skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple demands a hefty price for this compatibility, and its purely within their tiny ecosystem. Which is OK, they do premium hardware and software, some of it top of the notch. Some other manufacturers are trying this but they are nowhere near this level of quality.

The problem I have are the parts where they are not top of their game, ie earbuds. If your only requirement is good call quality then their products can be titled best if paired with ie iphone. But I don't care about that at all. I bought ones which sound for music significantly better than airpods pro, have much better battery life (also their case has better battery for recharging and overall stamina). When yet better ones come (or I lose mine), I will go again for the best within my budget, easily from another manufacturer since brand loyalty is rather meaningless fluff for me, only quality of specific product matters.

But - I can't connect them to any apple product via high quality variations of codecs. So instead of using aptX HD to play my flacs in phone, I would have to resort to some basic implementation and effectively cut off some quality of those flacs. I am sure some wouldn't mind, but I do.

Hence you do shopping around, because in +- apple price bracket you have tons of options for quality hardware, be it notebooks, tablets, different headphones and so on.

This opinion doesn't take into account things like apple's stand on privacy on phones, which for many puts them above rest of the market. Suffice to say for me its more a case of clever marketing than actual proper security of such an important device, especially since I am not an US person and some US laws see me as sub-human, thus US 3-letter agencies act accordingly. But maybe I am completely wrong on this part, it would actually be great since I am already spending same dollars, just for other brands. Just haven't seen a single solid proof of that, and quite a few in contrary.
> I wonder what it is about the folks who are able to "get into" eBooks.

If you view a book as a one time use, disposable good, it's not hard. That sounds far more disrespectful than I mean it, but if you're the type of reader that's reading many things for pleasure (possibly multiple books a week) and will likely only read them once, they become more like I might view a TV show: something I want to consume conveniently and not necessarily catalog permanently. In that case, eBooks are great.
Not in the us it ain’t as full time work tends to be required for health care benefits. And these benefits become (quite) important as workers age or, horrors, commit parenthood or have medical issues. Quitting and paying 4-5x for their medical coverage isn’t realistic.
I'm not talking about him protecting his property. I'm talking about the bensforbars thing.
Yeah, provisioned IOPS can add up quick. Never had justification to spend on them myself. If I need IO I use instances with attached storage, otherwise I purely use the GP SSDs.
It's not just a "virtue signal"; those packages will have to go through some special (and pretty aggressive) transpiling in order to work. This wasn't just flipping a switch from the Deno team
>"Indeed, laws of physics are identical in all countries."

There's no need to be glib, and the GP was obviously talking about the availability of land on a much smaller and more densely populated nation than the comparatively massive and wide open country that is the United States.
So just wait 5 days to register?
> with the "everything is a magic compiler" philosophy

Blitz RPC has 1 minimal magic step, which is a webpack step to replace the resolver imports in client code with a fetch function and to add resolvers to the server-side API endpoint.

And we'll be adding an API that lets you use Blitz RPC without webpack or any compile step.
Namecheap also goes through user searches to pick up domains for their premium offerings, at least 10 years ago. Not actually sure where it’s ”safe” to search for free domains when you are still undecided.
So like Trump's campaign in 2015?

I had the impression in late 2016 that he was like the dog that caught the car.
Be sure to write useful comments. Your opinion ("I think Bluetooth beacons are bullshit") is much less useful than specific, actionable information:

I have noticed the widespread use of Bluetooth beacons and commercial license plate cameras in my area. In addition to causing me to worry that the local grocery store is price-discriminating against people that do not own cars, some such businesses are adjacent to health clinics, and certainly inadvertently harvest HIPAA protected information about the appointment schedules of those clinics. In addition to this, in-store beacons other technologies, such as shopping cart RFID tags, allow marketers that work with grocery stores to infer health information by tracking patients as they move about inside a store. This information could then be used by insurance companies to unfairly adjust premiums, or by pharmaceutical marketers to better-target ads for frequently-abused prescription drugs.

