skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Imagine how lame a podcast version of time magazine would be, with an audiobook-like, minimalist adaptation. About as good as watching a recorded play."

In fact, the minimalist podcast version of The Economist magazine (technically a weekly newspaper) is very good, where presenters read articles word-by-word. In 2018, "only 10 percent of its app users listen to audio, but they tend to be very loyal." [1] I'm one of the regular listeners, because otherwise, I find it much more difficult to keep up with the magazine (it's easy to listen to while exercising or commuting, but when I have the free time to sit down and read, I usually prefer enjoying my time some other way).

Similarly, The New Yorker and The Atlantic also have audio versions of a good number of their articles, too. Out of all the publications mentioned, The New Yorker's audio recordings sound to me, with the most distinctive with music and a radio drama-like voice actor. But overall, the adaptations are essentially indiscriminate from the written word.

The goal of recorded news and magazine readings to understand the material to roughly have the same experience as the readers, where you can have your hands free to focus on something else. I never choose the audio version of the news because it's more entertaining, but rather because it's more convenient. So, the focus is on utility more than entertainment, though the material itself can be interesting.

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Perhaps that is why audiobook listeners generally don't have a distinct taste apart from book readers. If the audiobook deviates noticeably from the content of a book, it no longer becomes an audiobook, but an adaptation inspired by the source material. Then, book readers and audiobook listeners can no longer closely relate, due to the changes in the story.

At most, I do like audiobooks with a narrator with great voice acting to differentiate between the characters—for example, in an audiobook for Jane Austen's "Emma," the voice actor sounded very different for Emma & Harriet, and , Mr. Knightley & Frank Churchhill. The audiobook can also deviate from the source material in this sense, as the emotions expressed in dialogue are interpretations of the writer's intention (like the famous acting of "Harry, did you put your name in the Goblet of Fire?" in the film versus the book).

But once more, if the audiobook deviates too much, the reader can feel cheated as the experience is too different from the original material. At that point of deviation, a producer would best promote this as a "re-imagining"—which would be fairly separate from the original.

[1] https://digiday.com/media/economists-new-app-tries-keep-peop...
> It adds overhead to refactoring. Refactoring code now means editing and rewriting a book

In my opinion, this is a good thing. The problem with ordinary refactoring is that it's too easy to just shuffle things around until they work/seem nicer/do whatever you want to. However, with literate programming, you have to think why you're refactoring, and how does it reflect in the explanation.
It has nothing to do with psychology. FPS is a meme, Nintendo makes good games and always had and they’ve basically never cared about having the best hardware.
np thanks for the response! It's always been this way. If you might know somebody at GitHub, maybe they could take a look at the linked feature request?
I think people have a misunderstanding of what the word "donation" means.

If you're expecting anything in return (as pretty much every Twitch viewer does) it's not a donation .... thats a payment.
Didn't tamp it at all. Laid it on a wet road in the middle winter on an exceptionally cold and wet week.
Tech Unicorn Fivetran Closes on $125M in Debt
I mean, just hook your TV up to a PC, even a raspberry pi can handle streaming video. Spares you the janky remote control navigation as well. Not sure why anyone even bothers with all the terrible smart TV apps.
There are over 118 million Switches out there. So they hit nearly 10% of their total addressable market in three days.
Individual airliner airframes don't normally get re-engined.

Re-engining is a medium program requiring recertification (as lots of ancillary components need to be replaced to match, and the physical properties of the plane almost always change e.g. shape, size, and weight will change the plane aerodynamics), hence they generally include minor frame updates (e.g. A320neo), but can also require pretty major redesigns (737-NG, 737-MAX).

