skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If “fun” is the primary advantage (I know there are others) then it’s no wonder there’s fewer manuals in the US, at least. I think for many people, myself included, a car is a tool. I don’t need it to be fun. I need it to be reliable, easy to use, and as efficient as possible.

For some cars are a hobby, but for many people they’re most another tool in our lives.
I recall alot of advertisements in computer magazines from the late 80s featuring bikini girls and sexual innuendo.
I know this isn’t relevant to the point about usage in 1990, but it shocks me (as somebody born in 1995) that over the course of 4 years you went from being ridiculed over demanding a computer to a computer on everyone’s desk. 4 years!
so true :D
There may be the same underlying problem for both tinnitus and visual snow. The problem can be characterised as a systemic neurological damage. For example, it can be caused by the loss of myelin in nerve fibres.

In turn, that condition is commonly caused by the underlying metabolic problems, which can be caused by genetic mutations in mitochondria, toxins, episodes of hypoxia, unhealthy lifestyles, oxidative stress.

When this happens, the other symptoms may include chronic fatigue, acquired insulin resistance, T2DM, sometimes various neurological manifestations in different parts of the body, and even dementia. Personal mileage may vary, it really goes from 1 to 11.
Western Attitudes Toward Death from the Middle Ages to the Present
It was Dr. J vs Bird, and it felt slow and clunky at the time, but yes, miles better than anything on the Atari 2600.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_on_One:_Dr._J_vs._Larry_Bi...
I've been learning about adrenal health the past few days, and those happen to be foods that are great for overworked adrenals (which can cause anxiety and depression). Something to look into.

Lavender is also a classic remedy for the adrenals.
> Because a non-replaceable battery is a great marketing tool.

This is exactly why we need laws to prevent this kind of behavior. It’s against the greedy nature of companies and their desire to externalize social costs, the only way to stop this is by making it illegal.
that's still a thing
I've also heard the term Western Arabic, contrasted with Eastern Arabic.
Well my words are meaningful but the meaning is deliberately beneath the surface. The sound relationship between the words is superficial stuff.

For example is your iphone camera made of meat?
Did you get diagnosed by a professional? I suspect I suffer from the same rare symptoms but I am too affraid to ask an ophthalmologist on such a rare condition.
Worse than unknown, it actually translates or sounds really close to "whores" in several languages. Really unfortunate workaround.
https://archive.ph/4j39Q
You have to read about mameluks (the litterature is quite complete, and as some of them could write, you can have the slave point of view on slavery). That will answer most of your questions, and you won't have to trust a random commentator like me (i only know of the end of the mameluk Bajri and the impact it had on west European powers)
Fart jokes. I absolutely guarantee you, the were fart jokes.
If my house was 90% garbage bag, I’m not sure. Houses get razed and rebuilt all the time, especially in Japan. They are not as modular as we’d like them to be, as I’m finding out in planning a kitchen renovation.
They're keeping the same number of SKUs, but they just want a cheap(er) but bigger phone. They're looking at how many Pro Maxes they sold in China and thinking "We could make a lot more money making a big model that was slightly cheaper."
Of course there is. But as far as I can tell nothing on this matter has been about building a non-corrupt Ukrainian state with functioning institutions. It has from the US side been (since many, many years) about influencing politics in anti-Russian directions and pouring weapons and military training into Ukraine.

And then USA's actions in Ukraine seems a lot like their Middle Eastern or South American policies. Which I doubt is in the interest of the vast majority of Ukrainians.
As we say here : all work deserves payment. I don't work for free, end of story. If someone wants a « free trial », I can just go work with someone who doesn't.
> As a consumer, why not just order the battery when your battery is down to 80-85% health and it’s about to be convenient to spend a half-hour of quality time with your phone? As repair shop, Apple has already undercut your price to use official supply chain parts, so you’re likely already using the <6CAPITALS> branded batteries and the $100 bootleg part programmer.

