skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back in the days of the Toshiba laptops with the orange plasma screens (T3100 and T3200), a small batch had out of spec panels that were thicker than the right ones. These panels were under more tension in the bezel and had a tendency to shatter.

I worked for a Toshiba dealer/repair centre and the first we knew about the problem was when a Tosh came back with a screen that looked like it had taken a bullet. The owner swore that the screen just went 'bang'. The crazy thing was that it still worked!

We checked with Toshiba and they basically said 'Yep, replace it' and so it began.

We didn't see a lot of these screens, but it was a notable problem.
Yes, but to be fair to managers in tech - no one else around them knows what they are doing either. Tech managers tend to have to wear too many hats filling in gaps in the product/project/program management layers and do some random assortment of people management & technical leadership.. depending on which firm/team and day of week.

For non-tech companies, you'll often see a lot of non-technical stuff happening in the technical management hierarchy.

At a high level all they care about is process, and at a low level all they care about is if a stakeholder is screaming right now. Nowhere in between do they care about what is actually being delivered.

And by process I mean things like firm-wide cookie cutter agile mandates, all-hands calls, OGSM, OKR, etc.

The last two shops I worked, the CTO spent a lots of time talking to investors about Cybersecurity/Resiliency/Cloud strategies, which are more attributes of a well engineered system, rather than a deliverable product.

You wouldn't believe how many annual/quarterly CTO hosted events I've attended where either a Navy SEAL or Astronaut was the keynote speaker, lol.
The moment you have a publicly facing API you are saying "these are the rules to talk to us". It doesn't matter what the client is, if it follows the rules then it should work.

A website is a publicly facing API and if two different browsers can talk the HTTP protocol and implement all the other APIs the website requires then you shouldn't be blocked from accessing the website through one of them
First, we'll need you to fill out this form with some basic information:

--First, Middle, Last Name
--Phone number, email address, social contacts
--Mother's Maiden Name
--First concert you attended
--Name of the street you grew up on
--Name of your best friend
--Name of your first pet
--Make/Model of your first car
A CMOS battery lasts probably something around 5 years.
Clip Interrogator
Wine isn't emulating a computer. It's another implementation of the Win32 API.

Just like Linux isn't a Unix emulator.
Deno still has a great standard library, so there's much less need to pull in crufty little packages to do simple tasks. IMHO the npm support in deno is more for pulling in the big packages like wrappers around databases or services and such which haven't yet written or want to write a deno-specific version. Sure you can still pull in junk like left-pad, but you don't need to do that.
Happy to see it's still getting use!

The NVIDIA T4 VWS GPUs aren't as flashy as they used to be and there's no option for faster CPU cores in GCP, but for medium-setting ray traced gaming it'll still do the trick!
I wonder how soon we will have microarchitectures that are purely the result of some deep learning algorithms optimizing for performance and compilability of high level languages. We would be able to prove them correct - that they correctly execute the code and have no exploitable bugs - but we will have almost no idea how exactly they achieve said performance.
I had an M1 Macbook Air screen delaminate for no apparent reason. I'm guessing that was the reason, but it looked like a giant bubble formed right in the middle of the screen. I'm guessing all the edges delaminated? It looked like water damage, but of course was never in contact with water.

The screen was replaced for free.
Perhaps the object/impurity that caused the contact point crack was behind the screen, not in front of it.
Another facet of large corporations is people cluttering up every single email with pointless email signatures. I always wonder how much collective bandwidth, storage space, electricity has/is being wasted by sending these annoying, useless blocks of text back and forth.
>I chuckled and asked him how could that happen if I always keep the thing in my pocket and he said “well that’s a humid environment and the phone is not designed for that.”

Lol.
And .NET 4.8 is still installed by default on Windows 11 and will presumably happily run your WPF app if you target it.
Google Earth was released in 2001, and Flatpak in 2015. That's a 14 year window of time in which this wasn't an option.
Indeed. That’s how glass works.
I wonder if the decision to make this deal was related to the Atlantic article.[1] If so, kudos to Neumann for pouncing.

