skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Narrativ, a generative AI startup that automatically generates audio versions of news articles and monetizes via audio ads, is excited to announce the launch of its mobile app's open beta.

https://testflight.apple.com/join/FB0fe0hn

Via the Narrativ app, a user will have the ability to do the following:
-Listen to the latest news in audio format narrated by cloned voices that sound human
-Subscribe to various publishers, categories, and authors
-Build article queues and skip from one piece of content to the next
-Discover news at the national, state, and local levels

Today, Narrativ is proud to host content from many different college papers in the United States, including:

-The Harvard Crimson
-The Dartmouth
-The Daily Pennsylvanian
-The Daily Illini
-The Rutgers Targum
-The Minnesota Daily
-Under The Button
-Pitt News
-Signpost WSU
-34th Street
-Rocky Mountain Collegian
-The Chicago Maroon
-The Red & Black
-Over the next weeks and months Narrativ will be expanding its list of content partners. Narrativ's first national news will be available in the next few weeks via The Associated Press.

The Narrativ team would love to get your feedback throughout our open beta! Specifically:
-Features that you like / don't like / want to add
-UI / UX that feels good or clunky
-Audio quality + where you experience bugs
-Anything else that you'd like to share!

Please email our team your thoughts directly at support@narrativ.ai or via the TestFlight app. Android version to follow.
If I remember correctly, you also couldn’t moderate on posts that you had commented on so it prevented using downvoting as extra signaling that others agreed with you in an argument. Also, you got 5 moderation points sort of randomly, you didn’t have the option to always be moderating. I browse Slashdot occasionally but once I found HN, the topics and discourse interested me here more, haven’t really spent much time there in years.
Someone has to be the first one.

I once registered web.site. I had it for a week or two before I tried pointing it at a server at which time someone noticed and took it off me.
Check out the remote SSH (https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh) extension. It makes everything really painless. I'm currently developing a website that resides in a docker container in a digitalocean server, and editing the code in VSCode feels literally no different at all to running it locally. If you have the SSH keys set up it's completely painless.

The other nice thing about VSCode is that you can extend it with VSCode Neovim (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=asvetlia...), which runs a headless version of Neovim and allows you to do all the wonderful things that that entails, including stuff like VSCode's native multiple cursor implementation (and Lua config files!). All in all it's a great workflow, it's pretty light, and if you're paying for (or self-hosting) a beefy server it can turn any laptop into a powerhouse.
Is there a way to see how long a link stays on the hn front page on average, and if that average is rising or falling over time? I read that avg time spent by a twitter hashtag on the twitter trending page has been falling year over year. Indicating people's are paying less attention to any one thing.
It's in the game, but the console famously checks that the code for the logo is present, and refuses to run any game which doesn't have the code in place.

It was used as a way to prevent anyone unauthorized making games. If you copy the logo, you have violated trademark and copyright law, and if you don't copy the logo, your game won't run.

Detail here: https://catskull.net/gameboy-boot-screen-logo.html
Am I missing something - all reddit has to do is one code change to prevent subreddits from getting private or closed.

Feels like a bunch of people are completely misreading their self-presumed social status and leverage. The content is what drives traffic and revenue, not their fungible volunteer labor.
Relativism is used as a universal cudgel to reason that some short-term good of limited scope, outweighs a widespread long term bad behavior.

Moral objectivism is more popular than moral relativism.

ie Some good does not outweigh lots of bad.

> Their profits pay pensions of the ordinary people. How is that not a good thing?

It's difficult to take your comment as anything but raw trolling, as it intentionally chooses to strawman limited benefit by ignoring obvious consequence.
US healthcare is absolutely horrible. Both outrageously expensive and utterly lacking in availability. This is why average longevity in US is declining while it is growing in other developed countries.

It’s not health-care, it’s health-don’t-care.
I'm surprised traffic light timing is a focus for increasing cycling trips.

Bikes can use the same timing as car traffic (we go when the cars go). I know the "bike paths" of sydney have their own little green cycling man, but I mostly ignore those.