Plus it's common for the engine to be customised to the frame e.g. the CFM LEAP 1A is the variant for the A320 neo, the 1B for the 737 MAX, and the 1C for the COMAC C919. Similarly, the A220, A320neo, Embraer E2 and Irkut C21 all use different models of the PW1000G family.
Making things easy is the problem. It's been long known in secret societies, that guarding entry through a solvable but hard entry barrier makes it more rewarding for those who do make it through and the ones already inside. In programming, we have tried to make everything easy: JavaScript everywhere. Electron everywhere. Slow code everywhere. No need to think about memory of cpu cycles at all. The result is piles of crap like Microsoft products and Slack and hackers are the minority.
Apple dives into display-making to cut reliance on Samsung
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For some, I imagine it’s a matter of experiencing and connecting to something of cultural significance. That’s not for everyone, and that’s okay.
> The second big announcement are ads that appear “when people pause a video.” What you’re watching will shrink and an advertisement will appear next to that window. In the example provided, we see an “Ad” that’s labeled with some text and a QR code.

An ad strategy inspired by pirate soccer streaming websites. What's next, a "Close Ad" button that moves a few pixels away when you try to click it?
Thanks for the info. I did misremember, it took 45 KB to fit the QNX kernel, as another user linked, so not quite L1 cache sized at the time.
lol, sorry I got mixed up. Yeah, I meant to say that EoP seems to drop out and lose bandwidth on my lines. For devices rated at 300Mbps, I'm getting about 19Mbps
Achieving (what feels like) true gaming freedom with such a simple UX is really impressive. I know Zelda has always had a great UX, but they've added so much complexity. Games like this remind you why Nintendo has had so much staying power.
Decades ago, my group of close friends made a pact: if anyone of us is talking shit, talking nonsense, or simply expressing attitude that smells of self deception, do not let it lie and declare it is time for a reality debate. Friends should never let friends descend into self deception, because that slippery slope can kill, as well as sour everything one experiences. Others seeing us in the midst of a reality debate would often form little crowds. If you ever witnessed the "pseudo intellectual club" debates at the Boston Pour House during the late 80's, that was us. That group of close friends is long dispersed into the winds, several still keep in touch, and it is that 'reality debate' activity we continually return, and debate the state of the world.
>I believe part of the problem is that many people simply cannot afford to pay more. If we could target both problems at once I can see this working very well.

Yes, you can. Give cash to everyone, and take it back via increased marginal income taxes rates (ideally an exponential tax rate function), aka wealth redistribution.

>The solution I posted does consider low income people and would have an immediate benefit to everyone except the companies that have created the problem.

The problem is in the logistics and crafting of the legislation, and then the court fights, and so on and so forth. We have seen this time and time again, and probably will, because legislation with tons of loopholes that makes people feel like they are sacrificing, but not really, is the only politically possible solution.

How long do parts have to be provided for? Which parts? What about parts that are dangerous? What is dangerous? Just goes on and on and on, and society ends up wasting even more resources.
weird right, It Is Known the more fps a game has the better it is, must be the marketing
There have been subsequent updates to the Linux runtime:

https://jaoswald.blogspot.com/2020/05/open-genera-vlm-on-lin...

That gets it running on Ubuntu 18.04.

I would love to see this packaged as a Snap or something for more recent Ubuntu versions.
> The other thing that rubbed me the wrong way was that rather than fix the issue, they just removed functionality.

Yeah, DuckDB has some very cool features, but I with the community were less abrasive. I remember someone asking for ORC columnar format support, and DuckDB replied "that is not as popular as Parquet so we're not doing it, issue closed". Same story with Delta vs Iceberg.

Meanwhile Clickhouse supports both and if you ask for things they might say "tha tis low priority but we'll take a look". Clickhouse-local can work as CLI (though not in-process) DuckDB too.
.tk and .ml. It doesn't get cheaper than free and .ml is a great typo squatting TLD for .nl which nobody seems to realise yet so a lot of domains are still available. Educational purposes only!!
The difference between a $9 and a $10 domain on a 10 year run is $10.
A potential alternative for those with AndroidTV devices is sideloading SmartTubeNext[0].

I've been using it on my nVidia Shield for a while now. No ads, a lot of UI customisation, and Sponsorblock is integrated as well.

