skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to see this technology become cheap and ubiquitous enough that everyone can choose for themselves what voice they would like to hear right at the moment of consumption. It's always a huge bummer when there's a book I want to listen to on audible with terrible narration. Somebody must have liked that voice for the person to be hired, but people's tastes differ and sometimes the people they've selected just really grate on my ears.

It would also be cool if celebrities / existing voice talent could somehow license the synthesis of their voice. I read something about James Earl Jones doing this with Disney for future Star Wars projects. I'm sure there are people out there who would love to have every work they listen to be in the voice of their favorite narrator/celebrity.
Thanks. Then it's essentially the same situation. I imagined UK might be more fortunate due to being an island.

But then wind power can only be part of a mix of energy sources, with a strong supply of baseload power backing it.
The Hubble model is available here: https://web.archive.org/web/20190514200001/https://hubblesit...
Keyword: after they scaled up. First they became Facebook :)
Someone should have told Slide, "the creators of SuperPoke!" Besides that tagline about making a useless Facebook add-on feature that already existed, their recruiters never did explain what they did beyond like 3 Facebook API calls.
Two years back I realised that I am being very forgetful so I reached out to a professional for advice. I was advised to play memory games on Lumosity (https://www.lumosity.com/en/) along with a few other tips (like : record your todos in phone but try remembering that list from mind). I did these exercises for a few months (~3 months) with discipline. I was surprised that it really had an impact on me. So when the article mentioned that it is a skill which could be developed, I can second that idea.
Depends on what you care about in your tooling.
Feynman on Why Questions (1983)
Breeder reactors have no bearing on the costs of primary mineral extraction from the crust - it's a seperate line of discussion altogether to this sub thread.

Perhaps you intended your comment in reply to someone discussing the pros|cons of fuel generation via breeder reactors rath than to my comment which addresses the inevitable rising effort required to extract more resource from the crust (or ocean) over time.
Good point. That's probably why high-quality tv series emerged as a phenomenon. Once the TV producers tried making expensive, star-fronted, good-story series, they've got a new hit-driven ecosystem.
I think there are a few that we can easily see right now if we try to step outside ourselves. The typical western toilet is one filled with drinking water which we then pay money to try to process and recover the drinking water. All while other humans go without drinking water.
I wonder if there are particular Rust crates that they want to reuse? It might be interesting to see what they start using first.
Try :normal (:norm for short.) It can edit a set of lines given a certain set of vim commands. Sometimes simpler to reason with than regexes.

E.g., if you want to turn,

* a
* b
* c

into,

"a",
"b",
"c",

V, highlight the lines, :norm 2xi"^[A", — 2x to remove the star+space, i" to insert the quote — now we need to get out of insert mode, so that's tricky: Type ^V ESC there for verbatim ESC (I've rendered that in the command as vim will, ^[, but it will be colored to denote that it's a real ESC character) — then A", (append a quote and a comma).

You could do it with a regex, but I just find it far more natural to list the commands: my brain is already imaging it that way: remove the bullet, add the quotes and the comma.

Good for-loop for "do this to each line". Sometimes takes a bit of back & forth to construct the command, or sometimes it's just easier to do multiple :norm's. One of the best additions to my repertoire in years.
This new price cut makes the new $7500 "inflation reduction"(lol) federal tax credit effective for at least the model Y, maybe other models too. So that may play a role - Tesla cut the price $10k but it really is more like an $18k price cut.

Also, keep in mind Tesla raised prices multiple times over the past couple years - the Y started out at $48k (I think) and made it up to $62k, and is now back down to $52k. I always assumed they just raised the prices because of the hot/weird COVID car market.
I agree, and we luckily see trends in this direction
Doesn't seem to be a difference. UK just has better access to gas, for now I presume.

Without a baseload power source a modern economy just can't function. That is why intermittent sources like wind and solar must be a minority of the energy supply.

In Germany they don't have access to hydro and have chosen to dispense with their nuclear capacity. That leaves gas. Without Russia that is becoming hard and expensive. That leaves coal. Germany had enormous deposits of coal.
All of your dependencies are individual repositories. The whole world runs on polyrepo.

If that's not a success story, I don't know what is.
If I understand your problem correctly, you could maybe use Honcho.

https://pypi.org/project/honcho/
you can go ahead and point them out smart ass
> As others have pointed out the standard is here:

As others also pointed out, it's a different standard.

File System: Mozilla isn't opposed

File System Access API: considered harmful

There are parts (of whichever spec) that neither Mozilla nor Safari are opposed to like Private Origin File System. That one ships across all browsers.

> So what?

Ah yes. So what if a dominant browser ships features without any consensus, against objections, with badly written specs, or with glaring issues.

