skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Note that Google recently rolled out Android updates that default a lot of battery killing AI features to "on" even on older devices, dramatically reducing their battery life. This may have been an attempt to boost sales of new phones, or it may be that Google thinks the AI features are so compelling that they will drive new purchases.

As an Android developer, I haven't heard anything about any such "battery killing features" being rolled out to anything. Can you provide a source or did you just make this up?
What does this have to do with hacking???
Yes, ookimi is the common reading for 大君 today.
Taikun seems to have come from Edo period. According to several Japanese dictionaries, this was the title applied to the Shogun, especially in foreign correspondence, which I assume was primarily with China and Korea from most of that period. This title was probably more appropriate for use with Chinese or Korean speakers, who would read Shogun (將軍) as General, a purely military title.
In any case, it seems that after Japan opened up to western countries following Commodore Perry's gunboat diplomacy, the term was imported to the West referring to the Shogun.
From the abstract:

> In practice, the confusion around AI’s capacities serves as a pretext for imposing more metrics upon human endeavors and advancing traditional neoliberal policies. The revived AI, like its predecessors, seeks intelligence with a “view from nowhere” (disregarding race, gender, and class) — which can also be used to mask institutional power in visions of AI-based governance.

Later:

> The manufactured AI revolution has created the false impression that current systems have surpassed human abilities to the point where many areas of life, from scientific inquiry to the court system, might be best run by machines. However, these claims are predicated on a narrow and radically empiricist view of human intelligence. It’s a view that lends itself to solving profitable data analysis tasks but leaves no place for the politics of race, gender, or class. Meanwhile, the confusion over AI’s capabilities serves to dilute critiques of institutional power. If AI runs society, then grievances with society’s institutions can get reframed as questions of “algorithmic accountability.” This move paves the way for AI experts and entrepreneurs to present themselves as the architects of society.

This is implausible, to say the least. Isn't this basically a conspiracy theory? Not to mention, huge tech companies were already huge before the AI hype. I'm 4 pages in and I still don't know what's the author's point, other than promoting conspiracy theories and spreading FUD about AI.
Is the lenghtening replacement cycle on mobile phones identical to the lengthening replacement cycle on PC’s from a generation ago?

I recall in the early days of PCs software drove(compelled?) PC hardware upgrades every 2 or so years.

Then hardware upgrades became unnecessary unless you were a hardcore gamer.

Wouldn’t the same hardware/software relationship apply with mobile phone hardware?

What’s the next compelling value proposition?

Will a next generation AI/ML Assistant compel a hardware upgrade in terms of an AI focused chipset or additional sensors for data collection?

Is there anything in the Chinese WeChat ecosystem that compels mobile hardware upgrades?

How else can human vanity in terms of mobile hardware/software be exploited?
Wow great site. Rad for 1 hour ...
Ember v3.7 Released
Smalltalk's OO and Java's OO are pretty different. If you get a chance to play w/ Smalltalk's (say Pharo) you should try it out!
I must say this is really quite entertaining. Unfortunate how many people are suffering because of it though. Why exactly are government shutdowns a thing?
There was always a line from Phnom Penh to Battambang but it was only a single line and I think there were only a couple trains a week on it. Early 2000's you could bribe your way onto it (or even on top of it...) but from what I recall it was extremely slow.

Interestingly since it was only used infrequently the locals knew when the big trains were coming and would basically build their own mini motorised platforms to zip up and down the line. Two sets of wheels on axles, a bamboo "raft" that sat on top of them with a hole towards the back where a motor ran a chain down to the back axle.

I rode on one circa 2008, because it was a single line, if you met someone coming the other way you basically had to disassemble the entire thing (which probably took less than a minute) and then re-assemble once they'd passed.
> They have rather a serious problem there actually. There are many people who buy an expensive iPhone for reasons that would be entirely satisfied by a less expensive one if it existed. It's hardly worth raising sales by 15% if you would have to lower overall margins by 50%.

That is true for a luxury hardware company, but not a services company that wants bigger market share. Your services won't get used if they only work with < 20% of mobile phone users - people will migrate to ones that can be use by everyone.

This is the biggest Apple dilemma - they can't be luxury walled playground and a services company at once.
Replace AI with Science and the articles points are all pretty much the same. The media reports on cancer cures, new batteries and energy tech, etc all the time. It's the same thing. Grand visions, money to be made, stories to sell.
Yeah Siri is limited in its ability to answer queries, and it also doesn’t handle multi-device situations well in my experience.

While holding my phone, I ask Siri to open Netflix. My HomePod in the next room responds that it cannot open apps. Impressive that it can hear me, but maybe consider that My iPhone is much closer to my voice and is able to do the thing I requested?

