skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MMS doesn't work on any FOSS non-Android Linux phone I'm aware of, so they definitely do not work for a significant percentage of the population even for basic group text messages.

Building an alternative phone OS is much harder than building an alternative desktop OS—the requirements are much higher (battery life, cellular, app support) and the mobile web is far less developed as a stopgap compared to the desktop web.

Desktop Linux is usable for most developers and people who don't care about UI consistency or proprietary applications like Office and Creative Cloud. That's a reasonably significant chunk of the computer-using population. The same cannot be said of phones.
I wish we had better images of the notebook. I noticed a few constants `*_ENERGY_TARGET` which might be searchable if I could make out the first part. It seems that if any code exists for this stuff, it might be those constants come from real code.
Playing with Bevy and its ECS made me shocked (in a really nice way) how much like a dependency injection framework it worked. Writing a system and simply specifying what resources and queries it needs as function arguments and it magically getting them for me makes it really quick to get to the fun part of writing game code. Are other ECSs this ergonomic?

Still struggling to really get in the flow of where what data should live, but with time it's getting easier. The realization that you don't need all data to be in components also really helps. For example for my game grid I store it as a Resource and inside I store entities I care about such that I can run a normal path search algo.

Overall very impressive and fun project and the discord community is active and friendly.
Battery usage is basically zero, since I schedule it to run during evenings and night-time when it is charging with the termux-scheduler-thingie. Android wakes the script up, when those conditions are met, no battery waste. The script when waken up - it checks if the file left over from last time is older than 1h, if so continues to sync, otherwise exits.

Setup of a ssh connection is similar to https, rsync exchange of rsync is usually "all good" and thats it. Rsync otherwise is a very efficient but not very documented protocol network-bandwidth-usage-wise.

Mesh? Syncthing, tried it, sucked for reasons I cant remember now. Nextcloud - had it for years, mind you I was contributed to nextcloud the android app, fixing many bugs, but still it caused me data loss / picture loss. Which I only found out after implementing the rsync solution and seeing OMG rsync found so many pictures Nextcloud was supposed to keep in sync for the past year but it just bugged over.
Would you accept the forced sale of 1% of your personal income-earning ability each year? You get to keep 100% of your 2021 salary iff you can outbid the highest bidder?
"The Phoebus cartel existed to control the manufacture and sale of incandescent light bulbs. "

"The cartel lowered operational costs and worked to standardize the life expectancy of light bulbs at 1,000 hours[6] (down from 2,500 hours),[6] and raised prices without fear of competition. The cartel tested their bulbs and fined manufacturers for bulbs that lasted more than 1,000 hours. A 1929 table listed the amount of Swiss francs paid that depended on the exceeding hours of lifetime.[8]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Phoebus_cartel&ol...
It's really nice that this has Android and iOS support. I think the main problems for Rust game development are that and stability.
This does not perform normalization. The Github repo does have the tag "audio-normalization" but the tags seem a bit all over the place.
The problem is that a monopoly may naturally be disrupted in decades, while people want an improvement during their precious only lifetimes.

A temporary regulation could possibly help, but making it temporary is the hard part. And if it lingers, the inefficiencies it creates let some companies become incumbents, and, with some luck, even monopolies.
The funniest word in Russian and Serbian is "ponos". Means diarrhea in Russian but, AFAIK honour in Serbian. And, Serbian for diarrhea is "proliv", which means "strait (as in Bering's strait)" in Russian. So funny.
When you're dealing with a giant piece of software that has existed since the 90s, with hundreds of developers working on it at any given moment, what you're describing doesn't work. You can read about a famous example here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442941
Also relevant to this space: https://www.indiebound.org/
> Google shouldn’t have an obligation to host your apps or associate their brand with yours.

