skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Say rather "the headphone jack no longer passes the test".

There's all kinds of things they could add to phones - bigger battery, headphone jack, sd card slot, heart rate sensor, infrared remote, and loads more, and then all the hundreds of components they do include.

They have to pack it all into this tiny tiny amount of space and they have to make decisions about what to include. That used to include headphone jack, now it doesn't. You're upset about that, while I'd really love if phones included heart rate sensors. But we're both in a minority it seems.

It's important to remember that when you see lots of people on the internet complain about something, that doesn't mean that the majority care.

The majority don't care even a tiny bit so they don't speak about it at all. Only the minority who do care speak up. And if the majority of headphone jacks go unused maybe it's not reasonable for the remaining few who care to demand they stay - they are another potential point of failure and ingress in a phone, after all.
Not in the short run. In the short run markets can be irrational (which I believe they are with Tesla), in the long run sure
When you’re on an apple
iPhone, everything’s to buy
I dunno my wireless just works. Two people in the house running meetings on wireless. TV is on wireless. Everything seems fine.
My wireless keyboard acts up sometimes, but I blame the keyboard not wireless.
I do run wires when I can, but that is mostly just the equipment near the modem
Perhaps it's because we are in the suburbs and the house is fairly open. Or maybe I just have my wireless setup properly.
Heh, I do all those things on Linux. The only thing really missing is turn by turn navigation.
My consumer mesh router takes an all or nothing approach for IPv6 settings, which causes problems, and there's no customization of IPv6 DNS settings.

I've been meaning to take an old Netgear router, put dd-wrt on it, and then put that between my cable modem and the mesh router.
Because it saves money/increases profit by not having to include a charger.
Perhaps the ultimate LE portals to breach are the ones used for deconflicting active investigations / operations / targets / etc. across multiple departments / agencies. If someone got into one of those they could create safe zones where their activities are nearly guaranteed not to be interrupted by a random cop on patrol.
Maybe I'm conservative, but Infrastructure as code seems like a great idea.

Infrastructure from code seems convenient for side-projects, but absolutely awful for something big where your infrastructure is now implicit in your code??
No, because that entails the proposition "unexplained deaths don't exist".
It seems like it'd be all too easy to accidentally create databases and then forget about them when you correct an annotation typo or something. I'm 100% sure that I would do that.
Generally most of software development (including what you would think of as maintenance) is counted as R&D for tax purposes
I hope the things being built with this are reproducible.

https://reproducible-builds.org/
Linux / X11 arch and monolithic desktop arch in general will never suffice if endpoint security matters (for multi app desktop envs)
> Come on. It isn’t removed it’s just not built into the unit.

I assume this is a reference to being able to use a usbc-to-aux dongle? The aux port is literally removed from the 6a...

> You can appreciate why, right? The engineering problem for building a phone is literally physically packing technology into the form factor. A headphone jack does not pass this test.

Aux ports have fit in phones for years. Still do in lots of other phones. Volumetrically, it takes up maybe 6mm diameter by 16mm long - 450mm3, out of the pixel 6a's total dimension of 97,258mm3

I had actually been hoping to pick up the 6a, as I need a new phone soon, but I'll be getting something from a different brand (one that has an aux port and a microSD slot). edit: moto g52 is looking pretty tempting for what's available now.
The world has gotten physically safer for kids, but socially and politically much more dangerous for adults.
Renault were working on the since before 2008 (2005 apparently), yet they only brought a product to market in 2012.

The Tesla Roadster was developed around the same time, yet deliveries started in 2008. By the time Renault got around to actually making the Zoe available to customers, Tesla had been selling the Model S for 6 months. I don't think they were taking EVs particularly seriously if they took that much longer to put out a less sophisticated product despite having vastly more resources at their disposal.
you mean unrepairable walled garden hardware garbage? not that i am defending Google
NASA Artemis Program
> with interchangeable ports/slots.

glances at the USB-C port

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This is not accurate. I had a Nexus S 4G which debut in 2010. It had Google Wallet tap to pay (NFC). I don't exactly know when Google started offering NFC-based payments nor do I remember exactly what it was named as they keep disastrously rebranding their products, however it did come well before Apple Pay which launched in 2014. As per who popularized tap-to-pay in the U.S., there's no question that Apple wins.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus_S

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db5zNbD-QYs
It would be interesting to have this at Internet scale, everyone on the planet who is building software would share hashes of the code they built, the binaries they built and the compiler details.
Huh. Where is this? Where I live (UK) the terminals seems to be universal, and even much more obscure payment services (like Garmin Pay) work absolutely anywhere that accepts any kind of contactless payment (which is almost everywhere that isn't cash-only).
> It's hard to overstate how much of a benefit this is in terms of security for those on Linux.

I assumed you talked about "those on Linux", not "those on Linux who have non-negligible probability of being targeted by hostile nation-states".