As to "don't use it", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31905404
Clever girls.
Is golang really that easy to get started with?
When I went to school we skipped 4th grade going from 3rd to 5th, so our 7th grade was equivalent to the 6th grade in the US
Does not expose to whom? Leak to whom?
I work differently. I mainly read code, and do small manipulations in different places. Reading technical documentation is maybe 5% of what I do. I mainly need to figure out code.

So basically it's jumping around, refactor some stuff, and add some stuff. For that, Vim is ideal.

Code only flows straight from brain to fingers when it's trivial and boring ;).

I use the VSVim plugin in VSCode. I wouldn't necessarily call it a "productivity boost", but more of a convenience or ergonomic solution.

The Vim keybindings make it really easy to for example copy something within () and then navigate quickly and paste it somewhere without touching your mouse.

But overall I agree, I can probably do the same amount of work without the Vim plugin, it would just make it more inconvenient: more mouse manipulations, ctrl-shift-arrow finger spreadstands to select chucks of text etc.
Freedom of Navigation
Check it out at www.backprop.io. Would love to know what you think!
> I don't think the market is wrong.

But the market can be wrong! In many situations. In fact, it's only "right" under the most ideal of circumstances, perfect information, perfect competition etc.

Then there's the question about what kind of right we're actually talking about here. To an ideal market, right is distributing resources to optimize profit. But if some people are less profitable than others, that clashes with other, arguably more natural, notions of "right".
vim has had these keybindings/controls as primary features for decades, and people that have these in their muscle memory the benefits have accrued over a long time and a number of different platforms.
While I agree with the point, communist area just isn't good example of that. There were huge differences in wealth in communist society as well. It's probably because the pure communist society is impossible anyway - it's impossible to keep people away from maximizing their own well-being without violence.
Some avid vim users will also use https://vimium.github.io/ in their browsers, so they can also browse using the keyboard and vim-like cursor movement commands.
Have a look at how the CEOs get their position in the first place; it's more of a network of people using their current positions to extract money while jerking each other off. It's not really a question of market effect or competence, it's more that if you try to find someone who asks for less and isn't in the network, the existing powers sink the stock price, buy shares and appoint a highly paid buddy to solve the problem they created in the first place.
Tridactyl does the job for most websites pretty well as for text heavy sites like documentation it’s very good.

https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl
Still does not help when the wind simply is not blowing. You can't have an energy system dominated by intermittent sources.
I can check out a git revision and the library dependencies will be handled transparently by the package manager.

No doubt this is possible with service approach, but it means additional layers of complexity added on top.
IMO TypeScript nudges you away from bad patterns. If it’s a mess to type it, it’s probably a mess in general.

If you are in a very rare situation and think you know better then there’s “any”, although at that point you really need to think “I’m risking runtime errors and this code is confusing, is it worth it or is there another way?”
Re libraries incompatible with certain typescript versions - e.g. protobufjs fix - it’s been my experience that you want to try and only use compilers specific to each library and compile libraries separately. It’s unfortunate but the JS community often tries to run all JS for a project through the same single compiler tool chain, using one global version of the compiler instead of relying on and effectively linking the JS output for each library. Unless you routinely rewrite third-party libraries to match your toolchain’s expectations, you’re going to have a hard time doing that.

For a library that generates code, that’s a special case, as the code it generates must target a particular language version. You have three choices: 1. Upstream a fix as you propose; 2. Side-by-side install both TS 4.6 and TS 4.7 using workspaces or sub-projects and have some of your code compile with 4.6 and then link the results or 3. Find a replacement that is updated to 4.7. For example, https://github.com/stephenh/ts-proto has 4.7 support listed in its readme.
"Thank you, TypeScript." < something I have said sincerely on a few occasions.

"Thank you, JavaScript." < something I have said sarcastically on many occasions.
Is the hot/weird Covid car market doing better by now?
I understood their point to be that that based on our understanding of basic physics and chemistry, the energy balance is such that the Earth system is gaining energy, and that this will lead to increased temperatures among other things. Certainly there are all kinds of complexities about how that energy will be distributed and what the effects will be, but just in terms of a simple energy balance model based on well understood physics, it would be difficult to make the case that warming won't happen.
I don't find myself needing the browser too much when I code. Other than to reload a page if I'm tweaking something on the FE.

Not that I know everything, but I view informational browsing as a distraction while programming. The LSP augments most of the knowledge gaps for me.

If vim isn't for you that's cool. But I find other editors for me are this-is-fine.gif.
The only thing that's implausible is the claim that all birds are spy devices.

It seems inconceivable that some modern spy devices aren't camouflaged as flying birds. A perfect smokescreen would be to widely disseminate the patently ridiculous ("joke") claim that all birds are spy devices, thus muddying the waters.