The blog-post[2] has minimal detail, and the company's website has even less, but it sounds like a property management business. It's hard to see how that will help resolve the underlying issue (actually building housing).

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32350657

[2]: https://a16z.com/2022/08/15/investing-in-flow/
It is our duty because life is programmed to spread. It’s in the biology of any living thing, ranging from animals to plants to microorganisms. Our planet’s lifespan and size are finite so we have to seek out new venues.

You are right re being good to each other.

Scarcity of resources leads to a lot of bad things. People and all life are programmed to compete for resources in order to survive. Most wars are caused by the struggle to control these resources. And that causes misery to those on the losing side.

Near space has endless amounts of everything we need so that competition can be more relaxed.

If anything, expanding to space will make life better here on earth, by keeping our planet cleaner and safer, and will give us the time we need to learn how to move beyond our basic instincts. We progressed a lot but we need to do more.

Mars shouldn't even be the immediate goal. We should harness the energy of our star at its full potential and extract nearby resources as first steps. Mars will be a byproduct of these two.

Else we are stuck arguing over -isms and tribal wars at scale over who owns what part of the planet.

The very fact that we push electrons writing here shows that we humans have moved beyond the natural, so simply stating that “that's nature and no real value is lost” is not in our … nature.
WRT the query not in the address bar - this is probably because then something like tuxdex.com/?terms="embarrassing search" doesn't show up in history or suggestions.
Very few legitimate companies will sell lists of raw email addresses, to anyone. There's very little money in it (email lists are cheap) and the potential upside of keeping the email addresses is way bigger, particularly when your email address is married up with behavioral data like what you bought, what pages you visited, what bank you use, etc.

Retailers make money from your email address by trying to use it to get you to spend more money with them. That can be as simple as sending you marketing emails--which many people consider spam! So when you hear people complain about "spam" from retailers, it's often this: real marketing emails that they are mad about getting.

Companies can also use customer email addresses as tokens for targeting in ad networks. In doing so, they may upload your email address to the ad platform. In that case they are sharing it with another company, but it won't result in spam. It will result in greater correlation between the otherwise separate tracking of your behavior across companies. In this case, using company-specific email addresses may actually be an advantage in terms of foiling such correlation.
The term comes from Nick Bostrum's article on The Vulnerable World [1]. In it he defines a black ball like this "a black ball: a technology that invariably or by default destroys the civilization that invents it". Nuclear weapons don't invariably destroy civilization because we could just imagine that we keep using them as is - that's not impossible. Also, Bostrum considers nuclear weapons explicitly and calls them a gray ball.

1 - https://nickbostrom.com/papers/vulnerable.pdf
Allowing the Signal client to access your contact list is literally the premise of Signal; it's the core security UX trade it makes: no durable logs of who's talking to who on the servers, and contact lists stored exclusively on the client.
If you could get accurate data on the different strategies that countries used and their results you could extrapolate with huge error margins but it would give you a general idea. However, many countries did not accurately report: testing numbers, results, outcomes, well practically everything!
Glad to see other Let's Note fans out there!

I'm a big fan of the SV Let's Note line - they are the last of the "no compromises" style of ultraportables.

> 12.1" 16:10 1920x1200 display

> 1.1 kg

> Blu-ray drive

> WLAN support

> Thunderbolt (USB-C), USB-A, Ethernet and VGA

> Removable battery

> Hardware wireless switch

> Activity/status LEDs

Downsides: odd circular trackpad, Japan only, extremely expensive.

Last time Apple made anything like this was the 12" PowerBook G4.
Well, better than nothing. Most places I've worked do not have ubiquitous 2fa. And it's mostly just a gate to gain access, rather than something required to maintain access.
Today I learned... Crazy! Thanks for your reply :)
> And I can count on one hand the number of times since 2004 that an email that actually mattered was sent to my spam folder by mistake.

