skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does a YouTube video TTS voice work better than the software they use daily?

In hearing it in action I gotta imagine a YouTube video version is a hellishly slow way to get information for someone used to interacting with a computer via accessibility software, even if you were playing the video at full speed.

Not speaking for anyone of course, just a hunch.
> the C++ lookup took 1 nanosecond[0] and the C# version took 1ms (1000x slower)

The ratio between 1 ns and 1 ms is a million.
> Out-of-the-box support for many popular runtimes, including Node.js, Python, Go and PHP.

Are Java and .NET Core really less popular choices for Lambda/Cloud Functions than Go and PHP (or orders of magnitude harder to implement/support)?
Logitech Unifying Receiver is basically rebranded, slightly-tweaked bluetooth from what I can tell. I've had a lot of them running in the same room together and not had a problem.

I have a ridiculously priced Topre Realforce, but when friends and family ask for a recommendation or I'm helping them setup a machine I would definitely recommend something like this if they're up for spending a little more. Historically I've been recommending the Logitech K840 in those scenarios. This looks like a wireless upgrade to that.
It's likely less expensive on the government angle that you might think. Take a thought experiment where from your $100 donation, $90 goes to wages of highly-paid fund-raising or executive staff and only $10 goes to charitable "actual work". Suppose that your combined marginal tax rate is 40%.

If you instead kept that $100 to spend on yourself, you would give the government $40 and you could spend $60.

In the case you give it to charity, the development/executive staff pays income taxes on that $90, so if their marginal rate is the same as yours (assuming they're highly paid), they pay $36 in taxes, have $54 to spend, and $10 goes to programming. If it goes to staff paid under $147K, they pay their (lower) marginal rate on it, but the full 15.3% amount for Social Security and Medicare is paid on those funds.

It seems like the government is only out ~$4 ($40 less from you; $36 more from someone else), with ~$10 available for programs.

(The largest loss is that you lost $60 of spending power in exchange for only $10 in programming while development staff got an extra $54 of spending power. You lose way more than the government loses.)
Running cabling on irrigation pivots or other existing infrastructure might be an option. Wouldn’t work for flooded fields, of course.
I certainly appreciate the pedagogical purpose; what you did there goes beyond any pure TeX programming I’ve ever tried to do.

My suggestion was to use Pandoc to create a LaTeX document. You can easily tell it to use RevTeX or any style required by a journal. The only friction with my approach is when you need to work with coauthors or editors on revisions.

EDIT: I think I caused some confusion due to my sloppiness. I should have written “constrained to only writing in LaTeX”.
One thing I find particularly fascinating is that all the elements of the resulting image have a relatively cohesive art style.
So let me get this straight, you're against filter bubbles but are fine with filters for everyone?
I... dont think I like this positioning itself as a replacement for a traditional, consumer bank account. It's mentioned that your money is _not_ FDIC Insured, and is not subject to FDIC/SPIC protections [1][2]. Looking at /marketing it being an alternative investment avenue is one thing, but imo positioning as a consumer bank replacement that has no standard bank protections, and hardly mentions the fact that your money is being converted into crypto/investments on it's homepage [3] is sketchy at best.

1. https://www.pebble.us/service/terms CTRL+F `FDIC`

2. https://www.pebble.us/learn-articles/looking-at-fdic-insuran...

3. https://www.pebble.us/ The _only_ mention of the fact that this is investing money is a brief point towards the bottom of the page, saying "Supercharge your paycheck with full or fractional direct deposits, and reach your financial goals faster." Which still only hints (in the perspective of an average consumer) that their money is being invested and backed in crypto.
Yep. To go further, bitcoin hasn't been the darknet currency for a good 5 years now, these days everyone is using monero.

