MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by makeitdouble | 2025-04-17 01:26:21+00:00
Do you use a local client that accepts caching/offline playback of the content ?

I'm looking through the android clients and none seem to fully embrace keeping the most played tracks on device ("offline mode"). Tempo[0] has in on the wip list, while StreamMusic straight removed in it the latest update[1], so as of now it looks like a pretty tough feature to get.

Listening to music in remote places is nice, and that was the main reason for paying for Spotify for me.

[0] https://github.com/CappielloAntonio/tempo#readme [1] https://music.aqzscn.cn/docs/versions/latest/
by sidrag22 | 2025-04-17 01:26:23+00:00
i was cool with it for a long time, id buy annual memberships every year(non renewing). price hikes came, that annual is a lot more daunting as a one time purchase (especially at that particular moment in time for me). i was spending a lot of time in the car attempting to use the app. it quite literally felt like a short trip was 1 song sandwiched between equal parts ads. so a trip to the grocery was kinda like 2 mins ads, song(dont you dare try to skip that song or youll get an ad, or be out of next songs as its shuffle only), maybe another song, then 2 more minutes of ads.

ive now been in a place where that membership isnt that daunting. but im good, im not gonna have my music library held prisoner from me unless i cough up a monthly fee. its quite literally unusable if you arent paying. it also seems like they intentionally make their browser based version kinda trash... to make using it to block ads a less viable option(its been a while, not sure how true this currently is).

the jellyfin option is actually what ive settled on as well, ive been a bit lazy about setting up more functionality than just for my LAN, but i will get around to it. for now i just kinda plop junk on my phone and play it through vlc, which is certainly a lazy solution but its still feels freeing.
by mystraline | 2025-04-17 01:27:09+00:00
I read the article. My comment is a direct refutation of the premise of the article.

I think much 'higher education' is an inflated scam partially for being able to discriminate against black people, and they not as able to afford high education costs.

I still think apprentice work, but under multiple people with mastery, is the most effective. But only the trades see that as true.
by anonfordays | 2025-04-17 01:28:03+00:00
Too late to edit my comment, but one other thing:

>The stocks get a one-time relief from capital gains as it moves to the heir. This gives opportunity for the heirs (or the estate) to sell the stocks to pay back the loan. That is the loophole.

Yes, this step-up in basis happens because the estate is charged estate tax. Charging capital gains AND estate tax doesn't make sense, estate tax is typically higher than capital gains tax.

This is a key piece a lot of people don't understand.
by classichasclass | 2025-04-17 01:28:35+00:00
Sandwiches, too. Ate at the cafe a fair bit. When my buddy was living on Victory and Hollywood we hit Burbank on a regular basis.

Of the Burbank, Fountain Valley, San Marcos, San Diego, Anaheim Hills, Roseville, Sacramento, Fremont, Las Vegas and Sunnyvale locations, I think I liked the San Diego one most for selection (it was a former Incredible Universe), but the Roseville and Las Vegas ones had the wildest themes, even more than the Burbank UFO. But the Fremont location when I ended up there in 2019 was deader than a doornail, and it was like waiting for the next hit to kill them. The next hit came sooner than I thought.
by anthropodie | 2025-04-17 01:29:11+00:00
>Self-hosting stuff is awesome if you have the skills.

>I have been on a mission for the last 2 years to replace as many subscriptions as possible with self-hosted solutions.

I have been doing the same for quite some time now but it's only recently I realized all these subscriptions services are just making rich richer. We should encourage self hosting as much as possible. I mean why should we pay huge corporations more money just for storage?
by tptacek | 2025-04-17 01:30:11+00:00
These are all statutes that impose obstacles to public bodies that want to roll out ISPs (few of the statutes are bans; more typical are rules like ad valorem taxation of ISP infrastructure). They're intended to offset cost advantages municipalities have in rolling out ISP infrastructure, because private ISPs have to pay taxes, buy rights of way, and actually win customers rather than rolling some of their costs off on the general levy. A colorable (though remote) concern would be that the most lucrative municipalities in a state might provision their own ISP service, thus cutting disincentivizing broadband providers from deploying anywhere in the state.

