skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How would the appeal of streamers and live data/content settle out
in that case?

It would be mostly unaffected. As another commenter (Michael) says,
communication, news and collaboration are distinct from storage as
needs/functions.

What you say here is fascinating:

> Since transient, ethereal meme culture is also basically emergent
culture now, it's difficult not to also foresee a greater cultural
divide in such a case.

There have always been bookish or gossipy people. Jane Austen and
Thomas Hardy both make note of that in stories about English culture.
The balance of those qualities may have changed in the internet
age. Perhaps the degree of reach via one-to-many communications has
amplified the ephemeral gossip side. The scholarly life less so.
Though it's enhanced by repositories like Gutenberg, Internet Archive
and SciHub and the like, a "reader" (to use Bill Hicks's take) can
still only process one media at a time. But as Ted Nelson pointed out,
if you have all of the worlds writing at your fingertips, all
hyperlinked and with awesome semantic search tools, reading becomes a
quite different non-linear experience. That's something centralised
walled gardens subtracted from the WWW as its 1990s conceit.

That 90's vision of a multi-modal, multi-media "internet community" in
which people read common news, converse and reference together hasn't
really survived "Social Media". But then it was always a weal
approximation to something like a group seminar in the university
library rather than the town square or local pub.
Is there an advantage to preventing copying text that is worth infuriating your readers?
The only way that could be valid is if the price one was willing to pay was positively influenced by nonbuyers, i.e. even if someone else doesn't want to buy it they regard it as some manner of status symbol and, therefore, influence you to pay a higher price for it. I do not regard a bugatti as such, but your mileage may vary.
It was picked up by an interested party and then attracted a community, after the Gnome folks dropped Gnome 2 like a hot coal when they announced Gnome 3 (no we're not supporting it any more, it's deprecated, no, there's no way to make 3 behave like 2, no, you can't have 2 and 3 on the same box, that doesn't work).

So it continued after a short period of discontinuity, during which time I think a lot of people moved to Xfce, and Mint built their "Cinnamon" DE.
They're backed by a member-owned organization, are in good financial standing for the long term, and it is run by good people that I trust. The others may be good as well but I think that Codeberg has really got it nailed.
Chicken Incubator
For comparison theoretical max HD floppy speed is ~45KB/s

>Small file: 220kB/s "Large" file: also 220k/s

This speed seems plausible. Every USB floppy has little microcontroller based controller with some small cache meaning you can keep filling buffers faster than individual drive speed.

>Installing chess: 1MB/s

which is more than theoretical maximum of 13x45KB/s, immediately invalidates whole highly scientific 'Activity Monitor' measurement method used :)
Thanks for the link, I already watched the video, awesome stuff!
Interesting, will check it out. I think I've read that pop shell from system76 is an i3 inspired layer on top of gnome. I'm curious if it provides even better integration than Regolith. Only problem is that the one serious attempt to port pop shell to NixOS has been aborted. Will probably move from i3/sway to one of these two at some point
Even just having substantial "prizes" for the most widely used stuff (whether publicly or privately funded) would go a long way. (Most of our public funding for content creation now happens as grants, basically rewarding compelling ideas and then simply trusting that the reward money will be spent on doing worthwhile things. This does not work very well, for obvious reasons.)
I don't miss email. One of the immediate benefits of Slack is someone can give a notice via Slack and the receiver can callback with an "acknowledged" or "noted".

The callback is very important IMO because things get lost in email all the time. And yet you don't want 5 people to reply "noted".
It never ends. The goalposts will be moved from youtube to patreon, from patreon to visa (this has already been done), from visa to web hosts, from hosts to DNS registrars etc etc. The problem is the mob itself, not its means. The somewhat-bulletproof solutions would involve blockchain
> I’m gay so perhaps I understand how these words can be hurtful better than you do.

Gay community successfully reclaimed all the slur words (gay, queer, fag etc).

While I wish everyone could do that (change themselves to not to be offended, instead of demanding me to endlessly change my words), that's not the case, slur words still exist.
This. Only a gmail (not an institutional email) from a "consultant in diabetes and endocrinology" who seems to be moonlighting as ... a life coach?
I would love to contribute on seeding the torrents. However what happens when there are new books in z-lib? Is this only 1 time mirror? How do we expand the collection after a certain amount of time.
I am mostly confused by what the author thinks the selling point is.

> I can’t describe what a breath of fresh air this is compared to how bad modern smartphone music and streaming apps have become.

