skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are hobbling with a PI it's all about the community support, form factor, low power and the header pins. Hopefully if you are buying a Pi you already have a specific project in mind.

For example: I use a few zero 2 w's with shairport-sync to make Airplay stereos. I use the header pins to control a relay to turn on and off an audio amp. Pi 4+ would actually work a lot better for this especially when playing audio on multiple of these setups at once. A Lenovo mini pc wouldn't be as easy to hide.
By what grounds could you call it "nonsensical", since by your thesis I was required to make the statement because I have no free will.

Nonsensicality, criminality, judgment, quality, all go out the window if we are all just puppets on strings.
Hey, that's really nice, what's the tech stack behind it?

E: was answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37920591
This is great to know. I'll try to address it sooner rather than later. Thanks!
>Does your email client, text editor, or todo app need to essentially be another operating system unto itself? So much so that they very likely have complete support for Xbox-360 controllers for some reason? Could you achieve just as much, if not more functionality, by putting everything in a simple text file?

I love note-taking apps as much as the next guy ... but prefer a physical notebook more often than not (along with a good pen or mechanical pencil)
Yup, can confirm. Was trying to setup an Octoprint machine for my 3d printer, none of Raspberry Pi’s were in stock. After trying to catch one for weeks, I ended up buying the second-newest revision of OrangePi that was pretty powerful (not the barebones version).

To say it was trouble would be an understatement. Even after I successfully completed the setup (which took forever, as the documentation was contradicting, confusing, and felt like it was worse than machine-translated to english). Stability wasn’t there either at all. Occasionally it would just lock up and freeze, requiring a hard reboot. It would heat up pretty bad sometimes, despite an extra heat dissipator/cooler (that i triply made sure was installed properly). Webcam would randomly just refuse working (and I had to manually edit linux configs to get it to work in the first place). Sometimes SSH connection would just die and I become unable to connect to it again without either a reboot or restarting networking services on it (which would require me physically being next to it, thus defeating the point of Octoprint being remote). And mind you, I didn’t run it as some heavy production-tier 3d printing controller, I would print something a couple times a week tops, and nothing too complex or too high res (in terms of the model being printed).

All while Raspberry Pi has great documentation, and Octoprint setup on it is pretty much plug and play with just a few clicks of installing dependencies (or even simpler than that, if you install a dedicated Octoprint distro made specifically for Raspberry Pi).
You can't lower the funding.

1. They self-fund. All confiscated cash is for keeps. If they're not allowed to keep it by state law, they're welcome to call in feds who will do the bust and give them 80% as a finders fee.
2. They extort cities into not "defunding". They don't want it, and they play hardball.

> nd no one in their right mind, even on the ACAB side, wants police to go away entirely.

No one's ever accused me of being in my right mind, but I am asking quite seriously... what would happen if they did? I have reason to believe "not much, good or bad".

In the places where things are horrible, they'd remain horrible. When SF has no retail stores because they can't handle the shoplifting, that'd remain true. And in the suburbs where things are boring, things would stay boring. If your car is stolen, you'd still never get it back. If your bike was stolen, same. If your home was broken into, no one would be caught. And if you were murdered, your murder would go unsolved just like before.

And I don't know how anyone can not see that.
San Mateo (& Bay Area in general) is expensive and you cannot find a liveable house for less than $1.5M. And around San Mateo, houses go for $2M+ if they’re not in need of any fixing before the move in. Add to that the additional taxes in CA, unless they’re offering a substantial raise, this is a no brainer.
There is free filling using the official government tool.
And there is free filling created by for profit businesses.
Relative a of FreeTaxUSA employee here.

I'll let her know. She cares about UX.
I'm trying to imagine the context where there is a property in an area with high sales pushing the price of land tax up but this property isn't worth a similar amount for being in the same area.

