skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've experienced that too, but only for "bad writing."

I'm normally able to follow narrative (both fiction and non-fiction) that has something to teach, and also enjoying listening to classic literature no problem...

But sometimes I'm reading a long article from the internet and I experience what you describe (losing track of what author is saying, having to rewind to get the point). After a while, I realize it's not the computer's fault, but the article is just very low content (e.g. some authors just pile on words, emotions, opinions without a coherent narrative or point). Recently I noticed I'm able to detect GPT-generated text this way too... words without content or message.

Perhaps the monotone TTS can be a test for the "meaning" contents of a text.
The thing I get a kick out of is that the picture is clearly from the 1990s: I forget what we called those pants, but I remember the giant high-tops were all the rage when I was in 4th and 5th grade.
I believe, alive Apollo astronauts, will see return to Moon.

RIP.
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The day Disney+ launched, I bought a Usenet subscription. I've since cancelled Netflix, because they kept removing shows as I was watching them, then kept increasing the price, and finally added advertisements. I've stuck with Ad-free Hulu, because my kids watch a lot of shows on it, and it's been working very well. I tried Paramount+, but it doesn't work if you have a Pi-Hole, it just refuses to play anything unless you allow ads, no matter what level you pay for. Not for me.

Piracy isn't perfect, but it never shows me ads, never removes shows, and doesn't try to recommend anything to me.
Geniune question: would writing assembly today be practical at all?

You could make the argument that eg space software or nuclear etc... would be a candidate.

But since assembly is so difficult to read this alone could introduce many bugs as soon as you'd eg have to maintain ~3 months old code since you will forget the details by then even if you are the one who wrote so you'd lose the "context" since in assembly it's much easier to lose the "context" of the task due to its less-intuitive nature than a high level programming language.

Since even space etc... software today I assume is way too large to write in assembly? Or am I wrong? Eg how large is the main "thruster" code for SpaceX? But all of that has to interface with many sensors, redundancies, backups, telemetry...
Not much story. The wasm binary crahsed wabt (lol) so after getting frustrated with the state of the chromium tooling for wasm, I switched to messing with the android build.

That one was super easy to deal with because it had symbols. Judging by the license routines, they initally intended it to be a subscription service, only to give it an actually fair price down the road ($15). Seeing the username of the dev in the build metadata also made me feel a bit bad for him.
> I bought a Diamond Stealth II S220 as an alternative to a Voodoo

I did the same thing, it was a great budget card. vquake was awesome, plus you were able to use Direct3D inside of Windows which the first 3Dfx cards didn't do. It also came with a Descent clone called Forsaken on the demo CD, which was the first colored lighting I had ever seen in a game, and was pretty amazing.

Ironically, the Verite chips didn't handle certain VGA modes that well, so DOS games like Doom were pretty choppy.
I approve of Steam's commitment to Linux and they have a great track record. I also will never pirate an exectuable file.
If such conversation occurred, it was probably worded way different than my quickly thrown together example, where the number was just something I pulled out of my ass, just like the imaginary conversation.
In general I have always assumed this to be true, but iirc Adobe explicitly said their storage was private and now I have some photos I synced to my phone possibly wrapped up in this.
This isn't Stable Diffusion. It's closer to Karlo/Dall-E from my brief tests.

EDIT - it's handling some Imagen prompts better than Dall-E. This is interesting.
> and I proceeded to play on company-time in my cubicle the rest of the day

> To get to the bottom-line, I never got that promotion

To state the obvious .. these two are likely related.
Isn't this wheel of reincarnation simply a result of a shifting bottleneck? A computation can be CPU-bound or memory-bound, and this can change over hardware generations.
Owning a physical copy of a movie hasn't gotten any cheaper since the 90s. A Top Gun Maverick blu-ray is $25. Netflix streaming has gone up in price significantly from debut and has a worse content library, due to "the streaming wars." Streaming access is not fair to compare to ownership --it's closer to rental, but without any of the supply-side cost of making and distributing physical media, so value to consumers should be better, based on that. The subscription services aim to lock in some or all of your entertainment budget to maximize per capita revenue month to month. If you want access to the full gamut you need to pay 5+ different ways and end up spending more than what's reasonable for a month full of viewing content (with next to no distribution cost.) IMO, it's only a good deal then if you're spending absurd an amount of time streaming, and there probably isn't enough good content to keep you busy. Quantity and variety of niche shows/films available has gone up over the years, but you can definitely argue quality has gone down apart from format fidelity and CGI quality.

Games haven't really gone down in price either, and now since so many of the games themselves are "live service" things, many of them expire after a few years when they turn the servers off. $25 cosmetic "virtual goods" are often sold in game, representing an absurd markup on the time of artists. You get manipulated/harassed to spend (maybe more like burn) money in them, often after having spent $40-70 to get in the front door.

