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11 years ago, if your finger bridged the two antennae together on an iPhone 4, you lost signal strength. Half a percent of iPhone users complained about it, Apple offered a free cover to anyone affected.

They were HIT WITH 18 LAWSUITS about it OMG.

They settled all the lawsuits by ... offering a free cover or $15 refund.[1]

Depending on your viewpoint this is either one of many blips along the way of manufacturing tens of billions of products over a dozen generations, or a way for "mactards [to] realize Steve Jobs are out to milk their clueless a$$es with his oh so clever marketing gimmicks" (Yahoo News comment).

Bonus points if you can find anywhere Apple said "you're holding it wrong" or blamed users. Steve Jobs wrote "Just avoid holding it (the iPhone] in that way." which is somewhat pragmatic, and rather what you'd expect someone to say if they weren't filtered by a PR firm. Probably what I would say. Apple haters can't face this.

Macworld.co.uk said:

> "We don't really think there was anything substantial to the problem, and the iPhone 4 sold tremendously well. Customers didn't seem to notice, let alone mind, and Apple repeatedly pointed out that other mobile phones suffered the same effect."

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/settlement-reached-in-iphone-4-ant...

[2] https://www.macworld.co.uk/feature/antennagate-11-biggest-ap...
USC “Donor Special Interest List” – Exhibit 1 from United States vs. Colburn [pdf]
> However, I'm always baffled how everyone seems proud that the telescope has something like 200 SPOF during deployment, and if even one of them fails the whole mission could fail.

Genuinely curious: how would you have achieved the mission goals with fewer SPOF?
I think the worst take about this is that right now China doesn't seem to consider viable a diplomatic approach towards a country which is member of European Union and NATO, and i guess that is quite concerning
A Man from the Future – John von Neumann’s nuclear vision
Seems like going to the local corner store and picking up a prepaid SIM is an easy enough solution.
Sounds like the "Welfare queen" that people want to get all enraged about all over again.
You’re more worried about them messing up an order rather than purposely creating a security vuln or leak data?
> It seems odd to prioritize buying a thin, light phone and then put it in an Otter Box

Not everyone prioritizes buying thin phones, but it appears aesthetics is a big deal for you. I'm your opposite: all I want to see when I'm using my phone is its screen. Having a case made out of soft material that can absorb energy when it is dropped (not "if") has saved it on multiple occasions at the cost of adding ~1mm to the thickness.
> Is JWST as brittle as the news want to make us think? Or are there technical reasons or acceptable failure modes that gives confidence that those steps are not as critical as the news let us people know?

There is no room for redundancy in many aspects of the design, unlike, say a Boeing 777 or Airbus A350.

How can you have a redundant heat shield, or primary mirror (two parts of which swing)? I'm sure some computer systems have redundancy and perhaps comms.

But like with a helicopter: how can you have redundancy in the tail rotor?

So with the JWST: there's no way around many SPOFs.
I browse the web using Firefox, i.e., extendable browser with a huge number of plugins. Unix philosophy is not a low. It's a rule helping to make computing understandable, robust and extendable.
Perhaps it will show folks how their product and business decisions affect people day to day and improve the experience for everyone. As of now DoorDash is a service I won’t use and definitely won’t work for due to their terrible labor policies and replacing one bad tipping policy with another.
If you’re into things at the intersection of food, science, and culture I highly recommend Gastropod, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gastropod/id918896288.

Good production values, the hosts and guests are great, and I love that they’re long enough to really get in depth on whatever subject they’re covering. Big back catalog as well.

Particularly interesting was the recent episodes on edibles, lobster, and smoke, but I can’t think of one that I didn’t enjoy and listen all the way through.
Certainly makes eating out easier!
So supersymmetry is unfalsifiable in practice. Is there any part of string theory that you can't just bump up to higher energies when it fails at lower energy predictions?
This is the sort of policy I try to implement at every place I work.

People get super comfortable working
For years without knowing how their product really works.

Having people learn all aspects of the product drastically improves the focus of everyone on problems that actually matter.

Losing people that don’t want to participate is often a good thing.
Honest and non-rhetorical question here: Have any of your customers had an e-mail they've tried to send not arrive because the recipient's system was using a black-hole list that, for some erroneous reason, had you blocked? If so, were you able to successfully communicate with and/or reasonably work through whatever issue got you black-holed?

