skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t know. I’ve been listening to an unabridged audiobook of the Count of Monte Cristo. The single narrator has done a fantastic job of giving a different voice to every single character. Even if a particular character hasn’t appeared for tens of hours, when they do reappear, I remember who they are from their unique voice.

Plus, the narrator does a great job of pronouncing names with a french accent (at least, it sounds legit to me, a non-french speaking person). I wonder how a computer voice would do with speaking English with a distinct French accent. Would it understand when to go more heavily English vs French?
Not technically for reading, but for downloading podcasts via their RSS feeds I use castero and am very happy with it. https://github.com/xgi/castero
> Google’s workplace culture has had a big influence across Silicon Valley—including at Lyft, which like Google has long offered employees free lunches.

> But not every company works like Google.

This. You don't need a lot of high-priced technical talent to run Lyft. "Frugal" should be the watchword.

I just took a Lyft to the Everett airport near Seattle. There are three big things that made me use Lyft and not have the hotel call me a taxi, and I suspect it's these and not ride-sharing that make Uber/Lyft popular.

1) I could book it myself through my phone and give it the destination.

2) The driver already knew where we were going. I didn't have to tell him.

3) It was already paid for and I didn't have to interact with the driver there, either.

Timothy's thought experiment is worth carrying out. Most of these are just straight-up customer service things that taxi companies could do if they really cared (and if the government let them). Some of them they already do: the hotel would have told the taxi driver I was going to the airport.
Sign languages are not coded speech. They are languages with their own grammar and vocabulary. For example, American SL is descended from Old French Sign Language and is partially understandable by French SL speakers today, while British SL is completely different, not in the same language family. It is even possible to write sign language. it is done like with spoken language. The most basic components, akin to phonemes in spoken language, are a closed set, assigning a symbol to each allows lossless transcription. Mostly used by linguists; but there are some books in ASL.

Deaf people who speak sign language natively approach English as a second language. And it is hard to learn a spoken language when deaf. English literacy rates among ASL native speakers are rather low.
That’s a good point about siloed credentials, I honestly never thought about that.

However I’d say give that the password vault is open-source and can be self-hosted (like Bitwarden) there are many reasons to use it over an encrypted flash drive. It can be automatically backed up easily, is supported on every device (including mobile) via a web browser. It also includes useful tools like a configurable password generator, versioning, and auto fill. For the average person that is much better than an encrypted flash drive volume, which IME are platform locked (LUKS doesn’t work on Windows, Bitlocker doesn’t work on Linux), are much less convenient, and are much more fragile.

Of course, use whatever works best for you, I don’t know your situation.
The number of articles, languages, and employees are probably not static either.
At this rate the US will only get an S if Sam Bankman-Fried decides to skip the bail
I just might have to dust off the copy on my shelf and give it a re-read.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson Labels Vegans Hypocritical ‘Species Bigots’
Someone that has learned and knows that is worthy. Anyway thank you for the reply.
Beautiful native apps.

Works great with self-hosted FreshRSS.

Possibly my favorite software release of 2022!
You are intentionally exaggerating this situation. People are calling for him to be jailed — a perfectly reasonable call.
The headline makes it sound like he believes there's a mole within the Vatican, but reading the article it sounds like he means that there's an "elegant demon" living within each of us that may tempt us to judge others too harshly.
Of course they would do that. It's one of the last places where you don't have to pay to exist, and where you can be educated and entertained without paying those companies.
After building a few startups and working at a few, I spent a lot of years advising people who wanted to start a startup, and 99% of the time I told them not to waste their time and money. They massively underestimate how hard and expensive it will be, how many skills are needed... and how much LUCK has to do with it.

With my million dollar startup, it was years of research and stupidly hard work, and I had a tech and marketing background to build off of... and I had the luck of meeting the assistant to an Internet marketing "guru" in a bar and giving them a ride home. That assistant got the marketer to promote my product, which got others to promote. Without that bit of luck, it wouldn't have been nearly as successful. In truth, I probably would have gone bankrupt.

