skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are there any books among Project Gutenberg books that haven't already been performed as an audiobook? Assuming that all of the popular books in Project Gutenberg have an audiobook available to purchase read by a human which is probably better quality or at least more likely to be better quality, why would I want to pay money for this instead? I don't see the value proposition here.
You got me curious- so I looked into this. Its called BIP39[1]. I made a quick proof of concept to generate 6 word phrases from a youtube url using the same wordlist[2]

[1] https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawi...

[2] https://yt-mnemonics.pages.dev
Find me the one who knows they got there by chance alone...

It's very easy to create a narrative around random movements. I expect that anyone who is ahead of the market creates such a narrative, and declare themselves a genius. And then half of the geniuses underperform each year, same as every year...
Fusion – A hobby OS implemented in Nim
I've never bothered with WSL because MSYS2 has always suited my needs. It did have a bit of a learning curve when I first started using it, although I think the documentation has improved since then. (However I do dislike the obscure `pacman` incantations versus the plain English of `apt`, which causes some friction if you're coming from Debian-based Linux.)
The physician's name hasn't been released.

Why not?
Programming using smartphone – still an unrealistic thing to ask for in 2024?
Change is not always for the better. Vladimar Putin is changing the world, but expect that few here see it as a good thing. Putin, himself, is known to see Soviet Russia as good; the USSR also changed the world, but it is hard for many to see that as good, particularly the millions killed by the rulers. The USSR was a product of Marxist thought, and thus far no implementation of Marxism has been anything but highly destructive. (Regarding China, it's success came when they embraced aspects of capitalism and technocratic governance. Xi is turning back towards Marxism and China appears to be going backwards.)

Other philosophy would consider Marx as incorrect. For Plato, the point of philosophy is to find the Good, the Beautiful, and the True. For Buddhists (if I understand correctly), the point is to escape suffering. For Christians, the point is the mystical union with Christ. For these, effects on the world are a side-effect, not the point.

Personally, I think that the preoccupation with "changing the world" in the contemporary US is a search for personal meaning (via activism, or even merely "change"), since the ideas of modernity has erase all meaning from our existence.
It's a little anecdotal as nobody was really writing history down at that point but it feels about the right timing.

The first time the FTP server I ran got broken into was about then, it was a shock as why would some a-hole want to do that? I wasn't aware until one of my users tipped me off a couple of days after the breach. They were sharing warez rather than porn at least, having the bandwidth to download even crappy postage stamp 8 bit color videos back then would take you hours.

When this happened I built the company's first router a few days later and put everything behind it. Before that all the machines that needed Internet access would turn on TCP/IP and we'd give them a static IP from the public IP range we'd secured. Our pipe was only 56k so if you needed it you had to have a really good reason. No firewall on the machines. Crazy, right?

Very different times for sure.
And why hasn’t he been charged with a crime?

These are deadly, incurable diseases, not just a common cold.
Can ChatGPT do data science?
i miss the bv, if you drop it, you worry about your foot and the pavement.
Better meeting skills in person help make remote meetings better.

Lots of great tips in the comments, for me it's making sure meetings don't become a timepass.

Meeting cadence whtn the meetings are new is important. Often eaiser to have a regular meeting and a mini check in the frist while until things are going.

Ongoing Cadence is important, too often or too little time to get things done can be hindrance.

Days of week can make a difference too. Talk Tuesday morning and Thursday afternoon to leave time for people to start dealing with their week, and also on Thursdays to have enough time to finish something for Friday.

The later in the week a meeting is, the less that can be done about it that week and it can perpetually push into the next week.

Group note taking and agenda - there are neat meeting management apps out there that make things more interactive like carrying forward agenda items automatically, sending out the agenda for you in advance, etc.

Note taking - This has become easier with AI, but having someone still send them out is great. Depending on whether management wants, having an out line of people's tasks documented to them can make it easier, but everyone should be taking notes to not get dependent on this. If this can be available often meetings can be shorter.

Agendas and concise materials before meeting- can help people catch up and prepare to help make sure the meeting is about decisions and discussions in support of a discussion, and not discussion for the sake of doing the work on the meeting itself.

Juniors first - one for the best things Ive ever seen is having juniors offer their input and thoughts first, which can be followed up outside the meeting with ongoing mentorship with seniors. it can be as simple as this is what I have learned to understand about this, and the rest of the team learns that they can rely on this person more.

