skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't discard Huawei, they are on par with Samsung.
I dunno. I think Google's new focus on the mid range is where it is at. Got a Pixel 4a 5G and it's a great phone (after the major missteps of the 3 and 4 with their hopeless battery life).

To me, I don't see what I'm missing going up from the 4a to a high end Samsung at twice the cost. Maybe a 90Hz display and a slightly faster CPU/GPU, which seem very marginal.

I think if Google doubles down on its mid range strategy (again) it's on to a winner.

Fwiw I feel similar about the iPhone SE, especially if apple refresh it at some point without a home button and better res OLED screen. Feels we are reaching the end of the S curve on smartphones.
Disclaimer: I am an instrument rated private pilot.

I tried the latest MS FS when it got out and went back to X-Plane for majority of my instrument “currency” training:

1) MS FS still doesn’t have a lot of US instrument procedures available.

2) Avionics (e.g. G1000) doesn’t behave as in real life: buttonology is just wrong and often the logic is wrong too.

3) Planes don’t feel “right” at the edges of the envelope.

I still checkout MS FS challenges once in a while, but I treat it as an arcade. It is not real by any means thought rendering is pretty nice.
Even reading it that way says 'not here yet'.
I'm not arguing against the author. I'm just saying as a general notion that measuring only financial well-being is not the only thing we should care about. Not sure if logic has anything to do with that
Microsoft has tried and failed multiple times.
Japan was never a colony, and Vietnam was a french colony for several generations. You are not getting your examples right.
Manchin is doing theater to appeal to his voter base, who are indeed largely not in his party.

He's being far more cooperative than, say, Liebermann was while passing the ACA, and his actual goal is to say he's fighting those out of control big city liberals by keeping the filibuster, but the changes he'll allow will make it completely different and more or less how it was in the 90s.

Sinema also wants to keep it and seems to actually be a true believer, which is dumb and not even what her voters want, so who knows what's up with that.
Depending on your configuration, you can ssh in from the UniFi cloud portal. If so, the cloud could easily ignore your settings and push a persistent backdoor.
Can manufacturers do a wedge like design with a thicker top & tapered bottom edge? That way there is no camera bump & the device sits flat on a desk & a bit raised towards you as well.

Bonus camera points coz the lenses are along the same axis horizontally & closer to the centre of the device than in one corner, likewise for the front facing camera too, which could just be shoved into one corner without leaving a hole-punch or notch at all.
A while ago I created a simple website using an XML file as a storage technology and XSLT to render it to HTML. The data stored would be updated infrequently and suited a consistent format, making XML suitable for the job. Originally the site index file pointed to the XML file and the XSLT was rendered by the browser. This worked perfectly for a long time. Even though there was some technology to learn, it was a zero dependency, browser-native solution.

After a few years I decided to make everything completely static to facilitate some changes. It now uses lxml in a Python script to perform the XML transformation. This is run by a makefile and produces static HTML, which is then uploaded.

My blog (https://ajxs.me) is rendered using a static-site-generator I built myself in Python. Using Python template strings stored in HTML files to create a simple templating engine. The blog entries are written in HTML format and stored in an SQLite database loaded by the build script. The final output is entirely static HTML, not even any Javascript.

I'm experimenting with different formats for writing the entries themselves in, however I haven't found anything yet that gives me more simplicity and control than HTML. The LaTeX to HTML conversions I've tried were way too bloated and messy, and markdown doesn't seem to support the level of control I want. With HTML I have very granular control over the final output in the browser and can create whatever arbitrary content I need to.
> ...quite a few Singaporeans I know learned to read before they turned three.

In what language? English, Mandarin, Malay?

I'd be amazed if it were Mandarin at that age.
I think the bad study habits thing isn't really specific to learning to read early though. Even if you were deprived of all outside of school reading you probably wouldn't have been particularly challenged by school. So it's not something that could be changed by "not encouraging early reading", it's something that can really only be changed by revamping our school system, or being lucky enough to have parents with the background/resources necessary to provide academic challenges outside of the school.

I also think a lot more kids would be academically able to skip a grade than currently do. Skipping forward can be a nightmare socially, unless you do the skip really early and not more than a year or so ahead.

