skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with Fairphone is that it relies on binary blobs which are not supported after a short time. Planned obsolescence is there, even though it is not the company's fault.
And they should be required by law to come with the respective datasheets and specs required to do so.

You don't de facto have one without the other.
If you think that my advice was hysterical, then look at the failure rates of all startups that get founded - it's hysterically high. So my apologies if I can't just give you a magic bullet.

Some context around the 2% - that's the average figure that encompasses a wide range of quality of applications. Everyone is applying to YC these days, to the point that a material number of those applications is an instant no. So if you 1) have a killer business plan, 2) have put in 10,000 hours into your craft as an entrepreneur, and 3) have a working demo with some customers and early metrics, you're likely dealing with just the top 30% or so of the applications. At this point, you're closer to a 7% admission rate, and your odds keep improving as you keep applying (because a lot of other people don't, and that's all tracked), so your net effective chance is closer to 10%. I don't know about you, but if someone told me "here's a path to the riches, and there's a 10% chance that it'll work for you," I would jump at it!
> Not everything can be numerically measured.

So then why shouldn't we trust individual experiences? What's the evidence that those reports are not reliable while management perceptions are if this stuff isn't measurable?

> Let’s say that they have data showing that new hire productivity and skill growth is much lower when senior engineers are WFH. They’re not going to share that data when forcing senior engineers to be in the office, since it could foment resentment of junior staff.

They're already fomenting resentment by making a decision to force people back to work without any evidence to justify it.

That's somehow better?

BTW, I'm not saying they're wrong! They might be completely right. But to disregard individual experience while trusting management is measuring the right things is, frankly, pretty naive. The reality is management is as much about personal beliefs, gut instinct, and good ol' fashion tradition as anything else.

I suspect it's far more likely that management at Google simply doesn't like the idea of fully remote employees, not based on any specific data points, but simply because that's their preference. But assuming that's true, it's better to simply admit that then to make pseudo-scientific arguments to justify those preexisting beliefs.
Proof-carrying code? It, too, is old news.
This is so obvious especially if you also bike. Cars are dangerous, polluting (breathing inside a tunnel makes that obvious) and take up ridiculous space for 1 person and don't get shared / re-used!
Sure can! I contributed on this project a few months ago. Hoping to use it soon on a project.

I implemented a portion of crud with a vuejs app. It's a pretty neat setup. Just authorize with OAuth2 and then if you have permissions youre good to go!
It's only planned obsolescence if the lifetime of a product is artificially shortened by design choices. It's not clear this applies here.
>> What I would think is that some, if not all, of the ordinary stones will indeed by lost, but then surreptitiously replaced by others (after all, they have no identifiable properties).

While not ideal, even that may be OK to some extent -- perhaps the valuable thing is the soul of what you are carrying. I think of it like a University or a specific house of worship. Yes, there are physical assets, but the real assets (the people) come, contribute, leave but the soul of the organization lasts for hundreds of years.
Our expectations on the size and integrated nature of these devices seem to be the thing that caused everything to get glued together.
Well, at least another one is overseas IP for C2 - my lazy blocking would have stopped it.
FYI: Apple disallow you to redirect your users to subscribe outside of their app without their fee. You cannot tell your users "go to our website to subscribe by check for 30% less", that gets you banned. So yes, you are forced to use them.

> 3.1.1 In-App Purchase: If you want to unlock features or functionality within your app, (by way of example: subscriptions, in-game currencies, game levels, access to premium content, or unlocking a full version), you must use in-app purchase. Apps may not use their own mechanisms to unlock content or functionality, such as license keys, augmented reality markers, QR codes, etc. Apps and their metadata may not include buttons, external links, or other calls to action that direct customers to purchasing mechanisms other than in-app purchase.

Also, I don't know how common it is in the US but in the EU and here in France we have "prélèvement" (~bank direct debit ?)

