skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just switched from a first generation paperwhite to a kobo clara 2e. My kid has a last generation paperwhite so I can compare.

What I like: the small format, 6" is better than 7 imo. It's not Amazon. It works with overdrive (at least in Canada) so I can borrow books from library.

What I don't like: it doesn't have a "send to kindle by email" equivalent, that I was heavily relying on. Books sent by usb don't sync between devices, and have some quirks (they seem to work slower, you can't highlight across pages). Calibre web could give you that but in practice it is too buggy to be a sustainable option. It's overall not as polished as a kindle

Overall I'm ok with the move, it works sufficiently well, and I'm especially glad to reduce the cash I send to Amazon
My point was that unless you do something bizarre or go out of your way to make regeneration not happen (e.g., hit both pedals at once, or shift into neutral while braking), the friction brakes will never get used except for when full regen is already getting used.
Or it's an entirely valid necessity of a feature you do not understand, that's being driven by a system setting you also do not understand.

The system could be behaving exactly as it should be, but because you failed to do any research before drawing any conclusions, you've decided there are only two explanations when many more could be possible.
It became an insult because people hate women who stand up for themselves. It can't be de-gendered.
https://archive.ph/smak8

Is it going too far? Do you even have to ask? They should stop calling this a democracy. We've been living under a judiciary dictatorship for a while now. I don't care if people flag my posts to oblivion, it's the truth. The election is already over and they haven't slowed down one bit. The judge pictured has given public speeches laughing about how there's still a lot of people for him to arrest.
Can a “temporary outage” be limited only to the most popular apps? Can a “temporary outage” affect Twitterrific for iOS but not Twitterrific for Mac [0]?

[0] https://blog.iconfactory.com/2023/01/state-of-the-twitterver...
> Not all publishers use DRM on books sold by Amazon

Is there some way of finding that out in advance of buying the book? (Other than individually asking each publisher/author?)
My wish for KDE is that they move some of their quirks used, for example, to launch GTK3/GTK4 applications so they start in the right size, or XWayland itself, somewhere scriptable. Right now, if something doesn’t quite work, you need to fix it in C++ and recompile the whole plasma-desktop, which is not very tinker-friendly.

Otherwise KDE has quite a renaissance for the last few years, I hope it continues.
I think Go (if you started using it in the `go mod` era) and Rust have the best stories around package management.

The interface around `go mod` is kind of confusing, but I have actual trust in the dependency graph it generates for me. Cargo has, afaict, nailed both the interface and trust in what's going on under-the-hood.

In the Python world, Poetry isn't too bad. It's terribly slow in comparison to `go mod` or Cargo, but I generally trust and understand what's happening on the inside, and it's interface is fairly legible to newcomers.
Type Checking If Expressions
Quebec seems to be pretty fertile for co-ops across many industries. Not sure why it hasn’t spread more elsewhere in Canada.
I’m not Canadian, so lack context to find the right sources. I assume that in theory government can act on behalf of voters proactively as our (German) government did with heating prices. Apparently, as you and other commenters say, in Canada things are different and popular uprising in the form of grocery theft seems to be the only option. Sorry to hear that.
Yeah, a lot of stuff is seasonal, so there should be a deal to buy a hundred pounds of carrots in October vs April. Certainly the retailer pays differing prices or runs its own cold storage warehouse at a cost.

I don't understand why Canadian and US prices are so sticky. In Europe, a frozen pepperoni pizza might cost you 3,78 EUR and the vegetarian will cost you 12 centimes less because the retailer passes on their differing costs.

