skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, I already own a number of headphones/earbuds that I really like for different situations. They all "just work" when you plug them in. I don't have to worry about the headphones running out of batteries, and don't have to worry about additional power draw from using headphones when I have to stretch battery life for whatever reason, e.g. backpacking or in an emergency or if I just forgot to charge my phone. I don't have to buy new headphones regularly.

Bluetooth has gotten better over the years but it's certainly still buggy, at least with Android. I don't like the environmental impact of buying unnecessary electronics, particularly battery-powered ones, constantly just to be able listen to music. I like technology that can "just work" every time without the constraints or anxiety. I don't like having wireless transmitters directly on my head or in my ear when it can be easily avoided, even if I know they are low power.

I am lucky that I could afford the added cost of wireless headphones if I wanted them, but with billions of people not able to afford basic expenses and phones increasingly required to live a life these days, it seems fairly cynical to industry-wide remove an obvious cheap feature and force everyone to much higher-cost and higher-resource consumption technology. Yes I acknowledge the Pixel line is not a budget item, I just mean for this type of change in general.
So when the bitcoin are traced to a washing service in a location where the FBI has no jurisdiction (so that they cannot go after the washing service), split into individual satoshis and then sent through hundreds of thousands of transactions before being put back into the wild in a format that is completely and totally randomized and then one day months or years later re-enter the FBI's jurisdiction you think that there's a chance in hell that they will be able to identify specifically which individual satoshis are illegal and which ones are not?
It's free tier. But storage is limited to 5GB.

I'm pretty sure you can pay for more storage but I just haven't hit the limit yet.
My $150 IEM 3.5mm headphones sound better than any wireless headphones in that same price bracket.

Having a headphone jack built into my phone would be great so that I didn't need an extra dongle. I still carry around a DAP to listen to music to that way I don't have to rely on streaming services, since my last few phones haven't had a headphone jack.
"plans for" is a funny way of saying blunders into
Responding to any legal request without legal counsel is a good way to fuck yourself up. There's no "just do x" unless you enjoy playing with fire.
You made a site complaining about the subpoena and came to Hacker News to complain about it some more.

Look, I get that you guys are a small shop but you should not be surprised to be asked to provide evidence in an antitrust litigation over the VR market. I'm guessing you haven't seen a subpoena before - they are all like this, and your attorneys will be able to negotiate something much less burdensome.

So get off Hacker News and let your lawyers handle it.
This appears to be a contingency plan 'in the "unlikely" event supplies of gas fall short of demand.'

The report showed, under a base case scenario, that margins between peak demand and power supply were expected to be sufficient and similar to recent years thanks to secure North Sea gas supplies, imports via Norway and by ship.

Any operator that didn't have such contingency plans would be negligent.

Is it going to happen in reality: hopefully not

Edit: I have a feeling that the article may be referring to the 3 hour Loss of Load Expectation (LOLE) service level target for the year.

This isn't quite the same as a three hour blackout.

I'm not sure though because the sky article doesn't reference its sources.

Which may be this:

https://www.nationalgrideso.com/document/264521/download

or it might not?

edit2:

actually I think it's this:

https://www.nationalgrideso.com/document/268346/download

edit3:

Found it, its not the LOLE target, but the response to scenario 2 on page 10 of the second link:

scenario 1:
"In this scenario we assume that we have no electricity interconnector imports from France, Belgium and the Netherlands (these are assumed to provide a de-rated capacity of 3.9GW in the Base Case). It is assumed that we import 1.2GW from Norway and export 0.4GW to Northern Ireland and Ireland."

scenario 2:
"In this scenario we assume the same assumptions as Scenario 1, but with an additional 10GW CCGTs unavailable for a two-week period in January1. These assumptions have been chosen to illustrate the potential impact on the electricity system if there was insufficient gas supply in Great Britain."

"Should this scenario happen, it may be necessary to initiate the planned, controlled and temporary rota load shedding scheme under the Electricity Supply Emergency Code (ESEC). In the unlikely event we were in this situation, it would mean that
some customers could be without power for pre-defined periods during a day – generally this is assumed to be for 3 hour blocks. This would be necessary to ensure the overall security and integrity of the electricity system across Great Britain. All possible mitigating strategies would be deployed to minimise the disruption."

Which I think would then follow this set of rules:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

final:
I think my information here is mostly right. But you should not base your electricity operational decisions on it!
If SAT prep was effective, then it would be an educational miracle, because a good SAT prep course is under $1,000. American schools spend 10 times that much money per student every year and barely move the needle.
So what if they are children? Fuck children?

They received a letter that looks important and official to them, and looks to them like something they have to comply with.

