skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I can sync it in my app in 10 minutes without thinking, yeah
There are not enough BTUs
Happy Pi day to you all!
If you cannot be empathetic without directly experiencing something yourself then I would argue you actually lack empathy. Sympathy is not empathy. I can be empathetic to people I have no sympathy for.
Works great, thanks
Yeah, but I have tools from my grandfather that are 100 years old. 3 generations of use should be an excellent value
Pluto: A Simple, reactive programming environment for Julia
I had such a terrible experience with Google Fi for 3 months, I never thought I would be this happy switching back to T-Mobile.
Sharktank S1E1 realized years later (https://sharktanktales.com/ionic-ear-shark-tank-update/)
I'm not from India, but the country where I'm from also has universities with highly competitive admission exams. The "crazy tough exams that determine your life" thing is a very specific form of tunnel vision that does actually happen in some upper middle class families. The context is that in the elite schools, admissions are entirely about stack ranking in the entrance exam. You can't "buy" your way into an elite school by showing off extensive extracurricular achievements like you can do for an American Ivy League.

So STEM admissions at elite schools (especially medicine and engineering) are indeed very competitive and there are upper middle class families who do think that nothing short of entering these schools is good enough. While 11 years is pretty hardcore, trying for 2, 3 or even 4 years is not uncommon at all. One of my cousins tried for medicine for such schools several times. People that fail admission exams will often not settle for safety schools; these are considered completely worthless in the eyes of someone aiming for elite schools. Instead, they enroll in cram schools to try again the following year. This is pretty normalized, it's even expected that you'd do that after your first fail.

The exact method of cheating doesn't really matter. All you need to know is that cheating using electronics does happen and has happened since forever. It was already a thing twenty years ago when I was going through admission exams. Schools have always had measures against cheating. In my country in the 90s, they were pretty low tech (e.g. enforcing no cell phones), but I hear some places in China now have some seriously over-the-top anti-cheating mechanisms like signal jamming.
Maintenance is also something worth taking into consideration. If you get a nice thick wooden benchtop, you can keep sanding it down as needed while the years go by. If you opt for a cheaper particle board top or laminate top, you will likely just be replacing it instead of resurfacing it.
They purchased a T-Mobile locked iPhone from Best Buy. Best Buy don't sell new unlocked iPhones (only used store with reviews saying they're sometimes locked). They then activated the phone on a T-Mobile MVNO which allowed the phone to work.

They had an unrelated issue with Google Fi (terms of service violation), purchased a foreign SIM card, found out they had purchased a locked iPhone and then contacted Google Fi support accusing them of causing it.

Google Fi's support rightfully said that they don't sell locked phones (least of all iPhones), and that they couldn't unlock a T-Mobile locked phone. The writer accuses them of acting illegally.

People seem to be under the mistaken impression that cellphone operators just have this red "unlock" button, whereas the reality is that T-Mobile is the only one capable of generating an unlock.
There’s a difference between “plumbing” software and “user” software. If photoshop or autocad become crap something will replace them (the pressure Dan talks about).

But most enterprise software is plumbing - that you figure out how to use “well enough” and mostly leave it alone to do its thing. That software has little pressure and often ends up being basically bypassed.
Did he try to do anything in a small claims court? Get a consultation with a lawyer? This is such a slam dunk it seems infinitely worth pursuing.

Obviously yes you'd rather not, but I never see updates on if the issue gets solved.
I'm personally following the NFT space quite closely and I'm an avid reader of HN. NFTs are on discord, and to be honest I'm pretty happy they've disappeared from HN.

Articles about NFTs on HN are simply a waste of time: comments tend to not stay on topic and derail on whether NFTs make sense, blockchain makes sense, PoW makes sense, etc.

To give you a comparison, a few years ago we launched a Kickstarter for an open source security key, almost exclusively via HN.

I'm now working on a NFT project and never posted it here. The dynamic of the project is exactly the same: raising money from a crowd. Both projects imo have a pretty interesting tech component (FIDO2 back before it was cool, and cross-chain NFTs before it's cool), and both are fully open source.