From a tech side, something novel and fresh every so often can help. Learn to use Zoom/Teams/Mmmhmm and it keeps it visually interesting and easy to pass around updates.
Inserted under the skin, probably dissolves over a little more than six months.
Development journal of Fusion’s author:

https://0xc0ffee.netlify.app/osdev/01-intro.html
The author gives the example of the Köln Concert; we can buy scores to play the piece, but the score doesn't contain enough information to _really_ replicate the performance. That's what I meant by the missing context.
They have crazy growth. They reached $100M/ARR in 18 months, and 3.5 times that in less than 24 months more, so around 85% growth YoY. This is a purchase for future potential, not current earnings
Yeah, I think it should be possible technically. Put all the chapters through LLM and ask it to add markup for different characters/voices.

Right now, my paid users are listening mostly to non-fiction, so it seems like they don't need it.

But this whole Project Gutenberg saga is kinda diluting everything, and I need to think which users/market to focus on.

Will see :)
The USA has a very high diabetes rate, so good care would mean threating those people well.

Even after you got of the scandal of the $800 insulin, it's still 10 times more expensive than most places in the world:

https://wisevoter.com/country-rankings/cost-of-insulin-by-co...

Insulin is insulin, you can't make it "10 times better".
I've seen estimates as low as 6 and as high as 36. Given deaths attributable to the protests is an extremely contentious issue, with significant sociopolitical implications, a bias in numbers reported is a given, as chaotic environments give chaotic data.

Ie it's possible to make a case for some of the deaths occuring during the time as "caused by", or "happened during". And those wanting to spin it one way will as suits their particular goal.

I'm going with a middle ground, which is against what I'd think is likely, given what I watched unfolding on livestreams - from people there, versus minimising reporting from the media. Major US cities being randomly set on fire is not "peaceful protest".
There are licensed translations from foreign publishers for several languages (which makes me feel like a Real Author :) ). Those contracts generally give the publisher sole access to translating in a certain language, so I have to be careful about saying yes.

I'm guessing no publisher will show up wanting to do an Esperanto translation. :)

I'd like to say "yes", but I also have to worry about sending a confusing signal to other people who might think I'm giving a blanket yes to translations.

I really do appreciate the offer, though.
Hoping an expert will chime in but my lay understanding is that one difficult part of treating HIV positive patients is the ability of the virus to hide in areas that are exceptionally difficult to reach. In addition, HIV has a robust ability to reinfect a host from a point of undetectability hence the needs for lifelong treatments.
Maybe people downvoted you for choosing to attempt humour in your mea culpa while not bothering to either thank the person who took time to answer you nor apologise for wasting their time. Though I'm not a mind reader, maybe that's not why they felt downvotes were warranted and only I had that thought.
Usually, those are notated just with text placed either above the staff or between the staff lines (for a single organ stop). The normal stops only take a few characters to notate. More modern music for more complex organs will include a small amount of text indicating when to change between stop configurations or sets of manuals that are preset.

I can't imagine it would be that hard to notate such things for electronic music. Good old text sitting next to your good old staff works wonders.

The bigger issue for electronic music, IMO, is the notation of sounds that don't fit on a staff well. Modern classical composers (who use sheet music extensively in the creative process) have various notations for these sorts of things.
> How do you find, for instance, GitHub Actions more advanced?

Being able to easily tap into an ecosystem of existing re-usable functionality (actions) is a great and pretty advanced feature that requires a very different (and more advanced) set of abstractions than running “a bunch of commands in a docker image you specify”.

Not that it’s a perfect system, but a core CI system with a decoupled layer of “things that run on that CI system” is a great model.

For example, the core of GitHub actions doesn’t have anything built-in that clones repositories. That’s a first-party action (component) that GitHub develops, releases and evolves independently. But you can roll your own if you want.
There are a whole bunch of assumptions here. But sure, if you view the world as a closed system, then you have a decision as a function of inputs:

1. The world around you
2. The experiences within your (really, the past view of the world around you)
3. Innateness of you (sure, this could be 2 but I think it's also something else)
4. The experience you find + the way you change yourself to impact (1), (2), and (3)

If you think of intelligence as all of these, then you're making the assumption that all that's required for (2), (3), and (4) is "agentic systems", which I think skips a few steps (as the author of an agent framework myself...). All this is to say that "what makes intelligence" is largely unsolved, and nobody really knows, because we actually don't understand this ourselves.
Yes, optimization of the technology we use to produce food is exactly the answer.
"This single parameter model provides a large improvement over the prior state of the art in fitting an elephant"

Lol
Still noodling on it!

I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how I wanted to handle generics and heterogeneous data in a way that felt simple enough for me to design and implement it. I think I have something more or less figured out. It's about a 50/50 blend of Go interfaces and Rust traits.

I have a prototype implementation in progress but haven't had much time to work on it. I broke my ankle a couple of months ago and while I've had plenty of time being stuck on the couch, I just haven't had the brainpower to work on it.

