skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What games do you like? The voice actors in games like Uncharted, Mass Effect, Last of Us, Red Dead Redemption, and God f War made a huge impact on the game and deserve credit, recognition, and financial reward. Games are in incredibly diverse medium though. I mostly play Hunt Showdown, and the only voice acting is the grunt of punch or cry why getting shot.
Unless you want to live like Scrooge McDuck or Smaug.
I recommend writing a mission statement that makes it easy to see what the "cause" behind it is, and then providing easy ways to support or donate.
Interesting thought and worth exploring further. Funny enough, there was an index published a bit ago showing the UK to be the safest for children https://outoftheshadows.global/ but I have not investigated the details here or looked into the index's methodology or anything like that. There was also this https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6180456/ which aimed "to review studies using self-report maltreatment to capture prevalence rates worldwide."
> I'm not talking about left wing publications. I'm talking about major news outlets like the ny times

That is a contradiction nowadays, the NYT is squarely on the left side of the political spectrum [1]. This goes for the news department but even more for the opinion department which leans even further to the left [2].

As in what "right wing tabloids" got right the prime example is the "Hunter Biden laptop story" - which is far more than a single story but which has become known under those terms. Even though they were factually correct the "left-wing media" has done its best to smear them, try to connect them to "The Russians", label them and otherwise avoid touching the factually correct reporting on Biden's son and what that entails for "The Big Guy". There are other examples where they got things (mostly) right where the "left-wing media" after several years of denial finally came around, a good example of this is the origins of the SARS2 pandemic where the lab leak option was directly put aside simply because their undesirable person #1 (Trump) happened to suggest it.

When I read something on e.g. The Guardian I'm flabbergasted by the torrent of climate scare propaganda they keep on pushing which makes it hard for me to take them seriously. That does not mean everything they publish is nonsense, sometimes they engage in factually correct reporting on salient issues. This is why I don't immediately denounce anything published by them as being tainted by their propagandistic tendencies.

So, look at the message, not solely at the messenger. If I can do so I do not see why you couldn't.

[1] https://www.allsides.com/news-source/new-york-times

[2] https://www.allsides.com/news-source/new-york-times-opinion-...
I think we might be in point of time where cash could make lot of sense. It is uncertain if we are in an other long running bull market yet. And certain sectors might be approaching a top already. Namely the biggest technology stocks.
Are your parkrun times getting slower? Just blame it on the economy
I do basically the same sometimes I have days were I don't work at all. You don't have to hustle your whole life away if you don't want to.
That's just gaslighting. They just don't want to pay good wages.
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Well done on the site!
> Easiest example is defending antifa as just "wrongheaded" for using violence and attempting to suppress free speech

Yeah, its always easiest to just make up an example that never happened. SPLC didn't defend Antifa as just wrongheaded.

It just doesn’t designate them a hate group because they, whatever else they might be, aren’t about the kind of discrimination that SPLC uses to define a hate group (nor, despite sometimes being at odds with government, are they centered on the kind of anti-government ideology that SPLC defines its catalog of anti-government extremist groups with.)

Ironically, what SPLC is beinf criticized for with Antifa is actually having specific meanings for its designations rather than arbitrarily applying them to everyone it disagrees with.

> If you're claiming to fight extremism you should also fight extremists that support your political views.

The SPLC does not now, and never has, claimed to be a force of generic moderation fighting generic “extremism”; its mission has always been to fight for racial justice and specifically against white supremacy. (It has since 1990 tracked hate groups and antigovernment extremist groups, two sets which overlap and which it has observed are influential in the issues it fights against, but the definitions used and purposes of that have always been, quite openly, shaped by and in service to it's primary mission, not orthogonal to it.)

And, having said that, they do include in their catalogs grouos meeting their definition that purport to be aligned against the same things as SPLC, like the New Black Panther Party (which is both listed by them as an “anti-government extremist” group and a “designated hate group” by SPLC.)
Can't resist posting this (from Classic Programmer Paintings)

“Raft Consensus Algorithm Failure”,Théodore Géricault, 1819

https://classicprogrammerpaintings.com/post/6141087496359280...
You're right; I've edited my comment.
Scholz says nuclear energy issue 'a dead horse' for Germany
I recall Terrence McKenna (everyone's favorite historical psychonaut) saying "It's hard to do psychedelics". I agree with him. These things are dangerous when the set and setting is wrong, or if they're done at an off-kilter phase of your life, or that you simply over-indulge in them.

I appreciate the mini renaissance period they're having these days, but these things need plenty of research before trying them. They're not something you do for a giddy high, they're tools. One thing people need to do is integrate the various lessons they've gained from tripping into their daily lives.