Well, I was hoping they would try to describe it, because personally, I would have to wear my most deeply shaded nostalgia glasses to think that MP3 player UX has ever been comparable to what Spotify offers nowadays.

And we can not even directly compare a MP3 player to Spotify, which is paid to do an entirely different and way more complicated job, considering that you are able to browse and organize a completely different and incomparably larger (and automatically growing) set of media.

In the end, this feels like a case of someone convincing themselves of a peculiar diet, where the believe in its effectiveness does all the heavy lifting. Which is great, when it works for that person – but probably not applicable in general and likely worse than the market solution.
is there actually a command line tool which can bulkdownload according to filters from libgen/mirrors? i do not care about speed, rate limiting would be totally okay, but i do not see such tools, which iteratively go over each mirror and check for content in a service friendly way
Suspending withdrawals should not be legal. It’s not their money, it belongs to their customers.

Law should require that depositors always be the most senior creditor. And suspension of withdrawals is the deposit taker defaulting on its obligations, which allows depositors to force the company into liquidation. The proceeds of which are shared between creditors on an amount-owed basis.
Adobe (now Apache) Flex.
"Sell before you build" is the tech elite's "let them eat cake". It's literally impossible to do unless you have the right connections and raised funding from the right people.

Unless your startup received massive media exposure, nobody will part their money for a product which does not yet exist... You need exposure to massive numbers of people to get any measurable success... And without the right personal connections, it costs a prohibitive amount of money to get that kind of exposure. If you're a developer, it would be cheaper for you to build the thing and then try to grow linearly over the years than to pay the cash up front to achieve that kind of reach... What if your product doesn't measure up to expectations? This is a real risk if you got your customers through advertising (selling a dream) instead of winning them over slowly through a superior offering. The problem with selling a dream is that it's essentially impossible to make reality match the idealised image which you projected into the customer's mind... Even in the cases where it does seem to work out and customers make repeat purchases, the product may just be a superficial representation of what the customer actually needed and it could take them a few years to figure out that the product was itself just an extension of the dream, a shell of a solution... There are better alternatives out there.
Please someone make an mp3 player that has precise progress bar, ideally controlled by a physical slider or potentiometer.

Also please add an option to slow down or speed up the material with reasonable anti-aliasing and an option to retain pitch.

Please make it so that you can scroll through thousands of mp3s and preview without interruptions.

Let me store cue points recallable by dedicated physical buttons.

At this point you may see that I am actually describing professional DJ player, but these things are mad expensive and bulky.
It does not assume an infinite market, it just assumes a larger market than your example. Everything still applies if you just adjust the numbers downward or upwards to match whatever particular market you are speaking of.
The funnies thing is people giving those platforms "the benefit of the doubt" days or even hours before they go up in flames

"Yes, I'm sure your RandomCoin with unrealistic yields is just having a momentarly hiccup, no need to worry" /s
When Canonical dropped Unity for Gnome I also jumped to Regolith, and have been very happy for a couple years. Fell in love with the tiling aspect of i3 without the need to endlessly tinker with my OS. This truly was a set-and-forget experience.
>- Commerce. Shopping really should be divorced from the browser for far too many reasons.

What are those reasons? It seems to me that browsers are perfect for shopping as shopping is essentially browsing a product catalog. It's all basically document oriented content, static text and images, some short videos.

Sharing links is absolutely critical for shopping. Leaving product pages open for later is how many people research what they may want to buy. Product pages need to be indexed by search engines and be clickable by everyone, including on desktop.

All data lives on the server. There's little interactivity and no content creation. Offline use is rather pointless because the product database is on the server. There's no useful background activity. Notifications from shopping apps are mostly spam. Access to low level device functionality is neither necessary nor desirable.

There are far more shops than anyone wants apps. Desktop remains an important platform for shopping. So there needs to be a fully featured website anyway.

>- Applications

I think for applications it depends on where the data lives and whether desktop is an important platform. That's why essentially all business apps are web first unless their purpose is content creation and complex editing.

The real limitation of web apps is local data. There's no way for a web browser to reliably store data locally. Even though it sometimes looks as if you could use various forms of local data in a browser, on closer look it always turns out to be fragile, unreliable and only really useful as a cache.
Conscientious Interrogation
Regarding the interface: no. I bought one of these and regretted it ever since.

It may well be better than the competition currently, but it is still got a shitty interface that demands your attention for anything. Small example: to switch off you have to press and hold the off button (edit: a few seconds), then it pops up a modal but asks you whether you really want to turn it off. Err, yes please?
The 'off' button at the top is actually well engineered you can't hit it by accident, it's hard to hold in and you have to do it for several seconds. I don't want to a confirmation dialog popping up that when I'm getting off a bus. It isn't needed.