It's often difficult to step back and re-evaluate initial claims, and we sometimes choose to use tactics like zooming in on improbable contexts to justify them. But I think it's healthy to face criticism that may snap us out of it, so I'm writing this comment. But it's late now, so I will not be able to follow up anymore.

P.S. I don't have GNOME installed :)
Lord of War https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000RGULWO/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_i_TT2P...
Google and AMD partner to build a more secure future with confidential computing
By "never", I'm referring to the blog posts that have many images. Some images are OK. These are mostly OK. The mouse does have too many toes on one paw, but that's not too bad. The sloth also has uneven-sized claws in a way that seems plausible but unlikely. Also not too bad. So, my "any time" may be literally disproven by the existence of the above images, but these are exceptions in my experience.
Since you haven't offered any specifications, I'm guessing you would prefer a FOSS, plain-text-only (well, if you prefer plain-text-only) note taking app which works on mobile devices, allows markdown use, syncs with the cloud, and features a blue icon with a big J in it. For this I'd recommend Joplin.

https://joplinapp.org/
I find it very hard to believe you're arguing in anything near good faith.

3-4 generations have grown up under "suburban car culture" and the changes we're complaining about are recent.
“I’m calling security, Allied Universal!”

I would have laughed just to see how high the settlement gets. Dollars would have been counting upwards in my head, analysis of how to survive the situation would have been done so that I would ensure enjoying the settlement, I would have scanned for bystandards stuck in bystander syndrome “you in particular, I’ll split the settlement with you if you record this”

New drone assimilated

The woman’s musings would have been muffled in my head, replaced by the narrator in Disco Elysium

“Stay on the public sidewalk as you are, hands clearly viewable, no sudden movements, now the public will have to pay you, or maybe the private sector, stay focused but patient”
Fair enough. Hard to imagine a $100,000/y punching bag, maybe it's just my privilege that I haven't seen one yet.
It's common to see arguments of this form, which are essentially "the current state of the affairs is simply the result of what people prefer: they prefer to drive everywhere, live in big houses with big backyards in sprawling suburbs, etc." In other words, just explaining (and excusing!) the state of affairs as being "what the market wants." I do think there is some truth in these arguments. Of course there will always be some people who prefer that and some people who prefer living in more dense communities/cities. But what's missing from this is discussion about how non-market forces affect the state of affairs? What about city planning, zoning, even direct subsidies like paying for freeways and streets?
teaching a child progressive values

We aren’t talking about lectures extolling high marginal rates.

Some parents object to exposing children to inappropriate sexual themes for the purpose of conditioning them to accept the same as normal, i.e. grooming.
Why would that be? Surely the badness in being fired is tied to the sudden loss of income, which is less bad if you’re super wealthy.
dealership network eats their margin, plus vw has to discount all of their own legacy sales they cannibalize
There are waterproof jacks. If this was a real issue then they should also remove USB and side buttons and force everyone to use wireless charging.
flatpak does this on Linux. There is an official-from Mozilla flatpak available for Firefox.
Thanks for typing that up! The test will be whether this will help as much as I think it would in a real system.
Doesn't look like it applies, the law says that social media sites with the most users are common carriers.
> I really hope someone with very deep pockets will find a way to steer the ship more towards AI safety. It's frustrating to see someone like Elon Musk, who was publicly worried about this very specific issue a few years ago, waste his time and money on buying Twitter.

It has occurred to me that social networks are a vulnerable channel which we've already seen APTs exploit to shift human behavior. It's possible that Musk is motivated to close this backdoor into human society. That would also be consistent with statements he's made about "authenticating all real humans."
Palm and Nokia both used to sell hardware with their own locked in OS, and saw that as critical. Both were big names once.

It would be like if Ford was stuck selling rebranded ‘awesome edition’ Tesla Cybertrucks instead of F150s at 10% of the revenue.

Tesla gets a lot of press. But the flash is always bigger than the reality, except when it comes to stock price.
That is exactly the point: avoid blame in the absolute rare case where something could potentially happen. I won’t rant about Sweden (I could, believe me) but it’s the kind of place where (1) nothing will ever really happen, (2) since nothing ever happens, people will turn even the tiniest thing into a blame war and a nationwide philosophical policy debate. The greatest part is that, when actual pedophiles are caught, they get away with almost nothing.
Personally I'm more worried about what effects sophisticated "dumb" AI will have on human culture and expectations. It would have been hard to imagine we'd be living in this world with our attention assailed by platforms available anywhere when Jobs first held up the iPhone to the world. Just the same, I am not sure that the impending cultural effects from advancements in AI are fully understood at this moment.

