skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is possible many or most of the reported screen cracks are due entirely to thermal changes. The M1 MacBook displays are made of glass. Glass is a poor thermal conductor and rapid changes in temperature will create stress fractures in the glass that will eventually crack. When heated, thin glass begins to crack.

Let's say, for argument's sake, the OP has their desk in front of a window. At night, temperatures go down, and in the morning, sunlight provided enough thermal change fast enough to cause a small crack, which expanded with stress. I'm not saying that is what happened, just that thermal stress can explain a lot.

Voices can already be heard that Apple's product can't even handle sunlight. But it isn't sunlight, it is the delta-T over delta-t the change in temperature over time. Taking a device in thermal equilibrium of an air conditioned environment outside into a hot car will crack the glass with no impact event. Happened to me. I was holding an iPad in my hands in front of me, and I saw the glass crack, and I knew immediately what I did wrong. The change in temperature was too extreme and too fast.
The trick here is to buy Thinkpads which come with international warranty and accidental damage protection. In fact, the warranty/ADP is mostly useful in international scenarios because within the US, you can buy parts pretty easily on ebay.
Laser coffee, coming soon to a café near you?
> Steve comes to us most recently from Twitter, where he spent eight months as a Vice President of Product for their Machine Learning and Data platforms. Prior to that, Steve led Product Management, Design and Research in Facebook’s Infrastructure organization. He also spent almost 14 years at Microsoft where he was responsible for the Windows third-party software ecosystems and held leadership roles in Windows IoT, Visual Studio and the Technical Computing Group.

This guy is sounding like bad news all around. I want the CPO to be someone with a strong tech background and I mean actual tech not tech bro. This guy's resume reads like a list of out of date buzzwords. This is another MBA suit that is going to make FF worse not better, mark my words.
Resonance and Inspiration
the source code is on github https://github.com/drand/timevault
3 years ago Google killed off Android Things[1] and told everyone to migrate to IoT Core. Now IoT Core is dead. But don't worry about all that, just connect with your Google Cloud account manager! They'll tell you exactly which Google platform you should migrate to next.

[1]: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2019/02/an-update-...
> Lerner's ideas have been rejected by the professional physicists and cosmologists who have reviewed them.

Are you being obtuse?
I don't read that as implying he believes his previous employers built such products. He is in fact emphasizing the rarity of such a thing, and I agree with him.
Athletics is full of good testcases for this: people develop very strongly held beliefs about things that don't hold up with empirical evidence, and can be very resistant to change. Many of the patterns discussed in the linked essay can be observed, as well as many biases (surely X would have been adopted by professional players if it worked / wouldn't have been adopted by professionals if it didn't work).
> For many people outside of HN demographic $500 is a lot of money for "a computer"

It would be but it's also kind of overkill based on the specs you can get nowadays for general computer usage.

I recently picked up a $399 15.6" Lenovo laptop new on Amazon for a family member. It has all of the important stats for a regular user. A 1080p display, fairly light, 11th gen Intel CPU (i3), 8gb of memory and most importantly an SSD. It's lightning fast for browsing the web, working with Excel and playing browser games.

If you did care more about development they have a 20gb of memory version with a 512 GB SSD for $540 and a 36gb of memory version with a 1 TB SSD for $630.
“ If the universe is expanding, a strange optical illusion must exist. Galaxies (or any other objects) in expanding space do not continue to look smaller and smaller with increasing distance. Beyond a certain point, they start looking larger and larger. (This is because their light is supposed to have left them when they were closer to us.)”

Interesting misunderstanding of inflation.
There must be a market for expensive new laptops, because there is a bustling market for refurbished ones -- my source of new gear.

But I have a hunch Apple will make good on this.
This probably belies my ignorance, but I'm guessing not much would change. All the research on galaxy ages and star formation would have to be reinterpreted, but I bet most of it would be salvagable, just with a different first mover. Like refactoring a codebase to replace a dependency.

