skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We need a natural-language <-> regex translator
They may have to anyway. There is UK legislation restricting foreign companies trading directly in the UK which I guess wouldn't have applied to the EU pre brexit but would now.
My friend had a good suggestion I used. When you're signing up, I had them write down and sign beside the big lie I thought they were telling me about cancellation. Then when I cancelled and mentioned the terms, the manager said "unfortunately we would need to have that in writing". And then I produced my contract with it added in writing, signed by their staff member. Ridiculous the lengths one must go to have them follow through on what they say.
Your comment is funny, in a roundabout way.

Until a while ago, if I recall correctly. GPS was <<lying>>. Its accuracy was deliberately hobbled to within tens of meters in order to prevent it being used for destructive purposes, I believe.
Ask HN: What's the quickest way to get something online?
Hey HN,

I have this frustration with the modern web. Everything's locked into a platform or requires a build step or CI.

It got me thinking the other day: what's the easiest way to sync a TXT file onto the web?

I thought about FTP, scp, Dropbox, GitHub — but all of them require multiple manual steps and feel complex.

It got my wondering: why isn't it easier today to put something on the internet than it was 10 years ago?
That is crazy. I spent 20 minutes trying to cancel the WSJ. It is infuriating.
It was a mostly peaceful protest.
based on logic and statistics, that would be true

based on the rest of study design I'm less confident
How about other drinks, especially soft drinks. Isn't it correlated in developing health diseases?
> ( and no, mobile ubuntu does not count )

How about Librem 5: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5?
How is this going to work?

You can't replace cameras, screens or batteries on modern iPhones without the OS falling apart or breaking a sweat until they are re-signed to the phone by Apple, will they patch that out?
Louis Rossman has taught me to be welcoming of things like these but skeptical. Until this is in real consumers hands and reasonable rates and effort I will consider it a big maybe.
I’d love if Amazon implemented a random option, where the first couple books are unread and shuffled through.

They could also create a “smart” playlist, suggesting other books you may like.

They have the data for it.
I tried canceling WSJ and they wouldn't take the call outside business hours. So I just called their Hong Kong office and cancelled with them, and refused to discuss anything but the immediate cancellation, and stopped them in their track when they veered off.
You may also consider using The HashiCorp tools (nomad, consul, vault) rather than K8s. They are a bit more approachable (single binaries) and do a similar job.
This is a very important question. This feels like two opposite directions that Apple is taking here.
Not only for anti-monopoly reasons but for data-protection reasons as well. It's hard to swallow that any public service uses Microsoft after the Schrems-II verdict.
site is down for me. In New York
Yeah, genuinely worried about this.

We know Apple very well now, they'll be expensive af and will give them a reason to keep screwing over third party parts by introducing hardware locks.
This is great news but I'd still like some form of R2R law on the books. I wonder if the purpose of this is to placate the R2R movement so that they're less effective.
It doesn't matter if that's the explicit goal. Given the opportunity MS would do it.
https://www.youtube.com/user/rossmanngroup/videos

https://twitter.com/rossmannsupply
Ivermectin stops working.
Nice job! Is this aimed at single core/thread computations or the prometeo layer is also a way to write in a more "user friendly way" basic parallel code?
Yeah the pricing model for SQL based queries is not optimal at all considering you don't control how the query optimizer will use the indexes, and (not trying to assign malice) they aren't very incentivized to improve it.
The Paxlovid Paradox
SolraBizna/ars-emu: An emulator for a fictional console
Dont get excited. Article starts with a lie right off the bat:

>Customers join more than 5,000 Apple Authorized Service Providers (AASPs) and 2,800 Independent Repair Providers who have access to these parts, tools, and manuals.

AASPs and IRPs do NOT get access to 'tools, manuals and parts'. They get access to batteries and screens at significant markup and repair manuals that say "mail device to Apple" in case of other defects. Yes, AASPs are Prohibited from component level repair. AASP/IRP can not replace a charging port, its that bad.