If people are buying in an area and that drives up prices because it shows the area is valuable, in what conditions would your land not be worth a similar (ish) value?
I have a few websites dedicated to some old microcomputers. They are niche and very few people care. I work on them in bursts and then they sit there for years before the next bout of updates. It is often an excuse to take advantage of the latest CSS or whatever.

Anyway, many years ago I added a message board to most of them so passersby could share their recollections and nostalgia. At first it was a PITA to keep out the spam. But message boards are so passe that not only is it rare to get a new comment, but it is rare to get spam too.
PriceOps? Really?

The idea that pricing and billing are separate concerns seems entirely obvious to me.
Kudos to the Flipper Zero team for making such a desirable toy. Build a thing, get a couple Wired articles written up about it, make several million dollars.
At this point everyone should be looking at Krita instead of GIMP. Krita has a much slicker UI, more features, and similar keyboard shortcuts to photo$hop.
> Do those mean either his argument is wrong, or those examples are outliers?

Read generously, they’re compounding something not financial. Expertise, for instance.
You keep using words like "drowning" and "inundated" for an amount of sand that was barely visible.

And the regulator wasn't freaked out. The FAA rubber stamped Starship incident report and list of corrective actions.
I’d say that another major feature is that the maintainer of the toolkit is not interested in making sure the open-source version receives as narrow a use as possible. (The current maintainers of Gtk also did a fairly good job ensuring that, but at least it wasn’t an overt goal...) That ugh feeling from Qt, along with being forced to deal with C++ if I want to dive into the system, is the primary reason I haven’t switched to KDE, despite liking both their UX philosophy and their view of their place in the ecosystem[1] much more.

[1] https://youtu.be/IFGXVN9dZ8U (I don’t think there’s a text version, sorry)
I'm assuming I can opt-into the threat, i.e. it's possible for me to disable Bluetooth to remove my exposure to this class of attacks. When I turn on my WiFi I know that I'm subjecting myself to de-auth attacks, for example.

I can't opt out of a hardware attack once a malicious repair shop has replaced a critical module in my phone with their own.

Like I said, I'm more concerned with the latter. It doesn't mean I'm not concerned about attacks from external devices too.
That's exactly how it read to me too.
Who is "we"? Can you please show us the repo you have made to help the general public?
In the US Starbucks popularized lingering at a coffee shop. There a lot of HUGE Starbucks that have fire places and couches and are really built to be comfortable places to relax and/or work. However, the trend in the past 5-ish years has been to remodel them to be geared toward pickup / drive thru which is a shame. The exception is the "Starbucks Reserve Roastery" which are massive multi-story stores mostly in touristy areas. The one in Chicago is 4 stories and has every comfort you could imagine, but it is pretty much always packed with tourists (still not a great place to hang out of work).
Surfacing request errors when using Htmx
I didn't know glibc didn't do the same thing. `getaddrinfo()` on Windows seems to do this because randomly a program will try to connect to `::1:59962` or something, and if I don't allow it in my firewall, it will start whining that some getaddrinfo thread failed to start. This has happened across all sorts of different programs. It's infuriating.

I thought it was just a general libc thing. Isn't there a spec on this somewhere?
> Why the hell are we putting biological virology institutes in the middle of the major population centers instead of the middle of nowhere?

Have you looked at the answers to these questions?
You can also do the same thing with human art. There are most certainly local galleries near you, and you can interact with an actual human and the meaning they put into that art. Not to mention the amount of art made by humans that exists online.
The speed with which Luma transitioned their product from being NeRF-based to 3D-Gaussians-based following the release of the 3D Gaussian Splatting paper was really impressive in my opinion. It's one thing to implement a brand new research paper, it's another to implement it in a polished manner and ship it as a working product in just a few weeks!
Stable Diffusion Gets a Major Boost with RTX Acceleration
Is wearing a burqa radical? Are books that have inappropriate language radical? Are transgender rights radical? It’s a slippery slope. Banning access to information is dangerous.
Am I crazy, or are we jumping from 4 to 5 whilst ignoring the fact that most of us still can't get hold of 4 due to the supply chain issues?
A CEO, whose personality is so closely tied to the company and as a result probably doesn't bat an eye at extreme overwork and constant office presence while also being able to disengage anytime (they are upper management after all), is not going to care about how nice remote is for employees.
At least for me, I've used ChatGPT for areas where I don't really have much experience doing it nor get much out of learning how to do it better, especially if 100% correctness isn't necessary - writing job reqs/descriptions has been the best use so far. I use ChatGPT as the idea mill and take the best sounding ideas out of it and manipulate it a tiny bit for my purposes. In that sense, it makes me more "productive" because I don't need to spend so much time on a task like that and I can spend more time on a task that I have more expertise in, ie, programming.
>>> I wish there was a nicer, contextual UI for ffmpeg.

