skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
iPhone users can enable Spoken Content.

Open an ebook. Swipe down with two fingers. Instant audio book.

Also, you can select the Voices option (under Spoken Content) to download high quality Siri voices.
It should be labeled (2020). Otherwise it really isn't related. If a user just reads the headline (let's face it most users do just that) it implies this is the reason he has resigned. Which tbh is super miss leading.
> There is a crucial difference between a voice and a character here.

Oh there will be loads of subtle differences. I wasn't claiming it to be a perfect comparison but rather than illustration of how IP is complicated and how a single piece of work might have multiple different strands of IP against it.

> Characters (any creative work) are not created in a cultural vacuum.

Nothing we create is done so in a cultural vacuum. So I agree with your statement but not really sure how it applies (or even adds anything) to the discussion.

> It's actually especially egregious with Disney too, since their business model to no small degree is grabbing a piece of popular culture and transforming it into a Disney product, the company we know today wouldn't be anywhere near what it is without public domain to begin with.

I made that same point too

> Disney got content from it, it profited from it, and now it must , in my opinion, give back.

Here is my issue. We cannot and should not make specific exceptions for specific companies because we do not like them. I fully agree there needs to be a copyright reform that works for consumers, but it should be applied equally for everyone and not have some rules for one company but Disney has a different set of rules "because they're bad".

> There is hubris in the term "creator". Nobody is culturally a creator, merely a transformer.

This is a philosophical point and one that would be fun to debate in the pub over a pint. However it doesn't add anything to this particular discussion.
I rediscovered an old board game, but found its fans now include hate groups
This was basically my issue too, manager keeps asking why I get so little done some days. I have to explain it's because I'm effectively the productivity of 3-5 ppl on my team and so when you see them delivering fast, it's largely because they came to me with a hard issue, i broke i down for them and all they had to do was write the code.
Right, and the protections for poison are also security theater for the same reason. In the real world that's ok.

> The only reason that the water supply isn't poisoned is it's unpractical for a single person to conduct the whole exploit chain

It's a quantitative question, just like with computer vision. If you don't like the poison example, consider viral DNA, which is also dangerous in the right hands and does not require massive supply chain control. Not everyone has access to a driving dataset like Teslas, and it would be difficult to trick a Tesla without such a dataset.

We should allow researches to develop attacks, just like we should allow researchers to study poisons, DNA, and viruses.
Are you talking about Chrome or Edge?

Both are better than Safari on iOS though, which does force you to use it.
> My understanding is it occurs due to focusing on anaerobic exercise, which weight lifting is, and not also or not executing enough aerobic exercise, like swimming, running and calisthenics. As the heart gets larger, the heart chambers get smaller, pumping less blood and less oxygen, in the right circumstance leading to heart failure and death.

Zyzz is believed to have had a pee-existing heart condition, and used some fairly aggressive steroid cycles that would contribute to heart failure at an early age. Weight training on it's own usually isn't enough to cause this issues, and in general resistance training extends your lifespan and cardiovascular health, in addition to supporting better body composition. One can even reduce the risk involved in using PEDs if you take care to closely monitor a variety of health metrics and biomarkers to judge the risks involved.

Here's a list of all the stuff you should look into if you're thinking of doing something like this:

https://vigoroussteve.com/medical-screening-required-before-...
Last year I bought a Proscan 55" 4k dumb TV. Maybe you can find one of them? My review: it's fine.
TikTok is terrifying. It is designed to be nicotine for your attention span, achieving engagement at any cost. Now they've added keyboard shortcuts.

The effects of social media on our collective attention span legitimately scare me. Our attention spans are shrinking with each generation, and the effect has gone parabolic in the last 15 years. Look at old movies, and notice the longer length of cuts compared to movies today. Now look at the infinite feed on TikTok.

What happens when the minority of the population that actually does their civic duty of informed voting can no longer pay attention to important issues?

What happens when people can't think about any topic beyond a sound bite or meme?

What happens when no one has more than 1000ms of patience to question whether they're looking at a deepfake?

Climate change? Holding politicians accountable for corruption or abuses of power?

I think we need to take a good look at where we're headed.
Same here, using Winamp 2.95 on a HiDPI screen as my main audio player.

The best feature that it seems no other player has reproduced yet is being able to hit the J key to do an instant search for a song, with 0 latency: the search narrows down the songs as fast as you hit the keys.

But I've noticed that there are now a few files that sound scratch when played, perhaps they're 48 kHz or something...
Are they just giving audiences what they want?
Its the asbestos or thalidomide of our time..software is eating the world.
The real problem here is people, not the platforms or the products. How do I know this? Because the problems have existed far longer than any of the platforms.

Maybe people here are too young to remember how toxic, argumentative, irrational and judgmental everything else was that came previously: forums, mailing lists, Usenet, you name it.