But I get to buy original display from Apple so its still good? Well, Apple will sell you display assembly at the cost of Fully working second hand device.

>By designing products for durability, longevity, and increased repairability

They had to set Sarcasm Generator all the way to 11 to write this.

What this is is Apple getting scared. They can smell losing their long battle against Right to Repair and are trying to make smallest steps possible giving appearance of caving in.
Discovered Linux when I bought an old Dell i5 laptop from ebay. Loved it - it just doesn't get in my way and gave me some time back. Almost like I'm retiring from the world of working bullshit. Then bought a another old desktop with W10 on it and immediately repurposed as a Linux project box. Didn't even finish Win setup. Just immediately popped in a Mint cd and install was nothing to it.

While Win now controls my computing experience like I'm some crofter on some clan chief's land, in 2021, linux actually handed back control and gave me more capacity to not have to deal with stupid windows shit. Time, time, time. Now I'm intent on getting rid of android. Google is starting to creep me out. Want to move to a linux phone. Just not quite there yet. Time, freedom, personal sovereignty.
No but I did see a pig careening across the sky earlier. Thought nothing of it at the time but I think this explains everything.
Any investment that requires orders of magnitude improvements in technology. Most investments don’t.
A lot repair shops have been using screen and replacement part sourced randomly for common repairs.

You’ll see one in every shopping mall, and while franchised ones won’t be much affected, smaller shop should benefit from from wider access to parts (no need to get accepted as a repair shop for instance)
Fascist cosplay?
If we are to believe that the states of the two editing environments are the products of this distinction (yes, wild oversimplification, but bear with me), I would say that we kind of know which way produces the greatest good for the most users?
I installed two iFixit MPB 2015 batteries, the second one as a free warranty replacement. Both degraded incredibly fast.
The economist also does not have unsubscribe links in their marketing emails, the ones that you get after you’re a subscriber.
I'd love to see stats for caffeine-free people in a study like this.

It seems like anybody can tell you that Soda is worse for you than tea/coffee (possible exception of sweet tea).
I seem to have about three dozen. Many of them are very simple and quite old and should probably be turned into shell functions in my .bashrc. Only a few are of any complexity.
The website is broken when https://www.googletagmanager.com/ is blocked (on any decent uBlock Origin setup). The webmaster might want to fix this ASAP, I don't know why this kind of script is "mandatory" in modern web design...
HN seems to overreact on this hard

If user clicks on e.g "Open in Edge" button and FF intercepts URL with Microsoft's "microsoft-edge protocol" and opens FF, then what's so shocking about the fact that MS is not happy about this?

inb4: I'm saying it as a FF user.
I was waiting for SXM to pop up. Literally one of the worst companies for this and I say this as someone who sadly worked for them for a little bit. You can manage everything in the web portal but to cancel you click a button and it tells you to call them. I know they have content and some people use them but they literally have so much friction in cancelling that it is a huge part of their business.
Yeah, the whole industry is insane and scummy. It's designed to give creditors as much gossip as possible, and congress has only taken rather tepid steps to reign it in. At the time I thought I was on the side of goodness, as my job was to find legal reasons to dispute these negative items on credit reports, submit the report back to the bureaus for a rescore, and ultimately get people their mortgage. But with the benefit of hindsight I can plainly see how I was a cog in creating the 2008 crash, and how the whole system was ultimately constructed to look the other way vs fraud if it meant the mortgage went through.

We badly need much stricter privacy rights surrounding personal information, but I don't see a viable political path to making it happen sadly :(.
Brexit is the gift that keeps on giving!
That requires manually adding an ULA range to the lo interface. Having something standardized that will be available by default would make things much easier since you don't have to touch the system configuration from your application. It may be easy enough in a container where you have namespaced root/CAP_NET_ADMIN but you can't always assume that.

