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Show HN: A bookmarklet to more easily read and simultaneously listen to articles
Although I am aware of the reader functionality of many browsers, I often find the small, gray text on many webpages difficult to read. I also have found that I read faster when part of a word is in bold (previously discussed on HN as "bionic reading"; though this does not work for everyone). Also, I read better when the computer is speaking the same text simultaneously.

To address these needs, I created this bookmarklet, and I hope others will also benefit from it. To use, add this bookmarklet as a link in the top toolbar of your browser, highlight the text in an article you would like to read, and then press the bookmarklet to have the text displayed in a larger format in Arial font with an easy-on-the-eyes peach background while the text is read. You can adjust the rate of speech with the slider that appears at the top of the new text window.

javascript:void function(){ javascript:(function(){ var selection = window.getSelection().toString(); if (!selection) { alert("Please select some text on the page."); return; } var encodedSelection = document.createElement("div"); encodedSelection.textContent = selection; var processedContent = encodedSelection.innerHTML.replace(/\n/g, " <br></br> "); var words = processedContent.split(" "); var formattedText = ""; var speechContent = ""; for (var i = 0; i < words.length; i++) { var word = words[i]; var chunkSize = Math.floor(word.length / 3) + 1; var boldPart = "<span style='font-weight:bolder'>" + word.substring(0, chunkSize) + "</span>"; var lightPart = "<span style='font-weight:lighter'>" + word.substring(chunkSize, word.length) + "</span>"; var formattedWord = boldPart + lightPart; if (word.endsWith(".")) { formattedWord += "<span style='color:red'> *</span>"; } formattedText += formattedWord + " "; speechContent += word + " "; } var newWindow = window.open("", "_blank"); newWindow.document.write("<html><head><title>Spoken Content</title></head><body><input type='range' min='0.1' max='10' value='1' step='0.1' id='rate-slider'><p id='content' style='background-color:#EDD1B0;font-size:40;line-height:200%25;font-family:Arial'>" + formattedText + "</p></body></html>"); var rateSlider = newWindow.document.getElementById("rate-slider"); var utterance = new SpeechSynthesisUtterance(speechContent); rateSlider.addEventListener("input", function() { utterance.rate = rateSlider.value; window.speechSynthesis.cancel(); window.speechSynthesis.speak(utterance); }); window.speechSynthesis.speak(utterance); })();}();
Considering backward compatibility on ios my bet is on proton for sure.
Language is a serialization of our brain's "world model" structures.
I'm not sure what's happening with the HN algorithm, but these anti-Israel, non-technology-related posts keep making the front page while e.g. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/security-insider/in... does not

runarberg's comments are just a symptom of a deeper problem, dang
They're not. Their stock prices are cratering. Bumble just had a widely publicized, horrifically tone-deaf rebranding while trying to expand their market. There have been layoffs.

A recent news story on it:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/12/business/dating-apps-tind...

The problem is that they're losing young people, who seem to feel a lot less pressure to go meet somebody and pair off. They see the existing dating apps as having been designed for a Gen X sentiment, and that doesn't apply to them.

They're still fumbling about for a new hook. They may well find it. But for the moment I don't think it's accurate to say that they're "doing fine".
I think you would be surprised by the list of countries the US IC believes are our most important intelligence "adversaries"; the list includes many of our allies.
And there's no way it stays per-machine. It's almost guaranteed it's going to get synced to all your devices via OneDrive at some point.
>That's how secessions/federal disintegrations generally work, just look at the USSR post-1991.

Yeah, it might be, but think of it this way - if Texas said "we're independent, and all the military installations and research facilities are now ours" I have a strong suspicion the US government might say "yeah, no, that's not happening". The likes of Lockheed Martin and other major AF/Army/Navy contractors have production and research facilities in the DFW area. Texas goes independent, that's a lot of stuff in those facilities that the USA wouldn't want an openly hostile neighbor to have.
Nothing in this research appears to indicate fault of any kind; rather, a genetic cause.

