skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the US they started making noises about some customers getting same day or next day deliver but for many customers they just gave up

https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/9/7/23333406/amazon-prime-2-...

Frankly I don't care if my congressman gets next day shipping in Washington, DC.
I am, surprisingly, capable of understanding that companies can exist for long periods of time. Time to walk away lol
> wanting equality

It's equality of outcome writ large, not equality of opportunity. I see it as a nonsensical extension of the classical liberal idea that everyone is born equal, which to me means that everyone is treated equally under the law; not that everyone is literally equal and anyone should be able to be and do anything that anybody else can, which is reflected in various postmodern movements such as critical race theory or transgenderism.
My parents recently moved to a similar building with huge glass windows (different part of the world). They ended up installing black mesh roller shades, and pretty much need to keep them down half the year, to keep out the heat. For all intents and purposes, they now dwell in darkness. That kind of architecture basically creates new problems, rather than solves them.
For my last couple of projects: vanilla JS — no frameworks, no build steps, no bloat.
yeah, the last person i knew who tuned by ear died probably 5 or 6 years ago now and i haven't found anyone who hits the same sound. the same electronic cut-and-paste approach does not seem to be quite as good across every single piano. don't get me wrong, it's very good, just tiny differences spotted because i knew the piano's sound when tuned by ear very well beforehand.
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> Tim Berners Lee is widely accredited as the inventor of the internet

Do you mean the web?

The Internet was already a thing before either of these people came along and built something on top of it.
Don't forget about Google Fi (which, it seems sometimes, that _Google_ has forgotten about) which ties it all together with traditional carrier services too. Well it did until they sunset Hangouts, I suppose.
It would also be possible to embed components written by others without managing a build toolchain.
If one is writing SVG by hand, there's no alternative to learning the path language.

It's the primitive, everything else is based on it.

It could be made longer, but then a week later you would want it to be shorter, which it already is.
It's not clear to me if the story is supposed to be a second degree satire of left-leaning doctrine or a third degree satire of right-leaning fantasies.

No matter its goal, the story hits a raw nerve. The mix of emotions over inequality, natural superiority, and its implications one way or the other is one of the strongest cocktails, I feel.
Yes but the perfect manabase and the synergy with brainstorm make it up for it. At least, form some quick unscientific investigation it seems that many legacy decks run more fetches than duals.
Hi, I'm just wondering what the text-to-speech and speech-to-text for Japanese is based on? It works pretty well, and speech-to-text in a browser is not something I thought would be practical a few years ago. How much of that is being done client-side?
Also like others I recognize some of the "voices" from Duolingo, so presumably there's some text-to-speech engine in common?
The prompt/scene generator is amusing.
> I'm really getting tired of this kind of take.

I'm really getting tired of this kind of hand-wavey response.
Give MTG Arena a try. It's not the same feel/experience as in person, but still fun, convenient, don't have to spend to build (can win packs/wildcards to get what you need), and have multiple play formats.
I've been wondering when CF was going to build this for years. It only made sense given the moving parts in WebRTC.
If you understand that then I don't know why you posted your original comment. It isn't true in theory nor in practice. cya, lol
GitHub for one has rules about monetisation, is that an issue?
I'd look into Memory Optimized (R*) instances.
I tried the Spanish version, and it looks fun to talk to, but I would prefer to practice with Latin Spanish accent, which is different from Spain.
This looks a lot like a hardware geek's wish list (of course, deprecating software). It's rather disappointing that hardware folks still can't stop throwing shade onto software. I worked for hardware companies for almost my entire career, and it was constant "background noise," the whole time.

> Far more powerful software diagnostic tools will be built.

Anyone remember ICEs? I would love to see an ICE, these days, but I think that it would be insanely expensive.
Try Pikchr! https://pikchr.org/home/doc/trunk/homepage.md

I'm working on a fork of it which allows classes to be added, and turns labels into <g> elements with an id attribute.

Pretty great as-is, does more-or-less exactly what you want.
I think it’s based in large part on the customers emotional state.

Asking nicely requires a relatively positive emotional state. Demanding a discount due to a perceived slight, doesn’t.

In my experience, it’s a lot easier for someone to stay or go into a negative place than a positive one.
If it was on DOS, may be you are referencing to Norton Commander ?
> So we're supposed to go use one of thousands of other tiny cloud platform providers?

Capitalism requires competition. If it’s only natural that one company grows larger and better than all others, then this is bad for consumers, and in this case bad for all of us, since it limits who can even be on the internet in any meaningful way.
> without youtube, users would be seeking out this content, like they did with blogs before facebook.

