skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, licensing. Narrated books are a separate publishing license, with its own production-cost model.
So a tech.company like Apple already having rights to sell the written words is still not licensed to publish a narrated version.
To sell an Audiobook, they have to acquire the license for a separate product, which so far includes the produced Audiobook itself.

It seems Apple is trying to get the audiobook license directly from those authors who didn't sign the license away yet, undercutting production cost for the Audiobook with "digital narration" and then earning more money per sale...

I guess we're going to see human narration die very fast now, at least for some common languages, and tech.companies want to ensure that they can split license from production cost, instead of being forced to buy the "whole" Audiobook...
Once I was working in London as a contractor, a colleague looked at my lunch after a while of working together, shook his head and told me "you are going to kill yourself". I hope that was indeed the worst 6mo in my life pretty much living on fast food, but I did not gain a penny in weight.

I think healthy eating habits would be the last thing that came to my friends minds when describing me.

I totally agree I'm only a sample of one that I know of, but the fact that this doctor relative of ours told my parents the cause-and-effect relationship beforehand, and it worked out, makes me believe the theory. Either way, I keep recommending it to my friends getting babies, so I'll be able to collect more data in the next 50 years. ;)

The thing is, that's the kind of gamble that costs nothing and might have immense upside, so it would be kinda silly not to apply it. My 2c.
This indeed makes it harder. If I wok some dish for 4 people and use 1 tbsp of olive oil, did I consume 1/4th tbsp? What if 2 of those 4 were kids, so I ate slightly more than 1/4th?
There is 0% chance that human genetics changed this much in the last 100 years (3-4 generations). Look at photos from 100 years ago, people were mostly thin.

So no, we’re not genetically predetermined to be hungry.

There’s something in our environment that’s messing with our circuits. Either some toxins (e.g. endocrine disrupters) or hyper palatable food (artificially engineered for max enjoyment and min satiety), or maybe something else.
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How do they even provide a plausible excuse for this? very bad look.
Smooth game.

I would like it more if there were some sound effects.
I don't disagree with you, but this discussion was about Adobe using its customer's photos without their consent, right? (no, I do not consider the small print to count here. Not on a moral level)

I feel like the discussion of ethical use of ML models, while a valid one, comes a couple of steps after that. Like, the hypothetical existence of good and fair FOSS models won't make this transgression by Adobe magically irrelevant, will it?
Gotta love the triple-cheeked butt (tutt? 3-butt?) in the last example.
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Usually the actual workers get fired, not the deadweight managers and support staff. So, the company slowly but surely falls.

The best also will see the writing on the wall first and gtfo for greener or better pastures.
Yes, but this researcher's field is body image and weight stigma, not mental health issues. In the paper that appears first if you google-scholar her name, she writes in the first sentence of the abstract "Weight bias [or the stigma towards and negative stereotypes about individuals who have large bodies] is a form of stigma with detrimental effects on the health and wellness of individuals with large bodies." So making people thinner will actually improve their health and wellness.

If she's worried about other negative outcomes, such as people not being able to afford the drug, she should say so. It might be an editorial fuck-up on Nature's side, of course: they just want to print some soothing words to demonstrate their neutrality.
It's specifically and explicitly illegal. You can't distinguish service based on consent, because then your consent is no longer consent, it's extortion.
If nothing else, being exposed to something for a short time has the effect of removing some of the fear of the unknown, at least. You might not be able to repeat any of the stuff you learned, but you'll go into it with a lot less fear the second time, and that's incredibly helpful. And I'm sure some of that stuff will come back to you, too.
Well, if they understand the concept of "business cycle", then yes, they do.
Free will is a product of our nature.
Well, Gates is absolutely terrible at PR and doesn't tick any of the boxes of being chic, unless it's some kind of so uncool that he's cool kind of thing.

Despite this and more importantly despite his reputation in business and the often laughable products MS produced, his tremendous philanthropy really changed my perspective on him.

In a world where there are mega-billionaires, he's my least unfavourite. He's doing good things with his money like eradicating malaria and funding bleeding edge climate tech. He's pretty outstanding wrt how he spends his money.
This is something I don't get - why aren't four 4k pixels in square used to render 1 pixel from 1080p signal? Unless you mean that input device does have 4k connection to TV, but content being played is 1080p, thus some interpolation happens (but still I would expect modern hardware should make it hard to spot, with good photo editing you don't lose quality dramatically when resizing).
I can understand the outsider art take.. I'm exploring a style of computing that undercuts so many deeply-embedded design assumptions (e.g., CPU, RAM, deterministic execution) that it's a big lift even for people who really want to get it.