Yet... it's simply not worth the time discuss a topic when the majority of the community doesn't appreciate it. Better to focus on Twitter and Discord.

Hope this helps.
Something at the level of a loop does not strike me as something you can call a design pattern.
Restore by itself is just fine on Amazon. 20x smaller than on GCP. The problem is entirely egress.
I enjoy watching that Alone TV series. I was intrigued that some of the contestants would just build an open fire inside their shelter. Those had a lot of problems with smoke inhalation, and would often burn down their shelter, causing them to exit the game. Putting a vent hole in the roof didn't help much.

Some would build a fireplace on the side, those did better.

One contestant built a fireplace on the side, and put a chimney on it made of stone and clay. No tools needed to build it. It worked as you'd expect - famously.

Chimneys are very simple technology, but took a very long time to invent - not until medieval times.
You know you can make your window narrower than 4000px, right?
Lesser of two evils.
While expensive, I have been pleased with my Venta humidifier. Cold evaporation. No wicks. Everything but the motor can be put in the dishwasher.
Honestly, I’m grateful that it’s happening out in the open. It’s been illuminating for me who really stands by Liberal Democracy, and the ideals of Free Speech and Freedom of Expression, and who are the posers. If you can’t advocate for the rights of people you disagree with you never really stood for anything in the first place.
The Express is an unhinged xenophobic right wing "newspaper" specialising in othering. Just do a google search for "uk express news paper front covers".

See also the Daily Mail its partner in crime in nastyness.
They could give 100% of their subscriptions to content creators and I still wouldn't call youtube a supporting environment.

Examples of youtube's hostility include removing dislikes to please ad companies under the guise of user safety, terrible account recovery processes and allowing copyright bots to shutdown channels by spamming claims because youtube has placed the onus of proof on copyright creators, and not the ones actually making the claims.
Complaints don't do anything. We need people filing lawsuits. Politicians don't care, they are in bed with businesses and information collection companies.
Implants have been done before.

From 2013:

https://www.cnet.com/culture/surgically-implanted-headphones...

It's worth noting I've worn a tragus vibrating headphone before, and it works rather well.
> I learned that Google Fi exclusively uses the T-Mobile network for iPhone customers, and activating a Google Fi SIM with an iPhone causes T-Mobile to lock the phone to the T-Mobile network (which is illegal, since the user hasn’t entered into any service agreement with T-Mobile).

Wow, carriers can just remotely lock an unlocked phone? How does this even work? Is this some kind of command that the SIM card sends the phone that the phone recognizes?
I wouldn't count on that.
I just went to Best Buy's website. There's unlocked phones. It's typically the carrier branch stores that don't sell unlocked devices, though they often do in my experience (you'll get the phone cheaper somewhere else).

If you read carefully, the carrier selection on the website is really just for carrier compatibility; you are offered the option of paying the entire price upfront.

The shocker to me here is you can pay the entire up front cost and have your phone remotely disabled.
actually I'd get my bank accounts etc locked down. consider that everything tied to that email address is now vulnerable.

Go to your embassy, lock down your life and start a new account ENABLE 2FA. Use a decent password manger, dont reuse passwords.
I can quote the whole thing if you like.

> Chrome is first with a new CSS feature, it’s the greatest thing since sliced bread. When Apple does it, it’s looked at with derision.

So, "new" as in first implementation in a browser.
I was a paid Google Apps (aka gsuite and maybe some other renames?) administrator. In response, I got access to a real person to answer the phone and not be empowered to do anything useful.
Package.json-Scripts-Help
IDK if this will be useful to anyone else, but people on my team liked it so I figure I would open source it and share it.