All too often, trips are like dreams, they fade and we suffer amnesia after trying them. It's crucial to take notes and integrate the ideas you've gained, otherwise you've wasted the trip(s) IMHO.
This is a good point about the music, I do find it important.

But I also pay for musical soundtracks separately if I am able (Bandcamp.com), those musicians can get money from me by making the album available for purchase and I do.

But if I recall the musicians are not on strike and not the topic of the article that was shared.
Who remembers the polio pandemic of 1952? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_polio

I was born much later but it was still around and it was common to know kids that could not walk. It was the time when a vaccine became mandatory in my country.

What I didn't know back then was that there was a pandemic many years before. I thought that it was an illness like all the ones that children got and lived through, smallpox and more, except that this one was not around anymore.

The difference for the young me was in the oral transmission of knowledge: for some reason I was told about the Spanish flu and not about polio.
16. Have relationships with functional/reliable people who will help you in a crisis. ( easier said than done)
Actually skipping those two was intentional! They were built in the 1990s, but I was specifically looking for pedestrian bridges built in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. The reasons for building bridges seemed to shift over the decades, so I wanted to focus in on the ones built in the same era as the interstates were being built out.
Also
TIHKAL: The Continuation is a 1997 book written by Alexander Shulgin and Ann Shulgin about a family of psychoactive drugs known as tryptamines. A sequel to PIHKAL: A Chemical Love Story, TIHKAL is an acronym that stands for "Tryptamines I Have Known and Loved"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TiHKAL#:~:text=TIHKAL%3A%20T....
TTS for dialogue will be high quality in a few short years.

You'll be able to dial knobs for the voice itself - pitch, timbre, gender, age. Then adjust more knobs for emotional control (or infer it from other cues).

This will allow for fully-dynamic storytelling where the characters know your name and can respond to your infinite array of actions.
No, I don’t think it is. They’re throwing in something for free when you buy Windows.
I think Swedish banks issue MasterCard or Visa as their standard debit cards, so it seems to me that it should work (although I didn’t have reason to try it when I was there). See e.g.:

https://www.swedbank.se/en/private/cards-and-payment/debit-c...

https://www.handelsbanken.se/en/personal/accounts-cards-and-...

https://www.nordea.se/privat/produkter/kreditkort-bankkort/n...
This is a good point, others may have a strong preference for it. But I have found that most games, at least in the indie space, completely lack any voice acting or it is just done by the developers themselves.
Have you back tested this hypothesis? It’s very unlikely to be true over a long period, say 15 years.
> It solves an SVM that separates 'good' tokens within each input sequence from 'bad' tokens. This SVM serves as a good-token-selector and is inherently different from the traditional SVM which assigns a 0-1 label to inputs.

sorry but how is separating 'good' tokens from 'bad' tokens inherently different from assigning a 0-1 label
Those could have been done as well with other voice-actors. And be good enough in their jobs. Are you seriously telling me there is absolutely no as skilled people available outside SAG-AFTRA?
Glad someone appreciated it, because it was a lot of additional work to do it that way!
For disclosures sake, I used to work in the games industry and don't anymore but I hold a huge bias against "games journalism" sites.

At times like this I think it's good to remember Knoll's law, that other pieces you've read on Eurogamer are similarly flawed and inaccurate.
The luddites were not against technology or progress.

“They just wanted machines that made high-quality goods,” says Binfield, “and they wanted these machines to be run by workers who had gone through an apprenticeship and got paid decent wages. Those were their only concerns.”

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-the-luddites-rea...

In a parallel here, the SAG-AFTRA actors are not against AI, per se. They're against their likenesses being scanned for 1 days pay and then being used in perpetuity forever without their consent or further payment.
Most of the games that 'require' voice acting actually don't, and could work with text. The reason they have voice acting is because mass audiences expect it, but consumer expectations are malleable and subject to change.
> is that we will be adrift on a sea of garbage.

Do you value content on YouTube?

Has the internet brought you any kind of content of value?

If the answer is yes, then this is just a filtering problem.

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edit: because of downvotes, I can't respond anymore. (Dang: you really need to fix this.)

Here's my response to a child comment:

> No thanks. I'd really rather take quality over quantity.

The domestic market supports roughly 1,000 productions a year. Most of which you won't be the target demographic for. Most of it will suck. That's a very small pipeline for "quality" to fit through.

Frankly, I don't like being limited to 1-2 "amazing" and 5-10 "good" things a year. We're not here for long, and we deserve so much more. Humanity has the capacity to do better than this.

The creativity of youths on TikTok and other platforms is absolutely inspiring, and we have barely begun to tap into it.