You sound just like a white supremacist saying he doesn't have to serve black people in his store.
I've met similar folk through back roads travel. Something I can't ever put my finger on is the mild squalor (my opinion, not saying this is true for your relatives) people are willing to endure. Sure, they do it for "maximum privacy", but can't you achieve the same relative privacy in ways that might lead to a higher quality of life? Generating power, drilling wells, boss cashing checks, etc... I get the sense there might be some form of mental health e.g. paranoia, but that's just a guess. I'd be really interested to hear your take on it if you don't mind sharing.
I don't see how humanity is a source for information beyond the initial growth phase (assuming it's created here on Earth).

If an AI comes from space, it's likely billions of years old and we are as interesting as fungus.
Article is dated Nov 9, 2019
This same guy has a video doing just that somewhere in his history. It's not nearly as bright though which is the big difference.
Can the user really achieve "security" without having full control. When the user is not the customer of the third party providing "security". (In this case advertisers are the customer.)

Hopefully courts will begin to recognise that this sort of "security" is in fact created for the benefit of the company and its customers, not users. Any benefits to users are incidental.

Users are not soliciting these "security" measures. They are always initiated by the company.
Interesting concept - didn't know local splitting like that existed.

Currently using an ansible/cloud-init approach to spin up VMs on a proxmox server and vscode ssh remote dev in, but I guess it's a case of many ways to skin a cat.

SSH keys...yeah was trying to implement a jump server with 2FA but didn't get anywhere with it. VS code ssh remote doesn't seem to like jump servers even without 2FA.

Early days though...
I'm not buying it. They're already back online after 90 minutes. What kind of deplatforming is that? Why not say who was responsible or post those juicy, juicy emails?

This is a bad fit for deplatforming and a good fit for outrage farming.
Old monochrome duplex network-attached laser printers are hands down the best. So long as one can find a source of good toner cartridges.
You're right, it is totally alien. I still remember when I had started learning English, I was completely baffled why would somebody use double letters, or sometimes pronounce one letter one way and sometimes (same letter!) the other way...
Thanks for the sanity check. I'll keep one of those pics the with shorter beard close at hand if I resume down the rabbit hole later.
No, I just notice them ad hoc.
Thanks for posting this.

I really want to learn low level programing, but I learn best when building a project.

Does it have networking support ?
When I saw Dockerhub announce they are throttling pulls I did think using something like IPFS (InterPlanetary File System)[1] would be ideal for a public Docker image repository.

Dockerhub must be a huge expense for the free repositories, switching to P2P would significantly reduce the running costs.

[1] https://ipfs.io/
"That doesn’t fit. You don’t discover you’re terminally ill and then brainstorm a game while you're out trying to find yourself. If you think you're terminally ill then your notebook is likely to be full of meditations on the day's endeavors and thoughts about your legacy, and your mortality, maybe even your family."

That might work for some people, but everyone is different. It's possible he doesn't have a family, which is supported by there not being a missing persons report. If I didn't have a family, I probably wouldn't care about legacy, or musing on philosophical topics. I even told my wife that when o die she should donate my body to science, have them pay for the cremation, then spread my ashes in the garden.

The epilepsy example is quite solid. That would be something that may present in different ways without being apparent in an autopsy. It'd be a little odd that the woman he hiked with for a couple months didn't notice it if it was getting worse.
If scientists want to measure stress levels of e people, they don’t need earwax
still trying to get the whole thing, but I have this so far: https://tixy.land/?code=y-%3D6%2Bsin%28t%29*x**2%2F99%2C%28y...
Ah I see. Didn't see the 100K runs in the paragraphs below. That's more reasonable. Good job.
I flipped that didn't I? Damn. Good point.
Not disagreeing with you either, but as an Italian it's not the C, it's the combination of C and other letters after it.

Cane (dog) and cena (dinner) in Italian are two examples of soft and hard C that depend on which vowel follows the letter C.

It wasn't like that originally, Roman C sounded always like K, Caesar was pronounced Kaesar (German's Kaiser comes from it).