127.0.0.0/8 is just there.
The top part of the article is excellent, and literal worms as a confounding factor in trials of a deworming treatment makes a ton of sense.

The end of the article, where he speculates about vaccine denial, is less useful.

It’s kind of funny that the author spends most of the article rigorously applying the empirical and inductive scientific method, but then at the end just takes off on a flight into his own mind like some kind of ancient philosopher, finding their way by the power of thought alone.

It’s really easy to fool oneself into thinking that because you are smart and knowledgeable in one area, you are smart and knowledgeable in general. That’s how ego and the mind works. It turns out, that’s not how knowledge works though. You have to observe and test to build real knowledge.

The author, in exploring vaccine denial, would probably be better served by following the same method he did for ivermectin: exhaustively surveying the current state of scientific studies of the phenomenon, and attempting to rigorously synthesize it.
Although, I cancelled my Netflix subscription a few years ago because I felt like I was watching too much. Same reason I quit World of Warcraft back in the day :)
Building a Second Brain: An Overview
This only works if you marry someone who does not believe in divorce. Good luck these days.
While I agree generally, this isn't helpful for someone trying to expand their knowledge. Helm is a popular tool, and it's important to understand it, when it's useful, and when it's not.
The cynic in me wonders if Apple is simply reading the room on Right to Repair laws and throwing the crowd a bone so that they can say, "You don't need those laws! Apple already provides numerous ways for you to repair your own devices!"

Monitor in the coming months how much they continue to spend on anti-RTR lobbying. That would be the better litmus test of their sincerity.
This ^ !!!
Wait for it first...
... and I do want to believe...
...but we've been burnt...
the catch is that apple stays in the repair game.They will lose against the right to repair principle, so the only move is to stay in the loop by directly providing the means to that repair, instead of 3rd parties.
Indeed - there are, in fact, several things wrong with it.

Firstly, it is a circular argument in which an unargued-for intuition - '"The system" isn't the kind of thing that understands' - is used in trying to justify that intuition.

Secondly, no-one is suggesting, and Strong AI certainly does not imply, that the utterly simple 'system' here is capable of understanding anything. The fact that it does not proves nothing.

Thirdly, it is irrelevant (a variant of the homunculus fallacy) to see any significance in what the actors understand and when they do so, as they are being employed to act as unthinking automata. Replace each of them with a simple mechanism for placing a letter in a predetermined spot, and you have an equivalent system, also mindless, that is equally useless for demonstrating anything about the feasibility of Strong AI.
And getting in front of it means they get to dictate the pricing structure - you can bet your spare parts will be beautifully packaged and sold at a decent markup.
Call me cynical all one wants, but I am not at all convinced this is motivated by some kind of altruism and the whole "inclusion" corporate propaganda tinge of the copy/images makes me even more suspicious of the manipulative corporate motivation of this move. I see what you are doing, Apple.

Unless I missed something, there is no talk of lowering the price by the cost of labor for, e.g., a $270 screen replacement. So my assumption is that you get to do an amateur screen replacement for the same price while also assuming the risk and liability of messing something up.

I even wonder if this is a kind of counter-punch against the right to repair movement so Apple, et al., can claim, "see, we allow repairs"; while it really just serves to take the wind out of the sails of the right to repair movement in the halls of Congress and the bureaucratic demons in DC.
You could get a thru axle fork and wheel. It's supposed to be much stronger and rigid-er.
or uRepair.
I haven't gotten over the "My Computer"/"Your Computer" debate yet. Haha.
Why not go to a GNU/Linux phone instead? (Librem 5 or Pinephone.)
holy shit that's bad
Wonder if I can get my credit-card warranty to cover the cost of self-service repair. I'd love to run a small diagnostic app which generates a PDF file saying

* this device's battery is failing sooner than designed and should be replaced,

* the first-party warranty would have covered this repair and expired 3 months ago

* the OEM replacement will be $279 + $15 shipping

Upload that to the CC warranty portal and, voila, free $294 statement credit.

