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>A friend asked if I knew of an MP3 player that would be good for a two-week hike with no access to electricity, and it really seems like there's nothing out there beyond carrying around a bunch of batteries.

Go on the used market and look for old iRiver players if you can, preferably the T10. They take AA batteries and last forever (45+ hours), have a rugged sporty design and had the best non-Apple quality and UX.

The only downside is the small flash storage on them for today's standards but only the old players were feature AA batteries, before they all switched to sealed internal lithium meaning they are now dead.

But on the upside the name brand players from 20 years ago had higher quality MP3 decoding SoCs and audio DACs, while the new MP3 players with AA batteries you can buy today are all bottom of the barrel chinesium e-waste.
The logistics of containerized batteries is hard to overstate.

You have a near commodity item produced in volume. That can be shipped anywhere via standard means. And installed where convenient. As in next to existing power infrastructure and where the permits and land use are grandfathered in. Bonus, generally quiet and don't pollute.
One reason why I think XBOX Game Pass is a terrible thing for the industry, a position that people seem to have caught up to pretty rapidly in recent months.
I never got to try SerenityOS due to the developer's bizarre insistence that users compile the OS instead of just providing a precompiled ISO or IMG file. Shame because I appreciated the workhorse 9x aesthetics it had.
How does giving my employer exclusive rights to my future work lead to MY freedom?
Having lived in the DC area for almost two decades, I don't agree. There are absolutely pockets that match your description but, if that's all you see I think you might be stuck in a bubble. I see so much more. There are cool companies that have been and are being built here (I was going to list them, but the Washingtonian "DC Tech Titans" list has lots of good examples), many not B2G... and people who still have 'the spark' (and many more who I think could rekindle it).

There's also a hugely educated workforce, many of whom don't love their daily grind (hiring opportunity). There's a creative community in DC and even more so if you include the greater DMV or mid-Atlantic. A ton of compute and infrastructure (including us-east-1) is based here, which has its own benefits for businesses.

In my opinion, one of the things that would benefit the region is a less conservative (read: more risk-tolerant) investment community. YC isn't the only way to get that done, but I think it would be a helpful catalyst.
If any language was written like Chinese has the same answer -- the written form of Chinese was not necessarily meant to be phonetic, although there are portions of it that have evolved to be phonetic. The characters have meanings and the grammar is very fluid to the point where a sequence of characters stringed together (such as in poetry) can be interpreted and debated.

Cantonese and Mandarin are considered dialects, so I won't use that as an example, but this problem has already been solved in Korean. For a long time, Hangul did not exist and Korean scholars used Chinese as the written system despite speaking in a completely different language. This is obviously an old article (1999), but the fact that it doesn't consider how this is a solved problem from a real historical use case makes the musing incomplete.
Scientist wins Nobel prize for time travel in 2050, which he would go on to invent in 2060.
We also see, in the Amazon series, a group of apparently hunter-gatherer hobbits with iron and textiles.

The conclusion I come to is that Hobbits magic up manufactured goods from the idealized English countryside of Tolkien’s imagination. If you have some English ancestors who lost a pot, it time-slipped into Middle Earth. Presumably they are where the socks go. Ever notice an excess of old keys around the house? Hobbits need boxes!
Anything this common becomes noise, since it doesn't add any new information.

Heres' another way to look at it: since the idea of HN is to be intellectually interesting (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...), repetition is the most important thing to avoid (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...).
GTK & GNOME are very successful projects in making me thankful to God that QT & KDE exist every time I have to use them.
Really cool! How much does it weigh? I'd love to attach it to a collar on my cat to track their fun adventures.
Would be good, if I could also pull in daisyUI for quick prototypes.
Same. Not being able to use the SSH plugin made VSCode DOA for me when I tried it a while back.
A lot of jobs can't be done remotely, you can't exactly remotely work as a firefighter.
Why not?

Plus, much of Europe's manufacturing is east anyway.
Seems like Andreas doesn't have the same delusions of ridiculing the army of (pretty smart) Chrome/V8 devs by doing the same job just on his own. His own goal is to achieve the performance of non-JITed JavaScriptCore - i.e. an optimizing interpreter.
I suppose it's a borderline call. If your comment had been clearer and a bit more substantive I probably would have called it the other way.
This is the right answer. The author calls it out subtly too:

> the gap between the lower gentry and upper yeomanry isn’t very large, and most families are able to support themselves with only minimal assistance.

