skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Whats the difference between Audiobook and realtime text to audio translation, isn't the outcome/experience the same?

The "outcome" (text is read aloud) is the same if you read it aloud to yourself. Really the difference is that when a publisher releases an audiobook they hire someone (sometimes multiple someones) often an actor or the original author to sit in a recording studio and recite. They pay for things like studio time, sound engineering, editing, the narrators time, sometimes music or foley, etc. It's very much a different product.

If you have a book and you recite it, or if you pay someone to come into your home and read it to you, or you get a bunch of software and have your computer read it for you, that's your right and at your own expense in terms of time, money, and effort. Some kind of text to speech software is expected on pretty much every device. Including such features in devices or using those features (especially the accessibility features) of your own devices isn't copyright infringement, shouldn't open you up to demands for payments from publishers, and is in no way comparable to a professionally produced audiobook. Maybe one day the tech will advance to where a program can gather the context needed to speak with and convey the correct emotion for each line and will be capable of delivering a solid performance, but right now we're lucky if more than 2/3 of the words are even pronounced correctly and the inflection isn't bizarre enough to make you question what was being said or distract you from the material.
Scanning through it, I didn't notice anything about projections such as isometric projection and how it relates to 2d / 3d.

I would have expected, perhaps incorrectly, that there may be a short mention of it and how it relates. There are some additional things that are relevant such as tile sorting.

So it's a little off topic, but are there any good resources on isometric projection and how 2d/3d relate to it that people would recommend?
I'm sorry, am I the only one shocked when reading "300 MB of RAM" for a software which just plays music? mplayer uses a 6th of that to play videos.
Besides pre announcing your sale, if you are relatively comfortable with the company's future trajectory, you can also consider getting a margin loan backed by the shares rather than selling them.

However overall, having substantially all of your net worth and also your paycheck dependent on the performance of your employer is pretty risky and you are likely better off diversifying.
What is the value of being a smug jerk, especially if you plan to be wrong?

If your prior belief points strongly in one direction, it is completely rational to require strong weight of evidence in order to update it to point to the other direction.

And yes, it's a completely reasonable prior belief for a person who is not already versed in medical imaging literature.

I often find that people who study this literature have bad attitudes like yours. You should be grateful that there are people out there who value intellectual honesty enough to acknowledge when a result is a result and to change their beliefs. Instead I get two different people showing up to insult me.
Unix was a relatively simple (but not minimal) base layer around a 1970s minicomputer architecture, one with no networking, no graphics support, and dramatically constrained storage, with users on text-only terminals.

It is a very poor fit to a single-user personal workstation.

If you think that all other OSes are more complex, then I suggest that you investigate the fairly rich space of other OSes designed for single-user workstations.

Notably, I urge you to study the 1980s and then 1990s successors to Unix from Unix' own creators:

Plan 9, for networked graphical machines.

Then Inferno, for whole heterogenous networks of machines with dissimilar CPU architectures.

In parallel non-Unix spaces:

If you have a Raspberry Pi, try RISC OS. It's a single-user, fully-graphical, internet-capable multitasking OS whose core fits into about 6MB. I ran it in the 1980s on an ARM workstation in 1MB of RAM.

Also Niklaus Wirth's Oberon Project, which is an entire multitasking single-user OS with a tiling-window interface in a type-safe language, which is about the size of a very basic Linux console text editor such as nano.

And its successor A2, which is a little bigger (but still smaller than, say, Vim) which has a full GUI, is SMP aware and can just about access the WWW.

For networked use, perhaps read up on Novell Netware. Arguably the peak was Netware 3.11 but Netware 4 is also instructive. In its day it had a performance advantage over the best-tuned competition of around 4 digits in percentage, i.e. it was around 10x-30x faster than any rival UNIX of its time at what it did.

For the space of supporting dissimilar CPUs in a single binary, look into Taos and its successors Elate and Intent.

There are a lot of OSes out there that make even 1980s UNIX look bloated and over-complicated.
Nice! This might get me to finally switch to Firefox on Windows, after using in on my Mac for a while :)
Unfortunately the default browser colours for the web are always black text on white background and do not respect the user's desktop theme, be it dark or something else.
Apache Kafka 3.2.0 is released
I don't see the value in insulting people about this. I wrote a longer response here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31421346 but it applies equally well to your post.
I'm being pedantic here, but the trademark symbol is actually a part of the path, not the domain name.
they should make a documentary about it, and stretch out 60 minutes of content into 10 episodes.
Which is their own fault. They have more than a million dollars in bitcoin donations that haven't been touched in years (Its around 620k now since bitcoin is crashing). That could have easily funded 3 full-time developers for a decade to come.
Dark Reader is a good option to override website colours:

https://darkreader.org/
I have the Fujitsu Quaderno A4 (13,3" screen). Great for reading scientific publications it whatever pdf. Also had a great Wacom stylus to take notes. I am great fan of these devices. Before the Quaderno I had the Sony DPT-RP1, which is very similar except the stylus is not so great.
I disagree. If you have a screen that is capable of showing high enough contrast that you can have true highlights and true blacks, then why should you make image quality worse just because someone else is unable to reproduce that?