Not at all clear from this announcement that they're providing enough tools to unlock that end-to-end scenario -- will consumers be able to download Apple Services Toolkit 2?. It's also really not clear that their partners would be very happy if it were this easy to get extended-warranty coverage; you can imagine Amex exerting some pressure on the Apple Pay relationship if MacBook extended-warranty claims went too high. But it's nice to dream.
The Memory Problem
That probably remains to be seen. I imagine batteries are one of the most desired parts that they're going to make available, and assuming that they put a healthy Apple-sized margin on the prices, why stop selling them after a new product comes out?
Was your card Chip & PIN? Didn't have a problem with my British-issued Amex in London 5 years ago.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.
I was an android devotee, but this makes me think twice.
For the stated use case, I use IPFS. Just pin the .txt file and share the link with the Cloudflare-IPFS.com gateway.
How long will they support the iPhone 12 and 13 though? Will they support repairs for as long as they support software updates? I imagine it's a bit harder to keep old parts in production.

The next step should be to allow others to create compatible parts when Apple decides to drop support entirely. I doubt they would though, that's why they've locked parts to specific motherboards.
The conversation with your newly introduced friend goes something like '...you know the Crypto Arena, thats where the next game is...'
Generally other companies are ahead on this already. Replacement parts for non-Apple phones and laptops are much easier to acquire.
A hard-to-cancel suscription is basically automatic theft, and should be treated as such
I really would like that for the map on my bike.
Saga of Erik the Red
> It shows such a reckless disregard for critical thinking that it is impossible to trust anything that comes after it.

I don't think that paragraph is as complimentary as you do.
To clarify, it seems that transactions costs vary a lot in the EU. I have the prices in Portugal for 2 terminal payments provider and I see lot of comissions around 2% which is strange because the EU states that the comissions are much lower.

No idea what's going here.
You only get the bubbles if you install the extension.
Yes, the main difference is that the COVID vaccines tend to work much better than many other vaccines.
Congratulations to the Netlify team! They have a wonderful product and have managed to capture the imagination of the JavaScript universe!
What are you using it for?

I use a normal Android phone and a phone sized Android e-reader. IMO, doing anything beyond reading long form material on an Android eink device is too painful to replace a phone because most apps have animations and lots of color.

https://www.cect-shop.com/en/xiaomi-moaan-inkpalm-5.html

https://github.com/philips/inkpalm-5-adb-english
The consensus was that there was a sharp cutoff between large particles (fall out of the air, transmit virus) and small ones (float around but doesn't transmit). It turns out this is not really based on anything other than tradition.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsfs.2021.004...
>99% of debit cards are Visa [in the UK]

Not quite that bad. In 2019 it was 82% visa 17% mc

and since there has been a move towards mastercard. My main bank, FirstDirect switched my debit card over this year. I also use Wise which is also with mastercard.
One of the things I've found as I grow older is that I spend less and less time customising my environment, and learn to enjoy the defaults. I've never managed to get a proper dotfiles setup, despite trying, so moving between machines -- especially when they're not my machines -- means reestablishing all the settings I want to keep.

I used to live inside Emacs -- not just for coding but for mail and news too. But nowadays I use Jetbrains IDEs for development and a reasonably clean vim for editing random files.
But if you make adjustments then its no longer replication that you're doing.
How is that the norm for so much tv and cinema? Maybe 30 years ago, but I don’t think you can say that violence and gore are underrepresented everywhere but network TV.
Great point. Perhaps the idea is that neither you nor the avg doc can conclude much from reading 10 studies. Therefore, defer to the experts?

