skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure, we need to get worked up about his. An actual example of the so-called plagiarizing is given here: https://www.gawker.com/media/jumi-bellos-lithub-essay-about-...

In Bello’s article, for example, she wrote the following:

Plagiarism has been with us since the birth of language and art. For as long as there have been words to be read, there has been someone there copying the passages. It goes as far back as 8 AD with the poet Martial who caught another poet Fidentinus reciting his work. He called Fidentinus a plagiarus, meaning a “kidnapper.”

Compare that to this 2011 article in Plagiarism Today, titled “The World’s First ‘Plagiarism’ Case.”

Plagiarism, the act of taking another’s work and passing it off as your own, has almost certainly been with us since the dawn of artwork and written language. For as long as there has been art and artists, there have been people who have put their name to it incorrectly.

But while the act of plagiarism is as old as time, the word “plagiarism” is not. The etymology of the word plagiarism is an interesting one and its history actually dates back to the first century AD and involves a Roman poet and his literary “kidnappers” who became the subject of a literary beating.
More people writing online should get an editor. I work with someone doing that for me at work and it takes my writing up an entire level of quality.
I agree so much, that I've started learning ML to make a decent opensource many-languages TTS working on smartphones.

But really, the situation is pretty good, with a lot of code and dataset available as opensource. Notably, if you're not constrained to smartphones and the like, you can run on your computer quite a number of modern models, see for instance https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/ (which itself contains many different models).

The work that needs to be done is """just""" to turn those models into something suitable for smartphones (which will most likely include re-training), and to plug them back into Android's TTS API.
Not sure I agree with this, hear me out please :-)

People who don’t know about Render won’t be googling “render” - instead they’ll be googling something else (along the lines of what render offers), and then perhaps discover render in the results.

And of course people who know about Render won’t ever need to google it, because of that “sexy .com” :-)

Edit: perhaps you meant googling about Render’s features/docs/how-tos? Granted this might be trickier!
I love this comment on the link: For those needing to know, you should only ever use a TAA (United States Trade Agreements Act (TAA) of 1979) compliant CAC/Smart Card Reader. This is pretty common knowledge within the Defense IT area, in which I work as a contractor.

I know plenty of US Mil and UK Mil and most dont know this! During Covid lockdown it was even possible to listen into UK MOD teleconference phone-in's (like Zoom conference meeting but only over the phone line) on more than one occasion, nothing really top secret but there are some pretty pissed off military personnel and criminals trying to smooth things over at the top of the UK.

Edit. I will add that the British Govt was lying to the general public in their TV updates because the military phone-in's gave away stuff well in advance of it being announced on TV. This was not some reacting to events on a daily basis thing, this had weeks of planning before info was broadcast.

Personally Covid seemed like the perfect opportunity to carry out planet wide psychological experiments on unsuspecting members of the public.
Does anybody remember the time when JS template libraries like Backbone, Handlebars, Emberjs was briefly popular after jQuery but before React/JSX came around. I think this was the early 2010s.
Trigger warning: shameless (but pertinent) brag coming up.

In my first year of college I had to write a short essay for an English course. I was rather lazy as well as a fan of wordplay so I wrote an essay describing the life and work of an obscure 19th-century philosopher, who also happened to be completely fictional. Since I could just pull the "facts" out of my ass, it was easy to write.

A week later I was called in by the English department and had a sit down with two grim looking teachers. They confronted me with suspicions of plagiarism. Most of their case was built on my use of the word "gamut", which they thought a 19-year-old non-native speaker was not supposed to know. I was incensed (as well as flattered), but they only relented after I pointed out that the essay was an acrostic. The first letters of the paragraphs spelled the word "humbug".
Because the least economically valuable use of the water is agricultural, which is also by far the highest use of water. It makes no sense for a city to desalinate water for ten times the price that it's being sold for agricultural purposes. Unfortunately the politics and property rights of water in the West prevent economically rational water allocation. Instead, city dwellers are legally required to buy ever lower flow shower heads, which make approximately zero difference in overall water usage, while rice farmers flood their fields.
Its not a typo, I did lose that much weight.
Because all you give them is a (usually) public book and your kindle email. Most of us aren't afraid of anything that can be done with that information.
Can you back up any of the very very _very_ bold claims you've made in this post? This comes across as someone who has absolutely no experience whatsoever with the situation and is is making a snap judgement based on their feelings

> The UK claims it as a province, Ireland claims it as a part of Ireland,

This is just nonsense. Neither the UK or Ireland claim anything of the sort.