It's a simple logical shift: "there exists" vs. "for all."
It is a bit confusing right now I find!

I think you need a seperate Unifi router and APs to get wifi 6/AX.

The integrated cylinder Dream Machines don’t seem to do wifi 6. Not sure :-)

Hard to work out.
You _can_ actually do this, but you'll end up insane, and ranting about god.
All of that can be done in JetBrains' IDEs with a single hotkey. Especially stuff like code extraction or variable/class/function renaming — it actually works reliably across the whole project (not just a couple of files) even if you have multiple functions with the same name. Extracting code to variables/constants/functions also works reliably (like automatically adding referenced data as function arguments).
Some more interesting food for thought:

>The classical big bang cosmological models describe gravitation by Einstein’s general theory of relativity. These models are able to treat the matter content of the universe quantum mechanically where appropriate, but they do not take into account the interplay of quantum theory and gravity.... The earliest universe was presumably quantum mechanical through and through, and we can no longer describe its initial conditions in a classical language. We must instead treat the whole early universe as a quantum system and formulate its initial conditions in the language of quantum mechanics.... Quantum gravity theorists have not shied away from the challenge. At present there are some half a dozen contenders...."

https://www.einstein-online.info/en/spotlight/quantum_cosmo_...
Resveratrol is "as close to a miraculous molecule as you can find."

NAD+ “is the closest we’ve gotten to a fountain of youth.”

Both quoted in an excellent article on Sinclair:

https://www.bostonmagazine.com/health/2019/10/29/david-sincl...
See “Peer Group” on page 45 of Apple’s 2023 Proxy Statement <https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0000320193/ebbd88b...> (page 48 of the overall PDF).
Thanks for your work, TS saves me time every day. I was saying something similar to the op 3-4 years ago but really cannot picture working without some kind of type safety in JS now.
Thank you for this list.
Personally I'm super happy to see FHD@15" make a return. I have pretty ok eyesight, but QHD@15" is unreadable without fractional scaling (which will probably be usable… right around the same time as Wayland and fusion energy).
You make many valid points and I want to address some of them here:
1. My belief of what a qualifying exam is that it’s almost the only time an external expert, someone not the advisor, gets an opportunity to gauge the readiness of the student for a PhD. You are correct that a competent unbiased advisor will already know if the student is ready for a PhD but the two adjectives in this sentence make the case for why independent external evaluation is needed in such a case. I worked with advisors who eventually became antagonistic to my interests and I depended on the quals and viva exams to make sure they don’t screw me over. I also lived through multiple generations of PhD students going through this lab via many universities and grad programs, and every program with lax quals only enabled advisors to have outsized influence on the students future (either for better or worse). So hopefully I have made the case for why external evaluation is necessary.

With that convinced, let’s then ask how best can external evaluators gauge a PhD student? Written work might not work since you can never tell how much help they had. In fact I feel you can never trust anything that is “take home” Because at the graduate level it’s hard to evaluate an individuals’ contribution to a piece of research. Which only becomes harder in the more collaborative environments of today! So I’ll be curious what you think the solution here is if viva exams are not equitable.

2. You are correct that some people don’t do well under the time pressure of things like quals. But unless there’s a viable solution for problem 1 above, i feel this is an acceptable compromise. This is not an exam where it’s determined you get basic rights, it’s an exam to choose elite members of a society that should be meritoriously selective. And as grueling tests go this seems the lightest! Just an hour of grilling by 4 people in closed doors, and you get
Multiple chances and infinite time to prepare! How much simpler can it get?

Further, how sure are we that this skill doesn’t indirectly transfer to their future career? You are correct that phds can be productive without ever talking to another human being but doesn’t mean this skill isn’t important or helpful. This is like asking the navy seals training to become less strenuous because it could exclude people and maybe because carrying logs doesn’t directly apply to their future career! I’d argue it does tangentially help and given the lack of alternative testing methods this seems perfectly acceptable.
That can’t possibly be right, at least wait until you have product market fit.

Also there’s going to be something analogous to PMF for the tools themselves. Beyond CRUD, which is already trivial with most backends, you won’t really know what advanced admin tool features are needed until you’re servicing support requests.

On early stage products it’s very possible you’ll switch backends at some point. Most recently I had a POC using Redis (for reasons) and if I’d written any admin tools instead of just using the CLI, it would have been 100% thrown away when I migrated to Cloudflare Workers.
I use trydactyl.

Really, the model doesn't fall apart. But you don't have to use it if you don't want to.
If it's so easy go start your own Fortune 500 company, or figure out how to "jerk someone off" to get the job.

