nmfisher

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811.
by nmfisher 6y ago
You just blew my mind.
812.
by nmfisher 6y ago
The corollary being that the technical problem of a microservice architecture is easier to solve than the management problem of leading a single large team. Probably some truth to that.
813.
by nmfisher 6y ago
Do you have a better list?
814.
by nmfisher 6y ago
An app for learning Mandarin Chinese through (speech-recognition) conversations. https://www.incrediblechinese.com Right now I'm working on more content, sprucing up the interface and making the conversations more "liv
815.
by nmfisher 6y ago
> Tether is backed. I guess we'll find out on Friday if that's true or not.
816.
by nmfisher 6y ago
Rather than wasting my time guessing which events you’re referring to, how about you provide sources for the specific claims you’re making so we can tell you why they are either debunked or inconsequential to the results of the election.
817.
by nmfisher 6y ago
I don't support the Twitter/Facebook/YouTube/etc censorship at all. With that established, I want to point out that the comment you responded to said there was no evidence of mass voter fraud. I think it's impossi
818.
by nmfisher 6y ago
Are you honestly suggesting people go to jail for broken videogames?
819.
by nmfisher 6y ago
I have a chess.com account and wouldn’t have heard about lichess if not for this post.
820.
by nmfisher 6y ago
> unless the data corpus it is trained on likewise bears no relation to reality It’s trained on Reddit, so I wouldn’t rule that out.
821.
by nmfisher 6y ago
Maybe, I don't know. There was a group of people arrested in Michigan (?) for the kidnapping of the Governor (?), so it's possible. But either way, I don't think it's relevant. If you want to boot someone off social medi
822.
by nmfisher 6y ago
The question is not “what legal power does Twitter have”. I’m not saying they legally can’t kick him off their platform. The discussion is whether they should be able to kick someone off their platform who has been convicted of no crime
823.
by nmfisher 6y ago
My point was more that “just because losing access to Facebook/Twitter means nothing to you, doesn’t mean it means nothing to someone else”. But to more directly address your point, I ask you - what crime has Trump been convicted of?
824.
by nmfisher 6y ago
Nobody is saying “don’t arrest and prosecute the people who invaded the Capitol”. This is about the campaign finance/social media account/etc of the current sitting POTUS. You don’t need to condone the actions of the Capitol terro
825.
by nmfisher 6y ago
If you were cut off from social media, payment processors, web hosts and mail providers, would you practically be able to launch a political campaign?
826.
by nmfisher 6y ago
Yeah, but if BTC goes to zero, it's more relevant to ask "for every 100 investors who ever bought BTC, how many made a net profit and how many made a net loss"?
827.
by nmfisher 6y ago
Really? I wasn't aware of that.
828.
by nmfisher 6y ago
Until they ban them too.
829.
by nmfisher 6y ago
This is actually quite impressive too, significantly better than the last time I looked into Mozilla TTS. Roughly how much audio does "two novels" equate to?
830.
by nmfisher 6y ago
Separate question - is this English only? It looks like you can feed in phonemes but I assume this has been trained with English audio.
831.
by nmfisher 6y ago
I’ve worked with deep learning models enough to know the cost of running GPU inference, and if the live queue stats published on the website are accurate, then thousands of dollars per month is certainly plausible. I have no reason to disbe
832.
by nmfisher 6y ago
From the about section: > How much does maintaining the servers cost? > It depends on the amount of traffic, but the minimum baseline is around several thousands of US dollars every month. This is expected as inference is very GPU int
833.
by nmfisher 6y ago
I think parent is saying there's no economic incentive to save starving kids in Africa.
834.
by nmfisher 6y ago
> You've missed a step: you also have to migrate the data. In my experience this is by far the slowest / most complex step. And it's much easier with SQL where you can `UPDATE WHERE` and `INSERT FROM SELECT`. I didn't
835.
by nmfisher 6y ago
Have you lived in China? CCP membership means nothing. There are dozens, if not hundreds of government officials and corporate identities in prison (or worse, executed) who were party members. Global perceptions about Ant Financial are comp
836.
by nmfisher 6y ago
1) Firebase storage has the advantage of one-click integration with auth (Google Auth, Sign in with Apple, etc). Probably not difficult to achieve with Postgres on Heroku, but why waste a couple of hours on something when I don't need
837.
by nmfisher 6y ago
I'll reiterate what I said the last time it came up on HN - this is exactly why I use Firebase, and why OP probably should have done the same. It's literally 15 minutes to configure/integrate, and you're done. You can th
838.
by nmfisher 6y ago
“Attempted”, meaning this wasn’t successful?
839.
by nmfisher 6y ago
I use Azure neural TTS for (Chinese) voice synthesis in my app, and honestly it's amazing. I did experiment with Google's API at the beginning, the audio would contain recurring artefacts that made it painfully obvious it wasn&#x2
840.
by nmfisher 6y ago
Yeah, this clashes with my experience too. I experimented with vegetarian meals a few months back and found I could eat literally 1kg+ of cooked lentils/beans/etc and still feel hungry. <500g of chicken breast (plus vegetables)

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