skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the Russia case suggests anything it's that yes, they'll sit silently and absorb the losses behind all the nuclear bravado.
german is not listed as a supported language, so no. aside from that, i would not want to use computer translation. unlike TTS, which keeps getting better, translation quality still leaves a lot to be desired.
Bingo. AI is going to destroy any pathway for training and accruing experience.

An embalming tech for our dying civilization.
What's your take on Aurora DSQL?

My take is anything single cloud provider proprietary and tabular in 2025 is going to over time feel too limited. Having a json column doesn't cut it. But I'm a believer in document databases
Japanese culture might have the impression of caring but if you get to spend more time there it’s all a face . People are people and they don’t care. The magical city the author wants is something you need to create and fight to maintain. It’s not out there waiting for you. The smaller the town the easier it is to accomplish. You aren’t gonna change Seattle and certainly not New York City.
Japanese culture might have the impression of caring but if you get to spend more time there it’s all a face act. On the surface they pretend to care but well, People are people and they don’t care. The magical city the author wants is something you need to create and fight to maintain. It’s not out there waiting for you. The smaller the town the easier it is to accomplish. You aren’t gonna change Seattle and certainly not New York City.
On the other hand, my sister is a firm Creationist Christian, has a PhD and had a brilliant career in research (albeit nothing directly related to 'The Beginning of All Things').

Chances are she is less "scientifically ignorant" than many people around here, myself included.

Just like my sister's, yours is a specific case. It's sad that they didn't teach you Creation in a way that wouldn't cancel out Science, as Science itself is something profoundly Christian as well.

"O, Almighty God, I am thinking Thy thoughts after Thee!..." - Johannes Kepler
FBI forces Chinese malware to delete itself from US computers
It is a supported feature in the epub 3.0 standard. It's possible to distribute an epub with audio, and have the audio sync to the HTML elements that form the ebook's text. And there is an e-reader that actually supports this feature, I can't remember which one now but it should be possible to find it with Google.

It's more of an open problem how to create those epubs. I have some code that can do it using Elevenlabs audio, but I imagine it way harder to have something similar for a human narrator.... who's going to do the sync? Maybe we need a sync AI.
A number of good third-party photo-browsing apps make it non-miserable, even if you never open Google Photos or even uninstall it.
Reminds me of the time Frontline(?) had some cameras following around the Newark drug task force (post scandal so they knew to be on their best behavior) and they couldn't hold it together long enough to make enough footage hour or so episode. They initiated a baseless stop and frisk on camera and then dogpiled the guy when he said to leave him alone.
> "othering" the out-group members

This statement is othering me.
”don't breed detached extremists”

This doesn’t follow. In addition, there are plenty who fit that description who did go to a state school.
Is "almost certainly" a risk we should be willing to take? And even if Russia is not capable of MAD, what does that change?
How can such an article can be so empty of facts and at most muster

> On social-media platforms like Reddit, some gamers say they don’t doubt Musk’s ability to clear that top tier so quickly,

when some gamer YouTube video makes it patently obvious that Musk is clueless about the basic gaming mechanics, which is impossible for anyone who've spent so much time at the game, so he has no such ability
The slides claim that this problem happens almost 600 times per week. There's no way it makes sense to manually validate all of those sessions.

The secure thing would be to kick those users out and tell them to go figure out with Google why their account IDs keep changing. The easy and more profitable solution is to just use the email address as an account ID and keep the customers.

Google did re-open the bug so I think there may be something wrong on Google's side, but for 99% of companies just using the `sub` value like it's intended to won't cause anyone any headache.
"Average" does a lot of heavy lifiting here. People who affluent try to avoid are dangerous, mentally scarred and physically sick people. And if that's who you call average then it's a testament to failure of society and our systems. That's what the affluent are trying to check out of. They are the only ones who can try.
Spoken like a true scammer. Die.
And a FOSS re-implementation of which is still alive and in active development. The project recently released beta 5 -- it's very nearly ready for version 1.0 and now runs GNOME Epiphany, Firefox, LibreOffice and more.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/09/testing_haiku_beta_5/
Generally speaking, yeah. Someone else mentioned the system preparing you for life later, and I can see where the bullies made me stronger as well.

I definitely don't condone all that as a way to get stronger, but at least I got something from it. Silver linings and all.
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Why, install a non-sketchy open-source gallery app from F-Droid.
> It's the norm, not the exception.

That doesn’t make it good. In both cases, it’s probably heavily responsible for the enshittification we see everywhere.