I guess the real problem is that there's no real standard for what #fff means – it has to be interpreted through a colour space, which in turn does not talk about brightness, I think.
>it is equally important that things aren't too bright

That's why your display has a brightness control.

At least as long as we're stuck with implicit sRGB, until the web gets proper HDR support, don't murder the contrast of text. You never know the actual viewing conditions (probably less ideal than a well-lit office), and it's foolish to limit it at the source.
Oh, sorry, I thought the comment was about how the transition was handled poorly. I’m well aware of the slow-motion train crash that is the Heroku incident!
This is the problem with mobile stuff. It's always "one size fits all" and "fuck you if it doesn't work for you, too bad." I'm so tired of it I've just given up on normal smartphones. There's really nothing they add to your life when you look closely. I have a flip phone running "kai OS" now (which is actually pretty neat but I don't bother with a data plan) and a Linux PDA. I don't miss owning a smartphone at all, they're terrible.
Thanks a lot for the appreciation!

Some exceptions apply, as you point out.

One thing is that I cannot escape major events, no matter what I do (I live in a capital). And I see it very positively.

For such events, and other exceptions, live coverage or daily news apply.
Same. Please Apple!
He says... while writing white on purple...
I spent two years launching tiny projects
What if the website does not provide a toggle to control to control this? I wish there was a browser preference to control prefers-color-scheme (which it sounds like new FF does!).

I don't really care that I'm probably in the minority of users who think or care about this. It doesn't make how I feel any less valid.
FWIW, this is my rant.

I cancelled Spotify last month. I've been a subscriber since 2006.

The app has become increasingly buggy, especially on my newish iPad. Frequently would refuse to play for minutes at a time.

But more critically, Spotify has become focused on "generating background noise as profitably as possible". I originally liked Spotify as a way of finding interesting albums I haven't listened to before, but now it's all podcasts and easy-listening covers. It's constantly trying to play albums in random order, and even more egregiously, related tracks when the current album finishes.

My relationship with music is now more suited to listening to a couple of tracks on any platform, and then buying it from Bandcamp.
I found this reflective LCD monitor pretty interesting and that it might solve the brightness issues people have with existing displays.

https://www.sunvisiondisplay.com/reflective-lcd-monitor
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31203809
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehqj0W3koP0
https://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2022/05/0...

That is incorrect, Sinn Fein are the most popular party with the younger demographic and Alliance are popular among middle aged people. The antediluvian politics of the DUP is more popular among the 18-34 cohort than Alliance.
Oh, well that doesn't sound shady at all...

I definitely feel like this is one of those situations where "if you have nothing to fear you have nothing to hide" actually applies.

I couldn't get a mortgage without a thorough check that income was indeed real income, the idea that billions in assets could be "attested" and not actually audited is incredibly shady.
> Honestly has anyone ever been swayed by a political ad?

You may wish to 'enbiggen' your circle of friends and start associating with people on the left-hand side of the bell curve. For example, folks who take horse deworming medication for COVID:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivermectin_during_the_COVID-19...

Further, modern propaganda does not try to convince ('The Russian "Firehose of Falsehood" Propaganda Model'):

* https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html
Great, thanks for that. Lots of reading to queue up :)
> I eat apps when I’m hungry

Kek, as a former cook I should have structured those 2 metaphors differently, but yeah... ok yeah you got me on the play on words. Well played.
If anyone digs in and profiles Bike 1.0 you'll unfortunately find that it is wasting some CPU with a timer. This will be fixed soon and is not related to underlying architecture or animations. It's me coalescing events from user defaults with a Combine API that I didn't fully understand.
I believe many comments here will criticize Google. But objectively, Google is at its best here:

- in terms of privacy, applications that have access to your Gmail inbox now require a security audit.

- the audit is not required for MVP (<100 users) or applications internal to a Google Workspace org.

Of course, you have to pay for the audit. But:

- it’s only required when you ask for restricted user data (i.e. reading my emails).

- Google doesn’t take 30% of your revenue to use its API - which is free by the way.

To me, Google has created the perfect world for developers here. And that says a lot when I read the developer of Pegasus Mail doesn’t want to record a 2min long YouTube screencast to get approved.

Also, just wanted to kudos the Google OAuth team that has greatly improved their process in the past years. If you follow the guidelines, you can get approved within a day now.
Please never commit IDE config. It doesn't belong in repositories. It is not a source file of your project.
>but it is equally important that things aren't too bright.

That's controllable at the screen end.