Than middle age came and things changed, but the pronunciation stayed consistent after that

C+a, C+o, C+u = hard C

C+e, C+i = soft C

So it's not simply about "what you write is what you get" but it's the rule that is consistently the same

Phonetically the examples above are unambiguous though

Soft c = voiceless postalover affricate

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_postalveolar_affri...

hard c = Voiceless velar plosive

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_velar_plosive

They are not exactly what you write, but they have precise phonetic symbols expressing how they sound (which is not always how they look on paper)
TL;DR The Grand Unified Theory of Documentation: https://documentation.divio.com/

There's a lot that is mistakenly conflated as "documentation".

Sometimes I would know enough about a topic except for one little thing and would look to the documentation. I only needed information on that one little thing to be productive, but I'd get stuck reading someone's entire backstory, trying to skim and find the one useful line in a random example to help me.

Other times, I would find documentation and struggle to follow it in practice until I came to the conclusion that I would need to read the whole thing in its entirety to become productive. I would either have to block out some time to learn it all or go with a completely different solution.

I used to think projects that claimed to be documented either fit into two groups:

1. Good documentation: I can find what I'm looking for

2. Bad documentation: I can't find what I'm looking for

My eyes were opened when I read something that I have since committed to memory: https://documentation.divio.com

There isn't just good documentation and bad documentation, there are 4 different kinds of documentation for distinct types of information delivery: Tutorials, How-To Guides, Explanations, and finally Reference.

Now I consider documentation good or bad based on if it contains all 4 kinds of documentation.
Sorry my benchmark test suite "fits" the units it reports to the duration. I totally get that its a bit confusing. I probably won't update them for this blog post because generating the graphs isn't fully automated yet (i manually theme the svgs to match the blog style).

But for future releases ill keep that in mind.
Ya. There was a game that unlocked a badge one year after your purchase for no reason than the anniversary of it
"the Austrian school denies the existence of natural monopoly and argues that harmful monopoly can only exist as a product of government regulation"

This sounds prima facie absurd to me. Are they just throwing phrases out of Ayn Rand novels on paper and calling it science?
Just noting cheaper quads often use geared props to compensate for their under-powered motors.
I am willing to stipulate that exclusionary zoning (like many other pieces of our laws and jurisprudence) has been used many times in bad faith and to ill effect.

As a literate person versed in current events, of course I am aware of this history.

That does not mean, however, that exclusionary zoning should not and should never have existed.

"People who run factories aren't going to tear down a house and try and wedge a factory there."[1]

When your starting point is well organized, well planned, well intentioned environments it's very easy to underestimate the effects of loosening these restrictions that never made any sense to you and why can't we have a cute little pub right here anyway ?

On the other hand, if you have actually grown up in a place where people had horse corrals next to light industrial with a smattering of houses in-between and oh, look, that's an auto-shop on the back of their residential lot ... you would know that the bullshit people pull in absence of these rules is incredible and fascinating.

When they started enforcing some rules there[2] it had nothing to do with race and everything to do with the fact that one quarter of the town was running unpermitted septic systems because, by god, they were not going to pay for city sewer. Also, llamas.

[1] A family member of mine did exactly this.

[2] Canon City, Colorado
Because it's offtopic and a drag. Imagine showing up at a party and someone starts accosting you with "since you are here I want to tell you how off-putting" their pet peeves about your work are. I doubt you'd want to hang around in that conversation, and it doesn't make for the best party. We're hoping for better conversations and more interesting parties.
> which I presume is some sort of aggregator for news articles of interest to folks that like to hack stuff

Its the presumption that makes me think its not a joke but a misunderstanding.
Better World Books (owned by the non profit Better World Libraries) partners with the Internet Archive FYI.

http://blog.archive.org/2019/11/06/for-the-love-of-literacy-...
Here are some of the examples:

“I’m no doctor, and I had a family member whose dementia contributed to his death. I will be the last one here speculating wildly about Biden’s cognitive abilities relative to his age. But his campaign is irresponsible to let this go unexplained — or undiagnosed, if the case may be.”

https://theintercept.imgix.net/wp-uploads/sites/1/2020/03/ja...