There was one on HN a while back with a graph based UI with nodes and stuff.

Had a brief look but can't find it now.
But that mini PC likely has as much as 10x the power draw... They are not interterchangable for lower power use cases
Metrics for Reasoning About the Usability of Visualization Notations
Funny I always start with searching for Subotnick and Derbyshire.
Ah with the latest firefly AI stuff it is really hard to beat PS
It's there if you punch in "Electronica" in the searchbox.

> 'Electronica' does not exist. Not as a genre or a description. It was coined by the North American music press to refer to the second wave of electronic music's explosion in the late 90s.

Nearly every popular act of the period -- Daft Punk, Moby, Fatboy Slim, Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Basement Jaxx, Tricky -- were marketed as 'Electronica' at one time or another, but the person who really popularized it was Madonna and her shallow William Orbit-produced piss-poor attempt at appropriating trance music as something she invented (Ray of Light). But there really isn't any actual thing called Electronica. It's just a corporate buzzword.

This is a PSA from the official Electronic Music Genre Standards and Classifications Consortium.
Gaza, beyond de-development to disposability and destruction
As long as they aren't opening doors, its not the same thing. Security guards are making the rounds in places they know well, they aren't engaging with dangerous situations (e.g. physically confronting a shoplifter at QFC or Fred Myer is a huge no no).

> I'd rather tell people having parties to turn down their music than confront people breaking into places and committing crimes with nothing but a flashlight and a radio.

You only think that a few times before you realize the first situation will sometimes lead to a lot more trouble than the first.
Seems an interesting idea if you work mostly on cloud-based apps. Can it only work with those? Any plan to be able to use local apps like Powerpoint? (don't want to use the online version, doing that kind of stuff in a browser doesn't have the right feeling in terms of responsiveness, and eats much more system resources).

It would also be nice to have more info about the integrated mail client, does it support IMAP/SMTP, and/or Exchange servers?
Detecting generative artificial intelligence in scientific articles
Never found anything better than Fireworks for the user who only rarely needs to make basic edits to images
I like writing blog posts about things which interest me, have no comments, and no ads. I post links to it on Mastodon, where I have exactly zero followers. Nothing wrong with just putting it out there.
All bacterial growth hits "stationary phase" at some point before collapsing, and he seems to miss that most empires and companies do the same.
> My metric is machines that punch me in the face are bad, and I put myself in charge of deciding it.

If you don't have any free will, you're not "deciding" anything. "Deciding" implies that you have choices, and that is just what you do not have.

Right?

> On the other hand, people don't ignore their water heater starting fires

Of course they don't. But they don't blame it in the same way they'd blame a person who intentionally set their house on fire, or even a rat that chewed wires and caused a fire. The person would be imprisoned, and the rats would be exterminated. Neither of those makes sense unless there's free will involved.
Like I said. It's not at all the same thing. Inline styles have different behavior from class-based styling
I work at Automattic (but not on WordPress.com) and I've pinged some folks to take a look at this.
Haha, true. Floutwork is just my humble attempt to give Emacs a run for its money ;)
my days in the office are hands down the least productive. First off there’s 3+ hours of driving now - none of which is compensated - so, the frequent interruptions because the pro office folk consider the office a place to socialize, and the less pleasant working environment.

