skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
even within software, it feels.like their is so much room & space for new ideas, innovation & novelty. but the best minds are all paid to captivate attention for big systems, or manage various well established rent-seeking comluter offerings.

it slays me that the engineers, the techies, have never had our day. we havent gotten good. we havent started new things, havent been augmenting & enhancing the world: we've been well paid to do the opposite, to capitvate & control & take technology, to dollop it out in little well managed productized offerings. the whole culture of innovation has dried up. i think of tech as still having so much prowess, skills, potential, and power, but wow, it is so squandered. it is so hard to break off on our own, to step away from the giant faucets of money & to start pursuing the radical, the good, the possible, the exciting. the potential.

and what possibilities do arise, they seem so very quickly picked up, bought out, folded in to the mass corporatized system. comoetition & competency & novelty keep dying before they really get a chamce to bloom. it's the Thiel'ian advice to Facebook to sell, to take the money, get rich now, rather than keep working & trudging on, hoping.
I mean i know some lucky pickers and gamblers probably did better than me but there cant be that many that theyre all driving housing markets up
I think you’re conflating ‘the trial’ with ‘sentencing’ - all the stuff about him trying to hire a hitman was brought up at sentencing (I thought), not during the trial. Under US law almost anything can be brought up as a mitigating or aggravating circumstance at sentencing - whether such facts would be admissible at trial is irrelevant as the rules of evidence do not apply to sentencing.

Edit: added the “I thought” - my recollection was the charges related to the hitman-hiring were dropped. I may be misremembering.
If I were starting totally fresh, I'd be paying careful attention to the smart panel setups https://www.leviton.com/en/products/residential/load-centers and what they can do, above and beyond individual outlets.
I assume he referred to breakpoints in the browser.
Can you run a high energy operation without being noticed?
Also it would be quite bad for businesses if their future most profitable demographic kept killing themselves before getting to their income generating years
Many other studies disagree with that one. Current consensus is that the Pfizer vaccine is well over 90% effective against severe disease from Delta, and over 80% for infection:

https://nitter.net/mugecevik/status/1430218372348878860?lang...
I use SO every single day. It’s alive and thriving, and I’m happy for that.
I'm with you on this. It's controversial to say, but logically obvious.
While not explicitly stating it what rayiner is pushing for is to teach the "White man's burden" in school. With MLK burying race as a distinguishing factor, the euphemism that conservatives employ is "culture", better yet "homogeneous culture". It is even more effective because we have a brown man pushing the White Mans Burden trope, similar to Larry Elder.

For example rayiner, who is from Bangladesh, will forget to tell you that the Indian subcontinent is estimated to have produced 25% of world gdp as late as the 18th century. This was an Islamic empire with majority hindu subjects. What followed was the industrial revolution in Europe, production of advanced weaponry, colonization and the hollowing out of the wealth of a subcontinent.

You can continue to engage with brown sahib here, but he will merely dress up the worst of conservative tropes in alternative vocabulary and fish out some random tidbits and obscure statistics to give it a semblance of a scientific argument. He hasn't adopted a full blown Candace owens persona, he is angling for a brown Ben Shapiro habit.
I haven't used cash in a year and a half, no crypto required
There's a TV show that is kinda good: "Mayday". It may also be called " air disasters" or some such in different locations.

Edit: here's a wiki link:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mayday_episodes
Theranos is interesting because they modelled themselves after the startup world. And in this world being less than truthful (fradulent ?) with customers and investors is not only accepted but often encouraged. YC itself has often promoted this "fake it until you make it" approach.

As an example, Musk has promised robotaxis and FSD for years which if delivered would have a massive impact on Tesla's stock performance. And yet he has never been taken to task and likely never will.
I’m running HASS with the HASSOS VM image and it’s pretty solid. I’ve never tried running a custom install of HASS on a Linux system I installed separately but I can’t imagine that being much fun.

HASSOS is pretty much an appliance at that point. I can’t remember the last time I had to ssh into it. Upgrades, backups, etc are all done via the web UI or the iOS app with a couple of clicks.
I don’t want to pay for anything.
The archive is the user's revenge for bad business, politics and actions ;)

An archive is seldom appreciated until you desperately need it, much as libraries... so you have to be a certain good kind of crazy to do this and preserve digital information like an archeologist instead of paywalling stuff... it preserves our digital history and we should support it in any form we can as noone else is doing it (looking at you national libraries)
Apple does battery replacements on them for a reasonable price. Might not be worth it for a phone that old. But it is nice that Apple keeps updating devices until virtually no one is using them anymore.
people have 6 figure crypto accounts that aren't just already wealthy? this is the norm and they're all buying property and driving up prices?
Ah okay, thank you.

>Also, we can delete the extracted data on request.

