skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or you can actually explain the feature to users and let them choose and users can learn.

On my Lenovo laptop I have a toggle I can switch any time between battery saver mode(stay at 80%) and fast charging mode (charge asap to 100%).

If when designing products you never even let users choose to learn, you guarantee you will have a stupid user base. Stop endorsing stupidity.
Open-Source 4WD AI Robot Kit Compatible with Raspberry Pi
On Linux you can set this in /sys/class/power_supply/BAT?/charge_{stop,start}_threshold – you can read and write a percentage (1-100) to there. You'll have to set it on every boot.

I assume there's some way to do this in Windows as well, but I don't know it.
There’s custom firmware for Oppo blu-ray players to dump the raw DSD over Ethernet to a listening PC.
Hello, I’ve created a tool to view and search macOS processes, open files etc. It’s free, feel free to try it. Feedback appreciated!
I have a significant amount of driving for my agricultural job, (generally with a 20-45 minutes chunk of uninterrupted driving), so that’s how I generally enjoy my music. I can’t really think and enjoy/listen to most music at the same time, so I don’t generally let it be background noise while actually doing things.

Currently I’m adding “Weedian” compilation albums as each as it’s own playlist in the bandcamp app. I then listen through it a few times, aggressively pruning away individual songs I’m not really into. This makes it easy to come up with a much shorter list of decent songs, and uncover a few rare gems to subsequently look further into.

While a simple enough concept, removing the need to remember what I’ve liked has been a huge improvement.
Those 32 mSEK is the turnover, not profits. The profits are a mere 27 mSEK.[1] And he runs two more companies[2][3] that made another 21 mSEK.

[1]: https://www.allabolag.se/5569664575/j-pipe-productions-ab

[2]: https://www.allabolag.se/5566338496/j-pipe-music-ab

[3]: https://www.allabolag.se/5593406852/j-pipe-holding-ab
> Buyers need to factor in the chance that their car becomes worthless when China starts a war to conquest Taiwan, as that might prompt for accelerated decoupling and sanctions, leaving owners of Chinese cars on a dead end.

Worthless how? Cars aren't phones yet. You still own them even if you can't contact the manufacturer any more.
> Starbucks cards are your friends

like, how? are you straight up bribing people with coffee for security favors? or is it like, "hey man, thanks for helping me out I'd like to buy you a coffee but I'm busy with secret consulting stuff - here's a gift card"

Is this something that only works for short lived external consultant interactions?
Then submodules enter the picture. I’m comfortable with reflog, but haven’t fully grokked submodules yet, easier to reclone.
Try finding a laptop that can limit maximum charge level in bios, eg lenovo or dell.
It had, but they are all dead until ported to the new kde 6.

https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth/issues/471#issuecom...

This is what I used. I found no good replacement for it and that is what made me switch to hyprland.
Yeah definitely. I used to work for an AI hardware company that only sold $150k systems to "POA" customers. I think part of the reason they didn't do very well is it was completely inaccessible to normal people.
I do this with my phones. Notification pops up at 80% and I unplug it if I see it. If not oh well

Hard to tell if it max a difference but judging by battery health stats others are reporting I’d say yes.

