skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Does anyone have a solution to 'listen' to newsletters?
I listen to a lot of podcasts and I subscribe to a lot of newsletters but honestly I do more of the former. I've been looking for a long time for a system where I maybe forward an email, and have it come back as a podcast in my feed.

I thought this was only me but one of my good friends is legally blind. He has a screen reader for his emails, but it's tied to his gmail and he can't carry it around with him. He also has the same problem and we had a long conversation about it last night.

There was a thing called HeraldSpeaks but it now 404s. Does anyone know anything else? Thanks in advance!
Thank you both for this. I have all the respect for Wolfram in the world but brevity is not his strong point with writing.
In my opinion, managers with little understanding of the customer experience should be condescended to. If they think it's beneath them to do a little actual work, doubly so.
Vyvanse might be tough to OTC. It's still quite possible to get increasing need to take more and more and get psychosis.
Workers “know the truth” about the derailment, why are they being ignored?
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Hard agree on the interview focus. I think Google's interview culture has optimized heavily for missing forest for the trees, where the person will be extremely good at solving hard but well defined problems. But general customer empathy, releasing things that matter, long term maintenance are not favoured at all.
I never worked at Google. But had a senior product manager who joined a startup where I worked. We were building an SMB focussed product for developing world. At one point of time a pissed off customer was on the call and the account manager begged the xoogler to join the call. The guy was astonished at the suggestion and blurted out that "we don't talk with customers, we build". The product doomed, I moved on. But that one incidence has had lasting impression on me.
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You can't find them anywhere? Not even Archive.org?

Please tell me you can find them somewhere.
Error on site (hopefully temporary): Error establishing a database connection

Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20230216110220/neil-clarke.com/a...

The intro:

> Since the early days of the pandemic, I’ve observed an increase in the number of spammy submissions to Clarkesworld. What I mean by that is that there’s an honest interest in being published, but not in having to do the actual work.

More details (also calling this "AI spam"):

> What I can say is that the number of spam submissions resulting in bans has hit 38% this month. While rejecting and banning these submissions has been simple, it’s growing at a rate that will necessitate changes. To make matters worse, the technology is only going to get better, so detection will become more challenging.

Link to the mentioned magazine, which is for science fiction & fantasy: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/

They go into detail about accepting submissions:

> Clarkesworld Magazine is a Hugo, World Fantasy, and British Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine that publishes short stories, interviews, articles and audio fiction. Issues are published monthly and available on our website, for purchase in ebook format, and via electronic subscription. All original fiction is also published in our trade paperback series from Wyrm Publishing. We are currently open for art, non-fiction and short story submissions.

(just summarizing a bit, since the title didn't make sense alone, then the site crashed and I wasn't that familiar with Clarkesworld in particular)
Android flagships from the last 6 years or so have USB 3.0.
Always a good idea to add "so-called" mentally when that word comes up. Only trust experts who are responsible for the outcome of their interventions.
Decentralized like...payment cards, controlled by a global duopoly?? The closest thing to decentralized payments we have is SEPA payments via PSD2 "open banking" APIs, but that is significantly more difficult to implement and bank support is spotty due to TPPs having to negotiate access with each bank individually.
The UP2817Q actually runs at 90W (but it's a 600 full / 1000 area nits HDR display).
I agree, for some reason my brain sees the non-nested versions of CSS as more readable. Although we seem to be in the minority here. Very open to trying out nesting and perhaps my brain will 'flip' to eventually prefer it.
The Intel not making chips for any gaming console I'd imagine
I think the two approaches are not that far apart. High teaching standards require an elite and dedicated student body and will weed out all that don't conform. An aggressive entry barrier for a limited number of seats will push applicants to compete with each other and select for largely the same thing, only earlier and at a lower cost for the students and the educational system.

I've experienced both systems "easy to enter, next to impossible to finish" vs "highly selective, smooth sailing after that", I can't say there is a definitive superior solution.
I've been using BingGPT or whatever you want to call it and it seems OK to me. The only obvious hallucination I've seen is that I asked it to summarize a relatively new but niche book, and it was curiously and bizarrely wrong - it had all the characters right, and 30kft view of the plot right, but all the details wrong.

I asked it about a more mainstream work and it got it exactly right.

