skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No idea. Kindle Unlimited is however a large part in creating this problem. When you enroll your books, you need to agree to make that e-book exclusive to Amazon. Especially for less known authors (like me) it's tempting - it's satisfying to see the page reads stack up instead of waiting for the much rarer purchases. The money might not be that different, but when the amounts are small any kind of signal like that becomes a disproportionate reward.

I finally took my novels off it because the money is a small enough factor to me that I'd rather avoid contributing - however little - to entrenching Amazons position.

The biggest problem a KDP competitor would have to deal with is that a lot of advice to aspiring selfpub authors is to just focus on KDP and ignore everyone else, because even e.g. Google Play Books and Apple Books produce rounding errors of revenue for most writers.

If you're going to compete in that space, I'd say if you manage to compete with e.g. Webnovel you might stand a better shot, because the non-Chinese owned competitors to Webnovel all appear to be DOA (but you might want to ask yourself why that is, and why Webnovel works, and consider that Webnovel is wildly writer-hostile, using exclusive contracts and encouraging brutal publication schedules)
My understanding is that libraries prefer to use other identifiers than ISBN like the

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

and

https://www.oclc.org/bibformats/en/fixedfield/oclc.html

ISBN is intended for the marketing of new books and publishers are allowed to reuse the ISBN if a book goes out of print.

I used to work at the library at my Uni and did some analysis of what we had in our catalog and found quite a few books that shared the same ISBN from South End Press which I thought was funny because I had a friend who grew up next door to Noam Chomsky and was friends with the people who ran South End Press. We were talking with them about web publishing in the the early 1990s and found the people there were really excited about something called Futuresplash which eventually became Macromedia Flash.

I think they didn't want to pay for new batches of ISBN numbers and maybe it was colored with a desire to "stick it to the man".

Also at home in my collection I have a lot of books that are from the 1950s and 1960s which have an LCCN but don't have an ISBN so the ISBN would not be a good primary key for a personal book database though I think the LCCN would be better.
Ejabberd 24.07 / ProcessOne – Erlang Jabber/XMPP/Matrix Server – Communication
> Again, what’s your point?

The article states specifically that people who commit suicide with a gun are more likely to do so if they own a handgun. IMO, that follows from the mechanics of the scenario.

It is easier to point a handgun at yourself and pull the trigger than it is to do so with a long gun. So, IMO, it is common sense that it is more likely that someone committing suicide by firearm chooses to do so with a handgun over a long gun, and they are more likely to do that if they own a handgun already.

However, it isn't like a random person who owns a gun is significantly more likely to complete a suicide attempt just because they own a gun. Yet, a person who is already at risk of suicide might have an increased risk if they own guns.

That being said, as a random individual, the risk of completed suicide over a lifetime is incredibly low, and that risk is even lower for suicide by any firearm.

> Let’s bring back lead paint while we’re at it; I mean, it’s expected that it causes brain damage.

I don't see this as being analogous to what I am saying. Maybe I am missing something.
Those are not hacks.
If it's any encouragement, I just started a job after 14 months of unemployment.

I say this because it may be anecdotal evidence of a gradually improving market for job seekers.

And a reminder that 12 months of no offers doesn't mean they'll never come.

Good luck!
C64 In-line assembly with Vision BASIC [video]
KYS
I don't see any reason to use this for AWS over CDK. CDK already has some pretty higher level modules that make it really easy to setup ecs, k8s, vpc, ect.
> I find it breathtaking how profound his understanding was of the dramatic changes that were about to happen as the computer became broadly accessible. Of course, beyond just being prophetic...

The author of this article should consider not reading any more about the history of computing for health reasons.

