skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The argument most often used is 'But I Get Good Services' - which I'm suspicious of because 1) well, you could just keep the money and spend on the services you want, instead of the services the state chooses for you

I'm honestly baffled anyone seriously thinks that. It takes a minimum of reflection on all of the services provided by a functioning state and their role in society to realise that is just highly impractical. You get economies of scale, you get people who can't afford "services" who can not die, you get social mobility, happiness (if the workers servicing the ones that can afford services are unhappy slaves, that would impact service), etc.

> there's incredible efficiency in private institutions. I don't see any government in the world ever making a good 'Spotify'. Despite it's flaws, it's nice to have 'music when I want it'.

There's incredible efficiency in public institutions too, they just optimise for different things. One for money, the other for reach, impact, accountability. Despite it's flaws, it's nice to have healthcare when you need it without fear of bankruptcy.
"I predict we'd end up mostly back where we are."
So do I.

https://hnpredictions.github.io/?p=1485
> 1: People in fact do routinely successfully modify or wholly replace the ecu code in other cars.

Did the manufacturer let them do this, or did they have to do something equivalent of a jailbreak to do it?

> Most vehicles never give people any reason to even want to mod the software since other vehicles haven't had nearly as much history of being as invasive or caprcious. They are starting tonadopt these undesirable norms lately, but that is because of Tesla leading by example and making it at all thinkable.

Didn't OnStar exist before Tesla did?
> You can’t easily prove that your fridge really will last longer

Yeah you can, it's called warranty
I don't think this is surprising. If the utility function that is optimized by companies is profitability, the typical lifetime just above the warranty time is the result. In some sense that's expected from companies that have shareholders and so on.

Whether one can do something about it ? I guess one can enforce warranty times to be longer for example. For sure that'll make things more expensive, but probably not by much. Maybe there are other solutions (like asking to collect statistics on life-times of appliances for easier comparisons), but the key is to put that factor in the company's calculations.
The point is that the curve of MTBF has a much narrower standard deviation than it used to --- there aren't as many early failures on newer models, but there also won't be as many old-age survivors.

A 70 year old fridge that cost the equivalent of $10k today when new, and is likely to last over a century, is still a better value than replacing a $1k model a dozen times in the same timespan.
Mailing lists aren't great, and neither is nntp. But mailing lists (and nntp) work fine with proper clients and some discipline/netiquette.

Sadly I don't think there is a reasonable way to introduce new users at this point - I'm not aware of any great gui clients that do the right thing; and AFAIK neither Gmail or o365/exchange work in a reasonable way with open standards (allow checking for when others are free; accepting/changing appointments etc) - so users are herded towards the semi-proprietary clients. (and interop across silos doesn't really work in a sensible way).

There are things like the d-lang forums that mix a decent web front-end and nntp (and mailman makes an effort for web+smtp) - but I'm not aware of anything that really works great, with a low barrier of entry and reasonably lets users participate across more than a handful of threads.
Where to start…

Similar story with old Honda’s. Simple cars that just worked with few problems, but they were simple cars with few electrical motors and digital features.

No they weren't. Japanese manufacturers brought all sorts of whiz-bang doohickeys over by the boatload. That was one of the ways the Japanese luxury cars were able to compete with the Germans. Even if you go back further you'll find stuff like the 2nd gen Accord which was the world's first car to offer automated navigation. Even if not electronic, Honda brought over a bunch of really complex mechanical things like four wheel steering. Even the old carburetors of 70s and 80s Hondas were among the most complex you're ever likely to encounter.

However, some manufacturers like Saab actually delivered all this with excellent reliability

lol. no. I say this as a Saab fan: Saabs have never been reliable. Ever. The (pre-GM) 9000 made the news for being fire prone. The Trionic stuff while fascinating was not reliable in the slightest, or as Saabnet puts it: 100% of engines equipped with direct ignition have had a direct ignition cassette failure. Transmissions were delicate. Climate control…

If you mean older Saabs, well the two stroke stuff has its own set of problems. They're neat cars but were just different enough to make it difficult to find a competent mechanic. Saab already had one foot in the grave by the time GM bought them.

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Feds-investigate-Saab-90...
I use Google maps in exactly the same way and have the same complaint about street names not being visible. Sometimes I'll drop in to street view at an important intersection to see what landmarks pop out, like a certain gas station or business on the corner where I need to turn.