I haven't administered e-mail servers for 20 years, but back when I did, this started to be a problem that eventually became insurmountable. I used to manage a small business oriented ISP. We were multi-homed with a /18 that we used for everything. I had a customer that was a reasonably sized organization that dealt with tourism and conventions for a major city. On one of their websites, (which we hosted with IPs that came out of the same /18 as their mail server,) they had a directory of vendors who were associated with them. ONE of those members had a website that had been hacked/defaced. This got our entire /18 on a blac-khole list. They had an employee that was trying to send e-mail to someone on a system that was using this black-hole server to filter spam.

When we explained to them what the problem was, we got glassy-eyed stares back at us and a, "just fix it." I told them that, they would need to remove the link to their partner's site from their website in order to get them AND all of our other customers using numbers inside our /18 de-listed from this particular black-hole. They asked, "We have hundreds of partners who pay for membership in our organization and being listed on our website is one of the benefits. How can we possibly police every one of those websites every day to make sure there's no defacement or serving of any problematic material from any URL in any of those domains?" That's a decent argument in my opinion. And I tried to explain that different black-holes have different policies and no black-hole is demanding that anyone use their system for filtering. I tired contacting the organization that was using that black-hole to explain the situation to them, but they weren't interested in discussing it. As far as they were concerned it was our problem to deal with.

This kind of problem happened dozens of times with varying degrees of severity but with increasing regularity and it was one of the primary reasons we quit hosting e-mail and started re-selling another vendor's solution. That was a long time ago, and maybe black-hole lists aren't a thing anymore.
I know someone who spent two years fighting an open container charge for an empty beer can in the centre console he was using as an ashtray.
I'd be curious to hear how your old laptop could improve after getting cleaned of dust and with fresh thermal paste.
It won't be. I've run youth sports league websites on a variety of platforms. The platforms all suck in one way or another (most actually suck in many ways), but that's not the real problem. The real problem is that some portion of the user base/parents are hopelessly incompetent with technology and will consume your time with their problems or questions. Another segment will feign problems to try to get you to do their work for them, and at some point you will do it because it takes less time than spending time on a back-and-forth of questions and getting nowhere.

Just use email and/or text messaging.
And the company could be better off without people who have no interest in building empathy with the most essential workers in their business. So it sounds like a win/win if they get rid of people like you.
I think you can extend this a whole host of other domains. A lot of the bread and butter of 2000s era IT departments are being replaced with a highly competitive SaaS market. Building brochure sites, email, CRM, CMS, e-commerce, directory services, accounting and ERP. Twenty years ago you'd do a months-long procurement process for enterprise licenses, set SLAs, size the hardware, buy servers, hire integrators and you'd get your software up an running in 8 months if you're lucky. Now you type your credit card into a website and get unlimited capacity and 99.9% uptime instantly.
> If we had done half the stuff people had suggested we do because “everyone does it” we would have had a much worse time in that audit.

you have to mentally remove this paragraph from your story. the scenario is that there are zero repercussions for failing the audit. you might think that it’s irrelevant to you, but the fact you bring it up shows it had at least some impact on you. maybe not enough to impact your actions today, but there’s a large spectrum here where the difference between enforcement or no enforcement is significant enough to impact the behavior of a slightly different person or of your own behavior in a slightly different scenario.
These are alternatives to hosting, not viewing. Hard to switch platforms if the people making videos I want to watch are not on the new platform.
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If anyone is wondering why the threaded implementation was slower

> pool = ThreadPool(40)
Yes, nothing wrong with learning new technologies but this seems like using your side project as an excuse to learn new technologies.

Also nothing wrong with that, but personally I like to think more about architecture than about the particular implementation.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and breaking the site guidelines? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Note that there are additional rules for Show HN threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

We don't want a culture of people belittling others' work here.
I had a similar experience. I was being interviewed for a friend / fellow software developer to get a high-level security clearance. Most of the questions were pretty mundane until they got to one: "Is X a hacker?"

Working in startups I'm completely desensitized to people using "hacker" synonymous with effective software engineer in this context, so I said, yes, of course, he's a great hacker. They started writing very quickly and the disconnect was confirmed when the next question was, "Would X ever compromise national security?"

Ohhhh no, no, no, we have very different definitions of "hacker"... I explained how the word evolved to have several different distinct meanings nowadays in tech, and how we commonly use it in startups specifically, which was new to them. They definitely had a radically different image in mind.

