skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand the openness angle, but personally, I don't feel it with my phone. To me, it's basically an appliance. I have next to no apps installed. I only use it to call people, listen to music, take pictures and as a GPS (on a motorcycle, so its being waterproof is important).

I currently own an iPhone 7, but before that I had multiple Galaxy Ss, each with a custom mod. The iPhone is the first one I don't get the itch to modify. It just gets out of my way. The Samsung android install would always end up getting on my nerves. That's why I'm actively avoiding Samsung phones now, and I'm looking at models with Android One or that can easily support some aftermarket ROM. Trouble is, my hardware requirements (good camera + waterproof) pretty much exclude those phones...
Let's assume for a moment that you're not stupid enough to confuse 200kBps (1.6Mbps) for 200kbps.

Opus is fine down to 8kbps. It fits over a cheap, shitty mid-20th century analogue telephone line with room to spare.

The ultra-narrow band stuff is very niche, and is consequently unlikely to have the broad impact you're imagining.

In contrast there is continue enthusiasm for these pointless midband codecs that are similar in performance to Opus but have the "advantage" that somebody gets $$$.
My favorite tidbit from that series is that Musk wants to try to convince NASA to use the normal puck mounted Raptors to land on the moon. As opposed to engines mounted 2/3 of the way up the Starship as the original HLS render showed.

He seemed to describe building a full scale lunar regolith mockup landing area, and testing Starship landing on it to see what happens. Simple and yet a bit crazy.
I'm frustrated by the withdrawal too but let's not forget we had twenty years to help build a functioning army. It's not as though things were going really great and then oops, we left too suddenly. We've been failing at this--and the Afghan army has been failing to step up--for decades.
Doesn't he usually portrait CIA agents as incompetent or heavy handed but also well-founded?
Afghanistan on the Brink of Taliban Takeover
I've made exactly the same calculation. No Instagram, Twitter or Facebook, keeping Reddit and Hacker News. Reddit is kept pruned to rather few subreddits: godot, filmmakers, stuff like that.
It's incredibly annoying that this kind of thing is rampant, while my changes to places that are mislabeled or closed get declined.
It's vanishingly rare for me to read someone's comment that starts with a link to their own blog and then to think, "I should see what else this person has written." Well done, you.
I was looking at the Android One thing, which on paper is supposed to provide exactly that. I'm not following this scene particularly closely, but I've seen somewhere that this program is unlikely to continue for too long...
A myth that lingers on: Casual contact with fentanyl causes overdoses
https://archive.ph/k9Y0a
‘How lucky do you feel?’: The awful risks buried in the IPCC report
Animals count and use zero. How far does their number sense go?
https://archive.md/eTIRN
Cheap source for stock (and options) data
It's just titled "Exploring JVS", but if clarification is needed "video" should be dropped out of the HN title.
Does anybody know who makes a good 4:3 screen ratio laptop anymore? Lenovo used to years ago then almost everything went wide screen.
Who cares about porn spam (ahem) when most of the photos on Google Maps are uploaded by clueless people? Google Maps made it too easy for people to tap “ok” and take every photo they took nearby and upload them in one swoop. Selfies, dogs, sunset photos. Sir this is a Wendy’s.

At first I wonder how could people be so ridiculous by uploading all of these random photos and then I noticed this pattern in the app. I can’t find it anymore now though so maybe they dropped it, the photos are no longer autoselected in group.

As a business owner basically I have to report 80% of the photos people upload.
This is more fun if you pretend it's about CISC vs RISC.
Definitely skeptical, how does shining a laser on a material allow it to store vast quantities of hydrogen at high density?

How much does the storage media weigh per kg of hydrogen stored?

Why would the US government block this in 2008? Sounds very conspiracy theorist.

Minimum even if it has the storage density, it says 150 cycles before it soaks with deuterium, which means it's losing hydrogen to the "Cassette" and the whole thing has to be recycled.

