skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an autocratic government that banned hiring Norwegians and then paid me to write open source code, which necessarily isn't an activity you can expect to keep secret. That's how well the government is able to impose its policies on its own branches.

Don't expect magic feats from autocratic organisations.
> Where might one go?

Most should just own their infrastructure, or use a more simple hosting service. Most companies could go very far with that.

Unless youf business is a global one with hundreds of millions of users in many jurisdictions, there is really no reason to go for cloud services. They tend to be much more expensive then the alternative, and have many ways to lock you in by making migration very expensive and time consuming.
How can you tell if your root folder has been shared this way? Doesn't look like the root folder's sharing settings are accessible via the normal UI.
I agree -- to a degree. But the "cloud first" paradigm broke MS' chokehold on the desktop and arguably enabled Linux and Mac to become viable alternatives in that space. Today I can use any major Linux dsitribution and just don't have to worry about interoperability in bread and butter use cases. Even MSO365 works fine.

Considering the continued shrieks of pain coming from the graphics design people this is not the case. Those people are still tied to desktop applications and look what freedom of choice they have. Virtually none.
A camera+lens set up to 5 micron/pixel will have a shallow depth of field.

I looked up some numbers: The pixels of the camera are 4.6um, so the likely used a 1:1 makro lens (likely the HC 4/120mm). You will capture a 53x40mm region at once. The working distance for this lens goes down to 40cm for 1:1 magnification (might have been 40-45cm). Aperture 4 (as little diffraction as possible)

If we put that in a calculator, depth of field is only 240um. This is the working range where the object needs to be to be in focus.

I'm surprised the painting is that flat over a single image. Even a high spot on the canvas or an extra dab of paint will be higher. Maybe they took multiple images and focus stacked them?
I have looked into Seafile, but the thing is that I like some of the extra Nextcloud things, especially the calendar. I just wish that file sync was the main focus and not an afterthought.

But honestly, I should probably just use Seafile and get another, more lightweight CalDAV server.
Another solution would be to use an LLM to rephrase your posts, wouldn't it?

Not a great outlook though, if everybody does this...
> You can say a lot of things about 'oh backward countries' but this will not stay there, this will spread

I'm sorry, but this is a cope out. The "lynching from apparent cultural deviation" is something that needs to be moved on from. Developed countries do the same too to some extent, with "cancel culture" and such.

There are ways to have progress in this, and, well, to feed someone's entrepreneurial spirit, it's one of those really hard problems that a lot of people, let's say, "a growing niche market", needs it to be solved.
I’m glad to see someone mention this, I got a very strong “nice words in the wrong order” vibe from this article which is strange for something off the BBC.
You can use matplotlib's pgf backend for direct use in latex. That said, not sure I agree that's better for scientific viz. Perhaps in the past. Also tikz/pgf is much more fiddly and has it's limitations too (imho).
Could this technique, using rawdrawandroid to write C applications for Android, also use raylib (and other C frameworks)?

And maybe could this developing system be used through Termux, to have a C development environment on Android for Android?
> Fascinating to see all this hate

Is this "hate" coming from the actual buyers though? Often the 1s commenting are the actual "users" just not the 1 that's paying the bill.
I've been using Nextcloud for some years now. Overall it's an ok replacement for Google Cloud. But for some time now their focus has been on developing features for business collaboration as opposed to personal & family ones. For example, their photo library is quite limited. There's Memories app for Nextcluod, but it isn't much better. I'm in the process of migrating to Immich. Nextcluod notes app on Android has been broken for some time.
" Ukraine only entered into armed conflict"

This is such a disgusting formulation that I struggle to be civil when responding to it. Ukraine was invaded, both in 2014 and 2022. Saying that a victim of an invasion "entered into armed conflict" is like saying that a victim of a rape "had sex".

