skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't this a chicken and egg problem? Why would OS vendors spend time implementing this on their side if the drives don't support it?

The difference here being that it's not clear to me that there's much cost on the drive side to actually allow this. Aside maybe for the will to segment the market.

To me, this looks like the whole sector size situation. OSs, including regular Windows, have supported 4K drives for quite a while now. I bought a Samsung 980 (non-pro) the other day that still pretends to have 512B sectors. The OEM drive in my laptop (some kind of Samsung) can be formatted with a 4k namespace, but the default is also 512B. The 980 doesn't even support this.
If only we could spend megawatts of energy and hundreds of millions of dollars in hardware costs to be able to solve a twitter spat between a braggart tech boss and a copywriter feeling not appreciated enough. The humanity could then feel finally its existence amounts to something, some monumental goal is finally achieved.
I would argue the problem lies in our complete lack of teaching around statistical epistemology. It’s such a critical concept in my eyes and it seems just totally glazed over looking back at my education.
> It's not actually a phonetic writing system for me, because I don't have the same accent as the person who devised it.

The alphabet was designed to be phonemic instead of phonetic for the exact reason you claim.

> While sometimes referred to as “phonetic” it is, in truth, phonemic, as Shaw wished. A phonetic alphabet would look quite different depending on the accent it represented. Shavian, on the other hand, does not purport to represent exactly sounds, but classes of sounds. A person from London, from New York and from Sydney all pronounce the AH sound differently, but each would recognise the sound when said by the others. In Shavian they would all write 𐑭 for this sound.[1]

I think the problem that you encountered is rather that there are certain dictionaries that spell words in a dialect that you don't use (think of how a British person says "past" vs an American person). But that is a different problem from what you described. You can very well use Shavian with any accent of English because it is designed that way.

[1]: https://shavian.info/alphabet/
I've seen a similar trend by not eating later in the day
My 65” curved Samsung TV started showing purple clouds on the LCD backlight a couple months after the warrenty expired. Never again, I don’t associate Samsung with high quality products anymore.

Other family members with Samsung appliances like fridge, drier and washer have had similar issues.
When driving in mountains with a lot of downhill shifting gears is must unless one wants to melt the brakes.
I bought a Samsung Flip 5G, it is 1.5 years old now, and no issues with the display. The close sensor failed, which mean that my call kept going after I hung up, but Samsung repaired it under warranty.

I was actually surprised someone would never buy Samsung again for their hardware as they are reasonably good quality and design. Their software on the other hand is pretty awful and the main reason I will look at other brands when this phone needs to be replaced.
I’ve been doing this for a while now with many projects.

Essentially we have three ways to login: Google, Facebook and E-mail.

In all cases it delegates authority to an external place that you’ve setup before.

For the social networks we use the e-mail as the key.

For e-mail we decided to just send a code instead of using a url. Since the pattern of checking your e-mail on your device while working on your desktop is quite common.
This is a fantastic observation!

Having done research into UI/interaction design, I can confirm that all research in this area prioritizes things that (a) can be measured quickly and (b) with a high degree of confidence.

Good luck running a controlled experiment where multiple folks use an interface for an entire week and then become power-users of the system!
As I understand the situation, no.

Since the AirTag emits the message, that message would either contain:
- a static signature, which could then be copied and mimic'd by imposters (replay attack)
- store the private key on the AirTag device, which could then sign the a continuously changing nonce like the current datetime. But this means the private key could then be extracted from one device, and used to sign messages on an imposter device. So unless every device had a separate private key, this method would immediately be compromised as well.

So why doesn't Apple have a unique private key for each device? Well it appears it actually does, and has them constantly changing their private keys. But there appears to be some kind purposely implemented anonymity features that is designed to prevent Apple's servers from associating a ping with ever having to decode the contents, and thus of associating your account/device with the emitted location.

If you build in validation to write to the network ping database that goes "here's a ping with a signature ABC and let's lookup if it's valid, oh it is, that must be from AirTag Bob bought last month with private key XYZ, let's declare this ping valid" then Apple is only a logfile-write-of-this-information away from being able to perfectly stalk everyone who has purchased a device. So instead, the tradeoff they made is they don't keep track / purposely blind themselves to their device-in-circulation keys to truthfully say they actually can't track you. That leaves open the ability of imposter devices to transmit information through the network by creating their own known keys which look indistinguishable from authentic device pings.
The post almost entirely consists of quotations from the relevant tweets. This type of writeup is often called "blogspam", but it is an incredibly common tactic for actual news outlets, who just write up PR statements and wire agency items that were created from a company PR team (so laundered PR statements).

I think if there is to be any legitimate criticism of the post, it is that not that it has a tabloid quality, but that because it is mostly quotation, it could be replaced with a link to the original tweets. But I find a text post or "blogspam" like this often provides useful and concise context.