Still doesn't solve the efficiency issues of creating hydrogen with electricity and using in a fuel cell vs just charging a battery, but could definitely have applications if it truly can store at that density.
>I'm not quite sure how well-suited functional programming is for middle-school-aged kids

Functional programming works perfectly well with middle-school-aged kids. The only problem (imo) is that understanding (and hence using) recursive functions can be a barrier, but this doesn't even come up for a _long_ time (depending on your approach).

That site you linked as [2] is pretty bare-bones; try https://htdp.org/
https://www.halfords.com/bikes/mountain-bikes/
> Flagging a story doesn't mean "I think it's unimportant", it means "it doesn't belong here".

That might be what flagging is supposed to mean, but that's not the reality. For example, climate doom apparently "belongs" on HN. But submit something that suggests that climate doomsday might not actually be imminent and watch it be anonymously flagged (i.e. hidden and all ongoing conversations obstructed) with no explanation or justification.
BAe 146 deserves an honorable mention - 4 engines mounted under wing, but the wing is on top of the fuselage (“high wing”) so benefits from lower FOD risk and avoids many of the issues the article calls out with tail-mounted engines. Commonly used (still?) for short haul flights out to the Scottish islands and as transport for the royal family.
Because now that the source of free humvees dried up it's time to go back to business as usual. All those politicians with surprised pikachu faces are either incredibly dumb or just pretend they didn't realize that's what was gonna happen.
> That works wonderful if you never deal with peoples names and have no interest in making your device available in France, Germany (65 million and 80 million people), or Japan (100+). That is leaving a lot of money on the table.

That is a valid point, but i'm thinking more along the lines of smart IoT devices and other embedded settings and there indeed you'll find that localizing your device is sometimes unprofitable and doesn't provide much value at all.

Consider why almost all of the popular programming languages use keywords in English? Because it's largely become the lingua franca of the industry. On a similar note, i'd argue that making your smart thermostat output kanji or text in german would actually be more problematic, because anyone who'd end up with the device and wouldn't know how to change the language (provided you even can change it, instead of regional skews) and would not speak those languages would find it useless, rather than someone from the aforementioned cultures, who's more likely to know at least some English.

To that end, i believe that it's possible to make devices available in France, Germany, Japan and elsewhere even if you don't localize them in the local languages there. Of course, your market penetration might be lower than when going the extra mile, though you should really consider whether it's worth it.

Furthermore, it's not like the situation with names would be utterly hopeless - romanization of names is definitely possible and limiting yourself to just ASCII actually makes your code simpler in many cases, which has historically been one of the reasons for various other systems becoming confused with Unicode and breaking in disappointing ways.

Of course, i'm speaking from my subjective experience - living in a country with a few million inhabitants, i'm always using software that's in English. When it's localized in my country's official language, i look for ways to change it back into English, because the localized terms sound weird, the translations are often either badly made, or just feel uncomfortable. This is especially true in software tools like GIMP or Inkscape, because using a non-standard language ensures that you won't be able to browse help forums or the documentation, because almost always not all of it will be translated, or the menu items and nested paths will sound so different that it will be impossible to find what you're looking for. The same applies to hardware in my eyes.

That said, there's probably a world of difference between a thermostat and a smartphone.
The balloonfest was one of the most obvious and dumbest fuckeries that have been orchestrated for the dumbest reasons.

I don't know what an airborn attempt at global shipping would be like, but I'm pretty sure it would be nothing like that stupidity.
Deploying an example backend "a-nodeapp", it fails for me with the "[Sun, 15 Aug 2021 12:58:53 GMT] unable to prepare context: path "./app/" not found" message.

Did someone ran into this? I'd look into it myself, but thought I'd ask first.
New Glowworm Attack Recovers Device's Sound from Its LED Power Indicator
I use postgres as the data store.

Synchronising with MeiliSearch is a bit of an effort because of the following limitations:

* When filtering by facet, it doesn't provide count for disjunctive facets
* No sort by
* No where clause (less than 50 for example)

To overcome these problems, I rebuild some parts of the database in redis, use code for filtering and query MeiliSearch multiple times for different facet counts.

