skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use an iPhone instead of an Android because I still get software updates for the iPhone 7 (2016).
Does Jellyfin support audio books in a decent way? (I ask for your opinion and expierience - the docs state YES, but it is a huge difference between active support and being competitive with lets say audiobookshelf)
If you're consuming 19x as many resources than someone else, and the sustainable level is 10% of the current level, then demanding they reduce their 5% share to a 1% share is not just arrogant, unfair, and greedy. It also doesn't do anything to solve the problem.

Your implicit thesis is that you should not be held to account to do the extremely easy things if anyone else is asserting their right to exist at all is transparent reprehensible.

> You can also stop driving, stop heating and cooling your house, stop buying computers and phones and cars, stop air travel, live in a small apartment you share with several other people.

If I already do all those things (with the exception of a second hand phone I use with a 10yo monitor when I need a desktop). Then do I get to tell you to maybe drive a slightly smaller SUV or stop opposing renewable energy?
Isn't there a massive security concern in exposing the username of whom you share a password with?

I type `password123` or a range of other passwords, find a silly user using that, try every other major account providers with the username/password and I have access to that person's account?

It's also often not difficult to guess someone's email address from their username (to find more logins) since there are only a few major providers, which such silly user would definitely use.
We are, in fact, demolishing dams at an increasing rate.

Dams very commonly destroy fisheries worth far more than any value the dam can deliver.
I think there’s a large disservice in comparing architecture and construction in the real world to software.

Software is more like keeping quicksand in your hands.

The construction of houses take mature engineering principles and calculations of a physical world to create buildings standing for centuries.

Most (not all) changes after construction is veneer - on the surface and replacing of bits 1:1.

Software on the other hand need constant attention and massive changes to the very foundation is not uncommon. It might go as deep as a change in hardware, say moving from one arch to another, or changing of the software architecture such as moving to a distributed, eventually consistent persistence layer or vice versa.

It’s not like concrete stops functioning if you don’t keep touching it either. Don’t get me started on build pipelines, testing, integrations etc etc

And next up: product!
Yesterday we thought it was a new empire state building buuuut it turned out we need to build a modern day coliseum.

Followed by “project management” - this may be the most obvious sign that we’re off in comparison. A building need project management! Software on the other hand is often ruined by it, as software is supposed to be malleable.

One is soft, the other is hard.

Trying to liken software production to building construction is something I’ve seen create various problems in this field of ours for a long time.
Thank you for clarifying it
That is not, in fact, true. Almost all dams have a river flowing below them, where it always did.

A very few places use all of the inflow for irrigation.
Or the opposite in areas with wind/nuclear. Pump it up during the night when demand and prices are low, then run turbines during day when demand and prices are higher. Arbitrage.
> John Deere didn't have a right to fleece farmers just because some people would pay for their premium services and others would not.

I don’t believe that the John Deere case is an apples to apples comparison (pun intended, sorry). From my understanding the case mainly revolved around third party mechanics who previously were able to repair their tractors, but were later locked out by John Deere’s software updates thus eliminating a whole third party repair industry.

In Apple’s case I see Google apps, Microsoft apps, Facebook apps all available on the App Store. I see independent apps written by small developers. I see a multitude of competitors on the App Store.

> Meanwhile, people are installing iPhone rootkits through invisible iMessage exploits... it's not a great look.

Similarly, Android was affected by the Stagefright bug which used MMS, so I’m not sure what your example is trying to prove. Every vendor has vulnerabilities, it’s an unending arms race. If anything the fact that Android is so fragmented makes it more difficult to protect against vulnerabilities. IMO adding more app stores is just creating this same fragmentation.

