skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a good point. There are various xml markup formats for synthesizing text to speech that let you tag words for emphasis and pitch, but there's not granular or expressive enough to mark up individual syllables of words, and it's not useful for singing, for example.

It would get really messy of you had to put tags around individual letters, and letters don't even map directly to syllables, so you'd need to mark up a phonetic transcription. At that point you might as well use a binary file format, not xml.

But for that kind of stuff (singing), there are great tools like Vocaloid (which is a HUGE thing in Japan):

https://www.vocaloid.com/en/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocaloid

VOCALOID5 - Walkthrough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAtVGHl1AFM

(Check out the "Cool / Cute" slider at 8:22!)

Here's a much simpler and cruder tool I made years ago (when xml was all the rage) for editing and "rotoscoping" speech pitch envelopes, called the "Phoneloper" -- not quite as polished and refined as Vocaloid, but it was sure fun to make and play with:

Phoneloper Demo

The Phoneloper is a toy/tool for creating and editing expressive speech "Phonelopes" that Don Hopkins developed for Will Wright's Stupid Fun Club in 2003, using Python + Tkiter + CMU's "Flite" open source speech synthesizer. It modified Flite so it could export and import the diphone/pitch/timing as xml "Phonelopes", so you could synthesize a sentence to get an initial stream of diphones and a pitch envelope. Then you could edit them by selecting and dragging them around, add and delete control points from the pitch and amplitude tracks to inflect the speech, stretch the diphones to change their duration, etc. It was not "fully automatic", but you could load an audio file and draw its spectrogram in the background of the pitch track, so you stretch the diphones and "rotoscope" the pitch track to match it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy5cqV8ypIs
`nix develop --store`?

I'm not seeing anything about it (on mobile at least):

- https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/command-ref/new-cli/ni...

- https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nix_command/develop
I'm very glad modern Linux basically has nothing to do with UNIX. It has a lot of really neat ideas, but I don't want to use it.

I would much rather use Linux, that totally breaks with all that, even the "Everything is a file" idea, now that it's rare to directly interact with the file-like nature of anything but an actual file.

Even then, I think Android is just a bit better than Linux for a lot of things, only held back by how hard it is to write software compared to any non-mobile platform, and they are even farther from UNIX.
Other than a few coastal places like Marin and Sonoma that aren't on the state water project I think the answer is no. The resulting water will be too expensive. It would be cheaper to pay farmers to stop growing inefficient and largely unnecessary crops (pasture grass, alfalfa) or to move to more efficient drip irrigation. As you said, the domestic use is so low and ag users wouldn't pay for desalination when there is actually a fairly sizable (although possibly dwindling) source of water available.
> What if the soon to be fired-employee is just currently not able to give 100%?

A professional sports person (like a soccer or basketball star) would not be able to give this same excuse, so why would it not be the same in an engineering setting? Netflix wants their workplace to be like pro-sports, where elites complete for the best outcome and be rewarded like so.

If you choose to apply for employment at netflix, this is what you're signing up for. There are other positions in other companies, if such an environment is not conducive to your own lifestyle - noone is forcing this onto you.

The natural condition of humanity is cruel, and society and civilization hasn't proceeded to the stage where such cruelty don't exist. But right now, there's still at least choice and options for those who don't want to compete this way (with the associated decrease in salary).
This is an excellent share that's getting left on the wayside because there's an alarming lack of interest in books amongst almost every cultural demographic including software developers.
That's the one. Donets. Donets fucked Hitler over, the only complaint he ever made, didn't even cry when his father beat him after making up his mind against it, Donets was his undoing.

Like the Misanthropy Division, like what? Division? Oh yeah, if the word is Division it's real. Yeah those guys are real Nazis, just America doesn't care in the abstract, only in the specific when it is good for them. Gave them a pass and let them leave Germany the minute Soviets tanked Berlin. Just like not caring about tons of other things that you would think if you listened to their--to our, I'm American--Hollywood and proclamations, League of Nations. Korea bought into that over and over. I'm surprised anybody listens, History isn't that favorable if you remove WWII as the outlier it is. And now it turns out they never actually cared about Nazism, they're going to "rebrand" it now as National Socialism, poor history channel the ratings!