If the work is good, it's reasonably independent of the story being told.
I'm not sure where your understanding of the law comes from. HIPAA applies to covered entities and business associates, not law enforcement agencies.

But I was really commenting that private data is certainly somethign the government can obtain and use against you in court.
This is crazy, fun, and I love it. Such an awesome platform.
My friends vehicle hit an IED in Afghanistan. Everyone's personal MacBooks that were inside broke but his Toshiba was fine.
Sure? I did WK in 1.5 years and then just started reading stuff. Now I'm about 4 years into studying and read about 30-40 books. Wanikani is just the tip of the iceberg, as it doesn't give you nearly enough vocabulary to be comfortable with texts. Of course I did spend a lot of time listening, too, which helped. I'm just now starting to not have to really lookup stuff when reading Murakami or Higashino Keigo. Still see new words every day, though.

Although I'd say there's not really a point in saying one 'knows' kanji, the bulk of your understanding comes from knowing words. There's so many of them reading is going to be a struggle anyway, but it slowly gets easier.
im also sceptical but in high school i learned about a bunch of people who were thought to be cranks but turned out to be right. for me personally its not too hard to immagine that big bang turns out to be false but i appreciate that it is the best model we have so far
Doesn't have to be cash, but I think it's important to remember when Dropbox was doing it disc space was a lot more valuable - I don't think it would work as well nowadays.
Flatpak exists to solve this.
it should be trivial, i don't know if many do it - iirc haveibeenpwned.com doesn't
I’d add GNU parallel to the tools used; I’ve written this exact crawler that way, saving screenshots using ghostscript, IIRC
Well that's hilarious. And here I was always told that Google Cloud was supposed to be the one that didn't kill services.
> Google Cloud IoT Core is being retired on August 16, 2023. Contact your Google Cloud account team for more information.

Gotta love the "retired" nomenclature -- as though it has had a long, productive career and now is the normal/usual time to end.
There are so many different teams and organizations and acquisitions and such that I suspect Google Home has nothing at all to do with Google IoT. The IoT thing looks like it was focused more on being device management presumably to help funnel industrial and embedded customers in to using GCP and other Google cloud services. The Google Home stuff is probably all from Nest and such and entirely separate.
If they're willing to lie about using a third party client (which is what they did to initially reach front page here many moons ago), I'd wager they were actually attempting to automate their actions instead of "BANNED after manually pressing 6 buttons".
But you didn't learn about the millions of cranks that turned out to be wrong.
I can say without a doubt, the Mac minis are really good though.

It should be illegal to sell a desktop computer with a hard drive that can never be replaced.

All hard drives go bad eventually, and while my 2012 Mac mini allowed me to keep swapping out the hard drive. Which made it a great computer up until I kind of retired it when I bought a new m1 Mac mini.

The current m1 Mac minis are all guaranteed to die within 10 years when the hard drives fail. Sure, you can do an aftermarket replacement, sure, I guess you could weld a new hard drive in .

But most people are going to just throw them out and buy new ones. I imagine depending on your usage, you might blow out your unreplaceable hard drive even sooner. Won't surprise me if these drives start failing within five or even 3 years for people storing tons of large files

Say you make a lot of 4K and 5K movies, I can't imagine a tiny 256 SSD getting files written to it, and delete it from it over and over again will last that long.
But it's also possible to design glass which is pretty much immune to thermal stress cracking....

Perhaps Apple should have done so, knowing their users might expose their laptops to sunlight...
Thank you for this! I've been trying to make Link Local Addresses work (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-local_address). But, for tools like ping6 I have to specify the network interface like 'ping6 fe80::1%en1' otherwise routing doesn't work, and doing that complicates everything.
Agreed, this his how things work in practice, but man, I wish we could do better. The question of whether new observations falsify the current theory is completely separate from the creation of a better theory. If the Big Bang theory is wrong, then it's wrong, and we just don't know how the universe began.
>I don't understand why it's called a paradox. It's just people having trouble understanding counterfactuals.