Meanwhile in Canada/USA, I'll take the 3-meat because it's the same price.
Napster didn't start until 1999 :)
I remember downloading mp3s on Napster, and then using my parallel port to transfer them to my Diamond Rio MP3 player.
All 4 songs at a time!
Seems like the particular intersection where this incident occured is supposed to be protected by RSL:

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/technology/rwsl/media/JFK.pd...
There is an interesting workaround in housing them at the District of Columbia Jail. The DC Jail being located outside of any state, wouldn't have the problem of the state or senators being held accountable by constituents as DC isn't a state nor does it have any senators.
I wouldn't initially have expected being consciously aware to be necessary for mastery. I do find that being able to teach brings you to a new level, so there's something to that. I'm also able to cut my search space more concisely by being able to identify/name the problem or solution path than to find it by feel.

That's an interesting point about a more 'wooden' result. I believe that has a name where being consciously aware of what you're doing lowers ability, or in this case creativity or subjective evaluation. I believe that dip/plateau can again be surpassed as if you'd learned consciously first then internalized to gain proficiency. Alternatively, you could 'get in the zone' by turning off analytical overthinking somehow.
Reminds of a bit of European Union https://europa.eu/europass/en
Apparently the EU now started competing with businesses and they try to capture everyone's data. And people love it...
See also Paul Haddad's situation[1] (creator of TweetBot):

> I really want an official public statement. We have a large number of sub. renewals for year 3 of Tweetbot coming up in a couple of weeks. If we're permanently cut off I need to know so we can remove the app from sale and prevent those. Which obviously I'd rather not do.

[1] https://tapbots.social/@paul/109690528614720936
Why are the repos still there, two weeks later?
Doesn't that assume 100% of a human's daily calories burn is due to brain activity?
Wait, so how does this use an old iPad? I assumed that this app turned my old iPad into a security camera. Is that not the case?

I can buy a Wyze camera for $30 and get notifications with no monthly fee (or pay a fee and get more cloud storage).

I honestly don't understand how this app is a good use of my old iPad. How is an iPad even involved? Wouldn't I view the video from my phone?
The reason is that KDE is mostly developed by volunteers. Many of whom had branches that have been developed and ready for several years but not released. They were losing interest. KDE had to move the train to keep those volunteers around.

If you don't ship it and some point it's gonna die.
yeah but I'm missing data on how variant interacts with various requirements defined in setup.cfg (testing dependencies for instance)
Your README doesn't really seem to give a clear idea of what this tool is or why anyone would want to use it. You say to check the wiki but there doesn't appear to be much content.

In general this sort of communication seems to be a sticking point for the engineering-minded -- it's cool you built a backend in Go, but a backend for what? What's the hook that will draw me in to investing the time to check out your particular tool?
Can you add some clarity? If I can give $17k/per person/per year, or would be 650 person years before it kicks in?

Is the $11m limit based on the disburser? So I could give $17k per person year, but if I did that to 650 people, I would be taxed after that year?

Generally, I think it’s people in between who need the advice. Someone who gives away $11M should have an advisor; if i give $17k to each of my kids per year, it’s in the grey area and I might not have great legal advice.
I think the “files are where you left them” dialogue is meant to assuage the concerns of people who just did a big OS upgrade and are a bit anxious about it all.

It’s still a pretty poorly thought out dialogue, though.
If you know what the UI looked like while you accomplished this, that would be useful. I've had to reach back behind the machine, unplug the ethernet, and reboot to get it to realize I'm just trying to setup a spare machine for visitors.
My understanding is that there is a shit ton that is and always has been happening in this area. Air safety is the leading sector in standards for safety training.

We are relying on checklists, procedures, surveillance tech, simulation training, certification, re-certification etc. etc. No other industry has put in as much thought into these problems. Except for maybe the military.

Source: I had the opportunity to meet and participate in crisis resource management training for surgeons held by a trainer from pilot training industry. Everyone’s mind was blown because surgery is comparatively in the Middle Ages.