Another example... the year that YC startup school accidentally let everyone in, they had a speaker who was talking about what market fit looks like. They failed over and over again, building stuff nobody cared about. They had wasted nearly $500k of investment and were down to the last few dollars, and one of the founders had an idea. The guy speaking implemented it just to prove his cofounder wrong! That idea went viral and they grew into a unicorn.

In my opinion the talk wasn't about market fit. It was a cautionary tale about how lucky you need to get. Last I checked, I read that 82% of venture funded startups fail, even with all that money, talent, and connections. We rarely hear about them. We hear about the success stories, which expound upon the hard work and great idea and seem to overlook how much luck was a factor - and it always is a giant factor.

Having said that, I do think success can be engineered for some startups, if you have the time, money, patience, and constitution to go through lots of small quick failures to find that market fit, and then build your product with the support of a community. And, I think luck can be engineered for some people, like by going to conferences, being nice and providing value... and by befriending the assistants of influential people.
Ask HN: Fallback remote job options for an experienced developer in the U.S.?
I'm an unemployed mid/senior-level developer in the U.S. with a reasonably popular skill set struggling to find remote work. I'd like to keep this general enough to apply to more than just me, but if anyone is curious there's a little more context at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33596779.

I'm starting this discussion to generate ideas for fallback options for finding development work, meaning places that hire quickly but might be low prestige, low pay, boring, contract, stuff like that. Recruiters might seem to be an answer but I haven't had much luck there: very little inbound traffic or response to outbound applications. I might just not be using them correctly, so any advice on working with recruiters might be helpful.

Thanks in advance on behalf of everyone struggling to find work that might find this sort of advice useful.
That post is a whole new level. We're using jargon to signal competence. They're using jargon to signal morality. If someone is incompetent then maybe don't promote them. If someone's immoral, what punishment should be dolled out against them?
Extending copyright seems antithetical to the whole purpose. If copyright is supposed to incentivize creative works, how does extending it after the fact do that? Doesn’t it have the opposite effect?
Some comments:

1. The date and post titles don't line up on your blog page and it makes it unpleasant to read. https://tsk.bearblog.dev/blog/

2. It looks like you are quite young. Have you figured out your desired audience demographics and what you want to write about?

If you're writing life advice posts for the HN audience, who are on average older and further along in their careers than you, may not take.

As an older dude, the kinds of posts I typically appreciate from younger people are exploratory posts (I.e. "Have you seen this new tech?" and "People are starting to enjoy $foo". But I'm an old dude, we're not a valuable demographic -- at least in the eyes of the young. :)

3. You've been at it a year. It's going to take longer to gain real traction, but when/if you do, your numbers should grow more quickly as subscribers share valued posts.

4. Subscribed. I don't know whether I'll stick around, but I like the breadth of topics and the post frequency is just about right for me.
> Phrased another way, we're about to find out if SBF is morally bankrupt enough to take away a huge portion of his parents assets as well.

huge portion being +/-10x their net worth and a debt that can not be discharged through bankrupcy.
Also, views are the essence of composability.

As for testing in the Postgres sphere, there's pgTAP and pg_prove.
https://pgtap.org/

Extension development includes a built-in unit testing harness as well.

For use with any database, a tool like Sqitch allows for DB-agnostic verification at each migration point.
https://sqitch.org/docs/manual/sqitchtutorial/#trust-but-ver...

Proprietary databases have their own solutions as well.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/ssdt/walkthrough-creat...