An invaded country can either capitulate outright (like Czechoslovakia in 1968), or fight back. Most countries, if their strategic position isn't catastrophic from the onset, tend to fight back: that is the whole point of having a military. And east of the former Iron Curtain, most nations would fight back just based on their terrible experience with former Russian control. From Finland to at least Georgia, "Never again" is the common sentiment.

(There are exceptions to this rule, like Slovakia and Hungary.)

"because they were promised support that never showed up"

Are you rewriting a very recent history? In the first weeks, the West was mostly treading lightly about the situation, because they were afraid of the Big Bad Bear. The German Foreign Minister told the Ukrainian ambassador Melnik in no uncertain terms that they were goners, and Germany sent them some old helmets, ffs. France's Macron had his head full of diplomatic-solution dreams that just never materialized, and sat on the phone to Moscow for weeks. Again, there were important exceptions like the UK or Poland, which started sending efficient help immediately, but the West as a whole only started taking support of Ukraine seriously when the Ukrainian army stopped the initial onslaught and pressured the Russian army north of Kyiv to withdraw. Only then it became clear that the Russians overextended themselves and that the country is not about to fall, at least not immediately.

"That's the whole point of sovereignity."

According to Putin, who really likes to speak about sovereignty, the whole point of sovereignty is to do whatever you want.
I would actually be very surprised if that is true. tikz is one of those examples (like e.g. M4 macros or assembly code or OpenSCAD) where producing working code requires significant mental arithmetic. Most skilled humans need to write down intermediate calculations on a piece of paper.

If you don't believe me, look at the "tikz unicorn" of GPT4 demo fame. Then try to replicate that with the currently available "degraded because of safety" GPT4 versions. Then ask yourself how on Earth you could use that to produce publication quality graphics.
This is exactly the reason why I'm not open sourcing a tool I developed where you can take an audio book together with an epub to build an ljspeech dataset and train a voice model.

Although it was not too hard to create I believe making it easier is something i don't like to achieve...

I hate to say this but ruining a narrators existence with AI seems to get easier every day.
A collapse that goes on for 60 years and includes and survives a massive invasion of the own land with over 20 million dead .. is a different definition of collapse than I would use.
Also an assessment of speed gains would be nice.
> Honestly I do not favor this paradigm

I think you are not alone, but I also wouldn't be surprised if this frog is boiled so slow that our opinion eventually becomes irrelevant: today's teenagers are *less* proficient on a keyboard than their elders, because they no longer "type" but "tap" instead. When the average exposure to computing is reduced to dumbed-down "consumption-only" devices running iOS/Android, and that goes for a generation or more, the perception of us would likely be that of old folks yelling at clouds.
Great work! Good to see what only it takes to run on Android! On the other hand it also shows how much comes "for free" or made easier by using the provided sdks. For example volume control doesn't work while running this. Also resuming the game after switching away. Maybe that's relatively easy to save and restore state, though.
It is inevitable at this point that video as 'proof' will be killed. That we cannot do reporting and it destroying democracy is a little too much 'sky is falling'. Democracy existed before video.
HN-Style HuggingFace Daily Papers
This was exactly the argument given over the centuries. These multiple "contemporary architectures" are what you admire today.
Would be similar I guess? But those were contained islands not optimized for engagement.
> People easily forget about the hidden costs and why the software distribution model from ancient times doesn't cover the costs nowadays anymore.

If this was true then there would be zero solvent software businesses that don't rely on subscription revenue, which is clearly not the case.
It’s in the sidebar to the left, this is Bret Victor’s response to a draft of a document called “Using Artificial Intelligence to Augment Human Intelligence”
If we're God's plan, she mustn't have put too much thought into it.
Where to Find Wayland Developers?
Do you know any forums, spaces or lists where one can discuss Wayland development and ask questions?
"As the Soviet Union came to an end, American anxiety yielded to an odd euphoria. Americans hadn’t expected revolution and disintegration. And yet many were now speaking with confidence about what must follow: a durable capitalist equilibrium would bring with it democracy and freedom."