Just to be 100% clear, you are referring to the cached extracted data, right?
> Tesla just packages Panasonic. GM just packages LG. They're not making batteries from raw materials.

That's not really true. Tesla and Panasonic jointly developed their cells. And the latest 4680 cells are fully designed by Tesla. Tesla also seems to be going independent for production at future factories.
If they really are "classic cars" they won't end up as landfill.

Try looking up the resale prices of any from this vintage.
We also have the study reported in this article.

> Nursing home residents, health care workers lose more than 80% of their COVID-19 immunity six months after Pfizer vaccine.
I've been on the lookout for consulting gigs, and they are far less common now than they were 20 years ago. I'd really like to know how OP is finding these gigs.
Pretty sure that was SwingVision, an app based on real-time video analysis of your swing, rather than the hardware on your watch. The watch is just a screen to relay feedback to the user.

https://swing.tennis/
But there are facts on the ground. Hundreds of millions of people worldwide have been vaccinated.

And there are no widespread health concerns apart from a rare bloodclotting issue with Johnson & Johnson/AstraZeneca. None of which come close to the the complications and deaths that COVID has caused.

So clearly the government has been successful in this case.
> - Semiconductors. Does anyone in the US still make commodity RAM?

Mikron Technology Inc
Someone pointed out some issues with the party line on lumber prices earlier this year:
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/what-lumber-shortage-t...

Could just be ordinary conspiracy speak, or maby there's more to this story after all.
Some say nodered, I personally didn’t like it.

Appdaemon however is exactly what I wanted. It can do anything python can and there is no drag and drop UI, you write actual code to make things happen.
They slowed down phones to prevent them from crashing on peak voltage. If you remember the android scene around the same time, the Nexus 6P would just crash constantly when the battery got degraded.

If you asked the average user if they would rather that their phone crash, or have the top speed capped. They would all rather it did not crash.

Of course this should have been more visible to notify the user to get a battery replacement. Which it now is and there is a full battery health page. It was also never really secret or lied about. There was a mention in the change logs that no one reads.
Not op, but presumably: that spikes in prices where temporary bounce backs rather than structural switches to high inflationary years.

Which is also the view of the Fed and the ECB, so not a particularly weird position from Krugman.
To continue dumping on Duolingo: we had one guy join our D&D group intended to improve our target language (so all interaction at the gaming table in target language) who swore he had done two years of Duolingo and was well prepared. Couldn't speak a lick of the language so it was only English from them the whole campaign.

Want to learn a language? Please don't do it with Duolingo.
Illustrated Glossary of Organic Chemistry
> Who gets a degree in manufacturing engineering today?

https://www.engineering.txstate.edu/Programs/MFGE.html

https://mime.oregonstate.edu/manufacturing-engineering-under...

Or anywhere that offers both an IE and ME degree, you could likely build your own.
My interpretation of their suggestion is that the third party apps are merely a UI wrapper built on top of Facebook that removes ads or enforced privacy, and that building such a wrapper is currently illegal. Such a wrapper wouldn't be subject to centralization since there's no network effects, the network effects still lie with Facebook.
I really loved my nexus 5 phone from Google until it got stuck in a bootloop and wouldn't charge. It was a a couple weeks out of warranty but they were nice enough to send me another one (with a charge hold) that almost immediately became a brick as well with the same issue and that one they would not replace.

It kind of sucks to see that this is still an ongoing issue on their newer and (much) more expensive phones. I've already sworn off getting another device from Google and this just reinforces this point. Samsung's hardware (with uh, one Note-able exception) has been solid and while it didn't get the same updates and of course had all the nonsense that Samsung added on top of the base android experience, was much better than any other Android device I've owned.

That said, the iPhone 4s I owned and the iPhone Xs Max I currently own are the two best phones I've owned and it's really not close. Of course it's frustrating dealing with the limitations of the OS and man would I love to sideload some of the great applications they have on Android, but the reliability and support are just unparalleled, not to mention iOS just kind of gets a lot of basic things right which makes it a much more enjoyable experience without tinkering.
Solar+batteries sort of can do it, but that wasn't ever attempted on the Moon, while ritegs are a very well known and proven tech.

This all pales beyound mounting the cables though. If anyone does _that_ then the power issues are moot.
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I had one... My favorite game was Fantasy Zone. Its sound track has stayed with me even after 30+ years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7WQYjC26SU
ESD is a huge deal with passive component too, and honestly even with components that you never thought could fail in the past like resistors, lately.