Even if people use off-white background on webpages, you'd still get white screen real estate in UIs and other places (default Word and Excel background, for one. textarea boxes for another).
"Best" is totally subjective.

I use HxD under Windows. It is extremely capable and one of the few I've found that can edit alternate data streams on NTFS.
Don't do this. It's a quick way to corrupt your repository.
>Sorry if I come across blunt but if you're going to be critical about an article then at least read more than the sub-heading first.

In general, nothing useful ever came after an "I've stopped reading at" disclaimer.
Right super sad, it was the best native client I have ever seen, and they trashed it so they could make the interface more dopaminergic.
Frick Medium.

https://archive.ph/OFOdi
I posted this because I think that I like this law ..large corporations shouldn't be in the business of deciding what speech is acceptable...
> they have become too reliant on what casual users want

Isn't that the fate of all software as it grows big? Optimize for the casual users, leave the power users in the dirt. Companies keep forgetting that casual users eventually become power users on the most expensive plan, if you give them the freedom to do so.
Unless you are running with an OLED, reproducing #fff is really hard anyways. Just like unless you have e-ink, active lit #000 is going to basically be a light bulb.
A bit late, but added, I always forget that bit.
Not ToC but that’s where you will find all the details of the security assessment: https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/9110914?hl=en
I vote independent often and had considered voting democrat a few times. The last few years have made me hope that party goes the way of the Whigs.
>> partly due to janky JS and bloat

Are there any effective browser extensions to intelligently prevent things like a "Subscribe to our newsletter" popover?

I'm trying to think how i could tell uBlock origin to intercept any element with a high z-index which has it's ".display" attribute changed only in response to a timer or a scroll event.

In firefox i have the "I don't care about cookies" plugin and i genuinely forget that noise exists on the web until i use another browser and it all comes flooding back. I'm hoping there's something similar for this endemic cruft the web has been filled with.

Reader mode can be useful. NoScript can be useful but can also be painful.
Are you implying this is a bug?
There’s a whole generation of tech employees that have never seen a down market. All indications are that these folks are woefully unaware of what’s on the horizon now.

It’s going to be all about cash flow. If you’re burning cash and not making much of it from operations then it’s going to be a bumpy road ahead. Buckle up.
Annual report of the Librarian of Congress (1866–2007)
A fascinating compliation for those who find this sort of thing fascinating.

Beginning in 1866, the Librarian of Congress was charged with submitting an annual report to Congress. These provide a record into the evolution, growth, and operations of the largest print archive the world has ever known.

Details include the physical characteristics of the library itself, finance, staffing, donations, literary events, Copyright Office operations, and the status and change in holdings of the Library itself over time. There are also frequently profiles of various individuals associated with books, publishing, and libraries, e.g., the profile of of Richard Rodgers Bowker in the 1926 report: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015019393555&vi...

At least by the 1950s (and possibly earlier), acquisitions are detailed by Library of Congress Classification, giving at least some insight into what growth in published knowledge was occurring at the time.

More recent reports are available at the LoC itself:

https://www.loc.gov/about/reports-and-budgets/annual-reports...

My recommendation would be to dip-and-sample, or go to specific years and/or Librarians of interest.

Hathi's interface isn't the best, but it's serviceable. For full downloads, visit Google Books, otherwise Hathi offers only the currenlty visible page, which is ... only one of many highly annoying aspects of Hathi.

(I've not yet checked to see if LibGen / ZLibrary has this. Archive Org seems to have individual volumes, though not the entire set as a structured collection: https://archive.org/search.php?query=Annual+report+of+the+Li...)
I’ve had an issue a few times with Apple Music playing high pitched screeching sounds where I’ve had to throw my headphones off. Seems to be when there’s a loss of connectivity. I know these things slip through the cracks sometimes, but I feel like anything that impacts health should be tested thoroughly.
Location-based app development: a complete 2022 glossary for CEOs
brilliant! Thank you!
But this device has the exact same problem you're describing, is less efficient, costs more and requires power. Novelty is the only upside
On the contrary, I find that the "vitriol" was a good balance to the "rage quitting" disclaimer raising the rage level for no reason. It's an article about text legibility. We should be able to take it or leave it or refute it without rage.

(Whether they rage quit or "merely said they almost did" is same difference).
The root cause could possibly be that not all displays are capable of proper contrast in dark mode at a comfortable brightness for also displaying expanses of white.

You would wear out the brightness controls in no time unless you go out of your way to mandate dark mode on everything.

Another factor might be the dark adaptation of the iris, which could be helped by desk lights.
> Please Stop Using Grey Text

Open the website and the first thing I see is dark background and grey-light text. Close the website. The website doesn't stand for the claims.
impressive gains for such a mature project.
The author goes out of the way to mention multiple times, the first at the top of the post, that Medium offers very little control in this regard. I think the post is intended as a criticism of the very platform it's hosted on, among others.

