skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somewhat related: my 10 year old Sonicare is starting to shit the bed so I started to look for a new one. Back then there was 2 models. Now there's like 8, each with several variations and fucking phone app integrations and are several hundred dollars. It was headache-inducing to read through.
> That’s according to Dr. Wallace J. Nichols, a marine biologist who coined the term “blue mind theory.” (Ted Talk here, book here.)

This breathless nonsense was popularized by a TED Talk? Who could possibly have guessed that.
If nobody upvotes anything you can't protect against that.
All I'm interested in is whether it can be cloud free or not.

DIY Wifi addition obviously can, but not so sure of the alternative.
Great. I'd happily pay $2.52 per month. Now Apollo should release a version of the app with bring-your-own-API-keys, I'll sign up for developer access, and pay for my own API usage. Has no one thought of this?
There are numerous solutions, such as building better apps or acquiring and doing deals with them. Or you could serve ads in the api and require 3p apps to display them. Note that API charges were a red herring, they knew upfront that 3p apps couldn’t pay. So they’re killing off this part of the ecosystem without any attempt at salvaging its value, in any shape or form.

Reddit as an ecosystem is remarkably tool-centric, especially for the minority that contributes the most. What’s happening is not that people demand free stuff (whatever that means in this case). They see Reddit make unreasonable demands, lie and argue in bad faith. So people like me, who didn’t use a 3p app, participate in the protest because we see the writing on the wall. I deleted my 12yo account and wiped all “my” content. It sucks, but I don’t want to be part of a value-extraction phase without a term-sheet. It’s our own fault for having assumed a “gentleman’s agreement” and thinking content we post will be accessible, when Reddit is well within their legal rights to gatekeep any way they want.

To be clear, I believe the business model makes this inevitable, and isn’t unique to Reddit. In fact, Reddit was a temp refuge from the norm. Long term I think it’s good that this business model produces the same predictable results. That makes it easier to recognize (a certain kind of) failure earlier when looking for alternatives.
I will continue to use reddit.
It was actually his second guide to the Internet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhikers_Guide_to_the_I...
I strongly disagree with the article. I work in the space and been involved in this topic for the last 20 years.

While the article claims that jails only worsen addiction, correctional facilities in the U.S. provide medically-supervised drug rehabilitation programs that have high success rates. Folks with substance use disorder are given medication for withdrawal and co-occurring mental health issues. There are withdrawal monitoring and detox programs at every facility. Some facilities started to offer MAT, which is currently gold standard of treatment.

The article fails to consider how addictive substances themselves, especially opioids, undermine one's autonomy and ability to connect with others. Opioids activate reward centers in the brain, inducing a sense of euphoria and pleasure that is difficult to resist (Volkow et al. 2014). Even a small dose of fentanyl, for example, can trigger an addiction with continued use (Kounang 2018); it is disingenuous to blame the "cage" alone when the substance itself chemically hijacks the brain. Genetics also predispose certain individuals to higher addiction risk, as addiction correlates highly with hereditary factors (Ducci et al. 2012).

The rise of fentanyl and other synthetic drugs has made "escaping the cage" of addiction nearly impossible for some. In some cities int he U.S. in 2023, a pill of fentanyl would cost as little as 50c. Counterfeit opioid pills containing fentanyl are extremely cheap, potent, and deadly, yet addictive to a point when a single pill can completely change direction of one's life.
I was hoping it was easy enough that someone had already done it :)

Escaping strings and parsing floating point numbers isn’t something I enjoy.
I was at a party in 2001 and they were getting Oxy delivered and figuring out how much and who wanted it. I knew then it wasn’t harmless recreational.

Two party from that party are now dead of overdoses.
> then how can they continue as a business losing money?

The same way Spotify, Twitter, Snapchat and other loss-making companies do? Bring in new financing and new advertisers, fire staff.
To prove your point...
https://www.sitepoint.com/reddit-clone-react-firebase/

Yes, it's basically just a scaffold, but something like this could be iterated on. The challenges are around infrastructure and funding to function at scale.