Please don't light me up in the comments if you think its entirely redundant / useless. Cheers
survivorship bias is real when people say "they dont make things like they used to". Yeah your armchair from 1960 was built well becuase... it was built well. There were hundreds others that were complete crap
> Their Visitor Pattern scenario is crying out for a database

How so? Where you store your data doesn’t matter to your export logic. Whether it retrieves the original data structure from memory or the database doesn’t make a difference to the visitor.
> Competent professionals fudge requirements they consider to be irrelevant all the time (inb4 no true Scotsman).

That's because they know more than the people who wrote the requirements, because the requirements were written 15 years ago when the medical profession as a whole knew a lot less about $INSERT_CONDITION_HERE.

You'll also notice that those requirements are explicitly written to permit fudging. “Two or more of the below”, “most of these”, “one or more”, “or other reason” etc..
I had a somewhat utopian thought today to prevent the next Ukraine invasion. Here are the components:

1. I have heard many stories online, and even in-person, of people calling home to Russia and their families not believing the facts of the war in Ukraine.

2. One of the bigger sub-stories from the war in Ukraine is the availability of commercial satellite imagery.

Problem: Information asymmetry can lead to state sponsored mass murder.

Solution: Require universal access to 24hr-old global imaging to all citizens, if your country wants to be part of the global economic system.

I skipped over many problems to avoid a wall of text. I look forward to hearing why this idea could never work.
Google Fi (originally Project Fi) was amazing when it first came out, but at some point they switched to contracted support with no ability to resolve issues (it's not even the support people's fault, as they literally don't have the power to do anything). For awhile Google people used to hang out in the Google Fi subreddit but they seem to have mostly moved on to other projects or companies. Besides locking phones like this example, their insurance has turned into a flat out scam- they either lose the phone completely, claim that the ID doesn't match the one in their system, or tell people there are no replacements available so they have to pay a fee for an "upgrade".

Between this and the GCP price increases today is a pretty solid reminder that relying on any Google service is likely a mistake.
What’s the link to a demo/idea/GitHub repo?

Left slide to reschedule.
Right slide to cancel.
Pull down for new event.

Try to incorporate NLP. “Meet Dave tomorrow for coffee.” Translates correctly.

Access to contacts. Ability to set favorite contacts. I meet with my team almost daily. Give me the ability make them my most Favorites.

Instant meet via Google Meet that gets added to my calendar.
This happened to me with a nameless Canadian carrier. I bought an iPhone, unlocked, from Apple. It worked great with many SIMs in different countries. At some point, the screen broke on the phone, and Apple did an "AppleCare express replacement" where they sent me a replacement phone and I sent my broken one back.

The next SIM I put in the phone locked the phone to that carrier.

It took like 5 minutes with Apple support to have Apple unlock the phone.

So perhaps that's a route the author could take?
An Aeron is nice but plenty of other chairs last way longer than a year and are maybe a fifth of the price of an Aeron. You also have to consider for a lot of people there are other products that will give them a much better pay off.
why would you use an iphone with google? asking for trouble...
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/apple-preowned-iphone-x-with-25...

What's this?

The authors story sounds plausible and they're right that iPhones on Fi use T-Mobile. And I say this as a very long term, happy Fi customer myself.
No issues (yet).

I am a man and it did immediately reduce my libido. Not in the same way SSRIs did. Will be curious to see if that is a lasting effect or not.
Any idea why Chinese wet markets might be more interesting than the fish throwers at pike place?

I think you are are smart enough to get it with just one guess.
Wouldn't the sanctions they're talking about effectively make it harder to do business in India?
The hammer thing mainly comes from Home Depot and friends selling to “prosumers” - people who don’t know enough to know why the more expensive hammer might be better for a particular use but buy it anyway.

When doing roofing the experienced guys would have three or four hammers of various types and switch between them as necessary. Me? I couldn’t tell the difference.
Once an individual cyclone gets going, that makes it stronger, yes. But what happens to cyclones? They don't just sit in the same place. They move, generally speaking, from the tropics towards the poles. That's what cyclones are doing from the perspective of the climate system as a whole, which is what the post I responded to was talking about: they're transporting energy from the tropics to the poles. (Of course they aren't the only things that do that: the overall circulation of the atmosphere does it all the time. Cyclones are just one piece of that overall picture.)
Do you mean that the discussion here could be paid Russian propaganda, or that this post is? I’m not sure how a link to the Mozilla bug tracker could be taken out of context.
You have a bunch of functions in a list. You choose one of these functions via some criteria, and run it with some provided parameters.