Edit: typo
Are they just re-inventing the passive LCD that we used to have as a budget option for laptops in the 90s?
Glad to see attention brought to this issue. I recently started using these:

ASUS Hyper M.2 X16 PCIe 4.0 X4 Expansion Card Supports 4 NVMe M.2 (2242/2260/2280/22110) up to 256Gbps for AMD 3rd Ryzen sTRX40, AM4 Socket and Intel VROC NVMe Raid https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084HMHGSP/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_ZY...

If you have a spare x16 slot I highly recommend. I’ve torture tested the latest and greatest hot screaming NVMe drives with it and between the massive heat sink and fan I’ve never seen NVMe temps rise above 40c.

Supporting more than one NVMe is tricky, though. You need to make sure your motherboard supports PCIe bifurcation. Common in server motherboards and some recent high end consumer motherboards but virtually unsupported with everything else. That said if you’re experiencing NVMe throttling due to temperature it’s worthwhile for even one drive.
I used GIMP last month and I don't the UI. i hope they improve it
> I would think if you were running that you would prefer a smaller screen

On of the reasons I'd like a smaller device, though there is the already stated compromises around smaller battery too, and it being a general use device. If I had a small device with excellent battery life I could carry that normally and tether a larger device, in my backpack when not in such use, for mapping and other when needed (I'm not talking nipping out for 10K here, sometimes this is full- or multi-day walking-or-faster events).

> having to stick a gigantic slab in my pocket … reminds me that I've got a brick flopping around in my shorts.

While the perfect phone doesn't exist, I have found the holy grail of shorts: big enough pockets that the slab fits, but tight enough and small enough that it doesn't jiggle noticeably, but not tight to me such that is exacerbates sweat in that patch. Also, the phone for nav on long routes is tertiary, I have breadcrumb trail on my wrist and a printed map (on rip- & water-resistant paper), so if I'm going far enough to require a bag for water/foot/1st-aid/other then there is room for the slab in there too and it isn't too out of reach.
Yeah my thoughts exactly. Page was kind of tricky to read in bright light.
As a native Japanese and sort-of English speaker, I need to pause flush audio pipeline to switch between languages. Konnichiwa spoken in the middle of an English sentence and こんにちは in native Japanese, are separate expressions and have to be pronounced differently. From my experience there likely isn't a single unified language model inside a human head, and if so it's not a surprise to me that one cannot be effortlessly made for computers.
10% is just a random number I came up with and isn’t supposed to be taken as some sort of estimate.
ink isn’t pure black either
The author should visit Finland. They're spending more than enough to have one of the most formidable armies in the world and the most prepared population, only Izrael is a competitor. Calling them a freerider screams "armchair economist".
It'd be nice if we could input our own text because otherwise these things are subject to a lot of training corpus and other biases.

Sounds really good though.
It's also really hard to read a dark screen outdoors
This happened to me using the official client. All was well after password change.

Turns out, spotify gets their data breached regularly and I'm assuming that's the case here.
Editorialised (and mangled) title: "Why and is it telegram hard to be partially blocked?"

Original: Hong Kong Considers Blocking Telegram, Local Paper Says

Please see HN guidelines on submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Most browsers provide the ability to customize colors.
Is this an actual evaluation of Topicbox, or just an uncharitable dunk?
It would also come into play of you add code that generates files which should be ignored, but you don't realize the gitignore has to be updated because it's ignored in your own global gitignore.
Finland is no freerider, so this article stinks of lack of research into the militaries that it seeks to discuss. I assume it is pushing a particular political position and is therefore seeking to preach to the converted who won't look any further than the headline
How to feel engaged at work: a software engineer's guide
Obviously, these are tradeoffs decided by the capitalistic (pseudo)majority. It’s not sexism. (And I have hands smaller than your average woman.)
My way of discovering new music using the magic of AI is to ask Alexa to play something and see what weird song it returns after it either mis-hears me or decides to play a bizarre cover.
I use a color-calibrated screen and #000000 to #ffffff is a painful amount of contrast.

Just because your screen is configured badly doesn’t mean we should make content unreadable for users with correctly calibrated screens.
The author clearly hasn't heard of the Utin Jääkärirykmentti and doesn't realise that Finland have some of the best special forces in the world.
Here you go... because Googling is hard.

> The signatories confirm that gold remains an important element of global monetary reserves, as it continues to provide asset diversification benefits and none of them currently has plans to sell significant amounts of gold.

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2019/html/ecb.pr1907...
They have quite a few manufacturers, but I would immediately buy a soviet era lada. Most modern cars are crap today because you cannot repair them yourself and everything is locked behind shitty software. Given, they just go with the times where many people cannot even change a tire anyway.

As far as I know they also have a joint venture with GM and Ford. I believe they also manufacture Unimogs in Russia, which are also pretty great.