Since then I've been using it for more creative tasks (write this) or having it as a troubleshooting assistant (this isn't working on FreeBSD, explain why), and it's done great and saved me a lot of work. I thought this was a fringe case when I read about doing it with ChatGPT, but it really is extremely useful. This is a low-pripority problem I spent a few hours googling one day and got nowhere, Bing/Sydney got me 99% of the solution and wrote the scripts I needed for me.

Also, it's a way of using ChatGPT without providing your phone number, which i refused to do.
For example China already is experimenting with digital "money" you can only spend until specific date (before it expires) so people won't have savings (needless to say they also control who pays for what and can even block you completely once you say something the state doesn't like).

Israel is not a cashless society yet but already requires people to specifically declare cash savings exceeding certain (pretty humble) amounts even if they have already declared the income and paid the taxes.
I feel the need to interject that in order to fully utilize a chip like 13900kf as done in benchmark scenarios by e.g. youtubers, one needs to put a lot of money on cooling, and control the ambient temperature.

The wattage difference between AMD and Intel cpus is not just a matter of feeding it more electricity. Heat dissipation, air flow if air cooling, or reservoir capacity if water cooling, and control of ambient temperatures matters a lot.

Then, one also needs adequate power delivery to deal with stability issues.
Nonsense. It's "gated" by common APIs available in programming languages.

If this feature is Windows-only then barely anyone would take the requisite time and effort to use it properly.

Have a POSIX-like API that is supported at least on Win / Mac / Linux and you'll see people adopting it. Before that, no chance. It's not justified.
Funny you mention that… I have done exactly this. Including using ElevenLabs for TTS. And also teaching it “facts” about me / calendar for the day in a hidden prompt when launching a conversation. It works pretty well.
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And most gamers probably lack the cooling needed for those chips.
I'm not seeing a lot of people talking on the phone outside.

Texting in public was never an issue. Not sure what you mean here.

Questions like what song is running are mundane.

The advantages of qr code are still very limited. Restaurant menu? Sure. What else? Perhaps wifi code? Okay.

But what else really? Driving perhaps I can see that. Instead of adding are in the car I might want to wear an AR car version but what then?

I don't believe people will be willing to elwear any type of glasses if they don't have to every day. If you then don't have it every day it will not become a sane default.
> But the failure rate without tool mis-use seems quite high anecdotally

The problem with your judgement is you click on every “haw haw, ChatGPT dumb” and you don’t read any of the articles that show how an LLM works, what is is quantitatively good at and bad at and how to improve performance on tasks using other methods such as PAL, Toolformer or other analytic augmentation methods.

Go read some objective studies and you won’t be yet another servomechanism blindly spreading incorrect assumptions based on anecdotes from attention starved bloggers.
It’s clear that the AI snake oil that is being sold here by the AI bros is no better than the hype and mania of the crypto bros of 2021.

If anything it just shows that by just using it, it fails to live up to the hype and certainly falls flat on competing against search engines with it hallucinating its results.

Another orchestrated failed attempt at selling Microsoft-flavoured AI snake-oil with techno-speak to the markets in order to create a worse search engine than Google.
This is true. I am simply stating an observation about how I am treated in relation to those around me in the workplace. Not everyone can be truly good at the work they do. It makes me wonder if in fact I am one of these people.
There is a great need for a better solution to information retrival, a problem we have always struggled to solve at scale. LLMs are being shoehorned into solving it because while they are pretty bad at it, they are much better than anything else we've come up with.

There are plenty of other usecases people have identified, but they are overshadowed by the large need people are expressing for better information retrival methods.
It has been striking to me how post-modern philosophy seems to have recentered itself around the questions of language... while «naming things» is considered one of the ~~two~~ three «hardest problems in CS» !

Not directly related to the above, but maybe also relevant : Wolfram's «new science» project centered around computability : https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2017/05/a-new-kind-of-sc...
With all due respect, Gary Marcus is turning himself into a parody of Jürgen Schmidhuber. All he talks and writes about, to anyone who would listen, is how the work of others, that resulted in products that millions of people love, isn't good enough. He's a bit like that snob who when invited to taste the best falafel in town complains incessantly that it isn't a Michelin 3 star meal. Yes, we know it isn't. It's a falafel. And it's delicious.
> And people who get really annoyed by these extra unwanted results will just complain on tech discussion forums, while still buying their books from Amazon anyway.