I haven't given up on it, though.
Look here https://www.retro-exo.com/exodos.html

It's full of DOS games soundtracks, manuals, art and magazines also.
> we can halt global warming any time we wish with about $5-10b worth of high altitude sulphur injections.

Sulfur compounds are just one of several atmospheric aerosols considered, but it's not as simple as this comment would suggest.

For one, the confidence about the ability of atmospheric aerosols (sulfur or otherwise) to halt global warming isn't very high. There are a lot of unknowns and the research is still in the early phases. It's a lot harder to get the aerosols in the right sizes and in the right place in the atmosphere for them to live long enough to do something.

Second, there are downstream effects that need to be understood. Sulfur aerosols can deplete the ozone layer, for example. So maybe we get some short-term wins, but how much of that is offset by ozone layer depletion? Altering the solar dynamics of the upper atmosphere could also dramatically change the way air circulates up there, leading potentially to even more second order effects we don't understand.

It's an interesting topic, but it's not a simple question of coming up with a few billion dollars to halt climate change.

There are no simple solutions, unfortunately. Research should continue, but don't be misled into thinking that the only obstacle is coming up with an amount equivalent to a fraction of a percent of the US budget.
The comment you're replying to is clearly sarcastic. Infecting 2400 people with HIV is generally not considered good care.
It's also outright stupid. For example, from the section about hacking:

> "Timid people could become criminals."

This fully misunderstands hacking, criminality, and human nature, in that criminals go where the money is, you don't need to be a Big Burly Wrestler to point a gun at someone and get all of their money at the nearest ATM, and you don't need to be Snerd The Nerd to Know Computers. It's a mix of idiocy straight out of the stupidest 1980s comedy films.

Also:

> "Remote computing freed criminals from the historic requirement of proximity to their crimes."

This is so blatantly stupid it barely bears refutation. What does this idiot think mail enables? We have Spanish Prisoner scams going back centuries, and that's the same scam as the one the 419 mugus are running.

Plus:

> Anonymity and freedom from personal victim confrontation increased the emotional ease of crime, i.e., the victim was only an inanimate computer, not a real person or enterprise.

Yeah, criminals will defraud you (or, you know, beat the shit out of you and threaten to kill you if you don't empty your bank accounts) just as easily if they can see your great, big round face. It doesn't matter. They're criminals.

Finally, this:

> Your software and systems should be secure by design and should have been designed with flaw-handling in mind.

"Just do it completely right the first time, idiot!" fails to be an actionable plan.
Very cool, and nice work on this! I used to record wikipedia's articles in audio format to help those who had trouble reading, so I'm a huge fan of anything that makes public domain work more accessible.

As a rabid audiobook consumer, I do have a couple of suggestions.

An easy one - currently you only use the Onyx voice from OpenAI. I'd recommend that at the very least you match the gender of the voice to the gender of the author. I find this is pretty common with published audiobooks, and I find it helps bring out the tone of the author more.

A harder one - most great audiobook narrators change their voice depending on the character speaking. If you really wanted to go in depth here, parsing the text by character and matching them to a voice would go a long way in making these more listenable. It would be fairly straightforward (albeit more expensive) to parse these books with an LLM and ask it to add inline markdown for the right voice options for each speaking character.
I agree that a key underlying component of ND thinking is greater abstraction (i.e. "systematizing"), which is the thrust of better pairing with LLMs (but concede also that NTs may also exhibit the same).

My speculation about NDs was not meant to imply superiority or elitism -- more an interesting thought experiment that considers a wider aperture of history. You're right that it doesn't hold up against the fact that tracing evolutionary adaptation requires substantial evidence of survival difficulties and selective pressures.

If anything, I'm more fascinated by the parallels between how NDs such as myself navigate the world (e.g. masking, etc), and how LLMs are fine-tuned to interact with humans too (e.g. the "assistant/user" conversational model) It's like scaling down the "Are we all just stochastic parrots?" question to my own experience of often feeling like a "prediction engine" of others' minds.
Google parent in talks to buy cybersecurity startup Wiz for $23B
You're replying to sarcasm, but I do want to point out...

> Insulin is insulin, you can't make it "10 times better"

Other details aside, this part is not true. There are multiple kinds of insulin on the market today, and they span the glucose immediacy gamut from a large rapid burst to prolonged slow conversion.
Discussions

(141 points, 2 days ago, 76 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40946644

(62 points, 1 day ago, 16 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40954500

(25 points, 4 hours ago, 9 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40961637
I don’t understand what Google’s goal is here? Wiz is a multi cloud security offering. A Google purchase will immediately start turning the company into a GCP focused offering.

