skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original Fisher-Price "Record Player" is really a kids version of a Polyphon [0] a type of record like music player that was popular in the late 1800's to early 1900's. You can see some playing on YouTube [1]

I thought it would be interesting to 3D print additional records for the thing. Was super disappointed when I bought one for our daughter last year and found that they had changed it to a digital music player that only uses the records for song selection.

A lot of the modern day versions of the original Fisher-Price toys don't hold up to the originals. For example on the xylophone they replaced the Wood base with plastic and the thing sounds like crap.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphon

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk4zjQshq14

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soQLAvqnTOQ
I feel like lots of things about the way life used to be (and still is for many) is based on women not having agency (financial independence) and being physically weaker than men.

We are only beginning to find out what happens when women have full independence and children are not a necessary byproduct of sex, and it seems like cratering birthrates are at least one result.

A lot of the costs of birthing and raising children were paid solely by women, but benefited the whole tribe. Now that those costs can be made explicit, I wonder how tribes will chose to compensate women such that they are sufficiently incentivized to have at least replacement level of kids.
I would take a 10 hour day in almost any job in the 21st century over an 8-16 hour workday for a 14th century farm laborer mowing hay with a scythe or plowing behind a team of oxen. I get meal and rest breaks too, and even though they may get more days off than I do, what are they doing on those days off? Chopping wood? Thatching their roof? Hauling water from a well? The amount of labor done in a day by peasants in the European middle ages dwarfs everything but the extreme outliers of today.
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People who do this stuff might think they're trusting their dogs, but they're neglecting them.

> "My dog would never bite. He just snarls and snaps like that when he's nervous."

A dog who is snarling and snapping is doing the canine equivalent of screaming ‘GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME RIGHT NOW’. Actually trusting that dog would have to mean believing it when it tells you it is uncomfortable and feeling threatened. If you trust someone and they tell you they need to be removed from a situation, you do it.

> "If you got bit, you must have done something to the dog. No dog bites without good reason."

Honestly, this is the other side of people ‘trusting’ dogs too much. Most people who get bit by dogs are doing something extremely stupid, and most people who get bit by other people's dogs are doing something extremely presumptuous and invasive.

If what you're interested in is whether a dog is vicious (i.e., how easily it can be rehabilitated or accommodated so that it never bites anyone again for the rest of its long, happy life), the secondhand judgment of someone who got bit by the dog is generally unreliable unless it's accompanied by a detailed account. Unfortunately, being a ‘dog person’ or someone who ‘loves dogs’ or ‘has had dogs their whole life’ doesn't at all assure that a person can read basic canine body language, either.
Gaming performance is consistently poorer on Windows than Linux[0] simply due to the overhead of running a more complex and demanding system. Driver compatibility is hit or miss admittedly (at least you can use CUDA), but I wouldn't consider it worse than Mac. Ease of use is entirely subjective and impossible to quantify, and stability is, unlike Windows and MacOS, up to the user. You're given the option to run newer, cutting-edge software at the expense of stability, but even rolling release isn't that bad these days now that most repos have testing branches.

[0] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=11900k-w...
More likely they do an HTTP request and if there's a redirect they update the link.
Ownership of agenda is what underlines leisure, i.e. you're not doing something because you have to. Like sure, you may need to persist through an amateur chess tournament but it's something you were willing to expose yourself to.

With jobs there's really not that much leeway. You do things to make your boss and/or clients happy and ultimately your way of living depends on it. Sure it's possible to allocate time for fun activities at employer dime. However if they are too fun for everyone they are often referred as 'perks', highlighting that it's really a soft packaged form of compensation.
At the end of the day the responsibility rest on the Captain. It is their job to see that those under them are well trained, retrained, and reenforced in that training as a daily operational objective. Every good CO I have ever met when taking over a new station will review in detail the training and readiness status of their command as job 1, and not just review on paper but execute all the drills and observe the results. This is fundamental and is taught in detail in command school. Their should be a full set of court-martial for this failure at the command level.
That's on your dad for being gullible. NFTs are the future whether you like it or not.

The JPEG/MP4/HTML/(literally any non fungible asset) is the house. The blockchain is city/state. The NFT is the deed to that house. It's really quite simple.
> I mean what is the value of having NFT's at all? Fraud and price inflation might be solvable problems, but it still seems like you have the core issue that there's no underlying value to the asset at all.

I think the analogy to baseball cards works very well. Owning an NFT generally doesn't grant you copyrights over the underlying work of art. Owning a baseball card doesn't mean the athlete now works for you. They can both still have value as collectible items, if that's something that interests you.

The problem is when people start talking about NFTs as if it entitles the holder to ownership of the underlying thing. It's possible to own a work of art, either physically or in terms of copyrights. NFTs are neither.