I would personally rather see something that improves on the problems Reddit solves, but tries something completely new. Cloning a product is so uninteresting.
His career advice was not actionable. It was the equivalent of, "To win at chess, make sure that you select the best move every turn." I'm convinced he was just in the right place at the right time with support from incredible people to be successful, circumstances that are impossible to deliberately replicate.
Fun syntax gotcha that I saw recently was a YAML MAC address that were all numbers like 11:22:33:11 which Python was parsing as a sexagesimal number so some libraries were throwing type errors
Yeah. Oxycodone was always known to be addictive, like any other opiate.

The claim from the company was that Oxycontin, which was a slow release form of oxycodone, was less addictive because of the slow release.

That turned out to be largely BS, but it wasn’t helped by the fact that addicts would crush the tablets, eliminating the slow release aspect.
Agreed, especially compared to modern Reddit, HN is a free speech haven.
I did WO/EO for several years until 2001 including the USPS Postmaster app, and it was incredibly productive. This was before JS took over everything, but I can't ever recall being able to do so many client/server web apps with so little effort. Sure the tooling was sometimes lame (ProjectBuilder was a precursor to Xcode) but Objective-C at the time was amazing compared to all other web programming languages. I think WO was far easier to develop in than today's complex web stack, but clearly serving the simpler need of that time. It wouldn't be useful today.
> problem comes in with VC expectations where everything must 1000x or die

Is "VC" tech's catch-all for capitalism? Reddit is pining to go public and Twitter just LBO'd. Neither is having its chain yanked by venture capital.
The flight crew always arrives at the scene of the accident first.

I've read that pilots sometimes remark that their focus is on saving their own asses, and if they do that, the passengers will be fine.
He's just going to pretend it was never a non-profit and he never deceived donors.
There are so many problems with vertical farming, but doing it in the sahara is even more problemattic.

First you still need water, and its not like its a closed system, so you'll get significant losses.

Then you need to either think about heating and cooling (it gets really cold at night and super hot in the day) or build under the sand. Either way lots of building materials.

Its literally easier and cheaper to terraform the saraha than it is to do vertical farming there.
Their security protocols were pretty lax, if they allowed someone to take a secret prototype to a bar, and to use it in the bar.
It’s been terrible since the introduction of weather kit. It’s beyond useless.
Said an alternate way, if Kibana drop in compat could be a thing, it would be easier for infra teams to do it as a drop in into existing stacks at bigger companies which makes it easier to steal market share of existing customers on the ES stack. There’s probably a non trivial amount of existing dashboards built and UX familiarity that would be a friction point without seamless compat.

Is Kibana support totally out of the question?
> 2 Years ago siri and co still failed at even the slightest foreign accent, today whisper almost perfectly transcribes heavily accented or foreign language text at a rate of hours in single digit minutes or even seconds on high end hardware

What? What Siri are you using, pray tell? Mine is crap.
2 + 2 = 4.

Try taking a bus to a train then walking 6-10 blocks with a patient requiring the services of MSK. It’s difficult.

Off-peak, it takes about 20-40 minutes via car.

Commuting to the city for the daily grind is totally different. That’s what everyone thinks about - if you don’t have a conventional schedule or have a need that isn’t daily commute, your needs may be different. There are millions of trips every week like that.
This article was a nothing burger.. so id say it was a successful EM type message
Changed my mind on band aiding your mouth for the night to promote nasal breathing
Me too! 7-11’s food is amazing in Japan (especially the bakery items). In the US they just have junk food and smell like a urinal.
That one was trickier because there were no demands that could be met. Victoria didn't want her job back after all this.
One of the biggest things I'm interested in is encode times. I have a static site where I automatically optimize and create
a webp version of every image at build time and it's always very fast. When I tried adding avif into the mix as well, build times absolutely skyrocketed. Obviously I was able to resolve that problem with caching, but it just all becomes much more of a pain to manage.
Agreed. Seeing how leaders' thoughts and opinions evolve as they gain more experience and perspective is more valuable by far than the original posts alone.

