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Since this is processing of past events and future possibles during sleep, would it be fair to hypothesize that animals that sleep actively (appear to dream) are conscious when awake?
Same, one generation 3.5mm was a given, next time I needed a phone I have no choice. Who asked me? I would have, if given the choice, bought a phone with wired headphones, an SD card slot, and an IR blaster like my previous phone had but none of those were options. Now the phone I have is bigger than I wanted, has worse battery life, and kills my run tracking apps once the screen has been off for 2 minutes with no option to disable that behavior (obviously spackling over the pitifully small battery by annoyingly killing anything using power)

On the plus side it has a 120 hz display that doesn't help me either.
It really was. XP gets looked back on with rose-tinted glasses but only because successive iterations of windows have been so extraordinarily bad. The Microsoft.com website was so bad it was almost comical.

To Microsoft's credit, they have made some improvements in some areas but the same old DNA is on display when you use e.g. Teams.

Microsoft is just plain bad at Product.
I asked this question once. The interviewer basically revealed that they didn't know what <that role> actually did or would be contributing. I didn't get an offer, and I'm grateful
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What Is React.js? [video]
Should be very useful for e-ID authentication in the age of AI? Prove that you're a human with an electronic id without telling the asker who you are.
Probably only for some kind of research study.
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I put off learning awk for literal decades because I knew perl, but then I picked it up and wish I had done so earlier. I still prefer perl for a lot of use cases, but in one-liners, awk's syntax makes working with specific fields a lot more convenient than perl's autosplit mode. `$1` instead of `$F[0]`, basically.
Lean doesn't have expressiveness notation. It's like Perl line noise.
Just because we have receptors that have affinity for molecules that we call cannabinoids doesn't mean much in terms of evolution related to plants. There is a wide range of molecules that have a shape that bind to the wide range of receptors that are a part of what we call the endocannabinoid system.
This is generally my fear in creating a game in that the players would take the name and rules more seriously than me as a designer.

I liked the game, btw as it captured a certain look and feel as well as was fun to play.
It seems they flagged this post. I can only find it by searching for keywords.

I think I will change one of the speakers of my new jack-less phone for a switching audio jack port.
Yes. Dynamic as the IP is renewed everytime your device resets
It's interesting when thinking why there might be evolutionary reason for suicide, it could be for benefit of the group, however in modern life people like to tout that it's a selfish act. Things have changed in modern life of course.
> 16:10, which is the most common.

I'm so glad we're back at this world. I had a laptop in 2011 that developed a fault on it's 16:10 (1920x1200) screen, Dell ran out of replacement parts and laptops had standardised on 16:9 screens by this point, so they ended up replacing the entire laptop with one with a 16:9 (1920x1080) screen.

I wasn't thrilled at the loss of pixels.
“The Importance of Being Educable,” he argues that it’s key to our success. When we think about what makes our minds special, we tend to focus on intelligence. But if we want to grasp reality in all its complexity, Valiant writes, then “cleverness is not enough.”

Isn't' this IQ? "Educable” seems like the latest iteration of 'multiple intelligences' or the 'street smarts' vs. 'book smarts' distinction.
Dictatorship is awesome while it happens to align with your dubious priorities.

You should try to think ahead though
Starlink tells Brazil regulator it will not comply with X suspension
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In my experience, the surest way to security mess ups are when frustrated developers share credentials due to an overcomplicated sharing process of credentials. This obviously should not happen, but is why I am an advocate for 1Password.com.

They've made it simple for admins and users alike.
There aren’t any examples of state run businesses this old, right? It seems like at 1,500 years governments aren’t robust enough to survive. So any business run by a government would not survive the political upheavals.
Agreed; I wouldn't consider X a public free-speech forum anymore.
I use kindle. Have wifi turned off, and just load the books over usb using calibre. When you buy the kindle books off of amazon, you can download them to your computer to then put them on the device, theres some DRM in there so only your devices will be able to read them.

You still need to register the kindle with your account, but after that, it can be an offline device
Show HN: I've built an auto supplement dispenser that's low-cost and modular [video]
Hi HN!

While my partner was taking antibiotics for 8 months (3 times a day), I came up with this concept.

I'm a mechanical engineer and I'd seen the existing med dispensers that use a mini-robot to vacuum pickup tablets out of a hopper. I thought there had to be a simpler way.

This device uses tipping & shaking, the same way a person takes them from a tablet bottle. This means it cannot jam, handles any type of tablet and is very compact.

I've got almost 10 people using the latest version and it works great. Works perfect for supplements/vitamins and the capacity means it can last for months without refilling.

Love to get any feedback, thanks!
As a kid in Los Alamos, the mesa I lived on was far enough from the central office[1] that it had some loading coils between us and them. This meant that we couldn't get DSL on that mesa. The mesa across the way didn't have the loading coils, and thus was able to get DSL. I remember the jealousy of my friend being able to download DOOM WADs in a couple of seconds, while I had to schedule them, or convince my dad to download them on the much faster connection at LANL.

