skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The naive mental model of how this works is that Apple is taking the files he ripped onto his hard drive, storing them in the cloud, and then streaming them over the internet to his other devices.

As you say, this is effectively what happens most of the time. The quality and consistency is so high that nobody's going to notice a few flipped bits.

But for a niche album - a semi-official bootleg of an obscure 70s prog rock band - it goes wrong more frequently. It can't find the original album, but finds one the algorithm it thinks is close enough, but is actually a studio recording of a tribute band.
People Hurt, 11 Seriously, as Turbulence Rocks a Flight to Hawaii
Unless these warm spaces also have appropriate ventilation and filtration, they will end up as spreaders of respiratory viruses (flu, RSV, SARS-CoV-2). I’ve seen no comment about this in any of the media reports.
Psychoanalysis is pretty much discredited as a scientific discipline, nowadays.

There's also a lot of evidence of remote therapy being just as effective as in-person therapy.
This is a case of the government picking winners with tax incentives for adoption, and distorting the market. Tax credits don't change physics.
I love that espressif has managed to port llvm, port rust, and now port their ecosystem to rust. It’s quite amazing. Were their customers asking for rust? Was this an internal thing? Would be amazing to know
Yes to your direct question.

I can only share from my own experience.

You have already made the biggest step by acknowledging how you feel. Seeking professional help is a must. One to one, in person, counselling was much, much better for me than reading advice online.

A good counsellor should help you untangle your thoughts and give you some structure. It will take time-it was in the order of decades for me, but I have underlying mental health issues anyway, but please do not put pressure on yourself for a quick fix. Be your own best friend and practice patience where you can.

There are always options-it might not seem like it to you now, but there is nothing set in stone for the rest of your life and how you want to live it. All things are possible. The road to those possibilities may seem like it runs into an abyss as your mind, right now, wants to take you down there.

During my trauma, I learnt that my mind was controlling me and not the other way around. My thinking was not rational, and I was reactive to internal stimulation-stuck in permanent fear mode from flight/fight thinking.

Calming the mind is hard work and not easy, but with help I was able to move forward. There were relapses aplenty. Be prepared for setbacks and acknowledge them as progression on the path to recovery, not as a stick to beat yourself with.

If I may, could I recommend some reading? During my worst, I was drawn to a feeling that I needed to wipe the thinking slate clean and gain insights into why I had such (recurring) suffering. I found texts from Eastern philosophy very helpful to help me gain mental discipline and open myself up critical deconstruction of myself so I could re-assemble with some tools for the future. Again, not an easy thing for me to do as it was hard to concentrate during those times but, eventually, it was easier.

I not asking you to embrace any spiritual beliefs as you can ignore those if they crop up in texts, but perhaps to extract any wisdoms and lessons that appeal to you and help you feel better.

Some of the books I found interesting;
"The Power Of Now" - Eckhart Tolle,
"How to Solve Our Human Problems: The Four Noble Truths" - Kelsang Gyatso,
"Meditations" - Marcus Aurelius

It was a slow journey, but eventually I realised that my mind was keeping me in fear and at the centre of a worldview of insecurity, doubt, self hate and blame. Books like these led me to realise that that worldview was wrong and develop the mental discipline to be reflective and mindful.

I wish you every kindness wherever your path takes you. Be kind to yourself.
It was very cool for OP to do a writeup of the effort it took to convert a thesis.

I wanted to do the same with mine but I lost the sources (it was 20+ years ago and did not survive some upgrade/technology change). I was mostly concerned with the .eps files that are hardly portable to .png or similar.

This made me think a bit about preservation of ~recent data (1990-2010). a lot falls in the category of "not natively on the web yet" and "stored on stuff that does not work anymore".
I'm sorry that you're going through a difficult time. As others have mentioned, seeking therapy could be a helpful step.

