skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a French native who learned English by reading books and later spent a couple of years in English speaking countries, I'd really like to have a tool to help me fix my pronunciation.

So with that in mind I tried your tool and I was enthusiastic about seeing a score for each words, but then what? I tried a few sentences manually (the random button doesn't work) and for example it seems that I have an issue with the pronunciation of "to" where I always get around 50%, but there's no way to know what's wrong. As it is I'd stop using the tool after about a minute.

I'd suggest adding something to hear the correct US/UK pronunciation of the words.
Framing it as a "right to publicity" argument is interesting, though it invites comparison to celebrity impersonators which exist and don't seem to infringe.

A relevant opinion:

> The purpose of the portrayal in question must be examined to determine if it predominantly serves a social function valued by the protection of free speech. If the portrayal mainly serves the purpose of contributing information, which is not false or defamatory, to the public debate of political or social issues or of providing the free expression of creative talent which contributes to society’s cultural enrichment, then the portray generally will be immune from liability. If, however, the portrayal functions primarily as a means of commercial exploitation, then such immunity will not be granted.

from Estate of Presley v. Russen via https://ripl.law.uic.edu/news-stories/celebrity-impersonatio...
Ask HN: What do you like to see in tech talks?
Hey HN community!

I'll be making my first ever presentation at a large tech conference at pgconf.eu this December, where I'll be presenting the SQLPage webapp micro-framework ( https://sql.ophir.dev/ ). I'm eager to make a lasting impression and deliver a presentation that truly resonates with the audience at the conference, who probably knows more about postgres than I do.

That's where I could use your insights. What makes a good tech talk in your eyes? Do you like seeing mind-blowing demos, deep dives into code, compelling storytelling, or something else entirely ?

If you have any specific advice, tips, or ideas for structuring a tech conference presentation, I'm all ears. I want to ensure that my presentation is not just informative but also an experience to remember.

Thank you in advance for your guidance and suggestion !
Not particularly. Large apartment buildings would be ~1/4 that cost, and this consists of much more infrastructure that would need to be built. Seems like a reasonable cost for something that would have much better opportunities for extra value generation (shops, activities, etc) for the development itself.
Great! Inexpensive zoom lenses are getting better all the time. And manufacturing processes are likely also improving. The gap is narrowing.

But, at least today, you still get enhanced features on the more expensive zoom lens, such as wider aperture, and a constant maximum aperture across the entire zoom range. Neither of those things necessarily yields a superior photograph -- you don't need f2.8 across the whole zoom range if you're taking pictures at f6 -- but they can be very helpful. If they're worth paying for depends on one's personal needs, desires, and budget.
Oh yeah. I hadn't even tried that but this seems to have no basis in reality in any way. My phrase was "the cat is sleeping on me" and I read "taco bell is delicious" and I got a score of 33 with what seem like decent results (still no idea what these even mean)
Well fortunately most people I see making AI covers they use open source tools to do that (https://github.com/RVC-Project/Retrieval-based-Voice-Convers...)
For all sorts of reasons, I think that being pedantic about the meanings of acronyms probably does more to inhibit understanding each other than it does to facilitate it.

In this particular case, regardless of how often anyone has personally seen the term used to mean something more like "I think that...", taking that to be the intended meaning is the most friendly interpretation, and therefore the preferable one. It's an informal forum, we type fast, and don't necessarily carefully proof-read comments before hitting reply. Nor should we -- this place is a more pleasant space to occupy for everyone involved if we give each other the benefit of the doubt about choice of words.
I did an experiment recently where I managed to read all the english language investigative journalism worldwide, produced in the preceding week and indexed via a search engine, in just a few hours.

Even though there are literally over a billion people that can write English across the entire planet, and probably a few hundred thousand journalists active at any given time. Very very little is actually published in any given week.
Also:

footer.footer {
display: none;
}

Or remove that element. It is empty and just adds an awkward gray area when you scroll to the bottom.
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The rule was definitely on the typewriter.
I think you just don't want to live in Phoenix, Arizona. This area looks lovely compared to the stroads and shopping malls.
Forcing PCI Express Gen 3.0 speeds on the Pi 5
A benefit of living in a reasonably dense city is there are like 10 schools within walking distance of me.
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My boss knows about it, we've talked about it and I've shown him interesting technical things here or there. Like I said my concern isn't so much him but higher up.

