skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have an Amazon FireTV and one day, when I had my work Windows PC at home, it could stream via Bluetooth (like an external screen). There was lag when starting / changing videos, but otherwise it seemed to work well enough.

Don't most smart TVs have Bluetooth today? In my case, the FireTV is plugged into my (dumb) PC monitor.
I found it useful conjecture. It presents evidence and states the conclusions it draws, with appropriate disclaimers. Based on the facts, the conclusions are not unreasonable.

- Apple has kneecapped ads from competitors, this is acknowledged fact

- Apple services revenue has grown significantly since, which includes ad revenue, this is acknowledge fact (to the SEC no less)

- Apple does not disclose ad revenue as proportion of services revenue, but it's reasonable to think it would grow as well

Digital marketers have personally told me app install ads and the like on Facebook are no longer effective, so we'd expect those dollars to move to other areas.
Currently 1 in 60 Britons work for the NHS, this includes babies.

At some point you have to admit that good intentions aren't enough.
> enables exploitation of others

What? Libertarianism is explicitly against exploitation. Its core principles are non-aggression and voluntary association.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-aggression_principle
ffmpeg -i http://source.m3u8 -c copy out.mp4

Ads defeated.
> They talk about Apple maps and I for one would like to be able to say I’m looking for a restaurant and see the logos pop up along my route.

But then you don’t really want ads: you want information (facts about the local business near your position), ideally factual, impartial and unbiased. The fact that a lot of people seem to conflate both is actually a PR tour de force from advertising companies. Do you really want the prominence of local bars being a function of the tax they pay to advertisers?
‘Too much management’ has long been a tabloid argument to restrict funding - see the Daily Mail front page yesterday.

There was a TV programme ‘Can Gerry Robinson save the NHS’ fifteen years ago that had some very interesting examples of problems with lack of effective management.
While I understand the point about displaying a time in a given timezone (output/strftime)

I don't see how specifying a timezone on a epoch count makes any sense (input/strptime).

A 'number of seconds since epoch' (%s) is a _duration_, not a time. It makes no sense to attach a time zone to it. (This seems to have been the initial response from the project maintainer).

From the original article the reported "bug" is about _parsing_ an epoch duration, not about displaying a time.

DateTime.strptime('0 +0100', '%s %z')

Probably I am missing something but I've re-read the original article and I cannot see this point addressed directly (examples are given but they have to do with displaying/output, not parsing).
The History of Basicode
Ignoring every other benefit and concern, verification in the way proposed is a bad idea because part of the verification process in most cases is verifying that the service can send messages to you that actually get delivered. If you do this and then send the first "log in link" email which gets held up as spam or putatively malicious since some server has the temerity to not be located inside the US, doesn't have a DKIM signature, etc, you haven't really verified everything that you need to know. Of course, those things can change at the drop of a hat anyway, but I'd rather have verified that 1 time than 0 times.

If all you do is use it for login and will never need to send a message, then fair enough, the email is just essentially a random string you can prove ownership of, and your ability to send messages that will be delivered to the corresponding mailbox is incidental. But that's not a general enough conclusion to hold for why "we" (all cases) should do it that way.
It's ironic because it's an upfront inconvenience to read what is ostensibly an article critical of how consumers are being inconvenienced.

I'm not reading your site if you paywall it. There are too many other free resources that are just as good if not better.
Is it your claim that one medium sized city somehow has a bigger problem than the nation it exists within?

Baltimore has 10,000,000 people. The United States is larger by a factor of thirty three.
Devil's advocate:

Proven innocent is not a thing, there is only "declined to prosecute [because there was no crime]."
The proper socialization of children is always going to generate controversy. Fundamentally, most parents view teachers as public employees hired to teach kids what the community agrees kids should learn. But teachers often see themselves as part of a profession that has an obligation to socialize children in (little-l) liberal values or outright (big-l) Liberal values. Of course this generates backlash.

And it’s not just from “proponents of religious education.” The most recent iteration is often coming from moderate liberals who oppose increasingly progressive teachers unions. Progressive teaching became a flash point in Loudoun County VA, right next to where I grew up. International migration to that region flipped Virginia blue in the earth 2000. A lot of Google employees live there. A great way to get an Indian Biden voter worked up is to tell them “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/578885-education-blunde...
What if the police don't feel it's interesting enough yet (or don't have funds) to investigate and put things on the backburner for lack of resources? Similar to the mountains of unprocessed rape kits.

These are interesting cases but it seems like they happen to be ones where the police bothered do anything.
> Please excuse my ignorance, but what do all these Sqlite-but-make-it-X solutions offer over a simple (...)

I can't speak for all, but keep in mind that SQLite does not require a server or sends requests over a network to get to the data. This means SQLite is a far simpler and cheaper deployment, which is totally acceptable if you don't have high reliability and horizontal scalability in mind. Sometimes it even outperforms production RDBMS.