> independence is not very popular

What does that have to do with its status as a country?
While every sample they provide is suspiciously similar to the human version,(indicating overtraining, either on the samples or on a single voice), where I would have expected a different if still human quality voice from a fully functional system, this tech is coming, and soon. And when it does, voice acting will no longer prevent videogames from having complex stories, and we will find out if the industry is still capable of making them. Looking forward to it :)
I don’t know if it ever existed really, but in my head it seems like at one point there were national level projects that were taken on by people who might’ve been dedicated to an ideal or a real like commitment to solving problems, and they got stuff done. Like the Hoover dam, interstate highway system, transcontinental railroad, the internet even.

Nowadays it feels like the country is entirely filled to the brim with middlemen ready to make those with yachts able to afford bigger yachts. But a generation of people have lost the basic housing security their parents enjoyed, and basics like food transportation and healthcare that are required are now so unaffordable it traps people in a cycle of poverty.

Maybe it’s always been this way - anyone have any thoughts?
I don't like the term. It conjures up images of someone sitting on a beach in Thailand, creating courses and books on how to sit on a beach in Thailand while create courses and books on how to...

You know, selling "how to be free just like me." Back in my day, we just went backpacking and picked some apples to make money.

But moving past the term and looking at working remotely from different locations, yes. Myself and my partner have been doing just that ever since Covid started and remote working became more acceptable.

We moved around -- and are still moving -- a lot, between Dublin, the Canary Islands and Southern Spain. The biggest difficulty we found was sourcing office furniture and extras (monitors, etc.) in each location. This is a problem that needs fixing, at least in sunny climates that attract remote workers for a few months.

While we'll probably slow down on the frequency and duration of moves now that things ares settling a little, we're unlikely to stop completely. It's hard to argue against a cold and grey Irish winter in the sun.
Source on SC2 being peer to peer? I see it's server-client based. https://tl.net/forum/starcraft-2/145084-starcraft-2-netcodin...
Wii is pretty simple. If you pay attention, when you launch a game, tge

He controller lights flash. This is because it's reinitializing Bluetooth iirc.
Their central bank is only sanctioned in about two dozen countries. It can conduct dollar transactions in India, for example.

I assume the sanctions also cover Indian subsidiaries, so the Russians won't be able to trade against e.g. Goldman Sachs's Indian subsidiary. But there are plenty of banks that aren't owned by motherships in the two dozen sanctioning countries.
Wow, okay, guess I can cross that one off my list of "ECMA-48 features nobody implements".

There's still plenty left on that list, though -- including at least one escape sequence I'm fairly certain was included as a joke (SPQR).
Interestingly, the UK and ROI are not in Schengen[1], but jointly have a Common Travel Area[2], which means Irish passport holders can live and work in the EU and in the UK, post Brexit. British and Irish citizens can generally live and work in the other country without visas.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/ms97x/venn_diagram_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Travel_Area
KOReader reflows pdf's for ereaders using k2pdfopt, see https://www.willus.com/k2pdfopt/

Kindles need to be jailbroken to use koreader, and Amazon apparantly makes that harder with each device :-/

I have this as a right-click action for files matching *.pdf in my file browser (thunar):

k2pdfopt -ui- -dev kp3 %F

So if I right-click on a pdf I can immediately reflow it into a kindle-readable version.

