skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is not strictly necessary to use Gradle/Groovy to build an Android app, so to use it was Flutter/Dart's choice. Just as it isn't necessary to use Xcode, Cocoapods or Ruby (of course, you still need either Objective-C or Swift, but only one) to make an iOS one.

This may all be technically and pedantically true, but I have never seen an app built without either of those stacks. And I've been doing this an awful long time.
Sony specifically might not be the best option for a modern audio player. I've tried using A55 but exchanged it for a Shanling M0 eventually.
Tech Debt, Incidents and on Call
1. Vehicle marketing and 2. personal information and demographics collection for resale preying on the magical thinking of people who play the lottery as wishful
thinking in order to better their circumstances.
Subscription model doesn't work for the stuff I listen to. I want specific interpretations of specific operas, I want playlists by composer (no two album uses the same spelling for a classical music composer). I want playlists that skip the recitatives, etc.

And I already own the music, legally purchased on itunes and amazon. Why would I rent it?
Another C alternative that people might want to check out or keep an eye on is Vlang (https://vlang.io/, https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md).
Unity just felt consistent, usable and boring - all qualities that I appreciate in a desktop environment, which is why some of my devices still use XFCE and there's almost nothing that I find lacking in that regard.

Now, GNOME isn't necessarily bad either but it was still sad that Canonical moved on from developing Unity because it did set Ubuntu apart and by the time of the official migration away from it, was actually pretty stable and solid.

Of course, the financial aspects of developing their own DE when they could just be contributing to GNOME instead also need to be taken into consideration.
Was it a white one (with a red strip)? Afaik these are the only ones you can't take.
Blackrock is an investment conglomerate with $7 trillion in assets, is so big that it helps stabilize the federal reserve, cannot be covered properly in the media because it owns so much of the media, boasts a revolving door employment exchange with federal employees who wield enormous power, and in fact is nearly indistinguishable from the government itself.

Executive summary: they have tendrils everywhere and are effectively impossible to oversee.
You're free to disagree. I'm just explaining why the omission of those details changes the discussion greatly for people who hold similar beliefs to me. His original comment was framed in a way such that nobody could disagree, while the actual context makes it far less black and white.
Why is that? The thing that terrifies me with less known brands is the quality of the DAC. I had so many shitty mp3 players before settling on ipods in 2003. Even today most laptops motherboard DAC are useless.
Having recently replaced the hinges for a 1940s house, I think this might be the way.
I got the flat head screws out by cleaning the groove, putting a screw driver in, then smacking it with a hammer, hard. Then I unscrewed. It took a lot of time, and about 1/3rd the screws snapped in half (which was fairly helpful, as it got the hinge off).
what's even more mind boggling is that library is more or less publicly accessible _now_ via a home internet connection or a connection from your... friendly neighborhood library! but you're right, having unmitigated access to that is even more incredible.
As the author is the blog post and a non-techie crypto advocate I can tell you when I've been paid in Crypto by people in other countries for work I have done that right there is the only reason I need to support and advocate for Crypto. No bank needed, no government approval needed. Just them to me and if the upswings and downswings of crypto scare you, use a reputable stable coin.
It's not terribly hard to find virtually anything you're looking for even on plain old public Pirate Bay.
> ...you can pocket the player and use its physical side controls for play/pause, stop, back, forward, and hold...

Many Bluetooth headphones have physical controls for that. E.g. my Marshall headphones have a nifty little "joystick": up/down for volume, left/right for skip, press for pause/accept call, long press to turn on/off. Elegant, minimalistic, easy to remember.

> It’s also nice having a dedicated player that isn’t inundated with notifications and other modern distractions. Separating out ebooks to a dedicated tablet worked the same wonders for my anxiety.

YMMV - I for one would be ridden by the anxiety of missing an important call on my phone while listening to a dedicated music player...
Looks pretty cool. Is there some open source firmware for it?

Rockbox was good for Sansa players.
Yeah. Don't be a criminal.
No, I don't think they should be content filters.
There’s roughly a post a day asking this. If you’re curious about answers given to other people, here’s the link to all “Ask HN” posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/ask

You can focus a bit by searching for «Ask HN market»: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Edit: "<...individual stocks...> are there other ways not typically discussed in the mainstream?" You haven't mentioned not timing the market, and instead investing in low-load index funds. I just want to make sure that that's called out as being in the mainstream - and is literally the investment strategy everyone should adopt, barring insider trading, being close to retirement, or being Warren Buffet.
They have done this before but the old saying in crypto is 'not your keys, not your coins'. You dont need an exchange. But it does help and make things easier.
let's not forget what aaron swartz died for, though. quite a bit of science from publicly funded studies is behind paywalled publications.
I’m sorry but I’m not sure how this comment relates to mine which asks for clarification regarding the deleted poster’s treatment algorithm for anemia.