Bolting on distributed access to SQLite adds horizontal scalability for (in the very least) cases where eventual consistency is more than enough to meet your requirements.
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I don't think many people describe their own ethical beliefs as a "quasi-religious worldview." The only reason you'd do so is to make them seem illegitimate.

The reason Salon doesn't write "universal human rights are a quasi-religious worldview, influenced by the bloodstained French revolution and the early 20th century communist movement" is because Salon actually likes human rights.
Flight Instructor here. MSFS and its predecessors are invaluable in pilot training, particularly for the Instrument rating. The value is in the modeling of navigation systems, noot so much the scenery or exterior of the aircraft.

Set visibility to 1/2 statute mile, ceiling at 300ft and practice full approaches to your heart's content. I recommend shutting off the ATC that ships with MSFS and using VATSIM or one of the other 3rd party human ATC systems available. Use Airnav.com for free US charts.

At $200/flight hour, spending $1000-2000 on a high end PC, rudder pedals and decent joystick and throttle will save students money. MSFS doesn't replace training, but helps in handling the mental load of instrument flight.
Oh. Used drives.
Ask HN: How much time/money did you spend building an MVP and was it worth it?
Saucerful of Secrets, Ummagumma, Meddle…
Interesting when you put it this way.

> people have found that having hierarchically composable uniform abstractions is a more effective approach for large-scale system design than creating specialized concepts ...

Well, I can understand that uniformity can be appealing for sure, but at the same time it doesn't _guide_ the design; too much choice can be paralyzing. The ultimate uniform language is Lisp, but it leaves too much up to the programmer to come up with a sound design.

I still think there's room for a more opinionated language when it comes to designing large scale systems (again nothing to do with distributed systems; it could well apply to a monolith).
Our school district just raised teacher salary significantly. Guess what? Applications are up 300%.
But the definition there doesn't say anything remotely like the Salon quote. Someone could argue that it's implied, but there's no reason to automatically accept that argument as compelling. It's much more likely that it's a highly contested implication.

Presenting a contested implication of X as a fact about X is basically lying. For example, suppose I observe you advocating for solar panels in a city meeting. I know that solar panels are often manufactured by slaves in Xinjiang. Is it appropriate for me to describe you as an advocate for slavery in Xinjiang? Obviously not - that would be a lie.
> Before the Internet became widespread

This is looking at things with blinders and assuming the public at large determines the significance of the Internet. The People were not using BBS, etc. A tiny vanishingly small minority of intrepid computer geeks were using BBS, etc. in the late 1970's, but Arpanet was already very well established by 1973.[1] Just because it was mainly limited to academics and corporations, this still vastly outmatched BBS use in the 1970's. BBS only came into popularity by the mid-1980's, when the Internet was already huge and stayed big, and BBS were effectively extinct within a few years of the invention of WWW. BBS use itself was never "widespread," unless we define widespread as a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population. Not to diminish the nostalgia for the unique fun of logging into a BBS, in reality, hardly anyone ever used them, which would be maybe tens of thousands at most among hundreds of millions. The number of academics at one large university attached to the Internet in 1978 could match the entire population of BBS users for it's entire existence.

[1] https://www.computerhistory.org/internethistory/1970s/
I mean, I guess it's all relative. I'm a software engineer at a startup. On average I work about 50-55 hours a week. I get 3 weeks of vacation a year.

I certainly don't deny that teachers spend a lot of time working on their "time off". But that said, I've known more than a few teachers personally, and yes, they still do get enormous amounts of time off. Heck, a bunch of them will even admit it is the biggest perk of teaching (because otherwise there aren't many).

Teachers have plenty of real, valid complaints about the environment of teaching, and more importantly, it's clear with the current teacher shortage that something is really broken. Still, I don't think it wins them any supporters when teachers try to deny that most of them have vastly more time off than other professionals.
Not a Brit, but curious.

Looking at the total healthcare expenditure before covid, it consistently hovered around 10 per cent of the total British GDP.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/317708/healthcare-expend...

If this is underfunded for you, how many per cent would be funded enough?

Accidentally, the EU average is about 10 per cent, with 12 member countries scoring less than 7.5 per cent of GDP.

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

From what I see, the British values seem absolutely normal to me, and healthcare results (life expectancy, 5-year survival of cancers) are just fine, especially given how fat British people have become.
Relevant related book: The Body Keeps the Score https://www.amazon.com/Body-Keeps-Score-Healing-Trauma/dp/01...
>Who do you want to compare them to?

