skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I use text to speech a lot.

Honest question: For what - Are you disabled ?

Sorry I'm not sure what the PC way is to ask that question ? I'm purely fact-finding and English and PC is not my first lang.

PS. Not saying you are wrong to use it like that, just out of interest is it possible or worthwhile to just run a VM for that ?
Yeah, good luck standing in court against a billionaire...
His money puts him above most laws, especially non criminal ones.
This is ok because he owns stuff is an antithesis to a democratic free country with a rule of law. It's basically a step towards monarchy.
Old signals, as installed, usually have very coarse resolution - enough so to stop trains running as close together as they otherwise would, which limits throughput
I imagine for most web dev’s using a fast memory unsafe language is like taking a bullet train to the local shop to get milk.
Of course, intrusive security checks are common when entering prison colonies.
Just because the video demonstrates this as a feature: please don't rely on pixelation (or gaussian blur for that matter) to redact sensitive information. Although it takes considerable effort, pixelation is reversible. It's probably fine if you just want to mask your test data, but it's probably a bad idea if you want to mask your home address or bank details.
For most of civilization we've been able to overlook the fact that our leaders and heroes are gigantic assholes, and judge them by their great deeds rather than minutiae of their private interactions.
Reading further down in the article you cite - talking about this as a labor vs. management battle pushes a lot of people's buttons, but that's just an emotional side-show.

The Real Story: An organization had neither enough income to survive, nor good prospects of improving that situation. So it died.
>The silent majority is just using wayland without complaining because it just works.

Huh ! That is not a fair argument. The silent majority is by definition impossible (or very hard to find) and confirm if its true. Since you know... they silent and all !
I mean TensorFlow is c++/cuda!

No. When I write Tensorflow code I write Python. I don’t care what TF does under the hood just like I don’t care that Python itself might be implemented in C. Though I got to say TF is quite ugly and not a good example of Python’s user friendliness. But that’s another topic.
Super impressed with the launch, really well executed.

I can relate to part of your journey, I developed an iOS app in 2012, learnt just enough Objective-C to develop it.

The post popular request had been for an Android version, I redeveloped it using Xamarin a few years ago and have been very impressed with how close to the 'metal' you can get.
Don't trains have a route or vehicle number like flights and busses?
What makes a connoisseur game? (using machine learning analysis)
It feels like the gist of this article is just, don't use python.
While I was on Windows, ShareX was the perfect companion which I miss on MacOS

https://getsharex.com/
You submit a request for more storage and an additional disk appears a day or two later.
It's the work placement promised at the end of the course that sometimes tempts me to do one.

The value is in helping get the first foot into the door, which is a totally different skill than programming itself. A course with a good relationship with some decent IT companies could be good value for someone who doesn't already have contacts in the industry.
Italy carries out its first assisted suicide
Fact of the matter is that the comment we’re both party-to displays some fundamental misunderstandings of the law.

You may call it “playing guessing games,” but to those with domain-specific knowledge, glaring errors with respect to fundamental legal concepts are obvious and indicates a lack of expertise (e.g. here, not understanding the consequences of the jurisdiction of their named laws to the soundness of their argument) and a possible violation of the law (though the present situation does not rise to that level).

Calling out false expertise is part of the self-regulating nature of the professions, even if doing so can be reasonably called “be[ing] a… asshole.” I think it’s worse to mislead people.
We are not talking about internal company problems here. We are talking about letter about behaviour of the boss outside of the company which is of no concern of employees.
That's also where had to scroll up again; where do Alice and Bob know P from?
That's pre defined public knowledge, right? It belongs to the curve they use.

Many many thanks for this brilliantly depicted explanation!