But realistically Donets, that just hurts, those were the people of Donets that lived like animals cranking out tanks around the clock. They didn't go anywhere, they didn't get exterminated, barely, they stopped the Nazis from getting there...but not forever. Recurring nightmare.
This is awesome -- thanks for sharing!
Im thinking a bit more outside a straight fight. Think creatively for a second - class action lawsuits, SEC investigations, etc.

Elon won’t even have to fight the battle let alone win it. Others may (note “may”, not “will”) do it for him.

EDIT:

Here’s one finding on fraud in an M&A transaction that also adds to Elon’s leverage: https://www.huntonak.com/en/insights/de-court-addresses-frau...
...what stuff?

The suggestions I'm seeing are yes hole punch, no hole punch, a screen you can use with one hand, just enough battery-filled thickness to have no camera bump, good camera, microsd, fingerprint sensor, headphone jack.

And one person wants a keyboard but I don't think they're suggesting that for this phone.

Once you decide if you want a hole punch or not, I see no issue with implementing the rest of those features in the same phone in a reasonable way.
How do you think fed actions, presumably interest rate rises, will put the kibosh on the new leverage being enjoyed by workers?
There's no way I'll find it but somewhere along the way there was a collection of samples in which one of these contemporary model-based speech synthesizers (possibly wavenet or tacotron) was forced to output data with no useful text (can't remember if it was just noise or literally zero input). The synthesizer just started creating weird breathy pops and purrs and gibberish utterances. Some of them sounded like panic breathing and it was one of the more jarring things I've heard in quite some time.

This isn't exactly it but it's very close - https://www.deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-a-generative-model-for... CTRL+F 'babbling'
The Unlikely Story of How Minecraft Was Born (2013)
Yes. In one particular platform on my current project there is a 900 second best case development loop (15 minutes).
> At salesforce.com, inc., trust is our #1 value

Their legal pages[1] are filled to the brim with those ridiculous statements. I never understood why they'd even bother making it sound nice, especially not for B2B.

Customers won't trust the message and likely can't use them in court, and they themselves must surely know they're creating expectations that they can't guarantee to meet.

[1] https://www.salesforce.com/company/legal
(1) Going back to the origin of AWS, AWS came out of internal infrastructure that AMZN developed for itself. So it is all about the dogfood.

(2) When I was doing a shootout of 8 machine vision APIs, I got all the other ones working in less than 20 minutes. Google took 2 hours because installing the Python API trashed my Python installation

(3) I hear similar stories from other devs who've attempt to do things with GCP.

(4) There is another story about Google which is that they're not very productive internally, it takes them forever to develop features, they hire 150 IQ developers and get 115 IQ performance out of them because they waste 35 points of cognitive capacity on bad tools. They think it's OK because it proves they only hire the best.
Has anyone done a load test comparison for Heroku vs. Render.com? The "Pro Ultra" on Render is $450/month for 32 GB RAM + 8 CPU. The Heroku Performance L Dyno is $500 a month for 14 GB RAM. The Render server seems like a much better offering.
Not sure where you're at, but in the US a masters is generally only available to someone that already has a bachelor's. I'm not saying it isn't worth it, but the traditional bachelor's path is 4 years of full time work.
The governments are the only ones to blame. They created copyright privileges, and they have the power to revoke them but thus far have failed to do so. Everything negatively impacted by copyright is their fault.

Though in the case of the comment you're replying to, the tone suggests that the barrier to content being available legally is government censorship, not copyright or rights management.
My favorite websites are gopheresque
On second reading, I find that I misunderstood your comment.
Another unrelated story:

A middle school classmate once turned in an article from Encarta as their essay for Social Studies. They didn’t copy paste the text… they literally printed the article, crossed out “Microsoft Encarta” with a pencil and then wrote their name at the top.