If it's hard to find a therapist in your small town, you may want to consider talking to your regular doctor about getting some medication to help improve your mental health. I personally tried this approach when I was feeling low and it helped me make better decisions and get back on track within a month or so.

It's important to keep in mind that even if you've achieved a lot of success and have a happy family, it doesn't necessarily mean you'll always feel like a success. I've experienced this myself, even though I had everything, I felt like a failure.

However, I have confidence that once you take care of your mental health, you'll feel like you haven't wasted your life and will appreciate your past experiences.
So an area becomes more attractive and those with higher purchasing power drive out the original inhabitants? So… how is this different to normal gentrification? Why is the fact that it’s parks and green spaces relevant?
Commodore PET 2001 repair
To expand on this a bit, Nissan Leafs (Leaves?) are the only electric cars produced in significant quantity that rely on passive cooling for their batteries. Heat is the main enemy of battery health. So you can easily find an old Leaf who's max range is literally half of what it was when brand new. It depends a lot on how hard it was used.

Other EVs on the road are much better at managing battery health, such that it will never make sense to replace their main battery outside catastrophic events. If your electric car is going to die, it will almost certainly be from a bad collision, like any car.

Anyhow, the Nissan Leaf compares poorly on a lot of fronts to any modern EV available in the U.S. Most people in the market for an affordable EV should probably look at the Chevy Bolt first (now that they fixed the battery flaw that caused them to burn down). But if you're really looking for a cheap used EV and in the market for a Leaf, get yourself a Bluetooth ODB2 dongle and an app called LeafSpy to check on the battery health before you buy it.
Paperless ng

Make your scanner put files in a place that Paperless can read them, then Paperless OCRs the file, makes it searchable, somehow finds the date of the documents, auto tags if you have it setup, and basically is a dream.

I don't organize them anymore, if I need an old document I search for some text in it or by date.

https://github.com/jonaswinkler/paperless-ng

There is a newer Paperless ngx that I have to upgrade to at some point.
I didn't say social media. I said internet.

The internet predates both Iraq wars.
Same here, mine has been running overclocked to 5ghz for about 10 years (?) now and I refused to upgrade it by quite a few "lakes". Sure now it's getting pummeled by hugely multicores newer processors, but for a long time, it was top of the range.
You need a partner. I'm only speaking from my own perspective but I used to think I was born to be a loner but having a partner awakens something in you, love basically. It's wonderful and it gives you a will to go on.

And I know it's a slog to meet someone, trust me I know. But you just have to do it. You have to make an effort and weed through dozens of weird dates before you meet someone.

For me it came completely unexpected. I had resigned myself to enjoying life, was at a computer festival and suddenly there she was.

I know several people who turned their life around at 40, in fact I used to say that it's a cut off point. If you haven't turned yourself around by then, you might just end up dead. I'm sorry to be so frank, but that was how I thought before I read your post so it has nothing to do with you.

But in my perspective it has been mostly career criminals and addicts. So that's where I'm coming from.
Yup, in iOS go to Settings -> Cellular. There's a toggle for each app.
Discoveries about ancient people from DNA in 2022
Connected to some of our early work in language modeling applied to space biosciences at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory/DOE with Saira Mian, Michael I. Jordan and David Blei: "Statistical modeling of biomedical corpora: mining the Caenorhabditis Genetic Center Bibliography for genes related to life span" http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1533868
Already know this.
I'll abstain from engaging as the original comment was flagged.

Guess not a topic for HN.
The fax machine dates from the mid-19th century (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fax) and there was a commercial machine for sending photographs in 1913 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirephoto), so it wasn’t even experimental, just not commonly available.
When you're working on Frostbite you definitely need these.

Optimizers are smart, but aren't smart enough yet
In this case, the user is mistaken. It didn’t replace their local files.

They synced the files to a different machine, and the service as stated, gives you what it considers de-duplicated files.