So? Most paradoxes can be described as "people having trouble understanding X".

The Liar's paradox is "people having trouble understanding meta-statements" (at least according to Russel's theory).

Zeno's Ahilles paradox is people not understanding convergent infinite series's.

The Potato paradox is people not understanding algebra.

The Friendship paradox is people not understanding statistics.

And so on...
I replied to the GP who talked about new plants? I'll cite it for you, so you don't miss it a second time.

> And that Germans in particular are capable of building reliable, solid reactors with aggressive kilowatt pricing--while at the same time not cutting a single corner on the cement, welding, metallurgy, and structural engineering. Like the culture is perfect for it, one more example is their punctuality, it's evident they can do nuclear.
I wouldn't put too much stock into something from 2018, which was a 3rd party report on a meeting in 2016.
Setting up the nginx server is one more server (and isn't particularly a small component doing one thing) to manage.

Having built several large distributed computing systems, I've found that the inner client always needs to have a fair amount of intelligence when talking to the server. That means responding to errors in a way that doesn't lead to thundering herds. The nice thing about this is that, like modern TCP, it auto-tunes to the capacity of the system, while also handling outages well.
Hi Csomar, the answer is simple; we've seen great interest for the product we're building and we've personally experience the problem we're solving
Even $500 is rich, now, for a laptop. iPads and Chromebooks can be had for half that, and could run circles around the laptops of yesteryear. Hell, MT8183-powered Chromebooks cost $170 and still come with FHD touchscreens, 12-18 hours of battery life and have acceptable build quality.
Carbon fibre chips and shatters. Metal bends.

I really don't see how carbon fibre would be in any way better than what Apple uses right now.
Regarding ScyllaDB:

> while achieving significantly higher throughputs and lower latencies [compared to Cassandra]

Do they really get all that just because it's in C++? Anyone familiar with both of them?
its really incredible what the fly.io guys have been able to accomplish. If they were at this state 3 years ago, I'd be running my startup on them instead of eks.
> and then have users craft inbound firewall rules as needed

Try explaining that to non-techies. There's a reason UPnP exists.

We would ideally want something like NAT hole punching but more standardized.
There is so much opportunity to make Firefox great. It could make a billion people significantly happier and safer online. I hope he can make it happen.
Google regrets to inform you that its Google Graveyard service deprecation service (aka Project Pallbearer) has now reached the end of its life and is deprecated.

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I've been instructing (extended) family members asking about laptops to just get an ex-biz lenovo (x220, x230, etc) and let me configure Linux/do upgrades on it for the last 8-9 years.

It serves all their use cases, and most of them are still working fine with no real repair need.

The apple branch of the family though (my in-laws) have been having hardware failures almost consistently during that time.
> It blows all the “premium” work laptops out of the water.

I disagree. I loved my Thinkpad T450s so much I bought an identical used machine when I quit the job. Since then it's been stepped on, dropped onto concrete multiple times, had beer and wine spilled on the keyboard.

It cost me $250 + $100 for a battery replacement + $34 for a new keyboard (when the wine spilled on it, it still worked but the keys were sticky) + $150 to upgrade the RAM.

It's currently running Visual Studio Code, Photoshop, and prepping to run a pub trivia event later.

But this is all a digression - my larger point is that a $500 laptop bought today is going to have a lot more longevity than people will give it credit for.
Great! Now:

Stop tracking people with telemetry. You don’t need to know how many users you have. People strip FF of telemetry anyways. Look at LibreWolf and learn.

Clean up the FF addons repository. So many addons are plain malware and invading peoples privacy surreptitiously.

Get rid of Pocket. Nobody uses it and it was forced on users.

Stop piggybacking on handouts from Google. There are other ways to source revenue. Make FF donationware if you must. I would happily send you £5.00 per month if it means I and others can continue to use FF.
Not saying more expensive things don't last longer, just that usually it is not proportional to the price difference (and that's fine).

