skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meh, I don't know. I have one of those older iPhones (a 7) whose battery health went somewhat down (around 80% or below) and the phone felt kinda sluggish. I then disabled the "peak protection" or whatever it was called, and then it started randomly shutting down, while not being particularly smoother. It should be noted I don't use intensive apps, such as games.

After I had the battery changed, everything went back to normal. Smooth, no random shutdowns, etc. And the battery change cost me a whopping 60 euros out the door at an Apple authorized service center (I even booked the repair through the Apple website).

Now don't get me wrong, if I had the choice between a phone with or without a removable battery, I'd go for the former every time, even if it meant it would be bigger. Before the iPhone, I had a Galaxy S5 and I never had an issue with its thickness.

But, in more practical terms, all the phones I had before the iPhone (Galaxy S 1, 3, 5) had removable batteries. The 1 I actually bought used, and it came with 2 spare batteries. The only reason those batteries saw any action was because I tried to use them from time to time to not let them die.

Now cost-wise, by the end of the GS5's life, the battery started bulging and didn't last as long, so I was looking to buy a new one. A replacement Samsung battery costed 60 to 70 euros, the same price as the iPhone replacement battery, and indeed, most other phone batteries. So I wouldn't say Apple is gouging customers on this particular issue, at least not any more than other brands.
I think the main feature of relational databases is that

1. They store data as tables
2. The result of any query is also a table

THEREFORE you can apply queries to
results of queries as long as you
want to. You can compose queries out of smaller queries which makes them easier to reuse and understand. They are like LEGOs.
The hard problem of consciousness is an impassable obstacle given the set of tools that we have and, arguably, ever can have. If we grant that there is some level of physical description (chemical, atomic, sub-atomic, whichever) at which consciousness best adheres, what do we use to make the connection? Symbolic equations and theorems don't cut it, and that's pretty much all we've got. Physical systems are fully described by the collection of their measurable properties (positions, momenta, charges, etc)--there's no way to connect things going on "outside" with subjective experience.

What would an operator which turns a physical state into conscious experience spit out?

C|state> = ????

Can't write down e.g. "The perception of a red apple on a table". Red? Table? Just symbols. Consciousness and word-symbols are just too far apart.
> Now google can't prioritize that - even through I want it

Of course they can: they could let you opt-in to this specific facet of customised search results. The general issue is about the default search results.
except people routinely pay more then their 'utility' value..so its just as easy to lose money. Not sure what the 'utility' of funco pops are, or the scrap value (same with stamps IIRC - many of them aren't even valid for postage). Stocks typically have no 'scrap' value as well - if a company goes out of biz, the stock is worthless, and these days you generally don't even have the paper certificates to sell for scrap.

Also, the 'value' of art, books, and collectables is rather subjective and fairly volatile. TBH, they seem pretty comparable to cryptos to me. You collect them for fun, hoping the value goes up.
So an open exchange of ideas, and some free assistance. Sounds like it was a good outcome for you. :)
As the tone of article is bit aggressive, I have own observations, my relatives who lives in Russia were fully vaccinated with Sputnik and all 4 of them (one family) got a very hard COVID with delta, two of them were on oxygen therapy. Doesn’t mean anything but my feelings are that there are some lie about that vaccine efficiency for no reason except political benefits.
Building a Restful CRUD API with Node JavaScript, Express, and MongoDB
Economic competition isn't a battle between two animals or a war or something. It's a decentralized optimization or maximization strategy. Sometimes it works well, sometimes it doesn't, but it's not some violent struggle between competitors (usually).
It boggles my mind that people have nudes of themselves on any digital medium. I say if you want to dabble in that, get a film camera and develop the pictures in your own basement.
The problem of RSS is that it’s not governed by any spec. Yes, the spec says <description> can contain HTML and doesn’t say that about <title>, but RSS is truly defined by usage rather than spec, much more than most formats.

As a weak example showing this philosophy early on, from <https://www.rssboard.org/rss-0-9-2>, emphasis mine:

> Further, 0.92 allows entity-encoded HTML in the <description> of an item, to reflect actual practice by bloggers, who are often proficient HTML coders.

And that’s RSS in a nutshell, a format specified only in reaction to prevalent usage, where non-conformant documents are a normal part of life, and parsers are lax in a variety of unspecified ways because they’re reacting to usage. And what I have observed is various RSS feeds with titles containing characters significant to HTML being mangled by some feed readers, and various RSS feeds with descriptions that are plain text (possibly with characters like <, & and >, possibly not) so that some feed readers try to guess whether the <description> is in fact plain text or HTML.

The very existence and popularity of <content:encoded> is an acknowledgement that <description> is broken.

Atom is good in this regard because it provided a sane definition that people are vastly more likely to actually conform to; you can take the guesswork out of things.

