skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do I want a pile of .ogg (or .mp3) files? ? Back in the day, having a huge library of files on a disk, a carefully curated collection from which to burn a mix CD to present as a gift to a romantic (or platonic) interest was worth the world. Times have changed though, and that carefully curated mix CD full of mystery - what will the next track bring? - these days it's still just as carefully curated, but it's a link to a Spotify playlist. Music hasn't (quite) fragmented the same way video has, with Netflix, Hulu, Disney, Paramount, CBS, HBO, YouTube and so on all having paid options, but having a spotify account with apps on all devices is just so much easier.
Excellent. And the only ruling that makes any sense.

What's important here though is to confirm that this also can't somehow be waivered by "Terms Of Service". The law needs to clearly say that web scraping is legal and that sites can't just circumvent the law by agreement with users.

Even better if it could also clearly state that it includes any and all digital content and is not limited to (say) hypertext. I.e. if I as a user can reach content in any way, then I can also scrape/save/archive/whatever using the tech I want. E.g. I can save my youtube videos, spotify songs and so on.
Deezer is still the best bet.
Technically, that isn't an insider attack. It's an external threat actor who is using the access provided by the compromised machine of the (presumably innocent) insider. Still a valid threat, just not an insider threat.
I think part of the problem is identifying which of those alternatives is closest to "exactly Debian, but without the hardware support problems". You really want something which tracks closely enough that bug reports against packages in that distro could be directly and intentionally accepted by Debian's tracker.

The problem with accepting "Debian is not a friendly distro and that's fine" is that unlesss the snags are addressed, the number of reasons for people to run off to Pop and Ubuntu will only increase over time. Having a friendlier on-ramp to something that is actually Debian is good, but I suspect you could satisfy the "keep Debian pure" requirement with a fairly thin branding layer.
I really enjoy reading your content. I have no use for any information, but the insight is still fascinating.
This pre-dates the Podcast Index by a number of years, and as far as I'm aware, doesn't use the new podcast namespace at all.

You can use PodcastIndex.org through their API, or simply download the database of shows.
Something to laugh about crooked frames: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhj1xhv3rZI
Most people come to Mastodon seeking out viable alternatives to FB and Twitter, and many of them proudly announce to their Mastodon followers when they have deleted their FAANG accounts.

This might change when Mastodon attracts more non-techy folk, but even they seem to become more weary of centralized and algorithmicly directed social media.
The idea of the social animal is MADness. The anti-social predator is the mutual assured destruction from the outside. If i scream or cry, we all will suffer, it is in your interest to have me being well. Else be tigers, dragons and bears, oh my, bearing down on us.

Now, if we are all uniform fit, it might be interesting to conspire to produce one unfit to feed to tigers, lions and bears. Thus mobbing is the creating of a sacrfice of the social unfit and a filter functionality of old society against the brutes.

Now for the rule of law. The rule of law is the ability control mobbing by majority vote, aka religion. We mob a class of humans into social service, give them power and withold power, if they refuse to uphold basic contract society.

Thus regressive behaviour is a sexual selection criteria and contract religion unavoidable. Human society is nothing form and shapeable, but limited in a special ed way.

Which is why humanity will not go to space today.

Nor tomorrow.

We will spend about 300 years fixing the flaws we inheritted in something close to special ed, with social implants and learning self-control.

No, you can not vote on that.

Neither can the murderous dictator you want to push your agenda.

StarTrek is not djungle creature wheel chair accesible.

Its nice that the whole gathered knowledge of the fqalantir research is slowly leaking outwards though. Humanism is not comfort, humanism is to try to become self aware of the horrible & flawed in us and repair.

Comfortable pandering to the emotions we inherited is regressive.

To punish a car-driver for his rewritten accident memories cause of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccade , no matter how just it feels and how much he feels he deserves it, is foolish. Instead force to car to adhere to speed limits, as the creature that drives is always retarded.

