skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is especially true with the current wave of upscaled 4k releases that are, frankly - awful. Eventually, these will be the only versions we have access to on streaming platforms, but someone will have the original Blu-ray remux or DVD rip on their Plex server.
I rarely see it mentioned when discussing old file sharing programs, but I thought DC++ was the best. With the right hubs you could find anything you wanted, you could download parts of a file from multiple peers, you could browse a user's shared files to find new stuff, we had a server in our university network that RIAA/MPAA could find, there was a chat for each server, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC%2B%2B
I think the big lie is that wellness companies, doctors, and sleep widget salespeople claim that you can improve your sleep with blackout curtains, less screen time, exercise, fancy tech, and a host of other strategies. But this article is saying that being healthier and richer improve your sleep more dramatically, and those are things that are not directly in your control.
I think it would be the best if everyone was forced to live in a flat, which size is determined by the number of people living in that Appartement. It is cool for you that your house is valued at 1 million; that proves my point even more. A house shouldn‘t be an Investment, but your education.
eBay and Amazon.

Where do you think fuckboy666 gets his stock of deodorant and drills from?
You think you’re being clever (Oh ho! I’ll include the two MAX 8 crashes and show him!) but surely if you actually cared about the actual safety of flying today you’d want to exclude issues with a system that’s been fixed. If we were having this discussion in 2018 or 2019 you’d have a point. We aren’t. You don’t.

Instead you’re being driven by your gut and what you want to feel is true. No, sorry, air travel is wildly safer than essentially every other form of transportation available to you by essentially every single metric. The majority of even serious aircraft accidents are survived by the majority of occupants.

Hell, a Boeing crashed at SFO a few years back. It landed short of the runway and cartwheeled. Two people died from the crash because they hadn’t been wearing seat belts. A landing Airbus in Tokyo sliced through a coast guard plane just the other month. The coast guard plane was fucked, but zero people died aboard the passenger jet. This is the norm for commercial aviation accidents.

These aren’t the incidents that come to mind for you and that’s understandable. But it is wrong.
That sounds much better, thanks for the effort.
You seem to think that a ship can't pull into a different port in a different country on the way back to China.
I'm a native too, though I've lived more in the "greater Phoenix area" than only Phoenix.

It is comically true how we tend to live in AC bubbles. On one hand, I completely understand. When the heat is so heavy that you can walk outside for 15 seconds, come back inside, and only then start sweating... I can't fault people for avoiding it as much as possible.

Growing up, I'd always shivver during the summer and sweat during winter. Places like schools and stores will blast their AC constantly so the entire building is the opposite of the temperature outside. Often I'll wear layers to get around it, putting on up to three shirts when going indoors for a longer period of time.

When I worked in construction for a year I learned how to safely work in 110°F heat. After that, I tried really hard to not adapt back to the colder weather, which is kind of hard when where I'm working requires me to bundle up during the summer as if it's winter because they keep it as cold as they can.

I love the state too.
As far as I can tell, this is an aspect of language which people merely pretend to have problems with, out of pedantry, rather than a barrier to understanding in any possible case.

Everyone understands that if A is 2x faster than B, then B is 2x slower than A. If you say either of these things to someone with a basic grasp of sums, and then tell them A takes one second, they'll know that B takes two seconds. It doesn't matter which one you supply. No one would get this wrong.
Where is the recourse when your financial advisor loses your money, your lawyer loses your case, and your surgeon loses your life? Happens all too often because there literally isn’t any recourse.
Par for the course.

China as we (the world) knows it is only about 60 years old. This is more true as they go about systematically destroying their own history and forcing village traditions to be stamped out and guided towards the city life.

Losing a blip of internet history during the regime of mass censorship is probably a blessing in disguise.
As a mother, I completely understand the struggle of finding engaging and meaningful bedtime stories for our kids. I've had similar experiences with AI-generated stories where they tend to skip over the important parts and lack real dialogue. One thing that has really helped my family is using a site called Lionheart Storyz (https://lionheartstoryz.com). It's a free resource with therapeutic enchanted stories that have been incredibly beneficial for my child. The stories are designed to help kids open up about their feelings and navigate various challenges. My husband and I have found it to be a wonderful tool, and the fact that it's free is just the cherry on top. Highly recommend giving it a try if you're looking for something more substantial and engaging for your little ones!
Melex!
Yep; there may be a lack of incentive to preserve old sites, but what's worse are the ranking algorithms that prevent their discoverability in the first place.
I don't trust any legacy media they tend to be very biassed with very click bait titles
>> some person with every album available in high quality lossless FLAC

> nah. WhatCD’s full catalogue has never been recovered.

The loss of WhatCD's torrent database didn't wipe out anyone's library.
Show HN: A Firefox extension which removes subreddit styles on Old Reddit
That was awesome. You would think of an song and right there you could download it, even more obscure stuff. Information right at your fingertips or something like that.
The i3 was released in 2013 and the MX-30 in 2020 but with similar specs. Cheaper to build though.