It's a bit outdated, but FWIW https://direct.mit.edu/artl/article/22/4/431/2851/The-ulam-P... is reasonably coherent and approachable, I think..
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Is it possible for a hardware token to prevent this in theory? You could use a hardware token to compute challenge-response answers without having external access to the private key matter, as opposed to using simple secret API keys like we do today. This is basically how an HSM works too.

But does it solve the problem? It prevents the keymatter from leaking, but the problem is that the API key was put somewhere sensitive and then stolen. Presumably you'd need access to be able to use the keymatter from any location where you'd normally need API keys: CI machines, developer workstations, production, etc.

Worse, if you have some machines (CI, HSM) that are accessed over network traffic and that traffic is secured with an API key, you are back to square one again, where a stolen API key allows for continuous access.

Would this help for auditing? No, not really. You can already have plenty of auditing and alerting to try to prevent exfiltration anywhere an API key is used.

In other words, probably not. It might help a little bit just by making exploitation harder, in optimal circumstances, but it doesn't fundamentally change the problem; if dev workstations or CI are compromised, you're going to have a bad time.
I know of it, but I really only need nitter ;)
Github repos can require using company's vpn
Such is the tragedy of for-profit software engineering. The trade-offs we see today lead to choices that tie our hands when facing trade-offs we didn't foresee. Also why experience comes at such a premium. Seeing further down the line and knowing how to argue about it prevents whole classes of problems.
https://sites.google.com/eng.ucsd.edu/cse260fall2022/home

Albeit, much of the boilerplate was in place. Students were tasked with maximizing bandwidth via the optimization techniques mentioned in the article and other literature.
There's no conclusive single position of "current nutrition research".
> There are as many revolutionary discoveries with and without patents

I explicitly don't: I mentioned the patent stops others from innovating on top of the patent. The necessity of patents to be public is one I had not considered though, being a force against trade secrets is a good counterpoint.

> Whether patents lead to more or less innovation is, as far as I know, contentious.

Honestly, I really have trouble accepting this. Not that I have an answer, but with the idea that researchers haven't been able to find some sensible way of measuring this by now. I already mentioned the example of light bulbs. Surely there are enough similar historical scenarios available to analyze where one can make use of global differences in IP laws and other variables to simulate control groups?
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Popcorn has loads of carbs, and low satiety. Eat boiled potatoes.
I meant for example, if I hit Meta+o then I could press any single key after that.. i.e. 't' for terminal, 'f' for file manager, 'b' for browser. KDE doesn't support that, as far as I know.. nothing built in, anyways.
Shades of Joe Ades, that video...
You mean hanging whole sections of our value chain on other companies' assets was not the best idea?
Getting something up and running and managing something long-term are two different things.

I'm sure - even though I'm not particularly smart - I could get a simple k8s solution up and running in a week with the help of a YouTube video.

What happens six months in when I hit some critical k8s related issue and I lack the basic understanding of where to even begin to debug and fix it? For example I may introduce a serious security issue in a CI pipeline or whatever just due to inexperience and unfamiliarity.

I'm not saying Kubernetes (or for that matter, microservices) is the wrong pick for a small 3-person team. You know your own business better than I or anyone else and I'm sure you made the right choice. But personally I would be cautious about adopting a core production technology where my experience consists of one week and a YouTube tutorial.
No, we've just realized that they're just less evil than all the other current behemoths.

Sun tried to be "cool" but was really just a money loss machine and now Java and MySQL is the property of we-will-audit-you-Oracle and Mr I-will-sue-people-when-I-need-another-yacht-Ellison.

G had a motto of "do no evil", that motto is long gone. I've always disliked their handling of the Android platform (the handset manufucaturer/carrier dominance over application stores back in the J2ME days was horrible, Google's quest for marketshare let that go on for a few more years and allowed for some bad fragmentation for developers).

And this was just the start, their "AI-handles-support-so-we-don't-need-to-talk-to-humans" combined with accounts being suspended willy-nilly just leaves people stranded (anybody remember how an indie guy making an Stadia exclusive game was shut out of his Google account?) and speaking of stadia, what's Googles cancelled product body-count up to now?

Apple has had some pros on the privacy side but they've stumbled even there, and apart from that they've been quite a heavy-handed player with a clear my-way-or-the-highway attitude (vs Epic,Spotify,etc).