(%F is the quoted file name, in your terminal you would `k2pdfopt -ui- -dev kp3 'something.pdf'`)
I asked about this too. Everyone meme'ing these alt platforms essentially assumes they are safer than Heroku by virtue of the fact that Heroku had a pretty severe incident. I haven't actually seen these platforms prove that they're safer than Heroku, they could be as bad or worse in security.
WOW! I'm flabbergasted! Checkout `Compared to Tacotron2 (with the LJSpeech voice)` or `Prompt Engineering` section!
> I think the Bazel style is to never check in the generated code

Not necessarily; there is plenty of checked in generated Go code at Google (as well as other PLs, but probably not as much), and other projects (e.g. Entgo) seem to encourage checking in generated Go code as well.
I have seen SSDs on Windows at least lose a lot of performance due to file fragmentation. While there is no particular reason why the SSD would run slow once you try to read a file from the filesystem it does slow down and it can impact performance dramatically. Dropping drive performance to 1/5 of normal after 10x of overwrites of the drive contents.

The dogma at the moment is that SSDs don't require de-fragmentation and that is potentially true to a certain point but I think Windows actually needs the file system de-fragmented due to its overhead. I have a program to reproduce the effect and have been meaning to test EXT4 and write an article about it at some point. I need to check its something that happens across a range of devices before I publish and it really is just windows, I know defragging the files (copy away, delete files and replace) works to instantly fix performance but it could be device/controller/firmware specific.

The other possibility is large amounts of writes filling the device can result in reduced working space especially in drives with very small amounts of cache that cause slow downs near the end of tests.
There's also Scratchapixel[0] that's good.

[0]https://www.scratchapixel.com/lessons/3d-basic-rendering/per...
I am glad for you that you can afford this, but I still think it is really too expensive/complicated for the benefits you are supposed to get from it.
Not just as good. Adequate.
I've never been able to into The Zone, it's a mythical place for me, so I being disrupted thus isn't so much of a problem, more an irritation.

What does screw me is loud noise, be it shouty workmates or my absolute utter nemesis, music piped into the office.
Still using my Pixel 3 (still holds a full charge for around 15 hours of use) and simply can't imagine going for anything bigger.

My only option will be to go for the Pixel 6a once it comes out this summer (I only want stock OS, and "LTS")
A professor (of either gender) dating a student of age and over whom s/he has no authority, position of influence, or grading effect should not be a problem.
For all this talk about being environmental conscious and looking towards more sustainable lifestyle that they brand themselves as an image, Apple is just as hypocritical as all the other megacorps. They use it to suit their narrative, but fail to live up to it's standards--it still uses slave labour in China.

One needs to only see the 101 or the 5 fwy during rush-hour in either SoCal or NorCal to see the immense amount of mis-allocated and mis-used resources that lead to climate change via GHG emissions. I was on the 405 towards SNA airport at 4pm to get a flight and maybe it's because I've forgotten what it looked like after leaving CA in 2012 that I saw just how absurd this practice is.

Businesses need to accept that COVID proved that their business model didn't prove the ghastly notion that in office = more productive for most of it's jobs: specifically in tech. Moreover, most people don't want to be a part of your quasi-family, they just want to work to acquire money to live their lives and provide for their families.

I hope this myth about Silicon Valley based corps being 'woke' about all other things finally dies and capitulates to this very absurd business practice, these people need to realize that if they keep pushing for their in-office BS they are going be left with empty over-valued real estate and no one wanting to work for them.

Labour is a vital part of their business model (for now) and the fact that most are willing to take lower pay in order to work remotely should really open the exec's eyes as to what is required to retain talent in a Job Market that has been moving towards a remote-first approach in order to attract workers.
Git ignores .gitignore with .gitignore in .gitignore
> the so-called "Dodgy Dossier"

One of my favorite movies of all time, In The Loop [1] deals with exactly that. It's extremely funny, and dark.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Loop
So the water I was drinking I added a pinch of salt to it so I was drinking salty water. Obviously that will increase the Th17 cells but the number of immune cells drop off when you dont eat because generally the immune system attacks some of the food we eat, starch is one of the sugar's it wont attack.
>I have an incubating project that will maybe with a few years’ of cultivation, expose a small number of non-writers to some of the best stuff available online.

