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Examples?

Am I the only one who's mildly annoyed by the 9th planet being referred to as Planet X?

Seems like "Planet Ix" (same pronunciation!) would have been a better name?

I don't get it...

Oh really? https://nvlabs-fi-cdn.nvidia.com/stylegan3/images/stylegan3-...

"hacker" "news"

Couldn't figure out how to navigate past the title page on my phone, so I gave up.

Twitter started giving me that empty, robotic, "algorithmic feed" feeling a month or two ago, so I un-followed everyone and removed the app from my phone and logged out all sessions via the web.

I've mostly replaced my online reading/discovery with HN, since I now have zero social media, and by reading HN and a couple of big-name online newspapers, I don't feel that I'm "missing out" on online news (a common feeling after deleting all social media).

> Still, for a business with stricter security standards, it would be ideal to do a clean reimage of all new laptops regardless of vendor, and specifically add only the necessary drivers, etc.

This is what I've done with virtually every machine I've personally owned for oh... the last 20 years? Why is this not people's defacto way of setting up a new machine? It's obvious that preinstalls are full of bloatware and spyware. The only issue (primarily from the past) is that specialty hardware may not work without vendor-provided drivers. That's largely no longer true, especially for the big-name brands like Lenovo, Dell, Acer, ec.

"Microsoft makes your kids use FAT" would have been better? :)

How does this compare to Artemis?

No list of text-based music systems is complete without the granddaddy of them all: [LilyPond](http://lilypond.org/)

Alda seems greatly inspired by the syntax of LilyPond, and in fact, I actually think the musical rendering is done via LilyPond. I'm surprised the docs don't seem to mention this heritage at all.

The "SF Pro" font family is directly downloadable from Apple and free for personal use. https://developer.apple.com/fonts/

Forgot to mention one important detail: How big is the JavaScript source to the BlurHash decoding algorithm?

I'm guessing that it's approximately the size of a single image, possibly quite a bit more.

"Utterly private" is a very odd term here.

At the very least, Apple knows which sites you're signing into, and has the unique e-mail addresses used at those sites, and has likely issued the authentication tokens for those sites. I'm not sure what's "utterly private" about this setup.

How does account recovery work?

I wonder if this is actually: "Larry and Sergey resign over cancellation of TGIF"?

So this is just Box 2.0 Signature Edition, right?

The real question should be: How much improvement over time in the efficiency of this process could be expected? 1.1x? 2x? 10x? 100x?

Every new technology goes through a refinement cycle where costs & resources are reduced, and I would assume the same is possible here.

Fuck this gatekeeping

You'd be better served hosting this content on a traditional blogging / content platform rather than imgur, IMHO.

"Picked up without credit" on a platform that provides no attribution whatsoever isn't really a hill to die on.

How about a list of all the things that really work great?

I've been using Linux on the desktop for nearly 20 years and I'll have to say it's fantastic, despite the occasional headache, which seems to be at a far less frequency than other major desktop operating systems.

It's even more fun (better?) to encode 1-bin images directly into source code using the Unicode block character set! You can get 4 pixels per character, and do "lossless" representation of simple binary images:

(UGH! HN doesn't seem to support unicode in comments!)

https://pastebin.com/raw/Bg5L9ZJV

Why am I reading this?

Fails my "WTF is it" test right out of the box.

The first paragraph of any software README should answer:

What is it? What does it do? Why would I use it?

ORCA is a ... that ... and can help you ...

I agree it gets closer, but as is with much of speech synthesis, it still to me ends up sounding like "a male talking in a high-pitched voice" and not "a female".

In addition, this would imply that only males can talk in a low register, which is patently false. Low register female voices are fairly common.

I meant "text to speech engine" then I guess.

Pondering what makes this sound "male".

Would it be possible to use Reinforcement Learning + Speech Recognition to turn this thing into a real voice synthesizer?

When you say "rest of the hardware" are you referring specifically to Google's Pixel phones? From a hardware perspective, they seem pretty great.

Or, are you referring to the phone industry in general, and how they're unable to make cameras that match the quality of the ones in the Google Pixel line?

Lots of marketing-speak and broad claims, not very much evidence to support them.

Anyone know anything more about this project and what the underlying architecture is?