skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depending on the battery you use, it's between 40h to 60h playtime.

I successfully used the 2200mAh batteries from "thepartguru" on iPod classics with iFlash Quad. The advantage over the 3000mah ones is, that it still fits with a thin backplate.

You should also be aware, that putting more than 256GB into the device is considered as "unstable" depending on the content you use. Having more than 50000 tracks may lead to unexpected behaviour (random reboots, showing the wrong covers for items, etc.). Technically iFlash Quad supports up to 4TB microSD space, but in practise it just does not make any sense. I would not use more than 512GB - my most stable experience was 256GB.

The reboot loops are extra nasty, because once they happen, they do at random days of a week and if you don't use your iPod every day it fries your 2200mah battery after a few days of reboot loops... expensive experience ;)
The infantile lashing-out against informative titles here is baffling.
I'm not even convinced they'll make more money clamping down on ad blocking this way. I'd happily pay £1 or £2 a month for no ads, which is still infinitely more than they make out of me now (given I never willingly click on, engage with or otherwise view their or anyone else's ads), but I know a rip-off when I see one and £12.99/month definitely is.
How do the costs of our current dominant model of currency change at scale? Seems to me the cost-per-unit drops as the currency foothold expands, based primarily on existing infrastructure.

Conversely, costs to "mine" bitcoin and similar proof-of-work currencies increase over time, unless I'm mistaken. The infrastructure is already in place, so it seems absolutely bonkers for costs to go up at scale.

Is the argument for bitcoin that in the long run (hundreds of years), with bitcoin the global currency and no longer being mined since it hit the cap, costs will on average be less than bills/coins/credit/cheques?
Like, by you saying what you're saying and if Japan indeed operates in their way, than there's a contradition to the effect that Japan's really being hurt more than helped by it and its one of those "dolphin" areas for them
That remains to be seen. Cannons, lower-cost missiles, or directed energy weapons might end up being more effective at killing drones. This is a rapidly evolving field and I don't think anyone can reliably predict the outcome.

The big problem is target detection. Small quadcopters may be able to track nearby targets, but they lack the sensors needed to detect targets at useful ranges. At a minimum defensive systems will still need large, expensive sensors mounted on ground platforms, aerostats, or larger fixed-wing drones.
This seems great. I Was thinking about pulling mine out and seeing if I could get the battery refurbished. The experience of syncing these with iTunes was fantastic for podcasts.

Unfortunately I remembered that iTunes syncing doesn't work when it's running on Wine, and given how old the product is, I doubt it ever will now. So, that's a shame.

Maybe ReactOS one day.
Well, if that's their rules, it's a choice.

If you pick up a free newspaper on a commmute, or, say, a community "What's on" sponsored by ads, does someone look over your shoulder and insist you read every ad before they let you turn the page?
Keep downvoting facts.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6523211/
I read it as a riff on “monads are just monoids in the category of endofunctors”, but maybe that wasn't intended.
> This got me thinking: would it be possible to craft special texts that would mean one thing in one language, and a totally different thing when machine-translated in another language? That would be quite funny -- or terrifying, depending on the context.

This is the subject of age-old jokes. Here's one that I know off the top of my head, but I'm sure plenty of others have their favorite joke translations.

Rumor is that USA translators first attempt at automatic English to Russian and back to English was the Biblical Phrase: "The Spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" (Jesus's parable about how even if you want to do the right thing, it feels like we act against what we want to do sometimes).

Allegedly, translated into Russian, and back into English, results in:

"The Vodka is Strong but the meat is rotten".
Any society can change the rules at any time. We could go back to don't-ask-don't-tell with a future government, screwing over all of the openly gay service members. Or a future government could repeal the fifth amendment (or expand "civil forfeiture" i.e. theft). Society changing the rules is pulling the rug. It's not like there's somewhere you can go where the rules can't be changed to avoid that risk. The best you can do is... try to minimize how much society is around you so you can be more selective about who you do live around and hope they'll share your values. i.e. avoid density. And stay out of California since they'll make statewide changes to solve city problems.
Well, that's literally the definition of "opportunity cost". So it's expected in any reasonable economic analysis.

