skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use Kodi as my main TV/Steambox UI. It handles movies, shows, twitch, live TV (wrote addon to work with local IPTV provider), launching Steam games, streaming from sources :).

Movie/show progress is synchronized to Trakt, and Trakt also provides list of trending shows and movies, so I always have an overview in a single place, no need to go to 10 different streaming services.

But the default UI is just terrible.

I use it with Arctic Horizon theme and it improves it a lot but not everything can be improved with custom theme. https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=351756

I wish they did a UI overhaul to make it a bit more modern.

Having customized it over the years, I see how powerful it can be, but defaults are quite unfriendly.
Yep, last time I took a look at the cable price they're pretty outrageous. I suppose they only make money on cables, not connectors - hence the markup. And it seems like the Tag-Connect is patented, which is why nobody has tried to make a clone of it?
Objectively?

"Dinosaur coin lover"
This is why I wrote that realistically it will be closer to 15-20 years. There are other factors which are not considered in my simplistic calculation.
Correction! https://zsvhub.com/playground/ (needs the ending slash) which is powered by a web version of the SIMD parser (https://github.com/liquidaty/zsv). BTW some quick performance notes on the zsv CLI (not the playground): prelim testing is ~2x faster than xsv or tsv-utils on osx (Intel), Linux and BSD (amd64), ~20% faster on Windows
> but fundamentally because I enjoy writing good code.

Using Copilot speeds you up, so why not take advantage of it?
Nothing is stopping you from adding the secret token to multiple apps or devices to generate TOTP codes, as there is no connection between the service providing the secret and the TOTP generator.

One way to have a backup is just adding all your secrets to your password manager like KeePass, KeeWeb etc which can generate TOTP codes (but kind of defeats the purpose of _two_ factor).
> All Siblings are different despite having same parents, same upbringing, same environment at home.

I think none of these are the same because "everything flows". With each child the environment changes significantly. The first child doesn't have any siblings to grow around, then it exerts huge influence on the second child, the third child brings in yet another dynamic. Parents also change a lot with each new child. So, except for twins, nothing is really the same.
I would be the case if not many other developers I personally know and their salaries
Isn't it illegal to go that slow? At least where I live the minimum speed on the road is half the maximum speed.
Especially when they simply post official data without commentary.

The chart on the linked page "Covid hospitalisation vs Sage scenarios published 14 Sep 2021" is particularly damming.

The modellers were calling our government all the names under the sun at the time of reopening, predicting almost certain doom.

We then removed all restrictions and absolutely nothing happened.

It seems like a UK phenomenon, but bad modelling has been at the heart of the crisis here. I'm glad we are finally asking the right questions.
Would an Error similar to Google Chrome's warning for non HTTPS sites not work?

~"This contact does not provide a secure means to communicate with them, click below to ignore this warning however your communication may be monitored."
I think it has such an API already. Just nobody has figured out the Auth for it. Probably a few days decompiling the API server would figure it out though.

There is a neighbouring diagnostic info endpoint that doesn't require Auth, and that works fine.
There's plenty of coal to go around, Estonia & Poland are two examples of nearby countries relying primarily on local coal for energy.

Also, Germany is not Russia's neighbour.
[off topic] addendum[1]:

A software engineer sits in a bar with a no-coiner and a socialist. A genie appears granting them a wish each.

The no-coiner wishes for all crypto & crypto-bros to be gone. His wish is granted. Nobody mentions crypto any more. The no-coiner drinks up and staggers home happy.

The socialist demands for all the billionaires to pay their taxes. His wish is granted and there are no more billionaires.

Finally the genie turns to the software engineer: "and what is your wish?"

The software engineer thinks for a while then says:

"So you're telling me all the billionaires are gone because everyone started paying taxes?", "Yepp" the genie replies.

You're also telling me that all #crypto bros are gone and nobody anymore talks about crypto, #NFT's or #blockchain? "Yepp" the genie goes again.

Software engineer turns to the barman and says:

"Well I guess I'll have a coke then".

[1] https://twitter.com/phishermensfoe/status/147322937195572019...
Started over 10 years ago is an understatement. It was supposed to be finished over 10 years ago. First the Berlin airport, now this and James Webb Space Telescope: are we really just going to finish our collective homeworks?
In my experience, we primarily use Lotte in UI animations where transparency is important for overlaying effects and elements.

I realise now you can bake in an alpha channel to some video formats, but both support and production of these files is cumbersome and Lotte is great from a workflow perspective -- particularly if you have dedicated 'motion designers' on your design team who are accustomed to After Effects already.
If it’s any solace there’s no honour in what you’ve spent your time learning.