Every metric winds up gamed.
You don't choose to spend your time reading books. You probably roll your eyes when someone tells you they don't have time for some activity you deem valuable. This is the 'no time to exercise' debate in a different shape.

They are also different activities, with audio it's easier to listen to more but retention is usually lower. Not casting any elitist "you need to read" bullshit by the way, but find it odd to define it in terms of lack of time, and I really like both mediums.
http://archive.today/E4462
There's no mechanism to enforce this is done consistently. With nix, there is.

The degree to which this guarantee is useful or necessary depends on your use case.
The fact that we read about single instances like this means some important things are not that fucked. Namely reporting on police misconduct happened and finally the money was returned.

Looking at this the US is not particularly fucked. I wish I could set a higher bar for the world, but don't expect this to change fast.
https://ciechanow.ski/bicycle/
Ask HN: How to get Braintree Sales to answer?
I work at a medium-sized NGO in germany. We've been collecting donations via a Paypal business account for years but now want to use the Braintree https://www.braintreepayments.com/ API to offer recurring donation options. We already process a large amount of recurring donations via SEPA processing and want to expand that to allow Paypal as a payment method. The sandbox and API of Braintree seem fine - but the Braintree Sales team is ghosting me.

I've called the Paypal business support many times and will always be told it's not their area but they will forward the request. The only other option is to use a form on the website, which I have done.
No reply, no nothing.

Does anyone have similar experiences? Is there a nonofficial way to get their attention? I don't understand how a "sales" team can just leave business on the table like this.
> It’s shameful to not be interested in math and science

What? Don't you know anyone who is not a nerd? I know many very fine people with no interest in either, and they have nothing to be ashamed of
It's hard for a number to be even without first being an integer, no? ;-)

But thanks for '-2', didn't know about that! It's the exact default option I needed! Will be using that always from now on.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71092347/ffmeg-option-sc...
The irony of saying that while being uneducated enough to think anyone ever “defunded education.” https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2020/02/do-we-shortch...
Regardless of why they're doing it, why does everything that involves an organisation always have to be such a tedious charade?

It's just so tiring to have to cynically second-guess everything all the time. Are they doing it to nerf battery life and promote return business? Scared of lawsuits? Secret AB testing? Technical debt? The word "Off" causes cancer in the State of California?

Just grow a some guts and level with customers for a damn change.

So much for "informed rational consumers" being the fundamental factor in the vaunted free market.
What would we gain from Redis in these use cases?

We used it extensively on the second project I mentioned and a couple of other projects for caching / rate limiting and distributed locking needs. Never enabled the persistence layer (which I believe is pretty durable). So we only treated as an ephemeral data store, lowering the architectural complexity of things significantly. Otherwise you need to think about backups, testing backups, clustering in case of scaling needs, I have no idea how persistence works with clustering... DynamoDB is fully managed and solid.
“Tyranny is the exercise of some power over a man, which is not warranted by law, or necessary for the public safety. A people can never be deprived of their liberties, while they retain in their own hands, a power sufficient to any other power in the state.” - Noah Webster
> What singles the BBC out as somehow uniquely deserving of scorn?

I'm not sure I'd have said that the BBC is uniquely a recipient of scorn.
In what way is the ”othering” different than what children otherwise do, apart from being in different kind of schools? As you wrote children (or more generally) people can make up all sorts of reasons for that.
Why do you think it's a weird idea? It's a strategic asset as much as oilfields are.
To mitigate breakages we should be aiming for better test coverage, at various build levels: class, package, program, system.

Our industry's story for system-level testing, for Linux distributions, is poor. NixOS tests are decent, but need more coverage, and something similar needs to be available to upstream so issues are caught during development.

Meanwhile, LTS releases have downsides:

* Alienating you from upstream: why contribute upstream if you'll only benefit from them in 2 years.

* Having to support stable versions makes refactoring harder. Developers don't want stable to be too different, lest backporting becomes too tricky.

* Maintenance costs is sunk, compared to if we can make rolling release reliable (see above re tests, and easy rollbacks).

https://abseil.io/about/philosophy#we-recommend-that-you-cho... is the same idea but from Google C++ team.
To be honest, I expected more.

There are many reason for job postings to never get filled. They can be fake for various reasons: visas, to make the company appear to grow, for data collection, etc... It can turn out the job wasn't needed after all. They may not have found any appropriate candidate. The job may have been filled in another way (ex: cooptation) but they forgot to remove the original posting.

And job postings that are never filled are not that bad by themselves. It starts becoming a problem when they lead to fake interviews, where significant effort is made for nothing.