If that takes their breath away, they're at serious risk of going into cardiac arrest if they keep going and discover some of the many other fascinating figures from the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s who were enjoying speculating about the direction things would go in.
Only downside is I don't know Java, so some things that should be obvious are opaque to me.
Fish Speech 1.3 is released – Clone Any Voice in 15s
The team behind Fish Speech, including rcell, stardust, and lengyue, who brought you So-VITS-SVC, Bert-VITS2, and GPT-SoVITS, has made incredible improvements in this release. Fish Speech 1.3 now offers enhanced stability and emotion, and can clone anyone's voice with just a 15-second audio prompt!

As strong advocates of the open-source community, we've open-sourced Fish Speech 1.2 SFT today and introduced an Auto Reranking system. And we'll be open-sourcing Fish Speech 1.3 soon!

Playground: http://fish.audio
GitHub: https://github.com/fishaudio/fish-speech
Blog Post: https://blogs.fish.audio/announcing-fish-speech-1-3-30417c28...
On the topic of multi-paradigm programming, including logic programming, Oz/Mozart is an obligatory mention. See CTM and http://mozart2.org/mozart-v1/doc-1.4.0/tutorial/index.html.

The authors were fairly prominent Prolog researchers. It's sad Van Roy is retiring and nobody is taking this forward. AliceML, a StandardML dialect inspired by Oz is also abandonware.
Original title is "Case of man who falsely claimed to be bitcoin inventor referred to CPS" CPS being the Crown Prosecution Service[1] , which is the public prosecutor here in the UK. I thought that might be jargon non-British folks may not know.

Gist of the story is having found that Craig Wright[2] is not Satoshi Nakamoto, the judge has said

“In these circumstances … I have no doubt that I should refer the relevant papers in this case to the CPS for consideration of whether a prosecution should be commenced against Dr Wright for his wholescale perjury and forgery of documents and/or whether a warrant for his arrest should be issued and/or whether his extradition should be sought from wherever he now is."

[1] https://www.cps.gov.uk/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Steven_Wright
Ask HN: What is the state of other types of AI?
Hi HN,

This is a question I've found myself wondering a lot recently. There's obviously been lots of recent progress in the state-of-the-art for LLMs and generative AI, but is this progress trickling over to other areas of AI such as machine/deep learning?

If so, what are some resources to get up to speed quickly?
Unfortunately it only takes one dictator to make a war happen. Then it takes millions of lives to end it.
Why do you think building a business will fix the problem you feel? I don't mean that in a rude way, but I think answering that will help you figure out what you're looking for. If the goal is just to build a business you could start a business like a McDonald's franchise that is pretty much guaranteed to work if you work hard enough.

But I suspect that succeeding at some already derisked business model isn't what is drawing you towards building a business. It's probably not money either since from a discounted cash flow perspective it probably pays better to get a FAANG job. You say you want freedom but in most businesses you don't have a huge amount of freedom since you are constrained by what the market wants and organizational structures have to meet employee needs.
I work with small details from large images so I need something that will enhance the to a nice, sharp final resolution when I need to enlarge it. This tool worked very well with the samples I provided it. Great job!
There’s no reason that you wouldn’t be able to go directly from compression artefacts to a decent output with a correctly trained network. It’s slightly erroneous to call them artefacts as they do hold information, just in a not readily reversible way with conventional upscaling techniques.
> why would a tech oligarch support someone that is advocating limiting tech?

Regulatory capture. The last thing they want is a new generation of hungry young entrepreneurs disrupting their businesses and displacing them from positions of power.

The key to maintaining power is to work closely with politicians to make sure that the regulations increase the protective moat around your business.
> The real world definitely isn't

Ironically, (ime/o!h;) it turns out this the "root of evil" plaguing abstraction: thinking that software architecture must map to "the real world".
IMO the biggest problem with the way frames works is that it doesn't work well with navigation. I think unfortunately that this is just a design flaw with frames and it needed breaking changes to mitigate.

I think I would've rather seen it go that direction, but it's hard to say. Without a crystal ball, we can't really compare the outcomes, and it's hard to imagine what would've happened in this hypothetical. I mean, I don't think in 2004 I would've been able to guess (or stomach) what the web was going to become 20 years down the road.
Which is a shame... I think when Hangouts had GV and SMS integration in a single app, that was probably the pinnacle of usage for power user messaging. It's all been down hill since then. Going back to the separate GV app has mostly sucked, and still stagnating.