Would be nice if device had a built in way to cap it for daily use and only go to 100% if travelling etc. I’m rarely away from a power socket day to day anyway
Isn't that basically what many authors do? Many authors are afraid of diluting their brand so when they write books in a different genre or style they create a new pen name to keep the works distinct from their main name. For example Stephen King used to write additional books under the name of Richard Bachman, before that identity was linked to him, and the late Samuel Youd used to write under a half-dozen names, most famously as John Christopher (of Tripods and No Blade of Grass fame).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bachman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Christopher
Thanks, that's exactly what I was missing. I don't know what heuristic Apple's magical 80% charging setting uses but it does absolutely nothing for me, all I wanted is a checkbox for a limit but that's not "smart" and unpredictable enough I guess.
Musicians leaving streaming services because they are annoyed by the app/UI/algorithm, then, later on, wondering where did all the royalties disappear?!? If we all agreed that one individual song playback is worth half a penny, then, streaming is the only way to go. The only way to distribute royalties per real-world usage. The fact that people are using Spotify to discover music has nothing to do with using a streaming service to record and playback music (building your personal playlists). I tried them all and I left Spotify many years ago, and I understand fully how easy it is to build your own (pirated) music library, but I still hang on to Tidal as I really, really want to send my half-a-penny worth of payment to the artist I listen to. Simple as that. Apply the golden rule, and you'll realize that streaming services are the only way to go. Now, wether or not are streaming services being fair and paying their royalties to whomever deserves them down to the last penny - that's a discussion for governments/regulators/lawyers.
The article's advice isn't the best. It's better to not cycle your battery whenever possible. Set your battery up to only charge when bellow a certain threshold (I do 70%) lower than the max charge (I have it set to 80%). This optimises for not over straining the battery (by not going to 100%) and it reducing cycles to a minimum for my everyday use only travelling between (desk) locations. I set this up through the power manager of KDE, without much effort. I expect this to be available to most Linux distributions and moderately modern laptops. I think I could also set this up on Mac OS when I was using that in the recent past (and I think it comes with something similar out of the box, but less conservative).
if you want more than just an autopilot I have a almost all 747 400 systems modelled in lua open sourced for xplane 12 at

https://github.com/mSparks43/747-400

CBTs linked in an issues milestone.
iOS too, most of android phones too, etc.
And well, most of PCs too… https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/use-smart-chargi...
Back in the 80's I was a huge vinyl collector of the new music scene (all the punk, industrial, and what became new age) with about 5000 albums. Of course, they got destroyed in storage. Huge loss, many unique pressings where obscure bands could only press 50 copies, like early Foetus / Lydia Lunch experiments.

When Napster came out, I managed to collect around 87 gigs worth of obscure music very similar to my old collection. Over the years I've added another 40 gigs of hip hop and more recent new music, but that original 87 gigs of the 70's Art Rock, the original punks, original industrial and new wave and then all the fantastic rug cutting Jazz classics... who needs anything new, that originates as a very watered down derivative?
I disagree. 2022 mbp. Always plugged in... 5 charge cycles in total.

It seldom charges while plugged in. Even when down to 80% it alerts me it's not charging because I seldom use the battery.

Apple could change this behaviour silently and mess it up but for now it's perfect for my needs.
The Business of Betrayal
Let's start calling "enshitication" what it really is. Timeless old
words have power.
Radio Paradise [0] is great. What about occasionally listening to it?

I usually listen to my local playlist in my day to day life and Radio Paradise is not exactly to my taste, but I occasionally like it as background music when receiving people. It's less random than my playlist, and I trust it to play good music. And if the music is bad, it's the radio's fault :-)

You could also rip it and listen to it, skipping songs you don't like. That's allowed after their FAQ if you don't split by songs, and I'm no one to advise you do split.

For more "commercial" music (Top 40 stuff), since you mentioned it: I used to listen to Fréquence 3 [1] all day. French webradio, but it's just music, and ad free. But as top 40 turned more R&B, I became less interested (it's not a criticism, I just don't enjoy it). Maybe it's just a period, I haven't checked what it's like currently. But I have the same issue as you, I have not updated my playlist as often as I would like since then.

There's also La Grosse Radio [2] which is nice. Also ad free and just music, mostly, IIRC.

[0] https://www.radioparadise.com/ (putting the link for people who don't know it, worth trying! It's ad free, supported by donations. It's a US radio but you don't need to be American to like it)

[1] https://www.frequence3.com/

[2] https://www.lagrosseradio.com/
The Cortex X-4 inside is clock per clock as fast as Apple A15. Which in my book is reaching the point of Good Enough.

It is also surprising ( or not ) that Qualcomm is releasing this mostly due to pressure from Mediatek. It you had believe 99% of what the internet [1], HN, Reddit wrote over the years you would have thought Qualcomm has a monopoly in the market.