It’s not a music backup service, and it’s very clear about that. It’s an “upload your own stuff, and we’ll only host what’s not already in our library”

Granted it does overly aggressively match songs sometimes, but it still doesn’t delete your content.
Just to clarify this is, "Apple Music" the service, not "Apple Music" the gutted out app that replaced iTunes, right?
kubernetes or docker swarm?
The actual repo seems MIT though https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/blob/main/LICEN... ... what is missing from this?
This is similar to the solera method (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solera)
Take a 64 bit number and treat it like a bit field where each bit represents inclusion/exclusion of an element in a set S of size 64. Thus every number with M 1s represents a (distinct) M-sized subset of S
Interesting use case. Can you email me from the website? I'll think about this use case
> A (mostly vastly) superior system for users would be if they gave you a terabyte of cloud storage for free and allowed you to upload and stream your actual music library. Didn't Google's cloud music player used to work this way? The main user down side is that uploading your library for the first time takes forever. And from the service provider perspective it wastes a lot of storage and is costly.

That's iTunes Match: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204146

It works really well for the parts of your collection which aren't available on streaming services — for example, I have some obscure records, soundboard recordings which the artist released on their website but didn't put on a label, etc. It's much better on precision than the described Apple Music feature — it either matched entirely or uploaded but I've never found it to have mis-identified a track.

I would disagree with the “mostly vastly superior” label, however, since it's really only better for [generally us older] people who have a ton of existing music — someone who only uses streaming services or sites like YouTube won't have much saved locally and may never have owned a CD.

It does that optimization which you're describing, as well. MP3.com was sued because licensing but Apple has both existing business agreements and a lot more lawyers. When you look at tracks it'll show the status as an exact match or an upload — in my case, it matched basically everything I got off of eMusic back in the day but many of the independent tracks which bands had released and some CDs had to be uploaded.
Oof! I actually like Rings of Power—but whatever they spend their budget on, it's not clear in the final product.
Absolutely. No competent accounting would exclude those.
Fogle? Musk announces new prison rehabilitation program by making Jared Fogle CEO of Twitter.
I have worked remotely since 2018 and camera-on is certainly the only way to go. Sure, large meetings or recorded sessions mine gets turned off. Cameras on for meeting where you are actually involved is an absolute necessity for trying to make the human connection.

I don’t fully understand the “I won’t turn my camera on” insistence. This is akin to someone in-office bringing a curtain into a conference room saying “don’t look at me”.
I would strongly recommend MyST. MyST extends Markdown for technical and scientific communication. See https://www.myst.tools/
> Because we've been told for decades that commercial fusion plants are a decade away.

Even if you take the most breathless headlines about NIF at face value, we are obviously still decades away from a commercial fusion power plant. Let's say laser fusion is great and perfect, all we need to do is design a commercial facility that uses modern lasers and then construct it, with commercial turbines/etc, as well as commercial production of the fuel pellets. Just that will take decades. Even basic bitch coal power plants take several years to construct and there's nothing novel about those.

But the reality is that even with the best lasers available today, they wouldn't get enough energy out to make this commercially viable. Decades more development time is needed before they can even think about designing a commercial power plant.

No sooner than 50 years.
Definitely not. They're mostly ineffective at politicking and at political wars in general.
Soleras are not perpetual. They just diminish volume over time and so are put into smaller casks until they are bottled.
Thanks for the link! Very interesting read I'd assumed the salt was to make something more palatable seems vaguely right.
You are not alone in this. I feel you. I am in my 40s and I am constantly trying to improve myself. I believe it is possible to turn yourself around.

I quickly wanted to share fresh resource that might help you. I watched this documentary last night which has lots of practical advice (tools) from a therapist. I highly recommend to watch when you have a chance. It is on Netflix: https://youtu.be/UKCmefQdplI

Called Stutz by Jonah Hill.
My favorite Apple Music oddity: I imported an album for which I have the MP3s from Bandcamp, however on the streaming side the album is in some sort of limbo where the service is aware of it but it's not available in my country. As a result, I can't listen to the album despite possessing the files. On my phone I can't even find the album easily and if I do I get a not authorized message.
I've heard CEOs say internally that SarBox is preventing an IPO. But when they say that it just remember it is BS.
> if the Soviets could have demonstrated Lamarckism, they would've.

