skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would love the option to switch to a more natural voice for more literary text (or even a fan fic) so I'll definitely be checking this out

I'm curious if it would be possible to do some kind of analysis to determine the number of individual characters in the text who are speaking, and then assign an appropriate voice to each of the characters. So if you had something like descriptive language interspersed with a conversation between two characters, that you'd have three voices (a narrator, Character A, and Character B) that are consistent across the text.

For more complex writing with many characters, you'd probably need a wide library of possible voices, and the analysis piece would need to spot-on, since it would be very confusing to have one characters' lines spoken by the wrong voice.

Regarding fanfics, many authors give (or withhold) permissions around creating derivative versions of their work via avenues like ficbinding. Before using a tool like this to create an audio version of their writing, I'd suggest reaching out to a fic's author to see if they'd be okay with that. For personal-only use, though, and especially if it's in context of accessibility for visually-impaired folks, I imagine that many of them would probably be okay with it.
It's 10k a month for them to set up a dedicated IP address pool so that they could BYOIP and buy their own IP addresses instead of getting the IP addresses in cloudflare's main IP address pool repeatedly banned or reputation harmed.

i.e. it's a $10k fee for maintaining the infrastructure for a quarantine around their services
Agree with sibling comments I'm almost always hearing a voice describing what I'm looking at, trying to pull the whole thing together.
As crypto cash floods Washington, Congress eyes gentler regulations
Modern SSD drives typically die to controller failure, e.g. unclean power offs corrupting internal state that crashes the firmware, internal counters overflowing after time, memory errors on the internal DRAM, etc. All from to the complexity of needing the FTL to pretend it's a regular disk to the OS.
To me .99 signals that you care for affordability. Luxury products don't care about that.

That's why apple's pricing looks odd to me. Expensive prices minus one dollar
Don't want to sound negative, but copy-pasting results from ChatGPT session to a code editor is not an "integration".
Ws-low-level: A promise-based WebSocket library
There's quite some things that seem to only/best be expressed as code or mathematical formulas, rather than as natural language. (things like cellular automata come to mind)
Parent comment.
"We don't know if telegram is secure or not."

The point was:
This is a discussion about Signal, not Telegram.

But by now we have gotten pretty used to deflecting every discussion about "is Signal secure" to "look behind you, a three headed monkey" or rather to "but telegram is not secure, because all Russians are stupid".

"I compile and run Signal from the sources..."
Yes, so you get a messaging app that might be secure, while 99.999% of users use the one from the store which very likely comes from a completely different source.

"The original whitepaper"
Just use you favourite search engine, we have been over this dozens of times by now.
If you understand security I would start here: https://cs.nyu.edu/~afb383/publication/uc_signal/uc_signal.p...
If not -- it probably takes 15-25 years to teach you.

Very rough, and simplified:
"Double Ratchet has some very strong preconditions which have never been addressed by signal, and probably never been implemented by anybody." (Please, don't quote me on that, it's very dumbed down.)
Fair fair. Unlike traditional solar thermal though, this can just function as regular node on the electric grid (or even a prosumer) so it is decoupled from the attendant variability. As such they are not quite comparable IMO.
This. I concur.
In the linked video, is there a timestamp for when the TLS+DNS blocker is discussed?
I wonder if some coding languages are more akin to 'normal' languages than others. I found it interesting that the scratchJS activated more of the brain associated with spatial tasks which makes sense as I believe scratch is most often used for computer game-type apps?
Sure, but if two bad entities fight I don't care about any of them, let them fight to death.
Have you asked yourself why this is the case? And have you considered answers that don't involve these people being some sort of less-than creatures, rather than thinking, feeling human beings like yourself?
He has had some very fun episodes over the years. Blue pill back in the Vista days blew my mind.

Another episode: "Blue Keep", had me calling everyone I knew in charge of Windows Domains, with many thanks coming back my way because it was a pretty big deal to get patched on unsupported systems.

I highly recommend the weekly podcast.
The actual horrifying part is that this is more of a coping tool than a warning system, as its utility as the latter is limited even in Kyiv. If you are not at the point of accepting your fate, but have already given up on attempting to get to actual shelter, you can set this up and only hide from glass shrapnel for an hour when the cruise missiles and killer drones arrive instead of hiding for hours while they fly all over the country through the gaps of air defense.

For anywhere closer to the frontline than Kyiv this is almost completely useless. Travel time of even non-hypersonic ballistics, hell, even of glide bombs is so short you'd be listening to your alarm and the sound of explosions almost simultaneously.
Point taken.

But to be fair, we're not a company, but a working group. And we don't hate hypertext, we just haven't gotten around to implementing server-side rendering, which would be a nice thing to do.
> So this really should be seen as an act of goodwill rather than malice.