The North Korea is thing is just rumor-mongering, or governments pointing fingers at each other as they always do. The only eastern country I've heard publicly admit to using bitcoin is Ukraine: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/11/technology/bitcoin-ukrain...
been pairing DynamoDB with rockset to solve this
If found “TeX by Topic” a great introduction, it's less overwhelming than the TeX book. Also really helpful in wrapping your head around macro expansion is the `texdef` cli tool, which allows you to quickly evaluate a line of macro code. Finally, https://www.tug.org/utilities/plain/cseq.html is nice for reference.
The human factor is definitely big here. You want to plant as much as possible with as few humans doing it as possible. So, big tractors == faster work.

Some of this has risen because farming has (over my lifetime) shifted from small time individual operators towards giant corporate farmers. Except for high value crops, it's hard to compete with the economies of scale of a mega farmers. They in turn use their profits to get bigger and better machines than the individual farmer can afford which further allows them to outfarm the individual.

Simple example, irrigation.

Small time farmers would have hand lines that need to be moved every day manually. Those typically cost about 1 to 2 human hours per line to move daily (sometimes longer).

Mid size farmers "splug" on "wheel lines" which have motors to move the lines (at around 10k for the motor and another 1k or so for the rest of the line). Those cost about 10 to 20 minutes per line daily to move.

Large operators pretty much universally use "pivots" which cost about $1 million+ to install but are completely automated with very low maintenance. Those often don't have a daily cost (more like 20 minutes of month at most for maintenance. Some years, the maintenance amounts to turning it on and off. And even that, is increasingly being able to be handled remotely).
Assume there will be IFF for drones. With crypto key rotation to keep it reliable.
FWIW this is exactly what happened to me and I support the title change.

As a long time DDG user, my stomach turned when I saw this. Following the link to Twitter, it required a lot of digging to find what was really happening.

For those of us using DDG search - this is a big nothing burger. For folks using DDG browser, this is misleading at best. The difference between the title and reality, from my understanding, isn’t nuance.

My reading of this title (and Twitter) made me believe DDG was sharing user data with MSFT across all of their properties (including search) by serving users MSFT trackers with DDGs content.
Thanks for this! I checked it out and it works surprisingly well for me.
Please correct me with links to corroborating evidence of I'm wrong.

AIUI the proposal is to check file hashes of content against a blacklist of known CSAM?

The linked website is calling this "total surveillance" and saying the EU are lying and exaggerating.

It's total surveillance in the way that looking at the postcode on all envelopes is total surveillance whereby of you send something to a postcode of a known terrorist then it's going to be noticed and may be investigated.

On the OP's serving point, a minor email provider not getting a lot of notifications on alerted child abuse investigations compared to the total numbers of children being abused is because there's not enough resources to investigate more cases. Reducing the resources needed per case by catching low-hanging fruit easily with automated and non-intrusive methods is positively indicated by the OP's evidence here.
Please no. Stop replacing useful tools with "opinionated" ones. Nothing makes me nope out of using a tool faster than hearing it described as "opinionated".
That's quite close to saying that applied maths is not maths, which many people would disagree with. If you have definitions, theorems, proofs, I'd say that's maths, and you definitely have that in a sufficiently rigorous statistics course.

Of course, then there's the fact that statistics builds upon probability theory, and probability theory is, in a sense, a subfield of measure theory which in turn is about as mathematical as it gets (in the discrete setting, it also includes a fair amount of combinatorics).
Gold is ductile and a good conductor. Outside of it's shiny / jewelry uses it's actually a useful metal. Crypto only consumes energy as a product of it's existence.
I'm more surprised the Xbox somehow did this without showing the Xbox loading logo, is this like some normal feature of game consoles I was unaware of? I guess I would call it moreso a silent reboot.
Michel Foucault
Master/PhD theses and papers in the sciences, particularly if formulas are involved.
Blind people use text to speech. And it will probably be much better than some half ass scrape from a kid's script.
This keyboard works with either Bluetooth or the dongle; expand the "System Requirements" section.
Oh and as a Clojure developer it's annoying that I have to start caring about types again

I'm surprised that's not bought up more in hacker news conversations

Postgres is very picky type wise when you construct comparisons, which can often involve casting when dealing with the edges of a JSON blob and bleed through sub queries which can mean indirect type errors
> This is not about search.