They tried to demonstrate a form of Lamarckism - Lysenkoism, resulting in countless deaths across Siberia, especially among ethnic minorities that were deported there.

https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-...
Edge cases aren't frequent enough to have a competitive edge of not having them. Too bad for you when you're the edge case.

Backing people's files up for them on my USB storage makes me feel like the aircon repairman in the Terry Gilliam film, Brazil.
“The Surface State Job”
75th Anniversary of the transistor
Old timer here..I learned ages ago if it's not backed up on a portable drive, then you're willing/going to lose it someday. (Of course, in the beginning I used floppies and then CD/DVDs when they became available.)

Now a days I download legal MP3's or rip my purchased CDs. ALL of these files are backed up on Portable drive. Hate to say it, but there isn't a company on earth that thinks we consumers actually own anything. As for cloud storage, those who trust it haven't been screwed yet, and yes, they think whatever you store there belongs to them.
I can see why Clojure is seen that way ("advanced", "powerful"), but a big piece of it’s design is Rich Hickey’s view that "we can make the same software we're making today with dramatically simpler stuff."

Learning Clojure has made working in other languages much harder for me - pretty much all of my Clojure programming is functions plus transforming data structures (mostly maps). So few concepts to keep in your head!

The majority of my work is in TypeScript these days, and I always write the most Clojure-y TypeScript I can manage.
Symbolic Analysis of Grants
> Maybe a simpler and more tractable solution would to just require projected energy costs to be listed in any home ads.

I don't think my proposal could actually work as written above. Your suggestion is an excellent starting point for something that might actually work.

My rationale for figuring a out a mechanism to include the energy cost up front is that many people only own a home for a few years, so they are less motivated to spend money on energy savings that they will never realize. Currently, when people shop for a home in a certain price bracket, they won't price in the energy savings of a better built home. If energy pricing was mandated in every ad, it might help. If the total cost of the house plus energy and taxes for the next 30 years (just projecting from current rates) was the top line number posted in ads and you had to dig down for details, it might be adequate incentive to nudge the market toward energy savings.
This is already present as a builtin in in GNU C (as indicated in TFA) and it already results in the optimal code: https://godbolt.org/z/qc4zvav7E
Indeed, the key concept is "good enough".
The human side of tech and working as a team

Learning how to learn new stuff
Bankruptcy seems inevitable at this point.

*Speculation on my part* I think that's why Elon did the poll about stepping down. He probably went to Qatar for the World Cup final not just as a spectator but also looking to sell more shares. His poll was a result of the Saudis not being interested. He'll back away and let Twitter go into bankruptcy under someone else.
I very much dislike that we callously move people around and have systems that reinforce it. Some people, namely the ones having to do it, adapt to it but it's still not great or even good.
So the NIF spec'ed out a replacement using a diode-pumped Yb:SFAP laser that they estimated to be 10% efficient in ~2009:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_laser

https://www.laserfocusworld.com/test-measurement/research/ar...

The second link has more details, but they show a 0.7% efficient NIF vs. a 7% efficient Mercury laser in the tiny little chart graphic -- which would reduce the energy for this experiment from 285MJ to 28MJ. This is way outside my area of expertise, but from what I understand, the same general tech that LLNL used to generate the HAPLS for Europe's laser research could be applied to the Mercury-like lasers and increase efficiency even further.

https://www.techbriefs.com/component/content/article/tb/insi...
Radon-Nikodym Derivative
At some point we have to consider it the parent's/guardian's responsibility to restrict a child's access to any service that provides access to online, user-generated content without supervision.

