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You overestimate how effective Radio Free Twitter will be in real life.

You don’t need to jam anything there will be only a relatively small number of places where you could put your RF infrastructure since for internet you’ll have to do RX/TX your transmitters don’t have to be jammed since they can be easily located and an example can be made off you.

While there might be a small scale RF based network for technocrats to use for 99% of the population KremlinNet is all they’ll see, and even that won’t last long...

You’ll learn rather quickly how easy it to say that you’ll build a free internet using LORA and actually doing so when the risk of being caught and facing life in prison or a shooting squad is not only real but highly likely.

It would be quite easy to disconnect the country from the internet if the majority of the services are local which they already are the rest can be proxied on a case by case basis.

The US can easily disconnect from the global internet tomorrow too and most people won’t notice, Twitter will still be up just with fewer French, German and Aussies...
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Stadia is only usable outside Stadia app only with USB cable connected. Stadia controllers are comfortable but DS5 is miles ahead on features.
Hey everybody,

I've been working on Pleke for the last 18 months and using it daily for the last 6 months.

It is based on cashflow, so the budget is affected when money enters or leaves the accounts. Credit card purchases affect the budget on the month they appear on the credit card bill. It even shows the credit card bill based on transactions completed, planned or estimated.

I use cash flow projection to predict the future balance of accounts, to warn about lack of funds and avoid overdraft fees.

It's very easy to reconcile as it has a running balance. Input is manual but very fast due to autocomplete and after input I show how the budget line item was affected.

Budget works like envelope budget, with detailed budget items. This way I can create transactions from budget, like car payment. With a detailed budget it can understand better which limits can be moved to cover overspending (for example in transportation can reduce gas limit but can not not reduce car payment).

Pleke has a local database with cloud backup, you can view and enter transactions when offline. There are apps for iPhone and Android.

Would love any feedback!
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Question for any Microsofters here: what is the status of Bing at Microsoft? Clearly it still exists and is maintained, but I have trouble believing that it's a product that Microsoft is terribly invested in going forward.
Did this remind anyone of Hollywood Medieval on the Atari by Douglas Crockford? Much simpler than this, you moved through hallways or streets, pressing the fire button to change musical phrases. There's supposedly an ending but I can't find a video of it.

Simple demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnktY6gOmaA

Detailed discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLXL8jwg-tk
Is there a standard template for creating a distilled model? I didn’t see a public hugging face implementation, just the models
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AFAIK they run Linux, so porting games over isn't necessarily "free"
How do citizens protect their privacy as imaging gets better and more available?
So many armchair scientists in this thread taking the hygiene hypothesis as gospel here.
The issues related to commercial licensing of x264 probably ensured that Dark Shikari would never want to work on video encoding things again even before she burned out and quit software development entirely a few years later.
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Ford Fiesta owners got this awful Sync 2 system and a poorly designed transmission. When I purchased, the Sync system seemed like something I could deal with at the time. It aged poorly. It seems like it is getting slower, but that's probably just in comparison to using newer systems with CarPlay.

I also have this added bug where sometimes (once every 6 months or so) the Sync system gets stuck on when I turn off my car and open the door. The screen goes off and the radio keeps playing. Only way to resolve it is to disconnect the battery.
The expert system guys in the 80s -- and this is before my time -- came to a similar conclusion, but for the reasons I am laying out (responsibility).

They also decided it was better to have a computer make a suggestion to a doctor than to give it unvarnished to a patience, sort of assisting the doctor.

I won't disagree with experts (yourself, or them), but there is the issue of scaling it. Consider a poor person in a poor country for whom the alternative is not a delayed appointment with a real person but no advice at all.
Interesting development, and nice to see a growing ecosystem of useful cryoto products.

BlockFi (use my Referral Code 42040b1c) has better rates, but this Gemini Earn has a bunch of "alt coins" not on BlockFi. BlockFi gives you 6% on BTC, and 8.6% on USDC/GUSD. I have a few grand in BlockFi, and it's nice to get ~30/40 a month from interest.

This would be awesome if you want to hold say Filecoin, but also want to earn interest.
They couldn't develop a _port_ though, that would violate the GPL. They could write their own JVM from scratch without using any OpenJDK code, but decided here that it was easier to ""only"" port OpenJDK.

Copyleft can't prevent other people from making a clone of your software, but it does redefine the choices to "clone software entirely" or "fork existing software and share changes", it removes the option of "fork existing software and DON'T share changes", i.e. benefiting from the open source nature of the project without giving those same benefits to others.
This might actually be a feature. Keep your email folders cleaned out. Might be a good reason for me to try to make it my main email.
I'm surprised at all the negative comments equating closure of the _game stuido_ to Stadia not doing well. Google is not known for good content production. Only example I can think of are Youtube Originals which hardly stand out.

I read the announcement as Google doubling down on title acquisition which probably worked out well. Cyberpunk was the largest game release last year (last 5 years?) and seemingly very popular on Stadia. Other titles they have (RDR2, Doom, Odyssey) are also among the best games of the last few years.