Would they really though? His top viewed videos are "Why the Soviet Computer Failed" and "What Eating the Rich Did for Japan". If those were headlines for a personally-hosted video blog, the biggest group I can see eating that up is the Twitter mob, which, all things considered, doesn't generate much value and is unlikely to translate into a dedicated follower base.

In addition, those are kind of two different interest groups: I'd imagine less than 50% of people interested in the Soviet Computer topic are interested in viewing/reading a pro-"eat the rich" content piece. With YouTube, their recommendations allow the user to only be fed the content that correlates with what they want to see (and this is more apparent in other parts of YouTube, eg. Channel Awesome[0] where anything that's not in their Nostalgia Critic or Untitled Review Show series tends to get comparatively few views).

0: https://www.youtube.com/c/ChannelAwesome/videos
ah well indeed, slip up of mine. I meant the World Wide Web, the WWW, as we know it. The idea of using the pre-existing internet (which did in fact exist as you say it) and how to shape messages on it to create something like the www, that was their actual invention.

Take something, and use it in a creative new way, is basically what they did
Compared to the people whose work they actually sold, yes.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/2/do-not-call-ukraine-...
this kiss of death sounds ominous...
The strange thing was I posted it to HN about 30days ago and got like 1 upvote. Obviously a lot has change since then, but still. I think the reason people like it so much is because you can try it without having to sign up first...not sure though.
Yes! We need centralize the abuse where the NSA can get what they want.
And the gas is bubbling up quite vigorously: https://twitter.com/TankerTrackers/status/157475298658418688...
Better in what? Refactoring tools or?

Oh, if I'm recalling correctly, it had workspace for live scripting and it could inspect the objects returned by snippets as Smalltalk could?
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Ask HN: Which tech terminologies are the most confusing to “non-tech” people?
I was watching this video by Onion: "HP Offers 'That Cloud Thing Everyone Is Talking About'" and thinking which other tech terminologies (like "cloud") confuse non-tech savvy people?

Anything you are frequently asked about?
I think that both can be combined: people are less productive when they are part of the internet whose value is augmented :)
By analogy, what you're asking for is the ability to type `delete3words` instead of `d3w` in Vim.

You might think you want that, what you actually want is to take an index card and write the SVG path abbreviations next to their long names, and put it by your keyboard while you work.

Won't need it for long.
Is anyone else using MyPyC in production and can share their experience?
Did you attempt the compile it all approach, or incrementally add?
What do compile times look like at scale?

Would love to buy you a coffee and hear about your experience and the challenges and benefits.
Always always there's private property, always, like it is not about whether you own your own underwear it's more about who owns the means of production. And further I highly question sources I don't personally read in Russia, in Russian, because if you read it in English in Oceania you're reading what the defectors say. 100% pure defector speech. Why would a Russian Communist suck up to the West and write in American English? Or a Chilean Marxist, would he speak American English that ordinary Americans could read? How could that ever come about? There's tons of Chileans who are very talented and got offers to study or work in USA and they learned enough American to say "FUCK THAT SHIT!"

Why? Because they consider America the culprit of 9/11, you know 9/11, nine eleven, nine eleven. The 9/11 bombings. The 9/11 bombings and terrorism. The 9/11 bombings and terrorism that were commemorated 38 years later with similar direct deaths and highly monument-specific bombs, as a retaliation for 9/11. 3000 dead, 3000 dead, no children, no children, monument, monument, capital, capital, terrorism, terrorism. Nine eleven.
Sure, of course. But that's a far cry from saying "on K8S (which is itself going to run on underpowered VMs with networked storage)"
You desperately need a privacy policy when you process sensitive data. At least name the companies the data is send to.
Was hoping they'd release a stand-alone TURN service first. The WebRTC-based product I've been working on for months now (finally wrapping up v1) is one-to-one by nature, and I actually want the connection to be peer-to-peer when possible. But access to a TURN server in every Cloudflare datacenter would be nice.
Indeed, conflation of the web with the internet is a sticking point for me too!

I'd like to shout out Vint Cerf, Bob Kahn, Yogen Dalal, and Carl Sunshine who made TCP for ARPANET: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc675
The things that stands out about Tim's toy hypertext system (the "World Wide Web") was that Tim was focused on the actual system, rather than on the academic experiment. There were researchers in that area but they felt it was important to figure out problems like link decay before you would try to deploy this at scale, Tim didn't care, it worked fine.

What you've done is akin to if somebody argued that it's wrong to credit Bill Gates with inventing the computer when really that's what Steve Jobs did. It's not even the right generation. [ You can argue about whether what matters is the idea of the Analytical Engine, or one of the early realisations like the Z3, or Colossus or ENIAC or whatever. But those things were all built and (aside from the Analytical Engine) in use before Jobs or Gates were even born ]
dope thanks!
how is it worse than chinese or japanese ? i'm super curious..
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Congrats on the launch.