Monetization is awful, and that shouldn't be too surprising. Businesses endeavor to extract what the market can bear most profitably, and to have a bigger piece of that pie, not so much to give the benefit of progress to the people paying.
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I don't pirate things anymore. I subscribe to Spotify Premium for music. For movies/shows I subscribe to Netflix/Disney+ when there's something I want to watch and after a couple of weeks/months I unsubscribe when I'm done. If you can't afford 12$ or whatever it is for a Netflix subscription, I think you have other problems.
Yeah people don’t remember but when the iPhone came out there was no support for native apps for a while and they were pushing web apps. And so developers were grumbling about this and of course Apple was evil because they didn’t allow native app development.
It doesn't look like that on a long term chart. Invention of tether is not visible on it at all.

You can't buy stuff directly for bitcoin yet, but you used to be able to. It was premature and destroyed by volatility. The volatility that goes away bit by bit with every 4 year cycle. Also even now there's really no problem to exchange bitcoin for fiat in most countries. Once you get throught the border with your savings you have whole country to cash them.

I have no idea what wise.com is and I have no idea how long they will stay around. I put nearly zero trust in any single commercial entity when it comes to my long term savings. After a glance I can see that they exist almost as long as bitcoin and they managed to support just 53 currencies so far out of 180 that exist and are most likely exchangable for bitcoin in some way.
If they were making record profits, they would be looking to expand their profitable divisions, would they not? They would likely not lay people off, but reorganize internally to move resources away from failing areas and into the clearly thriving, very profitable areas; or start something completely new.

Hiring one good employee is expensive and difficult.
Technically the parent’s point still stands - this is an informational RFC, not a standard.
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I can not imagine why anyone may be inclinded to do so... but i would suggest a hammer in the 1000 g category would suffice
I agree you should play with other people, but disagree entirely that you aren't a musician if you don't check those boxes. Maybe what you mean is "performer" and even then I'm not sure the logic holds.
TL;DR:

When GDPR came into effect in 2018, Facebook and Instagram changed from asking for consent to use personal data to requiring that users enter into a contract with the company.

The Data Protection Commission is siding with the complainants who say that making the service conditional on agreeing to the contract is the same as forcing users to consent.
“Again”?
Took a quick look. I didn't see a list of components or a link to that list.

My guess is these are comercial grade components (as opposed to industrial or military grade). This might mean they are susceptible to forms of attacks higher grade components will survive. In other words, they are not "hardened" (a term that has a range of meanings). Another way to put it might be that they are relatively easy to disrupt and shoot down through means other than kinetic countermeasures.
Yeah I figured that out too. I need to remove sugar from my life. Sadly easier said than done.
Have you read Enoch 1? Also, Genesis does not merely reference Enoch, it introduces him. He is seventh from Adam and the first man to break the pattern of death.
Well it is unbanned now. Some commenters going to feel akwards
Low hanging fruit are picked.
I usually just use yt-dlp for most things I want, how is one command a sad amount of effort? A ton of older cartoons I want to watch just sit on archive.org.
> Why is that we still can't have a perfect or near-perfect text-to-speech

Define perfect ;) Two different people will read the same text slightly (or not slightly) differently.

A great example is this brilliant and funny rendition of "To be or not to be" by Tim Minchin, Benedict Cumberbatch, Judy Dench, David Tennant and others. Sorry for the Facebook link, but it's very hard to find this video anywhere: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=585252039999241
In theory.

In practice the market has spoken as to what kind of a form-factor people find the most useful for personal transportation in different climates and economic development scenarios. There’s no reason why ICEs couldn’t have supported the kind of vehicles some people imagine other people need.

The market has spoken, EVs only started gaining traction when they started resembling actual cars in form and function. Think of it as parallel evolution. Dolphins and fish.
This got really really complex these days. I subscribes to HBO Max but sometimes the connections to their server are so bad, the catalog page don’t even load, in case like these I will have no choice but to find some pirated sources and load them to my device. Netflix / YouTube doesn’t have these kinds of problems though.

I would say the dollars are for the smooth experiences, you have to make it worth the dollar; otherwise I have no choice but piracy.
US already have insanely big cars, though. So very different than in other markets.
I just explained how wealth gaps lead to hedge funds buying up huge amounts of properties and how collusion lead to skyrocketing rents. I even gave a source. Debunk that source instead of continuing to insist you're right.

Here's another source supporting my claim.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/if-you-sell-a-house-these-days-...
That's a pretty inhuman way of thinking IMO. The moment a company hires people, the onus is on it to keep these people busy.

You don't "return" people like you return money.
Pricing doesn't make me think about piracy.