When Dorsey sold an NFT of the first ever tweet, that didn't entitle the buyer to copyrights or even the ability to delete the tweet. It's purely a collectible that derives value from official endorsement and scarcity. That's not something that interests me personally, but it all seems above board. The problem is when I read Dorsey sold the first ever tweet. He did not. He sold an NFT.
Do you actually understand the value of any of that or are you just parroting something you read? What is web 3 and what concrete benefits will it provide?
What dinner takes 3 hours....? if we're talking about the poor, realistically soup was a mainstay...here in Romania we have all kinds and then there's marmaliga, basically polenta, add salt and if you're hungry delicious... it does seem like rent, insurance, transport , investment for the future takes up a lot of "work" needs in the present, besides we've become incredibly vain, where the packaging is often worth more than the content...
Skeuomorphism is a time honored tradition, eg folders in a filesystem. Users often find its use is annoying, but other times it's a necessary analogy for users to make sense of the UX.
Why has it become more expensive?
Yes! The sharpest neighborhood difference I've ever seen is between 5th and Howard (Intercontinental Hotel, Pivotal, tech offices) vs 6th and Howard (reallllly sketchy area). (Howard is one block south of Mint and two blocks south of Market St.)
You’re right, crypto is deeply embarrassing.
"which" is also not available everywhere, that's how I know about "command -v".
I made that point to say that drugs and prostitution definitely have victims and are not victimless. I could bring up STDs, robberies and killings due to drugs as well, its possible to fight trafficking without criminalizing it, but its not likely to happen nor would a moving target of decriminmalizing actions they do be a realistic goal.
The secret about good school districts is it's mostly about good student & parent populations. It makes people angry when you say that out loud.
"Preserve the light of consciousness on Mars" is one cynical way of saying "Create an exit plan for fellow billionaires while we let the earth go to shit".

We need to fix what's broken here and the people who benefit from the current broken state of things are not the ones who's advice we should take.
> You can't literally fight fire with fire.

That's literally an important technique for fighting fire, so you are literally wrong.
Um.

Considering famines were common, 1/10 women died during child birth, infant mortality was absurdly high and most people stayed in the same town until they died, I prefer now.

Running water is also nice .
Do you like open windows? Most of my neighbors like open windows. I like open windows.
Why isn't it a commodity?
Nah this site is hilariously anti-blockchain. With less intellectual curiosity than my boomer parents. It's embarrassing really, for a "tech" site. NGMI. Keep being slaves to big tech I guess.
Can you elaborate? It's not clear to me why that would be a bad thing.
Again, this is exactly my point. This isn't history. This is specifically not what history is for. History does not inform that process because the past is not like the present. They are orthogonal. Attempting to inform your view of the present using the past is like trying to play baseball like football...it just doesn't make any sense.
We went to 10 to 12 hour days of back breaking labor, six days a week with no off season during the industrial revolution, so I don't think it's a physical limit that was being hit.
Different author credited but the same owner the whole time. So might be different. The library that async is based on is the same owner as well.

Edit - the owner in 2013 is the same as the owner of the current gem and main contributor on Github. So yes it seems like it's been around since 2013.
Should this not also apply to unhealthy eating? How do you feel about:

If you're killing yourself with unhealthy eating in private, it's on you. Despicable choice for sure, and it sucks if a bad environment drove you down this road - but that's on you: don't make me pay for your healthcare.
No good jobs there, which is why it's cheap. Cities arise as socio-economic hubs, it's not just about the housing price and a place to exist and store shit. The book order without design goes into good detail about this.
This isn't just an artistic decision though. The product gives the impression that it's an actual functioning record player, like the old one.
Life finds a way!
It's fine, but it's frankly silly that you're forced to translate a free and open graphics API into a more proprietary one. Compare that to something like DXVK, which exists because Linux users cannot license DirectX on their systems. MoltenVK exists simply because Apple thought "let's not adopt the industry-wide standard for CG graphics on our newer machines". Again, not bad, but a bit of a sticky situation that is entirely predicated by technology politics, not what's actually possible on these GPUs.
The Moment you realise bees are smarter than republicans
Great write up. I hold the same view but hadn't written it out in such a way. Thanks!
Note that it was the very Irish who asked the English to come help them in one of their multiple internal wars…
Cancel culture: Why do people cancel news subscriptions? We asked,they answered
another cool ruby library for async is https://github.com/digital-fabric/polyphony
> I wonder how much of that leisure time came from being blocked

All evidence point to that being very high.
e.g. famine was regular and routine, before the capitalism and before the industrial revolution.
Humanity basically spent majority of the time before the capitalism and the modern agriculture fearing running out of food.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine#Decline_of_famine

And, examples like de-collectivization of agriculture in China during their economic reform, or what happened in Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine#Decline_of_famine make it very clear "capitalism" played an important role in reducing / eliminating the famine.