In other word, 4 in 5 online job posting are real, which doesn't sound that bad.
I would love to see this approach in language learning, which I am fairly bad at. I'm very much driven by results rather than accuracy, and so often a teacher will correct me on the finer points of the language I'm using and I'll either no idea what they are talking about, or know that I am certainly not going to remember that detail. In either case I find it very demoralising.

If there was a "Learn to speak German like a 5 year old" course then I would love that. Give me something usable to motivate me further, then I can come back for more complexity when I actually want and need it.

But isn't this the case for all language courses? They start you slow and build up? I feel like it isn't, although perhaps it is just the courses I have seen. It seems to me that the people who teach languages generally really like languages, so they understandably revel in the details. I, however, do not (although I wish I did).

I realise now this is a bit of a rant. Apologies!
I’m so unreasonable using them at home (where there’s no noise to cancel, besides, I often only use a single bud anyway) for prolonged periods.
Watching these as russian/english bilingual is very painful, tho I grew up in western world so maybe I'm just not used to it.

To add on a slight tangent. Many books/audiobooks just don't exist in other languages at all. So even getting some monotone is a lot better than getting nothing.

I think this is where these models really shine. Cheaply creating cross language media and unlocking the knowledge/media to underprivileged parts of the world.
This is not true. Only half of public school spending comes from local taxes. The other half comes from state funds and offsets the local property tax differences.

Here is the breakdown for Maryland: https://dls.maryland.gov/pubs/prod/NoPblTabPDF/2024PubSchool.... My county, Anne Arundel, received half the state funding of poorer counties. In terms of total funding, it’s below the median, but has above average schools for the state because school quality is more a function of the types of kids in the school moreso than funding.
in the linked audio sample it says the training data is mostly english. also another comment claims that the japanese quality is not good, so i'd be suspicious about all the other languages.
There is an interesting video essay by the Huygens Optics channel where some simulations of these field effects are considered.

Turning Waves Into Particles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMP5Pbx8I4s

And if unfamiliar, that channel constantly delivers high quality thought provoking content on the nature of light.
I buy a big tank of argon periodically for TIG welding. I don't remember what I last paid but it was cheap. Decades ago I used helium but it's much too expensive for hobby welding now.
Have you tried those "podcast from a paper" models? They do some of the things you are saying they don't, although it's not 100% it's also miles ahead of for example human Polish TV lectors, or other monotone style narrations.
I don't think an illiterate populous is the alternative unless you think most people lack intrinsic motivation and also have families that don't value education. Seems extremely unlikely. Maybe you wouldn't have gone to school if you had a choice but most people would, if nothing else for free childcare.
If you want to know how electro-gravitic drone propulsion works, this is it
The same applies to those filesystems on Linux which don't check for bit-rottenness, which will be the majority of installs.

Your average grandma would use ext4 when using Linux. Android phones don't do that as well and I don't know about iOS, but apparently APFS only does metadata checksumming.
It's about as close as you can get though to capital efficiently allocating itself
> Worse, the punishment for being in a fight was the same whether you started it or you were just beaten up. If you made the fight get noticed, you got punished.

I'm not saying that this is anything close to optimal, but it should be noted that under this system (which is reminiscent of the way ancient Chinese criminal law worked, per Legal Systems Very Different from Ours[0]) people who get beat up should still report and take the punishment. Sure, you'll get punished for it once but you'll also build a solid reputation for not letting things slide, so it's highly unlikely that anyone will want to beat you up again.

[0] Except that the punishment back then for being involved in a crime (generally a theft or a swindle of some sort) was, guess what-- you got beat up.
The algorithmic framework for writing good technical articles
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How is this "BSD-licensed but only for research" not self-contradictory?

It's like saying: "FREE* candy! (Free to look at, eating is $6.95 / pound)"
Well big part of the EUV tech used stems from Europe.
Yes, I’ve used Voice Dream for years with Pocket articles & ebooks because the Pocket app took up too much space and was limited to web articles. The voice quality is ok for short pieces or stints. The choice of voices is a bit robotic, but I find it useful while making written notes in Split View.
We got about two years per kid out of it (age 2-4). 4 years of amortized bike for something like $100 seemed pretty good, and it was in good enough shape after that we gave it to a neighbor. It's definitely not a 5 minute thing if used as the primary bike for a child too young for a pedal bike.
This is also my take on this.

Tech became tighter to join 2 years ago and for the next years are going to play music chairs on the open seats as lay offs continue, executives think that AI can replace anyone and younger generation (with lower wages) joins the tech workforce.

