skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have expensive headphones and I don't care to have one more thing I have to charge daily. My daily hours of use of headphones means that I'd have to buy two pairs of headphones and switch them halfway through the day to charge. Wireless headphones are still very far in terms of audio quality, compared to wired headphones. More importantly, for certain applications, the audio latency due to bluetooth is unacceptable. A single device might be okay, but it's not across all of the devices I use.

Most importantly, I want to charge my phone while using headphones at the same time.

Phones aren't getting faster enough for me to care about having the newest phone anymore. If my laptop and my tablets and my tv remote, and game controller all have 3.5mm jacks, buying a phone without one is a dumb decision. Why would I intentionally pay for a worse daily experience?

Usb c to 3.5mm adapters all have had worse quality than a native port. A phone lacking a headphone jack isn't a feature, it's a way to generate a new revenue stream.

I know I am in a very small population of hours spent listening to audio in a day, probably top 5%, but I believe my phone should make my life easier, not harder. Bluetooth still isn't anywhere close to having feature parity to the 3.5mm headphone jack. If it was, companies would have dropped headphones jacks from their laptops.

Dell xps 13 plus, released feb 2022, doesn't have a headphone jack. No laptop since has followed this decision, not even apple.
Here's some more anecdata to offset yours...

I'm using an 11 year old Motorola Defy daily, using the original battery which still lasts for 3 days. It is used as a netcast player (using dSub which connects to the Airsonic server under the stairs), messaging client (mostly Telegram, Conversations (XMPP client) as backup) and phone. It is waterproof, shockproof and with its 3.7" screen small enough to fit in the breast pocket of most shirts.

I never had a Pixel so I can not comment on their reliability. We have never had to return any of our devices... except for the one iOS device we had in the house when my daughter got an iPad from school - it just died and needed to be replaced. Comparing that device to the host of Android devices (all running AOSP derived distributions) we use showed just how many restrictions iOS puts on the user so we did not miss it when she had to leave it back. The school obviously felt the same since they ditched the iPads for Chromebooks.

My daily phone is a Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 from 2019, running LineageOS. Next to that I use the mentioned Motorola Defy from 2011, a Samsung Galaxy Tab III (10.1") from 2013 and a Teclast x80 Pro from 2016. I used to use a Samsung Galaxy SIIIneo from 2014 but that one suffered a broken screen when it fell from the roof while installing solar panels. The thing still works but I actually prefer the Motorola Defy over it due to its more compact size. Notice the age of these devices, they're "ancient" by most measures but perfectly useable.
>No one will watch a competition between two self-driving identical Mazdas racing down the road.

That depends entirely on how it is presented. Over 13 million people watched these inanimate marbles[1] compete in a variety of races.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2AbcCbyJ2U
Ask HN: What tech would you use to build Instagram with in 2022?
Hours ago, I tried opening a new Instagram account to use as a visual diary / highlight of my day (I’ve been exploring the outside world for 15km+ everyday for over a year now). I recently hit an age milestone and intending to be quite anti-social with that account, insofar that I just post pictures that I like or capture my mood for day, rather than attempting to impress people with how great my life is.

Anyways, Instagram’s intelligent AI/ML kicked in and asked me to upload a selfie holding up a verification code. That’s not worth the effort. I think I’m just going to build my own visual diary tool. I won’t need all the bells and whistles of Instagram. Just an app where I can upload a picture, crop it into a square. In fact, the main features I had in mind are that there are no features. Heck, maybe downgrade the image resolution to force my brain memory muscle to work and avoid myopia. I’m thinking just a small monolith in Go and store the images on S3. I’m okay with a public bucket as I’m not intending on posting anything I don’t want people to see.

Thoughts on that “tech stack” I had in mind? What would you use if the engineering goal is simplicity and pragmatism? Don’t really care to wrestle with a new language paradigm right now, although Low-Code/No-code would be compelling. I’m personally less interested from a application logic / control flow / framework perspective, but more from a cloud architecture perspective. What services would you leverage in 2022?
> people tend to seek meaning not money. The emergence of OSS ecosystem is the best example -- a lot of it, including

Look at a list of who the largest contributors are to Linux.

https://news.itsfoss.com/huawei-kernel-contribution/

Most of the contributors are getting paid to do so.

Do you really think most of the 2.7 million developers in the US are contributing to open source?
This is interesting and I think you can heal past traumas with a variation of this.

So, if you remember a haunting event that you think may impact you even today, but then play it out how you want it to (ie vividly re-imagine as you would have liked it to be, or where you respond as you would now) then your present mental processing can be released from the malingering effects of the trauma.