The damn thing demand your attention all the time. I used to have an Archos, I could navigated using its clunky front-the lever without looking. Not with this you can't. You have to concentrate.

The buttons shown on the side are too small to feel unless you concentrate (the smaller ones are ~2mm wide, the volume 'bar' is thankfully usable after a bit of practice).

There's other problems with it - turn it on? Pretty animation + almost a minute startup time before it's ready. Unplug it from charging, it remains on despite going blank, on standby, looking like it turned itself off - come to use it in a few days, it's gone flat - "but I just charged it, what happened?".

It's beautifully well-made in hardware, sound is really great, the UI... I bloody hate navigating the music on it. It's an absolute pain in the arse. Bring back proper user interfaces, not touch screens. You know, with user testing.

It's a lovely bit of kit that I just don't want to use.

Rant over.
Rockbox was very cool. I used it for many years.
Like others, I’m surprised at this.

You are aware that stainless is softer than common steel, and definitely more likely to strip out? They are more expensive, but best reserved for times when their softness is worth trading for corrosion resistance.
In a lot of countries it's life plus 70 years. If it was only 70 years, we'd already have everything from 1951 and earlier. However, we have to wait for the authors to die before we even start counting, and good luck if it's somebody obscure and you can't find their date of death.
Poland's national postal service runs for a few years now the Internet-based postal platform Envelo, where you can send and receive personal correspondence and official letters, postal cards. Envelo allows their customers to customize and print, use postal stamps in same prices as physical ones, from home. The stamps come with small graphic, 12-digit code and data matrix code that contains all necessary information.

https://www.envelo.pl/znaczki-pocztowe/ (in Polish)

Tho, I like Sweden solution - it's way much simple; it seems they're using same 12-digit codes
It is likely that, over time, hydrogen will be used more and ammonia less. It is even likely that batteries will begin to give way to hydrogen in cars, as batteries will never be anything like as cheap as hydrogen tankage.

Nukes will fade out with a whimper as they become increasingly unable to produce power at a price to match renewables'. The plants will be quietly mothballed, however much was spent on them, because we are not, as a society, chained to the sunk-cost fallacy.

The coming climate catastrophe will bite hard, over and over, for decades before it subsides -- if it does. Civilization might collapse, first. That would cut CO2 emission sharply, but it will remain for many generations, despite that trees would fill out abandoned fields once the fallout fades.

Economically, switching to non-polluting energy is a shoo-in. An economic model that drives sequestering atmospheric carbon is harder to imagine. Most extraction schemes just sell it to be burned again.
an interesting exception is Munich airport, which was originally designed to minimise the distance passengers have to take to reach their plane. Well visible here: https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/news_articles/...

Say you arrive by taxi, you would go down the street in the middle, drop off at one of the four check-in areas (the triangular structures), then make your way through check-in and security and you're almost at your plane. The train station is below this structure and in the centre.

This opened in 1992 - Terminal 2, built later, uses a different approach with more shopping etc. along the way =)
Seems sus
As noted in a sibling comment, you should check out the --checkout / -c option. Specifically, replace:

1. rsync -acv src/ dest/

It will be much slower - using lots of cpu and disk access - but more thorough.
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This is why software originally started having telemetry. This is a decision that is quite easily answered by telemetry: You bet that a good, say, at least 30% of users are definitely sticking with X11. In any server setting, where the maximum youll ever do is VNC into it or hook up a display via VGA, or any setting where actual real work is being done (custom software, etc.) its likely that X11 is even a requirement (correct me if im wrong).

Its like deprecating support for windows 7; sure nobody should be using it, but you bet there is a huge (absolutely speaking) number of people using it still, for one reason or another.
Why it's good to not host on github? If anything, it just makes project more painful to consume
Or "How Emotions are Made", by Feldman Barrett.
What the post office should do is do a themed one without the barcode. “other themed special stamps …” is still valid forever.
20-ish years ago, Compaq went through this phase also. Every screw in their desktop machines were Torx. It was real pain as Torx drivers weren't commonly available (in the UK).
Vauld's pitch, still up at their web site:

Earn Interest On Your Crypto. Earn the industry’s highest interest rates on major cryptocurrencies. Weekly Payouts. Interest is calculated daily, and paid out weekly on all your tokens. Withdraw any amount at any time while you earn interest.