Yes, it is. Your competitors in the privacy-centric browser space don’t have this restriction because they’re not search engines acquiring the majority of their data from an entity with a conflicting interest.

I’m inclined to blame Microsoft here; this is a nasty move on their part. However, your stance is problematic. This is a problem, and it’s a serious one. It undermines trust in a product that claims to be the bastion of privacy. And statements like this…

> Overall our app is multi-pronged privacy protection in one package (private search, web protection, HTTPS upgrading, email protection, app tracking protection for Android, and more to come), being careful (and putting in a lot of effort) to not break things while still offering protections -- an "easy button" for privacy.

…don’t help the matter. To me, that just sounds like marketing mumbo jumbo. Ultimately, if a privacy-centric browser is contractually obligated to load tracking scripts and is required to avoid disclosing that fact, I want absolutely nothing to do with either party.
I have high hopes for Daggerfall once they finish fixing the main bugs and it goes into beta.
I enjoy late night kebab from some radom shady place after the night out. It's not a great food. But there is a reason that there is many such low-effort places and low-effort/low-cost is the main one - they just need to be good enough to scratch that itch. Same with those poorly made yt videos

The problem starts when restaurant recommendations websits starts to be filled with them based only on the number of people eating there per day. This is whats happening with youtube recommendations
I can see where a foggy night would be ideal for drone-on-drone mayhem.
Two Bird Email Client
The 3S is supposed to have more quiet clicks, which I consider another improvement.
FWIW I tried "rt" and "russia today" and rt.com was the first hit for both.
Some people put them in their lap and use a hard mouse-mat, some like the aesthetics.

Some people carry external keyboard and mouse with their laptop for when they dock.

There are a multitude of reasons, but for something fixed to a desktop I don't find many upsides personally.
The folks at ZeroHedge would disagree
This is one of the advantages of languages with optimizing compilers. In Python, there's a tradeoff between clarity and performance. But in C++ for example, your for-loop is just as fast as any library's for-loop.

Edit: My assumption is that many Python libraries are written in C for performance, but maybe that's not the case.
In my opinion it's an aesthetic thing, to not have any wires snaking round back of the desk to the computer.
I would disagree. You can play the violin firstly because the violin was designed so that it could produce beautiful sounds under _human_hands_. This way, not another.
The point of the article is that from the fact current heavy tractors are ruining soils we should wonder how Sauropods managed to survive despite being worse for the soil.
People with ASW don't want to use them against Starlink, they want to use them against spy satellites. Starlink would just be collateral damage.

If anyone in NATO considers blowing up satellites to be one step below killing hundreds of millions of people, I want that person fired. Because they have completely lost touch with reality, and should not be allowed anywhere near a weapon, or a job where they manage people with weapons.
Ha! This is exactly the state of my yard in nearby Mountain View. I did a huge amount of digging with a pickaxe to break the clay, and succeeded at making sinkholes with bushes in the center.
Toxic has become an autological word; that is to say, the figurative use of 'toxic' is toxic.
I'm not very well versed in how selling debt works, but the way I assume it works is the following: Say someone still owes me $1M over the next 10 years, but I think that there's now only a 50% chance of the debt being repaid. It would make sense for me to try and sell that debt for at least $500k to get a guaranteed immediate return, right? And then that person could say that they hold $1M dollars, even though it's only worth half that much if they priced the risk into it. I may be misunderstanding things though.
finding common complaints and bitching about them together is perhaps _the_ quintessential method of social bonding.
1) less wires 2) offices where you don't have set desks 3) easily swapping between computers without a kvm
What are the main differences to aws lambda?

