skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I should start with the fact that a) I am paranoid about data. b) I don't trust any of the public cloud providers. Not in the sense to keep all my data with any of them and not having a backup copy elsewhere.

At the center of my set up is a Synology NAS (2x 8TB RAID 1). I use it as a personal "google drive" via the Synology Drive app.

The Synology Drive app is installed on my phone (as well as on my wife's) and is automagically and continuously backing up all of our photos and videos to the NAS.

I use Office 365 for email. The NAS is backing up everything from O365 nightly.

We have all of our important docs scanned and stored in the NAS. All my self-hosted apps (Gitea, Bitwarden, Jenkins, etc) are backing up nightly to the NAS.

All data from the NAS is then backed up to three locations:

1. Wasabi (S3-like storage)
2. Hetzner Storage Box (via rsync)
3. Once a year back up to an external HDD

The data is client-side encrypted before it leaves the NAS to any of the backup targets.

The NAS acts as a DHCP and DNS server at home, which is not related to backups, but still super cool to have everything in one box.
What I was referring to with the standard accent is the TV/phone/public speaking accent. The one everyone adopts when you want to sound as "normal" as possible. Colloquially known as "white people voice" among various racial minorities. Local dialects definitely exist, but they're mostly used locally. Cross-region communication is usually "standard".
Google funding Firefox is part of the problem. It contributes to the perception of corruption around the Mozilla organization, just as it does when the bus has a supergraphic ad for a car dealership on it.

If the EU was serious about privacy they'd fully fund Firefox.
Yes, they are squeezing as much juice as they can out of the lemon. But there's diminishing returns. It can't continue forever, and the budget will be under inexorable pressure as the scientific returns become increasingly marginal.

This is a problem with science, particularly particle physics: discovering is like mining. Eventually the "ore body" of new phenomena is used up. The period of rapid discovery (up to say the mid 1970s, with a decreasing trickle to 2012 with the discovery of the Higgs Boson) in particle physics will look very atypical and transitory in historical hindsight.
This is only "unpopular" because you are giving no actionable thing for people to do. People do care. But there is virtually nothing that can be done about a lot of these. We can take efforts to stop the spread, and indeed we do. But at large, it is there and there is little you can do.

So it isn't strange. In the same way that we don't consider it strange that 100 years ago, virtually every human had parasites. It is only the last 40 or so years that most of the meat you can buy at a grocery store doesn't. And if you are still buying "wild caught" fish, it is almost certainly with parasites.

What is strange is thinking that people didn't care about parasites. People care. But there is shockingly little most can do to change it.
This is from Mint 22. MS does have its own PPA though.

$ apt search dotnet

p dotnet-apphost-pack-6.0 - Internal - targeting pack for Microsoft.NET
p dotnet-apphost-pack-7.0 - Internal - targeting pack for Microsoft.NET
p dotnet-apphost-pack-8.0 - Internal - targeting pack for Microsoft.NET
p dotnet-host - dotNET host command line
p dotnet-host-7.0 - dotNET host command line
p dotnet-host-8.0 - .NET host command line
p dotnet-hostfxr-6.0 - dotNET host resolver
p dotnet-hostfxr-7.0 - dotNET host resolver
p dotnet-hostfxr-8.0 - .NET host resolver
p dotnet-runtime-6.0 - dotNET runtime
p dotnet-runtime-7.0 - dotNET runtime
p dotnet-runtime-8.0 - .NET runtime
p dotnet-runtime-dbg-8.0 - .NET Runtime debug symbols.
p dotnet-sdk-6.0 - dotNET 6.0 Software Development Kit
p dotnet-sdk-6.0-source-built-arti - Internal package for building dotNet 6.0 So
p dotnet-sdk-7.0 - dotNET 7.0 Software Development Kit
p dotnet-sdk-7.0-source-built-arti - Internal package for building dotNet 7.0 So
p dotnet-sdk-8.0 - .NET 8.0 Software Development Kit
p dotnet-sdk-8.0-source-built-arti - Internal package for building the .NET 8.0
p dotnet-sdk-dbg-8.0 - .NET SDK debug symbols.
p dotnet-targeting-pack-6.0 - Internal - targeting pack for Microsoft.NET
p dotnet-targeting-pack-7.0 - Internal - targeting pack for Microsoft.NET
p dotnet-targeting-pack-8.0 - Internal - targeting pack for Microsoft.NET
p dotnet-templates-6.0 - dotNET 6.0 templates
p dotnet-templates-7.0 - dotNET 7.0 templates
p dotnet-templates-8.0 - .NET 8.0 templates
p dotnet6 - dotNET CLI tools and runtime
p dotnet7 - dotNET CLI tools and runtime
p dotnet8 - .NET CLI tools and runtime
p libgtk-dotnet3.0-cil - GTK.NET library
p libgtk-dotnet3.0-cil-dev - GTK.NET library - development files
Depends on how the ownership works. If the same individuals own both google and an independent Chrome, it won't remove anything. If it's legal for google to pay firefox a half-billion a year to be the default search engine for a 5% marketshare, why wouldn't it be legal for google to pay an independent Chrome 9.5B for the same right?
And to think Chrome was such a savior from the IE hell we all were in back in the day. It's almost like all the MS execs ended up at (do no) Evil Corp.
The thing with the no tax on tips thing pandered by both major condidates is that most waiters don’t make enough to be paying income tax in the first place. On the other hand, more regressive taxes on income (OASDI/Medicare/IL state income tax) would apply, but none of these would be covered.
That was the point of a clean-room implementation of a spec, which is how the Phoenix BIOS was done for PC clones clear back in the 1980s.