How often do you check? I see a few false positives a week.
I've also dropped mine several times (it did get a minor chip), beat it up a bit (despite trying to be careful), and even spilled water on it... liquid got behind a good 25% of the screen and I thought I would have to just suck it up and repair it, but it just evaporated/resolved itself after a couple of weeks.

Pleasantly surprised so far - knock on wood.
It is unrelated. For example the input may be used only as a parameter for reading operations - ie. one can easily imagine a situation where even in a safest language using un-validated input may result in a call/query producing info outside of what would be expected for valid parameters.
Very different.

It would have spread very rapidly, overwhelming health systems utterly. Do you remember the mask shortage early on in the pandemic? Do you remember the oxygen shortage recently? Have you heard the news about nurses and doctors quitting because of burnout? Imagine all of those dialed up to eleven, all at the same time. Along with shortages of cleaners, orderlies, and basic hospital supplies.

Nearly all the people whose lives have been saved by treatment in intensive care units would be dead, and many more besides: accident victims, cancer patients, etc., etc.

The sickness could have spread rapidly enough that essential services were entirely out of action for long periods of time . No water. No power. No air traffic control. No road repairs. No trains. No food transport. All of these at the same time, for weeks.
Drop the last sentence and post this on LinkedIn. You’ll be a Sales Leadership Influencer in no time.
Depends on your standards for "truth". We can never be 100% sure that the Earth isn't in fact flat after all (and everything we measure/perceive is explained by mass delusion, for example), but we can certain enough that for all practical purposes there's no reason not to assume it's not true.
A closer example might be gun control activists running fake gun shops that sell fake guns and ammunition, possibly jiggered to endanger the user.
Depends what your benchmark is. As the AI stuff is getting better, things like MIDI and Autotune lower the bar to where it's understandable some might see the convergence coming sooner than later.
Ha! Thanks for the professional perspective! I guess I should up my monitoring plans from “glance at the SolArk screen every now and then” to maybe something a bit more robust/automatic.
Flatpack only came out in 2015
What the Tesla founder’s Twitter feed reveals about the man behind the handle
...if there’s a single firm conclusion to be drawn from the soup-to-nuts @ElonMusk, it’s that, holy shit, does Elon Musk love Twitter. Sure, he loves the exchange of ideas and the global town square, and he loves the direct human contact that requires no actual human contact. He loves being able to survey his followers for cheese recommendations and getting 98,000 replies. But what really gets his dopamine pumping is the violence, the coliseum, and the lustful roar of the crowd. The trolling and the flaming — what Jon Stewart recently called the platform’s “arson economy.” “On Twitter,” @ElonMusk rhapsodized the following year, “likes are rare & criticism is brutal. So hardcore. It’s great.”
Unless I'm missing something, Blitz RPC add's zero TS overhead. So the limitation will be the total amount of TS code you have which is not related to Blitz.
Sponge - the first sister group of all animals
I've had the same happened to mine because of the camera cover. When lid is closed - it rubs against the trackpad edge and a little pressure from the top, when it's closed, will cause it to crack.
Wow you praise Apple even after they screwed you! The cult of Apple is still going strong!

Edit: parent was made to pay 800 dollars for a screen breaking which wasn't his or her fault, but still goes on to say "they said they might refund it later" and "the repair was quick". The rationalisation is painful to read.
> That was Itanium

What? No. Itanium was a vastly, wildly different architecture.
Well, they have 2 senators like all the other states... perhaps though that's suggesting that they're sparsely populated so their senators seem out of proportion to the small number of voters they represent (compared to their Representatives, who are few compared to populous states like CA, NY, TX, GA etc.) The Iowa caucus system certainly is an attention-grab, but I don't think it's single-handedly responsible for the whole system of ag subsidies (which presumably has also been championed by other farm states like NE and KS).
Reminiscent of "you're holding it wrong".
A few months ago, I wrote a review of the book A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear. The book describes the Free Town Project, a kind of offshoot of the Free State Project in New Hampshire, in which people moved to a particular town in order to try to reduce the role of local government in their lives. The book notes that the town then had significant difficulty coordinating on wildlife control issues, as there were lots of bears in the nearby woods and the residents had trouble agreeing on what to do to keep them away from people.

