skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any talk that assumes the US defense budget is massive is silly. It's approx 12% of the federal budget and 3.4% of the nation's GDP. It seems large because the US is rich and it seems large compare to the EU because most of the EU, besides Poland, decided it was a lot cheaper to have a token force and leave the real work to the Americans.
I personally don't think that will go very far. It's just a way of extracting a little bit more out of a technology that's the wrong one for the purpose.
I like one speaker in one particular book.

He also narrates another scifi book series and honestly I dislike this a lot.

He became the voice of one particular character for me.

I would love variety
I'm on the other side of the planet so it's not my place to comment on the content of any of this. It seems to look like a good resource clearly made with the best of intentions.

I understand the people/person behind this wants to quickly and easily impart information, so the best format for the job is whichever one they can distribute info in as quickly as possible -- but I also see this as a sort of indictment of the World Wide Web as we know it.

This should be a website. This should be at the top of search results. This should be viewable on mobile devices and desktops. And yet, it's being shared through a proprietary office suite service in the form of a spreadsheet that can't be quickly referenced or copied without loading an entire webapp.

If you're one of the many people who wonder why Google stopped being useful, if you're one of the many people who think it's getting harder to find stuff online, here's your answer as to why. All the good, salient, pertinent, well-formed information that you want to find, is being shared like this.

This is what's easiest for people, and that's at odds with how we find content these days. This comment came out kind of half-baked, but I think it's interesting to think about, and it's not a viewpoint I see here often.
I run a soundscape/white noise website (https://ambiph.one) and used FMA to find some really great music for the radio stations, though I did have to do a lot of virtual crate-digging to find it - I found the discovery features very limited.

I had a bit more luck on Bandcamp, which lets artists use Creative Commons licences but strangely doesn't surface that at all as a search filter. I had to resort to searching for "some rights reserved" via Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3Abandcamp.com+lofi+%2...
They aren't, that's why they're blocked. You can see more detail in the issues but the blocked corporate blogs often make clickbait to advertise their product, like https://www.ccleaner.com/knowledge/windows-11-problems-how-t...
bluesky has ecosystem of tools build on protocol. for example Analytics tools, like https://www.graphtracks.com
> You can absolutely have a better language generate derivations, surely?

Yes, hence guix. The issue is that it doesn't fit well into a pure functional language like haskell if you want to allow import-from-derivation or basic functions like "readFile", without putting everything in IO (complicating the DSL).

https://nix.dev/manual/nix/2.25/language/import-from-derivat...

What you can’t port over to another language as neatly are the modules. Good riddance, id say. Undebuggable spaghetti from hell.

Not that it matters, but why not? Modules are written in the pure-functional bit of nix, so could be expressed in practically any language.

>> from the inside, there's not much of a desire to switch to something better, because the language isn't the thing that gives people trouble after the initial learning period (which would exist with any host language).

> Unfortunately I have wasted enough of my life to call myself “on the inside” and IMHO the language itself is close to the number one threat to wider adoption of nix.

I guess different people have different experiences. This was mainly based on my personal experience, but if you look through the help section on discourse, the questions are not about the language (at the time of writing i didn’t find even one in the first few pages):

https://discourse.nixos.org/c/learn/9

There also just doesn't seen to be a big push in the nix community to replace the language. Nickel exists, but i don't see the push for that from the nix side.
SQL Server itself came from Sybase originally, with them and MS working on it as partners for a number of years when it was an OS/2 product, so it wasn't a purchase-a-working-product-and-rebrand-it deal. As Windows NT gained ground, MS & Sybase parted ways (amicably IIRC, when the partnership agreements expired MS licensened the source that Sybase owned and bought out exclusive use of the product name in relation to products for Windows – for a time MS's SQL Server still carried Sybase copyright messaging along with MS's own).

SQL Server v7 was a rewrite of significant parts of the internals, so from that point it is probably fair to call it an MS product quite distinct from Sybase's (which itself continued to be separately developed including significant but different improvements/reengineering of the internals), though still showing some signs of its heritage.
After I go to bed and read a few pages, I do a mindfull excercise where I focus on every single muscle from my toes to my hands for about five seconds. This helps me get to sleep faster.

How do you usually structure your day to get to bed earlier, I can't answer that one.
istjohn is not right. Energy produced by datacenters is simply wasted. even if you will use heatpumps there is still only so much the can produce; using datacenters waste energy would lessen the the power neede for her pumps.
I think it's really housing is expensive near good schools because people (with kids) want to live near good schools so it drives up the price.

I guess also people who buy their house based on education probably have a positive effect of the education in that area but I think it's more of a market effect of the school already being above average.
I know I'm not actually engaging with the substance of this post (because it isn't worth it, sorry – not one of his good ones) but it's interesting to note that people are suddenly posting all sorts of spicy things. Feels like people are doing victory laps about "death of DEI".