It also helps avoid the image of a person being viewed as fixed and one dimensional from a legacy standpoint.
Airliners are simply not designed to fly inverted. In Tex Johnson's famous barrel roll of a 707, he kept positive g on the airframe at all times.

One problem with flying inverted is the bottom of the airplane tends to accumulate junk - nuts, bolts, dropped tools, lunch boxes, dead mice, etc. Turning the airplane over means all that junk falls into the machinery, potentially jamming it.
The same problem that congestion pricing aims to solve - more revenue for the MTA.
There's no money in the world that will want me attend meetings all day.
I’m sorry, but that comment is absurd. MOST people can make it to L7 in their mid 40s? Most people can’t even get in the door at entry-level trying their very hardest, hard-stop-period.
Unfortunately many alternatives are infested with extremists.

I understand why people like the Fediverse, but it is confusing the heck out of potential new users. Least of all because a lot of people promoting it won't even suggest a specific instance nor is there much information out there about exactly who is running many instances and what their agendas are. Telling people it "doesn't matter" just further adds to the confusion.

People want the social-media infrastructure itself to be invisible/boring. But the Fediverse seemingly is too opinionated and surrounded by people with an agenda. It may fail, not because it is bad on paper, but because it just isn't what MANY people want.
TL;DR: recent (2020-ish) Sonicare brush handles have an alert to remind you when the attached tip has exceeded its useful life, according to the manufacturer's recommendations (which are printed on the packaging as well).

This functionality is implemented using NFC, and as per protocol recommendations, there is a password. Given the low cost requirements and extremely low risks, this password is static, and can be sniffed as described in this blog post.

If you are at all offended by this, you can feel free to either ignore the Sonicare handle's beeps/lights upon tip expiry, use non-NFC third-party tips, use a non-Sonicare brush handle, use a regular toothbrush, or not brush your teeth at all (not medical advice). Big Toothbrush may be out to get you, but they're not quite there yet.

If you think this is actually kind-of cool, good for you! Analyzing NFC and other 'household' protocols is a really nice hobby, and you can get started using low-cost tools.

P.S. Just got a HN 'if this is really your comment, please press Submit again' prompt that I hadn't seen before. Doing as instructed worked, but escaped the formatting chars in my comment, i.e. every asterisk got replaced by a backslash-asterisk. Thrilling, I know...
This is Bert Hubert [1]. Explaining why he left (in English): 'On my resignation as regulator of the Dutch intelligence and security services' [2].

[1] https://berthub.eu/

[2] https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/resignation-as-intelligenc...
It's one shot at the moment, but this isn't by design and may change, as generating code hasn't been our core focus.
And here someone won the Godwin award again. That was fast.

Fascinating how your adversary is having a well mannered argument and you derail it to call him a nazi. Takes one to know one, I think.
How on EARTH did I not know esphome existed?! Why am I bothering with this heterogeneous plate of home coded ESP and Arduino spaghetti throughout my house?!

Thanks for sharing!
I think this should be safe: https://github.com/phoe/safe-read

This doesn’t provide such functionality out of the box, but it makes it pretty trivial to produce a custom READ that only has the features you want: https://github.com/s-expressionists/Eclector

It’s not exactly the right input format, and has a couple outstanding performance issues, but I wrote a parser for EDN which should be safe against code injection: https://github.com/fiddlerwoaroof/cl-edn
Beside the really bad article here, water indeed seems to have a weird effect on me. It's kind of resetting my head for a bit. I really do not know what it is, but submerging, or shower over, the head brings a sense of clarity in my mind, removing clouds. Hard to put into words, but it just happens.

I have my doubts that I'd live longer if I'd do it more often or for longer tho.
And if every addict had good opportunity for a prosperous life, do you think the number of overdoses would increase or descrease?

The brain highjakcking still occurrs in a context.

While some people simply use for kicks, many others are trying to escape some intractable situtaion.

