skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They didn't say they have no time for reading. Anyone with a modern phone and a lunch break can post to HN from work.

What they said was:

> reading alone in a room on a couch is a rare indulgence
> There's no system that will perfectly allow people to both find value and meaning in their world AND also promote totally free action of others.

Pretty stoked with the current state of liberal democratic market systems, actually. Way better than any other system, especially the theocracies. But, I am missing social and cultural capital. I am trying to find this in academic scholarship in western esotericism and psychedelics. It works out ok, but then, you know, it can alienate others. But at least it is rationally and emotionally fulfilling.
I did a lot of work researching all the available text to speech systems a couple of years ago.

The cloud based systems from Google, Microsoft, Amazon and IBM are much better than anything else, and within them, the neural network based systems, which appear to be a sort of different product category, are far and away the best of all. The neural voices are approaching natural voice intonation and have an almost believable ability to read text.

The ones that sounded most natural were IBM Watson and Googles neural voices.

Amazon Polly appeared to be the furthest behind of all the cloud systems…. a really average sounding product.

Of the local TTS systems, the one built into MacOS sounds the best… but they were all very average at best. All the linux ones frankly sounded like garbage relative to the state of the art.

Things might have advanced with the cloud systems over the past couple of years but I didn’t get the impression the cloud companies were putting much effort into research and development.
Successful programmers live or successful in general
The daily routines and habits of some successful people in their lives
I feel like increasing the warmth to the point where large mammals cant live evokes another warm place Catholics generally want to avoid.
> high-powered, high-testosterone

I did not know that cars had testosterone.
"Came from a lab" in this context means "engineered in a lab".

There is only circumstancial evidence for it, but it is reasonable to suspect COVID-19 is the result of a researcher getting infected, not noticing, and introducing the virus to the human population. There is no evidence for, and it is very unreasonable to believe it was created in a lab.
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> But what kind of content moderation system is robust to millions of broken, embittered peopled willing to spend thousands of hours inflicting pain on a society that let them slip through the cracks?

Another point for China style thought police? Reminds me of the chat bots trained on the Chinese vs. U.S. internet.

> So while Tay, after only one day online, became a Nazi sympathizer, Xiaolce offers free therapy to Chinese users.

https://www.inverse.com/article/13387-microsoft-chinese-chat...
Except for the methane gas that's trapped in the frozen permafrost in Siberia. Once released it will start a positive feedback loop to supercharge our messing up of the atmospheric chemical makeup.
Well, isn't it interesting how we all have had different experiences.

I'm also from Sweden and I have never ever heard "aina" used as a slang word, much less for the police. I believe you, but, as for "more well-known", I will go with "Doubt" on that one.

But I've heard of the name and am surprised that there are people who haven't. I'm pretty sure it's a Finnish name (but cf. Anna, Anya, etc..). You sometimes see it spelled "Ajna", which probably is a Swedification.
Perhaps the best fictional description I came across is Poul Anderson's The Man Who Counts: https://www.tor.com/2010/11/22/air-war-in-the-stone-age-poul...

It's an SF book, you have a small group trying to survive in an alien world at war. The guy who pulls them through is the canny merchant, who marshalls the skills of others and negotiates their salvation.

I think the narrator in the book was the engineer - and so was the author, Poul Anderson.
Some ssh scanning is obviously abuse. Is it hard to make the difference ?
Since you mentioned Geocities, Neocities [1]

[1] - https://neocities.org/
I wrote an article (since it's written, I don't expect it to be actually read)[0] , about the importance of not writing too much stuff down (Ironic, I know).

I call it "concrete galoshes." The structure can become more important than the project.

That said, not having a structure can be absolutely deadly. It's not for the faint of heart.

I seldom write down a detailed project plan (I write about that here[1]. Feel free to not read it, as well). Instead, my projects start with what I call a "napkin sketch," and evolve, as they progress. The results can be amazing, but I also end up backtracking a lot, and tossing out a lot of code.

I feel that you can't work the way I work, unless you are highly experienced (I've been at it over 30 years). I make big decisions, on the fly, and I need to have a really clear idea of the ramifications of these decisions. Often, the devil is in the details. It's quite possible to decide to do something one way, and get there, and then realize that a corner case makes the design unusable, and/or downright dangerous.

I'm not a fan of "design by buzzword." Modern techniques are often marvelous, but they can be unsuitable for some applications. Having a toolbox available, that includes a wide range of options, is invaluable.

I am a fan of early, high-quality usable product. One of my techniques, is to leverage Apple’s TestFlight beta service, as early as possible. This allows non-tech stakeholders to have meaningful say in the project. Screenshots and interaction diagrams are fairly useless. They take a lot of time (and expense) to create, and no one reads them. They also tend to add unproductive rigidity to the project.

