skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The MK7s are supposedly (e.g. the bottom of the player - didn't verify myself) built from slightly cheaper materials than the MK2. On the other hand they're new and they have a very solid build. Also they have proper cabling and ports on the player, which some older 1200s were lacking. I got two of them and really like them.
It happens so that a developers day is more than coding. You talk with bosses, managers, clients and write down the details before forgetting those. Maybe you have a project where you need to write a monthly report and logging stuff just makes it easier. You can write down what learning material you went through, learn your coworkers kids name and write down in an attempt to remember it.... You know, stuff that does not go to version control.
React Monkeypatches Patches Fetch()
We're all guilty aren't we, even speaking as a vegetarian, but for me it's about how much cruelty I can avoid, not all or nothing. I don't kill insects but I eat eggs. I try to use public transport but I do have a car. Don't let perfection be the enemy here.
From my user perspective Android is Linux while iOS is more like Microsoft Bob
I moved to Mastodon almost 6 years ago, but I didn't close Twitter.

It's amazing that in the professional world, some people still raise an eyebrow if you don't have a Twitter account. It's better to have a dormant one, than none at all in my experience.

After 6 years, my Mastodon account has fewer followers than my Twitter inactive one. It shows that Mastodon is smaller, less active and (if you filter out bots and spam) you start to recognise most of the active people. It's like a small town. But with the passing years, I start to see that as an advantage. It's less stressful, there's not as much FOMO.

I'm currently in the process of setting up a small instance just for close friends and leave behind the mind-numbing daily drama of planetary social media for good.
I'm so happy to hear you'll make use of it! :) What are you working on?
The only way profile building will survive is personalized recommendations from friends. Suggestions from people I know and trust would recover a lot of the current trust erosion: "your friends X and Y both have eaten here a few times" is a much stronger recommendation than "we think you'll like this based on trust us."
This has nothing to do with physical paperwork (See Japan which runs on paper forms even today; most hospitals in US are paperless but they're far from efficient), but the underlying policies that dictate the requirements and how the approval process must be conducted, number of parties/agencies/teams involved and the incentives put in place to make sure it gets done within a certain timeframe (QA controls). Some governments are better than others.

Paperwork really isn't to blame here because even if everything was digital, the people behind the operation and the policies that govern their behavior is still the same. The problem isn't the interface between citizens and the government, it is the backend source code of the government.

You are all barking at the wrong tree.
HN threads are a bad source for what real people want and feel. It's terrific for talking about the technical side of things or about products and services that are geared towards the HN demographic but at the moment you step out of that comfort zone the disconnect between HN and real people becomes jarring.

And on a different note, and this is an idea that can use some further development, the fact that a non-free, closed source, walled garden, subscription-based software rules our life when free software alternative exists but remain unused by the majority of people is in a way a demonstration of how anarchism (= free software movement) has no chance to take hold in human society. Humans will always be prepared to trade some freedom for comfort.
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I never understood why company like Reddit, which no users give a fuck if it is 50Billion or 250Billion valuations. It is kinda like Craigslist, it provides a benefit to the society as public forum for information sharing. The cost to run it shouldn't be too high. Just keep it running for the purpose of that. Don't get into those MBA talk about making it profitable. There are business that can be profitable. Something like a public forum, should be like digital public utility, kind alike park and public library.
Ask HN: Why are a lot of AI projects written in Python?
I'm probably not the foremost authority on AI and ML, but a lot of it seems to be in Python. I'm assuming this is because it is popular in research fields and lots of libraries exist. The progress has been amazing in such a short time to say the least.

Curious that since a lot of things are popularly rewritten in Rust or Zig, why has this not happened on these types of projects?
and the numbers McDonalds is pulling prove that people who cook their own meals are an utterly irrelevant minority as well.
Tl;dr - you should have bought 1210 or 1200's, mkII mkIII or mkV, 20 years ago :)
you can pry my tech 12s from my cold dead hands.

I've had them for more than 20 years, I've dragged them through subways and left them on their side, stored them in poor conditions, dropped them down flights of stairs, shipped them internationally and back.

worst thing that happened? tonearm bearing went out of whack, 40 bucks to fix.

vestax pdx3000? plastic case and bad feet. Gemini? Get anything else.

Features? Features on a turntable is just something that will break. like the light on a tec 12.
I didn't omit anything. I focused on a sentence you led with. More importantly, I definitely don't care whether or not you enjoy Plex. I left that ecosystem 4 years ago because the writing was on the wall, now Jellyfin blows it out of the water performance wise. Didn't even have to pay for the pithy Plex Pass!

> I was stating that running your own media server (no matter the software) is better than using the streaming services.

