skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chrome Extension which uses the new Text to Speech functionality from Google
Because self-hosting is fun, a little bit challenging (and rewarding), you get to show off your ability to maintain a setup, it gives you independence and control. Also RMS would disapprove of using a service running on non-free code.
[Edit: to all the people downvoting this, care to explain why you find it objectionable? The article is trying to explain a phenomenon and it completely ignores the existence of certain kinds of factors that may have an explanatory role. It doesn't even mention them, even to disagree with them. Do think that's not problematic?]

I find it disappointing when articles like this don't even consider biological, evolutionary factors that could play a role.
Residential solar thermal no longer makes any kind of economic sense. These existing mandates only show how government regulations can serve to ossify bad practices and harm innovation.
In my case marriage was the great motivator for leaving frendiship and not having new friends. My old friends who are single now, still have good friendship, even after 30. I guess my best friend is my wife now.
>but name-calling makes you look bad regardless of the merits of your argument

You're right. While it can be funny and it can make one feel good doing so, it almost never helps your cause. The people who laugh along are those who already agree with the point. The rest will be more likely to discount anything of merit that is said because of the apparent bias.
The model works for you - great. There are users who don't care for constant feature updates and rather own a product than perpetually rent it.
Difficulty of raising babies is the number one reason I hear from people about why they’re not having more. Sleep deprivation is probably half of the difficulty of raising babies. You betcha people would have more kids if they would sleep though the night.
The code for this presentation is open-source and you can find it at https://github.com/Ivanca/PresentationIvan/
Something is seriously wrong with most large companies, and most of them simply ignore that. Good to see Tesla being different in that regard.
TSB crisis: IT meltdown enters third week 'but progress being made'
Yup. It comes up in other contexts too. In project risk assessment (“will we deliver on time?”) it is known as the inside view vs the outside view. The inside view is: here are all the parts we need to make, and how long each creation and integration step by itself should take, with known risks factored in. The outside view is: ok but the last 3 times we did something on this scale it took 2+ years when we thought it would take just 6 months.

You can use an inside-view analysis to get a minimum risk assessment. Something would have been very wrong in the analysis if we didn’t lose 1 in 500, since that’s the risk we expected from known factors.

And the outside view can give you a reasonable handle on maximums: objectively the risk of shuttle loss was about 1:75 or so, because that is what actually happened. If we were to have continued the shuttle program instead of cannibalizing it for the now defunct Constellation, we could have confidence that failures going forward would be at least 1:75 or better as we fix things, assuming regressions are rare.

The failure by NASA was in treating the inside view known-unknowns risk assessment as a maximum (“risk of loss is NO MORE THAN...”) when it was really a minimum (“risk of loss is AT LEAST...”).
The original title is also editorialized, just in the other direction. "New autoplay policy in Chrome" sounds reasonably neutral to me.
Can attest, only CS BS degree working in a team of 6 other PhDs in various fields
Signs That You're an Introvert with High-Functioning Anxiety
827, in its terminal form, contained a provision that anyone building within a quarter mile of a transit station had to provide their tenants with transit passes in perpetuity, a net present cost of about $50k. I really don't think 827 would have done a lot to lower prices if it had passes with that impractical provision.
I think Elon was pretty clear that he considers the situation to be seriously wrong, hence the extreme approach. It's a refreshing attitude; this sort of problem is common in most large companies.
This will change very quickly with the advent of contraceptives. There is huge selection pressure right now in favor of people who have an innate drive to have children.
It worked, didn't it? All the top solar module companies are in China, except Hanwha from Korea.
Ace!!
Can confirm, am Aussie, first I've heard of .id.au.
Interestingly enough Linux already supported iBCS2 by 1995. So a lot of Intel SVR4 (eg. SCO) software could already be run under it by then with varying degrees of success.
I was able to obtain williams.blue and it's been pretty great so far. Ive experienced some slight misunderstanding, but its usually easily cleared up.

Then there was the woman who heard "firstname@williams.blue. Yes it ends in .blue" and added .com to the end anyway. Smh

It's quite nice having such a simple domain and email address as firstname@lastname.blue. And unlike many new TLDs, like .io, anybody who knows any English easily understands the word "blue". It requires no explanation.
Adding $30k to your mortgage would cost like $150 a month extra or so.

So instead of having ~$1800/yr going to your energy company's coffers, where they might use it to innovate and actually one day make clean energy cost effective, it should go straight to your bank's bottom line in the form of interest. While it may cost consumers the same amount, that sounds like a net negative to me.
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Once you sign up, there is no bookmarklet link to save links. You have to log out to be able to access it.
Ship early, ship often.
It's definitely better than that. But it's still not good. This is all my personal opinion though, I already voted with my wallet by not buying their products any more.
One more q, if I start using it, I would like to know it will stay and I will not lose my links.
I do understand that. I'm not saying there's one size fits all. I just don't agree that subscribtions are inherently bad.