The bike lanes are infuriating. with multiple areas requiring the crossing of 3 lanes of traffic where the bike lane is on the right side going into an intersection, and on the left on the other side of the intersection.

I (and many other cyclists I've seen) are regularly just cycling in car lanes because the bike lane is incompressible in some areas. Often, it is only for a block or 2 until you can get back into the bike lane safely, and stay in the lane for at least a few blocks.

I often wonder if the person who is in charge of designing bike lanes in Sydney even has a bike.
Over a long series of games, two players with equal Elo playing the same number of games as white will have a 50/50 score.
Well in my opinion the kids who were working in factories were working on the latest tech. It most definitely sucked and was horrible but the experiences would have prepared them for what the US needed.

I think the equivalent today would be forcing kids to do tech work, as we are out of the industrial age and into the Information Age. But tech work isn’t dirty and going to kill you so there is less incentive to force it on marginalized groups.

That’s why I think it was maybe just a perfect storm of circumstances.
Show HN: Webstudio Beta Is Launched
Webstudio is an Open Source alternative to Webflow.

It is now #2 on Product Hunt and needs your support

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/webstudio-beta
> Just take it down, there will be 15 million new posts in an hour.

I'm a mod at a 150k+ user subreddit. AI can probably handle removing objectionable content, but I spend most of my time on other areas that are much less susceptible to automation.

• Removing requests when there are recent similar posts. We've found that users disengage when the same requests are posted every week.

• Hosting AMAs. An AI isn't going to know who we should invite or whether they'll be a good fit for our subreddit.

• Detecting and banning people deceptively promoting their own products. This is incredibly common and often quite difficult.
I did this in the Bay Area (one of the most expensive areas in the world to live). I lived with 5 roommates in a house. It wasn't the most comfortable, but it wasn't horrible either. The fact that there were 5 of us in one house meant we got the rent down to a very reasonable amount. I lived like this for many years and was able to save enough to buy a house for cash in a cheaper state.

Anyone can do this same strategy, it works well. Maybe they won't earn enough to buy an _entire_ house somewhere else, but they can earn enough to afford a large portion of one.

Aiming for a world where anyone can live wherever they want for peanuts is just not a realistic concept. Even when you build densely like in New York City, there will always be droves of people competing for the space in whatever system you build.
Still different. A normal Gameboy doesn't include a flash cart, it only plays physical games, no mere ROM files.
I don’t get fountain pens. The ink doesn’t look good and no, they don’t feel good to write with either.

I have the same reaction to smoking and alcohol, though. “Ugh, no thank you.”

Before they sold out and ruined themselves, my favorite pen was the Sanford Calligraphy pen.

Now I use the Faber-Castell FinePen 1511. Ink doesn’t bleed and dries fast enough that my dragging left hand won’t smear it.
I used fountain pens a lot in the 80s and 90s. They are expensive and fragile, but I really like the feel of a good nib against sketchpad paper.

[Never let someone borrow your fountain pen. It can be . . . terrible]

Lately I've pivoted to cheap disposable fountain pens. The nibs are not bad, they last a reasonable amount of time, and if I lose one I'm not tearing up the cushions or retracing my steps for the day to try to recover a pen worth several hundred bucks.

I'll also happy to loan you one. There are more in my pockets.
Were you able to diagnose what's wrong with your ZX81? Usually it's a simple problem, it just takes a while to diagnose.

BTW, if you do want to get rid of it at some point, it would be nice if you could sell it on ebay or locally. The number of ZX81s left will just keep going down and they are quite decent for learning about electronics/digital systems.
[MORE: cannot edit] We're looking to cut down our Cloud costs, so over provisioning to make up for cold starts is not an option for us. Curious to know how others are in the same situation and how they are handling this?
The first line was all I needed to know. “Oh he doesn’t got to Yale? He’s out!”