I will however address the gaping flaw in your story. Depending on which doctor you see, their job isn’t necessarily to diagnose you.

When I used to work in the ED as a resident our job was to make sure no one died, workup for non-life threatening headache was not our job and was for the outpatient physicians. Depending on the type of clinician and context this may not have been their job.

If this was an urgent care/ER visit, I would be shocked if they did not draw serum lytes and other basic labs. If they did, then you would have known if you had hypokalemia

Furthermore, your timeline does not prove causality. Most headaches go away on their own and this may have been simply what happened to you.

Lastly, I don’t buy that you corrected a symptomatic hypokalemia with a “couple handfuls of baby spinach”.
You are not alone, Unity was my desktop until it was dropped by Canonical. I ended up moving to Windows after that as I did not like the replacement. The main thing I remember was that it was quite fast and worked well with Vmware which is what I used to host client's VMs. Maybe I will give it another go now.
I've been really enjoying using Spax screws for my home improvement projects. https://spax.us/products/multi-purpose-construction-screws/t...
> But the audio quality is a noticeable upgrade from my iPhone 8

What? Can anyone second this?
Biggest use of hydrogen today is to make heavy oil lighter. Then, it's fertiliser.

If there will be a massive double digit global switch to EVs, green hydrogen becomes uneconomical to produce.
How often do the ticket inspectors come in right after the airport stop? If it's relatively rare, you theoretically could ride that one stop without a ticket (but of course that would be totally illegal, do not do it).
So, a handshake to someone who believes that sort of thing is like being a republican or a democrat. They use it as one minor signal of values. It's a tribal thing. They aren't using it as a test of strength, but of background. You can be at a high level of competence with a weak handshake, but the handshake will show the person who values strong handshakes that you aren't from that same culture / background. It's the same sort of signal as wearing a MAGA hat.
Can't help for readers in Poland, but in the US, all I ever use are GRK screws, which use a variety of different Torx sizes.

I primarily keep stock of their 'cabinet' screws which have a washer head useful for mounting all sorts of things and their multi-purpose framing screws. I'll buy their trim screws as needed.

They are excellent fasteners and they're readily stocked in Home Depot near me, which is a big positive.
I don't know your age and I don't know Japan's policies post-COVID but maybe the working holiday scheme is something to look into:

https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2350.html
Okular used to store annotations in an XML "sidecar" file, though it now stores the annotations in the PDF itself. However there may still be a sidecar file option, or perhaps the annotations are still in XML in the PDF itself. You might want to take a look at that.
Here in the UK most new screws are Pozidriv, but many people confuse them with Philips as they are very similar. Mixing up Pozidriv/Philips results in the driver riding out and damaging the head. It should be required teaching in schools the difference between the two!

Pozidriv screws have a small engraved cross at 45 deg to the main recess. The drivers have a small matching flute in the grooves.

Nice picture here: https://www.finehomebuilding.com/2015/09/16/what-is-the-diff...
A tablet with WiFi/cellular for every person would go a long way.
your m1 is a beast of a machine, especially for running pre-trained models. you should be able to run any of the image identification models no problem, and in real time.
Yes, context matters. Hence why I added context that you disingenuously left out. You're free to disagree with my view, but you massively downplayed the situation when you called racial and homophobic slurs "bad words" in your original comment. This is important context which should not be omitted.
About the Reactor
Yeah the peak of this effect is during the WEF. The number of people who were “truly humbled” to (have paid to) go to Davos this year and then felt they had to post about it on my LinkedIn was genuinely staggering.
> As a long-time Linux user, I do not understand how everyone still tolerates how Gnome (and Wayland) do things.

Considering how many people have abandoned the GNU/Linux desktop in favor of MacOS, I'm not convinced "everyone" tolerates it.

But it's also unclear to me how you would even quantify this. What does being intolerant in this context look like, other than just not using gnome? Do you expect gnome users to picket and/or burn down the homes of the developers?

It's kind of a ridiculous statement, and I feel like it's demonstrative of the kind of asshole entitlement FOSS users often exhibit instead of say, getting involved to influence the direction of upstream development.
Do you know where I can read more about the structure of "earn outs"? They seem like just another trap, to be clear.
> "Hey, wait, literally everyone could have the entire library of Alexandria in their house for a couple hundred bucks per person. Like, all the knowledge ever. Maybe that should be considered the good default of things.