When I was in 3rd grade the teacher actually told my parents to move me to a better school if they could - and they were willing/able to afford the tuition to send me to a good private school, but I liked my friends and refused to switch. I wish there were a good way to disentangle the social and babysitting elements of school from the academic ones somewhat. That could allow students to progress at a more personalized pace.
I'm curious what you're using to build this. I've been playing around with a similar idea, and have been prototyping in Godot. Visually representing the connections/structures between items has been a sticking point, but I've settled on two main abstractions: stacks and surfaces, mapping to 1D and 2D arrangement. I've been hesitant to explore 3D, as it unlocks many novelties in the design of a micro-world; but I do think that a 3D space brings a lot of our instincts from the physical world into digital ones. Would be curious to hear how you're approaching the problem, if you feel like sharing.
Other than road wear, I think you're right about everything else (pretty sure the road wear is much worse from a bus than any number of cars).
Can that be readily converted to silicon wafers?
They realized people use their phones as fashion accessories and don't care about specs? Removable batteries create bulk, make the phone ugly. Headphone jacks? Added width and makes it harder to sell the consumer bluetooth headphones. IR blasters/SD cards? Nobody cares.
There is lots of weird Android stuff on AliExpress.
Interestingly enough, in my entire career so far, for things that weren't cached that should have been or were already cached and working, the one invalidation point was the save page of the entity. Sometimes it's not that hard for vast majority of cases.
Microsoft, of course, famously did create their own phone OS. It wasn’t bad either, but among other problems they were a little late to market and there were no apps for it. A real chicken and egg problem. Not worth the engineering effort to build an app for a tiny marketshare and no one wants a smartphone that can’t even hail an Uber.
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OSS Python library to generate PDF reports from HTML, using pagedjs. Uses Jinja templates, supports runtime-generated images, client-side JS, and reports are bundled as a single file.
Somehow I have managed to spend most my time in a house that has concrete and brick stopping 5G, a house with wooden walls that block RF and foil insulation under the floor which is even worse, and a workplace environment that has literal faraday cages all around.

I like UniFi in wall access points in the room I’m inside.
A lot of those design decisions can be explained by Apple’s push towards smaller, more waterproof and more durable devices. Like you mention, these choices do make Apple money. But, they also lead to a superior product.
Microsoft tried; they weren't able to capture that market share. Much of that probably comes down to it being tough to catch up to the 3rd party app ecosystem Apple and Android each have.
How is it "adware/spyware"?
I'm at FAANG hardware, and I never know when to leave to join a startup for a big payday. In hindsight.. the Nuvia exit was pretty obvious :(

Then again, so many other failures.
They tried & died a bunch of time. Windows ME, then Lumia series....
> Removable batteries create bulk,

Not even remotely true. The LG V20 is very thin and still has a removable battery.
While that's true right now, it might not be true a few years in the future if manufacturers stop including them. Also, people are more likely to use dangerous counterfeit chargers (Amazon sells plenty!) if they don't get one included in the box. Considering how many devices run off USB nowadays, having a couple extra laying around the house isn't that big of a deal.
And what is Korean corporate structure?
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Indian Research group shows scientific basis for for homoeopathic medicines
At this point, no one knows if it actually prevents HIV, just that it produces a immune response (which can be detected through blood tests) which indicates that it could.

In general, it is possible that an HIV vaccine could lead to remission of pre-existing infections, but it's impossible to know yet if this one would do that.
The only reason I bought a Pixel 4a instead of a Pixel 5 is because I wanted a headphone jack.
In this day and age, "news" and "propaganda" are interchangable.
This version was developed by Asobo Studio, which is independent and not owned by Microsoft.
Json-patch [1] for dead simple RESTful object mutations via PUT.

Mongoose-patcher [2] for using it with mongoose / mongodb.

Json-patch-rules [3] for declarative security on patch operations.

[1] http://jsonpatch.com/

[2] https://github.com/claytongulick/mongoose-json-patch

[3]
https://github.com/claytongulick/json-patch-rules
Nevermind all the disposable junk that it creates. And people at the same time complain about the lack of respect for the environment.
I think there is a a flip way to look at this and a more serious way.

First the flip way: how much are you prepared to bet on the outcome of one hundred trials in which a scafwich is zenquexed?

More seriously, as part of a process of Bayean updating, such as an experiment, the adoption of a starting position on the basis of the principle of indifference (or a uniform prior) is often a reasonable way to proceed, but in the case of both Bostrom's and Kipping's position on the simulation argument, no such process is performed, no empirical evidence is applied to the question, and the outcome is dominated by the prior, which, as you yourself seem to acknowledge, has no basis in current factual knowledge.

There is an important difference between, on the one hand, the ignorance of not being able to know in advance the outcome of a specific instance of a stochastic process, as in the case of a coin toss, and on the other hand, the ignorance of not knowing anything about the process itself.

> You do have a basis to assign an objective Bayesian probability of 0.5, the principle of indifference.

This seems to me to be begging the question.

> And subjective Bayesian probabilities are subjective, so what subjective probability you assign is up to you.