I think your cynical vision of how operating a large business works is wildly incorrect and is a left-wing fantasy.
Sure, that can happen. I guess I feel like if it's that much of a problem for any given library, you always have various ways of disabling checks where you need to and still benefiting from them elsewhere. So it's still a net benefit

I will also say- GraphQL almost by nature is gonna be a really hairy thing to statically type, especially on the server side. We've got an Apollo server at my company and thus far we've pretty much just punted on trying to type that part of things. Which is also more okay than might be for other things, because GQL does its own runtime validation anyway
Also, AI will do the filtering, not just blocking uninteresting content, but actually removing known and uninteresting information from content.
Obviously that reading isn't sufficiently originalist, merely another example of radical judges making up laws out of thin air.

The text of the Constitution says what it says plainly, and obviously the Founding Fathers meant for it to say exactly what I read.
Hire the Penguin and build giant batteries?
I don't think the entire market is off by an order of magnitude for a huge group of people. There is a competitive market for competent CEOs and the pay reflects supply and demand.

Again, if you want to go throw your hat in the ring, be my guest. Clearly it's very easy to a lot of people here. Good luck
It's not about safe.

It's about:

utility_positive_outcome * probability_postitive_outcome + utility_negative_outcome * probability_negative_outcome

You've made these two smaller in absolute magnitude, but also biased things toward negative (look up the side effects of neuroleptics).

You've also conveniently deprived those affected of their agency to have an opinion about this.
Boeing 737 Max makes first passenger flight in China since March 2019
Gablok: An Insulated Block
How I'm thinking about Twitter (and general) bookmarking now, after several hundred bookmarks.
> the uniform ultimate backdrop we have when looking in any direction

Is the CMB exactly uniform in every direction? Or is this early light slightly more redshifted when we look up versus when we look down or left or right? Does the oldest light we see in any given direction vary slightly in color?

I'm imagining the universe expanding as a sphere from a central point, but we're located off-center. Wouldn't the early infrared photons emitted from the other side of the central point of expansion from us be observed by us now as a slightly different color than the early infrared photons emitted closer to the edge of the early expanding universe?

A rabbit hole of questions:
- When did space start expanding?
- Did it have to rapidly expand for 400k years as extreme forces propelled matter apart?
- Was that expansion faster or slower than the current expansion of space between galaxy groups?
- Is expansion uniform across the universe?
- Or is expansion slower closest to the original center of the universe?
- Maybe there's a central point in the universe that's not moving relative to a reference frame outside our universe?
- Is space discrete or continuous?
- As space expands do new "units" of space appear between units of space that have grown farther apart?
- If not, wouldn't physics work differently for areas of space where the units of space have grown farther apart than areas of space where the units of space aren't as far apart?
> Can I just open an issue in the TypeScript repo for this sort of thing if I have a concrete suggestion?

Yes. There are even issue templates to guide you through writing an issue that the team will be able to address effectively.
Forest ranger? Seems about as opposite direction that you could go
Yeah that was weird. How were we using vim for 20 years before that book ?
Absolutely worth it. The benefits far outweigh these downsides, and I’m surprised someone who’s been using it for two years doesn’t agree.

I would simply refuse to work on a JavaScript project at this point.
There are two different axes: the severity of the punishment, and the predictability of receiving that punishment. Severity, applied spuriously, doesn't really provide a meaningful deterrent. A less severe sanction, applied predictably and reliably, does.

If the way you operate a motor vehicle causes a death, you should be charged. If there were a meaningful risk of jail time for bad driving (including driving tired, speeding, driving recklessly, etc), people would either drive less, or would drive more carefully.
Git _can_ accomodate both! Just use merge commits, and collapse them when you want the simplified "linear list of merged PRs" history.
This sounds like Cyclone, SoftBound, CCured, to some extent Zig, etc.
How do you plan to force someone to work who isn't willing to, just to make sure everyone in the society gets equal wealth?

The communists had a solution.
I think the author takes seriously the constant whining noise in the dev team "who did that shit, why dont we have that, why is this still manual, what idiot made this architecture".

In fact, the very existence of this whining is possible because competitors got beaten, clients got their edge cases hacked in, low cost employees rushed the MVC etc... It's part of life and I now learned to enjoy it and complain too, while mad rushing stuff to avoid losing a big client...

I wish money was no object, competitors helped instead of fucking us, client had patience, taxes were low, engineers were cheap. But it isnt so yet.
It seems like the question of “how could people have believed that” would be best answered by historians? And if this question is based on what you saw in a movie or novel, first you need to learn about how accurate it is. Did people really believe what you imagine they believed?

Bret Devereaux‘s writing particularly comes to mind. I liked his series about polytheism in ancient times:

https://acoup.blog/category/collections/practical-polytheism...

https://acoup.blog/2019/10/25/collections-practical-polythei...
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He was an American.