Google should really give a bit of credit (bonus levels) for advancing and maintaining existing applications. Their motivation structure is backwards.
The money just flows through different channels, but that's a funny observation.
A 4090 will just narrowly fit a 34B parameter model at 4-bit quantisation.

A 12B model will run on a 4090 with plenty room to spare, even with 8-bit quantisation.
To combat those incentives, they should consider being non-profit and releasing their models as open.
It is both. Car companies started making larger vehicles due to CAFE restrictions, but consumers also started preferring larger vehicles. The data is clear about this, many of the options for small cars that did exist over the past 20 years have been discontinued due to poor sales.

I think part of this is:

1. people want to keep up with the joneses

2. as other cars in traffic get larger, some people don't want to want to drive cars that make them feel small on the road by comparison... the "I want to sit up high so I can see better" effect.
This is the best thing I've seen on the internet in a long time. I'm going to bookmark it and check back for more informative content.

I hope you tell Naya how much HN is loving it!
It seems that people think I'm asking for advice, but really it's just the question that always occurs to me when people are questioning the falling rates of marriage and fertility.

Myself, I think my problem was that I didn't want the job. I'm not even that thrilled about having to work my actual job.
Mergy: A Quick Tool for Claude Projects
> more adventurous
> Kyiv

Understatement of the year
Heya, sorry to hear about your experiences. I know precisely zero folks who have been in that situation (wife leaving as soon as some money is made) but it sounds horrible. I do know folks who have been through divorce and I don't think it is as flippant a decision on anyone's part as you imply. My comment was based, as all comments are, on my experience.

Lots of reasons for birth rates dropping, for sure, according to data: https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-bri...
One problem tools like these tend to have, to take Amplify as an example, is that they turn what might be a complicated problem served by heterogeneous tools and glue code into a very narrow happy path solution and dragons in all other directions. When the problem is handled piecemeal, the dragons are local to whatever specific problem areas exist; when the problem is centralized, the dragons are everywhere.
Mechanized warfare has been a thing for generations now. What is the difference between AI and a pressure switch? AI can choose to NOT kill the 13 year old playing football in the field 5 years later.
It's an except from the article. Getting an explanation out of context is worthless.
ListenBrainz Radio can be decent - https://listenbrainz.org/explore/lb-radio/

This is made by the MetaBrainz folks, the same people behind the MusicBrainz database (which is used by ListenBrainz).
I would love having a backup of my websites from ~1995.

But maybe my memories are more exciting than the plain truth.
Do you even Prague, bro...
Learn how to quickly escape the country before they close the borders, preferably with your money in tow. You don't owe it to anyone to fight a war for the warmongers that trigger it.
I Get SQL, Kind Of
This makes me glad I finally talked people at work into running our annual pentests of our products on production, and putting the entire production infrastructure in scope. Focus may be on a specific product or system, but everything is in scope.

And the first test is running, and no one is screaming yet, so fingers crossed.
I agree that something which requires a "vast selection of third party modules" is probably not the kind of thing you'd do in Bash.

That's a strawman though.

I don't want to have to install a "vast selection of third party modules" just so I can run `kubectl apply -f foobar/*` on my CI pipeline.
The Long-Term Decline in Fertility–and What It Means for State Budgets (2022)
Luckily I had neither - so I had humility by force.
> can clone anyone's voice with just a 15-second audio prompt!