Why it is so different to having a bunch of numbers in a list and choosing one of these numbers via some criteria, then doing one of the allowed operations for that number?

Bear in mind with the function I'm doing exactly the same: do one of the allowed operations for it (invoke the function).
They sell plenty of unlocked iphones

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/searchpage.jsp?_dyncharset=UTF-...
If you sue google they'll close your entire google account, which in turn can cause a lot of issues for a lot of people. I personally refuse to use gmail in part because of this- if you have a problem with one google service you risk losing access to all of them.
Yes, I'd rather experience the pain but not remember it.

I used nitrous for childbirth and it was helpful in early labor, but the pain pretty quickly reached a point where the nitrous barely touched it. Nitrous works great at the dentist, but it was so profoundly insufficient for labor.
> eavesdropping

Lets not pretend Apple knowing each app you open and when is benign. They're probably already under a National Security Letter to help cross-reference TOR use with with leaks.
Freeman Dyson proposed this a while back[0]. Nice to see someone focusing on the concept. I hope someday we’ll refer to them as “Dyson trees,” or his name will make its way into the trees' scientific name.

To everyone unsettled by the specter of geoengineering: it's not if, but when. Might as well start establishing the ethical, legal, and regulatory frameworks now. Why? Well, if we're going to continue inhabiting this planet for 10k-100k+ more years, we are absolutely going to need effective tools to control the climate. Otherwise, natural variations will swamp whatever else we do.

[0] The first time I saw it, but he might've proposed it earlier: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/magazine/29Dyson-t.html

Edit: A sibling comment says his proposal goes back to the 70s.
When I was a university student in the dark days of the Cold War, researchers made no distinction regarding the country of residence of scientific workers. That went for researchers from communist countries during the Cold War as well as from various other "evil regimes" in the aftermath. The idea of banning people from the scientific community simply never came up.
APIs that hardly change my job..
Ask HN: Alternatives to Vercel?
If you expect a $2000 chair to last a mere 10 years, unless the user is 300 lbs or something IMHO your standards are pretty low.
This is from 2020.
I beg to differ, many of these large household companies are shells of their former selves as they've been bought, bankrupted, and traded around. What's left is just a name with no solid product line backing it anymore. E.g. Sunbeam was a solid household appliance name, and now it's a crap. Same with Braun.

The easy industrial design exercise seems to be luxurious looking materials paired with cheap electronics. Amazon is full of this. Oddly, the thing I end up trusting these days are in-house brands because the store has some responsibility to make sure their own brand's reputation doesn't get too tarnished.
This is why the only signal that customers used to have got removed - a refrigerator that had the same design and components for twenty years is likely well made (if it weren’t people would have found out or changed the parts).

But these are rare (one of the few I know of is Speed Queen but I suspect there are others in other industries, mainly commercial/industrial products).

Amusingly enough these work best when innovation is basically dead, so that a new one and a twenty year old one is basically the same.
Why not place it into the empty space before your ear drum?
Control of the most effective communications and transportation available to humans.

If you have that you can build an empire.
Lots of automation and no spare time.
At $100-200 per year? No, the cushion won't be failing after a year. That would be a $30 chair.
I use this trick to push to servers in an unnecessarily tight network I have to deploy to sometimes that can't see my source control / container registry.

But I do it for Docker. I have overall the sense that Podman is trying to accomplish feature parity with Docker but isn't there yet. Feedback on this formulation?
I would expect this to be the case. If they can remotely unlock it, they should be able to lock it as well.
When I got a Google Home device it would not work to recognize my voice during the setup process and I eventually ended up somehow in contact with Google support. It was surprisingly one of the best support interactions I've actually had with probably almost any company out there. The person I was speaking with via a chat had no solutions to my problem but was creating a bug report for the problem and asking for lots of details to fill out the report. They reached out to other employees and their supervisor to try and find a solution. Weirdly the work-around ended up being them asking if I had an old phone I could try to do the setup on. It ended up working on the old phone and would not work on the other phone I had.