You're right that it might be a good idea to get some sort of paper trail in place. I'm already very good about what machine I do work on, what time commits happen in git (always outside of business hours, no giant commits at 5:01 PM, etc.), that sort of thing.
> and don't require any of the parking that human-driving cars do

Could you unpack that? It doesn't make much sense to me. We don't want them driving around all day, we don't want them to drive home, and if it's a communal usage type thing they need to be stored outside of peak hours.
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This is completely non-functional. I read something completely different than the phrase given but it still gives me what seem to be high marks. I can't really tell because nothing is explained at all in the interface. The numbers seem completely random but always weighted towards US even if I mumble or say nothing at all.
I think it did pretty well. No offense as your original video is still really great for a native English speaker (me) to listen to, but the English speech varies in pace a lot, sometimes you speak incredibly quickly, at such a pace that you even miss some syllables or blend them together for example https://youtu.be/8JUepj7wIl0?t=194 it sounds like you said "technogial" or "technodule" rather than "tech-no-log-ical". So I can understand that a machine may make mistakes on this; don't worry, as a Kiwi I mumble and do this too ha ha.

But the Japanese result is still already very very impressive even if I haven't spoken since I was 15 and over there on exchange (and stopped learning once I realise they romanise everything, why label a bottle with appuru jyusu when you have RINGO SHIRU!)
It's a time honored tradition here in Lancaster. One must have speed to vault over the potholes.

Though I will say that while Lancaster city itself and a lot of the surrounding townships are themselves walkable, they're like little islands of an archipelago. It's not easy to get between one or the other without using a vehicle because of the stroads and highways.
Wealthier people are happier, build thing that can only be used by wealthy people - voila! A happiness machine!

Public transit takes decades to take hold - because you have to build the lines and then wait for the density to increase around them. If you try to go the other way, the people have to use cars first and then the car is perpetual.

But if you are willing to work those decades, you can finally get something pretty impressive - the San Diego Trolley runs 7.5 min separation on its main line: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BDMmgpvIDk
Want to travel back in time? Go work for a small company. Our two dozen souls are human resourced by the COO, who hires and fires, and a manager of the basic paperwork. There are no layers to fight through, you just call the boss, and he's refreshingly blunt.

But warning, there are fewer places to hide at SmallCo.
EFCore is the sexiest ORM out there. Makes Prisma look like a toy. Too bad it doesn't get the hype that it deserves.
People have a strong preference for privatized spaces because truly public spaces are unfit for purpose. A coffee shop has a right to kick out protesters that a town square is lacking, as one of many examples. People value that lack of disruption in a very noticeable way.
I've been using X to view graphical applications running on the Pi from my desktop - will this still be possible?
Ruby does allow you to pass a one-parameter function as the argument to `map`:

irb(main):001:0> ["foo", "bar"].map(&:reverse)
=> ["oof", "rab"]

Not precisely the same as what you've outlined, of course, but perhaps useful nonetheless.
Back the dqy, my parenrs had 1 hour commutes on foot through some woods to catch a bus for another hour to go to school, and back. Nobody cared, it was normal. Now it is normal for kids to take busses and trains themselves to go to school in cities. Times change.
"integrated" in the sense that the SDK comes with a compiler, but it's not integrated in the same sense as OpenGL where the compiler is part of the driver.

If you can compile that code, then you necessarily have the compiler at hand. You can't make a simple single code file example though. The build system has to get involved somehow.

FWIW, I think this is a good thing. Any non-trivial 3D project is going to involve some kind of asset baking sooner or later, which makes the barrier of entry to that negligible. At the same time, driver-driven compilation is just too convenient and sticky. That's a bad combination.
You can by deleting the EXTERNALLY-MANAGED file [1]

I know some Python maintainers think users are too dumb to work with system Python, but there are also some packages that are really hard to deal with on a system level if you try installing them in a venv. Plus venv's are dumb (I use Docker if I need more than one environment for specific apps or dev work), since it's another layer of abstraction I'd need to learn just to use Python.

I'm not forced to use virtual environments for PHP, Ruby, Java, etc... why for Python?

[1] https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/how-solve-error-exter...
And a specific test of mental stability at interview... yes, this is unusual.
The effort was zero - I copy-pasted an e-mail template from the internet and volia.

Yes, this is in Europe.

I think I learned quite a lot, namely:

- why I failed the interview (I struggled to produce correct code, the code wasn't very robust and I said it's ok to put it into production)

- why I haven't failed the interview (ex. no mention of my English language skills) - which was more valuable for me than the "why I failed"

- a fairly good confidence that there's little details omitted - when they submit you a voluntary feedback they may give just the most obvious information. Ofc I didn't get the data about what was said on internal meetings.

- some insight into their internal structure, opinions of individual interviews about me etc.