I think "utter lack" is grossly misrepresenting the state of the art. If you mean "widespread ignorance of existing techniques related to composability or testability," then we are in agreement.
I use “Reeder” - http://reederapp.com

I connect/subscribe it to various things - one of which is a previously curated FreshRSS instance, running in a docker container. So reeder connects and updates read/new feed additions too.
No, he doesn't. If he was some random drug dealer that couldn't make bail he'd wait in jail for trial. The same rules should apply to him. Put up $25m (10%) or wait in jail. The bail amount was set at $250m because he is a substantial flight risk. Sitting in jail awaiting trial is not cruel or unusual. It's extremely common.
Dmitry is one of my favorite writers/speakers in this space, definitely also check out his Vector podcast if this area interests you.
Best practices for implementing replication based storage architectures
I would do this to make friends. There's a really friendly cat I see about once a week. I'm sure he's around more.
> If the way things are before was better, why did we end in the place we are now?

Among other possibilities: because someone found some non-monetary value that could be mined, exploited or destroyed to make more money, competitors followed suit, and then there's no going back. The market has strong ratchet effects.

This happens quite often, because there is nothing stopping the market from optimizing past global optimum of service price vs. quality vs. availability.
I know that wind turbines tend to shut down to protect themselves, so probably not great.

Out of curiosity, I asked ChatGPT, and interestingly it added the following: "Fossil fuel-based power plants, such as coal and natural gas, can also experience disruptions due to extreme weather."

Now I wonder if this is true. Some web research brought up turbine failures at low temperatures. I'm sure that happens, but anyone knows if this is bad enough to be a relevant problem?
People are upset that he is getting special treatment. Again. He doesn't deserve it.
I tried to get cabs to my home in Mountain View, CA multiple times but every cab company but one said that was not their area and the designated cab company had hours of wait. Only Uber worked.

I could easily get a cab to the home from the city though.

There had to be something up there to.
What was Dennis Ritchie like?
JSON Feed is in a catch-22. Not many websites use it (and none can use it exclusively) because not as many clients support it. Few clients support it because not many websites use it. While an auto-discovery spec would be great, having multiple feeds is currently the only way to add JSON Feed and break the cycle.

> What we really need is an update to the auto-discovery spec that says "these two feeds have the exact same content, if you support both formats only show your preferred format to the user"

You could do that right now by having 1 URL that changes what type it returns based on the request's "Accept" type. However, I don't know if any websites/clients actually do that, or if it would break older clients.
Why does it take the author of the linked piece thirty-six paragraphs to make what was already a widely known point, that Uber isn’t profitable? It’s not like the piece is particularly rich in elaboration or explanation, it just seems… verbose. Like a high school senior desperately trying to stretch a preconceived conclusion to the required word count.
feedbro browser extension is pretty powerful
I like scribbling with my Kindle Scribe but there's a better writing tablet
I made one of those using a single 20"x20" filter on the intake side of a cheap 20" fan like that to use in my home office over 5-6 years ago. I use blue masking tape painters use to attach it to the fan. That tape comes off very easy and the filter does capture a lot of dust and smoke resin.

I'm really not seeing much advantage for building a box that uses 4 of those filters though. I doubt that increases the amount of air filtered much at all. You could run it longer before needing to change the filters, but we're talking just a few minutes of time at best and probably closer to no time saved at all, or increase in efficiency.
Also look at his later book, "The Emotion Machine".

When I took Minsky's "Society of Mind" class, he was working on the later book, and many lectures were him talking about what he had been working on earlier that day.
Not a very good title for the article which doesn’t do much but summarize the hypothetical use cases and the risks.

Does OP derive revenue from all the ads in that article?
Ask HN: Recommend a book that would cure my boredom
I won't specify a certain category. Just post what do you think is engaging and interesting.
Or look at the SK6812 LED strips. You'll get RGBW, which is perfect for cool looking task lighting
I've been using FreshRSS [0] for a while now as my RSS reader, it's open source and can be self-hosted. It's been reliable and easy to use.

0: https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS
https://socraticmodels.github.io/ seems somewhat related, using a LLM as the top-level model.
> Revelation describes the anti-christ in a similar fashion. Is the Pope implying Lucifer has returned?