These rules don't keep people like the subject of this post from deploying community ISPs.

(I think the rules are very dumb but also the economics of small-scale municipal ISPs are not good at all; part of the reason they're dumb is that in reality a typical suburb has absolutely no hope of competing on price with Xfinity, Verizon, and AT&T.)
by davesmylie | 2025-04-17 01:30:40+00:00
I would consider not using a "smart tv" at all.

I have had an old PC running my TV for many years now - it's fast, so doesn't get bogged down rendering applications, I can play any content that I have using full resolution, and as it's just a PC, ublock origin takes care of any ads.

Depressingly I found it quite hard to replace my truly dumb, 55" Veon a few years back, so I've had to buy a TV with some smarts (a HiSense) - however, it's still just being used as a dumb tv (ie, an HDMI input).

I do have mild concerns about updates introducing some unwanted behavior despite this, so it's either not connected to the net, or, if I'm playing around with trying to manage it via HA, it's blocked from leaving the LAN at the router.
by Loughla | 2025-04-17 01:30:46+00:00
The only time to avoid command words like should is when the person could conceivably see them as a command. Because then you're being a dick.

Otherwise, if someone wants to take the time to dissect meaning from add-on meaningless words like should in a sentence, they should find something better to do with their time. Or just ask instead of being a moron.
by kulahan | 2025-04-17 01:32:21+00:00
From TFA, they’re going to continue observing it with JWST to gather more data. New telescopes dedicated to detecting life are being built now - they were basically right behind dark matter in scientific interest.

They will also start to simulate hycean planets to see if these chemicals behave the same way there as they do on Earth to determine if there is some non-biological reason why they could detect this stuff.
by colechristensen | 2025-04-17 01:33:23+00:00
It's translated through several layers of people who don't know anything.

Their domain expired because at some level people made some pretty boneheaded mistakes.

Whomever their actual registrar actually was (GoDaddy it seems) stopped pointing the zoom.us nameserver record (NS) at AWS Route 53 which Zoom obviously uses.

% dig +short zoom.us NS ns-387.awsdns-48.com. ns-1137.awsdns-14.org. ns-1772.awsdns-29.co.uk. ns-888.awsdns-47.net.
by evilduck | 2025-04-17 01:33:31+00:00
Taking it a step further, being an ocean dwelling creature could even be an advantage in space since they would more easily be shielded from radiation if they were enveloped in a large mass of water and g-forces might be easier on their bodies since they'd be less compressible.

But on the other hand: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/fish-dont-do-so-we...
by _carbyau_ | 2025-04-17 01:36:08+00:00
Meh, the two ideologies are a tradeoff decision.

If you own, you don't pay subscription and can use that money to buy. And in tenuous circumstances you have control.

If you subscribe, you don't pay money to buy massive library. But in tenuous circumstances you don't have control.

Everybody rates the risk of tenuous circumstances differently and so that affects the decision outcome.
by billfor | 2025-04-17 01:37:36+00:00
I’ve been doing this since 2005 with just my NAS and mediamonkey or foobar2000. Additionally, Sonos can index the NAS directly over SMB, although they have not really put much effort into fixing bugs in their implementation it still works well enough. Any upnp/dlna streamer that runs on your NAS (plex, twonky, etc…) should be able to handle other situations.
by dankwizard | 2025-04-17 01:37:43+00:00
I think you along with some others in this thread are looking at the real individualistic view - "If I go from high paying to low paying, I'm in trouble". Think about how the economy may react along with it. If companies are no longer paying these high salaries, perhaps products and services go down and despite earning less $, your purchasing power stays the same or even grows!