It's called "extortion"
Interesting question. I had a look at Wikipedia and quickly dispelled the thought:

Sullivan died in 1936. Keller went on to write several books after her death:

Let us have faith (1940), Doubleday, & Doran & co., inc.
Teacher: Anne Sullivan Macy: a tribute by the foster-child of her mind. (1955), Doubleday (publisher)
The open door (1957), Doubleday, 140pp
The faith of Helen Keller (1967)
Helen Keller: her socialist years, writings and speeches (1967)
On Memorial day, will you thank someone for their service?
I’ve always been somewhat cynical about the military and military service, but I have always said “thank you for your service” genuinely. I respect the sacrifice other people have made. Even if I criticize the military industrial complex, even if I see it as a sort of modern imperialism, all that doesn’t really matter on the individual level. Now, most people look down on military people in general, and it’s a canary in a coal mine. We no longer respect people that sacrifice for the greater good. Even when we knew the military had problems, we still respected people’s sacrifice for that ideal, even if was imperfect and even if we knew their sacrifice at times may have created more harm than good.. I think the problem now is not that we respect military less, or are more critical of military imperialism. I think as a society, the west, the United States, developing countries in general - we no longer believe there is a greater good. Either it's just not possible for life to be better or we don't believe anything idealistic is possible. ("We used to build things"... remember?) So instead of seeking a greater society, greater good for ourselves, we seek as much harm to our enemies as possible. We’ve all become terrorists ideologically. And terrorists don't thank anyone for their service, they say "glory to our martyrs."
Casinos should indeed be squeezed to death, and the money should go back to their victims
How does the floppy infer when to signal on the index PIN?
Yup. It's been settled lore, for retailers, as long as I can remember. I don't think they care about metrics.

That doesn't cheapen metrics, however. Some pretty meaningful (and, often, annoying) stuff has come from them.
half of the wantrepreneurs here complain about their health and inability to deal with social problems. Jfc.
> My electric bill is tiny and my clothes last forever because they're not getting beat to shit for half an hour every week

They still are though, in the spin dry part of the wash cycle? Or do you not use it?
While the author could improve the narrative in his article, the historical issues with Cloudflare combined with, yet another one, paint a stark picture.

Combine it with the stories I hear about Sales, the numerous other PR fumbles already mentioned in this thread, and the months I’ve personally waited (while on a paid plan!) for ticket responses only to get cookie cutter responses is, quite frankly, embarrassing.

CloudFlare puts in a good front, and their products seem decent, but they really have questionable business practices that should make anyone think twice before using them.
> I'm having a hard time seeing the link between "deleting a custom form object" and "delete thousands of submissions via cascade" from a business standpoint.

I'm not going into further details, but those forms were there to accomplish some legal duty and each submission contained a lot of very personal information. The reason to delete those forms would always be that they were either created by error or that eventually they wouldn't be useful anymore.

But you are right that it could have been two features : one to delete all submissions then one to delete the form. That was one of my suggestions but it didn't pass some leadership / design validation.

> You can't ignore them but as long as you have executive backing you absolutely can

There are some reasons I'm not working there anymore :) It was a good company on many aspects but not this one.
Python has this in a slightly different spot. Most pypi packages have the name and module aligned but it’s only a matter of convention, and there are some common deviations like the pyyaml package providing the yaml module.
I had this a lot in my 20s, but I notice in my 30s that an interrupt won't derail me as much.

It's not that my brain is better at caching states, I think it's to do with being a better coder: meaningful comments, better proficiency in using the IDE, knowing when to not implement something from scratch,
In fairness regarding this particular post, the author admits they were probably violating Cloudflare's ToS, and they knew it.

The folks at CF could have been less obtuse in handling the matter. But at the end of the day this is an online casino breaking ToS and they got spanked.
Being in Nothingness: Virtual Reality and the Pioneers of Cyberspace (1990)
I have a narrator voice when reading code. It's the same narrator voice as when reading technical reports and white papers. I do sometimes struggle to process code that doesn't read well, likely because the cadence of the narrator voice gets disturbed and doesn't flow well.

I've found that my descriptions and explanations of how things work generally follow the same cadence as this narrator voice, which tends to help me explain things succinctly and transfer knowledge quickly.

I do agree it's distinctly different from the narrator voice for fiction books. I would assume that's due to the presence/lack of emotive language between the two types of writing.

Perhaps this is a similar phenomenon to the inner monologue that some people have but others don't? Or the ability to imagine various levels of detail of objects without physically seeing them? The mind is a strange beast.
In the United States local drug store Rite Aid got in some serious trouble for using AI facial recognition. Looking at some of the Federal Trade Commission's complaints against them can give you some creepy insight into how the technology supposedly works and how few checks for accuracy or oversight there are in place.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/12/...
Related discussion here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40481536
It's a superzoom, regular tourism is exactly the use case for these things (and, by the look of it, something this lens does really well at!)