Both redis and MeiliSearch are ridiculously fast so the performance loss is negligible, but it makes my code quite complex. As soon as the developers add these missing features, I want to simplify my code and only use redis for query caching. Typesense had some of these limitations too, but I'm not sure if that's still the case.
Wait, what?

Aliexpress amateur portrait is a thing now? When did that happen?
Easiest way to get it fixed is to make it exploitable somehow. Could be an interesting VBA sandbox escape if the stack frames are incorrect
It's not mine, but I found it interesting.
The US approach will never work. It is just naive to think it will.

Chinese approach to radical islam will work. But West will never admit that.

Chinese see islam as totalitarian ideology that is incompatible with Chinese values and competing communist totalitarianism.
China won't fight a war in Afghanistan, but it'll be a lot easier for them to get there than the US.
Ever since I deleted Whatsapp, I'm noticing the absurdity of businesses that operate using Whatsapp.

It's one thing if they offered an alternative using SMS for example, but saying "if you need support, contact us through WhatsApp" is an instant app deletion or service migration for me.
All Cristiano Ronaldo's family work for him in some way. AFAIK, his oldest brother was the only one that tried to live independently. One day he gave in.

The moral of the story is not clear but probably there are some lessons to take.
Also interested in the Hasura+PG options. Have you found anything interesting so far? At the moment I’m stringing together a few like clauses, which mostly does for my needs.
What an odd article.
There's a free and opensource program called `diffpdf` that can compare both visually and by text. It has a GUI and works great, though it doesn't specially handle layout changes. It's included in the normal package sources in most Linux distros:

apt install diffpdf
pacman -S diffpdf

https://gitlab.com/eang/diffpdf
I don't get why this is such a revelation. Windows 11 is a modified and reskinned Windows 10, which is a modified and reskinned Windows 8, which is a modified and reskinned Windows 7 which is a modified and reskinned Windows Vista which is a modified and reskinned Windows XP.

This isn't news, if you look through any beta release of Windows you'll know that they all start off looking identical to their predecessors, mainly because they share a lot of code.
Absolutely. One of the best things about the US is that we have a culture which is adept at integrating immigrants. The US will stave off demographic collapse because of this.
Apple to be TMSC’s Only 3nm Client in 2022, No 3nm Chips for Intel Till 2023
August 14 Is National Navajo Code Talkers Day
Sorry about the really long delay with answer, the week got better of me.

Your original post posited a reasonable question, but I felt the details were somewhat muddled. The reason I reacted and answered was that I have seen this style of questioning elsewhere before. The way you finished off was actually a little alarming: it'd be really easy to drop in with a followup that in turn would look like the other person was trying to defend the indefensible.

With my original reply I attempted to defuse that potential. The issue is incendiary enough without people willingly misunderstanding each other.
Absolutely no one calls it JVS... it's JAMMA. Explore that.
China next into Afganistan confirmed
I moved last year to Linux and it was a worthwhile decision (though it took some time to re-configure stuff and Linux does make some things difficult).

I will only purchase an Mx macbook if they get proper Liux support. I think the machines could be great but I am done with macOS. There are multiple worthwhile machines that could run Linux. (gamers are underrated and AMD works great with Linux so far)

As far as the smartphone goes, I'm stuck with the iPhone now as there are no alternatives. I was considering an iPad Pro but I am postponing that for now until this whole saga clears out.
FLQ predates seperation votes. For all we know, without the October crisis, our democratic society might have gone the Spain/Catalonia way.
It's funny, after the war-profiteers loot and pillage the US and the hapless country on the receiving end, they have the audacity to recruit their journalists and academics and self-proclaimed experts to opine about how everyone in the US shares blame for how things have turned out. Everyone must accept the consequences of the wars foisted on the world.

"Your son died so we could steal your money, but you must pitch in and share the burden of the consequences of the war we started in Afghanistan."