In my case self-repair is more about convenience than money. Bootleg parts/tools are still a better experience for me than shipping a phone to Apple for repair or making appointments to the Apple Store and then reinstalling the software on the new phone (twice, if you have to do it on a spare device to use in the interim).

Regarding batteries specifically, I agree, Apple's prices are unbeatable. In my case, my main use-case for self-repair is screens - the batteries are just a bonus because if I'm already in the phone I may as well put a new battery in there. The pricing on screens (including the "core charge") is much higher and makes self-repair more attractive.
I miss those days. I feel like back then computers naturally encouraged exploration and learning. There was no internet, or even modems in most cases, so there was no alternative but exploration - trying to figure out what all you could do with this strange piece of hardware.

I'm not entirely sure I'm just jaded by time - I feel like maybe computers became commodity appliances, for an entirely different crowd, but I stayed the same.
I have a standing offer for my friends: I’ll do a brake job with you in my driveway to show you how easy and cheap it is. It’s common for those $1000+ dealer quotes to be $75-$150 in parts, $5 in consumables, and < 90 minutes from door open to putting the last cleaned tool away (while explaining each step to them and having them do at least part of each step).

Over 20 years, I’ve done this for a few handfuls of people. How many have switched to DIYing anything more than filling washer fluid and maybe replacing a lamp? One. (Two others have switched to indy mechanics.)

The others keep complaining about their $800-1250 per axle brake jobs and $2500+ service visits at the dealer and how expensive it is to own a car, but keep right on doing it. <shrug />
“Might”?
There is insider trading going on. An anonymous person that is most definitely not me (and wishes to specifically distance themselves from any of this activity) is in a high role in finance and has seen with their own eyes a business partner buying tokens for $0.02 in secret presale rounds which were then listed on all major exchanges starting at $0.30 to $0.50 and then obviously immediately dumped on retail buyers.

The anonymous person has told me this is not even a real secret, it’s an open secret in DeFi and that for some reason all the other “investors” do either not care or just accept it and that it happens with every single “project”
Humans are the most interesting species to come along in a long time. It would be tragic if they go extinct.

How am I judging what's "interesting"? By human standards, of course. Do you have any other standards?
AMD Robotics Starter Kit Kick-Starts the Intelligent Factory of the Future
I expect that financial and military industrial complex elites will continue to increase their control of western democracies. I expect more income inequality with a nice fat layer of well off people at the top, people with solid middle class lifestyles or better, and a larger lower class with a mostly decent life from some wealth distribution but a life without many of the good material things like travel and sending their kids to good schools.

I do think that technology will mostly solve the worse environmental problems eventually.

As a liberal, I joined the World Economic Forum to better understand what the Davos billionaire club is up to. I didn’t realize that they have used a decades long program to find the brightest young people, many who have high government and tech startup positions. Their trial commercials like “in the future you will own nothing and be very happy” are good indicators of their view of a planned society.

All that said, overall I am optimistic about the future. I believe in the resilience of humans and I can live with the elites having won the class wars.
Lonestar plans to put datacenters in the Moon's lava tubes
"Saving Earth's Data One Byte At A Time":
https://www.lonestarlunar.com/press-releases
Providing weapons is a major intervention. That’s what the US did in the war between Pakistan and Bangladesh, and they ended up supporting a genocide.

You can try to rationalize a distinction by saying in that case, the US failed to support the people seeking independence. But then you have to be in the business of deciding which people’s claim of independence is legitimate. Supporting the jihadists in Afghanistan against the Soviet Union didn’t exactly end up well. Intervention is always rationalized in the moment.
To be fair, I've seen a lot of people who are married out of a fear of being alone and not necessarily because they were crazy in love with their spouse.

I don't think "wife" or "husband" alone is enough of a keyword to fill up your life and be meaningful. So many "successful" dysfunctional families out there
Most of the people I have known that rave about Chomsky actually read very little of his work. I've tried getting through a few of his books, and I actually find his linguistic publications more interesting than his geopolitical ones.