For example, I wonder what expectations we will set for ourselves when we pick up a pencil once it becomes common knowledge that production-ready digital art can be created by an AI within minutes. What will people be saying about "old art" in those days? What will we think of people that deliberately choose to disavow AI art?
Not a system, but a habit: when you've decided to do something, do it long before you feel ready. Probably shoot for feeling 2-5% ready to do anything new. "Bullets, then cannonballs".
> You can’t argue that more housing supply is the answer to affordability problems and also argue that vacancy taxes are pointless.

Why not? If supply actually does work to reduce housing affordability problems, it takes the wind out of the sails of housing speculation.

Speculators are attracted to markets where things are going wild and there is the promise of making stacks of cash. If the market is boring and stable and there's enough for everybody, they aren't interested.

Leaving a home empty is naturally expensive because of carrying costs (property taxes, maintenance, utilities, etc.). The only way it's worth it is if appreciation is so crazy high that it more than offsets that. Fix that more basic problem of rapid appreciation, and speculation will solve itself.

Of course, once your real estate market is broken at a basic level, things like speculation will ensue, and maybe vacancy taxes are a useful band-aid then.
I'm in but will only partake of 420 vicariously and in spirit. I always dug the DiggNation concept, choose a craft brew or strain of the day and discuss the front page news. Just needs host as charismatic as Kevin Rose ;)
Hey there. I'm an engineer working on Flutter Desktop. We're definitely aware of the macOS cursor behaviour issue and are looking at ways we can fix it. We haven't landed anything (that I'm aware of) that should improve this for 3.0, but if it helps, it's something that's actively on our radar and we've discussed potential fixes for. One potential solution is to implement a custom shader [1].

While I understand this may be a dealbreaker issue for your use-case, we've been pretty busy getting a few higher-priority (overall) issues fixed (universal binary support, CJK text input, key event APIs, etc.) prior to 3.0, but we'll get to this.

[1] https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/93416
I wasn't talking about that. When that happens I find it alarming. I've yet to see the snide throwaway line "Ok Groomer" used in a case of actual child sexual abuse.
Well, while we're on it, more concept cars

https://oldconceptcars.com/the-most-stunning-concept-cars-of...

https://monochrome-watches.com/a-radical-quartet-of-wedge-sh...

https://www.autoblog.com/2014/07/17/nuclear-powered-atomic-a...

https://www.hotcars.com/crazy-70s-concept-cars/
can't help you with the sd card slot but if you don't mind carrying a wired headset, a usb-c > 3.5mm adapter can't be the dongle that breaks the camel's back..?
Have in mind a person I might become once I read and do the things I saved for later.

This. But is it that you might become that person once you later read and do those things, or that you might later become a person who reads and does those things? I think for me it's mostly the latter. I tend to think "this is going to be great when I magically become the person who does that thing" and get discouraged by the doing that's actually needed in order to become that.
Design Systems 101
It is the case for any one-on-one interaction, including business meetings, boss/subordinate meetings, etc. It's considered unwise, at best, if not forbidden.
> Twitter won't make enough money to service it's debt

This isn't (necessarily) true. While buying Twitter seems like a stupid investment if you want to make money, it's financials[1] very obviously point to streamlining which would make the debt serviceable.

In 2021 Twitter spent USD$1.2 billion on "Research and Development". Think about number - when did Twitter actually substantially change the platform? In their financial report this is recorded as essentially all salaries, and is separate from their server/operational expenses and salaries.

So right out the gate, the roughly $1 billion interest payments you take on buying it the way Musk is can be handled by essentially dropping that department which observably seems to have produced nothing Twitter needs to operate (you can even keep 15% of it to have some R&D). Stories like this tend to support the idea that their R&D is a drag and should go: https://twitter.com/n8agrin/status/1518860754757189632?s=21&...

Now, all that being the case - it's still a bad purchase, because every single one of their user acquisition graphs show that Twitter is very near saturation - their user growth has been slowing in a conventional looking sigmoid curve where they've probably hit the maximum market size. This is not a company you'd want to buy, because the purchase price doesn't justify any reasonable expectation of future growth (Twitter's 30 million US users are pretty much all they'll ever have).

Except: it's probably not a bad purchase if you happen to own a vastly overvalued car company which represents a huge amount of on paper wealth, and would like to liquidate that somehow. And this is (I suspect) Musk's actual goal - or part of it. Twitter is well-established and not going anywhere - I'm embedding tweet's in this very post! It's just not growing. But if Musk were want to sell say, 40 billion of Tesla stock, the likely outcome would be that it would turn out to be worth half or less of that number and the valuation would collapse. Whereas using Tesla stock to buy Twitter - key to supporting Tesla's valuation anyway via it's memestock status (price goes up based on him, personally, tweeting about stuff).

