skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Different view from someone new to macOS (bought my first Mac at the end of 2022): I love Apple Music. I have disabled the online stuff because I have no subscription and just use to listen to my local MP3's. I used MusicBee on Windows before and there is no other program on macOS besides Apple Music that comes close to the simplicity of it and I have tried a lot of them. I don't need much but it's embarassing that a lot of music players can't "just play my music folder randomly".
I’m not convinced that a call to emotional trauma is really a factor here (I know a lot of folks that have lost kids, and the streaming profiles don’t even move the trauma needle).

Rather, it’s a basic usability issue, with extra clicks/taps/whatever required, or an overly-complex presentation, requiring extra attention. Also, as noted in another comment, every UI element increases the opportunity for misfires.

In The Days of Yore, we used to “score” our UI, by how many taps/clicks it took, to accomplish tasks, or how long it took, to understand a screen. The lower, the better. I’m a bit of an anachronism, as I still do that.

My experience, is that implementing intuitive, low-interaction UI is really hard. I’m in the middle of designing a screen with drag-and-drop support for a matrix of icons. I’ve been working on it for a couple of days, already, and probably have at least a couple more to go. Lot of work, for just one screen. It’s all about removing unnecessary interactions, and implementing subtle, intuitive affordances. Also, symbolic debugging of UICollectionView is a real bitch. The debugger borks the drag and drop, so I have to use a bunch of print() statements.

I think most software is done by folks that aren’t willing to “go the extra mile,” to design and implement truly intuitive UI.
I'm from EU, the situation of the whole population of circa ANY age is the very same: most do not know NOTHING about common life things. I start to see young who do not want to learn how to drive a car "because we have the metro", re-read not to OWN a car, but just knowing how to drive. Shoelaces start to disappear for crappy tourniquets because many do not know how to tie laces and no, such tourniquets are not quicker not better. It's not a positive evolution like from an ICE to and EV. Many do not know how to cook most basic dishes, they live buying ready-made food and so on.

It's not better in generic culture: many do not know how to handle paper and write with a pen which is REASONABLE these days IF you know how to write on a computer and handle your files properly but no, that second part is not known as well. I know some PhDs who do not know how to manage their own info, even their libraries in Zotero and can't properly quote a damn email.
I don't understand this comment - ofc it is. This is one valid reason out of maybe a million to allow the user to choose once and remember the choice.
Don't you have to be careful because you will get censored version of explicit songs for example?

EDIT: I see iTunes Match is also limited to 256 Kbps.
Xe here. If I had to guess in two words: timing and luck. As the G-man said: the right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world. I was the right shitposter in the right place at the right time.

And then the universe blessed me with a natural 20. Never had these problems before. This shit is wild.
I used DeepSeek and FLUX.1 to create 464708 tattoo designs. Here's the result
Here are the models I used:
- DeepSeek V2 Chat: design ideas, prompts, descriptions and keywords.
- Flux.1-schnell: image generation.
- Stable Diffusion x4 upscaler: upscaling to 4096x4096.
- OpenAI text-embedding-3-small model + FAISS index: finding similar designs.

Total resource usage:
- 350 million DeepSeek V2 tokens (through OpenRouter).
- 1800 H100 GPU hours (through Nexius).
- Two weeks on my desktop workstation (generating PDFs and ZIPs, uploading to the server).
- 4.5 TB of disk space for everything.

Enjoy!
That very much reads like the rant of someone who is sick and tired of the state of things.

I’m afraid that it doesn’t change anything in of itself and any sorts of solutions to only allow the users that you’re okay with are what’s direly needed all across the web.

Though reading about the people trying to mine crypto on a CI solution, it feels that sometimes it won’t just be LLM scrapers that you need to protect against but any number of malicious people.

At that point, you might as well run an invite only community.
The German UBI experiment we're discussing didn't involve 'taxing workers to give to the poor' - it gave unconditional payments to people across economic backgrounds, most of whom continued working.

