skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Atmos has put me in an awkward position. I have a proper home cinema setup (AVR, wired separate speakers including the ones that bounce sound off the ceiling) and listening to Atmos music on it is amazing. It's every bit as revolutionary as claimed.

However, I like to own music and that is simply impossible at the moment for most Atmos recordings. I would love to build a library of such recordings, preferably in physical form, and would happily spend quite a lot of money doing so. But Apple Music is basically the only way I can listen to anything.

I can't help but suspect this is entirely deliberate, an attempt to use this innovation to hasten the passing of the concept of owning music into the past.

Sadly, I also worry the move to streaming means an awful lot of music is eventually going to be lost forever.
Vietnam is remarkable in that it's the only one of the four major Sinosphere languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese, aka CJKV) to fully abandon Chinese characters and adopt the Latin alphabet instead. China and Japan both had serious movements to do the same, Japan during the Meiji reformation, China during the Cultural Revolution, but only Vietnam went ahead and did it. Korea forged its own path with their native Hangul writing system, but even there Chinese characters are still occasionally used.
“Then,” said the Alchemist, “we have discovered something surprising. The art of architecture is limited by the human lifespan. The greatest building that can ever be designed is the one that would take seventy years of studying architecture to master; God has drawn a line in the sand forever closing off buildings grander than these.”

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/09/ars-longa-vita-brevis/
Well, i did not write them down, i ordered a recording on fiver and mixed them. Enjoy: https://github.com/PicassoCT/MOSAIC/tree/master/sounds/adver...
> a government that prioritized the desires of industry above all else.

Communist governments simply have to, as starving people tend to revolt.

Free market economies generated enough surplus that they can afford to be clean. Communist economies cannot even feed themselves.
Okay, and a lawyer can easily argue 4/5 of those points if he did indeed "I'll kill you". He's a person in power with the means to find the subjects listed.

I'm not a lawyer but I'm just saying that I can see it being argued based on the phrasing and how far the subjects wanted to escalate this. Whether or not it would be effective or viable is another question.
Do I need multi-touch? I tried grabbing with my mouse and it just wiggled the paper..
Maybe part of it is that there are few enough models of cars that it’s possible to collect reliability data (and people do), and it’s a big enough purchase (and breaking down is annoying enough) that people pay attention to it?
I'm assuming it was as Director that he made most of his back end money.
> Should we prohibit people selling soap?

I mean, there's a good example there with phosphate compounds in detergents.
Do they not work with an ATA (VoIP to POTS adapter)? If not currently, is this a technical matter (can’t work) or an administrative matter (detectable and not permitted)?
Probably. Camp Seco is an old mining town. However, it looks like there's some EBMUD land out there. Would be interesting to see if they could be goaded into maintaining comms infrastructure. Certainly there are going to be some utility employees out there doing whatever.

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.2270377,-120.8562145,3a,90y,...
this is like watching younger developers scoff at jquery not understanding how revolutionary it was at the time.

compare iphone to the mobile of the day and it becomes obvious why it won.
I cannot speak for that fridge as I don't know the energy usage. But the sad fact is that often buying a brand new machine will pay for itself in only 2 or 3 years over a 'free' older fridge or freezer (at least here in the UK).

I have a 'keezer' - a chest freezer I run at fridge temps to store and serve homebrew beer.

Buying a new A+ rated chest freezer cost me £199 but only costs £35 a year to run. A friend scored a free 15 yo freezer from Facebook and it costs just under £100 a year to run. So he saved £200, but now is down £65 a year. It won't take long for my keezer to be significantly cheaper over a 5 year horizon.