No I'm sorry, Americans are among the victims of these maniacs. It's not "Americans" who are collectively responsible for these atrocities, it is the profiteers themselves. And I don't intend to lessen the suffering of the Afghani (or Libyans, Syrians, Iraqi, etc).

You just watch, in the coming months, years, these same shysters will solemnly come to you, cap in hand, telling you how you have to pony up more money, or send your children to more conflicts, or learn to live with more terrorist attacks in your country -- because you are somehow responsible for their war.
https://hommes.studio/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/the-art-of-...
Quartz (Java World) : https://www.quartz-scheduler.org/
A common complaint about FOSS development or requirements is that you get what you pay for in terms of support. It's good to see that commercial offerings are not much better!

MS office is arguably the biggest piece of commercial software on the planet, and as this neatly shows, you still get bugger all in terms of support. I really dislike the embedded VBA "enterprise" Windows/Office world -- it either works, or you can hack it to work (CF the SO answers) or, if neither of those things are true, you are SOL...
Asking the question that the title (incorrectly) implies: were there standard formats or codecs in which arcade games encoded their promotional intro videos that would loop to bring in new players? Or was this more or less at the manufacturer's discretion? As one of the most storage-hungry assets compared to game logic, textures, and audio, there must have been tremendous attention placed towards reducing the size of those videos.
Because KaiOS is one of the most popular mobile operating systems right now, even at second place in India. Of course Facebook wants access to that market.
House of Leaves is another. It also has footnotes.
TBH I never found the obsession over discovering if something brought joy to... spark joy. Once you realize that you'll eventually throw this out too... YOLO?
They used rootkits
List of Countries by Vehicles per Capita
There are always innocent casualties in war. The US knew that full well, and decided to go anyway. They went there to kill terrorists and civilians.
Conway's Law in action. You have my sympathy and condolences. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law

FWIW, Tesla seems to be more willing to shake the ant farm. The tear downs and comparisons with other EVs are instructive. Tesla's octovalve, heat pumps, gigacasting, and I'm sure a dozen other things, just wouldn't happen (didn't happen) elsewhere. One blocker was functional silos.

Maybe it takes a tyrant like Elon Musk to dare the things Deming, Drucker, Goldratt, and others were proscribing.

Or external, existential threat. Like Churchill said about America: They always do the right thing, after first trying everything else.

In my experience, the only times I've successfully busted silos, the circumstances were dire and everyone else had given up. Other times were much less successful.
I have been looking for the past 10 years for one particular 'cracked game' intro music with a starfield that pulsated to the music (the song was over 10 minutes I think and took up a few k; I cannot for the life of me remember the cracker group name, let alone anything else): it was waveforms instead of samples. Jungle Command did a lot without traditional sound tracker like tools but it is not from them. I will just enjoy listening to 1000s of Amiga songs in search for this one.

My normal goto music was from Romeo Knight or Uncle Tom by the way.

Stupid factoid: I was jean Michel Jarre fan begin 80s and this song [0] by Romeo Knight got me into guitar playing (it was the first song I could play on a friend's guitar, well, sort of). And that got me into metal which I definitely do not regret.

Favorite Uncle Tom one [1].

[0] https://youtu.be/i0bvhWs810g
[1] https://youtu.be/zR9a4vTuuoo
The current situation with American megacorporations deciding unilaterally what is acceptable speech is also untenable.
The reason I've heard historians give for that was that the Byzantines believed execution would deprive the victim of the chance to repent for their sins.
This is an ad, meant to convince you to buy more stuff, its ok everyone is doing it now!!

I call BS. Consumer culture is a cancer; best to excise it.
How is it fear-mongering to say 'Use at your own risk' for installing an OS that is not fully supported and even the installation script is in pre-alpha?

Fine for those who have a spare M1 machine but the added risk comes when it is their only machine with important work and files on it.

