skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pressed CDs - which most of them are (pressing is much cheaper in quantity) will generally last well. Record able CDs (like you buy from the individual artist won't last much longer.

Either way though I have long since ripped my CDs to my NAS system. I keep the CDs in storage so if someone says copyright I can prove fair use as I still own the media.
Was this recently (say, after 2014?) Try finding a computer with an optical drive today. You need to get an external USB device today, modern cases don’t have external 5-inch bays.

Another problem is all the music apps and services that we’re supposed to use according to the music industry are streaming services: Spotify doesn’t have a CD-player feature; it wouldn’t surprise me if today’s new-computer-user had no idea that CD-ripping was even possible.
I'd wager 95% of what we call journalism today could simply disappear with no replacement and the world would be better off.
Insurance isn't a good industry to "get insanely rich". It doesn't have high profit margins. For one thing, the ACA mandates that insurance companies can't keep profits past a certain point.

My sense is that people expect too much from their health insurance. Subconsciously, we expect to experience no pain and live forever. When this inevitably doesn't happen, we blame insurance companies for not bankrolling infinite healthcare.
Potentially social media to a certain degree, at least for raw "news" of what is happening.

Of course that willm be shit, but there we are.
The "old" Apple certainly didn't ship anything quick or on the bleeding edge, nor did they ship the "best" experience. They did, however, have somewhat different priorities than their competitors. They still do to some extent.
If I had to listen to this sort of shit on a daily basis I think I'd begin to understand why you all over the water are upset about the prospect of people taking away your big shooty guns.
> It doesn’t matter what you or I (or an impartial jury) think if law enforcement can just ignore due process.

Sure. Agreed.

> If people cared enough about civil liberties, legislation like the Patriot Act would have at least been repealed instead of extended [and] things like fraudulent civil forfeiture.. would have been dealt with.

Nah. The average person has effectively zero input into what happens at the Federal level. It's not that they don't care. It's that they can't do shit about it.
There's a whole TTRPG called "Murders & Acquisitions" as a possible option to scratch that itch.
Yeah this is a much better initial dev experience but you still have a schema, even if you ignore it. When your objects are inconsistently shaped something has to fix them. That something is going to take the shape of custom code that would make even the Perl-iest DBA blush.
I "discovered" libraries. They are cool! They usually offer more services than just books. But you have plenty of books that you don't need to keep after having read them, and the trip to the library is like a discovery journey.

Even more, my library also has comics and comic books. These are usually quite expensive, and now I can just read them for free.
Honest question as someone who prefers single payer but acknowledged it's not a silver bullet: how much of the costs are nurses and doctors vs. admin? It seems to me there's a lot of overhead in passing the bills around to get paid. I just had my appendix out last year and got billed 8 times by 8 different firms, each with payment portals, call centers, billing providers, etc. I assume there's a lot of inefficiency internally too.
No but I understand that Friskies and Lean Cuisine are not the same products despite both being owned by Nestle.
Convenience wins every time. Digital photos are lower quality but easy. MP3 is worse than CD quality but easy. Etc.
You're describing the federal system being massively more efficient - which is theoretically possible - but rarely happens in practice.
Most of the time, I look for online tools to download media, but a Chrome extension could also be a good idea too.
No. GP means that if the app was not already phoning home then seeing it phone home would ring alarm bells, but if the app is always phoning home if you use it at all then you can't see "phoning home" as an alarm -- you either accept it or abandon it.

Whereas if the app never phoned home and then upon upgrade it started to then you could decide to kill it and stop using the app / phone.

Of course, realistically <.00001% of users would even check for unexpected phone home, or abandon the platform over any of this. So in a way you're right.
The difference being American citizens used to have the final say while the Chinese never did.

Congratulations, you turned the U.S into an authoritarian clone of China.
It is quite disheartening to see a comment about book indexes being downvoted. In professional publishing houses, indexing is a job done by a qualified indexer and is not as trivial as one may think [1]. Some rather important reading guides [2] recommend to judge a book by its Contents and Index, which are often overlooked in books that were not edited by professionals or were edited in haste.

[1]: https://abookindexer.com/why-use-a-qualified-indexer/

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Read_a_Book
One of the CEO was really competitive and has been the few legecy asset which are contributing current Google: other legecy assets are pools of competitive people who hadn't found the best place to show the ability. Current google is just the target of the good profile.
If they suspect the batteries are illegal to have, then once they confirm intentional ownership the government should have a simple choice: give them back or prosecute, and if they lose the case then give them back anyway. He should not have to proactively prove a right to own them.