Amazon busting unions, fleecing people on AWS and copying popular products on the marketplace needs no more mentions.

The Ubers, Spotifys,etc of the world might've made things cheaper and more streamlined but there's been at a cost of distinct monetary pressure on drivers,musicians,etc.

Facebook facilitating genocides (Rohynga), election fraud (US/UK) and general lax privacy (Cambridge Analytica).

MS might have gotten worse in terms of privacy and ads(start menu ads,wtf?), but in general they've mostly kept to making money and actually supporting developers and opensource.
NPM/Github costs might be fractional for MS but would've probably landed the rest of us another SourceForge (remember the spyware they added to make money? That was probably what got GH off the ground more than anything) because we've not yet sorted a way for developers and distribution to get paid for our "free" contributions.
Truth is so, and I learned that, funny enough, during Catholic religion calsses in Bavaria of all places, that the bible as we know it was in fact not written by contemporary authors but much later by different authors. And multiple ones at that.
I mean a lot about the media is how it affects us, how it influences our very being, how it influences our fabric of the world and what the world means to us. Just looking at this in a rational or numeric fashion is certainly interesting, but also a guarantueed way to fail to recognize the bigger picture and make sense of it.

Theorists like McLuhan in that sense are more about raising questions in their readers than about providing statements of facts or prooving points. Sure some proof and some facts are needed, but if the theory is compelling it can become one of many available lenses through which we can examine the world around us.

We can perfectly understand the atmospheric light scattering and absorbtion that produces the colors of a beautiful sunset, but all of these facts will not help you make sense what it feels like to see it, what it means to those looking at it and how it influences their lives.

I don't want to say those who just look at the optical physics are somehow wrong in doing so, quite the opposite — but there can also be value in looking at the meaning of things in a different, more open way.
James Watt and his patents on steam engine are also an interesting case. Efficiency gains basically stopped for duration of the main patent patent and exploded later.

On the other hand it is also case for more innovation due to necessity, e.g. his patent on beam connection to a shaft (linear-to-rotary movement) required others to come up with a different solutions (e.g. sun and planet gear).
Crows are smart, and can use that against you. I have a bunch living near me, and have done some half-assed attempts at befriending them. Not because I want to be a goth Disney princess, but just so that we get along, and they don't mess with me. Also, crows chase away seagulls from the area, a big plus in by book.
> No, not necessarily. Several studies have shown that different people can get different amounts of energy out of the same food, depending amongst others on their gut micro biome, though stress also seems to play a role. It’s never going to be that simple.

Sure, so they just need to compute their at-rest calorie consumption differently, and from there the rest is the same.

> Conventional thermodynamics don’t work when you consider a full human, which is a very out-of-equilibrium and not-isolated system. Conservation of energy does not tell you anything about the efficiency of the energy extraction process.

This is like saying that even if you don't refuel your car it will never stop, because different cars have different mpg ratings. A human is indeed a closed system when you consider the works it outputs and the calories it ingests, unless I somehow missed a newfound capacity for photosynthesis. The fact that it might be a bit harder to compute calorie requirements than what might be naively done does not allow you to just dismiss everything else.
Yes. By way of example, my employer does this:

* gitlab hosted internally
* VPN needed to access gitlab
* VPN requires a gsuite login, with 2FA
* You can only login to a gsuite account on a employer-provided machine (so no access to anything on a non-employer machine, even email)

You'd have to steal a company laptop, or social engineer yourself into a building with a desktop machine, to even start to get near the code repository.

The "must login from a employer-provided machine" thing can be disabled on a per-user basis by remote policy (via an administrator), if needed.
Thanks for the explanation!

So it's pull based and not push based like most other streams lib.

Does maybe someone know how this compares to FS2 or Iteratees than? (Both are also pull based streaming solutions).

https://fs2.io/#/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iteratee

Looks quite similar to me. Is the Scala FS2 lib maybe even a clones of the Haskell solution? Or are they different in important aspects?
Remind me, in the history of the physical sciences, how many "groundbreaking breakthroughs," came from academics teaching undergraduates?

My mind is genuinely struggling...

Certainly not Curie, Einstein, Fleming worked in a hospital.

Maybe the problem is...

Undergraduates!
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"The engineer says 'What? Should I just let him go?'"