Yeah, yeah. I do not think the neocons would be happy about a democratic Russia with an economy of the size of the U.S. and oil payments settled in rubles.

What nonsense.
Every productivity thought I've ever had, as concisely as possible (2021)
I am computing comfortably on my GrapheneOS powered Pixel and Qubes OS powered Thinkpad.

Own AAPL, not Apple.

(on second thought...)
> So, estimated reading time calculators are literally just a method for obscuring the word count.

That’s also all it needs to be, I have never had an issue with an estimate saying 12 min when in fact it was 15min, or 5min.

I really only care about it saying 2min, 10min, 30min or 60+. It’s just a ballpark.

Having me tell the algorithm how hydrated I am to improve the estimate is laughably ridicules and adds no value at all.
Hello thanks a lot for the kind words! I will make note to fix the README for sure and add some examples too, it is an open issue
> Never forget what happened to Australian UniSuper

I don't know if media or the readers are at fault. The article doesn't even make sense.

> More than half a million UniSuper fund members went a week with no access

If Google really caused such a huge loss there would be no joint statement. The buyer i.e. UniSuper would be trying to sue them. The fact that it is a joint statement implies the two parties are sharing the responsibility. Now complaining about UniSuper is boring and so spinning it on Google Cloud gets clicks.
It's just a general romanticization of how programmers work: if we have more time we'll fix everything.

No we don't.
Oh I see, it's 2 dudes having a debate about "intelligence". I think they both kinda missed the forest for the trees, because no one has a good definition of intelligence and it doesn't matter that much anyway. What matters much more is how you can apply and use AI, and how it has changed the world and will continue to change it.
I originally wanted to do this but the CVE history is a bit too colorful for something I’d want to trust as a “cloud replacement”:

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=nextcloud

A common misconception IMO is that running and owning your own infrastructure is somehow more secure. To that I lol, and I’m confident that the thousands of AWS/GCP/Azure/iCloud security engineers are all doing a more thorough job than you can. At the very very least they receive embargoed bugs which they often mitigate before the general public.
> what if AI was used to imitate a person saying something blasphemeous?

> My country is already has blasphemy lynching mobs

in your case the problem is not AI, it’s your country.
Interesting.. I use Immich and have been thinking of migrating to Nextcloud Memories. May have to reevaluate.
GTK: Android Backend WIP
>>Why do you care what I think?

Because I want to understand where you are coming from and have a logical argument with you. But now that understand that is not a goal on your side, I don't care anymore.
No it is not. I self-host on my hardware and regularly consider moving some services to a VM hosted by someone else. It would still be self-hosting because I am in control of the service.

If you want to have a truly service "by you" this is going to be complicated to rewrite (or review) the applications and OS and build your own hardware from something arbitrarily defined as "scratch".

It sounds very much like the discussions of audiophiles about golden cables and what not - while others listen to the music for the pleasure of listening.
> The customer probably notices this kind of a thing but it’s a miracle if the customer bothers to report it, and another miracle if it eventually turns into a ticket, and another miracle if someone prioritises it enough to spend time fixing it.

Man, Discord does have a "posts" feature that works similar like a forum. If you draft a text there, the HOME/END keys are all messed up and you can't select text with shift, or move by word holding CTRL (I don't remember the specifics at the moment).

I have reported that a couple of times over the past 3 years, because that makes the drafting text *extremely* difficult and frustrating.

As a web dev myself, I wonder how this even broke in the first place. Meaning, I wonder what kind of incompetency is needed to break something, that works out of the box. Anyhow, this should be a fix that cannot possibly take longer than 30 minutes to fix and would immediately make the user experience 1000 times better for everyone. Yet, the bug is still there 3 years after reporting it.

I also reported a bug in Teams, where you cannot use the HOME/END keys in the phone number input, to Microsoft, through Premiere Support. The reply was: This works as designed.