While the issues were somewhat complex and not solely the result of the Free Town Project, it seemed clear that the lack of governmental coordination and some residents' bear-attracting behaviors made the bears' presence a bigger problem than it had been before.

One thing I thought several times while reading the book was that the preparedness paradox was a big part of the challenge (although I didn't remember that it was called that!). Specifically, it seemed like quite a few of the people involved sincerely thought that wildlife management or wildlife control wasn't "a thing" because they had only ever lived in places where it was already being handled well. So they didn't perceive any need to continue actively addressing it in their new environment, because it seemed like such a hypothetical or fanciful risk.

Since then, I've thought that the question of understanding or evaluating what is a real risk that one needs to make a real effort to deal with gets extremely clouded by all of the things that people and institutions are already doing in the name of risk mitigation. We've seen this most dramatically with measles vaccines (where people felt like measles was an incredibly remote risk, because they had never seen it occur at all in their environments, because other people had successfully mitigated it by vaccination and hygiene programs in earlier generations!). But I imagine that this comes up over and over in modern life: how do people get a clear sense of what is dangerous (and how dangerous it is) when they already live in settings where whatever degree of danger exists is already being dealt with well, so most people rarely or never witness its consequences?
It's very interesting to see how the things I've put out there are interpreted.

It feels like looking at myself in a fun-house mirror. There are probably huge pieces of these events that I'm not communicating well, or at all.

Thank you for your comment. I'll try to be better at communicating the meanings I intend.
Remember when I said

> or a misrepresentation of Marilyn Hall's decision that code is speech somehow means code is free speech

Predictably, you referenced Marilyn Hall's decision that code is speech, and misrepresented it as support that code is free speech

Literally exactly what I said you would do
Hey Minimaxir again! This is really funny because I built an entire company around this idea: optimizing titles for YouTube videos: https://CreatorML.com.

Similarly, the user can use GPT-3 to generate titles, and a secondary ranker model scores them for estimated viewership. I use a regression model however.

Anyway, just funny that "great minds think alike" :)
Apple seem to love to claim liquid damage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2r-g8EaTfY

He has more videos about it.

Apparently they trigger very easily with humidity.
You're not really answering my question. "One of the rules of this API is that you exclusively use this client" is an expressible rule. What gives you the right to dictate the terms that other people build by? I don't understand the principle here.
Would you rather run a statically linked go or rust binary with the native crypto implementations of ssl or a dynamically linked OpenSSL that is easier to upgrade? (Honest question)
Ok, I'm arguing that that's not a double standard. You are not obligated to treat the opposite side of a dispute the same way you would treat your own side of a dispute, or would like them to be treated by others. This is just how disputes work.
Geo redundancies? Discord is all in us-east-1 gcp. Unless you Meant AZ redundancy?
On the subject of poisonous tomatoes: most of the tomato relatives and look-alikes of North America are quite poisonous, so the reluctance of the English immigrants to New England is perhaps understandable. Take a look, and ask if Solanum carolinense is easy to distinguish from a green version of edible Solanum lycopersicum:

https://eattheplanet.org/solanum-poisonous-relatives-of-toma...

Spaniards and Italians who imported the Mexico/Central American cultivar developed by native American cultivators had a different opinion, but the English weren't interest for several hundred years, say the historians:

http://www.vegetablefacts.net/vegetable-history/history-of-t...