Ot: I also looked up ulfheim after I realized your first name is Michael, not Ulf.
That depends on what the union members decide is important.
TIL there's https://microsoftcasualgames.com/

Microsoft is only testing casual games internally from its Casual Games offering right now, and the company could choose not to roll this integration out to consumers and businesses. Reached for comment, Microsoft refused to comment on its testing of games inside Microsoft Teams.
That's a fair point. But I'd say that then the issue is decided by the voters and our elected representatives - if we wanted, we could get the government to cancel their contracts if Musk does something really terrible (not saying it would be easy). I'd prefer it be done that way rather than internal activists pushing their own beliefs onto the company unilaterally and disrupting operations - that's one way we can be SURE our tax dollars would be wasted.
I used Haymarket for years and had never noticed that - shows how observant I am!

However, I was in Kings Cross yesterday and was amused when I saw a sign for platforms 0 to 8.
For HN'ers outside the UK who might be put off by the Godwin above: People here really do have strong opinions about Brexit, one way or another. It has been a central part of the news for many years now, and it has increasingly real implications for this country's future. I (also) don't want to delve into the political arguments, but to give you an idea of what's at stake, a Brexit-induced restart of the Troubles in NI is now looking more likely than it has for decades.

The point I'm trying to make here is that it's just not a topic that you can have a casual opinion on. Against that backdrop, using the term as a whimsical joke feels so profoundly distasteful that a lot of people here would probably ignore the business entirely.
Last question: I'm just damn curious and not trying to be a dick. Apart from the Core2Duo and ancient-linux-setup (no judgement)

Are there any other parts of your life (none computer related) that you also running super-old-tech or versions ?

Lol i'm really really not insulting you, just want to know (learn). There are much to learn from extreme-outliers
https://rot256.dev/post/pass/

Make sure you understand how exactly it encrypts your data, and what are the things that are still exposed by it.
Thanks for grabbing the numbers. I have a good friend who's in the union for my hometown's theater. Hearing his stories over the past few years have made me deeply suspicious of anything posted by management that boils down to "we're shutting down because the union is being unreasonable."

It's a completely different world than tech, and some of the managerial incompetence that's blamed on the union (and before it was formed, the lowest paid workers) is astounding.
Haven't (later) Millennials already learned from the mistakes of those before them? I know I'm scared of any type of debt due to the stories I've heard about it going wrong.
Well whatever cost savings they gained from this move just got lost in making hn front page with atrocious PR
Learn from Covid: Gates’s pandemic prescription
So being banned off Twitter is a consequence for your free speech, right?
A bank is a licenced and highly regulated company. This is important, especially when things go wrong...
I guess the difference is that C++ still gives you pretty much direct access to memory (i.e. pointer arithmetic). Rust tries very hard to keep you at arms length from the actual memory as a rule, and forces you to work through a safe abstraction unless you use an escape hatch.
Wow, this works amazingly well.

However, when I blurred something it made a network request to it's server (/telemetry.php) which is kind of creepy for a tool with privileged access that helps you hide data.

Is there a reason for its developer to be anonymous? Who is getting the telemetry and what's the monetisation for this tool?

Edit: My bad, apparently the telemetry is disclosed on the website.
Wouldn’t that only work well with perfectly linear gradients? Translucency and dropshadows are usually based on Gaussian blur, so not linear at all.
This is so valid.

I first encountered this in Songkick's gig archives, which - correctly, I would say - would update the names of venues when they changed. Unexpectedly - and I would say incorrectly - my archive would then occasionally show I had been to a gig at a venue but under its new name. I presume this also happens with band names, and so it's possible that one's gig archive might reflect that one had been to see Sea Power at the Camden Assembly, when one had in fact been to see British Sea Power at the Camden Barfly.

It's edge case stuff, but it does become more and more of an issue as time goes on. I fear for our ancestors working on their family trees and piecing together lives whose metadata make no sense. I presume we'll have solved it all by then though. Of course we will.
On one hand, I agree with you. I've personally seen low level people at a large corporation believe they were unequivocally in the right, and tried to use the weight of their moral conviction to impose their view of things onto everyone else. It's not your job to do this, and it's not my job to care.