Health care is only one of many industries likely to abuse the information provided by passive surveillance systems. It is technologically infeasible to ensure such systems are used responsibly and legally.

The FTC regulates technologies such as stalkerware apps, and has implemented anti-bait-and-switch marketing rules in other industries. Similarly, it provides guidance for responsible use of IP cameras. For these reasons, I think it would be well within your authority to institute wholesale bans of Bluetooth beacons and regulation of commercial license plate cameras that feed into data aggregation infrastructure.
Eh, sales numbers and profits keep declining.

> Last year, Walmart dropped to China’s fourth-largest operator of hypermarkets, from second-largest a decade ago, according to market researcher Euromonitor International. Sales at all Chinese hypermarkets shrank an average 3% a year from 2016 through 2020, according to a report by management consultancy Bain & Co. and Kantar Worldpanel, a consumer research firm. Over the same period, the report said, e-commerce sales in China rose 32% a year on a compound basis.

As far as a wealth of options:

> Today, when Mr. Zhang needs household staples, he turns to Freshippo supermarkets, owned by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. He said he enjoys frequenting Freshippo because its offerings and layout are refreshed often. Part of the appeal is rapid home delivery. The supermarket can deliver orders in less than 30 minutes.

> "Going to a Walmart just isn’t exciting," said Mr. Zhang, a sales and marketing director. "They rarely change their layout or refresh their product offerings. You always know you’ll get the 330 ml. Coca-Cola there, but never the latest Cherry Coke flavor, or the popular fizzy drink trending on social media."

https://www.foxbusiness.com/retail/walmart-consumer-china.am...

At this point, Walmart China feels more like a “strategic” (read: FOMO) decision than anything that makes sense long-term.

> "It’s been a regular part of [Walmart’s] cadence to be there to understand what’s happening," Mr. Berke said. "Historically, it’s been, ‘This is the biggest retail market in the world and its growth has far outpaced any other. How can we participate, and be part of all that growth?’"
Show HN: Visualization as a Service
Talked to a bunch of people, looks like there is a need, one company uses SQL Server Cube to handle intermediate dataset exploring for their customers, but it's not flexible, fast, and scalable. VAAS is the API that you can call any time with any dataset to provide an instant visualizer URL for exploring and visualizing the data.
Letting this war go on and on is insane. Can we -- western nations -- please do something already? Something more than simply throwing some equipment at Ukraine and saying "good luck!"

Standing idly by while Russia decimates the country and kills civilians is heartbreaking.
Plenty of poor towns without such homicide rates and robbery. You are taking the agency out of the hands of the people committing the crimes and handing it to the circumstances.
If I’m guessing the intent of your mysterious comment correctly, what exactly are you contesting as inaccurate?
Had a horrendous experience with NameCheap where they basically stole my domain and some of my money after freezing my account and insisting i do a cam show with my credit card on some random site (not their domain) that had privacy guard up.. They are also not so 'cheap' any more. I'm using NameSilo and PorkBun, so far not bad.
Numbers don’t tell the full tale. Yes an anthropology degree for the sake of having a degree is going to cost you, especially if you don’t go to a cheaper school to get it.

Almost nobody is going to hire you in some fields without a degree, and if that’s the field you want, then a degree you will get.

If your dream is to be the next Steve Irwin, then it doesn’t really matter if that degree in marine biology takes seven years to pay off or the rest of your life. You’re doing what you love with people you respect, which you aren’t going to find selling movie tickets or even managing the theater.

Edit: I think it might be good if we tried to discourage people without means from pursuing degrees with little to no vocational value. Those programs and the loans attendant to them are somewhat predatory in nature.
$ per hour worked isn’t a good trade
You can stop drawing straw men now. I never said that's a "German only thing", I'm sure it happens in other places as well.

