skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have both a Walkman (for music) and an upgraded/rebuilt iPod (for audiobooks) and prefer them for a few reasons:

- They don’t use any mobile data, and work when in a mobile-phone black spot (e.g. the national parks I go to most weekends). This is the main one.

- I can store all my music on there, without needing to use any storage space on my phone.

- They last forever with some basic maintenance. My iPod was made in 2006. I’ve upgraded the battery and replaced the HDD with an SD-card, but otherwise it just keeps on going.

- I can switch EQ profiles on my Walkman super-easily to suit different music or headphones. No navigating menus, it’s done in under a second.

- Tactile controls and voiced menus on my Rockboxed iPod. I can use the device entirely without looking at the screen. Handy when driving, but also useful when jogging or cycling, any other time you’d rather not stare at a screen instead of being aware of your environment.

- I can load them up with the exact pressing of music I want to listen to. For many old albums, which have gone though a dozen re-releases and remasters, this makes a difference. In fact, for some albums I have several different releases on my player, all with their distinct character, pros and cons.

- Brilliant bookmarking in Rockbox for audiobooks. Super customisable. And dedicated players never do a software update and lose your state. It’s always ready to go, precisely where I left it.

- Car mode. Brilliant for cars like my weekender that predate proper phone connectivity. Rockbox will automatically pause your audiobook when you turn off the ignition and start again when you’re back.

- Ability to enable dynamic range compression to combat road noise. All in a few button presses, without looking at the screen.

Are they for everyone? Of course not. But all of the above things matter to me personally.
From a usability perspective Spotify is doing stuff like pushing podcasts all over its interface, and sometimes the UI just completely freezes up.

There’s theoretical stuff about losing access to music but there’s the entirely practical issues that come from playing music off of a remote server that has to track plays etc vs stuff on disk and a software stack that doesn’t have to be concerned about new features or some upselling to meet KPIs.

And of course a dedicated player is just a player, so you’re gonna be able to quickly open and do stuff. The problem with Omnidevices is you gotta first navigate to the single purpose thing
Neat! I'm building an app in this space to improve the web browsing experience. Tabs have a purpose and a place, but I think there are some browsing behaviors where tabs are a poor solution - such as when working with collections of browsers, or being able to browse bookmarks more naturally.
My personal opinion is that Slack is a terrible medium for long term info exchange, acronym notwithstanding. I work for a company where we have almost 2 public channels for every full time employee, and that's not counting the private channels, DMs, and so on.

I was on a ski lift last winter with a guy who ran a small company (~20 engineers) who banned Slack and I think he had a strong argument.

Reading through the comments, I see a number of antipatterns emerging from this thread. I'll enumerate some:

* Urgency etiquette: @channel, @here, or just plain message? How about @here with a few personal @ throw in, which is like the gratuitous CC: in email? This depends a lot on your org's topography. I do contract work for a global org, and @channel is almost never appropriate. It's kind of looking at alerts as an SRE: does EVERYONE need to know this?

* Search really is terrible: I know people say "just search Slack". Reminds me of a former colleague who joked about "Google Battleship" (referring to the guessing game of Battleship), where you hunt for the right combination of words. Some questions are just hard to answer via context-free text queries, and this leads to the next point

* Atrophy of other documentation like Wikis and READMEs. The big problem with Wikis is that they have to be gardened - they need dead pages removed, outdated info updated, etc. Slack also needs gardening. The 2 week ban is draconian, but I imagine that in this org, people start moving important information to permanent storage.

* Private channels are unsearchable, as are private conversations. I've personally banned my private conversations. People DM me about comments I've made on a PR, rather than responding in comments or a public channel. I always direct them back to a public comms channel. The idea of Slack is to make communications public and searchable, but people need to enforce that individually. I don't allow DMs except for social BS like lunch plans.

* On the flip side, information-free channels. Some of my channels at work are completely noise - basically all they are is alerts from PagerDuty, or automated build noise, or the #fyi channel for all employees. Anybody who cares about "slack zero" mutes these channels anyway.

* Somewhat related to the last point, the auto-responders. At its simplest, if you have an auto-responder keyed to a single word or phrase, that indicates a problem, not a need for an auto-responder.

* Final point is info fragmentation and overload. You don't know what channel to ask a question in, and you can't keep up with it all. I have a personal keyword filter, but basically in Slack, I've created a personal info silo simply to be able to have a chance to focus on my work.
In the condo I owned? Yes, I became quite familiar with how the money was spent, and most of it was in principle logical for the building it was in, and the board wasn't doing anything unethical or anything like that.

It was, unfortunately, just a very bad situation for the building, which was aging poorly from its origins as a low unit count high value building with a lot of expensive amenities, windows that couldn't handle changing climate, a parkade that needed deep structural work, having been built when asbestos was in vogue, and a population that was once wealthy but was now largely on fixed incomes and declining property value.

