skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- Extremely slow and fragmented upgrade of OS. This resulted in substantially older features and security patches.

Samsung phones does 4 years of updates now.

- Privacy. iMessage’s encryption (though I stand by that it is gimmicky to only offer for iPhones, and I despise that) has a serious network effect. Apple is also far more transparent in what data they use, how they use it, etc.

iMessage? Everyone here (Scandinavia) uses FB Mewssenger, Whatsapp, Telegram or Discord anyway.
The data thing, sure

- Ironically, price. At the time, the iPhone was cheaper than the equivalent Android phone.

Thats fair.

The big thing for me with Android is price (my Asus 5z from 208 still going strong)

Customization, and I don't mean homescreen
I mean that webbrowsers are not just Safari re-skins, Firefox has actual addons for excample, there is the Google playstore but I can also use F-Droid

And there aren't really downsides to Android imo
Black holes of the same mass (and angular momentum and charge) have the same size.
Unity sucks, but:

> "That literally happened to us. Boss wants to change our iOS game icon. Changing icon requires a new build. A new build requires iPhone X support. iPhone X build target requires Xcode 9. Xcode 9 requires macOS 10.12. OS update breaks old Unity3D. Upgrading Unity breaks build."

* Apple requires you add support to new devices to push a new build. (this is the principal policy decision).

* This new support requires you build with new tools (Xcode 9)

* New tools require newer MacOS.

* Newer MacOS doesn't compile old Unity3D code.

* New Unity doesn't work with their codebase.

#1 is a policy decision, and solely Apple's choice. #2, #3 are (reasonable) technical pain owned by Apple's ecosystem. #4 is an annoyance that's mostly Apple's fault but is shared somewhat by Unity. #5 is "Unity's fault" for imperfect backward compatibility.
Maybe in some years we create a small black hole, and since radiation is inversely proportional to mass, not only it will emit measurable emissions, it will pop out of existence or go through it's lifetime pretty quickly. Hence experiments will be possible and the paradox solution can be verified
> Is it seriously worth it for people to do stuff like this?

For the vast majority, it probably isn't. Also, I'm not full RMS since I would consider using an iPhone which definitely has closed-source components :)

I don't think it would be that much of a hassle to me, since I already don't use a lot of the "nice" apps etc. The way most people use their phone is quite alien to me. E.g. I much prefer old.reddit.com over a reddit app and/or constantly getting harassed with banners to use the app.

I'm pretty sure it would remove extra steps for me, instead of add them, by letting me compute how I like to (GNU/Linux) instead of trying to compute like GNU/Linux on Android.
Yes there's a reader mode built in to the browser. Ad blockers are available since 2015, although these are declarative ad blockers. Custom web extensions are also available more recently; these can actually run custom JS.
JSON with namespaces exists, it's called JSON-LD, and it's used by ActivityPub among others.
Thank goodness science is in COMPLETE agreement when it comes to climate. I mean, if there was more than one scientific opinion about climate, then this ban would be ludicrous....
The title did not have a year in parens, indicating that it was something new and I corrected that.

The Internet exists for people to (mis-)correct one another!
You must have installed some niche piece of software that the vast majority of iPhone users will never use or hear about. Hopefully the indie dev keeps updating it and Apple never pulls it from the store!
The problem is that we've already had this "real discussion" and your side has decisively lost for more than 2/3rds of the population.

The history goes from attempting to limit dueling, then disarming freedmen (black slaves after the Civil War), followed by new outside the Hajnal line immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe, to extending the list of undesirables to the entire population except for the ruling class' Inner Circle like Dianne Feinstein who at one point held one of the only two concealed carry licenses issued by San Francisco county.

See my reply in this subthread for one stark bottom line: on January 1st, 2023 in half the states of the nation (25 out of 50 for our foreign correspondents) you will not need a licence to carry a concealed handgun. (The number today is 22: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_carry).