And the thing is... the things they're posting are really boring. Like pg's "origin of Woke" that even HN dragged.

I get people's point that the past 10 years have stifled interesting discussion. Well, let's see it then. Show me the interesting discussion. This is not it.
Yes the feature is called WhisperSync -- I used it many years ago and it was pretty good.

I tried it while on a treadmill so it allowed me to follow the book with more focus without sacrificing much else.
Crypto people are truly in a pyramid scheme. The only way their "investment" in crypto goes up in value is if they shill it themselves. They do free marketing for their crypto.
"It doesn't matter that you don't consent to the search. We're not searching you, just that stuff that is attached to you. So, shut up, or we're arresting you for interfering"
So... you're either predator or prey?

In a way you're right, I worked in a consulting firm that seemed to have that mentality, and I did find bullies, and it seemed the only way to go forward was to become a bullying, lying cheat yourself.

Then I went on to work for a more civilised company that believed in people being decent and such, and discovered that you can actually coexist with people and foster growth without stepping on other people on your way.

If you think one can just "fight with bullies, find inmates, find friends" and everything will be alright, you're quite clueless to some experiences many people have gone through.
I mean, yes? It's possible to "expand the speech you can say" on an American social media platform in ways which violate American free speech laws as well. American free speech is more lenient than elsewhere but it isn't, contrary to popular belief, absolute.

And speaking of doublespeak, the quote you posted says "violation of laws that protect fundamental rights," not "violation of fundamental rights."
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I'll nitpick terminology here, taking a larger view : has the Chicago school brand of economics been around long enough now to be considered "conservative" now ?

And its rightward momentum seems to be much more liberal to me, considering how often it's about removing regulations...
Cars also have legs while audio doesn't, a point which is equally irrelevant. If people don't need to read, they don't need to read, and no matter how much a random Internet commenter wants them to need it, it won't change anything.

Skills atrophy for a reason. It's fine to let them. You may as well be lamenting the lost art of long division.
It’s a winning argument still. Don’t mistake it with lack of competition in a market. Even ISPs have a limit on fleecing customers before people get really fed up with it and nationalize their business or provide funds for competitors.

We tend to look at these things through a static lens “two major smartphone OSs” and not over longer periods of time, which is a problem in framing discussion. When Ford built their car there was approximately just one car (one OS). If you paused time there you’d apply the argument you’re making to Ford. But over the longer arc of time you’d have been incorrect.
> but only accusing an inanimate object (the money itself), constitutional protections don't apply.

The loophole is that money, unlike most other inanimate objects, isn't considered "property".

Any fine should have the option of a court date attached in order to follow due process, like a traffic fine. But many types of fines don't have the presumption of innocence, or the day in court prescribed. Civil forfeiture is an extension of that process, also relying on the fact that money isn't property so taking it away doesn't violate the "no person may be deprived of property without due process of law" constitutional article.
It sounds okay, but it lacks emotion and is monotone for fiction, it's the voice equivalent of the uncanny valley, which is probably fine if you don't really care.
Because corporate blogs are predominantly nothing but marketing fluff that dominates search results so thoroughly that they drown out any actual useful information.
It has happened twice. I outline in the contract if there's no contact 48 hours after agreed pick up time I will look at other options.

Then one went to a vet to rehome, and one went to the pound.

It does feel really bad but if they didn't abandon to me, they would have abandoned elsewhere.

I implemented a minimum booking period (5 days) to try minimise it. People looking to get rid of their pets don't really want to shell over $150 to do it.
this is a very good api
> There is a global recession coming, everybody is trimming the fat where possible, all tech industries are cutting where possible. I think it can be reasonably argued that the very nature of fact-checking is a dangerous one anyway - by nature of which facts are used (perspective problem) and what gets checked.

https://companiesmarketcap.com/meta-platforms/operating-marg...

What recession??? We've heard this line for 5+ years now. They're cutting where possible because they can and because the job market is in a dumpster at the moment.
Lucky you. I've seen quite a bunch of the opposite. But then you do whatever you can to move on and find another job with a better atmosphere.

Sadly, it wasn't so easy as that with school.
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Was just looking for a TTS model to run locally for reading out loud articles, and never heard about Kokoro before! This looks great. I wonder if it can run in the browser somehow - could be a nice WebExtension.
Establishing standards for education and defunding public schools to siphon the funds to churches are not the same thing. Conservatives have been attacking and defunding educational standards and attacking the educated and the concept of education - hence the repeated claims of "liberal bias", the artificial cultural war against university, etc.