There needs to be the ability to have a "grown up" conversation, without the "retarded" interrupting by chanting "marx & evangelical" texts && just preaching a return "to the natural state" which is just "instinct feels good" praising every buffon chanting "for the return to the savannah". Downvote away all you want, you priests and believers, the dead are more interesting conversation anyway.
Public Service Announcement: If, like me, you were wondering what CADT is, look here https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
Big Ron can ask you to take a picture of the paper ballot as well, so regardless of mechanism you’re in a pretty sticky situation.

It’s not a perfect system, but I would personally find it comforting knowing that I could verify that my vote counted and that I could independently confirm the election results

Edit: haven’t read the paper in a while, but IIRC you can see that the vote counted without revealing details of who you voted for. They definitely would have covered this case
In 1903 the NYT also reported:

"PROF. BELL'S FLYING MACHINE.; Expects to Have It in Successful Operation Before Summer Passes" - https://www.nytimes.com/1903/08/12/archives/prof-bells-flyin...

and

"ANOTHER AIRSHIP MADE; Emile Berliner of Washington Says He Has Invented One. Asserts It Has Been Flown with Success -- An Aeroplane Built on the Buzzard Plan." - https://www.nytimes.com/1903/08/30/archives/another-airship-...
I used a different piece of software to do this for DJing (Sidify) and my account got locked. I was given a warning and my account was unlocked the next day, but, Spotify can detect this
then this isn't for you
Sometimes, when my mind is tired, it switches to a state where it interprets things that are large and far away as being small and nearby. I wonder if that phenomenon could explain why so many people see little people doing the same things regular people do.
I'm a Debian desktop user not because of principles - I use proprietary blobs including Nvidia's drivers - but just because it's what works best of the distros I know.

I've been burned a couple times too many on Ubuntu's regressions. They'll ship a newer version of a package that breaks some use case which isn't super common but not super obscure either, and then I have to figure out what broke. I've stopped trusting Ubuntu's packages so I don't use Mint either even though I like the distro.

Debian continues to impress me with its stability. I run the testing branch at home and breakage is still extremely rare. Yes, there's things that Debian makes harder to set up, and running Debian means you basically resign yourself to running a userspace that's 1+ year old, but the overall experience just works better in my experience.

Maybe I should give Fedora a serious try one day. I haven't properly used any Red Hat based desktop since Mandrake but I did like CentOS a lot for servers.
Okay so my question might not make a lot of sense but how does an OS or I'd guess a kernel knows what's the CPU utilization? I'm pretty sure it's reported by the CPU, but how does the CPU measure that? From my understanding, CPUs have multiple "units" that can specialize in specific operations. Is that taken into account, does it just measure the utilization of it's "general use" units, and if so how does the CPU keep track of it's own usage? I'd google it but I honestly don't know what to look for past the OS/kernel layer
It won't take much to be better to work with than brcm so let's hope they keep going.
I'm not challenging your assertion, I'm genuinely looking for backing evidence here. Do you have evidence that NSO knows who is being targeted by the tools they sell?
Collectors, DJs, artists and music enthusiasts all still have a great need for actual files. For the average user it might seem dumb, but to me, my Spotify/Apple Music/YouTube Music libraries all seem frail and there are multiple instances of songs being remastered and replaced, as well as artists changing the final versions after initial release (Kanye West comes to mind for one).
> Yeah, bugs that are discovered after release can be fixed.

I definitely understand that real benefit.

But I was questioning the premise that having blob in ROM is somehow better than needing same blob in firmware, simply because that one doesn’t need/want to distribute non-free firmware on media.

If one wanted libre hardware, then both cases are not great.
Your thinking is correct. Keep using iPhone. If you wanna try a custom android ROM, try GrapheneOS. It's more secure than Lineage. But they need the Google Pixel devices because only they satisfy their hardware security requirements.
Since you seem to have broken 2 screens: you are aware Apple is discouraging placing webcam covers on your MacBook screens? Since the screens are flat, those things can put a lot of pressure on a MacBook screen to the point they crack.
And all of them are currently "good enough", so roughly at the same level of fitness. Of course, models that have been relatively stable for 400M years, like sharks, are in some sense "better" than the fad of the day, like us.
> Also, comparing PDAs to modern smartphone is just... inaccurate at best.

