minor for NYC/SF).

You can't just legislate a higher wage because in the long run rents will stabilize at a higher level to compensate and all you've done is make landlords richer and fuck over every small business in the city. You need to actually have more supply.
In the same way that it can be difficult to justify spending a week to reduce technical debt within a fast-moving engineering team, I think there's a parallel challenge for industry to make the work of maintenance be seen -- and be rewarded -- equally alongside feature development.

Perhaps we already have (or at least nearly have) enough code, systems and services to achieve the tasks that 97.5% of us need, but they're all broken and non-interoperable in frustrating ways.

Can we spend a while honing and refining those before building incompatible replacements? Or, failing that, at least identify the core issues before repeating the same mistakes?
> its definitely over looked in much of academic ML

right - but it seems like a, if not the, first lesson you learn when you leave the classroom for the "real" world.

It's not surprising to me that any people think this way, but it seems to be a characteristic of inexperience (or narrow experience).
I'm still not entirely convinced that serving apps closer to users solves more problems than it creates, but I am always impressed by the fly.io blog posts. The writing style makes them a joy to read.
To add to that: "uptime" is a sort of misleading statistic. A single server can have an "uptime" of 20 years sitting in the closet of an office in a corporate park somewhere in suburban Maryland. To the point that nobody can find the server, but they can ssh to it, and yup... it's still up.

On the other hand, the more components (servers, disks, switches, etc) you have, the higher the probability of failure. The more traffic, more data, more changes more... anything, tends to lead to more failure. So paradoxically, small systems can have better "uptime" than large robust well-designed ones.

In my experience managing large distributed decentralized systems, the more buggy the hardware, the larger the cascades of software failures, the harder it was to fix. Industrial-grade hardware that nobody monkeyed with (or was replaced as soon as any failures were detected) led to the most stable systems. Reliable, dedicated private network paths led to more stability. At a certain point we didn't really need leader election, because they'd never need a new leader, because things hardly ever failed.
The historic record can leave out things that people think are super obvious. For example, if you look at a typical recipe for an omelet, they mention eggs but leave out the fact that it's chicken eggs. A 1000 years for now, people think that we meant duck or goose eggs or something else. Another example is the land of Punt. It was a fairly important trading partner with Egypt. The problem is that the historical record doesn't mention where it is so there's a debate about it's location.
It's very inconsistent. How gender, as a purely ideological construct not grounded in science, can be protected under the "hate speech", while at the same time, under the misleading content, it could be easily classified as "Misleading content related to harmful health practices".

In principle, it also boils down to who owns the content. If host - Google, claims moderation rights, it undebatably becomes a publisher and should be treated as such.
Acquire money and buy land sounds like a very large challenge for most people. I'd say about as hard as setting up servers, but probably harder
>John Lennon's voice doing an ad for Vox amps seems in poor taste.

the Bourdain documentary we're talking about was created in order to generate profit; it has box-office showings and advertisement campaigns.

A documentary is nice, but I fail to see how it's less of a product than Vox amplifiers, aside from some shallow altruism like "We're spreading the ideas of Bourdain", which could be done entirely without a profit scheme.
You haven't explained how they aren't contradictory. You've just claimed that, if one examines them in depth, they will be found not to be contradictory. Have you examined them in depth yourself?
I partly agree with you. But who gets to make those decisions at Google and what happens to your data when they do? These massive corporations have found that they don't need to value customer support and that includes immediately blocking you from everything you have at their discretion.