For items like cash and cars that are not themselves illegal to have and not evidence, then it's even simpler: give them back, and 99% of the time don't take them from people in the first place. Confiscation of ill-gotten goods should happen after a trial proves they're ill-gotten.

What are you worried about with judicial oversight? Is it specifically the case where the owner is unknown? Because in normal cases I think my suggestion has plenty of judicial oversight.
It was before 2014 and we still had ways of either playing optical content or ripping the media and storing it ourselves.
I'm a born and raised American: I'd give anything to relocate to Europe or Asia permanently (for healthcare access reasons). Currently working a remote job from the US and exploring my options internally and externally.
Oh wow, that's a new one. Have you really heard that in conversation?

I'm so sorry.
It ceased to be a free market when we enshrined employer-provided plans into the law. If it were more like auto insurance where I can fire my insurance company and receive a pro-rated refund or renegotiate coverage in the middle of the year then it would be more free. But my employer negotiates for me on my behalf, and their needs are often at odds with my needs. And the whole "open enrollment" period thing creates a situation where the insurance company gets to be absolutely terrible for an entire year and there's no recourse. And especially there's no recourse if my employer is generally satisfied, because my alternative is to take a massive pay cut to get good coverage.
They're not going to for at least the next four years.

"What is good for the shareholders is good for society" will be the order of the day.
I am simply providing evidence for the claim

>Social networking platforms are among the most effective tools for mass influence
Some people will learn to use these AIs to make top-quality audiobooks (and books, movies, TV shows, comics...). It will be a more manual process than pressing a button, but still orders of magnitude less than what it took before. As a result there will be a tsunami or high-quality content.

There will be curation and specialization. Previously ignored niches now will be economically profitable. It will be a Renaissance of creativity, and millions of jobs will be created.
i don't think you can assume that - "real time" in this context could just mean they feed every article into their training system as soon as it's published.
Nice work! It looks pretty good, I just might use it soon!

FYI, you seem to have an encoding issue. There is a bunch of `&amp;#039;` in your pages. [0]

[0]: https://itslaunched.com/product/sponsorapp
Impressive. Very, very impressive.
No comfort to the millions who died though.
There is, it’s called weed and is dirt cheap. Might not work for everyone. Might also be illegal at your location.
Hit the nail on the head. I went to the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering in Albany for a master's in "nanoscale engineering" which essentially boiled down to a master's in being a fab line manager. I finished the degree since it was only a 3 semester program and I was getting paid for research work, but almost immediately after chatting with alumns that went to go work at IBM/Intel/etc it was pretty clear that software engineering was a much more lucrative and less stressful career.
I never heard about this petition... Signed and shared to European friends!
I haven't worked in an office in over three years. I sometimes think I miss it but now I no longer don't.
I love Rust, but would disagree. It is always difficult to read partially because there is so much boilerplate. impl blocks and where clauses in some codebases cause a lot of noise, for example. Granted, it probably could not be as easy to read as say a subset of Python is, for example, simply because it is a very strongly typed systems language and therefore needs to describe a lot more.
The hate for the GDPR I read of is actually about the "allow cookie" popups that aren't needed at all are are just a form of protest by those individual sites because they are storing and selling personal information including IP addresses.

If you aren't engaged in those practices then there's no need for any GDPR annoyances for users.

I may misunderstand, I'm in America currently.
I figured I'd tell you a little bit more about the project: In a previous life I was the lead AI researcher in a healthcare startup, and whilst my team and I loved the challenge (this was pre GPT craze), it was super frustrating that everytime we showed a prototype, it would take ages, if at all, to bring the model to the product, so it can be actually useful to the user.

My personal struggles were with access to hardware (GPUs, I'm looking at you) but also about the fragility of the entire process of putting LLMs into production; the industry is flourishing, and the toolsets, though awesome, are evolving rapidly. This meant what's supported today, won't be tomorrow. And the cost of switching to new libraries was too high.

Kalavai is my solution (literally, a solution made for me) to all of these. Use any hardware to build up an LLM pool, and get out of the box templates to plug and play components of the LLM stack without affecting anything else. Yes, it supports the usual model engines (llama.cpp, vLLM and Petals for now) and you can swap them out without affecting the API layer.

I'd love to see if this is useful to the community. We are targeting those that are struggling like I was. We just want to tinker with new models, not figuring out how to install CUDA on a VM to make pyTorch work.
Not really. An index is also a list of ideas you should search for. Search for a synonym and control-f fails, but the index will have a "see also" for that, or worst case lets you scan for interesting words without reading the whole book. The index will also leave out all the places where a word happens to be used but are not useful to someone searching for the term.