So if all this post does is provide brief but useful context, I think it's a not a good example at all for your complaint about the source. And it's not unwarranted for HN to find criticism of SV/Bitcoin bombast about how "we're different/new" to be interesting.
$75B according to market cap
what does this mean? It sounds like you tried to make a funny programming insult, but it fell flat if that's what you were going for
I've been on the other side: Dealing with returns and warranty claims at scale, albeit at a much larger company.

You're not alone. A lot of people will invest a lot of time into lying, playing dumb, making threats (think people with a lot of Twitter followers threatening to broadcast how terrible your company is unless you give them exactly what they want) and other manipulative tactics to abuse warranty claims.

Ultimately this is why we had to become more strict about warranty claims. When half of your warranty claims are coming from people angling for free upgrades or demanding full-price refunds after many years of service (some of whom tried to demand to keep the hardware and get a refund), you quickly become numb to it. I guess companies like Apple can absorb the lies for a while, but eventually you have to make a choice between padding your margins to cater to the warranty abusers or becoming more strict on warranty claims.
Also, in case anyone did not hear the news, Samsung's earbuds have been recently causing severe ear infections in some people from brief exposure - only 15-20 minutes with them was enough to give an Android Central reviewer an ear infection.

Apparently Samsung was using Nickel directly on the skin, and an acrylic alternative called acrylate that also has been known to cause irritation. 2 irritating substances, directly on the skin, in one pair of earbuds. Madness.

https://www.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-buds-pro-ear-i...
I believe both ads got their fair share of 'organic interest' or news. The Coinbase ad was also discussed quite a lot after it first appeared on-screen.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/13/22932397/coinbases-qr-cod...

And even other interest, such as using QR code for an ad, which in itself is a unique thing.
Emacs' Org mode gets this right.
I've been using a 144Hz screen for two years, I am a gamer, and I'll be honest: I don't notice much difference between consistent 60Hz and 144Hz. And I'm fairly sensitive to frame rate - when I'm watching a movie at someone else's house, I can tell in seconds they have the garbage "smoothing" or whatever features enabled.

Things that do stand out to me are input lag (again, usually only from TV-as-monitor with bad settings), bad colour space, and occasionally bad grey-to-grey time. I would take a 60Hz monitor over a 144Hz one if it meant avoiding any one of these issues. In a heartbeat.
An Android phone from 2014? Has it received a security update in the past five years?
Pardon my scepticism but how did the paint get chipped that badly without dropping the phone and why did the author of this article buy a case after owning it for one month?

I think it’s silly that they are using these chips and scratches as a reason to refuse replacing a faulty screen though.
If you enjoyed reading this, you may also appreciate the novel Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn. As letters are banned in the story, they also are omitted in subsequent chapters.
It's always so illuminating when economists talk about climate collapse, in much the way it's really useful to get a hairdresser's opinion on how to choose the best possible choice of chemotherapy so as to minimize hair loss in the patient.
If you made put two screen without bezel, you can't fold it.
13 months on a $300-$1300 device is defective, lol, what world is this?
> And American bees are confined to the websters dictionary rather than the oxford, which is the standard for world english.

The Oxford English Dictionary is nice, but it's a British reference, and wouldn't make sense as the source for an American spelling bee. A Brazilian spelling bee (if that makes sense) wouldn't use a Portugeuse reference from Portugal either.
There's plenty of times in Apples history where looking cool has won out over practical concerns. People have more money than sense and will happily ignore that they could buy a rock solid (literally) feature phone for <50 dollars, if in doing the opposite they can look trendy.
I am sure you can get a new gear 3d printed as long as you have the old one.
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In this case Wallabag appears to use a lot of PHP, so porting it to be a self-contained standalone static page is going to be a bit tricky. But assuming porting the codebase weren't so hard, the real issue is that the web platform- even for PWAs- is cruel & iron-hearted about who can talk to who. Applications are still the only free & open communicators on the planet, and that's just fucked, so blasted wrong.

CORS is probably going to block most basic interactions. Wallabag is a basic simple application, something that conceptually could easily run as a standalone static web page. But if that page tries to go fetch("https://www.washingtonpost.com") it'll probably immediately hit some CORS restrictions & die.