No, it's not. Pinephone and Librem 5 can run practically any desktop software just fine and still serve as smartphones well. They're both smartphones and PDAs.
Sometimes music disappears from Spotify for various reasons.

Also, I listen with bluetooth headphones, and bluetooth has its own lossy compression on top of the original anyway.
Well one reason is because Spotify's catalogue is constantly expanding/contracting so a song that you added to a playlist yesterday might be gone tomorrow.
My use case for trying download mp3s was for DJing since Spotify no longer works with mixing software. I didn’t want to buy my entire collection per song and Beatport only offers dance/edm genres
Neat, but I seriously hope that it doesn’t become popular enough to force Spotify to combat client reimplementations such as librespot, which this is based on.
Generally I stay away from Apple products or topics. The only reason I decided to comment was that I am forced to use Mac in my current work and after several stints I understood I was not going to get used to it. If people use it and like it, I don't mind. For me, it's just not intuitive; for instance, I wouldn't have
thought of looking for this setting, let alone under accessibility options.
> I think the only practical thing that can be done is to encourage competition from America's equally-sized rivals (pretty much just China at the moment)

That is a bleak outlook. It would mean that any kind of revolution, or internal change, is effectively impossible, and that the only way to limit the powers of nation-states and corporations is through adversarial confrontation with similarly sized competitors, which can come at huge cost (wars, sanctions, etc).

Internal changes are still possible, but we need to fight for it. While that may come at a huge cost, I believe that it would end up less costly than endless confrontation with similar powers.
It is working pretty well for me so far
The only thing the Israeli lobby attacked him for was not being their kind of racist.

They dont even give a damn about anti semitism. They backed Orban when he put out hook nosed Jew campaign adverts because he backed Israel and they treasure their relationship with anti semitic US evangelicals.

That particular smear campaign wasnt very effective but it was remarkable in its audaciousness - just like the fantastically stupid czech spy smear.
Nix makes a lot of sense if you really understand build system.

But makes less sense if you understand operations, or management.

Real world engineering is about trade-offs, and Nix has no wiggle room for compromise. It’s optimizes on one dimension: Reproducible builds. But an organisation won’t succeed when it places the needs of build system engineers on a pedestal.
Israel plays the anti-semitism card much too loosely to be taken seriously. The issues I have with Israel are because of the actions of its government and absolutely nothing to do with the majority religion there.

If you criticise Israel, you're an anti-semite. We're all scared of being called such, so we let them do whatever the fuck they want.

Fuck Israel; but not because of their religion.
I was wondering if grey/pink/brown/white noise generation was something earbuds would add as a feature. Wider if this enables that.
> There’s also an issue of taking a repo private, making changes when no one gets alerted, and making it public to make it harder for people to know what’s going on.

They could always notify watchers about the repo being made private.
Do we? I switched from Dell to Lenovo due to issues with drivers.
1. Constraining the first stage to return over land would massively impact payload. This would be even worse than a Falcon 9 RTLS, because at least with that it can do a boostback, so the 2nd stage is still put on a relatively flat trajectory, just with earlier stage separation.

2. SpaceX tried using steerable parachutes for fairing recovery. Turns out, accurate enough to hit a small clearing for air-delivering supplies still has enough error that if you want to land it on some soft target, that target has to be very large. Larger than you think. The accuracy of GPS isn't the problem; parachutes are difficult to control with only a few degrees of freedom in control and are at the mercy of the wind.

3. A "target of crushable cardboard" absolutely wouldn't work. Since Electron's first stage is so light, I could believe some sort of large net, elevated above the ground could work. Probably cable-supported, with some sort of buffer on the cables to bring the net to a stop after the rocket lands on it. But that would be big and expensive.