Improving life opportunities would only help reduce extreme addiction and overdose...
The CEO of SABRE (biggest airline res company) went in 15 years from Software Engineer to CEO. He was then forced out when he objected to the company becoming public again (owned by Hedge Fund). I am sure its not common though.
Nicoya (Costa Rica) is not Nicaragua
that is a fine idea but, perhaps it has not sunk in mentally, what a large percentage of "business" operates by intercepting and controlling funds and access to a system. In the positive way this provides legal guarantees within the business community, and brand development to fund marketing and such; in the negative it is just how it sounds, added costs, less efficient, gate-guarders and hoarders and slow-walkers all around. In that situation the progress dramatically slows down, and control is a battle.

You are suggesting to "create from thin air" a new entity that will almost certainly do all the bad parts, and may or may not do the positive parts, and has control to gate-keep for whatever reasons.
JPEG and PNG are good enough. Encoders and decoders are heavily optimized and omnipresent. No patent issues (either patent-free or expired).

We should focus on other more pressing issues. This one is basically solved.
Apple aiming to release an affordable version of Vision Pro by the end of 2025
Does lemmy has somethings like /r/all? Across all instances?

I'm not interested in subscribing to specific communities. The way I
used reddit most of the time was browsing on /r/all using RIF and then I
blocked all subreddits I didn't want to see again (a feature of RIF, you
don't even need an account).
The issues that I see with Spring aren't really code snippets from SO, but the fact that annotations drop all the advantages that Java had as a language. Just two examples:

When you create an Object of the wrong class and try to pass it to a method, you get a compile-time error. When you use the wrong annotation, nothing happens during startup of your application... but you don't even know at which point in time something should happen. Or if.

When a method you call throws an exception, you can run the application in a debugger and single-step into the method, then single-step until the exception gets thrown. This doesn't always just solve the problem but more often than not it gives you a good indication. If an exception gets thrown due to an annotation, you get an enormous stacktrace from some code you have never seen and didn't even know was run, or why it was run, from a thread you have never seen, complaining about wrong parameters that you have never seen, passed from another method you have never seen.
Getting everything to fit inside those limits is obviously part of the challenge. In that sense, what he's doing is more of an art, in that it becomes better as the artist is more limited.
This is different. Maybe you are referring to the Voat thing a few years ago when people were mad about the "fatpeoplehate" subreddits being banned. As it turns out, only a vocal minority opposed that move and left Reddit.

This is Reddit-wide, with several mainstream subreddits with millions of users going private, i.e. inaccessible.
Supply and demand.
Offer more for the shit shift, and maybe workers will think about it.
Makes sense for Cleveland. NYC is a different animal. It’s really a conglomeration of cities surrounded by suburbs that are bigger than most US cities.
I remember reading that downvotes on the posts/comments page of a user's profile don't count for a similar reason, but no idea if that's actually true.
Let's make PostgreSQL multi-threaded
>Is Kibana support totally out of the question?

Actually no.

We already have a good amount of pieces in place to support kibana. 2-3 weeks of dev work and it will be ready. Just not the top priority right now though.
Pretty neat pitch by a very prolific PostgreSQL hacker about refactoring from the current multiprocessing architecture to a multi-threaded one. I don't know how it'll play out but personally I think it looks promising.
A123 made incredible batteries. Huge abity to source & sink power. Fantastic cycle count, just soo much better. Such a high water mark for batteries.

I didn't realize they had gotten government money & then after going bankrupt had become a bit of a pariah (for "wasting money") in some circles.

This article is so clutch. Everyone wants every investment to pay off right away or rah rah rah government bad. We direly need to be funding industry & innovation; we are losing competitive spirit & our whole economy is ossifying, becoming an economy only of the large. We need to re make spirited engagement from the small & new possible.
I worked with .NET as well around the same time, and in my opinion it never quite achieved the same level of integration as WebObjects.

It also had quite a high price-of-entry until Visual Studio Express editions were released in 2005.