Exactly - neither me, you nor anyone else has any objective reason to believe this value to be more accurate than any other, and invoking the principle of indifference in these circumstances does not alter that fact.
Depends what you're writing. For email, I can definitely appreciate a spell checker.
As much as he might stretch the truth, the most beautiful Elon trait is he dreams and is not afraid to share this dream world in the world no matter how foolish, foolhardy, or stupid it is. The rest of the FAANG CEOs provide a vague statement about how some vague description of AI will change the world and how their compy will lead the charge, which gives investors confidence but says nothing. For all his bullshiterry, Elon will provide an explicit goal versus a vague concept, which means a lot.
> Same guy who took over GitHub and forced everyone into his self hosted source control because he couldn't trust Github.

sounds smart to me. I wouldn't trust github either.
Yes, I think a Microsoft Android phone could do extremely well. The Surface hardware is good.

As someone else pointed out, the real problem with the Android ecosystem isn't so much the hardware imo it is the absolutely appalling software everyone but Google seems to ship (I definitely include Samsung in this). Microsoft could do a good job of this and has the $$$ to throw at marketing (plus could leverage the cloud streaming Xbox stuff).
Exit before validation is so specious
Do you imply that Google is somehow using Gmail as a trojan horse to harvest CPU cycles and do some business with them? Like hashing crypto or SETI@Home?

That could be an explanation. ^^
I am sure they will. I just mean over time MS and Google will cut deep into this as well. Portable gaming and TV over 5g will be a bit part of their hardware lineup. This is longer term 5+ years thinking though
> The home page of that website is terrible, you claim to be a website for news but it’s really just far left propaganda, interspersed with communist agenda items

Can you provide some examples?
On the multi-core systems of today, why are we using memory and the cache as a communication device between threads running on different cores? Don't we have the spare transistors and space on the die to implement purpose-built communication hardware between cpu cores which does not fall victim to false sharing, and the like? Isn't the current setup a bit hacky?
Making excellent phones that are ignored, like LG was doing.
being made in china and being a Chinese company are very different things and the risks are different.
Cider with corgi mode
Samsung hasn't copied Apple any more than Apple has copied Samsung. The most notable thing recently is that Samsung phones kept supporting Fingerprint ID. It was a tremendous PITA having to enter my passcode at night because of the move to Face ID without continuing to support Touch ID.
The original Pixel had that exact design, although the later designs went in the opposite direction.
Not sure how you missed the whole Windows Phone era (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Phone), but they tried doing their own operating system and it didn't work out.

Blackberry too.

And Samsung (Tizen)

And there was also WebOS which I know was used in atleast one tablet, maybe some phones too, and which is currently owned by LG.

Just think about how manufacturers are struggling to find success with their own smartphones. Imagine trying to do that with the added burden of developing a custom operating system.
I actually ended up buying the book when I moved to Boston and really enjoyed the illustrations, so I guess I sort of made up for it haha.
And unlike other smartTVs that mostly either run bloated, insecure Android or their own laggy or featureless custom OS's WebOS on LG TVs is fantastic, I've had two over the past 4 years and both are excellent to use, get frequent updates, have advanced features and don't lag at all.
Battery life is better too. Love my 4a.
:checked and :not() have been dependable for quite a few years now. Firefox has had ’em since at least version 1 (2004), Safari got ’em in 3.1 and 3.2 (2008), and Internet Explorer was the last player to the table in Internet Explorer 9 (March 2011). The rest of the selector features (tag, attribute, class, adjacent sibling, child) are older still (IE7 supported it all).
I am not a financial advisor but I will tell you what I would do if I were in my mid-30s, with some money saved up.

Crypto:

Before I tell you my approach to crypto, I will always say the best strategy is to buy and hold. But, I would learn to swing trade crypto over long period of time (2-4 years). Trading daily or even monthly time frames is very dangerous and most people lose money. To start learning I recommend watching Datadash on Youtube. I have made a lot of money in crypto learning from him and try to help other people as well. There is a lot of free money in crypto, don't think it's too late. Here are some things I would also learn:

- Bitcoin Cycles
- Altcoin Cycles
- Money flow: Fiat -> Bitcoin -> Altcoins
- Bitcoins Logarithmic Regression
- Bull/Bear Markets Definition
- How to use uniswap
- Basics: how to send crypto, how to set up a wallet, how to set limit orders.
I do this a lot these days with prototypes and poc’s but usually with Go since I’m more familiar with it. Sure it only works on one machine, but it’s usually so fast scaling means it was a success and now you have a war chest.

I’d add adding s3 to backup things though.
This vaccine doesn't prevent infection by HIV so it's not ready for real world use. What it does is prime the immune system so that a second vaccine might become more effective. The second vaccine still needs to be developed though
This seems like a really clear cut case: the woman in the article is blind. The drivers would have known that when they showed up and she has a geared-up guide dog and she can't see. If a driver cancels the ride at this point, there is no ambiguity that they're just shitty people: they're turning away a blind person because they don't want a dog in their car.