The i3 is a fun rear wheel drive car and the mx-30 is an old ICE adapted front wheel drive. Many people don’t care but car enthusiasts do.

The i3 was a carbon fiber body on an aluminium frame with plastic body panels, with an unique interior and choice of materials. The MX-30 is a bit boring.

But the MX-30 kept the annoying doors and the failed hybrid concept.

I think the MX-30 arrived too late for its specs.
How much sunlight is enough?
> We should be automating hard labor so we can focus on art and human interaction

We have being doing that for over 100 years now. Look at industrial productivity per worker, it skyrocketed throughout the 20th century. It has plateaued only because all the low and medium hanging fruit was long ago picked and now engineers are busy doing incremental improvements.

I am genuinely curious what sacrifices would have to be made of we went with a fully automated community, from growing food to putting it on store shelves, to running the store, cleaning it, everything. Obviously not all foods are possible to automate end to end, but I wonder how far we could go.
Simple Trackpad Haptic Feedback on Mac
I'm trying to communicate to you that drinking alcohol before exercise is irrational behaviour and doesn't deserve the effort you put into defending it.
In between the bandwidth getting better and the content getting shittier :) Which is what, 2008-2016?
When people wrongly claim keto is a new “fad diet” you don’t know why people would point out that it’s been around for over 100 years highlighting there are ample subjects that had adhered to it their entire lives from childhood?

Are there many diets that have lifelong adherents over their lifetimes over the last 100 years from the general population that have been studied?
They have an internal IceCast server with all of it.
I don't think discussion will be productive if we're not capable of temporarily setting aside emotion.
Ask HN: How can an average developer improve their skills?
Hi HN!

I've been working as a frontend developer for more than 7 years. During that period, 80% of my tasks were easy or easy+ problems, while the other 20% were medium-level problems that took a lot of time. As a result, I sometimes fear that I am not prepared for hard problems and have missed the fundamentals of how to work through and build large systems from scratch.

So, I am at the beginning of my journey to become a better developer.

What book, set of articles, or YouTube series would you recommend as a first step in my learning?
> Every one of these deaths is on the head of the government of California. The one and only reason people crowd into Phoenix is because they are fleeing the housing supply crisis of temperate coastal cities that should be 2-10x bigger than they are.

Imagine thinking the only reason people opt to live in Arizona over California were lack of housing supply. Not one iota to do with flag colors.
>It isn't a good example here, it is just full of young people who love to exercise, of course they are healthier!

Same how some Eastern European countries like Czechia top alcohol consumption per capita charts, when the numbers are pushed up by tourists going there to get shitfaced.

Touristic cities that attract a lot of people for one thing or the other should just be excluded from some statistics.
Topic logger is not listed as "enterprise" on the website and I could not find out how it's used :| it does not even show up on the "list" command..
I keep telling my kids that a vastly overlooked trick to success is going to bed earlier and getting more sleep. That and gratitude (which is why our family has evening rituals around this).
(CEO of Neon.tech)

Aurora is one of the few real innovations in the database space recognized by SIGMOD: https://sigmod.org/sigmod-awards/citations/2019-sigmod-syste...

It provides a lot of benefits to the user and also a ton more to the service provider. Specifically you don’t overprovision storage or compute. Plus at least theoretically you can provide invite IO throughput at the storage level.

There has been a couple more iterations on the design since. Microsoft separated transaction log from storage:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2019/0...

Neon added an object store and branches so you can integrate backups and add a Time Machine.

PolarDB separated memory from compute - this makes serverless compute more nimble and unties memory and CPU.
> When it comes to slumber, what matters most is how rich you are.

Looking at their sleep map, that swath of good sleep down the middle of the country seems to go against that, and isn't mentioned in the article (unless I missed it). Most of Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa, and Colorado aren't "rich", but they get the best sleep. Wisconsin is slightly worse than those, but still rather good, and likely the only reason they're not great is that it's the state with the highest alcohol consumption.
> that being healthier and richer improve your sleep

Either that or, apparently, living in Nebraska or Minnesota
I think the biggest thing Napster did was get everyone onto a computer. I don’t know if folks here remember, but before Napster, desktop computers at home were largely the destination for folks who worked at home, nerdy kids or the occasional school research. AOL changed _some_ of that but not as profoundly as Napster did. Not everyone had a reason to socialize online but everyone loved free music.

I remember a friend of mine coming to _me_ telling me about Napster. He was definitely a lot more socially adept than me and I knew he didn’t hang out on computers much so it was quite the shock that he knew about this thing that, by all accounts, was quite nerdy.
My dude, take a breath. Two wrongs don't make a right. Let's grow together, not at the expense of each other. Find someone and ask for a hug. Your hurt is showing.
>> Ah 56k internet, what fun.

