skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not blanket defending them.

(1) I'm a right-to-repair activist, I believe that batteries should be user-serviceable and preferably end-user-serviceable. The fact that Apple refused to replace batteries in exchange for a fee is nutters to me. Apple's general disdain for third-party repair is indefensible.

(2) I want a system that tries to get as much performance as possible at all times, and that means as a consumable part (the battery) ages, less performance is available because less instantaneous power is available. This aging process begins on the first day and first charge cycle of ownership. That means if the device is always pulling the most power possible out of the battery, the performance characteristics of the device change over time, like balding tires or razor blades. A balding tire or razor blade is not defective, even if I can't take corners as tightly or have to slow down my shave to avoid cutting up my face.

(3) I would prefer a device that ramps down peak performance over time to match the capabilities of a consumable part rather than one that artificially limits peak performance early on to avoid a ramp-down. And I would certainly prefer a device that throttles at 20% capacity to one that takes a dirt nap at 20%. I had one of those, and it was awful. I couldn't rely on it to get home, for instance. The patch at issue here resolved that completely. I'd also prefer a device that is on at 20% to one that shuts down before it gets to 20% in some effort to avoid throttling.

(4) I don't think that a battery that is able to supply less instantaneous power over time is defective so long as its reduced capability is in line with expectations for the given age and number of charge cycles, and therefore shouldn't be eligible for a complementary automatic in-warranty battery replacement.

(5) Ok, say you prefer the other. Fine, don't buy an iPhone. It's not a 100 million dollar lawsuit worthy issue. It's at most a good will issue for the few folks who would prefer the other behavior, and having a switch resolved it.

Is that really such a ridiculous stance? Does this really irritate you?
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How late? Late 20s? 30s, 40s, or 50s? I think that, having come to the realization, you're already probably far ahead of the curve.

I've been very inspired by Mandelbrot's life, lately. Reading "The fractalist", his memoir, it's possible to realize two things:
1) how incredibly resilient he and his family were;
2) how he worked from his own definition of success: the fact that he ended up achieving what most people define as undisputed success was almost incidental. He was, to use Joseph Campbell's words, following his bliss.

Mandelbrot was born in 1924. The Mandelbrot set was discovered in 1980. Of course he worked on important things before that, but having his major discovery in the mid 50s puts things in perspective.
Adding some anecdote: I'm male and watched Friends in the 90s. Now my 13yo nephew has got into it via Netflix.
This sucks. It would be nice if they at least offered an option to pay for hosting without ads. Moving all the videos to another provider will take a lot of time. Any suggestions btw? I would prefer a provider that charges for hosting and that's their business model.
I will never harp on privacy and security behind a couple of walled gardens. It is a wasted effort.
Wasn't there a startup about 10 or 15 years ago dedicated to building communities of communities. I think it was called Nine-something and was started by one of the early internet big shots...

I tried searching for this on Google but failed miserably.
no-compile bundling comes to mind. Also, there is no "git executable" available in the browser, which is where this library shines (e.g. online IDEs that sync/share using github or gitlab repos)
I'm kicking myself for not going for a job there in the past! I know/knew quite a few people who work for Verafin, and I've heard it's a great place to work.

This is fantastic news for Verafin, and, like you said, will have a huge impact on the local economy of the St. John's area. It's nice to hear some good news for our area for a change. I look forward to watching the software industry in the area unfold over the next few years.

It's great to hear that their headquarters is going to remain in St. John's as well, I feared the worst when I initially read the headline.
100 KB of images is not the same as 100 KB of JavaScript. You could technically still create a website that is a 1 KB HTML document that loads almost 1 MB of JavaScript, which is definitely too much.
I tried to export my subscriptions list as OPML today... Youtube has removed that option now. You cannot easily grab the RSS list of your subscribers anymore.
Part of the problem here though, is that many people don't want to pay for software if there is a free alternative, so market forces work such that anyone who tries to attempt such a thing often gets sidelined by someone else who releases their binaries for free.
I’ve always had a project in mind for a bespoke search engine that only indexes pages smaller than 65kb.
> But infrastructure ages, and 60 years isn't a bad run.

Infrastructure can also be maintained and last longer than this, which is why I'm personally sad. Had Arecibo always had the ~60 year timeline, it would've been a bittersweet retirement, like Voyager. In this case I just feel like it's gone before it should. Arecibo has been receiving reduced funding since the early 2000s [1].

The end of an era, although thankfully not of science mega-projects. There's still plenty of cool ones operating or under construction.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Observatory#Funding_co...
See my comment here[0] for a real world use case!

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25152185
I think you’re looking at this wrong. This rule was originally created in 1933 to mitigating societal economic risk.

The reason why having money was the objective definition was because defining expertise objectively is difficult. (What are you going to do? Have a standardized test?) This problem still remains.

