skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, first thing I did after opening the article is CTRL-F'ing for conflict, and got zero result. How are they not talking about the only real problem about the local-first approach? The rest is just boiler plate code.
And not just that, it's also future-proof, so if calibre ever "dies", and you find your old backups 10, 20 years after, you'll still be able to get all the books out!

This is not true for many programs, even opensource, where data gets stored in many different obscure ways that cannot be retrieved/restored later, sometimes even if the software still exists (but is a few versions newer and doesn't recognize old formats anymore).
We have sensible reasons to suggest this in both the cases : simple and complex.

If GCP is composed of 10-30 services (hypothetically) then keeping 5-10 employees whose job is ensure mega deletes are safe is not too much of a cost.

If GCP is composed of 500 services, then it is all the more important to have humans in the loop so ensure correct behaviour so that complex interacting services don't take a wrong action.
> - Zero Sync: https://github.com/rocicorp/mono

Doesn't even have a readme :D Raise the bar a bit maybe.
In a UBI situation demand would shift, not just go up. If there's two hypothetical people paying the tax, a very rich person (>300.000 a year) and a poor person (<50.000 a yr), money effectively shifts from the rich person to the poor person (at least the majority). The poor person will have very different demands than the rich person.

Finally, we already do price controls and subsidies in many places, like food production. It's just that a big part of the advantage is soaked up by big companies.
CA's central valley is missing ~140 million acre feet of groundwater relative to historical norms, and is pumping an additional ~15 million acre feet a year. Ban that and desalinate 30 million acre feet of oceanwater at $2000 per acre-foot and you can have your cake and eat it too at a cost of 60 billion dollars a year, expand agriculture and develop a sustainable aquifer & watershed.

But central valley agriculture only makes $37 billion a year.
Does Google have an LLM based AI experience for Android? What are they doing differently to avoid the problems plaguing Apple. The core technology in both can't be that different. Or is it an expectation thing?

I feel like they may be experiencing that issue where the product is quite good within some core set of features, but the edge cases are where all the paper cuts happen. And when its a singular product on a singular device made by a singular company, those paper cuts really add up. There must be a more succinct term for that.

Can it even be solved with the current state of LLMs?
Probably because people would get cheesed off if their current Siri requests started hallucinating.

Me: Hey Sir, set a timer for my management meeting in 10 minutes.

Siri: I've deleted your minutes from the last 10 management meetings.
I believe that even in Germany you can connect a low-voltage solar panel to a battery or heating element without any licensing approvals beyond CE. Low-voltage wiring poses much less risk of electrical shock and is consequently exempt from most safety regulations.
I've never seen any strong evidence for this (only a handful of anecdotes), and my personal experience driving doesn't match. I saw speed traps all the time and don't remember a single one that was associated with a speed limit change.

Additionally, even if the speed limit is changed, assuming there is appropriate signage it is your responsibility to follow the speed limit.
Yes.

I just upgraded and firefox scrolling seems weird. It is freezing for 5-10s every few minutes.

Very obvious when I'll using the mouse-wheel to scroll down longs pages like HN
Can this be done with Kindles?
Delta plane that flipped over in Toronto last month showed high rate of descent
Bringing it up every time Asahi Linux is mentioned is pretty weird, though.
I suppose so. There have always been stories of those kinds of things, but from the outside looking in, this definitely _feels_ different. Perhaps it's the privilege of my pigment but in the past I've had little issue the handful of times I've travelled across the pond & felt like if anything did escalate it'd eventually make its way to someone reasonable. Now...? Well I guess it just feels like "reasonableness" isn't exactly being projected as a valued characteristic at any level in the current chain of authority.
I had been paying for both for several months, and I decided to cancel Perplexity about a month ago. First and foremost, I feel like the goals of Kagi align more with my goals. Perplexity is not afraid of ads and nagware (their discover feed was like 30% nags to turn on notifications at one point if you had them disabled, and it's still an annoying amount). I also really like the custom assistants in Kagi. I made a GNU Guix lens that limits my search results to resource related to Guix (official docs, mailing list and IRC archives, etc.) which I can access with !guix, and I made an assistant that uses that lens for web results that I can access with !guixc. I can ask something like "how do I install nginx?" and the answer will be about Guix. You can do some customization with your bio on Perplexity, but it kind of sucks tbh. It would randomly inject info about me into completely unrelated queries, and not inject the info when I wanted it to.
> Rock music still exists. So does Jazz. It's certainly not dead as an entertainment and art form. But... it no longer has that creative, future-defining vibe. No longer belongs to youth culture. No longer defines the eras.