Obviously an instrument that is never going to be serviceable deserves the best components and handling, but they will fail eventually and you either have a redundant circuit or another fallback.
He’s an energy vampire
Wow, no where did I mention Ivermectin but your knee-jerk reaction was that I somehow believed that was the answer. What is worse, suggesting that we should be leary of government agencies that are ripe for abuse or having a scripted NPC-lke response to people that question anything?
The AngelList company has an investment half where you can invest in funds that are actively managed
I agree. This is quite grim. And I do think that we will repulse the takeover. The Constitution is more durable than most will give it credit for.

But as you say, the result will only be temporary. But that's the nature of freedom isn't it? It must be constantly fought for. We grew complacent with our Starbucks and televised competitive sporting events, blockbuster movies and a feelings-based economy.

I believe the long term strategy would be to get to the root of the problem: insanity, irrationality and cowardice. If we can bring our children up to be rational, compassionate and logical, and to create a failsafe system to correct irrationality we will go a LOT further and this world would be a better place!
> half the government wants to keep sex work illegal and doesn't really want to stop trafficking that much.

This reads oddly, since in the government context "sex trafficking" is synonymous with "prostitution".
Depends on your threat model. Are you more worried about a hacker breaking Instagram chat and reading messages to and from your child or some bad actor grooming them?
Yep, I've actually had every single pixel (XL, 2XL, 3, 4XL and 5). The only one that had issues was the 4XL, with the back peeling. Got a free swap that came in 2 days, and it was fine afterwards. I give my phones down my family afterwards and each one has lived 3-4 years easily.
Do you want to expand on this one word answer? Why do you think cannabinoids are a good substitute for opioids?
Mostly agreed.

I know it is tired to say this but we don't have a free market with the existence of intellectual property. They are also a Natural Monopoly, mostly due to network effect, but also because of their tendency to acquire the competition. Add to that that we don't put executives in jail for corporate wrongdoing, alongside treating corporations as people in terms of speech and political donations.. you end up with the present situation.
True. In the early 2010s, I used to ponder whether journalism is actually dying -- meaning, now that we have social media, traditional gatekeeper-journalism [1] is simply not needed any more. During the passed decade, it has become obvious that as long as a social network is also a megacorporation, this idea won't work. We still need the better parts of traditional journalism to check what's going on behind the curtains of profit-driven social networks. Really messy, but also truly interesting times for journalism for sure.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatekeeping_(communication)
Excellent blog! I learned a lot.... Deserves the front page, IMHO.
Dunno, I think that's just front-end development. Node was pretty simple when it first started, now you have these ridiculous webpack builds.

Rails front end stuff has changed, but IMO it's on the saner side of things. And the new Rails things are pretty nice.
> You're going to suggest that Google is the worse perpetrator of planned obsolescence

Yes.

The big problem was the deception, not the slowing. If they wanted to remove the speed difference between new and old phones, they'd have to slow them all down.

And especially because you can get a new battery, I find updates getting cut off so soon with android to be significantly worse than anything apple does.
Developer who owns an excavator, track skid steer, dump trailer here. Probably a wet lot...
Just for the record, all the specifics you've listed with regard to gay prostitution also apply to heterosexual prostitution, to my best understanding.

That is to say, much of the clientele are older men who just want a hot, younger woman to have sex with them. There are also other types.

Some female escorts do not feel coerced, while another significant percentage certainly do. I would imagine that's the same on both front as well.

While I totally recognize that male prostitutes are perhaps more likely to be able to resist physical aggression, and therefore have a bit more agency (which I think may have been the point you were leading toward), I think the moral panic crosses all borders, and I agree that once (if) we take that out of the equation, the rest of the conversation becomes much easier.
I really appreciate your advice and explanation. I will delve deeper into the regulatory frameworks to see if it is feasible to execute it. Thanks buddy.
SpaceX is a rocket company run by one of the world's biggest nerds, and has a loving following of mega-nerds. Of course us HNers feel at home watching them work.
The negative replies to this are largely valid, but ignore the fact that we can have multiple strategies at the same time.

I for one would love to be able to take my battery out, swap it, have a few so some are always on solar charge. Be able to take one onto the boat. Use a new one for higher performance special occasion driving, and an old one for bumper to bumper slow commute which I can wrong every last mile out of. Have a few which default to home backup and can support the grid.

The highly optimised around the battery argument is very good. But it doesn't mean that we can't also have a company focusing on interchangeable batteries with a third party market.

Let the buyer decide. Neither solution will get 100% of the market, or zero. Why write one off right now with confidence when both could have a healthy market for the hugely diverse users (ie not just SV nerds)

The fed enforcing interop wouldn't be black and white. Just like Mercedes are allowed to sell super low MPG AMG Sports cars because they also sell lots of small city cars. The fed could encourage things in this direction without being black and white and mandating 100% of batteries be replaceable.