Maybe you should have stated that in the first place...? It is certainly clearer in terms of the message. Nobody said you can't talk about Plex, just that it is weird to lead with "I paid for this!" on a thread about free software that isn't what you paid for. If you didn't pay for Plex pass, your comment would fit better. If the Geerling article was about Plex, your comment would fit better, but it wasn't, and it doesn't.
Smartphones have better dynamic range than dedicated cameras because they have better software and exposure stacking. If your subject stands still, that is. That’s why iPhones can save HDR photos you can actually view in HDR.

People editing camera raws in Lightroom still export them to sRGB JPEG at the end of the day. The main thing they’re doing with the dynamic range in those sensors is getting rid of it because there’s no ecosystem to view it. (Oddly, there is an ecosystem for HDR video, just not stills.)
My only issue with Jellyfin is not freebsd support due to dotNet.
What do you mean? It's quite simple.
do {accelerate()} while(!didWeJustAccident())
Enforcement: I would imagine that there is a way for hotfixes by a small group of trustworthy employees. That would be the common sense approach.

Communication: yes, this is the obvious cautious first step. There seem to be many ideologically driven people at Twitter and those kind of people can become dangerous very quickly. The big first task will be to find them and remove them from their positions, so that the rest of the employees can continue with their jobs.
I'm not from Holland but in EU and I pay hourly market rate of my regions electricity pool.
Tbh pushbullet sms privacy policy is pretty vague

> We take seriously the security of any information stored on our servers and take all reasonable precautions to protect this information.

All reasonable precautions?

What's that supposed to mean?

You got internal policies in place that not all engineers are able to access these messages according to their contract?

This type of data should be e2e encrypted, pushbullet shouldn't even be able to decrypt it and messages should disappear from pushbullet servers as soon as the message is pushed to all devices.

I've been using pushbullet for years but now I'm considering disabling the sms sync feature, the privacy policy looks really shady and Google has all the right to call it out.
They do consider overlapping handles in "Non-conducive depictions". Not sure why not elsewhere.
Correct me if wrong, but Apple ID still asks for security questions. Pisses me off.
Yes we're lucky to live in a modern house.
> Community-first attitudes are a hallmark of societal stability over the long term, as people think of the community first, and themselves second. Everyone benefits because the community is put ahead of selfishness and solipsism.

Saudi Arabia is also a societally stable country with community-first attitudes. That doesn't mean it's a desirable place to live for every community. All communities rely on exclusion as much as they rely on inclusion. As a result, they have no concern for individual rights. Communities are more prone to solipsistic bandwagons than individuals (i.e. madness of the crowds) and often with more drastic consequences (e.g. internment, public executions, torture, genocide). Stability at the expense of personal liberty should not be sanctified at all whether by numbers or fiat.

> Pathologically individualistic “me, me, me” attitudes lead to a very superficial community that cannot effectively meet threats to its health and survival. Everyone reaches for “why should I make the sacrifice when I don’t immediately benefit?”, which means no-one will make the sacrifice move.

It's not a pathology. It's a question of integrity. Why should I be held to or punished for a standard that is contradictory to my values? While I agree health and survival are should be considerations on an individual level, I don't agree that the purpose of my health and survival is for society. If that were case I'd have no right no risk my health in the pursuit of liberty or exercise the ability to end my life as I fit.

> I find it very ironic that the military holds so many of the second group, when its ethos teaches the first. In a military unit, your first instinct is to jump on top of that grenade so that you protect your teammates at the cost of your own life. You put the team first, so that the team can survive with or without you. This only works if every single member of the team conforms to that same ideal. Yet the amount of antivax in the military - which is no different than refusing to protect your teammates because jumping on top of that grenade would hurt your own “personal freedoms” - is surprisingly prevalent

The military is a (with a few caveats) volunteer army. Joining the military is an exercise of choice rather than one of forced conscription. The military doesn't (at least officially) exist as the private gang to enforce the will of a monarch or warlord as many armies in 18th century Europe did. While there are different legal systems and cultural expectations for members of the army than there are for private citizens, every member is inculcated with understanding that, in addition to being protectors, they are members of the Land of Free – with most of the benefits and drawbacks that entails –and not the Land of the Societally Acceptable. In a free society, even scoundrel have rights.
You mentioned in your blog post that you know who the attacker is. Do you know their motivation?
The argument that we likely live in a simulation is similar to the the cosmological argument that allegedly proves the existence of god; and it rests on the same unsound assumption, namely that the existence of entities in reality follows from the rational arguments that your mind can imagine about those entities.

Sound approaches to knowledge must operate in the opposite direction, drawing insights from observation of phenomena existing in the world.