Of course lots of speculation, but I am not particularly worried by the fields we can wipe out in future with automation and AI.
by gazook89 | 2025-04-17 01:38:02+00:00
This has been my experience with our local ISP in Minneapolis as well. Granted, I’ve only ever reached out to them maybe 3 times over 6 years, but each time they’ve been exceptional. No more than two phone rings before a person in our metro area answered, they got me to right person who provided actual good believable information and the situation was fixed. The first time I ever reached out to them, by email, I wasn’t even a customer— I was calling to ask when they would resurface a sidewalk that they had torn up for an install in my neighborhood. The director of operations emailed me back, not with an exact date but with a pretty detailed reason for the delay that was clearly written just for this situation, not a form letter, and then he followed up when the work was scheduled.
by slg | 2025-04-17 01:38:06+00:00
This still seems to be based on assumptions coming from our own history and situation. I don't know why some hypothetical species needs fire for chemistry or even metallurgy for that matter or why an underwater civilization couldn't eventually discover fire themselves. There is also the potential that our reliance on combustion based rocketry is actually a crutch preventing us further space exploration considering how impractical it seems for interstellar travel.
by pj_mukh | 2025-04-17 01:38:23+00:00
"My theory is once the novelty wears off..."

FWIW, for a lot of us in the city, the novelties been off for a while. It's now completely replaced uber/lyfts for me, because the driver is a lot more patient, especially with loading children (mini-car seat installation, strollers et al.) and a 100% of my rides have been completely uneventful, no notes, no garbage, no "wAyMo in AccIdeNt". My wife feels safe taking them at night.

I realize digital journalism has no space for this, but I wish there was space for the rest of the public to get messages like: "this service came up and is boringly being used as intended".
by addaon | 2025-04-17 01:39:04+00:00
> Is this limited to lockstep between softcores on a die - so good for low level error failures like soft error, but no good if the package dies? (Still very neatly done)

Depends on what you mean by "good for." The intent of lockstep is to convert essentially all undetectable errors to detectable errors, usually to allow fail-silent behavior, rather than to eliminate detectable errors. This property that all failures have defined failure modes is then used at the system level to build robust systems; for example downstream actuators can receive multiple command streams from multiple lockstep systems, and, relying on the invariant that a correctly received message came from a correctly operating system, can safely act on any of them, rather than needing to vote on the received messages. A package failure should be very unlikely to introduce an undetectable error in this context.
by jltsiren | 2025-04-17 01:41:06+00:00
Universities are more about learning than teaching. The heavy focus on teaching, and the expectation that every class is taught, is large part of the reason why American higher education is so expensive.

During my undergrad, in a European public university poorly funded by American standards, seminar classes were the key for actually understanding the field. Students would read papers and other primary sources, give presentations and write papers based on them, and discuss what the others had done. The person in charge would usually be either an active researcher or a senior professor who had been active in the past.
by manquer | 2025-04-17 01:42:50+00:00
GoDaddy is the root registry for all .us ccTLD, MarkMonitor is the actual registar Zoom is working with. The issue seems to be more how GoDaddy assigned to the domain to MarkMonitor not something Zoom itself likely controls (such as NS records)

.us (and other many TLDs) uses EPP to communicate between registars (MarkMonitor here) and Registry (GoDaddy). It is probably an admin error rather than code[1], some manual approval or other human review workflow for high value domain and someone clicked/filled in the wrong value at GoDaddy or MarkMonitor would be my first guess.

[1] would have been observed and fixed long before today, transfers happen all the time after all
by Jedd | 2025-04-17 01:43:25+00:00
I think almost all the free LLMs (not AI) that you find on hf can 'run on CPUs'.

The claim here seems to be that it runs usefully fast on CPU.

We're not sure how accurate this claim is, because we don't know how fast this model runs on a GPU, because:

> Absent from the list of supported chips are GPUs [...]

And TFA doesn't really quantify anything, just offers:

> Perhaps more impressively, BitNet b1.58 2B4T is speedier than other models of its size — in some cases, twice the speed — while using a fraction of the memory.

The model they link to is just over 1GB in size, and there's plenty of existing 1-2GB models that are quite serviceable on even a mildly-modern CPU-only rig.
by rstuart4133 | 2025-04-17 01:43:57+00:00
> I think the people who blocked jewish students attending class

Again for clarity: blocking those students have been ruled illegal: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/14/ucla... so no invention from the Whitehouse was needed. Unlike the Whitehouse, the university involved feels compelled to follow the law, so that's the end of the matter. It also wasn't necessary at Harvard as it didn't happen at Harvard, so that can't be the reason it was included in their letter of demand.
by throwanem | 2025-04-17 01:44:05+00:00
I overreacted slightly because it happened to be my TOTP app that had most recently written there, and I don't suppose I feel too bad about being a little gun-shy in the direction of excessive security.