I was impressed with how little effort they put in. Teacher gave them an F of course.
every game in existence where you can shoot at someone by simply clicking where they are either uses lag compensation or clientside hitreg, it's simply impossible to get around this

also players only teleport around on your screen in tf2 if you set your cl_interp very low
There's no reason for layoffs to be time-correlated if that is the reason. Unless you think the sports analogy is strong enough to support ideas like "seasons"?

Dream team reasoning should ideally be applied semi-randomly -- if you need it to be enforced make the "reminder we are a dream team" messaging different and randomly chosen for different aspects of management and maybe even just introduce artificial delays to stagger firings so they are not clumped into groups ...

group firings are a wall street signal not a management strategy ...
Can’t wait for a mini android phone
Widely Available AI Could Have Deadly Consequences
> Amazon (at least AWS) monitors all their clients' data and copies the most successful ones.

AWS most certainly does not: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/data-privacy-faq/
How did the pricing compare? What was the Render server needed to match what you were using with the Heroku Dyno? I run a high-traffic nonprofit edtech app that runs on 3-5 Heroku L Dynos, and I'm curious how well Render will perform at this level.
I've posted about this on here before but the remaining 89% actually isn't just agriculture, though that is a Californians favorite scarecrow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_in_California#Uses_of_wa...

> Water use in California is divided into approximately 51% for environmental uses, 39% agricultural use and 11% urban uses, though that varies considerably between regions and between wet and dry years.
I had both of those, and I had config vars for my pipeline apps.
China Eastern Black Box Points to Intentional Nosedive
Is there a reason why gopher is seeing a resurgence in the tech sphere?

Honest question, if you like it I'm not trying to put you down, but I just don't see how it's any better or worse than HTTP
A simple utility package for exception handling with try-catch in Golang
The pre-paywall grafs:

> Flight data indicates someone in the cockpit intentionally crashed a China Eastern jet earlier this year, according to people familiar with U.S. officials’ preliminary assessment of what led to the accident.

> The Boeing 737-800 was cruising at high altitude when it suddenly pitched into a near-vertical descent, plummeting into a mountain at extreme speed. Data from a black box recovered in the crash suggests inputs to the controls pushed the plane into the fatal dive, these people said.
Should have written it in rust and posted it to r/golang
They pay with cash and options, not RSUs options that are fully vested and granted monthly at 40% value.
> but it's an objective fact they've pushed the boundaries of what I knew was possible with games.

what are some of the ground breaking things they've come up with?
> I've seen it used once

Ok, let's just accept now that you live in an isolated bubble, if your experience with video calls is "I've seen it used once and to a disastrous result."

I'm not denying your experience, but it's not the experience of the vast majority of the modern world now, across all categories of people. Many people may not use video calls regularly, but most people have had more experience than "seen it used once."
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+1 the second 60% of the article is incredibly interesting, but I almost gave up before I got to the meat.
"Environmental" uses seems to mean they're just allowing the water to run naturally to maintain the environment. (This is the source Wikipedia cites: https://www.ppic.org/publication/water-use-in-california/). It's funny that they call that a use of water in California. If you remove that, then yes, agriculture uses 80% of the water.
Sure. But that is not how the word "victim" is being used in the piece.

I can see how the plagiarised person can be a victim, as I've said. Such a person could be deprived of money and status that is their due while it is garnered by the plagiarist. Morally that is straight up theft, for mine. I just don't see it, or much like it here. This is not a defense of plagiarisim that I'm making.

It's not a massive point and it definitely isn't terribly important. I just feel like it's describing yourself as a victim of theft if someone tries to break into your car, does no damage to it, fails to steal anything and accidentally leaves a few hundred dollar bills behind that are legally awarded to you as their finder. Victim? Maybe a professional writer could use a word to convey the meaning they're trying to convey without the nuance I'm objecting to here? Has there ever been an easier case to "refuse to be a victim" than this one? The plagiarised party is, in some small way, cashing in on the experience and good luck to them!