Online dating has is enumerating the qualities we think our ideal mate will have. We think that if we tick the boxes of what we like we can save time. Then we complain that there aren’t enough candidates! But this process eliminates people who might be an awesome fit because they don’t match some arbitrary metric.

My favorite is must be 6’ or taller. Seriously? You think you could never love someone who’s five foot eleven and a half? If you have criteria like that and can’t find anyone to date I don’t feel sorry for you. But I do have some advice. Put down your list and go meet people. You’ll be blown away by how unexpectedly you like or just click with the oddest assortment.
The problem comes when insurance denies the claim for whatever reason. Now, the provider is going to try to bill you the $25,000. It's up to you to either get your insurance to cover the procedure properly or to negotiate it back down to something close to the $300 price. They won't just offer it to you after processing through insurance.
> zero liability with a LLC right?

You assume lenders are fools. They aren't. They'll ask for a cosign of an asset holder other than the LLC.
Interest rates at the Fed do not dictate the interest rates you get in your personal checking account. It's loosely linked yes but a 7% fed funds rate and industry collusion mean you'll never get more than 1-2% on a checking / savings account.

I mean yeah there are a few banks out there with 4.5% on savings accounts so you can use those.
Cormac got me back into reading as an adult.

I read The Road and I was astounded. Still have yet to read another book I’ve liked as much, but at least he got me reading to find it!
Effective June 7, 2026, Autodesk will no longer sell nor support EAGLE
I don't see what one has to do with the other. The issue isn't that you or I agree or disagree. The issue is that no one has offered a workable solution to the problem, yet people here insist that its some sort of trivial thing. You refuse to acknowledge that and just keep asking me about enfish... why would I agree to play your game? You can't even honestly discourse with me
Not even the only McDonald's branded game of the era! I played MC Kids growing up on NEWS and it also was a dramatically better game than it had any right to be. Not quite the same storied history but still recommend playing if you're looking for some hidden NES gems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nKywTkMnAs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.C._Kids
Poe's Law applies to the parent comment: "Without a clear indicator of the author's intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of those views."
The already-existing echo chamber will become unbearably loud.

Also, music, movie and TV fans will have to go somewhere else if they're going to be charged for simply @-ing or #-ing a celebrity.

Elon has had a long string of bad ideas for Twitter. His refusal to pay rent suggests he knows how this all turns out in the end.
https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer or the official python library tiktoken https://github.com/openai/tiktoken or this JS port of tiktoken https://github.com/dqbd/tiktoken
Well, "International espionage, sabotage and regime destabilization is a racket" is not much of a revelation really...
Not necessarily. Demand for goods + services and supply of goods + services can both expand in parallel, this is generally expected in a healthy economy.
> Gamestop is not a "smaller" company.

They're bigger as a company and more successful too.

The thing is that yeah Gamestop is putting focus on their product. But do they care?

A comparison would be Best Buy vs Apple Stores. Best Buy is bigger than Apple Stores, but Apple Stores is prioritized. But the only reason is because Apple is deeply connected to them to the point of owning them. The mom and pop mac stores get lower priority than Best Buy, even though they focus on selling macs. GameStop is at an arms length from the game publishers.

Also I wouldn't be surprised if there were more people walking through the video game aisles in a Target than in a Gamestop. If a gamestop looks quiet it probably is in fact quiet. Whereas there are a lot of bored people wandering Target stores because someone brought them there.
Very curious how you conduct the research. I'm legitimately interested as at some point I almost accepted an offer from a company and one of my friends stopped me telling me that they're PE managed. Is there an easy systematic way of finding out without having to read public filings? How do you decide? Based on the ownership shares? Board members?
I started searching for the same thing a couple of years ago after I saw the same Hejlsberg interview posted by sarosh. The only recommendation I was able to get was to read the Roslyn source code and the LSP reference.
I could not get any reference regarding, for example, how would one build a parser that incrementally modifies the AST as you type.
And regarding PLT, I would think those subjects have to do with the semantics of the language, and are orthogonal to the technology to build the compiler.
But I'm not an expert, and could easily be wrong...
Some people have enough money to meet their needs, and value prestige higher.