Both have creative vibe. They are not future defining or "youth culture", but that does not mean they are not meaningful or personal or decentralized.

It is ok for subcultures to be what they are and not being mainstream or becoming super popular.
Mine is formatted as $AUTHOR/$BOOK_NAME/$FILES. I don't think it's very hard to navigate. If I use a find tool on that structure it can pinpoint any book, AFAICS.

Note: This is what Calibre does after I import them via its front end. No secret sauce.
Okay, but then doesn’t that undermine your point about the importance of the US being the world’s reserve currency? What does that matter if most of our debt is to ourselves anyway?

Japan runs huge structural deficits and most is held by its own citizens.
lol OMG these are fantastic. It's as if they hired professional voice actors and cloned their voices.

Perhaps that would be lucrative for the voice artists.
You're doing a pretty good job serving as evidence, actually.
did the economist edit the title? it uses "seize"
I'm not sure that violating a speed limit going abruptly from 100 to 10, with the sign hidden behind a bush, and without any apparent reason for the limit to be changed is anything else than a scheme to collect money.
Yep. Also containers used in the shipping industry. You might have yet another ype in your fridge.

The thing is that because Docker started the craze, the word "container" without further context in the IT world has become to mean docker container.
Of course it would.

Because copyright is a dystopian death-pact intended to serve as a deterrent, not a functional system of regulation. If copyright was strictly litigated by all aggrieved parties the damages would exceed the global annual GDP, every few minutes.
Android has it, but it has much fewer features then the previous assistant. So what's the point? Yes, they were first, tothey beat apple. Except it doesn't work.
There is already a ChatGPT extension for Siri https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iph00fd3c8c2/io...
It’s not as simple as you make it sound:

- Reliable communication is hard
- Optimistic writes should on client are hard
- Tracking subsets of data is hard (you don't want the entirety of Datomic on the client, do you?)
- Permissions are hard in this model

Why didn't I implement it? Mostly comes down to free time. It's a hobby project and it's hard to find time for it. I also stopped writing web apps so immediate pressure for this went away.
> Heathrow is a significant part of the UK economy

Is it, really ?

From Heathrow's own website[1], so we can expect figures on the "generous" side:

"Heathrow Airport is expected to contribute approximately £4.7bn to the UK economy "

This incident started somewhere around midnight and is currently estimated to be resolved by 15:00. So let's round that up to "one day".

£4.7bn divided by 365 is £12.8m

Compared to say, the UK financial services sector which contributed £208.2bn to the UK economy in 2023[2] where an equivalent day out would cost £570m .... Heathrow's paltry £12m is equivalent to a 30 minute outage in the financial sector.

Also, to put it further into perspective - Tesco, the UK's biggest supermarket operator - had revenues of £68bn last year...[3]

[1]https://www.heathrow.com/content/dam/heathrow/web/common/doc...
[2]https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn06...
[3] https://companiesmarketcap.com/gbp/tesco/revenue/
It isn't broken per se, but the behaviour of inheritance with its many gotchas can be very surprising to a user. Like "IDs are not guaranteed unique across inherited tables" is probably not something you want from your database.

So definitely a case of "do not use", but that's only for your sanity, not because it doesn't work as advertised.
A bit off-topic but I'm so glad to see skeuomorphic UI make a comeback!