When I'm shooting wildlife, I'll almost always use my 100-400, maybe with a 1.4x teleconverter for even more range if I need it and the light allows it. For walkabout purposes, or indoors, I'll use either my normal zoom (24-70 f/2.8) or my wide angle (16-35 f/2.8). All of those lenses will almost certainly significantly outperform this lens at their respective niches, so you only use a lens like this if you expect to take photos of a wide variety of subjects in a wide variety of conditions, but can't/don't want to carry three (or more) lenses around with you. That pretty much describes tourists to a tee.
My thoughts here are also all speculation, but when you mentioned multi-tenant issues my mind immediately went to a situation I've seen all too many times before:

- a companies ops team identifies a tenant that is too heavy/burdensome for multi-tenant infra and is causing issues. These issues can cost a serious amount of money if you factor in dev/ops times to resolve, other customers impacted, etc. Certainly more than what a hypothetical single multi-tenant customer could be paying

- they escalated internally and need the tenant moved to enterprise asap to resolve

- the only reason the tenant was on multi was because sales sold them the wrong thing, so now it's on sales to explain how to fix this

- improper handling internally results in this landing only on sales, with no backup, and with their task being to get them to take enterprise

- when the customer refuses enterprise they go "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas"

Again, this is totally speculation and I'd hope CF has more mature practices than this but this is a scenario I've seen before in much smaller orgs.
If you find yourself choosing between working on the problem and taking a nap, always take the nap. (Given the choice between remaining in bed, and taking another peek at the problem, usually take a peek at the problem, after which you should do what feels best.)

Some experimentation should convince you that this is how human minds work (well, most of 'em, and yours is probably one of them), after which you can employ this strategy without guilt during a crisis.
Sure, but their move into cities was after they already had a brutal margin and the free money press of AWS.

And cost pressure always applies.

They might put smaller less labor-intensive centers in those places. (Maybe a handover depo for last-mile delivery with some Prime stuff.) Though, of course, maybe the cost of managing non-uniform centers is more than vice versa.
"Possible" does not mean "affordable for the 99.9%". Nor quick, nor safe, nor free of nasty complications, nor minimally-regulated, nor socially accepted, nor ...

And "his body donor was the victim of a shady murder" would probably not help on the "socially accepted" front.
> Transactions also fail 60% of the time.

Any more details about this would be interesting for me.

I’ve written off Solana after looking at it seriously several times now, yet it continues to have the appearance of thriving. Fwiw my biggest issues in the past has been a combination of large data and resource requirement and vulnerability of archive/full history nodes to Google services shutoff and centralization with censorship possibilities.
A really interesting finding considering how many comparisons of code to literature exist. I.e. the advice of laying your files out like a “newspaper”, writing your code in logical evolutions like an essay, etc…
I don’t like the verbosity either, but have come to appreciate it as a cross-platform scripting tool for technical people who aren’t programmers. Again, it’s verbose, but more approachable for these new users than unix scripting languages. Being able to run scripts on macOS and Linux is a bonus. Given all this, I’ve come to peace with PowerShell.
She did say she was around for only 6 months and enterprise sales cycles can last 12+. Though I guess if you’re engaging in scammy behavior it can be much less… maybe she wasn’t willing to do that.
My assumption is that _most_ people anchor to the $9 in $9.99 and don't mentally round to $10. Me, I mentally round up and appreciate companies that use nice round numbers.
Almost, like … maybe one of the “protection” providers might have ways to suppress bad media?

puts on tin foil hat and looks around nervously
Ok, a solution appears.

But does the solution manifest (a flower grows in the garden) or does it become apparent (the fog clears to reveal it)?

Because the phenomenon we're discussing could be attributed to either cause. But they are quite different causes. And imply quite different stuff going on there.
Sell those shovels!
That's not affordability, that's tricking someone into buying something that they wouldn't have otherwise.
Does anyone actually read code in textual order? I am much more often reading vertically, like a shallow AST traversal.
If you have a problem with attention, just buy a flip phone, they still exist.
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> Too bad, there's no reliable evidence it improves learning outcomes.

There is no reliable evidence that schools improve learning outcomes either. Maybe it's all just some kids being born with higher intelligence and curiosity. If they attend a school, the school takes the credit for their achievements. If they use Khan Academy (or whatever other website) instead, the website takes the credit.
Plenty of stuff worth $3 sold for $9.99

Nobody trying to sell anything "cares for affordability" any more than if it's not affordable to the customer, he won't buy it.
If you are interested in this topic, I suggest watching the conversation between Edward Gibson and Lex Fridman. In the middle of the conversation [1] Edward talks about how there is a "human language comprehension network" within human brain, which gets activated only when we read or speak in any human languages, but nothing else. For example for those speaking multiple languages, reading or writing in any of those languages activates the network. But reading gibberish or computer code, neither activate the network.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3Jd9GI6XqE&t=4906s
I also wonder if the company in the article didn’t know that (either by reading between the lines as you did or via other correspondence they didn’t mention) and weighed that in their decision to go with Fastly.

