skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
xTTS is not open source but you can download it and use it for some things - and it's the nicest sounding one.

Bark has potential but the voice quality is pretty off.

The tortoise fork which improves the model and restores cloning (the author of tortoise decided it was to dangerous and crippled the project) is ok with some voices but it takes a lot of tries.

Voicebox from Meta is pretty good, comparable quality to ElevenLabs, but it's research-only for now.

Pretty sad overall.
>Is there a reason why game developers can't just sell a key on the web using Shopify/WooCommerce/etc. and distribute the game files publicly via a CDN?

It's not that easy; Steam brings down dramatically complexity of self distributing and it offers a plenty of Web 2.0 features e.g. reviews, discussions forum, connecting with friends, playing with friends, chatting with friends etc.

It's like asking why Amazon exists when sellers can have their own store page and distribution channel....

Some games that I know that are popular and not on Steam are for example Starsector and Escape from Tarkov. Game devs choose not to publish their game on Steam either because their game is not finished and they do not want to get negative reviewed to the ground and/or they think their game's brand is so strong that they do not want to pay 30% tax to Steam. For example Minecraft most likely wasn't on Steam because of aforementioned reasons.
Good to hear, Gerrit does a lot of things right, see "stacked diffs" (or the realization that GitHub lacks these) now becoming more popular. And the patchset model is one important aspect of that, especially being able to see the difference just between patchsets - which git-pr can then do via `git range-diff` (which you already mentioned).

And even if everything git-pr does could be done by talking to the Gerrit REST-API, a simple straight forward and lightweight implementation of the "essence" of this model is very useful.
Based on a single tweet without any evidence provided, this is news now...

> What's more, Bankston did eventually find the settings toggle in question...

> For Bankston, the issue seems localized to Google Drive, and only happens after pressing the Gemini button on at least one document. The matching document type (in this case, PDF) will subsequently automatically trigger Google Gemini for all future files of the same type opened within Google Drive. He additionally theorizes that it may have been caused by him enabling Google Workspace Labs back in 2023, which could be overriding the intended Gemini AI settings.
Is this the best example? It looks like France's dept to gdp is significantly lower than the US (110% vs 122%)
You could put a VGA (or MCGA for that matter) card in a 386 in 1987, the same year the Amiga 500 came out. It would have set you back a lot more than an Amiga 500 though.

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The PS/2 Model 80 shipped in June of 1987 and AFAICT exceeded the minimum requirements for Wolfenstein 3D.

1: Compaq Deskpro 386 was launched in Q4 1986 and the first PS/2 with a VGA card shipped in Q2 1987. I don't know when the first VGA cards were sold on their own, but nothing was to stop you from swapping the card from a PS/2 to a Deskpro.
Probably during a Labour government. Tories would never invest on such a thing, or would find a huge consultancy to allegedly do the job for an eye-watering amount.
Luck that their grandpa built the duplex. I am unlucky that my grandpa did not build a duplex. Luck that their parents held the assets and did not sell it.
Can you ever be "too emotional" in decision-making?
They are better, but they still sound slightly unnatural to me, the pauses are in the wrong places, or not long enough. It takes me out of focusing on the actual words
Hacking is cool.
Do the math on how much energy you can store-- the volumes required for meaningful amounts of energy are just mind boggling. So you don't just need elevation, you need thousand of acres of valley or crater that you can flood and people tend to get a little testy about geoengineering at those scales these days.
I would say both in this case, you can make the decision if you think you need investment money or not and the number of paid users you have can be can be a valuable point of data used to help determine this.

You have the advantage of being able to start and potentially get something into the market without needing to take investor money and promise larger than life returns on the money you take. Use this time wisely to make an honest judgement of what you think this business could turn into, if it's just something that pays your rent then let it be that. If you grow like crazy and need investment money, only then pursue it.

Dealing with investors is a really big headache, so only accept money from them if you really think it will make a difference in being able to grow the business.