Moral of the story is when you do get ahold of Google Support they actually can sometimes be some really good help. It would be great if this was a more accessible option for people.
This is generally news to the hyper-libertarian HN clientele but I am pretty sure enforcing your rights as a consumer isn't supposed to open you up to retaliation in the US.
Yes, yes, and yes. How long will I be willing to suffer for something I love.
That is a used iPhone with multiple reviews saying it was locked when it arrived e.g.:

> Phone was Locked

> I bought this phone for my son so that he can reach me while he's at school. The product description for this phone said "unlocked" which was a major reason I chose it. It is a beautiful phone and like new. However, I quickly realized that it was an AT&T phone meaning it is locked. That was disappointing because I had planned on using Verizon. I didn't want to go through the trouble of returning it and waiting for a different phone, so I decided to keep it and get an AT&T plan.

And:

> Locked preowned phone. Garbage

> Zero stars. Bought a preowned Iphone X that was still locked from previous carrier. Could not be hooked up to new carrier.
Terrible customer service, no resolution of our problem. Spent 2 hours on the phone with best buy, apple, and sprint.
Best Buy sold us junk. DO NOT BUY PREOWNED FROM HERE.

And:

> Unusable phone (and arrived late)

> Not only did the phone arrive 3 days late, it arrived locked and unusable. Was not able to activate with tmobile as they said the phone was not in their system.

Best Buy don't sell unlocked new iPhones, never have. And all of their used inventory has similar reviews.
OP here. I came across this article while researching what to do: evacuated to Spain from Ukraine just before the war, with Covid and... Google Fi suddenly disconnected my phone!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30678249
So, FWIW, I've been playing around with this. I've got an FPGA board that has an HDMI output[1]. I have a simple 1280 x 720 frame buffer running on it (read the DRAM, display it on the monitor. I'm building a carrier board to connect it to an STM32F429 Nucleo-144 board using the ST Micros flexible memory controller (FMC) peripheral. This will present the frame buffer contents to the STM32 as memory.

Additionally, some "control registers" are being implemented in the FPGA that can do certain actions. At a minimum they are "clear to one color", "copy region", "scroll region", and "copy glyph". The STM32 has the DMA2 peripheral that does a lot of cool bitblt type functions but these can be nominally slowed down by not synchronizing with the FPGA's schedule for displaying things.

The STM32 is running micropython. The "plan", such as it is, is to let the REPL run using the display as its terminal, and a "graphics mode" to reserve parts of the screen for graphics. The small goal is to re-create sort of the VIC-20/C64/ZX Spectrum kind of "vibe" (interpreted language easy access to the graphics) and then build from there. Clearly the basic frame buffer is like 20% of the FPGA so there is lots of room to do other stuff in there.

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1812459948/minispartan6...
A TV producer with anti-war poster breaks into live on-the-air Russian news
> But the demand for software engineers decreasing? I mean, maybe, but I don’t think your points support that. I think there’s a mountain of assumptions you need to make to conclude that.

If all businesses are suffering in that scenario, then who will employ the software engineers?
> I think there's a reason why that's a comedy film instead of a serious take on modern consumerism.

Yeah, because corporations/people wouldn't conspire to limit say life of lightbulbs or reduce competition, right? Right?! Right?!

Just because something is a comedy doesn't mean someone in real world didn't do it/ is doing it/ won't do it.
How do we know they were as smart as we are?
I'm usually just in reading mode, but occasionally I turn it off to see a/the blogs design because I feel it gives just a little bit more context to any post of text (for example, the author has a playful design and it gives me a small idea of their character). Unfortunate it's hardly readable, but it still says something about the author. HN is fun :)