Like you said, having money doesn’t make you a savvy investor. However, you can typically absorb the losses with comparatively less pain. Also, since you have more money, you can make more investments, which means you gain experience, and thus hopefully better at avoiding bad investments.
Feature request: Can you please add support for `git log -- path/to/file` that isn't slow as hell? Thank you.
Yet bitcoin is close to its all time high! HNers have been telling me every month for the past 10 years that the wheels were about to come off... any day now...
I'm not sure how that makes the argument stronger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenfell_Tower_fire
I feel like I'm in your friend's position right now. I absolutely hate working on services. Hate having to muck around with AWS and Kubernetes. I like writing code, period (that excludes Terraform and YAML in my definition). I also have an interest (though nil actual experience) in embedded systems. It's what I play with in my free time to keep my brain working and not going totally insane.

I stay because the company where I work at pays me a handsome salary, RSUs, and has great benefits. Somehow my team likes me. Somehow I made it to a high position... though I suspect I've been promoted to the level of my incompetence and the next perf review won't be great.

The problem is that I'm so burned out right now that no job at all sounds appealing.
>> I try to follow it with everything I do.

I mildly disagree (commenting mostly on the article, less on JC). I certainly don't treat every aspect of my life "the best I can", but rather my time is precious and I try to be smart about my time. Where is it best allocated? Folding laundry to my best ability? I could certainly research it and become an expert, but is this good use of my time? Is this how I want to be known as? Is this this how I want to define myself?

Time is precious. Know where to spend it.
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If a site is able to reach the same performance without AMP (which is certainly possible), then I don't see what the issue is. At the end of the day we want fast pages. AMP with the incentives was a good way to force sites to be faster, but if they want to achieve it their own way, I don't see an issue either. As long as the overall bar is not lowered.
Most content is unbearable with Ads so I pay as I do every other entertainment service that I want to spend my time watching. With YouTube most of the revenue (55%) go to the creator which I'm also happy to support.

IMO it's a net positive that it has created new business models that's open to anyone with a camera/mobile.
I was really blown away by how much a finer point on the pen helped me improve my writing -- something which seemed like a lost cause.
In aeropress and in another occasion by avid yerba drinker.
Except... they didn't own the data? AMP was conceived because Google was worried about everything moving into Facebook's walled garden. That's what it was competing against.

Google doesn't need to own the data because Google is the world's gateway to the open web. They don't care who owns the data as long as they can crawl it.
Who cares about best in Software Engineering? Time and again I've wanted to do the best, to be asked to just provide a "workable solution" because either the best costs time or money.
And I get it, business is all about tradeoffs.
I do the best in domains where I have the complete freedom to do so.
I don't think anyone (here) would complain if Google explicitly used Lighthouse scores in ranking algorithms. Or any similar agnostic user experience ranking.
I always viewed AMP as being primarily for Google’s data collection interests, not primarily lock-in.
The limits to how far a government should go to protect sane adults from themselves are arbitrary, and inevitably end up stifling progress. Any regulation in crypto space will be damaging so early in the game. A Darwinian wiping-out of incompetent investors may seem ruthless but may in fact be better for society.
Likely: Advent of Code but just a guess.
Yes! I am regularly in the mood to watch something on YouTube - mostly new documentaries on societal/political subjects. But I just can't find anything relevant. Also the search function is critically handicapped. It's really frustrating. They are not increasing my time on YouTube, they reduce it.
There are a bunch of awkward constraints and trade-offs that make it difficult to do DNS-over-TLS to authoritative servers. I have some work in progress trying to write a reasonably comprehensive analysis of how to go about it (I have been waiting years for someone else to and finally lost patience...)

https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/dns-privacy/Fv91jt_n2-...

https://github.com/fanf2/draft-dprive-adot
Yes, they might not like it, although I wonder if Anbox might have a non-rooted version that works just like non-rooted Android.

Also, banking is one of those things where in 95% of the cases you probably don't need an app because they all have web portals (although, I know some banks don't let you deposit checks remotely without an app, so that is an issue).
> That really is amazing, and kind of disheartening as a person with a BSc in Cellular/Molecular biology

It was an interdisciplinary PhD and it took me six years to complete, the first two essentially to learn the basics and understand the problem.

> I honestly had a much greater fascination in Microbiology

Microbiology is extremely interesting; I also have a couple of books (Brock etc.).
Soooo... If anyone wants the last Intel MacBook Pro with 4 Thunderbolt ports, hit me up :D. I'm really wanting the new Air.
so you don't use ad blocker I see :/
> While SEC has "good intentions" behind regulations around who qualifies to invest, and also behind forcing companies to disclose certain financials if they are open to public investment, it is in a sense monopolizing the service of "investment diligence."