[0] https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext
To me it seems like pretty good breakdown from a seasoned professional. I'm a bit taken aback by your take. For one thing, one of the points he's making seemed to me to be "be language agnostic".
> Nintendo has done some sort of mass psychology that allows them to have sub 30fps with no complaint

Or perhaps the game is really that good?

Good looking games aren't necessarily good games. This is just a good one.
YouTube is bringing unskippable 30-second ads to TV
Will they? Do we think any of the executives making this decision have any idea of the problems of adopting AI? Most companies today can barely create a functioning website that allows you to see and pay your bills.
It’s really tempting to see the success of something you don’t understand or value as “marketing” or “mass psychology” but I suspect that path doesn’t usually lead to any interesting or useful insight.
I had both a Sony desktop and a high end Dell in 2011 that had FireWire
Reference for the uninitiated, a good read. Its veracity on the individual level may be questionable, but the techniques of subduing third world countries via heavy debt burdens is well documented.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_H...
Musk fans can see no wrong with anything he does. Kind of like the cult of Trump.
Hah. That's a good memory. An implementation (simulation?) of Langton's Ant was the first program I wrote when I was learning COBOL for my mainframe job at >BIG FIN CORP< back in 2014.

See, COBOL doesn't have a console, and there weren't any graphical capabilities to speak off on the system I worked on, so I just "animated" the simulation by producing multiple static screens. But it worked.

I seem to have lost the source though, when I moved from that job.
That fits exactly with non-fruitfulness. A discussion about programming languages became a discussion about someone's empathy.
And it was pirated 12 days before release.
As well as trisodium phosphate.
Such is the nature of public companies and the need for continued growth.

Much like search before it, they've saturated the market, and so instead of growing by adding eyeballs, they now need more revenue per eyeball.
Don't forget the most ridiculous part of EDI-style protocols (X12, HL7, etc.), which is that they don't have an explicit looping construct; you have to look at each implementation spec and your trading partner's specific companion guide and determine where repeated or looped sequences area through context. Makes for some exciting issues in implementing parsers.
My pet insurer's web site has a box for you to enter your policy number, which only accepts numbers and has a spinner. The policy number is seven digits long. It's sort of fun typing the first few and then playing with the up and down arrows.
How do you insert into DuckDB fast and what settings ("Indices") do you use? As far as I understand DuckDB builds up statistics for each "block" of data (number of different values, ... ). So I assume inserting is slow. There is a paper [0] and a comment [1] that mentions that DuckDB is 10-500 times slower in a write-heavy workload.

[0] https://simonwillison.net/2022/Sep/1/sqlite-duckdb-paper/
[1] https://vldb.org/pvldb/volumes/15/paper/SQLite%3A%20Past%2C%...
Except the way most people end up with malware is searching for software and downloading the first result they can find.
Eh, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese constantly shipped 24fps and people were still very happy with their work. FPS does not good entertainment make.
They're doing a massive build out of fibre to the premises (replacing old copper) and VOIP at the moment so I guess it makes sense that they'd need a lot fewer people once that's complete. They're assuming the new fibre will take much less maintainace than old copper. And better chatbots will replace a lot of CS staff.
Yeah these are great pieces of software and hardware, and AVM is a decent company as well. Although I personally prefer to hang up a Ubiquiti WAP.

I wanted to say there used to be Freetz which was neat but they ensured this wouldn't work anymore. But I learned it is continued in form of Freetz-NG!

My ISP (Freedom Internet) allows me to rent a modem for 2 EUR per month. A steal.

https://github.com/Freetz-NG/freetz-ng
Looks like teenage engineering pocket operators :)
I'm fairly young and I remember this debt ceiling brinkmanship happening several times in the past , turning out to be a nothingburger. Is this time any different? (Genuine question I'm not American)
I honestly don't even notice that it's sub 30fps and I'm a longtime Melee player and therefore 60fps nut. If anything, it makes this game more impressive lmao.
Suggested edit: "The song for this post is YAKETY SAX"
42% fewer employees, 7 years in the future? Including hopes for things like this:

"Jansen also said that around 10,000 fewer people would be needed to service and repair digital networks, which “go wrong less often” and can be fixed more easily than older networks."