Do you want to be liable when someone tries this script out and somehow ends up losing their important work because of those recently admitted 'filesystem issues' on the only machine they have? That is my point and why I said: "I would most certainly use another machine to test this"

I don't see lots of general users racing to install this right now, since they probably know that it is still incomplete with lots of bugs and is still unusable. Unless you want to install it right now on your work machine with important files perhaps? If not then wait.
Stone Oakvalley's work on these and Commodore 64 sids hasn't been mentioned yet?

He has gone through and recorded all of the Amiga modules and C64 sid tunes as mp3. C64 tunes are even recorded separately for three/four different sid chip variations. New releases of HVSC collection have also been recorded promptly.

https://www.paula8364.com/ for Amiga, 484GB x2

https://www.6581-8580.com/ for C64, 159GB x3
I’m going insane because my kids are constantly getting toys. Not even from me and my wife, just people. My uncle, their grand uncle keeps coming over with literally moldy toys. He won’t listen to me because he’s dying of cancer and like, what am I gonna do? Tell him he can’t see the kids he loves to dearly? He’s a weird hoarder and I’m not gonna be able to change someone who is dying’s mind about anything.

I also just don’t have the willpower to deal with their screaming and crying when I toss toys or donate them. Our youngest daughter is special needs in a wheelchair and can literally die if she gets too upset.

Honestly writing this has made me resolve to fill some boxes and donate some stuff to Goodwill. I’ll just have to do it at night when they’re asleep or something. I wish I was as good a parent as I am an engineer.
For email, I have found that just turning off automatic message fetching helps. For some reason the small amount of friction of having to manually trigger it and then wait a few seconds keeps me from doing it compulsively.
So with an end-stage interaction where you're not considering keyhole effects, you very roughly you need to accumulate an Earth diameter of position change. So Earth diameter is ~13000km, so that works out 26 billion seconds or 825 years.

So in real terms, we'd probably wanna do a but more delta V than that. At 1cm/s, you're down to 41 years for example.
"Pointless" is relative here.

8kbps is enough - when you don't spare anything anything to bit correction. Maybe in those cases, somewhat okay analogue audio is enough (for example, in long-distance raditelephony). But having a very impressive digital codec raises the bar significantly, especially the last time someone bothered with this is someone in Nokia trying to fit 6kbps using what was now rudimentary phone chips.

Additionally, there are people in the world (including US) who are stuck using unreliable 28kbps lines. Having an option to do excellent audio and video is something that no-one seemed bothered to do.
My favourite thing to bring up is ngate, a critique site of HN
Being a prick to clueless teachers was a perverse joy of mine in my K–12 years. I enjoyed coming up with the most galaxy-brained solutions to assignments.
>OMG look at these new conspiracists attacking these well off gentlemen

I'm definitely not at all defending arms dealers and military contractors. I'm no fan of the military-industrial complex, or war, or imperialism, or the US government.

I just want to know - based on evidence - who's directly responsible for us staying in Afghanistan for 23 years. Everyone should want to know this. If the root cause is corrupt politicians and military contractors, that's extremely important information to know. And if it isn't, then the actual root cause is extremely important information to know.

>do you think those actually responsible want their names easily known? The powerful ones? They know their heads would be on the chopping block.

All the more reason to try to figure out who they are, then?

>eff off you monocle wanna-be shithead.

Good argument.
Only the last one gives my the same level of security. And that one is not very user friendly.
you can research the best model of the things you use for those activities and get whatever the new best tech is, or you could go get a used one from someone and fix it up. You can get stuff and still minimize waste. Except for graphics cards, good luck, new or used...
i've used a Catmull-Rom Spline before. now i know where half of it comes from :D

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centripetal_Catmull%E2%80%93...
Because they show not just disregard for customer confusion, they are deliberately using the brand to cause customer confusion and benefit from the good reputation.
Chrome DevTools features/shortcuts for front end/full-stack engineers
Of course not, that’s why there are medical exemptions in these policies — and why the requirements for everyone else are so important: if you can’t get vaccinated, your safety depends on the people around you being vaccinated.