skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why didn't Microsoft immediately embrace it? Or Sony? Or...

Because they are already established platforms in Gaming Industry? Windows has much of Gaming market share. Xbox and PlayStation are popular Consoles. They probably don't loose anything by supporting Vulkan although supporting Vulkan would be awesome on their part.

> Ah yes. They are losing because of not supporting Vulkan.Xbox is DirectX. Playstation is GNM and GNMX

I was only talking about MacOS.

> before you say that more people are gaming on Android, iOS's mobile gaming revenue dwarfs Android

I didn't talk about iPhone either. I was only talking about MacOS. despite being prominent OS, game title developers often ignore MacOS. Why? Because of Graphics API. No one bothers to target Metal for Games and this is exactly what i am talking about. If MacOS allows Vulkan or DX(ik that it's not possible), i think there could be more influx of games.

If we are talking about Gaming on iPhone, you must know that gaming landscape on mobile phones is vastly different than that of mainstream gaming experience on Consoles/PC. Mobile gaming landscape is mostly filled with non graphics intensive, micro transactions filled, Ad-filled(many times freewares) games. iPhone gets targeted because it has prominent share in Mobile Market but even then, not everything gets ported to it. Not to mention, Android gaming landscape doesn't suck than iphone. Prominent Mobile games which are on iPhone are on Android too and on Android they use Vulkan which proves that Vulkan is not a bad choice.

> Xbox is DirectX. Playstation is GNM and GNMX

Vulkan probably runs on PlayStation (see latest Baldur's Gate 3 patch notes; grep for PS5 Vulkan) but I am not so sure. Like i said earlier, these platforms are already household names when it comes to gaming.

My point was not to tell you that Vulkan is the "supreme" Graphics APIs out there. But my point was to tell you that Vulkan is the only one of "supreme" APIs which is most cross platform, modern, supported by gaming and graphics forerunners(valve, rockstar, nintendo) and there are no viable alternative to Vulkan right now.

> Yes, we can and should blame Khronos. For their mismanagement of OpenGL

What should they have done? At the point, we needed modern Graphics API. Mantle by AMD was forerunner and AMD was willing to co-operate. Nvidia too joined that bandwagon. Thus, Vulkan was born out of Mantle.

Should they have copied Metal? Since it was closed API from Apple, it wasn't possible. Should they have copied Microsoft's DX12? If Microsoft actually loved Open Source and Standards and gifted Khronos DX12, it would have been possible but they didn't do it. I think Khronos did sensible thing at that time.
I used to think so. Yet I am not sure now that only the election system is to blame.

Australian way to count votes was specifically designed to avoid favoring a two-party system (basically, instead of selecting one candidate, you vote for multiple and give your preference order). Yet in effect Australia has a 2-party system, too.

Why is that, I don't know.
Beyond sympathies it is important to take into account the population: the Jews population is around 16m and Muslims population is around 1.8b. Even with disinformation efforts humans are part of this network and they could redistribute the information or stop it.
I easily assume that many laws were broken in what lead to his suicide. And equally for Assange. Law is a stretchable concept nowadays: Hunter's laptop turned out to be not "Russian disinfo" as some three letter agencies illegally made us believe. And the laptop is full of evidence of breaking the law, but he got a sweetheart deal.

Laws created+pushed by Joe that put many in jail for drugs, were violated by Hunter, and he walks.

Law is a fluid concept in this day and age. Same like this "rules based international order".

Please remember that hiding "undersireables" in WW2 Germany was against the law, or freeing slaves was against the law.
For future rants: mAh is a measure of charge, not current. And batteries don’t have “power stored” — they have “energy stored”.

When you make a statement like “A 2000mAh hour battery at 2 volts has half the power of a 2000mAh battery at 4 volts,” it’s a bit nonsensical — a battery does have a certain amount of power available, but that amount is not charge * voltage, nor is it even necessarily proportional to the energy stored.
You don't have to "roll your own server" to use Mastodon, you can literally go to any instance's website and get an account and start using it.
Having lived through every failed third party, the answer is not a third party until FPTP is eliminated.

Until then, anytime spent endorsing voting for contributing to a third party is moot.
Last thing remaining is to make clear of what "bottle" word means in the calculations. I mean that a bottle can be containing either some food (pure water, soda, milk products) or some chemistry. Former (Coca-cola in my mind) is kind of never reused in my country, but latter (some P&G products for example) is almost always from reused material.
I quit when I realized I despised the cold so much that if I fell in I would probably give up after 5 minutes.
>They know what a w/h represents as a unit of measure

This is basic middle school physics..
If a battery is internally a set of connected cells, then as a battery designer you have the choice of wiring the cells in series or parallel. Need more voltage: series. Need more mAh: parallel. Cell 'quality' is a vague term since some applications may care more about discharge rates or operating temperature range than total capacity.