Others may overvalue prestige.

Or maybe there are hidden benefits to it that are hard to buy (social status).
Hey Zeno, thanks for the resources! The Tailwind component looks perfect.

What's the best way to contact you and link up virtually?

I'd love to talk about Resend more, and show you what I'm cooking up. I really like what you are doing, and I think we share the same cohort of users :fistbump:
It is the same company that sold cheaper soda-lime glass under the name "Pyrex". Pyrex as a brand used to mean "borosilicate glass", a type of glass known for its superior resistance to thermal shock.
I never quite understood the hype of Instant pot. It just seemed like an Electric pressure cooker. Breville has had one since the mid 00s, and my mother had a simpler Sears branded one in the 90s.

Was it bandwagon effect? It always seemed like one of those products you'd see on an infomercial. The overall build quality, particularly the front button membrane, looked extremely cheap to me, like what you'd see on random Wish.com crap.
I have no duty to be a slave to my past self. I proudly liberate myself from finishing anything.
I'm surprised that desire/ability to raise prices doesn't get a representation in that formula. The consumer isn't the only party with agency, after all.
That's a good point too. But maybe schools could offer two tracks?
> Sea lion shit right here man.

Sorry, I don't know what this means.

> We can't stop you from chilling with the nazis if that's what you're gonna be into

Thanks, I'll pass.
The lectures for CMU's Principles of Functional Programming course are actually online for free! http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~15150/lect.html
What fixes high inflation is stop digging the hole (where digging is printing & spending more helicopter money).
they're in a single region?
What functionality does the PCB add?
> be as a consumer to purchase well-made household commodities. I do not want to navigate a world where the provenance of every product is unknown

This is not a coincidental phenomenon, it's a deliberate end goal. Private equity is part of the problem, but more broadly the problem is that of consolidation and market incentives for behavior other than selling the best product at the best price. It's easy to blame government for not creating the right incentives or failing to create the right disincentives, but realistically corporations themselves have tremendous incentive to co-opt, subvert, and otherwise manipulate government decision-making processes and regulatory agencies.
Even on the top answer on one of your own links: "In spite of what this all sounds like, I'm not suggesting that functional programming is necessarily easier"

My experience is that of a TA and a tutor. Granted, it's hard to find people who aren't tainted by imperative programming thinking these days, unless you're starting on the true ground floor, which I admittedly rarely do.
If you're looking for a way for others to reproduce your environments, you might find this useful: https://jupyenv.io/
I'm not even American (i.e. I don't ordinarily use anything else called a 'cup' (unless playing cricket)) but that seems unreasonably dumb. Of course that will cause confusion? That's surely fraudulent in it's deception or reckless unawareness of its deception?

'Cup' is a crazy unit for a number of reasons, one of them is that there's an Imperial cup, a US cup (customary), and a US cup (legal), and a metric cup, and that they're all different. But an entirely new one on me is that there's an 'Instant Pot cup' that's only roughly ⅔ the size of any of them! By comparison the other difffernces are intellectually annoying but completely inconsequential!
I didn’t know that’s what we are called, but now that I see it in words, it sounds very accurate. There is a class issue, me being middle class second generation at play. With no guarantees of financial security from home but expectations of such, there is an insecure element at play. The overachievers is a bit optimistic, though. I’ve been in almost all the domains you mentioned and I would call it overtriers. I would not think overall statistically people would be making more, and if it is the same, then why is the model a bad proposition? My experience is, with partnerships, if you are not on a fast moving track in your first 5 years, then it’s time to move on. Industry is a nice place to be and there is a depth you get when directly employed that you don’t when you distance your objectives from that of your direct interactions.
How does slash and burn agriculture work? Similar question.
VGA, mic jack, 16:9, optical drive...yea pretty weird for 2023
Stolen from whom? The shareholders got cashed out in the acquisition. The lenders financing the acquisition might or might not lose money, but they’re certainly sophisticated enough that I shed no tears for them.
Why is it not a problem if it's in the console ROM? How do they get around it?
Interesting that the manpage claims it conforms to POSIX.1-2001.

https://linux.die.net/man/3/hcreate
Sure, but isn’t “raise the cost of the API to the point where it is prohibitively expensive for everyone” at best a cost reduction strategy only?
Dollar General didn’t move down market, they moved up. Still plenty of regular grocery stores around, at least here.