Are you giving legal advice to ignore letters from lawyers?
"Most of us" absolutely don't do that. My company has 3000+ people, and I can say with certainty that every single person works away from their desk at some point in the day. I would quit my job in an instant if I had to be tied to a desktop at a particular spot all my life.
It’s super ironic because just minutes ago I was thinking about building a similar app for myself (pictures only, no TikTok style content). That’s when I went on HackerNews to search to see if anyone’s already built, or at least a self hosted Instagram. Lo and behold, this HN post is just hours old.

It’s almost like FB is getting so aggressive to bring back revenue that it doesn’t care it’s backfiring, fast. I want to say that recent algorithmic changes or experiments is making the Instagram experience so unenjoyable these days. It’s been noticeably unpleasant this month where I quickly snap out of the hypnosis and realizing I don’t like any of the content. Before at least there was a few delightful and original content here or there.

I was just hoping to journal / log my daily memories. Pictures are easier than words. I created a new Instagram account hours ago to this end. Was planning for it to be anti-social … not using it as platform for popularity or show off how great my life is. Then Instagram’s brilliant ML / AI kicked in
and asked me to upload a selfie holding up a handwritten security code for confirmation.

Being the programmer that I am, my knee jerk reaction is that I might as well build and self-host my own.
It was too long to go through the podcast.

When it comes to getting to know a person, there is no shortcut than spending time with them, asking them questions, putting yourself with them in various circumstances. One of the best ways to tap into someone's personality is to go for a trip with them.
I don't begrudge them their annoyance (or click-through harvesting) but there is a straightforward legal process for objecting to and quashing a subpoena. Seems like it might apply here, at least in part: https://www.klgates.com/Litigation-Minute-Responding-to-Thir...

Also RE some speculation in this thread, it seems very unlikely to me that Meta's legal team was looking to get some free market research, but it is interesting to consider.
What are repercussions for this act? I.e. what will the tourist be charged with? Simple vandalism seems way too lenient.
Apple Rumored to Launch 27-Inch 120Hz Mini-LED Display in Q1 2023
> You can end the day with getting something done in “weird” language too, again generally faster than in some obtuse Java or ~~Go~~ codebase.

Yeah, I would like to see a source on that.
Yeah, already Tailscale / WireGuard user and SSHing all around.

Didn't know VSCode had a headless mode that can be driven over the net (which is what your description sounds like), will definitely check it out, thanks.
This is interesting when combined with this study which showed that ketamine therapy with rapamycin was more effective (both are very strong anti-inflammatory drugs), despite the hypothesis being that rapamycin would inhibit the effects of ketamine due to MTORC suppression.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-020-0644-9
Jack Welch destroyed the company and wrote a book to brag about it.
I used to be a hardcore pro-RCV supporter (I liked Yang, and Yang made RCV one of his main issues, outside UBI), but I've become a little more jaded in the last few years.

Empirically, it seems like RCV-IRV (RCV from here on) not much better than Plurality. For example, look at all the countries and cities with RCV and without. It's not at all clear to me that those with RCV are much better than those without.

Both NZ and Australia are dominated by a large center-left and center-right party coalition. Sounds familiar.

NZ has a housing crisis that is even worse than San Francisco. Australia is under the thumb of the mineral extraction industry. All sounds familiar.

(Obviously NZ and Australia beat the US on some metrics, e.g. single payer healthcare if that's your thing, but there are plenty of European countries that have equivalent or better systems without RCV)

There are hundreds of US cities with RCV. None of them are obviously better than those without. They still have all the same fights about zoning and bike lanes and public parking that other cities have.

I'd still prefer RCV over Plurality, but I don't really think it's the panacea some of its supporters thing it is.
The radicalization is driven by the recommendation engines that are the central premise of these platforms. Every would-be flat earther already knows that the roundness of earth is the officially designated truth, putting that warning label on flat earth videos isn't going to change a thing. The only purpose of that label is to take political heat off the platform that is recommending flat earth videos.

These warnings are ass covering, plain and simple. They aren't a service to idiots, they exist to excuse the platform from being fundamentally hazardous.
i've seen a lot of ppl do it wrong and claim it doesn't work. it's like not obeying the rules of the road and getting mad when things get chaotic
The problem here is the FTC trying to regulate a nascent industry by fiat. The startup is caught up in the silliness of trying to define competition in an area of trade that doesn’t really exist yet. Exactly when the FTC should go find something better to do, like health claims in supplements.
How many hours per day does a wind tower have to be working and during which lifetime to be able to pay up for all that steel, copper, aluminum, and a couple of rare earth metals, with their prices currently rising, and to offset the environmental impact of collecting and producing such materials?

Is their a study that answers these questions?
"[The fall of GE] arguably begins with the arrival of the legendary Jack Welch as CEO in 1981."