No one did anything wrong (except maybe a few attempts to fix the parkade in overly optimistic and superficial ways that required re-fixing at more expense later), it just wasn't worth condo fees ballooning well past my mortgage payments and it ended up costing well hundreds of $k to sell and doing so was one of the most stressful times of my life.

None of that means "condos are always bad". Just this one was a mistake.

If you mean what I said about HOA vs condo fees, I've only ever seen HOA used for detached homes or townhouses, where the common concerns are a lot less critical than in an apartment building (and so, from what I know, tend to be more frivolous). But maybe it's used differently elsewhere.
Apple devices are optimized for inference, not training, so anything where models are pre-trained (but then, what's the point?)
My experience was (and one of the reasons I miss the headphone jack is) that the dongle quality + Apple ear buds wasn't as good as the DAC the older iPhones had.
> Working with front end for 5+ years have nearly made me switch careers. There's an absolute onslaught of languages, frameworks, patterns and now also "tools"

Don't get into devops/infra if JS fatigue is an issue: https://landscape.cncf.io/
> Software artifacts. The application of our toolchain to
Windows includes proprietary source code and is not pub￾licly available. However, the 3D toolchain, including the Ever￾Parse libraries, the F programming language, Z3 SMT solver,
and the KaRaMeL C code generator are all open source and
developed publicly on GitHub. Documentation, code sam￾ples, and links to our latest tool releases are available from
https://project-everest.github.io/everparse.

From the linked paper.
I think you’re hitting the nail in the coffin.

As physicians were trained on the common and the deadly. We’re not that great at rare non-immediately life threatening conditions due to the nature of the discipline.

We’re trained that when you hear hooves, think horses not zebras. This does unfortunately mean that patients with zebras are often misdiagnosed for a while, but that’s because our approach isn’t intended to catch every zebra (which would be impossible).

The other element is to avoid unnecessary harm. Often the tests for zebras are nonspecific and overlap with other conditions (I.e. to be considered after exclusion of other aetiologies).

A late diagnosis of EDS fits in the zebra categories and probably wouldn’t have been picked up until you saw a rheumatologist or vascular specialist at a centre which deals with these.
Interesting difference here between how YC reacts to Codex vs this library. Both are reusing copyrighted materials to help society.
IPFS is a protocol like bittorrent. The only way to make content inaccessible is to go after the people/computers that are sharing that content.
I know we all hate meetings, but this is a sign you need a meeting.
> UCS opposes reprocessing because it increases proliferation and terrorism risks while actually adding to the waste problem rather than reducing it.

But countries are making nuclear weapons anyway. And it's just plain false that reprocessing is adding to the waste problem rather than reducing it.
Was looking for strong lag screws for wood. Like most places, McMaster-Carr has only regular steel for lag screws, but they have Grade 8 lag bolts. Eventually found Grade 5 lag screws from SPAX, https://spax.us/resources/blog/spax-powerlags-vs-conventiona...
> libertarian society as long as we have community ownership of the means of production

Libertarianism includes the right to own property.

Also common ownership of the means of production is an old idea, and has been tried many times. It always results in poverty.
This is exactly my point. The walled garden of Apple is riddled with developers' head on pikes.
Finally Obtaining the Triforce in Ocarina of Time: Explained [video]
The crypto exchanges could take the same position as the credit card companies. Then you are stuck using on-chain transactions and paying fees. Plus you have the inherent risks and instability of most crypto systems (the most popular of which murder the climate). No thanks.
These are the main problems as I see it: 1) Content creators are busy creating content, they have little time to create an independent membership site. For streamers, beyond the streaming there isn't a whole lot that one could offer on a membership site. Twitch owns you. Maybe game coaching? IDK. For a recipe creator on Tiktok, a membership site makes sense. You can offer full recipes and full walkthroughs with engagement on recipes. 2) You don't own your followers list - it's hidden behind by the social media company. If the algo changes, if you get a violation of ToS, and so on. You have no idea when you might lose your audience access. Owning the list protects you.
Do you know where Svelte is these days?
I think you’re probably right. All the searching and researching for the exact perfect way to deploy/infra it is likely just part of procrastination in general of the writing and getting down to it. Probably should just throw something on one my 2 or 3 long-idling VMs or one of my OCI free tier instances..
There seems to be a key flaw in the provided ruleset at 2:41 in the video.

I assumed that the boxes are numbered simply for viewers' convenience and NOT because they are actually numbered in the room when prisoners go in.

The ruleset confirmed this as it had no mention of the boxes themselves being numbered.

I think of it as a flaw since any form of information could've otherwise not been used to execute a standardized procedure of any sort, prior to going inside the room.

And since prisoners cannot relay information by changing any aspect of the room or its constituents, this makes the problem seemingly impossible to solve.