From the perspective of working class unity and logistic/democratic changes to civilization, I've not found any of his advice terribly useful. Becoming an academic and pushing policy is inaccessible to most working people.

In areas like this he comes dangerously close to being a propagandist for Putin. We need a Fifth International where we can all come together and agree once and for all that state capitalism is not socialism, and China and Russia are officially capitalist countries with absurd levels of communist propaganda.

Any hope that the tools of capital will eventually lead to a people's revolution when the primary barrier to that is a totalitarian vanguard party seems silly to me.
Where do you even find a doctor who can tell you? I haven't been able to get past: "well your hearing looks fine, good luck" (even though I've done independent tests to see that I have significant loss in the tinnitus side above 10khz; they just didn't test that high).
SENS is not about keeping people alive and miserable past that limit.

It is about undoing aging, so that you can be young and healthy instead.

Living longer is just a side effect of that, as aging kills people.
As someone who often has offered humor, I find you just end up becoming a sideshow.
Why Hindu (the religion) and not Hindi (the language)?
One of my favorite tools. ~~Sad it’s in maintenance mode~~ and Mac/Win only. A web and iOS experience would increase reach and share-ability.

Edit: just went over to the forums and read this exciting tidbit:

“ Scapple 1.4.1 is also a milestone in two ways:

A swathe of the core code has been updated from Objective-C to Swift, Apple’s modern programming language. The changes we’ve made in the background pave the way for Scapple’s future.

This is the first Mac release that I didn’t code entirely myself. In fact, the entire update and Swift changes are down to our new(ish) coder, Ian.”
Pipewire finally fixed previously unfixable audio delay buildup over bluetooth when the system was under load. I've been using it for over 2 years and did not experience any drawbacks.
>> Of course, I'm in California.

And about 2000km north of you they are even cheaper.

https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/strawberries/871283
A coop can provide 100% of the profit in salaries, or dividends or equity or goods - whatever is more effective.
Ah, the ever green tradition of humans to define very fuzzy categories and then debating enlessly about what stuff belongs to what category.
Tesla Asking Owners to Limit Charging During Texas Heatwave
More hashrate will earn more of the pie.
Definitely me.
Tinnitus: check,
Sleeping disturbances: check,
Night terrors: check
We don't need to force them. Where did I say I want to force them?

I pointed out that the conundrum of repairability vs. quality is made up, or at least dramatically overstated.

There is currently only one company that I know of that focused on repairability in their phones (Fairphone) and they have a hard time competing on other factors due to the fact that they are tiny.

Now your are going to say that them being tiny means nobody wants repairability. Then I'm going to say that people do, but it's just one aspect and that the phone is lacking in others.
Then you are going say that this means you can't build good repairable phones.
To which I will say that you can but nobody but one small company is trying.
At which point we will be stick in an endless loop.

Truth is, if Apple really wanted the could design their phones in such a way that you could open the back with a couple of screws go replace the battery, but they have no motivation to do so and instead prioritize other aspects. 99% of the industry does the same.
Actually it's the entire Western world against Russia. I've never seen such unity in Europe over a single issue, nor has there ever been such a big military investment here since the second world war. Even SWITZERLAND picked sides! This isn't anything like those old silly USA-led NATO adventures where the European "partners" would send some token troops and try to keep quiet about it back home.

This invasion has woken the sleeping European giant.
Ideally fine-tuning foundation models. Training them costs several millions, so out of scope no matter which GPU you have.
When I studied computer science the VAX-750 had 4 MB and 15 students could compile at the same time from each their terminal. Swapping got a bit annoying under those conditions, but in the evening when a couple of them had gone home it started to run smoothly.