Your assertion about tax planning misses that proper UBI implementation would include tax reform to ensure the wealthy can't avoid contributing. If anything it demonstrates your clear understanding of whom would actually be taxed to achieve the funding for such social programs. The dragons.

More importantly, the data shows UBI recipients spent money locally on necessities and small businesses, not funneling it to large corporations. The 'indirect subsidy' theory contradicts spending patterns observed in UBI trials.
> Nothing good can come from giving your TV Internet access.

> Get a <...> Android box.

Why are you ok for Google to spy on you but not LG?

There's absolutely 0 guarantee that a no name android box isn't doing the same, if not worse than what LG and Samsung are doing.

Another device adds another failure point, possibly another remote (lets be honest, HDMI-CEC is not reliable. It's been almost 20 years and device support is still spotty and bug ridden on both sides), extra complexity, extra space. You might want that choice and freedom, and that's absolutely fine, but I'd rather not thanks.
for the record, I meant software freedoms and sometimes technical stuff only!
The EU is mostly stringent on the environment, and single-use rockets are pretty bad for the environment: all the metal and sophisticated parts must be produced, only to be thrown into the ocean.

I would expect reusability to be a requirement based on that factor alone. You ca produce carbon-neutral fuel, but there is a lot of environmental load involved in production of the very rockets.
I wonder how much Google actually makes on these. I won't be surprised if they basically make nothing on them.

It is a bit fun that seemingly the best way to de-google and de-apple yourself is to buy an actual Google device and install grapheneos on it.
Uber and Bolt apps works like normal. I don't know what is Grab.
The default camera lacks post-processing tricks, but you can install Google Camera if you like (shouldn't be a privacy concern here with limited permissions).
interstellar travel
and a lot of libertarians do favour UBI because it is an alterative to means tested welfare that does not distort market mechanisms. here is an example.: https://www.adamsmith.org/press-releases/rising-evidence-bas...

There is support for UBI from socialists too. The opposition comes from the "centre" - people whose main concern is maintaining the status quo.
HDMI-CEC is almost 20 years old and we're still saying "it might work".

My previous TV only had one CEC port, which was also the ARC port. I had a receiver that conencted via HDMI meaning that CEC was only usable on that device, and not on any other things that were connected to it.
I’ve tried Arrow, Delorean, and Pendulum, plus the stdlib datetime of course, and settled on Whenever. It fits what I actually do with datetimes better, plus it seems more actively maintained. With the others I always seem to have a nagging feeling in the back of my mind that I am missing a whole load of edge cases. With Pendulum that seems more baked into the API.
Bureaucrats*
Those product managers must have a great resistance to pepper spray in their dating lives.
If it's inflation adjusted and I trust it's forever, I would 100% quit my job and work on something less stressful that I enjoy more. 1200 Euro is slightly below my average monthly expenses; my job pays multiple times this, but I keep at it to save and make sure I won't ever want for money.

(I live in Spain, not Germany)
Google Photos and tying to coerce users into paying for Google One storage.

Yeah.
Do you think the UK just can't access most of the internet that uses SSL encryption? What makes you think encryption is illegal?
Python devs needing to be sheltered from mature C++ themes?

Checks out I guess.
> No one saw neutrinos coming for example.

Other than Pauli, you mean? It was hypothesized around 1930. Discovered in 1934.

The basis of scientific method is following:

1. You notice something.

2. You ask a question.

3. Form a hypothesis.

4. Experiment.

5. Analyze.

6. Draw conclusions.
We should normalize having a "sceenshot" menu in the navigation again. Not their social, website has any. Is this a text based operating system?
In my personal opinion using low melting point solder means you aren't qualified to do the repair and maybe should train on broken boards first. Sure, it makes desoldering easier but it's very hard to clean completely and mixing it with regular solder compromises the joints, which is especially important in a highly thermally cycled device like a laptop. Sure, use it to remove a through hole connector from an interface board but maybe keep it away from the mainboard or power delivery..