Sure products can influence user behaviour but they can't totally change it. And if none of them (as you assert) "improve accuracy, increase thoughtfulness, paint nuance" ask yourself why: is it because all the platform providers are wrong? Or simply that's what users want?

Personally I've never liked Twitter. Of all the platforms I find it dominated by people who like the sounds of their own voices. I've described it as a "write only" platform. Even calling it "social media" seems like a stretch as there are no relationships, just people you follow and a news feed.
Lol, lopsided erections?
There’s No Speed Limit
I think they are a symptom, not the root. The root started before them with the advent of pay per click advertising. Everything else has spiraled from that. I truly believe that the massive divisiveness of the last 2 decades can be traced to this. Social media echo chambers, youtube rabbit holes, click baity headlines, all of it is because of pay per click advertising. The ML algorithms we have now have become so effective that the problem is only getting exponentially worse. Your news is fed to you with the sole purpose of making you click so they earn $.
> but get fed with all of their garbage "liked" content and can't filter that out.

I definitely filter those out.

About once every 6 months the tweets "liked" by people I follow pop up again, it's usually very noticable as the feeds quality turns down dramatically.

To get rid of those, I do the "..." > "I don't like this tweet" > "show fewer likes from XYZ" on 2 or 3 tweets, and they're all gone for another few months.

It's not ideal, a settings menu where you can disable those permanently would be far better, but it works.
There is no connection between the questions philosophers ask and any actual technology or even concept that people are currently aware of. It's interesting to think about, but more as a thought experiment than as something to be remotely concerned about.

An observation though:

- from what i know about people, sentience is the opposite of maximizing only one thing, so I don't see the paperclip thing as an issue, ie anything smart enough to run amok in that way would be smart enough not to. This would be more of a concern for some "dumb" self replicating process, like a fire or an Ice-9 type agent.
Sometime iceberg lettuce kills people (salmonella). We have safety regulations and inspections to mitigate that, but you can never prove that iceberg lettuce is safe.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28583761

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28045189
I am wondering if it is still written in Java. It will be interesting to see how a light weight Java Editor compete against another light weight Web / DOM Editor.

And if it is Java, would be there any Substrate VM / Graal tools going into it.
In last week's "Ask HN: What’s the best TV to buy?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29343338 one recommendation was to look for commercial televisions which usually lack the smart features and are build for reliability.
I haven’t heard of that here either. The closest I can think of are sanctions that can be levied on individual employees by professional standards organizations. I do know trades warranties aren’t provided by employees working in that trade to their employer, just to customer individuals or organizations.
If the author had succesfully registered Sherlock Holmes as a trademark back in 1875, and kept efforts at protecting and re-reggistering that trademark continuously, then yes it should be a trademark, just like Bass is. A trademark isn't just the name "Bass" though, but clearly if someone else created a beer called Bass they'd have a job on to explain how it's not the same Bass that Bass trademarked.

Trademarks protect the consumer as much as the buyer. The only reason someone would want to put two "golden arches" on their burger joint is to make people think it's mcdonalds. That's bad for mcdonalds the company sure, but it's also bad for the customer who thinks they're getting a certain "standard", and do not deserve a counterfeit good.
i’m currently reading Ted’s “literary machines” and fascinated by the description of xanadu, it lines up with a lot of my own intuition of the way things “should be”

i’m curious what comes across as so grim to you
> “It’s like iOS animations, when closing an app, and seeing the app get sucked into it’s icon. It’s so quick and subtle, you barely notice it.”

it’s decidedly not quick and subtle. ios animations are blocking, so anytime i try to do things faster than the animation can finish, i very much notice it (particularly acutely when typing in my passcode). i hate that i have a “supercomputer” in my pocket and yet i can outpace it on a keyboard because of poor programming/user experience.

with that said, i agree that non-blocking and subtle animations do help us better intuit the user interface if done thoughtfully.
For my job I spend a lot of time working on a python package that uses threads. I’ve found that pycharm’s debugging tools are much better than vscode’s when it comes to threads. Also, auto imports are possible while I don’t think I’m able to do that in VScode.

If someone can tell me how to set up VSCode to do this better, I would love to know. However I also need to be able to support other engineers who typically don’t work on the package but might need to drop into the code. It is much easier to tell them to download the community edition of pycharm and start working than it is to walk them through setting up another editor/ide.

