skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1. Except now you need a new PCB, a new subassembly, new procedures...

Every phone needs new subassemblies and procedures. For the PCB, you end up with an extra one that's tiny true.

> 2. You need a lot of fancy things, just not cell balancing. That “battery health indicator” all iphones have, guess where that’s from.

Sure, okay.

> You can take it from someone who has built several devices with replaceable batteries, or we can just keep debating until I’ve fully explain to you how you actually build one of these.

> The thing is, I don’t want to waste more time on this, you can do your research on your own, or just keep your preconceptions, whatever floats your boat.

Where would I look?

I'm trying to follow your logic. But you mostly keep naming things phones already have. They already have all this engineering work. They already have the battery chip, it just changes location. And that chip is less than $3.

Could you please give me a couple sentence explanation of how you arrived at 20-30% for a phone that's designed from the start to have a removable battery? You keep nitpicking me for not understanding an argument that you never explained!

My understanding goes something like this: Posit a $600 phone of which $50 is the battery pouch. Remove battery pouch and chip from phone, replace with a connector, phone now costs $550? Add plastic shell and $3 chip and connector and tiny PCB onto the battery pouch. For the total price to rise 20%, doing that has to cost more than $100 and leave you with a battery that costs more than $150. How?

And phones didn't get massively cheaper when they stopped letting you remove batteries...
PCjam – An IBM PC Hackathon
Sounds like a problem...

For you.

If you can't keep your docs up to date, how up to date do you think Google's results are?
There is a reason penny wise and pound foolish is an enduring saying.
Until you get DDOSed and then they (Hetzner) null-route your server.

They claim not to:

https://twitter.com/hetzner_online/status/968085046073622528...

I do wonder if that is still the case.

edit: Maybe not: https://community.centminmod.com/threads/any-personal-feedba...
Automobiles don't always use the latest-and-greatest. Also: There's really no hard and fast rule next year's model must use all new electronics.
yeah that's what I was aiming for, but without the images and karma-- that's why the users were temporary. No need to whore for internet approval because it really doesn't matter.
Beal's Conjecture Revisited (2015)
Looks like someone figured out how to use Svelte inside of Observable a while ago — see https://observablehq.com/@ajbouh/svelte-experiments
Started as a /b/tard circa '08 and now read mostly /pol/ and /lit/ because their threads most often follow an argument to its completion. This makes for good reading IMO.

Still go back to /b/ occasionally although the flavor of that board has shifted to a more twitter-like direction that I do not favor. It remains one of the few places online where I can read shitposts with actual artistic merit. Some Facebook groups are only just now maturing to the stage where good satire exists.

I have a theory that forums mature like humans going from childhood name-calling to adult dialectics. But then again /b/ seems to be regressing so maybe I just don't know what I'm talking about.
Based on https://astrobackyard.com/the-bortle-scale/ I'm guessing 3 or 2 to see it well.
it's also hacker news for people who hate hacker news
Thanks for this info. That was part that always confused me about India and SII. I couldn't believe that they were exporting vaccines a while back. It just didn't make sense to me given the size of India's population. The only explanation I could think of was that they were being overly altruistic. My more cynical friends said maybe SII was being overly capitalistic. But your explanations makes more sense.
The primary challenge with today's streaming services is determining which platform the content is on, and what tier you need to have to consume the content.

In that way, Amazon Video is one of the most convenient platforms as it has more content than many other platforms, though you may need to pay a rental fee.

When it comes to convenience, for me unified access to the most content trumps most other issues.
This was in print and almost 20 years ago, so unfortunately not.
> /b/ is a good example of a forum that is only trolls at this point

and some people enjoy that. you don't have to go there if you aren't one of them.

you're not describing some platonic ideal of an internet forum. you're just describing what you personally want out of one.
This is already the case. A new Chevy pickup and a new Ford pickup have the same transmission. BMW and Mercedes buy transmissions from ZF or other vendors. Bosch provides engine management systems to like... everyone. I'd be astonished if there are more than a dozen power seat motors in use across the entire new car fleet.

Tesla is a notable exception because they actually make their own components, like the Model X Gull wing door actuators.
Almost all of my optical media from around the year 2000 oxidized and stopped working. I've lost more CDs, DVDs, and blue rays to scratches than I care to admit. Many of my old photos and books were destroyed with some water damage.

Much of it was due to improper storage, but that's where the very real value of not having something physical or on site comes from.

When I get a choice between cloud and physical, I now always buy cloud from the largest, stable, cloud distributors (Amazon or Apple, never Google or Microsoft). I will pay more if needed. It's a valuable service to me to not have to babysit a movie/book/photo. I've personally never lost anything to DRM, but I've lost dozens of physical media, over the years, for one reason or another.