And who abandons the middle part of the market? The providers? The customers?

Not really making sense here but I get it if you’re just venting or whatever.
Tagging with @ or # is not the same as DM which is a private message seen only by sender and recipient.
There's no need to spend $200 for a good fountain pen. There are some very good pens for under $30, for example. I always have a fountain pen in my pocket, one in my desk at work, and one in my desk at home. And 3 or 4 others, empty and just waiting to be filled. I have the ink recommended in the article (well, not that exact colour, but 3 other colours in the same line) and the bottle is a joy to look at: engineering and art married perfectly.

A good pen, with good ink that matches good paper: that is what make writing fun. When I'm doing mundane writing, I just start typing. But when I am looking for an interesting phrase to start a document, or to make a transition from one part to another, or to weave the threads into a conclusion at the end -- that always starts with ink in paper.

Ink on paper is also where all my ideas start, with words, math, and diagrams.

I do know how to use a ballpoint or a felt-tip or those gel thingeebobs. But they are all just seem like work. With a ballpoint, I have to actually press on the paper, like a caveman scratching on a wall. With a felt-tip I have to, well, discard it after a couple of uses because they always seem to dry out. I suppose a gel thingeebob comes closest to a felt pen, but can I have 5 bottles of different colours, ready to load up according to my mood?

But enough about me. Another thing I've noticed with fountain pens is that students who learned with them can write well. I don't mean the characters they draw on the page -- I mean the way they organize their ideas. But I don't know if that's because of using a fountain pen or just being educated in a place that encourages the use of fountain pens.

To anyone who wants to dabble -- get a 3-pack of Pilot varsity disposable pens for $17 (today's price online) and see if you like them. The ink will last a long time because they have a big repository (the whole insides, I think). There are others at a low price, but I can only vouch for the Pilot ones. (Their whole line is agreeable to my hand.)
The economics of the situation make it so that at your job that's not very realistic.
"anything that fell out of popularity about 10 years in the pas"

So... Xbox One and PS4 launch games?
It does if you force everyone in to abject poverty for long enough.

Interview with Larry Summers, Former Secretary of the Treasury | The Problem with Jon Stewart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU3rGFyN5uQ
His first four novels—The Orchard Keeper, Outer Dark, Child of God, and Suttree—are all set in East TN. I’d highly recommend Suttree. It’s superb. Child of God is also quite good, especially for a novel about a necrophiliac serial killer. ;)
I love fountain pens, and I have many good ones. However, I now prefer Uniball Signo gel pens to any of my fountain pens.
I am not worried about running out of demand in the Bay Area anytime soon.
One possible outcome is that the pie shrinks. If Reddit hurts the user experience and drives away creators and mods, some people will leave with no alternative and simply spend less time on the Internet.

In my case, I've replaced my Reddit time ~50% with HN and ~50% with... something else, like doing work.
ChatGPT Prompt: Write a pontificating argument in favor of child labor filled with allegories, similes, use poetic language that sounds convincing but lacks details and is meant to evoke an emotional and patriotic feeling in readers.
Reddit's sudden API intransigence can be explained solely by the shock of OpenAI's ChatGPT.

Steve Hoffman, Reddit's CEO, has expressed outrage that Reddit's data was mined to train ChatGPT (and other LLMs) without any benefit to Reddit.

(I absolutely do not support their drastic measures, but it's useful to understand where it comes from)
True, but I still think there's some fallacy here. Are we sure that models of the world (i.e. understanding) are the only way to achieve compression?