As to why the COVID situation is different, presumably because prostate cancer screening affects only you (and perhaps your family in the case of a true/false positive/negative diagnosis), and COVID represents a threat to everyone around you, and everyone around them, etc.
Why would a larger cap benefit the UK or its government in any way? It's not like the "dividend" would be received by them, it's an effective +1% tax on all payments from consumers to the banks.
Yes. I actually tend to call people back when they text me if I'm on the Light Phone lol, the physical experience of typing is that frustrating. I find myself hoping nobody texts me when my SIM is in the Light Phone because then it's hard to keep track of what info is on what device, iPhone or Light Phone, because yeah, I had to keep both, while I love the Light Phone and regret nothing and it's helped me practice better habits, the lack of productivity tools means the Light Phone is mainly a hike phone or going on a date phone for me.

I still would love an everyday phone that isn't an iPhone. Amazing rec for Wise Phone, has anyone tried it personally?
If you are a solo dev, you do you, but if you are working in a team and you are building huge regexes with back references and other bells and whistles... I would guess it's not very readable for your teammates. At least for me, when I look at such a regex I have to stare at it for minutes before grokking it.
Does pixel-scroll-mode[1] not do what you want? It’s a built-in feature.

[1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/pixel-s...
Write everyday, writing is a muscle that you flex. Reading is important in the process of becoming a better writer, but in the way that watching tennis makes you good at tennis. You have to eventually get on the courts and play yourself.

I have a practice where I pick a month and I write a full page in a notebook everyday. Write about anything, most of what comes out isn’t great but that’s also the point, it’s practice. Sometimes something really good comes out too!
How to Take Better Product Photos
https://archive.md/pqjhj
That's correct. I'd say one of the fundamental differences between the two lies in the fact that the code generated by prometeo does not depend on a runtime library (which is somewhat fundamental for embedded applications, e.g., embedded optimization). From prometeo's README:

Finally, although it does not use Python as source language, we should mention that Julia too is just-in-time (and partially ahead-of-time) compiled into LLVM code. The emitted LLVM code relies however on the Julia runtime library such that considerations similar to the one made for Cython and Nuitka apply.
Greyos – First Meta-OS
Honestly avoiding stuff like this is why I loved how the App Store did subscriptions.
Applicative is actually an artificial concept, much more awkward.

Anyway, making a hierarchy more consistent with mathematical tradition is a good thing.

As for usefulness, without redundant esoteric abstractions Monoid is all we need, and the abstract Monad type-class, of course (for building abstraction barriers at a type level).

The problem with Haskell is whole Himalayas of bullshit under which its clarity and principles has been buried.

Haskell became the way of "virtue" signalling for narcissistic snowflakes, second only to the Category Theory, which is, buy the way, is "empty" outside of monoidian composition and the notion of an abstract functor.
This. Despite all the talk the “oem” stuff on eBay is crap. You really understand why apple does the warnings on battery - is careful on repairs
Turion (YC S21), a space debris removal startup, raises $4.7M seed
Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler’s reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler. The less you trust the ruler’s reliability, the more information you are getting about the ruler and the less about the table.

There are too many political, economic, and social incentives involved in propagating this new vaccine to say anything about it with the least bit of certainty. The fact that so many are presenting such an uncertain topic with such certainty itself carries a signal.

The only thing that will solve this uncertainty is time.
I didn't mean to imply that nobody else but PL researchers can use Haskell, clearly a lot of people do. What my post intended to convey was that the focus of the language seems a lot more focused on research than (say) Ruby or Javascript. This is not strange, given its history as a designed-by-committee language "to serve as a basis for future research in functional-language design". (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_(programming_language)... )

The point in your last sentence that "every now and then someone comes up with an abstraction which turns out to be incredibly useful in practice" is exactly what I meant in the OP: these abstractions seem to be developed way more often in Haskell first and then they leak to other programming languages later than the other way around.
Good for them! I am surprised Amazon hadn’t purchase them by now.

I really think Netlify can do something incredible if they can offer an e-commerce solution (Stripe/Square/EasyPost/Shippo) that can compete with Shopify. And probably why Vercel is moving in this direction.