There are projects out there that lean in the direction of offline viewing of lots of content, for example, having an offline backup of Wikipedia, such as:

- https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Main_Page
- http://xowa.org/ (HTTPS seems not to work though)

I just wish that the process of actually accessing the data was a little bit more straightforward: https://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html (given how many different files there are to choose from, you'll probably want to read a tutorial or two)

That said, while text is perfectly doable, things do tend to get more difficult if you also want images or videos, because those do take up a lot of space.
Thanks for that. I have been doing this but did not know there was so much more to it.
AKA rent
No, you have a 3-4 week grace period. People with poor credit do not.
I tried "a man with shopping bags stopping a tank" and was hoping to get the Tiananmen Tank Man, but I'm having no luck with variations either.

EDIT: it does contain a blurry picture of the tank man and some LEGO re-enactments when I query "tiananmen tank man", but was hoping it would more intelligently deduce the picture from the description
> As a society we already processed and answered

It's difficult to disentangle this from the switch to streaming and regarding the latter it is very much unclear whether this was a consumer preference or just something that one-sidedly benefitted an oligopolistic music industry and consumers just had to live with it. Even if a preference for streaming apps reflects an uncoerced choice that a majority of consumers made back then or would make today, it's still a hallmark of a well-functioning market and a free society if the needs/preferences of the minority don't go entirely unserved by the market.
Heathrow terminal 5 (almost exclusively BA/OneWorld) is on average the nicest hub terminal I've regularly been to. It's busy but once you've explored you'll know the quiet corners. Buses to the aircraft are rare. Security seems busy but fast. Baggage is a decent walk but I'm almost always connecting so don't need to go there. A London underground station going directly into the middle of the city. Food expensive but not Schipol or Frankfurt expensive (£4-5 for a decent sandwich instead of €10).
I don't care about ascetics much at an airport except decorating around functionality.

Around 2005, the newer Shanghai airport had information boards that didn't contain information except various permutations of Windows' BSODs. IIRC, it was that terrible, inefficient design of long and narrow.

In general, DFW is a better layout: almost circles of gates globbed almost contiguous to each other as lettered terminals relatively close together connected by a bidirectional tram, many security screening entrances and exits, and people moving devices (i.e., moving walkways, "golf carts", etc.)
Can you provide some examples of such private trackers that you'd recommend? I'm mostly interested in music.
You might already be aware but there is a range of alternative music players on iOS that focus on listening to a local music library. Doesn't help with dongles - but may fix your software issues.

Here's a very in-depth showcase of your options: https://barrowclift.me/post/fourth-annual-ios-music-player-s...

For me the killer feature of the desktop music.app is still the option to transcode to a lower bitrate during sync. My lossless music library spans close to 2 TB (and growing) these days. SD cards are very expensive at that kidn of storage - so in contrast to the article sd cards certainly don't provide limitless space.

Anyway. To meet mobile storage requirements I need to transcode it to 256 kbps AAC and I don't want to handle this manually or manage a second lossy library. music.app / iTunes easily does this on the fly during sync.

I'm sure other software / hardare players can do that too - but if it's the same process why would I carry an additional device around? The iPhone is just very convenient for that purpose. Otherwise I really like Sony's Walkman range.
Ha ha this is going to end up with paid advertisements formatted as code comments in underfunded, but popular OS projects. Oh god I really hope that’s not going to happen.
I agree with your argument on risk exposure but I think you underestimate how much _cash_ those three companies actually hold. They really stockpilled these past five or so years.
> Email is the best method of communication for anything complex.

In my experience email is best when audience is less than 5 and have a tightly shared context. I've seen innocuous looking proposals getting out of hand just 'coz people jumped in to respond; multiple threads forming and so on. It gets nightmarish very fast.

I've found a combination of shared docs + meeting to arrive at consensus to work well. A small group of people propose a design/solution in a doc. Share it with wider stake holders get their first round of feedback, incorporate it in the doc and then have one or two in-person meeting(s) to get them all sign-off. Slack could be used to have short conversations but not ideal from what I've experienced.

This is with respect to a a for-profit organisation. Can't speak about open source as I don't have any experience collaborating there.
It's an entire extra code path they have to maintain. If they could tell those millions of users "for God's sake, it's 202x, use Wayland instead" and remove that entire code path, you bet your ass they will.
Doesn't look all that superior: https://pedriana.wordpress.com/2021/02/03/robertson-vs-torx-...

Especially old stripped screws and bits look nasty.
> doesn't work with the two most popular email clients

Clearly you don't understand the difference between a MUA and a MTA. Perhaps you should spend some time learning the difference instead of engaging in any more name calling. There's no use continuing this discussion when you outed yourself as someone who has no idea what they're talking about.
Reminds me of that Twilight Zone episode - all the books in the world and no time to read them.
My current supervisor do it right, a big decision is stared in slack. It usually attracts 3-6 people in that discussion. A huddle or teams meeting is arranged if needed.