And two sides at equal levels? Are you living in 1979? Local media is nearly all Sinclair. All the cable networks are owned by conservatives. Even traditionally liberal newspapers like the Washington Post are owned by rich assholes taking over the editorial board. And social media in the US is now dominated by two literal fascists.
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isn’t authoritarian the platform that suddenly decides to change by their own how billions of people can or don’ cannot talk? it’s time to remove such power from them
> toy

A toy? The balance bike was our kid's secondary mode of transportation for 2.5 years, after our bike trailer.
Good points, thank you!
I just tested it. While ChatGPT was very good in adding generic (textual) annotations, the result for generating SSML where very poor (lack of voice names, lack of distinction between narrator and character etc).

Probably the results with a model trained for this plus human audit could lead to very good results.
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And when I don't care... to be honest I'm even OK with the dull browser TTS implementation when reading your average substack post. Shove the phone in my pocket, go shopping, get the jist of the article.
I hope a plugin for Calibre ebook management software comes along that makes it easier to convert select titles from your epub library to decent audio versions -- and a decent open source app for tablets and smartphones that can let us seamlessly consume both the ebook and audiobook at will.
I have no specific info regarding this plant, but for anyone who never experienced this: flying in people from other plants at the starts (and all 3rd party vendors for a hypercare phase at launch) seems pretty normal.

If they have to keep staffing it that way, that's different.
to be clear about non-English layout in ErgoDox EZ. In ISO keyboard, there are 3 keys (two square brackets and foot/inch key), that don't fit in EZ's main keys block. I got 2 options for them:

1. Put them on the rightmost column, but it's unclear where the `]` has to go -- lower, or upper.

2. Use the rightmost wide column of keys for some special keys (like home/pgup/pgdn/end), but have to redistribute these 3 keys elsewhere.
I think that the biggest advantage of the spreadsheet is that it can be modified easily, even democratically and also on the go. No website offers that kind of ease of use for _adding_ information
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And XYplorer will be even faster when it has been upgraded to the VB6 compatible 64-bit twinBASIC programming language with its optimising compiler.
indeed, audio books come in many forms, some are rather flat, and some include different voices, even by different speakers, or include a few voiced sound effects, laughing, crying, singing, etc. TTS is extra flat, but if the quality is good otherwise then it is like reading with my ears, and i add the emotions myself.
You could argue that nationalism and traditionalist conservativism are predominantly performative within right-wing politics in the US - if this is not immediately evident then compare these ideas against the character and actions of those who get voted by the electorate.
> how is he removing free speech that is not "far right"

In Dec 2022 he suspended the accounts of several left-leaning journalists without providing a cohesive justification: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/15/technology/twitter-suspen...

Posting about Ukraine is categorised as misinformation and downranked: https://x.com/aakashg0/status/1641976925064245249

Suppression of tweets in India and Turkey: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/twitter-takes-down-po... https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/05/twitter-musk-censors...
Just don't ask for a "lawyer,dawg" because they don't have one of those.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2017/11/02...
>I wonder if Elon is going to suggest we defund the DEA as part of his "DOGE"?

I hope. Bespoke single police agencies only serve the purpose of sucking up resources to enforce stuff that a broad police agency (like the FBI) would never or could not justify allocating so many resources toward.

You get these agencies like the DEA that build up this headcount and budget and then go justify it by engaging in all sorts of bad crap. The FBI would rarely (I'm not gonna say never) waste time going after college kids for making "more than personal use" amounts of acid. If they want to waste man hours on petty things to justify their budget they have a whole laundry list of more legitimate petty things to enforce first.
I have read the article, and saw the link, I simply thought it is so simple to actually add an example since the post itself is a web page.
So sorry about this, it looks like our servers went down overnight. Just fixed, should be good now!
Reality? And those safe spaces are built upon and upheld by others - who bully the other mean bullies to keep it that way. Every part of civilization is a energetic effort and if the civilization runs low on energy/supplybribery - the space closes with a thunderclap as the structure giveth.
I don't want to see employees running in the direction of hot fat, thanks.
Funny enough I created a similar feature in my email AI interface (email wrapper around gpt-4o) a few months ago -> https://gpt.franzai.com/
Apparently they only do the cloud HE song and dance for landmarks, which is too big of a data set to realistically keep on-device.
What about entropy? e.g. you send an egg around a CTC, the egg breaks (or like it’s a quantum particle whose wave packet disperses over time, or a bacteria powered by cellular respiration), the system cannot reconstruct without adding energy. So, no life on CTCs and likely not even quantum particles which are unstable and decay? No probability processes at all, not even the quantum vacuum fluctuations and zero point energy
Like most prejudices exhibited by LLMs, the reported probability for getting a 4 on a die roll is due to biases in the training data. Notably, a popular highly-cited comic hard-coded 4 as the return value of a pseudo-RNG based on a dice roll. I suspect that this influenced the LLM's choice.

https://xkcd.com/221/
The plan would it be to charge it at cost plus. Whatever the user is consuming plus a markup.
I would SO love it ! I regularly take a look at the existing offerings, and there's a few options for "transcode video as API". However it's pretty costly, i regularly have batches of videos that would set me back 30 to 80 bucks if i were to transcode them in the cloud. I don't think it can be done at any price point i'd be happy with for this kind of personal project - especially considering that the alternative is just to max out my CPU for a day or two.
To be clear, I am not about to justify any sort of violence anywhere. That said...

