skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the age of replicated AI voices and security it seems like this would be a bad idea. How much voice sample is needed to decently replicate someone's voice?
50% storage efficiency is a tough pill to swallow, but drives are pretty big and the ability to expand as you go means it can be cheaper in the long run to just buy the larger, new drives coming out than pay upfront for a bunch of drives in a raidz config.
Sidenotes:

I'm a huge fan of this type of well-done advanced filtering-faceting. Is there a standard/popular library/tool for this?

It's a shame the link to the parent organization on https://diskprices.com/faq.html is broken. I'd love to see more sites in this style.
A faster and cheaper way to print metal nanostructures with light
I don't see a meaningful difference between social media and substack (or wordpress.com or medium.com) since they are all about the network too, and I don't mean that in a bad way. What is the difference you see?

A newsletter you put out outside of substack and wordpress.com and medium.com will gain users much more slowly since you don't have the benefit of the massive existing network of substack/wordpress.com/medium.com users.

I don't say that as a reason not to write your own letter I'm just describing what I see.
How the neuroplastic "Tetris Effect" can unblock work-life obstacles
> I haven't found a parser generator that makes it painless to provide good error messages.

This. And letting the user add their own infix function with configurable precedence and associativity is easy using Pratt too.
A better experience for Apple users is in the universe where web apps function and aren't crippled to support a rent seeking business.
Biology or technology: Which moves more information per second?
P1 port is specifically to read values and “open”. There a 10€ cable to convert it (passively) to usb.

You could consider one of those clamps that measure the power through a cable from the fields around it?
In the UK, yes.

You can see a UK smart meter being taken apart here [1] with the GPRS module shown at around the 2 minute mark. And you can look at meter datasheets [2] which list GPRS WAN as a feature.

Smart meters often send a reading every 30 minutes. Some energy companies will then show a breakdown on their website that purports to show how much you're spending on lighting, fridges, appliances and things like that [3].

I suspect they use a lot of guesswork to arrive at that breakdown, given the limited input data. Although it's probably fairly easy to recognise certain multi-hour-and-distinctively-large loads, like EV charging and heat pumps.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G32NYQpvy8Q
[2] https://www.securemeters.com/sea/wp-content/uploads/sites/15...
[3] https://imgur.com/a/L0xwWEo
It should probably be said that the cuts artists get from the streamers are seen as insufficient and that platforms where you give more directly to artists, like BandCamp, are a better way to support artists you like.
not defending them at all, I dont really care, but it seems like Apple problems are all anyone talks about for an entire news cycle and continue to be talked about for half a decade, yet people very quickly forget about issues with Dell, HP, Lenovo, Samsung even if they make news at all.

Exceptions only for really serious issues like Samsungs phones spontaneously combusting and Lenovos Superfish.
AFAIK it's simple virtualized x86 MacOS. Their EULA doesn't apply to them of course so they can run it on whatever they like.
In biology, there’s a whole field of research dedicated to minimizing cells and their complexity. If you message “John Glass” he might be interested in having you model his work!

Edit: oops you’ve already modeled John’s work! That’s awesome. :D I’ve attended a few talks by John and I think he’d still be interested in seeing whether the modeling side of things can explain why he can’t get the minimal cell smaller.
Considering the fact that most data heavy servers are llnux, that would be a pretty clever way of staying true to their word.
There are dozens of parser generators in C++ that support arbitrary types.
Some time ago I went down a fascinating rabbit hole on Pratt parsers while writing a math expression evaluator. In addition to the OP and above-linked article, I found the following helpful.

- How Desmos Uses Pratt Parsers (2018) - TypeScript - https://engineering.desmos.com/articles/pratt-parser/ - Source: https://github.com/desmosinc/pratt-parser-blog-code

- Simple But Powerful Pratt Parsing (2020) - Rust - https://matklad.github.io/2020/04/13/simple-but-powerful-pra... - Source: https://github.com/matklad/minipratt
> once I made that connection, I started to see summarizing everywhere

One of the most powerful (and dangerous) aspects of dogma is the tendency of its followers to promote it to a universal pattern.