4. A few hours of helicopter time is actually pretty cheap, especially compared to the alternatives. And catching things with a helicopter may not be common, but it is a proven technique with plenty of history behind it. And there's no shortage of very, very capable helicopter pilots able to accomplish such a feat.
Great post. The rendering applets dont seem to work in Firefox. Safari an Chrome both work great.
"look west to where the Netherlands used to be" - should be East.
You are incorrect.

The GDPR does not require consent for cookies.

HOWEVER, if you are using those cookies to track or spy on me (advertisers take a bow) then you need to ask my explicit permission to do so. And so you should.

(Take away your scummy business model, and you remove the need for cookie banners).
I'm afraid you've mixed up "price return" (as in the change in the level of the index - ~6200 in April 2000 to ~7600 in April 2022. (Which is a 22.5% total return)) with "total return" (as in the return when you include dividend payouts - 170% in total, or 4.6% annualized)
Wouldn't that be kind of bad for Spotify? They lose a customer.

Maybe they don't care losing one customer for making sure their music stays private.
Going back as far as I remember, option 2 is exactly what has happened for distributions with long support.

Eg. Debian maintainers have taken a particular release of upstream software, and if upstream didn't provide bugfixes for older releases, maintainers in Debian would backport them and Debian users would enjoy exactly what they want: stable versions with security fixes.

Ubuntu LTS is exactly that as well, with a quicker release cadence (at least when it was introduced — was it 2006 with Hardy Heron? :).

However, business entities (like Canonical) are trying to move away from supporting users to such an extent because it's very costly (thus snaps and reduced "main").

Even though everyone using a dependency now has to pay the cost at unexpected times (which is ultimately more costly than distros doing it), market was obviously not willing to reward developers like Canonical sufficiently for it to keep at it.

RedHat is still doing it for their enterprise editions, but desktop users are being left out.
Software Developer Recruitment from Hell
You have your hands on the wheel at all times. You’ll already have an intuition of situations in which the autopilot might make a mistake, and you viscerally “feel” the car’s decisions, as well as its level of confidence. In tight situations, where you cannot afford an inch of a steering mistake, you’ll grab the wheel harder, in a way that if autopilot does try to deviate from the path you deem safe, it will disengage itself against the pressure of your hand.

I very much feel like an airplane pilot must feel using the “autopilot” in a Boeing 747: The system helps me reduce my cognitive load, and allows me to focus more on situational awareness versus micromanagement (e.g. staring at the taillights in front of me and missing the motorcycle coming up from behind). But at no point would I ever delude myself into thinking that the system absolves me of responsibility.
> Big Ron can ask you to take a picture of the paper ballot as well,

You can take a picture of a marked paper ballot, trade it in for a fresh one (original is destroyed) and mark the new one differently and turn it in.

A ballot picture doesn't prove the ballot was cast and counted, a receipt that identifies the voted candidate does.
US foreign policies are sometimes driven by lobbying and vote banks.

"Human rights abuse" is a policy arm of the US clearly used as a weapon against hostile rivals.

It is a clear message to Indians that the US does not consider them an ally.

And that the US will continue to back and use its arms in India - Church, Media, Academia, Leftist groups to destabilise, and support secessionist movements with an intent to eventually weaken or break up the country.

Sometimes it appears as if the US does things just because it can, this is definitely a big blunder in foreign relations.
This kind of crap happens with Apple as well.

Where Apple shines is in providing an Arm laptop - that's unrivalled as of now.
They still have some issues with those laptop but maybe the next generation will be good.

On my side, I'll just switch to desktop pc I can assemble and get an Arm Macbook if I need to travel.
History tells us a lot. Exocets punished the UK in the Falklands. The USS Stark got nailed by Iraqi Exocets. The Georgians actually scored a missile hit on the very same Moskva in 2008. Apparently naval defensive systems -- even with the depth of Moskva, which was festooned with anti-missile defenses -- are not capable of protecting vessels under all conditions.