Anyway, he got his job, so all was fine in the long run.
I find the article weak overall. While it does have a couple good points, it betrays the same lack of imagination that it decries when it mentions that resources used now might not be the same in the future. Maybe also technology availabe now will be also different in the future. I can't say for sure whether we will or not mine the astereoid belt, but sure as hell neither can the author.
Oooo neat!
I didn't feel like a sucker at all. I just hated those people that thought to cheat the system.
if the major motivator is greed but not the intrinsic value of the tech, don't you think this is terribly broken?
Yes, that's the point.

Its a common trick to lump things together but highlight one of them that's actually materially smaller to make something seem worse.

e.g. if you wanted to make an event where 1 person died and 20 suffered minor injuries sound even worse you could say "21 people killed or injured" and be technically correct but misleading.
Regarding that helicopter example:

https://verticalmag.com/news/bell-electrically-distributed-a...
What if you’re in charge of embedded programming for the milkshake machine? wouldn’t you want to learn about how the system you work on directly impacts its users?

Also, who doesn’t want to make milkshakes for a day or two? That sounds way more fun that staring at a computer for hours on end. You can say that would sweeten up the contract for me.
Me and a buddy have a Slack Q&A bot called https://gettoknowapp.com - just something fun to play around with Elixir and pretty much runs on its own.
https://youtu.be/jKzHvIXT3Bc?t=81 looks a bit more like Sonic the Hedgehog than Solitire to me tbqh. Curation does not seem to be relevant. Why do I care if the driver that runs the red light is playing/being distracted by a game that have been curated, is he going to cause less damage because of this somehow?
Unfortunately, they can still close the loop on purchase history and ad impressions through indirect, lazy association.

It's a very, very impressive edifice that's been created for identifying and tracking pretty much everybody irrespective of their direct, immediate interaction with the entity doing the tracking. I honestly think it's kind of funny that such a potentially insidious system was manifest for something as principally vapid as ad targeting.
This article assumes that we'll solve any possible resource problems through ingenious innovations, but that no possible innovation will ever make asteroid mining economically feasible. Perhaps that's true and it will never be worthwhile, but I wouldn't bet against space flight becoming cheap enough and mining technology advanced enough on a long enough timescale.

(also, is the tedious snark really necessary? I find the topic interesting but the "sci-fi is dumb and I'm very smart" tone gets a bit wearing after a few paragraphs)
But the contract you signed says anything you do in your spare time belongs to the company.
I recently started writing emacs like editor in Elixir and sharing process on Twitch almost every each day at 18:00 UTC.

Not sure whether it qualifies as a good programming stream though https://www.twitch.tv/achempion.
Seems like a small price to pay to not comply with censorship.
> Q2: How do you prevent the expert/partner from taking your idea and building it themselves, without you?

What I've heard is that ideas are many, execution is the differentiator. If you don't bring anything worthwhile to execution then the best you could do is get a patent.
Supersymmetry must be broken in some way. The way it's broken is just an accident of this universe, in much the same way the radius of the orbits of our Solar System cannot be derived from first principles but they are just an accident of the evolution of our galaxy.

This means that the masses at which supersymmetric particles are found cannot be predicted from first principles, although we can constrain the range based on other observations. Like the mass of the Higgs, for example, as supersymmetric particles should interact with it and if they were too light or too massive this would have consequences that we could see.

To summarize, we cannot get from first principles the masses at which the supersymmetric particles are found exactly, as this is just an accidental feature of our universe. We do have some bounds. The LHC is not enough to discard the entire range. ncmncm is talking his ass off.
I still haven't heard a good reason.

I hear ideas from gamers and anti-big-tech folks, but none of it really sounds all that useful. But I'm also the kind of person who prints off their boarding pass at the airport because I prefer having a reliable piece of paper to get me on the plane.

Cryptocurrency and blockchains aside, I feel like if folks really cared about public authentication and proof of identity, then something like Keybase would be far more popular than it is. So idk, I've not been convinced yet.
Would it be ok to email you to find out more?
That doesn’t make sense. One of the great things about DD is one can do it in their down time.
Ask HN: Where are you getting your money's worth?
There are very few services / products where I feel my money is being well spent; like ultra-cheap VPS' for personal projects.