For those who want to fall down the rabbit hole see:

1. The Servile State by Hilaire Belloc: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64882
2. https://distributistreview.com/archive/an-introduction-to-di...
I’ve seen people claim that China has no desire to be a global hegemon and just wants regional security but this shoots that notion in the back of the head.
> Names often get switched around a bit when translated into other languages.

Actually, no, usually they don't get "translated" to english if the name isn't written in an alphabet that needs transcription, like Cyrillic, Chinese, ...
The major difference is that transformer state grows as the sequence gets longer, while recurrent models use a fixed size state. So presumably at sequence length (T) > size of state space (N), the transformer will be better on some very specific tasks. Not all, especially those that require the model to select information from the beginning of the sequence conditional on something at the end of the sequence. Transformers can refocus any time, while SSNs need to guess right from the start what to keep and what to drop. SSNs could use the old trick of repeating the input twice to allow the end to condition on the beginning as well.

An important role is held by the softmax function which normalizes the attention scores, allowing the model to weigh different parts of the input sequence dynamically. This means that, unlike RNNs which sequentially process inputs and update states, Transformers can directly access and prioritize information from any part of the sequence, and they are not slower for T < N.
Why should healthcare be tied to employment?

"Quit fucking around" and institute a national, single-payer plan that covers everyone, like every other modern industrialized country.
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> "science" doesn't require having a peer-reviewed ten-year old study that has been published in Nature and survived challenges.

It does. That sort of requirement is why people respect science and wanted to rely on it in the first place.

What you're arguing here is not that Fauci was doing science, as he clearly wasn't - pulling ideas out of thin air isn't science. What you seem to be arguing here is that science wasn't of any use for making decisions because the process is too slow.

That might well be correct. But in that case there was no basis for governments to do anything at all, as the question wasn't in the political realm either (nobody had campaigned on it in an election for example). Which means they should have just left individual citizens to their own devices.

You probably won't like that conclusion, but the alternative is to destroy the meaning of the word science. If it isn't a deliberative process in which you do what's needed to establish reliable world models then it's nothing at all, and there's no reason anyone should care what "scientists" say as they are little more than witchdoctors.
> It means that google doesn't have to aquire-hire your team, they can just poach all of them wholesale.

Doesn't California already ban non competes? The industry has seemingly thrived there and I've never heard of it being a problem.
Thanks for the information, let me waste my time now, and all luck to you...
As long as wsl caches file transfers to windows in RAM, it's just a toy.
Not really?

> As Owen said in a recent GTK+ meeting, when looking over the list of APIs that we are discussing here, there are basically three categories:

> A) Cross-platform API - things that make sense on Windows / OS X

> B) X / freedesktop.org-specific API

> C) GNOME-specific API

> APIs in category A. are clearly suitable for moving to GTK+, APIs in category B. may or may not be suitable, and things in category C. are better off in a GNOME-specific library.

So even back then the official stance was that GNOME specific stuff belongs in external libs.
> This means the US might have to face both China and Russia at the same time.

In terms of GDP, that's like saying "China might have to face the US and Belgium at the same time".

Russia's military output is constrained enough that importing shells from North Korea was a significant boost for them.
I can recommend Ultranauts. They have a fully neuro-divergent culture. Personally have a connection with the founder and happy to be the bridge.
The harm is hard to assess without a control group.
Maybe those people are not that very smart after all.
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> When the West lacks the spirit to help Ukraine win, what chance does Taiwan have?

I'm not familiar with Ukraine's economic importance. Do they have something comparable to Taiwan's semiconductor industry?
[1] is the first result if I google "the pile torrent". It doesn't link to the torrent because of a DMCA notice, so I just used the wayback machine to retrieve a version from before the date of that notice. Don't tell the publisher.

1: https://academictorrents.com/details/0d366035664fdf51cfbe9f7...
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Probably not unless there is a really good reason.

If you have a problem that can be fixed by restricting languages, you don’t need to ask hacker news.

If you don’t have a problem that it solves, probably don’t do it.
... with molecules
Please tell me another car that uses 48V for the whole electric system. Indeed there are other hybrid cars that use a 48V but only for the hybrid part. The actual benefit of Cybertruck's 48V system is that it lowered the amount of copper needed and simplified the whole system.