Its not monopolizing diligence, its setting a floor for diligence for investments by people outside of (expanded by this action) pool of investors.

> The absence of these regulations will create room for businesses who would vet investments for you at different risk levels.

Are you talking about a hypothetical scenario where the SEC removed accredited investor rules rather than expanding it to included basically people with licenses or currently-active professional roles related to investing rather than merely people with lots of money?

Also, such businesses exist already in the financial space.
From a laymen's perspective, it's hard to imagine just how negligent the port authorities could have been in managing the warehouse. 2750tons high-explosive Ammonium Nitrate? Check. 50tons Ammonium Phosphate? Check. Stacks of flammable wooden pallets among Ammonium Nitrate? Check. 1000 flammable rubber car tires? Check. 23tons of explosive fireworks? 5 rolls of detonator cord? Check. I mean... how/why?
I also strugged with analysis. I always felt like epsilon-delta proofs involved pulling some absolutely strange value for delta out of your ass that happens to work out in the end, and I never developed an intuition for that. Same with integrating by parts, oh it just works out so nicely if you rewrite u in this totally obtuse way.
Based on the BBC article in the parent comment, the buyer wasn’t actually a buyer / reseller but just a middleman representing the collector. And he said that though he wasn’t privy to the price paid, it wasn’t $16K but was also not as much as $1M. He also said no meteorite is worth $1M.
When you refer to Gattaca: it doesn't reflect our society very well.

While i like that movie very much, he still got on a spaceship having much worse physical abilities than all the others of his crew.

Also in this specific topic, i'm not talking about a human who is able to overcome most/all of his obstacles given at birth. I'm talking about me and all other humans who are not able to do so.

I would also argue that on an ethical level, you would require to make sure that every new human being has the best chance our society can provide for him/her. Like if technology is so far advanced, that you can just scan an embryo, you see why it would become much smaller or way too tall which would lead to medical issues and you could fix it with a press of a button, you would need to do it.

I would argue that not doing this, is the same thing as denying a preterm baby an incubator.
It’s not particularly utopian, I’m proposing reducing the number of subjects and the duration of public education which should allow for a larger share of the current educational resources to be spent on each student. This is to enable those resources to be spent preparing the student to solve problems themselves. I limited the list to a minimum of topics necessary to consume, produce, synthesize and communicate ideas and information. Programming is in there because I consider it as necessary as literacy and numeracy since it allows you to reify some of your cognition in the same way that writing notes or performing a calculation does. Civics doesn’t belong in that list because it’s not a fundamental skill, it’s not even taught in many countries. A student who has been taught to read comprehensively, communicate clearly and think critically should have no trouble acquiring that knowledge.
You’ve been completely wrong about everything so far. Might be time to just give it a rest.
> If I ask for a nslookup or dig result, I can no longer be sure that the OS resolver is giving the same answers that Firefox is returning.

Some OSes have broken that for a while. I'm sure I've seen ping, dig and applications reporting different results.
Overall very nice (and useful for someone like myself), but if I may bitch for just one second :)

(I was browsing in incognito mode, if that's relevant)

Navigation seems really broken. I can select a job listing to get details, but the back button on my mouse doesn't work as expected. It takes me back to the page before the home page, not the home page itself.

Clicking on the scroll bar while viewing a listing makes the detail view disappear.

Bookmarked for future use anyway. Thank you !

Edit: a filter for part-time/contract work would be very useful
It's been a little while since I dabbled in radio astronomy, but arrays like the VLA use interferometry to produce high resolution images. However, the high resolution is only along the directions between pairs of telescopes. Since you don't have telescopes in all directions, there are some directions with low resolution and others with high resolution. (In the technical parlance they talk about "UV-coverage" and filling the UV plane".) This produces patterns in the Fourier domain that look like this: http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~vlbacald/idx/snap_uv.gif. [1]

As the object moves in the sky, these dots move around and sort of "fill out" the image in Fourier space, so you get coverage that could look like this: http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~vlbacald/idx/lowd_uv.gif but it's still not 100% full.

The advantage of a telescope that is a single large dish like Arecibo is that this plane is completely filled. The resolution is more or less the same in all directions. The main disadvantage, of course, is that it is embedded in the ground and can only look at what is directly overhead. (They can maneuver the secondary dish to look at things a little bit away from directly overhead, but I seem to remember it only being a few degrees.)

[1]: See this page for those images and more details: http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~vlbacald/read.shtml
A good heuristic is that if the damages are less than $20k or so, it doesn't make financial sense to sue. So a lot of small investments through a sketchy or one sided contract can easily allow bad actors to continue to operate for years.
Just a tad
Firefox on Android supports Ublock Origin (and most other desktop plugins).
I had an English calc teacher in high school who drew his 'x' as approximately ")(" (With the arcs touching-ish) and the cross in the normal way, which made it much easier to distinguish the two.
> DNS-over-HTTPS needs to die in a fire.