Many violent and disruptive students were just kids with special needs. And I don't mean mental conditions or anything like that.

I mean a kid that would do WAY better if he was in a trade class doing something that motivates them, rather than being frustrated and forced to endure a rubbish secondary education, several hours crammed into a small room with other people and getting nowhere.

But of course that's more difficult to implement than a generic standardising/equalising pipeline of norm-conforming average citizen production.
> It got posted on here.

Was it perhaps https://spike.news/ ? HTH!
The bit about where money from the book would go was hilarious and also a great example of stereotypical attorney humor.
> "invade" = western propaganda

> The proper word is "reunite", as it was agreed with the US

So the US and the PRC had some milquetoast diplomatic correspondence which did not include Taiwan. If the PRC now occupies Taiwan against the will of its people and population, presumably under fire from the Taiwanese army, it' just a "reunification"?
anything that comes out of the BBC should be considered as propaganda or a lie. wondering the timing and what they are trying to achieve this, by posting this now.
Effortless tests with cached stubs
American exceptionalism is one hell of a drug, I think this denial is one of the reasons why you are impotent to fixing any one of your numerous glaring issues like education, health care, housing, infrastructure, etc.
RIP to future top-enders that would normally have started out on the bottom to middle end.
Gnome 48 Desktop Introducing an Official Audio Player: Decibels
If it were really 'any' in the philosophical sense, cash would be outlawed. So no, it is not 'any', it is anywhere between more than a couple of hundred to a couple of thousands, depending on what the police or prosecutor feels is reasonable.

What is wrong with a (couple of) thousand euros?

> I know in Switzerland of money confiscated at border control

You are describing smuggling, I was talking about normal domestic use.
They want war? Someone else’s, at that?

Crazy.
We should get prisoners to just randomly dig holes in the sand, a shovels length in diameter
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Five One-Chinas: The contest to define Taiwan
the mandatory part of mandatory education is the very source that rots this society. what's happening in schools run by the "western enlightened democratic" powers that be is outrageous.

liberating education would be a major blow to the social engineers running the matrix -- or at least that's what i think when i'm optimistic... maybe these days they could easily compensate through the screens.

and if you have an urge to argue with this, then first read John Taylor Gatto's essays to understand what's going on. after that we can discuss the specifics.
Show HN: I Built a Free Text-to-SVG Generator
Hey HN,

Last weekend, I got bored and decided to build something fun: https://text2s.vg – a simple tool that lets you type a prompt and generate a free vector SVG image.

Why I built this:
I wanted to explore combining text-to-image generation with lightweight vector outputs, all while keeping it fast and accessible. It's a good way to progress at creating a project from A to Z, from backend workflows to frontend design. Plus, I thought it might be useful for developers, designers, or anyone working on creative projects.

How it works:
Type a prompt, hit "Generate SVG," and you instantly get an SVG file ready to use.
It’s completely free, no ads, no signup – just something I made for fun.

The tech stack:
Backend: A custom ComfyUI workflow (using Flux, BiRefNet, and a custom node ComfyUI-ToSVG,) all running serverlessly on Runpod.
Frontend: React with Tailwind CSS (no Next.js, no need for SSR).
Database/Hosting: Firebase handles Firestore, storage, and hosting.
What’s next:

I’m looking for feedback to improve it or explore new features. Maybe adding style controls or export options?

Would love to hear your thoughts, questions, or ideas!
1. The reality of ex-USSR is that no one will ever convince governments to invest in very costly infrastructure modification for efficiency; datacenters are far far easier to integrate into existing boiler based system.

2. The point was not to replace district heating with datacenters - it is not possible, for variety of reasons, but augment the existing huge gas boilers with the datacenter to collect waste heat to render the datacenter carbon neutral.

3. Even with 400% efficiency, you will still gain if heatmpumps augmented with waste heat, as you would need far less heatpumping. You'd still need your datacenters, won't you?
Using the left-hand list here as a reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_highest...

It takes all nine of the top 10 countries besides America (#1) to finally match and exceed the American defence budget. Of those nine, only two (Germany and France) are EU members.

In a word, the American defence budget is fucking massive and we certainly don't need anywhere even remotely most of it for ourselves.