Just use a preheater for dogs sake, although I think this part can be removed just fine with a regular iron using a bent piece of copper wire that touches all its pins, then heating that wire. Not like you need to care not to overheat it - it's dead already.
Even if they made steps, and were ignored, because management disagrees with them or for whatever reason, they still don't get a pass for disrupting normal business. It is a private company, you can say your opinion, but if you disrupt, you are gone. Very sane and simple.
No, but that does not undermine the case for UBI.
"“We like to tone them down about 10 percent, which probably makes sense because someday maybe they’re not our allies, right?”"

- Trump
(Author here) Yep, I also wrote another article digging into the history of the checkered box character:

https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/the-origins-of-del-0x7f-and-i...
GrapheneOS != root. You don't have root when running GrapheneOS - it would be a security risk.
I know nothing of your objections, so this is more about how I think of mine and how they relate to these kinds of changes.

Being a power users is difficult, I think the best way to do software is to make it APL complicated and only educate one guy in it. The way power users in Excel/Emacs/Accounting software out perform user friendly stuff is amazing. But somethings are meant for the masses, e.g. opening a file.

Dumbing down or magification of interfaces was needed for many other reasons. Gnome and Ribbon were necessary changes IMO, what we had was never going to improve. Of course I wish there was elements that could be reused elsewhere, but that is a pipedream of Smalltalk proportions.

I am now stuck with windows at work, and it is a horrible experience. Everything is so needlessly complicated. In the same way Linux is. I do believe Gnome did manage to improve things, at least when I look at children using Mac, Linux and Windows as power users. My view is that the complexity of Linux is still a little bit easier to understand, but that is just because of a long history and easy abstractions.

I think core objections are often not compatible with products that need to fit and be produced for many people. I do software that is used once by many this has changed my view if GUIs for ever, especially in regards to desktops.
Trump is no economic genius --- and "Liberation Day" is the proof.

How long did our "liberation" from sanity last? About a week. This is how long it took our former friends and trading partners to school Trump in the fact that trade isn't always "bad".

So why exactly did "Tariff Man's" big day turn into a big fail? Two reasons:

1) The real world is a complicated and interconnected place.

Simple minded solutions may sell to simple minded folk watching Fox Noise but this doesn't mean these simple ideas are credible and will actually work in the real world.

2) The USA's biggest export is debt. We sell a lot of debt to our former friends and trading partners. And if they suddenly stop buying, we are sunk.

In other words, isolation is a prescription for economic disaster. The next simple but equally bad idea --- a debt default.

This is all Economics 101 stuff --- and Trump is failing the test.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/why-the-bond-market-is-a...
Hes just asking for an opt out since its not important to him and hes giving an example of what he thinks might be more supporting evidence for why its important to have options :)
I release it as open source and include it in my resume/portfolio. This has helped me get lucrative jobs. The resulting increased income is likely more than I would have earned selling these small projects by multiple orders of magnitude.

Of course, if I were making software with a wide market fit, or a very valuable narrow market fit, I would strongly consider starting a business. But my personal code generally solves very niche problems.
So basically you believe that Israel's decades-long military rule over millions of Palestinians is justified?
Yes, GUIs and Web interfaces can support keyboard navigation. But I have NEVER found one fully exploiting this. Linear (ticket tracking app) is maybe the only one that comes to mind as a good alternative, but nowhere close to the fluidity achieved by TUIs.

I think the reason is "limitation", if you have to design an app that CAN NOT use a Mouse, you'll be darn sure it'll work well with the keyboard.
Now you are a tattoo artist. What's next?
Or most likely, there are oxygen wasters whose performance is measured based on "engagement", aka how much human time they wasted. Designing a low-interaction UI is not in their best interests in that case.
If you go the route of an Android box then be careful with what brand you buy. A couple of years ago a lot of no-name ones came with malware installed.