Eg I (virtually, on my computer) sign an agreement for company X to take amount Y from my bank account every Z amount of time for a given service. It takes less than a minute to setup and sign directly on the provider website (no need to contact or connect to my bank).
I can cancel it at any time through the provider or at my bank.
Since a couple of years they are valid in the entire EU accross countries "prélèvement SEPA" (Single Euro Payments Area).
They're entirely free, for the customer AND the one billing them (there are bank fees depending on your bank, but no interchange fee, eg I use them to charge many of my customer and it costs me a flat fee of 25e/month for the web access).

That's how I pay my amazon prime, my amazon purchases, my electricity bill, my mobile phone bill, ... So a certain swedish music company could bill me in france that way for virtually no fee.
We haven't though. The key to basic income is that it provides a baseline and then you can go to work to earn more money.

With high unemployment pay, you lose that money the moment you go get a job so it creates a disincentive to work.
The author says on the site to focus on a 1-2 resources. I have gone through CTCI but it seems lacking on explanation. Any other BOOKS (not online) that are superior?
Pre-covid businesses which paid borderline wages are going to find it really difficult to compete with the government.

Basically, you have an administration 'silently' waging war of certain types of business or jobs without needing to pass controversial legislation for things like a minimum wage increase or universal income. If it feel subversive, it is. But the cost of controversy these days causes people to find alternative options.

It is now possible to make 130% to 200% your pre-covid salary/wage by being on unemployment. [0] It is generally human nature to do as little as possible to survive. In this case you don't have to do anything to survive. Why would you go look for a job.

This will put large swaths of businesses who could stay afloat pre-covid and were forced to close due to covid to not be able to open their doors again.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/09/it-pays-to-stay-unemployed-t...
The problem is essentially that you can get paid $X to not work at all, or you can maybe get paid $Y to work some shitty job.

But you can't get the $X that you'd get if you didn't work at all, and add on $Z dollars working a job of some kind.

The perverse incentives of these programs around their phaseouts are and have long been a reality of low-income communities.
While calling things 'right to repair' is a nice easy wording for the lifecycle problem, it doesn't really show the complexity of the problem at hand.

There are plenty of things you can do as a manufacturer to make things repairable, but there are just as many things that you can't do without creating major issues in other areas.

Say you are a company that has a brand identity strongly linked to a certain aesthetic and a law now bans that because you are no longer allowed to glue on textiles on your product as a neat design choice. (yes, this has obvious/glaring problems on its own) What's the solution here? Ban a certain taste or preference for the certain many in the name of making it better for an uncertain few? This might also impact production processes in this example when you have a 'compromise'; i.e. you are required to sell spare parts because in the mind of policy makers "if they can mount that part in the factory, why couldn't they sell it separately".

Say you have a design that is now optimised for production and the method with which a fabric or textile part is added is by preparing a bunch of glue on the spot where the textile goes, then laying a sheet of textile on top of that, and then using a specifically shaped melting device to melt it into the glue, and another cutting device to neatly cut all the excess off, and all of this while under a specific amount of pressure, maybe some inert gas etc. This is how industrial production works, and one of the few ways it works at all (at scale). But that would not be possible since it isn't repairable enough according to some people in certain echo chambers. So now we would have to ban an entire class of production and design methods... and that's just one example.

The goal is relatively simple, and there will definitely be an impact that is worth attaining. But it's unlikely to be as simple as "provide us all the specs, datasheets and parts".

Just as unlikely that it could be "provide us with the private key to your PKI so we can sign our own firmware". (which ironically is practically banned by the FCC on all devices with wireless communication modules - technically it's just an implementation you can restrict to a data table in a driver for a PHY, but practically this is much cheaper as a manufacturer to just blanket-sign and be done with it, which isn't fun for us hackers, but isn't surprising at all.) And not signing or encrypting things is a whole class of problems on its own. We're basically screwed, and since we're often on shared systems (like telecommunication networks, or physical roads and buildings, or we share the fuels and oils across many consumers) it's not as simple as 'do whatever you want' either.