[1] So much hate towards Qualcomm now and over the years, from many influencers ( VCs, Founders, PL's BDFL, Full Stack Framework's Creator, Front End JS's creator ) on Social Media bashing them for unwilling to compete with Apple, no need to compete inside the Android ecosystem because they have a monopoly. Or simply in capable of ever competing because they are 5 years behind Apple and by the time they catch up Apple will be 5 years ahead.
You could achieve the same thing with gmail’s scheduled email. Or you could give your emails to a company based in the Caymans.
I’m pretty sure it goes well beyond ADHD.
In lieu of a real answer, here's more HN conjecture:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30740509
Surprisingly when things become heavy enough the ground by itself isn't enough anymore and you start needing supports for heavy things
Rethinking the Use of AI Images
What does using AI images say about a site? They're fun and
convenient, and a great "modern aesthetic". But are they sending other
messages? We had a serious rethink.
As an Apple Watch user, I find this very funny, because data transfer between an iPhone and an Apple Watch is pretty bad too. In no small ways because of Apple insistence on slow wireless solutions with custom opaque APIs.

So, Garmin may be bad but at least they are a lot cheaper and work with more things. At any given price point, they are a lot better as sports watches too.

Anyway, I stopped caring because there is no real compelling use case for a smartwatch, my next one will be a sport watch from Garmin or another competitor. Problem solved.
Are we all trapped in The Matrix 25 years later?
I don't know if it was just because I saw the potential loss of owner ship when streaming came along or if my inner Stallman was stronger than I anticipated, but I never engaged with any of these streaming platforms. I saw things like the (DRM Free) iTunes music store as the best middle ground between analog owner ship and digital convenience.

It is still CD's and DRM free downloads. I have a Sony NW-E394 walkman as my portable player. Is it as convienent? Not really but I have a bit more control. Also FOMO isn't really something I have much of. Sometimes it can be JOMO (Joy Of Missing Out). I usually discover stuff via local radio or TV. You know it is past midnight when Rage comes on (Australian music program).

Works for me, might not for you.
What is the dead mans switch guy dies?
One of the values is followed by "based on the mass of sulfur" so I guess this applies across all of the numbers in the article with the suffix. So Watt-hours per kilogram of sulphur.
Climatic-Aware Terrain Generation with Geological Sketch Guidance
Many of the things you're claiming haven't been established. It's hard to find a reduction in street violence when prohibition itself is a primary cause of gang wars and a major funding source for violent criminal organizations. The productivity claims are questionable at best. Amphetamine, for example, quite often on the prohibition hit list and banned in several countries, is sold in the US under the brand name Adderall and is typically not associated with reduced productivity. Conversely, cannabis does have a reputation for reducing productivity, but it can also be used for pain management and in that context do the opposite. Cocain is a little of both.

It's obvious that what's needed here is for people to use drugs responsibly rather than in excess, which is an education problem rather than a law enforcement problem.
Used the Java version (https://failsafe.dev/) of this library a few times. It's been around for a number of years. Works great!

Glad to see a Go version.
https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/...

TSA is supposed to let it through if it's below 0.3 D9-THC

GCMS will detect THCA if derivatized - https://www.cannabissciencetech.com/view/a-brief-review-of-d... - I find it hard to believe that you couldn't get a non-derivatized GCMS thrown out in court when it's known that GCMS will cause THCA to decarboxolate into THC.

I suppose I should stipulate I'm not a lawyer and there are obvious risks to possessing something that looks exactly like an illegal product.
Which isn't a solution, I just want a toggle so I know it works. I don't want to train some hidden logic so it correctly guesses what I want based on what someone on the other side of the planet assumed my usage pattern looks like.
They're not pretending otherwise. :)
Another anecdote:

- 2012 MBP used by my parents, almost always plugged in. Battery died last year. Forgot the cycle count but it shocked me by how low it was. This was before they implemented the feature where it stops charging at 80%.