I, for one, am horrified at the prospect of a future where any kind of non-managerial labour is viewed as "summarising" and automated out of our collective skillset. GPT output may often be equivalent to human writing/thinking as a commodity, but human writing & thinking is not a commodity in its essence.

To me this is not the end of knowledge economy. This is a metastasis of the same capitalist disease that attacked the traditional crafts sector more than 100 years ago, attempting to replace it with a mix of industrially exploited labour in the Global North, colonial/slave labour in the Global South, and eventually mechanisation + automation. This brought about fantastic levels of productivity and wealth, along with insane amounts of pollution, the climate crisis and growing inequality. In sectors such as fashion the market is flooded with low-quality goods with a lifetime of a few months, which has led to astronomical amounts of waste.

The difference with AI is, now the Western creative middle class is affected, and due to the shadowy nature of the industry, it is not yet completely clear who is getting exploited (though we are starting to find out[1]). The good thing is, traditional crafts have not disappeared, in fact, their products are increasingly more prized and appreciated. I firmly believe generative AI's onslaught can also be withstood, and a better world is still possible - one where artisan labour, attention and connectedness prevail over whatever hellish future generative AI would create.

(side note: IMO high-quality code is much, much more than a StackOverflow summary)

[1] https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/
Simple. The article states they use the UK's death registry. The problem is they have no way to flag an erroneous match for longer than 12 months.
IMHO Reddit is so manipulated nowadays I am not sure it is a great source of information.
I don't believe most people care about a lot of the artists they listen to enough to seek them out and send money this way.

Not that I believe it's good or bad either way, it's just cumbersome. People want easy solutions. A few of my long distance friends are artists, and it makes them happy to see that I have bought their new cassette or vinyl on Bandcamp above the regular price, and send nice notes with it.

I can do this for more people more easily thru Bandcamp than figuring it all out myself.
Oh! Do you mean how many actual nanometers a transistor made on a '2nm' process is?
This applies to all foreign R&D, not just where it is much cheaper… and unless it is many times less expensive, it will not be worth it. Only being able to deduct 1/15th per year is absurd.
Bankruptcies soar among German large companies(Nov 2023)
Please explain how is the app that plays music clips from YouTube and hides the ads is "shaking up the system"?
Ubisoft Says Out Loud: We Want People to Get Used to Not Owning What They Bought
Did ASML advance the technologies for this node?

Who reserved all the expected output I wonder.
To be fair the guy is speculating (n.b. suggest breaking that first chunk up, it's about a page and half in a single paragraph)
Why is spreading something out over 15 years harder than spreading it out over 5?
Whoa. What’s so bad about “hiring people from there”? Now that east european skills have left it takes two to three locals to get the same job done, if they even figure out how. Have to bring people with expertise from somewhere. Only issue is that Indians are visa bound and underpaid, unlike east europeans that companies competed for and drove wages up - contrary to what the clay of the land thought.
Hard to do. We are humans seeking tribes. If Linus was some unsavory alt right guy with extreme beliefs I’d not align myself with the project he created.

Also Stallman is so polarizing and creepy imo that it hurts furthering his ideas of free software. Imagine he took a more mainstream inclusive approach he’d go further.
The idea is "I want all those rich like me to pay more" not "I want to pay more".
This has been true since the early 1900s, so one’d need to show a markèd increase in the rate of derelervance
> Incredibly talented people complain when technology lets talentless people make some of the beautiful things that they imagine but never had the talent to make real.

If we are speaking about the democratization of tools, this is not what is happening here.

In effect, prompting Dall-E or Midjourney does not make you a creator.

And herein lies the problem. It doesn't enable the talentless to create something beautiful. It allows anyone to prompt aggregated images, regardless of talent or years dedicated to a craft. These images have no intrinsic value and, on top of that, don't belong to the prompter.