I don’t particularly like pycharm, and don’t use it when I don’t have to, but in this case it’s the right tool for the job. (So far.)
To a non-aussie, the polititian speak is pretty darn bizarre. On the first read, I thought you were describing a physical assault...
I cant find a source, but I remember a discussion here on a brand of smart tvs that still phone home by connecting to other nearby smart tvs that are connected to a network, even if you don't connect yours to the network.
Mainstream news used to have a near-monopoly on access to events and crime scenes. The advent of smartphones with ever-improving cameras gives the average citizen, who's there in the moment, first access. Twitter just happened to be the medium with lowest barrier to sharing that, but it would've happened regardless. As stations couldn't keep up with the "breaking" part of news, it just made sense (unfortunately) to adopt the share-what-others-say model and talk about that instead.
Yeah, that's the trick to Twitter definitely. You're very much in charge of what you see there beyond the tricks you have to pull to get retweeted items out of your feed.

I really wish there were more aggressive options to do that in lists, some people have great content but retweet an insane amount of things as well and it'd be nice to be able to exclude those from a list but not universally across the whole feed like you can with block words.
I submitted this a few weeks ago but now there's a pre-release. Unfortunately though this does seem to be a very high quality library (especially for something that's being labeled pre-release), I'm not sure I can stomach the $495 yearly fee.
Is the is very different to what newspapers were when they first appeared?

Of course they never achieved the same technological pace. Also, nowadays, when you think of newspapers, you think mostly of quality publications, writing considered, contextualised pieces.

But even nowadays, there are plenty of crappy tabloids chasing ad revenue (clicks?), with no regard for information and only about the shock factor. And in the past it was much worse, since the whole cesspit of attention-grabbing was contained in newspapers and pamphlets.

Tech changes, humans don’t.
Two big problems with CT for DNSSEC:

1. It doesn't exist right now.

2. Getting CT working for the WebPKI was a lot of work, done in tandem by a lot of very talented people, and because virtually nobody in the industry uses DNSSEC (go look!), there's no incentive for that work to happen.

There's no question that the IETF could get a working group together to specify a transparency log for DNSSEC... eventually. I'd happily start a pool to bet on how long it would take them to bikeshed it out. But actually getting it deployed to the level of effectiveness that CT has today is a totally different story.

It has been over twenty years of work just getting DNSSEC to the (very bad) place it's at today. We should factor that in when we talk about what DNSSEC can and can't do. A think DNSSEC can't do today: provide transparency logs, like the WebPKI does.
I should be able to use Mickey to promote a car dealership. Anything that's not a competing media organization, really.
US antitrust law is based on tests of harm to the consumer (though most people do not know this nor about its application due to lack of enforcement). Apple frames everything they do as positive for the consumer to throw up chaff that makes consumer harm harder to quantify for people who don't know better.
I still use it daily due to one killer feature it has: the Nullsoft Signal Processing Studio DSP plugin that it comes with. I have my own preset in there that I use on all of my music. The preset combines:

1. Playback rate control, affecting both speed and pitch (like in a record player)
2. A bs2b transform
3. My own custom overdrive effect

I could skip the 3rd one, but the first two already greatly narrows down what I can use.
I agree that it's possible to curate a good Twitter experience, but it's concerning to me that Twitter is hostile by default. I'm not sure if it's trying to promulgate a specific repugnant ideology or maybe it tries to provoke everyone equally (e.g., for engagement), but in either case it seems socially harmful. And to be clear, I don't mind that it shows me a lot of content from people with whom I disagree (even forcefully), but I do mind that the content it boosts is the lowest quality argumentation (calling it "argumentation" is too generous). For example, in a recent high profile self defense case, Twitter didn't boost any legal expert analysis, but it did boost the d-list celebrities and popular journalists (and their vitriolic followers) whose views don't survive even the slightest encounter with the evidence. And to be clear, the issue isn't that it's promoting this stuff to me (I have thick skin, apparently), but that it's promoting it to everyone by default, such that it is a systemic problem.
Yeah, I love recommending Wild West, open ecosystems to nontechnical friends and family.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/fossbytes.com/fake-whatsapp-pla...

In case you didn’t have enough fun cleaning up spyware-infested PCs, you have phones, too!
What are your favorite cryptocurrency communities / projects?
the customer is always right?

you're old school. i like that.
All of those do count, but many people have a narrower definition because of how the term "social media" is often shorthand for Twitter, FB, IG, and similar when used in the traditional media.
I was simple and focused on playing mp3's and managing playlists and nothing else.

Every music player now has some shitty cloud integration that I have to ignore.

The playlist manager was top notch. 10 times better than itunes.
Ending the depression through planned obsolescence (1932)
That's a really important distinction I hadn't thought about.

When you can make a feed that "feeds" you own preconceived ideas as reality, you get told the world is just as you imagined, you're always right, and those who disagree are obviously evil and/or stupid.
The past few years the stock market has been so divorced from reality that I wouldn't read too much into it.
I could survive without HN. The internet existed before it. We had things like webrings and mailing lists that were highly personal forms of communication & aggregation.