I think the downvotes of the parent comment here aren't what downvotes should be for. He or she brings up a very interesting point
>I don't trust GNOME/GTK developers to keep their "every preference has a cost" philosophy limited to GNOME

That isn't a philosophy, it's just how development works. Preferences do have a cost, in any project. The actual GNOME philosophy is more along the lines of "GNOME would rather spend the cost of preferences elsewhere" which has been part of the project's philosophy for many years, if you disagree with that decision then feel free to use some other platform.

I don't see what your issue is with GNOME Screenshot, you don't have to use it. Just use Spectacle, nobody is going to take issue with you doing that. The builtin GNOME tools are designed to be simple and straightforward, not to include every feature under the sun. Which features an app has is entirely up to its developer, you can say they should or shouldn't do something but it's not your decision to make unless you are developing that app. The developer might listen to community suggestions but they don't have to, and they are very unlikely to if the suggestions are rude.

>I also stand by my statement of "GNOME not really being a community project" after reading the blog posts by Tobias. There is little room for disagreement besides what the "GNOME way" says and little care for downstream.

This paragraph doesn't make sense to me. The "GNOME way" is just what a group of loosely connected developers all agree on and those blog posts are just one developer's opinion. You're saying it's not a community project but that "GNOME way" is entirely the product of that community, there is nothing else there. Downstream is only relevant as far as they contribute back upstream, because there is no other possible way for there to be any relationship there.

But I would say in a lot of cases with FOSS communities, the well has been poisoned and interactions become toxic very fast, I just try to cut that behavior off at the head and correct any misinformation that is out there.
I work in an agency. I'd love to work on a mature product someday.
'Many' 'Allegedly'

These may be facts, but are they actually useful?
I guess my only point was that I've seen both approaches - you either over-spec the components and when it doesn't fail like you think the spec was the secret, or you design for unreliable parts and when they don't fail as expected, you look like a genius.
If you don't understand something that most people have an agreed viewpoint on you might want to spend some time reflecting.
Micron makes RAM in the US
Building a Lego Submarine [video]
I feel a strong sense of binary bias from this post.
Also, once you drive the good people out of business, not only whatever is left over much worse, but it attracts the people who are outright sociopaths and want to push the boundaries just because they like to see people burn. Since the demand doesn't go away, it just goes underground. If tomorrow all legitimate painkillers were outlawed, drug trafficking would become a much worse problem with a lot more deaths.
That sentence is extremely misleading. The study showed people losing more than 80% of their antibody immunity. But they also have T-cell and B-cell immunity which lasts longer.
This whole meme is sick.

Ivermectin is a noble prize winning drug for humans. Joe Rogan took a human dose prescribed by a human for a human. How are you outsourcing your thinking to this degree, yet so confidently responding condescendingly?

BTW, Joe was better after a day...
Change of venue and jury sequestration are controlled by the judge, not the prosecutor, and thus definitionally cannot be prosecutorial misconduct. And it's not misconduct for a prosecutor to disparage the defense in front of the jury unless it's extreme or falls into specific categories. Generally the prosecutor's entire job is to make the jury not believe the defense's story.
> “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.”

I noticed this around the same time. It was 2010 and I was still in grad school, my lab mate and I used to poke fun of what we called the "Twitter researchers", who were working on what we perceived to be very boring projects (i.e. figure out the optimal ranking of N articles on a page to maximize some objective function). They also didn't like the research, but Twitter/Facebook/Microsoft/Google was paying for their tuition and stipend, so they didn't have much of a choice. When the big grant funding agencies are funding projects at a rate of around 20% - 25%, if you're a researcher hurting for federal dollars then that big tech money looks really good. I can only imagine this dynamic being replicated at universities across the country, how many young minds are wasted on this pursuit. And for what? So Google can sell more ads and become even richer? So Facebook can suck all of your attention just to make you depressed and suffer from body dysmorphia and an eating disorder?

I'm in the robotics field, and in our lab we used to draw a clear line that whatever we worked on would not have a direct military application, because we couldn't stand the thought of our work being used to kill people. Obviously the line is blurry (will my localization algorithm be used on a predator drone?), but there was always at least an eye toward ethical considerations in our research group. We always asked ourselves "How could this be used to hurt people?" It was in our culture, because our work had such obvious evil implications. Just watch pretty much any sci-fi movie ever, there was no shortage of ideas about how robotics research could go wrong.

But there's not a lot of sci-fi source material on how page-ranking algorithms can destroy society. These "Twitter researchers" as I called them never really had a notion that their work could be used for evil purposes, and who could blame them? In 2010 it seemed so benign. But looking around at the state of social media, maybe there should have been more conversations early on about the ethical implications of the research they were doing.
It's astonishing how similar all cars are becoming, outside of the superficial stuff. For a reason. Convergence on the optimal solution.