Eventually we managed to get either an ISDN line or a T1 line, I cannot remember which, but shortly thereafter Cable internet became available, and rendered the whole problem moot.

[1] Los Alamos had one central office, with a big microwave relay in the top of it: https://i.imgur.com/Lcfj9oA.jpeg
I seem to have noticed a marked increase in the number of people in public listening to music with no headphones over the past several years, as in going from essentially 0 to it now being a thing. I wonder if this came from people not wanting use or buy USB headphones? Or because phones don't come with headphones anymore? (Personally, I have earpods but don't like them. I use a set of standard Apple headphones.)
Is there any particular functionality which does exist in awk, but doesn't exist in Perl or Python without third-party libraries? I've always found "Python + built-in modules" more than sufficient for my text-manipulation needs. (Also, it lets me handle binary data and character data in the same program, which is very useful for certain tasks.)
I didn't know that these cables are all pressurized with air to keep leaks out (and to dry out any leaks that do happen). To me, that was honestly the most interesting thing in the article.
Then you would not be one of the most important people in that company anyway.

Just to be clear, there is nothing wrong with that, but commitment goes both way.
A /dev/random device driver for MS-DOS
Microsoft under Ballmer, and Microsoft under Nadella is a night and day difference.

They removed the moonlighting line in hiring contract AFAIK. I.e you can make hour own open source project in your non-employment hours with your hardware without any company IP.

MS VScode or .NET core would never be OS under Ballmer.
"Now" why? What's changed? There's no demand for it. The market of people who say "I'd switch to iCloud Keychain if only they had better Windows support" is vanishingly small, and at the end of the day Apple doesn't reap revenue from iCloud Keychain anyway so why do they care if you switch?

A more native and higher quality Apple Passwords app for Windows wouldn't even really solve anyone's problems. I don't know the specifics on how the Windows Hello authentication layer works, but my assumption is: Apple can distribute this app, but this app couldn't just make its passkeys natively available to e.g. Chrome on Windows, without a browser extension which would effectively bypass the app anyway. And, Apple already has a Chrome browser extension.
Show HN: Open-source video smart cutting
Hi HN,

I've been building my own video editor for about 8 months now. I'm slowly realizing that marketing this software might be the end of my solopreneur dreams. If I can get video creators on calls and show them the software in action, they like it, but so far nothing else works.

So I've decided to open-source the most polished part of my app which is video smart cutting.

It uses PyAV and libavcodec (ffmpeg internals) to encode a small part of the video near the cutpoints and then uses libavformat to stitch the recoded segments and parts of the original video back together into a whole video. The benefit of this is that reusing parts of the original video is way way faster than recoding, so doing it this way we can have very fast frame-accurate cutting.

While this is not a new idea, and there are a couple open-source implementations already, I believe mine is the first foss one to really try to solve the problem, and not just treat it as experimental feature that might work sometimes.

I've written a test suite that checks the implementation with various codecs (h264, h265, vp9, av1), container formats (.mp4, .mkv) and audio codecs (mp3, vorbis, opus, aac, flac, wav). The tests generate bunch of synthetic videos and sets of randomized cutting points and verify that input and output videos are the same.

I want to keep improving it further, but in my experience it works pretty much on everything that is produced in a reasonable manner. E.g. anything from obs, my phones, YouTube, Twitch and everything that my ~10 test users have tried throwing at it. I think there was one video at https://kodi.wiki/view/Samples that failed and I'll try to get to that eventually. I think sometimes it has problems with files where the seeking is difficult. Best would be if we didn't have to seek at all, but that would require some changes that I have to think through.

Please check it out and offer any feedback on either the command line tool or the full GUI app.
https://github.com/skeskinen/smartcut

And if mifi or someone else would be interested in trying to incorporate this into lossless-cut, I'd be down to help.
Yes I got Covid it before vaccines were available.

I work from home, and I'm generally pretty careful, I got it the other times in places you wouldn't really expect like drive throughs.

The first case was by far the worst though.
> Since then, at least 1,500 cases have been reported by US personnel stationed in 96 countries, officials said last year.

How many of those reports were after they passed the HAVANA Act, which grants significant compensation (up to one years salary) to any personnel who were affected by this vaguely defined condition with no known cause and no definitive physical indicators?
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I once ate at a falafel restaurant in Jerusalem that was 1,000 years old.

I think there’s many restaurants that last a long time, but they aren’t what I’d consider a “large” company.
Loving Open Panel already, now with self hosting makes it even better
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Oasis Ticketmaster fiasco prompts UK probe into 'dynamic pricing'
Um.. compare nostr to atproto, not bluesky.

They take very different approaches even if they have similar goals.

Neither is better I think unless you want to get fanboy tribal. It is to be seen what apps will scale and gain adoption for each, though bluesky having a few mil in funding and normal users definitely puts it in the lead.

Speaking as someone funded in the crypto industry... nostr, IMHO, is dominated by BTC maxis and creating a monoculture around it, which will prevent adoption, b/c a social network isn't going to just be talk about NgU and HODL'ing all day.
How long can you leave pizza out? An experiment
Totally - the user interface is so much easier with a 3.5mm jack. Want to pair it to a different device, just unplug it from the current one and plug it in the new one. No limits such as being only able to pair with two or three devices.
The future of RSS is "git clone".