The app is really quite nice, and the hardware itself seems so far quite beyond reproach. I think I'm really going to enjoy these as a way of easing back into programming during this sabbatical, and the T-rex 3 is a handsome little accessory; thank you, I'm really glad you posted about these!
by engels_gibs | 2025-04-17 01:44:28+00:00
"autoritarian regimes"

"Rules based international order"

This guy has the mind so brainwashed by western media talking points he cannot even understand the propaganda he cheerfully chews on.

Poor innocent 'rules based' order :(. I am sure the "rules based international order" prevented the USA from invading Iraq based on lies, right? Oh wait, the rules didnt work that time. But at least they are preventing Israel of massacring thousands of babies and toddlers in Gaza! Wait, also no. But at least they stopped the USA from deploying a mass surveillance system to spy on every citizen of the world, like Snowden revealed. Uhm, also no. The "rules based international order" is for suckers.
by m463 | 2025-04-17 01:45:11+00:00
lol

https://www.747sp.com/747sp-production-list/21992-447/

United purchased it for $1 in 1986

later asking price was $8.0 million in 2004

And Mr William Fry purchased it for $10 in 2005

trail gets murky though around 2009?
by gnabgib | 2025-04-17 01:45:42+00:00
Discussion (81 points, 2 hours ago, 49 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43711376

Related:

2023 Webb Discovers Methane, Carbon Dioxide in Atmosphere of K2-18B (235 points, 135 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37468342

2019 Water found on a potentially life-friendly alien planet (606 points, 384 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20944005
by layoric | 2025-04-17 01:46:38+00:00
This reflects a lot of what I've been through as well. My subscriptions exploded when AU got a lot of different streaming platforms, and I think when paramount+ came out and took Star Trek off of another one I drew the line. I realised I still owned all the physical media, so time to make backups. Previous to that I moved off Gmail, that was by far the hardest, and still somewhat ongoing after 8+ years.

The hardest to kick for me now is YouTube Premium.. And in AU it's like $33/month AUD, but I just can't stand ads.

Now I self host:

- Own Mastodon instance - Photos (Synology) - Videos (Synology) - Audio (Synology) - Storage (Minio) - Code/Build (Forejo) - Security (Synology)

My NAS is blocked from the internet, while web facing stuff is on a separate server (old dell workstation). And now have added a PI hole to another older dell box. My partner's laptop will be moving to Linux and will also be a Windows free household. I used Windows since 3.1, I liked it up until around Windows 7. I'm glad I've moved to Linux, but disappointed to see what has happened to Windows in general.

I want to self host more services for family, but the experience isn't there yet without quite a lot of work.

The tags #homelab and #selfhost are pretty decent to follow on Mastodon btw!
by whartung | 2025-04-17 01:47:49+00:00
A nit about Apple pascal is that it did rely on some custom machine language routines, but it may have been just for graphics.

That’s interesting about the Apple ///. Honestly don’t know much about that machine.

If nothing else, if you can hunt down SunDog, it can show the p-machine in something higher level than 6502 or Z80. But the IV machine is pretty different than the 1.5-2 machines.

One problem I had getting started was just trying to figure out how to read the floppy images that are available. I obviously didn’t try really hard, but it was enough to calm my sails at the time. Udo Monk has some nice images on his Z80 pack site.
by bhaney | 2025-04-17 01:48:23+00:00
> Sure, but that’s piracy

You got me there

> Kinda like saying Winamp is alternative to Spotify

No, it's really not like saying that. I was responding to a post lamenting the difficulty of acquiring the files for the music they've already discovered on Spotify, and I brought up a music file acquisition system that pulls from what they've discovered on Spotify. That's different than comparing a local player to a discovery system.
by jjallen | 2025-04-17 01:49:46+00:00
To support this: Oceans are more conducive to exploration due to their natural currents and lack of mountainous regions or rivers which inhibit movement.