The article clearly explains what the Pope is talking about and no, that isn't it.
A problem with confirmation dialogues is users become accustomed to confirming everything (“of course I want to do that”) and then miss the important irreversible change and just hit the button.
> This is wrong, a signed surety bond is not collateral, its a binding commitment to liability. Security/collateral for that liability is a separate thing, abd the only security provided is the house.

Thanks for the detail. I wasn't sure if the "bonds in lesser amounts" were clearly just signed promises to pay, or might also include additional property bonds. It's the "lesser amounts" that confuses me. Does this mean that the additional signer(s) would not actually be responsible for the full $250M if both Sam and his parents were to flee? If so, this would seem to imply that the court has decided that Sam and his parents have non-tainted assets worth more than $250M, which doesn't match the story we've heard so far.
> The only pre-RISC legacy ISA in use is x86, and it is only losing market share.

And for many generations now, x86 machines are basically RISC processors with a CISC frontend.

Empirically it seems that CISC has 'failed' as a way to design processors, and it's better to let the compiler do that job when you're building a general purpose computer.
I use NetNewsWire these days, but for anyone who wants to dabble in RSS with minimal investment, I highly recommend FeedBro, a well-executed Firefox add-on.

It has a highly customizable UI.

It handles all the fetching/refreshes/storage right in your browser, no need to install anything else or self-host a backend.

And you can import/export OPML feed collections, so you can easily switch to another solution when you outgrow it.

The only downside I've found: it doesn't sync between machines (at least, not for free). That's totally fine when you're just trying out RSS for the first time, but it does get annoying if you eventually want to read on, say, a phone, tablet, and laptop in different situations. For that use case, NNW + FreshRSS is my current, excellent solution.
'Elegant demon' lurks there all right https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VABSoHYQr6k
I wouldn’t go that far. There is a huge difference between “your idea is dumb” and “you are dumb”
TSMC said to be considering first European semiconductor plant
I just use good old Thunderbird.
>Energy, homelessness, pollution and the environment, affordable housing crises in the West, content moderation, the loneliness epidemic

I think if an capable AI in the future is given the opportunity to fix this with zero restrictions, Then most likely it is going to uproot entire system of governance along with several ultra-rich and powerful people.

Hence they'll try to never let it happen.
This article misses the point. The Fibonacci/factorial calculations are just toy examples to easily illustrate recursion to a beginner. Nobody who actually needs to compute them for a real application would think that these inefficient, merely pedagogical examples would be the way to do it; Lisp hackers would have no problem using the closed-form solutions.
No, people who commit street level crimes should be given the same grace he's receiving.

Denying bail because we think this guy is extra guilty (as opposed to, say, because he has a history of domestic abuse, and releasing him could put people at risk) would be cruel and unusual, because it would be discretionary.
I agree with GP.

"The difference, going into 2023, is that even the Inbox Zero people are going to have a reason to complain. Left without a better way to quickly zoom in and zoom out on the state of the universe (also known as the world according to Twitter), I predict those people will reach a point of frustration in even their ability to manage email."

What does this even mean? This is a massive non-sequitur. I stopped reading here.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.feedr
You can get Gore-Tex patch kits for any punctures you encounter.

There are also a wide range of textiles available for the outer layers. Many have high Kevlar/aramid content and are much tougher in abrasion than waxed cotton.

I have a Ventile jacket which should be the pinnacle of cotton waterproof design, and it is much easier to damage than modern synthetic jacket, and on top of this it doesn't breath as well, or keep me as dry under continuous downpour conditions. It's also harder to repair due to the high density of the fibres.
Obviously not literally everything was there, but for example Disney stuff was and now it's on Disney+, NBC stuff is now on Peacock, CBS stuff is now on Paramount+, etc. etc.

