skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a fun project that you could try. Use TTS to transcribe books but make the transcriptions feel more realistic. Give each character in the book a unique voice. Leading characters should have voices based on their personalities. Use quote extraction and character attributtion to tie characters to lines. Try to do convey the human qualities with EmotionML, SSML, or some kind of semantic analysis.

The best would be a TTS system at the level of OpenAI's but with voice selection like GCP TTS so you can get quality and a range of voices.

Copyright would probably spike any monetization effort but you could try. It would be nice to have an open source tool for this though! :)
I find your opinion here fascinating and value your perspective! It's neat to debate which kind of 'scam' is worse. Every value proposition for health supplements/medicine has 3 parts:
1. Features (what it is: ingredient, quality, purity, potency etc)
2. Advantages (how does its mechanism of action work and how is it unique/better than alternatives)
3. Benefits (why does the consumer care because it relieves pains or acquires gains)

I agree with you that 'scams' that target the Features (like the fake/counterfeit generics example) are terrible and we should aggressively go after this type of scam. However, had those Features been real, the Advantages and Benefits of those generics probably had good evidence/support. Just because you got fake pills, doesn't mean that the real ones don't work well.

But Homeopathic medicines ALWAYS have Advantages and Benefits problems. Even if the Features are okay, and you get exactly what you expected, the mechanism of action will never work and you will never get the benefits more than a placebo. If any marketing convinces you otherwise (like the label or having shelf space at CVS in the 'eye care' aisle), then you are a victim of another type of 'scam'. Homeopathic products, as far as an rigorous research is concerned, always have Advantages/Benefits problems.

On one hand, regulating Features is maybe easier for a government to do and that is an argument for limiting the scope to Features issues. However, the health and monetary costs of products with fake Advantages/Benefits is undoubtedly many years of life and billions of dollars, so there will be pressure to regulate. (maybe you disagree with the costs/externalities here)

It's definitely an interesting discussion. Hopefully smart people are working on getting real data about the pros and cons!
I wish they’d bar companies that have failed to build out their rural service areas for more than a decade from accepting this money, and also that accepting the grant automatically granted you the appropriate right of way via imminent domain.

It costs essentially nothing to lay fiber in the ground in most places (they have little portable boring machines, so you don’t even have to trench), and independent ISPs have no problem profitably laying fiber where they are legally allowed to do so.
The bad part is that Google announced 60+ days before the change took effect that the account would become read-only. Nowhere did they state the account would be terminated, or could not indefinitely remain in a read-only state. Then, they suddenly spring a 7 day deadline to download all your data, with no previous mention.

Very poor communication from Google.
Wordperfect 5.1 was an amazing system.

It could be stripped down to run off a 1.2mb floppy disk. This was a big help when I needed to sit someone in the front of a convention center to register guests and print their "Hello my name is --" badges. All I had to spare for the job was an Epson Equity 2 with no HDD.

It was incredibly capable, however. Several years later, we did all the layout of a weekly "TV guide" magazine using WP 5.1. Nice "grid view" schedules and all. generated with WP macros fed by some QBasic scripts that downloaded and reformatted the data.

I laid out several books for folks in WP5.1
Storing 250 TB in a public cloud isn't going to be cheap either. Even aws glacier is going to be close to $1k/month for that amount of storage. And god help you if you actually want your files back (around $25k for retrieving the whole thing!).
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The brain undergoes a great "rewiring" after age 40
The first life in the universe could have formed seconds after the Big Bang
I will try inputting 0 and then pay in cash next time. I don't want to punish the servers.
Does it worth it , though? They'll cover their expenses in how many years?
An app to remote control my home theater and all its various devices as well as my HTPC.

https://github.com/nicko88/HTWebRemote

Originally it was for myself, but then I expanded the features and devices that it supports for friends and other home theater enthusiasts over at the AVSForum.
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I have low expectation of airport food, too, but unless you get a direct flight at the right time you're going to find yourself needing to eat at an airport.

The section I was in had some automated sandwich kiosk and a burrito joint that had a huge line that wasn't moving. Walked to another section that had a Shake Shack and some kind of pizza place. Ordering at Shake Shack was fine but it took about 20 minutes to get my order. On the plus side there was an old guy who was also waiting and telling the dirtiest jokes to anyone that would listen.
I think the Android approach is: the back button usually does what you want, unless what you want is consistency.