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/concrete-galoshes/

[1] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/evolutionary-design-...
But it is the only evidence, coincidental or otherwise. No other evidences have been found.
> Or you could say it's petty envy. It's about a tiny minority of vehicles that can easily cover in their price several times all the negative externalities.

I'd be kind of on board with the exemption if there was a (high) cost paid for it, and that the cost was used to fund some sort of environmental project, but is that what Italy is actually asking for, or are they simply asking for an exemption, no strings attached?
The coerced confession will last right up to the point that the person in question is clear of US airspace.
Yeah, sorry, I like to be deliberately fuzzy about any personal details on the web. That’s all.

You’re right that I could use exact numbers, but I’m a dumb human who at one point puts an exact number and at another tries to be clever and vague (and fails).

I could do the math, you’re right. It was also a long time ago and I could have been 8 or 10. But 9 sounds right.
> the source of his pain is some despised group (immigrants, the deep state).

Particularly ironic quote in an article that implies that the real source of his pain is privileged “successful” knowledge workers.
If Ferrari can't figure out how to make electric car by 2035, well in the next decade, then they deserve to cease to exist.

> What the minister is saying is that if Ferrari can't build autonomously their own batteries - from scratch - they can't produce a real Ferrari.

Why is this the case? Why batteries and not, says, computer or sensors, or for that matter tires? All of them have huge impact on vehicle's performance and characteristics.

> minister Cingolani is worried that in Italy what we call "the motor valley" will have to close if forced to rebuilt itself in only 14 years (it's really a short timeframe to reconvert an entire production chain)

VW is in on tract to produce half a million electric vehicles this year, despite producing literally none a decade ago. Why can't Italian brands with deep automobile expertise and history?

> Lamborghini is not an Italian brand anymore and hasn't been since 1998 when Audi bought it.

Roma football club is owned by an American billionaire, as is Fiorentina. Nobody calls them American clubs. As for carmakers, Volvo is not a Chinese brand despite being owned by Geely. Land Rover and Jaguar are still prestige British brands even under Indian ownership.
">You can try this yourself with complex queries and simulating some load."

I do not need to try it. I know what it takes to parse/validate this kind of queries and then manage to get and assemble the results from numerous sources.

>"But it‘s an issue that can be solved."

No. This issue will not be solved as in general it is a problem of mapping one storage / functionality format to end client format. It can be easily solved for particular situations by writing custom servers (this is for example one of the things I do) but doing it generically introduces overhead / costs that are very unhealthy for a normal businesses.

And it is of course bad as it wastes energy.
Why are there only three major printer manufacturers
Are printers really that complex that only three companies (HP, Canon, Epson) can produce them? Why are other major companies (for example DELL, Microsoft, Lenovo, IBM, etc.) completely absent in the printer space? It's not like companies don't use printers.
But I have evidence that it's good in the short/medium term. So my decision has good short/medium and unknown long. His decision (assuming you will eventually get covid), has fairly negative short/medium and unknown long.

Weight those and run the math and then tell me what the optimal/logical decision is.
Volkswagen has a factory in Poland, Poznan. They produce parts that are shipped to Germany. The parts have embedded label "Made in Germany". I'm quite sure Ferrari doesn't literally produce all parts in Italy, but factories are supervised by Italians, up to Italian standards.
Was this before or after helping the Nazi party?
Yet here we are, how does this improve the situation? I hold a cynical view as to the influence religion has on this particular subject as well.

I view religion as a large corporation, they have finally realized the long term impact of CC will be bad for business. Just like corporate BODs they are increasingly asking management to put forth a climate strategy. And investment firms that are moving their portfolio away from fossil fuel, it’s just modern corporate policy to have a stance that protects shareholder value in the long term. But really it’s just something to point to when asked “what are you doing about the climate?”

A bit of a rant there, but to reiterate, I don’t see how this influences action in a meaningful way. I’m glad they are doing it, it’s better than not.
> Policies touted by a lot of left leaning politicians aren’t practical and many of them know it but they say it anyway.