Based on seeing and hearing about it I believe that more ideas have been studied and tested than you’d expect. Cognitive overload in crisis situations is a well researched problem. Probably hard finding links on the subject though.
I hadn’t touched Gimp in five years or more but last month I had to slice up some large images for easier printing and Gimp rescued the project. I found it easy to use, mostly intuitive, the install was easy, the UI was snappy, and all of the features I needed were available. I have to give a big thanks to their dev team for providing this software and saving me from the Adobe nightmare.
Show HN: Free Online Course – Debugging Difficult Conversations
As an engineer I get frustrated at other training courses that talk a lot of theory, but don't have a lot of practical advice and tools to actually help.

So, I built an online self-paced training course on difficult conversations (think feedback, salary negotiation, etc) that I wanted to share with the community.

I like to make my training courses more "algorithmic." A process you can follow to approach a Difficult Conversation, get in the right mindset to tackle it, and prepare what you need to that allows you to do it well.

This course will teach you:

- What Difficult Conversations are and what happens when you ignore them

- Why having Difficult Conversations can be beneficial to you, your team, and your career

- A framework (and accompanying worksheet) to help you prepare for Difficult Conversations
What is it with smokers being the most rampant littering offenders? The average person would never consider throwing a chips packet on the ground even if no one was looking, but smokers will happily chuck their butts in the gutter no matter how many people are watching.
To the people who were already warning of things like this, in the '80s and '90s, all the cries lately of "I let some rich guy own my social network; how could I have known that would be abused" might seem a bit /r/LeopardsAteMyFace.
It's v2020:

Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies HQ Project v2020
The ‘For You’ is the behavior i’ve had for a while. I’m happy to be able to go to the Following tab. I’m tired of seeing ‘X follow’ etc.
The only major country to attempt a wealth tax was France, which repealed it.
It's bad, but I'm not sure it's that bad. In B2B land, loads of contracts have a code-in-escrow clause just in case key people die or the company goes under. One of the key attractions of Open Source is that if the people building it die or don't want to support the tool anymore, you can keep going yourself.

This would not be that different, right?
Just give them as much money as you want and don't worry about the tax consequences, since there is no gift tax.

I am assuming you are in Canada.
Interesting point! I'm not sure that Amazon would change their web app's software stack for a subset of their publishers though. My guess is we'd need to find a big publisher and get them to ask Amazon not to use this new image-of-text method. But I assume that any big publisher would be unlikely to not use DRM.
Respectfully, this reads like you're using outdated Python tools.

Give Poetry [1] a shot, it has all the things you've listed here. Just as Node.js has come a long way in the last 5 years, Python has, too. Albeit, in a fashion that was much less centralized, arguably to Python's detriment.

[1]: https://python-poetry.org/history/#100---2019-12-12, released 1.0 in 2019/12.
I've toggled it many times to no avail.
I literally just LoL'd.
While respecting your “I can go into details” comment, I’m curious to hear whatever you _can_ comment on about what sort of adversary has the capabilities you describe and do you have an opinion on whether they use those in tightly targeted attacks only, or do they compromise the entire hardware/software supply chain in a way that they can do “full take surveillance” using it?

If I’m not a terrorist/sex-trafficker/investigative-journalist, can I reasonably ignore those threats even if I, say, occasionally buy personal use quantities of illegal drugs or down/upload copyright material? (With, I guess, the caveat that I’d need to assume the dealer/torrent site at the other end of those connections isn’t under active surveillance…)
ChatGPT is not all you need. A Review of large Generative AI models [pdf]
>You then have to deal with packet loss and latency spikes

And fake packet loss and latency spikes introduced by cheaters.

For example, when a cheater gets killed they could send a packet from the "past" saying that they killed the other person first.
It makes transit more accessible to people without money.

And it saves a good chunk of money on fare collection, processing, and enforcement.

Thankfully, since the beginning of the pandemic, most mass transit in the U.S. is de-facto payment-optional.
Actually it is not redundant as >= do numerical comparsion (so convert a and b to number) while == do not do that. So it has different result on objects.
Identify and Authenticate every object in your world
> Hmmm the checkered background actually seems distinct enough that it wouldn’t be too difficult to automate its removal and just create a png with a transparent background.

