skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The speed can be controlled by the pitch of a persons voice. The higher the tone the quicker the train will go

If you would like to play around with it yourself then the code can be found here: https://github.com/benna100/duplo-train-voice-control
There is no details on which CPUs (graviton or graviton 2, what about amd?) were exactly used making the review useless to the vast majority of audience.
> And Ireland definitely doesn't claim it as part of the Republic.

It should be noted that up until the Belfast Agreement (Good Friday Agreement) the Republic of Ireland constitution did claim all 32 counties as part of the Republic. A part of the Good Friday Agreement was amendments to the RoI constitution. On the flip side was a formal requirement for a border poll if it appeared to the UK Secretary of State that a majority of NI would want a border poll.
Oracle could easily fix the ZFS licensing situation by releasing CDDLv2 resolving the GPL incompatibility. Then via the CDDLv1 auto-upgrade clause, most of OpenZFS could be made compatible with the GPL. Some parts would have to be relicensed to no longer opt out of the auto-upgrade clause or rewritten from scratch to enable the auto-upgrade clause. All other CDDLv1+ software would be made GPL compatible at the same time. After that OpenZFS could be included in Linux. Some more discussion about that on LWN. Does anyone know someone at Oracle that could get the ball rolling on CDDLv2?

https://lwn.net/Articles/894901/
The article has a great example of how competition is healthy even in the open source space, with the Btrfs authors wanting Bcachefs merged into Linux Mainline. A lot of people that got burned with Btrfs will use Bcachefs instead when it lands in mainline, but having both in the kernel will make it much easier to get kernel interface changes and tooling that benefits both Btrfs and Bcachefs.
No. There are people who don't even like the term Northern Ireland and instead use the north of Ireland to describe where they live.
> The vast majority of people in Northern Ireland want it to either be part of UK or of Ireland, and to the extent an independence movement exists it’s notable only for how incredibly un-popular it is

I wonder what the mainland thinks?

On that theme, I've ever pondered would happen if one were to hold a referendum in England, Wales and Northern Ireland about Scotland leaving the UK and becoming a sovereign state. Not least because of the Barnett formula[0], asking the Scots what they think of independence is surely only part of the puzzle.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnett_formula
Once again, i'm glad not to be using GMail.
A very common form of plagiarism on the Internet is people copying transcriptions of public-domain works without mentioning where they copied them from. You know it's happening because you see the same transcription errors repeated on dozens of web sites. (Of course there is no copyright violation here.)

A very common case of copying without attribution is in contracts and policies, which are nearly always adapted from existing documents. Probably this doesn't count as plagiarism because nobody expects these things to be original, authors are not named, and there is no tradition of citing sources. (However, in many cases it probably is copyright violation, even if nobody cares to complain about it.)
I suppose Eddie Izzard would have had to drastically change his routine if McDonalds had shown up in India first https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEx5G-GOS1k
If be interested to know what they thought was more important than adjustment layers to work on for a decade instead.

Just developer time alone invested doesn’t have inherent value if it doesn’t make the end product better.
The nostalgia is real, but, even brighter days ahead for you all!
That's nice, but the time frames for these tickets are starting to run into the decades...

It's a shame, but no wonder people move on.
The business of Britain is to look after the people of Britain.

Business is a useful assistant in achieving that goal, but the goal comes first.

Business needs to remember that it is servant, not master. The decisions of the British people in democratic elections come first.
`git add -u` for changes to existing files, and manually `git add` new files. `git diff --staged` to review what's staged. You can use `git gui` to do all this using a GUI.
This kind of stuff is going to be amazing for indie gamedevs. I want a model trained for "powerful narrator voice" and villain speeches.
> The dogma at the moment is that SSDs don't require de-fragmentation

They don't require a regular de-fragmentation, like HDDs, because if you are just occasionally read some files it would be fast enough AND with a physical layer hidden by remap it doesn't make sense at all, because the file what is logically present to you as a one continuous block could be really stored across multiple locations.[0]

> I know defragging the files (copy away, delete files and replace)

And this is one the real way to "defrag" on SSD backed media. Tossing around clusters like it is a HDD only wastes your TBW.[1]

> While there is no particular reason why the SSD would run slow once you try to read a file from the filesystem it does slow down and it can impact performance dramatically

THere is always a couple of factors what affect the performance.

Where is always a question what exactly you are reading: a bazillion of < 1KB files could be anywhere on the physical storage and while the time to access for a single file could be as fast as SSD can provide, the pattern of accessing thousands of files of small files not only fills the IO queue, but wastes tons of time on overhead, for every file you access there is not only "Hey SSD grab bytes at LBA 44444 to 5555", but also there are a before mentioned queue for IO operations, parsing MFT for the file location at LBA, reading and parsing DACL, allocating handles (and discarding them later) etc, etc. And if you run out of caches (most notably the DRAM cache on your SSD) then of course things starts to slow down to a crawl, especially if you not only reading those files, but do other things on the same drive at the same time.