I'm not defending proof-of-work cryptocurrencies at all. I'm bringing it up because the culture within the field of economics generally seems to have forgotten to compare alternatives, rather than doing analysis based on some idealized vacuum scenario. Once you're aware of this you will see it everywhere.
"Here's your pirated ad-free YouTube stream, brought to you by Carl's Jr!"
FF, Win, uBo. I got "3 more videos till you'll be blocked" and that was it. "Watched" several more videos, but no more popups, no more nagging.
I feel like they missed an opportunity with eero; that would have been a good way to refresh the airport brand.
It's so easy to make an unambiguous condemnation of sex crimes, as you were asked to do. I think we got the clarification we were looking for. Congrats on being "edgy".
I now somewhat expect to see discussion elsewhere or articles in questionable publications suggesting that the iPod’s sound quality is superior, on the false axiom that so-called vintage sound reproduction devices offer superior audio quality.
Seems like a slap on the wrist.
Cortex X2: Arm Aims High
Makes me wonder about an inflatable balloon antenna for amateur radio. I wonder how hard it would be to do this sort of fabrication (aluminizing the inside of a balloon) as an amateur

Better pictures here https://www.freefallaerospace.com/nasa-balloon/
Or we could build high speed electric rail, and return to slow travel for intercontinental journeys.
This morning while trying to understand laser eye surgery I got an ad for some supplement that's supposed to make my eyesight perfect.

It's not even that they try to sell you a product. They're straight up scamming you.

I'll use an Adblocker.
> How many?

I've trialled mSATA, SDXC and Compact Flash.

16 hours is easily achievable using CF and a "fat" back that fits a 1900mah battery. Rockbox provides a plugin called Battery Bench that allows you to benchmark how long you can continuously listen to music for.

Having recently switched from mSATA to SDXC I am yet to run a benchmark for SD. From recent usage I would guess 12hrs is fairly easily achievable.

EDIT: bwoodward has benched 60hrs of playback with a 5th gen Video and SDXC below.
I'm with nickthegreek: I hate ads, but YouTube saying you can't make use of our service without paying or seeing ads isn't bullying.
completely ineffective, the more you research the more bits of information you realize are leaking off every single thing that makes you unique. your gait, smell, heart-beat (detectable at range), posture etc are all just as identifiable by a computer as your face.
The government funds a large amounts of unprofitable research because some of it may prove valuable. much of it does not prove valuable.

Unlimited funding for all researchers is not a viable option, so discretion is used. Very smart people put effort in to competing and selecting the most promising options.

One could argue that this technology was overlooked initially (although it eventually DID get funded).

What nobody suggests is how this technology should have been discerned from the rest without future knowledge.
> Faculty got a $7,000 stipend to "set up a home office". Staff got ... nothing.

That's a very unusual university. I have never heard of such a thing. During covid, it was common for faculty to take large pay cuts, but not staff. The $7000 you mention is less than my pay was cut. Staff were unaffected.

> They just try to tell Finance "just pay the bill, thanks".

I don't believe this if you are talking about a US university. That's just not how it works.

> And then audits find faculty paying for flights for their partners on the university card... or first class upgrades... or very liquid lunches.

That's why there's no such thing as "just pay the bill, thanks". They don't pay without knowing what it's for. First and foremost, they have to confirm it's legal. After that, they have to confirm they're in compliance with tax laws. I'm not even getting into state laws if it's a public university and all the other potential problems. Paying a bill without knowing what it's for would simply never, ever happen at a US university.
You're trying and that is respectable.
People that do "govore po našem" or speak ours can and do often push their version most suited for their aims. Notice there is no "nas" or us in that version.
Jef Raskin
> Look it up, if you haven't experienced a cable that is a half-inch thick, costs a gazillion dollars, and breaks in about two months.

Change it to 'quarter-inch' and it matches my experience with modern Apple power cords.
Once Mars is settled/colonized/freedom I'm sure political ambivalence will encourage people to rename earthquakes to marsquakes.

An earthquake on Mars very quickly becomes the local Martian government's problem when it is insanely expensive to fix.. and the vocab would follow..
No it wouldn’t have. They sold walkmans new in the US until 2004 and Japan 2010. Cassettes were not retro tech in the early 2000s, especially among the poor. And for recording, cassettes and microcasettes were still common then, digital voice recorders were just starting to supplant them.

Walkmans and discmans had longer lives.
I’m not sure you have any basis for your argument. There are certainly a lot of immigrants in those fields, but absolutely not a vast majority.
> Microsoft thinks newclimate.org is hosting malware

Maybe they are? Not saying intentionally, but perhaps they have been compromised?
You guys just reminded me to recharge mine. The new silver one is USB-C. I think I have another that was lightning.
I worked on one of these Fraud detection systems at Airbnb. Statistically, You are in 1% population with the your usage patterns. For most part, all ML models which are used to detect fraud have to take a trade off between precision/recall - meaning how often they let good guys suffer vs let bad guys in. BUt what most of these systems are missing is the appeal and escape path.
I recently ordered a medium sized table from ikea and the delivery options were a) $20 to receive in 3-5 days, b) $50 to receive on a specific day within a 12 hour window, and c) $80 to get a narrower time window and have the delivery person put the package in a room of your choice.