You can do this with some image editors and a "magic wand" but you typically end up with jagged edges unless the shape is basic or you have specialized tools that can auto-feather them in a natural way.

I think with a bit of code you could check if the image type is png and it hasn't been flattened then overlay a little icon that says it's really transparent when you activate the browser extension.

Although I did just discover an interesting trick[0]. If you goto let's say images.google.com and search for something, you can tell right away if it's transparent or not by selecting the image and dragging it to anywhere on the page. If it shows the checker boxes while dragging then it's not transparent.

My life is complete now.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3Y5PcuH23Y&t=173s
The future is here, it’s just inconsistently distributed. There’s also the problem of python.org not wanting to pick winners, i.e. not promoting activestate vs conda vs pypa.

https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/tutorials/installing-...

https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/tutorials/packaging-p...
I remember Voat! It started off with great intentions, just to be a more free speech version of reddit and at the end was just posts about Michelle Obama being a man and Qanon.

It was an interesting case study in how free speech can decline to a lowest common denominator type situation.
The net was a very different place before, say, somewhere between 2010 and 2015. I saw a huge shift then. Everything got monetized, weaponized, optimized for addiction, or drowned in spam. There’s always been bad actors and criminals and trolls online too but in the past decade they have either gotten worse or become more empowered.

The golden age of the open Internet was really between about 1996 when it started to go public and 2010. The net today feels like either a ghost town or a hellhole. The only remaining good places seem to be niche sites or groups and private forums. The fediverse is decent but I am concerned for its long term future if it becomes big enough to be a worthy target for spammers and trolls.

As for the cause of the decline I can think of a few big factors:

1. Engagement maximizing algorithms give weight to the most inflammatory content. These hit the scene big starting around 2008. If you forced me to pick one root culprit I would blame this.

2. Thanks to monetized social media “Internet troll” is now a career option. You can make money. You can maybe even become the President of the United States.

3. Speaking of politics, I think something changed when enough people got online that the net became the major source for political opinion. There is now not just money but power to be gained by manipulating things online. This attracts a whole different level of scum.

4. Trolls have escalated to the point that people have died. Mass shooters post their manifestos on boards now before they go on killing sprees. Running a forum today is just not fun anymore, especially if it’s not narrowly focused and topical. Nobody in their right mind would set up something like Something Awful or 4chan today.

What happened to optimistic online cyber culture reminds me a bit of what happened to the 1960s counterculture. In a few years it went from exploration and optimism and art to Manson and Altamont. There seems to be a pattern where whenever humanity seems to be making a cultural breakthrough we get naive and then things go real bad real fast.
Before Napster there was FTP.
> strong kudos are due both to the air traffic controller who called off the Delta 737 and to the pilots of that plane who managed to abort their takeoff and stop the aircraft before it crossed runway 31L where the Boeing widebody passed in front of it

Can't agree more
If you want to be Twitter CEO, you have failed the interview. Anyone who wants to sort out stinky toilets, unilaterally withdrawn contracts, regulatory fines, chary advertisers, and a massive trainwreck of interest payments coming up is clearly too thick to run a popsicle stand. You won't get paid enough. Elon will regard asking for a big severance package as an insult.

The best way to become Twitter CEO is to do that after the banks take possession, since the valuation is less than what's owed in LBO loans.
The impetus for that feeling or set of decisions being familial bonds, I believe, is a different kind of selflessness. I'm not sure how you could detach the consequences from the antecedent. I guess you're making a deontological claim (but don't take my word for it, I'm a philosophy novice).