The "discussion" is at the margins, from weak sauce administrative fiat Federal regulations, to Purple or newly Blue states moving (more) anti-gun like Washington state, to the modern 8 slave states where legal concealed carry is non-existent or at the whim and/or bribery of local officials, and in Massachusetts and New York City that extends to mere ownership, and perhaps de facto New Jersey as well.

Your side will have to agree to disagree as the nation geographically further polarizes or try to force this with a civil war. I vote for the former option.
Safari has extensions you can get from the App Store including ad blockers, overlay removers etc
"There is nothing about proprietary licensed software that requires it to use proprietary data formats."

All that matters is the fact that if you can't see the code then you can't implement the format unless the developer degns to give you specs, and doesn't lie about the specs. And the fact that, in practice, what actually happens is, proprietary software takes every opportunity it can possibly get away with to vendor-lock data.

It doesn't matter that they don't have to, what matters is that they do, and, you have no option to take matters into your own hands when the vendor doesn't please you.

"There also exists FOSS software using esoteric formats."

This is a stupid statement. By which I mean it invalidates it's own self.

When the source to generate some data is a available, it doesn't matter what the format is. No matter how complex and disorganized or "esoteric" the data, and no matter how terrible the source code that generated it, and even no matter how old or obscure the language or platform used, it still exists as a reference. That simple existence is the difference between possible and not-possible, and that is all the difference in the world. That difference is 1000x more important than any level of convenient vs inconvenient.

"esoteric" is a meaningless word in the presense of x-ray goggles.

The data remains usable and interoperable no matter what it is. It doesn't matter if it's common or onscure, or current or ancient, or human-readable or encrypted binary, and no one has the power to deny you access to read the data or to generate compatible data from outside of the original app, and regardless of the original developer's intentions.

There is no slightest shred of a valid argument here.
I saw M2 mentioned somewhere, but not sure if we'll see it this year.
I've had pixels and motos for years and never really had any issue with being slow to receive updates. The real issue is the short lifespan of software support. It doesn't affect me personally because I lose / break phones often enough that I don't run into it. I just find deals on mid range phones that make them cheap to replace.

I keep an eye on the libre phone space, so when I hopefully finally ditch android, it will be in that direction (unless perhaps regulations force Apple to open their walled garden, then we'll see.)
What sucks about Android?
You can use pihole over a vpn.

One common example is setting up Tailscale on Pihole and your phone and then you can set the dns on whatever Wifi you’re on to the Piholes private IP
I can't stand Apple's required software like iTunes. Apple HW is great. Just hoping Asahi Linux is ready soon. Until then, Linux Chromebook is my dev machine
Sure, but the Schwarzchild radius is a function of the mass within it. I'm thinking by analogy to a galaxy or globular cluster, which has enough mass to be a black hole, if it were dense enough, but it will not become one unless and until some dissipative process has caused it to collapse towards its center. When this happens, I am supposing that the black hole will first form in the center (where the gravity well is deepest), with a large part of the cluster mass initially outside of it, and grow as the friction continues to feed mass into it. If this is, in fact, a reasonable model, would something similar happen in a collapsing star? (Only much faster.)
I think you're genuinely asking, but just FYI it might seem to some people like you're perpetuating the common trope of "Stallman radicalism" or nothing. By far more people on Linux are willing to run some amount of "non-free" software depending on the situation. For example the Nvidia proprietary drivers are one of the most popular packages for many distros.

The only real problem right now is just lack of apps. Devs build against Android/iOS-only SDKs and use native features that aren't cross platform, so running those apps is mostly out of the question (although I have seen some people running Android apps on their Pinephones!! Need to look into that more).

