skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask yourself why all of these companies were not greedy in previous years, and how it happened that they all became greedy at approximately the same time. The answer is that this line about greed is political propaganda you’ve been fed. The companies involved were merely responding to market forces as they always do, /for example:

1) Near zero interest rates during the pandemic - technically set by the Fed, but under obvious political pressure to do it from both the former and current administrations.

2) Helicopter money from the government. I’m not just talking about the one time checks that people use as a strawman to attack as an inflation cause. There were student loan pauses, 300/mo per child credit(they tried to make it permanant!), and more. The fact that much of the money actually went to younger or poorer folks, which we celebrate, probably also drove inflation much more than money going to rich people, because the poor and the young are the most likely to immediately spend it. Lots of pandemic loans given to businesses too with little to no oversight too.

3) Supply side constraints due to shutdowns at suppliers overseas.

4) Demand side rebound demand for things people avoided or weren’t allowed during the pandemic.

Much of this is likely attributable to government policy, so I blame our political class.
Biomass is probably exactly the right measure, when we are talking ecology. A lot of mice to weigh up to one cow, it is true, but then, you could feed a lot of mice on the grain with which you feed your cow.
> But in a bad way (ex: Monster Hunter is also laggy/non-responsive, but in a way that's "obvious" that the slowdown is purposeful and tactical. You need to be very careful about when you attack or not attack vs various monsters in that game).

That's actually why I stopped playing Monster Hunter: I really hate the non-responsiveness, it feels like wading through molasses.
I think the App Store model is probably still currently the best model for the average user who doesn’t know how to secure a computing device. I know we may be heading towards a future where we’re totally locked down, but what alternative do we have?

I’m always hesitant to install software on my desktop because I never know if there’s a trojan hidden in the software. I’m a relatively technical user, but I have no idea how I would determine if the software was safe. So at the moment I’m content to let Apple handle it. Note, this is coming from a pro-Apple user.

Conversely, it would be interesting if an independent pro-privacy company (such as DuckDuckGo?) were to make a configurable smartphone for the more technical crowd that was both secure and allowed side-loading. I’d like to see such a product offered as an alternative to the offerings from the big tech companies.
I've had serious problems getting the machines to recognize the Tim Ticket on my tablet's screen. Guess you get used to it eventually, but it's hardly convenient.
> All it takes is one subgroup to keep reproducing above the replacement rate, and after enough generations they will come to dominate and overall growth will continue.

Consequently, religion is going to thrive. Everyone else stops reproducing once they reach a certain standard of living.
I don’t think it’s perfect but I don’t have the same complaints as others re: the UI. To me it’s perfectly functional.

Maybe I have Stockholm syndrome or I’m blind to what everyone else sees but I rarely suffer bad UI if I can help it. Plex has always just made sense to me for the most part. There have been some revisions that grated at first but as long as my media is only a few click away I’m happy.
Bats are mammals.
"This site has been reported as unsafe

Microsoft recommends that you don't continue to this site. It has been reported to Microsoft for containing harmful programs that may try to steal personal or financial information."

Uh huh.
The nice thing about Jellyfin is that you don't need a special box connected to your TV. Jellyfin has various apps (e.g. WebOS and Roku, iOS, and Android), DLNA, and a web interface. I don't believe Kodi has those things but could be wrong.
Already dropped them a message, but not sure they'll ever get back to me.
You say fully patched. Does that include upgrading bash from 3.2 released in 2007?
> Not sure how PP flew under my radar so long.

Apple? People? What do you mean with PP?
Are we buying 0 gas from Russia so we can stop funding their war machine? Imho a total ban of imports is needed.
Looking at the list of approved countries.

Israel not present. Probably because of NSO. Quite hilarious.
Measured in decades, I could agree. I'd call the last decade loss of pace, in that regard. To me, that's a lost opportunity: to build out for what we probably need.

The countercase depends on breakthrough technology towards stable, reliable, long lived rapid recharge batteries.