It's so funny when I'm with someone and navigating, they see me using Google maps and then are bewildered when I don't turn on the turn by turn yet still get where we're going. They almost can't believe it's possible.
Yeah and it'll evolve unexpectedly but not in a way that most artists can't adapt to or develop a practice with. I just don't agree with the idea that DALL-E is art poison. That's overly simplistic and reactionary and not realistic about the diversity of form, materials, composition in artworks.
My understanding was that those materials are more like electric motors and fully assembled control PCBs, not sheets of steel and spools of insulated wire.
That is not what I’ve heard from speaking to appliance repair techs, or builders/architects, or the Sub Zero owners I know with 15+ year old refrigerators that have never had any issues (except the ice maker, which is an inherently unreliable piece of technology).

My guess is your friends aren’t maintaining them properly (they know they have to clean the condenser coils every couple months, right?) Either that, or they have those “integrated” models with no visible vent for the condenser, which of course will overheat the compressors and electronics.
I'm gonna repurpose this ...

"They can see no reasons 'cause there are no reasons
What reasons do you need?
Oh oh oh whoa whoa"

Boomtown Rats
I don't think so. MFGs are likely to swap in new parts without notice --they may keep track through serial numbers, lots or similar, but not something they would expose to end users.
Seoul to lay out conditions for joining Chip 4 alliance, not ruin China exports
Yeah, I'm just a careless person in some dimensions to be honest.

Last summer I lost my wallet on a golf course, and twice at bars. I do a "wallet , keys, phone, airpods" check when I leave the house, but it wouldn't have caught those events for me.

This solution isn't failsafe, but for a few hours of work and almost no ongoing costs, it makes it POSSIBLE for people to get things back to me (and significantly increases the odds)
Interesting. Did you not have to disclose a similar amount of personal information to buy the Mac?

Have you considered buying used? This can be better for the environment and privacy.
Yeah, the adjusted prices are a major factor. Today, that could get you a Miele that would be inherited by your children, nephews, or grandchildren.

The other thing people forget is that older appliances and electronics were built to be easily serviced, and therefore the ones today that survive have been repaired at some point (most likely). Today, most of those dedicated repair shops are long gone and products are no longer designed to be serviceable.
The same stuff you can read in any company newsletter.
No need to justify my existence! Took me years of therapy for this to really click. Life is so much better when other people's opinions don't matter.

Simply do no harm, and be as you are
This sort of analysis fails because you're not the average person.

Many people here on HN could have taken a degree in Egyptology and then landed a solid job in software because in their spare time they muck about with computers.

I'm also sure that a lot of people here know many CS graduates who struggle to find work because they're just... not good software developers or can't market themselves.
> (Only thing there that fits is the recent demonstration of the Russian government acting like half-arsed movie plots are a good idea in real life).

A lot of papers suggested that the war incompetence was because Putin asked for support for his invasion, and the services knew their job was to get him that irrespective of reality. If there was any operation to take advantage of Snowden, it probably wasn't under such pressure, and I imagine the Russian services have some competent people that could pull it off.
The author seems to be British (mentioning GCSEs) and I always thought that cover letters are not really used anymore. Anywhere I applied, about 3 years back, most of the recruitment agencies and job listings used those janky auto-fill CV forms. I am a bit confused about the importance of cover letters anyway.

Back in Germany, a good cover letter is the first step through the door, but I always assumed through experience, that in the UK it’s usually not really used even - especially not in paper form.

Anyway, I might have to apply for new jobs soon, so I’ll take any advice and go any extra mile I possibly can.
oops! Yeah, to be honest, i rarely type my own url... should obviously make the trailing slash optional...
"Focusing on tragedy will make you miserable, and no matter what horror you have experienced, focusing on tragedy will only increase that horror."

From:

The Meaning Of Life

https://moviewise.substack.com/p/the-meaning-of-life
Just exist. Otherwise you fall for the sunken cost fallacy. Don’t justify … act towards what you want with the “bonus” days you are granted or enjoy the freedom to just perceive and not act.
Everyone's skeptical in this thread (including me), but it does seem like a useful thing to do if you can make it practical. Maybe incorporating some of the design elements of a "Secure Enclave" like Touch/Face ID where physical access destroys the private key? Not an expert in this field but curious what can actually be done.
I think you’re replying to the wrong person.

Also, people usually buy stuff like a drink, magazine, chewing gum, books, maybe other snacks from a store. Not sure how a single vending machine would be able to vend all that. And even if you could — I’ve seen Japanese vending machines — you’d only be able to carry a very small selection.
I can't speak for all departments but the one I worked for. There was huge mistrust between sections and other departments. If projects were joint and required working together it always stalled.

I believe that public servants more broadly see reforms and technology as threats to jobs and tend to be hostile to these implementations. Culturally it's not a place that welcomes reforms, and likes business as usual.

