skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the chips didn't exist though would they have actually bought every one of those games? Would they have bought the console? I doubt this is information that could actually be gathered and calculated accurately as damages.
I think it’s nice to have a few small standard data sets that you can use in examples, tutorials, man pages and testing.
So we don't trust government to print money but it makes sense to let 20 year old print money for us.
Concurrency is mostly a higher level abstraction than the ISA, they don't care what the stack pointer is pointing to or what the return address is. Actually implementing concurrency efficiently is a solved problem, both in the trivial (stack less) and more complex (stackful) cases.

And that's sort of my point, concurrency primitives are really easy to define and implement but pretty hard to use by programmers up the stack.
corruption is why, it has become a legal part of doing business. that simple.
Seems like a relevant HN story.
Compare and contrast to the fact that the vast majority of expansions of federal power in the US have had their constitutional justification hinge on congress's ability to "regulate interstate commerce".
I think the train is the key here. I love the office but car based commuting is extremely un fun.
> Seems that a lot of people start with that, robotically.

Can't tell if you're trying to be an ass or not.

People can use whatever they want. The point, as many others point out, is to come up with something you'll use to not say, "ummm..." so much.
This actually seems like a great strategy.
So when does something stop being “git” and start being “blockchain technology”? When the latter sounds better to investors?
It seems OK though to just ignore all the vaporware, other than maybe asking regulators to create a legal or regulatory framework to better distinguish between Aave (0.9% APY on USDC) and MonkeyBank (20,000% APY!)

The boring plain vanilla DeFi stuff seems great, especially for people who live in countries with unstable banking systems (e.g. Lebanon, Russia, &c)
> It’s the first time researchers have demonstrated it’s feasible to track individuals using Bluetooth

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Google scholar has papers going back at least 18 years on this.
Full screen kiosl browser for Android has many features I'd consider crucial for the type of task I'm considering.

I did some reasons some months back and many features just aren't possible in iOS.
Yeah, its quite disturbing that YC declined to comment - especially knowing how many similar crypto companies they are funding. I don’t want to see YC get targeted and brought down by the Feds.
Plenty of end of life uses work just fine living off of a charger. For instance, setting up an old iPad or iPhone as a home hub (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207057) requires the device stay plugged in already. I can imagine plenty of cases where an old phone could be a suitable substitute or even an upgrade over a Raspberry Pi (Pi-hole, Home Assistant, Spotify hookup for an old home stereo, etc.).

If the battery is absolutely crucial for your use case, quality replacements can still be had. The iPhone 5 battery, for instance, can be replaced for $30, with all needed tools included: https://www.ifixit.com/Store/iPhone/iPhone-5-Battery/IF118-0...

Anything that keeps perfectly usable devices like these out of landfills is a win in my book.
For me its easier to send crypto overseas then dollars (I use the one with lowest fees)... And the person even have blank checks pre-signed (there's high fees and delays)
I Resurrected My Dutch Movie Review Site from 2003
What would be counterexamples to that, i.e. great engineering? FOSS possibly?
Anti-Corruption tech. If everyone's scores are just stored in a SQL databse, people can pay off officials to change their grade, Ferris Bueller-style. Blockchain prevents any province or official from having superuser power over the data.
> EU Charter of Fundamental Rights

They are referring to this chart as the supreme and binding force, where in which the highest court of the EU weighs things against

and used the colloquialism "unconstitutional"
No, because (a) the term "pedophile" properly applies to young children, to whom any sexual attraction is rightfully disturbing, not minor-age teenagers for whom sexual attraction is completely normal, but sexual contact is illegal due to reasons of power dynamics and consent ability, and (b) the stat does not distinguish adult perpetrators from child perpetrators.
The number of plants you build is an integer valued choice though. This has profound implications.
0 > 0*n == false
The battery capacity needed to replace all cars with electric ones is about two orders of magnitude lower than the battery capacity needed to replace all fossil fuels with wind and solar, at least in temperate regions, where you need heating during the winter.

According to this MIT study, the cost (LCOE) of doing this today, would be $3000/MWH:

https://www.greencarcongress.com/2021/08/20210829-mitei.html

Even if the cost of batteries continue to come down by x4 in price every decade from now on, it will take 30-40 years for prices to come below current energy prices.

