skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another thing I do, on the topic of vetting content for the kids to watch on jellyfin/emby:

tl;dr: ios shortcut -> flask app -> yt-dlp.

I wrote a tiny flask app that runs somewhere on my network, which takes POSTs with two parameters, a link and a name. It passes the link to yt-dlp and then renames the resulting file to "{name}.mp4". (It then also POSTs to emby's endpoint telling it to rescan the library.)

I made a janky ios shortcut does

"receive any input from share sheet" ->
"get urls from {shortcut input}" ->
"ask for {text} with {file name}" ->
"get contents of {my flask app's URL}"

the last step takes the URL from step 2 and the file name from step 3 and uses those as the POST body. I named this shortcut 'ytdlp'.

So now I'm looking at nearly anything on my phone (youtube, twitter, it even works with tiktok/imgur links from a browser because I only view those from a browser, not their app), hit 'share', choose 'ytdlp' and give it a name, and a couple seconds later that video is ready to watch in emby.

I've archived hundreds of videos this way for the kids over the last couple years.
I don't think Nintendo is very involved in the TCG. The Pokémon Company is a separate company, though with 1/3 ownership by Nintendo. Nintendo only really steps in for titles published on Nintendo hardware. The card game and the mobile games are fully under control of The Pokémon Company.
I've just got a 7.1 system and suddenly I don't need subtitles nearly as much. I suspect that's the main issue - mixes are done for multi-channel, and if you have fewer channels they get mashed together. Because music, sound effects and background noise come out of multiple channels, and voice tends to come out of the central channel only, it gets lost in the mix.
Parent poster, I believe.
Do you use photogrametry or do you use professional 3D scanners?
What about the damaged original wooden frame in the previous attack?
> so when the second was defined by a fraction of a day, that day was an abstraction which approximates any given synodic day

Commenting separately for this - I'm not sure it's true. To my understanding, the historical European division of the day was that the day contained 12 hours of equal length, and the night contained 12 other hours of equal length. They were obviously familiar with the fact that the day and the night were themselves not equally long, so an hour of day and an hour of night would almost never have been equal durations.

This willingness to vary the length of an hour over the course of a year suggests that it probably wouldn't have been a problem to vary the second along with it.
The original is doing `translateX` yes, but it also has float in it.

I can see the jank on my machine, and commenting out the float statements makes the jank disappear.

Even though the elements aren't reflowing, there is something going on in the browser that is making it slow down.

Strangely enough, recording the browser performance seems to "fix" the jank so long as the browser is recording. Perhaps capturing screenshots of the page every frame is forcing the browser to deliver frame updates at the correct time.
I don't see any value in voter ID since in-person voter fraud is exceedingly rare.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/10-v...

In practice, voter ID schemes are used to disenfranchise citizens.

https://www.brennancenter.org/issues/ensure-every-american-c...
please open source this data store.
> You know animals don't produce B12 as well, right? They come from bacteria in the soil.

Good luck with your soil recipes.

> Take a look at the Seven-day Adventist study (the population with the highest longevity ever recorded). Between this group, the ones excluding all animal products from the diet actually live longer than the rest.

Not true. Pesco-vegetarians had a lower death rate.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4191896/
Did they bounce any pull requests?
Actually the more I think about it, the more useful I do find the comparison between constitutions and programming languages.

Because there are probably only ~200 PL's with truly significant usage, and they tend to have a variety of purposes and be used in historically different contexts -- much like constitutions.

The same arguments that programmers have over declarative vs imperative is much like the arguments political scientists have over parliamentary vs presidential. Static vs dynamic type checking is much like civil law vs common law. Perhaps the rise of congressionally-created federal agencies is akin to the rise of object-oriented programming?

And there's similarly nothing "scientific" in proving that one programming language is "better" than another, but people have strong opinions, and experience will tell you which ones are good ideas to pick for a project and which ones are not.