I’m a mechanical engineer by training and my “knowledge” is as concrete as it could get besides something like physics or pure mathematics. In theory I can design and create wonderful things in the physical world instead of random API’s on a server somewhere. Does it matter?
Not one bit!

Useless historical trivia like why we used x tech stack or why that engine sounds a little funny at 3250rpm are what provided value at the time, but times change and that’s okay.

I suspect no matter what career we pursued there would always be some part of it that seem frivolous to us.
1. This isn't just the adults deciding. Children are attracted to certain types of stories too.

2. It doesn't stop. And it's why CNN and Fox are successful. But it is how we as humans want to see the world. Suprisingly to some, neither democrats or republicans are actually evil, they just have different perspectives on the world, and probably have more in common than in disagreement.
A good reminder that the map is not the territory. Lately I've started to see more and more "categories" in general as a very human construct, probably made to save on processing power when thinking about things. Reality is hard and very complex and you can't be thinking about all the details all the time.
German universities: 445 clinical trials missing results (2019)
I guess most people here are aware of it, but just in case someone overlooked (like I did), this essay was written by Vitalik Buterin, founder of Ethereum. So, he's not exactly neutral on the bulldozer/vetocracy scale himself.
The Netherlands had a similar thing for a while. From age 16, teens can get a moped license. Within the moped class there are tiny 4 wheeled vehicles. Mostly a continued development of tiny cars used by people with disabilities.

Then somebody figured out that some real cars can have their software 'downgraded' to limit the car to 45 km/h, and it can be classified as a moped.

I forgot what was done to get rid if this loophole.
This an amazing resource. Thanks!
All Siblings are different despite having same parents, same upbringing, same environment at home.

But we don't all have the same home environment. There are generally some years between births, and things happen in those years. Good things, bad things, and things. It'll be more pronounced if there is more time between children.

I mean, just myself: I have two siblings. One is 6 years younger, the other 11 years younger. Between me and the older of the two: My dad graduated college and got a decently stable job. My parents moved away from my mom's family, who helped take care of me while my mother worked, and moved to a small town. My mother started staying at home since the finances allowed it.

We moved yet again before my younger sibling was born: My father switched careers and made more money than before (which was rich compared to their finances while I was young and my father was in college).

All this meant that we got attention from different sorts of folks while young. Our parents had different finances: While I had poverty while young, my youngest sibling had nothing of the sort. My parents were more experienced by the time my brother was born, too. We all had different sorts of challenges which definitely affected the ways my parents communicated with us - their continuing maturity did this as well: I was born before either were 25, but my siblings after.
A hundred things I learned writing my first technical book
The thing is, solar/wind are getting cheap enough that it is becoming viable to just construct a massive overcapacity. Paying twice as much for your electricity to cover the OPEX of half your capacity idling 80% of the time is _still_ cheaper than going nuclear.

And, as you mentioned, having fossil in reserve for edge cases is definitely a viable option.
Maybe unpopular, but US drivers are in general really bad because the drivers tests are too easy and taken when you're younger.

It's driven (no pun intended) by a culture around cars and driving being a right, without consideration for whether everyone should.
This uses domain fronting, which both Google and Amazon forced Signal to stop using in 2018: https://signal.org/blog/looking-back-on-the-front/

Did cloud providers get more permissive since then?

EDIT: Tor also got hit by some shutdowns in 2018 due to its use of domain fronting:

https://blog.torproject.org/domain-fronting-critical-open-we...

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-launcher/...

From the second link, looks like the plan is that Snowflake will annoy cloud providers less by only using the domain-fronting channel to propagate routing info:

> sending Tor traffic directly through domain fronting (rather than using it only to distribute bridges and snowflakes) enables these platforms to claim that this technique is used by malware and therefore harmful to users, justifying shutting it down.

> Snowflake is a more sustainable way for us to use the expensive but high censorship-resistance features of domain fronting as a low bandwidth bootstrapping channel.
I'm surprised he describes the pineapple as a tree?
> So maybe I am in the magic land where the Q never travels

The follow-up is: what is your sociocultural environment? I'm also in the world Q never travel on my mother's side (all conservative, some could be considered liberal by US standards, but right-leaning at least). The far-right conspiracy don't touch them. They are doctors, CEOs (and retired CEOs), insurance VPs. Amongst the younger generation some are also nurses and physiotherapists, or work in marketing. Not one single conspiracy freak. Some weird claims at the beginning of the pandemic, but since one of them worked in the first national Covid "hotspot" and asked us to limit our travel 5 days before any EU government instaured a lockdown, i think any weird reactance was quashed before it could ever change how we acted.