For the purposes of determining appropriate prices, why is it necessary to compare their price to anyone? Supply and demand determine appropriate pricing.
The anti-trust is a bit of an odd one. A few possibilities
- do Google and Apple wind up controlling the online ad market?
Or
- does the ad market shrink because Apple exploits it less? (Killing an industry isn’t anti-competitive per se)

Another angle is that captive audiences will be steered to other Google or Apple products. But debatably this only becomes anti-trust worthy when Google and Apple will start to buy more businesses in non-core areas eg. To compete with Amazon as the everything store.

Microsoft is definitely doing this with gaming, buying up many huge game properties.
It's kind of interesting that no materials have metalness between 0 and 1. It might as well be a boolean or a tag.

I know it doesn't physically make sense to have it in between, but then I wonder why that ability is even included in a system that supposedly should help you make physically correct materials.

Maybe metalness of 0.5 could be used to describe a fine mixture of 50% metal and 50% non metal?

Maybe it's needed to provide an alias of sort when transitioning between a metal and a non metal in a texture
I doubt the media company lawyers would see it that way. And while they're ghouls, they'd have a point too. What counts as paying? I've got a colleague who would never download a movie illegally; he simply has a constant stream of Netflix DVDs (they're still doing that in case you thought that business was totally dead) that he rips and then sends back. He's paying someone for content, right?
> There has to be some type of special software for the medical profession that allows you to take a picture on your phone that is not stored on your phone and that you send to the doctor.

No, you shouldn't have to use some special software to take a picture. Taking a photo with your phone's camera app should never trigger an account suspension.
Thanks for the suggestion. But those are distributed systems aids. What I'm looking for is something that ca be applied to any large scale system, even if it's a monolith.
I would guess that the argument is that, on Android, you always have the option of rooting your phone or installing an alternative OS. So Google is a bit more limited than Apple is in how hard they can clamp down.

Personally, I don't know that that's true. It may be easier for Apple to do it because the ecosystem is more vertically integrated. But that's a coordination problem, not a technical one. I don't think there's a single major player in the Android ecosystem who wouldn't be willing to go along with a plan to lock things down just as far as laws will allow.
Super misleading. You can block websites manually, but you can’t add an adblocker to Chrome - so if you want an ad free experience, then you’re forced to use safari, a historically subpar browser - but worse, it’s vendor lock in.

If this article is true, this is some terrifically anti competitive behavior
This is the one. If I have to work (i.e.: not just live a life of luxury on the beach) my top pick would be to teach computers to children. So why am I not doing that job today?

1) The barrier to entry to getting that job is very high. I would probably have to go back to school and learn education, and it won't even be free! The barrier to entry for a job in the private sector is low, requiring no special certification. If you can do the job, you can get the job.

2) The teaching job comes with vastly more bureaucracy and bullshit than a private sector job. The thing I actually want to do, teach computers, is actually only a small portion of what the actual job of a teacher entails. That other stuff is absolutely not how I want to spend my brief time living on this planet.

3) Given 1 and 2, the compensation for being a teacher is orders of magnitude lower than just working in the private sector. There's no reward for putting in the extra work and tolerating the hassle.

I have indeed considered on many occasions becoming a teacher at the school of YouTube. I've been a student there longer than I have at any other institution.
Why don't you petition the government for a redress of grievances and oust them? It's an unlimited right guaranteed by the First Amendment that can remove tyrants without causing harm.
I don't question the law's ability to do this, but believe that the ideal human societal state is one where money isn't controlled by centralized actors, and that the law would change in time to comply with what's best for society. This will happen sooner in functioning states and later in bad ones.
Like a sibling comment, I find my degree to have been well worth it. I did know everything I needed to find work before I even started—I got a job in my second semester that I held all four years. But college gave me perspective on just how much there is that I don't know, in computing and in every other field. Most of those things are things I will never learn and use, and that's okay. It's valuable to me to know what's out there, and there have been many times where I've come across a problem and known what to research to solve it because of a college class I've taken.

So, yes, college isn't about career training. But life isn't about career. I know it's not everyone's experience, but for me, college made me better at life.
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We sell you super expensive product, charge everyone 30% tax for anything you buy on it, put health monitoring devices on you (that you pay for), have directly your credit cards in the wallet (including custom one from us) and in the end capture more data that any other ads giant now.

And we’ll use that for ads. But it’s fine. It’s locally so it’s fine and you are not a product. All because we convinced people using our deep pockets that they should only care if data is on servers?
Thank you for your efforts!

To be clear, I am not advocating for the removal of any files larger than 30 MiB (or any other arbitrary hard limits). It'd be great of course to flag large files for further review, but the current software doesn't do a great job at crowdsourcing these kinds of tasks (another one being deduplication) sadly.