Every case can be endlessly Monday morning quarterbacked, but it appears to me that if your navies defensive systems are not fully automated, continuously available or compromised by tracking limitations, including those induced by tunnel vision-ed crews, weather or any other conceivable condition, then you risk having your capital ships blown apart by a relatively inexpensive bit of ordinance that can be launched from hundreds of kilometers away using a variety of platforms.

The missiles involved weren't even all that extraordinary. They're based on an old Soviet design (Kh-35). Not especially stealthy. Not hypersonic. Yet here we are.

What is the actual feasibility of protecting surface ships? An important question because everyone has sea skimming anti-ship missiles.
I am gonna tell you why. I got a Porsche Taycan last year with Burmester. Its audio quality is excellent, however there are limitations. I can play Spotify from my phone over bluetooth, which means reencoded lossy audio. It sounds awful. I can however play music directly from a usb memory stick, which sounds great, just as it should.

This is more a problem of Porsche, not having Spotify integrated into their PCM. It is coming on future models though. But we with a Taycan 2020-2022 model, will not get this.

So having a pile of ogg files is currently a great option.
I've been using Notion for the last 2 years. It has more complexity but it's exactly what I had been looking for for years
You just picked the new brand name for my shrooms.

"Black Monolith"

I will email you royalty checks next week.
There are places where files are useful. Being a DJ for example. You'll show up to a gig with a flash drive, plug it into the club equipment's USB port, and do your thing. You'd ideally be compensating your fellow artists for their work by buying files off of Beatport (or wherever) anyway. Seems a bit niche.
Well, it'll be able to take direct photos of exoplanets and give us the data to analyze their atmospheres for signs of life. They photos won't look like much, but if any of the planets do end up having signs of life, that'll be far more thrilling than any pretty space photo could ever be.
> Overall, there is a fine balance between diluting the whisky to taste and diluting the whisky to waste

Personally I've never understood diluting whisky in the glass (I usually drink peaty/smoky single malts) even 25/75 water/whisky mix seems to eliminate most of the 'whiskyness' and tastes like a 75/25.

Maybe I should try 5-10% dilution
Shop at higher prices for smartphone users.
Camera bans are strictly enforced in polling stations.
"Why do I want a pile of .ogg (or .mp3) files? "

- In times with no internet, or traveling to places with bad connection. (offline features are very limited)

- have your music forever and not just as long the company offers it (see Neil Young)

- play your music with a better player (I think spotify works awful). Fine control fade in, fade out etc.

- privacy, I do not like the world to know at what times I listen to what music and how long
I get the trouble for networking chipsets, but not for the video card - all x86 systems should be able to fall back to ye goode olde days of at least a text console using the old BIOS interface. A default setup of any Linux distribution should in my opinion at least automatically detect if there is something lacking for a framebuffer console or a GUI, and fall back to a plain console.
Because western countries use the same services to spy on their citizens. Even if they feigned outrage, the potential blowback could topple some people.

Besides, governments also tend not to want to be scrutinized on moral ground for trading war assets of any kind.

Why should I be enraged if government officials were put under surveillance? They made abundantly clear that they are in favor of increased monitoring. Their secret surveillance programs were laid open.

So how do you propose they should do better?
They can not, because the enormous amount of money that they printed the last 10 years is not in circulation yet. They can't simply take that back (only very indirectly through ways that are both illegal and would political suicide). The private banks who hold that money now decide when to put it into circulation; the central bank has no power here.
Yes, thank you very much!
You should now make a number of intentional tests, come back and report.
Pygmies are not the most distant modern human branch. The San are.
I have an "old" flash mp3 player that I just fill up with a pile of mp3 files for exercise. It weighs 70g, can be navigated blind in a pocket, is impervious to the ways smartphones break (falling damage) and the battery lasts a week. People might also have other motivations, such as wanting to decouple from a service that each week picks a new favorite song to make unavailable.