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2023/01/preinstalled-...
The most common thread in these articles is that people treat the discovery that young people don't retire after receiving $10k or €43.2k from a magic money tree as proving UBI is economic panacea but handwave away the issue of paying for it.
If the taxes are landing just on "the workers" then that sounds like a poorly designed tax system, not a problem with UBI. Replace UBI with anything (roads, defense, welfare) and it is the same problem.
It worked for Uber’s investors.
> I thought to write a 'house manual'.

Please do! Make it on paper, too.

I got a few old school binders with the house, and it's been a life saver. It's sorted by room, and all sorts of useful things are in there: Exact model number of the water heater. Wiring diagrams of the garage and cellar. Location of the master water valve. The location of the tool to reach inside the ventilation ducts. Where the stones are dug in the garden. How water flows when there is flooding. How to replace filters in the rain spouts. The garden roof may take damage from heavy snowfall, but that the incline of the garage roof is enough.

I am extremely grateful for this binder and try to keep it updated for the next owner. It seems a bit elitist to call it common sense. Sure, it's a house, everything can be repaired. But it's good to know why things are built the way they are. And it is much more useful to find out that the watering system needs to be drained late autumn before the fact.
No-name Android TV box is definitively spying on you: https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2023/01/preinstalled-...
"I really was just a fuckin cog in a mega corp"

Yup. Must have been a horrific wake up call :(
Funnily enough I came across a similar comment a few days back

https://www.reddit.com/r/AccidentalRenaissance/s/foguWdeDMY
It's not useless in promoting UBI given the uncritical news coverage in Germany.
Yes, there you go. The users are just a propaganda proxy.

The bitter lesson is that making profit is the only directive.
I just this week implemented an SCGI server, its even easier than FastCGI and the performance difference is arguably negligible.

The parser ended up being 30 lines of code.
Don't forget it all came to the center stage after a mass butchering at a music festival, few beheadings and some Jewish babies kidnapped. Pretty effective! What is a little terrorism for a greater good! /S
The quoted tweet is pretty eye opening:

> Import Chinese battery: 145% tariff

> Import Chinese battery inside Chinese laptop: 20% tariff

> Import Chinese battery inside Vietnamese laptop: 0% tariff

If their goal was to encourage manufacturing in the US, it's not looking good.
I'm not English so I get it, it's not that they dressed up as women specifically, it's that they did it constantly. After the Nth time it got a bit old. I know that men dressing up as women was a UK comedy staple at the time, but it always looked a bit too trite to me (even when I was a teenager).

It has nothing to do with feminism (for me, at least), it's just that I didn't find it funny.
How does fertility dropping below 2.1 have anything to do with not valuing kids? I'd say its because we do value kids and don't value the adults that are choosing not to bring more kids into the world.
>Matthew Johnson, a professor of public policy at Northumbria University in the U.K., who works on basic income and authored a book on the topic, called the findings “unsurprising.”

Seems like the article undermines its own headline.
>I greatly enjoy your...fantasy role-playing terms

It's not that, dragons hoarding mountains of gold has always historically been an allegory for the rich hoarding wealth.

>'fulfilling' (for some) is always going to mean becoming a dragon.

Luckily we have anti dragon tools, like progressive taxation, wealth taxes, and robust social programs to prevent the dragons from sitting on too much gold.

>One example of a dragon was Saddam Hussein, who characterized oppression of the marsh Arabs as "being firm". So it goes. One possible exit from the cycle is the realization the 'fulfilling' is not necessarily measured in materialistic units.

Yeah, the fulfillment is the downstream byproduct of not having to worry about the difficulty of meeting daily material needs, not the justification for the policy itself.
It's funny how UBI is one of the few economic policies that require such rigorous study to be considered for implementation. Pretty much every other aspect of our economic system was just implemented because of economic theory building without much empirical justification.
new form of citizenship, human organization, decentralized governance, sovereignty, autonomous housing
In general,

1) Concerns about EV Battery durability are overblown. https://spectrum.ieee.org/ev-battery-life

2) "very fast charging" should not be the default, it should be rare. It's there to answer the other concern: "But what if I want to road trip?".