There might be a joke in there somewhere. But your version have bugs.
You only need one special client to be profitable. You might need to go through many other clients before you meet them.
"media outlets whose express mission is to desperately seek attention and hype up drama " - While I agree that in general the media often does that, in this particular case, the story contains quotes from a number of scientists stating how extreme this is. Its truly frightening. If (well to be honest probably when) such an anomaly happens in the summer, we're looking at 45-50C in Europe, which would mean severe effects on human health and food supplies. Not sure what the Guardian is meant to do in this context? The truth really is shocking and dramatic is it not? Should the media downplay it? I heard a Guardian editor on the radio stating they now use the term "Climate Crisis", because it is indeed, a crisis, nothing less. Words like "change" or "warming" doesn't even begin to capture the scale of how bad this is.
I think the cat is already out of the bag, and the death of human narration is imminent.

The fight now seems to be whether this transformation happens only in production, or companies like Apple succeed in breaking the total Audiobook price apart into "license" and "production", only buying the license and have the production done on their proprietary servers.

Overall, I agree it's inevitable that this results in a sharp decline in professionally narrated Audiobooks...
Amazon decides Kindle speech isn’t worth copyright fight (2009) — https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2009/03/amazon-backs-off-on-...

See also the recent lawsuit covering the other direction, automatic transcription of Audible books. https://www.geekwire.com/2020/amazon-owned-audible-major-pub...
The distributed backend part could be done via a lower-level set of distributed primitives from https://hackage.haskell.org/package/distributed-process
Yes, intelligence is the ability for a small finite system to deal with infinity of possibilities in a successful way.

No matter how big computationally the AI is, the test was always trying to deal with something new, outside its comfort zone. Preferably as far outside it as possible.
To do that successfully requires general problem solving and abstraction skills.

Of course one can do better or worse at that, including humans.

You cannot precompute most of the answer to a truly open question.
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Considering Churchill's loathe for working class people, your word will do.
And then you have contemporay (foregries produced around the same time the originals were) forgeries. Which is a different class of forgeries than modern ones.
Alan Kay's advocacy for funding science is a truly eminent life's work.
I can understand that sentence fine, I don't see anything wrong with it.
it's totally plausible. and best practice.

If you have a localised blog for multiple regions you will probably have your main blog set up to be indexed and your regional blogs set up to be no-indexed so that Google isn't indexing the same stuff twice.
That's arguably an even greater point than anyone realises.

All these geniuses... people are giving them jobs!
I want on Spotify early faery tales and parables of dragon-slayers and dragons as read aloud by Joe Rogan, Michael Bisping, Tom Aspinal to kids of the lower political-economy.
I hardly trust any service who refused to list their "drawback".
Current Physics PhD student here.

Pretty much this is the case. Trying to not get spun out of academia is hard work, due to the limited opportunities. Especially is you're unable to move beyond your own country.

Then the temptation of other jobs that easily pay three, four, fives times the salary creep in.
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Its just the evolution vs revolution periods...
In any field 99% of the time advancements are slow and incremental, than a new idea sparks a revolution and you get a lot of advancements in a short period of time. This is just the nature of scientific progress.

In the early 20 century new ideas in physics and mathematics sparked a revolution and we are slowly unraveling the benefits of it ever since.
For 40 years we had evolution in the AI research field, now we have a revolution, I do not know when it will die down but after a while we will just start to build over the ideas we discovered and a long period will pass before we do another jump.
Same with psychology, economics, biology...
The article is confusing and unclear and addresses many different topics at once. The digressions about bass-playing are frankly irrelevant.

One could end up thinking all Dead Sea Scrolls are fakes. They are not. The Dead Sea Scrolls are real, but some fragments, sold as originals for millions of dollars to rich collectors, are modern forgeries.

And bad fakes too. Dead Sea Scrolls are made of parchment; the fakes are from leather. Both come from animal skin but parchment is stretched and dried while leather is tanned: mixed with vegetable astringent compounds that cause the skin to contract and harden. The fakes, possibly made from "ancient Roman shoes" (!) were coated with animal glue, and written upon with modern ink that followed the creases and tears of the leather. (Obviously when someone writes on a new piece of parchment that later becomes cracked and torn, there would be no writing inside the cracks).

Now I'm no scholar and I gathered the above from various online articles, but it seems it the deception was pretty obvious, and in fact once someone started doubting all experts agreed and there was no controversy.

I find the world of forgeries fascinating because it speaks of the human mind, how our desire to make something real blocks our perception and any kind of critical thinking. I wish the article spoke of that more rather than the various talents and life history of Mr. Langlois.