I've always seen more amazing content from indie creators and foreign markets than most big studios produce. Independent animation and web comics have been labors of love, and these new tools are going to empower those folks to do more than they've ever done before.

The pipeline of creators is going to widen as people see how fun and accessible it is.

There might be more noise, but there will be orders of magnitude more interesting content that fits the curvature of your interests like a fine glove. If you have a thing for space noir vampires, I'm sure someone will deliver it and do the concept justice.

If we can suck people out of busywork jobs and put them into satisfying careers delighting the human spirit, that's a great and worthwhile thing to do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperplane
I'm not sure about America, but from the place I'm from (SE Asia), having a laptop after graduation is quite common, and many times required.

Yeah, more and more people no longer need one, but having some sort of bigger screen helps a lot, even in reading or having multiple things open at once. I'm GenZ, and I can't imagine not having a bigger screen at home, or a laptop if I'm about to do anything more than read DMs.
Fixed! Sorry about that. It's an artifact of my stubborn refusal to use any web editing tools other than Notepad++.
First X-ray fluorescence chemical analysis of Pompeii Casts
I remember in around 1998 I just started my career and one of my duties of my job was to go around to our alpha testers of a photography product we built and make sure things were going well. These customers were often pretty angry at my company due to them not being told it was an alpha version, but most often they were happy to see me try to help them out.

Anyhow, at one of those customers, the designers, photoshop artists, and I got lunch and started talking. Prime topic was the 'outspoken IT guy' who had all sorts of 'theories' and 'rules' he lived by, often to the amusement of his coworkers.

They goaded me into asking about his rules,

"Ask him why he only uses chopsticks!".
A: "Because they've never been able to train monkeys to use chopsticks"

"Ask him his retirement strategy! He only invests in one thing, he's a true believer!"
A: "I am a believer, I'm a believer in Steve Jobs, I put all of my money in whatever he does. I had money in Pixar, now I'm putting all my money in APPL".

note: If he had 100k he put in at that time, he'd have 63 million now.
> Ah yes, politics wants it to be uneconomical that is why NuScale's nuclear power plant has doubled its costs. It is certainly not the cost of input materials or changes in the interest rate, which makes long financing durations significantly more expensive.

You're talking about recent events that apply to any kind of large scale construction project. If that was the reason then why didn't anyone build a hundred nuclear plants during the decade+ of low interest rates when building materials were cheaper?

> but somehow the nuclear hating politicians don't seem to mind paying the inflated bills

They're not the same politicians. And subsidies aren't as effective as actual regulatory reform because they don't scale, which the opponents know so they don't fight them as hard. They can stand adding 3 GW of nuclear plants to the US grid; adding 300 GW would shut down a large fraction of existing fossil fuel generating plants. But the only way that happens is if you address regulatory inefficiency because large subsidies only fit in the budget when you're not building many new plants.
Waterloo robot aims to detect power outages before they happen
You either inadvertently or cleverly cut out the first part of that sentence:

> But we had to decide whether a nice name was worth the price we'd have to pay, whereas we'd already spent the $20 to register our PayDemon domains.
I have searched for an EPUB copy and unfortunately I can only get
Richard Evan's "Where the Gods Reign: Plants and Peoples of the Colombian"
Please also consider coredns.
California tech transplants unhappy with exodus to Austin, report says
The key is a filesystem, which is giving you a lot of help with disaster recovery. We are so used to it we take it for granted, but those features are real and are are not present in all environments:

- Filesystem is distinct from memory, you need explicit action to write to it. This allows programs (or entire systems) to crash and be restarted, in which case all volatile state will be rolled back to (hopefully) good one. This even helps with long-term problems -- for example one of my computers right now has broken VPN that will likely fix itself upon restart. Still, I am hesitant to restart, and I am safely using that very machine to write code, because I am pretty sure that fixing my VPN problems will not damage my code files.

- If you working on "foo", the most people will have a directory like ~/project/foo, and all related files will be in that location, and this location has no system files. As long as you keep using common practices, each of your project is easy to separate from other projects or from system files.

- You can copy the files any number of times, and because of the directories, the copies will not interfere with the original. If I copy ~/project/foo to ~/project/foo.old, there is no chance that my project in ~/project/foo will suddenly pick up a SomeClass from ~/project/foo.old.