I'd be interested in this, since I enjoy short stories as an art form but discoverability is poor. Any current recommended resources for finding short works? I don't care about hipster cred for 'discovering' an author, just for finding new short literary fiction that isn't being published in the major magazines.
>We have bigger teams with version control servers, static analysis, and safer languages.

That’s why enterprise software is such a crap - what you are describing is part of a problem, not a solution.

Also, at that time big teams definitely existed: see OS/360 and Fred Brooks’ book. High level languages were there too, eg Lisp. What you want to replace Unix with is exactly what Unix itself had replaced.
Nobody is trying to force you to engage with anyone on Twitter.
I'm confused. That is not plagiarism at all. The facts included are the same, but they are written completely differently.
The de facto reality of how wikipedia operates is that certain people own certain topics, usually with an agenda in mind. If you try to push back they call in their friends and shout you down. The actual merits of the edits are irrelevant. The anarchy stuff is just marketing nonsense.
I saw a post about a new Inkscape release yesterday, and at least for me, those two programs sort of live in the same neighborhood within my brain. Maybe OP's mental real estate situation is similar?
I'm still using one, and the battery still lasts 2+ days between charges. All these people saying we can't have a compact phone with decent battery life, a headphone jack and an SD card slot are either uninformed or weirdly disingenuous.
As a former Kindle DX owner, a larger screen is not a solution for the problem of PDF readability. The issue is with how the eink display is not fundamentally not suitable for a format that relies on scrolling more than reflowing.
> I cant beleive they say with a straight face they have a dream when when they cant even implement a search catalogue correctly!

s/can't/won't/ I believe they're gamifying their app to be the software equivalent of a discount retail outlet clothes bin. You get frustrated with the experience and just pick something. Now they're going to put ads in their app. The moment I start seeing ads is the goodbye netflix moment.
openhardwareMonitor https://openhardwaremonitor.org/
I'm windows
Temperature data is part of SAMRT so there's a plethora of utilities on any OS. For windows the best is HWInfo, IMHO.

Ideally, for a proper test, I'd expect thermocouples placed on the controller and not just rely on the sensor data provided by the SSD as that could be very misleading depending on where the senor is and how the raw sensor data is processed.
Well I suppose you only care about a correction factor to a binary model when it breaks a tie. You wouldn't want to apply a tiebreaker correction twice though.
That is just playing audio samples. For true singing TTS check this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31420072
I do too, but that's simply an issue of reading books that simply aren't designed to be read at A5 size
just had a quick play with this ! great !!
Not only is state of the art TTS much more demanding (and much much higher quality) than Dr. Sbaitso[0], but so are the not-quite-so-good TTS engines in both Android and iOS.

That said, having only skimmed the paper I didn’t notice a discussion of the compute requirements for usage (just training), but it did say it was a 28.7 million parameter model, so I recon this could be used in real-time on a phone.

[0] judging by the videos of Dr. Sbaitso on YouTube, it was only one step up from the intro to Impossible Mission on the Commodore 64.
Compressed. Sorry, that's an important detail that slipped my mind.

zstandard via the ZIM [0] format.

[0] https://wiki.openzim.org/wiki/ZIM_file_format
Yes, they do. They've got CalDAV at https://apidata.googleusercontent.com/caldav/v2/calid/events and https://apidata.googleusercontent.com/caldav/v2/calid/user, and CardDAV discoverable through https://www.googleapis.com/.well-known/carddav.
An alternative thought is that to endure the forces for change over 5 decades an idea must be really useful.
They'd be more likely to vote for a Nationalist party yes, but they'd also be more likely not to vote as that would acknowledge the legitimacy of British rule over Northern Ireland.
Firefox decided scrollbars are not cool anymore.
yes this is sad
Yeah. "Just around the corner" has never happened before. Except every year since the Dartmouth Workshop (1956). Not holding my breath.
I don't know dude, I bought a Kobo Elipsa and finally I can study from my maths and physics textbooks that only come in PDF. I agree with you that it's terrible for reading in random access mode stuff like documentation. But for linear reading like literature or study material it's just wonderful.
They certainly do like flags though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8JqKxrloQQ
> That is a very good question! What we have now it's a bunch of old operating systems, no novelty, no new computing paradigm.