Usually though, batteries are designed with a particular application in mind and that application will define a voltage that is acceptable, such as ~3.8V for phones or ~19V for laptops. Significantly above this would damage the device. Likewise, below that voltage and the device doesn't function. This is why mAh is a decent proxy for Wh; for a given application the voltage is fixed and so the conversion - for that application - is fixed. mAh for a given application can be compared easily.

Comparing batteries for different applications is harder, but not just because you have to convert mAh to Wh: different applications require different performance characteristics beyond just voltage. You might care about weight, physical dimensions, operating temperatures, discharge rates, charge rates, self-discharge rates, output impedance.
Reading these comments has made me feel very lucky not to have tinnitus. However, as a pharmacist, I have consulted with many people asking about supplements and treatments for tinnitus. One treatment that has worked for some people is lipoflavanoid. A less expensive alternative, available as by prescription only, is gabapentin.
The USA works that way with Civil Asset Forfeiture. Cops take your money/property and you have to sue to prove your innocence to get it back.
Having users submit a bug by video is literally one of the biggest biggest cheat codes.

Have been using it for a very long time (I still miss Jing!)

There is no emailing back and forth meaninglessly. The user just records and talks about what they want to do and what hats happening.

The support side sees exactly how the user is doing it to make it instantaneous to replicate the issue.

There is no need for the user to give detailed screenshots and type up a whole scenario.
For some reason all the music on my phone/computer is in mp3. I've never really made that choice, it just happened. Some of it was recorded in 2023.

I'm considering creating an small project that (as a part of a bigger task) needs to be able to play users' sound files. I'd be happy to know that I don't need to support mp3s anymore, but so far I've failed to convince myself that it's a right choice.
> Slavery is the original sin of the American Consitution - parties are the second sin.

How can parties be the second sin of the Constitution? The Constitution literally doesn't even envision their existence, to the point that the procedure for electing the president and vice president had to be changed to account for their existence.
I think your last paragraph is leaving out a lot of context on the way the Speaker had treated Democrats up to that point. It wasn’t really about humiliation — McCarthy refused to work with the Dems and said as much.
The Democrat led states have already done that:

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

But the Republicans will never pass it because it would hurt them.
In the wake of brexit, I'm not sure the argument that both parties differ only on minor issues holds up.
What a strange place to put it, there's loads of sysinit scripts still, but thanks for the heads up.

Re: other response...

None of those things require systemd under debian, and it's easy to use sysvinit. I run loads of systems without systemd.
I got mine from a concert about 20 years ago. No it's the exact same as the beginning basically. I just cope better and don't think about it much and still find value in quiet spaces.

I was given steroids for recovery within a couple days of the event but I don't recall it actually improving the tinnitus. It definitely was louder in the first day after the event but that's usual for concerts, before it settled on a volume/tone. Now I'm just extremely careful and have good earplugs etc.
At the actual polls support will be about .063
> Consumers use batteries that are a specific voltage.

Nowadays with sealed, non-serviceable batteries, it is not always abundantly clear what voltage the device takes for power (which can be different from its charging voltage) unless it’s in your hand and you can read the specifications that are printed on the back (if it is at all). Breaking out these two datapoints into voltage and amp hour no longer makes sense given that most batteries where consumer-advertised capacity are product specific.

Our relationship with battery powered devices has changed since the days of 1.5V cells that we tossed in at varying amounts (2x = 3V, 4x = 6V, 6x = 9v, etc). Pre-“USB-PD”, it still kind of made sense to use mAh because we knew it was always 5v but that too has changed.

The mistake is not changing to mWh once we stopped describing 5v devices.
You can set up a Yubikey on a mac and use it on a Windows machine. It’s cross-vendor transferrable.
As an amateur, that follows SpaceX from a distance, what makes the W-band so interesting?
I suspect you're right about the advantages of Iridium. All I can say is that we live in Oregon and I've been able to get out of canyons pretty well. I've used it on the John Day, Deschutes and Grande Ronde, mostly to coordinate with shuttles or check in back home. I cannot speak to other geographies. The profound advantages of two-way instant communication in an emergency would justify hiking uphill a ways too. I'm rarely surrounded by sheer cliffs. But I'm sure there are circumstances where Iridium -- or Starlink! -- would work better. We bought a v2 standard Starlink setup for tailgating and camping and it's truly awesome. That technology in phones is a game changer. In truth, my wife and I have iPhone 14 Pro and 15 Pro, respectively. If the Inmarsat sat phone doesn't work, you can be sure we'd hit the button on the iPhones, which makes for a nice backup as I believe they use the Globalstar LEO satellites.
Can anyone here provide a summary of the market offerings at the moment?

I am still using a PocketBook, which is fine, but I'd like to still be able to also purchase books -- yet without surrendering to arbitrary and morbid DRMs and privacy violations like with Kindle.
We have rank choice voting in my city and it is amazing. I was effectively able to vote for my two favorite candidates who have very similar views with no fear of splitting a vote.