If they want to improve GCP’s security offering…sure, maybe.

But that is going to destroy a lot of value in the company up front and it’s not like their engineers can’t replicates Wiz for GCP for a lot less than $23b.
Is it common practice in the US to publish the names of suspects of a crime? From what I’ve read, he hasn’t been found guilty yet, or has he?

Edit: I’m not saying it is in any way unclear that the physician acted in gross misconduct. But as long as he isn’t convicted, he should not be treated as such.
Dragon dictate was crappy.

Google keyboard was pretty precise.

Over time its become worse, but all of Googles products have become worse. That doesn't mean it we couldnt do it, we just can't rely of Google to provide it.
Source article submission (19 points, 3 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40961974
Wow, as a Millennial, I must've totally missed the memo on this stuff. Never heard of Four Loko or energy beers at all... sounds disgusting.
This true in a very small part of our business

Most of us are not involved in a "land grab", in that metaphorical world most of us are past "homesteading " and are paving roads and I filling infrastructure

Even small companies should take care when building infrastructure

"Go fast and break things" is, was, an irresponsible bad idea. It made Zuck rich, but that same hubris and arrogance is bringing down the things he created
In France there was a huge scandal about contaminated blood products:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminated_haemophilia_blood...

Despite abundance of evidence, journalists revealing everything, and myriads of high-ups involved, only 2 people have been sentenced, for 4 and 2 years of prison.

To give 2,000 people HIV.

What justice do you hope for?
You can’t buy lawn darts anymore. Every bar will make you a vodka redbull.
> Surely you must understand this?

Yes, I understand why blockchains are bad, have no benefits, terrible performance and are a privacy nightmare. Thanks for explaining it in more detail. And binance understands it too, that's why they're not using it (not even a private one!) despite all of their talk about how it's a revolutionary technology.
You're right about the popular books, but the long-tail of not-so-popular ones doesn't have a human audio version, and probably will never have.

Plus, sometimes available human narrations are so bad that you really would like to listen to an AI one (I've experienced it with Churchill's audiobooks on Audible).

I don't know if it will work. It felt like it should work, at least for pSEO.

I got my first two audiobook purchases two weeks after I submitted the sitemap to Google. It was some romantic novels. But now it's flatlined again.

Will see...
Generally a crime needs mens rea. Not always but generally there needs to be some sort of intent. It is unclear from the article if the violation of the safety practices were intentional or due to ignorance or potentially lack of training on the employer's part. Since the article does mention that policies and procedures have been updated to account for this there may been some deficiencies discovered in their policies.

This is usually sufficient to explain why criminal charges have not been brought. If it was just simple incompetence but they believed they were following procedures to the best of their current knowledge it is unlikely they could get a conviction.
Making leetcode editorials a bit lesswrong
... and possibly a bit more enjoyable to read
This is a really really cool idea. Thank you for writing this up.

Yes, that sounds like it would work fine to me. The only downside to keep in mind is that you will periods of time where you need to allocate more memory and have to do that first and then only free up memory in a GC after that allocation takes place. If you're very memory constrained or you need to allocate a lot, that could potentially be a problem.

But if I'm totally honest, I'm not sure how big of a problem that is in practice. One of the really annoying things about garbage collectors is how little literature there is on real-world collection strategies. You can find plenty of papers on collection algorithms, but it's hard to find material on when a GC should run.
Tell me you've never taken care of a loved one without telling me you've never taken care of a loved one...
If a CTO risks prison and having a criminal record because someone made a mistake, not too many people are going to want to be CTOs. Or you'll have to pay them a lot more.
You aren't making the joke you seem to think you are.
>I suspect that rotating passwords was a good idea at the time.

yes, when all password hashes were available to all users, and therefore had an expected bruteforce/expiration date.

It is just another evolutionary artifact from a developing technology complexed with messy humans.

Repeated truisms - especially in compsci, can be dangerous.

NIST has finally understood that complex password requirements decrease security, because nobody is attacking the entrophy space - they are attacking the post-it note/notepad text file instead.

This is actually a good example of an opposite case of Chesterton’s Fence

https://fs.blog/chestertons-fence/
although i've written compilers and interpreters, i don't think i've ever written an emulator for a real cpu. i'm interested to hear about your experience
I was going to say passwords too ... but now I think passkeys would be a better candidate for dumbest ideas. For the average user, I expect they will cause no end of confusion.
And deprive the market of research subjects that could contribute to life saving therapies for state leaders?

It's not like doctors are out there just giving people dis... Ah.
A.I. Needs Copper. It Just Helped to Find Millions of Tons of It in Zambia.