skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I won't claim it's more or less impressive, but

Luis Antin van Rooten's Mots D'Heures is at first glance abstract (bordering on the nonsensical) French poetry ..

But is actually a homophonic translation of English nursery rhymes - that is, if you read the French aloud, it sounds as if you're reading the rhyme.

Example:

Un petit d'un petit
S'étonne aux Halles
Un petit d'un petit
Ah! degrés te fallent
Indolent qui ne sort cesse
Indolent qui ne se mène
Qu'importe un petit d'un petit
Tout Gai de Reguennes.

(If you read it aloud you will recognize a well-known scrambled egg...)

The effort is in making the French poetry make any sense, which van Rooten (a Hollywood character actor in his spare time) does admirably.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mots_d%27Heures?wprov=sfla1
> One who thinks that the word ‘missiles’ is spelled “missles”, but a Mozart nonetheless.

Maybe he had to create a typo here or there to keep things fully justified.
With respect, this is selection basis.

Several years ago, JC Penny hired a new CEO (from Apple, I believe) to revamp their line. I bought their stock to "let it ride". There was some hot shot pharmaceutical company that I bought in 2010 (APPY, look them up). I also "bought the dip" in Boeing last year.

All bad decisions.
An Alternative Purpose of Writing
And ironically this, a clear and positive sign of that changing, is being lambasted by pot shots at unrelated other religious positions.

Christ almighty, if the fellow you're complaining about walks up to you and says "I've been thinking about that thing you've been going on about, and I'd like to help you..."

... then maybe don't slap them across the face in response.
Yes, a small, fast charging lithium-carbon battery is how you build a lightweight scooter so why not a sports car:

https://www.mahle-powertrain.com/en/news-and-press/press-rel...

Or lithium-sulfur batteries for a battery pack that weighs less:

https://lyten.com/lyten-launches-lithium-sulfur-battery-plat...

Or just go for battery swaps:

https://www.gogoro.com/news/400k-gogoro-network-subscribers/
Same here, so for accessibility reasons current voices are good enough, but I admit at the beginning I lost a lot of time trying to find good voices, until I trained myself with faster speeds.

So probably most people here researched this topic not for accessibility reasons but for "commercial" stuff like creating some kind of service where chat bots could speak to you or transcribe articles for some regular people(without eye problems) to listen to them.
I was under the impression that smaller batteries had a limit to peak power draw. Perhaps not important if you have an ultra-light vehicle and you’re not attempting to build a competitor to the Plaid.
You're right. Save some blame for Wall St and other financial types.
7 years is way too long.

And it was a different time, in an economy with different skills, and entirely different technologies.

What was cheap and fast 50 years ago may not be the best thing to build today. For example, the wealthy no longer build many mansions with intricate stonework and wood molding, all crafted by hand. The workforce is no longer there.

We should pay close attention to the productive capacity of today, what sort of industrial machines we have at our actual disposal.

Nobody who is talking about nuclear pays attention to what it would actually take to build nuclear like France did in the 1970s, it's just an assumption that it could be done, without paying attention to any of the details.

Further, those proposing lots of new nuclear never deal with the massive failures of current attempts, whether it's France's EPR designs at Flamanville, Olkiluoto, or Hinkley. All have been failures. What would change to get a first-of-a-kind build down to 7 years?

Nobody has answers to these questions, least of all the nuclear industry. And until somebody has a clear and detailed and knowledgeable path forward on construction, we will waste billions and billions more on ineffective nuclear when those resources could instead be out to use right away with storage and renewables.
> Local minima aren't the historically average bar to exceed.

I wasn't picking out a local minims on either end (well, not intentionally); I was picking out the times being compared (that of Columbus vs. now) from the context of the discussion.

But really, the same applies to the whole of history from the ancient period up through and including all of the early modern period vs. say, any time from the mid-20th century on, to avoid any problems with overspecificity on either end.
The URL is not correct, it should be: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Facebook...
ActivityStreams was originally an XML extension for Atom <https://activitystrea.ms/specs/atom/1.0/>. It worked just fine with a static site.

https://www.w3.org/TR/websub/ formerly PubSubHubbub was used to notify subscribers, but it was optional and subscribers would fall back to polling. WebSub could be a separate service.

The trickiest part is handling replies, which involves some cryptography to prevent spoofing. But this too could be done by polling, only then you only get replies from those you subscribe to. ActivityPub does this with crypto too IIRC.
Only a select few nations were rebuilt after WW2. Not everyone was lucky and I don't think everyone got the same amount

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan
You know what, I am smart and experienced, too.