RSS was invented in 1999, 6 years before git!

Now we have git and should just be "git cloning" blogs you like, rather than subscribing to RSS feeds.

I still have RSS feeds on all my blogs for back-compat, but git clone is way better.
Just use a purpose-built trail cam. Sub-second response, optics optimised for trail conditions, weatherproof, robust, durable, long battery life, designed to be secured to trees.

There's a bit of engineering in a reliable trail cam. (Don't buy no-name Chinese.)
Also check out https://www.youtube.com/@ConnectionsMuseum

The channel is about the fully functional Central Office turned Museum in Seattle
I am one of the Co-founders. We have heard from members of the FIDO2 community who are closer to Apple that this will probably happen. You are right that Apple could also be positioned more as a password manager on other platforms; we have considered this. However, this is not how most people currently perceive it.

Google releasing this functionality to production is relatively new for those outside the passkey community, although it is not surprising when following Chrome Dev.

Overall, the tendency of Apple and Google to focus on passkeys for consumers and make them accessible is an interesting angle. In our blog, we frequently discuss password managers; in fact, we are also 1Password customers. Passage is a part of 1Password that operates in the same field as we do, likely because they recognize a potential threat from Apple and Google in the consumer space.

For companies implementing passkeys this is quite a significant change, because now a Chrome can carry a passkey that used to be a cross-device case before. The ecosystem is getting more complicated...
So the same stack as 20+ years ago… good job, kid.
Issues seem to be random, it is like the board shifts back and forth to the right/left until it settles, causing performance to tank until it settles.
Are you sure the Scandinavian countries would volunteer? They have an increasing Russian threat close to home. And none of them have expeditionary militaries. Any deployment to Africa would require extensive assistance from USA/UK/France for logistics, intelligence, communications, and fires. And how would you even conduct a referendum in a conflict zone with no effective civil institutions?

A foreign intervention isn't necessarily a bad idea but doing it effectively would be far more complex than you imagine.
I dunno. I’d rather speed up to make it through than slam on my brakes and have someone rear end me. That’s how I drive and I’ve never been in an accident in around 30 years of driving.
It isn't even "Bluetooth vs 3.5mm" it's 3.5mm vs. Not having 3.5mm

Every phone prior to 2020 had both. If your 3.5mm broke that sucks, but that would just put you in the exact situation we have today generally. If you never use it anyway why do you care?

I just don't understand how so many people are arguing in favor of a company obviously making a move to force their customers into buying something they didn't necessarily want.
You're right. It even makes the times converge.
> 8 hour defrag

In the NT 4 era I had a defrag take almost 18 hours. I started it before leaving for the day and came in the next morning to find it an unknown percentage done. I didn’t trust it would be okay to restart the machine so I had to leave it.

That was a problem because we were running version control on this box. But by then everyone was bought in so we got a dedicated machine out of the ordeal, but that was super annoying.

We even called Microsoft and got through, but it turns out on NT defragment happened in real mode so there isn’t a lot of memory to buffer copied blocks. So it spends a lot of time seeking on the hard drive. So stupid.
Some headphones have a low latency mode. On mine it's called "gaming mode": https://i.imgur.com/4h5Oj4S.png

I don't know what changes behind the scenes, but it does improve latency. The only downside I noticed is the reduced range, eg, it stops working on a different room where normal mode still works.
Fair enough. It just felt salesy, that’s all I‘m saying.
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How the Hourglass Won
Big fan of more vertical space. The retina aspect ratio on the newer Macbooks is at least a decent compromise being closer to 3:2.
Reasons to Write Design Docs
They had splice tools, but you were still threading cables to each other by hand.

The model train club I used to be a member of was full of old telephone guys, and they'd share old stories
Andrew Gelman: Is marriage associated with happiness for men or for women?
One way I would think of depression is, it's a condition that is triggered by a case where it seems like you fundamentally as an identity don't fit the current environment, and there doesn't seem to be a way to change the environment, or yourself to adapt to that environment. Nothing is going to make you happy, because there is something fundamentally wrong. And in many cases it won't be obvious that something is fundamentally wrong. It could be that you are genetically not wired to adapt to modern environment, which was never there.
For example you are forced to go to school when it doesn't fit you, later in life forced to work at something that is not according to your talent or passion.

I wouldn't call it like a reaction to fear.
Computer scientists discover vulnerabilities in a popular security protocol
sound identified as feedback from a speaker. not newsworthy anymore
Isn't that full of loopholes though?

It seems like that would allow someone in Germany to say "I think the Nazis were 100% right in what they did to the Jews", though my understanding is that would be very much illegal under German law.

Similarly, would it be illegal to say "Kill the N-words!" but not "I think all the N-words should be killed!"?

Obvious caveat - this is a highly contentious topic. Thank you for helping me better understand European laws specifically. For anyone passing by, I'm obviously not condoning the opinions of the example statements above.