Sadly not going to happen
You could do something like what N-O-D-E.net does. Although I couldn't find a video on their setup, I've heard the administrator is active on their IRC channel, or you could email them at mail at n-o-d-e.net if you wanted to ask.

https://n-o-d-e.net/

https://n-o-d-e.net/node_mini_server3.html
> I find the amount of ads I have to go through to watch a video so annoying that I'd rather not watch it at all.

Could you share what that amount is? One ad every how many minutes? I ask because I suspect that it depends on the geographic region of the user and other factors, and I’m curious how bad it is in some places.
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There's the risk that Google will ban your account as it has done previously to some users, losing access and data hosted in their ecosystem (Gmail, Docs...), that's the thing that scares me the most. But yeah, Vanced (and the new YT Music) is amazing.
Could work. After all, that's how Egghead became Newegg, right?
Port RISC-OS to RISC-V? Interesting idea..
In other words - the engineered a product that is much harder to break, is more private, and is harder to hack. All things most customers want.

> I'm not renting it. I'm not licensing it. I'm buying it.

I buy a cat. I can't complain about it not being a dog. I bought it. I didn't "license" the cat, I didn't "rent" the cat. But I still can't make it into a dog, despite the fact that I own it.

Go ahead, hack it, if you can. All the power to you. That's your right. You can't impose your absurd dev geek worldview on everyone else. That's just wrong. If you want, make a competing device. But you won't.

The App store doesn't need more apps. No one complains about lack of apps on the app store. Androids are flooded with crap apps - I'd rather keep it the way it is.
Thanks. I went looking for a picture though but I really think the article should include one. The importance of marketing and presentation can't be overstated for such a niche product.
Isn't today also world toilet day, and a bunch of other's too?
It's worse when you are trying to put a soothing music to put your baby to sleep and it starts with a loud ad which wakes her up. Or now that she is a toddler, her nursery rhyme videos have political campaign ads in the middle of the song.
The search is very quick. Does anybody know how their tech stack looks like?
It seems FAST isn't a complete substitute for Arecibo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-hundred-meter_Aperture_Sp...
The first item on the list, sjmulder.nl/en/ takes up to 2 seconds to load with TLS being over 500ms.

Is this just some sort of self host?
If everyone bought YouTube Premium, would content providers make money anymore? Or would all the money go to google?
Is it possible to add root CA's for DoH only, so that I can intercept requests at the gateway and terminate the TLS connection there?

Can anyone link to the part of the source tree containing their DoH implementation? I would like to test whether it is possible to distinguish Firefox DoH from unbound.
> What comes next?

The Square Kilometre Array
The list of YouTube channels for learning Python
> People are more savvy these days than the old days.

As compared to the complexity of available investment schemes, no, they probably aren't.

On the other hand, "licensed investment advisors and people currently working in investment-related roles in financial firms" are probably more savvy about investing, as a class, than "people who happen to have more than $1M in assets or $200K in personal or 300K in personal+spouse income".
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https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/jg4rkv/how_a_s...
How does this comment make sense as a reply? Obviously he has never been hit by one of those because he pays for Youtube and gets the ad free version. Same as me.
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what are uses of this? if I want to back up linux I can now via https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217664628-How-d... . This option seems more expensive per month. In the future I could even see backblaze offering something similar to this since they are a zfs shop anyways
The core feature/idea/thought on this product is still a voice message.

Otherwise you can just use whatever you have used already anyway.

Having something like this as main feature, means thats the default. In my opinion therefore not a good tool.
Yeah exactly, I'd think it would need to be more than my current job because there's a lot more risk involved, such as losing the incoming revenue if the product fails. Side projects are definitely not as stable as a job is. Plus, if it's passive, why not work and do the side project to make even more money?
It turns out the free market is extremely good at innovation, but horrible for maintenance or long lived projects - as soon as something is not deemed "profitable" any more, it gets shut down. No matter how useful it is for literally millions of people (Google Reader comes to a mind).
Patrick, i am trying to build a partnership with you guys and can't get anyone to contact me back. We are a venture backed startup in the veterinary telemedicine space - how do I get in contact with someone senior to explore an enterprise level partnership?
Qt fines fine on a Librem 5. I personally was able to run musescore on it.
I don’t get the flagging, it’s a very valid question.

I’m sure the people at PR would rather see the money invested on infrastructure with higher impact on their citizens life.
You mean Jackie Chan, the CCP muppet and traitor to Hong Kong?
When there's a problem. I want to fix it. Not ignore it by making everything else work like crap.
Kurt Vonnegut talked about this too:

https://www.openculture.com/2014/02/kurt-vonnegut-masters-th...