It's tough.
To me, the CRUD menial job is what pays my bills.

It may be boring at times, but "the obstacle is the way", given that the customers pay for it.

But sometimes I get to automate some of the CRUD, which is fun.
$100/yr is fairly cheap all things considered, and it takes thirty minutes Max to set up a bash script to handle it.

And that’s just non-Xcode. If you use Xcode it’s often automatic.
How are these employees "pampered"? They found they enjoy working from home, so they prefer to keep doing that, and if Google doesn't oblige them, they'll start shopping among the many companies that currently do. The free market at work.
It depends on what you mean by "safely". The spectre family of exploits has no general solution and requires specific mitigations. Aside from that, Wasm provides a sandbox that disallows escaping from it. That does leave scribbling on memory inside the sandbox, which is what this paper focuses on.

So for many use cases Wasm does allow what you mention, running unsafe code quickly on normal hardware, and it is being used in production for that purpose.
It's not possible. I wanted to do that with mine (similar thing to OP) - not actually for SMTP but for IMAP or even POP3, but you can't with Lambda - you can only reach it (from outside AWS) with HTTP(S).

(I use a Lambda to forward to another provider currently, and use their client. I plan to write my own to replace that; ultimately I'd just like to run a JMAP server on a Lambda, that you could do.)
Nope, it's part of the OS now.
Exactly right. Similar is "over 30% of group says or does controversial thing" (meaning the significant majority don't).

Also not a fan of practice of quoting a controversial phrase in the headline to get both the shock value and editorial deniability.

> Apple charged of 'anti-competitive' app policies

> World's glaciers melting at 'accelerating rate'

> Man Utd fans 'disgusted' by ESL plans

They literally found one person to say the words.
> pro-labor right

Such a thing does not exist.
That's what I thought too.

I guess someone needs to do it now, hm...

(But: I think live db-activity rendered to music as a kind of monitoring mechanism is potentially way cooler than just getting db updates over a web socket.)
To be clear, it's not really stream history that I'm after. Just the result of a database query upon connection ( `select all items from table X with time > (now() - 1hr)` )
Wouldn't daycare present just as much of an issue if you started working from an office?
Maybe the pizza shop would get a stronger response if they hired permanent workers on an annual $37k salary? An $18/hr wage is not identical....
It is! I meant that they could have whitewashed the concept by using "minting" instead of "mining".
Personally, the pandemic has taught me how little I really need physical stores. Only a few items, like bicycles, shoes, and backpacking backpacks, do I really prefer buying them in a physical store. So for me at least, it would be okay if all these retail jobs went away, and all these retail stores just went out of business, and you just bought everything online.

It seems like it could really be a disaster for people working in retail though. Hopefully those retail jobs would end up replaced by something better, like working in an Amazon warehouse....
The point is that of course there are the outlier days that disproportionately affect gains/losses, that doesn't invalidate the long-term average argument though unless you have some way of identifying those periods in advance. If you could do that then you A) would not tell anyone until B) the SEC came knocking at your door to explain how you turned $1k into $1B over a very short time span.
You might still find it useful to imagine you own your clients' company, then.
This rational behavior in the face of stupid incentives is the same reason the rational set of management-sorts may not bother to make sure their facts & figures actually demonstrate what they claim they do, even when they know they probably don't. The extra effort wouldn't help them get the answer they're looking for, anyway, and might even harm their chances if they're honest about the level of uncertainty.