But - if those preferring a perpetual license were to be a strong minority, there would be no business incentive to make products in such a way.
On the other hand, since we are on HackerNews, this is a HUGE business opportunity.

Some time ago I bought Affinity Designer because I don't want to pay Adobe for a subscription. And going back to that website, one of the first things they promote is "No subscription. Only €54.99".

Seems obvious that any big player that is switching to subscription only, is leaving a gap for smaller companies that support people like us.
Opposite example: I own firstname@lastname.com and my spouse also uses firstname@lastname.com for most emails. We point the MX record for lastname.com at an email server we fully control.

About 1 in 10 people that they give the address to does not believe that it's a real email address, or doesn't understand the basic concept that it's possible for a person to own surname.com as an actual domain that they fully control the email on. The recipients assume that my spouse is so epically clueless that they're giving a mistaken email address which goes nowhere.
This is obvious.
> Chrome does this by learning your preferences... This way, Chrome gives you a personalized, predictable browsing experience.

In my experience, "learning" and "predictable" do not go together.
This is hardcore
I think you missed my point.

If you have the actual probabilities, which include cascade failures and one of the systems is a safety backup system not in normal use then multiplication is reasonably though not completely accurate. Though, you do need to consider the failure of the safety system when the normal system is operating correctly, but that's also much easier to avoid so likely very very low.

Cascade failures are a far more complex situation and thus harder to predict. So again, it depends on what the failure rate is describing not just what the number is.
Often times you don't have to build anything to validate an idea. Talk to potential users and get a commitment to pay for a product.
> Apple used to understand this. When it first introduced the iPhone, Steve Jobs was adamant that HTML5 was the future and that apps will simply just be web apps. There was no native iPhone SDK for 3rd parties. Apple has since abandoned this vision.

And what did we learn from that? Almost everyone, in my experience, takes the wrong lesson from that story.

I'll take "achieving reliable state synchronization over an unreliable network on an unreliable device as table stakes for whether or not a product works is hard" for $500, Alex.
Asking whether "computers" belong to education is like asking whether "books" belong to education. I can imagine a book that does. I can also imagine a book that does not. Same for computer programs.

We should debate specific applications, whether they help the education, or are just shiny toys. Then we should make the cheapest computer which runs exactly these applications and nothing more, and use that in schools.

If teachers don't know how to use a computer, these two things could fix that easily: set up the educational computer so that it can only run those selected educational applications; and write a book about how to use each of those applications in education.

A debate on the level of "Computers good! No, computers bad! Good! Bad! Good! Bad!" is not helping anyone.

An example of a useful application in math education could be e.g. something that shows you how a graph of a function changes when you change the equation. For example, you could have a quadratic equation, where you can use the mouse to change each coefficient. When the time is right, bring the computers and let the kids experiment with this. On other days, do not bring the computers to the math lesson.

Collect some applications like this, make a Linux DVD which can be installed or run live, write teachers' manual for each application and put it on the DVD and online as a PDF file, and that's it. (I suppose someone already did something like this, although probably without the PDFs.)

The question is not whether to use the computers or not, but how to use them.
I've been there so many times. Gets old real fast. Many people are simply incredulous that there isn't a "gmail" or "yahoo" etc in my email address.
> One thing that always rubbed me wrong about this is that, logically speaking, if you buy a license for a year, the perpetual fallback license should be the version you had at the end of the license, not the one that was on the market at the beginning of it. It doesn't really make sense the way they do it, and it feels like a particularly hamfisted attempt to grab an almost negligible amount of money, so I'm puzzled.

You are absolutely right! That's exactly how it should work but it's surprising that they don't do it that way. I can give you an explanation from accounting perspective: When the sale happens, the accountant would record the sale in their Books of Account as "Unearned/Prepaid Revenue" (as a liability). It makes sense as you have taken money "in advance" for a sale but haven't delivered the updates yet and hence you cannot claim it as Income. Every time you put out an update, you can claim a portion of the "Unearned/Prepaid Revenue" as "Revenue" and push it from liability to "Retained earnings" account as Income. When the year expires (note that the year is for the user not the financial year) the accountant would claim the remaining Unearned/Prepaid Revenue as Revenue/Income.

I wonder how they manage their Books of Accounts if they have defined that the license falls back to the earlier version. What they are doing doesn't make sense from an accounting perspective as well!
The author openly admits to jailbreaking their iPhone. These kinds of users tend to install many types of "tweaks" on their computers, and I would bet that this is the cause of the update failure.
I'm 25 and it hard as f*.
True. But it's the most innovative we've seen in years, and it's informative (to me at least) around the question: maybe we won't, just as HTTPS went on top of the transport layer not alongside it, maybe new protocol work is going on above transport for a reason?