Thoughtfully designed apps tend to set up clear expectations and deliver on them. Thoughtless or malicious apps can be confusing or intentionally mislead.
I was a Korean language major in college. A lot of the spaced repetition apps for memorizing vocabulary were missing features that are now possible because of LLMs. so far I am the only user of the app but I use it every day to help me prepare for a standardized Korean language assessment that I plan to take again next year:

https://github.com/rickcarlino/koalasrs
Out of the bug cloud providers - Google, AWS, Azure - which one has the best support and most reliable storage?
> Agriculture doesn't use so much land because it needs to; it uses so much land because that's the cheapest way of producing food.

And that's precisely why there is an opportunity here that is attracting entrepreneurs: How to get farming techniques using less land to be as economically viable (or more) than traditional farming techniques.

Coal also was the cheapest way of producing electricity, but after 30+ years of investment in wind and solar it's now getting completely phased out. That happens only by having people seeing the long term problem and working on better ways of doing things long before they are actually economically viable.
This includes Mobileye cars without driver monitoring. I wonder if they will take similar action against various other Mobileye cars?

My Nissan Propilot behaves very similarly to AP, just with less capability and even less alertness monitoring. Surely it would be affected by the same recall? Along with a lot of other cars using similar systems?

Or maybe there is some subtle difference, but the article doesn't really make that clear. And given the broadness on the Tesla side, it is hard to see what could be different.
I built https://getweeklio.com/ mostly for myself, it's an app to organise weekly meal plans/shopping list that you can use with multiple users. I use it with my wife, since we had a child and it has been useful, thought it was mostly an excuse to learn react native at the time.

I started to add some more features like asking chat gpt meal plans and other things I have on my mind but I haven't gotten around implementing yet.

Then I thought: I might as well make it a full fledged product and see how it goes, which was an interesting exercise in itself, although I haven't promoted it, and the monetisation strategy definitely needs some work. Not many are willing to pay monthly for such a limited set of features. Maybe a small one time payment will do better.

Currently is on an hiatus as I changed jobs recently but I'd like to work on it some more.

I've been meaning to ask for some directions about marketing it to get some feedback. There's a handful of users that have tried it, but none even bother with the first month free trial to check the full version features. Perhaps these should be fully available for a time and then put them after the paywall again.

But building a product has helped me a lot on interviews so that's another nice outcome at least.
I might try that next time
I almost get the impression that the act of gathering of evidence for the supposed CFAA violation is intended as a form of extrajudicial punishment.
Fossil fuel plants are far and away the most expensive form of electricity generation, we just allow them export a big chunk of the costs onto other people so we can pretend it's cheap.
Training based on a bunch of dull bickering humans on Reddit and elsewhere would produce that result.
How would the Finnish police know how much I make a month if I'm not from Finland?
And we don't expect drivers to be adequately trained and get a licence?

In the US? No, we don't. Even ignoring that a driver's license is treated more as a right than a perk... Consumers are absolutely NOT trained on the nuances of any particular car's UI, systems, etc.

An airline pilot absolutely IS trained on those nuances and can ONLY operate planes in which they've trained. And they get periodic check-rides from FAA examiners. And, as we saw with the 737Max, failure to train on those nuances can have deadly consequences.
They didn't; there were many emails throughout 2022 discussing "Important changes to your subscription" from the Google Workspace Team stating that unlimited storage plans were going away and that people were being moved to pooled storage across the entire account.

They were moved to a new storage subscription in mid-2022 and while they were over the limits, Google ignored it up to this point.
"Unlimited" anything needs to be retired as an offering since we know genuinely unlimited storage would be impossible to deliver. I assume it's easier to legally weasel out of a service offering if you say "Unlimited" (but really mean 5TB) rather than say 6TB (but really mean 5TB).
Putting your files in a different provider is technically not a backup, it's a copy. A backup means data durability minimum requirements that most cloud file hosting does not provide without a business-level subscription. Even then it may not be replicated outside a region and not use cold storage.

The distinction is important if you want to rely on more than luck to keep your data safe.
I absolutely agree, I don't think I would contradict that in any way, I just think the above exchange I was replying to was silly on both fronts and dunno why it got heated but wanted to provide more tempered POV on the utility of the zero page as a set of registers. You can frame it that way, and compilers often do, but it's honestly stretching the "truth" a bit.

And for that I got downvoted. Huh.
Between cruise control, volumes controls, front wipers, back wipers, camera controls, interior light controls, HVAC, the array is truly bewildering, and I've never been in two cars that were similar unless they had the same manufacturer and were manufactured relatively closely.

Now, on my Toyota, though I find the controls bewildering and worse than a well-done screen, I would never ever want Toyota to make a screen based control for these. Their 2019 screen system is laggy, looks like it was built in 2008, and is really not even fit for the purpose of selecting radio stations, much less the wholly inadequate map navigation system they put on it.