Your point stands, Democrat solutions addressing climate change are definitely pretty bad. That being said, at least they have some climate change policies they're pushing for right now instead of kicking the can down the road. Can you honestly say the same about Republicans?
I can never understand why attacks by "activists" do not result in dozens of arrests and convictions for multiple years of prison every time they happen. Isn't it basically what any sovereign law says?
This is funny and true, but honestly, I’m just deliberately obtuse about my personal info. Nothing special, just like my anonymity.
The only people I see successfully using stuff like standing desks etc are people who are already fit and also go to the gym every day. For other folks like me the only thing that works is to take a proper 15 - 20 min break minimum every 2 hours and go for a walk, take a break every hour to get a glass of water or something, and exercise in a gym or somewhere at least thrice a week. Honestly this itself drains me!
Perhaps we don't want those kinds of companies that ignore software licenses? Do the companies think that if they shipped unlicensed Windows with their phones that Microsoft would be "this is fine"

Bottom line is if you're shipping software with your phone that you didn't write, maybe spend the really minimal amount of time to make sure you're in compliance with the license, especially when the license (GPL) makes no onerous demands at all except you might need to put up an apache server somewhere with the source on it.
It took Germany about 10 years to rebuild it's auto industry after WW2- much to the frustration of its neighbours.
I find that people who have never used text to speech think that the closer it is to real speech the better it is.

Which is simply not the case.

Artificial speech is to human speech what typography is to handwriting.

For example espeak is by far my number one choice for reading anything, because the voice models it uses can be sped up to 1k wpm and still be understandable. This is basically a superpower when skimming boring documentation of any type. Throw in basic tesseract OCR and in a 45 minute sitting I can go through 30k words of any document that can be displayed on a computer screen.

It's not that I'm stuck with a terrible robotic voice, it's that I don't want anything "better" in the same way that I don't see much value going past the command line for most tools when you can use ncurses.
Or that correlation is not causation.
The government lifted restrictions because of conditions that made them not worry about COVID cases rising going forward, such as vaccinations.
Port scanning was always considered abuse until researchers decided they needed additional blog post material. I worked for a “business ISP” in the early 90s and we had no qualms kicking someone off the network for it, although usually the originator of the scan had themselves been compromised… because… as I say it was considered at least a breach of terms of service.
You can try doing microworkouts throughout the day. For example:

1. I start the day with one set each of jumping jacks and ab crunches. You can also add in pushups and/or pull ups (if you have a bar).

2. I have resistance bands of various strength levels. Over the day I try to get in 100 reps each for biceps, triceps and shoulders. Usually I try to get a couple of sets in just before or after a meal.

I wouldn't say I'm in the best shape of my life, but this routine has improved my upper body strength at the very least.
I don’t know if Covid19 came from a lab but I’m becoming fairly confident the next Covid will.
My local grocery store has been limited in the fresh meat section all summer. What is available, has been grossly overpriced. I've noticed periodic shortages on things like lunch meat and prepared/packaged meat (pulled pork etc), gatorade, some canned goods. To me, this has all been writing on the wall for the worst yet to come. There are many factors at hand disrupting the supply chain. You can mostly thank the cascading effects of COVID and lockdowns.
Are jokes on the debated but possible phytoestrogenic side effects of soy really exclusively alt right?
Maybe equating Satan with global warming is the way here.
It's not surprising that some scientists aren't the best at engineering practices given that it's not their speciality. Much like some engineers aren't experts in scientific either. May be, both science and engineers should learn to understand their limitations and collaborate towards achieving a common goal. That would be productive over being condescending.
And there are three completely plausible explanations for why Shi Zhengli and Peter Daszak's research could have led to the outbreak:

(a) It was successfully created in the lab using gain of function research they were developing

(b) It was accidentally or purposefully cultured naturally from one of the many strains they had collected from the field

(c) A researcher, assistant, or contractor was infected in the field as they were doing field work

Option (c) is particularly compelling because it doesn't require much additional complexity beyond the "official explanation". It still maintains that the origin of Covid-19 was a zoonotic spillover event, but points to the research as the direct cause of that event. And it's not necessarily the case that if the virus was in the bat population already that it necessarily would have spread. Rural populations might become briefly infected with a pandemic-level virus, but the spread is naturally quarantined since they have little contact with major metropolitan areas.
Nim is also faster than Go if we look at most benchmarks. Nim's memory management can be tuned quite a bit. Garbage collector can be even turned off. You can better tune to the underlying hardware if you need to.

https://nim-lang.org/docs/gc.html
Paradoxically climate change can also cause more severe winters despite an overall net warming effect.

Being better placed because most of your territory gets extremely cold a lot of the time doesn't mean climate change would provide a net benefit to you. This isn't Civ, you can't just reload a save file if your strategy doesn't work out.

Heck, the best strategy for Russia would be to break up large international trade blocks by destabilizing their political structures, especially in Europe, to be gain more leverage and make it easier to expand its territory further into southern Ukraine. And incidentally with Turkey provoking NATO, the UK leaving the EU, Trump being president and the rise of far-right anti-EU sentiments in other EU countries that matches what happened for several years prior to the pandemic, whether with their influence or without.