This is the most powerful technique for mental healing I know.
Based on the search results and how the copy is replicated across multiple "news" domains this story is probably a fake.
The difference is that this hole was exploited once and since been plugged.
Not really: in that case, no one is dupe. It’s just a kid who is being blatantly churlish and wasting everyone else’s money.
That's how it happened. OVH announced the EOL about a year before the system was shut down.

pCloud is a replacement I choose, nothing to do with old OVH service.
After reading the full lawsuit, I think Cribl has a real threat on their hands. They've been playing fast and loose with the rules for a long time. Exports of leads from departing Splunkers, using licenses they're not entitled to use, and yes, using proprietary code that was gathered through less than fully kosher means. While this doesn't look great for Splunk, they wouldn't have filed the suit if they thought they would lose.
Very interesting article, but I thought they should have at least mentioned the central role of the serotonin receptor 5HT-2A in psychedelic drug activity in the brain:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-HT2A_receptor

This receptor also seems involved in synesthesia, a psychedelic-like condition thought to involve a cross-wiring of visual and auditory brain pathways that result in 'seeing sounds' and 'hearing colors'. Here's a bit of research on that:

> "Synesthesia has been reported with LSD5 as accompaniment to other visual hallucinations. These sound-induced visual perceptions and the visual hallucinations can be well formed and complex. The cause of synesthesia is thought to be chemical deafferentation of lateral geniculate body, which will deprive the occipital cortex from visual stimuli. LSD is known to selectively activate serotonin 2A receptor. Brang and Ramachandran19 hypothesized that serotonin 2A receptors are the “synesthesia receptor”. Auditory visual synesthesia also has been reported with other serotonin 2A agonists including mescaline and ayahuasca. Ayahuasca contains serotonergic psychledic N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) and beta-carboline, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor. DMT is a partial agonist of serotonin 2A receptors and beta-carboline inhibits the visceral metabolism of DMT, increasing its systemic levels."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3218766/

Incidentally, static output from old analog CRT televisions tuned to dead channels is a kind of ideal 'blank sheet' for producing hallucinations. Unfortunately there don't seem to be many good simulations of this once-common phenomena (the YT videos of TV static seem to suffer from replication issues of various sorts and aren't that realistic). Similar natural effects might be obtained by looking at fog and clouds, waves breaking on a beach, wind blowing over a field of grass, etc.

I'd argue that one of the great potential benefits of psychedelics is that they encourage us to look closely at the world around us.
Facebook's asking for too much, business plans from over 100 companies? LOL
I would imagine much less time than a huge power plant, with its much more steel, copper, aluminum, concrete, etc. Don't forget the extraction process for coal, gas, or clear cutting entire valleys to make damns.

You are comparing wind power to 'nothing'. You need to compare it to the alternatives.
Happy to help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony
It does because there have been instances where some countries are fed up of tourists from specific countries.

This is primarily due to cultural differences and presumptions that absence of law-enforcement(e.g. if there is no security guard at a gate, it is ok to go inside) means it is legal to do something stupid.
Not only that- but the claims to the water extend beyond just US states. Mexico also has a guaranteed amount of water it has claim to from the Colorado river as well.
Typically two kinds of guns will be exchanged in such a program. Guns worth less than the offer, making it a kind of cash-for-clunkers boondoggle, and stolen guns. This guy came up with a third grift. So what?
You're right. We won't be able to view them at all.
Oh man really? I liked this guy so much I got a book signed by him in early 2000s. Where can I read more
you can call an attorney and pay an hourly fee usually between 100 - 400/hr to talk with an attorney about your case or pay a retainer fee for 10 hours... attorneys that throw out 5 digit numbers when asked for a price are rip offs
Public schools have been giving free breakfast to poor kids for as long as most people in this thread can remember; it's been a federally funded program since the early 70s.
I think this is the rationale for profiles in chrome. Because this is infuriating for anyone who has to juggle professional and personal google accounts.

You can also use multi-account containers in firefox [1]

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
Not parent but can confirm vpc dataplane team is pretty good. Wouldn't want to work on control plane stuff though.
> pushing the MBA way of doing things

This is a bad, if commonly-made, attribution [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33111247
While this is true I‘d still like to see a source. Those numbers are hard to believe. I‘d guess it would take at least 5 years to recover $-costs, which is still good
I can't speak for myself, but I can offer a piece of anecdata.

I had this buddy, who, at the time we became friends, was writing stuff in assembler that I had trouble putting in pascal. To my kid mind, he was an absolute genius. Eventually, he told was he was talking acid and disclosed how he could tell his mind was not as sharp as it used to be as a result.

I have no knowledge if it was laced with anything or he simply had one trip too many, but it was definitely life changing. I was trying to reach out recently ( you know.. the whole nostalgia thing to see where everyone is these days ).