On the other hand, there has to be some capacity for this type of discussion to occur. Musk owns less than 50% of SpaceX, and I generally think employees should have some manner of input into the operations of the company they work for. History is full of cases where the justified party tried to convey their problems politely, were ignored or quietly silenced, and had to raise the problem loudly to get any traction. I think it's a reasonable desire to want to work for SpaceX, but not want someone's first reaction to hearing that you work at SpaceX to be bringing up whatever stupid thing Elon has done this week.

If someone has the answer on how to find this balance, please popularize it. In the meantime, I've left the large corp I was at and joined a small company with 7 others where I don't have to deal with such problems or such activists.
I can see it as an Electron competitor which is itself a desktop app competitor. I can also see the value of having a cross platform technology albeit using web development.

I cannot currently see it as a traditional web server replacement but perhaps that was not the intention. Running the web server locally loses the benefits of single place updates.
Translation: Big Tech and the body politic fuse pact against common peasants.
Asimov's Three Laws are a literary trope, and their primary goal was to serve as a foil and frame for creating stories. The conflict in the laws is what drives those stories, and can be found in many forms and variants throughout the stories in I Robot and the extended arc.

The laws are also interesting statements on morality and ethics. The fact that morality and ethics finds itself wrestling with terms which are ambiguous or of contested meaning, that boundaries are hard to draw, and that choosing the best of several alternatives is hard ... would not come as a surprise to the philosophers of ancient Greece or China.

Welcome to the real world.
I'd think most people would be living indoors in a controlled climate and wouldn't suffer the adjectives you threw out. Is it much different than those who volunteer to live on the ISS?

The difference is instead of walking out in space every now and then you occasionally work outside in an alien world. The dust storms would be intense, you probably wouldn't leave shelter then, but if you've ever been out in the desert, it can be really beautiful.

Personally give me internet and A/C and I can stay anywhere for years, outside time or not, it's what I do now essentially. The alien backyard work is a bonus.

Different strokes for different people. You don't seem to have a settler attitude, and that's okay.
I'm not so sure about that. Mining cards are often undervolted to run at cooler temperatures and consume less power, while gaming cards are pushed to 100% and might even be overclocked. The fans might become problematic, but i think overall a mining card receives less stress in its lifetime
is that so. freebsd and linux share the same zfs code and linux also has btrfs.

like... where is linux behind?
> brick wall rule

It's time we got rid of this.

The train in front of you won't suddenly turn into a brick wall. The quickest it will ever slow down is with its emergency brakes.

And if it applies it's emergency brakes, then your train should also apply your emergency brakes.

So the minimum headway is the reaction time (milliseconds if automatic) plus the worst-case difference in performance between the brakes.

Using that, you can get headways down to a few seconds.
This might be the best for some time until they get to -1 or Windows style version numbers.
Notice how all those hype headlines publish little or no technical info ? This looks more like P(entium)R(ate) numbers.
I agree.

Even if they fix it. It will take years to land in new iOS update.

Safari cannot update without iOS update...
Pretty sure musk should fall in the category of a crybully as well.
Windows + Shift + S is what I used daily on Windows. The screenshot is saved to the clipboard and can be pasted straight into your chat app.

I have Command + Shift + 4 configured to save to clipboard aswell now.
Agreed: One thing I do wish Google-Forex-Conversion will do is to show the exchange rate "both ways"

Say I want to do ZAR (South African Rand) to USD, Google is quick to provide an answer, But somehow I always managed to mess up the order.