For small devices like scooters battery swap already works at scale and my hope was for the taxi, taxi truck and city runabout case we'd already be building infrastructure for it.

Breakthroughs aren't impossible, or really that uncommon. They typically come with an IPR outcome so more delay at scale or more cost. Plugs tend to get standardised, so battery swap drives systems design towards unit size battery rigs, and plug compatibility.
If the Hacker News API actually returned comment scores it would be relatively easy to build an app that surfaces good comments, ahem.
Obviously needed in that scenario. That doesn't explain my neighbor, the Marvel Universe fan, but maybe he's an anomaly. I just had the sense there were a bunch of people out there like him who watched movies with subtitles as a matter of course.
One can only hope our vary own dirtyid has the honour of being shot to pieces in the initial assault upon the beaches. Or maybe his ship will be sunk by a US torpedo. Then making the ultimate sacrifice for the communist party he can pass in peace and honour, and we would no longer need to read his warmongering in the comment section.
Has total biomass (not just wild biomass) declined? I would expect it has, because most modern farming tries very hard to make sure the only thing growing is the thing that makes the farmer profit. A lot of farms are ecological wastelands; or rather, they sustain less biomass than they could.
I've been using Spotify for audiobooks for a few years. It's a lot easier to use than the alternatives in my opinion.
Not saying this is not an issue but we've easily watched several hundreds of different releases, all with subtitles, never had the out-of-sync problem appear in Jellyfin and not in other players (that is, sometimes subs are just inherently off-sync to the video file if it's from a different release etc).

The other subs-related annoyances (takes time to appear; transcoding/DS behave differently) appear in web client only and not when playing trough a "proper" player (mpv-shim/kodi/whathaveyou), which also support convenient timing adjustments. Maybe switching clients is a work-around that works for you. jellyfin-mpv-shim would be the smoothest if you just want to continue issuing local playback ("cast") from the web interface.
> There are all kinds of people doing serious climate change research, politics, business, etc.

Not everyone can be, and not everyone can afford to support, people like this. Donations are great, assuming you actually have any disposable income after paying off the soaring costs of rent, food, and energy bills.

The way I see it, we throw stuff at the wall to have a chance of acquiring critical mass for change now, or we can wait until it’s too late and we are guaranteed to hit critical mass because people will start feeling the pain and will want to do something about it.
Jellyfin is very poor when it comes to EPG and DVR capabilities. Plex is king here, and is the main reason I paid for the Pass (very cheap for what you get).

The last time I tried it was probably 6 months ago and it was still buggy for lots of basic playback - both on my Android and on my Roku.
That's a really interesting tip. Thanks.
This significantly increases the threat model for your remote servers to include all sorts of remote attacks through the web, including:

* garden-variety web attacks (i.e., XSS, CRSF, etc)

* attacks that might become viable against the browser (for example, Mobile Safari has a history of vulnerabilities)

* various attacks against the backend web server (API attacks)

* attacks against the WASM layer

* CDN injections

* Tailscale's backend (various types of injections, timing attacks, or deeper attacks on Tailscale's infrastructure like the nightmares of HeartBleed, Shellshock, Meltdown, etc)

That's probably a very incomplete list.

Realistically, this essentially (actually, literally) opens a remote root shell into your entire infrastructure through a web page, with apparently nothing more than matching an IP address pair (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33361837) to authenticate.

What could go wrong?

This design with its loose coupling between authenticated user and IP addresses for high-value targets makes me view Tailscale's security model in a whole new light.
I think it is an unclear and bizarre term. “The energy contained in one group” - what energy? Is a lean cheetah “less-energy” than an elephant? Why? Or do you literally mean energy like calories (which, IIRC means “how much heat if burned”).