OSI session layer was useful. Not having one has caused some tensions (former OSI implementor btw)
Like any number of things, they probably want it to work at least as well as they did before.

I see this in product development all the time. A customer has performance requirements. You sell them a product that you've characterized and documented its performance. Then the next time the customer is doing RFQs, you get your product specification back as a requirements specification. Regressions are not allowed even if you previously exceeded their needs. In this case, I suspect the 270 is something similar based on historic failure rates.
I installed Windows on my laptop last year from a presumably-unmolested ISO I got from MSDN - and it took it 10+ goes, at one attempt per week or two, to update to 1709.
Slightly off topic, but semi related. My parents had a one year membership at Costco. The level where you get some percentage back. I think it was 2%.

Long to short, the "rebate" was paid ~60 days prior to the end of the 12 months. The remaining 60 days' purchased will only be rebated if they renew.

I presume this is in the small print somewhere. None the less, it's complete crap.
If I remember the book correctly, the device didn't malfunction, but was positively reinforcing the brain to cause more seizures by stimulating pleasure producing areas while disrupting the seizure.
Which, sadly, does not actually work for me. I've had it disabled since it first appeared and it has barely made a difference. At least for the news site that play unwanted video. The best I've been able to do in Chrome is to block anything that looks like a CDN using Privacy Badger.
Interesting to see how far he pendulum has swung that a lot (well a certain kind) of users aren’t even wanting ads to pay for their consumption anymore! Is it because of the advances in deep and psychological/manipulative targeting we’ve seen recently or just in general?
> If you sell a one time license to somebody there is no incentive for the seller to keep making the product better, to care keep caring for you.

I strongly disagree on this one. If they want to sell you version 2.0 (upgrade), they better make sure those new features are worth their money.

With a subscription model, you either keep paying them or you lose it all. Why would they improve their product when you're already paying them x/month?
Because they are anonymous and can reply with an image.
Why is it hard to make friends?

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Answer: You don't put effort into doing that.
Some of the scenes were pretty funny and unexpected, too.

I remember the first time I saw a king kill a bishop. I was expecting something fancy, and instead the king just pulled out a handgun and opened fire.
No problem for websites. But I noticed that some (stupid) websites or forms from my business suppliers won't accept email adresses which are not a well known old TLD like .com or country TLDs.

I'm also guessing that the new gTLDs also cause a ton of problems on legacy email systems out there.

So for email to be on the safe side I'm using .com but a new TLD is no problem for websites (that's my experience).
Carmack is the only reason I even knew what a .plan file was.
The fossil oil is an issue, but massive use of batteries is another one.
Besides liquid carburants have proven themselves.
I just don't find proper explanation why there is no massive investment in carbon cycle carburants such as seaweed agriculture.
What we need is a cryptocurrency capable of handling microtransactions. Then we need web browser support (a standard) for a cryptocurrency wallet.

When you visit a web page, you can pay for the content by clicking Yes in a dialog box. When you don't have money in you wallet, you can fill it up using your credit card, or some bank solution. The price is shown in your currency of choice, but all the transactions happens on the blockchain.

People who make web pages can paste in some javascript to charge for content. No third party organization needs to get involved and the seller can't get charge backs. The transaction fee will be low so that you can charge pennies for a news article. This will work without you giving away you credit card number, name, address, e-mail etc. to the seller.
The artist in question has hundreds of pieces of work, many of which he may not have easy (if any) access to anymore. It would take a non-trivial amount of work to fix.

But I think he’s also expressing doubt about creating art/work on the web in the future because of things like this.
The Skirmish on “Moat” Between Buffett and Musk Hides a Long Feud
As has been widely covered recently, Musk said something like moats are lame, Buffett responded he's wrong and Musk said he will start a candy company. Pretty dramatic escalation. Some people said it reflects Musk being burnt out from Tesla problems, others that he both are arrogant billionairws.

After some digging, turns out Buffett is investor in BYD (Chinese EV co). Also, when Solar City came to Nevada, upsetting the Nevada Utility (owner: Buffett), the utility whined to the gov that Solar panel owners should contribute to the cost of the infra, breaking Solar City business model [1]. Solar panel owners ended up paying more than pre-solar energy times.

HyperChange derived from the 10Ks that 48% of BRK revenues is at risk from Tesla [2] Take it for what it's worth

[1] https://youtu.be/YGGk90YljhQ

[2] https://youtu.be/cCWS4XUp6Uo
I'd certainly feel more 'pride' in saying "I work for Tesla"

Why? SpaceX, sure. But Tesla? Just because it gets more news coverage?
"it isn't like the NHTSB crashing cars left and right"

Well, not the NTSB, but the IIHS is crashing cars all the time - I've worked on their crash facility. Check out the dates on the videos here: https://www.youtube.com/user/iihs/videos.