Ref: "The fall of GE" https://theweek.com/articles/761357/fall-ge (2018)
Anyone else get the feeling that the information density of podcasts is just really low? I'd rather follow along a dense narrative than listen to a bunch of people chat with time wasted in pleasantries/jokes/etc.
Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery Foundations
It’s not supposed to make money, it’s a spy tool subsidized by a foreign adversary…
Same and also in Math and Physics classes. SUNY system schools. Also 20 years ago. The vast majority of my classes were 300+ people.

If it wasn't the self-authored textbooks refreshed every year, chances were that the adjunct teaching barely spoke English.

It took me extra long to get through school just because of all of the math classes I had to drop and take the next semester just because on the first day I showed up to class, the prof was mumbling or non-verbal, would face the board and write illegibly all lecture and not explain a damn thing.
Visual Semantic Search for NFTs with Alchemy, OpenAI's Clip and Pinecone
There is something very "Florida Man" about this story.
Joke answer: Because dumping on AWS is fun!

Serious answer: People will confirm or not in the comments, this post seems pretty reasonable, if a little trigger happy. It could just be a random launch failure.
Yeah, it's not great.
This is just flat out wrong. Any seasoned gamer can feel the difference between a few tens of milliseconds.

300ms would render most video games unplayable.

I see this claim a lot and it's making me want to build a website that gives you some common interactions (moving a mouse cursor, pressing a button) with adjustable latency so people can see just how big of an impact seemingly small amounts of lag have on how responsive something feels.
Thanks, great idea. Added a comment into the feature proposal in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/273250#note_11... - suggest upvoting and/or subscribing to notifications.
>Who learns how to build new environments?

Feels like this is happening already. There is no incentive to learn the fundamental concepts. We need more people interested in the why, and not just a quick buck. Folks interested in the why is the only reason we are here to begin with!

On the other hand....it's great job security! Less and less people understand networking everyday it seems!
Google will pay Arizona $85M over illegally tracking Android users
In my highly uninformed view, you're thus far in the clear near as my uninformed, ignorant ass can tell.

But the GP's advice is still as good as when it was printed: for the most part, the under-resourced party is courting nothing but trouble by courting public opinion litigation.

Do talk to a lawyer, don't say more than you can help on the Internet. It's good advice.
I've had certain wired headphones that last me 10+ years. Blutooth devices with small batteries would end up in a landfill in that time.
Thank you for the clarification; I hadn't grokked the algorithm yet.

That's interesting for a couple of reasons. I can see why that works. It also implies that for closed objects, the voxel data on the interior (where no images can see it) will be complete noise, as there's no signal to pick any color or lack of a voxel.
Some people with a ping-pong ball andwaterfall recording induce dreamlike visual
“Working with the medium group gave the biggest uplift.”

Anecdotally, I’ve seen the same thing in a B2C context. The uplift in the highest probability group was so bad that we would leave those leads alone completely, even though the marginal cost of an email or sms is basically 0 as a % of revenue from a successful conversion.
Damn, when you said Google I thought you were gonna talk about Cloudtop, etc. +1 to your recommendation, but they do a pretty good job Cloudtop too(for non-power users it is pretty usable).

Also check out https://www.mightyapp.com/
I don't understand why you seem to think that gov't stockpiles don't end up in the hands of government employees and medical professionals as they are intended to, or that the storage conditions of N95 by the gov't is any less suitable than commercial warehouses?

Unless these N95s are being stored in a bog, I have a hard time understanding how they're "turning brown" and "deteriorating" in the span of two years.

Such unlikely claims would need a source.
> I wanted a way to create calendar entries from my terminal.

> There is no state on the server, it just generates a calendar event on the fly and returns it.

Didn't see that coming. I suppose it's handy that you can call it anywhere curl is installed (or even use the browser address bar as your command line) instead of having to install and run the Rust program locally.
It is the only thing that makes sense on an individual level absent legislation and funding from the federal government, because of the lack of immigration controls.
I mean, that's what people claim is what sold them on a new phone, but I can't really tell the difference anymore. Looking back at my old pictures, I can't tell when I upgraded phones. Even pictures from 2016 look amazing.
Well if they're actually identical this seems like a stupid race.

But if the software is different, sure, why not? The Robot soccer leagues had a league where the platform is literally identical, all teams buy some Nao robots from Aldebaran Robotics, they have a coloured indicator so you know which team is which - but the matches certainly aren't like watching a mirror, if one team has programmed a vastly improved dribbling strategy or the other team's ball tracking isn't very good, it's pretty obvious who wins that.