The part that's stupid is everyone, even the ones who know better, pretending a bunch of bad statistics and such aren't bad, but if the suits in the room are nodding along you damn well better not point that out. People succeeding in the management track either actually are bad at understanding these things, or (plenty often) do understand but also know to STFU about it.
> or not get the latest version of Windows

Not sure about this one: the continued support for older versions - yes, but the latest? Nobody can give you such promise (unless they explicitly do, for one reason or another).
Oh Fuck I'm on HN
It's basically because of drivers for the SoC (system-on-chip, the integrated chip from e.g. Qualcomm that has cpus, graphics, sound, camera, power management, etc). They're too messy/hacky/low-quality to be "upstreamed", it is mostly impossible for anyone but the SoC vendor to port to newer versions (closed-source binary blobs), and the SoC vendor is really not motivated to do so.
> AWS is particularly opaque when it comes to pricing

How so? Doesn't AWS break down the cost of each resource you consume? I suppose it's difficult to predict all of the little costs that will add up though.
It's simple, really: Newer devices are faster and have nicer features (e.g. better camera) and it's not really that inconvenient to pay an extra $20-30/month to get a new phone every two years.

You can pay $150 to get a new battery put into your old phone but that doesn't seem worth it when you can get an entirely new phone that's "better" than your old one for $500.

If it were cheaper and easier to replace old batteries I'm guessing that people would keep their old phones much longer. That's my #1 reason for buying new phones: The battery in the old one just doesn't last as long as it used to and replacement batteries can be hard to come by and/or they're a serious pain to install (high risk too!).

Within the next two to three years though (assuming the global chip shortage lets up) we should start seeing phones with carbon cathode technology. Then again, car manufacturers might hog all the dual carbon and carbon cathode batteries so it might take a bit longer.
While there are a lot of problems with this growth in digital walled gardens, one flipside is that it heavily incentivizes the development of killer content, much like how Console makers have extensive lineups of first party games that are often better funded and given more support then 3rd party titles.
> hen the company must (not should) provide an extended warranty for all damage scenarios at cost.

So would you agree on $1 million fee per customer? (which is what companies would probably ask if you made such law)
While I see the problem, I'm prepared to argue that it should have never been Apple's job to fix the inherent problems with Facebook. If an app is so bad for your privacy that you can only install it through a special dedicated app store.....then maybe that's enough to put people off? And even if it isn't.....well, I can't help it if people want to have shitty facebook tracking them. I'd definitely prefer that they have choice to install it themselves rather than they didn't, and regulatory bodies can regulate what data facebook can collect, not Apple.
Presto, sure. And yes, it was a little cheeky, hence the "sort of".
These are important though. They are perhaps the single most visible piece of work that is used to make a decision on something.

I understand the temptation to poke fun at this, but think of it from a startup POV. They do pitch decks as well, and they are making up numbers there too.
Not being critical of the service, but can someone help me understand here? From what i understand pricing seems the same as S3, except cheaper. So same model, just cheaper?

I say that because the text makes me think "amazing, revolutionary" but when it's the same model i feel i'm missing something. Based on it's pricing page, this service seems mostly a big deal when compared to non-AWS services which have minimums (i didn't even know B2 had that, so TIL), correct?

I suppose it also front-loads the cost, relative to AWS S3. Ie i pay $50 now, and then no monthly fees until i run out of funds again? Which might be 5yr, might be 6mo, just depends on my usage - right?

It's a neat model. I'll probably use it on the pricing alone. Though my needs download files moderately frequently, so we'll see if it ends up being good for me. I'd like to see if their UI gives me a roadmap on pricing, or better yet alerts, so i have estimated alerts on when i need to re-up my subscription.

Calling it unlimited downloads/storage though feels weird. I mean sure, it is, but so is everyone by that metric no?

Still, neat though :)
"Why choose the lesser evil?"
Minting implies exercising seigniorage authority, whereas mining physical commodities is naturally distributed (no central authority). The latter term is much more appropriate to describe issuance-via-PoW.
Alternate title: We Learned Nothing About Security From Applets
We aren't actually living in a post scarcity world though. We're moving in the right direction, and hopefully we get there soon, but there is still plenty of scarcity.
There is also a nasty waiting game that is playing out right now. Employers don't really want to hire people that need a paycheck as those people, if hired, are more likely to ask for more sooner. So employers have no incentive to advertise higher wages for an open position because they will just get more applicants from people who 'need money', not necessarily better applicants.
Exploiting Undocumented Hardware Blocks in the LPC55S69
Well yeah, "software", including drivers and OS integration, not just "apps".