Then look again at steer by wire. Indeed, RZ450e seemed to have it last year in reviews as an optional packaged but now if I look on their website, there's nowhere to be found. Also, Toyota bZ4x stil doesn't have it, the plan is by the end of 2024. So yeah, not from 2022 like you said... And of course for rear steering it was always used, but the novelty in Cybertruck is the front steer by wire.

I also did look Automotive Ethernet and there are indeed a lot of informations about it, but again, tell me which cars have it for the whole system. There are indeed some like Hyundai that use it only for Entertainment system or VW for the driver assist. The main advantage of Cybertruck is that it's being used for everything which translates to lower complexity and lower cost.
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That's why they're intrinsically linked.

If you mandate that non-human entities have an 1st amendment right, you cannot have meaningful campaign finance limits.

Ergo, because it's worth having campaign finance limits, in the interest of allowing the best candidate / idea to win, I think it's worth threshing through stripping 1st amendment rights from non-human entities.

Regarding how one weighs what sort of speech would then be allowed and disallowed is a difficult problem, but the above needs to happen before it can even be started on.

Now, we have a frankensystem where reality (unlimited finance) and policy (limited finance) differ, which is never a healthy state.
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Fuck those pay2win servers, they are exploitative, promote gambling and pray on children.
This isnt about workers.

Let's say tomorrow that you find a better way to do search. It's going to crush google, and MS.

You hire a team, smart people the VC's throw money at you. Everyone is happy. Your growing and the next darling of tech.

Google comes in and offers to buy you out. You decline cause you know that they are blockbuster and your Netflix.

In retaliation google hires all your staff, and sends them to the roof to rest and vest.

Thats great for the dozen people who got a great deal from google. It's bad for the rest of the world.
I would personally like the title bar of the active window, and only the active window, to be my preferred accent color. Not a 1px colored border, an actual title bar.
These servers were a lot of fun. You got to pay taxes _in a game_! But seriously they were a lot of fun.
bonus question: this was unknown to the writer of what song?
It's not meant to have any substance, it's "content" - and could as well have been written by ChatGPT itself.

People churn it out knowing they have nothing to say, and add some BS headline, to attract viewers to their business or blog.
Russia has energy independence and food security. China has neither. The kind of sanctions Russia has gotten would hurt China far more.

You can’t effectively blockade Russia. A blockade against China would be devastating. No, they can’t get enough food and fossil fuels through Russia. There is no substitute for ocean shipping at those scales.

And while western support for Ukraine hasn’t been stable, you can’t say it’s not there. Especially given recent events.

Ukraine isn’t even all that important to the west. Taiwan is absolutely critical.

China may act tough but I think what they’re seeing from Ukraine is terrifying them.

Also interesting to see that Ukraine, with no real navy, is effectively disabling all of Russias navy in the Black Sea with sea drones. Guess what Taiwan is building now?

I don’t think a crossing of the strait will be even remotely possible in a decade from now. Nothing with men on board will be able to cross successfully. Drone swarms won’t help China disable defences on Taiwan because they will be shot down by lasers.

They’d have to bomb the entire island to rubble, which they hesitate to do because most of Taiwan is of the same ethnicity as the Chinese. Wouldn’t help keeping the west and Chinas anxious neighbours complacent either.
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A few months ago I wrote a small program to view and play animated GIFs, but letting you pause, skip, etc like it was a video. In case anyone's interested, here it is:

https://github.com/tomas/pixelhopper

Fun fact: it doesn't use QT nor GTK for the UI, so it's as lightweight as it can get!
A desktop environment that System 76 is making: https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-the-road-to-alpha
A lot of oldest GUIs were flat by hw limitations (often 1bpp displays) and they absolutely didn't dictate borderless. Sometimes there wasn't an "always on" border, but a border would show up when your mouse was over a clickable element, sometimes there was a border. Activation of UI element was often done by swapping foreground and background colour, something that was immediately visible.
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You’re missing the point of the article. The primary aim is to explain how Chinese characters work, using English as a reference point.
I was not aggressive enough with the curve and thought it would hit the coast of west Africa somewhere around Senegal.
Fun fact: The "Family Tutor" computer on page 20 being closed out for $169 ($488 in 2024) is a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SV-328 - the design template for the MSX, on which Konami launched Bomberman, Metal Gear, et cetera.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language) has been focusing on correctness since 40 years.
To be fair, one-to-one laptops located on a school's domain can have social media websites blocked at the network level and the client level. Phones usually come with data plans, which means not even a filter on the WiFi would prevent students from accessing blocked websites, even while they're physically in the school. The article does mention this.
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In CA there is also a ban on raiding:

"California law protects employers from raiding by competitors. An employee or competitor may not take a large proportion of your employees with the intent of driving you out of business. You must prove the employee or competitor had bad intent. Evidence of intent includes emails, texts, and witness testimony about what the bad employee or competitor did or said when soliciting your employees."