I'd guess you need a lot of scale to beat a) on cost, but there's probably room to undercut b) or c) on short distance trips.
Protoscience or a mix of abductive and inductive reasoning should not be entirely dismissed because it is not yet deductible. Often the process of "knowing" and developing axiomatic systems comes from first unknowing and grasping, and that doesn't even get into the incompleteness of axiomatic systems. We are refiners, we refine; your diamonds come from the dirt and are the next diamond's dirt.
My sibling comment here is right, businesses are more like people than you are allowing, at least when it comes to protection from government interference.

It's easy to fall into a trap where "business" === "huge rich company", but it's just not that simple.

You say it's a lack of will, but I really don't buy that most people hold your position that anything resembling an exclusive arrangement like we've been talking about should be illegal. Personally I absolutely don't support that sort of blanket rule.
> Every possible human action does not have a punishment or a deterrent applied by those with power.

Since every living member of society has some non-zero amount, it would still be the case that free speech is practically impossible, if you set the bar too low. As the chances of that applying to at least 1 person out of 8 billion is pretty close to 100%.

So then the question is, how high exactly is the bar above zero?
Wow. I wonder if the photo was a deliberate homage.
I think the genocide is a bit more motivating and painful than the poverty line.
I mean, _so is strikebreakers_.
I'm not assuming anything about poster just that Chrome is the largest market share browser and is also spying on it's users.
> OK, then I guess I'll have to take your word for it and dismiss what scientists say.

Or you could try citing them.

You know who doesn't say "it's been scientifically proven that XYZ"? Scientists are who don't say that. What scientists do say is things like "Both the underlying metallicity-specific star formation rate and the metallicity dependence of compact object formation, however, remain poorly understood (Chruślinśka 2022; Chruslinska & Nelemans 2019; Chruślinśka et al. 2023; van Son et al. 2022)". Because they know how to cite sources.

> your entire supply chain from the ore extraction to the recycling of the end-of-life product is clean

Yes, I know, that's what I'm saying we are developing towards.

You heard of metalysis? I know someone who did a PhD there about 15 years back. With enough electricity (see later point), getting metals from their ores isn't a big deal any more. https://metalysis.com/our-technology/#overview

> That's why India and China have been buying Russian fossil fuels like crazy since the war made them cheaper?

No, that's geopolitics.

The maximum pricing scheme that various rich western nations have promoted as a punishment for Russia was specifically chosen to be as annoying as possible to Russia, without interrupting supply. Apparently Russia is losing money on each unit they ship at these prices, but it's just close enough to break-even to stop them from deciding to save money by just closing their oil refineries.

Also, Russia's non-Western export capacity is rather more limited than they'd like, so "buying like crazy" is somewhat of an overstatement.

Also also, oil is useful for many things other than burning.

> but you clearly have no idea what kind of dirty energy powers the reest of the world.

On the contrary, I know exactly how dirty the world is. What you insist on not seeing is the rate of change. (And now I think I understand what you are: you're a status-quo bias personality, you genuinely can't see the situation changing).

What is: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-sou...

How fast PV in particular is changing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_photovoltaics#/media...

Or if you prefer, a log-scale graph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_photovoltaics#/media...

Note the exponential. 19% compound growth at the moment, and this is a historical low. Even assuming it never goes back up, 19% is enough that the 2030s will go from supplying 36% of global electricity at the start of the decade to 200% at the end. As you may be aware, 200% is more than "all of it", which means some combination of the following three things will happen:

(1) we'll use more electricity, e.g. by electrifying things that aren't currently electric like cars and using metalysis instead of furnaces to turn [iron] oxides into [iron] (and etc. for each other element), and/or by powering people who don't currently get power.

(2) electricity will be cheaper

(3) we'll reduce the rate at which we build PV

Also, that's just PV, wind is also getting cheaper and deployment is speeding up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power#/media/File:Wind_en...
Chrome because every time you visit google.com in a non-Chrome browser, it'll blast you with an ad to download Chrome.

Maps because by the time Chrome has pressured you into logging into your Google Account(TM), you've already drank the Kool-Aid (and/or they're pushing it via Google search rich results).
I would try it if you like! Drop me a mail at enos.luxurious788@aleeas.com (real mail alias)
My dad was a professor and would joke that the way a tenure committee made their decision was that they'd print out all your papers, put them in a folder, and then throw it down a stairwell. If your packet made it to the bottom, it would be an easy yes. If it made it halfway down it would be marginal. If it only made it down a few steps it would be a definite no.

There's also the old aphorism that tenure committees can't read, but they can count.
Yup, there are lots of violations: https://noyb.eu/en

And I do think Microsoft has good lawyers and believe they reviewed any activity prior to receiving consent quite carefully.
I have zero problem paying for ad-free... but what I do have a problem with is that I have no ad-free only option. You have no choice but to also pay for their music streaming service for $14 per month when other, subjectively better music services are only $11 per month. They should have an ad-free a la carte option for something like $6 per month.
Just because it's along the lines of what I've been thinking- such drones could have longish lengths of 'fishing wire' trailing them, and perhaps some sort of expansive spiders web, so that their engagement with such drones in a counter drone environment might aid bringing them down by snagging the aggressor's propellor
Hate has nothing to do with a job being a dead-end. A dead-end job just means that there is nowhere to go from there, your progressed as high as you possibly could in it, and staying there won’t help you with your future career elsewhere neither.