But IIHS's rate is dwarfed by individual car manufactures. One car company I've worked with was smashing four to five cars a day, every day of the week, at their crash center.
> But there were many close calls (including main engine failure).

When did the shuttle main engine fail?
Yes, and so is a neighborhood. A dim lightbulb has a high resistance. A bright lightbulb has a lower resistance. Multiple bright lightbulbs in parallel, measured together as one, have an even lower resistance.
I had a class last semester that submitted everything through Gitlab and when we tried to run unit tests to test for the correct code, it would hang for 7-8 minutes. Very frustrating. Happened on all the assignments so was not just a one time thing.
IMHO, cryptocurrencies like Nano offer a great solution to these micro-payments use cases.

(Everytime I talk about cryptocurrencies on HN, I get downvoted without any proper response. So bring it on! ;))
> a terminal will default to interpreting what you pasted the same as entering a sequence of commands

Another reason why urxvt[1] is the best terminal emulator: the "confirm-paste"[2] extension. Any time the terminal receives a paste matching /[\n\r]/, the terminal shows you the incoming text in an overlay and asks for confirmation.

Enable it with the option "-pe confirm-paste" or add something like this to ~/.Xresources

URxvt*perl-ext-common: default,confirm-paste

(or added to your list of extensions, if you are not using the "default" set)

(afterwords, don't forget to run "xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources")

[1] http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html

[2] http://cvs.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/src/perl/confirm-paste?vi...
It's ugly and would require going back and modifying all their existing work, is my understanding. According to the docs I saw, any code which expects to be able to just create an audio device at load and start using it will have its audio break completely, by design, and no amount of clicking or interacting will make it come back unless the code is designed to handle this.
OMG what a fantastically obvious idea! Now that you've mentioned it of course ;-)

There may be reasons this isn't as simple as it sounds but it's worth considering.
Here you go:

https://brave.com/

https://basicattentiontoken.org/
Attempting to market to random people seems like it is a different approach, perhaps complementary to this one. To me it seems like Sidepact is essentially acting as the curator of the top of the funnel you describe. They do the work of collecting people interested in doing something, then iterate together until matches are made and ideas are moved further along.

I think this is a better approach for people who say "I don't have an idea". Usually what they mean is that they don't have an idea they think isn't already covered by deeply entrenched incumbents (internet search) or hopelessly swarmed by competition willing to race you past the bottom of (quality x price) you're willing to stop at (games). What these people want is confidence and support to follow-through on them, even if they don't seem good, or to develop that spark that sets your idea apart from the rest, not a list of ideas to work on.
I just went through this hell when setting up my new Macbook Pro at my new job. Setting up iterm, tmux, zsh to properly cut and paste was so frustrating. By default I should be able to yank into my clipboard and paste into vim from my clipboard in tmux. I can't figure out why this isn't the default behavior.
> Why should they have to continue paying for Photoshop as a service if they're happy with the current version?

Ultimately - because the person who owns the rights for the software wants to keep charging them and since it's their software they decide what is charged for it, end of story.

If it's not a good deal for you, go somewhere else. There's no point arguing about prices beyond that. There's no 'should' in prices - only what people want to charge and what people want to pay.
basically "no, but what is your real email address?"

Some degree of confusion happens probably 1 in 5 times giving out the address in person, not my original estimate of 1 in 10...
> This way, Chrome gives you a personalized, predictable browsing experience.

> predictable

What could possibly be more predictable than disabling autoplay altogether?

Google says it enabled autoplay for 'over 1000 sites', but we all know Google only cares about one thing and that is playing more ads on YouTube.
Tristan Gooley was interviewed on the Rough Guide podcast late last year: https://pca.st/RvTf I found his approach to staying oriented fascinating.
Just goes to show the effect of putting away money every year, and placing it in assets where the returns will compound over a long period.
Well, nowadays all checked exceptions are considered to be a mistake.
Great, that will speed up the ongoing flight of net contributors.

Can’t wait for this bastion of green fascism to collapse onto itself.
The author also admits to downloading a fresh restore image from Dell, which I would assume would create a fresh install of Windows without any "tweaks," and then still experiencing the same issue.
I have a crazy story about that ship. I transited on that vessel in March 2002 from the endeavor museum to a vip event on the other side of manhattan. The crew forgot to notify Port control and we were swiftly intercepted by the coast guard. They had guns drawn and nearly boarded us. The sails looked like missle silos and we were almost in sight of ground zero only a few months after 9/11. The situation was exacerbated by the French crew monitoring international channel 16 not US channel 16. So they never responded to the USCG hailing them.