What a bizarre metric, nobody thinks like this, I don’t even think “ecologists” understand why they should think in terms of mass. I, too, can have a metric: number of decibels of sound you can produce; maybe humans make up a SHOCKING 3% on that- doesn’t mean it’s a sensible metric.
The more interesting part to me is that this isn't even the majority of the smartphones sold globally. The smartphone industry is humongous.
This statement did seem strange. However, I sent in a report to Apple Product Security a week ago, and I received a personal response within 48 hours saying that they reviewed my report.
You make a good point that political propaganda is driving this conversation about crime, largely because Fox and TPTB of conservative media think they can blame crime on Democrats to increase Republicans' chances of winning in the midterm.

At the same time, I've lived in US cities for the past 7 years. 6 months ago, I moved to a small town. Why? It wasn't because I don't like city amenities, or I can't afford city prices. I moved because the city I lived in didn't feel safe. Between the rampant bike theft, the rampant auto theft, the break-ins, and the muggings, I did not feel like trying to walk and bike around my city any more. It just felt too risky.
There are plenty of “USB C specs”

https://www.androidauthority.com/state-of-usb-c-870996/
He's also part-time head of product (I think) at GumRoad.
True, unless you already have one..
Yep, a few years ago I bought a drone. Months of ads for the same drone that I’d bought. A year ago I bought a high end upgrade monitor and I’m still getting spammed with similar models. Meanwhile over the last year I’ve consistently been buying end mills and work holding stuff for the CNC router I bought at the same time and… nothing. You’d think they’d focus on consumables related to recent big purchases.
> Solar does seem much easier to generate than to store. It's uncertain how mobile usage will evolve on the short term.

A lot of mobility tech is speeding up rapidly. Countries are banning fossil fuel cars a lot sooner. And even if we store solar power at a loss, we're still storing it. It's still displacing fossil.

> We have a lot of capital dependent on fossil fuels that won't be deprecated immediately.

Really, this is the kind of excuse that keeps us from moving on. If we can't even deprecate some fossil fuel investments that have been made in the full knowledge of the problem, we really have no chance of fixing this. There is absolutely no reason such concerns should carry any weight. The sacrifices we need to make to solve this are way beyond that.

> And finally, it's not clear if we can't do carbon capture at a loss before renewables win the market for generation.
> Or, in conclusion, we should make a new global climate conference, with targets for capture. There is no reason for waiting the energy market to fully convert before doing it.

I really don't think it's viable at any scale. To make a dent in the CO2 levels, we not only need a tremendous amount of energy to perform the reclamation. We also have to mine the earth for the raw materials for all this machinery. Ship it to a place that's suitable. Construct and maintain it all, and its energy generation equipment. All things that are not climate neutral and also have negative impacts on the environment in many other ways (mining of the materials etc). And all the resources we commit to it can't be used to displace fossil fuel technologies.

Not emitting the CO2 we're going to capture evades all these issues.

I just don't see this being viable at the scale we need it to really make a dent. I view it mainly as a procrastination excuse, and a way to monetise the problem for some tech entrepreneurs. It makes the immediate problem less urgent if you think you can fix it later.
My understanding is:

- Fastmail: Better service in every area except privacy, as ProtonMail is encrypted and Fastmail will turn over your data if a court orders them to. Though Fastmail does value your privacy and there’s nothing shady about them

- ProtonMail: Unmatched privacy and security, but at the cost of many integrations and conveniences
Type in about:flags in the Chrome URL bar.

Search for "Override software rendering list". Set it to "Enable". Restart Chrome.
There is also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments
> unrestricted killing of the unborn

Not an accurate description of any democrat AFAIK.

> supporting the alphabet-soup of sexual/gender spectrum

Probably not priority #1 or #2, and if they were, not even an actually bad thing...
Haha, I just browse the web a lot, have a decent memory, and have a bunch of practice with search engines :)
> They went from 95 and XP, some of the best operating systems from a user's perspective

I mean that's some rose-tinted shit if I ever heard it, 95 especially. 98 OSR2 improved quite a bit on the situation, but I don't recall having a great time with 95. It was still a glorified DOS extender in many ways, often slow to start up and shutdown, PC hardware and drivers were a mess and system stability therefore poor. This was right at the beginning of the concept of "PnP" in the PC world (plug and play) and it was a cruel joke most of time.