> Lee’s research team “stumbled” on the discovery after investigating a “gene desert”, a stretch of DNA on chromosome 21 that does not code for proteins, which has previously been linked to IBD and other autoimmune diseases. Writing in Nature, they describe how they found a section of DNA that behaves like a volume control for nearby genes. This “enhancer” was seen only in immune cells called macrophages where it boosted a gene called ETS2 and ramped up the risk of IBD.

As parents we make plenty of real mistakes; blaming ourselves for unavoidable stuff isn't worth adding to the pile.
I'm sure you're familiar with MAME... I wonder if they have some kind of file structure or database that holds those materials?
Having more than one thing capable of doing something is an advantage in a field as uncertain as spaceflight.
Possibly, you don't actually know since it is external data.
> Do you find it concerning that no presidential candidate can even pass the primary without first kissing the ring of AIPAC? That Zionist lobby openly attacks insufficiently pro-Zionist candidates and then openly brags when they lose elections? With Zionist lobby trying to outlaw any criticism of Israel in direct violation of 1st amendment? Etc, etc. IDK about others, but I think this is insane.

* foaming at the mouth *

kiss the ring, AIPAC, Zionist, Zionist, Zionist

Fixed that for you.
i often thing such claims are progress updates from research groups dependent on government grants for funding, so they need to assert they will still need a next round of funding.
It has not been verified. There was testimony today where someone said "I have not seen evidence of inauthenticity"; this was reported as "it is authentic", but in fact she meant "I haven't checked if it is authentic".
>That doesn’t require believing in sci-fi; it just requires believing in straight lines on a graph.

It also requires believing the made-up labels you wrote on the y-axis.
Fast Company has been advertising dressed up as mid grade journalism for as long as I can remember. I think they're exactly where and what they want to be.
I think there is a huge difference between an article critical of country X and an article accusing country X of genocide.

Above, I am trying hard not to take sides in the issue; I am just pointing out the semantics.

Accusing someone of a heinous crime should NOT be described as "being critical".

With this title, the journalists at AP are doing everyone a disservice here.
During the Starline abort test only 2 of the 3 parachutes opened, and that was a pad abort test - no SRBs!! NASA not only calling that a "success", but a sufficient success to move onto crewed testing was about the moment I lost all faith in Bridenstine being different. Immediately after leaving office he picked up a cushy consulting type gigs for various aerospace/defense companies (aka Boeing et al). Shocker.

For those who might not know SRB = solid rocket booster. Boeing uses them, SpaceX doesn't. An SRB is basically like a giant firecracker. You light it and it starts burning and doesn't stop until its done. It poses substantial safety concerns in the case of an accident where you need to abort the flight. But they're cheap, extremely powerful, and relatively simple contrasted against liquid fuel engines.
This is definitely something we've discussed and I think Python -> WASM is an exciting innovation. Right now, there's some challenges with how large of a WASM binary a typical Python app will compile to (e.g. bundling the std lib) and the initialization time [1].

I think supporting Python -> WASM could be one of the options we support, but there's probably always a need to support Python on the server, simply due to the ecosystem (e.g. dependencies) that's around it.

[1] https://pyodide.org/en/stable/project/roadmap.html#reducing-...
Really cool to see others hacking on netstack, bit of a shame it's tied up in the gVisor monorepo (and all the Bazel idiosyncracies) but it's a very neat piece of kit.

I've actually been hacking on a similar FOSS project lately, with a focus on building what I'm calling a layer 3 service mesh for the edge. More or less came out of my learned hatred for managing mTLS at scale and my dislike for shoving everything through a L7 proxy (insane protocol complexity, weird bugs, and you still have the issue of authenticating you are actually talking to the proxy you expect).

Last week I got the first release of the userspace router shipped, worth taking a look if you want to play around with a completely userspace and unprivileged WireGuard compatible VPN server.

https://github.com/noisysockets/nsh/blob/main/docs/router.md
Space has resources we could extract without damaging the environment.