I don't have any experience with modern .NET/MVC specifically but modern approaches in general shy away from the decisions that made WebObjects so good because they do tend to hit nasty scalability limits.
Have you tried finding other ways to practice your German than at the workplace? Your local library or the university (if your town has one) might have pinboards for finding a language partner, i.e. someone you meet with and practice your and their language skills together. That might be a more relaxed environment for practicing than the workplace.
For listening comprehension, there should be lots of resources online (for news I would recommend the "Tagesschau").

All the best!
Hah, funny to see this on HN, I just tried this 3 days ago when I saw it being discussed on /r/selfhosted.

As someone running a homelab, and hadn't set up logging yet, it was a great find. I didn't have to learn and combine 3+ log technologies, it's just a single all-in-one monitoring server with web UI, dashboards, log filtering/search, etc. RAM usage of the Docker container was under 100MB.
At my last job (lead) we were referred to as "onshore resources" despite being employees.
> "automatic permission"

this phrasing sounds wrong somehow
We license doctors to do the research for us. We can not be expected to experts in all fields. It's why we license professionals.
Even if the API price was reasonable, Reddit only gave 3rd party apps 30 days to prepare. You can’t come up with a decent pricing model, billing infrastructure, and incorporate the logic in your app in that amount of time. It’s just overall very hostile and unreasonable from Reddit leadership. The biggest apps are forced to shut down because if they stay up, the millions of dollars in bills are going to start flooding in.
On Nitter if you don't want to visit the birdsite:

https://nitter.net/atc1441/status/1667252413051424773
I was specifically talking about Common Lisp’s print/read functions which are not safe for untrusted input:

https://github.com/salewski/cl-safe-read/blob/master/README....
Controllers also provide haptics (beat saber makes it feel like you're slicing a block with a light saber), a thumb stick, trigger and two buttons. we've got 40+ years experience with gaming with joysticks and buttons, this is hard to undo.
.. because asking for money generally fails.. Huge "shareware" projects garnered a total of five figures kind of money, ever. Plenty of projects fail to get a thousand dollars, ever. The market is filled with success stories, to you dont see the misery of the failed ones.. especially when the stakes get large, such as phone monthly revenues, or ad streams on major consumer brands. The management that grabs the reigns there are hired specifically to push others out and maximize gains.
Indeed, although that extra display is optional. For a MacBook Air with 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD (with the XPS still beating it for CPU & GPU), you'll pay $1,499 which again is a $50 savings. I personally don't place too much value in a screen but that's due to my workload, I'm sure that people who do video/graphics work would want the premium screen.
What do you mean by that? Isn't Lemmy one of those projects where anyone can run an instance? Or are you referring to the developers?
And could you please also elaborate what you mean by Chinese state apologists?
Most of the powermods seem to be opposing this blackout.
> How?

And why? Before a few days ago, it wasn’t an issue at all.
I'm sure it isn't profitable the way he's running it.

And honestly, I don't care about Reddit being profitable. I care about it being sustainable.

A VC-driven push for profitability doesn't mean breaking even. It means making a shit-ton of money, yielding a very large return on their very large investment. And they are perfectly willing to destroy an adequate business if that means they are getting a chance at something larger and much more profitable.

Without a lot of internal data, we'll never know the truth of it. But I suspect that there is a sustainable version of Reddit-the-company that would do everything Reddit-the-community needs without this sort of aggressive destruction of value in pursuit of high revenue numbers.
Most people don’t understand how rain is actually forecast. The forecast applies to an entire area, not just your point on the map. That means it could rain somewhere in the area of the forecast and the forecast would be correct. However, your experience of the forecast could feel entirely wrong.

Even if you see a 100% chance of rain, your specific location could remain dry. Likewise, a 10% chance of rain could have just you being rained on all day.

I personally find that I need to combine a forecast with a radar to understand how the weather is actually going to pan out for a day.

Explanation of rain forecast: https://www.weather.gov/ffc/pop
No. Do you mind linking to that?