Then another slack discussion is posted with a v1 proposal in it, and link to previous discussion. This time, more people can give dissenting opinion. If nothing conflicting, a short sharing session will be held presenting this, and see whether there's dissenting opinion again.
Why Britain’s new stamps are causing outrage and upset
It's nerdy. Pointless though imo when you have a phone and Spotify. The days of hoarding mp3s are gone, thankfully.
My partner has one of these; it has a faulty proximity sensor, so the screen keeps coming on when she's talking on the phone, and her face touching the screen accidentally mutes herself. Seems to be a widespread problem.
The reason things tend toward free in software... at least consumer software... is that capitalism is really optimized for things that have significant marginal cost. Over time, supply and demand tend to cause the price to approach the marginal cost. (the cost to make one more product)

But software has effectively zero marginal cost. Meaning normal competition and the free market just don't work.

Say a company makes some software that costs them a million dollars to make. They figure their best chance of making a profit is by pricing it at $100, and selling at least 10,000 copies.

Now another company decides to compete as well. It costs them a million dollars as well to develop their competing product, which we can imagine is every bit as good and serves the exact same need.

But they figure their best chance of making a profit is to sell it for $10. Sure, they make less per copy, but the lower price should allow them to sell a lot more. So they'll need to sell at least 100,000 copies.

That's bad. There is no reasonable way of saying how much value a single copy has. It's not like making, say, a bicycle where the bulk of the price is to cover the marginal cost.... i.e. the cost of making one more bicycle.

Anyone developing software must realize that they could be massively undercut by competition. It's just not a stable model.

Does anyone remember when Apple's WebObjects product was reduced in price from $200,000 to $699? Then a year later, bundled with the operating system?
What didn't you like about miniflux? I've been using that for a couple of years now, solid, easy web interface (or use Fever feeds for a client), and paired with rss-bridge works great.
Argh, I mistook it for the classic yellow WM-F45.

Tapes and pencils forever. ;P

Edit: I remember one of the last-ish MP3 players was a Dell one with a micro HDD. First drop and it died. xD
I’m on the board of my condo’s HOA and can see where every dollar of my fees get spent. It’s pretty much entirely going into maintenance of the building.
Show HN: GitNex – Android app for Gitea, Codeberg and self hosted instances
New Javascript frameworks will only stop being made when every word in the dictionary has been used up as a name. It's like the nine billion names of God, but more annoying.
Someone needs to put together a live spreadsheet of all his data keep it updated.
The fact 'airplane mode' is on the quick access panel tells you how unreliable mobile connectivity is.

Most people only take a plane once per year or less. Do they really need fast access to airplane mode?

No... Airplane mode is in fact "reset the cell modem because it's being flaky" mode... And it's on the quick access menu because people need to use it a lot.

To me, this just points out a massive engineering failure, and it disappoints me every time I see it... And then press it... Cos mobile data is being flaky again...
patio11 on HN (Patrick McKenzie) [0], who works for Stripe in Japan, has many things to say about working in Japan, not all of them good. Mainly (depending on the company, and whether it's American with a Japanese branch versus Japanese-founded), there is a level of business bureaucracy that isn't present in the US, as well as startup funding being nearly non-existent. On the social side, it is very difficult to assimilate as a Japanese citizen, as most Japanese people will only consider you truly Japanese if you were ethnically Japanese.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=patio11
> When you say 'footie'

No one says 'footie' in Australia. We say 'footy'.
The exact same thing as a bachelor's in CS? You hardly need a CS degree to work in most tech jobs.
> That can't be true, Google Books was 15 years prior to the advent of large language models. Until 2020 nobody could train on such a large collection.

... pull the other one.

Okay, your statement could be true depending on what you mean by "large". But what makes you think that companies like Google haven't been working on language models without releasing them and/or without discussing them publicly? There's an advantage to be had by keeping corporate secrets.
Ah, right, I forgot about these.

Question - is it because you didn’t add any apple ID, or that you added it but didn’t log in?

I remember MacOS prodding me the same way even with non-apple accounts when I added them but had expired passwords.

If it’s that then you can go to the „accounts” preference and remove all the accounts. Perhaps it will help.
Yeah I went back and forth on the box ticking of the Medium Partner Program, probably something I should have added to the post...In the end I went with it because I wanted to recoup my money back. I think I only read 1-2 Medium stories every month if that, and its just not worth it IMO.

Ghost do different things and yes blogging is one of them.
> doesn't even mention bitcoin once /s

that's exactly the reason makes it awesome
I found it off-putting that Hesse distorted and criticized Buddha's teachings, but found it necessary to insert real world Buddha character into the novel and have him validate author's ideas and philosophies.
This reminds me of the book The Checklist Manifesto and the show Air Crash Investigation.
Have you tried Inoreader (Pro)?
Do you listen to your recordings as you walk? Or does the mere fact that you are recording change your thinking?