skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get the innuendo, but it’s a reasonable thing to think about. The problem of course is that plenty of small companies, startups, and I guess blogs exist where someone might be proud of their work and want to share it on HN which I don’t think should be outright banned.

But then you also have the periodic content less and clearly marketing content that ends up on HN front page, which I always find deeply suspicious, so..?
> Are we just optimizing too hard for the lowest common denominator and the average user wants things to be dead simple?

Yup, but note that things can be both simple and powerful. I think there's also for some reason the expectation that people want fewer features on mobile than on desktop devices.
Eh, that's the wrong take about the guys statement.

The actual take should've been [Citation Needed].
They’re trying to manage expectations by saying Mac sales in 4Q will be weaker but once they release M2 Mac Mini and M2 Mac Pro, they will sell like hotcakes. It doesn’t hurt that building a PC is now quite a bit more expensive.
Its not like you can easily sign a PO for a pumped storage site either. Large scale civil engineering is still difficult in most places. And surely it requires lots of survey and design work.

With batteries you can design the site, get consents and order battery units off the peg in under a year.
> I hold an unpopular opinion that this kind of activism is fundamentally the same quest for transcendent meaning as one finds in radical Islam.

I would believe that more if it weren't constantly done in front of TV cameras. This is about drawing attention to yourself because you can't convince someone with rational arguments.

It is, ultimately, a tantrum as most of the world doesn't find their message convincing.

The world needs fossil fuels, as Europe is discovering right now. Rich kids vandalizing art doesn't change the fundamental reality that fertilizer is made from natural gas and higher fossil fuel prices cause mass starvation - millions or billions would die if we stopped producing synthetic fertilizer from natural gas. And the price of natural gas directly drives the price of the food that the global south needs to buy each day. It's one thing for a London Art Student to say "I'm willing to pay more for bread", but it's quite another thing to impose those higher prices on the global South, as commodities are sold in a global market.

That trumps whatever performative display these children throw.

If they wanted to do things in a serious manner, they would work on developing technologies that would allow the world to create fertilizers, heat homes, and power industry in a cost effective way with alternate mechanisms. And if they lacked the skills to do that, they could fund the work of others to find feasible replacements. Ultimately it's technology, rather than tantrums, that will determine how food is grown and factories are powered.
Macs grew at 25% YoY (Apple earnings) while the PC market shrank by 15% YoY (IDC).

Apple Silicon is doing wonders.
> Look at their profits. This is a symptom of greed more than inflation.

Inflation is just a rise in prices. Literally just defined as a rise in prices. It doesn't matter if the prices accurately reflect rising costs of doing business or wind up in profits.

Inflation is more about the ability of consumers to continue to pay higher prices and the inelastic demand for whatever the good is. The market is fundamentally an auction and prices get bid up until elastic demand starts to appear.
Not jeans, but I love Prana shorts for riding. I have several pair that have lasted several thousand miles each.
Right? Next up, downloads are phoning home to a CDN!
Not sure if the question was for the OP or for everyone... in the latter case: Organic Maps (for of maps.me without ads/trackers, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27543012). It works great, allows you to download maps. Maps are from OpenStreetMaps, so generally good in most places, with some exceptions (e.g. last year it wanted us to drive the wrong way into a road that was not marked as one-way in the map), and much better than google maps in some remote places (e.g. tracks in the desert in northwestern Argentina).
Yeah. Living in SF and working in the South Bay, it's common in the evening to get into my car sweating, and coming out freezing. I always pack a hoodie.

On the bright side, a hoodie is often all I ever need, all year long.
I have two broken USB-C cables next to me. They just wore out and broke. They have only been used to charge my phone. To be fair, it's not the metal connector which broke, it's the plastic parts, but still, that's enough to make the connector flimsy.

I also have a phone with a broken USB-C port (data signals don't get through). This phone was effectively bricked when the display stopped working. It still has files on it I'd like to read, but I can't read them because the USB-C data on it isn't working to use remote debugging, and also means the HDMI out feature doesn't work.

I have another phone where the USB-C port works but its charging is intermittent, probably because it isn't making a reliable connection. Probably due to matter accumulated in the port, as the connection does feel slightly less solid than it should be, but it's a pain to clean it out. A toothpick is slightly too large. I've tried various methods of cleaning it out but the problem persists, and I wonder if it's really matter in there, or if something is wrong with the metal parts inside.

These are just my anecdotes, and I don't have anything that uses Lightning to compare with. But I have read claims that USB-C is a very robust, long-life connector, and my experience doesn't give me as much confidence in it as those claims suggest.
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Argonne Researchers Call for Battery Innovation Data ‘Genome’
I use this in my team for automating some labeling. It's pretty cool that this sort of tools exists now. Back in the day this was a PITA to set-up.
Good right now in the energy crisis, not so good long-term when higher temperatures won't be matched by more rain, which they probably won't, and we will slowly turn into a savannah.
> I have set up systems for others that have worked with nearly no issues for years

The two issues I had over the years was:
My SSL cert expiring (not really a Jellyfin issue).