Check out the toggle switch in the upper right corner! I hope more designers will follow this example.
I've also never personally been to NYC or Antartica, thus neither of these places really exists.
Yeah but it is 2025 and adoption means using it
Zotero‘s target group is researchers and academics. But I use it for managing, organizing, and syncing my pdf reading material. So I can read my content on the iPad. Calibre can’t do that. I use Calibre to manage my Kindle content. And to manage my ebooks and pdf books. So there‘s some overlap.

I don’t like the reader of Calibre, I prefer reading on my Kindle or in the iPad. Hence Zotero.

But Zotero is way more than that. You can collect / reference / read and highlight research papers and publications. You can add content via browser plugin or via the DOI number of an article. Super smooth UX.
Key takeaways from NTSB's preliminary report on midair collision near DC
The "try on this page" thing doesn't work yet. But there's a "try for free" button that will take you the dashboard so that you can create an account and start using the tool.
You've hit the nail on the head. A huge number of the problems in society today stem from how acting for a government or corporation allows people to get away with doing bad things that they'd be punished for it acting as an individual.
> In the bigger picture - the reserve currency dynamic has allowed many things to grow detached from reality, and those things are in dire need of reform (eg the everything bubble)

It seems like you don’t even disagree about the problem, you just think we should chip away at the symptoms instead of getting at root causes.

Free ice cream is bad! Bobby is going to not learn how to work for a living, and he’s going to get diabetes on top of that.
You need speaker attribution, right?
> the tech industry loves to sell us on the myth of the "dream job."

Well, my dreams usually don't involve having a job at all...
This is one of the reasons why these comments are no longer visible to users who do not explicitly log in and turn on showdead.
nitpicking but etymology isn't exactly what you think it is, what you did is explaining how a slang came to be, which is not etymology.

Anyway, according to your definition Max Headroom should be regarded as a virtual Television host or a "Vhost", except a host is a host, so a vtuber is just a youtuber and a youtuber is just a host.

> Nobody would describe a news broadcast with a static image of the news anchor as a "pngtuber" even if technically it's similar

exactly the point: a host is a host, an anchor is an anchor, that's why nobody would use "pngtuber" for "a news broadcast with a static image of the news anchor" because we already have a name for that that is good enough and generic enough to be understandable by anybody.

Instead now we got terms that are so specific that are useless in any general sense

and that's why etymology doesn't fit here, the word pngtuber is not "in the language" it's a slang and it wants to stay like that, if it eventually reaches mainstream status, pngtubers will start calling themselves jpeg2000vimeoers to separate themselves from the peasants

p.s. anyway this is nothing new, it's just a new name for something old, there was a time when internet and the computing devices in general were very limited resource wise and you had to do sh*t like this because it was the only way to do it.
I thought one of the motivations is that its all privatize. so anyone getting detained is money in the pocket for the company doing the detaining once some official indicates a person may need to be detained.
> The inefficiency of American institutions is nearly limitless. Don’t put too much stock in the glacial pace of our bureaucracy as being malicious when it happens everywhere else out of broad incompetence.

The purpose of a system is what it does.
Or maybe just extremely inefficient due to the huge complexity of reality and how it hides a lot of the power dynamics and real decision making.

Big entities are such that if you take it all down, you feel the side effect of output (maybe value, maybe something else) but if you take Hugh chunks, you might not feel much because they're so extremely ineffictive and value creation doesn't correspond with value received for the individuals that created it.
But the lens and camera assembly isn't a vacuum, if there's radon in the air around the camera I'd expect radon to be inside the camera too, right by the CCD.
I think the main issue is that you can't fully control what an llm will output. If Apple products output wrong/silly/dangerous content it is in the news and big reputation hit for them, whereas for a small ai startup people don't really care. Apple likes to have full control over the user experience.
I'd imagine there are. In Shenzhen.
> Off topic:
>
> - Is the big bang theory the scientific consensus on the origin and evolution of the universe ?