Linux phones no longer seem limited by hardware or cost (at least judging by my PinePhone), more stability and support. Once stability is there in terms of reliability of the core "Minimum Viable Phone" apps, which seems relatively close, there will be a great opportunity for design-oriented founders/brands to craft highly polished experiences without needing to pay off the Duopoly or, worse, trying to compete with them for talent.

Yeah, there will be new innovative startup phones, but what'll happen when every brand can offer their own phone just by hiring a few designers and engineers?

NikePhones, GucciPhones, DunkinPhones, TeslaPhones, McPhones...
Win10 was released 2015-07.
I'm not really understanding your point.
I disagree. Not everyone needs a livable wage (e.g. teenagers) and by removing entry level positions we eliminate the lowest rung of the ladder. This is not a good outcome.
This is a good thing. Businesses that rely on paying people salaries that keep them under the poverty line have no right to exist. Your business is exploitative and doesn't deserve to survive.
Converted to approx dollar:-

Internet - $150/yr

Domains - $200/yr

Reseller Shared Web Hosting- $300/yr
But what if you're selling content that you aren't making more than 30% profit on? There's flaws for both flat and percent. Something more nuanced might be required.
we have high inflation, CPI is just not a good measurement.

https://twitter.com/LynAldenContact/status/13875210431207587...

https://tradingeconomics.com/commodities
(not op) Is that link wrong? I'm getting ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED. I tried with Vodafone mobile (UK), Openreach Wifi (UK), and a few other countries over a VPN (Canada, Australia, ...) in Firefox and Chrome.
We have this in New York City to monitor the flow of traffic on quiet residential streets. If the flow rate is OK, it's nice and quiet. If the flow rate gets too low (or a traffic light turns red) then a chorus of very angry car horns erupts, and you are jolted out of your train of thought, wishing you had the guts / tolerance for prison time to run outside and smash every single one of the cars with a crowbar.

I think a recording of this is actually built into Pagerduty to use as a sound when you're getting paged. I went with the "golf ball hit into a flock of geese" one, though. Every time that goes off my first thought is "OH GOD I'M DYING HELP" but then I look and it's just GCP down again. Ironically therapeutic.
Very creative solution! Building an enterprise product using this will be fun!
That's interesting

I've always felt spiders are different from other bugs. The way they move feels more calculated
Or recycling. "We recycle electrons into coins!"
"But what if, she writes, those benefits are actually providing a safety net to American workers so that they do not need to take terrible jobs for low wages at terrible companies under terrible management?"

Exactly this. A significant part of American business depends on cheap, low-overhead labor. America outsources a lot of that overseas (both white and blue collar), but fundamentally depends on filling shitty jobs and providing as few benefits as possible.
> When your phone dies, it's a good opportunity to buy something new

If you have infinite money, yes. Most people in the world do not have it. (And if you do not care about the environment, too.)
Mexican wants to create a database with phone users’ biometric data
If the client is essentially just a browser, I don't see how it would violate any ToS.
Lots of things have been automated over time. What’s the cutoff?

Tractors automate things. Email automates things. Computing in general automated things.
From personal experience, notarization hasn't really caused any friction in my dev process for Mimestream. The upload + server response usually only takes about a minute. Yeah, it's another thing to learn, but the process is pretty well-integrated into Xcode, and if you're building via script then it seems well-supported?

On the other hand, code signing is perennially confusing, and I wish the documentation was better.
With only HBO Now as the app you only had access to HBO content, not the full range of the HBO Max content.