Freedom is great, but the freedom of not having to lug things around with me is the freedom I would rather pay for. But I'm the type of person that gets terrified when I see someone's DVD /Blueray collection that covers a wall, "I hope you have homeowners insurance".
https://archive.is/zmmcr
Sounds a lot like Gateway is Kubernetes the space version..
I bet Tesla's decision to design and manufacture their own machine learning chips for their "self-driving" functionality is looking pretty smart now. They have their own contracts with the fab companies to produce them. These are not the only kinds of chips that go into cars by a long shot these days, but it is the biggest ticket one.

That was a multi-billion dollar, very bold and risky bet that paid off. How many car companies do you know where they decided to take on industry leaders like Nvidia and Intel and actually produce a better product? That's really quite remarkable.

If GM said tomorrow that they were going to build better machine-learning chips than Nvidia, we'd all get a good laugh at that.
Does that make Apple’s M1-in-all-devices announcement twice a demonstration of strength of their supply chain?
In theory, tides are more reliable and independent - it happens even if it's not windy or sunny, and it happens on a schedule that's more regular than the weather.
I hope they will go back to pushing the limits more again. Since the Space Shuttle and now the SLS they got stuck in a rut and iterated very slowly. It’s unbelievable how long the SLS, which basically repeats what has been done 50 years ago, is taking and how much it costs. Better put that money into several programs that have a chance of failing but will also deliver new technology.
The parasites are single-celled microorganisms. Generally speaking, anything your immune system can fight, you might theoretically be able to make a vaccine for. Emphasis on "might", of course.
My single parent father was a typewriter repairman. He visited offices to repair them, so I spent some of my early childhood in the car outside of various office buildings (highly illegal now, of course). The exact moment it ended was when we were watching the 1984 Super Bowl together (this was in January 1985). He saw the Apple Macintosh commercial and said "uh oh" (paraphrasing NSFW language). He went out and bought the Macintosh on the very first day it was available. I set it up and made a document on MacWrite. Another round of "uh oh." I hit print and the printer spewed garbage -- all of the first cables were defective so the printers didn't work. After he went back to the store and got the working printer cable he decided to find a new line of work.
"You gotta let nazis be a little nazi, otherwise they are going to start killing people again."
Going to the moon is not a good value proposition as far as science per dollar. SpaceX and other players only care about supporting science to the extent it makes them money. In my opinion NASA never had the budget for a moon mission anyway. Scrapping space telescopes and other far more useful instruments to pull a publicity stunt would be irresponsible. NASA is still the only party willing to support the less glamorous but more important work. This division of labor is good. Companies can do things that make good marketing material and NASA can continue managing the science that motivates the entire excercise in the first place.
All About Symbian: “DSLR vs. camera phone, 2021 – are we there, yet?”
I once got nice shots from Mt Tam. You can hardly see it, but with an ok camera doing long exposure you can get some nice pictures - even being so close to SF
Chips aren't that expensive per-unit, and they take up very little space. It would not be cost prohibitive.

Even better, force the cost of holding to the supplier like Toyota.
I wish I knew how to help. It sounds like you’ve become another casualty of the relentless GoogleTron, your blood and sweat now lubricate it’s soulless gears.

The over-reach by Google in response to simple copyright claims continues to be an appalling display of how little they care as a company. I don’t even mean how biased it is towards media companies, I simply mean they don’t care at all about any individual human, they are incapable of it. Never trust the GoogleTron

Good luck, I hope you can get someone with more pull to help!
I think there is also a substrate shortage
https://www.semi.org/en/blogs/business-markets/the-substrate...

And an Air Freight shortage even if you do pay 10x to jump the production queue
https://www.wsj.com/articles/snarled-supply-chain-trips-up-s...

I'm not even sure it's strictly speaking still true that automotive only uses outdated fabs. Tesla seems to have disrupted the use of low-end chips at least in high end cars, like Jaguar Land Rover.
We know that deaths lag, on the linear graph active cases are skyrocketing but deaths are just starting to ramp back up. And reports are coming in of lack supply scarcity.

> A few months ago the US had a few days > 4K:

Note that this was with 9 million active cases (official). According to official numbers, india is at 2.5, yet already reaching 2200 daily deaths.

And if you look at the correlation between daily deaths and active cases, the daily death maximums occur around the inflexion point in case growth (either peaking for the 1st and 3rd surges, or plateauing of the 2nd).