(Aside from the primal human need for exploration, which brought your ancestors the where you live now - unless you live in central Africa)
> It’s just leisure

This describes almost all human activity outside agriculture. (EDIT: slash that—agriculture doesn’t make the cut either.) Shelter, medicine, education, transportation—none of this is biologically necessary by some measure.

It’s difficult to look at history and not see the obvious—practically unchallenged—connection between technological ambition and quality of life. Paradoxically, if you only focus on feeding and clothing your population, you never do.
The idea that AI trained on artist created content is theft is kind of ridiculous anyway. Transformers aren't large archives of data with needles and thread to sew together pieces. The whole argument is meant to stifle an existential threat, not to halt some illegal transgression. If they cared about the latter a simple copyright filter on the output of the models would be all that's needed.
The single goalie w the corner ramps was a late 1970s into the 80s things. Those are now less common as some competive foosball uses the three man rear, but there is one or more exceptions. I did the researh for my coed fraternity reunion, very hard to find the classic ramp tables, as they were made of particle board and degrade. The one company w ramps uses a more gentle slope rather than an added steep corner ramp.
>> That wouldn't prevent one off extinction type events like asteroids.

> This is the lamest of all excuses.

> It's a very unlikely for one, we haven't had an extinction asteroid in 65 million years.

He said "like astroids". Quite frankly we don't know how frequent extinction events happen. We've had nuclear weapons for less than 100 years, and have a couple of close calls[1] already.

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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alar...
The environmental impact. And yes, I know, 0.5%, but my issue was always that if PoW currencies went from being a niche subculture to a point where it was used for everyday exchange (many people were arguing that this would and should happen) that 0.5% would surely go up by a great deal. To a point where crypto had to clear a super high bar of usefulness to counterbalance the harm it would do.

To be fair, AI training also has a big carbon footprint, but I feel like the utility provided by AI makes it easier to argue that its usefulness counterbalances its ecological harm.
The increase in density of security cameras makes physical dead drops less ultimate than they once were.

As a thought exercise I sometimes wonder how far I can go from a specific location without being captured on a camera.
Yes, that's possible for product development in a startup (even necessary, because you don't know what you need to build), and in web dev, end user facing apps,...

For many other domains, the full incremental / Agile loop is not possible, and becomes disaster if it results in skipping upfront planning:

The counterparts you need to integrate with are often not done yet. Maybe the hardware is not finalized. The end user is years away. Maybe each test run is hugely expensive.

There is no MVP here, as in the system works as expected or it doesn't.

You cannot meaningfully iterate the core software running an MRI machine, a surgical system, financial clearing, pick-and-place machines, automatic rail protection, etc. towards correctness with the end user.
I think one of the big takeaways for me was aside from deliberate manipulation of media by the government and willing media partners, that journalists also self censor in a way because they are operating in a professional environment and within a certain Overton Window.

Maybe it's not what I should remember most, but it did help remind me that when your livelihood is based on what you say you will be much more measured, regardless of the subject.

Probably why people look to social media or Substack for more independent people who have a longer leash, less on the line, and more to gain, since that's where you get your interesting although many times wrong takes (e.g. Ivermectin for Covid, or Lab Leak Theory)
Buddhism has always associated desire with suffering https://www.csueastbay.edu/philosophy/reflections/2011-2012/....
Tang ping does not have to be political.
The amount of games that work with Vulkan may be very small, but at least they have a chance of working. The de facto standard API for games on computers, DirectX, will never receive a port.

If you think Vulkan support for games is insignificant, look at Metal support.