But when streaming services own rights to stuff and refuse to make it available, it definitely makes me value real physical ownership again. DVD/Bluray, etc.

It's concerning that the power to just remove works is available.
> I understand that nonstandard analysis is a firm footing on which to build calculus, but is it totally equivalent to real analysis?

This is a bit of a philosophical question which hinges on what the word "equivalent" means. I disagree with the other comment. It is not totally equivalent, or even at all equivalent.

I think about math in terms of set theory. You create sets, like the real numbers, the integers, or otherwise. You can add other elements to those sets. For example:

* You can add a variety of infinities (countable, uncountable, positive, negative, etc.). You have a self-consistent system.

* You can add imaginary numbers, think of the whole thing as a ball, with a zero on one end and infinity on the other. That gives you complex analysis, which is self-consistent as well.

All of those are helpful, useful, and powerful, and generally lead to the same place where they overlap, they're not very compatible with each other, either formally or intuitively.

I view the two formulations of calculus as similar. Even if they lead to the same results, that's not the same as saying they're equivalent. They're different formalisms.
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> isn't any reason people in America couldn't choose such things

I mean, sure. I don’t want to. I lived without a car in New York and it was great. I live with a car in a low-density area and it’s also great. There should be a carbon tax, but that’s a fancy way of saying some people get cars and some don’t.

(Specifically: I don’t want to walk or bike when it’s -20° F. I don’t want to load up my skis every time on a bus, I literally can’t with a snowmobile, and I enjoy doing those things.)
> Sodium ion batteries are less dense than lithium have a third of the range

Got a source for the "one third" part? According to [1] and [2] lithium ion is up to 265 Wh/kg and sodium ion has 160 Wh/kg.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion_battery
[2] https://cleantechnica.com/2021/07/30/catl-reveals-sodium-ion...

edited for clarity
Ask HN: What are your favorite podcasts about indie game design/development?
With Ludum Dare coming up this weekend, I decided to get into game development again after a 3 year break. So I'm looking for good podcasts to listen to to get back into the field. Cheers!
Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34246215
Really well written blog, explaining all the concepts introduced in details.

>> Profiling our naive kernel

I would highly recommend trying out NVIDIA NSight Systems to help profiling: it gives a lot of information while optimizing for CUDA (together with info on CPU, NVTX markers, Vulkan,OpenGL etc).
According to Joe Biden, we've been in a recession for two years. But even if he was imprecise as he is wont to be, the Fed is saying there is a slowdown. Companies are not going to wait till they are near bankruptcy to lay people off.

Yes, they overhired but also those people hired got experience and a job. They may have instead landed a different job paying less (otherwise they would not have taken this job) or they may have not landed any job at all if all companies decided not to add that 25% growth in headcount.
Could tie them to the life of your dog or so. Be upfront about age and health of it and perhaps your creativity scores a few customers on that plan.
I'm really tired of all the streaming services and their various flaws. I've been tired of cable TV for decades now.

But I'm not about to jump to piracy.

I've started looking at setting up a personal Jellyfin server in my home network and buying DVDs and CDs again, and loading their contents into Jellyfin. That way I legally own all these things, they can't be taken away, and I have full control over my streaming experience.
Good to see fines that aren't just symbolic small change. As another commenter noted yesterday, “Give it another tenfold increase and I'm content.”
> Similar story with e-ink; the license costs for the technology are the main blocker to wider adoption.

How much is the license cost?
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True and we have a lot of natural gas and in a pinch we can run our vehicles off coal if needed even if not ideal. The flexibility of the power source due to decoupling seems so often overlooked especially when thinking about energy independence and protecting national interest.
Which studies specifically?
It's been pretty clear from all the guidence (e.g https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...) issued around GDPR 'forced consent' would not work - Facebook decided to try and push the limits and now have a massive fine.

What's slightly surprising is how long it's taken to get to the massive fines stage.
How I collected $3k while validating a product idea
Before building a product, it's important to validate the idea.

In this article I describe the process I followed to validate it, and accidentally collect $3k.
AI is now "in the wild" though.
Safer Linux Kernel Modules Using the D Programming Language
"In this paper, we show that it is possible to incrementally transition the kernel code from C to a memory safe programming language, D, by porting and integrating a device driver. In addition, we propose a series of code transformations that allow the D compiler to reason about the safety of certain memory operations. Our implementation increases the security guarantees of the kernel without incurring any performance penalties."
The data consumed from stdin is stored in a file to support scrollback.

> something to probably add to my clean up script.

These capture files are deleted if they are older than a day the next time lnav is run.

(I realize they should've been stored in ~/.local/state instead of ~/.config ...)
I didn't realize subtitles were different based on region.
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Now I don't see anything that implies that this is being used for training AI generated work... but I don't see any reason it can't be.