That feels optimistic. Modernization does help with that sort of thing in some ways. But it also often adds complexity, higher dependency counts, etc.
Nah, time to move on to a single board computer running Kodi or Jellyfin, time to access YouTube only through a proxy like Invidious, time to become self-sufficient.
So the article seems to imply that "hackers" are the sort of people that look at a partially working system and say: "hmm let's re-write that in a new and untested language" or worse still "lets write this in language x because I've always wanted to try it"

if thats the case, then I formally suggest that such people can get in the sea.

I might be somewhat unfair, but that was my reading.

> innovation tokens are completely made up

So are programming languages.

Innovation tokens are there to make sure that a business can complete a project vaguely on time and vaguely on budget.

Look the reason why people were able to get away with pissing away millions of dollars in pointless re-writes of things is because the speed of business based on those systems was slower. Now, if your site is down, then customers flee.

I mean sure, writing your own database for your SaaS company might be a thing, but its almost certainly expensive and pointless. You're on the hook for scaling it, recovering it when it fails, and finding and fixing all the bugs.

In short, this article, I feel, encourages a damaging, selfish side of CS that I think should be phased out.
This is a common strategy - when you don't know what the product is, rather than wait until your competitor gets a strong lead- undercut them by releasing your own product in the "spirit" of giving something away. Stir up interest and hope the dust cloud is enough to obscure your competitor long enough until you figure out how to monetize it.
“Adopting AI” before there is any definitive proof that replacing workers with GPT tools is actually effective, is just cover for layoffs they were already planning on doing.

If I needed to do a layoff now I’d just say “AI LLM Chatbot!!” woo-woo as cover.
Throw in the fact that most programmers are terrible communicators, and we get complete nonsense non-debates that are little more than emotional cry fests.
>> >A lot of those "western European" products are actually manufactured in Eastern Europe by cheap Eastern European labor.

> No.

Alright, I must have dreamed all that juicy delocalization that basically makes for a whole branch of academic studies nowadays...

> How dares the est stand up for themselves

Nobody denies anything to anyone, but western audiences are a bit tired of the lack of grace and gratefulness exhibited by areas that continue (and intend to continue) to be massive recipients of Union funds.

> when some countries are constantly being milked

Except nobody is being "milked" - every country in the Union experiences tradeoffs. France, Italy, and Spain benefit from financial stability but suffer from job losses; Germany benefits from economic growth while subsidizing the rest of the continent; and Eastern countries benefit from subsidies and job creation while struggling to build national champions. It's a give-and-take for everyone, which is why this continuous self-victimization exhibited by certain audiences is incredibly tiresome.
Now I know that employers will ultimately replace many employees with automation but this plan as stated seems rather ambitious if not completely unrealistic.

Based on the last few lines of the article I think this CEO is trying to hype up a company that is facing serious struggles and decline of their core business:

> BT said revenue fell 1% to £20.7 billion ($25.8 billion) for the year to March, with growth in Openreach, its fibre broadband network, “more than offset” by declines in other businesses. Its adjusted earnings rose 5% to £7.9 billion ($9.8 billion).

> Shares in the company tumbled 8% in London, as higher expenditure leading to a drop in free cash flow disappointed investors.

This other quote is hilarious to me as well:

> “Our chatbot Amy deals with lots of customer queries already”

Any time you see a company that has a chatbot with a friendly human name you know it’s going to be a completely useless hunk of garbage. I am highly skeptical that “Amy” does anything besides delaying customers from talking to the human who can actually fix their problem (or just throwing them into a frustration loop that leads them toward canceling their service).
New animal family tree raises questions about the origin of nervous systems
I think many people consider Majora to be better.
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I think a fair number of people, including myself, consider MM > OoT. They are very different games, but MM excels in areas that OoT doesn't.