Also while I mention MFT - some small files are stored in it entirely[2], so all the overhead is processed quickly (because in normal conditions most of the MFT is cached in memory anyway) but it should be small enough[3].

Also don't forget what if your file is 1KB the drive doesn't read 1KB from the storage. At best it reads 4KB (the default NTFS cluster size), but if your next file isn't in this block (or it is but by the time it comes to read it the cache of this block was already flushed) then you need to wait until the previous read completes. Yes, reads are fast, in theory, but again this is where IO queue, caches, NCQ starts do matter.

And last but not least: on Windows there is always a question if the antivirus software (be it built-in Defender or a 3rd-party one) is still sane or wastes your time rechecking all your already checked, static, non-executable files. Like a bazillion of jsons.

[0] and without TRIM support you can't even have even a very loose guarantee what you really cleared the block.

[1] back in the day I used this to defrag a very heavy fragmented HDDs, just Ghost it to another drive and then restore it back - all files are defraged and it takes way less time because source drive only reads, not read-write-repeat.

[2] https://superuser.com/questions/1185461/maximum-size-of-file...

[3] just checked a couple random files on my drive - cutoff is somewhere around ~700B.
There have been plenty of new OSes and computing paradigms over the years, a plethora of them. They weren't 'killed', they just never got any traction. The interesting question is why that is.

Unix at it's core tries to be as simple an interface to the hardware as possible, and as un-opinionated as possible. It's written in a language that is a thin layer of syntax over assembly. Files are arrays of bytes. Most devices just look like files. It imposes the absolute minimum of abstractions over how these things are implemented in hardware.

Alternate OS designs are generally far more opinionated. File systems are either relational or object databases. Networks and machines are abstracted away so you don't even know they're there. Lots of fancy virtualisation. The problems are many. First of all this imposes a cost in resources and performance on even the simplest applications. Second these things are best thought of not as operating systems, but as applications. They're providing services similar to those of Oracle, or Hadoop, or VMWare, etc but you don't get to choose which implementation you want, you get the particular combination of ones provided by the OS and either like it or lump it.

The minimalism of the base Unix layer is it's superpower. Whatever additional services you want on top is fine by Unix. That's why it makes a great underlying layer for the Mac, iOS and Android. Even if you do want to build an opinionated high level system, why not build that on top of Unix? We don't need a workmanlike unopinionated new base layer OS that provides efficient access to hardware resources, and nobody want's to write one. They want to write high level fancy abstraction-laden half-OS half-application monstrosities. STOP! You're not writing an OS, you're writing an application. Even if anyone does want to write a lean efficient base OS layer nobody cares, because we already have Unix.
You smoking Hunter Biden's crack?
There is a potential legal solution for ZFS, but it requires help from Oracle:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31420769

Apparently the incompatibility wasn't even intentional when Sun wrote CDDLv1.
Why would anyone want to help making the GIMP project better if this has been the attitude of the project?

Not entirely convinced the archaic base is even worth building off at this point.

I’d be more inspired in building the thing that would destroy GIMP and Photoshop than help make GIMP better.
I love this. I propose we henceforth judge all phones by the sporran test.
Based on the milestone view, isn't Gimp 3.2 like 5 years into the future?

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/milestones

Gimp 3.0 is still at 23%.
Maybe get a webcam and hook it up to a Raspberry Pi? Or look at security cameras rather than consumer IP cameras?
I make $230k now and I'm willing to halve that to get out of America.

Every time I've visited Europe I'm reminded of how money really doesn't buy happiness as cliche as thet sounds.
Marcan (of asahi linux fame) points out that this is FUD: https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1526800207215992833

Here is the full text he's trying to quote, probably cut short because of twitter limits:

Every app that requests access to restricted scope Google user's data and has the ability to access data from or through a third party server is required to go through a security assessment from Google empanelled security assessors.

As for me, I think that the legalese they're using is very confusing. Most apps have "the ability to access data" from a third party server - I think they mean Google's data, but then they should've qualified it.
Our chip id cards have been in service since 2002 though, and work fine so I don't think it was a mistake to choose this technology.

I'm not sure how FIDO2 would work for most uses which are not web based, and identification via biometrics is certainly not something I'm looking forward to.
Qualcomm Exploring Bootloader-Based Hibernation for Linux
The lack of less-than-5-inches android phones also disappointed me. My first and second android phones come with 4.7 and 5.0 inches display respectively. And then, when I have to upgrade to my current phone which is 6.4 inches, I feel like my hands are a little too small for it and I have to constantly use 2 hands to hold it so it won't drop.
Sometimes there is just no reductive theory for emergent phenomena. For example, in the case of ant routing we have a good understanding of the behavior of individual ants, and we can observe the intelligent behavior of the colony as a whole. One could ask for a concrete theory of how the micro scale behavior of each ant leads to the macro scale behavior of the colony, but it doesn't exist. If we had enough working memory to hold all the ants in our minds, we'd see that both micro and macro scale behaviors are different aspects of the same system, there's no "missing link" in the chain of explanations, and the dichotomy is only due to our own cognitive limitations.