I hate to see old tech wasted, but the energy and cost savings can be significant.
By now, making UI with (by now not completely) SPA frameworks specifically made for that task is just better developer experience. I won't go back to pretty much html string concation via templates. Why do people keep pretending it's better in any way is lost on me.
Related: LG Settles Class-Action Lawsuit Over Refrigerator Compressors, https://www.consumerreports.org/lawsuits-settlements/lg-sett...
I have had Miele appliances forever and have been very happy with them. My current fridge, dishwasher and dryer are both almost 20 years old. The fridge has never had anything wrong with it, nor has the dishwasher, the dryer needed a new thermostat which I replaced myself. I opted for the simplest models that Miele make.
Sure, but that's because they can delegate to lower management tiers.

When a ticket reaches your average IT guy, they can't usually delegate it to a lower tier employee unless there are formal support tiers, like L1 and L2, and the ticket was sent to one of the upper layer techs (which usually doesn't happen straight away, because of how L1 and L2 support teams work).

If this is not the case, the only way out is forwarding the issue to another team.
Absolutely every cell phone has the ability to call emergency numbers from a locked device. Even without Sim card.
Once decoded they would be the same file contents - imagine one DAG where the depth is log(n) and it’s a perfectly balance tree, and another where the depth of the left-hand branch is 1, right hand branch contains another subtle with left-hand size 1 etc etc etc.

The leaves are the same in both cases, so the file contents are the same, though the latter is quicker to stream (though not to verify) and the CIDs will be different
Sure, but if you're 100% certain that you will never use their service again that's not such a huge issue. I did the same with a power line on my Canadian property where they kept that line powered up even if I wasn't using the service because we were all on solar and wind. They didn't want to send someone out to take out the road side fuse. I called them and asked them who would be liable if due to their refusal to power down the line someone would get injured and they sent someone out immediately :)

That wasn't a theoretical risk by the way, the first stretch of that line must have been many decades old.

Algoma Power... no love lost between us.
> It is disingenuous to conflate artificial physical and artificial virtual environments. If this is the kind of thinking that is accepted in contemporary discourse without challenge, then it won’t be long before everyone becomes completely subjugated by mediocrity pretending to vanguard.

Why? To either claim.

Also, is it possible to accidentally be disingenuous? I’m happy to be wrong, but I guarantee that I’m not intentionally being disingenuous.

> I would take a mediocre physical couch over a virtual one any day. At least, my buttocks will have some cushion with a real couch.

I don’t really follow. I certainly haven’t suggested replicating a couch in VR. I think it would be just as bad as trying to replicate a couch on a monitor.
Emergency calls must work in locked mode (i think by law). On iphone its two button press and a swipe - def easier than operating a rotary phone from when i was a toddler
If you’re trying to learn about California and San Francisco from Solnit, you are far down the wrong path. My favorite part of that incoherent article was how Solnit takes credit for social movements that ended decades before she moved to San Francisco.

Pure clout chasing by a clueless white feminist.
for the most part, things are much better than they were 10 years ago. you can go to a baseball/football game and your phone works. you can go to a concert and your phone works. a big part of this has been capacity upgrades, protocol upgrades, and a shift from telecom traffic to internet traffic

it has always been difficult to contact emergency services following an earthquake / massive fire. it might actually be more scalable now. and you have more options of who/how to contact
It’s easy to remember about the best software over decades and forget about the not so good software.

I think it’s a bit the same with music. Music didn’t used to be better, but we remember the best music and forget about the forgettable music.
Thank you for your comment and feedback. I can definitely say that I seek no validation from anyone, certainly not from people online. My life and business are well constituted.

Now to answer your criticisms: I did not flesh out those areas you cited because I was mindful of the length of the article. I did not want it to become too long but, regardless, here are your answers >

+ "experimenting with features and pricing": I kept creating different pricing plans, changing prices and moving features between these plans.

+ "it disrupted our business": That is all I was told. They pointed to the multiple price changes but nothing more.

+ "I gleaned invaluable lessons on how to manage clients": This one should be obvious to be honest,,, unless you did not read the article.