Will you be transparent about how it works, such as when a function is frozen? This is something I miss with many Aws services
Project I relate to, doing switch to Patroni managed DB (first of many) right today, in like a 5 hours, I may share observations from almost first hand experience later, if you care.
Agreed. Came to say it looks like Dwarf Fortress.
> I really wish TechCrunch journalists would do a little more analysis of these claims instead of simply relaying the talking points of the startup’s CEOs and marketers.

These are paid articles. Most of techcrunch and other hype tech news site posts are fed by PR agencies in the background.

They get an article and list of quotes to include by a PR firm which they edit a little and post.
"In two or three years, people won’t even talk about crypto ... Names will be taken off arenas."

Didn't those crypto.com guys buy a 10-year contract?

I really think this is wishful thinking by the author.

I'm not a crypto fan, but it's undeniable that serious investments are now involved, and really, why is crypto much different than gold, or sovereign currencies?

They're all only worth what everyone agrees they're worth, ultimately.
No, it's not "a lie."

> Thing is, it's actually better there, regardless of what papers are written. Everyone's healthier, using less drugs and there's less violence.

> Like HIV dropped by 90% among drug users, being the original goal, this is quite a success. Drug related deaths dropped to by 85%.

>> Portugal has humane, coercive policies to get people off drugs, public use is illegal, and people get arrested.

Okay? Same as mental health most places? It's still decriminalized and mostly treated as a health problem.
Is Street View still illegal in Germany? Are there places in the world that haven’t been co-opted by surveillance capitalists?
I have never used social media sites like Facebook, and I have not lost touch with any of my friends.

Not even kidding, the postal service still works quite efficiently, and email is very useful.

Part of the problem here may be generational definitions. Perhaps I am wrong, but I think the definition of "friend" has changed quite a bit since the pre-web days.

All of these technologies are tools. If your friends are really friends, you'll use whatever tools you need, and even if significant time passes, you'll still be friends when you finally connect on the other side.
Yeah, gameplay's a subjective thing I guess. For me, these were some of the most immersive, atmospheric and thrilling games I ever played.
The aggressively short and interruptive sentence structure.
I'm using it since 20 years (e.g. for http://cara.nmr.ch/doku.php, or e.g. this one https://github.com/rochus-keller/Smalltalk), also used it as backend for programming languages and developed tools on it (e.g. https://github.com/rochus-keller/LjTools/). Is this complex enough? Never had an issue with the GC.

> you're usually at the mercy of whatever was implemented by the embedding runtime

Are we talking about the same Lua? The engines I know (PUC Rio and LuaJIT) are not at the mercy of embedding runtimes, but haver their own, sufficiently good memory management.
> a place one can park money

...that can collapse in value at any time, without regard to real-world economics.

Should I really park my retirement savings in Bitcoin, to ensure they don't get inflated away?
"What's that? I couldn't hear you over my keyboard clacking!"
"Western lie debunkers" will absolutely jump at any chance to say this is a fake, but that particular take is pathetic and indicative of problems with CJK literacy.

Unicode points and font glyphs are not the same thing, leading to situations where one Unicode character can be rendered as a different one (but similar) depending on OS and setup* -- and people enter and read characters by how they look, not by their Unicode points.

So the document can easily end up with 置's Unicode entity in the source without anyone finding out, even the person who entered it, if it always renders as a simplified version (without the left-bottom vertical line). And it will always render as a simplified version, because everyone involved is obviously using a simplified setup.

(If you have a Big Sur set up the same way as mine, you can observe for yourself by opening the same doc, such as the "Response Plan and Procedure for Escape and Disturbance Prevention During Class Times", in Quick Look and Pages and looking at the end of text following the first Arabic numeral "1" on the first page. Quick Look will show you a traditional/Japanese character at the end, while Pages will have a much better layout and consistently show simplified characters.)

The sad thing is that this initial stalling tactic is effective. Some will be swayed by his simple tweets and not have patience for the subsequent "debunking of the debunk" let alone their own research. This takes away the initial impact of the release.

* Software chooses a different glyph, the font provides a different glyph than required by Unicode standard, and so on. Example: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54212157/. There was an in-depth article on CJK posted on HN some time ago, can't remember what it was called.