If you really want to compare, if I got a similar spec-ed MacBook to what I need, I'd have to spend easily $4k+. That means I can outright write off my current cheapish laptop 10+ times over the entire lifetime of an equivalent Macbook and I'd still be in the green.

Premium products are premium because you need them to do something that no other device can. Durability _could_ be a premium selling point for some stuff (tools for example), but for electronics and cars it almost never is. OTOH, I'd happily concede if someone wants to spend $3k+ just to get the better monitor or better battery life on the Macbook.
If an attacker successfully registered your phone number, and if your contact either never checked the Safety Number for your conversation† or they ignore the fact that Signal says the number has changed, then yes, the attacker would be able to impersonate you to that contact.

Twilio says 1900 Signal users are potentially affected (attackers saw the confirmation code or could have seen the confirmation code) so Signal disabled those accounts pending re-registration.

† For any particular conversation pair, Signal has a large unique number it calls a Safety Number calculated from the long term cryptographic identities, if you got a new phone (or if I'm pretending to be you on a new phone), messages you send will have a different number because the new phone won't know the old phone's cryptographic keys. The phone app can display the number (so you can compare them) or scan a QR code from another phone to check they match without the boring work of comparing numbers.
>How odd, I've never come across that definition of paradox. I've always understood it to be purely self-contradictory, like: This sentence is false.

That's just one kind of paradox in one domain (say, logic). There are well known named paradoxes of several different types, belonging to several different domains...
Can I, with off the shelf OSS tooling, easily trace that code that’s “just wget and xargs”, emit metrics and traces to collectors, differentiate between all the possible network and http failure errors, retry individual requests with backoff and jitter, allow individual threads to fail and retry those without borking the root program, and write the results to a datastore in idempotent way, and allow a junior developer to contribute to it with little ramp-up?

It’s not about “can bash do it” it’s about “is there a huge ecosystem of tools, which we are probably already using in our organization, that thoroughly cover all these issues”.
It absolutely happens, especially with lower class (as in "white trash" class, not working class) customers.

Workers fuck with them just because they can.
> We used to think mars had civilization and canals until not too long ago

Who? I've never heard of such an idea.
> Taking a device in thermal equilibrium of an air conditioned environment outside into a hot car will crack the glass with no impact event.

The $1000+ device should be able to handle going outside
You're assuming the name matters more than the content.
That may be so, but then the merger should be stopped by the US regulators. The statement in this tweet was that it's not in the interest of the shareholders. I read this to meant that the board of directors considers $17.5 B to be too little.
Large revenue numbers don’t guarantee large profits. Sometimes you’re just losing more money, faster.
Suggest editing to "wimped out" instead of using slang for female genitalia as an insult
Maybe it's a quality control issue?.I ordered a fully spec'd macbook pro and it had a small dent in the frame of the screen. It's really small but still piss me off that I paid 4k+ for a device that was not pristine when I opened the package
I think there are a lot of "hidden" things under people's feet like this, but it is especially neat when it is somewhere "far away".
Couldn't one just change the date/time on their machine? Please explain how this won't work.
The coda at the end makes a great point:

> Finally, I do not think Substack is uniquely shitty. Substack has demonstrated that they are instead typically shitty.

Bad organizational behavior toward reporters and editors is too often the norm across the journalism/media industry, even though it's detrimental to the quality of the actual news products that they are all presumably trying to sell.
I agree, it's an exhausting repeated conversation. It's almost as if there's a frustrating unmet need with signal as it stands for a lot of people that isn't actually placated by the repetition of an argument about how they grow as a ~~business~~ (sorry, as a non-profit).

And again, signal is the only thing that can talk to people on signal so "use something else" is not helpful.
Aluminium is recyclable.