I say ZAR To USD in the search box, But I really want (and should have learn by now) is USD to ZAR.
SIlicon Valley Bank is clunky but it is reliable. Coming from the UK and having lived in San Francisco for the past decade I was irritated to see a firm use borrowed interest (BREXIT) to build their brand. Especially when the implications of the referendum were never clearly spelled out to UK voters. As far as Brexit the company goes, it must be tough being a start-up credit card firm with no market understanding and no sense of what will be profitable strategies in the future. Cutting small customer accounts is a great way of managing their risk profile overnight...it is a clear announcement of impending deep recession, small businesses beware!
I wonder if "redditors as a whole" includes visits from external links. I never go to new reddit deliberately, but often end up there via other sources. I also use third party mobile apps more, so there will be plenty of days when I don't use old _or_ new reddit, meaning I'm not counted in that 4%.
I think the commenter was making the point that, whilst blindly getting on a train arriving at the correct platform 2 minutes early would work in most parts of the world, it doesn't in Japan.
THis was what I was thinking of..
https://www.salon.com/2002/01/08/saving_usenet/
we linux users sometimes don't need any windows. Maybe you could also develop a cli version? Then something like this would be possible: recut input.mp4 --padding=123 --output=video output.mp4
btw, you created an impressive software. Very useful!
Can pass be unlocked using login password without entering it once more? For example, like Gnome Keyring does.
It's not really about speed, it's more about preferences.
I'm a keyboard type of guy, I just find using a keyboard nicer, that's it.
I don't like having to move windows around with a mouse, I find the keyboard experience better. Same with scrolling, I find using up and down keys much nicer than a wheel as well.
It doesn't mean that one way is the right way and the other is wrong, it's like taste I guess.
> It took about one frame to launch. One. Frame.

I really liked Win 2000 because of this feeling of speed. Most programs would simply "open" when you clicked their icon. There wouldn't be a loading screen. I remember getting frustrated because I could not look at the pretty spalsh screen that Excel had added because it would flash and disappear in milliseconds. Amd this was on hardware of that time.
A Visual Guide to the Aztec Pantheon
lithium grease is PFAS?
What would be your preferred alternative?

Should the symphony pay them all six-figure salaries until it becomes insolvent, and then closes anyway?

I'm not sure what you want to happen here.

It seems like the people of San Antonio are not interested in paying for a symphony. That's their prerogative. Many cities don't have a symphony. There's a great many goods and services that take years of skill to master that I don't pay for because I don't want them.
Kafka being a soft dependency is not an assumption, it's a design goal. So the conclusion should be to eliminate any hard dependencies on Kafka, if anything.

However, when it comes to metrics in particular, I'd say Kafka was still a soft dependency. The reason we lost our metrics during the incident was a scheduler lock-up blocking the collection of VM-level metrics. It's just coincidence that the scheduler lock was caused by brod in this case. Otherwise metrics would just flow to Graphite directly, never interacting with Kafka.

When it comes to the complete monitoring solution around Kred, there was one bit of it depending on Kafka: System monitor (https://github.com/klarna-incubator/system_monitor). This tool is exporting data that doesn't fit well into Graphite or Splunk, so we store it in Postgres instead. Due to pure laziness it was at the time of the incident not writing directly to Postgres though, but was just pushing the data to Kafka. (The reason is that we already had a service available to push data from Kafka to Postgres.) After the incident we eliminated Kafka from the path. I didn't mention this work in the post because it was only marginally related.
Depends on a lot of factors. Every trace is a capacitor, an inductor and a resistor. And they can also form parasitic diodes.
On the landing page it says:

> After launch Shottr contacts https://shottr.cc/api/version.json to check for an update. It won't download a new version, but will notify you with a red icon in the toolbar. It also sends home telemetry to help us find bugs, measure performance and gauge popularity of certain features. Telemetry does not contain any personal or identifiable information. It's not used for advertising or retargeting purposes, and is never sold to the third parties. There's an option to turn off telemetry collection in the app Preferences. Earlier versions of Shottr included Google Analytics code, but it was removed in v1.5.1.

(Perhaps one shouldn't use closed source binaries with privileged access or network access. Its a thing to consider. That being said, I use Little Snitch.)
Google/GCP now gives $2k to bootstrapped companies
Cloudflare's new WAF: compiling to Lua (2013)
> It is bad enough that Germany is keeping some outer regional rail branches in the exurbs of Berlin and Munich unwired; that New York has not fully electrified is unconscionable.