Assuming that the world is as we deduce it to be, without then proceeding to check that the world behaves in accordance with our deduction, is a failure that delayed the advance of knowledge until the use of the scientific method became widespread.
Show HN: Create StableDiffusion prompts from any image
Hey Folks,
I am Vivek, one of the Founders at MagicStudio.com
As we watched the explosion of creative expression with AI rendered pictures, we also noticed that there has been a struggle in discovering levers that make prompts effective.

We believe that people think visually, and in order to get their imagination rendered, they can get substantial help by understanding how AI models “perceive” images.

This is an attempt to give “simple” prompt ideas to someone who has a picture as a reference.
You can use the prompts in any StableDiffusion class generative tool, including our own (MagicStudio.com/imagine)

Looking forward to see what you folks throw at it…
This! In Germany it's simply not possible to declare a parcel of your own choosing as "Non-Agricultural". Land is of course taken out of agricultural use and reclassified for industrial or residential use, but only in predefined areas. Of course there's lobbying and speculation involved, because reclassification multiplies the value of the parcels, but it takes much longer than a year from the first proposal until you can actually build something, and certain conditions have to be met, e.g. good accessibility by road, other infrastructure (power supply, sewage etc.)...
I have tried alternatives but ultimately went back to Gmail. The low maintenance is important to me. I do however limit other Google services to Chrome.
> Yep, fossil fuel based fertilizers and other chemicals aren't going away.

Yes that sentence was definitely about the fossil fuel bit and not the land use of cattle vs other protein sources.

Try a piece of intellectual honesty. How much human edible protein can be produced on an acre of land being used for corn and soy cow feed? Now how much on the same land with the same fertiliser input with a combination of plants and free range chickens? How much even if you sacrifice some yield to use organic methods?

> Your wild conspiratorial fringe theories and claims are just false. For example The US Animal Welfare Act (AWA) was signed into law on August 24, 1966. Name any country and you'll be able to find laws and regulations for basic environmental and animal welfare standards.

And almost all of those countries have laws specifically criminalising whistleblowing or documenting violations or turns the burden of proof for libel onto the defendant. Here's one that criminalises having footage.

http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Catego...
What would you recommend for an 11 year old kid interested in this?
I’m thinking a mixer like numark where you still have scratch pads but not using vinyls might be good enough to see if he’s interested enough?
The author seems to have been quite wound up by claims that "my high end desktop / server (insert ARM / RISC-V to taste) is better than your x86 because 'RISC'".

Fair enough. It's an 80's debate really. ISA is probably by a long margin not the most important factor in these comparisons.

But he says it makes no difference at all without evidence.

And he ignores that there is a whole world of simpler (especially in-order) cores where ISA probably does matter a lot.
I've only ever had one lucid dream, in which I was being chased and realized I could just throw myself off a cliff to wake up, which is what I immediately did. I wish I could have more.

I really enjoy when I remember my dreams and they consume part of my day. I consider it productive. If I let them, they reveal themselves more to me as the day goes on, and there's usually an "aha" moment when I realize what a dream was a metaphor for, usually something I'm struggling with in real life. Often they also give me new ideas for creative design problems I'm working on. Sometimes a building or a landscape I'm walking through is even laid out to show me a better way to approach an algorithm.

I can relate, though, to wanting to clear the fog that comes with holding onto a dream, and get on with the day in reality. Usually if I decide one isn't worth reading too much into, I can just jot a few words about it down and let it go.
As someone who lives in Maharashtra and I am close with people in manufacturing I can confirm that the corruption and mafia here is on a different level. You can’t get anything done unless you know people and are willing to bribe at every step.
As soon as I read the title, I knew the article would be pure pain.
I use random strings as well and this was my fear, thanks for confirming it :(
Rust microservices in server-side WebAssembly
Imaginary in what sense? Are there not concepts in the zeitgeist?

From my lived experience if I mentioned to someone that a particular friend was "the coffee guy" in my social circle 15 years ago they would assume that he worked in the coffee industry. They probably wouldn't assume that he was potentially a lawyer and has a cupboard full of various coffee brewing devices.

I mean sure for a long time the concept of a coffee connoisseur was a thing, the SCAA was a thing but to clarify at some point it became not only acknowledged but socially acceptable to refer to yourself as "the coffee guy".

As for your remarks about expertise, self and self worth it depends on the domain and the individual.
It actually doesnt matter if there is a person on the other end of that line. I have forgotten many of these over the years. My go to was always, like oh I always put a random name or phrase or just mash the keyboard. They always ended up prompting me and I would give a few guesses, and if there is any way of them bypassing it, they would do it at that point. The only way to solve this is for them to not to have a way to bypass it.
High-end iPhone 15 may adopt solid-state button for volume and power
you can claim as many expenses as you like, in companies there are restrictions, there are deferred tax assets and liabilities because of companies act and income tax act depreciation difference.
There is MAT applicable sooner than sole proprietorship i think.

lets just say it is easier to "appropriate" the books as a sole proprietorship.

you have to pay mca fees for your authorized capital, one off but if you are doing serious business, it costs.

i know, 5% "might" sound a lot in taxes but by fudging some numbers, by not paying complaince fees, by not being on the hook for a "lot of compliance" and the penalties that come up, it does not sound worth the risk....