I do a lot of meetings on Zoom. The idea that I should instead carefully craft documentation for much of the work I do is an incredibly bad one. The ideas I develop are easy to misunderstand, and constantly in flux. Meanwhile, my teammates have other things to do than keep up with my confluence pages.

Usually such intensive documenting ideas are promoted by people with no respect for good documentation. But also, people with little understanding of how working relationships are formed and maintained.
> Also consider the multitudes of other medications where there is no real argument to require a monthly extortion fee.

I think that's really where one needs to look to square the circle. The drugs available prescription-free have lower risk of injury or disruption when abused. Antibiotics are not in that category, which is why they require doctor oversight and a prescription. Take too much, and you can damage your digestive tract. Take too little, or the wrong kind, and you can worsen the infection by killing the bacteria that the immune system can control, leaving their food supply for the ones the immune system is struggling against.

They could require less doctor oversight perhaps, but probably not zero.
There is nothing cheaper and easier and more scalable than nuclear for baseload gigawatt generation, especially when you actually account for the insane amount of batteries required to make wind/solar/etc viable as a baseload technology. People point at solar panel progress and always conveniently stay silent on the big battery problem (the mining problem, the scalability problem, the toxicity problem, etc)

Nuclear did and does work out. It was not overhyped and it has delivered as expected. I would argue that solar is overhyped and has continually underdelivered. Anyone who has installed a solar system on their house has seen the significant issues with it.

Nuclear remains the best way to replace coal/gas electricity generation for baseload power, to generate enough energy to power industries and cities, and is cleaner than filling a city with atrocious rare earth batteries that are required to paper over the problems with other inconsistently generating technologies.

It is what it is, but if nuclear isn't the future, then coal isn't going anywhere.
IMHO, Russia wants to make their Nord Stream 2 gas pipe "green" to circumvent sanctions. Gazprom must be worth €1 trillion at any cost.
Once upon a time I suffered from severe OCD. I fully justified all of my code comments in C to 80 columns by word choice. No extra spaces. No random hyphenation.

You feel pain while you're doing it, but you can't stop.

I'm glad therapy helped me.
Well, cholesterol is used to make everything in your body from Vitamin D (Cholecalciferol) to testosterone and estrogen. So it shouldn't be surprising.

Low hormones = depression
YouTube itself does have that same option under the subscriptions tab, it will only show videos from your subscriptions in chronological order.
What are the implications for a vegan diet?
I thought the same thing. But, doing the math, given that an object passes within a circle around the earth with radius 192,000 km, there is a 1 in 900 chance that it hits the earth. That's uncomfortably high for me.
The RSS service I use has a Twitter gateway which does translation. It works really nice.
Tldr:
“ There is a growing amount of research looking at the use of essential fatty acids, particularly omega-3's in psychiatry, but we often overlook cholesterol. Low levels of cholesterol and essential fatty acids are intimately linked to depression. Understanding the consequences of deficiencies in essential fats and cholesterol is important for the effective treatment of depression. Whether it is drug induced, genetic, or a result of dietary patterns, low cholesterol impairs optimal brain function and often prevents successful recovery from chronic depression.”
The only evidence that exists is indirect because of China's stonewalling. When International researchers are denied access to the EpiCentre of a global pandemic, you cannot use the argument that there is no evidence.
If you follow the citation, you get to this graph:

https://gml.noaa.gov/aggi/aggi.fig3.png

Those 10% are almost all CFC, then the next largest component is HCFCs and then HFCs, where SF6 is included. On the graph subtitle it's explained that SF6 is about 13% of the HFCs component.

Anyway, that's a large change from the last data I've found.
A key part is not only about saving particular documents but about keeping the whole state of all apps as-is, which is not compatible with "shut down my PCs regularly".

My workflow involves closing up the laptop, carrying it elsewhere (while it sleeps - it has to survive being in a bag so not heating up), reopening with all the exact state it had, potentially many times each day. Then at the end of computer-day closing it (to sleep mode), and starting the next morning exactly where I left off - not from a clean after-shutdown state. Even for an unavoidable reboot (e.g. install of OS version update) I'd expect most of that state to be restored e.g. OS X and compatible apps restoring most the open apps and documents as they were - sadly it doesn't work as well as it should, so sleep is strongly preferable to anything involving a reboot.

A full shutdown is an extraordinary event that's done when placing an unused system in long-term storage or when giving it to someone else, because all other daily usage (and short breaks e.g. weekends, not just "temporary moments when I'm away from my PC.") is better suited by a sleep/hibernate mode, at least if that works properly.

TL;DR - a need to shutdown regularly is a fundamental design flaw, not a problem between keyboard and chair.
They mine the data as well as an entity. They don't put public feedback via ads so the user doesn't have any clue how effective they are.
> Roma football club is owned by an American billionaire, as is Fiorentina

True, but Ferruccio Lamborghini sold the company in 1972 (100% of the shares) and it's since 1998 a VolksWagen's company through Audi.