I think about this a lot every time I see the glacial pace of the ongoing electrification work for Caltrain on the SF peninsula — "studied" since 1992, groundbreaking in 2017, and hopefully in service by 2025 if there are no additional delays: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrification_of_Caltrain

Electric motive power was novel in 1895 when the B&O electrified part of the Baltimore Belt Line, but we should be good at it by now! For comparison, the PRR was able to electrify their line from New York City to Washington D.C (225 track-miles, 1928–1935) in roughly the same amount of time it will take Caltrain to build out their 77 track-miles, at which time 90 years will have passed since GG1s were zooming up and down the NEC at 100mph:

https://thebhc.org/sites/default/files/beh/BEHprint/v009/p01...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amtrak%27s_25_Hz_traction_powe...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Railroad_class_GG...
5500 GwH seems to be the yearly batteries manufacturing capacities projected in 2030. That is what will be produced every year, not the total installed capacity of batteries. And as mentioned earlier those batteries could technically inject 5500 GwH (+ 5000 GwH of 2029, 4500 GwH of 2028...) in the grid every day...
Ah. That may be the world's worst example of a reasonable alternative based on its track record :)
Zig!
It also doesn’t stop when you reach your destination so you have to jump and roll out. Get it wrong and you die. Questioning this method is widely frowned on.
People working in labs today must be speeding up nature significantly on a daily basis.
Perform lots of concurrent experiments, apply different environmental stresses, provide different nutrition, cross different variants you find useful, automate all the processes and tests.
I think the project referenced seems to be deliberately not doing that, to observe the natural speed of change.
>Lack of PFAS seems to me to be a necessary condition for something to be biodegradable

That's not the case at all. PLA doesn't even decompose much in normal conditions, outside of 60C+ compost piles. It is sold as a bio-degradable plastic.
>. It's actually beautiful to see it now. Strange to say it, but using a *nix laptop again makes me feel like myself in a way I hadn't felt in a long time. There's something intrinsically hopeful about using linux as your primary environment. As though it's part of the real internet that is still there.

I too enjoy Linux Desktops and MDMA :D (/s /s /s)
I haven't tried to understand it, but I was getting the same error with zsh. Works with bash though.
Indian Railway must have some fascinating stories. It's absolutely ginormous and historic. Isn't it also the largest employer in India, which must put it in the millions? The fact it works at all shows there must be something special about its structure.
It seems like that because these kind of assholes also wrote the history books (or paid the guys that did)....
Given the letter written by the board, I think it's fair to discuss. At the very least, the board is trying to save face by blaming the shutdown on "the union being unreasonable". That always makes me suspicious about the details being left out.

The nuances around went it died are also important. Could it have been saved with a different managerial approach? That's especially relevant for a cultural institution.
check gopass, it had some team features built-in while maintaining 100% compatibility with pass
A V8 isolate is single threaded and you get 1 by default, but other isolates can be created and used in parallel in multiple threads.
Creusot: Deductive Verification of Rust
Which is adding support for Yubikeys soon.
Blew my mind, makes so much sense
I see this as a similar question to the recent https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31742746
Demagoguery. There are no "fundamental legal concepts are obvious" that require a cookie pop-up.

> not understanding the consequences of the jurisdiction

It was your third chance to name which particular laws and jurisdictions you allude to. And it was the third time you didn't take it. So, I presume, you have no idea what you're talking about.

> I think it’s worse to mislead people.

That's exactly what you're doing.
Silicone (siloxane) coatings isn't that big of a deal. It's just a different type of glass, fairly inert, fairly safe. It's also extremely unlikely that takeout joints have silicone-coated paper, as it is fairly expensive.

"Parchment" paper you buy today is actually coated with Teflon-related fluoridated compounds.

Just burn some of the paper, and see if the smell resembles the smell of an empty teflon pan that's overheated until it's giving off scent/smoke.