Just returned the HomePod, for various reasons including this (but mostly because paired HomePods cannot he used as the audio playback device on my Mac, except in iTunes).
10 seconds for what kind of chess? For classical chess it has to be much higher; probably minutes. For bullet chess on LiChess we have less than 2 seconds per move including the network lag

Also important point to note is that most chess masters avoid reaching this complex position and that itself is an important skill. The best way to solve a problem is to avoid it from happening.

GMs like Garry Kasparov would deliberately go into complex positions to confuse their opponents.
interesting list on github - thanks for sharing that here.

I'm looking at the "Coding is not fun" article right now ..will also check out the "Manufacturing an Artificial Intelligence Revolution" that you linked above.
Or this: https://dabeaz.com/sicp.html
They want to believe.
The best way I've found to organize dotfiles is to simply use a bare git repo.

> git init --bare $HOME/.dotfiles`

> alias dot="git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles/ --work-tree=$HOME"

> dot config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no
Greg Bear wrote an excellent pair of books based on this premise :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forge_of_God

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anvil_of_Stars

Anvil of Stars is often said to be the weaker of the pair, but it haunted me for several reasons, not least the extremely spooky ending!
I don't get the hype about elasticsearch at all. Elasticsearch is more suited to searching logs. It doesn't have powerful sort functions, doesn't allow you to use multiple sort parameters etc.

Apache Solr is more suited to search. Lots of document filters, query filters, the index itself is highly configurable and the ability to sort on multiple parameters is great. LTR is also something too good to miss out on.
I think you got the exact opposite meaning of what the parent comment wanted to say.

Assuming you're not trolling: if you think you have ADHD and are telling yourself "may not be best suited" etc I strongly recommend looking into this in more detail. At its root, ADHD is a "hardware problem" in one part of the brain and can occur independent of other attributes of a person. So a highly intelligent and not-so-intelligent person can both have ADHD.

If you DONT think you have ADHD, educate yourself and stop saying ignorant stuff. Do you think near/long sighted people should not wear glasses too, and that people with depression should not get treatment?

You can start by watching Dr. Barkley's videos on youtube.

PS: Every time ADHD is mentioned someone pops up with an ignorant comment. You win this thread!
The reason is probably because teachers are frustrated by parents who are too busy to take interest in their child's education, so they overcompensate and over-communicate, thinking it may help. And if done properly, it might.
And the point is ...?
I just added some clarity that should rebut the "low value" part of that contribution.

Ugly truth isn't low value, it's ugly. There is a difference, and that difference was made clear.

What happened was people saw that, went full stop. That's OK. I will rarely refrain, when I deem it necessary. I don't think I should as that is actually a disservice to me, and readers here.
Does that include the whole supply chain?
My experience from an S&P 500 tech company is that people can be laid off one quarter only for new people to be hired the next. The people making those decisions are completely disconnected from the hugely negative impact this has on the company's ability to execute. There was no real need to layoff anyone, there's plenty of cash, it's purely for engineering the business results and ultimately trying to engineer the share price. The people laid off could have been contributing immensely and the new hires contribute nothing if not negative for a while.

Economic cycles are not a surprise, they happen, a company with enough resources can easily absorb them, use the down turn to double down on developing new products, and come out stronger on the other end.

Laying people off isn't always bad, but at least 80% of the time it's the wrong long term decision. You've spent years on these people learning your products and technology, and now all that knowledge is gone. The impact is continuously felt years down the road. The movement of people this and a variety of other reasons is a net drag on companies. This treatment of people as some sort of "resource" that can be scaled up and down on demand is a joke.

All that is not to say that if you have a problem with specific employees you can't fire them, that's a completely different question.

EDIT: Lemme give you another example I witnessed personally from a multi-billion dollar company. Production of a certain (highly complex) product in was moved to Mexico for a projected cost saving of about 5%. The factory was closed, hundreds of people were laid off. Years later the production cost in Mexico was higher than the cost in the original factory and production was moved back. It was absolutely clear the original decision was iffy but it was done for the optics of making it look like the company is working on cutting costs. It impacted not only those people who got laid off but local supply chains etc. Overall a negative decision for the company, the economy, and the people involved, driven purely by bean counters with no clue. If the company did "focus on employees" and really considered the loss of know-how, the cost of recruiting and training people, the loss of trust, the impact on morale etc. maybe we would have had a different outcome.
If it was me receiving these things from my grandma- I would be so happy and proud.
Perhaps you could call her today and tell her you love her and thank her for her contribution towards your life
It used to be a real thing until a few years ago. Now, it's debatable.
Here's another series of posts where they tear down one of the original Illumina sequencers (the Genome Analyzer).

https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/Illumina+GAIIx+Teardown/
I thought it was SWER (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-wire_earth_return ) but in fact it's something closer to "radio current", as explained in this 20-year-old(!) article:

http://amasci.com/tesla/tmistk.html

The biggest problem I see with this is that it will cause a lot of radio interference --- a long wire with that much power going through it at the frequencies they use will basically act like an antenna.
DNA pioneer stripped of honors over 'reprehensible' race comments
Tied to a single hosting provider
They don't offer any new features that are desirable.