BYOIP isn’t just expensive—if your content is bad for IP reputation the time-to-flagging of your IPs is going to be way shorter on BYOIP than on shared IPs due to there being less dilution. And that’s without getting into the challenges around rotating/renting IPs on a continual basis.

I do agree that CF did not communicate that well or professionally—if the sales emails are the only comms that happened here.
I feel like immutable OS are under appreciated.

Like NanoBSD, Talos, etc.

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/nanobsd/
Looks cool! Will play around with this!
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The is really, really Intersting. I am shocked it saw the light of day outside of Apple.
The Guide to Gleam Concurrency [video]
Spatial Video Tool for MV-HEVC
Taking for granted that cars should have a GPS system installed, and that drivers can always accept that...
Some people travel primarily to take photos.

These days, those carrying a DSLR aren't doing so by accident or wannabeeism, and it's probably helping them enjoy the trip a lot more.

At least for me, it's often a nice nudge to go off the beaten path or try to find nice viewpoints, pay more attention at what I am looking at and the little details.
Freenet side-steps this problem because it is more of a communication medium than a storage medium. It also isn't optimized for the distribution of large files that are the most likely to pose copyright issues. It's not a substitute for BitTorrent.
Are these terms actually used in daily conversation? Or are they reserved for deep-nerd type discussions?
I don't know that he meant to teach me a lesson. I think it was just a mentalist-style magic trick, not unlike pulling a quarter out of a kid's ear. Just for fun.

I guess it was useful to know people are alike enough to be predictable, but I don't think he was trying to teach me that necessarily.

Unfortunately I also have to interpret everything through the lens of, "He's an insecure narcissist, so he might just have been trying to keep me in line by proving he was smarter than me." Things changed a lot after this event. He intensified his efforts to isolate me from other people, even convincing my own mother I was so much smarter than her that she would never understand me. I was a three-year-old child. I don't care how smart you are when you're 3, most of what you need at that point is basic and common among all humans. But this gets back to seeing me as a threat to his own sense of safety, thus trying to make sure I felt small for the rest of my life.
yup, the plan is to enable sigstore for all users, which provides more than just the sumdb hashing integrity.

https://docs.sigstore.dev/verifying/attestation/
I would say `narrator voice` in this context is distinctly different from internal dialogue. Obviously the internal voice can narrate to yourself, but that voice tends to be slightly different in my experience.

Narrator voice is a specific voice, cadence, pattern etc. that your internal voice takes on when reading a narrative, rather than the narration of your experience. For me, I have a different voice when reading/writing technical documentation compared to reading/writing fictional works, which both are different from my day to day internal dialogue.
There's a shortage of both ships and containers
Cannon is probably not the best metaphor to use when talking about photography. Unless the double entendre was intentional.
I find removing the organizing and communication layers greater increases your velocity. For each idea we need to communicate to others or ourselves (in a linear language) involves a translating process. Removing the need for that layer leaves you in the coding zone. Once you have to leave for translating it becomes an expensive process for your brain to recreate the verbal / non verbal environments (or takes too much energy to hold both plus the translation path).

I have a theory that burnout is more common when you keep shifting mental states. Developers who have a phone that keeps ringing throughout the day (or slack messages or urgent emails) are burned out at the end of the day more often than those allowed to be in one state.
"To answer the question, what you do next is to remove yourself from further inputs. As long as you keep feeding your brain with more data, the queries never resolve, and eventually the stuff you fed it first will fall out of the context window and amount to nothing."

Similar/Related: If you are trying to fall asleep, and you mind is filled with thoughts, a solutions is to count (does not need to be sheep just count numbers). Counting distracts and occupies your mind from being distracted with whatever your anxiety (or excitement) thoughts are. (Source: It works for me). Anything can really be substituted for counting as long as it's not exciting or anxiety producing.
The final answer here gives clear indication of psychological bias toward left digits:

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/2359/the-origin...
How exactly are you going to CHEAPLY collect and store energy for a 1400+C process using solar thermal?

It seems like an huge advantage to use an 80% thermal setup vs a 22% efficient panel, but we gave up on solar power towers for a bunch of reasons. With PV things are a lot more straightforward because you can reach nearly any temperature at equal efficiency.
Twelve injured in turbulence on Qatar Airways flight from Doha to Dublin
https://strangeloop.nl/IMG_7649.jpeg

Never fails to make me laugh