My FireTV updated the Jellyfun app to a version that no longer supported the server version, this was pretty frustrating becuase I just wanted to sit down and watch some TV instead of messing around with a upgrade.

In saying that; Kodi also ran fine for years without issue.
My main issues with Jellyfin are scrubbing difficulties and subtitles going out of sync or not being able to change their timings, same with audio timings.
>It would require having 3 to 4 protein shakes a day or doing lots of cooking and prep. All the natural vegan protein sources outside of protein shakes weren’t lean; they also contained lots of carbs or fats. This made hitting macros hard.

A large number of Indian people are vegetarian (plants + poultry eggs + cow/goat milk), and I've never heard of them having such problems. Why? I certainly didn't have any dietary or nutritional problems when I grew up as a vegetarian there.
Was going to say, those road overlays are common if you watch chase footage. ABC7 has a cool setup.
I want to use Jellyfin, however, I require mobile app downloads/syncs. I load up my iPad with content for trips and I'm not willing to give that up.
It's more a factor of dislocated moral feelings. If you decide humans aren't special, then you can go one of two ways with the moral feelings you had towards humanity: you can broaden them to a larger category that you still think is special, such as mammals, animals, all living things, etc, or you can narrow them down to some arbitrary set that you happen to be fond of, like your family, your friends, or yourself. Both are problematic to those who still think humans are special.
Ah, you're right. Misread that.
> Instead of reckless high speed car chases most agencies here in California now break off the chase and have a helicopter follow the individuals until they bail on foot

High-speed car chases are definitely a thing of the past in metropolitan California, but in most cases once they break off that's the end of it. The bad guy gets away until they pop up somewhere else, hopefully not within easy reach of an escape car. The helicopter chase was always and remains a relatively exceptional case.
Which city did you move from?
> For what I do with a laptop

Are you possibly able to understand that other people do other things with their laptops and so see value in the technology?

Like I spend my time compiling things. A fast, low-energy processor is brilliant for me, because it lets me work faster and for longer. Can you not understand how I'd see value in that?
Pumped hydro is very dependent on location. But the supply of energy would not need to be. Electricity grids and DC interconnectors work really well. Having a few massive sites spread across a continent could work well.
You sound like someone who likes to get the details right. "A lot" is two words.
I was imagining this for protocols like zkSNARK and similar, which do not have interactive challenges.
As a musician who earns less than half a penny per stream from Spotify, it is really hard to for me to take this sob story seriously.
This is a great video. Vast quantities of HF...
Preventing the bait and switch by open core software companies
strong agree -- federated Identity is still possible, and political speech with anonymity too
Interesting, I didn't know that was a thing. I offered this when I couldn't get a credit card, but no dice. Didn't know this was a common solution elsewhere. I figured they didn't want to deal with custom solutions for uncommon cases like foreigners with no credit score wanting a debit card that has a credit number (essentially, that number is all I want, I don't need a loan/credit at all). Maybe it's not a thing here because a credit card is not as common or necessary.
Jellyfin + Tailscale is absolutely fucking amazing. It easily replaces everything Plex does without any risk like Plex exposing your network from a bug.
Why does it need to be sent to a server though?
Surely the author who is using Bear "A privacy-first, no-nonsense,
super-fast blogging platform" is being a tad rhetorical with that
question.

S/he asks;

> Did we consent to this?

Yes you absolutely did. Tacitly at least. By using a Microsoft product
knowing of their reputation, values, business model and technical
model of slurping everything into their "cloud".

The best way not to consent to abuses is by simply never using
Microsoft products in any way shape or form. There are many good, free
and safe ways to make excellent slide decks without having to
compromise your privacy.
I see NPM compatibility as a temporary stopgap. They tried to make a hard break all at once, and then Bun made it clear that no, actually people still really want access to that existing ecosystem for now.

But new code written for Deno starts out on that better foundation without CommonJS, several different module-resolution algorithms, manual transpilation, competing linting and testing standards, etc etc. They just need to bridge the gap in the meantime, until Deno's own ecosystem gets more filled out. That's the dream anyway.
> The whole point of scripts is for them to be dead simple.

To that end, would it not make more sense to always use `[[ ... ]]` for conditions, when I know my .bash scripts will always be invoked by bash?

Consistency is simple.
You can also view the $15 billion as a bribe to prevent apple from trying its hand at search. Apple already has a substantial search effort behind the scenes
Scientists discover material that can be made like plastic, conducts like metal
I love Dominion the card /board game. Have played it many times!