With the introduction of numbered boxes, however, things get more complicated and
new functions start to emerge, which could then be played with to entertain the possibility of a better solution.
> It's also not clear how well this is enforced. Don't forget Hillary Clinton was running her own email server as Secretary of State.

as did bush jr (i think it was gwb2004.com or something.). maybe i have too much faith in the politicians, but i suspect that actually important secret things probably stayed on government equipment and that external email was used mostly for political strategy.
Too much internet... I read it as newass walkman.
a lot of people recognize the annoying person who asks long rambling questions or just takes a q&a as the opportunity to make a comment on the speaker's statements- but i've also commonly noticed questions that are phrased intentionally to lead the person they are asking to their own pre-made conclusion. don't ask a question if you already have your own answer. especially if you go on to argue/disagree with the speaker's answer.
High-intensity exercise, some new news
I don't doubt it. All the more reason to own your followers list.
Strapi closes $31M Series B
No. It’s the recommended way to sandbox software on macOS. The “this is deprecated” comment is just to keep the undesirables out.
in the world that has become a parody of itself it is not unfathomable that the GP post was dead serious.
So remove clout. SO did it because they wanted network effects from a collection of people that needed incentive to contribute.
I have a Rockboxed Sansa Clip+. I like that I can set it to turn off automatically, so I can fall asleep listening and not have it play all night. I also like that it will pick up right where I left off the last time. That's nice for podcasts and books. I suppose that might be what you meant by bookmarking.

You can buy a one-foot 3.5 mm extension cord with a right angle plug for a few dollars to avoid repeatedly stressing the jack.
> Write on that domain (using CMS you control). And then use a range of social media / forums / creator platforms to get traffic to your site.

Or if you want to eat your cake and have it too, follow the POSSE strategy to get the discoverability benefits of services like Medium without betting the farm on it.

https://indieweb.org/POSSE
From their news release [1]

> 3. How does the storage facility work?

>You can imagine the storage tank as a large thermos flask, but it never gets empty. The hot water with a temperature of 98 degrees Celsius is at the top, cooler water layers at the bottom, with the cold water still having a temperature of about 50 degrees. A pipeline of about 400 meters connects the storage tank to the pump house where four pumps ensure that hot water reaches the tank. It is pumped into the top of the storage tank and is also taken out here when needed. If hot water is added at the top, the same amount of cold water is taken out at the bottom. So only the quantity ratio between hot and cooler water in the storage facility changes but not the total amount of water. At maximum output of 200 Megawatt thermal, the storage facility can provide heat for about 13 hours.

[1] https://group.vattenfall.com/uk/newsroom/News/2021/vattenfal...
> Intel SOC’s efuse. This is a bit built into the processor that can only be written once.

I wish efuses were illegal. More specifically, I wish that all write-once storage were required to be separate from any other component and replaceable by the end user. The only "security" that would be lost by such a requirement is securing a device from its owner.
I don't question their premise, I believe that it happens. So remove clout, it's a feature to create network incentives for people who need an incentive.
There are some language models like DeepMind RETRO that can make use of a 1TB text collection after the model is trained. The idea is to chunk up the text and make the blocks searchable with a neural embedding index. When you ask a question to the model, it first searches for relevant information and then adds it to the prompt. The result - you can get GPT-3 quality on a 25x smaller model. That means you could have your own GPT-3. Another advantage is that you can reference the sources and the generated text is more grounded.

An open source project could make a "search-engine-language-model" and in turn make this library much more accessible.

A recent article related to this: http://mitchgordon.me/ml/2022/07/01/retro-is-blazing.html
Are you sure it will help on a Sony? It seems to be for USB OTG DAC.
No, I specifically said we need to go through the sometimes ugly but often cathartic legislative process to decide at what point before birth an abortion is a medical procedure and at what point it becomes a murder.

Also, talking about at what point a fetus can survive outside the womb is a non winning argument as well because it's shockingly early and getting earlier every year due to medical breakthroughs. You and I both won't like where the legal limit on abortion ends up by that metric.

No, you are a murderer if you choose to kill someone and act on your choice. You keep trying to put words in my mouth that I did not say because you have talking points for those words whereas you don't seem to have talking points for what I actually said.

Also I am really not sure if you have any comprehension or experience of the actual pregnancy process because you keep couching it in terms of you actively helping someone when that really isn't the case (you get better results if the mother is helping but it isn't required). As long as you keep doing the basic things that were keeping you alive before pregnancy 9 months later it is highly likely a kid will be born, especially as the pregnancy progresses further along into the later months where most people have the most problem with abortion. The active choice in a pregnancy is to terminate it or not, the rest of it can be surprisingly passive and still work (although if you choose to not terminate it and also choose to be passive you are a terrible person, which is unfortunate but not illegal).
If popcorn time would also add streaming of live events functionality, they would completely capture the old acestream market that would still be interested.
Ah hello Walter. I recognize your username as you and I have disagreed on this before.