Guide dogs (specifically for the blind) are some of the most well-trained animals on the planet, by far. This isn't an emotional support chihuahua. The woman both legally and _morally_ has the right to have her dog with her.

And certainly, there's absolutely zero excuse for the one exceptionally awful driver mentioned in the article who dropped the woman off somewhere else and lied that she was at her destination just to end the ride early.
Of all the natural resources we consume, semis would be the one I'd worry the least about. We'll likely run out of many other (more vital) things before semis make it to the top of the list.
Even worse: Lot more than 5mins to get whitelisting etc setup. The same person in the org setting up the integration probably doesn't have cloudflare account access, so it becomes a source of customers dropping off.
Agreed. I think leveraging Xbox brand as a gaming service with some kind of gaming enhanced hardware could get them in the door. Partnering with other big US names might be required. Comcast TV over 5g live package is what I am thinking. I just don’t think MS or Google can sit back and watch Apple build out a full ecosystem that pretty much rocks in most measurable ways. Too much on the line for these guys in the US market
COVID had me setting up more UniFi APs. It held up incredibly well for moving large files across VPNs and running multiple Zooms for work places and school.

COVID must have been a massive boost to their bottom line.

I’m no market analyst, but the last year, even including the last week, has been very good to Ubiquiti.

https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/ui/advanced-ch...
I believe Hauwei is being forced to develop their own OS due to the threat of US sanctions. However, I think it'd be a losing battle to try to steal enough market share of IOS/Android. They'd simply copy (or one up) your competitive advantage leaving you little room to compete.
>more durable
I disagree. Lithium cells wear out over time, they're a component that needs to be regularly replaced to maintain peak performance much like the tires on a car. A lot of iPhone users put up with this for some reason, lugging around external batteries as their phone ages which defeat the point of the space savings anyways. With my LG V20, I just buy a replacement battery every year and never have anxiety over finding a charger since it lasts all day even with heavy use.

As for waterproofing, the Samsung Galaxy S5 proved that you can have both a removable battery/SD card and maintain waterproofing. Plenty of action cameras have removable batteries too that don't compromise waterproofing.
Hickel did a similar thing to Steven Pinker.

He wrote a scathing article falsely claiming that the poverty rate was increasing (contra to Pinker's claim), when according to his own data in that same article - it was actually steadily decreasing.

I've come to see him as a bad faith actor.
Now I understand why he takes so much time delivering. It should feel like torture to sit and deal with those CTRL-K shortcuts.
Some contractors refuse to drive someone with a dog in their own car, even when refusing is illegal and against Uber policy. The person can sue the driver and Uber can take action against reported drivers.

Is this only Uber’s fault because they have the deepest pockets?

> racist drivers

Uber has enabled servicing minority neighborhoods, following an era of medallion taxis that avoided those areas.
I had the touchpad as well and the OS design was incredible. They were doing things with WebOS that Apple and the like would imitate nearly half a decade later.
Yeah, it's an expensive acquihire.
Thanks David! Was going to download/parse the data myself to see if I had been impacted so appreciate you making this tool.
I recently built https://listlinks.co with flask + js + saasform (to manage all auth + billing) + bulma on heroku.
I now have tons of USB C to lightening cables laying around the house with nothing to plug them into. So I either have to go buy USB C chargers or toss what I have. While the idea was a good one, the execution has been complete BS
I'll be interested to see what happens with Samsung's decision to drop SD. They did that once before with the Galaxy S6 and brought it right back with the S7 after disappointing sales. Personally, I just purchased a Note20 Ultra (at a heavy discount) because it looks like it might be the last phone with microSD that gets long term updates. In theory they sell phones with larger amounts of storage, but they rarely seem to drop below MSRP or are always out of stock if they do.
They always have been. There's no mythical past in which the powers that be have not used it for their agenda.
Fav thread ever!

A good 5+ years ago I built HasGluten [1] with react backed by a google spreadsheet, hosted on github pages. Proven technology, it's still working.

More recently I hacked together MultiPreview [2] with react + API served by firebase functions. I'm also temp using firebase hosting as I have little traffic, but plan to replace it with edge computing / CDN caching.

MultiPreview is backed by Saasform [3]. This is more like a classic node/express (nestjs) application, but I really like how we're separating concerns: the SaaS = MultiPreview handles the biz logic / Saasform handles landing page + auth + payments.

While building the new landing page I played with and liked a lot Bulma [4], I used but didn't like AlpineJS [5] and I'm thinking to move to Hotwire [6].

My personal experience is that performance only matters when you're big enough, so in the near future I want to experiment more on usability / nocode side. And I'd love to see more open source alternatives to the big ones.

[1] https://hasgluten.com

[2] https://multipreview.com

[3] https://github.com/saasform/saasform

[4] https://bulma.io

[5] https://github.com/alpinejs/alpine

[6] https://hotwire.dev