> your dorm room probably had Ethernet jacks.

One 64k T1 channel, so 14% more fun.

Okay to be fair the modem was probably averaging closer to 32k so double the fun.
This is such an extremely interesting comment, given the context of this conversation, because it sums up so much with so little. There is indeed overwhelming documentation (and other evidence) of Jesus' existence [1], and essentially no doubt of such. The Bible in general corresponds quite well with historic evidence on most topics*. Where it diverges from history is obviously in the divine.

But does this mean one shouldn't be able to publicly express doubt of Jesus' existence? I would say no. Because while there is both overwhelming evidence and consensus, there was also overwhelming evidence and consensus for the Earth being the center of the universe. And the greatest leaps in society's state of knowledge tends to come from the times when these 'things everybody knows' end up simply being wrong.

It's okay to say, or even believe, things that are most likely wrong. The whole point about Freedom is having the Freedom to make choices, even when those choices or views may not be what somebody else would consider appropriate. When such choices become sufficiently detrimental, like theft or murder, we prohibit them by law. But prohibiting having the 'wrong view' just seems very myopic. If you change your view after reading those articles, that's cool. If you don't (or even more likely don't even check them out), that's also cool.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sources_for_the_historicity_of...

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* = Interestingly this exact observation led Thomas Jefferson, who created his own sort of sect-of-1 Christianity, to compose his own Bible, the Jefferson Bible [2]. He took all the likely factual context and writings in the bible, and removed all the supernatural aspects of it - essentially turning it into a historical text with moral lessons. Quite a shame no copies remain.

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Bible
> I don't care how much easier caddy is and that it can configure certs for me.

I always find this a weird selling point, TBH.

It's probably a selling point for people who don't already know the existing $FOO.

For me, putting effort into learning the new thing only to use it exactly as the old thing is wasted effort.

I don't know what I gain by moving to the new $FOO, usually.
that one is technically easy: employee did not show up at the designated workplace. they abandoned their job. never mind that they actually did the work asked of them. if it's not done at the designated workplace, it doesn't count. they could even have demanded back the salaries paid for that time.
Good point. I think the difference is that the society as a whole was much higher-trust than it is today. America is back to being the Wild West, take what you can and don’t look back.
I'm trying to resist the urge to list the number of times an idiot "non-technical visionary" overrode design and implementation of the software the teams I was on were building.
Why do you think CVS locks up specific brands of soap? It’s not that hard!
> Because human expert will use the best available tools (for example, LLMs), will understand "what the client wants" and will put the data in the right context.

You're not wrong, but when that happens, does it still count as "a human expert" doing it? A chess grandmaster is capable of using Stockfish, but it's not their victory when they do.
Oh, nice. Thank you for this explanation. Now i think i get quantisation. Very well explained for someone like me. Thank you a lot!
We had rural phone lines with lots of noise. I think I got 3kB a sec max on those things even with 56k.
Still if 40 million people managed to do something, I would not call that insurmountable.
As someone with ADHD, being able to have an assistant with perfect memory that I can ask extremely vague questions to about things I'm pretty sure I did some time between last week and 5 years ago sounds amazing. I'm skeptical Recall will actually be able to do that. I doubt its usefulness outweighs the legal and social concerns. But I can absolutely see the use.
Mercedes uses 18-digit vins, tho I believe it’s the same format and checksum algorithm for the first 17 digits so it’s really more “17 + 1 digits”. Still drives validators nuts tho.
Napster may have started the file sharing revolution. But the exciting part for me was Gnutella and later Bittorrent, peer-to-peer technology in general, and the realization that we could use technology to liberate ourselves. Needless to say, I was young and naïve. That spirit is long dead, and the only remnants are crypto currencies and the community around them, which has tossed all lofty ideals in favor of blind greed.
I had my Apple Pro Display XDR stolen from the office in Lisbon, Portugal.

They also stole my AirPods Max which has Find My technology built in.

It happened over the weekend and when I found out about the burglary about 2 days later I checked the Find My app. I saw my AirPods Max was in a small town about 3 hours away from my office.

I informed the police and they said there’s nothing they could do about it due to privacy concerns. Ugh.

I considered going there myself, but it being in a foreign country, not knowing the language, having no transportation, and not knowing what or who I’d find when I arrive, I ultimately decided to not risk it and never ended up going.

A few days later the signal went offline. Months after that it showed up on the map again. It was in Moldova at a shopping mall known for selling electronic parts.