How do you add support for new language? If any human input is required in adding a new language get in touch for Nepali.
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Honestly Duolingo is one of the worst apps to learn a language after basic levels(A1).
Its repetitive and slow.

I switched to Seedlang(Learning Deustch) And its miles better, and this projects looks promising too!

Although they cover different use cases.
If you are in a Tech job then you most likely don't.

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/17e-overtime-co...
I had a situation recently where I had a report argue with me constantly over team agreement stuff like code standards and unit test coverage.

I explained every piece of rationale I could come up with for why the team chose to do things the way they did. I offered to schedule team discussions for her to try and convince the team to adopt other strategies, with the understanding that if the team didn't want to do things her way that would be the end of the discussion.

It wasn't the end of the discussion for her though, she kept complaining. Eventually I just had to say "that's the way we do things here so you have to get on board". It's awfully close to "because I said so", and I hated saying it, but I exhausted every other avenue I could think of.

She wound up giving her notice, so I guess we were on the same page because I was working with my manager on letting her go. But if she had been able to keep her head down and do the work we would have kept her for sure. She was a good coder, good systems knowledge, just really didn't like writing unit tests I guess.
> Life is not fair. In some ways it’s better that it’s not. Our perception of beauty, and marveling in its wonder, is something that makes us uniquely human.

I don't know if I buy either of those statements. Taking the second part first, animals probably can perceive 'beauty':

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/animal-emotions/2021...

And as for the first part, yes, life isn't fair, which is partially why human societies make rules that attempt to alleviate some of that arbitrariness. The story of Harrison Bergeron is an example of human rules run amok. It should encourage us to create better rules, not abandon them entirely and return to the law of the jungle.
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works on FF mac with Ublock origin.
This is solving a different problem, the voice acting budget problem cannot be solved with this type of thing. To solve the voice acting problem, you need realistic text to speech.

This type of thing is solving the problem of generating infinite variation of text, which might make the NPC more realistic than hearing a series of predefined recordings. But you still have the problem of text2speech, you still need a realistic one if you want to include this into the game.
Predicting the future of technology seems to be difficult...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/1923-envisions-the-tw...
And even for sophisticated people, the drop is very visible. The wealth of vocabulary of XVIII french books is nothing like any modern literature.
Rooftop solar isn’t being installed because they don’t have enough inexpensive labor. Good. Install the panels in a solar farm on the ground. It’s much more efficient both short and long term.
I think the problem with ads based on the conversations is twofold:

1. Whatever you do to make it work for useful ads ("Oh, you like Goddard? Check this out on Netflix...") could also be super creepy ("Oh, you have ED? So sorry, have you tried Superdrug?") and I don't think there's any way you're going to know ahead of time. As a techie sure I see how it would be cool to have the "AI" just "say the ad" but... at least be very, very selective about what can be advertised.

2. If it works, it'll be a slippery slope. First it's our conversation about the movies, then it's movie mentions our previous conversations, eventually it's all our conversations ever, dumped into another AI to target the ads -- at which point, Facebook buys you I guess, so there's that.

If I were you I'd target the education market, make it subscription based, offer some kind of big-ish discount for public schools, and also offer some kind of specific features for language schools. For instance my teachers give me homework, why not have them seed your program with some key phrases I need to practice?

Anyway, data point of one, but if it had an iPhone app and Thai was an option, I'd pay $10/mo without thinking about it.
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I agree with you. Although it is a useful app in isolation, it contributes to people being less dependent on others. Once you get to a sufficient level that you can talk, you should just find another person instead of interacting with AI.
This depends on what you mean by "equality", which leads directly into the "equality of opportunity" vs. "equality of outcome" debate.
thanks so much for reducing this emotional work of art to a political check box?
He posted benchmarks on a separate thread: https://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=28107
Agreed on the sentiment but 'fifteen years' on BBC Basic can't be right. More like a couple of years.

Great presentation from Sophie here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lOnpQgn-9s
Possibly related, I really think a tool like this could be immensely useful in picking up speech and reading impediments early in the development process. May also be able to help measure progress of therapy and training.
>What was most striking is that I don't remember TV being so low-key in the culture, nor how it crept up in importance, despite living through the change.

TV was anything but low-key in culture. In fact because everyone watched a show at the same time, there was much more cultural synchronization/watercooler talk with respect to shows like MASH or Seinfeld.

What did change beginning with maybe the Sopranos was that (a limited slice of) TV became more high culture and displaced film to a certain degree in that regard. (And streaming enabled the sort of serialized drama that was hard to pull off in a fixed time slot broadcast world.)