So "finally" may not be an accurate word...
A better restaurants the tips are pooled. In my experience front of house, and cleaners/dishwashers splits. Kitchen staff where in a separate pay bracket.
Show HN: Voxcreo – Turn written text into podcasts
Hey everyone,

I was recently doing the dishes and I got notified that a new PG essay had been released. In that moment I wished I could listen to it so that I could read without needing to context switch. That was the inspiration for this project.

It's pretty simple to use--you provide the app some text via a webpage, pdf, or directly inputting and we run that through a text to speech model that outputs a high quality narration. You can either use one of our default voices, or upload a voice sample and use a voice clone.

Once you've created your first dictation in the app, you can then connect Voxcreo to your podcast app of choice via RSS (we teach you how to do this in the app) to have all of your future dictations automatically synced to it as if they were episodes of your favorite podcast. So going forward from there you can just link Voxcreo to any content you want turned into audio and it will automatically handle the rest.

If you're using Chrome and want to make it easier we also have an open source Chrome extension--if you install it, all you'll need to do is click a single button on any web page and we'll automatically process, convert it into a dictation, and send it to your podcast queue.

Thanks for checking us out! If you have any questions or feature resquests I'd love to hear them in the comments.
Culture is a complex thing and probably shouldn't be anthropomorphized like this. I see no reason to believe someone came up with this cultural norm for an identifiable purpose, as opposed to it having just evolved randomly in response to various factors.

Tipping seems terrible for restaurant owners since it lets waiters capture an unusually large share of the value of the product.
if you ask professional wait staff in the US you'll find that tips are more popular than set wages. They wind up making more from tips than they would via salary. Occasionally you'll read about a restaurant trying to eliminate tips and they lose good servers to their competition. Was just reading about this somewhere else.
My point was simply that it seemed like a hostile response to a reasonable question. It’s healthy to ask how an unfamiliar site is funded since that’s going to influence the topics they cover and how they approach them.
Most landlords don't accept partial rent if your salary isn't earning you enough.
Borrowing against your assets might make mathematical sense, but I think it’s kind of stupid to burden yourself with that kind of debt. The tax you pay is your peace of mind and the interest in the loan. Paying taxes on the sale of your investments is simpler, and if you’re living off your assets, you can afford it.