It's not recession per se, these companies will continue to be crazy profitable, it's just a change in mindset. See also the famous "founder-mode" that came up recently for startups and scaleups.
Wanted to share a project I have been working on. I fine-tuned GPT on 1000+ high quality prompts, and created an Agent that can write Few-Shot CoT prompts from just a few instructions.

Check it out, would love to hear your feedback!

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How does that prevent the owner from renting out the building now? Why don't they rent out the building for a lower rent now and for a higher rent later, when the area is more desirable?

And how are they getting something for nothing? Would you say the same about all ownership? Like when someone owns stock in a company or owns pension rights?
Russia thought the same when it thought it could hide behind its nukes. Alas.
Have you heard of Wikis?
He did it willingly and was recognised for it. Henrietta Lacks wasn't.
You're right. I forgot about those.
Google promises to use a different `sub` claim for every account, even if you reuse the domain name. However, according to the talk, the `sub` claim isn't stable in normal scenarios, so developers don't use that like they're supposed to.

Google should fix the `sub` problem if the problem is on their side (and not, for instance, related to user accounts impersonation or recreated user accounts, which are expected to fail this check). Everyone integrating with Google should use the `sub` claim like they're supposed to.

Of course this approach doesn't help if a domain admin can recover the original workspace account (rather than simply re-registering the domain with Google), but that can easily be solved by not having the domain admin accounts use the domain they're hosted on.
This always reminds me of the mst3k quip, "You've got male pattern baldness!"
>in 1969 when the very first 747 entered service there was exactly 1 of them in service.

Yeah, and also in 1969 air travel was already mundane.

>that suggests an overall trend of political ascendancy of the west through at least the fall of the USSR in 1991.

I did argue the peak of the West was in the mid to late 20th century.

>We’ve had such long term success we’ve forgotten what failure looks like.

The 2008 Great Recession was the latest significant failure, though even that was actually pretty mild as failures go.

Nonetheless the economy today is bad, because Main Street says it's bad. Complaints of inflation, stagnant wages, rising costs of living, among others are all real.

I suppose if there's any consolation, at least a head of cabbage doesn't cost around $7 dollars here (yet?) unlike in Japan.[1]

[1]: https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15582870
That's one way to make everyone around your kids hate them.

You don't have to put yourself arrogantly above others to still teach your kids values. IMHO, not doing that probably breeds a better moral value system...
Nah. Apple's Intel implementation at least was equally crap. I've had my 2018 MBP cook itself in my bag a couple times.
I'm not saying that this more conservative/cautious style of parenting has no value, or even that it is on net the wrong approach. I'm saying that it has costs of its own that are important to recognize and potentially devastating.

> The struggles of single parenthood for both the child-rearing parent and the children of divorce are very real and well-documented

The question isn't "does it suck to be a single parent or the child thereof". It's "is it worse than the alternative?" This is "people who see a doctor are more likely to die"-style reasoning that conflates a preexisting problem with an imperfect solution.

Kids need examples of loving and trusting relationships. That's how they learn how to build them themselves. They learn conflict resolution, compromise, and communication by observing their parents' relationship. And when that relationship is at best one of civil distance, a child can't learn what they need to learn. It's even worse when - as in my case - the kid is the channel through which a lot of the marital conflict plays out.

When my parents finally did split up (after I was already an adult), it was a relief to everyone involved. They're both better off. If they ever tried to get back together, I'm pretty sure I and my brothers and sisters would go slap them and tell them to not do the dumb thing.

> Keeping you away from illegal drugs meant you had the opportunity to get properly prescribed and managed psychiatric medication instead of the too-common path of self-medicating with the recreational drug-du-jour, with much worse long-term consequences.

Yes, but you're leaving out the part where unmanaged mental illness almost killed me before I got on properly prescribed and managed psychiatric medication. In almost every timeline but this one, it probably did kill me.

> You know the YOLO fad passed so quickly because kids realized the permanent scars left by “experimenting”, especially if there are no rich parents to pick up the pieces.

I take a different lesson from this. I think your point about "no rich parents to pick up the pieces" is one of the reasons that millennials and zoomers are struggling: we/they've grown up in a competitive world that doesn't allow them room for normal human error.

Making mistakes - or the safety to make them - is a critical part of growing as a person. It's an investment, the same way a company invests in R&D. It pays dividends. But it has short term costs you can't pay if you're always trying to make ends meet.

Yes, there are experiments you shouldn't perform because their costs outweigh their benefits, but most youthful indiscretions are not irreversibly damaging. One way to tell is that many of the richest and most powerful people around had fairly wild youths and tended to be fairly aggressively risk-taking.