This has me seriously concerning for not only the future of art but all created work and who actually has the rights to that depending on what you use to make it.

What particularly bothers me is how quickly this was just accepted by society. I saw so many people defending it as "fun" because they just don't understand how it actually works.

I was really hoping that society would push back against AI generated things... that was proven wrong very very quickly.

I am sending this to all of my artist friends.
Your biases in mind, this is hardly surprising. It seems most companies would rather devote the majority of resources to marketing, rather than to engineering/production to actually fix problems and build a better product.

There are probably valid reasons for this. I don't want to step on any toes (yes I do), but it takes about 2 brain cells to come up with a new marketing gimmick compared to whatever value you want to assign to actual problem solving. Marketing is the lazy approach, in my opinion, but also there simply isn't enough problem solving talent available to solve all the problems. It seems we're coming around to education again... I'll leave off.
A few updates ago, they made it very difficult to save files to your local system. I wonder if this has anything to do with that. It is at the least a very dark UI pattern to get people to use their cloud storage offerings. Add to it that they use any data in the cloud storage as training data just really goes over the top.
Just because it's an American company doesn't mean it's not made in China.

https://pandaily.com/american-semiconductor-maker-texas-inst...

> Texas Instruments entered China in 1986 and set up R&D centers and product line teams in Shanghai, Shenzhen and Beijing. The company also established a manufacturing base in Chengdu and two product distribution centers in the country.

Chips are cheap, lightweight, and often made outside the US. They're pretty trivial to divert.
Agree with logfmt. I wrote the logfmter python library: https://github.com/jteppinette/python-logfmter. You can quickly have all of your logs (including 3rd party) converted to this style.
You are correct, obviously.

> I still want to participate in the collective modern culture ... so somethings got to give.

Same comment applies to this forum. I want to participate in discussions on HN, and therefore I am subject to the occasional job ad from YC companies. It's not perfect, but it's a bit facetious to compare that to the attention grabbing of Youtube/Amazon, etc who will intentionally curtail my efforts to find content I want, in lieu of something they want to promote.
Here is another script `getmp3.sh` that you can use to download .mp3 file from any youtube music video:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
echo "Downloading mp3 from $1"
yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 "$1"

You'll need to install https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#installation before you can use that. As you can see, the "script" is just so to add a options `-x` (extract audio) and `--audio-format mp3` to convert to mp3 in the end.
I've tested recently a very "refined" ipTV service that for the price of a single "mainstream" subscription "aggregates" all the newest content of all services + TV + Non Subscription services Movies, they provide simple to use apps for all Smart TV platforms, OS and phones, great user experience, 1 single account and app for everything.
Clearly all this is illegal but in a way, removes the direct legal risk of downloading stuff yourself, I got the feeling these type of offers will start to grow a lot soon, sadly we know this type of services will never be legal.
> In this day of age, piracy has increased risk with malware that mines bitcoin or locks your disk for ransom, so the risk is much higher and effectively lowers the benefit.

I don't think that's true at all, rather the opposite in fact. Piracy feels much safer now than it was 20 years ago.
Soapbox 3.0 – Web UI for the Fediverse
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Soapbox's latest release is incredibly nice, bringing support for a ton of great features to an already-great Fediverse UI: Quote Posts, Edit Post, Events, slicker Chat, and some other stuff. They also cleaned up the codebase further still (if you haven't looked, it's an excellent React codebase).
> Can you eat an entire pizza and still be hungry except it's physically painful to eat?

Same as the other poster, yes, but I can also still eat more without pain if it's a Large Domino's Pepperoni Pizza. If it's the Dominos "Deep Dish" though, that's my maximum. I can regularly put away a large Little Caesars pepperoni without trying, it's just a "normal meal".

The difference between me and people fatter than me is that after a large meal like this, my body stops "demanding" food for 1-2 days. Thats what keeps my weight in a +/- 3 lb range.

I know the difference because every once in a blue moon after I turned 30, my body's hunger signals will make me un-satiable. The experience of suddenly being unable to diet was jarring. I've managed to fix that somehow, thankfully. But it was very, very clear over several weeks that dieting was entirely beyond my control no matter how much willpower I had.
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WOW. Now do this with Figma.

>Prompt: Give me an Accessible Design System with all available user stories and tokenize it fully.

Let's go, Adobe. The future is now. I will grow my own food and f*ck around in the woods.

I will own nothing and I will be happy. I promise.
There is an open window for tech companies to free-ride layoffs at the moment, that's what's happening. And they are taking this opportunity to its fullest.
> There is no evidence suggesting that any of those companies are running afoul of US sanctions laws and knowingly exporting their technology to be used in the drones

Sounds like just standard parts rather than sensitive equipment.