Personally, I never played any of the non-AAA titles on Stadia and would imagine most users are in a similar boat. Just doesn't make much sense to use a streaming service for low-key games I can play on my laptop directly. This is a big difference from early Netflix model, where they went for quantity.

My guess is that the internal studio failed to pitch any competitive titles and was disbanded. Makes sense to focus on the plumbing, while leaving titles to external studios who know how to do it well.
your problem is likely this

https://wiki.videolan.org/VSG:Video:Color_washed_out/
So, is Signal good or bad?
Hi Peter, do you have any other recommendations for learning Mandarin. I've just started taking lessons a few weeks ago.
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California just as bad.

1.4 million (same number of people) cut off on January 1 because needed to prove their identity.

California agency backing off on this, probably because of intense human cost of that many.

In other places these things aren't treated so lightly.

Netherlands government (Prime Minister and cabinet) recently resigned over a scandal where about 40,000 people in a country of 17 million, so like 800,000 in proportion in USA, were kicked off family benefits and accused of fraud, often for BS like forgetting to sign a document.
> Contrary to what is often repeated online, it’s best to take the medication continuously rather than skipping days.

I don't like being on stimulants though. When I'm on stimulants I can't just let my thoughts wander and do whatever feels right at the moment, and I really like that part. If I don't have work to do I greatly prefer not being on them.

The only time I feel the need to abuse them is when I am over burdened with work and I feel I need the extra focus to complete tasks. At those times I try to do the opposite, quit taking the medicine and calm down and tell people that I don't have time to do the tasks now.
You can't issues dividends to different shareholders differently (unless they have different classes of stock). All shares have identical rights.
But don't pick the latest Codec Mega Pack for there are bugs. Pick the version that you read on a forum works almost perfectly. It's the one prior to the one that's prior to the absolutely newest one. THAT one! Also download your preferred MKV codec, because it's not included in the mega pack. Because it's not a codec.

VLC, you saved most of my sanity. Whatever was left. Thank you.
It’s the first step to cancelling it in an year or so.
I wish I could use pieman more, but the fact that it still does not support dockerfiles with à FROM with a tag and a sha256sum is super annoying (as most of our images do so, for reproducibility).

It also seems a bit slower than docker (and it doesn’t share its caches with docker)

How is podman on Mac?
MarianMT has a lot of pre-trained models from one language to another, here is one for Polish to Ukrainian

https://huggingface.co/Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-pl-uk

and English to Ukrainian

https://huggingface.co/Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-en-uk

You can test the models with the form input on the right-hand side

And here's a site with docs and code examples for basic usage in your app

https://huggingface.co/transformers/model_doc/marian.html

You can also use Marian's training code on PyTorch with custom source and target texts.
I had the best Italian food outside Italy :) in Japan at a conference. The food was super simple, but really authentic---like, what you could find at a family gathering or potluck party---and good. Plus the pizza makers were tossing dough like there's no tomorrow, one of them had even learnt in Italy!
well if that isn't the fastest $50 i've ever donated...what a great idea :)
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I think what a lot of engineers that come fresh out of college need to understand one thing: Not every day in your career is going to be constantly fulfilling. Sure there's gonna be days, weeks or even months worth of really cool stuff you'd work on, but majority of your career is going to be spent on mindless, completely soul sucking work while also dealing with other aspects of working with other human beings. Let's just put it this way, cool problems that need solving are rare. And 99% of the solution for those cool problems are gonna be not so cool.

Not everyone gets to build a rocket to Mars, even if you work at SpaceX. Some sucker is gonna have to write a shitty internal facing utility that everyone hates and no one uses, because that's part of the larger "cool" endeavor of sending people to Mars.
Valve also has shipped exactly one first-party game since Dota 2 in 2013, outside of VR stuff, and it's a card game. I don't think they're tops on the list of studios that could give Google a big hit game to put on their new cloud console.
> This is absolutely not the case. Google’s biggest ad clients achieve pretty incredible ROI (called ROAS) on each dollar they spend.

It's their job to figure out how to best advertise, not mine to hand it to them on a silver platter at my own expense. This is my data, information about me, which they are stealing without my knowledge and profiting from. If someone asked me if they could snoop around in my personal affairs for money, the price would be a hell of a lot higher than the big fat zero I get in return here.

Whatever Google or Facebooks' advertising ROI is, does not make it ethical or interesting to me.

Credit cards get the benefit of knowing where I shop, but at least I know when and how they are getting that information. Likewise, cellular service. It's a price we pay for ubiquitous access to information. But I would cut them bot off as well if there were some way I could.