For a while! But I've now made Amazon my second source for things because the user experience has declined so much over the years. Now I buy books via my local bookstore's website. And for anything else, I'll try to buy via the manufacturer or via something found on Google Shopping before I'll buy it from Google.

I still spend money with them, but much less than I used to. And as their devotion to profit first, customers last increases, I expect to keep edging away from them.
You end up with the issue of what happens if a commonly used library (or even something like glibc) wants to use AVX512 for some common operation, you could end up with most / all processes pinned to the P cores.
For whatever reason, I can't access the pdf file - but with pancreatic cancer being as latent and asymptomatic as it is, does this study mention how early it can be detected? It would be absolutely fantastic news if pancreatic cancer can be detected early on - as once the symptoms set in, the prognosis tends to be very poor. It's one of the few diseases I've seen where people have gone from feeling uneasy, to being dead in just a couple of weeks.
Because it is wanton destruction of public property.
I personally hope these types of AI's make it into future games as bots to play against in single-player, and also as an agent to run some of the background stuff while you're focusing on other things.

For example, in Starcraft, when you A-move a large part of your army across the map, an AlphaStar-like AI could decide which units to prioritize it to attack once it reaches a group of enemy units, or what formation to move in (automatically keeping colossus in back, observer ahead, balls of marines split apart into smaller clumps), or when your Terran army encounters a significant force along the way, the tanks in back could auto-siege / auto-unsiege.
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It's been growing ever so slightly all this time if Maven downloads are to be believed, but it has also been on a downward trend in the hype cycle for the past few years ever since Rich Hickey stepped back from the limelight.
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Don’t leave us hangin’ with the asymmetry!

From yet another, not having kids is a selfish choice.
Disagreed, the UNIX FS model is as bad as you can get.

It "works" only because 99.99% of all programs don't try to poke into other files and directories where their fingers don't belong. That's the only reason things are not in a complete chaos.

We need DB-like features in FS-es not just yesterday, but 10 years ago.

Some of the most successful projects I've seen and participated in were making a heavy usage of SQLite which does solve the FS deficiencies quite well. Though it does require a buy-in that's rarely there for most teams.

We don't need more abstractions on top of stuff. We need new ways of interacting with the old existing stuff while hiding the existing stuff forever.
Was part of a team some time ago where we had 100% FE and BE test coverage. Good suit of E2E tests, functional tests and contract tests. In most cases it took longer time to get the test coverage done than to write the code itself.

Overall it was tremendously valuable as it becomes pretty trivial to refactor the code or even move to a new major library version that was core of the architecture. I cannot imaging nowadays without good tests suit as code needs to evolve and you want to sleep at night as well.

Still, you'll never cover the complex business logic and interactions between many many different services in a large complex system that can be only tested doing manually by a person who knows/looks the domain in a higher level.

Bugs still appeared in the RC, live environment when all the systems started acting together.

From my experience 80/20 rule is pretty good one to have. Getting it to 100% meant to run the code coverage analyser and looking at all the code paths that are not yet handled that in many cases were code paths that never caused us problems in live and were not even crucial when doing major refactoring as it was already covered by the 80%.

Looking back at least for that specific project, I'd say having little bit less coverage would have been much better and would have enabled us to move tad bit faster and test new features on the field to validate if they benefit the business or not.

Nowadays I am leaning towards having a pragmatic view on writing tests.
The real difficulty is in finding good critique. My current workplace uses rails and the amount of pedantry around supposed best practices is hard for me to wrap my head around. Given how hard it generally is for me to land new jobs, I am, over many years now, coming to the conclusion that I might be pretty bad at what I do which is a hard pill to swallow.
It's not "just a fucking bar", being a gay bar is a defining characteristic that people actively look for to meet gay people or to avoid it if they are conservative.

Of course another group of people is the one that simply don't care, but let's not pretend the others don't exist/are not valid.

I would not expect it to be kept out of recommendations, but it should be noted in the description, in the same way that one would describe a restaurant as Iranian for example.
We are emotional beings. And it is past due for some strong emotional reactions on this topic.
The version of the song that is most famous is the cover: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Along_the_Watchtower
No, my disk was unencrypted, it was a routine installation with distro defaults. I tried Manjaro that was a horrific experience from the get-go.