I remember phones from 20 years ago using something like 150 kB, admittedly they had no real operating system, just a simple task scheduler. Probably color display required a bit more already.
Should whiskey be spelt with or without the ‘e’?
Have tried this in the deep past, did not work and attracted the worst kind of client
Apple's Evolution from Steve Jobs to Tim Cook
As a consultant, I think that this is terrible advice. If you are poorly connected in the industry, you can charge your services well below market rates (ie $75/hr). In this case, be clear that these are special introductory rates. But you should not work for free.

Consultants usually invoice after the work is complete anyway, on 30 day terms or similar, so your client may already have 45-60 days to pay. If you want to add a whole bunch of free work in front of that, you’re setting yourself up with too much risk. (Remember, you’ll get clients that don’t pay because they either spend all their money, or didn’t get the funding they expected.)
One of the best answers to your question, I saw it in a scene of Westworld, in the last episode of the 2nd. season.

https://youtu.be/_LVlbfW-bzY
The adhesive makes the phone waterproof.

I recently replaced my gf's iPhone screen and all I really needed was a hairdryer to heat up the adhesive, a suction cup to pull it off, and a screwdriver. I guess with these tools it'd be safer, but it worked well regardless.
If you can abuse knowledge of the bot's strategy then the bot is by definition not playing a game theory optimal strategy.
This creates a small market for an after-market repair kit. The things you need for the repair do not need to cost $1200.

My family of 5 has more than 5 devices, it could make sense to just buy the tools. I'm also the kind of person that likes to do repairs, so others ask me for help too.
The article focuses almost entirely on hardware especially hardware prices.

Then there's the usual confusion about inflation. In a theoretical sense a $3K hard drive would be like spending $9K now, but with massive economic decline and income inequality the real comparison is in the 80s families could scare up $3K if they really wanted, but now people can only afford $1K phones with exotic high interest rate financing, so people were either three times richer back then or nine times richer back then. Either way times are not good now. The point of an ad for a $3K hard drive from the 80s is not that it would in some theoretical sense cost $9K now or would store a million times as much data now, but that short decades ago people could afford to spend $3K and now they're stressed at spending merely $300. Another few decades of permanent economic decline and we as a people will be stressed at spending only $30.

Most of the consumer-level ads try to link their product with success and intelligence, whereas all advertisements now focus on competitively showing off your former wealth or some variation on "We are woke so our products must be good" LOL. Tech ads in 2022 look a lot more like mechanical gold watch ads in the 70s or designer jeans ads from the 80s.

The other point missed in the article is computer mags from my youth were absolutely chock full of software advertisements for $1000 compilers and $500 word processor and spreadsheet software. When I was a little kid a nice C compiler cost about half my dad's car, then as a teen you could get a decent K+R compatible compiler for a hundred bucks from radio shack (I paid 50 on sale using money I saved) and as a young adult, development tools are all free and you download linux and emacs and start writing code for the cost of some bbs download time, and later internet download time. Most of the software that we take for granted as being free today in 2022 used to sell for at least hundreds of dollars in the 80s and at least $50 in the early 90s, then the internet hit and you just download gcc "for free".
I’m actually suspicious that the phone doesn’t really exist, that some compromise was made by Apple or the other vendor to achieve their design goals. Saving people from themselves is reasonable given socialized environmental costs, but given that the battery makes up much of the phone these days (and Apple thankfully requires them to be returned for proper recycling), what we are trying to save are the higher value but less environmentally expensive components (eg screen, semiconductors).
Ok 79lbs is big, but those two pelican cases together should account for about 1/3 to 1/2 of that total.
At this point might as well teach them to go stripper club to find a wife
When they called the election it didn't look like they were going to win. They probably saw it as 'better to lose now, than lose worse later'
Britain is kind of weird because they didn't set out to become colonizers from the get-go like some other powers did but they kept doing these sorts of minimum effort "back the friendly faction" interventions to protect their economic interests abroad and of course the tin pot dictators and banana republics they were setting up couldn't stay stable without a lot of constant attention and one thing lead to another, troops were stationed, governors were installed, let that run its course for 100yr and suddenly you have an empire.
The author isn't the only one confusing the two, a very large % of kids in college confuse the two. They don't even know what they (or their parents) are actually buying, just that it's the required training for a career, thus they assume practical skills are what they are getting.
If a client wants a free trial I would be skeptical of the long term relationship.