Going back to side-loading for iOS, can’t you compile and deploy your own code via XCode onto your own iPhone? There’s definitely hoops you need to jump, but it is possible. You don’t even need to use XCode, you can do so in VS. Doesn’t this process provide the freedom that you asked for without the need of a third party app store?
I can speak on this owning a pair of Technics 1200 mk2 I bought new in 1995 and a pair of Reloop RP8000mk2 I bought two years ago. What might be confusing is many DJ turntables are made by the same company now, and are reffered to as "super oem", so the small things are changed, like logos, but they come from the same factory. My Reloops weight close to the same amount as the Technics but the base allows for more rumble through the feet. If you tap the body, you can clearly hear this compared to the Technics.

The tonearm on the Reloop has bearing that have a small amount of play, on my Technics, they are extremely solid after 100's hours of play time. But the biggest issue is the Reloop has the flutter at 0.5%, while the Technics at 0.05%. Doesn't sound like a huge issue, but when playing a song on Reloop, the beats per minute will fluctuate from 100 to 100.5 to 99.5, non-stop. The Technics has the same flutter but at a much lower tolerance, so you don't see this appear. Performance, they both do well on startup and stop, and of course improved RCA jacks.
> Isn't there a security concern in exposing the username of who you share a password with?

Yes, because now you know their password. Which is bad.

It also means if you want to bruteforce something, you dont have to bruteforce every account separately.

Last of all, to even implement that you would need to be storing the passwords unsalted in the db, which is huge no-no.

In any case, this is an article about bad practises, but the first screenshot was fake according to the text.
Police departments in the US are so corrupt that most of their abuse never gets to a court room in the first place.
I built https://github.com/spy16/connote with similar problems in mind when it comes to note-taking. It does not have all the features you are talking about though.

It's more of a command-line note-organizer tool that makes it slightly easier to index and manage bunch of markdown files.
super cool project, any way to integrate it in mkdocs or pymarkdown ?
'Paypal' was literally falling apart and Musk had to be ousted and replaced because he was destroying the company. It was Peter Thiel that took over, renamed it Paypal and it became the success as we know it today. So if your barometer of success is Paypal, then Twitter is doomed.
I have way more iphone users dump on me for using an Android than I see android users dump on iPhones. Just another anecdata.

I don't really have many techy friends though so, that might weigh into it a little.
I've chosen to "counter" that by mirroring data at home (without redundancy), and making local as well as remote versioned backups.

If my cloud provider of choice locks me out, i can simply restore my files to another provider from either of my backups.

As for photos, i also make yearly Blu-Ray M-disc archives of the past years photos (or more frequent if i have a disk worth of photos). Identical sets stored in different locations (>100km apart), without any encryption, archiving or compression, and instead relying on physical security to protect them.

Alongside the Blu-Ray discs i also keep a couple of USB hard drives with a mirror of my entire photo library (at time of archival) that is rotated whenever i deposit a new archive Blu-Ray disc. These drives use a simple file system. I can't at present remember if it's ExFAT or Ext2, but it's one of them, and it was chosen (at the time) because it is relatively easy to recover data from in case the filesystem gets corrupted.

The hard drives are then subjected to a full (non destructive) surface read/write test, updated with the latest photos and stored. The surface test may be overkill, but there was a discussion some years back, that drive firmware will detect and correct weak magnetic sectors on the drive itself when it read data, which is what i'm trying to accomplish, simply a refresh of the storage medium.
The article has 'no data' for Rhinos in China, but this is false. Rhinos previously existed in what is now southwest China, in Yunnan, and probably in Sichuan. They were hunted to extinction. We know this with certainty at least from Tang Dynasty texts like the Man Shu, but also from earlier texts. The Man Shu specifically states the hunting technique used was pit trapping. It also states that the bodies were used to produce shields and armour, not only for meat.
I wrote pipes-and-paper[1] which sort of shares your screen without any cloud.
Getting to what the display puts out is difficult, but recording the pen strokes isn't.
So what I wrote is a small webserver that runs on the reMarkable (1 and 2) that sends the penstrokes to the webbrowser via Websockets.
It draws all penstrokes on a camvas in the browser and also deletes strokes when the eraser is used.