Interestingly though (but not surprisingly) there is a lot of anti rank choice media coverage of the process.

When I tell people my city does that, some respond with “oh that sounds terrible! I heard the news that system is so complicated and hard to run! It probably took you weeks to find out who won!?”

This disconnect between my great experience with the system and the general perception of the process much bigger than I expected.

Now we just have to ask… who benefits from pushing a bad narrative about rank choice voting
> It means we may have fewer "party no matter what" voters, and the politicians MAY have to actually pay attention to the people...

Unless it means that those people view "their party" as being too moderate. On the left you have groups like the Green Party who view the Democrats as being too far right. On the right you have MAGAs who view Republicans as the radical left.
This is a neat engineering achievement, but is it practical? What's the benefit of pouring the liquid out of a bag into this versus drinking out of the bag directly?
(xkcd-get 297)

https://xkcd.com/297/

https://github.com/vibhavp/emacs-xkcd
My experience has been contrary to expecting developers to create videos (which is a good idea too). This approach of video first, and video tickets are prioritized has been my only approach for almost 15 years.

It started with Jing from Techsmith that had one key feature like loom - record and auto upload to the cloud and put the URL into your clipboard ready to paste into an email.

It’s surprising use of video in this way isn’t more ubiquitous.

Loom might actually be able to do the very thing you are saying it can’t. They have a few AI features that seems to auto generate a title and summary recently.
Let's do a quick analogy. arxiv = github. It's all collaborative writing, right? You publish data, code, and your paper continuously. Then you have releases. Perhaps they get tagged with what publication venues accept them.
I still have a Yamaha AW4416 sitting around upstairs somewhere. I remember it being pretty confusing at times. I always wished it had a network interface to get the tracks out of it more conveniently. I eventually got an ADAT module and an RME Hammerfall PCI card to transfer tracks to PC, before that, I burned CDs. The best thing I managed to record on it was the rhythm guitar tracks for this: https://soundcloud.com/stephen-cameron-456738857/rocket-sled...
The answers to your questions are in relative market sizes. Yes, there are millions of people who agree with your two points. There are also millions of people who disagree. (The second set is likely much larger than the first point, but that doesn't matter.) Millions of people is frequently a market.
> Disclaimer that I work at Slack.

I suppose by this you mean that you do work at Slack, but that's not really a disclaimer, is it? More of a "claimer".
Open primaries are also a really part. In other countries the party itself decides who runs in each district but in America there is an open primary where basically anyone can run and if they win the primary then they are the parties nominee.

In other countries groups like the democratic socialists or the tea party would have to run as third parties because they could never get selected to run, but in America if you are in a fridge group it makes more sense to run in one of the two parties.
The two major American political parties should really be viewed as coalitions of a number of single or few issue parties. It's an issue of semantics, but it also explains how our parties can swing so wildly over time on certain issues -- the composition of the coalition has simply changed. The minor parties are either in one of these two coalitions or are effectively out on their own.

What Americans are really saying here is that neither coalition is really working for them and they're looking for some other new coalitions to form. It's particularly acute at the moment with the Republican party where the fractures are fairly clear and have been forming for the last few decades. However, the Democratic party also has fissures and it may explain why it's turned into such a gerontocracy as the old guard seek to keep the the coalition together.

In either case, the minor parties of either major probably won't seek to break away unless they believe they can form a new coalition (major) party that will win at the polls.

What I think many Americans would hope, if really pressed, would be a center-right party (by American thinking of left-right politics) that ejects the more extreme right wing concerns and pulls enough of the center-left to win while also filtering out more classic left-wing politics. Where that center-left comes from? I would wager mostly various highly religious, but not necessarily evangelical, groups made heavily of recent or second generation minority immigrant groups who tend to be more conservative in thinking but pushed to align with the Democratic party because of all the race hating nonsense in the Republican party. Some of these groups have been test migrating to the Republican party over the last generation simply because the Democratic party isn't coherent in its ability to absorb multiple competing ethical and moral frameworks, but I would bet that those groups are generally unhappy being in the same room as all the anti-<insert religious ethnic group> people who don't like them and are looking for better aligned identity.

Like any great American political institution, such a party would continue to be decades behind the political thought in Europe, left of most of Asia without the long-term thinking, and be paradoxically highly inclusive of race and religion while intolerant of real social progress.
The amount of Emacs configuration I had was what drove me to the insanity of writing my own editor....
This is the point of the Slack app though. It does notify you if x recipients can't see a document, but it doesn't attempt to hide it from those who don't already have access.

Companies can turn off the Google Drive app in their Slack workspace and block it in Google Workspace admin (and generally allowlist which apps can request Drive permissions: https://support.google.com/a/answer/7281227?hl=en ).
"Back and forth all day long while doing drugs" is literally one of the failure cases.