The voice assistants are a flop, not nearly good enogh. I miss my headphone jack a little. I wish I could get a blackberry style physical keyboard.

As much as the iPhone vs Android debate continues to rage, they basically do the same things.
I‘m not sure you can blame Moore‘s law here with iPhone CPUs getting 20-30% performance bumps every year.
If you were in Canada you could get that MRI privately and still probably save quite a bit of money.
I think most people know of Google Wave, Orkut, Google Answers, Google Video (was turned from a service into a search), Picasa and Google Reader.

Most people probably remember Google Labs, iGoogle homepage and Google Answers too.

Google Desktop was pretty popular as well.
NAND Flash Manufacturers to Cut Capex by 2% in 2019 Due to Worsening Oversupply
Oops, yeah I it was a later update... never would have imagined. Good to know, I'll refrain from that in the future.
These desktop OSs don't, however, run a baseband known to be littered with bugs that listens for commands over the EM spectrum amd has low level access to the entire system. Even airplane mode just means it doesn't transmit.
Decades of research for marketing, branding and consumer behaviour seems to indicate that signaling to others is large motivation in buying decisions. Links between status signaling behavior based on expertise, need for status, and brand prominence seem to be significant.

People are not always consciously aware of their motivations. Something just makes them feel right and they rationalize other reasons to justify it for themselves.

Interesting recent research: Coming apart? Cultural distances in the United States over time https://www.nber.org/papers/w24771

>The brand most predictive of top income in 1992 is Grey Poupon Dijon mustard. 42 By 2004,
the brand most indicative of the rich is Land O’Lakes butter, followed by Kikkoman soy sauce.
By the end of the sample, ownership of Apple products (iPhone and iPad) tops the list. Knowing
whether someone owns an iPad in 2016 allows us to guess correctly whether the person is in the
top or bottom income quartile 69 percent of the time. Across all years in our data, no individual
brand is as predictive of being high-income as owning an Apple iPhone in 2016.
My solution was to run WhatsApp in emulator and enable adb over tcp and send adb commands from server directly to emulator. I automate sending messages and pdf files from our erp system. and for receiving messages we just have a Whatsapp web available for one of our employee so he can reply and escalate whatever.
How about a system where grades are published online. If the parent and student don't acknowledge the grade within 7 days, a reminder text is sent. Then later the actual grade.

A related issue is that many parents struggle with school website logins/passwords. I bet a significant percentage never log in, all year. But they can't ignore their phones.
Oh my god. This is a game changer. Thanks a ton for this enlightenment.

Any gotchas I need to be aware of?

I've been using GNU Stow to manage mine and haven't yet run into issues but it did bring some fiction.
If I remember correctly, the “fee” they charged for the phone was charged regardless of whether or not you renewed. I remember doing the math multiple times each year, and there was never a reason to not renew, unless you planned on changing carriers.
There is a typo on the website:

2. Enter amount
Your customers will them enter details about the charge e.g amount, name, email

s/them/then
On point. I think that also is applicable to your personal life btw. I had a short-lived existensial crisis a few days back, realizing that my life is getting too complex for me to properly manage it. Things were falling out of hand, I wasn’t making enough progress, etc. I even had a suicidal thought, my first in a very long while. But then reflecting on it I realized that this complexity is driven by my mounting desires. To improve my balance and regain the sense of control over my life, I should examine these desires and get rid of secondary ones, which would make my life simpler and I would be less prone to error (blunder in the article’s terminology). Instantly made me feel better :)
Again, I didn't vote on that post and I was just guessing at the motivations of people who did downvote.
That headline is quite misleading, as there are several re-configurable "software-defined" satellites active in orbit, each one presenting different degrees of flexibility. Dynamic power and frequency allocation have been used since the first HTS (Viasat-1, Echostar 23...), while dynamic bandwidth allocation is also a standard design in new satellites (Viasat-2, for example).

Furthermore, other satellites such as Hispasat 36W-1 already have direct radiating arrays / phase-arrays (which I am pretty sure is the core technology of EUTELSAT's Quantum). Sure, Quantum might be (one of) the first satellite that makes full use of this technology, but this is the current trend and all the big satellite comms. companies are going to launch a similar satellite in the next 1-2 years (SES-17, SpaceX Starlink, mPower...).