I view paying a freelancer for two weeks as the cost of doing business in the case they don’t work out.

I will agree you need to know someone to get your foot in the door. Nice gigs are more about trust and less about money.
The mini iPhones seem in an odd position between SE and "normal". As far as I know, the SE models have always been quite popular.
Trivium and Quadrivium aren't really liberal arts, at least not any more. Trivium was logic, grammar and rhetoric - the basics for understanding and making arguments; quadrivium was music, astronomy, geometry and arithmetic - the "proper" subjects that one might want to argue about.

I'd be inclined to count astronomy, geometry and arithmetic as STEM subjects, rather than liberal arts. But I don't think trivium and quadrivium have been a thing since the Middle Ages, and I'm sure that's not what the author was referring to.
If the tensor cores are used, the 3090 can hit 300Tflops. I don’t think the M1 can even come close to that (21Tflops for the ultra)
If you came late make sure to update the date to 20220521 …
Yes wez's mux is pretty nice. It will probably get better too. I think it has some mosh-like functionality too. I like that my terminal behaves the same locally and running as muxed domain on a remote server. One less set of shortcuts to remember. If it's not clean I mean for operations like copy/paste yes, but also starting a new tab (which will open a tab in that domain), splitting the current view etc.
I don't doubt that the words are meaningful to you, but if you are trying to convey meaning to other people (rather than using text as some sort of performative art medium) then you might be more successful if you consider the perspective of your potential readers, who are not used to your writing style and don't necessarily want to decode your hidden message.
No; we live in the world of engineering and business compromises where wishes are not, in fact, horses.
Definitely not true for the top bots.
What's this then? https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk-server/releases
Musk has been at the helm of Tesla for 20 years and in that timeframe he didn't even manage to get to 1% of total vehicles sold globally. In FY21 Tesla still accounted for 0.9% of vehicles sold globally. And it was a slow year for the global auto industry.

That's basically after billions of tax breaks and subsidies at the County, State and Federal level, which were showered on Tesla during the last 20 years, not even mentioning the blind eye that regulators turned on Tesla and Musk personally because they all bought into the narrative that he was Phoney Stark. Again not even 1% in 20 years.

SpaceX is totally dependant upon the goodwill of taxpayers, the moment they lose interest in space, then down goes SpaceX.

The only traction that a person anchored in reality sees is the cult of personality and techo-utopianism that mr. Musk managed to create around himself.
What happened to Japan? They were on the upswing for part of the 20th century and from what I’ve heard, a lot of people in America looked at Japan like one might look at China nowadays, a dangerous economic rival to keep a watch on.

I don’t know much about contemporary Japanese though, and am not sure where to start. I am curious how they went from a threatening world economy to a nation with large dysfunctional youths.
The Information Rejected from App Store over Pricing
One thing I'd love to see is someone pushing the original doom and doom II monster images trough this, as a base for the newer engines. Somehow every later retexture felt wrong.

This might of course not be possible. AFAIK Id started with photos of a real model, but heavily modified the resulting photos, so no guarantee that a consistent model is even possible.
Depends if you are taking a photo or not.
We (in Germany) didn’t have one until I was 12 in 1998, before that I’d visit my dad at work sometimes to play Prince of Persia on his office computer. I guess technically we had a Sinclair ZX81 in the cellar, but I wouldn’t find out about that till much later ;)
I'm not even positive that was the 'state of the art knowledge' on this even then. I think it was just the news doing news things.

I highly doubt the chemists and physicists who built that precision engine would have been able to do it without a fairly decent understanding of what was actually going on at the materials level, at least something better than 'nobody knows!'.