You’re also introducing the risk of being liquidated if there’s a big drawdown in the asset. If you borrow against your stock and then there’s a 50% drawdown, you could easily find yourself worse off than if you had just sold the stock.
I use zen. Ditched firefox and brave irrationally last week because youtube runs so much better and page loading is fast. Let's see how long this change lasts
I feel tipping is still very common in Austria as well. Wife gives me a hard time when I don't tip a lot or at all but they're still very cash only here.
These are glaringly obvious flaws that even a basic rudimentary QA test will uncover.
https://archive.md/AlcdN
I'm pretty into right wing blogs and forums. I have yet to see even a glimpse of a Nazi and even anyone that goes beyond "why is half of Bidens Whitehouse Jewish? Isn't that weird? Why do so many politicians have to take a photo in Israel?" That's as 'Nazi' as it gets.
This looks like a careless mistake to me, not really a fundamental confusion :-)
I forgot to say that I also pay for 2TB iCloud storage so I don't have to remove any of my photos from iCloud. I do actually enjoy iCloud, but I don't trust them as sole owners of my data.
Hmm. Not sure what I'm looking at here. I tried clicking stuff. The first three buttons I saw (traffic light) did nothing. The fourth one made the rest of them go away with no obvious way to get them back? I don't have any video or images I want to share with a third party without understanding the consequences, and I'm sure as heck not installing an extension so... I guess we're done here?
You can install Local WP to install WordPress locally, then use the Simply Static plugin to generate a static site.
I always find these comments a bit rediculous. You think that big corporations are incapable of having accidental bugs?

Wish that were true. The world would be a much less buggy place.
This comment is a great example of the Stockholm Syndrome related to DPI scaling and desktop Linux. This is just slightly better than the "why does anyone need 4K monitors to begin with" takes.

If anyone is really bored, go try what this comment is suggesting. Run things at native resolution and change every system/application font setting to be 1.5x the default. Or instead just think about it for 30 seconds and just realize that a lot of UI is not text, and now you get 'normal' sized text with tiny images, icons, scroll bars, etc. and a lot of UI glitches such as text overflowing tiny buttons or clipping out of panels. The entire experience being suggested is hot garbage.
OpenSea Expecting SEC Lawsuit over NFTs Being Securities, Says CEO
Tipping flight attendants happens often enough that it wouldn't be considered bizarre, especially in business/first class. But it's not the norm, no.
Thankfully, others are more altruistic. I have benefited from many developers freely sharing their ideas in forums, code on github, and leanings on blogs.

Sure Google has stolen it to build an empire that most are complicit with.

Sure OpenAI has stolen it to build products most are supportive of.

Sure evil benefits from good, but that doesn't mean we should neglect to help others just to spite them.
looking forward to &/or wondering about overlap with notion of ray tracing LLMs
Design Research: Three types and how UX practice uses them
As someone also living in NL (Amsterdam though, may be different in other parts of NL), I have to partially disagree with you. It's not at the US level yet, but, my experience is that many if not most cafes/restaurants I go to now display a "Choose your tip %" screen on the payment terminal before paying, and anecdotally it feels like this is becoming more common over time with the newer payment terminals.
A World Without Men: Inside South Korea's 4B Movement (2023)
Telegram repeatedly refuses to join child protection schemes
The opposite - if you turn around and there's something that wasn't there the last time - you'll likely not notice if it's not out of place. You'll just assume it was there and you weren't paying attention.

We don't memorize things that the environment remembers for us if they aren't relevant for other reasons.
This duopoly isn't going to be broken up because of Rust. Linus recently said that developers aren't taking to it for the kernel.[1] There are serious issues with Rust that bar any real adoption from the overall complexity (async, procedural macros, unsafe ergonomics) to the problematic toolchain (too many dependencies and slow compile times).

1. https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-talks-ai-rust-a...
And on mobile, things like https://grayjay.app/
NASA's Artemis Moonshot Is Tied to Boeing's Fate
Shortly after I moved to Ireland and had my first walk through the woods near my home, it became clearly obvious why people would believe in magic and fairies. You can’t walk for long before you stumble over a clearly artificial pile of rocks, some with inscriptions made by the hunter-gatherers that first occupied this place. It’s easy to fantasise those were made by fairies or other magical entities.

One really doesn’t need to pay too much attention to see magic everywhere. You just need to allow the mind to wander a bit outside the beaten path.
Yes, every time I start using some GUI software, I eventually find myself returning to markdown.

I spend all day editing in VSCode -- it's nice to use the same tool (and vim keys)
As they say, you aren't the customer, the advertiser is the customer.