In any case, I believe that the dynamic resource management (DRM) software (which EUTELSAT claims to have developed) will play a crucial role in all these new satellites. Given the payload flexibility, optimally configuring all these degrees of freedom will become a very very challenging task.
Great excuse to get introduced to this wonderful engineering youtube channel (no affiliation) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFQG9kuXSxg
I snapped a few photos from Russo's book 'The Forgotten Revolution' that show the logical structure of the mechanism, and also the pump of Ctesibus mentioned in the article:

https://imgur.com/a/BnaGIvW

The full citation for [Price: Gears] is

Derek J. de Solla Price, "Gears from the Greeks: The Antikythera mechanism - a calendar computer from ca 80 b.c.", Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 64 (1974), part 7. Book reprint: New York, Science History Publications, 1975.

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Copying an older comment of mine:

The spectacular technical achievement of the antikythera mechanism, apart from its overall complexity, is the presence of differential gearing. Specifically, a differential turntable allows it to add or subtract angular velocities: you subtract the effect of the suns movement from the lunar movement to compute the lunar cycle.

PS Gears and cog wheels were only invented a century or two before the antikythera mechanism; scientific progress during the Hellenistic era was very rapid! Then the decline after the roman conquest was quite rapid as well - by the imperial period (eg Heron's writings) techniques like differential gears had already been lost, and they wouldn't be reinvented till (i think?) the 18th century!

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Also relevant to combat some of the nonsense about religion and rome that have appeared in this thread is this comment about the decline of greek science:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18644880
Algorithm browses Wikipedia to auto-generate textbooks
Radix Tempo whitepaper
"He told me he realised one night that as he was writing a song, he found himself asking 'If I write this, will Bones like it?' I said to him that we were getting to be kind of like an old married couple. I said I don't want to be the reason that an artist can't create. It was time for him to find another producer. We shook hands and that was it. It was a great ride."

That's really interesting. I've always wondered about long-term creative/prdouction relationships, like Radiohead and Nigel Godrich, U2 and Steve Lillywhite, and some film directors who work with the same crews for decade after decade. Yes, you have that trust and magic and consistency, but can it hold the artist back in some ways?
Using AR as a superhuman ability: trajectory prediction
> I'll certainly acknowledge that most kids do not suffer such a reaction but not that it's impossible for some to, but those who were certain wouldn't do that.

You're conflating a population level claim for an individual claim.

Also, consider that we have as much evidence that vaccines cause autism as we do the claim that vaccines cause lightning strikes around humans. Which is to say, all the data we have show no link whatsoever.

So I think the people were mostly right to argue with you on this point.
My Quest for Home Automation, Part 4
Thanks. I have need something like this, but the web pages do not indicate anything about what it does, how it works or how to use it. I don't have Node installed, either, so it was a waste of time clicking through. I wonder why it was posted here?
Was going to say the time wasted interviewing pales in comparison to the time wasted if the non-compete becomes an issue legally.
Conviction would be my answer
Swift tries to be a jack of all trades, but I think as a scripting language (as in this example) it falls short. Having to start a run loop, write asynchronous callbacks (completion handlers), and implement custom JSON decoders just to make a web request is introducing a ton of complexity that might make sense in an event-driven interactive GUI application, but not so much in a quick shell script.

Swift tools might be a good choice for use cases where you need to integrate with an existing Swift project, or if you need lower level APIs.

In this example, a Bash script would have been almost done by the time you worked out the `curl | jq` command. But in other similar cases I would suggest Python Requests, which will take perhaps 10% as much code and avoid issues of Linux compatibility and mistakes like forgetting to call `resume()` on your download task or `exit()` in some branch (there are five calls just to keep the program from looping forever).

That said, I think this blog post is very informative and well-made for a beginner interested in talking to a web-based JSON API from Swift.
Couldn't agree more with this. The same issues occur with entrepreneurial relationships - I've worked in large companies with all of the above issues, and also started various ventures and been highly aware of shifting priorities and focuses that have led to burnout. This is more subtle but since you have to keep things moving forward can create greater personal risk
> (with regex search instead of useless by-word indexing)

Perhaps I misunderstand your situation, but I don't see any "CREATE INDEX" available in Clickhouse, and thus won't "SELECT * FROM logs WHERE match(message, '(?i)error.*database')" require a full column-scan (including, as you mentioned, decompressing it)? Versus the very idea of an indexer like ES is "give me all documents that have the token 'ERROR' and the token 'database'" which need not tablescan anything

I only learned about the project 9 minutes ago so any experiences you can share about the actual performance of those queries would be enlightening -- maybe it's so fast that my concern isn't relevant