I just chipped in with my anecdotal experiences and said that compared to other countries, even Eastern European ones, my customer support experiences in Germany have been noticeably worse across the board and even Germans who've been abroad have agreed and pointed it out as an issue.
None of that matters to me. I just want to turn the thing on and play some Halo.
Housing is absolutely not an issue that more consolidation and VC money can fix. Watching the US just nosedive right into becoming a renter society and giving up on the prospect of ownership is pretty wild...
I'm not talking about him protecting his property. I'm talking about the bensforbars thing. Paying people to track down specific criminals is very different than protecting ones property in the moment.
And it's really fun buying a new pair every x years purely because the battery has degraded and not really replaceable. I quit buying them purely because they fairly rapidly (compared to wired headphones) become e-waste, for the slight conveniences you mentioned. All those things including swimming were done with wired headphones too, with maybe the exception of walking into the other room to get your tea.
I worked a bunch with BT closer to the physical layer, and I have to say I was always impressed by how well specified and implemented things were up to the link layer. I think it works fantastically well. But unfortunately it's an invisible achievement, kind of how IT folks don't get recognized when things work; instead when people say "Bluetooth sucks" it's usually due to poor app profile implementations/specs.

As a result, saying "let's invent a better Bluetooth" contains a hidden trap: it requires reinventing that really good core, which is probably really expensive, which then would not leave much to build better app profiles and we would end up with a similar problem.

We should not be inventing a better Bluetooth but fixing the app profile certification. I'm not sure what the right solution there is.
I just recently migrated all (4) of my domains from google domains to cloudflare. Some of them (.cafe) because it was 50% cheaper (20ish bucks instead of 40) and others (.com) because even through the price was ~ the same ($9ish vs 12) I still wanted to decrease how load-bearing my google account was.

The transfer was quite smooth. It was easy to turn off the cloudflare "protection" (my sites don't need it (yet?) and I didn't want to have to think about it, the threat model, tls stuff, etc). And so far no problems.
Not sure how regarding nuclear fission as reasonably dangerous automatically makes you a "fossil fuel lover", but okay. It's not like there aren't any other options out there. They just haven't received much investment in the past decades (except for a few places, i.e. geothermal in Iceland).

I'd like to be educated about that radioactive waste lie – I've not seen it work (meaning no-maintenance, safe, long-term or permanent storage) yet anywhere. And yet, supposedly a solved problem. Waste processing & storage has a long history of irradiating, or even leaking into the environment – one that immediately comes to mind is Sellafield [1], which is a repeat offender. Gorleben [2], another more recent example of how the "solved problem" turned out to be mainly money in other people's pockets. In the US, they recently had an issue with waste stored on the surface [3]. The list is long, and growing – yet not a single storage facility exists that is deemed permanently safe? I also don't know of any such facility currently under construction.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sellafield#Incidents
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorleben_salt_dome
[3]: https://nypost.com/2021/04/03/leak-of-radioactive-wastewater...
Maybe its the spammers' filters that explain this? company@mydomain.com might be stripped from their mailing list because lots of folks do this. Me for instance.
Most of Namecheap's employees are in Ukraine, and they decided to block Russian users after the invasion: https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx...
If anything the Shuttle program started out optimistically and soured pretty fast.

Early on they were planning to launch 50 missions a year, yet this made no sense because they also expected that they'd lose a vehicle about 2% of the time which turned out to be right. At the high launch rate they would had to built a new shuttle every year.
React is NOT a framework.
French Nuclear Giant Sues Government for $8B
La plus ca change, la plus c'est la meme chose
Power, Corruption and Lies (or how I became a typographer, pt. 1)
Koopman's more recent "Better Embedded System Software" is a great overview of its subject.
My dear Sherlock,

not to brag, but I am the same person who wrote

"I have around 50 books and a dozen of comic books on my e-reader.

It works perfectly without any connection whatsoever.

I'm not sure that being able to download a book while sitting on top of Mountain Everest it's a such an important feature"

The point being: you can preload years worth of reading material on e-books, a connection is not needed.