So GP is saying for apps like that they'd keep an android around but do everything else in a browser.
Fair point.
Well it proves that non-relativistic QM (which is not supported by the experiments, and is inconsistent with our best and most useful theories) is not proven to be "truly random", at least the math does not imply it, so disproves parent's statement.
I've used your site several times, thanks!
Havana syndrome: covert sonic warfare or a case of mass hysteria?
The initial comment was quite snarky too, implying that there cannot be any competition in a duopoly. If anything, duopolies have some of the strongest competition compared to a situation where there's only one winner or one where all the 5-10 companies just stop competing because there's no way to win.
Right, every few years there's a recall for a potential fire issue from a major car manufacturer. GM had a recall in 2015 after they made a million cars across various brands which could leak oil onto a hot exhaust manifold, starting a fire while parked.
Of course it will backfire. Progressives these days have no real values aside from extracting as much money as possible from governments and citizens without providing any value in return. Once this strategy stops working, they will turn on each other. Their loyalty to each other is fake, just like everything else in their lives.

Everything they say and do is founded on lies; that's why they depend so much on each other for support and reinforcement. It's a religion. The only way they can maintain their nonsensical ideologies is through repeated, mutual brainwashing.
Does it also have extensions like redirect to old.reddit and such? If so, then it sounds like it would allow more user control than the latest versions of firefox of android, is this really true?
>It is disheartening that they lack the respect they should have socially independent of profession for an "elder" person.

Especially when you consider the fact that the tools and concepts they've learned and made them super awesome were developed by people in their late 30s-50s. James Gosling was 40 when he came out with Java, Bjarne and Guido were both 35 when they came out with C++ and Python respectively. None of these guys, by the way, have stopped working.
Engineers Introduce the Oreometer
> rather than waiting for a central authority, financed with other people's money, to give up on one and pick up the next when it finally gets over its ego.

Arguably, currently the ego problem is very real with the individuals who hold power in academia due to status quo. I don't think the development of science would significantly change even if there was a central authority - it might even speed up, since the people making the decision would not have their careers dependent on preserving the current consensus.
i signed up with one of the small ISPs in rural Canada. month after, they were bought by Rogers... :-(
iTunes has not been required for years now.
This used to bother me, but I haven’t used a ringtone at all for 10 years so I really don’t care anymore.

Although before that, I made my own ringtone using GarageBand off a ripped mp3 and didn’t buy anything through the apple store.
1. He's a celebrity

2. He's extremely rich and clearly spoiled with household expenses exceeding 1m per month.

3. He has a career long history of infantile/destructive behavior - lots of which predates this case. I recall these reports from when I was a teen in the 1990s.

4. Culturally not a single thing he has worked on gives me the slightest interest in him.

If someone wanted to engage my sympathies they certainly would not make me identify with such a person.

As for the rest it sounds like an American problem so I'll leave that to the citizens of that great country to thrash out for themselves.
I've been heavily considering getting an iPhone because of how terrible the Android experience but my problem with Apple is that you are either fully in their ecosystem of you aren't a worthy enough customer in their mind. I have no desire to use iCloud or Apple mail or have an AppleID. I just want a small phone that gets updates, has maps, and has a decent music app.
You can also use Chrome's Reader mode. It doesn't work for every site, but it works for this one.
Facebook Is Pulling Back from Its Foray into Podcasting
I'm not sure what the implications of "declarative ad blockers" are. Do you need to manually block them or something?
One thing most people ignore: the prices these days for many thing don't have a direct correlation with the cost, but with how much people are willing to pay. This is happen especially in quasi-monopoly situations, like housing and internet services.

For example I have 3 Internet connections at home that I pay ~ $30 in total, from 150 Mbps to 1 Gbps. I think the 1 Gbps is ~ $12/month, it is so cheap because there are so many options and I can afford to keep all 3 for redundancy (1 is a 4G mobile data capped at 200GB/month, it works even when there is a power failure in the entire neighborhood).

But if there is no variety of options and no competition, then price is high. From what I read, most ISP in USA are squeezing as much as they can from their clients, sometimes to ridiculous levels.
Call me crazy, but I think there is room for a third platform.

Especially if this platform was bootstrapped in a smart way, for example with an emulation layer to be able to run applications from Android.