- 2015 MBP used by me, mostly plugged in for the first few years, then afterwards always on battery, at least one charge/discharge cycle every day (often more than one). Battery died 2 years ago (and was 3 years younger). Cycle count was something crazy like ~2000.

If your laptop is near power, plug it in.
Exactly. Listeners expect an artist to stay in their lane. A cross-genre artist would be wildly unpopular. Think of a guy releasing both country and hip hop music: he would be disliked by both listeners.
I made an extra backup ahead of tonight's space weather
NOAA says civilians have no reason for concern. I'm following the
space weather centre and indeed it looks like nothing to worry about
this time. However, I couldn't resist putting some old, precious
drives into the biscuit tin. Anyone else take extra precautions in
solar weather?
i logged in with Google, you can see some examples but you can't test without paying 5$ for 30 credits.
I'll have to look it up, but there was an unauthenticated exploit against the control plane a while ago. Probably https://blog.appsecco.com/analysing-and-exploiting-kubernete... CVE-2018–1002105
Because it's more than just some movie files.

I think most media servers also have an operating system, software to transcode and serve the media files. You will also want a client to be able to read the served content and your server needs to stay up to date with the client.
> I've always wondered if that wasn't a symptom of some kind of infiltration of the drug cartel into the movie industry. Holywood is now basically routinely showing ads for hard drugs.

That would make perfect sense. I'm sure they are ready to pay a lot more than Coca-Cola for a product placement..
I sometimes get nostalgic and romanticize the old days of downloading mp3s and manually labelling metadata (trying to identify genres was a lot of fun), but man did device syncing get tedious. Spotify just makes discovering/listening to music so dang easy - perhaps too easy, which I get is the point of the article. Overall I relate to it a lot.
BinaryLang (for Nim) has similar features[1]. I've written a very compact ELF parser with it[2]. Notice that the last struct has array elements that skip over content based on offsets specified in the header.

[1] https://github.com/sealmove/binarylang

[2] https://github.com/khaledh/elfdump/blob/master/elfparse.nim
I have tried to organize album clubs where you take turns suggesting an album per week among a group of friends. I think this is a great way to discover music.

Unfortunately after about a year people lost interest and the club self died. I been trying to find similar things online but it appears that album clubs are not a thing?
It's true. It's hard to see how Intel can catch up to Apple and AMD in the client and server space respectively.

However, I still own a substantial amount of Intel stocks because it will be one of the most valuable company in the world if China uses military action against Taiwan. If not, then I still believe Intel will be successful with their IFS strategy because the world is about to enter an era where compute will never be enough and designers want a second supplier next to TSMC.
I’ve never read the book nor seen this talk, but somehow I’ve heard about the paradox through the grapevine. It just seems like one of those ideas that should be obvious once you hear about it.
It’s worded a little weird there, but it’s not untrue. Laptops with high TDP CPUs and/or discrete GPUs will often perform significantly worse on battery, either by default or always.

It’s why whenever a new M-series chip launches, Apple makes sure to highlight how it performs every bit the same on battery as while charging.
The article doesn’t explain why but guesses.
They have had an amd clone chip for a while now... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygon_Information_Technology

Also whether loongarch is any good is anyone's guess.
Thanks. But as someone who isn't familiar with Oxide, this was not clear to me at all. The "Just Cloud" threw me off and I was reminded of shuttle.rs which also advertises easy deployment of (Rust) services. I could not see that this was supposed to be about on-premise hardware.
I keep forgetting the military angle. Again a pessimistic take but when I see things like SpaceX saying point to point travel to anywhere in the world in 30 minutes - maybe the message should be 30 minutes point to point explosive payload.
what a load of crap. every sentence is bullshit.
He is an example of the current tech mindset. We praise and elevate anyone who makes money. Their genius is in proportion to their wealth. Suggesting they may not be smart, or brilliant, is heresy.

Meanwhile those people believe their own hype and start to share their “insights” in areas far outside any expertise they may have.

Many have very little formal education and haven’t read the books or considered the ideas an average undergraduate has. Due to their success and power almost none are used to having their ideas challenged.