I’m not saying people shouldn’t have the right to own property. But that a good way of organizing society is collective ownership of the means of production. If you are part owner in something with shares and a contract, that obviously still relies on property rights. That is how the stock market works after all.

EDIT: I am basically proposing a change in norms, rather than a change in rights. Currently the norm is individual private owners or ownership by a board of directors. I am proposing ownership by communities as a collective. Same rights involved, but a different norm.
Browser hacking: Let's make a Linux GUI for the SerenityOS browser engine
Declarative Diagramming demo
Historically, Sony’s in-house developed software hasn’t been great, to say the least. Getting android could be a blessing in this specific case.
I think I'm misunderstanding you, but StrictYAML's biggest departure from YAML is that it doesn't try to guess types at all. Everything is decoded as a string by default until you specify otherwise with its schema system.

Here you can use `NullNone` to parse `null` into None.

from strictyaml import Map, NullNone, Int, load

schema = Map({"a": NullNone() | Int()})
load("a: null", schema) == {"a": None}
load("a: 7777", schema) == {"a": 7777}
As a sporadically avid reader I wish I could impart my experience directly, but I'll try to describe briefly the wonderful moment of the 'flip', when, after working at a book for some time I become absolutely hooked. Then it's actually harder to stop reading, I want to know what happens next, I care about the characters, and am looking forward to the next chance I get to return to the story. At this point I actually want to read slower and make it last.

The trick is 1) finding the story that you want to read.

and 2) putting in the time to reach that state of flow/pull.

It's extremely pleasurable and I wish it on everyone.

I think the timetracker sort of motivation is like the runway before the flight. The bootstrapping. Or the kindling of a fire that will grow to sustain itself.
Listen and watch works by Chris Hedges. He teaches in prisons and notices many aging, nearly cripple African-American men in for life for petty crimes.

In the rest of the world, actual life sentences are unheard of short of terrorism and mass murder. 21 years IIRC is the standard maximum for many European countries (i.e., Norway) for most serious violent crimes. The person will likely have changed being 35-40+ years of age. If not rehabilitated (which the US doesn't care about), Norway can extend sentences in 5 year increments like a parole board.
I agree, so I'd quit and find something better. That's all I'm saying: it's one or the other, not both (for me).
By no means a new or revolutionary take but important nonetheless. I do, however, believe that this model is just too profitable to go away. People don't really care about these issues and are instead learning to live in the panopticon.
That must be tough on the ISPs.
That's what I was taught in Catholic school as well, and yet, none of the people telling my classmates and I that abortion was literally murder seemed to be in favor of equal criminal penalties for premeditated murder and performing an abortion, because it's quite obviously not equal to killing a living human. Likewise, the fact that there are plenty of people who are only in favor of abortion in cases like when the mother's life is at stake are tacitly admitting that a fetus is not equivalent to a living human; essentially no one would be in favor of harvesting organs from a living child to keep a parent alive.

If the argument is that a fetus is not equal to a human but still life and therefore sacred, then why isn't the anti-abortion crowd clamoring to make putting terminally ill pets to sleep a crime? If euthanizing an actual living dog or cat that can feel pain is morally okay, I don't really understand why an unviable fetus would require more protection under the law. I've also not met anyone who also wants to outlaw hunting because "life is sacred"; instead, I'll often hear arguments about how hunting is ethical despite the fact that it's ending life.

If the arguments that abortion should be illegal because of the "sanctity of life" were being applied consistently to other issues, I'd find it easier to believe. When the only heavy political mobilization from the "life is sacred" interest group is to protect "life" when it's sequestered inside a woman's body, it's pretty hard not to assume that the only substantive difference is in fact the motivation.
"but I don't know anything for tik tok or Instagram or twitch."

Remember, its worse than just a lack of software. Text is dirt cheap (not processing text mind), whereas images, videos, require several orders of magnitude larger data, and several orders of magnitude more processing power.

CDNs are one bit of the puzzle, large specialized providers which will cache and store images around the globe for you, but those require obviously dedicated servers, associated hosting fees...

The other portion, then obviously, is bandwidth. Even if you can get away without a CDN, you still need good up/down speeds, as do your users. The solution is/was partially to use bittorrent or other file-share protocols to offload your bandwidth. OFC, then come issues like defending your work from theft, etc, all of which are issues with the simple centralized system as well, not actually at odds with file sharing (you can implement DRM over bittorrent if you wanted to).

No, here you can squarely point at RIAA, MPAA, US Congress (Interpol in the EU), and blame them for the current state affairs, bad policies having caused media monopolies. Until you strike down some of their more nonsensical decisions and bring the world back to file-sharing, alternatives to popular, performant, and widely available image/video sharing applications are not going to exist.