Despite all my problems with Epic, I agree with OP here. This should not be Epic's problem. This is a problem for parents/guardians and the ESRB/PEGI. The ESRB and PEGI rated the game for 13+ and 12+ respectively, which I'd argue is appropriate, so IMO it should be entirely a problem for the parents/guardians.
https://archive.ph/d1TDb
In German there is 'Kein Backup, Kein Mitleid'. It translates roughly as 'No backup, No sympathy', as in you'll get no sympathy for your data loss. It's a bit negative though.
I actually pay for Synergy hence the curiosity :)

Thank you kind stranger.
This is a legit cause of action against apple, they are violating CFAA and accessing your computer without permission when they delete your files
Conjecture and nonsense. twitter isn't asking the owner about banning accounts
In the case of the OP, it was only: not your data.
Ordinary hydrogen-hydrogen fusion in the sun only works because the sun is so freakin' huge.

It's so unlikely even under the sun's massive gravitational and heat that the power output is about 270W/cubic meter-- compare to human metabolism or an energetic compost pile, which is over 1000W/cubic meter.

We actually have to do a whole lot better than the sun, under far less favorable conditions-- to have practical fusion for energy generation on Earth. Inertial confinement fusion ignition (and to a lesser extent, thermonuclear weapons) strongly suggest this is possible.
HN was my MBA back in 2010-2013, that’s where I learnt how to create a working startup. There were blogs like Kalzumeus or Joel On Software, people were still debating technical or business issues about startups.

Now it’s more a news aggregator. It’s my fault too, I don’t blog about the company I’ve created, and people can learn how to create proper startups in many places.
I am not a fan of this pattern - if I'm understanding correctly, you would have to part with all of yt-dlp's niceties like playlist/channel handling, quality selection, file naming, logging config etc.

Why not just use the whisper cli on yt-dlp CLI's output for videos with bad or no subtitles?
> For example you can't do analysis without being physically present with your doctor

Why not?
Requiring iOS 15 or later is objectively worse though when the previous version supports older software.
Seven.

What’s the point of asking an irrelevant question nobody has an answer to?
Agree 100%. One needs help for sure, but help doesn't mean therapist. It's someone who cares, parents / sibling / spouse / cousins some family or close friends who truly care. Don't be alone
I struggle understanding cloud-based storage on anything personally mine. I want my music where I am. Same for video, and ESPECIALLY documents. Still using Windows Media Player, too.
I call this an "infinity bottle." I mix both bourbon and scotch, too. Typically the last ounce or 2 of a bottle. Sometimes it ends up pretty meh, but other times it's fantastic. If I don't like the flavor, I'll come back to it in a month and see if it has mellowed out at all. I also keep list of what's in there taped to the bottle.
I can't find the solution post that you seem to be referring to here. The closest I've found is a link to Reddit where someone said "Turn off Sync Library and all that data will come back". But the original user responded saying that while the majority of songs came back, a few hundred were gone for good, and that Apple Support told them "sometimes that happens".

Is there a different, better solution that I haven't spotted yet? Or, what was the misunderstanding?
CBT helped debug my thinking in very analogous circumstances to OP (30+, hit hard by events in life plus somewhat traumatic past), warm recommendation as well.
People always leave out recommending medication. It is most effective to have medication and therapy.
Neither me nor the person I was responding to mentioned the words "liveable wage".

Want to respond to the 60% figure?
> I wonder what happens if they lose your money due to bugs or even intentionally - will they then happily accuse you of forging the PDFs because they're unsigned?

> With paper that'd be not so trivial, in my country the paper often has some special format and the paper itself is of a special type, and it ages and you cannot easily guess the printer which was used.

Read a similar discussion recently. Even with paper you can prove your account balance at day X but if your bank lose your money at day X + n and you want it back they could still claim you withdraw all since day X and had an empty account at day of lose.