I will admit that made me hesitate on trying it myself on my own. If I were to do it now, the one thing I would make sure of is that there someone there to watch over me.
This story is about a filing in the United States legal system, under which this entity works.
> It isn't as simple as just saying "the iPhone SE still gets updates!", context is important

Nah, it's that simple. iPhone SE got major OS updates and security updates. Yes a few features are not available (mostly camera related), but most of them are. iPhone software update adds longevity to devices that Android devices can only dream about.
Unlikely - God is able to forgive any sin, and I doubt this would be considered a sin anyway.
Google/Alphabet should stick to internet infrastructure based products. It is increasingly becoming evident that they don't have customers confidence nor are they keeping up with the times with such botched launches & cancellations.

Playing on your strengths is not a bad deal. If they cull some of these product lines for good, and reinvest in core set of Workspace products, better search & competing GCP with AWS/Azure seriously (good documentation, product support etc), it will go a long way to recover the trust & brand value. You don't want to be seen as the Yahoo! of 2020s. That's a death sentence in slow motion.

As a computer scientist, Alphabet is no longer my first preference to get hired. The lustre of the company has jaded considerably in last 5 years (with the exception of AI ventures)
Oh, that's funny. Can't drill for oil, and wind energy isn't cost effective. What's next? Foot pedaled cars?
Yeah I've never understood why people say that hallucinations are real, and even "more real" and the "actual reality". The very definition of a hallucination is that it's not real, it's false. What am I missing here?
Yes, and I wonder what the racial composition of such a standard would be.
UK dependent on russian gas ? Who could have thought /s
+1 to that. Nvidia isn't winning the AI accelerator race because it's making obviously superior products to AMD/Intel. It is winning because CUDA is easy to use and reason about.

OpenCL's API is terrible to use and even if you know all of it's kinks there is much more boilerplate which turns a small script into a tangled mess.
I would like to push back against accepting gaslighting if it doesn't appear to materially affect you at the time. You make yourself vulnerable to being gaslit about how materially affecting it can be to you. This is how abusers destroy the identity of their victims over time, through continually downplaying their harm and convincing the victim they are not being injured. This makes it extremely hard for someone to leave their abuser, because their psychological state has been warped that being abused is the norm and therefore there's nothing better than the abuse out there.

If Alex is willing to lie and also gaslight someone about breakfast, Alex isn't safe to be around. Especially for someone who has been previously abused.
I’ve played D&D. At that level, a Bless said backwards is a lot of HP. And yeah, he’s going to Hell.
https://archive.ph/uAQwg
The answer is simple: In the US it's a scandal if the government has open access without a warrant to private citizen data held by companies. In China that's just considered business as usual.
…Anarchy in the UK
Dosage matters a lot. 100-200μg of LSD doesn't do much for me, but 400-500μg is just right for a profound experience. YMMV.
> Even M1 macs (I have one and love it), while powerful, just can’t hold a candle to a workstation class machine.

My M1 Pro is faster in some workloads than a small Dell tower sold as a "workstation". Of course I could buy a huge workstation with a 250W CPU or some kind of insanity like that, but then I suspect its power efficiency will be 4 times worse than the M1 Pro. The Dell tower already makes quite a good amount of noise under load while being beaten by a mostly silent M1 Pro.
Stealing secret plans from companies under the guise of being the POOR VICTIM!
The AMA doesn’t control med schools at all. What they do is lobby the government to not increase subsidies for residencies. Without more subsidies new residencies don’t open, and since every med school grad needs to do it to become a doctor med schools can’t open more slots until the number of residencies increases.
it's funny you raise that point right after the abortion decision here
I suspect that the failures had more to do with the people not being vulnerable to this particular memory than them not being vulnerable to memory implantation. For example, if your parents had trouble putting food on the table day to day the idea that they managed to buy a hot air balloon ride for you is obviously absurd.
> We have adjusted our policies to ensure that no one can exploit this program again for personal gain.

So any item that the NY AG gun buyback program will not purchase is thus legally not a gun in NY, right? If it's not worth buying to get it off the streets, they must be fine with it on the streets. This would include 3d printed AR lowers and FGC-9s at least. I think they will not implement this policy's consequences fairly.
Very cool! whats the best way to contact you for some feedback?
Sorry for the late reply. Dungeon Siege 1 had an expansion pack called Legends of Arranna which was sold as a bundle at first on Steam. Sometimes later LoR was removed from everyone's library leaving only the base game. You can download/pirate LoR and apply a steam fix, but as far as I'm aware, you either have to pay or pirate for LoR. The link is "grey" legally AFAICT (pirated but nigh-abandoned)
Install Anki (flashcard app based on spaced repetition) and learn something new: https://apps.ankiweb.net/. There are tons of decks available on AnkiWeb https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks/ and Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/Anki/

Alternatively, for learning languages I really like Lingodeer, Busuu, and Clozemaster.

You might also be interested in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32430406
The two are not mutually exclusive. Gold, for example, is not backed by people with guns. However a financial and legal system can be built on top of it, in fact it was build on top of it until 50 years ago.
In my experience, "tinkering" with an environment before getting any code working was a recipe for believing "this is too hard, maybe I'm not smart enough to do this".