Conclusion: what one culture views as weird, others might view as normal.
Ha awesome. Before I bought, I did some reading about vacuums that repair shops thought were good, Miele seemed to top the list at the time. It’s been great, despite suffering a decent amount of clumsiness-related abuse.
Hi, Yan from Teapodo here.

Plugin host in Teapodo is done in two main modules:
- The Teapodo audio engine provided "plugin slots" for the application to mount plugin instances to (in a thread safe way), which is written in Rust
- The plugin format parsers to understand each plugin formats (e.g. VST3, AU) and create plugin instances from, which is written in C++ and is just a thin wrapper around JUCE

We did think about building our own plugin format parsers from scratch, but since we are really small (only 2 devs) we ended up using an existing solution for now. Maybe we will come around and do it at some point (I certainly hope we could!).

As for releasing the source code, that's definitely a possible option. We've seen some interest in the implementation of the project, and we will start by writing about it soon, so stay tuned!
Chilling effects laws have absolutely nothing to do with a company's voluntary decisions. That's a bizarre misunderstanding of their usage.
"will not provide a stable prefix"

This is pretty horrific. You could investigate ULA which is a bit like RFC1918 addresses for IPv6. You could attach ULA addresses to a few devices such as a local DNS server, printers and the like.

NPT would enable you to route your ULA addressed gear to the internets if they don't have a globally routable address.
That's my favorite thing to do. Then you plot all the ideas on a graph with the axes "Interesting" vs "Feasible"
On the other hand, there were some screen issues on 2015 MacBook Pro laptops that I ended up experiencing. I inadvertently found out that they had extended the warranty well outside the usual period and fixed it for free. The only comment from the "genius" was it was one of the more interesting patterns he'd seen.

Apple's certainly far from perfect but I've been pretty happy with their customer service.
Yep, it took them a very long time to admit that the GPU problems on my Core 2 Duo were a design problem.
"I would like to wonder about the ethics of Microsoft not giving me something for free that I've come to expect."

Oh.
It’s Not Hypocrisy, You’re Just Powerless
Spot on. Apple direct customer support really suck in India. In my city, the authorised store and service centre always act entitled like they are doing me a big favour (probably because we don't buy it from them directly). Last I went there to find out if a discoloured iPad screen could be repaired, and they said they can't examine my device unless I pay Rs. 500 (around US $5-$6) first. So I shell out the money, and they look at the screen and ask me if I have factory reset the iPad. I said yes, I had done that. The service "engineer" then returns the iPad to me and says, "Apple does not repair any iPad hardware in India. If it is under warranty, they will replace the device with another iPad." I asked him why he didn't tell me all this before charging me Rs. 500. He looked at me like he was staring at a jackass (which I guess he was :).
They likely know and don't care. My old macbook pro updated to the latest OS and it completely bricked the machine. Every time I'd try to watch a video the thing would overheat. Reverted the OS and the issue was completely fixed.

Bought a new iphone recently and the camera simply can't focus at short range.
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Why aren't these things waterproof anyway?
Actually it really isn't.

The more expensive something is the higher the ongoing costs to maintain it. It's the same case with cars where more expensive ones are also more costly to maintain and fix.

When people buy a more luxury item, it's because there is something about the item that they value where no cheaper equivalent exists. MacBooks certainly have several such features: quality of display, ecosystem integration, form factor, battery life, speakers, aesthetics... These things might not be the same things you value, but for those who care it's just as important. This is also why some people buy luxury cars and others just get the cheapest whatever that gets them from A to B.

FWIW, I run an HP Ryzen laptop that cost me just $350. But I do so because the 2h battery, non-HDR (and probably not even 100% sRGB) 1080p screen, lackluster speaker, and "borderline serviceable" trackpad don't bother me at all. I would not buy a MacBook as it offers no features I care about at a significantly higher price, but I respect people who do buy MacBooks because they fit their needs.
Couldn't the stack just be made out of the same super fast memory processor registers are made of?