If we hit an S-curve before then, it could take much longer.
I love the Bear design and interface and curious about using it! Is dark mode available, or custom color schemes/fonts?
I'm disappointed that it's at least hard to find how to buy this IMU. No links to suppliers, no prices... Without availability, what's the point in the story about supposedly good system? You don't want to talk here about dancing unicorns unless they're real, do you?
I agree there's certainly a difference, but what you might consider grifting someone else might consider quite legitimate. e.g. I think essential oils and energy crystals are grifting, but many people find a lot of value in those things and I would never want to suggest I know better what they should spend their own money. They probably would see the money I spend on things like tech toys equally as stupid (and they might not be wrong LOL).
Pretty much this ^^ You've given no detail that differentiates your issue from all the other general troubleshooting advice out there already, nor do you say what you've tried to debug it.
I think the strategy's reasonable from a "right tool for the job" standpoint. The key to product differentiation is, you know, differentiation; if GitLab wants to differentiate with a rich CI/CD experience while GitHub wants to differentiate with a rich social/collaboration experience, then great! I can push my code to both pretty trivially, so it seems reasonable to use both for what they're respectively good at.
That's ecommerce. This is a video game and a unique one at that, so there are other factors at play. I don't think many people go "game took forever to load, guess I'll play for less time then." There could even be a bullwhip effect, a long load time might make you want to stay playing for a longer period of time.
Cribl Secures $150M in Series D Funding and Introduces Cribl Search
TL;DR: Because it wasn't getting enough paying customers to make it worthwhile.
what if it was aliens testing our equipment. Throwing rocks disguised as space dust to throw us off thinking it was a natural signal.

James Webb might find aliens. or there might already be aliens in the james webb space program. or both.
I've done first party certification and it was always a joke -- they need you to pass so you can get your employer to use their services. Are there trusted third party certification services that are willing to fail half or more of their customers?
for SAT or GRE, my understanding is they have a huge pool of problems, before the test they're picked and assembled somehow. I hear no one complains about SAT or GRE selections of problems, so it might be less of a concern.
Another story of mixing up (misrepresenting in press releases and reporting) a solid-state physics result with a high-energy physics result.

And a "tabletop experiment" in physics refers to it being at room-scale or lab-scale, not looking for particles literally "on a tabletop".
> On one hand, this encourages real content and discussion over superficial "updoots to the left".

Yeah no, if you go back to the supposed USENET glory days you’ll find a sense of humor that, to be as charitable as possible, is incredibly cringey by today’s standards.

People smugly typing stuff like ‘Bahagaha ZAP LART!! plonk Welcome to my kill file, lamer!!!.’

Today you only really run into such bafflingly unfunny stuff in the Linux kernel mailing list—
you know, supposedly hilarious things like ‘Come to the dark side, Sarah. We have cookies!’

(You may find a rare exception like a shaggy dog story about how a coin flip going differently would result in HP’s UNIX, HP-UX, being called PH-UX.)
Being coherent, succinct, and articulate is an outcome/reward that you achieve as a result of learning and hard work.

Try improving your learning skills, and focus on your cognitive map you've built so far and identify the gaps/holes.

In general, if you are having a hard time explaining something it simply means you don't fully understand the topic. But that's fine, I often say something along the lines of "I am not doing a great job explaining X as I am still learning the topic and have gaps in my knowledge about it". Self awareness is key here.
What happens if you need to do computational work on a go routine? Isn’t that going to block the carrier thread and then murder throughput?
There’s nothing in here. The article literally repeats the headline 4-5 times with no further details.
>I totally agree that protocols like Aave, Curve and some others are extremely cool and useful technology, however, I've come to the preliminary conclusion that the degenerate disgrace that makes up 99% of the space now is permanently and irreversibly damaging reputation to a point where this technology might be ignored despite being useful and solid.

It's interesting because I've come to the opposite conclusion from very similar experiences. I think the regulatory and legal enforcement haze allows the infinite scams to multiply but I found it refreshing/surprising to find there is a serious and useful core technology that all the scams are imitating in style (but not substance)
It's painful that for whatever reason these projects always tend to get built around old devices rather than more recent models, basically shooting themselves in the foot.

Hard to garner excitement from more general crowds running something on an iPhone 5 than it would be 10/11/12 etc. Less people to become interested in contributing.
> Their new high resolution radar [2] (Phoenix) they’ve registered with the FCC, as well as a retrofit campaign across the fleet, will likely resolve this gap.

Is a retrofit confirmed or is it just your assumption? They even sold hundreds of thousands of "vision only" cars (including mine) with Musk and Karpathy claiming radar is useless for them. Funny how they've walked it back with this new radar news.
I've used it for youtube videos and some school projects for the kids. I'm happy that it's free. It did not have any crashes, but definitely I'm not a heavy user. I used it in Linux.

The user interface could be easier, for example deleting "ahs and ums" and silent time is a bit tedious. Also there are many output options, and it's confusing for a light user which to choose.

I've also used Lightworks, which is much nicer, but not free (except for 720p). Many of the non-free options want you on a subscription basis.
I'm not sure about that if you are not root you don't own the device.

Its clearly important to have isolation and security, to the point distros are experimenting with read-only file systems with apps running sandboxes through Flatpak, like Fedora Silverblue and SteamOS.