Carbon fibre is a recycling disaster. Magnesium alloys somewhat less so, but there is very little demand for them.
Is it really surprising...? Think of the $$$$$$'s....
I guess it probably only needs a hostname. Although I'd still feel uneasy about running it at home, because I don't want any incoming connections to my home network unless it's over Tailscale, and headscale would need some kind of firewall exception.

Maybe headscale could run at home, served over a tunnel[1] to a VPS. But honestly, if I ever lost confidence in the trustworthiness of Tailscale the company, I would just connect my devices with some other overlay network like Yggdrasil[2] or Tor.

[1]: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling
[2]: https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/
At least number of requests + number of open unverified and unexpired requests. So you need to guess average length of time to verify and the abandon rate.

It also seems like there is also a buffer period when the numbers are registered and not yet purged from the twilio system:

> 1) their phone numbers were potentially revealed as being registered to a Signal account, or 2) the SMS verification code used to register with Signal was revealed.

We don't know how often Signal purges that, so, although unlikely, it could be a day or a week or more of registrations.
The end of the article really feels like he is trying to sell me something.

> We at LPPFusion have been applying that knowledge concretely to the development of a cheap, clean and unlimited source of energy that can entirely replace fossil fuels starting in this decade.

And I doubt that the website (iai.tv), that I have never head of, is a source that can be trusted.
Not to be that guy, but there's a typo in one of the request headers: "Accept-Endiging: gzip"
sure i did. but what you say doesnt invalidate what i said. if someone finds this interesting they can pursue answers perhaps. personally i find it entertaining. also apparently this guys work has been published in a reputable journal
Our current understanding of gravitational lensing and the speed of galaxy rotations would both suggest that we're between 80-90% of the mass in the universe. It's important to note the missing mass calculated via lensing and the missing mass calculated via the speed of galatic rotations matches pretty well. Whatever this stuff is, we don't see it directly, and we don't know what it is.

Dark matter is the result of observations...of something
As far as I can tell from Googling, the €150 fee is something Verisign charges GoDaddy for domain redemption -- €150 is the rate for .com names, other TLD's have different rates.

So no, it doesn't appear to be a GoDaddy fee at all. It appears they could charge a premium on top of that, but they don't appear to be doing so in this case (assuming it's a .com).

(But correct that's it's not a government fee either.)
Apple Tells Users How to Avoid Cracked Screens (2021)
They're not a business.
Lambda Runtime Info
this is awesome - definitely takes some skill. is there a website for simple games like this (sorta like miniclip)?
I agree with this, but I think the feeling of "in-the-know" though valuable, only applies to certain products. I've been thinking about our referral program, and am looking at it from the perspective of "what is it in the referrer's nature that will make them want to refer".

"In-the-know" is definitely valuable here, as well as a way of showing off their knowledge.

However, if you think about a referral campaign for a charity, it isn't about being "in-the-know", you'd want to tap into people's level of caring, or measure of impact.
nah the article was really overblown. 'we've approved budget for five years. and our goal is to beat azure.' more or less, but that doesnt mean in five years there wouldn't be more budget approved, and it didnt seem like an ultimatum connecting the two. businesses dont plan infinite years out.

while google cloud as a whole i dont see going away, individual products within it(like iot core) are gonna always be up for the chopping block
No. Probably just dumb and ignorant, thanks for asking. I don't equate "rejecting ideas" with "seen as a crank", but I only have a four year degree, so the linguistic nuance of academic backstabbing and gatekeeping is lost on me.
I made the mistake of using my primary address when I decided to get my real estate license years ago.

It’s on another level now.
That's an ergonomic deficiency. In practice, you probably need more than glibc, so then you have to make sure that other bits are available in this chroot. And if it so happens that one of the build tools that you rely on needs a newer version of glibc than the one you're building against, it still breaks down.

On Windows, you specify the target version of the platform when building, and you get a binary that is guaranteed to load on that platform.
The same principle behind antitrust laws: dismantling monopolies is good for the public and good for innovation
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