Lamborghini hasn't been an Italian company for the past 50 years even though the brand is considered Italian.
Life support cooked up from lunar rocks
Let me know if you get banned for doing nmap -p 22 on AWS or GCP.
I’ve watched the low cholesterol cult destroy the health of many people around me and anyone who questioned it was always crazy or ignorant.
I see you haven't yet caught the coding version of that.

E.g. http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/oopscode.c

(From http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/oops.html)
If the body produces enough you ought to be fine. But that depends almost entirely on genetics. Some people have high cholesterol without consuming a drop of it.
That may be, but is it better to be 'fair' or to save the world's ecology? The coral reefs don't much care if some places are poorer than others.

Perhaps one answer would be to allow people to swap citizenships. If you are feeling guilty enough, you could move to Lagos and someone there could move to Palo Alto.
That's a big "when" at this point.
>baseload gigawatt generation

This is very important for the heavy industries yet opponents of Nuclear still pretend that solar and wind can cover it.

They are fine with Nuclear as long as it is in China.
This is incredibly uneducated. If I were to talk about fiat with this level of ignorance I would say things like "transferring money takes weeks!" in reference to ACH. Any cursory google search will show you that you are wrong about fees, max tx per second and tx time to finality.

As for bitcoins value, in 12 years it is valued high enough to be in the top 10 market cap stocks.

It took apple 71 years to hit 1T market cap - it took bitcoin 12 years.
Refer to my earlier comments: Atom is technically superior and more sound, and calling them all “RSS” is harmful by encouraging the inferior.

JSON stuff? Eh, I feel that’s largely a solution looking for a problem. It’s too late to get universal support in clients (feeds aren’t popular enough and too much of the software basically on life support), so you’re always going to need to serve Atom or RSS as well, and once you’re implementing one of them, why would you bother with the JSON format at all? As for the one serious attempt, JSON Feed, I have one thing that I really like about it and one thing that I don’t. The don’t: it specifies that titles are plain text, which I think is a shame; Atom lets you put HTML in your titles so you can do things like <code>, <em>, <sup> and so forth (and I do, oh yes! I do)—though I wish Atom had let you specify both plain text and HTML (sometimes I want <code></code> to “degrade” to backticks; refer to the titles of my last few blog posts for examples, with plain text in the <title> and HTML in the body). And that’s the thing I think JSON Feed got right for the content, that you can provide both HTML and text, whereas Atom forces you to choose.
But What Is It?
> There's evidence that COVID-19 was not created by direct genetic manipulation.

There’s also evidence it cannot possibly (or well, with such a low chance it may as well be) have occured naturally.

What am I supposed to believe here? Even the people on my side of the fence, even the people that research this stuff themselves all seem to have an agenda and when research turns up one thing, I can practically guarantee that other research turns up the opposite.

There’s too much damn smoke in this whole thing for there to be no fire.
Why? We could have something federated where I add my response to a particular post/thread to my RSS feed. We then leave it up to the client to generate a proper tree representation of a discussion.
> n your scenario government revenue goes down as no corporate taxes are now collected and no additional individual taxes will be paid.

My scenario very clearly illustrated that the government would collect $5M in taxes where they wouldn't have before.

> the rich don't pay taxes like we do so any proposal that attempts to work by increasing individual taxes just won't work:)

Which is why consumption taxes work (hence my suggestion of VAT)
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The author seems to be reading for payment. You might say "Nice work if you can get it", but I don't think you could call it an indulgence.
There’s different types of companies that benefit from different approaches.

Engineer leaders tend to have more focus on long term and incremental building. They consider the engineering departments to be the heart of the company.

MBAs tend to focus more energy on sales and marketing, and they generally follow the “internalize profit centers, externalize cost centers” mantra. It’s not uncommon for engineering departments to get axed and externalized.

Semiconductor engineering, and specially computing products flourish i. The first scenario and suffer in the second.
Fair point.

I meant, we had computers, but not a whole class full of them. Teaching kids one by one on the one computer per class would have been very inefficient.

Modified the original comment.
I understand where you are coming from, but just because a program is small does not mean it does not need documentation.

My `bc` is in toybox, but I have put extensive effort into documenting it. [1] I have even documented it for future maintainers. [2]

[1]: https://git.yzena.com/gavin/bc/src/branch/master/manuals/bc/...

[2]: https://git.yzena.com/gavin/bc/src/branch/master/manuals/dev...
I agree, I use Pico2wave too after testing other TTS and pico2wave has the best voice in offline systems.
I use it combined with home assistant: whenever a window trigger is fired, pico2wave generate a wav file and it is read by aplay command and transmitted to an 90' stereo HI-FI.
The result is: the window x it is opening because x.