By the way, I'm not sure you know what a case study is -- it's a report written by a person. Nobody's written billions of those. And you don't do comparative analysis on case studies -- a comparative analysis is a case study, where the cases are countries (or programming languages).
Well kitty is pretty damn good if you want to give them a recommendation.
This is really cool but I noticed something weird or a bug.

As I do on HN went to the next tab, and then the next tab, and finally when i started closing tabs landed back on this page. All the cards were spinning very crazy.

Is this some delay between events for css or js thats adding maxV?
Apple is partially a retailer as well though.
Ha. I switched to Apple's phones because of the disappointment in the competing products and practices. It's angry-quit into Apple rather than brainwashing.
Top Twitter executives fired as Elon Musk takeover begins
Twitter signs an agreement with Tesla’s new software consulting division!
Memory safe C, huh? I wonder why Linux needs to add rust if it's this straightforward?
As a cyclist, online cyclists are among the most annoying people in the world. What’s worse is most of them aren’t even athletes.
Or just buy a Pixel if you care about that.

Why people buy Samsung or other manufacturer phones, and then gripe that the company is as stingy with backwards support and updates as they've always been boggles my mind. Why would anyone ever think this time would be different?
You have to cherry-pick pretty brutally to make that statement true.
I would guess it’s because developers are really finicky about the software side of their setup, and a laptop lets them have that wherever they are. With a desktop you need to keep multiple devices in sync, which is not yet quite as seamless as it should be.
> So the solution is to let another big tech be the gatekeeper?

No, the solution is explicitly stopping big tech from being a gatekeeper. Apple can continue to sell their "premium" App Store with amazing security benefits and brilliant moderation, while advanced users can toggle the "freedom mode" setting or whatever and go get IPA files off Github. It's not some pie-in-the-sky concept, it's how software distribution was meant to be done.

> I don’t have the expertise to look through the source and verify that no trojan has been added by one of the contributors. A checksum doesn’t solve this problem.

Good, then don't use any app outside the App Store. Apple will do their job to keep you perfectly safe from all those nasty, moneygrubbing developers who disagree with their rightful tax. You can remain loyal, but their monopoly literally cannot persist in a just world.

> As for the right to install/manage software, I view it similarly to what the FDA is doing now [...] Is such a view considered insanity?

Not until you start telling me that I don't have a right to eat food that the FDA hasn't approved for me. If you only eat FDA-certified food, good for you. It's a service the government provides free-of-charge, and some people like it. If you try shutting down your next-door neighbor's kid for selling non-certified lemonade, their dad is going to give you a black eye. The problem is, we quite literally lack an institution large enough to give Apple a black eye. There are governments fining them millions of dollars and they shake it off like Godzilla worrying about some pests. Their attitude towards democratic leadership is appalling, and deserves to be brought to heel.

> In the end is all this talk about rights and freedoms really just a veil for the fact that some devs just want to make more money?

It's absolutely mind-blowing that you will say that in defense of a company that consists of "some devs [that] just want to make more money". Yeah, maybe they do want a chance at competing against the largest software company in the world. Is that a big ask? Maybe I want to install FOSS apps that Apple won't let people publish to the app store. You don't have to, but you can't argue that I shouldn't be able to. Apple doesn't have the right to decide which browser I use when I pay for their hardware. They shouldn't make you pay $99/year to temporarily install a nerfed app to your iPhone. It's one of the most oppressive rackets in modern internet history, and I'll gladly refute any arguments against that claim.
> other side have an inhumanly good sense of where they are

Police (and firefighters) know their streets really, really well.
Humans are more important by far. This idea that a cow’s life is as precious as a human’s life is the worst type of misanthropic thought.

There is a hierarchy and although we shouldn’t torture living things, giving them “1 bad day” is totally ethical when used to endure and pleasure. I admit we don’t live up to that standard necessarily, but we should strive for it.