The web got deeply mishandled when we decided it was unsafe to let sites access each other. There's been a deep freak out, an anti-connectedness that's been ruling us for the past ~2 decades, and few forces have moved the needle the other way. We're all afraid of ads & tracking, the security atmosphere is tight & hot, but it's also isolating & destroying the idea of the web, a cross-connected medium. PWAs have gotten all manner of new great APIs & access, but they still have ridiculously brutal & harsh connectivity constraints that have only gotten higher harsher more brutal year after year. (WebRTC aside, There's not been a single year where the web has gotten better able to interconnect, better able to communicate. The cruelty & hostility barometer has gone up and up and up. People misuse the web for bad, so we'll make the web worse, ad infinitum.
Tell him (A) you really liked the book because x,y & z, and (B) you think you found some minor errors, and does he want to hear about them?
Fold it the other way. Then you get your external screen thing for free.
I started boycotting Samsung forever when I woke up one morning to the NFL app on my home screen on a Galaxy S6. Able to be disabled, but the fact that they'll install spam apps long after you've bought a device is really malicious.
any thoughts on the icolor 250? i realize it's a different class of machine...
If you make a warranty claim, it's no answer to say there are small scratches or dents. Small scratches and dents are normal and phones should be built to withstand them.
From the beginning,

> The US, and New York State in particular, are embarked on a decarbonization agenda. Canada has a lot of hydropower to spare, which emits on CO2. (Though large hydropower is rather hilariously not deemed "renewable" by California, among others.) All we need is a big extension cord from Canada down to NYC, and we can save the climate, right?

This reads like the disjointed stream of consciousness of a drunk person watching the evening news.
Why do you see the large number of cryptocurrencies an argument supporting theoretical value going to zero?

If too many people can easily make the product, the market quickly becomes saturated and the value starts to tend toward zero and people losing interest in it.

Also, in this particular case the product is defective. It doesn't actually function as stated --- as a currency that is widely accepted to buy a huge variety of things both large and small with minimal fees, high transaction volume and low wait times?

These are basically just instruments for speculation and fraud. History shows that such schemes can't and won't be sustained over time.
Beware, the writing is tough (disjointed) to follow.
Yeah foldable screens struck me more as a “maybe in gen 4”.

Still the author does seem to have a point on repair policy. On screens specifically on this model they should have been more chill
Top Performers Have a Superpower: Happiness
We had a similar thought.
Lol uh, what's the don't touch label for?
Funniest thing is that the companies with the most extreme leetcode interviews, Facebook, roblox, etc also fell the hardest in the most recent sell off. There’s even a quote by kieth rabois, one one the top VCs, that FB hired and built their culture around optimization, which has failed. They can’t innovate because innovative type people weren’t let into the company.
> Consumer SSDs don't have much room to offer a different abstraction from emulating the semantics of hard drives and older technology.

From what I understand the abstraction works a lot like virtual memory. The drive shows up as a virtual address space pretending to be a a disk drive and then the drive's firmware maps virtual addresses to physical ones.

That doesn't seem at all incompatible with exposing the mappings to the OS through newer APIs so the OS can inspect or change the mappings instead of having the firmware do it.
At least one of the recent OLED monitors (I forgot which one, maybe the LG 32") has a physical resolution of 4K plus an extra width/height of 16 (?) pixels, and uses slow pixel shift to slightly move the image around to prevent/reduce burn-in. That strikes me as a good approach.
suggestions ( via MIT Sloan )

1. Measure happiness in both employees and job candidates.

2. Develop happiness in your workforce.

3. Retain employees who are happy.
Looks reasonable, but opening operation become weird.
It's a real shame that Markdown beat out AsciiDoc(tor). The original AsciiDoc project was even released before Markdown. But compared to Markdown, Asciidoctor makes it just as easy to write simple formatted text; makes it far easier to write complicated markup such as definition lists and tables; supports common article-authoring features like a table of contents, footnotes, and inclusion of other documents; supports the use of simple variables that get expanded when the document is rendered; supports anchors and CSS-style classes; provides an API for user-authored extensions (in Ruby, for Asciidoctor) to customize document processing; and renders to an intermediate format not coupled to any one output format.

I cringe whenever I have to write markdown. It's such a bad format, and it's a shame that people tried to keep bolting on additional features it wasn't meant to support instead of just picking a better option. I wonder if John Gruber even knew about AsciiDoc when he started work on Markdown, and if he would have gone to the trouble if he had.
Fn-delete, yes. Honestly I find this nicer than using a separate key (which also exists on the larger Apple keyboards with numpads), but to each their own.
I always wanted to ask, why such circle-crop formations are usually in a square greed, instead of hexagonal? is it because it's easier to move tractors and other stuff between them, or is it because land isn't that scare resource as I imagine it?
I also hate password emails. I use a password manager and find it much more efficient. However, I can see how this solution is interesting for small projects where users might create an account once and forget about it. I wouldn’t want that setup for a site I use often, and especially not for a site where I have multiple accounts (Twitter for example).
There are English schools in Quebec, it's just that there are conditions for eligibility:

http://www.education.gouv.qc.ca/en/parents-and-guardians/ins...