[1] https://github.com/AnyTimeTraveler/pipes-and-rust
Like if people voted him back into the presidency. That would be terrible for democracy.
Yep. Looking on mobile Safari and it seems very buggy. But looks so cool when it does work!
Actions will speak louder than words. Let's see what he does.
On mobile, for the tour, I found the camera moved a bit quickly and would also cut corners.

I think it would be helpful to break the movement down a bit and add intermediate positions. Rotate camera, move along in the direction that your head might realistically travel through the space, and then a final rotation at the destination if needed.
GOFAI = "Good old fashioned AI" for those not familiar with the acronym
I’ll throw https://bearblog.dev in here for good measure :)
> why would a company give apple's option to consumers?

Because it cares about its customers, who are paying for the service.
> If you're consuming 19x as many resources than someone else, and the sustainable level is 10% of the current level, then demanding they reduce their 5% share to a 1% share is not just arrogant, unfair, and greedy. It also doesn't do anything to solve the problem.

If.

> Your implicit thesis is that you should not be held to account to do the extremely easy things if anyone else is asserting their right to exist at all is transparent reprehensible.

No it isn't.

Not eating meat, by itself, does not give you any moral high ground about killing animals or consuming resources or impacting the environment.
I love their branding
This is going to be a nightmare. It's hard enough to keep track of which state is in which time zone even with them (mostly) grouped by geography
Wonder if Elon will try to claw some of it back using Mudge testimony.
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Well to be fair a 100 million is exactly 10% of a billion. Still a massive amount of people.
Lots of smaller projects work better than a few monsters.

There is absolutely no shortage of terrain suitable for pumped hydro storage. The smaller the project is, the easier it is to find a good item for it.
There are scans of DDJ on on archive.org.

"Binary Magic Numbers":

https://archive.org/details/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_08/page/176...

"More on Binary Magic Numbers":

https://archive.org/details/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_09/page/202...
True, their ferries are less specialized than what the allies WWII used. The older tech would be better suited to the task.

China has lots of medium-range missiles, but that won't help much at the beach.

Bullets and artillery are much the same. But AI weapons such as anti-ship missiles and the slimmer 20 inch diameter torpedoes are more use on the defense.
New 10th-Generation iPad Has Slower USB-C Port Compared to Other Models
> If we were to rely purely on humanity’s ability to produce oxygen and decay organic matter

But again this is about a single species. If you remove one random type of algae or plant it's not going to make a huge difference.

> 1) What exactly do we mean by important?

The impact they have, the breadth of skills, the monuments and constructs and art, the potential for what they can do in the future. Including spreading life through the solar system eventually, or things like that. I might be missing some parts, it's late.

> 2) What are the boundaries of ability by which we can define humans as interchangeable, but humans and nonhuman animals as not, that are not rationalized after the fact?

I don't want to double down on this too hard. I just think most humans are in a pretty narrow band and this band is pretty far away from any other species.
2022 National Defence Strategy of the United States of America [pdf]
> To login simply type in your mobile number and password

> The password is the last four digits of your mobile number

https://web.archive.org/web/20150117203933/http://www.mysmsd...

One of the many examples in this article
For the initial beach assault? Russia tried something like this with helicopters at Kiev airport, true. Relatively cheap, but it didn't end well.
Also, it has AirPods which sell like crazy. It has some hit shows like Ted Lasso so I guess people paid for AppleTV. Also, it has the crazy commission it charges for app purchases, people also like Apple Music. And it probably has a decent chunk of money from ads as well.
Bullshit. That's like saying one company's financial team cant assess another's finances and structure. Happens all the time.
> It's not the polish that was bad.

Indeed, it would be weird if CDPR had trouble with Polish.
I'm not asserting any moral high ground.