Getting a feedback loop early on is so important. Once you're convinced that you can write software, setting up an environment starts to look like a tractable problem.
I would say in climate tech it's a bit different. Yes companies can be suffering but typically for any of these energy technology companies they have significant manufacturing costs and long periods in which they have to deploy that capital to physically manufacture goods. It isn't necessarily the competition that sinks the companies its the market structure and timing.

In the case of solar what happened was that the Chinese government underwrote Chinese manufacturers who produced significant volumes of solar panels which they dumped on the global market for incredibly cheap prices which put pressure on all the other global manufactures and consolidated the market. That said a lot of the Chinese manufacturers also went bankrupt as they undercut each other on prices to fill out the manufacturer queue.

Also in energy tech you don't have infinite upside like technology -- as you deploy hard capital you have a finite range that you can get returns on. In the electricity markets you typically have to build technology and sell it for cheaper than what is currently available (i.e. project finance your project on a PPA < market rates). Already a fundamentally difficult structure to do well in - add in regulatory slowdown, political mandates, utilities as your clients (slow lead times).
Have had to learn this the hard way — with friends and family— and reprogram myself to:

never assume what's going on inside of someone else's head.
> IRV is hard to evaluate though. How long would it take to teach a member of the general public to evaluate IRV results?

This is always an interesting point to me. I often hear arguments that STAR and Approval are too difficult for the voters and far more complex (there's plenty of comments here suggesting that). While I disagree, that's a matter of opinion (I think both are trivial fwiw). But on the other hand, how votes are tallied is much harder to argue. Ordinal systems use a while loop where you pop an element each iteration and reallocate votes. Cardinal methods are sum then argmax. It is a joke to think that voters would understand Ordinal methods better than Cardinal methods with respect to how votes are tallied.
The ESIM Problem
(Have limited experience on the topic, just attempting to respond based on what little I do know.)

Twitter stating the obvious has no control over information that’s no longer on its servers. Possible Wayback may not not even be aware of the risks it’s creating.

That said, DMs are very much in Twitter’s control and it is not uncommon for highly motivated parties with substantial resources to either insert employees into companies like Twitter or target employees via bribes, blackmail, etc. Google’s first publicly disclosed attack, which among other things targeted activist accounts, very likely was a result of insider helping. Beyond that, if Twitter did not do anything, it is a very real possibility that the activist might be tortured for their passwords; if the accounts don’t exist, are not recoverable, at least for that specific reason, it would be irrelevant.

There are so many situations to account for, but deleting the account/data is this safest minimal viable path.
No, unless with "race" you mean something other than the ordinary meaning of the word. You can find those differences and draw lines between populations, but they don't overlap very well with the folk interpretation of race.

The traditional concept of race (i.e. the one where "white", "black", "asian" and so on are well-defined terms) is scientifically untenable (fact) and socially harmful (opinion).

There are some narrow use-cases where the concept can be fruitfully applied. For example, some diseases are correlated with genetic characteristics themselves correlated with race. If you are a physician making a diagnosis, the patient's race is usually very apparent; you can and should make use of that information. But that's just keeping the English friar happy, correlation does not imply causation.
The root cause is impressionable subjects accepting priors from questions into the set of priors used to reconstruct memories. Formulating good questions that contain as few priors as possible is difficult, and the reaction of the interrogator to the subject's response will reveal additional priors. Most interrogators are probably not really all that invested into getting as close to the subject's ground truth anyway and are simply looking to by-and-large confirm a pre-established narrative.
> How long would it take to teach a member of the general public to evaluate IRV results?

I'm puzzled by this. You can do it with pencil and paper in a few minutes? It's simple addition. You can easily build a website that visualizes each step if you think addition is difficult for people. It's trivial to compute in a spreadsheet.

> might leave people disillusioned

This is speculative; if it is true, you can find evidence by talking to, e.g. Alaskan voters. (IOW, Citation Needed.)

> clearly a straw man

I'm simply painting a picture by recounting my experience of what happened in the last thread on HN where voting systems came up, not making a strong claim about these specific systems being the runners up. My point still stands if you substitute any other systems, in this thread for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33111242. The point I was making had nothing to do about the merits of those specific systems; the point was that a big technical can of worms gets opened, and the average voter has no interest in digging in to compare N solutions on M technical axes, Arrow's theorem, etc. This is what people mean when they say "alternate voting systems are complicated".
Cancelled two, myself, in the last 6 months. (HBO Max after their new owners went ape-shit, and Disney+.)
Jesus. Well thanks for your contribution to putting the entire creative industry out of work, I guess, little anime girl icon person. Ugh.
I dont put critiques of voters in the same category as critiques of election systems.