Yes you will almost certainly have to use one or many extension stores, you will also need to setup a secure way to handle subscriptions and give elevated access to users that pay.
The Reasoner analyzes its reasoning and finds it...sound!

Case closed, terminate all thought processes.
Work is work and always has it's plusses and minuses.

But, yes, even if the tech cycle isn't terrible at the moment (e.g. dot-bomb nuclear winter) it's definitely down. I somewhat regret effort and money I put in a couple of years ago to get myself setup to do various stuff post "retirement" because, while I haven't exactly been beating the bushes, opportunities haven't been falling off trees either.
I was confused until I realized title omits "renewables". Having peak solar demand during peak air conditioning demand is beautiful harmony.
Steam is actually made with their users in mind. So much that they managed to beat piracy. It is no easy feat, you can't beat piracy on price, and it is hard to beat in convenience when all you have to do is download a torrent and run an exe file. Piracy is like the final boss of software distribution platforms, but they beat it.

To play a game, select it on the store, pay (with all sorts of payment options), download (from damn fast servers), and press play, that's all. The game sucks or crash, click a button and you are refunded, no need to be always online just for DRM check (eventually you'll need internet, but you have enough leeway so that it is rarely a problem), ads are very unobtrusive and maybe even desirable (suggesting games you may actually like or announcing sales), they don't usually force an update just before you want to play a game (a much too common occurrence), dark patterns kept to a minimum (or at least subtle enough), generally good software quality (in terms of bugs, broken UI/UX, etc...). You bought a game, it stays in your account, Steam has 20 years of history of not screwing you, and to play it, just install Steam on any PC (it it doesn't already have it), log in to your account, download and play, it is that easy. You can even share games (with some reasonable limitations).

Others just have some annoyance here and there. Some always-on DRM, bugs, dubious UI choices, annoying ads, etc... Only Valve seems to understand the importance of not getting in the way between gamers and their games and do the appropriate amount of effort (which is a lot). Not even in the name of profit, because they understand that it is not worth it, if gamers are satisfied, profits will come. Remember, they have piracy as a competitor, and it is hard to compromise against such a powerful competitor.
that doesn't even cover the salary of all the obama admin people uber hired. let alone the actual lobbying going on. that's just what fall under some specific tax code.
Obtaining excessive wealth is the same as winning the lottery (the billionaire founder class).

Edit: Q: If you downvote this comment, do you believe someone like Zuckerberg was predestined to be a billionaire?
> By the way I'm pulling punches here.

Out of curiosity where can I find the unabridged version of this?
BLE beacons use advertisement packets with a payload, and at the end of the day, are sent actively by an application (like COVID tracing). With MAC address randomization, it's possible to make them anonymous and untrackable at the protocol level. This paper uses data from the physical layer to pull more metadata to track devices, ie. error and drift in its RF frontend. It's not, not a concern, but it's also not data you'd be able to grab with a normal BLE chipset in sniffer mode. You'd likely need an SDR, and that's what they use in the paper. It's an attack that's on a different level of sophistication and cost.

Additionally, I wouldn't worry too much about beacons on their own (at least, in this context). Beacons are just a form of BLE advertisement packet. Your BLE devices need to send out advertisements anyways to let your phone to know they exist and connect to them. I assume this attack works on any advertisement packet (and also data packets to a connected device). Normally, rotating private addresses will mitigate some attacks tracking two devices talking to each other, at the protocol layer. This paper is more just a broader look at what features you can extract at the physical layer with an SDR to identify a specific device or chipset.
Did Java applets arguably not do this 20+ years ago?
Are you sure it’s not becuase their data set likely doesn’t contain very many i7 non-ks
> AT&T is one of more than 150 companies that are believed to have had data stolen from poorly secured Snowflake accounts

Is there a list of the other affected companies somewhere?