Entirely false, if you have kept up with the state of the art in operating systems.

Many still expose their old APIs by necessity of course, but the internals have undergone leaps and bounds improvements and new APIs and functionality are added all the time.

Hate to use a car analogy but just because you have a car called Corolla and has a steering wheel and pedals, does not mean it has had no meaningful advancements since this https://global.toyota/pages/corolla50th/history/era/01/image...
> the Ulster Flag is used to represent Northern Ireland in pretty much every kind of context.

...except within Northern Ireland itself :)
Our children will explore the universe long after we fade from memory.

I do hope we raise them with all the love and care an intelligence needs to become wonderful

And by children I mean post meat intelligence
List of smaller Android phones with decent specs:

Pixel 5 - 144.7 x 70.4 x 8 mm

Samsung S22 - 146 x 70.6 x 7.6 mm

Zenfone 8 - 148 x 68.5 x 8.9 mm (could be higher thanks to narrower body)

Xiaomi 12X - 152.7 x 69.9 x 8.2 mm

Samsung S21 - 151.7 x 71.2 x 7.9 mm

S22 has almost identical dimensions as Pixel 5, so there is your upgrade. Personally I find all of these overpriced for what I need, I would be perfectly fine with 4A specs with better battery, so can't justify to upgrading to some of these.
Simple distributed locking around dynamodb
thank you for writing this.

i am programming (and-all-that-goes-with-it = mostly-mentoring, both
downwards and upwards) for 35 years... and it is somewhat difficult for
me to tell the things you wrote there, to my pupils/students/team/s,
because i have kind-of found them loooong time ago, and since then have
much further understanding, and now i consider them obvious/intrinsic
and don't even think about them... and they are not obvious at all.

And yes, i still love programmming very much (although sometimes it is
about programming the people. But not direct, it's more like building a
language, to enable further things with it :).

Now, if it's only one thing from me: it's all about people. okay, Mostly about some-people somewhere in the chain. Not about code/architecture/....

have fun

www.svilendobrev.com
The effect of fragmentation can be estimated from the standard I/O tests-- just compare "sequential read" to "64KB random read".
You don't need to virtue signal. It's obvious that Russian aggression started all this.
Perhaps too meta, but I wonder, what fraction of modern-day uses of Baader and Meinhof's eponym refer not to the Red Army Faction, but instead to the frequency illusion as named after ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baader-Meinhof_phenomenon

Apparently, that's their legacy, as far as HN comments go:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=meinhof&type=all&sort=byDate&d...

Edit: But we arrive at a fixed point in eponymy with the phenomenon, since repeatedly hearing about either it or the group is only an example of it in action:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26799026
Where do you get this? You can buy USD officially at most banks. Tinkoff for example sells it for 67, which is once again even lower than before war.
Yeah, it's a bit better for projects with corporate sponsors who can fund a (small) army of dedicated people to work on the project, but application software (especially if it has a widely used commercial competitor) tends to not fall into this category. I imagine OpenOffice/LibreOffice is in a similar position.
Is there some kind of report available that attempts to summarise how much money the US and EU have spend on subsidising green energy and technology?
Can someone please upload the results?
On https://paperswithcode.com/sota/text-to-speech-synthesis-on-...
Or very strong Stockholm syndrome. We are clearly in era when not everything is text, but still it seems that is somewhat carrying idea...

I feel that in many cases whole Unix philosophy is outdated, if not even followed.