Other than that I agree with your comment, HN tend to be very corporate with a visible minority caring about the GPL and its derivatives like the AGPL.
> The concept of democracy was evolved as a system that could distribute social power in order to catalyze the wider involvement of its members in their own social and economic concerns.

Even in democracy there is a tendency to centralize. For example, there are big differences between ancient Athens, modern Switzerland, the USA, and the EU.

They all are implementations of democracy, but as democracies have grown larger, it becomes more centralized.
While that’s the title the post makes it clear: ‘Physicists didn’t Discover Never-Before Seen Particle Sitting on a Tabletop.’

Seems like editing the title might be reasonable.
> Would it be possible to remove the battery and run them entirely on AC power?

Unfortunately, it seems this is not possible.
https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/316746/Will+this+phone+t...
fair points, is there a way we could make this fairer to people in terms of their time? Scrapping it or just making it expected and defining it?
A pessimist might say that this only demonstrates how tech interviews reward the better performance art.

:P

:|

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Wait what? Bitcoin has no anonymity, that’s part of the point of a public database.

So what new things is this paper doing?
> Why are New York and California so hell bent on keeping Texas in the union

They aren't. It's not 1860, no one is campaigning on preserving the Union over other policy considerations. While there would be intense disputes about how to treat people who didn't want to be separated from the US, and about disposition of federal property in the event of a divorce, few in NY or CA outside of the Republican minority in each state would expend even the slightest effort on keeping Texas in the Union as such, though they might oppose bad divorce terms on those other issues.

On the other hand, all the other Republican-led states would oppose the idea fiercely, because it would be a giant shift away from the Republican Party in the national balance of political power. (And, yes, Texas is far from solid red by population, but that's not what matters.)
comments are focusing on the protocol's message content which is not the source of the ability to track broadcasters. The ability comes from detecting nuances in the RF signal:

>BLE [snip] imperfections are introduced by the shared I/Q frontend of the chipset (Figure 1). They result in two measurable
metrics in BLE and WiFi transmissions: Carrier Frequency Offset (CFO) and I/Q imperfections, specifically: I/Q offset and I/Q imbalance.

links to the paper:

https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~nibhaska/papers/sp22_paper.pdf

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/360655420_Evaluatin...

Git repo: https://github.com/ucsdsysnet/blephytracking
When there are multiple actors incentivized to ignore any history-rebasing. Of course if you're running your own git repo, you know your githashes will change if you go back in history and change something, and it doesn't matter. When multiple people want to ensure that history hasn't changed, they can compare their hashes with yours, and have good evidence of who tampered with the history and ignore them / prosecute them.
> Everyone can have one, most big providers and tech-companies had one in the early days

In the late 90's, when the web started to dominate the internet, I was hoping for an NNTP overhaul that would allow most people to host mini-NNTP servers for true decentralization. Freenet and I2P seem to be sorts of stabs at the idea, but never really caught on, unfortunately. I'd love to see a truly worldwide Usenet.
There is a great podcast about the lolita book https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lolita-podcast/id15368...
What is the point of this comment? No process should be discussed or improved as long as some other comparable but worse process exists elsewhere in the world? We should hold a moment of silence for the lawyers at the start of any posting about hiring practices in tech?
I've been in situations where I was already somewhat working and onboarding while the faux job ad was up for the two week or however long mandatory posting period. tallied the hours separately and got paid back after i was hired.
The parent comment that starts this thread[1] is antris writing "The fact that the show host knows what's behind the doors and never chooses a door with the prize behind it is crucial." (Emphasis added). Then, I reply[2], saying "I don't think the host's knowledge is important." I include an example where the host has no knowledge, but has coincidentally revealed a goat, and the best strategy remains switching. In other words, antris says the host's knowledge is crucial and I'm saying the host's knowledge is irrelevant, what matters is what was revealed.

If you are talking about some other scenario - then why? I've just explained what this thread is about. Why would you invent an alternate scenario, not tell anyone about your alternate scenario, and argue that correct interpretations of the scenario I laid out in [2] are wrong because they don't fit with your interpretation of your private variation?

1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31684653

2 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31683850#31684801
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31431224
Power to 'em.
Yes, as I wrote they don't require notary-verification, but they still have verifications and some demand usage of real names. Most platforms even have verified accounts for somewhat important people. My point is, a notary alone would change nothing. People already use their real identity, and they are still toxic.

But, it of course would have an effect, for the simple reason that the expensive and long verification will filter out many casual users, so your user base is smaller and more dedicated from the beginning. But for this, you can also just open a commercial forum, maybe even with a fee for posting. That would probably have far more impact on the quality than any identity-check. I remember the Something Awful-Site seems to fare quite successful with that approach.
More engineering hours were probably wasted by defi but more hours wasted period and more lives were ruined by social media.
How China Won the Solar Industry (& Why Germany Lost)
For a code monkey role (no quant experience) the quant firm bonus looks over the top. Good cash bonuses are usually 50-100% of base, not 280%. He's probably in for a shock when bonus time comes next year.