I'm a little confused why the app version would need to access my SMS message history, send messages on my behalf, and access my contact info though.

I don't want that even if you claim to not be sharing it with anyone else...
Yea, the overlays are the least-worst thing there. Imagine what they do with the 2TB of videos (or more) that they are storing! They could run all kinds of analytics on that data, with time/location tracking included in there. Someday, you won't even have to pan + zoom a camera turret and will just digitally pan + zoom, because there will be cameras covering everything below the helicopter in great detail at all times. Imagine doing facial rec on it all, knowing where anyone was that was within ~500 meters of any police helicopter. Now, imagine you remove the requirement that the helicopter has a pilot, just run drones all over the place with charging terminals.
> Quite a vindication of Tim Cook’s decade at the helm.

Agreed, if all you care about is Apple getting richer, he's done an outstanding job.
When Cyberpunk launched it had game breaking bugs. A lot of people got their refund and forgot about the game (and rightly so).
appreciate that, thank you!!
ha, thanks!!
Agreed! Is there a website that does this style of commentary for (tech) stocks?

All I see is seo spam when looking.
https://github.com/jcushman/libgfshare/blob/master/src/libgf...

this has obvious timing and cache sidechannels on the secret data.

(IIRC SSSS is even worse, however.)
I believe the parent poster may be referring to this being a good start to facebook failing, not a good start for their VR project.
Had the same with an LG TV. Workaround by running with http (not https) on local network.
Apple tried to pivot into ads business several times, but they were simply not able to build a good infrastructure and organization for serving ads at the planetary scale. Apple is indeed one of the best engineering companies in the globe, but it can't be superior on everything; it's still struggling on building competitive online services even with the massive advantage of 30% app store tax + complete platform control.
"When I type the characters actually appear on the screen as I type them"

Great quote. Perhaps one of the best arguments for using Vim
I'd like to aimlessly comment that I tried very hard and could not remember the last time I clicked in an google AD.

I suppose that the last time that happened should be _at least_ 5 years, because that was when started using ad blockers. Before that, I was just annoyed by them, so I suppose the last click was years before that, when maybe they made any sense.
I've owned an android for years and have never once installed an app outside the google play store. There's no way this is a viable business option
(Disclaimer: i am an ex meta employee)

This is unfortunate because genuinely i like where they are going with VR and they have pushed the technology forward considerably. Their metaverse vision makes no sense to me though but hopefully they course correct

I do hope meta recovers from this. The real risk is going to be mark’s mental health and his ability to stay focused amongst this insanity. We shall see
You can but you're not allowed to inform the consumer about it. So it makes your product look overpriced and pisses off your customers.

There are already apps doing this, like Youtube Premium ($16 IAP, $12 on their website) and Dropbox ($12 IAP, $10 on their website).
> or are they really good at hedging currency risk

How would they be exposed on this, long-term?

Euro stronger than dollar: convert prices 1-1. I saw someone do a calculation that EU customers overpaid ~38% (!) on Macbooks in 2009. Yes, that's with VAT (sales tax) removed.

Dollar stronger than euro: immediately horrendously jack up the prices.
iPhones make money, but services make more. The App Store alone made over 80 billion dollars in estimated revenue last year, just by existing. That's without accounting for Apple One, Apple Fitness, Apple Arcade, AppleTV Plus, or iCloud. Apple simply makes $80 billion annually for writing a payment processor everyone else has to use.

Services are one thing, but playing both the gatekeeper and competitor to a number of corporations is not a sustainable business model. Apple needs to double-down on their hardware dominance and leave the software distribution to software writers. All their other services can stay, Apple users can drown in AppleTV+ shows for all I care. The App Store is a fundamental de-facto monopoly on software distribution and (as we've seen with Spotify) service development. That quite literally cannot be the status quo going forward.
Correct (though I think it was 9 volts). The switch and especially the switch dock do some things wrong but not in a dangerous way.
At one of the Open Source Conferences (OSCON) I saw Damian Conway use a tool like this (I believe it was asciinema) to give one of the best command line based demos I've ever seen. He was typing away like mad and not one typo! It was mesmerizing and the demo was totally awesome, of course it helps that he's a superb presenter to begin with.

Later he revealed the "magic trick"!
Because of NIMBYs
Amazes me that there is no standardized way to do money transfers between big countries that we very commonly buy/sell stuff from/to like the USA, China, etc. Thanks for the info and link!
Off the top of my head:

Null-safety.

Read-only interface by default - `MutableList` vs `List`.

if-expression, they just look nicer than `a ? b : c`.

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You're right that Kotlin is not an "abstraction atop Java (the language)". It's meant to be a better Java that feels familar to Java. With that rationale in mind, it's reasonable that they left some features from FP languages out of Kotlin.