Or perhaps WebAssembly will make it viable to do more things from a (mobile) browser.

I really miss the N700-N9 series with Maemo and Meego. It was so elegant and simple.
This is exactly why I refuse to buy any ios apple that cost more than $1. They're inevitably going away.

This is also why the iPad is never going to replace a computer for me. Any productivity ecosystem I create for myself is just going to break after a couple of OS updates.
If I told you "some unobservable region of spacetime" had to display a certain feature, or there would be a mathematical contradiction, would you accept that?

If not, would you endorse believing in gravitational waves on the basis on the success of the rest of GR, before they were experimentally confirmed?
3 months in as the “old guy at a startup” and I can concur with a lot of this. Especially that my emoji game is weak.
It's the truth. Go to Africa, go to South America, a bunch of places, people running businesses and whatnot off their phones. Hardly anyone uses iOS outside a few rich countries. Because most people use them to do stuff, so most open/ubiquitous (and yes cheap) wins.

People somehow worried about an OS given away for free that is still the #1 OS of all user devices including desktops...
It’s not a zero-risk rate, it’s just a “reasonable rate which is painful enough to make you prefer paying than not paying while at the same time not seeming too high as to be abusive”. Why are late fees $350, $450 or whatever? It’s not a real cost of anything. It’s just a reasonable fee.
I can think of two things. Large time series data for large areas with a lot of attributes like temperature or other atmospheric data or a huge amount of point clouds or comparable 3D Data.
If you want to have control over the UI and functional aspects of your phone, it can be - the thing is, there are enough leeways currently - Rootless XPosed, Samsung NiceLock, custom DNS for system-wide adblock, etc - that it's often not needed. Custom ROM scene pretty much dried up because of this. But with vendors more than ever locking up, and Google cutting back features and API access agressively, this could change.
The case in question was a PR stunt intended to get the AI recognized as the author in order to build clout for the company that created the AI. “Look, a judge determined that our AI is so advanced that it can be the author of works of art, and is therefore a person.” It’s similar to stunts that try to get courts to recognize god as real or not real.

The fundamental question was not whether the work could be copyrighted or not - only whether the AI could be listed as the author of the work. It would be similar to if I tried to register a copyright with my digital camera listed as the author of the work. A camera is not a person, so it cannot be the author.
Digital Twins on AWS: Unlocking business value and outcomes
Ah, just checked — I stand corrected. You are right, NCT is under the jurisdiction of Ministry of Home Affairs[0] (and thus under BJP).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delhi_Police
Is it easy to buy a degoogled android phone? Aiui you need a google account to use the play store.
"What is a lose-lose situation?" Seriously, the idea that every option available is a bad one is not that difficult. Hell, even voting in the US is sometimes described as picking the lesser of two evils by those who don't feel well represented by the de facto realistic candidates.
I can't help but notice how most of Eco's 14 points are similar to the core tenets and typical behaviors of Wokism
Yes, and twitter is kind of shit either way - this is being the sole implication I got from the OP.

The timing still undeniably connects the two events and in spite of it likely being due to abuse of their abuse button they still didnt admit that.
This is a fair argument but it seems like the proportion of climate deniers who are driven by bad faith massively outweight climate skeptics acting in good faith.
CFP Advice (2020)
It's just my observation. Look and see for yourself.

But, quite honestly, there's no way anyone is getting fat unless they are shovelling food into their mouth.
I have to say that my Android phones have gotten more buggy and less user friendly over the years.

One thing I do like about Android is that I can develop and publish apps for a reasonable fee. Apple wants $100 per year to be a developer. My apps are free so they don't make money. I would simply stop developing if I had to pay that.
The actual spot price varies city to city and even dealer to dealer, just like any other physical commodity. But because gold is relatively liquid it is unlikely that this difference is too big, otherwise it allows for an arbitrage opportunity
> If by "push" you mean sending notifications through 3rd party servers like google's Firebase, I'd like not to use it.