Either that or it's a trendy crypto firm and they'll be dead in 18 months. Personally I would have gone with Stripe.
What a fantastic, well-written blog post - well done.

Out of curiosity, what's the max # of simultaneous connections per room that LiveBlocks can support? (it's hidden behind the enterprise signup flow today)
I love it. I've been an extremely happy home user (server, laptops, phones) for years and I want to pay them something, but the minimum plan was a barrier for that in the past. But they get my $5 immediately.
It’s also true that S3 and DynamoDB can use Gateway Endpoints which are completely free. The article only says this about S3 but Corey Quinn clarified on Twitter.
Maybe if so many intelligent people believe in it...

There's really something worth it, perhaps?
I think you are slightly biased. Let me offer a similar argument that hopefully will serve as a counterpoint:

“The money we spend on crack pushes humanity’s chemical frontiers. Experimenting with new methods of producing crack could result in improvements in our public health system!”
Disabling the awful MacBook screen lock key
You keep parroting the term “planned obsolescence” over and over again in every comment but I do not think you understand what it actually means. Planned obsolescence is when the device becomes useless after a given amount of time. So to use the battery example, arguably a phone that ends up misbehaving or shutting down unexpectedly due to a failing battery without any mitigations is “useless” — it ceases to function as a useful phone or emergency device if that happens.

That’s not a trait specific to iPhones though — the same thing will happen on most battery-powered devices these days. It’s just that someone decided to pick a fight with Apple about it, hence a lawsuit was born. There’s nothing remarkable about this case otherwise — it could have just as easily been any other phone manufacturer.

In this example, the mitigation Apple chose (and admittedly very badly communicated at the time) was to reduce the frequency with which these shutdowns happen by dropping peak performance a bit and reducing the peak power draw as a result. That action actually prolonged the device’s “usefulness” for its intended purpose as a phone and emergency device, even if it negatively affected auxiliary functions.

In any case, if the phone slows down a bit, you might think “okay, it may be time to replace the phone soon” and you like to use this as your excuse for it being planned obsolescence. What you’re conveniently ignoring is that if the phone shuts down at random, you are probably going to think “well, damn, I need to replace the phone _now_” because a non-technical person will not likely to draw the conclusion that the battery was at fault, they’re much more likely to believe there’s a much deeper and unfixable fault.

Finally, while the batteries indeed are not user-replaceable, they are still replaceable. Any Apple Store will do it for you (many even on a walk-in basis) and it’s not even expensive to have done. Many other third-party shops and service centres also have the capability to do the same.
if the iPhone was released in 2007 but in 2022, you couldn't use it to make calls, browse the web, and chat with friends. Instead, it could only run a bunch of Candy Crush clones, but with real money.

Would you call that a successful product?
Nextdoor requires address verification and your real name on posts, and you are only talking to people within your block/neighborhood. There are still constant arguments and bad behavior on it. People are just not afraid to be assholes online or in person anymore...
what hn imagines: a nurse or prison paramedic taking the concern seriously and relaying it to a doctor familiar with the patient's charts and medical history "I checked with your doctor and he said it's fine"

reality: a prison guard with his own health problems from a TBI in iraq who did AED cert for the extra $.50/h just meeting this patient for the first time "I checked with your doctor and he said it's fine"

Yeah I'm gonna trust the prisoner's estimation of how trustworthy the medical advice he's receiving is.
There's likely millions of people in a situation like me. If each of them only didn't buy one single $60 game because of the modchip, then that sums up to $60 mio.

I agree that pirated copy != lost sale. But if you play 20+ games and buy 0, I'm pretty sure without modchip it would even out at maybe buy+play 5 games. Plus there's games like the Zelda series that every hardcore fan will play. So for those games, I think it is fair to assume 50% of piracy would have been a lost sale.

And lastly, how do you know that people didn't "buy" their cracked games? When I was traveling Asia, you could buy a modchipped Switch and bootlegged games in the same store. So then you still pay $5 for a new Switch game, it's just that the money goes to some Chinese counterfeit group, not to Nintendo.
Most US states have individual constitutions as well, but that doesn't pose a problem for discussing constitutionality for the US as a whole.
You'd be stupid to use, say, ETH to do it when you can simply have multiple parties sign and publish events in a distributed append-only log, which they keep syncronised. That doesn't need PoW or to be a currency.
If so, Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card) doesn't seem to know about it, and it does go into some detail about his life before he was an author.
Where is this list of github achievements? The only place I see this mentioned is here
I’ve used Duolingo quite a bit as a part of my Norwegian training, and to brush up on my French now and then. It’s definitely been effective for me. And I’ve seen others become tourist-proficient in languages with no training aside from Duolingo.

I definitely don’t consider it passive consumption.