Of course a good index is hard (read expensive) to write and so many books didn't have good indexes.
Great feedback, thank you. We'll certainly be working on adding more examples to illustrate more complex use cases.

One thing I'd mention is that we don't really imagine Pyper as a whole observability and orchestration platform. It's really a package for writing Python functions and executing them concurrently, in a flexible pattern that can be integrated with other tools.

For example, I'm personally a fan of Prefect as an observability platform-- you could define pipelines in Pyper then wrap it in a Prefect flow for orchestration logic.

Exception handling and logging can also be handled by orchestration tools (or in the business logic if appropriate, literally using try... except...)

For a simple progress bar, tqdm is probably the first thing to try. As it wraps anything iterable, applying it to a pipeline might look like:

import time
from pyper import task
from tqdm import tqdm

@task(branch=True)
def func(limit: int):
for i in range(limit):
time.sleep(0.1)
yield i

def main():
for _ in tqdm(func(limit=20), total=20):
pass

if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
Do you consider launching spy satellites "value added human activities"?
Awesome! Let me know if you have any feedback.
Item::IdCard > 101, // <- newtype variant.

That looks really weird.
It shows that the US never had a world war on the continent. All the other countries treat health care as a matter of national security. The US’s primary concern is mark to market in pension funds.
Clearly with Private Equity entering healthcare this is patently false.
They're totally wrong. War is what funds innovations.

Imagine all the innovation we're missing on every day a country isn't being invaded!
Could somebody explain the appeal of browsing Product Hunt? It seems just like a subreddit where people post nothing but ads for their businesses, and I've always been a bit baffled by it. Sure if I had a SaaS to sell I'd post it there, but why is there an audience for a long list of product ads?
Wow, TIL.

I wonder if the Brightline extension will cause a decrease in cruises at Canaveral and a corresponding increase at Ft. Lauderdale/Miami.
> their interface is not nearly as bad as GCP / AWS

Underrated.

Until recently, all the features were grouped in a very clear manner within the dashboard. Now, even Cloudflare is complicating its management interface, but they still have a long way to go before reaching the level of confusion of AWS and GCP.
Finally! Been trying all the TTS models popping up on here for ages, and they've all been pretty average, or not work on Mac, or only work on really short text, or be reeealy slow.

But this one works pretty quick, is easy to install, has some passible voices. Finally I can start listening to those books that have no audio version.

I'm a slow reader, so don't read many books. If a book doesn't have an audiobook version, chances are I won't read it.

PS, I have used elevenlabs in the past for some small TTS projects, but for a full book, it's price prohibitive for personal use. (elevenlabs has some amazing voices)

Thank you to the dev/s who worked on this!
> thats obviously the executive?

The President chooses the Fed chairman. The Fed is an independent agency [1].

> this is how democracy works, if people are dumb, then things go bad. The point of democracy is that you have to take a leap of faith and hope people make good decisions

Which is why America isn't a democracy (and hasn't collapsed the way democracies historically collapse, in mob rule and hyperpartisanship), it's a republic. (It's also why we have independent agencies and an independent judiciary.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_agencies_of_the_Un...
~40-60% is direct healthcare - not including admin or insurance labor costs.

Pharmaceuticals is ~9%.

Health insurance profits are 1.2%.

Other profits are x%.

Medical equipment, devices, hospital rents, etc are y%.

Most of the remainder is admin & insurance costs - only about ~2% of which is private health insurance operating costs (largely labor).
Sounds like a terrible tradeoff

I can't wait for the LLM hype train to die
>huge percentage of the population

I happen to have just looked into this, and it turns out this percentage peaks at 1 (for Sean Hannity, apparently?), but typically is around 0.5%. Less huge than you may be imagining
The article is about insurance company malfeasance, but this boils it down to mis-aligned consumer expectations about living forever in total bliss. That feels like a strange disconnect.
Xerox parc is a good counter-example.
Would you have shared / commented on the story and participated in the buzz of a story where the two sexes were reversed ?
Jargon is as much about social signaling as anything else.

Consider Cockney Rhyming Slang, which is intended to be insider-only speech.

Consider the rise and then mass-adoption of Valley Girl.
Well, no one is forcing you to use these dependencies? Rust crates tend to be very minimal because how easy it is to use them.

The amount of code you have to review stays the same.
That’s absolutely true for things like MS Office and Adobe - but it also works in the other direction: I’m sure making kids use Java for AP computer-science or for undergrad contributed to its uncool status today.
I guess they have their own labs, you just never learn about their failed experiments.
I'll mention something that we all probably know: The crumminess is the point.