I'm sure it's true in quantitative terms that new streaming services are net new content, but there's a very long list of popular movies and shows that used to be on Netflix and no longer are, and a very long list of publishers that use to make new content available on Netflix and no longer do.

A very abridged list of existing content that Netflix lost: Star Wars, Marvel, Pixar, Disney movies, The Office, Parks and Rec, The West Wing, Lionsgate movies, Doctor Who, 20th Century Fox movies like X-Men, ABC Shows like Scandal, Naruto, most Star Trek shows, and on and on

All of this is regionally dependent I think, some things are probably still available outside the US.
...and the things it says will likely sound smarter than most of the things typically said at many, if not most, work meetings :-P
By the way, https://github.com/FALCONN-LIB/FALCONN contains a really good LSH implementation. Also see https://www.mit.edu/~andoni/LSH/ if you want to know more about the research literature.

The fastest way for Euclidean space that I know that works well in practice is via Leech lattice decoding: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Maximum-likelihood-dec... , or https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Efficient-bounded-dist... .

It is possible to create an implementation based on the above that decodes 24 dimensional points to the closest Leech lattice vector in < 1 microsecond per point on my AMD Ryzen laptop. Combine with some fast random projections/Johnson Lindenstrauss as described in the article to form the LSH.

This LSH family is unfortunately not present in FALCONN, but the alternatives in FALCONN are pretty good.

Source: thought extensively about LSH for my PhD.
Just an instance, I built a small feature module for the local transport authority, which could be easily integrated into their existing app. Through that tiny bit of weekend work, I was appreciated by the CEO of the public transport department of the transport authority. I could use him as a reference to get many further connections.
> on house arrest, wearing an ankle monitor, and if he flees his parents will never recover financially. What's the problem?

That it’s not a jail. Jails are tougher to get out of than ankle bracelets.

His parents are going to spend the rest of their lives fighting civil lawsuits, if not criminal cases of their own. Losing their home is a matter of time. It is difficult to even say to what degree their plight matters to him.
Yeah it's not well-organized. The reason I linked to it isn't a restatement of their financials but an analysis of the industry, the cost basis delta and why fundamentally their businesses are not positioned with a path to profitability.
Using inline JavaScript modules to prevent CSS blockage
Hence, the ankle monitor and his parents’ house.

And judge, don’t forget, Mr. SBF voluntarily waived extradition.
I think the question is not whether the number is non-zero, but how it compares to taxis.
At least in my circle the people screaming the loudest for his head are the same people that are adamantly opposed to any government regulation of crypto. I think they're just mad that SBF spoiled their get rich quick scheme.
Wouldn't this be more applicable to BSDs more so than Linux? One is a kernel and userland made by the same team and packaged together and the other is a kernel with a bunch of different philosophies packaged around it.
It was successful enough that a much smaller business than Google would have tried to keep it going, probably as a subscription service. But for Google it was a rounding error, and the code base needed a rewrite.

It seems hard to argue that it would have become more successful, given that its successors are pretty good but they’re small businesses.
Whats with all of these RSS stories suddenly on the front page today? Feels like exactly what PG was talking about in The Submarine[1] but who would be behind pushing RSS feeds all of a sudden? Is there a Big RSS lobby I don't know about?

1. http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Couldn't I just subscribe to kumquats, ancient Mesopotamia, and The Buzzcocks groups on Facebook?

Sure, you could. I can't. I'm locked out of Facebook. And in spite of sending a photo of my government ID into Facebook's customer service black hole, nothing has changed.

RSS gives me the freedom to aggregate information without relying on some faceless tech company to decide when I can have it, and when I should be cut off.
I still have no idea what RSS is used for.
This has nothing to do with the chart. FTX terms of service promised that if customers had a simple account, without signing up for higher-risk stuff, then FTX would hold their full assets at all times without putting them at risk.

Then SBF allegedly moved those assets over to Alameda for risky trades, and also pulled some out to buy fancy houses.