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Comment · 6 days ago
Comment · 9 days ago
Sorry I'm not familiar with these measurement units, how many football fields is that?
Comment · 9 days ago
The property management companies are great - you can even haggle with them. I love how clearly they identify themselves on both AirBNB and VRBO. You just have to be willing to give up the (false) security of booking through AirBNB.
Comment · 11 days ago
I would just like to say that the Simpsons Already Did It: https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Blinky
Comment · 17 days ago
My suggestion is that if you're within a 2-3 hour drive of major cancer centers - just use the US News list https://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/rankings/cancer - go there instead of your local community hospital. The top cancer hospitals in the world accept your health insurance (probably), so why not go there? Use your vacations days, book hotels if you have to - this is the time to go all out.
My experience: I was horribly sick for 10 months, none of my local doctors could figure it out, then I drove to Penn Medicine in Philadelphia and they did the right labwork in the first visit. These top centers just have different mindset than your community hospitals.
Comment · 23 days ago
I think it depends on what countries the owners have connections to. Random ice cream shop I visited in Florida a few years back was staffed by young Turkish women, my wife asked they said there on J1's. Before that we were in the Florida Keys - the local mosque was full of young Uzbek men that worked in the hotels, all on J1s.
Comment · 23 days ago
This is actually very rare for the New York Times - they're the only major publication that regularly links to the original sources.
Comment · 1 month ago
Thank you, I just learned a new word.
Rapacious
ADJECTIVE
1 given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
2 inordinately greedy; predatory; extortionate.
a rapacious disposition.
grasping, voracious,
Synonyms:
ravenous
Antonyms: generous
3 (of animals) subsisting by the capture of living prey; predacious.
Comment · 1 month ago
Browser extension? Try these:
http://www.paper2audio.com/
https://freevoicereader.com/
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sza-text-to-speech/...
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/flow-tts/hknidankih...
I found all these on this subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TextToSpeech/
I've also see comments like "Microsoft Edge's read-aloud feature is amazing for TTS" but I haven't tried it myself.
Personally I use Kokoro with a python front-end on my Macbook, I linked to it in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49818923 it outputs MP3, so I just copy those to my phone and listen as audiobooks.
Comment · 1 month ago
You might find this interesting, it seems to be exactly what you need to make an audio drama: https://github.com/Finrandojin/alexandria-audiobook
Also the Qwen3-TTS demo is cool, you can describe the voice you want: https://huggingface.co/spaces/Qwen/Qwen3-TTS
I came across both on this subreddit, it's very active: https://www.reddit.com/r/TextToSpeech/
I'm personally using this locally: https://github.com/mateogon/pdf-narrator (it's a Python frontend for Kokoro) on my M1 Macbook Air (from 2020, with 8GB RAM) and it's incredible. I make my own audiobooks now - for free!
My favorite voice is am_michael and here's a sample: https://voicerankings.com/voice/kokoro-82M/male/am_michael/s...
Comment · 1 month ago
When the authorities do that it's called parallel construction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
Comment · 1 month ago
The Google daily and hourly forecasts aren't great, but the weather map forecast is excellent. Where does that come from? What's generating the predicted movement of the storm clouds?
Comment · 1 month ago
The comment below yours has a custom fonts section: https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader#custo...
Comment · 1 month ago
Great read, other than Europa I wasn't aware of these other candidate ocean moons.
Comment · 1 month ago
How do I fix search on OSX? I can never find anything, even when I do the name contains search.
My take is that almost nobody has a standalone PC anymore, especially kids. Kids these days all start with iPads, them maybe they move up to Macbooks once they get to high school or college. Other than the local LLM fanatics I see here on HN, I have no idea who's buying those PC towers anymore, they seem like fringe relics from the past century.