I don’t know what happened to my Apple Pro Display XDR, but if you ever see one for sale in Portugal please send me a message :D

BTW, interesting side story: They didn’t just steal my display and headphones, but also many computers from other offices. Multiple floors except one. I guess they didn’t have time for that one. A week later they came back to rob that other floor as well.
U.S. tech giants building data centers in Chile. Locals fighting back
inventing a solution to a problem, only in america
What I would give to find out what public opinion of these laws will be like in 20 years. I can't tell if it'll be like seatbelt laws, which the pubic ultimately embraced. Or, maybe it'll be more like cannabis, where less and less people care about it from a moral standpoint.
For indie artists, the vinyl release frequently comes with a download code for a digital version. Some bands even include lossless versions.
TPMS sensors (tire pressure monitoring system) are also mandatory on new vehicles. They conveniently broadcast unique identifiers.

And the license plates of course.
That "must" be kept secret. So, a password.
> macOS is free. There are no ads in it.

macOS advertises the following:

- iCloud (demanded in settings via a perpetual notification pip)

- Sponsored content in the App Store, Spotlight Search

- Safari, which will complain if you don't use it enough (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252412228)

- AppleTV (I do not know a single living soul that pays for this service; why is it preinstalled?)

- Apple Music (which by-default launches when you put on your headphones, with a modal asking you to subscribe)

It very obviously has advertisements, by both Apple's own admission and simple recognition of dark patterns.

> I don't see ads on Windows either

Oh good grief:

- Windows 8: Sponsored content in Microsoft Store, Groove Music ads, Microsoft Edge nags, Live Tile sponsored content, OneDrive nags, Microsoft Office advertisements... hell hath no fury like the advertisers that designed Windows 8.

- Windows 10: Special advertisement modals for Windows 11, Microsoft Store nags get worse, Cortana serves Bing advertisements, Xbox Game Pass advertisements, paid video codec advertisements, worse OneDrive nags and whatever the hell "Microsoft Movies & TV" is. Office is a subscription now called "365", and Microsoft really wants you to buy-in.

- Windows 11: The entire news feature. All of it is ads. Your search has ads, your start menu has a "recommended" page with ads, your browser sends you ads in other browsers so you can use a more ad-ridden browser.
Best tech-blog I have found so far:

https://acko.net/

(3D graphics, webdev, tech-philosophy, (and not mine!)). If you know tech-blogs of comparable quality, I am eager to hear from you.
The scale of the theft probably plays into it. I read about cops not helping to recover stolen bicycles. But multiple power tools could reach into felony territory, depending on their value. I’m happy this person didn’t get a “not our problem” response, but I’m not surprised that these items were deemed “important” enough to pursue. And what a haul on the bust! $3-5m (estimate) in multiple locations.

Hope is get to read about the thieves getting pinched soon. Who knows, that huge caper in a Canadian airport just finally yielded arrests, so my optimism has been somewhat restored in _some_ aspects of the justice system.
I live in the southwest as well and personally, I’ll take 110 and dry over 90 degrees and humid (Which covers most of the East Coast). The human body can actually cool down by evaporating sweat. The key is to get out of direct sunlight, drink lots of water, and avoid going out during the hottest part of the day.
I hope you will pay more property taxes…
> I'm struggling to think of any medium that has ever reached 100% accuracy, so to target that for an ML algorithm seems foolhardy

How close to 100% is close enough?

Arithmetic and logic are close enough that cosmic rays are the limiting factor, and "computer" used to be a profession.
NASA was not relying on a Japanese billionaire's joyride for their moon landing plans. I saw another article that said part of the reason this got cancelled is NASA took priority for the starship project.
The Prometheus Story
The problem with this is that many Californians who can afford solar can afford batteries too. If you live in socal its not unreasonable to decide you're just going off grid entirely in the face of income based fees. Then utilites will have to raise the price even more on the poor customers who arent being subsidized anymore
Makes me feel bad for those customers. I wonder what their churn looks like.
> For better or worse, the people suffering from RSD have moved to Facebook.

Better for me. They've stopped sending emails, and I don't use FB! So win-win for me. Although, that email filter that sequestered all of "that uncle's" emails is still ready to go if needed. Which is one advantage of the emails vs socials.
Also the amount of salt US restaurant food contains is pretty jarring. Going to an Italian restaurant in Europe is an entirely different experience because of the lack of salt
The time code format does include a DST bit.

https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/time-di...
huh? what would be the benefit of that strategy? being able to low ball the offers because a senior dev applying for a junior position must be desperate?
Just rent an IC or hybrid for longer trips.

If you buy a lower range battery and save 5k on the purchase price, well if you go on 2 road trips a year at $500 of rental cost per trip, you're looking at 5 year of rentals, not counting the money you save from owning an EV.

On my case I saved over 12k buying "low range" EV (only around 200 miles) which is over a decade of rentals for road trips before I lose money on it, and driving an EV is so much nicer than an IC. I test drive a Lexus and chose a Chevy Bolt EUV instead because the Bolt was nicer to drive than the luxury car! (The Lexus has a better interior obviously).