So, articles like this is really misleading - it implies somehow life was better like this paragraph from the article:

> The contrast between capitalist and precapitalist work patterns is most striking in respect to the working year. The medieval calendar was filled with holidays. Official -- that is, church -- holidays included not only long "vacations" at Christmas, Easter, and midsummer but also numerous saints' andrest days. These were spent both in sober churchgoing and in feasting, drinking and merrymaking.

The "feasting, drinking and merrymaking" was regularly followed by long periods of malnutrition and massive death.
Sure, they sit at the command of their officer. That's not my point. My point is that it's easy to make a case for a search with a dog.
Awesome! Thanks for the article, can't wait to see this library progress!
Video playback is accelerated in many apps, for example VLC 3.x defaults to it.

In web browsers, things are more delicate because videos live within the complex context that is a webpage -with its own layer of hardware acceleration!-, and failures can be brutal depending on your browser, hardware and driver quality (crashes, video corruption, etc).

The pain-in-the-ass-ness to enable it on a given browser varies with time and browser/OS and along regressions, stack changes, and maintainer priorities. From personal experience during the past years, it has never been great on Linux:

- In Firefox, regressions have been frequent.

- In Chrome, the feature is here but Google disables it at build time in their official builds (my personal intuition is that they do enable it for their Chromebooks, but they don't want to support the wild west of broader Linux configuration and old/broken driver fun). However, out of official Chrome builds, several distributions builds (Arch, Debian) of Chromium now enable it at build time, so it's possible to try to use it.

So, it's finnicky to enable, but sometimes feasible, until it's no longer :D . To give it a try on a Linux box, the well-maintained Arch wiki is what you want (and these sections are mostly not specific to Arch):

- Firefox: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox#Hardware_video_acce...

- Chrome: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Chromium#Hardware_video_acc...
The money raised helps fund the development of the game. The same type of thing happens on Kickstarter too, for both video and board games, and sometimes people get scammed out of what they backed on Kickstarter also (in fact before you back, Kickstarter requires you to check a box saying "Rewards aren't guaranteed. Backing means supporting a creative project, regardless of the outcome. I understand that rewards or reimbursements aren’t guaranteed by either Kickstarter or the creator.").

But Kickstarter has also led to some really great games as well (like Shovel Knight and Undertale, and like 50% of all board games nowadays, or at least it seems like it).

The idea behind the game or utility NFT projects (at least the legit projects, which I couldn't guess how many are legit, I've only recently -- within the past month -- stopped ignoring the NFT space and started learning about it) is basically Kickstarter but you see what you're going to use to interact with (and trade for other ones) before the game is made, as opposed to just Kickstarter taking your money and waiting for posted updates every few months until the game is out. You also get something unique to interact with the game, as opposed to having the exact same experience as everyone else.

Those behind the NFT project wouldn't be able to make the game without the funds raised from the NFT sale (or unless they went on Kickstarter, but NFT is where more money is right now). People here raise venture capital to work on software projects all the time before the product is made, this shouldn't seem like such a foreign concept.

Kickstarter had a lot of garbage and failed game projects and people getting scammed in the beginning too, before backers started getting wiser and knew what red flags to look out for, and game developers/publishers got more of a feel for the space and what's needed in order to insure a successful project. Now it's a pretty well-oiled machine (mostly...the shipping crisis has thrown a serious monkey wrench into board game Kickstarters this past year) and hundreds of millions of dollars are raised on Kickstarter for games every single year.

https://www.intoindiegames.com/the-most-successful-kickstart...
Man, this makes my day. I was born during the original production run and, of course, had one of these. Lovely, fun little toy. So when our first child was born and some kind family member bought her one, it put a big smile on my face…

…until I looked closer! Fraud! Deception! And saddest of all, I tried the same thing foone did, knowing that the unused binary codes (maybe not 0000 but surely the other five) were surely hiding a few extra songs. But no, complete and total disappointment. Par for the course.

This thing has survived two young daughters now, but it is utterly devoid of soul.
This is a terrible analogy. A house is a finite asset which only one person can occupy at a time. An infinite number of copies of a JPEG can exist. The city/state has the power to enforce property rights. The blockchain does not. The NFT is just a note in a ledger somewhere which others may or may not respect. It's really quite simple.
A number of people I work with have official part time schedules, ranging from 50%-80%. Their expectations and compensation are adjusted correspondingly.