There are a lot of problems that do not have analytical solutions, like the N-body problem. With these problems all you can do is numerical simulation, which is pretty much what modern machine learning is.
If the relative value of things tends to follow a power law (this seems to be true in many cases) then one would expect the best few things to be much more important than the rest. So even though many things contribute to the result, the most important things may still be very important.
Not really, because they only see differences they have caused themselves, so they know about it.
It is as soon as you forget about that-but, speaking of myself, it is not because I'm aware of the fact that I'm using it
Would a criminal organisations, some of whom have now gotten into constructing armed submarines, and the R&D that goes with that, really have a problem achieving the same?
Java has some scaffolding options
I am also a developer and I will say your CTO is right, it is easier to manage cloud hosting
I have used Azure, AWS, both are excellent.

Hetzner looks good to me never tried it but have heard it is good.
In case you want to look for VPS hosting, you can check, cheap VPS list created by me
https://qawithexperts.com/article/asp-net/best-and-cheap-win...
Thanks
In many cases colonialism involved making the colony dependent while extracting its resources or also as part of extracting its resources. Replacing food crops with cash crops and then importing food because it can be produced cheaper elsewhere, for example. Arguably this is even more so the case in post-colonial Africa given that regional development programmes and IMF loans usually emphasize exports (for supposedly high ROI) rather than self-sustainability.
What about any USB device plugged in that may seem so innocent. Keyboard, 7in1 reader, mouse, usb cable, and even power supplies these days like USB-C. Is there some reliable way to see exactly what the connected the operating system is granting to the underlying hardware?

How can I be sure, for example, a 7in1 plugged in via usb-c does not have a hidden camera, microphone, or keylogger for example? Is there some sane way to check?
This is cool, wasn't aware of it.
But almost no-one is earning $250k/year in Europe. Not even the Prime Minister.

That's the issue, it's more like earning $60k in EU vs. $160k in the US for most Tech workers. And the latter is much, much better.
If this is the bar, disassembling the binary should work too for Photoshop or any other software.
Sorry I meant the Ulster Banner. Should have checked the name referenced. I mentally just know this as 'The Northern Ireland Flag'.
Simula is Linux, I want to keep using my Mac though. Otherwise I would’ve considered it.
It is also possible to trust anyone who has verified the build is reproducible:

https://reproducible-builds.org/
Ask HN: Should I quit my job to sell my stock options?
I am an early employee of a company that IPO'd in the last few years. As such, I am sitting on a (for me) life-changing amount of stock options - mostly already vested. Since IPO I have stayed with the company while many other early employees have left, because I love my job and love what the company do.

However, as an early employee with deep technical knowledge of our tech I find myself frequently brought in to advise on big deals or acquisitions. I am therefore often informed by legal that I am party to material non-public information about these deals and forbidden from trading company stock. This has happened now in three of the last four trading windows, and I have just been informed that it's happening again.

So, do I need to quit in order to be able to realise the value of my stock options? It seems bizarre to me that I should be driven away from a job that I love by something that was meant to be an incentive to stay.
Blender already is but unlike GIMP and Libreoffice they have people with actual vision on the team. Not just people cloning 2 decade old software badly and complaining when users request features.

Every single junior who asks me what 3D software to learn I say Blender, I would have used to say C4D but Blender has improved so much. Never in a million years would I suggest GIMP or Libreoffice.
The article specifies that the instance classes are `m6g`, in the variants `large` all the way up to `16xlarge`. According to the AWS documentation (here¹ and here²), they are Graviton2.

AWS is opaque about the underlying hardware underlying an RDS instance; there may be no way to find out exactly which are the CPU models (although I'm not 100% sure). The writer may have cleared the waters upfront about this, but this is a limit of AWS.

¹: https://docs.amazonaws.cn/en_us/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/C...

²: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/m6g
You should always know how much you're "worth" in the market at the moment - that is, given at most a couple months of job search, what is the maximum offer you're likely to get. [1] So, just ask the company for that amount - or a little more if you think the job might suck, a little less if you think it may be cool etc.

[1] In order to have this info, you should either interview semi-regularly or at least have a network of colleagues in similar roles who are sharing market info with you.
The URL should probably be changed to the linked post: <http://www.pmail.com/newsflash.htm>

The tweet adds nothing to the post.