Using Tesla stock to buy Twitter doesn't look like you're selling out of Tesla because you think it's overvalued, it looks like a crazy billionaire buying Twitter so he can keep posting and "oh lol how funny". But buying Twitter, saying you'll "fix Twitter" (which you can - firing a 1000 people suddenly means other then the debt, Twitter looks profitable now) - and then liquidating your stake in Twitter, let's you cash out without necessarily burning Tesla (as it is, Tesla holders are concerned anyway - acting/being crazy has its own drawbacks).

tl;dr Musk tends to look crazy, and might be crazy but his actions have plenty of rational underpinnings.

[1] https://investor.twitterinc.com/financial-information/annual...
Most child prodigies and most people that work their ass off don't become millionaires, much less ones that can earn a million a year from interest. Also he did receive compensation for all the years he worked, no?
> that you want cities that make middle class white folks feel safe

I don't see where they say this.

> "there are too many poor brown folks in the city"

This comes off as projection.

> What specifically do you think needs to change for that to be true?

They listed several things.
When an app explicitly brands itself as a Mac app, they usually mean that it's a Cocoa app. If you really live on the Mac, the difference is palpable in most cases.

Many of Apple's own apps are no longer Cocoa, and IMO that really speaks to how much they care about the platform, even in the age of Apple Silicon.
Shame that Musk didn’t opt to buy Reddit instead. The only tech company more mismanaged than Twitter over the last decade was Reddit. Not to mention their blatant bias and abuse of power.
So he fidgets, and taps his shoes? And he's holding the corner of the table?

I must be missing something here. I'm not a doctor or anything.

Is fidgeting bad or something? And tapping your legs? Because I do both of those constantly without realising it.

I see these "body language expert" articles all the time. How much can you really glean from 10 seconds of video released by the kremlin?

It's like, "Putin scratches his groin - he must have a venereal disease!" Or you know, he's just got itchy balls... it's fairly common...
Yeah I definitely do, the hose is stupidly clunky but as someone with allergies the big advantage is there's no pass through of fine particles into the room you're vacuuming.
Gun deaths and deaths by school shooting are separate things. Idiots who don’t store their guns in a gun safe or don’t otherwise follow proper gun safety or suicide from improperly secured guns are not school shootings.
Discussions without politics are a bit like science without the mathematics field: If you take the larger definition, there's hardly any way to avoid it. Especially if you define things like crypto currency as political, it's basically impossible to have a tech discussion without scratching it.

What people mean when they say that is that political topics are usually a side concern to the technical topics at hand, not pure political discussions. The off-topic, angry and/or ad-hominem comments are also quite rare - yes, they exist, but compared to (most of) Reddit and Twitter it's very relaxed. And policy is almost never the primary topic, unless it directly affects the tech field.
That's why I always put both $DEITY and $DIETY in my .bashrc file.
You've got years more to wait, I'm afraid.
My current gig has a similar problem, with a piece of hardware that operates over USB. Cable lengths over 6m or so introduce sufficient voltage and current drop to cause intermittent issues with the sensor (which are really tough to troubleshoot if you don't already know about this).

The solution has been to use fiber optic hubs with the same behavior you describe - copper cables on either end to connect the hardware to the computing unit and a long run of fiber in the middle to make up the required length.

Pretty cool stuff!
And HongKong is under Wtf.. makes sense I guess.
>They drive their children everywhere, and thereby are (somewhat) alienated from the idea of a "local community" beyond the immediate neighborhood (which can only be entered or exited by car.)

I see your point, but I think it's broader than something that can be attributed solely to cars.

I've lived in apartments and condos in the hearts of major American cities my entire adult life, and I'm surrounded by the same phenomenon in different form. I know maybe 3 of my neighbors in the hall from walking past them and saying hi once in a while, but besides that, I have basically no contact with them.

My partner grew up in an eastern European country and she tells stories of how, on holidays, people would go out to the hallways of her apartment building to congregate and drink and hang out. This concept seems totally alien to me. I'm pretty sure if a resident tried congregating in the hallways of any of the buildings I've lived in, security would be called to clear them out.

I've only lived in urban well-off-millennial type places. Maybe this is something unique to the upper-middle class and above. But I don't think it's entirely about suburbia.
> I've got interested in array languages and now exploring K too.

https://www.arraycast.com/ announced last year (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27209093) may interest a similar audience as this announcement
There's a pair of kids that roam around our neighborhood looking for bugs and lizards and just generally having an adventure.

It's a safe neighborhood and my first instinct was, "Why don't those parents monitor their children" but then I thought for a minute and remembered my own childhood where me and my brothers would walk to the park, look for worms, ride our bikes, go on adventures.

Those kids are welcome to look for bugs and lizards now, everyone keeps an eye out for them, one fell and scrapped his knee and was crying outside our house so I went to check on him and carried him back to his house to get cleaned up. My wife is worried we will get sued at some point if they get injured on our property, but I guess that's the risk I'll have to take so that 2 kids can just play outside and have fun.