This technology is a collage tool, and it's great, but it doesn't make anyone a creator. If you believe it does, you're in for a rough awakening.

Right now, the best models are only working thanks to bypassing the will of thousands of artists who didn't agree to have their work used for training data. As such, we are not essentially speaking about talent but the democratization of theft.

Again, it's not the technology itself that is the problem. Most artists are pro-technology and don't oppose it. Besides, if you learn how to draw (anybody can learn this skill, come on!), you probably won't be impressed by most Midjourney results.
Thanks! The Drop Cap is optional. And yes, it adjusts based on the number of lines being rendered. Here, I've created a recording for you (the Kanban a little buggy since it's still work-in-progress): https://www.loom.com/share/b40009316f6b420b9ece15a1f99e987c
> you never heard of anything like this?

No I haven’t. I’ve heard of penalties and barring from working in a given industry. But never banning from receiving from Medicare or Medicaid.

> I have heard of much worst.... death sentence for example.

I never said there weren’t worse sentences. Something can be crazy or interesting without being the most extreme thing possible.
Even if I were a super trillionaire I would be hesitant to contribute anything to the public debt until congress can balance its budget. We have to bring the spending down. Yes, Republican policies tend to cost more but they aren’t completely wrong about many social programs.
> like how much energy my "rack" (UPS+mac mini+5 disk bay+a few other things) actually uses

I find it better to remain ignorant in that regard. Jokes aside, it's also interesting seeing wall draw vs UPS draw vs PSU draw if each piece of your equipment supports that.

The Shelly stuff is also quite fun to play with (I recommend a AC adapter for H&T). I have the little black spherical sensors and the data resolution is significantly worse on battery since it tries to sleep in low power state as much as possible. It's fun to see the server cabinet (mine's enclosed) vs room vs different room temps. You can also see when the HVAC cycles on and off and when someone takes a shower (humidity spikes).
I would say yes. They try hard to make cooks laugh.

This is one of their recipes:

APOCALYPSE RAMEN

This is basically like regular ramen soup but with three critical differences:

- It is intensely chaotic, which is to say that you can pretty much toss anything into it and say you did it on purpose.
- It's slightly healthier, if your depression has lifted enough that you want to eat something other than delicious, delicious chemicals.
- It involves a mason jar, so you can feel like you're riding out the end of days in true hipster style.

Core Ingredients & Supplies:

- Mason jar or other heatproof receptacle.
- Boiling water.
- The only requirement here is rice noodles. Why? Because they cook fast.

Preparation:

- Put all ingredients in the jar.
- Boil some water.
- Pour into jar to cover ingredients.
- Shake it up a bit (not right away, otherwise you'll burn your hands and get more depressed).
- Let it sit for a few minutes.
- Enjoy???

Variations:

- Remember those takeout packets of hot sauce and soy sauce? This is a good time to use them.
- Frozen or fresh vegetables. Wilted is absolutely fine here. International readers may call them "wilty" vegetables. Reader, you are now bilingual.
- Any kind of spices. We particularly suggest garlic or ginger powder, but seriously, anything will work.
- If you have tofu or some other protein to use, go for it.
That's basically the only argument I've heard so far - if a hacking activity happens between 06:00 UTC and 14:00 UTC then it must be the Russians, otherwise it's someone else. Doesn't sound like a very strong argument?

"Modular implants with code reuse" - sounds like exploit kits you can buy on hacking forums.
Singapore's financial success is indisputable and truly impressive given the very short timeline going from developing to highly developed.

For me, life is not just about money and financial success; without freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of association, sexual liberty, etc. who cares about material riches?
> But when it comes time to pay for content, those people rarely are willing to pony up. You can see this happening with journalism, music, apps, etc.

I think this sentiment is wrong. Personally, I pay for content and services that I find value adding (Kagi, Fastmail, etc.)

That said: I am never going to pay for YouTube. The issue is that the entire platform and all of its content is catered to ad-revenue.