These details might make it to the article eventually because I heard that Medium has a certain awesome feature which allows you to edit articles even after publishing.
In CA you can use the lemon law for other stuff. I got the cost of a laptop back that way in small claims court.
On android you can dial emergency lines on a locked phone as well from the lock screen, I suppose iOS has the same function?
You don’t need to be able to unlock the phone home in order to place an emergency call. In an iPhone trying to swipe-unlock will show an “emergency” button, for example.
It could be questioned, why a stainless steel brick needs aero wheel covers at a first place.
Bitcoin (BTC) Surged 3% in the past seven days.
Market uncertainty persists; traders eye a $43,290 breakout or $42,460 breakdown.
Bitcoin (BTC), the largest cryptocurrency, has kept its investors on edge with a stagnant price movement in recent weeks. Currently, experiencing a modest surge of 0.33% in the last twenty-four hours and a 3.16% increase over the past seven days, it has slightly broken the tight trading range between $40,000 and $43,000, now trading at $43,147.48.

Meanwhile, the trading activity of Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) paints a nuanced picture. While ARKB leads in volume, the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) has experienced a decline, hinting at a shifting landscape within the market. The sustained interest in Bitcoin ETFs, however, may counteract the downward pressure on its price if it translates into increased demand for the digital asset.
After about 3 years my washing machine broke - 3 mins on youtube showed me it was likely the carbon brushes - £5 part from ebay. Took 30 mins to fit once they arrived, and I've had to to the do the job twice more, but now approaching 10 years with the same machine still going strong.
There are fewer car models, and people tend to do more research before buying a car than a fridge. That means that if a model gets a reputation for being unreliable, it actually costs the manufacturer lost sales.
I do not consider myself a Luddite, but the more I hear stories like that the more I feel validated in my "do not rely on anything that I can not fix it myself" principle.

We are past the point where you can not buy a "dumb TV" anymore or to do so you need to pay an absurd premium. The next in line are our home appliances. Your fridge, your vacuum cleaner, your clothes iron... everything will be built in a way that makes you dependent on the vendor.

I know it is easy and tempting to blame "late-stage capitalism" and corporations' endless appetite for growth bringing up Planned Obsolescence, but have we really made ourselves so helpless that we are unable to say "no, I refuse to accept this crap you are offering me"?
We bought a new stove about 6 years ago, basically had to get induction stove top because that was all that was available. I bought one of the more expensive ones.

That stove top broke after a couple months, but luckily we're in Denmark where the warranty is a year, and when something gets repaired like that it's also under warranty for a year (actually sometimes more). We got that stove top replaced about every 4-6 months for 4 years until finally they did a good enough job that it lasted. The repairman said yeah sometimes it's just like that, ha ha.

No monetary cost but every few months you can't cook for a week.

Luckily I also bought a portable non-induction stove with two plates which we use whenever the main stove has problems.
Quoting a section of the link you provided:

SEGA HOME STAR EXTRA

This is currently one of the best of the home
planetarium projectors, unfortunately it is SOLD OUT. The field of view is the
largest available, the optics are excellent and available features are numerous.
One of the nicest features is the random shooting star which is very effective.
You can set the time and date for your night time viewing. There are three
rotational speeds. The rotation is done by direct gearing and is silent. Brightness is excellent and the stars have sharp detail. The discs have a 120,000 star count. We have taken this machine completely apart and the engineering is
excellent.
> all make some no-frills models that can save both money and frustration

Actually, those features seem to have become so common that they don't seem to command a price premium anymore. My washing machine was the cheapest that ticked all the boxes I wanted (most importantly size), and it still has some kind of wifi thingy. Ditto for my dishwasher.

They both work perfectly well without any connection to anything, and not once have they even tried to get me to connect them.

For the washing machine, a notification that it's done can be useful. I usually do laundry while I'm either working or playing some game, so 9 out of 10 times I won't hear that it's done and forget to take the clothes out. Now I've taken the habit of setting an alarm to check on it after the estimated time is up.