I'm saying we should stop factory farming cattle that are fed with heavily subsidized, fossil fuel grown crops, stop clearing land for more cattle, return about half of the land currently used for feed and ethanol to conservation, and hold the meat industry to some basic environmental and animal welfare standards.

You're welcome to continue eating what meat is available in such a world and should thank anyone you meet who eats less so that your combined share of a sustainable world can meet your personal demands.
Very nice!
Though, it also turned my phone into an oven
Same thing happened to me since 2021, weirdly enough my VIM setup was quite close to yours. Nowadays, I'm using VSCode + vim plugin, which is kind of the best of the two worlds.

What I miss however from the good-old development in Terminal days:

1. How distraction-free terminal is by default without all the popups and extra things on the screen

2. How I could do anything in my development environment without having a mouse

Therefore naturally I checked your dotfiles and I think I will try to adopt your keybindings. Thanks for sharing.
> From power user perspective iPhone is like Windows and Android like Linux.

A widely adopted platform/operating system with every improving security fundamentals versus a kernel with numerous spins each awaiting their day on the desktop: This is apt in a manner the author certainly did not intended..
Parent mentions Chrome.
43% from homes, 40% from restaurants, grocery stores and food services combined. [1]

Makes sense, restaurants are businesses whose focus is on reducing their food costs. Restaurant soup is yesterday's scraps - in a good way.

[1] https://www.rts.com/resources/guides/food-waste-america/
> Every single tonne of steel manufactured by humans from prehistory until about a century ago -- the entire output of the industrial revolution -- amounts to less than one year at current production.

That is the nature of exponential growth. The nth term in a geometric sequence is always related to the sum of all previous terms.
As a quick note, while containers offer a degree of isolation, depending on your use case you might not want to put too many eggs into that basket (Linux privilege escalation bugs do happen). E.g. Firecracker VM is a relatively easy improvement to make of course, and on cloud env the container isolation might be Amazon’s/Microsoft’s problem. Just figured it would be good to mention not to see containers as a silver bullet, while they are better than not using containers on a shared host (and a useful tool in general :-)
That's exactly the point. I think there is a trade-off which has to be quantified. Claimimg to be unable to quantify this trade off is a death argument to any discussion.
I can attest to NearlyFreeSpeech being pretty damn good as a domain reseller. Years ago, I had problems with people maliciously reporting my domains, in order to free them up and buy them. NFS was the first to say "No." to them and to actually investigate the reports.
Yeah it’s likely more of a Yamaha issue but it’s a feature I use daily so is unfortunately a complete deal breaker for me.

I use Yamaha streamers so adding a separate dongle to those for those seems unnecessary.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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But there are sites that explivitely ask for a "local" phone number. Maybe their automated sms system can't send to foreign numbers ? I' pretty sure that's how banks in the us operate
Anyway in that case, the front-end should definitely catch it before the backend throws a fit
Discord? Reddit?
We are not building much storage because it would be stupid to spend on storage that we have not spare renewable generating capacity to charge up. After we have plenty, then we will need storage, and will build it then.
Pumped hydro has 70-80% efficiency.
I just looked up the number for a local one (smallish, ~180MW) and it claims 77%
It operates on a weekly cycle, pumping up at night and weekends.

You do need a hill to build one, though. But you don't need Putin.
The climate did change. Now it hardly rains in the winter either.
I bought a pair of Technics 1210 Mk2s[1] back in 1996 and gigged them 2 or 3 nights a week for about 4 years.

They still run exactly like new and are about the most reliable machines I own.

I have a few tips for anyone getting to turntable DJing:

1. Feedback from speakers is picked up[sic] through both L and R channels but is inverted on one of them, I forget which. Combining the channels as mono cancels it out, a bit like active noise cancelling. If you have a mixer with a mono/stereo switch it's easy to test this out by tapping the deck as it's playing. Stereo depends on fixed listener position relative to speakers anyway so almost never miss it in a venue.