Ideally everyone that wants to is eating happy animals at their pleasure.
Time to lawyer up, either to the person that left or to Google themselves.
All of these surveillance tools only work if you have docile population. If you're literally not willing to shoot people the way they do in Iran, the elite powerful minority is not going to suppress a population that is rebelling. The police could not control even small riots in the US once they broke out. The protesters did as they wanted. The strategy for now seems to be suppress, de-platform and de-bank people that are an emerging existential threat to the current power structure. The question is how long will this work.
I canceled my service as a result. Honestly I'd rather give my money to almost any other company at this point.
How many tech companies, specifically social media companies, are worth far less than they're touted to? I can easily live without Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Uber... the list is endless. In fact, I don't use any of the most popular tech products on the market. And investors are starting to realize that overinflated numbers mean little. You have a billion users? How many regularly use your product? 10%?

Even Google and Amazon are starting to face reality.
A cow was worth about 10 months of skilled labor in ancient Rome [0].

If you keep the fat trim that's maybe ~600-700 pounds of usable meat.

That's about 0.01666 of a month's salary for a pound of meat. So if you were willing to spend 10% of your salary on meat, you could have a quarter pounder everyday. Not cheap, but if you really liked meat and you had a semi-skilled job you could afford to eat it everyday.

[0] https://www.money.org/uploads/pdfs/press-releases/ANAPR.10.1...
No gestures and no fingerprint reader
I don’t grant your claim that a diet isn’t optimal just because it includes a b12 pill. In fact that it’s so trivial to supplement makes me wonder why you take for granted that there’s some magical bonus from incidentally getting it from a non-supplement.

It’s like saying getting vitamin D fortified milk is superior to taking the fortification yourself.

I bet this cashes out into the appeal to fallacy. Frankly I see no reason why the optimal human diet can’t be some undiscovered 100% artificial diet that we can synthesize from scratch. To say otherwise, including your b12 belief, leads to some pretty hilarious reductios.
taking photos with cell phone cameras is still photography.

Photography never went away.

In fact, we share and post way way way more videos and images than before. No development time means you can get all 5000 photos that you snapped online with data everywhere!
I’ve done basically the same thing but instead of a custom flask app I have an instance of n8n.io running on a raspberry pi. You just set up an automation to receive a webhook and run a shell command with input from the payload.

Another cool little automation is a webhook from Plex when playback starts turns on the hue lights behind the TV
And then you will get at most three upgrades!
Ok, we've added glass covering to the title above. Thanks!
The cool part is that the ungraspable numbers cancel each other out, and you're left with a human scale number.
I like those comparisons of how much meter cube of XYZ next to a skyscraper. The one where all humans can be compressed in a relatively small 100s meter^3 cube was eye openning.
> they are not a consumer product anybody actually wants because their use cases are all about enforcing rules against the identity subject. The only way the tech survives is it must be mandated, and then it's a question of whose problem does it solve?

Doesn't the CLEAR example in the article's opening paragraph contradict your claim?
Yep, and others. It's about how much effort (time+cash) you want to put in. Frobbing all crap they (A&G) want you to mess with.

It's not impossible. But both were demanding changes to the app and other hoops that just kept increasing the cost to get on the platform.

We had a smaller budget than Pax.
In .cz, the universities are either completely open, or there are turnstiles/card entry which is possible to easily social-engineer[1]. The lectures are open and nobody asks if you actually study there (this would be even practically impossible with mass courses). The practicals/seminaries depend on particular tutor, but visitors are generally tolerated (sometimes even welcomed). In practicals where some material or resource is consumed (biology labs, welding tutorials) it's of course a different case.

I was visiting university lectures while at high-school, and then I did some totally out-of-curriculum courses when at the university.

(speaking of https://www.mff.cuni.cz/en, https://www.natur.cuni.cz/eng and https://fel.cvut.cz/en/, YMMV)

[1] Just say "I go to lecture XYZ", or slip with someone thru, or the best strategy is probably to lie about forgetting the card at home (nobody checks it), as "I go to lecture XYZ but I don't actually study here" spawns weird conversations with the watchman. For example, at some buildings the card entry was installed only to prevent the tourists using the university toilets :) and the security is instructed to let in anyone who looks like a genuine attendant.
doesnt seem I get a password? I provided my email and the app just logged me in, no confirmation email either.
They replace these devices about every 2-3 years

As someone who buys a good smartphone then hangs onto it for 5 years, can someone help me understand the need for this?
Have built several. 2 full time weeks to get it in the user's hands, and an additional 4 weeks to something that's making revenue.