The driving is also incredibly interruptive as now it doesn’t matter if I’m in the flow/mid problem, I have specific times I have to hit the road by or I add another hour to my drive.

All because a bunch of people think their desire to socialize and/or see their ability to control the plebs is more important than getting work done.
That isn't quite what I said, but I really suggest Lars's book, if you have a genuine interest in this!

You won't get an absolutely black and white one sentence solution from it, but it is thought-provoking and contains some really useful ideas, IMO.
Related:

Show HN: Firefox add-on to open YouTube videos in alternative front ends - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37881771 - Oct 2023 (128 comments)

Tell HN: Cloudflare Is Blocking Piped - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33667236 - Nov 2022 (120 comments)

LibreTube: Alternative YouTube front end for Android built with Piped - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30746420 - March 2022 (46 comments)

Piped: A privacy-friendly YouTube front end which is efficient by design - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27869188 - July 2021 (230 comments)
> Also, when you find out later they are not, you will change your opinion?

Hardly. I always knew they weren't saints, and always disliked them for being Nazis.

Bad people can't be talented or skilled. If they were, it would be as if the universe was condoning their behavior.
> compiling your own Android

I think this is a mistake. If you actually want to switch to FLOSS and control your own devices, you should abandon semi-proprietary technology relying on a huge corporation and switch to a GNU/Linux phone, like I did.
85% of Americans should only have to return the postcard "this is what we think your situation is". The other 15% have something the government doesn't know and needs to file. The other 10% should have an accountant do their taxes and not software (which leaves a few% lost, not quite complex enough for an accountant, but not enough of them to support software for their situation).
I assume the biological samples need to get transported at some point anyway. The researchers would need to live on-site. Yes this would dramatically increase the cost.

Personally, I think we just shouldn't do this at all.
pre-MMU, unless using DEC box.
It's full of nice and very talented people, but bad government and infrastructure
Consider explaining to my loved ones how TSA full body scans are voluntary opt-in chains. Like encryption back doors, if people having nothing to hide why not consent to voluntary full body scans?

Am looking forward to your blog post!
George Carlin - Saving the Planet

https://youtu.be/7W33HRc1A6c?si=-EGHs1UFrx3s3io5
Best Buy has better TVs and Microcenter doesn't even touch home theater, home stereo, or photography. Microcenter is great for the DIY crowd and for getting cables. I prefer Best Buy for most anything else.
I'd bet once you start digging down into the details, having a brokerage account becomes less and less relevant as a metric for who can pay simple taxes.

For example, how many of those respondents in the Gallup poll answered yes only because they have a Simple IRA? For those respondents, their contributions don't preclude them from taking the "simple tax" branch when filing taxes. (That's the "simple" part-- well, one of the simple parts, at least for the employee.)

Moreover, there were some changes to simple IRA administration in Secure 2.0 act that make automatic enrollment mandatory (for the employer to do 3% matching or whatever). So the category of respondent I mentioned above-- who technically has a brokerage account but can file simple taxes-- is likely to grow quite a bit in the next few years and decades.

Edit: I'd also be interested in how many people with simple IRAs contribute anything more than the 3% matching-- I'd bet its more than a majority. Perhaps that could change now that Secure 2.0 lets them contribute to a Roth IRA.
Managers 3+ levels up won't fire you individually, just cut entire teams/departments.
Don't mean to "trolley", but "in-motion power supply to electric vehicles" was done 100 years ago.
> can't opt out of a hardware attack once a malicious repair shop

So apparently you forever disable Bluetooth out of concern but at the same time think it is unavoidable to leave your iPhone unattended at random repair shops? At least the maid stuff (even if astronaut-level engineering) is remotely plausible.
I work on a database that is a KV-store if you squint enough and we're taking advantage of NVMe.