I still wish Atom supported providing both text and html values; e.g. in https://chrismorgan.info/blog/make-and-git-diff-test-harness..., my HTML title is “Using <code>make</code> and <code>git diff</code> for a simple and powerful test harness”, while my text title is “Using `make` and `git diff` for a simple and powerful test harness”. On principle, I use the HTML version, but alas, most feed readers will strip the formatting and leave just “Using make and git diff for a simple and powerful test harness”.

I took a look through some of the feeds I subscribe to; RSS is definitely the significantly more popular format among them, but Atom is common too.
That’s because android phones won’t become old hardware-wise due to being made obsolete by software in like 3 years tops.

And no, I’m not an apple fanboy, but even with this shitty behavior, iphones get some insane lifespans with usually many owners.
Simplifying Cross-Platform Apps for Startups and SMBs
The Middle East 'grew' in the early 00s, for the reasons you probably expect. The Bush administration needed a euphemism for Muslim nations.

> The Greater Middle East, is a geo-political term, introduced in March 2004 in a paper by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace as part of the U.S. administration's preparatory work for the G8 summit of June 2004, denoting a vaguely defined region that includes the Arab world plus Afghanistan, Cyprus, Iran, Israel, Pakistan and Turkey.[1] The paper presented a proposal for sweeping change in the way the West deals with the Middle East and North Africa.[2][3] Previously, by Adam Garfinkle of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, the Greater Middle East had been defined as the MENA region together with Central Asia and the Caucasus.[4]

> The future of this Greater Middle East has sometimes been referred to as the "new Middle East", first so by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who in Dubai in June 2006 presented the second-term Bush administration's vision for the region's future. Rice said would be achieved through 'constructive chaos', a phrase she repeated a few weeks later during a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert when the 2006 Lebanon War had broken out; the meaning of this phrase and the Bush administration's vision have been much debated since.[5][6][7] The efforts to achieve this new Middle East are sometimes called "The Great Middle East Project".[8][9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Middle_East
Do most phone chargers supply enough current to charge the phone when it’s running at full power?
I hit that point with my 5 year old Sony android TV. I just plugged in an Nvidia Shield TV device, though, and now it's buttery smooth again with nearly perfect integration.
What are some interesting things that can be done with QEMU? Can it run a cross-compiled freeRTOS application for a STM32 MCU?
Sure, that's what you'd attempt to address errors, but that still doesn't convince me. That only gets you so far. My intuition says that you won't be able to distill any meaningful results in practice across long distances and requests being routed to different backend servers under varying load. You are trying to isolate a very specific duration in the order of microseconds.

Of course, I'm not in the field and am happy to learn more. However, my intuition also tells me we should have seen more realistic experiments and results over the years to get a clear picture of the extent at which such an attack is actually feasible and when it seizes to be.
This is a terrific introduction to a tool that I use often enough to pretend to be familiar with, but honestly just grep my bash history every time I need to use.

But I'd really like to see a discussion about the tool that the host website promotes: Earthy. It a build system, which is a family of tools that I've always hated, but it seems to be pretty decent. Is anybody using it?

I'm off to find HN threads on Earthly.
This sort of reminds me of how the public sector establishment limits the acceptable language around cultural flashpoints, like gender identity.

I was told that using the term "biological female" was transphobic in the context of gender identity, and the individual in question was pressing the issue to the point where I thought there was a reasonable possibility I would be banned from the forum if I persisted. I was told I have to use cis-female. But that not only limits the expressive efficacy of my statement, by substituting a well known term with one that a significant fraction of the population does not know, it also, under the guise of fighting diminution of the marginalized, narrows the concept of a biological female, with the end goal clearly to be to effect a change in the definition of "female" itself.

We see this same kind of language narrowing in the corporate world, with Google's rules on how to discuss issues relevant to monopoly, but I suspect this is defensive, and motivated by the legal threat of anti-trust action, as such language used by employees can directly impact the outcome of an anti-trust trial.
Might want to check out GrapheneOS's latest developments regarding it's Sandboxed Play Services
https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-play-services

GrapheneOS has support for installing the official releases of com.android.vending (Google Play Store), com.google.android.gms (Google Play services), com.google.android.gsf (Google Services Framework) as regular sandboxed apps in a specific profile. These receive no special privileges and the OS itself doesn't use them for anything. They run as unprivileged, sandboxed apps like any others. GrapheneOS simply provides fallback code teaching them how to run without any of the special privileged permissions and SELinux policy they depend on having. Even within the same profile, apps not explicitly choosing to use Google services won't use them because the OS doesn't integrate support for it or use it as the backend for APIs in the OS like the stock OS.