>the TV listings was just a bare half page showing the names of the programmes, and that was it.

True, but in the US, TV Guide magazine was I believe the most subscribed to magazine in the country. That's where a lot of people got more detailed (though relatively still quite limited) information from.
If you slap an M rating on it why would that matter?
The US has done terrible things nonstop the past decades and it hasn’t suffered from any kind of political fallout.
Good principles.

They also sounds like a recipe for being taken advantage of or abused in an Urban environment, or if applied naively.

In my experience, do it long enough, and blindly enough, and it’ll end up collecting the worst - in any environment it’s applied to - when the group set is large.

Mostly because of a filtering effect. The folks who need help to get self sufficient will use the help, get self sufficient, then go elsewhere.

The folks who will fall back on bad habits, will use the help, and break themselves again, and then get into a cycle of dependence on the help until either the help is withdrawn (which often causes anger), or they find an even juicier offer of help.

It isn’t a large percentage of people who are like the latter group - maybe 1-2%. But given enough folks and enough time, and it’ll end up collecting a hard core group of people that will be a serious problem.
History channels seem to be especially vulnerable to getting brigaded by some offended party.
well yeah, uprights weren't built for the best sound. if you ask me, the order is mid sample < mid upright < good sample < good piano. i use keyscape, one of the better synth pianos with a massive ass sample library. i also own a 20s mason & hamlin, and there are absolutely differences.

i don't bother micing up my piano if i'm recording something electronic, but the difference is absolutely there especially for classical performances where dynamics are super important. for fun, me and a couple buddies recorded on a real c7 and keyscape's, same thing, and we all preferred the real mccoy blind tested every time.
I'm stunned by how well this works for Japanese, the only language I think I'm good enough at to judge the AI's responses.

The speech recognition is flawless as far as I can tell. The AI occasionally gets itself into a loop of repeating my question or itself, but I think this has been a problem with a lot of chatbots. The only glaring errors I've seen so far are these kinds of AI-specific issues, like forgetting context, getting geographical facts wrong, etc.

>こんにちは。今日はどちらへお出かけですか？ (Hello. Where are you headed?)

京都に行きます. (I'm going to Kyoto)

>素晴らしい都市ですね。行ったことはありますか？ (It's a great city. Have you been?)

いや初めてです。お勧めの場所はありますか？. (Nope, it's my first time. Any places you suggest?)

>京都は歴史のある美しい都市です。たくさんのお寺や神社を訪れることができます。(Kyoto is a beautiful city with history. You can visit plenty of temples and shrines.)

そうですね。清水寺とか聞いたことがある。行きたいんだ. (True. I've heard of like, Kiyomizudera, and I want to go.)

>清水寺は必見です！とても人気のあるお寺で、市内を一望できるんですよ(Kiyomizudera is a must-see! It's a very popular temple, and you can see the whole area at once)

Not only does it know about Kyoto, but it knows about a specific temple (picked it up via speech recognition too). Translations are rough and by me, not quazel.

This could be a real game changer if the other languages are this good.

Additionally, if you register an account then you get access to the "Scene builder" which lets you set up a situation to start the conversation in. I have found that you can redirect any conversation to pretty much anything, but I thought it was a cool idea that many people here averse to account-making might have missed.
Did you read the article… it specifically mentions that their spouses and dependent children are included. So that would mean another third party would do the trading.
My favorite nature-inspired architechtural design concept is based on termite mounds, which have built-in cooling due to their structure, and whose design appears quite similar to this traditional lattice approach:

> "The secret of this balance of solid strength with porosity lies in a two-layered architecture. A dense core provides strength and stability, while a porous shell surrounding the core allows ventilation."

https://india.mongabay.com/2020/10/architectural-secrets-of-...

This idea seems to be gaining traction, here's a new building in Vietnam designed on the termite mound concept which looks remarkably similar to the described traditional Indian lattices:

https://www.architecturaldigest.in/content/vietnam-brick-hom...
In situations like that I always try to remind myself that the person I'm talking to is almost certainly not the one responsible for the shitty situation I'm dealing with. >90% of the time the shitty situation is the result of a policy decision made by someone that neither of us has ever met or likely will ever meet. Both of us are victims of their shitty decision. I find it much easier to be civil when I keep that in mind. And on those occasions when that's not enough I try to remember to say, "I'm sorry, I know you're not responsible for this shitty situation, and I apologize for taking my frustrations out on you." I've gotten an enormous amount of mileage out of this strategy over the years.
Yes indeed. You are engaging your visual cortex as retrieval tools and paper for storage. Visual is fast.