It was in response to a post that said

"The older kindles with 2G/3G "Whispersync" functionality had another major drawcard of working just about anywhere, even if you didn't have wifi coverage or a phone with data services"

It wasn't about mount Everest.

Sincerely yours
>pman

Oh man. I didn't know just how badly I needed this in my life, thank you!
I use Dynadot, and they actually pass the "domain tasting" on to the customer: you have a couple of days to cancel your domain registration for a full refund.

As a customer, I highly recommend Dynadot (low prices like NameCheap, but a nicer interface - I tried both registrars when I switched my domains away from DreamHost).
I recently read the book Big Oyster by Mark Kulansky and it is full of interesting history and trivia about oysters and the New York City area.

Couple highlights:

- Despite a very poor "nutrient to harvest cost" ratio, humans have been eating oysters for thousands of years

- Oyster shells were piled up by Native Americans. These piles were never more than a certain distance from the shore (I believe something like 60 ft). In addition, the shells at the bottom of these piles were usually larger than at the top implying that over harvesting led to smaller oysters both then and now

- Despite different sizes, shapes etc all oysters on the eastern seaboard of the United States are all the same species

The book is full of great lines too e.g. "New York is not a city that plans; it creates situations and then deals with them"
Ask HN: Carbon Neutral CDN
Has anyone seen anything like this?

I have been switching over everything I can to providers that use 100% renewable energy / carbon conscious. I figure for a CDN thats a big ask that every datacenter in the network uses renewable energy especially as renewable options around the world are quite limited, but I was surprised to see that there is none, not one.

Does such a thing exist? I could potentially make one find a few dc around the world with renewable energy and build out a carbon neutral CDN. Nah thats a silly idea most likely Ill just stick to cloudflare.
I had started down the path of going all Ubiquity ~5 years ago. I started with cameras and their camera controller. It was super flaky, when everything was working, it was great, first class app experience. But any time the cameras rebooted (power outage, firmware upgrade), I would literally spend days with some cameras offline, until multiple reboots of impacted or all cameras would eventually fix it.

Then, a few years in a firmware upgrade to the switch (their 250W PoE switch) caused it to start isolating my Google WiFi APs because it would do some loop detection. An hour on the phone with their support (which in that instance was really good) resulted in a a prognosis of "This particular loop detection can't be turned off." So I had to drop a dumb switch in front of the Ubiquiti for the Google APs. I was considering replacing them with Ubiquiti, but needed to run some more wire throughout the house to get what I needed.

Then I ran into a firmware upgrade that bricked 3 of my 4 cameras. After going back and forth with their support and getting nowhere, I just gave up. I had replaced the controller with the CloudKey G2 at one point because the old one was no longer supported, and it seemed to help with but not totally resolve the days of rebooting cameras situation.

Honestly, having the cameras bricked was a relief, because of all the consternation that the firmware updates had been causing. I just couldn't bring myself to buy new Ubiquiti cameras.

I ended up pulling out all the Ubiquiti hardware, replacing it with $200 4K very low light cameras that are just amazing (rebranded HIK Vision, "Montavue"). I'm using BlueIris for the camera controller, which is fine. Still using the Google WiFi, which continues to work great. I have 4 APs (one in router role, 3 spread around the house).
That doesn't solve the issue of making a domain unresolvable if the registrar chooses to do so like the case in here, or does it?
List of his publications, including this one:

https://www.dreamsongs.com/Essays.html

He states that he wrote it for the journal Artificial Intelligence in 1993. That led me to Elsevier's website for the journal, which absolutely blows. Clicking around, it was this issue: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/artificial-intelligenc...
For pwgen there is a great tool of the same name that does basically that. Just have to add -1 to get a single password by default it outputs a whole bunch so you can pick one which I prefer most of the time.
I do a similar thing, except for making gifs:

if [ -z $3 ]
then
echo "usage: $0 file start_seconds duration [scale=600] [fps=15] [crop]"
exit 1
fi

if [ -z $4 ]
then
SCALE=600
else
# w=iw/2:h=ih/2 half size
SCALE="$4"
fi

if [ -z $5 ]
then
FPS=15
else
FPS=$5
fi

if [ -z $6 ]
then
CROP="crop=iw:ih:0:0,"
else
# CROP="600:ih:250:0" full height
CROP="setsar=1,crop=${6},"
fi

rm "${1}.gif" &> /dev/null

ffmpeg -ss $2 -t $3 -i "$1" -vf ${CROP}fps=${FPS},scale=${SCALE}:-1:flags=lanczos,palettegen palette.png -loglevel error
ffmpeg -ss $2 -t $3 -i "$1" -i palette.png -filter_complex "${CROP}fps=${FPS},scale=${SCALE}:-1:flags=lanczos[x];[x][1:v]paletteuse" "${1}.gif" -loglevel error
Realized I should include example output:

$ szup .
42

inspecting /Users/redacted/Documents/backups
====================================================
1.8G ./pfsense_backups
90M ./Alfred
22M ./atext
21M ./depot_2.0_backup
6.0M ./fever_backup_2009-06-30_18.11.27.sql
5.7M ./Contacts_bkup_2019-01-13.abbu
2.1M ./pocket_backups
936K ./simplenote_db_backup_2017-12-13
692K ./quiver_backups
256K ./pocket_exports
184K ./simplenote_db_backup_2017-12-13.zip
172K ./pins_exports
24K ./reeder_subscriptions_2022-04-26.opml
24K ./.DS_Store
20K ./rss_02-23-2016.opml
8.0K ./reeder_subscriptions_2022-04-26.opml.zip
That's funny, because I've had to buy more pairs of wired cables because they frayed than I ever did wireless headphones because the battery died.
My experience having worked in several different jobs across several sectors, both in the public and private sector: email is still used heavily internally and it is the default for most people.

The formality of email has decreased over the years, though there’s still that odd expectation of salutations when writing emails. However, email has been around for most office workers entire working careers, and people don’t give up old habits easily. As is often said, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”.

Another thing to note: many of the people I work with can’t even be reliably reached on something like teams. There’s no expectation that it must be monitored, but they are always reachable by email.
Why the Ethereum Merge Is a Monumental Blunder
That's fascinating.

But generally when people feel like the best way to advance their career is to leave, then I don't think that joke works in Klarna's favour as much as they might think it does.
Where did you end up? Simpsonville, Travelers rest?
Tested by manually expire the session cookie. You're right, thanks! :)
I just commented with the exact same book suggestion! Do you have any other suggestions on the same area?
We do not verify any of your personal information. We neither have access to that nor store any of it on our system. Our PhoneCheck product simply returns a true or false. Is your phone number tied to this SIM Card. This is information the MNO already has, they know your phone number and your SIM Card. The request is made over a cellular data connection from your device to the MNO
That was obviously not the actual code :)
Might be kind of related. Some years back I worked delivery at Lowe's. We would sometimes replace appliances that had an issue and were under our warranty still. For Samsung and LG appliances if there was any issue at all the manufacturer would generally tell us to junk it. So we would load up perfectly good $4000 fridges with a noisy ice maker into the junker trailer and they would be sold for scrap. I don't know if these things were so cheap to produce that it wasn't worth repairing or maybe the shipping was too high but I got the impression that they're selling way overpriced cheap junk that isn't meant to last.
You have inadvertently discovered the value of pentesters which is making handling security issues a win for the the management.
It's the opposite where I am: landlords raising rates to capture more of those sweet student loan dollars. The policy of making access to credit cheap and ubiquitous for students has led to drastic growth in rents (in addition to a large expansion in college amenities and administration). That's what's pricing out locals: students paying for housing with borrowed money.