I'd go further in the case for selflessness and say that _if_ the happenstance of the decision to be selfless is based on some unthoughtout biological drive, then can it really be selfless? Thinking is the thing here, and why should this necessarily lead to broader self effacement. That's like saying I'd donate my liver to my brother (cuz he's my brother) and after that the consequences and ritual and beauty of the donation are enough to warrant the possible future where I might donate another organ to a complete stranger, because I did the dance.
Tough to say “most”. You’re probably right but a non-zero amount of people who pay luxury cars like Mercedes/BMW want a) status symbols but b) the time they spend in their vehicles as enjoyable.
I haven't had that problem, but if I did I'd then use 2 integers (current page number, total page number)
…had they stopped? Or even slowed down? I’ve presumed that no one being held accountable meant USGov de facto granting permission for this to continue unabated, just please be more careful about being caught.
Coincidentally, that's why I am not using win11, despite all its improvements over win10.

(The one i miss most is GUI support in WSL )
> A billionaire has spent the last 3 months shitting on what I thought was my social backyard.

I think Elon Musk is a horrible person, but... this one is on you, right? You thought that a company's service was your social backyard? That's on you.
> "For You" appears as the default option

The "for you" was already the default option, if anything they made easier to switch to the "following" that before was kinda hidden on top and hard to find.

p.s.: i dislike musk since it was cool to like him.
I've tried using LiveReporter[1] with an old iPad to send a RTSP stream to Frigate[2] running in a Proxmox virtual machine because I wanted to find out who was stealing plums from my trees. However, I never caught the plum-stealing-person, because LiveReporter crashed every few hours on my ancient iPad.

Does anyone know of an app that reliably streams the camera of old iPads and iPhones to your local network that is not tied to any cloud service or subscription that collects unnecessary user data?

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/live-reporter-live-camera/id99...

[2] https://frigate.video/
> So while I'm certain that someone, somewhere ran a red light because of moral outrage over repressive government, that's not main reason people run a red light.

So you agree coercion causes pushback. A bit tricky to get that out of you. Thank you for the exchange.
Was the Twitter API taken down intentionally or is this a bug? If intentional was it announced ahead of time? If its a bug, has this happened before -- looks like in happened in July 2022 (https://api.twitterstat.us/history?page=3)?
You know what reassures me that nothing has gone wrong? When unexpectedly I am greeted with big white text insisting everything is okay. Imagine if you got a letter through the post out of the blue saying "You don't have cancer." I can only imagine how I would probably suddenly be a lot more worried about having cancer than before having gotten that letter.

Whoever came up with that idiotic dialogue is unhinged and detached from reality and has no business touching a user interface.
Seems to be overloaded.

"There's a lot of requests currently and our servers are overloaded - sorry. I am trying to increase the capacity. Please try again later."
My guess would be the target audience. CMR, then Dirt games (but not Dirt Rally 1 & 2) were targeted for casual gamers, with more arcade driving model. Only a year later, Richard Burns Rally has been released, which is considered a simulator and to this day there's a very active community of simrally drivers playing it. Hardware got improved a lot, that's true, but simulators existed even in 90's - see: Grand Prix Legends.
"Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable? The file system is no longer usable. The registry is no longer usable."

LOL funny to see even now, 20 years later, with powershell, the registry is still no longer usable. People treating the registry in powershell like a browser path vs a key-value storage make powershell go crashy-crash.
Perhaps they're not legally DRM-free because not enough people are voting with their pocketbooks, and paying for DRM-free.

(Voting with a prybar is not the same.)
Can’t think of mastodon as a competitor to twitter. I gave it a shot and it feels like discord for twitter.
how was latency? is this a common pattern? where the controller skips the host console/PC?
I had a link once to a government paid for study that claimed tire and brake dust were about 5-10% of the dust produced by light cars. The rest being tailpipe emissions. Of course brake dust, tire dust, and exhaust PM2.5 aren't the same types of dust. So feels to me like grasping for straws especially considering no one makes the same arguments against large SUV's and trucks.
I wondered this as well, and I thought if you implemented something similar but made it super simple to setup and configure it could maybe catch on. One way could be to build it in Golang and make it zero-config. This way it is just one file that you need to open.

Maybe this is what Nostr is doing. Do anyone have experience with Nostr?