This is exacerbated by the fact they tend to come from backgrounds which made their success much more likely (wealth, support, developed nations, a familial history of education etc) which means they see certain political opinions as “the truth” or “reality” because they aren’t aware of how they affect the world for people outside their bubble.

Sachs is the poster boy, along with Musk, of this. Both born in apartheid South Africa. Both determined to suggest that has no bearing on their worldview.
Ooh, thanks for this. There's a similar plugin for Decky on Steam Deck too, in case any SD users are reading this.
Whether you think music streaming in its current form is a net good or bad for humanity, consider not supporting Spotify the company. From the very start, they're nothing but grifters.

Daniel Ek has his background in ads, SEO and related stuff –basically every possible way to make a buck using this newfangled internet thing – including selling virtual clothes for virtual dolls to kids age 9-17.

The teaming up with Martin Lorentzon was never about music, but simply finding an untapped market, a niche in which to apply their particular set of skills of hawking stuff online. They teamed up with the guy behind µTorrent and eventually convinced the major labels to buy into the idea (by getting a cut). The idea that they are on the side the art form, let alone artists, is pure mythogenesis to serve their brand.

Recently, music hasn't been enough to feed the growth. They want to colonize podcasts, an open ecosystem, and have put billions of dollars into investments and deals locking popular podcasts onto their platforms. They now intend to do the same with audio books.

Spotify has from the very start had an incestuous relationship with labels and various middlemen. It was never a fair game, they make special deals whenever it serves their purpose (driving the price down). Everyone involved is guaranteed to make a cut before the artist, and the entire ecosystem is built upon the idea that the less they pay out to the artist, the better their numbers look. Nowadays they don't even pay out anything at all unless you have 1000 streams, which just happens to be about two thirds of the catalogue. Is it in their best interest to keep songs with 500 streams from getting more streams, or not?

Why would they care about money laundering, or legitimate artists having their entire body of work deleted by a middleman because someone maliciously sent a bot their way?[1] The cheaper they can amass content, the better. Hence these backroom deals with what are basically content farms. What the featured article describes is not only sanctioned, it's the entire strategy going forward.

Once generative AI comes further along, what their algorithm will push will continue to be what serves their bottom line, i.e. the cheap stuff. You'll soon see the audio book equivalent of Johan Röhr, churning out thousands of books, narrated in real time by a non-human voice, algorithmically pushing out authentic works from all the lists.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVY7-Ti77UQ
Yes, even if you want to use autofocus. I don't really like posting product links, but you can google it. Maybe at some point in your past you were personally not able to find such a product and make a purchase and that may have shaped your ideas of the situation. Also they keep making new connector types to keep this arms race going. As I said, the law takes a dim view of such shenanigans and certainly protects interoperability.
If you're under the impression that your average musician gets any significant money on streaming, this is not so.

I know a lot of professional musicians who make a living from their craft. Their income sources are touring, Patreon (or the like), Bandcamp, and then streaming.

Oh, people at the top rake in big bucks, but most of the money that streaming distributes comes from people who play music all day long based on recommendations, or tags.

I met one person who makes a living on Spotify. He has literally thousands of tracks labelled "smooth jazz" and makes a steady income entirely from people who type "smooth jazz" into Spotify and then leave the program running. He isn't ripping anyone off - his tracks are unmemorable but competent and fit the bill. But this isn't really doable for people who think of their music as creation and not a commodity.

If I like an artist, I buy their tracks outright, often on Bandcamp. Quite often I buy their whole catalogue. Thing is, if I buy a $10, 10-track album on Bandcamp, the musician gets between $8.50 and $10, almost immediately. But if I play that same album 10 times on Spotify, they get $0.30, eventually. I'd have to play that album 300 times to get the same payout to the artist, and it's extremely rare for me to play albums that often, and never in one year.
hmm... if you trigger other actions with these emails you are halfway into the plot of "Deamon" by Daniel Suarez ;)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(novel)
A system where musicians are not adequately compensated will always be more attractive to the listener.