Or the choice is having a traditional auto maker have switches or a screen, give me switches. If the choice is to have a halfway competent UI and hardware designer give me switches or a screen, give me the screen.
Oh it's a fine backup location, but should never be relied on as a primary or sole storage location as in the article.
To add to that, and related to,

>I've had customers get their cloud accounts shut down for a literal three cent billing error

I once just stopped paying an AWS bill on a small website I abandoned (few USD/month), came back to check after a long while and I was surprised to find out how long does it take for AWS to actually shut you down.

Also on AWS, on two different occasions I screwed up and got a high ticket bill:

* Got a lot of data out of Glacier and bill spiked to a couple thousand $$$ (this one'e explicitly mentioned several times in their docs but my mind just didn't register it).

* Forgot to turn off some expensive spot instances and left them running for ~2 days (where it should've been minutes). Again, some thousand $$$.

Both times I opened tickets, told them it was an honest mistake and they just wrote them off, :O.
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> You might not like an article in the Economist, and you will not know who wrote it.

The Economist not publishing author names is a minor detail in the grand scheme of things. The point is that The Economist is in full control of what it publishes and is accountable for it. If I don't like the Economist I won't read it.

> You might not like a tweet and you can block the user or stop using twitter entirely.

IMO Twitter is a bad example here. It's very easy to give up on Twitter. But people use Facebook for a huge range of things, not just for getting news. And blocking individual accounts is a constant exercise in whack-a-mole, one I engage in frequently. New accounts always pop up.
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Why is this the journalist’s fault? Don’t offer an unlimited plan if you don’t want people using it.

I have to think the only reason why the journalist hasn’t sued Google for breach of contract is fear of more retribution from Google. Imagine getting banned from YouTube, not appearing in search queries, or not having access to your gmail after winning in small claims court.

It’s disgusting and shows why big tech needs to be broken up. Google, like others, are abusing their position. It’s not healthy for a competitive market.
I disagree, and side with the sibling comments consensus: having switched from Android to iOS this summer, this was the largest friction for me – this and the bad onscreen keyboard, and the buggy text selection (editing URLs is a chore, holding the spacebar to move the cursor is broken when you move too far...)

Also this has always bothered me before switching whenever I used a friend's iPhone for a moment.

The trouble alread begins when some link in Safari opens a 3rd party app.

Sounds weird, but Apple could really learn a lot about UX from Google regarding this "go back" interaction.

It really was a joy how reliable it works even for inception-level nested app interactions.

On iPhone, half of app switches (at least) require me to swipe up or go to the home screen.

And positioning the unreliable sometimes-available back button at the top left has made me drop my phone at least once.

For all that's to like about iOS, "navigation patterns" are not one of them for me.
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I've linked a Tom Scott video that gets into the sigmoid curve for advancement of technology and asks the question where we are on the curve. Are we near the end where things will peter out and we'll have some neat tools but not too far from now? Are we in the middle where things will get some Really Neat tools and somethings are going to change for those who use those tools? Or are we at the start where it's really hard to predict what it will be like when we're at the top of the curve?

His example was the internet boom. Look back to the very toe of the curve in the late 80s and early 90s where the internet started being a thing that was accessible and not just a way for colleges to send email to each other. Could you predict what it would be like two or three decades later?

The other works are science fiction that explore the Vingean Singularity (which was from '84) that were written in the '00s and explore (not panic) the ideas around society and economy during the time of accelerating technical growth and after.
Sure showing time and N works. But it'd be a lot easier to interpret the data quickly if it was shown in terms of operations per second. Smaller bars do not usually mean improved performance.
I think you're mostly right, but the weed-killing laser robots are less about efficiency and more about herbicides and pesticides. Those are a large market and diverting money from that to weed-killing laser robots could be a big payday for somebody.
Wow congrats on making it through with CometD and Bayeux. I think salesforce has realized that a lot of their APIs aren’t useful when using non standard approaches. I think the move from SOAP to also including REST was a signal that they’re trying to be more useful in this realm. I definitely agree a RabbitMQ sink would've been so ideal! I’m hoping it’s somewhere on their roadmap to make our lives easier.
Chimerism exists in humans as well, and likely gynandromorphism as well. I don't think this bilateral version has ever been seen, but more subtle forms may be more common than assumed - it can only really be discovered through genetic testing of different parts of the body.
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I haven’t heard of Valadic, but I’ll definitely check it out. Thanks for flagging!
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The funny thing is that I don’t like interacting with people over basic things like food. Am I supposed to tip for the disprivilege as well? (Well I live in a culture where people are paid a wage so no, not normally.)