"Back and forth begging/busking" is another.
Indeed:

https://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/harry-truman-requests...

"The United States then began inching closer to Tito, supporting his regime rhetorically, economically and, finally, militarily, in order to ensure that Yugoslavia would remain out of the Soviet orbit. Throughout the Cold War, American officials saw in Tito a useful example of a communist leader who was not under the Kremlin’s thumb."

...

"With congressional assent, the United States and Yugoslavia signed a bilateral military agreement in November 1951 that tacitly incorporated Yugoslavia into NATO’s defensive web."
How many satellites can we put up there before we get one giant game of snooker?
> The fact that most Americans don't seem keen/prioritized on implementing it, despite wide-scale disillusion at the two party system is mind-boggling to me.

The people in power are not incentivized to do this. Thus they convince the masses that it's a bad thing.
Ok thanks. Still not as trivially easy as it should be then :(
I second this resource. Lots of good threads and discussion here. The forums are full of threads where people talk about things they've tried.
and this is why https://www.forwardparty.com/ platform consists of 3 policy goals

1. ranked choice voting (to eliminate the spoiler effect, truly opening the way for a non-duopolistic political environment)

2. open, non-partisan primaries

3. independent redistricting commissions (to eliminate gerrymandering)
It's not clear to me where the mistake is. Almost everything uses Li-ion batteries with nominal voltage of 3.7V, so if it's mAh, 3.7V is assumed. else if Wh, implies raw_terminal_voltage != 3.7. mAh ratings normalized for 3.7V are comparable, and Wh ratings are comparable too. It's also probably not wise to connect mAh rated battery to Wh rated ones(if it ever could be).

In electrical design, electrical current(A) matters to trace widths and wire thickness selection; voltage(V) matters, separately, in matching supported voltage ranges, and also insulation for components. Total wattage(W) do not tell either of the story. It will concern me if a single strand of 32AWG wire was supposed to carry 10kA, or two studs 1.27mm apart would be energized to 10kVDC, but same for 10W of power at unknown current or voltage... I won't be so sure.

mAh is fine. So long you don't mix different techs. Like standard alkaline, NiMH, and Li-ion, in a same bucket. Which you don't anyway.
There is an associated cloud service called Cleanshot Cloud – all licenses get a small amount of storage for free, or you can upgrade to Unlimited for a monthly subscription.

Alternatively, because it's a great native-first app, you can just set the saving directory to an existing cloud provider on your machine like Dropbox and let it handle uploading and serving the file.
If you think we should word the privacy policy differently, please do submit some feedback on kagifeedback.org with the specifics - we have changed it in the past through exactly this process. It has been written by engineers, mostly for engineers at the beginning. I'm sure we can improve the wording to make it more binding, we're not trying to squirrel away from it. If you have enough legal knowledge to harden it, we'd welcome the contribution :)
I don’t use loom, but I remember an interview with someone who had it in their workflow. Isn’t some of Loom’s appeal transcript and video search?
Why is this a good thing?
If I can also make suggestions:

Osaka: Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi. You can see such shotengai in real life Osaka as well. Also uses exclusively Kansai-ben.

Hiroshima: In This Corner of the World. It made me cry 3 times!

Fukuoka: Manga Bambino! An Italian food manga with a ca. 22 year old protagonist. I dearly dearly loved this manga when I was around the same age. The protagonist is from Fukuoka. This manga was one of the reasons that inspired or motivated me to learn how to cook properly. I liked everything about it: the drawings, the story, the content, the characters, how to navigate the world as a young adult.
It appears to be a cache-busting issue, if I understand the bug discussion correctly. company-capf always busts the completion-in-region cache, corfu never does unless you wrap your completion function in a cache-buster function.
sigh, I once encountered a PFY junior who named all variables some variation on `nx`, so `n1`, `n2`, `n99` because they 'were all just numbers'.
The first satellite to fly W Band was in 2021. It supports much higher data rates but has atmospheric attenuation issues. This would be the first commercial use of it. It's possible SpaceX is using this to reduce downlink bottlenecks.

https://web.archive.org/web/20231012142827/https://re.public...

https://connectivity.esa.int/news/first-wband-transmission-s...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W_band
Nametag-sized e-ink screens are already approximately the price of LCDs - a few dollars, perhaps double the price of LCD.

Giant E-ink screens are expensive because they're made by fusing together 4 smaller e-ink screens (4 of 10.3" or 13.3" screens IIRC), but the process is expensively done by hand because there's simply not enough demand to warrant automating the process. There's just no money in giant 1Hz monitors.
> The filing, submitted through the Kingdom of Tonga, marks the first time SpaceX has used Tonga for this purpose.

Why did SpaceX do this? What's significant about Tonga?