One news site says there are 165 organizations affected[1], and links to some documents by Mandiant[2][3], but I can only find snippets that lists a few companies.

[1] https://www.securityweek.com/snowflake-attacks-mandiant-link...

[2] https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/unc...

[3] https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/snowflake-threat-h...
The hardware is evidently capable of running all of this. However, I believe that the algorithmic side wasn't fully fleshed out at that time. I'm not going to sift through old computer graphics papers, but the Amiga 500 came out at a time when real time 3D was still making baby steps, more or less. It just took a few more years until the academic research was put together into engines that could render nicely textured 3D environments on home computers.

By the time that happened, there was no more economic incentive to optimize super hard for a platform that was already dying.
Not a Texas-hater exactly, but there’s something specific here wrt culture and identity. Texans routinely describe Texas as exceptional, as different, as unique.

You may be right that there are generic problems at work, but when the protagonist insists that they aren’t like others, it’s not a surprise that people don’t think that way.
Yes, it's 24/7 gaslighting. One article after another telling us that things are a certain way and showing us all sorts of up-trending charts while we can see with our own eyes that it bears no resemblance to our reality... So then we start thinking "Maybe, it's true, everyone else who is not in my social group is doing well. Maybe there is some kind of conspiracy against me and my kind... Maybe that's why none of my startup project are allowed to get any traffic from Google and why bloggers and journalists never respond to my emails, not even the ones with less than 10k followers.'
8-Bit CPU Formed on Single Grain Glass Substrate (2002)
Does it support Protobuf deserialization via Schema Registry? This is basically where every other tool falls apart. Kafka UI just added support very recently but kcat falls apart.
There's a future issue looming: at some point, a lot of the natural gas peaker plants build for 2021 capacity will be idle almost all of the time. (Based on how often my local peaker plant seems to run, that may actually already be the case).

Keeping peaker plants around and having them ready year round for just a few days use is going to feel expensive; but decommissioning the plants too early has its own risks.
40% is a big fraction
NATO allies pledge $1B to promote sharing of space-based Intel
This is cool. The sheer amount of mater required to build hydro storage should not be underestimated.

Another win is that you can put something below the solar panels, even grow shade-preferring plants below them. This is being done in many places. Otherwise it could be a storage area, a light industrial facility, a shopping mall, even a sports field. And for all the battery storage you can afford, of course.
Building strawmen and characterizing roughly 50% of the population as crying babies on the basis of you not agreeing with their politics sure seems like something a very mature and collected person would do.
Funny how it's considered ethically ok to cause a great deal of angst and bother with the bugs and features of corporate releases, provided the problematic elements are entirely couched in 'professional' language and symbology.
Zuckerberg copied me. I created a threads-based app and the next thing you know he creates one. I was trying to create a twitter, message board hybrid. If you want to see the latest iteration, its here: https://asiaviewnews.com/gigabots/threads I turned into into a AI/tech news summary website with post/reply functionality.
Well, since you mentioned DRM and return policy, let's not forget that GoG has no DRM, and unlike GoG's 30 day return policy Steam didn't even have one until Australia threatened to ban them.

And the Workshop and Steam MP might be very convenient for some, but are walled garden features that ought to be boycotted.

P.S.: More of a monopsony than a monopoly :

https://medium.com/@KingFrostFive/steam-monopoly-monopsony-4...
Poor man's job runner with Clojure Agents
Dam, I didn't know the 80s started in 2001. Or is it just that that's the chart you can find with "two minutes' googling" and so that has to be good enough because that's the amount of effort it takes to find something that vaguely seems to satisfy your confirmation bias?