Windows 2000 being from the NT line was peak Windows in many ways. I resisted XP but it was ok for most people admittedly.
This is nonsense. Nobody verifies security reports of any significance in 15 minutes.
Ask HN: How do you build a social circle as a remote worker/nomad in a new city?
I've always struggled to make friends, in college I've managed to befriend a few like-minded weirdos after a year or two of loneliness, but all of that fell apart after the first covid lockdowns, we all split all over the country or just lost contact.

The only people I could consider friends are living in places that I do not wish to ever get back to.

And I actually plan on moving again, because my current city is getting on my nerves.

My only social interactions for the last 2 or 3 years, were hookups/short flings, but no friendship or parties of any kind.

How do you manage to build a new social circle every time?
Because, even though I'm a native English speaker, I can't fckn understand half of what people are saying either because of ascents, other noise, not understanding context, and generally having a hard time correctly decoding speech unless it's the only thing happening. Maybe it's a symptom of some sort of non-neuro-typical trait.

Also, I've always had a tendancy to hear egg corns where most people hear the correct words.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn
That's standard Rust error-handling code: it prints an error message and panics out (if I remember correctly, I haven't touched Rust in years).
I've tried to us Spotify for music. And Audible for audiobooks. But it's not enjoyable using seperate apps

I tend to only finish my audiobooks when they're on Spotify.
I've been trying to convince people that I just prefer Apple products and am not brainwashed since _at least_ the early 2000's... best of luck!
At $1B a month, that's approximately on par with the GDP of an island nation like Sint Maarten or Grenada.
I always felt they focused on the wrong thing with all these improvements. PHP 5 as a language after 5.4/5.5 or so was okay; not great, but okay, or at least workable enough. It has footguns and issues but you can deal with those with a bit of practice. I always considered the standard library to be a far bigger problem.

For example, as near as I can tell I still can't have fopen() tell me why it failed; it just returns False and one of those magic E_WARNING things. This is simple stuff, but also pretty critical to correctly implement some basic file I/O of the kind that you can do in ... pretty much any other language.

Language blitz is nice, I guess, but not really "needed" as such. PHP5-the-language never really prevented me from doing things, PHP5-the-standard-library did, and from the looks of it, it still does. Things like no $ or ; are non-issues, and a good example of the wrong focus on syntax and "blitz" rather than things that actually matter.

I'm not expecting things to be free of inconsistencies, oddities, historical baggage, etc. I just want ... basic functionality.
I wasn’t seriously asking you. Obviously they don’t expect to completely bypass paying Apple anything. Making extreme counter points doesn’t help these debates.

Spotify complaining about a “mandatory 30% tax” doesn’t mean they want zero tax. The people who dismiss questioning heavily centralized systems as only wanting anarchy are being purposefully misleading. Just like every other time that happens.
Very interesting. Unfortunately I don’t see a way to follow new entries. There’s no RSS feed.
> http://youmightnotneedjs.com/#form_validation

Interesting, but how is "form validation" through HTML, SCSS not a security threat?

I mean, you basically tell attackers how to brute force.

I do wish more websites would use these techniques where appropriate to make the web faster, but maybe using JS is good to keep web developers employed (imagine if so much of demand were implementable via markup languages, reminds me of this post: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/I_did_it_for_you_all).
I'm mildly hard of hearing and the poor audio mixes in movies and shows are very difficult for me. For example with House of the Dragon, there is no volume where I can understand all the words in quiet conversations without blowing my ears out in battle scenes. Fiddling with the volume constantly is annoying. I've looked for dynamic volume features, but my TV doesn't have them and I'm not interested in a new TV or sound system.

So it's subtitles — especially for shows with poor audio mixes, where people whisper, talk quietly, or with heavy accents.
The MIT library is open to anyone who can get into the cluster of buildings that contains it (along with the main building, the infinite corridors, math and CS and many other disciplines). You won't be able to check out books if you aren't from MIT, but you can stroll and read and scan at your pleasure.