Seems like the plagiarist is getting some kind of justice and everyone can form their own view on the appropriateness of its roughness and whether no viable alternative to it exists and so on in the all the usual ways.

[1] Tom Lehrer for anyone playing along at home. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQHaGhC7C2E
I tried reading the wiki article and couldn't find an answer. Could someone explain to me what "environmental uses" is?
At high school in the 90s I made a graphical snake clone in QBasic which was local multiplayer and had lots of extra features, some of which were hard-to-see bombs you could drop and detonate when the other player came nearby, and lasers which could shoot out ahead of you. There was some friendly competition in the game innovation department from students senior to me but my clone definitely landed the student's choice award for gameplay. Yay QBasic!
Well Google/facebook/the entire internet are built on the back of auction systems designed by economists to start.
That sounds like a description of what literally every Linux distro does. Take your code, potentially make a (minor) fork of it, sells access to it, sells support for it, maybe sells hosting for it (Amazon), takes all the money, maybe gives back patches or maybe not and competes with your own builds of the software.

I think that what you want (no competition from forks or downstream redistributors) would not comply with the Open Source Definition (or DFSG) nor the Free Software Definition.

https://opensource.org/osd
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
> They waged a propaganda war against abortion,

Anti-abortion as a technique to grow the white population is a new one on me. I figured that the Republican party used the abortion issue to get voters to vote for Republicans despite Republican economic policy almost exclusively benefiting corporations and the very rich. Having an angle like this feels different.
I don't think parent was saying there's a conflict. I think they were saying it's hard to tell the difference between the two possibilities.
You should try a shotgun microphone (ie. Rode NTG2)

It is directional, you can get a shock mount for it.

You can also get it quite close but slightly off camera pointing at you.

I'm not a fan of the microphone in frame, so this was my solution.
What products are not economical to import from China?
I am brainstorming on ideas for starting a business, where I'd build and sell in the US.
It'd be easier if I don't have to compete with Chinese goods. What product categories are not economical to import from China, either because of their size, shelf life, custom-built requirements, etc.?

My background is in hardware, manufacturing, and electromechanical devices.
>> Fairness isn't a perk applied to a team, it is a property of the game.

> Could you clarify what this means? I’m not entirely sure I understand what you mean. I think I just need a little more context.

You have described fairness in terms of punishing or rewarding players for certain non-game behavior. But, this is not the right way to think of fairness, in the context of a competitive game. A competitive game has a set of rules, which the players compete under. In a fair competitive game, those rules don't favor a particular set of players. Regardless of whether they deserve it or not, players who couldn't show up in person would be playing under a handicap if there was no lag correction.

>> if teams who can't travel to be game are going to be included, then the host must find a way to provide a fair game.

> I agree with the logic but disagree with the premise: teams who can’t travel to play the game shouldn’t be included in the tournament in the first place, because it places an undue burden on the other teams and lowers the quality of play.

>> Unless "ability to travel during a pandemic" is considered a skill for this game

> I don’t think it’s a skill; it’s a basic obligation individuals and teams must fulfill.

Sure, it is an understandable position to hold, that players who can't show up shouldn't be able to play. Riot clearly disagrees with you(for business reasons probably, mostly). I sort of disagree with you, mostly because I think that while we're in this weird liminal stage of the pandemic, I think we should try to accommodate people who want to engage from home. But this is a soft disagreement, I think there are good arguments either way.

However, once the decision is made about which players will be included in the tournament, if the tournament is to be taken seriously it must present a level playing field to the players who've been let in.
Flight data shows China Eastern jet deliberately crashed: Report
¡Awesome! Even if shit execution, fugly, one-trick gimmick, with terrible branding.