How do you deal with the ethics of duplicating someone's voice where it can be misused and/or abused, potentially leading to serious legal, financial, or social consequences for the individual's voice that has been reproduced?
I do this and have recently switched to Shinobi over Tailscale which works really well.
If the result of any computation is a number like 0.123, that's numerical methods.
Tracking Instructor Validation Errors
Dude really hit it out of the park with the "bicycle for the mind".
And that the spores are everywhere.
Skin texture is very hard it seems. I’m often developing raw photos and the noise reduction often remove skin texture too much. Especially when I was editing photos of our newborn, there is just so much little details that easily gets lost in noise reduction (or compression) that are very clearly visible to the eye.
Well-connected parents can help as well.
Show HN: I made a tool to help you journal consistently
Hey HN,

I'm Dan, a 27-year old DevOps engineer with a strong passion for building tools. During the day, I work for a startup, and in the evenings, I enjoy working on side projects.
For the past few years I've been struggling to maintain a consistent journaling habit. To that end, I created Journia.

Journia is your private place for your thoughts, a place to vent and a place to record memories.

It helps you build and maintain and journaling habit by sending you a daily email with random prompts to inspire your writing. All that's left to do is start typing, or even to attach a photo to remind you of the day. Your reply will be instantly saved in your journal, which is always accesible in https://journia.app.

The more you write, the more fun it gets. Each daily email also includes a random entry from your past, so you can reflect and see how far you've come.

All your entries are safely stored and locked behind a password, so no one but you can access them.

This way, journaling becomes private, easy and frictionless, and your entries come to you.

The app is completely free to use for 14 days, and afterwards I charge a small monthly fee to mostly cover servers maintenance.

I hope you enjoy and find value in this tool.

Let me know what you think about the front page. Is the introduction clear enough? Too long?
Resembles what The Onion predicted 15 years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA
> no roblox studio, no nothin
My honest opinion is to avoid Prolog for most enterprise needs in favor of a regular general purpose programming language that calls out to a mathematical or constraint solver via API when the need arises. This way you get a language that is easier to learn with a strong ecosystem of libraries along with a solver that is built for your particular problem.

Prolog may excel in some niche cases that are documented out there which is fine. For the majority of cases I can think of...it is too esoteric.

Prolog is SUPER cool though as is it's history. You should definitely play with it a bit.
Article has changed. "Ed Davey says Post Office lied to him and apologises to Alan Bates"
for anyone who doesn't like Spotify or prefers YT

https://youtube.com/watch?v=TKQTbVT0kzQ

unfortunately the transcript is not yet on the website
A good list. I think you could split the Aristotelan concept out from Darwinism and also add the Religious concept: "To do what God wills".
Lovely! My first website was when I was 9 years old, and I used Netscape Composer to create it. My content was also centered in the screen :)
Ask HN: What is your Django vs. Phoenix story?
Django shop owner here who would like to ask other (ex/current) Django developers, who made (or not made) the change to the Phoenix/Elixir world, to share real world stories about what went good and what went not so good.

We have been developing Django applications for more than a decade and we enjoy all the bells and whistles and also the accessibility of Python.
While I also have some fond memories with Erlang (game backend has been running for many-many years) giving a lot of confidence in the OTP platform and its concurrency model. Changing languages and frameworks seems quite scary.

I enjoy reading posts like
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32530203 and it's been a while since it’s been asked.

It would be great, if you could share some recent examples and what pain point you had that you could accomplish better or worse in either of the worlds.

One thing that we hope to get from developing a project in Phoenix is that ECTO is much closer to SQL. While building a financial product where not just OLTP but also OLAP like dynamic queries need to be developed and maintained. It's a constant pain to get Django's ORM to behave the way we like and not put extra joins on the annotation/aggregation. Lot of the time we do think in SQL and then translate this into ORM, mostly to be Django friendly and to keep the safety checks from the framework.

If you read so far and have some React vs LV insights, that would also be great, although that’s for another Ask HN :)
ISBN's provide a way for people - including bookstores and libraries to index your book data. Which means if you use Ingram Spark, or Amazon's extended distribution, or any other major distributor, your book will pop up on huge amounts of other bookstores inventory systems pretty much automatically.