I could be convinced to pay for a video service like YouTube where everything into its core and legacy has been based around user payments.

Likewise I am never going to pay for news services that has adjusted their entire offering and content towards ad-revenue.

But until I discover such a platform I am going to keep on my ad-blocker.
Well the “good” thing about this law is that it also classifies ALL software development (and any supporting activities!) as R&D. And yes that’s as absurd as it sounds, but it’s true.
What I mean is: WTF, no one cares how many nanometers it is... why lie about it either way, anyways?
My understanding was that Xserve, and the corresponding OS X Server, were discontinued because performance for Apple-rolled server software sucked ass.

There were at least a few threads on Apple’s forums where people were redirected to community-supported software.

There is a fairly strong use-case now with robust software, but I feel like Apple wants to maintain an illusion that their developers are small mom-and-pop shops with a Mac Mini in corner of their farmhouse.
For those wondering _why_ this device is there, it seems it gave points under the Code for Sustainable Homes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_for_Sustainable_Homes so the apartment could have a better environmental rating, as mentioned at https://uk-metering.net/products/netthings-energy-manager

Seems that making sure the device actually works and is accurate was not a requirement however...
There's a term for analog systems using discretized values: digital.
Also: choose a platform that pays artists more. Apple and tidal pay out much more per stream than YouTube/spotify.

But any form of paying is much much much better than piracy.
Reminds me of this old joke:

A group of coworkers is commuting on the same train. To pass the time, they tell jokes. Over time, they told the same joke so many times they come up with a system to make things more efficient. One guy goes: "5!" Everybody roars with laughter. Another guy goes: "23!" Others are in tears. Third guy says: "15." No reaction. He repeats: "15!" Still nothing. He goes, "Come on guys 15 is a pretty funny joke!" "Well it is, you just don't know how to tell it!"
Virtualization today makes snapshotting a backing up a breeze.
i saw several dead teslas in my city during the cold snap last week
Taking a puupy’s life increases the net suffering. In a purely ethical world, a world where the AI succeeds.

A world where every life, even a dogs life is different f value.

Can the path to a solution exclude the solution itself.
EOS and ceph have different use cases at CERN. EOS holds physics data and user data in CERNBox, while ceph is used for a lot of the rest (e.g. storage for VMs, and other applications). So both will continue to be used as they are now. CERN has over 100PB on ceph.
> This technology is a collage tool, and it's great, but it doesn't make anyone a creator. If you believe it does, you're in for a rough awakening.

Hannah Höch would like a word.
Your CPA is incorrect. The law now applies to ALL software development and related activites, regardless of what state the product is in.
requiring an email in order to download a privacy tool isnt a great start for anonymity. why should I trust this tool?
Ask HN: Where do you go to find recommendations for physical programming books?
I'm old school and like sitting down with a book both for learning actual coding and also for methodologies and philosophies. I don't know where to go for recommendations. Any help? Thanks!
I recently made an xbox 360 chatpad work with windows using an esp32. It's kind of a grail moment when you search about it. A bit late to the party as the modern chatpad + controller do work, but 360 controllers and chatpads are very inexpensive. It's chatpad > esp32 > bluetooth > anything, stuck neatly on the back you hardly notice it's there.
The reason why the super rich shouldn't give more money to the government is the same reason lottery winners lose it all within a very short period of time.
The Inevitable Generative AI Revolution
See whisper-speech posted yesterday.
“New technology is about to change the landscape completely.” Sure, it will. I’m not so sure that making an effort directed at being a “model manager” is the best way to prepare yourself for the possible changes.

In my opinion, education (for all ages) waste a lot of time chasing “digital literacy”, with few results to show for it. I think most people will have a greater return on investment from simply writing, practicing “math”, and organising their personal work and knowledge. These skills are surprisingly hard to get good at, and will probably keep you in demand as long as human labor is.