“the question is, does he still have his stuff? How sharp is he?”

Dismiss it if you like, but there is nothing ambiguous or weak about what they said.
Well, I approach it from two angles at once. One, a pocket computer running Linux which, using Termux, could be a full Linux machine - in which I can run Perl scripts on my SMS messages, grep my emails, rename and organize my photo library and so on. Which was presumably mostly possible on old, less secure versions of Android. With Android 10 and its exec restriction, sure you can still install precompiled packages as apk's but what about simply compiling a small C program and running it? So the old school tinkerer is sad that I'm locked out of a perfectly good Linux machine that I own.

However the other angle is, this phone is an appliance and I want it to just work. I'm personally competent enough to have that cake (programmability) and eat it too (reliable usability) - after all I've been running Red Hat/Fedora as my primary desktop OS at home for two decades and it works just fine, thank you. But I also remember what a horrible mess the average schmoe's home computer was back in the good old days... remember an outdated version of Internet Explorer with half the screen obscured by a stack of junky toolbars, and the whole thing running at 800x600 on a monitor capable of higher resolutions "because otherwise the letters are too small". Good riddance.

Anyway for the moment, second-hand desktop and laptop machines that can run a full, unencumbered compute environment are still plentiful. Maybe by the time they aren't, I'll be a truly old fart who doesn't care any more.
Now when you mention it, I realised that the guy in TFV have actually done something like that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JrqH2oOTK4
There is also severe lens flare to deal with for fresnel lenses.
Of course, the money behind actual de-aging and things like replicating a consciousness is entirely funded by rich people in their quest to live forever. If this tech ever goes ‘production’, it’ll take billions of dollars to do and thus only be something the ultra rich and their families will be able to afford. Part of this is being done by the Alphabet (Google) subsidiary Calico[0].

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calico_(company)
I think because it's faster and simpler if you don't need the extra features of Excel. Like if you just want to look at a CSV as a table.

At least in my case, I looked at this app before because I needed to look at a lot of CSV files. Numbers (Excel equivalent on macOS) takes a longer time to open, and it's really bloated if you're just looking at a table
They've always been like that. I had the misfortune of having to integrate with some of their stuff they'd thrown on to ruby on rails back when it was teetering on the top of hype mountain.

Realistically 99% of their back end at the time was bits of sticky tape, perl and ftp. They just changed those components out for modern versions of sticky tape, perl and ftp...
Are those different than American spelling bees?
I think it goes hand in hand with Europe's embracing of vice that has diluted the impact of religion on society. Not just alcohol and elicit drugs, but sexual libertine and pushing to legalize prostitution, which over time has possibly eroded those moral underpinning of religion that kept people tied to the church.
I wonder if you could use a spotlight like a bit like this: https://www.amazon.com/Primelux-8-inch-14400-Lumens-Driving/... to get the intensity and parallel rays.
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Hi, I just deployed this web app I've been working on. Hope you enjoy it. I'm open to any feedback or questions.
I think you might be able to accomplish this in mpv using --lavfi-complex and the apprpriate ffmpeg filters.. alimiter maybe?
One of the interesting things about this UAV is that it’s using Ardupilot which is quite advanced and flexible and one of the only autopilots (there are like two) that use a copy left license. This means we might see more hybrid drones supported by Ardupilot.
Flagrant brag: I think we've advanced the state of the art when it comes to ECS ergonomics and (according to my taste) I think we're the most ergonomic ecs in existence.