Kind of an extreme example, but it illustrates the point well: that one forgotten employee from the infamous reddit thread[0] who got hired, the company had a mismanagement shitshow, and he eventually ended up having no manager and no assignments/work for months. He realized they just forgot about him and continued showing up to work to just play games and relax by himself, all while collecting the paycheck for over a year. IIRC he mentioned enjoying this, but worrying about what could happen if they “unforget” about him. That situation was a classic example of a dead-end job, even though OP was having a good time at first.

P.S. The original threat wasn’t the most popular one, but the follow up to it with how he eventually got found out (about a year after the original post) was massive[1].

0. https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/s/gUfaIZ65QI

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/s/vj71mPNGAw
> Why isn't it possible to represent a program visually?

I'd argue that the visual representation necessarily needs to abstract from the actual code to be useful. From concrete to abstract you can choose from any number of notations, e.g.

- Control Flow Graph
- Data Flow Graph
- Jackson Notation
- State Diagram

etc. etc.
I maybe would buy a new Ford F250 with the 7.3l. Otherwise I'd get a Chevy 2500 if I was in the market for a truck. The F150/1500s just aren't reliable anymore, and they cost as much as a 250/2500.
GPIB takes me back. Labview "programming", test hardware... good times.
It kind of is. The commenter has been working on this formalism for a year or more. I'm sure he will come by with his link for the Discord channel where he discusses with and finds collaborators soon.
> Other tasks that SRE typically does now, generalized automation, provide dev tools and improve dev experience, is being moved to "platform" and teams with those names. I expect it to change significantly.

Yeah, this is my experience, too. "DevOps" (loosely, the trend you describe in the first paragraph) is eating SRE from one end and "Platform" from the other. SRE are basically evolving into "System Engineers" responsible for operating and sometimes developing common infrastructure and its associated tools.

I don't think that's a bad thing at all! Platform engineering is more fun, you're distributing the load of responsibility in a way that's really sensible, and engineers who are directly responsible for tracking regressions, performance, and whatnot ime develop better products.
It's always bugged me that large language models are possible, and yet no one can write a locally available tool that can reflow blocks and arrows to achieve aesthetic beauty. Omnigraffle comes close, but there's nothing available on Linux and Windows is still stuck with Visio.

Now I know folks are going to suggest programmable interfaces like GraphViz and Plantuml, but those are not the same thing.

Why can't there be a tool where I just draw the boxes and arrows, and the tool aligns everything to make it look pretty?
> Trump's war on immigration definitely hurt these groups massively

Sorry what? What policies were implemented that hurt legal immigrant doctors and nurses?

There aren't many illegal alien doctors.
The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding: https://craigmod.com/ridgeline/170/

(iirc this was on HN front-page a day or two ago, which might be why its top of mind)
these are beautiful photos.

they inspire me.

what would be the cheapest way to get into this as a hobby ?
I understand hobbies are expensive but sometimes with minimal time, you wanna reduce costs.
I meant photography skills, clearly most people can strike a match.
I've had no issues with either Chrome or Firefox in Incognito with uBlock Origin. But I do kinda wonder if the fact I have YouTube Premium on one of my accounts in Chrome means Google isn't trying too hard to block my IP/detect adblockers on it.
My theory is that architecture doesn't matter - convolutional, transformer or recurrent, as long as you can efficiently train models of the same size, what counts is the dataset.

Similarly, humans achieve about the same results when they have the same training. Small variations. What matters is not the brain but the education they get.

Of course I am exaggerating a bit, just saying there are a multitude of architectures of brain and neural nets with similar abilities, and the differentiating factor is the data not the model.

For years we have seen hundreds of papers trying to propose sub-quadratic attention. They all failed to get traction, big labs still use almost vanilla transformer. At some point a paper declared "mixing is all you need" (MLP-Mixers) to replace "attention is all you need". Just mixing, the optimiser adapts to what it gets.

If you think about it, maybe language creates a virtual layer where language operations are performed. And this works similarly in humans and AIs. That's why the architecture doesn't matter, because it is running the language-OS on top. Similarly for vision.

I place 90% the merits of AI on language and 10% on the model architecture. Finding intelligence was inevitable, it was hiding in language, that's how we get to be intelligent as well. A human raised without language is even worse than a primitive. Intelligence is encoded in software, not hardware. Our language software has more breadth and depth than any one of us can create or contain.