But amongst my friends who never left my rural hometown? We don't have Q out here but this is the same type of far-right/authoritarian ethos. "We are better than the others, but the others have more money/power/education than us. This can only be because of a conspiracy led by [LGBT lobbies/jews/islamists/atlantists (aka pro-Otan/pro-US)] that we need to fight against, else our kind will die".

Conspiracy theories are not reserved to to working class, it is the whole environment that make them emerge. And i'm not saying they are reserved to the right either (hence the "atlantist" talking point), but that their talking points ethos are usually associated to the far-right. Even if far-left figures used the same (Stalin, Mao).

I started a digression on spinoza but that was only muddying the water, so i'm cutting it here.
Realistically, about 90 % of the time, which is still much better than either wind or solar plants.
If they wanted us to be inclusive towards them, maybe they should've tried not invading us.
To my mind, the following is more of a cause for concern long term:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.14.472719v1....
'Striking Antibody Evasion Manifested by the Omicron Variant of SARS-CoV-2'.
We have a situation in which there is mass escape of virus able to resist specifically-induced antibodies. What might be the long-term result of this, given natural selection and virus survival of the fittest?
Oh, thanks for nothing!
How are you going to do velocity targeting without negative interest rates (which the Austrian economists don't want)?

Also, increasing the money supply to increase velocity doesn't work, at least not in our current system.

In our modern banking system there are at least two sources of finance for banks, overnight deposits and certificate of deposits (your money is stuck for x months or years). With the latter, the M1 money supply stays the same as the dollars entering the banking system are equal to the number of dollars getting out. The former works in a surprising way. As the bank cannot take away your deposit (you can withdraw it at any time) the bank must create new money with central bank reserves. (which is one of the reasons the Fed does QE) When the interest on CDs gets close to 0% people will simply hold their money in savings accounts. The money supply explodes (lack of CDs means M1 money must be created) without ever entering the economy which drags the velocity of money down.
Thank you for the very clever implementation!

I made a Swift app using the same method so that non-technical people can also use it: https://lowtechguys.com/yellowdot
The Roman period was followed by general population contraction and a total collapse of urban centers. The city for Rome itself did not reach the population it had in the 200's AD until the early 20th century. Of most ancient Rome was an abandoned or sparsely inhabited ruin (much like many other Roman cities) which is why so many buildings survived.

If Rome had remained a densely inhabited city most of the ruins would had likely been completely destroyed and built over (besides a few temples which were converted to churches). If we look at smaller Roman cities like Cadiz, London, Paris, Milan etc. there aren't that many traces of Roman times there because their population levels eventually rebounded during middle ages.
Video codecs are designed primarily for imagery coming from a camera. They don't cope with sharp edges like vector shapes especially well - edges get blurry and blocky. Videos are also not scalable; if you stretch them for a bigger screen or zoom in, they get pixelated. You can encode with more sharpness or higher resolution, but that makes your files bigger.

Little uses a vector format, so the results are sharp whatever the scale, with the same file size. However, each additional picture element may cost more in comparison.

Some animations will be best in one, some in the other.
And killer whales. Big, carnivorous and hooved with lots of teeth. Those are ungulates too.

Interestingly enough, Judaism uses rumination, in part, to determine whether an animal is okay to eat. It was called “chewing their cud”.

Pigs don’t do this and that’s why they’re not kosher.

I suspect this was the inspiration for pork being haram in Islam but it’s explicitly prohibited by name, rather than by property.

I’m not Jewish or by any means religious but I got curious one day and that’s how I learned what ruminants were (and even toed ungulates from the split hooves rule).

EDIT: clarity on comment regarding cetaceans as ungulates
> because I don’t know what the WhatsApp client is really doing with my message.

You don't know that the person receiving your signal message hasn't jailbroken their phone and installed spyware unknowingly.

When you first message someone using a different platform, Signal could display a warning ~"This contact is using Whatsapp and Signal cannot confirm that communication will be secured, do you wish to continue?"
I agree the water is (obviously) perfectly safe, it was the popularity of the produce I was questioning.
> "Talk is cheap. Show me the code."

this is such an important razor[1]:

denouncing NFTs is good and honorable

here are some tips to help you on your scam-prevention journey:
- 'power usage/environment' is a trap, people will goalpost move you on about proof of stake.
- try to focus on what they do, which is nothing, but badly, while scamming

[1] https://twitter.com/chhopsky/status/1468658745819287556
How do trigger the dictation/TTS with Siri? I wonder if a hardware audio interface with loopback can do it - I will give it a go if you give me some steps :)
To take one example of repurposing, amphitheaters turned out to make pretty good mini-fortresses, so in some cases the town simply moved inside!
Could someone with insight give an estimate for how much you could sell an exploit like this, which let's you RCE a fair bunch of developer machines?