One thing they don't tell you about NVMe is you'll end up bottlenecked on CPU and memory bandwidth if you do it right. The problem is after eliminating all of the speed bumps in your IO pathway, you have a vertical performance mountain face to climb. People are just starting to run into these problems, so it's hard to say what the future holds. It's all very exciting.
Yes. Mitchell Baker had every top job at Mozilla from 1999 to 2008. She was the Mozilla project's general manager, Mozilla Foundation's 1st president, and Mozilla Corporation's 1st CEO. She could be the wrong CEO for Mozilla now. But it couldn't be for inexperience.
Finding the first one is the challenge. After that just click through the webring for equally good blogs and content.
My Brazilian brother (we unofficially adopted him after he lived with us in the US as an exchange student) worked for an American tech company in Brazil. He was trained as a lawyer in Brazil. And, yes, this is exactly what happens in Brazil. It feels like extortion to me and I generally feel like I side with labor when there is a dispute against (especially tech) companies. I would never want to want to run a tech company in Brazil and I love Brazil and have lived there.
Can you explain for those of us who aren't speedcubers what the scramble is? Is it what it sounds like - a number of pseudo-random twists to undo the solve?
> Marriage is incentivized via the advantageous married-filing-jointly option.

For 99% of people the 2023 brackets for married filing jointly are just double the ones for being single, and actually penalize two-income married couples in higher income brackets. Moreover, this wouldn't even do anything in a system with a flat marginal tax rate.

But if you actually wanted some marriage bonus you could increase the amount of the UBI for married couples.

> Donations are deductible.

So you don't charge VAT for donations or let the charity buy things without paying it.

> Employers are incentivized to replace part of wages with benefits packages including health insurance, which incentivizes people to not be unemployed.

This is definitely not a good thing and should be burned to the ground. But you could get the same effect if you wanted it by not charging VAT when e.g. employers pay for healthcare.

The better solution would, of course, be to not charge VAT when anyone pays for healthcare.
Then people with informal income streams will systematically underpay.
I vaguely remember a fork that at least turned it into a more traditional modal app instead of dozen small windows floating on the desktop. That certainly helped.

Edit: Aha! Found it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMPshop Abandoned in 2007 though.
Aside from the common complaint of its odd UI decisions, the thing that got me about GIMP last I tried it was how rough around the edges it is on macOS. It seemed very confused about my dual monitor setup for example with modals doggedly showing up in the top left corner of one of the two monitors no matter which monitor the main window was placed on.
So you do have managers, just different titles.
We'd also be able to develop a vaccine much more quickly. We're very good at making flu vaccines because we do it every year. That's why we had a 2009 "swine flu" vaccine within a few months.
I have a system where I write markdown files that get zipped and a password I don’t know is applied. I’m just accumulating this journal nobody can read and it feels pretty therapeutic. There isn’t an audience and can’t be an audience.
Most of the cruft has been cut out (as of 1986!) People are just so used to accountants and tax programs that they never look at the details to realize how simple their tax situation really is. This is encouraged by the tax industry.
They’re an order of magnitude more powerful than a Pi or a clone, and are much easier to deal with from a compatibility standpoint.

The power considerations are pretty negligible from a cost per year perspective.

I really only use mine for pseudo IOT applications where space is a factor, like for OctPi and a Shairplay receiver.
That's mass-produced furniture. And yes, the original intent/artist meaning of an art piece are extremely important when looking on as a viewer, even if the viewer ends up giving it a different meaning.
It's an MP3, no transcription I can see.
What’s the power consumption on that? The biggest draw for these machines (to me at least), is how they seem to run on a 5w power source.
Hearing himself talk
Grievous: Another fine addition to my collection
pointer(s) are still dangling over that.
Have you ever listened to Dopapod or Lespecial? They’re both really excellent bands. Man Man is not quite as electronic though they put on the best live show I’ve ever seen.
We are everyone who understands this and capable of doing this. Creating a repo is only one way to help. Supporting alternative mobile devices outside the duopoly is the other. This is exactly what I'm doing.