Humans can no longer usefully assist chess computers. So all a human is doing is attempting to obey simple movement instructions, which isn't even a sport.
Can you explain how Hans could prove that screenshots are fake? I suppose you mean Hans could subpoena records from his own ISP or Chess.com or Chess.com's ISP that reveal the content of Hans's communication; right?
That study seems somewhat unethical to me. There’s no way to do this without informed consent and I can imagine feeling really disturbed should something like this happen to me. The result is interesting but I have difficulty understanding the lens bio-ethicists applied designing and approving this.
The iPhone already has "AR" so yeah, I'm surprised they weren't on the list. If Meta could argue that Apple is a competitor, they'd've already won.
> Oh, is THAT what that is.

That is at least the explanation I got on some obscure forum where someone else had a similar problem and it was caused by heat.

> is the tape oriented diagonally?

Worse - it's a multi layer sandwich of filters etc. which need to be perfectly aligned for a clear image:

https://www.azom.com/images/Article_Images/ImageForArticle_2...

Funny thing is in my case the hottest part actually remained ok - it's the surroundings that got, for lack of a better word, ruffled.

I've seen videos of Indian repair men disassembling a panel and putting it together to fix such issues, but IIRC only the back light ever came off.
Obviously if the court rules they acted anti-competitively then yeah that would count as "doing something wrong", but I don't think it makes sense to call their legal defense itself evil. As you said, Meta has a right to defend itself in court, just like anyone.
Sounds like you think you know what they are thinking (about thinking that they know what each other is thinking).
Same here, but kung fu.

Despite protections and whatnot shit happens. Usually in one place, or in an unfortunate combination of two.

Being driven over, pushed through a window, crashed by a piano and drowning is not usual in one session. Looks like this is more or less what this guy had happening to him.
Legacy API Keys Incident Report for DigitalOcean
Plus, the cardiac involvements post vaccinations have almost all been in young men - adolescents mostly, with symptoms within days. Kim was not an adolescent, so it seems unreasonable to presume vaccination as the cause.
How come these articles never mention the profound effects and aftereffects of bad trips?
Ubuntu's killer feature early on, for me, was picking the obviously correct defaults. No, I don't want Gnome or KDE's stupid browser, I want(ed) Firefox. A whole bunch of little choices like that, that meant I could just hit "install" without modifying anything or choosing any packages and get a desktop set up about the same way I'd have set up Debian, after a bunch of faffing about.
IRV is hard to evaluate though. How long would it take to teach a member of the general public to evaluate IRV results?

You also cannot have meaningful estimates until all results from every district are in. How long it took in New York to get any results might leave people disillusioned and opposed to anything but FPTP.

Using Borda and Condorcet is also clearly a straw man, as AFAIK nobody is actually pushing for those in practice. The real runners seem to be IRV, Approval and STAR. Of those IRV is clearly the most compared to evaluate.

IMI they are all pretty simple and in an ideal world it wouldn't matter that much. However, we need to be highly aware that as soon as a major election gets won with anything but FPTP, we'll see the losing party "flood the zone with shit" to undermine the election results and the method. We've already seen the beginning of this after the election in Alaska. We need to keep it as simple as possible, otherwise the shit will drown everything else out.
Google evaluated git for use internally and rejected it, partially because it was not able to handle its huge monorepo well.
I really like Scala, but that 10x claim is just straight bullshit. You hardly have 10x difference between goddamn C and some high-level language!
Well at the very least he’s going to Hell.
That backronym already exists longer now than the non-acronym BLOB term existed before, though.
The cost effective struggle is largely against solar and off shore wind fwiw. Clean energy is booming.
Anti-vaccine legislation is on the rise after the Covid-19 pandemic
Question...

Do customers actually like bigger phones with bigger screens?

Or were customers going to buy the latest phone anyways, and manufacturers are incorrectly assuming they bought the bigger phone because they wanted it?

And then the other question...when manufacturers bundle specific features with the larger size and leave them off the smaller size, are they assuming people are buying the larger phone because it's larger, and not because of the specific features of that model? Like, I bought a Pixel 6 Pro because of the better camera, not because it's larger.
Goblin's Law of Whimsy
Goblin's law: anything that can be made whimsical should be made whimsical
That argument can also be extended to trains. Problem is that the unions just wouldn’t allow it.

I’d love automation of public transportation, but nobody wants to try because of the social hurdles.
Market cap also quantifies the value of the labor that has gone into developing the infrastructure that supports these networks. Had that labor been allocated differently, that trillion dollars of value might be seen in parts of the economy responsible for the production of goods that are now becoming expensive.
Euro's crash is because of the pipeline sabotage - European industry is literally shutting down. And some manufacturers are moving their factories to the US. Hence the disparage.

However at large, countries in Asia, Middle East and the Global South have moved a lot of trading to their own currencies or using Yuan. This immediately caused the inflation in the us starting from a few months ago.
> just to force the opponents out of “book.”

I think that was happening 500 years ago. That change is subtle.