EDIT: Seems like OP already posted that link as well? <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31420433> IMHO that's spam.
This is a profound insight. What do you do if you know someone is distancing themselves from you out of envy? (And what do you do if you're the one with the envy?)

Is the answer generally just "it is what it is?" That's so dark.
This happened to me. For my Ophthalmology paper, I reviewed all Multiple Choice Questions given at the end of a popular Ophthalmology text book. All multiple choice questions in the test were lifted verbatim from this section of the text book. I got a very good score on the test.
Not _that_ related, but why does everyone use monospace in these types of programs? I get that it looks nice, but you can re-produce the general look in a proportional font that's infinitely easier on the eyes.
Blockchain, consent and prosent for medical research
Wait, so I can use the Simula on a Mac? Hmm…

I agree that waiting is the only option. It seems we’re not quite there yet as far as travel is concerned.
I would like to know more on this, from where to take remote jobs.
MY rate is 20$/hr (full stack .net developer)
When necessary, I happily plagiarize answers from Stackoverflow the whole day long.
However, I shy away from recursive structures.
They may be meta and cool but not always efficient.

I was once approached by a young job recruiter.
Since I am a fan of literary and linguistic issues and he had a master's degree in German studies, I googled for his master's thesis.
Interesting topic, which I will leave unnamed here because....
Because I found an Austrian bachelor's thesis posted online ten years before this master's thesis, by a different person but with the same topic.
And in my opinion with a quite similar structure and analog passages.
Since my interest was piqued, I researched further and found the doctoral thesis of the professor who had supervised the master's thesis.
Another twenty years older.
It was based on the same book as the master's thesis and the baccalaureate thesis with a broadly related topic, though of course much more in-depth and expanded.
Unfortunately, the book was not 'Felix Krull'.

All three writings, however, were, in my opinion, excellent in terms of craftsmanship.

As Nietzsche taught us, nothing is true everything is permitted.
As for me, I switched to the Mac. It's got grep, pipes, SED scripts, all there when I need them.
Borges absolutely would not stop doing this [2]. His reasoning was that writing whole books was a lot of work, whereas writing book reviews was much easier, and let you get much the same ideas across [1]:

It is a laborious madness and an impoverishing one, the madness of composing vast books—setting out in five hundred pages an idea that can be perfectly related orally in five minutes. The better way to go about it is to pretend that these books already exist, and offer a summary, a commentary on them. That was Carlyle’s procedure in Sartor Resartus, Butler’s in The Fair Haven—though those works suffer under the imperfection that they themselves are books, and not a whit less tautological than the others. A more reasonable, more inept, and more lazy man, I have chosen to write notes on imaginary books.

[1] https://nevalalee.wordpress.com/2017/06/21/the-borges-test/

[2] http://www.anoteonarainynight.com/borgesbooks
Paraphrasing can for sure be a very common form of plagiarism[0][1]

[0] https://www.scribbr.com/frequently-asked-questions/is-paraph...

[1] https://law-richmond.libguides.com/c.php?g=998384&p=7227189
It was a blast from the past! I really enjoy looking at sites from that era - I'm thinking of setting up a proxy through the Internet Archive (several tutorials online) to use with my lampshade iMac running Snow Leopard.

UI, UX, websites, software -- it was a good time and we've lost a lot.
> considering the backdrop of say the US in 2022

Historically the US had some both pro-violence and anti-violence involvement in the Troubles. PIRA were openly fundraising with US politicians in Boston; the republican side was armed by the ubiquitous Armalite (and a large quantity of Semtex from Libya). US involvement was also critical in brokering the ceasefire.

The present-day US has an odd combination of a lot of pro-violence rhetoric and a lot of weapons, but almost no organized violence, just a steady supply of stochastic terrorists shooting up grocery stores from time to time without a strategy.

> transition to peace

In many ways the Unionist side has coped worse with the transition to peace. Some groups haven't got past 1688. Can't "Ulster says no" to everything forever. The UK has never examined its own role in the violence and refuses to hold its murderers to account.
>they actually have political power for the first time from the election the other week in a way they never had before

Worth pointing out the largest nationalist party and the largest unionist party are supposed to share power equally in the sectarian state and the only change here is symbolic. The unionist parties have insisted on the First Minister-Deputy First Minister distinction for years although it has now came back to bite them.
Yeah, my first impression of the samples is "wow, they've found a human narrator who knows how to speak like a robot!"
While it doesn’t help now, it does show we’re not quite there yet. I can / have to accept that.
Show HN: Photobox by Pixlr
There's been no observed plateu with scaling. As far as we can tell further scaling will keep improving results.
PS: AUtocorrect seems to have changed all my 'ncurses' instances to 'nurses', doh
Worldwide they have a 80% market share, apparently.
I'm staying away from Kindles because of their spying and their lack of EPUB support.