For the dishwasher, I really don't care. The dishes can stay there until I need them.
Experimenting with Diffusion Models
This is a very poor and inaccurate "translation". Papers from math and physics are hard to understand not because of specific choice of "terms and notation" but because of actual concepts they are based on. Terms and notation actually make it easier to understand, compressing pages of words into a single symbol. Without these the best you get is quanta article, where you can get a vague feeling of what is being done, but no actual understanding.

If you talk about a modern city with a hunter gatherer, how many words would you have to explain? Do these words exist because modern life is "like a religion" and hunter gatherer is not "indoctrinated"?
> You literally have a redirect() in next.js routing you to another URL

I was not accurate enough. In Django you can just pass your database entity to redirect(). Since you can define directly in the models how to resolve their "Read" (as in cRud), you don’t need to build the URL each time you want to redirect.

As for the forms framework, I never implied that you can’t do this with others frameworks. As I said, I didn’t touch Django for a decade and I did mostly Typescript development for the last 6 years so I pretty much know that you can build an app with it and that there are a lot of good libs for this.

My point is not that you can’t do everything with it and that you can do more with Django, I’d even say it’s the contrary. However, if what you want to build is a classic website without a lot of real-time interaction, Django allows you to build it with way way less lines of code (and I’m not even talking about that entire cool admin you get for totally free).
About 8 years ago I got my kitchen redone and went all in on IKEA, mostly because others had horrible waiting times. Now remember it's 8 years later so I don't know how much their stuff changed over time but here's how my stuff is doing:

Fridge: still working perfectly, light, temp control, auto-defrost, fans. I think the compressor got a bit louder but that's it.

Dishwasher: still working fine, the upper basket (or whatever that's called) and its rails show some wear ie tilting downward when pulled out. Sometimes the drainage pump sounds a little strange, maybe something's stuck in there.

Stove: induction, still working fine. Unfortunately all the models they had available had touch buttons on top, probably to make it appear modern. They don't work when your finger is wet or greasy, and the whole stove turns off when water spills on any of the buttons and it starts beeping like crazy. For some funny reason, the stove stopped making beeping noises on button presses. I guess when you don't have real buttons you want this as some form of feedback that the press registered, but the beep sounded really cheap like a square wave. It still beeps when you turn it on or off, and when there's water on the buttons.

Oven: working apart from the bottom heating element. It broke about 3 to 4 years ago. Never bothered to replace it, just using hot air mode now.

They all look like simple no-bells-and-whistles appliances, but also not sturdy. I think in all cases I picked one of the cheapest options.

Bonus nerd stuff on the stove: when the beeping-on-button-press still worked, very rarely one of two things happened: a) a button press registered, but no beep was emitted. b) a beep was emitted but nothing happened. I was suspecting that there's something going on like two completely independent sets of wires going to all the buttons, one for actual functionality, the other one just for beeps, like it was bolted on later by a different department or even company. Maybe the original design had it just beep on power on/off and they wired this in after the fact.
> increasing normalization of sociopathy

I think this is the case and appears in many shapes.

* libertarians lift their individual freedom above societal needs but they fail to see their own dependence on them, like any public services funded by taxes.

* Crypto bros advertise new "currencies" but use them as volatile investments or foster such expectations. With this volatility it will never become a fully stable currency. There is a common wisdom in traditional trading that you dont do arbitrage / speculate on real currencies because of their _intended_ stability. Another failed realization (because of personal gain attached to it).

* Right leaning people argue against criminal migrants but discriminate not by commited crimes but simply foreignness. Their percieved superior cultural identity is their solution to internal cultural problems but they fail to realize how criminal sociotopes emerge and that its independent of ethnicity.

I could go on if i had time.
Quite literally everything is exposed to the OS. It can't really be any other way. If it weren't exposed to the OS, then you can't access it either.