What do you enjoy paying for?
ESC/AWD has become an essential safety equipment given the amount of (arguably unnecessary) power even economy cars are kicking out now. It is also the enabler...
I think what many want is alternate payment methods to avoid paying the 15-30% fee to Apple but from what I've been reading is that Apple may allow alternate payment providers but still demand the fee. Baby steps, I guess.
And here I am, feeling nervous about a production web deployment.
The Walking Monk
Funny -- I was going to ask this same thing last night. :)

Here’s a couple I’ve used throughout my career:

- https://rubular.com

- https://crontab.guru
Not in my imaginary contract.
You clearly have not read much biology - this disease is a symptom of the presence of problematic protein entering people's body through their nose. The virus can replicate and spread from your nose without becoming symptomatic or spreading to other systems. Intramuscular vaccines do not prevent replication of proteins in your nasal passage, which is how covid spreads. Vaccines prevent symptomatic disease in most cases for most variants prior to omicron. Nasal administered vaccines like radvac still for work this reason.
Never is a really long time. Very small and light craft could take chucks out of rocks and direct them elsewhere. Allowing the process to take a long time period substantially changes the physics. The source of this idea is not science fiction, but industry. Valuable materials get sought after and rational bounds do not always apply, at least not at first. Remember that many said man would never fly, and then it was commonly said we would never walk on the moon. Never really gets around. Remember not needing more than 640k memory?
“only time will tell” doing some big lifting in that sentence
Thanks! Though I was specifically interested in the term 'Koch phase'
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I think this is your earnest attempt at it but its a good place to apply the story from yesterday 'be curious, not judgemental'.
What about when some disgruntled customer thinks you put the wrong milk in his milkshake and start screaming at you?

Having to work a shitty job when you're a teenager is a right of passage, I'm not doing it in my thirties.
Rust is quite different to my knowledge. You can mix n match libraries each using a different language version. I don’t know that the art of language changes is tiny either as some of these can be mutually incompatible [1]:

> Each project can opt in to an edition other than the default 2015 edition. Editions can contain incompatible changes, such as including a new keyword that conflicts with identifiers in code. However, unless you opt in to those changes, your code will continue to compile even as you upgrade the Rust compiler version you use.

Now granted it’s entirely possible that a given compiler version accidentally broke comparability when building in a different mode - that’s a bug. It’s also possible that this model does have a limit as to how breaking of a change the editions can have (eg probably the ownership model can’t change drastically) which is maybe what you’re trying to say? Certainly if I recall correctly there have been breaking changes in editions.

[1] https://hkalbasi.github.io/mdbook-ra/appendix-05-editions.ht...
God Jul from a Swedish expat in California!
Isn't that normal. How can you have a voting place where normal use is ongoing?

I am from UK and many voting places are schools and the whole school has the day off. I think this has been true for over a hundred years.
uBlock origin still blocks YouTube ads.

Google is highly profitable, take the subscription fee and donate it to someone who will help people instead of just develop more sophisticated ads and ways to remove blocking from browsers…
If I get a job as a milkshake maker at Jack in the Box, I’m walking out if they make me work with the engineers.
I think it would go against Rust's philosophy to have hidden (and inconsistent) behavior, like automatically buffering some things but not others. Generally Rust tries to give users explicit and ergonomic control over those sorts of details.
Which would make Automattic the majority owner no? Or has there been enough significant changes that has diluted the majority ownership? I remember a push to integrate with JS technologies several years back where I could see that happening.
Although people love to gang up complaining about Google, I would not necessarily celebrate this. I am sure these decissions are oftentimes more politically based and not sure if a country should really decide what should or should not be availabe on the internet.
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Why are ML Compilers so Hard?
I feel differently, why don’t you like it?
You can have the best of both worlds with self-hosting received mail and achieving good deliverability by using a service such as Amazon SES. SES will probably cost you less than $10 a year for personal email sending volumes. I use it for my business and it is less than $15/yr. Rarely get a bill for more than $1. They hold you accountable for any abuse/complaints, which is a good thing.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone!
It is interesting how long a nearby territory/country can 'Stand up to China'

When you look at _countries_ (not even territories!) that have tried to 'stand up' to the USA, you only see a trail of immiseration and coup d'état. They don't even have to be _that_ close to us geographically, like Nicaragua or Chile. Cuba is the closest to a success story, and look at their economic indicators. https://tradingeconomics.com/cuba/gdp-per-capita-ppp

I don't know what conclusion to draw from this, but it's just wild to me that China is a superpower, and not only has Taiwan failed to have a revolution, but they're a financial success. https://statisticstimes.com/economy/country/taiwan-gdp-per-c...
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> The Lenovo notebook with a Core i9-12900HK achieved 1878 points in the single-threading run of Geekbench 5.4.3, and 12,058 points in the multi-threading test.

> A 14-inch MacBook Pro manages around 1750 (single threading) or 12,600 points (multithreading)

Higher in single-threaded only.
Cheers mate. It was fun for a lockdown project but, yeah, nothing long term.
Appropriate remark!

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