- Even if you completely killed your system so that it no longer boots, you can still take the filesystem and mount it on the working system and get your user files off. This is as simple as booting from rescue USB stick, or removing the disk from one PC and putting it into another. And seeing folder structure lets you easily say "this is ~/projects on external drive, this is ~/projects on this machine, and this is how I copy files from one place to another". (There are exceptions to this, nothing will safe you from "rm -rf /" or "dd of=/dev/sda", but most of the system damage is not that blunt)

Many of those seem like obvious things that every computer has, but they are not - image based systems, and their approximations (like cellphones, especially older once like Symbian) are missing them.
You are being obtusely literal, as I did not ask you if they could write an essay. I asked you if they could express their feelings. There's no point in us conversing if you are going to respond this way, as it's disingenuous. I'd think you are capable of understanding the difference between the two. And I don't care if you agree with me or not, it's your burden to elevate AI to humanity, not mine, and you haven't done it here. Your perspective here seems to come from a life devoid of art and experience in things. For that, I'm sorry for you.
When I was studying the Raft algorithm a year and a half ago, I found this video on it by John Ousterhout to be a good complement:

Designing for Understandability: The Raft Consensus Algorithm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYp4LYbnnW8
Harry Browne didn’t like TIPs and didn’t think they would protect when things got bad. He preferred holding gold coins in a country outside the one you live in.
It's a story about a world where God and deities objectively exist and interact with it in visible ways, it makes sense everything turns around being for or against them.

There isn't much of an economy or progress in general, with magic being a thing. The only sin the good guys are allowed is Pride.
Usually more like counter culture ‘trying to not be a WASP since Daddy was a WASP and he was a jerk’.

So depends on how you define it.
View of The effects of September 11 on the leading search engine (2001)
Discord started out as a far better ventrilo/teamspeak/Skype for gamers but then larger communities started using it as their main "website"
It's like we're in the Matrix.

And the Matrix is a little island in the middle of a big ocean.

Tripping, meditating, dreaming and a hundred other methods will get you into the ocean. Show it to you, splash around the shoreline, go for a swim, meet the people who live there...

I've tripped some. Psilocybin is my favorite psychedelic substance.

My favorite method is Vipassana meditation.

(Also, is it just me or is the psychedelic culture markedly saner than the meditation culture?)
I did actually check for that! I didn't see schools nearby enough to make sense for the ones I labeled "park."
Wages didn't grow with inflation and nobody is dumb enough to take the jobs.
So conclusion: Old React not so good, new React (Components) even worst. What is the next best framework? Svelte? Vue?
I'd say it's an obvious negotiation tactic.
I'm still waiting for a watch with a chip-scale atomic clock. Typical accuracy on current-generation systems is ~0.1 msec/day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip-scale_atomic_clock
Thanks! Means a lot!
Liquid and low risk. Equities are usually liquid but they're not really cash equivalents at least at the individual consumer level.
> Show other people that a different way of life is possible.

Often I'll question the ab-normal ways I've been choosing to live my life and I loved how the author summarized one major benefit for doing so.
Maybe it’s permanent for some and not for others? Either way, if you make the argument that it’s temporary, then people will push for stuff like conversion therapy

So ig because conversion therapy is harmful people make this premature conclusion that it’s permanent
Yes, but as a counterpoint, I have a vintage Seiko of my father which missed one too many servicings and now has a broken date wheel (but otherwise works perfectly).

If I could find someone to fix it, I'd wear it special occasions (my day-to-day is a Solar Seiko) often enough to keep it wound and _would_ get it serviced every 5 years.
Not sure about S3. Iirc they relatively recently implemented consistent writes.

But this article explains how to "piggyback" on stores providing consistent writes in order to implement your own little leader election Algo on top of a foundation layer

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioner...
What we are really getting at here is: where's the jpg!?
Customers hate MVPs. Make a SLC instead. (2017)
> Actors' performances cannot. Not now and not any time in the near future. Not vocally, not facially, not physically. AI can map one vocal performance to another voice. It can't produce a vocal performance full of emotion that nails exactly what the scene is about, in the first place.

Oh sure these computer programs can play chess, but can they beat a grandmaster? Not now and not any time in the near future! - some guy in the early 90s probably.
I’m a product life cycle manger/ hardware engineer with experience spinning startups to acquisition.

I’m looking for something fun to do on the side..

Would be keen to consult. If it doesn’t clash with things I work on.

https://za.linkedin.com/in/kieran-duggan-0016b128
> Holding 25% of your wealth in cash is planning to throwing away years of life.

You have to look at the portfolio as a whole. When stocks fall 50% you'll be glad to have some cash because:

1. You'll be down less than 50%

2. You'll be able to buy more stocks at a discount (via rebalancing)
> human correcting things here and there is always still an option

Isn’t that what we are asking for though? We know there will be fewer people working in the industry. We want to ensure those who will work will be paid fairly.
Scroll Shadows with Animation-Timeline
Indeed. The "big name" actors need the union the least. The fact they support the union indicates they know how tough it is for most actors.