I think Vulkan makes a lot of sense for macOS, actually; the Nintendo Switch, to which tons of games have been ported already, uses the ARM+Vulkan design and has a relatively weak GPU (but much weaker, as it's very old). It's not quite native, but a lot of supporting libraries that work on the Switch will also work on Mac. Everyone is talking about porting Windows games to Mac, but with the way things are developing, porting Switch games to Mac may actually make more sense, assuming Nintendo's promises for the upcoming Switch replacement are to be believed.
You have a point...

I once gave a 10-dollar bill to a young man serving at the cashier at a store, and he gave me 14 dollars back as a change. I pointed out that this made no sense. He bent down, looked closer at the screen of his machine, and said "Nope, 14 dollars, no mistake". I asked him if he thought I gave him 20. He said no, and even shown me the 10-dollar bill I just gave him. At that point I just gave up and took the money.

Now that I think about it, there was an eerie similarity between this conversation and some of the dialogues I had with LLMs...
>Vaaler Paper Clip
>Patented 1900 (Germany), 1901 (US)

>Vaaler, who was Norwegian, is commonly but incorrectly given credit for invention of the paper clip. His designs were neither first nor important. There is a large
Gem paper clip statue in Norway. Norway might consider giving it to the U.S.
Establishing a permanent presence on the moon would be a stepping stone to further exploration of other planets. (Mars in particular.)

Since its only a 3-4 day trip, with transfer windows every month (and non-optimal ones essentially constantly). resupply missions and rotating astronauts/personnel are going to be much easier. Much less of a gravity well to deal with.

The plan would be for in situ resource extraction and manufacturing. With enough of a human presence, projects like local construction of spacecraft become feasible. And something like a mass driver would be much more feasible on the moon. A big enough one and you're even considering interstellar probes ...

It would require a consistent, sustained effort. But not astronomical in US budget terms. Maybe $20-$30 billion/year (about of 3-4% the defense budget)
> My first job was at a defense contractor working on a big rocket.

Out of curiosity, were you working on one of the Ares rockets?
If the model is first pre-trained on unlabeled images, then it takes about 10 labeled images of cats and 10 labeled images of dogs to train a (possibly strong) classifier (example: DINOv2), I doubt humans will do better.
Now I understand how it can use paperclips to make technology; technically any bent metal can be considered a paperclip.
Just try the question with GPT-4o and the results are more entertaining than I would expected.

Prompt: Alice has 3 brothers and she also has 6 sisters. How many sisters does Alice’s brother have? Solve the problem step-by-step

Answer:
To solve the problem step-by-step:

Identify the total number of siblings Alice has:
Alice has 3 brothers.
Alice has 6 sisters.
Understand that Alice herself is one of the sisters:
Including Alice, there are a total of 7 sisters (6 sisters + Alice).

Determine the number of sisters Alice's brother has:
Each of Alice's brothers will have the same number of sisters as Alice does, excluding themselves.

Since Alice's brothers have the same set of siblings, including the 7 sisters:
Therefore, each of Alice's brothers has 6 sisters (not counting themselves as a sister).
So, each of Alice’s brothers has 6 sisters.
So buy comments on Israeli MK Facebook accounts? I think the only ones that would move any needle here is Meta profits on DAU and the company being paid to run the bots. You think your congressman goes to FB comments to decide how they’re voting?
> better ... advice

Interspersed with lunatic delirious advice? ?!

There is a reason why people should be afraid of morons, irregardless of scholar titles.

It is incredible and very revealing how people and cultures around the world show a complete disregard and unawareness of reasoning, judgement, good "common" sense, mental sanity...
This is all fine modelling, but doesn't have much bearing on the experience of being human. It's a description, and describing something (regardless of which words you use) does not change its nature.

Motivation, in the sense of "I feel a desire to perform an act I deem to align with what I want to do although it will bring me immediate-term discomfort", that type of motivation, whatever you call it, does not precede prior success in that activity; that type of motivation, whatever you call it, will go away in the face of hardships and struggles; that type of motivation, whatever you call it, is not necessary to perform the task at hand.
Can someone do us the favor of exfiltrating the definition of "misinformation" used in this paper? Does it include things that are true?
Mass drivers.
I don't know of them, that's why I'm sure it's happening. I'd assume that the US is doing this to our allied nations, too.
Funny that the sci-fi got it backwards.