Harvard is the odd one out here.
Looking through my order history, I bought an “Amazon Basics” lightning cable for $8 back in 2015.
Not sure what you're talking about, practically every major EU energy org is a corporation (traded on an exchange or even an Ltd-like private company), only sometimes there's a bit of it owned by a state... Can you give some examples of major energy organizations that are wholly-owned by a state (or at least majority-owned) or actual organizational units of a state?
Oscar Wilde and Groucho Marx had phrases for the likely coming decline in HN comment quality.
RTFA.

"To understand how the richness of the mammal kingdom has changed we need a metric that captures a range of different animals and is comparable over time. We could look at their abundance – the number of individuals we have – but this is not ideal. We would be counting every species equally, from a mouse to an elephant and this metric would therefore an ecosystem taken over by the smallest mammals look much richer than one in which bigger mammals roam: if the world’s mouse populations multiplied and multiplied – maybe even to the detriment of other animals – then this abundance metric might suggest that these ecosystems were thriving.

Instead, ecologists often use the metric biomass. This means that each animal is measured in tonnes of carbon, the fundamental building block of life.1 Biomass gives us a measure of the total biological productivity of an ecosystem. It also gives more weight to larger animals at higher levels of the ecological ‘pyramid’"

https://ourworldindata.org/mammals#the-decline-of-wild-mamma...
I this overinflates the importance of the HN crowd a bit.

Yeah, a lot of software engineering types switched to MBPs because the OS isn't a steaming pile of garbage and it reliably works with the hardware. The former can't be said for Windows these days and the latter is generally hit-or-miss with Linux.

But I wouldn't be surprised if that's a rounding error when you're talking Macs doubling or tripling their market share. I'd imagine most people walking into an Apple Store in their local mall and buying a Mac with Apple Pay on their iPhone don't really know or care about the telemetry added in Windows 10. I still think Apple deserves the vast majority of the credit for the success of Mac.
I said it means something, not that it absolves them of any responsibility whatsoever. I already said it would make sense to fine Tesla. But the whether they were mistaken or malicious still matters a lot.
https://dl.acm.org/sig/siggraph/publications maybe?
Too late to edit the above, but here's another! https://underjord.io/live-server-push-without-js.html

Edit: more!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9457187

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26273960

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16312317

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8602122

https://mobile.twitter.com/David3141593/status/1372281280772...

https://mobile.twitter.com/binitamshah/status/11047503254734...

http://blog.soulshake.net/2016/04/command-line-resume/

https://mobile.twitter.com/netspooky/status/1405860275392335...

https://mobile.twitter.com/fr_brennan/status/134023279228268...

https://rohitpaulk.com/articles/

https://mobile.twitter.com/angealbertini/status/844294290750...

https://dev.to/sebastianstamm/this-image-is-also-a-valid-jav...

https://mobile.twitter.com/angealbertini/status/126530622675...

https://hyperpolyglot.org/scripting

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10528899

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25625877

https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/pocorgtfo11.pdf

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29586549
Have you considered sorting by saturation? And the sorting by luma/luminance seems bust with #otitis before many others.
In the cities yes. I live outside the city. Some of the biodiversity near me is deadly and city dwellers haven't a clue.

Regardless, fish outweigh mammals by at least an order of magnitude. then calculate arthropods, mollusks, bacteria and plants and you will see this is an overstating of a complex ecosystem.
Yeah, hard pass.
I'm very happy with the Infuse app connected to Jellyfin (also paying the $10/yr for the extra features).
TLDR. To suppress an unpleasant memory. If a word or image associated with the unpleasant memory pops into your mind, immediately “stop thinking”.
I would like to use iPhones, they have really good cameras and very good video-recording capabilities. But sadly a lot of the apps I use are not available in the app store.

To me, this is a deal breaker. Hardware-wise the product is good, but I'm not just taking pictures and chatting on snapchat. I do a bit more with my phone. For my mom, however, the phone is great and does everything she expects it to do.