TL;DR yes, documents authored by CCP officials can easily have traditional Unicode points in them, because it is completely routine for software to be set up in a way that always renders those in simplified way.
Why book though? I always thought courses are better in the sense they are hands on and easily updated. Andrew Ang’s machine learning code is gold standard
> tied to Logitech's wireless dongles (which are notoriously bad about both causing and being super-sensitive to 2.4Ghz-spectrum interference).

I have the opposite experience across probably half a dozen Logitech devices over the last decade or so. The dongle is so much more reliable and far lower latency than bluetooth. I'd take Logitech unified receiver over bluetooth all day long. I haven't had nearly as much luck with other 2.4Ghz receivers. I'm also using a RK Royal Kludge wireless keyboard and it's very particular about where the receiver is plugged in and distance from the keyboard.
Walmart – drone delivery to six states this year
I've tried more than once to play Morrowind since playing it to death back in the day but as an adult with tendonitis in my wrist the horrible GUI that has zero keyboard support is just too big an obstacle to overcome. Inventory management, dialog, everything in the game requires endless mouse clicking.

What's perhaps more surprising is that Microsoft-owned-Bethesda hasn't yet started working on an official remaster of it. Given that Bethesda still uses the same engine, it would be relatively cheap for them to do as opposed to building a new game and it would sell like hotcakes.
If you're like me, of average intelligence and not an abstract thinker, I don't believe any maths book can replace a human

I don't disagree, but what's the alternative if one doesn't have a human instructor available? Reading books and asking questions on the Internet is one of the few remaining options. About the only option I can think of is to seek out recorded video lectures of a human lecturer teaching. The downside is that it's not interactive and you can't ask questions for further clarification, but at least you get to hear somebody explaining the material.

The good news is, vis-a-vis recorded lectures, between Khan Academy, Youtube, etc., there's a TON of material out there, and quite a bit of it is pretty high quality.
A friendlier visualization of Java's JIT compiler based on control flow
Will any sort of scheduled execution be possible with DO Functions? I've been looking for a way to add scheduled tasks (e.g. session cleanup) to DOAP apps.
Well, rt.com is the first result on Brave search for the same search.
Related: TeX sources can be put under source control, with meaningful diffs.
I’m not an infra person by any means, but isn’t that what containers are for?
To contrast with some actual and manually created video content: in the early 2010s I came upon a video by a Brazilian man filming himself with his webcam as he lounged in a bed while intensively and hurriedly puffing tobacco in a pipe. I don't know why I clicked his username to check out his other videos, but I found that he had uploaded over 7000 videos. From what I could see, every single one of them depicted him smoking a pipe somewhere in his home for a few minutes.
Do you have any source for your claim "Criminals still primarily use regular ole' fiat currency for this stuff"? Isn't it much easier to get paid for your ransomware in crypto and remain on chain without having to touch fiat and getting blocked by sanctions?
>more muslims have died fighting AQ and ISIS than any other religious group

I think we are making the same point.

Some of the largest muslim countries (Indonesia, Pakistan) don't have sympathy for many Chinese Uyghur groups because once they leave China, they train with ISIS/Al Qaeda then plan and commit terrorist acts around Asia.

Many believe the Chinese are doing them a favor with their detention and deradicalization programs.
These little vacuums really suck! Seriously though, I didn't realize how impactful having a good vacuum would be. There are probably other-brand equivalents that cost less, but refurbished the Dyson handhelds aren't bad on price. The accessories are intuitive and "just work". I'm glad I didn't bawk at it when my fiancee wanted to buy it. And really cool to see more hardware mods getting attention on HN!
Just to clarify a bit what "C has them" means; the standard library string-to-float parsing function strtof() [1] support this format.

You can also use them as floating-point literals in your code.

[1]: https://linux.die.net/man/3/strtof
Interested to learn more about the query planner over time but just some initial thoughts