I wonder if you are running into this reaction because you are in a position (or applying for a position) where the expectations and compensation are calibrated to "full time" (~2000 hrs/year). Have you tried discussing a part time arrangement which might work better for you?
There is a company that wants to impose a tax on anyone who owns a smartphone
In italy there is a company called rai that broadcasts multimedia content on television, since the time of my grandparents was imposed a tax on anyone who had a television (all the money from this tax goes to this company, even if you do not watch their channels), for decades no one has paid this tax and the state has never done anything against. a few years ago was imposed this tax in the electricity bill, in fact every August the electricity bill is much more expensive because we are obliged to pay this tax.

now they want to impose the same tax on anyone who has a smartphone, by the way their app works only with google play services and widevine
Buying up mobile home lots in order to double the rent is hardly art.
Indeed octal. The second DNS is 010.010.04.04 == 8.8.4.4
>Common people had almost no sports, no games (beyond precursors to Bocce or backgammon), no literature!*

They had tons of fan of several forms, including fabulous festival seasons, and public holidays, complete with dancing, drunkdness, singing and music, and several other things besides...

The idea of those "pour people" comes from lorded over overworked peasants in feudal societies, a small part of global history.

Even so, the same poor people post industrialization had it worse -- for one, they were forced in many ways (including laws destroying their lands and livelihood) to work in factories, didn't chose it as a lifestyle improvement. And many put up a great fight in the process too
Isn't that what a majority of us do when we reach adulthood? and though the answer is subjective, yes it's easy, fun, interesting...also if you are interested in freeloading I'd recommend it, sleeping rough, squatting, food gathering, skipping(from dumpsters) or just generally sharing resources is a lot of fun... my wake up came while squatting and transforming unused buildings...met a bunch of lovely people and learnt a lot from them..
I think good sound isolation mostly comes as a side effect of concrete housing, or things like firewalls in the american housing market. I think it's a side effect of how house price = sqft so all the other important things go by the wayside.

When I looked up soundproofing, there are techniques that involve a few layers of drywall and sacrificing like a few inches of air space to have an airgap, so it is possible to do it relatively cheaply in new construction, but then you sacrifice sqft :/
If you do want to pull out bayes theorem, 5% of indications being false in an experimental setting could be way worse in a situation with a lower base rate. (I couldn’t find the base rate in a quick scan of the paper)
> Signal doesn't know who sent messages among close friends, and optionally not anybody who sent messages to a sensitive account.

I am aware of this, and I had split my comment into "extra things Signal could log" and "Extra things most other E2EE services could log" but somehow lost the divider between the two during editing.
It sucks how cheaply kid's toys are made these days, but there are companies that stand out by making things that last. When my kid was little we bought a lot of Melissa & Doug toys because they were actually made of wood and would survive multiple children.
It uses half a switch SoC GPU wise
Honestly, I don't know any well-established and curated forums (except for rutracker, but that's Russian, and mostly movies and music).
Unix timestamps and that is, no IP logs? It's hard to believe that the servers do not store IP addresses and other connection information.
When will the wallet of Satoshi awaken is the zillion dollar question...
Well, on the plus side universities are about the perfect situation for, uh, alternative living situations. They have bathrooms and showers in abundance, cafeterias, and washer/dryers.

Universities get away with the minimum wage labor because the living experience of universities is basically the only successful mass communal living experience that doesn't look like a prison (like nursing homes, homeless shelters, military barracks, etc) and is arguably more enjoyable to be in than "real life" with apartments, commutes, office jobs, etc.

And despite the fact you typically are living at arguably a sub-poverty line existence, you are either a "professor", "doctoral candidate", or at least "university student" all of which carry substantial prestige over what is basically minimum wage (or sub minimum wage) labor.

Arguably this was a perfectly fine thing for ...centuries? But since the ludicrous explosion in tuition and the rise of various management vampires siphoning off that money, it has become decidedly exploitative, to the point it is beginning to destroy the value, prestige, and appeal of the institutions as a whole.

I keep thinking every 10 years there will be a massive correction, but they are still holding firm to the class paranoia of the upper middle classes and the big lie of upward mobility to the middle and lower classes. And of course an entire generation of people that wouldn't normally have gone to college going there, getting drunk and a rubberstamp degree, and then defending the "value" (really a sunk cost) of that by demanding any new hires also have the same rubberstamp/sunk cost.
It's a wallet with 50 BTC in case anyone wonders. Not really whale level if you ask me.
Octal 010 is 8. Dotted quads can apparently be in octal, so that’s just 8.8.8.8 .

What are we looking at here that’s new?
It’s a spec for how GPU APIs can share data without necessary copying and converting through CPU memory. Mainly because the OpenGL specification explicitly does not define anything to do with windowing. But, EGL is not just and OpenGL - XWindows bridge. CUDA, GStreamer and several other APIs use it to communicate.