That being said, Legion (another rust ECS framework) recently added a similar approach. But they use macros instead of pure Rust, which is slightly more verbose.
I was really hoping for a Trump/Fiorina shared ticket. Something about voting for business.
The key is to buy a laser printer. Mine still works perfectly, bought it in 2005.
I think, based on the other comments here, and my experience with my own Brother printers... I think they are the "less clever" people building reliable printers.
You're missing the forest for the trees. "Originalism" generally comes into play because an activist has invoked the "250-year-old legal code" to achieve something by litigation that they can't achieve through lawmaking. Consider the example of abortion: https://news.gallup.com/poll/235469/trimesters-key-abortion-.... While 60% of Americans believe abortion should generally be legal in the first trimester, just 28% think it should generally be legal in the second trimester (13 weeks+). (If you dig into the data, they think it should be illegal after that except to protect maternal life, fetal abnormalities, etc.) In fact, nearly every EU country generally prohibits abortion after 12-14 weeks.

Under U.S. Supreme Court precedent (specifically, Roe and Casey) abortion cannot be prohibited before viability--usually around 24 weeks. Nearly all EU abortion law would be unconstitutional under American standards. In the U.S., therefore, the words written 250 years ago by the framers is deemed to prohibit the states from adopting abortion laws that would be entirely consistent with other advanced liberal democracies.

Similar reasoning has been invoked to ban school prayer (which is mandated by statute in the U.K. and allowed in Germany and Italy) and government funding of religious education (which is common in the EU, and is a constitutional right in Germany, Belgium, etc.) The majority of Americans, however, still support things like school prayer. Again, a 250-year old document has been invoked to strike down laws and practices that are widespread in other advanced liberal democracies.

When activists wield 250 year old words to strike down popular laws, people get very interested in exactly what those words mean! These conflicts tend to be more intense in the U.S. than elsewhere, because we're a country where the coasts are France and everywhere else is Poland. Originalism doesn't exist in Germany, but neither do cases like Roe where the Court invents new rights out of thin air. Social consensus is much higher in Germany. It's a little bit easier to amend the German Basic Law than the Constitution (2/3 vote in both houses versus 3/4 vote of the states) but the German Basic Law has been amended 62 times since 1949. The U.S. Constitution has been amended just 17 times since 1792.
I still have an HP Laserjet 4 series printer with network card. I bought it 10+ years ago on Craigslist for $40 which included toner in it. I love it! Has two 500 page (1 ream) trays. That toner lasted a few years. Bought more toner that lasted 5+ more years. Bought another toner cartridge. Finally starting to look at replacing it with a multi function color laser printer.
It seems like there's a ton of interest in Bevy! You must be spending a lot of time discussing things, reviewing PRs, doing outreach and community building like here. Is there any time left for the hard feature work? Are there any core members apart from you?

(Don't burn out!)
I'm more inclined to think that under a completely unregulated free market a monopoly today would instead be more likely to turn into a de-facto nation state over the course of decades. But this is purely speculation (not entirely unprompted by reading speculative fiction).

Is there any evidence that unregulated free markets actually tend towards competition, rather than consolidation?
No, I simply said they get bought up. Any negative inference is your own. Feel free to suggest what you believe to be a more neutral term for being purchased by another company.
I have done tech writing for a living, and enjoy writing. However, documentation can feels more subjective than code when it comes to getting a PR accepted on an OS project.

For example, I’ve got an open PR overhauling CRACO’s (create react app configuration override) documentation right now.

It’s a fair amount of work and hard to measure the impact.

There less ways to define “correct” when it comes to docs than bug fixes or feature enhancements.

I get why docs languish. Anything to make the process easier is probably a good thing.
I have a Pavilion 17" laptop from 2014 that is on 24/7 and still works[1] as of this day :) . I am also a big fan of the prosumer/business products (e.g. Elite) - love the easy user maintainability and support. Thank you.

[1] Battery dead/removed, hard drive replaced with ssd for performance, cooling fan replaced once but the always-on duty cycle accelerated wear I expect.
Maybe I asking for too much but why didn't his makeshift snowshoes work? Being of sound body and mind with only 10 miles between you and civilization should rarely be a death sentence.