Like the comment below was getting at: if you are water bound, you are very unlikely to discover or become proficient with fire, which to us, as if now seems like a requirement to travel through space.

There’s also the massive weight disadvantage water has compared to “air”.

So no fire and have to travel with a water filled rocket instead.

But again maybe these are just land centered views.

Maybe you can just inject oxygen into the water that merely surrounds your head.

And maybe there’s a hydrogen power rocket that is more efficient than our fire ones.
by jcranmer | 2025-04-17 01:50:18+00:00
Maybe not nonstop warfare, but there was still a lot of violence going on. European powers were engaged in more-or-less nonstop warfare overseas in their empires, but maybe you're excusing that because those weren't in Europe.

In Europe itself, you have quite major conflicts in the Franco-Prussian War, Austro-Prussian War, and the Crimean War, plus more minor conflicts around the unification (more like conquest) of Italy, the independence of various Balkan states from the Ottoman Empire starting with Greece, Prussia's war against Denmark. And then you have all of the internal civil wars or strife people usually don't call outright wars, but in the 19th century, were often quite violent. The Revolutions of 1848, for example. Or France switching governments four times (July Monarchy, Second Republic, Second Empire, Third Republic) after the restored monarchy, all of them quite violent transitions.

Not to mention the fact that the stresses of urbanization and concomitant social changes provoked a lot of resistance from the lower classes, which was often quite violent. It's not until well into the 20th century that major strikes don't involve lots of bloodshed!

19th century Europe is only peaceful relative to the quite bloody conflicts that bookended the time period, which themselves rank among the bloodiest conflicts in all of human history.
by autoexec | 2025-04-17 01:51:08+00:00
They've earned themselves a reputation for sending false DMCA notices.

https://www.inquisitr.com/markmonitor-sends-false-copyright-...

https://torrentfreak.com/record-labels-defeat-false-dmca-tak...

https://torrentfreak.com/court-dismisses-charters-claims-of-...

https://torrentfreak.com/hbo-wants-google-to-censor-hbo-com-...

https://torrentfreak.com/after-4-years-copyright-holders-sti...

They haven't even always been good to their own clients: https://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-lawfirm-defrauded-right...
by mickael-kerjean | 2025-04-17 01:52:29+00:00
The benchmark is something you can optimize for, doesn't mean it generalize well. Yesterday I tried for 2 hours to get claude to create a program that would extract data from a weird adobe file. 10$ later, the best I had is a program that was doing something like:

switch(testFile) { case "test1.ase": // run this because it's a particular case case "test2.ase": // run this because it's a particular case default: // run something that's not working but that's ok because the previous case should // give the right output for all the test files ... }
by tough | 2025-04-17 01:53:34+00:00
The LastPass breach was indeed linked to a vulnerability in Plex Media Server. Attackers exploited an unpatched version of Plex on a LastPass DevOps engineer’s personal computer, enabling them to install keylogger malware. This allowed them to capture the engineer’s master password after multi-factor authentication, granting access to sensitive corporate vaults.

Notably, the Plex vulnerability had been patched in May 2020—approximately 75 versions prior to the breach. The compromise occurred because the engineer hadn’t updated their Plex software. While the flaw was in Plex, the breach underscores the critical importance of timely software updates and robust security practices. https://www.wired.com/story/lastpass-engineer-breach-securit...
by stubish | 2025-04-17 01:54:31+00:00
It certainly is arguable. The more unambiguous the law, the less room for common sense decisions. Now there is the situation where people who physically appear male but declared female at birth must use female facilities, by law. And cannot be excluded, per discrimination law. And possibly conflicts completely with religious persecution laws, depending on how religious leaders define girls and women when it comes to gender segregated facilities like hairdressers or swimming pools. And a judge no longer gets to make a common sense ruling based on who's wobbly bits were being flaunted in whom's face for what reason.
by LinuxBender | 2025-04-17 01:55:04+00:00
Yeah I'm not saying errors don't happen. I've been called into gazillions of them including many that "should not happen". Those make for the best root cause analysis and after action reports.

Rather this does not sound like a communication error unless they are leaving out a lot of critical details and context or the domain management interface has been de-frictioned and dumbed down too much.