* “Other manufacturers have managed to make a success of selling high-capacity smartphones. BlackView (and, for that matter, Ulephone, Doogee, and AGM) does especially well. Although they come with ginormous cells, they’re primarily designed to be hardy, and can take more of a beating than Mickey Rourke in the boxing ring.”

* “French smartphone manufacturer Avenir Telecom attempted to crowdfund the P18K on Indiegogo, but ultimately failed in a way that was previously unthinkable for a project that’s attracted so much press coverage and public interest. In total, Avenir Telecom ‘sold’ sixteen (absolute) units.”

* “there are people who would benefit from a phone with a 18,000 mAh battery. I’m talking about military users, people working in the oil and gas industry, famers, and even truckers. Avenir did nothing to cater to this valuable niche.”

* “The P18K, on the other hand, lacked waterproofing and shockproofing, making it thoroughly unsuitable for outdoor users.”

* “Avenir Telecom wanted €600 for a phone with the internals of a €200 phone. Without anything extra – like ruggedization – that’s a hard sell. It just didn’t represent good value for customers.”

* “Measuring several inches thick”

I was exaggerating a little by saying 20000mAh: about 5000 to 10000 would probably be sweet.

Also camera lenses on the P18K were not flush with reverse side - ugggh. There should be a proper shutter button (positioning and half-press to hold focus). Lenses needs protection eg. manual sliding shutter which when opened puts phone into camera mode (I have cracked mobile phone camera lenses).

Plenty of people want a proper waterproof camera (low light, macro, Tele, optical image stabilisation) in their pocket, and why not combine that with hardy mobile phone?

I can imagine making the screen plus battery plus the USB port all as a single user-replaceable part? Those are the usual culprits that get broken or need replacing.

Edit: Slight edits above for clarity. Also see Blackview Pro 11000mAh https://thenextweb.com/news/this-bonkers-chinese-phone-holds...
Fiat currency has lead to the longest period of growth in human history. America was in a 50 year depression prior to the introduction of fiat because the government wasn't able to control deflation, which it turns out is about the worst thing that can happen to an economy.
I didn’t read this as being about skills. It’s about being able to have a productive working relationship. You can tell pretty quickly if you and another person are incompatible.

As far as skills go I completely agree with you.
> This is a bit confusing, since JSON data commonly has an implicit schema, or "deep type system" as this post calls it, and if you consume data in any statically-typed language you will materialise the implicit "deep" types in your host language

That is an incredibly expensive operation to perform. Being able to look at two binary blobs of data and quickly determining whether or not they are the same type of data unlocks a whole host of functionality over large amounts of data that is otherwise prohibitively expensive and slow.
IF being rhe keyword. If programmers as a whole do not tolerate such conditions, or if they are less productive, it won't be inescapable.
Heroku hasn’t been starving the ecosystem. They simply haven’t had real competition on their caliber of (zero-)devops.
If this piques your interest and you use Python, check out the blessed library: https://github.com/jquast/blessed
As a counterexample:
In 2019,2020, the French government did an experiment with a random sample of citizen. It showed that if people are properly formed and educated about the climate crisis, they are willing to make a change and can even be more radical that what the climate expert wished for

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_Convention_for_Clim...

Also economy is just numbers going up and down, it's not real. You just need to change some variables of what makes economic growth if you want your numbers keep going up in gdp. Earth overshoot is not as flexible, we don't make the rules.
So if you're on LinkedIn chatting with Amazon recruiters they'll see it.
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I ain’t gonna yuck your yum, I’m writing this comment while waiting for Elden Ring to reload after yet another stupid death. :)

I am glad people who enjoy pretending to be a space pilot are enjoying this one, all I know about it is it’s long-standing status as one of the biggest Kickstarter vaporware stories, which I guess is a list it can finally come out of after about a decade of development!
I don't block all retweets but there are too many abusive retweeters who retweet every retweet of their own post. If you don't block their retweets the whole timeline is nothing but the same post retweeted 100 times.