It won't mean a lot for sales unless you also encourage places (stores, libraries) to stock them, but it does have a small effect (caveat: self-published authors are seen as less than dirt by a lot of bookstores, as a subset of self-published authors takes the "encourage places" as "relentlessly badger places" to try to get them to stock unsellable books)

I've had a handful of sales that way, and financially it's been irrelevant, but it is a little boost to see my books pop up more places.
I concur, Prolog particularly excels at being an advanced configuration, embeddable DSL that allows one to express system configurations that would otherwise be not easily possible using a bespoke configuration language or a format. I have used an embedded Prolog core to express complex installation configurations in the past with a great success, and I would do it again for the right problem space.
"The author of this article" is Jony Ive, who very possibly has dipped into other chapters of computer history
Put it in a NEMA box somewhere out of sight. People will assume it's alarm equipment if you do that and won't mess with it.
Do you mean Sir Jony Ive?
That world does still exist though: just don't engage with those platforms. If everyone were on heroin all the time, it doesn't mean you can't exist in the world without doing heroin yourself. You can just... not do it.

My 3 year old daughter picks up my guitar and strums it and makes up a song about not wanting to do bed time. She doesn't need exposure to consumer culture to create; it's innate. In fact she's already got some Wesley Willis vibes going without ever having heard him.
Britain Approves Lab-Grown Meat for Pet Food
The funny thing is, coming from Washington DC, I felt about or more safe in Ukraine as I do here day to day. I wasn't worried about being carjacked, I wasn't worried about someone with mental health or drug problems robbing me, and I wasn't worried about being shot (as I write this it feels hyperbolic to say but I live about 10 mins walking from the capitol and in the two years I've been here there have been multiple carjackings and shootings in my neighborhood -- even a Congressman was held up at gunpoint next door to me). The idea that missiles could come raining down was scary, but there are shelters everywhere and it felt like the likelihood of getting hit was pretty low being in random bars/restaurants and not any government/military/infrastructure facility. Maybe I was calculating the odds all wrong in my head, but I didn't feel particularly unsafe while I was there (that said, wouldn't go further east or to Odessa right now).
At 5, She Picked Up Chess as a Pandemic Hobby. At 9, She's a Prodigy
This comment looks almost hand-crafted to drag the thread into a flame war.
I showed my kid (also around that age) how you could have fun with PRINT statements in C64 BASIC. He really enjoyed it and just the idea alone that you could control the computer instead of it being a black box.

Perhaps a website could be fun too. But HTML 3.2 was much more friendly to beginners than everything that is out there now.
I think that picture of Jobs in a room with a Tiffany lamp and his stereo is interesting. I don't like the lamp and that doesn't look like a room in which I would want to spend much time.

But it does make me think about my space and my stuff.

What are the objects you own that feel extraordinarily well designed? Jobs' lamp is likely still plugged in someplace. Will your favorite objects still be admired 40 years from now?
https://archive.ph/unI3b
Out-of-kernel-tree modules are still useful even if they are exactly the same license. I don't know what's with this tendency of having to put everything under the same umbrella. My modules will never get merged with Linux and I have no intention of doing so, but it is perfectly legal to distribute them with Linux (both are GPLv2). DKMS still helps to manage the mess that is the lack of a stable ABI for Linux.
It's not jumping to a conclusion.

Everything we believe is the result of us convincing ourselves of something. If you tell me the sky is green and I believe it, it's because I decided to believe the sky is green not because you told me it was green.

He believes his life is not luxurious. Someone with no relationship and no job could easily look at his life and see it as luxurious. Someone like Jeff Bezos could look at this guy and be like, "that's not luxurious at all."

This guy can change how he views his life and he might be better off for it.

Or he can hate his life and bemoan his circumstances. Up to him.

I know which one I would try to do!
Fair, Prague is amazing!
I've had a lot of success asking about fuckups, worst thing they've had to debug, and general "fuzzy" questions that specifically do not have a single answer, or the answer is so relatable/specific to a person's experience. Then you have to watch them as they answer.