Edit: … however, this is an interesting thought-experiment. It just reads like career development advice.
I wonder how this will affect political discourse in the USA. Legitimate question. I’m not concerned with “sides”, more interested to know if there will be less “division/fiery rhetoric”. There seems to have been a systemic psyops campaign from foreign actors into US political “hot” topics.
AI makes McDonald's hamburgers. Cheap and infinite. 90% of the population consider that haute cuisine. Eat em all day. Suffer inexplicable tummy aches. Etc.

So let them. It isn't like we can do anything about it.
In the past 7 years, Apple has doubled down on improving WebKit. I think if you tried it now, you'd find Safari is basically the same as Firefox.
Related required viewing.
https://youtu.be/yPuI4l0jK7s?si=-ICkrje6DCve-cBW
I visited zurich and lucerne last year and loved it, we had a hike and cog train trip around rigi kulm in the alps which had some breathtaking sights.

Zurich is excellent but expensive. You can do 3,4,5 days here especially if you plan a hike for one or two days up the alps.

For Bavaria i recommend a trip to Munich and then by train to nearby Salzburg in Austria. You really cant beat a bier keller and some paul anner, pretzels, and brautwerst and suarkraut,
You should do 2-3 days in Munich and 1-2 days in Salzburg.

Both places are beautiful with fantastic food, beer, and museums.
I was about to explore sqlite/litestream but didn't because we have two services (cron and admin-web) that write to the database. Regular www-web services are read-only.

We only have one instance of cron and admin-web. We could make sure they are always on the same host. So reading this made me happy.

Do you have a blog/gist where I can find/steal some of your work?
I think that depends on the end goal with the marketing. What are you looking to achieve exactly? For example: getting a job, getting funding, getting attention for an open-source project?

I've never really thought about it for myself. Most people who contact me about jobs do so through word-of-mouth, LinkedIn (where I don't post anything aside from keeping history up to date), or sometimes through my (low-traffic) personal blog. I never felt like I was missing out on work by not being a tech "influencer" or something like that. Do you feel like a LinkedIn profile with a nice history of your work isn't enough for what you're seeking?
If you were paying attention you'd notice I called the same poster a coward, for the same reason each time.

I'm always astounded why people who are grievously offended—by being asked to be more considerate of people who have a harder time than them—are unable to justify their point of view.

Maybe it's because there's little reason other than wanting to be seen as correct?
It’s small enough of an edge case (and having it broken probably usually saves them money because some won’t be able to fight it) that fixing it hasn’t been prioritized by management, and the system to stop payments saves them enough money from fraud they aren’t getting rid of it.

Frustrating, but I’m sure we’ve all been there in some form as software engineers.

The article is attempting to publicly shame them enough that they fix it, which might work. Most organizations are allergic to bad press.
This web page for comparing EC2 pricing using filtering https://instances.vantage.sh/?region=us-east-2 is open source https://github.com/vantage-sh/ec2instances.info
Glaze – protect your artwork from AI style mimicry
> They are being outcompeted by a megacorp selling bootleg derivatives of their work

and driving the value of their hard work to the ground.
Completely ignorant of hardware here.

That's why, I guess, they're looking to standardize x86s.
> But that doesn't mean that there is any remotely moral case for undoing the green revolution and allowing billions to starve.

A question is, is it possible to advance technology to fulfill the green revolution without changing the value of human creativity due to the creation/advancement of genAI? Or past a certain point, the results of discovering improved health and ecological outcomes will become inextricably linked with discovering new technologies that cause conflict? What actually drives such a process?

I think more people might become interested on why we end up here talking about new possibilities conflicting with stability again and again, similar to how the negative effects of the invention of smartphones are being talked about now.
> meaningful difference between social media and substack

On substack I get email to commute directly anytime. They get my content in their inbox. And it's not algo heavy. Other social media like Twitter, insta, and Facebook rely on content engagement.

> I don't say that as a reason not to write your own letter

I am doing it. The problem is slow growth and less reach compare to social media.
> 4x the rated current

> That's many orders of magnitude

An order of magnitude is 10 times, in my timeline.