As I have said in another reply, it was a great decision to not follow what Scala did with pattern matching.
Now that’s using your head
Absolutely. But it's not really an expansion - they're trying to get people off of music and onto podcasts because those are cheaper for them to serve (so more like an attempt at not having to raise the subscription price).

I guess the idea is that all types of audio content have some commonality and somebody who's considering listening to music could also listen to a podcast instead. I don't think this overlap happens for me very often, but maybe it's more often than I think and often enough for them to be worth it.

I'll still boycott their podcasts because they're attempting to make proprietary what is currently free.
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> Winter starts on the 21st Dec.

Or on Nov 10, or on Dec 1 depending on how you count.
I also remember trying out different new apps on the daily in 2010.

If only those had costed $15 instead of $1, apps might not have become a race to the bottom where the only way to make a buck was to offer shady IAP or to release an uninspired boilerplate app filled to the brim with ads.
It's a case where the world is wrong, I'm right, and we'd all be better off if people thought like me on this issue instead, as far as I'm concerned.
Note that the PD signal is supposed to be something like 2 volts.
You can download things in the Jellyfin app. You'll just have to use a different app to play the files (on Android at least. Not sure about iOS)
Yeah, surveying my friends I found one other person with this problem, but it isn't the majority case.

It doesn't seem to be a problem with the cable, it's really a problem with the connector on the iPhone itself. All my iPads charge fine on Lightning cables. I keep my phone for longer than two years, for one. Or maybe there's something specific to my pocket, where the sort of lint that gets into the iPhone is especially degrading to the connector?
No, VR.
My guess is none of them will ever replace Node.js, but they will all help shift the momentum of Node.js to be faster, better support for Typescript, etc. Similar to how folks created io.js at one point and that eventually got merged back into Node.js.

Deno seems like to offer a better dev experience, and because it's created by Dahl it's the only one I take seriously as an alternative.
Don't you think that this discredits the environment movement in the eyes of at least a few "Uninterested"'s?

Nothing's free in this world.
I haven’t read the whole thing yet but just zeroing allocations (see comment below on allocations versus pages) is not a full fix, because a UAF can come through a dangling pointer. What you need to mitigate against this is preventing allocations from being reused. This is infeasible to do perfectly because it just means you leak everything but in isolated cases you can do things like prevent different types from being given the same allocation (and thus allowing for shenanigans when code does a type confusion) or do other kinds of segregation and randomization to make it difficult to predict when it will be coming back.
And there's also a reason lobsters isn't the same vibe as HN.
> Also, “biomass” is a strange term. Is that literally an estimate of mass?

It is indeed. The idea being that individuals vary greatly (it doesn't make sense to compare individual counts of humans with individual counts of ants for example), and that mass at least roughly accounts for the size of individuals.
Nice! "A Final Hyperbase" by Firefox and Tip was made for the Amiga demo Enigma by Phenomena, which was released in 1991. Oh man, the nostalgia :)

This is how it sounds on a video grab from an Amiga:

https://youtu.be/iGpU3DicbLQ
Let's work with your assumptions, hopefully you can realize why they don't really make sense when it comes to consumer rights or healthy competition.

So companies "will do everything they can to screw over the customer". Apparently excluding Apple for some reason who can never do wrong or suddenly start demanding apps charge subscriptions instead of a flat fee in the first place, but let's continue.

Companies that have their own infrastructure to support their own payment systems will switch to it, but have to create a justification for consumers to switch as Apple isn't going to do that work for them. So maybe they cut the fee, maybe they throw in a bonus whatever. Some consumers switch, finding this new method acceptable.

Then there will be other consumers, like you, who value Apple's system too highly to switch. If the above hypothetical company does not support both Apple and their own systems, this group of consumers will opt not to continue subscribing.

Now tell me, how is this so bad? How are you unable to avoid scummy business practices?
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It’s not too bad, the kernel has been doing this for a couple years already.
More like there's no point in throwing out a bunch of perfectly good cables. Would rather they get tossed because they no longer function.
If you like this, you'll love the book "Hacker's Delight": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker%27s_Delight
Cool feature! I was just looking at boringtun last night and wondering if it could compile to WASM, to get a virtualized network interface in the browser.

Did you experiment with the new WebTransport API [0] at all? It's only supported in Chromium browsers, but seems promising for this kind of use case.

[0] https://chromestatus.com/feature/4854144902889472
Apple is usually first to get their designs in to the OS so everyone else sort of has to or they will be the odd ones out. Especially when most users are on iOS, the expectations are set on what ios displays it as.
That is an unreasonable comparison.
Apple, Google and Microsoft are all arguably partially-nationalized entities. They aren't literally owned by the government, but our government does wield it's unfathomable economic power to push US-based tech companies to every corner of the globe. It's a sad, perverted form of imperialism, but I consider it partial-nationalization none the less.