Given the very little amount of volunteer-power, I'm suggesting that a "lean edition" of LibGen can still be immensely useful to many people.
I recently did the same. I swear they dialed up the ads to 11 in the last year. I was going to start tracking the ads:content ratio. I recall once for a 5 minute video I got: two 15sec un-skippable ads before any content, then a 15sec un-skippable ad followed by a skippable ad (7sec) at 1:15, then another two 15sec un-skippable ads at 3:10. I decided two things: the cost of premium was less than how much I value my time (watching ads), and that I enjoy the content available on YouTube more than similarly priced media subscriptions (Netflix, Hulu, Disney, etc.).
Even then, I wouldn’t want a file with text + illustrations to be considered a dupe of a text-only copy of the same work.
Prometheus is an open-source software for monitoring and alerting purposes. It collect and store its metrics as time series data, a series of data that is collected over consistent intervals of time.
You don't have to be sorry for anything :)
I hadn't read about RRAM before, but from what Wikipedia has on it [1], it's been a technology of the shining press-release future for a while. E.g.: "In 2013, Crossbar introduced an ReRAM prototype as a chip about the size of a postage stamp that could store 1 TB of data. In August 2013, claimed that large-scale production of their ReRAM chips was scheduled for 2015. [...] Also in 2013, Hewlett-Packard demonstrated a memristor-based ReRAM wafer, and predicted that 100 TB SSDs based on the technology could be available in 2018 with 1.5 PB capacities available in 2020 [...]"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistive_random-access_memory
Blind is an app that has people with confirmed company affiliations but anonymous, if you trust them. People speak openly if very greedily about wrk place shenanigans. It seems like an informative if distorting and addictive sort of thing. I check it every few months or if there is something big going on, e.g. layoffs or whatever. There are sections only your company can see and then more shared areas where you can read the woes of a PIP at Amazon or the rest and festers at Google, etc.
Aquabots: Ultrasoft liquid robots for biomedical and environmental applications
Yes, it can. This is in the original article. Look for “output_sum_closed_form”. All I typed in was the function name.
Historical prevalence of slavery predicts contemporary American gun ownership
Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias.

Say that your main crop is the forest

that you did not plant,

that you will not live to harvest.

Say that the leaves are harvested

when they have rotted into the mold.

Call that profit. Prophesy such returns.

Put your faith in the two inches of humus

that will build under the trees every thousand years.

somehow i think wendell berry’s long-term thinking isn’t what’s being described here …
Do markets not demand continual growth forever?

New phones are no longer a growth market. Everyone has one, and buying a $1200 phone every year is something less and less people are doing.

If Apple totally trashes their reputation, who are they going to flock to... Google? That is just jumping out of the frying pan into the fire.
Heat waves aren't going away
I have YouTube premium and download everything that I like. A home NAS is extremely handy like that. Mine is not even 10TB and I still have more than a year worth of watching. Also it's not illegal because I don't distribute anything.

I use a local website run by volunteers that ask permission of publishing houses before putting every scanned & OCR'd & spell-checked book in their online library. Again, not illegal, there's a clause for distribution when you work in something like a library capacity.

I use a Twitch client to watch stuff ad-free because I don't use it so often so as to get premium. Or I just download the stream after it ends. Tough luck, Amazon, no money from me. YouTube's service is better anyway.

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The "Black Mirror"-ization of our economy has a very predictable ending but the execs are trapped in a bubble of yes-people and have no clue how the world out there works -- thus everything will continue going exactly as predicted by many. One part of the populace will remain in the bubble but there will be a lot of others -- like you and me -- that will do their own media collection and consumption, grow part of our own food, repair our own tech, craft items to use around the house etc.

Corporations know no mercy and they will not stop however. They will keep changing the narrative ad infinitum until everyone is dependent on them at birth. But they won't ever get to that point in the first place and will inevitably fail. Normal people can be swayed only so far. That's the part that they are missing -- which is quite puzzling to me, not like it's hard to figure it out.

But I made my peace with the coming events. It's like watching an avalanche: you have a pretty good idea what it does and how far it will go and the damage it will inflict but physics doesn't care that you watch and know what will happen -- the event will happen regardless.

The future is this: extreme segregation. Kind of like the big COVID-19 divide that happened even between people in the same family. That will keep happening in other areas of life. It's how people are.

C'est la vie.
"For longtermists, there is nothing worse than succumbing to an existential risk: "

I mean, this should be a concern for any human, surely? Though perhaps not for the universe itself.

The article is just dripping with derision, at least some of it unwarranted, and most of it apparently un-researched, or just cherry-picked.
Rat race: What rodent drivers can teach us about mental health
TPB is still going strong. Older content is sometimes difficult to find but anything new or even slightly popular from the last 50 years is more-often-than-not obtainable.
Three features just added in Julia 1.8 you won’t want to miss
Waiting lists are going down. They just cleared the backlog of people waiting 3 years for treatment