Yes, because this theory currently best describes our observations, but there are still many anomalies. Like dark matter / energy / quantum physics / axis of evil.

> - What are the alternatives ?

The big crunch, where the universe ultimately shrinks again. You also have a theory that it expands and shrinks and loops like that. You also have several string theories where they propose that the whole universe is a hologram projection of a higher dimension.

But these theories are lacking certain important explanations of certain observations we have, that most people still keep the Big Bang Theory as the most accurate.
I don't think Python has a particularly optimized bignum implementation.
I've been thinking about this a lot - nearly every problem these days is a synchronisation problem. You're regularly downloading something from an API? Thats a sync. You've got a distributed database? Sync problem. Cache Invalidation? Basically a sync problem. You want online and offline functionality? sync problem. Collaborative editing? sync problem.

And 'synchronisation' as a practice gets very little attention or discussion. People just start with naive approaches like 'download whats marked as changed' and then get stuck in the quagmire of known problems and known edge cases (handling deletions, handling transport errors, handling changes that didn't get marked with a timestamp, how to repair after a bad sync, dealing with conflicting updates etc).

The one piece of discussion or attempt at a systematic approach I've seen to 'synchronisation' recently is to do with Conflict-free Replicated Data Types https://crdt.tech which is essentially restricting your data and the rules for dealing with conflicts to situations that are known to be resolvable and then packaging it all up into an object.
- You can have many sync engines

- Sync engines might only solve small and medium scale, that would be a huge win even without large scale
Tl;dr: yes, but it is really only intended for amateur use.

QMX(+) can technically tune anywhere, you can go into the configuration and adjust the band RF ranges so you have full control over what frequencies the QMX(+) will attempt to tune. These configurations are there so a law abiding ham can keep themselves from making the silly (and illegal) mistake of transmitting out of band.

But it has band pass filters around the ham bands, so you’ll lose sensitivity the further you get from a ham band in general. There would be some places where you wouldn’t lose sensitivity- the 10m and 12m band use the same filter, so you would get full sensitivity between 25-28 MHz. As far as I’m aware you must select a band pass filter and cannot bypass without a hardware mod (I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if Hans put in a bypass for diagnostic purposes but I don’t know). There is almost certainly a way for you to make one of the band pass filters very wide, but this would be a substantial modification, requiring you to figure out the inductance values yourself.

On the Tx side the issue is low pass filters. You can configure which filter bank gets used, so you could configure it to transmit on any frequency. But the filters are designed specifically to keep the the transmissions clean and legal- there are certainly frequencies where you would have to select a low pass filter that does not suppress a harmonic to legal levels.

Footnote: the 160m band has issues on the QMX+ but I’m pretty sure that will get fixed in another firmware release. But for now the useable range is ~3.5-54 MHz and not all the way down to 1.5 MHz.
I eat alfalfa too, and sell some in my shop. But neither me or the cows eat only that: we like to diversify our intake to stay healthy and (global or local) logistic bring us a variety of other food/nutrients.

Sure some cows eat more alfalfa than me but most of them never taste a bit of that and only knows corn, soy and friends.

Some other superplants in the soy/quinoa category to consider: buckwheat and lupinus. Yummy.
> There's no such thing as reliable network in the world

I’m not saying there is
> some creators use fully dynamic rigged models with motion controls

> some use static images

you mean avatars?
Cybertruck crash report says witness could not open door to save victims
I'm talking system-wide add blocker which also blocks in-app ads.
Docker containers ran as root by default for a great number of years. I'm not even sure if it has now finally been changed.

They provided no sandboxing whatsoever.
Alternatively, something that doesn't seem to be mentioned so far in this comment threads, is befriending your neighbors and gifting them what vegetables/fruits they don't have and them doing the same to you, hopefully leading to less stock of everything but more variety.
No, you just live in a bubble of smart and really driven people.