That's doing the tech stuff solo and having a partner think about all the UX and product stuff.

Working as a team takes a lot longer in my experience for some reason. Teams with a FE and BE guy end up taking around 2 months to get something into the user's hands. Outsourcing to a team could well take 4 months and man-years to pay off half the tech debt.
Seven days: https://onlineornot.com/building-saas-in-one-week-how-built-...

(tl;dr: paid for Tailwind UI, paid for Divjoy, had been building React + Node apps for 5 years before using the same stack to build my own product)
Hard to get the protein? That's the oldest excuse in the book. Debunked endlessly. Simply not true.

https://www.peta.org/living/food/vegan-bodybuilders/

https://www.reddit.com/r/veganbodybuilding/

https://www.reddit.com/r/veganfitness/

https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateAVegan/comments/8y4noz/vegan_...

https://www.theveganlink.com/resources/30-vegan-recipes-for-...

https://plantbasedfaqs.com/protein-in-beans-vs-meat/

And millions of other sources.
Thank you so much for your work!
I loaded your tour of the Great Pyramid onto my laptop and settled into bed next to my wife, who is recovering from knee replacement surgery. I said "May I take you to Egypt for awhile?". She loved it!
I really appreciate the effort you've put into giving access to historically important sites fir those of us who are unlikely to visit in person.
I sold my old beloved Fujifilm X100 digital rangefinder recently. It couldn’t hold a flame to my camera photos in direct tests. But that’s a good thing, because I’ve always got my phone.
At the 6+, it looks like it's at 5 years (or more). https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/4457705?hl=en
It quacks like a sarcophagus.
n = 1, but my now-wife was and still is very happy with her Brilliant Earth lab diamond engagement ring. They do also sell natural diamonds, so be sure to select lab diamonds in the UI though.
The point is that leftist states often achieve the simulated results through restriction of choice.
>Witcher 1 has a decent story and world (in no small part due to the source material). But the gameplay itself is some of the worst that you experience.

The Witcher 1 combat is secretly not bad. It looks like an action game though and the game does a terrible job explaining why this is wrong. So it feels absolutely horrible. You have to understand it's more of a rhythm game. It's closer to Assassin's creed or Batman combat systems. There's a lot happening on screen but you are mostly waiting for the right moment and choosing tactics.
The grip strength of curling your fingers into the base of your thumb is stronger than the pinch strength of pressing your thumb against your fingers.

Scissor ergonomics aligns the handles so applying the finger-to-base-of-thumb grip to the handles (with the upper handle pressed against the outside of your thumb’s knuckle) pulls the blades together. In order to do that, scissors have to be designed to fit either a left or right hand.

To use scissors wrong handed you have to catch the outside of your finger knuckles against the lower handle and pinch the upper handle down with your thumb.
I want them to absorb the whole ecosystem. Podcast apps suck and I am absolutely never using itunes. I'm glad I can get podcasts I like in Spotify and it will track across my phone / pc my progress. I don't listen to audiobooks but would buy them from Spotify if I did so I don't have to download and figure out some kind of Amazon Audible app instead.
> That quite literally cannot be the status quo going forward.