Okay, though, let's just look at the chart you link. Let's assume that "inflation adjusted dollars" tracks purchasing power parity perfectly over that period and look at these numbers in relative terms, because that's what actually matters for stuff like "Who is competing to buy the limited housing stock available" or other things that actually matter to people and aren't just numerical games

31k to 44k? Cool. Seems like a lot. That's a 33% increase in the median income over that period! Over the same period, the top 20% bucket on the same chart grew from about 67k to about 103k, or by about 50%. The .0001% income bucket grew from 30m to about 60m, or about 100%. Keep in mind that the marginal value of extra dollars is considerably higher the fewer dollars you're making. So over this period of time, the Gini Coefficient, which measures inequality, has drastically increased, which is what you'd expect given the argument the article is making

Now, maybe your point is that the one number, the median income, that you're talking about has gone, I dunno, vaguely up in some period of time. It seems like this misses the point of the article in favor of nitpicking about a minor factual error. "Look!", you might say, "they said median income went down when really it went up!" That seems to be your entire argument here, and it's fucking stupid, because if you're going to fixate on a minor factual nitpick, at least get your facts right. 2001 is generously a whole decade and some change out from the 80s
It’s not odd if you consider that hacker news is not really the place with that kind of discussion generally

If you’ve been around long enough, you’ll see that massive topics like that are intentionally kept off the front page for a while so that it doesn’t overwhelm everyone

Frankly, I’m glad that’s the policy because Reddit (and I assume all other media) yesterday was just completely covered top to bottom in the story
> Noahopinion has a very recent interesting article on wealth and taxation

As this article explains: the US could confiscate all US billionaires' wealth and that would only pay for one year of public US spendings. Not to mention that confiscating that much wealth would crash the very value of that wealth, so they'd get less than that.

That's what I meant in my comment when I wrote that we know how it's going to end up: they won't stop at confiscating the billionaires' wealth. The state shall immediately run out of that. They'll then come after the middle class' savings (which the EU is preparing at the moment, should be coming out in a few months).
The same Wikipedia article notes that the increase in median income is due to increasing women’s wages and increased participation of women in the labor force.

> While wages for women have increased greatly, median earnings of male wage earners have remained stagnant since the late 1970s. Household income, however, has risen due to the increasing number of households with more than one income earner and women's increased presence in the labor force.
It's sorted alphabetically, not by expenditure.

"Admin" is less than "Games" in every year.
Extreme focus on the stock price and thus highly short term thinking. The accountants run the show and try to aggressively cut costs at every corner which works really well in the short term, but over time the company gets decimated and nobody can take the bigger product risks that allow a company to continue to evolve.
This is awesome thank you for sharing. I had almost given up on my git workflow because of how tedious the process of rebasing was getting.
1000+ comment chonkthread at the time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26787654
Of course it can be overstated. That’s basically the entire mantra of progressives in the US right now and it’s used as an excuse for incompetent people to attack people who successfully do things and (even worse) absolve themselves of responsibility for doing unproductive things.

Punishing people for not having something bad derail their business is tall poppy syndrome.

Luck is a part of why everyone continues breathing everyday rather than having sudden heart failure. We don’t need to constantly diminish people for living because they were lucky enough to not have a fatal condition.

We should be encouraging the people who were successful, even if part of it may have been luck. Any other approach punishes people doing the rest of the work that isn’t luck.
Overall these will massively increase screen time in the incarcerated populated
Maybe cloud hosted
This is basically priced in based on the odds of entering an index in the same way that potential acquisitions get priced in based on the odds of the acquisition going through.

I swear I've seen actively managed funds that explicitly trade based on stocks' potential to enter/leave indexes, but it's a terrible batch of terms to try to google.
Agreed, that is a very weird sentence when the chart clearly doesn’t show the same thing. Not sure what the author meant.

> But middle-class incomes have not grown at the rate of upper-tier incomes. From 1970 to 2018, the median middle-class income increased from $58,100 to $86,600, a gain of 49%.10 This was considerably less than the 64% increase for upper-income households, whose median income increased from $126,100 in 1970 to $207,400 in 2018. Households in the lower-income tier experienced a gain of 43%, from $20,000 in 1970 to $28,700 in 2018. (Incomes are expressed in 2018 dollars.)