If the site works for the 95% of ad dollars who use Chrome on their phones, it works as intended.
On-Device Intelligence
At Cartesia, our mission is to build the next generation of AI: ubiquitous, interactive intelligence that runs wherever you are. Our models and platform enable developers to build real-time, multi-modal AI systems, starting with our advances in audio and the world’s fastest generative voice API Sonic. Today, we’re announcing the first milestone in our journey to bring intelligence to every device.
I mean, this is largely to my point, though? Last I looked, it seemed research into the Laffer Curve largely found most countries set their rates below the ideal. Agreed that a 90% rate would almost certainly be too high, but the general feel was 40-60 would certainly cover the maximum rates. Some folks saying as high as 70, no?
In a vacuum, it's not. The market is completely dominated by Google though, and they exercise that authority and mindshare brazenly, to the point that it's easy to see how it affects Firefox. Firefox functions great. It doesn't function great with Google products/services such as YouTube in this case, which has no real competition. What's someone to do? Switch to Chrome. One might even make the assumption that the repeat offenses over time, across various services, across various fields, demonstrates... malice.
There's a huge difference between "the AI receives synthetic data as if from an omniscient being and proceeds as if it were true" and "the animal brain creates synthetic data and assesses its plausibility and downstream consequences."

Synthetic data in AI training in fact has nothing to do with dreaming or armchair theorizing. It's a ridiculous comparison.
Because backwards compatibility. I've run into stuff that doesn't working in 7.x without a rewrite.

It's just best to think about Powershell 5.1 and Powershell Core 7.x like Py2 -> Py3. Most of code works as is, some doesn't, and you should use latest when you can.

>Someone wrote some automation code that handles json payloads using powershell. When we tried to migrate to azure functions which uses 7.x by default things broke because users never cared to check sensitivity of key names.

Azure Functions are nightmare in its own. Not sure how much of that is Powershell fault vs Azure Functions.

>It’s also slow even for interpreted language standards.

Actually, it's blown Python out of the water at work. It's startup time can be painful as it's interpreting everything but once it gets going, it really moves. We use it to churn through 4GB CSV at work replacing a Python script, it's much much faster.

>I’ll seriously never use powershell for anything serious ever again even though I admit syntax and design feels kinda nice.

Your loss. Despite the few problems I run into, I really like it and wish more *nix people gave it a try. It's much better then bash nightmares I've seen.
Or how we can wrangle simplicity out of such a baklava of complexity in multiple interconnected layers.
My experience with over 25 years as a software developer is that the best way to optimize for salary is to switch companies every 3-7 years. There are risks. You either accept the risks or accept that you're not making as much as you could be.

I once worked for a company that had hired mostly people straight out of college. When the company faltered, they started looking for new jobs and were shocked at how much they were underpaid for their positions. But the company had a cool culture so it never occurred to them to test the market.

I almost never switch jobs for money, and for much of my career I've been underpaid. Which is OK. I have other priorities and accept it.

Even so, I'm on my 5th job in 25 years and my current position is the one I've held for the longest.
> We don't really know what messed up with our satiety/hunger signals

Opinion: nothing. Our hunger/satiety signals are normal and evolutionarily advantageous. What changed was the access, and composition, of food.

Food is tasty. Like really tasty these days. High fat, sugar, salt. And it's super duper easy to get. This stuff is designed to perfect target your brain and make you say "mmm".

You wanting to eat more makes sense because these foods are highly, or over, nutritious. Cavemen didn't have fried chicken, they barely had chicken - they had nuts. This wanting to eat more and more is evolutionarily advantageous. Because you don't know when your next meal is. You should be greedy, eat as much as you can and as often as you can. I mean, look at dogs. Give them infinite access to foods and they will eat themselves to death. Sure we're smarter but much of this stuff is at a level below the brain.

For all of human history I'm sure this functionality was a very good thing. Now that we have food surplus... not anymore. And to top it off, for the first time ever, we don't need to move to live. People are sedentary. So we don't even offset this effect with movement.