So by law you may not be able to send your kids to English school even though there's one down the road, which I guess can be a bit surprising. Not sure if that was the case for that person though, or if they were just complaining about lack of English schools in general...
Used Pixel, GrapheneOS.org WebUSB install, and suddenly this whole thread becomes jokes.
Linux desktop has <2% market share. A monitor manufacturer would have to be suicidal to try fixing a platform that doesn’t even have proper support for basic features like display scaling.
there's a difference here.

I was an early adopter of a Chumby (damn I loved that thing). The risk I took was that they would go out of business and no longer support the eco system - that risk proved real.

I can accept taking a risk and it not working out, this is taking one risk and having the company try and pin other risks on you.

Blaming the customer for your weak ass product is not the early-adopter risk, its the caveat emptor / screw you risk. I reject the idea that early adopter means accepting bad quality.

I recently had an issue with my car (A volvo for what it matters) with some painted plastic pealing. It was the first model year, I wasn't surprised, things need to get worked out...the early adopter risk is from them working things out. I took it in and they initially rejected the warranty claim and blamed me. I offered to have a paint chemist friend look at it and do an analysis - that changed their tune quickly. The early adopter risk I took was to my time that there might be some manufacturing quirks...not to them being sleazy about standing by their products.
I think it should be longer, too. But you are given the option to purchase a 3 year warranty instead of a 1 year.

There's also plenty of ways to damage a device. You could plug it into a damaged, cheap USB charger.
Given that even Apple not only keeps the Caps key, but also has it traditionally big, I suppose the market demands it. But then who are those people who uses it?
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The point was “what would make me consider it?” I’m not saying it would be safer, I’m just saying that if earth was significantly more dangerous by way of fallout related lifetime cancer risks I’d seriously consider it if it was an option.

I’m not naïve, it’s ludicrous to imagine large scale coordination of anything beyond basic recovery effort for years after such a conflict. But it’s not ridiculous to think the bunker millionaires/billionaires, the remaining technical capacity of mankind, and whatever governments are left seriously considering, maybe, just maybe it would be good to have a backup … just in case … because look what we just did to ourselves. So if in the unlikely event I survived and was healthy enough and so on and so on, I’d seriously consider it.

This seems like a perfectly sensible attitude to me. Trading one set of hardships for another, just like many humans have done before for thousands of years.
> If only there were some kind of decentralized linked list of prohibitively-expensive-to-counterfeit ordered records that he could have leveraged to prove to the world that his twelfth statement preceded hers.

The Tweets have timestamps. No blockchain required.

The whole point of threading is to group Tweets in order as posted by the author and put replies below them. It wouldn't make sense to throw a bunch of Tweets and replies in chronological order and force the users to try to figure out which Tweet was in response to which parent Tweet.
What do you think about Quickscript vs Shavian? Someone wrote a unicode doc[1] comparing the two. But sadly, only Shavian exists in Unicode today. That makes Quickscript almost a non-starter for me.

One quick thought is that Quickscript merged together a couple of letters that are similar. It merged "err" and "array" and it also merged "ago" and "up". Merging err-array is probably fine, but in Shavian, "up" is stressed while "ago" is not. So a little something is lost in the up-ago merger.

[1]: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20090-quikscript-shavian.pd...
Many influencers on YouTube get paid by the brands. It’s a shit show.
I have a 65" flat Samsung TV that I'm mostly happy with. But every once in a while, maybe after a couple of months, the video will start flaking out. Knowing it has a computer inside, I just do the classic thing to fix a computer - reboot it. I unplug it for a minute then plug it back in again, and it's good for another couple of months. Simply turning it off doesn't work.
I'd wager it's a marketing play.

Apple has developed it's own silicon and the chips powering iPhones, iPads and Macs are now the same. They come up with new and interesting manufacturing processes, or supply chain management. Their phones have lidar now. But you know what I've hear for years even from developer friends? "Apple can no longer innovate."

Samsung comes up with a folding screen of dubious quality or changes the shape of the phone and people love it. Internally it's just another Qualcomm or Exynos or whatever. But then what isn't besides Apple? Seems reasonable to try and carve out their segment of the Android market and I think they are largely successful. I know people who will specifically buy Samsung even when you can get similar specced phones for cheaper.
I've been working with motion capture system for several years as a phd student in robotics. The first thing came into my mind is the motion capture system which is already mentioned by someone ahead. I worked in one of the largest indoor motion capture in academy, the ASU drone studio which possibly can be a reference if you searched it. But the cost of such a field is pretty high since you basically have to cover every corner with camera each of which costs 4k-6k dollars. It can track 10s of objects easily with sub-mm accuracy and 360 frame per second.
I just don't buy overpriced, overpowered brand new shit.

Can't be an alpha or beta tester for a multibillion dollar corp if you're the second owner, and already have heard any and all gripes about a model.