You could even find content that you wanted online before Google made search pay-to-play.

Killing social media and requiring services (like email, etc) not be an ad-supported free model (where the product is the user) would completely transform the internet (and its balance of power) as we know it and for the better.

SomethingAwful charging $10 for an account was always/accidentally the right idea.
All the major browser engines can be embedded, the GUI is a separate layer. It's been that way for ages, even IE was this way.
I personally think Jack is grossly out of touch with reality. Even when it comes to crypto, he refuses to support anything outside of BTC. Twitter is still the best medium for real-time news and information dissemination. Hopefully they can keep that going.
I think that's a symptom and not the root cause. The root cause was when we stopped paying for news with money and started paying for news with clicks. That changed how news was gathered, reported, and shared.
I'm not sure if "subreddits" / "interests" alone make reddit social media, but combined with its scale it definitely does.

I have blocked hundreds of subreddits just to make my reddit experience tolerable.
I do think about that about every day, i'm 31 now and have lots os friends, really lots of friends and i go to outside/social events all the time, but i still suck at it, i never know when is my time to talk, what to talk, never know how to approach someone, i have a really bad time to maintain my attention to people, sometimes i feel that social interactions hurt me so much that i fell pain, it's really hard to know how to deal with that
No, it's super laggy just like all e-Ink devices, except for the natively-optimized note taking app which feels fine for writing and taking notes.

Don't expect an iPad experience at all.

The reasons I use it are

- To get eye strain relief when reading ebooks, academic papers, or long PDF documents

- To be able to read those things in bright sunlight while outdoors

- Insanely good battery life compared to a traditional tablet, I only charge mine about once a week

- Screen continues to display while consuming zero power, after device goes to sleep, which is useful for practicing music, and for placing reference documents on the table while I work on e.g. electronics, or recipes while working in the kitchen. I don't have to keep smacking it every 2 minutes to wake it up, and it won't run out of battery displaying a single PDF page for several days
> Yes, it hasn't taken any shortcuts or sacrifices to the blockchain trilemma

Eth has sacrificed on scalability. Whether you find that the balance is subjective.

Cardano's issue to this point is that their eUTXO model and their smart contract tooling is a bit too esoteric for the current crypto community. What you get in return is deterministic and verifiable smart contracts. Whether that will matter in practice time will tell

Eth didn't come up with the rollup design.

I agree with your Steve Balmer take, but the rest of your assessment is something else.
I don't know what anyone means exactly by censorship anymore.

Like someone regularly posting obvious lies and bs?

I feel like I need an exact example from every person when the topic comes up, and that's not really easy to do.
No you see it either is true or it isn’t true, so 50-50.
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Think I found the Caddy developer.
Predicate transformer semantics[1] are an approach that would work with sufficient discipline. Given that the cost of a bug is potentially losing everything, maybe smart contracts will finally be impetus developers need to learn enough of the predicate calculus to compose programs that behave as specified.

That's just half of the problem though. The other half is knowing that your specification doesn't admit any unpleasant behaviors. I expect some combination of KISS and model checking is appropriate.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicate_transformer_semantic...
Yes, it was great, but that feature doesn’t work with multi-user systems or network storage.

Say user 1 has a large screen, and sizes the window of a folder accordingly, keeping spacing of icons in it large. Next, user 2 opens the folder on their desktop. Firstly, should it disappear from user 1’s screen, as it would if it were a physical object?

That probably is undesirable.

Also, if the window doesn’t fit on user 2’s screen, what should the UI do? Resize the window? On user 2’s screen or on both screens? If user 2 changes the looks of the window, and user 1 opens it again, should user 1 see it the way user 2 left it behind?

Access rights introduce other problems with this metaphor. What should happen if user 2 doesn’t have write rights to a networked folder? Should they be allowed to move icons within a folder? Change window sizes? If so, where should the information about icon layout be stored?

Those physical folders also don’t work well with disks with millions of files.
I saw this toy in the bookstore this weekend and thought it looked like it had a LOT of potential (pun intended). It's called "Klutz Circuit Clay", and consists of two types of mold-able putty: conductive and insulating. A revolution over the "50-in-1 Electronic Playground" sets of yore.

Plus the tagline is great: "No Soldering Required" ;)
Not everything needs to be read as a comparison to other products. Adjectives have meaning without competition. They can be interpreted as ratios, for example requests / available memory, or load / latency.

It's not always about putting down other products. Both can be fast. Both can be efficient. Both can be fast and light. Both can be "high" without one having to be low in order for it to be valid to call it "high" -- because it's not always about the other product.

This discourse makes me exhausted, every time it comes up. I'm tired of everyone thinking I'm trying to outperform NGINX. Caddy's just fast and efficient, I don't care to defend that claim as much as people care to attack it.