As you say, the default is overnight at home or during the day at office or a mall, with the software giving you that "topped up as specified, every morning", that's better than what an a ICE vehicle can provide.

You can decide for yourself how valid these concerns really are, and to what extent EV critics like to inflate them beyond what's real. But nevertheless, they are being addressed.
Sounds like a plan! Here's 100M USD
>who really can’t dedicate another 4 hours for another take home test.

My last job search I took the one that didn't demand a take home test rather than waste time on the job that was far more interesting, given that a take home test is also a crap shoot. I had done a great interview, the job had definite things I could bring to the table that others couldn't, the guy interviewing loved me but wanted me to do a take home test - for the same money as this other company that was a boring e-commerce thing, although international.

The problem is not just 4 hours. I have actually only ever had one that really took exactly 4 hours. Most take 5-6 hours because there are things that are left out of the consideration as to what is required.

I also wonder how this 4 hours time is hit upon? I have to expect most places ask their devs to come up with a problem that will take about 4 hours. And the devs do that. Obviously these are the devs that are really good at making exact estimations of how long any software development task takes, so no problems there.

One task I had to do for one interview I found there were some bugs meaning that the library needed could not just install on my machine I had to do a bunch of work to get it to work on my machine. I followed the git issues thread that was several pages trying out different solutions. Finally got it to work, that was 4 hours! I could now do the 4 hour task. I instead sent a message - hey can't do it, I spent 4 hours doing the get ready to do the task part because of the issues in this github thread, so I guess it's not worth continuing.

They sent back "no send us what you have! It's ok"

So I sent a repo consisting of a package json and a couple configuration files for used libraries, and a note saying this is it because I spent 4 hours doing this issues fix to get this library to work on my machine with link.

The guy who was supposed to evaluate my work sent back a message that my repo was particularly underwhelming. Which, no shit, that's why I sent a message I didn't want to continue! I spent 4 hours making your requested resources work on my machine, I'm not spending a theoretical other 4 hours to actually provide you some code.
reusability is mainly done for cost instead of environment, but you need to launch a lot to re-cup the costs, and esa is not a commercial org like spacex.

I do think the ESA rockets use a more eco friendly fuel then others, that is probably more important then some metal on the seabed.
> New challenges would come up. If calculators made the arithmetic easy, math challenges move to next higher level. If AI does all the thinking and creativity, human would move to next level. That level could be some menial work which AI can't touch. For example, navigating the complexities of legacy systems and workflows and human interactions needed to keep things working.

You’re gonna work on captcha puzzles and you’re gonna like it.
What a weird article. Feels distasteful to utilise a group’s trauma to reinforce your point despite being decidedly anti-child.
"never ask me again" is hard because it is essentially a setting, and if you introduce a setting, you need a way to turn it back off, including the design, UX work, localization work, testing work etc. that is involved in adding a new switch. If you get to 1000 of these, you probably need categorization and search. Oh, and you need to track which ones are even relevant for that user; it doesn't make sense to ask a German to link their Comcast account. You need to make it all work consistently across platforms, except for the settings that should only work on one platform. You get my point.

"remind me later" is simple; you check if there are any children accounts, if no, ask to create one with probability p. There is no state. There is no setting. There is no "what if I accidentally clicked no but want to reverse that decision, where do I go" problem.
Cleese on a talk show with Taylor Swift is evidence of how efortless it is for him to totaly
take over a situation, poke horrible fun at someone, without giving cause for offence, charm the hell out of woman 25% his age ,while talking about his own wife and her cat
he's old now, but still formitable
buddy got to work with him
White House proposal would slash NASA science budget and cancel major missions
You literally suggested ripping DVDs, that's why they brought up low bitrate.
I don't think 2nd hand BRs are that cheap yet.