It's parasitic and it's zero benefit to me.
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Good point. My cognitive bias towards SaMDs is standing out here. I am going to borrow your example of what a "configuration" is, if you don't mind.
I started with 50 mg, and I experienced a heavy effect for first couple weeks: very calm and clear thinking, but the focus was too heavy - I often fell into “deep thinking / introspection sessions” with my body frozen and an unfocussed stare. It could happen in the middle of a conversation. I thought I would need a lower dosage, but this initial heavy effect was gone soon, and the focus became milder.

Now I am on 50 mg. The medicine stimulates my focus and makes me more enthusiastic about activities, which can be annoying since I need to control not to apply my new powers on wrong or useless activities. I am also very verbose for couple hours after taking a pill. I would not say I am completely cured from ADHD. In the evenings, positive effect disappears, so I need to plan accordingly.

I avoid drinking coffee in the morning now, as the combination of two stimulants makes me shaky, I experience muscle tension, and it affects my ability to interact with people.

We tried 70mg with the doctor as well, but it made me aggressive and grim in couple months without noticeable improvements over 50mg. To manage tolerance I often skip taking pills on weekends. I also lost a few kilograms, which is good.

All in all, I am only half satisfied with the result - based on what I read I expected a better effect. I think my type of ADHD may be addressed with more sophisticated medication. Unfortunately, in Germany there are not a lot of other options to try, and my doctor seems to lack experience in treating ADHD. I try to combine pills with diet, exercises, and sleep management.
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I think we're down in the weeds here - so I'll leave it at this. I shouldn't have focused it on tech so much, other people make the same category of mistake.

The assumptions that I am talking about are basically this. (1) "people can easily do without Facebook", or the variant that "Facebook isn't very important to them" (2) There are viable replacements available to the people who do value this, at least in their own estimation.

Both these assumptions are (empirically) incorrect, at least for many people. If you reject them both, you are basically saying people are incapable of really knowing their own best interests, which is laughable. The best you can do is advocate they understand the implications better.

Hence this falls in to the category I was drawing, mainly that if you say "People don't really need X" and lots of people are at the same time saying "I really need X" and "I don't see a good replacement for X" then you are far more likely to be wrong than they are.

You dislike all my examples, try this one "Nobody needs a fossil fuel engine car". Obvious, right? Electrics are available and better in every way (just ask your favorite tesla owner). Telling people they can do fine without FB because you do is a bit like telling them they can do fine without gasoline because you do. Even when technically true for some values of "fine" and "need", it's not useful.
Don’t get me wrong, the M1 is clearly good, but remember AMD has had many years of being behind in both power and efficiency before getting to where it is now.

I don’t see intel just rolling over, I suspect it will just take some years for them to get back to a good arch, just as it did when they had their long P4 period leading up to the Core series.
Nicely designed site, great logo, but after clicking around a bit (and looking at GitHub) I’m confused by what this product actually is.

DataDog has a UI. Does Opstrace? Or is it just a CLI/API based tool?

If you actually have a UI element to your product you’re doing a huge disservice to yourself by not actually showing this anywhere...

EDIT: I don’t mean to sound negative, I’m wondering if positioning this against Datadog is going to create immediate, potentially incorrect, expectations in people’s minds as to what this product might provide.

From first impressions I’d say this is much closer to Prometheus (which does have a UI but it’s so basic it may as well not - but then the UI is not the point of Prometheus).
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Hello HN!

As a daily user (and enthusiast) of plain-text file formats such as markdown, ledger or todo.txt, I thought that there should also exist an equally simple way for tracking time.

After some pondering and experimenting I recently released the open-source project “klog”, which is both a file format and a command line tool. The idea is to have a lightweight syntax to record times in plain text, and to be able to run evaluations on the data.

I’m happy so far how the basic approach came out, and I’d appreciate some feedback and thoughts (especially on the file format, since that’s the central idea that everything else builds on).

For anyone interested, I have also written up some of the backstory behind the project on my blog: https://www.jotaen.net/9zRPA/klog-time-tracking-plain-textfi...
If Valve fully backed cloud gaming, that would have downstream effects on publishers and PC gaming as a platform. Who would sign on to publish a competitive, reaction driven game if the market is segmented between the high-latency cloud where anyone can play, and physical hardware only purchased by a relatively diminishing market?

The audience for tactical precise shooters, MOBAs, RTSs, etc would deteriorate and with it so would one competitive advantage of PC gaming. Might be tautological, but the games that thrive in the cloud are games designed not to need a PC to be played.
We have been tinkering with Falcon. My sense is that Falcon may be better if your server is doing computations rather than just serving database requests. Am I thinking about this correctly, or can FastAPI work well for compute heavy jobs without too much tinkering (i.e. forking the main thread)?
I do believe that people can have bad luck with companies, managers, projects. I also believe that some people find their chosen field just isn't for them and should probably get out (if they can) whatever bronze handcuffs they have. Especially if they're younger and have other viable options. (Or if it's mostly a big company sort of issue they have, explore other alternatives.)
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"Open-ended" in the sense of not being bound by objectives. Something that can be taken in for its own sake, instead of being reduced to a number.