These days there's also UnifiedPush which is an open standard for push on Linux and Android. FluffyChat and SchildiChat (both Matrix clients) support it. I actually switched to SchildiChat from Element because Element's notification service was using too much RAM.
They use android because they can't afford iphones, not because "you can do more" with androids
If you just want an antonym for the word, I would suggest that "ignorance" is the closest equivalent, in nearly all of the senses of the word. If this is about enlightenment, as in the Buddhist concept, then "unawareness" or even "unconsciousness" might be a bit closer. To be enlightened (bodhi) in Sanskrit/Pali is to be awoken ("woke"? heh); it is related to the verb for "to wake up".
A minor note on your last point: since the last major iOS release, Safari now supports extensions. I use one for adblocking, for redirecting every AMP link to a non-AMP version of the page, as well as the one that automatically redirects every reddit link from a webpage to Apollo (a third party reddit app).
Kuhn and Popper may have something to say about that.
How do you play it? How do you import them into your library? If it's not mp3, aac, or m4a, iTunes won't index it, it won't end up in your library, and any of the standard music apps will not play it.

Speaking from experience because this is a continuing pain point for my music collection that includes oddball formats like flac, ogg, and others--none of which I can even get on my phone without using a cloud service.
The sex myth that's centuries old
Aa an example, "direct action" often promoted by antifa
physics was settled by newton. any writing about those pesky quantum effects should have been banned
What you wrote is much more emotionally powerful than what I wrote because of your strong language and metaphor (dummies, lunatics, control, insane, bullying). I think many people would prefer that arguments stand on their substance instead of catering to people's lizard brains.
Not all transceivers are created equal; some need more power (and then dissipate the heat), some are satisfied with less. Some can do only 30m distance, others will run over 80m distance.

The Mikrotik ones (S+RJ10) are based on Marvel chip and they are the more power hungry / run over 30m only variety. On the other hand, they can negotiate 2.5G or 5G if necessary and support a proprietary protocol to tell the switch about it, so you will that in SFP+ properties.

As I have written in the sibling comment, I have good experience with BCM84891-based transceivers. CRS305 can handle two (still not next to each other, obviously).
"Its". Me of all people.
What does having root on your phone improve for you?
Implementing Prolog via Microprogramming a General Purpose Host Computer [pdf]
This is of Apple madness has been my life for 6mo now. I've become the "deal with Xcode BS" guy for our cross-platform React Native app. It doesn't bother me but Apple really does create a lot of unnecessary pain.
That's the Russian one
Show HN: This AI Does Not Exist
Hey HN! Author of the site here. I tried a few tricks to keep the text-generation part of the site up, but even leaning hard on Huggingface's API and bumping time-outs up, it looks like the site is struggling a bit. I'm going to see if there's anything I can do to keep the text-generation part available, but in the meantime, the pre-generated set should stay pretty stable. Not sure if there's much else I can do without burning a hole in my cloud bills — sorry for the troubles!

I've put up a more detailed description of how this works on the GitHub - https://github.com/thesephist/modelexicon

PS - if anyone at Huggingface is reading this and wants to help out with keeping the API up, that would be super :)
The Future of NFTs in the World of Web 3.0
Performance, battery life, dependence on Google, inconsistent UIs from different manufacturers, bloatware from networks, networks control updates, most phones don't even get much in the way of updates.
> Back to original question and with genuine curiosity - what is 25Gbit for???

From a switch perspective, it makes more sense to carve out 4x 25G ports vs 4x 10G ports if you have 100G switches. In a single rack unit you can fit ~32 100G ports, which can then be broken out to 128x 25G ports. That’s more port density than a 1U 48 port 25 switch/line card.
What’s the “global south?”
> That's big of you to mention.
Agreed, we need a lot more people normalizing prosocial behavior.

I was guilty of being on the Team Linux vs. Team Windows war back in the day and then I had an epiphany! You could like both. You could actually use what suits you when it suits you. Cheers.