The italian voice sounds great
TheseToonsDoNotExist: StyleGAN2-ADA trained on CG cartoon faces
That is true, except YouTube doesn't always show you all your subscription content. In fact it frequently hides subscribed content from me, including live streams, even when I set the bell-icon to "All". The difference between the subscriptions tab on YouTube and NewPipe is that the latter literally scans every subscribed channel for uploaded content, so I have yet to find out that I've ever missed something through it. Whereas on YouTube I often discover that I missed out on either a live stream or an upload that did actually interest me but it never appeared in either my notifications or in the Subscriptions tab. The subscriptions tab is better than anything that's on the home page, but I prefer to not have an algorithm lie to me that I can see "All" new uploads.

EDIT: Also, random semi-related complaint; YouTube on web never honors when I click "Set Reminder". It doesn't matter if I permanently allow notifications in my browser or what. I get no emails either. I have a hard time believing the YT devs have written any tests for it. Then again, I've never tried it in Chrome. ¬‿¬
Wow. This sounds amazing, thank you!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_No._6
I'm part of a team that looks after a 1.3 million loc application in Delphi using the XE7 version. The 32-bit version builds in just 11 seconds on an 18 month old laptop.

I've just spent the last two years adding Virtual Channels support to our product. If you're not into COM in C++, Delphi is excellent for this kind of stuff. However the Infosec part of the company hates that we have to have Local Admin access but you can't register/unregister COM objects without it.
What you're suggesting is a single member LLC and that income eventually becomes your personal income. So that loophole gets closed pretty quick.
Prefacing this with the fact that I’ve only worked at smaller startups(<500 people)

Arguably, most of these places do not need dedicated ops teams, nor do they need to host and manage their own infrastructure, yet they do.

The most productive startup I worked at used Heroku to bootstrap many of their applications and we didn’t need a single ops person. People were able to switch between teams and follow the same short and standardized process to build and deploy code. They didn’t need to ‘master’ any specialized ops skills and there was typically someone on each team who could quickly debug failing deploys.

The least efficient startup I worked at insisted on hosting all their own infra because managed solutions like Heroku were ‘too expensive’. Except we ended up with multi-month long infrastructure rollouts, process additions, changes and infra upgrades that likely cost many orders of magnitude more than managed solutions to implement, with less features than we’d get out of the box with a managed service like Heroku. We also had nowhere near the scale necessary, or headcount, for it to be worth it to self-manage.

I’m typically the guy who works on the backend but also gets called in for ops and infrastructure work, and at least for smaller companies that aren’t dealing with hundreds of millions of requests per day, I think the managed route makes way more sense, even if you feel like you’re overspending on infrastructure.
As someone who began eating carnivore eighteen months ago after three plus years as a vegan (and a strict, gluten-free one at that) I can attest to the truth of this piece. My cholesterol has risen, however, the ratio is fine and a heart scan showed ZERO calcium. I feel great, lifelong depression has lifted, my brain is much more clear and I’m as thin and muscular as ever. It truly is remarkable.

We were sold a bill of goods with the whole “fat is bad” push. It’s bullsh*t.
That's a setting within the chat app/website. Always remain online vs make inactive after 20 minutes or 4 hours.
A nice enhancement for the system is having TTS read out the currently selected text, triggered by a key shortcut.

I tried festival and it too complicated and my version was too to run the better voices model.

Instead I've used this repo to use upgraded flite: https://github.com/kastnerkyle/hmm_tts_build/

I have mapped keyboard shortcuts Win+1 for normal speed, Win+2 for faster and Win+3 for really fast reading speed. I can use it while reading, to enhance my focus. Neat.
That's interesting, I usually treat the ability of easily snapshotting and restoring virtual machines as one of the main reasons for doing things inside a VM.
I'm interested if you could share more details of what you've seen.
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You’ve lived your whole life with LAPD federally indicted under the RICO Act, reserved for literally gangs, and you held that cartoonishly juvenile view of police the whole time “until they came for you”. Amazing.

Pay attention to the ACAB graffiti written everywhere next time. Imagine some of those people either had a similar experience as you, or don't need to personally have one to perceive reality more accurately.
Cost at scale is hard to predict.

I think a bigger question is, do we have enough "political capital" to pay for nuclear energy?

Even if our politicians all agreed to it, across counties even, what are the odds that they would get ousted before the reactors are built and delivering cost efficiency energy.
> I can't say that the Pope is much involved in that situation

Like the 15% of (mostly-sub Saharan) Africa that identifies as Catholic? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_in_Africa