I am not surprised that customers don't report these kind of bugs any longer, because neither the employees/developers, nor the company doesn't give a shit anyway.
I used to work at a .NET shop. The reason I wouldn’t personally use .NET is MS lock-in. Open source is basically non-existent. Documentation is really bad for getting anything done in a headless way. I don’t enjoy Remote Desktop or running Windows in the cloud.

And while .NET is batteries included like Rails, I just don’t enjoy using it. The docs and frameworks aren’t written for nimble startups, but slow-moving enterprise companies. I know modern C# allows me to code like Ruby/Python/JS, but all the docs are written like 1990s Java. And the frameworks are designed that way too.
Found a video, it's a minor jump-scare when the player enters the front door.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IdL49GA3-Dk
Soundmac
Another thing about the development of movable type. I've heard that Gutenberg's main contribution was the development of an alloy that made metal type feasible, and that the (earlier) Korean solution was to use ceramic type.
Fully agree. I am a software developer myself. I can't imagine making a living by charging my customers just once, ever. It just doesn't make any business sense.

Software needs to be maintained and developed, and just following the evolving technology (operating systems, libraries, environments) is a lot of work. On top of that, you need to fix bugs, provide support, and yes, develop new features. This is not feasible with a one-time purchase.

For some reason many people like to play a game of pretending. The person buying pretends that it's a one-time purchase. The person selling pretends that it's a one-time payment. But then it turns out that a new version comes out every two years or so and you need to upgrade, so you end up paying. It's a subscription, but everybody pretends it isn't.

For the software I use and rely on, I would much rather see a subscription model, which is sustainable.
Systolic arrays are only used for fixed function computing within the context of individual instructions, e.g. a matrix multiplication or convolution unit. In practice however, most of these arrays are wave front processors, because programmable processing elements can take variable amounts of time per stage and therefore become asynchronous.

AMD's XDNA NPU is based around a wave front array of 32 compute tiles, each of which can either perform a 4x8 X 8x4 matrix multiplication in float16 or a 1024 bit vector operation per cycle.
As a self hosting afficionado, I feel like the perfect Google photo replacement doesn't exist yet.

I have a synology nas and I use the synology photos app for auto uploading without loss of quality to my nas. Don't forget any picture or videos, deduplicate, figure out what you can safely delete from my phone,... All of that works great and is reliable.

The synology photos app to watch your photos though, isn't very good. Neither on mobile nor the desktop nor android TV. It's bare minimum and even that has failures.

Next cloud,... It gives a weird "I don't trust it" vibe. I want my stuff unedited unaltered, unmoved from their folder and keep your metadata elsewhere, and it just give me a wrong vibe for that. This is 100% feeling and not facts.

Immich is great but high maintenance, any update is a risk that you have way more work that planned. Their upload app need works but I use the synology one. I don't feel safe having that handle the main copies of my picture, and the dev are being super clear that I shouldn't.

Photoprism has been my go to. You need to pay for any advanced features, and unless you're solo you need them for permissions only. I love it but I feel like it's still not quite as good as I would like.

Is there any major, reliable app for that I missed?
Nuclear is not considered to be a renewable energy source.
They shouldn't have any revenue from registering domains because they sell them at cost. It's probably the opposite because of all the overhead (which is of course compensated by pulling in more clients as you explained).
How many of your complex projects have gone according to plan?
Do any cloud providers have this?

AWS has slightly improved with their "budgets" and "budget actions", but it’s far from something I’d call a "spending limit".
Russian economy was nowhere near the size of the American one in the real world.

I grew up in late stage Communism; the only thing that the dying regimes were reliably producing were impressive, and completely fraudulent, statistics.

On paper, we were all economic tigers, but in the street, people queued in front of the shops whenever something rare, such as washing machines, was promised to be delivered.

And the Soviet Union was even less developed than Czechoslovakia. Plus, the more developed regions like the Baltics didn't want to stay subjugated to Russia.