Also, this was tweeted recently explaining the up and coming improvements, how they were made and an insightful look at how the sandboxed play services compatibility layer works.

https://twitter.com/GrapheneOS/status/1430362107875401732
Grew Pixar too. Here’s how Alan Kay put it:

> I was contacted by the people who became Pixar–I knew them well, and they wanted to get out of Lucasfilm. They called me up and asked me for advice, and so I said, I can talk to Steve. I explained very carefully to him who these people were, and you shouldn’t fuck around with them, like he did with his normal employees. He did a good job with them. [Pixar] was the most honest billion he ever made, because he put a lot of his own personal money into nurturing those guys. They got fabulous. That was Steve’s best hour.
I think over-specialisation is potentially dangerous so it's worth bearing in mind. Ideally I think a balance is necessary, have one or two areas you focus on and keep your other, perhaps less developed, skills sharp. This is why I'm keeping a closer eye on things like Terraform and aws these days and generally sharpening my infra skills. Perhaps the best way of summing up my approach is to aspire to know everything about something and something about everything. The former gives you the satisfaction of deep knowledge, and the latter means you can pick up new tech more easily. Generally our industry is about knowing just enough in many areas, and knowing which questions to ask / what to search for.

As for specific languages, as long as you're aware of a couple of paradigms, eg OO and FP, I figure it's not that hard to switch. Once you've mastered one or two languages you can generally be productive in another relatively quickly. We don't necessarily hire Scala devs for example, just engineers we think we can train up.

I'm lucky in that the Scala job market is hot in London but I'm fully prepared for that to change one day. I'd probably target Kotlin or Java jobs if that happened but also open to anything interesting job-wise that will have me. I have my tech preferences but if I need to switch, and someone will allow me to learn on the job, then fine!
SF seems like a pretty serious location to me. Granted, its still manned, but it makes sense that they'd start out manned in any new environment out of an abundance of caution. It seems likely that we could see a switch to unmanned in SF in the next 1-2 years if things go well. I have to think at least Waymo believes this is likely, otherwise they wouldn't be doing this.
> I'm not sure that's even a good idea. It's kind of a link aggregator and link aggregators generally don't allow formatting. You don't want people to try to gain attention that way, leading to an arms race.

Wait till you hear about Unicode bold and italics: https://yaytext.com/bold-italic/.

(I hold that most tools being weak doesn’t mean that my tools should be weak, and I view text-only titles as weakness, one that can be solved without introducing problems, so long as you don’t get this encoding problem.)
If governments are such good bodies of innovation, then why are countries with relatively more powerful governmental sectors less innovative? Why do deregulation and privatization almost always lead to more innovation? Not saying there are no downsides to weak governments, but Chomsky’s “cum hoc, ergo propter hoc” is not backed by any kind of thorough investigations of things that move - if the “cum” changes it’s nature over time from state-like to private entities, success grows. As always, interdependent systems are much more complicated - especially if you knew how little government actually did for Sicilian valley and MIT except for putting shit loads of money on the table. Incentives, ideas, Innovations - none of them came from parliaments, ministries or other governmental bodies, if they were not heavily emulating private structures.
Oh good point
Which they will, and we'll eventually end up with a regular rotation of coronavirus vaccines, similar to our yearly flu vaccines.
I have the Ooni Koda 16. I’ll sear a steak on it occasionally in a cast iron pan. I heat the pan in the oven and then pull it out and sear while on a trivet. I find putting the pan in the oven while cooking isn’t needed.

The pan will hit more than 1,000° so it will sear off the seasoning as well. So you’ll need to reseason it afterwards. That is why I don’t do it often.
Can you point to actual harm done by Google that people can't walk away from?

I've been working to untangle myself from them for a while. It isn't particularly hard, there are just a lot of really good services that need to be replaced.

The only thing I can't evade is the constant snooping all over the web. And that isn't something antitrust regulators are going to be dealing with.
,, Nelua uses a garbage collector by default, but it is completely optional and can be replaced by manual memory management''
A blind guess is that what actually matters is the number of charge/discharge cycles. Greater batteries will go through less, but also you probably use your laptop on a charger from time-to-time which won’t count towards the cycle-count.
My favorite Daily WTF thread is about Samsung's adventures with the Enlightenment toolkit in Tizen: https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/15001/enlightened
I don’t know the details of this program - but in the past Airbnb has asked hosts to “donate” their space for special causes - like medical workers during early Covid.

In that case it was definitely the hosts making donations, not Airbnb.

https://www.airbnb.com/d/covid19relief
I think it has less to do with battery and more with each OS version packing more features and being more resource-hungry.
Call the police, stay nearby with warning lights perhaps? You could even take the middle option and slow them down to a safe speed.

It's an extraordinary situation, there are no well-proven answers here.

It is however well proven that stopping on a highway kills people, if they had caused a pile-up this would be a very different story.

Its baffling to me that you and others (downvoting) are so convinced that this was a safe action because the outcome was good this time.
The important thing about apps is that because they run on cell-phones, they are all basically communications technology.