Honestly, I disagree. The Apple customer experience and product ecosystem is just so far ahead of any competitors I don't want to use anything else. As far as the store is concerned specifically, I want to be able to use one store with a clear policy around payments, subscriptions and refunds - not a myriad of half-baked competitors with fragmented offerings.
Many amateur photographers who used to carry SLRs around have switched to smartphones and written blog posts about it

https://www.diyphotography.net/why-i-dont-use-dslr-cameras-a...

https://www.dpreview.com/articles/4296660253/5-reasons-why-i...

https://photographylife.com/dslr-has-no-future
Before this, they become experts on suddenly converting to the subscription model and then just ghosting all/any development. [1][2][3]
I didn't mind them converting to subscription, I got value out of them, so I paid for the sub (even though it was one of those that removed features from the free to put them into paid and I felt a bit dirty. All good products deserve some suppporter cash IMHO)

I paid for a year. They just totally shut up shop, didn't develop a feature, didn't do a thing. I left after my year's subscription was up, sick of sticking up for them in forums/reddit etc and realising most of the complaints people were leveling and them (him?) were valid.

It's a shame to see Google treat anyone like this, but meh, that's how we felt after paying up for Pushbullet Pro which saw zero development/love after the fact and the developers who had, previously, been very vocal and supportive, go to radio silence.

I kinda support Google here, put this poor thing out of its misery.

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/PushBullet/comments/6wby5b/is_pushb...

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/PushBullet/comments/7bjvhx/is_this_...

3: https://www.reddit.com/r/PushBullet/comments/77egnz/is_pushb...
Anyone got an archive..?
I personally like the idea of repositories that F-Droid uses. Each app vendors could have their own repos that users subscribe to, but one of the strength you give up by moving away from a centralized app store is discoverability, but that didn't stop us from having great desktop softwares in the past, all distributed by the vendor/developer.
Yeah, what we need now is x-ray photography, those smartphones won't catch up until the tech is miniaturized enough!
Fuji is not completely omitted. They are mentioned five times in the article, including their success with their recent medium format cameras:

> Purchased for a reportedly svelte $125 million, Ricoh has de-invested from medium format at a time when Fuji, Phase, and Hasselblad have successfully expanded the market.

Interestingly, their most profitable products in recent years don't appear to be from their professional or pro-sumer camera lines, but rather their relatively low-tech Instax cameras [1].

[1] https://www.fujirumors.com/latest-fujifilm-financial-results...
Fascinating, thanks a bunch for looking into this. Benchmarking is hard!
Yes, 0.5x to 2x, in increments of .25x
Because users can have access to multiple servers and each server admin don’t get to change their account options
The scenario you've described still begs the question though. It seems the only difference between traditional hydroelectricity and pumped storage is how much you disrupt the natural flow from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario. The hard limit is when the Niagara Falls run dry. Anything more than that is basically spending electricity to create a treadmill for fish, which may be the environmentally responsible thing but we should be clear about that. And since fish probably cannot jump up Niagara Falls, it's probably more like spending electricity to run a really large water display for tourists and the occasional person who wants to go over in a barrel. But maybe that electricity use doesn't matter if we're getting more than we need from solar during sunny days, and just need predicable storage for nights and cloudy days.

I would think the stronger argument for pumped storage would be in a place where the high level of water did not naturally exist, and so the only way it gets up there is by pumping. But perhaps this still destroys too much of an ecosystem even if it's not a river ecosystem.
> This would be true if Android didn’t exist. But it does, so apple isn’t.

This would be true if iOS and the App Store weren't separate entities. But they are, so it isn't.

If Google stops contributing to the AOSP, they would not be able to sue under antitrust because Android still exists.
Not to mention that they already owe or have paid the taxes on that "income."
Did the Africans discover iron on their own, or was the knowledge imported?
I’ve heard the Tesla architecture is a hot mess. Maybe it’s more for the benefit of Tesla.
The closing paragraph is inspired:

Four years ago, the Facebook founder revealed his admiration for Augustus Caesar. Zuckerberg honeymooned in Rome (his wife joked that Augustus was the third party on their trip), one of his daughters is called August, and his strange haircut is reportedly inspired by Augustus’s style. But as he fiddles in the metaverse, ignoring the fact that the rest of his empire is crumbling, he is beginning to more closely resemble Nero.
> Humans are more important by far.

From the perspective of which species?

Does might make right? For intra-human relationships as well? Could anything evil happen as a result of embracing this outlook?