The vast majority of people's passions are partying, sex, alcohol/drugs, watching sports, gossiping, generally wasting time. Things that mostly

This whole line of thought to me is embarrassingly clueless, naive and basically childish.

It is just mind blowing to me how smart people can't see what a bubble they live in.

I almost suspect, the higher a person's IQ, the more susceptible they are to living in a bubble that basically has nothing to do with the majority of people with an IQ of 100.
The problem is that the very purpose of a textbox is to submit data. So you'll have to add the caption to every single textbox.

(I've actually tried to do something similar in my browser, but it was an eyesore so I removed it.)
Yes but they don't work on iOS
You can block ads in iPhone apps?
Bit twiddling hack to quickly create a bitset from an array of boolean
I'd settle for at least not converting kanji to pinyin
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Good point, but there’s a key difference between what abstract base classes or protocols enforce and what this proposal aims to do.

- Abstract Base Classes (ABCs) and Protocols help define interfaces and ensure that methods are implemented, but they don't automatically ensure object consistency across the class. They focus on the shape of objects, not the correctness of their internal state over time.

- This proposal for class invariants would enforce state consistency automatically after every method call, regardless of what methods are defined in the class. It’s more about ensuring that the internal state of the object is always valid (like Balance >= 0) without requiring explicit checks after every method.

As for decorators: Yes, they could technically enforce invariants, but the key point here is consistency and minimal friction. Using a decorator still requires you to opt in manually, and can lead to potential mistakes, especially when inheritance or metaclasses are involved. The goal of this proposal is to provide an explicit, built-in way to define and enforce invariants, without needing a decorator for every class or method.
btw, here's an article about it in Jan

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2025/01/china-suddenly-...

Surely the D-day is coming
I contend that every judge, politician and law enforcement officer who's ever signed off on this idea is involved in a criminal conspiracy, in every colloquial sense of the term.

The whole idea would moot the fourth amendment.
Those trucks are doing things for people, and different people cause different amounts of trucks. If you have some cool use case for a ton of trucks--as a consumer, buying a kind of product or service that causes trucks to go back and forth to satisfy your interests--you should bear more of the cost of maintaining the roads for those trucks than I do, or you get a tragedy of the commons where the cost of constantly rebuilding roads is thrown at everyone and no one is incentivized to lower their use of trucks.
It is a good read. It is early so I can't help wondering if I am nodding, because it hits close to home or coffee did not hit yet, but I think I agree with the author here.
What deadline?
I think that it might still be possible to connect your Kindle to your computer via USB cable and back up the files that way.
Questions That Will Make Your Agency Bleed, Weep, Welp in Fear
What about this article from AP, Monday, April 24, 1933, doesn't say wellness farm, but it also isn't very accurate. Was a cursory search of contemporaneous articles and that popped up, probably not impossible to find more with similar descriptions. Enough to at least understand the message at the time was much softer than reality.

> Some 18,000 Germans from all walks of life are being held in the political concentration camps in various parts of the country.

> Wilhelm Frick, Prussian minister of the interior, explains that they will be kept there until they become "fit citizens," reconciled if not converted, to the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler.

> Sanitary conditions generally are described as excellent. There are doctors at each camp to care for the health of the inmates, and some of them report that the political prisoners are adepts [sic] at getting on morning "sick call."

> The physical culture includes morning setting-up exercises, football matches and similar group games. The manual labor is mostly tidying up the camp premises and barracks, but there are odd Jobs too, such as sewing or painting swastika emblems on confiscated Communist flags.

> Taeglische Rundschau sees political ideas of tomorrow coming from the concentration camps of today. Quoting a prisoner as saying "Sure we'd like to get out; but this is a good enough place to think things over," the paper comments:

[0] https://newspapers.ushmm.org/historical-article/1933-camps-u...
The last section about the whale’s name is absolutely delightful.