I probably burned bridges with that company but after the interview neither party was interested in cooperation so I decided to give it a shot and see what happens.

I had to wait exactly 30 (or 14?) days (GDPR deadline) for the feedback to get to my mailbox.
This seems to come from there: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/antora-ui-khronos/blob/e6d03...

This css seems shared across multiple sites, so I'd be afraid of breaking one of them if not introducing yet another class, though I am not sure where the HTML for the inclusion of this logo is generated from.

Edit: seems likes it comes from there: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/antora-ui-khronos/blob/e6d03...
Why is it like that though? Like what are the economics of performing the procedure that it's possible for it to be free if the owner gives it up? Does someone different ultimately foot the bill?
I would guess that's because the numbers this thing spits out are crap. It seems to just output random crap every time. Always 70+ percent US regardless of any attempts at accents or even saying absolutely nothing. Try just mumbling into it
There’s nothing particularly gay about it aside from a few instances spread across the series. Why attempt to poison a well that has such a devoted following?
> You can't give out free medical care

Is this asserting a legal or professional requirement? Or rather a "rule of business"?
Seconding this. Affordable housing mandates are counterproductive. Let developers put property to "the highest and best use". Those who are rich/gullible enough to buy new "luxury" units will benefit by getting the luxury properties from 20 years ago.
I once asked someone with a nice piece of kit that wasn't too far from mine in cost. They said they sorted top to bottom on DxOMark list and bought one on the top and they didn't even know what a prime is. But that approach seemed to work.
Do these ultrasound devices actually work? I always thought that was mostly snake oil, or that animals rapidly become desensitized?

Cats keep pissing in/near my bike shed, i have a wifi camera successfully wired up to a YOLOv8 object detector (to detect cats) but never figured out how to actually repel them. I wanted to go with an actuated water spray but it seemed ridiculously over engineered. If i can just blast them with ultrasound that's a lot easier to do...
You can do this with pre-built images. They can just install different packages on the rbpi3.img and the rbpi4.img, one with wayland one with x11.

If you don't want to use pre-built images you can also do this with metapackages.
If qualia is required for emotion, then the appearance of emotion can be evidence of qualia. Saying it requires qualia to truly be emotion is putting Descartes in front of the horse.
Not dead markets, but not very active ones by the time the death of this project occurred. I'd have to review the code to see how it calculated a 'cash out' value, exactly, but IIRC, it basically just took the highest bid to convert to bitcoin/eth or whatever and summed up everything. It was entirely naive af, for sure. Probably because I assumed that my future self wouldn't essentially sell off everything in 30 minutes.

Also, I still know of at least two projects that I wrote, running since 2012 with very little maintenance ... knowing how to write resilient software and being clairvoyant aren't mutually exclusive.
> Can you not see how that would be viewed as insanely predatory?

I assume you must be an expert in the cost structure of operating a veterinary practice in that location, at that time, in order to determine a predatory and non predatory price.

If you are not, I am not sure how you can make any claim about the prices.

>For profit companies should not be involved in human or animal medicine.

What kind of quality of life do you think veterinarians and doctors deserve? Should they be able to buy a Mercedes? C Class or S Class? Should they be able to buy a home in the better school district? How many square feet?

These questions are relevant for determining the predatori-ness of the doctors’ prices. Even more relevant is whether or not you want the top caliber people spending years studying one of the most complex machines. Or they could go study how to deliver ads to people.
In my area it is usually the right being disruptive but it isn't wholly unique to the right.
This is about driving in city centers, and I think a majority of that is not commuting but recreation.
Of course, I prefer walkable environments as well in the right conditions, but the headline implies that they are strictly superior, which isn't true when your society is low-trust and anti-social, and most walkable US city neighborhoods, or at least the ones that are affordable to people who are not very well off, are that. Today I live in a suburban area, and the calm and safety more than make up for the low walkability.
Commercial entities "prove their innocence" all the time.
Actually I think patents do far more harm than good in our economy. In aggregate they slow down innovation significantly by carving a huge moat around every new advancement. Without patents, there’s still loads of natural incentives to innovate. The difference is that instead of fewer larger leaps, there would be many more smaller leaps. You can always make money if you develop a new technology in secret and then start selling it before your competitors have any chance of going in to production. And then there’s always reason to support public investment in research. But patents take new innovations and then legally prevent the hundreds of potential innovators who would have built on that idea and improved it from going anywhere near it. Most innovation is incremental and with patents, that innovation is blocked from the market. This is a huge loss for our economy. The only singular function of a patent is to prevent innovation. (Legally, that is all they do.) The idea that the follow on effect of this restriction is a net gain in innovation is always taken on faith. It’s a story told over and over again. But when you look at things like open source, you can see how many of the arguments for patents simply aren’t true.
> The relative significance of $2k is much greater to someone making <$2k (>2x increase) than someone making >$2k (<2x increase).