Any protection mechanism you're imagining is managed by the OS. You trust it to enforce file permissions, to enforce memory isolation, to prevent a rogue program from snooping on data as it's unencrypted. You can't hide these things from the OS because the OS is the only thing that can hide data.

The OS has full, unrestricted control of the hardware at a level much deeper than you do. The OS can just read your encrypted data from 'secure' memory. It has to be, otherwise you couldn't read it. The OS can access any file because it has block level access to all drives.

And there's not one single thing you can do about it. There's absolutely nothing stopping your OS from spying on you in this way.

Unless you use an open source OS which can be proven to not do bad things.
Good thing you have that power to make you feel good huh
How to Onboard
My daily meditation: “Now when we fought you had the eye of the tiger, man—the edge—and now you’ve got to get it back, and the way to get it back is to go back to the beginning, you know what I mean?”

RIP Carl.
I love pinball because its a fun activity you do in person together with friends!

Akin to other physicall media that you do things together.
For those curious about what the original Spectrum ROM looked like: https://skoolkit.ca/disassemblies/rom/maps/all.html

(The tool used to generate this, https://github.com/skoolkid/skoolkit, is absolutely amazing and still sees regular updates)
This says more about you than anyone else.

The rudest people I know aren't even trying to be rude, their communication style just is what it is. Once you realize this you just let it slide off your back and suddenly you're able to get along with them just fine.

A lot of people run around proclaiming how good they are at communicating but if they were really that good they'd be able to effectively communicate with others who are not like them.
Yeah the backlash against SPAs doesn’t make any sense. Server side rendering is fine for documentation etc. but full applications don’t want to be simulated on a server, client-server makes complete sense.
Reddit is the most astroturfed website on the planet. Be extremely critical of anything you read there. A sub like that is especially fertile.
Yes gps bracelets have been a thing for years
$ dig A videolan.org @1.1.1.1

; <<>> DiG 9.11.5-P4-5.1+deb10u9-Debian <<>> A videolan.org @1.1.1.1
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 33078
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;videolan.org. IN A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
org. 3391 IN SOA a0.org.afilias-nst.info. hostmaster.donuts.email. 1706948732 7200 900 1209600 3600

;; Query time: 5 msec
;; SERVER: 1.1.1.1#53(1.1.1.1)
;; WHEN: Sat Feb 03 10:38:01 EET 2024
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 123
Of course we can never be sure, but more sources and reasonable analyses point to the US rather than Russia. Russia had way more to lose from such an action, while the US would force alignment by doing so, even if it was at the risk of the lives and livelihood of their allies (EU).
Someone clearly understands what open source is about. It's a pet peeve of mine when devs pick permissive licenses and then act all appalled when it's inevitably not taken as do-no-evil copyleft.

If you have expectations, spell them out! We are not mind readers, different people and projects happen in very different contexts and backgrounds. Assuming or even worse, asserting, that there are some common principles or standards beyond whats written down is just narrowminded and maybe even hypocritical.
When Computer Memory Was Handwoven by Women
So gemini?
Fridge/freezer one is handy for temperature and door open alarms
Is there a way to use bing chat from Firefox yet?
Can you point me to substantial evidence that corporations side with their customers or employees when doing so is in conflict with their bottom line?

I can point to examples that validate my point.

1. Facebook: https://apnews.com/article/facebook-whistleblower-frances-ha...

2. Apple: https://www.ifixit.com/News/82493/we-are-retroactively-dropp...

3. Youtube: adding more and more advertisements to each video even after they became profitable

4. Purdue Pharma and Pharma in general: The opioid crisis in the US

5. Volkswagen: Dieselgate

I can list many more, but I think you see a pattern.
Nope: https://www.lefigaro.fr/langue-francaise/actu-des-mots/2018/...
This is a feature that totally removes any sense of professional work, imagine trying to use pictures captured by a Samsung with a AI generated moon in it for a legal scenario.