From: https://www.hg.org/legal-articles/stealing-employees-in-cali....
On Linux with HiDPI a monitor I had to run:

GDK_SCALE=2 java -jar qstudio.jar
https://archive.is/fegkD
That sounds a lot like anarchist communism, what are the difference?
Hobbits are pretty clearly intended to represent a kind of idealized English rural life. There would be little reason to for humans or hobbits to commit violence living in small villages or other kinship based settlements where everyone would know everyone. Smeagol killed for the ring just after discovering it so Hobbits are capable of violence but their way of life does not normally call for it. Also Hobbits are in no way innocent as they do pranks and commit petty theft from the farmer.
Did you hear or read Fauci’s original testimony where he suggested there are different meanings of GoF?
I don't see how this is different from when people trade based on what Warren Buffet does.
> “made by Dave in California”

Love this, well done, looks like a great product.
It's pretty cool that your MSP handles the SD Card directly!

Personally I think you should keep the focus on a polished mac app. For other platforms you can do just the bare minimum with a web app that uses WebUSB. People will bitch that it's Chromium only but, I mean, chromium has 95% market share outside Apple world (and I say this as a FF user).

A hardware solution could be to add a cheap microcontroller that would handle the usb port. It wouldn't be powered by the battery, only USB and it would act as a proxy between the raw sd card and the computer. Presenting a mass storage to the computer with folders, converting images to PNGs. Such capable MCUs are very cheap (rp2040, esp32-s3) but it certainly adds complexity to your project...
Meta is testing unscrollable ads in Instagram
Next up tardigrade-BE condensates?

https://www.livescience.com/tardigrade-quantum-entangled-exp...
Somewhat with you on this one, I assumed the title was YC (being big tech) were upping their lobbying game - it was after reading it that I came to your point of view.
jq tries to preserve number precision if you don't do operation with them, but as you noted this is within some sanity. If you do operations the involved numbers will first be converted to binary64 (aka double), same as node and most other languages. This is what is recommended by RFC 7159 for interoperability.
This is the time to give them $10/m, not ten years from now when we're all complaining about a chromium monoculture.
OtterTune officially shutting down services
The headline is poorly worded. The actual puzzle is unambiguous (begin facing east, then travel forward in a straight line along the surface).
It's kinda ironic that they realized (and admitted) this more than 15 years later.

Meanwhile, there's Cinammon, MATE, pantheon, moblin, clutter, mutter, unity, and several others that went into being hardforks at this point because they didn't agree with GNOME's Human Interface Guidelines.

It's also ironic that the only thing using GTK2 components on every system at this point is GIMP. The problem with upstream GTK's workflow is that they have so many breaking releases and their own versioning scheme that is completely different from any other project, making it impossible to rely upon.

A UI component framework should be reliable, stable in its API and scene graph, and not break with any second release every couple months.
This is really surprising but also not at the same time. Developing a browser engine from scratch is a huge task. I think the writing was on the wall when some big donations were made from various companies (including Shopify) and Andreas hired a full time dev.

This will probably mark the beginning of the end for SerenityOS but I guess we'll see. Really enjoy watching the development videos from Andreas' YouTube channel.
If you have a more modern estimate I'll take it. Very interesting about the CMOS sensors distinguishing +- 2 electrons (40K / 2^14).
> Microsoft’s hallmark AI feature dubbed a security disaster just days away from Apple’s privacy-focused AI launch at WWDC

Surely, Apple's ChatGPT wrapper will be much more thoughtful and sleek. Thanks 9to5mac, I hadn't considered your take on the matter yet.
everyone is moving away from us-east, the talent is mostly in northern virginia and focused on defense not actual tech talent,

i took a brief look at that "Tech Titans" list and frankly it is not that impressive, compared to an actual hub like SF, NYC, Seattle or even compared to tier 2 hubs like Boston or LA.

i mean they're counting "Vox Media" as a tech startup... which is very DC, I guess. many of the others also are due to regulatory reasons, like Revature or Wirewheel.

i lived in DC for 20 years.
The Java thing was a joke lol.