Anything you do can be done better when multiple people can collaborate on it and get accurate instrumentation about it. And anything can be done cheaper when it can be automated, and that's what apps provide too.
Don Knuth comes to mind.
Here ya go:

https://www.macrumors.com/2018/05/14/john-carmack-shares-ste...
>Too bad it isn’t and Nitter instances will forever run into rate limiting.

Not if you run your own for yourself.
creative energy =/= tiktok.

i don't know. i see the tiktok generation as druggies who require a daily shot of likes and hearts and shares to feel the adrenaline and dopamine shot.
call me old fashioned but i do not have an online presence in my name. I learned from the early days to not give my real name in chat rooms and things carried over from there.

i do not own a youtube/google account and use newpipe so i do not have the urge to "comment" on a video on youtube, or use twitter to voice my opinion.
Anyway, what i am getting to us, why doesn't someone like musk re-start the science grassroots level industry across the world? we have things like pi and arduino which are doing their bit in helping re build the hacker culture in the kids but imo its needs more energetic push, across the world.

imagine what kids can do with current tech if they are made to pour their energy from tiktok cringe into science
Does the phone have to be rooted for this? I've only found one app that claims to emulate any USB VID and PID on f Droid and it required rooting.
I hadn't noticed some of those. I don't use Discord a ton, just enough to know it works better than Slack I guess, at least what they do support uses markdown syntax.

No bulleted lists... that's disappointing.

Maybe worth upvoting:

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/3600400...
Lest you think this is unique to India, here is a similar story from France:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/12/french-woman-s...
I’ll grant you that the muni busses are really terrible but they should get you (almost) from point to point. The muni system covers all the city of San Francisco (even Treasure Island) and run frequently.

The only problem is that they are painfully slow. If muni had more dedicated bus lanes (like, a lot more) it might very well be the best bus network in the world.
Ask HN: Incorporate in US, but Live in India?
Hey everyone - I currently work on H1B visa in the US, have a Singapore Permanent Residence, and Indian citizenship. I am planning to start up a global internet-based company with initial users in the US. To build global credibility, I'm inclined to incorporate in US, but on a personal front, I'd like to move back to India and operate from there.

Do you have insight on the legal, tax and cost implications of operating in such a manner? Would you do an alternative structure?
>Although copying Lua syntax and semantics with minor changes is a goal of Nelua, not all Lua features are implemented yet. Most of the dynamic parts, such as tables (...)

Ah I guessed so. The concept of lua tables probably doesn't map to efficient machine code. Real shame because that's what I consider the "killing feature" of Lua as a language.
AirVPN, the story so far: a magniloquent tale
Thanks, but I know who he was and what he did.

Personally I tend to side more with rms's position on the passing of Steve Jobs.

I just wonder how credulous someone needs to be in order to assert that guy ".. completely transformed modern life and changed the human trajectory for everyone on the planet, multiple times."

Perhaps if I'd ever owned or used any Apple products, I may have bought into these grand claims. Alas my ICT history has been Commodore, PC-compat, Palm, Nokia, GNU/Linux, begrudgingly Microsoft, and Google products, etc.

EDIT:

From the link you shared:

"Jobs later reflected that had it not been for Wozniak's blue boxes, "there wouldn't have been an Apple"."

"According to Wozniak, Jobs told him that Atari gave them only $700 (instead of the $5,000 paid out), and that Wozniak's share was thus $350."

Wozniak was / is a legend. Steve Jobs was persistently awful.
I think that is an extremely false equivalence. While there's an inherent irony about Sergey and Larry's woeful desire for privacy, whilst buying yachts bought by stripping everyone else of their own... I think it's fair to say that a public company affecting the lives of billions has drastically less right to privacy than a private individual. ;)

I'll leave you with a quote: "If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place." - Eric Schmidt, former CEO and chairman.

The fact that Google locked down communication in response to the leaks, is a tacit confirmation that they are doing things they probably shouldn't be doing in the first place.
All that creative energy is spent on making people addicted to your platform so that you can sell more ads.
And also just like the other four common coronavirus types that we already live with.
This was reported by Variety magazine:

https://variety.com/2021/music/news/nirvana-baby-nevermind-l...
> The hard problem of consciousness is an impassable obstacle given the set of tools that we have and, arguably, ever can have

I've come to the same conclusion, after reading and thinking about it for 20 years. I no longer search for answers in books, papers, or threads. It's worse than not being able to find any new insights. I never found any insight that goes beyond describing the problem, or defending the existence of the problem. I no longer expect to see any progress on it in my lifetime.
Go and Rust won't help there, but Zig might.
It’s really hard to work around firewall restrictions in P2P.
I think that any successful P2P platform needs a central proxy to accommodate people behind CGNAT or who aren’t willing or able to poke holes in their firewall. Someone has to pay for that proxy.