The same occurred in India with their first wave (active cases peaked mid-september, so did deaths). Right now it's shooting straight up, they've already smashed through the US' maximum daily new cases, and the US reached theirs as the DNC's increase was slowing down.
I know people like that. And their lives are quite stressful as a result.
What exactly are you missing? I think I'm doing what you're describing using FF.

https://superuser.com/a/7336
Please don't!
I sometimes think john deere and harley and to a lesser extent ford/chevy are basically americana cults with merchandizing and machinery sales attached
No - I think there's a class of people who weren't exposed to the divisions who're only now aware of it. In roughly chronological order: Anti-"war on terror" demonstrations, The Dixie Chicks being canceled, freedom fries, the handling of Katrina, the divisive 2008 presidential campaign season, the backlash to Obama's presidency, the rise of the Tea Party, the Benghazi investigation, Sandy Hook, birtherism.

I probably missed a bunch of other partisan clashes.

edit: I don't know how I forgot Bush v. Gore. That was way up there in terms of divisiveness.
No, they're not going to Bitcoin miners. Ethereum miners, sure.
You're right on the benefits of a combined strategy right from the government to personal responsibility by citizens. Indians complied with most of these in the early phases of the pandemic but got complacent later on. I wrote about some of this in my visit late March - https://rahulrevo.substack.com/p/indias-covid-conundrum. India is also very complex because of the diversity and scale.

After this second wave is done, people will be more compliant again towards covid-safe behavior at least for a short term. Ultimately a large section of the population will need to be vaccinated to meaningfully end the pandemic.
> have not shown any indication that they will do so.

I find it very suspicious that the new iPad has a 16GB RAM option. There's ~no use for that in iOS. Wouldn't be totally amazed if some sort of dual boot solution shows up at WWDC.
Apple have done things to mitigate a lack of RAM (consistently using the fastest SSDs they can with a controller integrated into their custom chips and now into the M1 presumably, memory compression, using very fast RAM in the new M1, etc.) but yeah at some point you just need more room. 16GB has been enough for me for a while thankfully.
Fairphone relies on Qualcomm, which forces planned obsolescence through proprietary software [0]. This is why FSF do not recommend it.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26593274

Consider Librem 5 USA instead: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5-usa. It is produced in USA.
It's all about (1) culture; (2) proactive outreach.

Reach out to communities like Women Who Code, Lesbians in Tech, and Code2040. Work with them. Pay them.

Then go out and find people whose work impresses you on the web. Email them directly.

Make sure you're not hiring for "culture fit". Instead, ask: how will this candidate provide a new perspective?

And make sure your culture isn't accidentally a dude's club. What are you doing to promote inclusivity and empathy? How are you avoiding baking common biases into your culture? Who gets to set process? How is success measured?
Malaria is caused by protists which are spread by Anopheles mosquitoes. So it’s not a virus.
> You don't get higher prices, just empty shelves.

Trying to buy on the used market right now. I promise you we are seeing higher prices because people who had 30k to buy new, are now spending more for the higher quality 1-3 year old used stock.
There's always been moderation for illegal content and the janitors do a good job deleting porn from the worksafe boards.
I wrote something using Python and Pillow that prints titles, credits, and qr codes on the back of art prints.

I ran very much into the problem that there are not really "unicode" fonts but rather the web browser is patching together characters from different fonts when you use Chinese, Arabic, Emoji(s), etc.

I want something that looks like the card at the art museum that introduces a piece so I have just a nice serif en font and a Japanese font I like because I have a lot of Japanese subject matter.

If I wanted to print some math character or arabic I would have to register that typeface in my system but it is a hassle at the moment.

What I get for this (as compared to HTML) is that the system understands the border of the card, which is big for a 6x4 card and I can align multiple printings on both sides to the limits of the hardware.

Jank is the least of my problems.
One of the things "morals" is is a negotiation with society about what should be construed as blameworthy. Potential participants in that negotiation may have different treatment without, as you said, it "rest[ing] completely on logical fallacies," which is why I brought it up.

I am not saying this makes up the entirety of my moral system, and I am explicitly (here) saying that a naive application does not.
My understanding is that only a couple species go after humans, and they don't have any important ecological niche.
Thank you for sharing this. I read about this on Wikipedia a decade or so ago and for the life of me couldn’t find it again. All I could remember was that G.K.Chesterton was mentioned in the Wikipedia article and tried many times to google his name with different keywords (‘Chesterton words repetition’ etc)to no luck whenever this phenomena happened with me.

PS:
Chesterton isn’t mentioned in the current version of this article but I see a lot of hits when I search his name with semantic satiation.
Lovely website and incredibly consistent. What a treasure trove.
I had it the other way around. I was worried about SpaceX overselling their actual capabilities until NASA gave them the contract.
I don't think this is the interpretation of people's expectations.

"Own it on BluRay" I think is very well understood by the vast majority of the commons and probably even those on HN. They own that BluRay and their 'rights' are confined but within expectation.

I don't think people have the expectation to "Start Broadcasting and Putting Ads in Brad Pitt's New Film".