2. If you really want the effect (including very high record wear and poor sound quality) of a straight tonearm you can angle your cartridge outwards on the headshell.

3. You're probably going to turn the bias to zero so that your arm doesn't jump off the record when you back cue. However, if you ever have record that skips at particular spot when playing, either due to a bit of dirt or damage, you can turn bias back on for a moment and the stylus will usually ride past it just fine. When you're playing in front of a crowd that's a handy get out of jail card.

4. For DJing you'll want a spherical stylus as it will track better when moving the record backwards. You can get better sound quality from an elliptical stylus if you're just playing or recording from vinyl though. The absolute best sound quality is from a stylus shaped like a record cutting lathe tip but never ever use that for DJing.

5. Clean your stylus.

1. A 1210 Mk2 is basically a dark grey 1200 Mk2 but they always come dual voltage which I think is not always the case for 1200s depending on where you bought them.
We always seem to forget that the majority of US citizens identify as conservative or moderate. Personally, I'm middle-left and found the endless hordes of far-left mobsters to be as equally unappealing.

It appears the country is finally trending back to moderate after the dumpster fire that was the last 7 years. Will companies continue to be hyper focused on political stances now that they're missing earnings? I think companies will leave the virtue signaling to the internet and get back thinking about how to maximize revenue. If people use the platform, and companies get click-through, I think they will advertise on it.

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It's certainly possible, but here comes the fun; How read/maintain/extend-able is the solution? How well does it handle errors, assist the user? Add checking if all the programs are installed and useful error messages into the mix. Then the API does a tiny change and now we need a `jq` between curl and graphviz, and maybe we'd need an option for that case as well, and so on, and so on, ...

Bash scripts have a nasty tendency to grow, sometimes in ways that are disproportional to the bit of extra functionality that is suddenly required. Very quickly, a small quick'n dirty solution can blow up to a compost-heap ... no less dirty, but now instead of a clean-wipe, I'd need a shovel to get through it.

I think my handle speaks for itself as to how much I like bash. But I have had the pleasure of getting handed over bash scripts, hundreds of lines long, with the error description being "it no longer works, could you have a look at it? and the original author both unreachable and apparently having string feelings against comments.

And in many of these cases, it took me less time to code a clean solution in Python or Go, than it took me to grok what the hell that script was actually doing.
VMS OS from DEC had exactly the "unique password" stupidity in the late 80s.
In a way, it was much worse than Twitter's, because where I worked there were only about a 100 accounts, so you could find the other by hand in less than an hour.
The hardware is now here but the algorithms are not. A crow knows not to land on sharp nails without ever having any experience stepping on one. Current architectures lack this basic intuition. Something is missing. Probably an internal world model or simulation
Power should be a public good and not in the hands of private companies.

Macroeconomics has unfortunately fallen out of fashion on todays curricula at schools/universities.
> with it's dynamic scope

Bash has dynamic scope with its local variables.

The standard POSIX language has only global variables: one pervasive scope.
> Spotify also still doesn't support AirPlay 2, nearly 4.5 years after it was launched

Apple homepod still does not support Spotify connect, nearly 7 years after it was launched.
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Right. Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. If anything, Apple has demonstrated on several occasions that they are able to commit to long-term changes and the sustained effort they may require. It depends on their analysis, but if they think they should do it, they probably already have a team working on it somewhere and a plan to bring it progressively over ~5 years, with a series of incremental steps.
Trade secrets aren't always for sale; or easy to discover. TSMC appears to have some, re EUV tech; maybe Intel will easily catch up once they too adopt the EUV tech (they didn't earlier 'cause they thought it wasn't ready for prime time.) I don't know.
How would something like the audio technica lp1240 stack up? I’ve heard great things about them but they don’t seem super popular.
Thanks tapatio!
Actually all.you need is a height difference, the direction doesn't matter. 72 meters is the limiting factor here.
Ochlocracy isn’t democracy.