It's far more likely Russia having little interest in averting climate change is for the same reason as with everybody else including the US: it's a long-term process requiring intense international collaboration putting anyone fully committing to it at a competitive disadvantage if anyone else doesn't join in. Economically it's a game of chicken.

EDIT: I guess I struck a nerve with some people? I'm not arguing that Russia is manipulating the political climate of EU countries or the US. I'm arguing that if you want to engage in conspiracy theories like Russia intentionally accelerating climate change for strategic benefit, there are better strategies that are more plausible and don't require rolling the dice on whether your entire country will go up in flames (or drown) in ten years.
This works both ways, compare the "Germania" by Tacitus, which was really about a fictional foil to contrast with the Julian dynasty, but became a historic document and origin story for a few centuries. (Sad to say, but humanists had a decent share in this.)

Related literature: Chrisopher B. Krebs, "A Most Dangerous Book. Tacitus' Germania from Roman Empire to the Third Reich", W.W. Norton & Company, NY, 2011.
What does talking do? How is talking an actionable thing? It seems the majority of people are talking about making change. One more person doesn't make a difference if no one is doing anything.
> you might as well be religious.

Totally. I'm excited about efforts to buy old churches to repurpose them to serve the spiritual and cultural needs like you list. It's like, rationally speaking, we need spiritual wellbeing, but don't need the baggage of the world religions.
It's a new theology ...
So if you don't get it, most likely you'll get a case of covid (70%+ chance most likely if you're participating in society). There is no "long term" knowledge of what covid does yet either? How do you know that even light covid doesn't stress the heart muscle, lungs, brain, etc years down the line? You don't.

So since the hesitancy is about "we don't know the long term impact"... then I guess these same people need to avoid covid for 10 years too if they're worried about "unknown long term effects"
Actually, this sounds very much like the initial concept of credit cards (Diner's Club at 1950) - where the "mechanism of payment" is just that, you get identified and they send you the bill afterwards. All the extra complexity of current credit cards such as balance verification and authorization features are just tacked-on workarounds for various risks, but the original core idea (at least as I see it) was essentially about simply identifying which customer should be billed.
Hot take: it doesn't matter who comes out in favour of stronger action on climate change. The only way we'll get significant change is when it becomes economic to do so. The world population or even a significant percentage of it won't change their behaviour altruistically even for a minor inconvenience and risk.

New coal plants aren't built (mostly) and old ones are closing not because of altruism or a genuine concern for climate change. It's because other options are more economic, specifically LNG and solar. Now LNG isn't much better but it is better. Solar is definitely better. But what drove solar adoption over the last decade is the plunging price of panels, not altruism.
Even entering the airspace of a hostile country isn't safe. Two incidents off the top of my head:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Protasevich#Ryanair_Flig...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident
That's not even remotely true. If you're sufficiently big enough on social media you can get your own advertising deals directly with advertisers and cut out the platform itself. If you're small enough that you can't do that then your content isn't worth much anyway on an individual basis.
I was referring to deploying the graphql routers onto an AWS lambda within your own account, which looks entirely different from your product?
>Owing largely to the culture war, American Catholics have provided decisive support to the party that calls global warming a hoax. This isn't a political statement on my part, but just a statistical one.

Than why are 44% of Catholics Democrat and only 37% Republican?

https://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/party-aff...

Methinks your own POV poisons your opinions.
It appears that is where we are now: trying to level the playing field between rich and poor is oppressing the rich. Actually it may be worse, trying to prevent the rich from gaining new privileges is now oppressive.
This is the obvious solution actually - E100 already used as racing fuel because it's so high octane. You need special coatings on some metal parts to prevent corrosion but that's well within the capabilities of Ferrari and the like.
No it’s not. It allows you to get the fixed medium that was lost, yes, but loses the flexibility that is far more important given the reality of the devices people have—and that’s only talking about screen sizes, not even the other problems of accessing and viewing PDFs.
I really love linux mint. The only reason I don't use it is because I prefer new packages, kernel version, etc. Also the new website is beautiful.
I always wondered what would happened if mint developers had unlimited budget.
FWIW I very rarely use touch and certainly not for interacting with the OS on a daily basis.

Most of the time I use the touch support for sketching or highlighting with the pen. My pairs of external monitors at home and in the office are also non-touch.
How Linkerd Uses Iptables to Transparently Route Kubernetes Traffic
You seem to be presupposing that you can choose to believe, yet is not genuine belief the sum of the thoughts/experiences in one's mind?
Contrarian fervor lol! You're neurotically against the "people in power" and if they say the grass is green, you'll say the grass is blue.