It feels that paired with a good blog (ironically about WLS) this could be very profitable, compared to the $0 MS awarded them.
$0.11 kWh seems pretty conservative given current trend in energy prices. Just looking at the cost here in south of Sweden, it is set today at $0.47 kWh. It won't likely stay there for long (temperature/wind conditions, oil/gas prices, water reserves), but if we use the estimated cost for the next few years it is unlikely (according to prices for long term agreements) that the price will be on average below $0.2.
Furthermore, I would not say it is an accepted narrative among people I know. Anecdotal of course, but it is definitely not universal.

Though the UK media has a particular talent for unifying to push a message that suits their ideological leanings, which can often give a distorted view of public mood
It may also be down to better sugar/carb content and fermentation control, and/or better temperature control during storage. If yeast remains active in the bottle, the CO2 buildup causes overly high internal pressure, as could high temperature - so either the top blows off or the bottle becomes a glass grenade.
If you do that, people would think you very odd (at least before streaming dominated content). Which is my point.
It was a loophole that allowed any car that met a specific top speed to be classified as an agricultural vehicle. I believe this hole was closed when some kids succeeded in registering a Mercedes ML as a tractor.
Great job!

Be happy if you can satisfy my technical curiosity:

- Do you render native flutter web view when in WYSIWIG editing mode? If so - how do you support drag-n-drop over it? If not - how do you make it look the same as web preview app?

- I don't see in free plan any data/network related source code — is it hidden in your libs or all the machinery is transparent in the source code (as long as i download it)?
A one-line solution to highlighting search matches
I'd have taken a trip down to Buenos Aires and sold it.
XML is an integral part of SVG.

Don't even know what implementing a subset without using XML would actually mean.

An XML being a strong contender for the title of worst file format ever devised by mankind, I'm not sure how 'implementing a subset' would fix that.
Use the same mechanism as web browsers for none-SSL websites.
Give the users a warning and let them make an informed decision.

Signal could also place in their TOS or require a contract signed with third-party platforms for legally binding guarantee, received signal messages will not be analysed.
How to develop black and white film at home with coffee (2019)
The limit are resources: mainly time and human [will] power.

Why merge Spotify with Netflix? Just have two apps and services, is not that difficult for the user, nor a real nuissance. The OP didn't request audiobooks. He specifically asked also for PDF, a comic format (CBR) and "etc.". That, I guarantee you, lead to further requests (highlite the PDFs, a unified comic/pdf/movie/music storage and showroom, screencap, sharing...). Add a lot of underlying complexity, bugs, cost in manteinance, extra mental load...

As for the "ideal audiobook reader platform" let me tell you something: audiobooks are consumed by people while walking, running, driving, at the gym, in the sub... I've never heard of anyone planted in front of the reader just hearing the audiobook. The nature of audiobooks is "hear a book while doing something else", and a TV goes against exactly that. A TV audiobook is called "a movie" or "a serie", something that you can already watch in Kodi.

This reminds me of the "4 star but..." in the App Stores. Lots and lots of users of a nice free app comment like "I LOVE the app, but I only rate it with 4 stars unless you add this little, small, really tiny thing that I want. If you do that, I will come back and give you the 5th star".
Germany has a bottle return scheme. It's common for your (glass) bottle of beer or sparkling water to have significant wear marks where it's been rubbing against neighbours in a crate.
i didn't know about Yubico Authenticator, it seems like a great solution. How do you handle QR codes?
Exactly. The one medium-term wildcard is AH is throwing money at it and unlike the technology, that has real-world effects:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/20/technology/silicon-valley...
Yes. “For more than two thousand years fountains have provided drinking water and decorated the piazzas of Rome. During the Roman Empire, in 98 AD, according to Sextus Julius Frontinus, the Roman consul who was named curator aquarum or guardian of the water of the city, Rome had nine aqueducts which fed 39 monumental fountains and 591 public basins, not counting the water supplied to the Imperial household, baths and owners of private villas. Each of the major fountains was connected to two different aqueducts, in case one was shut down for service.” -Wikipedia.
I don’t know whether it’s just Amazon.cn serving up different content according to my IP. I just opened Amazon.cn from Hong Kong and what I saw is not that there are only 5-star reviews, but that there is no rating at all.