They were paying about 12% on USDT.
Maybe this is the misunderstanding. Reaching out to potential customers is not about "Look here is my idea of a hammer. Would you buy one?", but understanding which problems are solved, which benefits are achieved, which tasks are done, if there was a hammer like that. The bet is that this can be learned faster and less expensive via communication than developing.
To be fair, $6000 for a brand new car ain't so bad, even if it was a Pontiac.
They want the queen. The old stamp. Not a code I guess is the point.
>Should I be disallowed to commercialise it?

No one said anything about disallowing you from doing anything.

>my first question would be, other than for the love of doing it, why sink so much effort into a thing only to get nothing back.

Is it wise to sink your time into something you don't really like doing?
Did you offer a way to enter without requiring a purchase since you are not a charity? If you did not I am quite surer you violated lottery laws. [1]

[1] https://gleam.io/guides/no-purchase-necessary
British tea cup could be big.
I remember that at one point Canonical had done real user testing, bringing people to use stuff and watching them struggling. Big difference vs the other DE that they use now where some big ego dude instinct determines what is removed or changed for the sake of brand identity or futuristic design.
I did initially assume that, but then it doesn't make any sense at all. Lufthansa doesn't fly between the US West Coast and Asia except via Europe, and a large number of other airlines offer direct routes between the US West Coast and Asia which are obviously going to be substantially shorter. So... maybe they mean the west coast of some other country?
> I can’t describe what a breath of fresh air this is compared to how bad modern smartphone music and streaming apps have become.

My biggest pet peeve is that very much all streaming applications have very tiny progress bars, it's almost impossible to navigate through longer piece of music or podcast precisely. It's like all the functions to navigate around the music have become an afterthought and they focus on showing artwork and other bells and whistles over utility.

As if people making these apps don't actually use them.
Really? I mean we are talking about the company that develops the Playstation. I have a very different opinion on Sony.
People should sue the car dealer and the mall. Even if they don’t have a leg to stand on, a few nuisance lawsuits would cause the mall not to want this business
Because until it's actually a de facto standard that most sites use, it's just a PITA with no payoff or benefit.

The day I care about IPv6 is the day something breaks because I didn't support it. That day is a long way off.
Interesting. Fantastically boring, but innnnnteresting
To clarify:

- VGA has nothing to do with it, but when I do sysadmin stuff and just walk in, turn on the monitor, i dont want to first troubleshoot wayland, or even install it in the first place

- "real work" is the wrong way to put it: i mean when a company has written an application specifically for their own usecase, and (if theyre unlucky) targeting X11
In my experience all German airports are terrible, particularly Munich and BER.
I got one of the NW-A45 Walkmans a few years ago - it's pretty nice and similar to the A55. Good audio quality, but most of all, it lets me focus on music without temptation to do things I would do on a phone.

My biggest gripes are the interface.

- It takes forever to rebuild its database when I add new music to the SD card. No matter how much I searched, I couldn't figure out how to build this myself on the computer side when I added music.

- Creating playlists isn't possible. You can add to existing playlists, but if you want new ones you need to add them from the computer side. I did find that if I add a skeleton playlist file to the SD card I can add to it on device, but that means I need to plan ahead for what playlists I'm going to want.

- Navigating is a pain when you have a big collection. I collect live music, so sometimes I have hundreds of "albums" for a given artist. It's painful to find what I want.

The inconvenience of using it has led me to usually leave it at home and fall back to the Music app on my iPhone and use iTunes Match to shove all of the music up into the cloud after I've transcoded it from lossless to a smaller lossy form. I know lots of people hate that app, but so far it's the only one that I can fly around in my 90k+ song collection with. I'm always on the lookout for better ones, or better dedicated devices, but so far no luck finding one that isn't a pain to use.
Number of pubs in England and Wales falls to record low
> Considering how many people have abandoned the GNU/Linux desktop in favor of MacOS, I'm not convinced "everyone" tolerates it.

Abandoning GNU/Linux in favor of macOS for political reasons, specifically as a reaction to Gnome, makes no sense to me. The things that frustrate people about Gnome (low configurability, highly opinionated design, low interoperability or deliberate incompatibility with other ecosystems) are all things that are very much present in Apple software. Even other parts of this stack, which it is insinuated emanate from the same overbearing Red Hat influence (systemd, PulseAudio), were inspired by macOS on a technical level.

I understand macOS has other strengths, but idk why anyone would see it as a refuge from the perceived problems with Gnome, systemd, Wayland, etc.
i did! Now I am paying 3x for what if I don't believe can really hurt me. Get a third opinion maybe? Costly, time consuming...