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-...

The graphs in the blog posted are from this pew article.
They didn’t fire him. The joke of the article is they said he was no longer with the company because he took a 2-week break in between his internship and starting full-time. The point is he got away free(ish) through pure luck, and the break was planned before any of this happened.
it appears from the article this method of detection is viable until chipset mfgs adopt the randomization technique.
Think of the biggest poop you've ever taken, then look critically at this phone.
When someone writes “confiscating rich people’s wealth” I can’t take them seriously. People make wealth from what infrastructure is available. Try making your wealth living in the middle of the Sahara.
I have been lucky enough to have been the youngest person on every team until my mid 30s. I worked with some truly gifted engineers, who had almost no ego, over the course of my career they just were much older than me.

When I reflect I do cringe a bit at what I was zealous about and things I took way too far. But, I do think the discussion, sometimes debate, around the fancy/new vs tried/true resulted in much better results.

Now that I am old, but not that old, the younger engineers who are passionately discovering new tools and “new” design patterns keep me interested in software development. Being able to share where things come from then we can compare/contrast together. It is rarely a straight copy and it’s fun to see how things get better/worse with reinvention.

So, I think trying to get a mix of ages on a team is really beneficial. Passionate young engineers help prevent the old engineers from getting too jaded.
Not sure if you're aware, but Gitlab has had cross-project 'includes' for a long time, and publishes a big chunk of templates for these on gitlab.com.

They've also introduced Components a year?(don't hold me to that) ago, which is more akin to the GitHub actions model.

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/components/index.html
TBF makers of robotaxi vehicles and makers of robotaxi software, and maybe even mapping data, are not going to be the same companies. There will be intermediate phases like Waymo buying and operating robotaxis equipped to their specs. So "just buying Mobibleye" software isn't a knock on Rimac.
You’ve caught yourself in the trap of thinking that passing something with a high failure rate means luck.
you deal with countries and a few big publishers, not a few thousand cities each who want to be special
Next.js is a Vercel framework for ...their reason. No SPA by default because you spent money on your RSC usage on the server.

I think RSC has great potential, but Nextjs conventions limit its potential to the fullest.
Microsoft "competed" with Games For Windows Live (Dead).

Though I guess that's now probably what Battle.net is ?
Saw that another user linked to Hall (https://usehall.com).

I'm the founder and we're building a customer community platform exactly for the use case you describe.

Our focus is on a simple and intuitive user experience that is familiar to non-technical end-users. We've also tried to make it as frictionless for them to sign up and start contributing (nothing to download, passwordless sign up and login). You also maintain full control and data ownership of your users (unless Discord).

Keen to hear any feedback, and why / why not if what we've built would work for you?
Lenny Face Generator
The whole idea is to attract market share to show investors that big things are happening. I don't think being pointlessly unprofitable is attractive to investors...
Yeah this isn’t an RTS at all. As someone else said definitely more of a 4X with very minimal realtime troop movement.
I started my investing journey about 5 years ago, started with stock picking, and my average yearly return is... 4.5% p.a.
I would've 100% been better of investing in a low fee index fund, like S&P500 (VOO), or even just a world ETF like VT.

I picked some winners, like Microsoft / Google, both up 150%, but they're tiny fraction of my total portfolio, so hardly returned anything all counted up. I did 170% at one point with Tesla too, but didn't sell at the peak. So ended up with 4.4%p.a. over 5 years.

Save to say I don't stock pick anymore and just buy VTI (kinda like VOO) and some VT.
Isn't it possibly that most of the rioters were from outside of DC? From what I can tell DC concealed carry reciprocity is very low.
If people cannot accumulate wealth, we wouldn't have SpaceX.
Lenovo updates existing ThinkPad P16 G2 workstation with 14th Gen Intel CPUs
This is really long even for an ACX post.
Dupe (140 points, 14 hours ago, 42 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40959787