Look, if you are doing big business, want to raise money from the public, sure go ahead but not otherwise.
Data visualisation and ray tracing in Python based on OptiX 7.5 framework
A hill I will die on is that Witcher 1 had good combat and should remain as is. But I can just feel that they will change it, and I already hate it.
The source has always been compiled to bytecode. Now after running your code for a bit, the interpreter makes a copy in memory to optimize as it notices patterns. Like more complicated automatic caches.
Show HN: A classical Bulletin Board for tildes or *Nix servers
Here I show a simple application of a classic bulletin board type designed to be used in public *NIX servers as Tildes. We have been using it for several months.

Classic style and retro look!
I remember admissions form of children (not sure which Indian state) that contains Aadhar (UID of India) listed in a server with directory listing enabled. Response was - the site is hosted in a secure government datacenter. No chance of leaking data.
I cannot believe I lived to read the expression "anti-VAX" in this context! :)
Saudi Arabia has a massive pot of money, but has no idea what to do with it.

The last attempt to deploy it resulted in tech unicorns that at best don’t make much profit, and at worst were an absolute bust like WeWork. (Saudi Arabia was $45B of the initial $100B Softbank Vision Fund.)
Wow. That you attack someone who merely said they're a vegetarian in these terms, and your comment isn't flagged and dead, is extremely embarrassing for HN.

I mean, I have low expectations (on HN) for anything involving vegetarians and vegans, but you've gone lower.
Not to interrupt your rant but, Tesla might just also have a distributed backend for their cars to communicate with, that might even be globally distributed. And I would even say that it probably processes more data/sec than the Twitter “product”.
Why does everyone assume consoles? PC gaming is still a thing. And a study published now would have been done before gaming video cards became unaffordable.
That’s also how the Sony updater works. Though it shouldn’t need a kernel extension anymore now that DriverKit is in userspace.
In contrast, ENOWA, Neom's energy company, will likely use crypto mining to balance out times of high supply and low demand,
Interesting, I could see this as a nice replacement for Gravitational Teleport.

One of the things that Teleport lacks (IMO) is Wireguard
The potential for hydro-electricity is mostly exploited, and it does not offer a solution for the long-term storage of electricity for large parts of the world. Not all countries are like Norway (or Brazil or Canada). There is still space left, but it‘s simply not enough.

Instead, many systems with two reservoirs are now being equipped with pumps, again this is ok for short-term storage from hours to days, but no solution to store the Northern sun for the winter. Better produce hydrogen with cheap solar in the sun belt and ship it elsewhere, or move heavy industry to places where green energy is abundant (Iceland, Qatar, …?).
"In contrast, 16-bit processors could only address 64-kilobytes of memory, and weren't really practical for real computing."

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And avoid this turntable mechanism in particular: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXV8tXrPOR4 - okay, it isn't even direct drive, so not suitable for DJs anyway, but that might be something an aspiring DJ that has never handled a turntable before might not know. Just steer clear of this no matter what you are going to do with it.
Why? You just need a random number.
I actually love using plain text to create documents, but I'm also bothered by the irregularity and non-extensibility of Markdown, which is why I created xidoc: https://xidoc.nim.town/
I find it interesting how vendor lock in of camera brands can keep a brand going. If you have a set of lenses for a system you're unlikely to switch, even if it was rational to do so. Even though lenses keep their resale value and you wouldn't lose much money in the process.

I never really fully understood the reasons behind it but it's clear to see that it creates stickyness that any company outside of photography would envy.
> keeping a friends list

This was the early genius of facebook and why the WhatsApp purchase was (in retrospect) genius. Facebook wanted to replace your phones contact list. They wanted to be the authoritative list of your friends.

After having de-facebooked myself, the contact list as authoratative friends list works ok, but it is a downgrade. The video is too.

I am relatively happy with signal, but yeah, not as good in terms of usability.
Forward earnings suggests a P/E in the 20s in 2023.
Paperwork and bureaucracy conducted face-to-face is completely different in its capacity for bribery, cronyism, and discriminatory behaviour outside of the official system.

Automated systems can be quite awful (original research: Spain) but neither paper or digital systems would officially state the human factors involved in turning them over. There's simply less opportunity for these human factors in more automated digital systems.
completely ignores the reason why RISC architectures took over .... the L1 I-cache moved on chip, suddenly the main reason for complex instruction encodings went away