They can however, spin up their BluRay in 30 years and watch the movie, which is fair.

I suggest the case against Apple has a kind of merit as well, if people 'own it' they should be able to watch it whenever they want, even 10 years from now, which is not a very long time.
Has Apple been attending the Fox News School of Rationalization? No reasonable viewer would believe that Tucker Carlson is News.
It's interesting that you put it that way. I see the term "virtue signaling" as one aspect of the culture war. It's a blanket ad hominem attack: "They don't really believe X. They just want everybody else to believe that they believe X. X is actually so bad that nobody really believes it." Thus allowing them to sidestep any discussion of the validity of X; they just assume it's false and attack the person.

In practice, I find that the term is mostly just used as "vice signalling". It's not really an argument at all, but rather a call to other subscribers to their ideology that they're all in this together, as indicated by the use of the common buzzword.

The term is used only along ideological lines, and I do believe that those ideological lines are turning increasingly hostile. Calling it a "war" is always going to have weird connotations, but the terminology used for hostility is always subject to escalation.

I do believe the divisions are growing louder and more angry, if not always violent (though there's a good case to be made that they have gotten more violent over the last 40 years or so). Is that where your disagreement is, or is it elsewhere?
Hmn possibly. I suppose I am interested to see if there is a practical difference because there's some debate about whether corroboration is a good thing to have or not, when you can have one piece of evidence (like DNA evidence) which is very high certainty.

I'd expect there was prosecutions north of the border seeing as the post office is UK-wide so be good to see how they went.
Which biography? I read Petrement's bio of her a long time ago (they were school friends IIRC).

Her older brother was André Weil of course. As a kid she decided she would never have the talent to be a mathematician because he was so good at it... talk about sample bias. The philosopher George Grant said something like (paraphrasing) "that family had intellectual culture on a level undreamt of in North America".

There's a lovely article about the family by André's daughter here:

My Father André Weil (2018) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24492000 - Sept 2020 (7 comments)
What could cause this? For colors, color management? How else could colors be rendered differently on different operating systems?

For fonts, font hinting? Different system fonts?
You see Tesla's BOM?

I bet thet have the very same problem, it's not only the dashboard computer they need chips for.
I do wonder how much of that is just getting a nice new laptop? If the average user was handed the equivalent laptop with an Intel CPU but told it was an M1 would they notice? Would they also think it was nice and fast?
When Moffet Field was an operational Naval Air Station we would get P-3s, both going out to/returning from patrols, and circling around for touch an go landings for training, also C-5s and C-17s, and some fighters. The fighters were of course the noisiest, so you've got some serious loudness going on.
Thank you so much! I've just been suffering though this change thinking "I guess that's just how it is now" not realizing there was a solution.
There is a lot of potential variables. For example what hardware do you use when running Linux?. You say Ubuntu, but what window manager do you use? I'd recommend though to post this question somewhere like r/linux on Reddit.
> Have you never received unclaimed funds you didn't know were due to you?

No... have you?
What does qualified mean to you? If he received "formal education".

Moot for better or for worse held together one of the larger sites on the internet while managing a team of mods and the simple fact that 4chsn was never shut down is in itself an achievement. I have a hard trouble not seeing him as having serious management chops. He frankly is probably more qualified than many people who got into Google for little reason other than excellence at math puzzles and formal education which are hilariously mediocre qualifiers.
Yes, Apple has presumably locked in both supply and prices of all their components including Ax/Mx, DRAM, flash, LCD panels, etc.
Ba dum tsssh.
Carvana is the Internet's BHPH lot. They don't care how much they spend to buy the car because they're gonna sell it for 50% down with 20% APR to someone who can't get financing otherwise.
I think they have a pretty wide spectrum - your ABS controller will probably be on older node than the processor for the entertainment system.
Work on problems that are too hard for Google to easily answer and you stop googling real quick.
This should include a (2020) in the title.
The situation for the new iMacs is even worse with 8gb ram max. It can't be because the additional GPU Power necessary to properly drive the 4.5k display limited available space on the die for the chip as the ram is not on chip but on SoC ? Is it that the demand for high capacity ram modules is outstripping supplies and Apple wants to conserve what it has for a MBP 14/16' launch ?
I lived in Nigeria from the ages of 9-18 and while we did not use mosquito nets, I’d generally assume that even people who use mosquito nets would be likely to get bitten by a carrier mosquito at some other time of day. Hearing of people getting malaria felt like a very commonplace occurrence, and I had it several times.
It could be used with pumped storage to reduce evaporative losses. Pumped storage doesn't really care what the temperature of the reservoir is, so instead of heating it up with the sun, you keep more water in the reservoir through less evaporation, and extract the solar energy that would otherwise do nothing.