It's possible that a lot of this in Pop_OS is related to wayland and gnome. The previous machine run a 5800x with a 1080ti, this runs a 12700k with a 3090ti, same distro otherwise.
I don't know about China, but Russia took a page from their own playbook since war with Ukraine is not much different with what happened with Georgia (South Ossetia, Abkhazia), Moldova (Transnistria), Chechnya, many years before the start of the "War on Terror".
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Though I would like it to be more open (like the Android AOAP), I disagree with the "abuse of position".

They build a smartphone, they don't have to enable ethernet-over-usb if they don't want to (most Android phones don't). Just like they don't have to add cameras to their smartphones if they don't want to.

I guess they can totally say "you can only use MFi-certified ethernet adapter with iOS devices", and this actually brings security ("when you plug an ethernet adapter in your iPhone, you can be sure it won't behave like a keyboard and try to hack you").

Of course I wish everything was more open. But that does not make it an abuse of their position. Most software out there is vendor-locked and proprietary.
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I'll stop the discussion here because some regions do issue debit cards that are usable online like a credit card and are connected to Visa and Mastercard with 3DS and such, but other regions either treat that as a luxury item or requires you to pay a maintaining fee just like credit card (for Americans, yes in other countries even if you always paid in time there is still a separate maintenance fee) because they have local systems like Interac or iDeal that are operating indepedently.
> And he does believe that the lack of a labor perspective in the reporting out of these kinds of industrial accidents leaves the public in the dark about just how dangerous and stressful railroading has become

While the acute response and understanding/limiting of risk is happening, the only perspective I need from the train workers is an accurate accounting of who and what was on the train that needs rescuing/safing.

After that, when we do the root cause analysis, that’s when we need the perspective and opinion of the workers and their union.

It is genuinely important; it’s not that important right this second. Whatever was wrong in labor policies will still be wrong next month when we dig into that.
> Homebrew’s analytics are now sent both to Google Analytics and our new, self-hosted InfluxDB instance hosted in the EU.

> If you had previously set HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS because you didn’t like Google Analytics and/or data being sent to the USA: please consider unsetting this and setting HOMEBREW_NO_GOOGLE_ANALYTICS instead, allowing analytics data to be sent to our new InfluxDB host.

My package manager was reporting my actions to Google and I didn’t even know about that. Great…
Doing my professional best is what I diligently attempt over time. Nonetheless, the feeling that I cannot significantly improve myself is a constant weight.
WebKit is on fire lately, awesome.

We only need an autoupdate feature for Safari. Badly. It’s the only not evergreen big browser, to my knowledge.
If that's the view of the country, yes.

In a modern world view of course not but that's not what you saying.

Can I be pissed if a country like north Korea would do this? Yes. Is it in the right of the dictator of north Korea to decide this? Yes.
Yeah there are porn apps. For example Wolf's Stash (yes, I am a trashy furry).

In terms of mainstream stuff, I think that's less of a "Apple & Google don't want you to have them" and more "society doesn't want you to have them, won't somebody please think of the childreeeeen".

Parents ignoring the fact, of course, that the 3 year old they gave a fucking tablet to with unlimited access can still end up on any of those sites via the browser.
So you mean that fast.ai maybe a better resource for people new to general ML?
Since all the social/entertainment media never really added value to society (beyond what was established previously) this is not a loss.

All they ever did was installing an advertising channel into our inborn desire for socializing. And the pathological interaction of social media and individual and group psychology have been discussed at length elsewhere.
My understanding is that currency inflation per se is typically expected to increase the nominal price of domestic stocks. Because companies are valued by their future revenue, and if inflation rises, the companies' expected future revenue (and costs) also rise.
Math is a form of and a part of philosophy.
If you can’t see that, you are the one who needs philosophy.
Thanks! I'd love to hear what you like a don't like about it.

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UPnP for port mapping is such a nice, convenient security hole. There have been a few cases where I have needed to forward a port without access to the router's WebUI and 8/10 times, in a residential setting, UPnP saves the day. I normally use miniupnpc, but it's pretty cool seeing this done with curl.
I read through the article and it has no information.

While I am in complete solidarity with the workers and think the workers should come before the shareholders, this article is just leveraging the disaster to reiterate the old talking points. Overworked workers might be the root cause, but they are not the proximate cause for this event.
Also "as long as your web application can run on the same machine as the database, which it can in 99% of the time"

Where did 99% of the time come from ?