That only works on individual level, in a world without inflation. it does not work when when you give money to everyone. Yes, I agree, rich people won't even notice that extra $1k of UBI in their pockets. And they also won't notice a price of pizza going from $20 to $30. Poor people, however, will stay poor.

As a general principle: money is not a real thing. It doesn't exist. It's only a symbol, means of accounting. You cannot eat it, you cannot wear it. You cannot fix the poverty by giving everyone money if you do not increase the amount of goods available for purchase in the market at the same time.
I actually remember being a bit confused by this too. Hopefully I can help:

These refer to 2 different protocols at the same layer: UDP, and TCP. Below these protocols there are layers that route little messages around local networks (like Ethernet) and that route little messages across the Internet (like IP), and UDP and TCP are another layer of abstraction on top of that.

TCP adds information about the ordering of messages, it has a mechanism for acknowledging receipt of a message, it has logic for resending a message, etc. UDP does not include these concepts, so if a message gets lost somewhere in the network, an application using UDP might not even notice.

The "connection" in this case, really refers to the state about these messages that is kept. It's a virtual / logical connection, not a physical connection.
Well, the "joke" part of it is that his explanation remains formal and polite while his behavior gets progressively more feral

and then it's funny in a tension-relieving way. The common interview experience is having to remain professional while under stress.
Also the random string generation seems to only output "the cat is sleeping on me" did someone accidentally publish this with mock data in it or something?
I think that's referring to a tcp connection right. Basically with UDP you can just start spamming out packet wherever you want but TCP requires a bit of setup with the handshake before you start sending the actual data. Networking definitely gets confusing with the billion different layers of connections.
I expect the EU commission to direct their requests at the publisher. I expect publishers to respond. In short, business as usual. Federation of publishers doesn't change anything in that regard.
Yes, some people do. Way fewer than who actually use cars, though. It's crazy how much of city real estate that oftentimes get dedicated to cars being driven or parked.
I also used webgpufundamentals.org to learn webgpu native. Only for me I was porting the examples to C. (I also used WGPU as the backend as I find it easier to debug than Dawn.)

I agree it keeps you thinking about how to do things as opposed to just copy pasting. It also helps that the examples are small and in JavaScript so it's easier to figure out the logic that need for them to work.
> no matter how much they are loved

I don't buy it. If their kid needed a couple thousand dollars to live, a lot more people would be able to scrounge it up. If they can't do the same for their pet, maybe they actually do love their pet less ... and that's OK.
Is there any way of validating whether a video was generated by AI?
They spent it all on storage and on their new spammy looking marketing emails that pester free users to upgrade I guess. I don't recall something really new on Dropbox since they were established.
"No matter how cute the pets, they cost money. In fact, pet ownership rates increase with household income.

Close to 60% of households with incomes of more than $80,000 a year have pets compared with 36% of households with incomes less than $20,000."

- https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2020/02/spending-on-p...
You seem to confuse "physics" with "moral arguments". They are profoundly different.
and pilots have a lot more training
Because they kill kids and famillies so we can have more dope and different economicsto the world.
Just open a window I suppose.
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Free speech is not an actual problem in the modern age, or any age. The volume is bearable. I see very little misinformation in my feed. And let's not forget how pre-Musk Twitter actively suppressed accurate information at the request of the US federal government.
This is not true in my experience, Seattle has a pretty solid bus system and we still felt like we were having to plan around them even though they generally would stop every 15 minutes. You could not count on them 100% either. Occasionally they just don't show up.

For trains that is great but you still have to get to/from the trains. Heck even bus stops require a 5-10 minute walk some times. So it's the walk to the bus stop, planning if the bus doesn't show up, the transit time which could include a lot of stops, and so forth. It really adds up to a lot of time lost.
They spiced it up, now there's a Stephan and an Esteban in the mix.
I see now that my perspective was too bound to the context. Thanks.
Typically, you close the microwave door before starting it.
That file is there while there are unsaved changes. Save the file or undo the changes and it goes away.
Many years ago I had a job interview that included a personality test. I didn’t take the job, for other reasons. But I always wondered what had gone wrong in the past such that a personality test for engineers was in order. I’m now glad to know. I also wonder how many problematic malcontents I would have found had I gone to work there.