You're right that this inversion is rare though. I think Phantom Hourglass is a great sequel to Wind Waker, but I can't reasonably claim it's better. (And Spirit Tracks was not better than Phantom Hourglass.)
What I’m wondering is, what happened to those people whose work were replaced by steam or electricity - Were they able to quickly up-skill?

With AI it maybe good in macro terms but what about the folks impacted by it? Will it be possible from them to find another job without significant training/education?
People who were inspired by the movie are all in their 40s now.
I’ve tried using chatgpt on Tamil and it’s firstly hella slow and secondly can’t do much with it beyond a few hundred words. I figured it’s considering each letter in the sentence as a token, but originality and inventiveness wise it wasn’t necessarily worse.
I would agree with you if didn't only include Nintendo. Without good games, the consoles would not sell.

But how is that insightful? Of course people buy game consoles for the games.
Just to set the context: I like Golang as a language, but I think writing a program that's more than ~10k lines of code in Golang is a mistake (honestly, the limit is probably a lot lower), and I also don't think they should've added generics, just leave the language as useful as it is.

Anyway, I think the author missed the point a bit with his friends argument about "Go developers knew that all you need is a for loop". It's not just an "atmosphere " argument. The programming language literally restricts you to using for loops. That's a surface property of Golang (or maybe it used to be, haven't used it in a couple years).

Golang has been designed to have a minimal and thus very smooth surface. Those issues the author mentioned about Python, that's rough surface.

The article then digresses into the main point which is that engineering leaders are afraid of spending innovation tokens without giving evidence that this is more so the case than it was before.

Not sure if it's relevant, but Twitter starting on Ruby was them spending an innovation token. They then realised there was a big large scale low latency high throughput situation that Ruby didn't have a suitable ecosystem for, so they hired a team that had experience scaling these sorts of systems specifically with Scala. Picking Scala was in that sense the safe choice, the risky one would have been to try and get the existing Ruby codebase to apply the concepts from Scala (which is now more than a decade later a reasonable thing to do in Ruby).
My first job was with SGI O2 workstations. I have very fond memories of Irix and its environment. And Nedit. Nobody should ever forget Nedit. Or the flying buttons[1].

1. https://youtu.be/gVyCjweagJM?t=586
India Declares CPU Independence with Aum HPC Processor
There's also a new "1080p Premium Bitrate" option in the resolution settings menu for some videos now which needs a sub to YouTube Premium to unlock.
I don't know. These days Mongolia is very reasonable. I bet they'd agree to a deal.
The link on this post leads to that ticket. That's where the GitHub issue form lead me.
Same way talented artists make money now. They're either already independently wealthy or have a side hustle.

> Surely there’s some value to at least the artisan to be compensated for his creation?

Try telling publishers that. Why are those writers striking again?

It's taken to the extreme because that's what you need to shift entrenched interests that produce nothing of value, like those that hold IP.
Apple’s new headset meets reality
Such high level thinking: "Damn, that animal got away through this path. Put a trap there." x10
Does it? I've been playing quite a bit and the framerate feels steady and I also have not been bothered by the fps even when the game is in fast motion.

And I'm a longtime Melee player so I have eyes used to 60fps and am usually bothered by poor framerate in games.
> Go wired if you have a choice.

For sure, that's why I mentioned that I'm still in the process of switching over to pure ethernet for backhaul.

That said, if you have enough nodes, 6GHz for backhaul works pretty nice right now. My home has concrete block exterior walls with some interior concrete and plaster walls and the nodes that use dedicated 6GHz for backhaul are doing just fine as is.

I would never consider 5GHz for backhaul, though.
expect order of certain things.

User interface is like reading, people
New Maintainer Steps Up for GCC Compiler's MIPS CPU Port
That's interesting.

Would you share the details of the hardware setup (MiniPC, USB remote control) and screenshots of your configured KDE/Plasma desktop?
Ireland wants to lose money US corps pay them in order to bypass higher EU taxes I guess. I am wondering if they did some game theory scenario about what fine Meta can absorb before it's easier for them to relocate elsewhere with laxer standards that would love some more tax income.