Russia proper was underdeveloped. No surprise for a country whose access to the sea is limited and distances are absolutely vast. Such places tend to be underdeveloped everywhere - Kazakhstan, inner Congo, inner Brazil, Australian outback, even many places in the flyover US.
It has multiple meanings, so what?

I can’t believe people carry water for an organization as souless as ms.
I was referring to companies such as Adobe and Autodesk and i don't mind SAAS at all if the value is provided and a choise is offered. Guesss its hard balancing the investors vs the intereste of your clients.
YMMV but any issue you have with Immich that may lead you to migrate to NCM you will find again there,IMHO. Update are easier but lots of other stuff are very much work in progress, even when it works well.

My criteria is "when I want to show my vacation to X on the TV at a dinner 6 to 12 months after setup is it reliable or does it always need some tweak or whatever and ruin the moment".

I dont know the apple ecosystem, for me Google photos is king but I want to own and host my data, Photoprism is my current goto.
A ZX Spectrum in the Palm of Your Hand
The performance issues are noticeable to me because I'm hosting it on a Raspberry Pi 4. I figured that the bottleneck when syncing etc would be network and disk IO so the Pi would be fine; however when I'm syncing, all cores are pegged at 100% by the PHP processes. I've enabled bytecode cache and Redis and all the other normal performance things, PHP itself is just too slow. And I imagine that at least part of the issue is that every tiny file request or directory listing is its own, separately authenticated HTTP request.

But I definitely agree that all the other things are half baked. The media player in the iOS app is extremely buggy. There's jank all over the place. The photos UI is pretty much unusable if you have a lot of photos.

And then there are the constant updates; I get notifications all the time that Calendar or some other app has received an update. I wish they'd coordinate releases of their official apps so that I can get a notification every now and then that I need to update all the apps, rather than constant individual app update notifications.

In short, as you say, everything is 90% the way there.
Yeah it's pretty much an inevitability that anyone who's ever posted more than 10 seconds of their voice will have it stolen eventually if anyone has a motive to do it. That's already all it takes to few shot a decent TTS _today_.

Most likely all existing youtubers will have complete voice and video digital clones made out of them. Then you can also tune an LLM on their scripts and it'll respond in the same character as well.

In theory you could also bring back ones who are dead, which would be very interesting in a historical sense. Like if we had hundreds of hours of Napoleon talking in front of a camera, it would be trivial to recreate a digital version of him for anthropologic study, maybe even having various figures debate things with each other. That's what historians a century later after we all die will be able to do with impunity.
Windows 3.1 was better. Windows 2000 introduced a lot of point and click, which just distracts from what you actually want to do on a computer.
I have been travelling to the Baltics since 2000, and the development associated with their Western re-orientation is just massive. Nowadays, Riga or Tallinn feel like Nordic metropolises again. Not as rich as Copenhagen yet, but on their way.

In the immediately post-Soviet era, they were just ghastly.

It is another story in Moldova or Armenia.
And unless you're google or facebook, people will not change their voice control software for your website.
That's amazing! I wish there was something like rawdrawandroid for Rust.
> For this kind of misuse, the person needs to have some fame, or it's not interesting to steal their voice

This can still be very useful when used against non-famous people e.g. in a bitter custody dispute by one party to besmirch the other.
Is it? It looks more like an interesting discussion about tools and what a good tool should do. One point of view is that a good tool should augment you in a process, something generative tools don't do.
You'll love Desert Golfing then.
This is very very cool! I'm stoked about the idea but 18 AUD/month is a lot, subscriptions add up. I'm more willing to pay something below 10 AUD, plus a longer trial.

I understand if that cost range is just not feasible, though.

In any case, best of luck with this!
Yeah definitely. The dangerous part is having migrations or some other preparatory task be a part of it. When you're mixing concerns like that, you open yourself up to more complex failure cases and a larger surface area for bugs to arise.

I feel that when you've grown to the size where zero downtime deploys are so important you'd do custom code just to enable them, it would be best to just invest in industry best practices and do backwards compatible deploys.