It seems to me the human brain/body is incompatible with modern human life. We're broken. We're exploitable by addiction at every turn. The solution might be to change our brains. Ozempic seems to help a lot - less drinking and smoking too.
Oh, good, a circuit split! That means an appeal of one or the other case is at least somewhat likely to be accepted by the Supreme Court.
I like to say that we teach sand to think.

More commonly, I refer to myself as a writer of executable poetry that moves the hearts of machines.
Vouch. Insightful, not negative.
data types seem wrong, ie. sqlite doesn't have smallint right?
No, I think I've been pretty clear that I'm interested in how mechanically sound the simulation is. Also those measures are over an even shorter duration so even less relevant to how coherent it is at real game scales.
You needed Powershell for Headless, SSH and Terminal to make sense. WSL required mindset shift at Microsoft.
> main.ts file contains multiple small functions

It's purely demo code. I personally subscribe to the "modules should be deep" school of thought (Ousterhout).

> tests test the same thing twice: once with a unit test, and once with an integration test

Again, purely a demonstration that Playwright handles E2E, integration, and unit tests equally well, not an endorsement of testing the same thing twice. Note the absence of jest, mocha, etc.

> somehow better

Hopefully, you can achieve similar gains to [0], e.g. 50% less time to load and 95% less bandwidth in that case, by avoiding frameworks and other runtime dependencies.

> more sustainable

Hopefully, code produced this way is less susceptible to framework churn and other changes in the environment. Also, knowledge gained by following the approach will be about the standard web platform, not about a particular framework (and version thereof).

[0] https://github.com/morris/vanilla-todo
> The data is Creative Commons

Facts are not protected by copyright.
> Google is a megacorp - Hanlon's razor doesn't apply.

On the contrary, i think it applies more. The larger the group, the more stupid stuff it does.
If by "game" you mean "literal hallucination" then yes. But if we're not trying to click-bait, then no: it's not really a game when there is no permanence or determinism to be found anywhere. It might be a "game-flavoured dream simulator", but it's absolutely not a game engine.
>> A. I don't want to get tortured, and ensuring that I can't decrypt your data protects me.

There is a line in RickAndMorty about this, which I won't repeat here. To paraphrase: the one thing worse than bring tortured for information you have is being tortured for information you don't have.
Sorta, they are fully specified tasks that are largely in need of mechanically implementing them. Much like the work a service technician will do at your house. Designing the system and building all of the parts would be engineering tasks. Putting the parts together would not.

Now, agreed in startup land junior members are responsible for design more than people ack.
The actual origin would be hard to say but it took of in America for some very specific reasons https://time.com/5404475/history-tipping-american-restaurant...
I bussed at a place where the dishwashers made more than me. They had an hourly wage that was higher than what I got hourly + tips. Every place is different. Some do tip out the back of the house. At the end of the day, I want to get paid an honest amount. I don't know if I care where the money comes from.
The issue isn't their economic power by itself. It is their outsized political power that derives from that economic power. The more political power the oligarcs have, the less power all the other citizens have.
I would say that is true for any web app with multiple contributors. If you don’t use an existing framework and try to just use js DOM methods you will end up creating your own framework eventually, but now no one understands it except you.
Funny I think of it as a gift FROM the people TO the US Government.
"Made from 100% free-trade, handcrafted paperclips"
App makes it easier for neurodivergent people to navigate daily tasks
People advertising such benefits are simply smarter than the victims of it. Same is true for loyalty coupons. Of course in the medium to long run you don't save a penny because advertisers know your price flexibility down to the last cent. You just fail to notice and have no reference to real values.
What exactly does it do better for them ability than GTK? It’s been a while since I’ve used desktop Linux, but there were lots of GTK themes back then. https://www.gnome-look.org/browse?cat=135&ord=latest suggests there are plenty now.

Is it more capable? Easier to create? I don’t think it’s obvious just from the theme store.
In practice, at least in the US Midwest where my experience is, there is not always a clear line between the two jobs. I washed dishes as a busboy and bussed dishes as a dishwasher.
The only real thing I miss from Diskettes is Hardware Write Protection. Too bad flash drives did not have that.

Yes, I can mount ro, but having a Write Protection switch would have been nice :)
French prosecutors say Telegram CEO freed from custody, will appear in court