It seems rather obvious in hindsight that should it even be possible, we will clearly be able to detect warp signatures far before we would be able to build a machine capable of producing them.
There's reddit.com if you need to vent your outrage about technology and politics. We don't need to turn every website on the internet into reddit, it's okay to have some websites focus on other things.
I... have no idea what your point is with this...

Edit: If I can figure out what you are trying to say

Was the person I responding too slightly exaggerating? Sure.

But we know for a fact that a lot of money flows from AIPAC to candidates that support strong ties with Israel. That isn't a secret. Saying that isn't anti-semitic.

If that is not your point, please let me know what it is so I can properly respond.
I just want to live long enough to see a ship, intended for long-term use, assembled in orbit.
We do know because the database owner has openly talked about how the keys are derived. That still doesn't make it a good key for your database, but I can assure you that the world doesn't revolve around you. It is someone's surrogate key – therefore it is a surrogate key.
This is the most incredibly disappointing news. I have personally witnessed miracles take place with this substance more than once, as have those involved with the trials. To see it shot down like this is so sad.
Sounds like we should be adding good testing frameworks to SQL then
Discussions [0](4 points, 10 hours ago, 5 comments) [1](15 points, 9 hours ago, 7 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40582852

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40583009
I put together a small commandline tool to help catch these developer cert-swap situations. I wrapped it up in a LaunchAgent to periodically check and alert to this condition.

https://github.com/luckman212/cscheck
Who claims that? I explicitly want censorship to target innocents. There is no single person's speech (even my own) that we can't live without. I would much rather the banhammer come down a few feet over the fence so that people can't get too close to it. I say this as someone who both wields and has been hit with the banhammer. You store your hammer in the freezer specifically for the chilling effect.

Strong moderation in communities does make those communities better. We're in one of them. Your workplace is likely one of them. Your social sphere is one too hand curated by you. IRL we call this social norms and boundaries, but when it's online or in print people get weird about it.
I'm not clear on what advantage this architecture has over mamba/Griffin. They also have the linear scaling, better sequence parallelism and are competitive in performance with transformers.
Renewable energy?
> I had about 50GB free on my (1 TB M1 Max) machine at the time of the update, and the App Store told me I didn't have enough free space to update. I balked and looked at the update description, which was just "Various minor bug fixes." The update size was...75 GB. They expect me to re-download the entire game for various minor bug fixes.

It is an unfortunate truth that one must now bear in mind, that games are for all intents and purposes enterprise software. They are as critical to profitability for the companies involved as enterprise software. They are large, distributed applications which are planned, budgeted, and staffed much like enterprise software. Accordingly, there is little to no concern for performance except when it's absolutely critical: the rendering pipeline and the netcode, for instance. For things like updates, where it would be easy to make some optimizations to reduce download size, those optimizations will not be taken. So you will redownload the entire game, including all of the uncompressed audio clips, every time someone changes a byte somewhere and it's shipped as an update.
"My feeling is that your comment ignores this asymmetry."

These are enforcement problems, not squatter problems. As you've said, the things the landlords are doing are already illegal. In the US we have Attorney General offices that will handle housing cases on behalf of tenants.

Both parties can benefit from better enforcement and written and recorded leases. Penalties for landlords leasing without recorded agreements may be more easily enforced that under the current system.
That is by far not the only thing industry labs are working on currently. I work in one. My group might be unusual, but I can’t name a single currently active project here that is not a departure from Transformers one way or another. I expect a ton of such efficiency oriented work in the next 4-5 years. We can’t be burning money as inefficiently as we do it right now.
If that kind of thing worked, we'd have been doing it long before LLM chatbots.
There is less muscle movement in the neck, and therefore less strain, with alt-tab.