Anyone with any intelligence would pass over this as a scam. The scammers don't want someone with any intelligence. Hence, the more obviously that it's a scam, the better. Same thing with those Nigerian Prince email scams being garbage English. It's a crude, but effective, filter.
You might want to look into why "journalism is dying" and whether Google (and Facebook) had anything to do with it.
I've seen enough stories exactly like this, where it turned out such usage is unusual and a move to a higher priced plan was justified (eg. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40482505, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34640016, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31336515), that I find it suspicious whenever people act surprised and outraged at cloudflare upselling them, but are cagey about what exactly their site's doing.
This is exactly our thinking with authentik (open source IdP), and it's played out in practice so far. Enterprise sales conversations are so much easier when they start with "we all use you in our homelabs already." We're much more focused on giving those individual users a positive early experience (in hopes that some small percentage will really pay off down the road) than in extracting a few dollars from each of them.
thank you so much, these are the words I needed to keep working on this tool.
Besides the fact that stiffness shows up as a term in the equations, stiffness is a concept that can be demonstrated via analogy with a rubber sheet, and so lends itself to a somewhat more intuitive understanding.

Also, the math section demonstrated how stiffness produces both the short-range effect and the massive particles, so instead of just handwaving "massive particles is somehow related to the short range" the stiffness provides a clear answer as to why that's the case.
Really? Nobody is getting kicked to death.
It's honestly wild how many people in these comments are defending some vague, unsubstantiated, paper thin national security scare vs recognizing this as a clear suppression of free speech and active stoking of xenophobia.

I would genuinely rather drop ship the CCP my SSN/banking info than trust the US government to do something in favor of it's own people when there's lobbying money involved. Why are so many of you pro-government and anti competition only when it comes to tiktok specifically? It's completely the opposite on nearly every other topic from what I've seen.
Since when is stack overflow a garbage site?
We wouldn't let native american tribes take each others land nowadays either.
Agreed. I was thinking more of home educated kids like mine who do not have a fixed seven hour day (you can cover what you do in school in a much shorter time if being taught one to one or teaching yourself).
Apple Intelligence is running on device instead of racks and racks of cloud hardware. Of course it’s less sophisticated.
> “There was an ask.”

This communicates nothing to me other than that the speaker probably is going to continue to annoy me.
The main advantages of using a fast reactor are less nuclear waste and more energy for a given fuel input.
A slightly different perspective: schools are mass produced education. Mass produced in the sense that they are the lower cost in terms of person hours to produce an educated child. Like all mass produced products, it's better than 1/2 hearted solo attempts to do the same thing, but a parent that can afford to put a huge amount of time into it can do better job as lots of comments here attest.

If true, that also provides an explanation for the rise home schooling: more people can afford to do it.
Unless latest means "In the last few months" then no it's still trivial. I buy a lot of "Kindle" books, but I always rip the DRM and make an ebook version I actually use and archive. My attitude is that once I pay for a song/game/book/etc... it's no one's business, but my own how I use it (for myself I mean, obviously uploading it to others is a different issue).
I think you'd be surprised how many of these things are custom implementations in databases. The main motivation is performance. Databases tend to have detailed and well-specified constraints on each use case for data structures and algorithms that can be used to codegen narrowly optimized implementations. You can do significantly better than generic library codecs or data structures in most cases, those implementations lack the context and metaprogramming hooks to make it feasible.

Combine this with the challenge of implementations being async, non-allocating, compatible with explicitly paged memory, etc and it generally becomes worth the effort.

You'll find more libraries used at the periphery for integration and compatibility where it matters less but not in the core.
It's in the story. She married a wealthy real estate developer. Dumped her husband, took his money, and sent it to "Brad Pitt".

Now claiming to have done this to save his life but surely she wouldn't sent this money to random bloke "Tim Johnson".
They can't deploy that fast and people want to pin model version so it's not feasible anyhow.
I dunno! Sounds complicated.

The obvious answer is "N crates is N dependencies", because each crate represents a discrete sequence of atomic software release packages.

In the absence of a standardized mechanism to group crates together, we have to fall back to informal methods, like "I know all these authors personally because I'm an insider", or "these crates seem to be related even though I'm unsure how to guarantee they'll stay that way".

You can take a hard line and insist that nobody should run a single line of code they haven't reviewed, but that severely constrains the ability of a typical org to use the wider ecosystem at all. Not every org has the expertise on staff to pore over diverse Rust code and confidently state that it has no issues, and even those that do have to consider whether paying that cost is good risk management.

It would be nice if there was a more reliable way to simplify the evaluation of publisher trust centers, especially for orgs who aren't going to audit code but don't want to blindly take in anything.