On the scale from a bazaar where you have to spell out every gram of item that you want to a supermarket self-checkout I’m firmly on the supermarket side.
>But the very idea of software having a pre-defined lifespan is not sensible. Do we put expiry dates on mathematical theorems?

IMO it made a lot of sense when the hardware was changing rapidly - when the speed of new hardware doubled every year or two, maintaining existing hardware for more than a decade or two was often just a bad idea. And new hardware usually means porting or rewriting the software.

Nowadays though, hardware has largely peaked - CPUs are getting faster, but not that much faster. We won't see five doublings of CPU speed (64x increase) in our lifetimes, let alone in a decade. Security issues and repairability aside, today's hardware and operating systems will be perfectly serviceable in, say, 30 years.
For the first time this year I’ve begun seeing tip requests on run-of-the-mill e-commerce sites. The premise is that you’re tipping the person packing the order. But I’m
deeply skeptical.

I suppose it takes minutes to code it up on their order form; so why not? But it leaves me with a negative impression of the site when I see it.
No. What an ignorant question to ask. Any halfway decent lawyer would pursue all available avenues to defend their client. Challenging the Constitutionality of a law is not an admission that the client has violated said law.
Golden age? Not so sure about that. CVEs are as vague and random as it gets. CVEs can be denied and accepted for arbitrary reasons, and the vulnerability scoring is worth a separate story. I would rather call the CVE system a dumpster fire.
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What parts do you like?
That is not a very well formed argument, is it? You basically state your opinion and then call people who have an oposite opinion names.

Let’s try to elevate the conversation: there is a newly published author MrX. His book combines themes from many copyrighted works in a novel way and is a critical and commercial success. There is no allegation of any copyright infringement around the work. Suddenly information comes out that MrX used LLMs heavily in the creation of the book and the LLM was trained on copyrighted works.

Do you think MrX owes licencing fees to those other authors? And which ones? All the ones in the training set? Just the ones which has thematic/stylistic similarity to his work?

How come those thematic/stylistic similarities only matter if MrX used an LLM and don’t matter if he used his own head?
Ouch. I guess I’ve been lucky.
I share your cynicism, but I think there’s worse ways for corporations to spend capital other than trying to innovate.
I wonder why did they not have local copy of such important data? Isn't that only safe way anyway?
I believe VC at this stage are willing to accept wasting money for the chance of finding that one solution/technology that will make it all worth it. They aren't paying for you to run a business, they're paying 100 crazy engineers/scientists like Sam Altman to get one Open AI for agriculture. They know you're being wasteful. They can afford it and can't be bothered to help you run your business by checking your bills.
Your link has no real data, it says that one company fired 5 artists "probably" because AI, and one example of a freelance artist that she has less work. The rest of the article is about artists fears.

But I agree, in the past in my village were only 2 people with photo cameras, when you needed a photo you would talk with them or go in the city, now we all have cameras but the real good photographs still have a job and the photo shops still have jobs for printing the photos people take with their cameras or even making photos from time to time.

Since GPT appeared our JIRA tickets did not changed, the AI does not have magic power to debug code andfix stuff, plan new features, optimize slow code, do customer support.
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Same here (also Gen-X). Here in Canada I never learned about WWII in school. I barely remember learning about WWI, and that was usually just around Remembrance Day (celebrated on the anniversary of the Versailles Treaty).

We learned a lot about early Canadian settlement and relations between Europeans and First Nations. By the time I found myself in high school we only needed to take a certain amount of "social studies" credits and, while history was included in that category, there were options that were not specific to history. My experiences learning about Canadian settlement had been so dry and boring that I had made up my mind that I didn't like history at all and so I made every choice in high school to opt out of having to take history classes. In other words, WWI and WWII, if they were taught at all were "optional."
My previous comment was not as informed as it should have been (because I opined after only read the title... a mistake, to be sure). I've edited it and will leave it at this being a very unfortunate situation to be in.
I'm shocked; shocked to learn that no innovation is going on at this AI establishment.
Mimicry needs information, of which an AI has heaps; but, innovation needs will, of which it has none. Maybe some day, but not now.
A Thinkpad doesn't have an End of Life. It just passes down from generation to generation.
A fair question. For Me I use use of their spaces feature to divide my tabs/bookmarks into different areas of concern. So when I'm working on my day job, I can have a running "session" of bookmarks, such as the webapp I'm building, figma, and chatGPT open. It just _feels_ less cluttered and less distracting. Their 'developer mode' adds a nice little tool bar accross localhost and other sites for which you enable it. It's just the compound effect of many small improvements. This the first real innovation I've seen the chrome of a browser in a long time.