If you aren't a business and you have no incentive to be more productive and make profits. Why would you implement technologies that mean having to re-skill and more than likely bigger workload?
I understand you can copyright the name, so other people could still copy the drink but with another name.
American Kingpin by Nick Bilton

A book about the rise and fall of Silk Road. I listened to this on a recent 12-hour road trip, and the hours melted away.
Maybe. I think the bigger problem is that there's no easy fix/recommendation to give new users; "stop using your propiatary group-ware that your company/organization pays for" isn't a great recommendation.
yeah! Could definitely do that.

I built this years ago, before the pandemic. While QR codes existed, pre-pandemic, it didn't really feel like something that was ever going to get mass adoption.

Maybe just in my circles.

Now, it seems weird to imagine that people wouldn't know. :)
Because it's a metaphor. "Extension of mankind" implies, poetically, a physical connection between mankind and technology. Physical connections are amputated, not obviated. A withered limb isn't obviated, it's cut off. So, amputated.
I don't think it's a scam, 'lower price' is such a hugely powerful thing as a first order issue.

Wallmart + China has changed the world, middle and lower class people now have material abundance that was unthinkable in the past.

I mean 'too much stuff'.

If we can get to the point of being able to recycle materials effectively, I'm fine with it becoming normative.

"The Robot made me this really great cappuccino machine it breaks in 6 years but that's fine because I want the new one, with the newer features"

Or "The Robot made me this 'metric' wrench system for really cheap, which won't last long, but that's fine, I use it literally not even once a year around the house, but I really do value having it around and available"
We have the same in australia too, called choice magazine. https://www.choice.com.au/
I can’t speak to the quality of the new ones, but mine is a decade old and still going strong.
Just wanted to point out at JPL there are many 25-year-old people commanding spaceships, rovers, and landers. Sometimes room-fulls of them. Not a great example.
The United States is the largest producer of oil in the world. We are also a net exporter.

This happened within the past decade.

Now we are told that we just need to drill even more.

Using every last drop of domestic oil is quite short-sighted.
> The problem is that several of those wont work if you reject that access.

For all of the crazy rules Google has for the Play Store, I don't know why they don't have one against this.
Show HN: Dump Shadowsocks Credentials from NthLink
People always think users are more activist than they actually are. In reality, as long as something works, most users will tolerate a large amount of bullshit.
I note the maintainer has asked for help with the project and called for additional maintainers, so if you use this or want it to improve, please get involved:

https://github.com/mrtazz/checkmake/issues/44
Breaking all macOS security layers with a single vulnerability
Perhaps tools for criminal investigators.
That is so wrong. I use docker to build things which I cannot build on my host system because the host and build have incompatibilities. Static locking would not solve this.
While this is true, and I'm generally fairly anti-chrome, this does disregard a huge amount of very real, and very hard engineering work.

I think V8 was not actually that complicated - a lot of the "deep" computer science they originally wrote and talked about in marketing material was from the 80s, and things like the hidden classes were picked up almost immediately by JSC at least (as in just a few weeks of non-crunch time). The original JITs for V8 and subsequently JSC were essentially template JITs, i.e not particularly complicated (for JSC the big issue was having to support x86, x86_64, and Thumb2, and managing the security implications on iOS). Even the GC imo wasn't super impressive.

The primary reason that Spidermonkey and JSC didn't have the JIT or hidden shape concepts wasn't engineering complexity, but simply that at the time the apparently important perf problems were with other parts of JS and the DOM - so huge numbers of objects (the argument for generational GC), and non-dom property access (which recall was not optimized in V8 at the time) were just not considered that important compared to other parts of JS and the browser.

But when you get to WebCore and the browser the Chrome folk did a lot of very hard work, the process separation was also conceptually simple, but practically a huge amount of very complex work. You can contrast the difference in time it took to get JS engines performance up to the same order as V8 vs the time it took any degree of process separation in WebKit and Gecko. The first multiprocess Safari was just two processes, the app, and the render process - just getting WebKit going with a single separate render process was a lot of work, it was at least two full releases before true multiprocess was a thing in WebKit (WebKit's multiprocess model makes the process separation part of the engine, vs. the blink model of having the app be responsible).

Then for sandboxing, WebKit obviously got to leverage the Mac+iOS sandboxing that was built into the system. The chrome folk had to build an entire sandboxing system for windows, without kernel support, or in fact any support. Which was another gigantic amount of work.

So kudos to the chrome team, they did a lot of work, and a lot of it was very hard, and shouldn't be reduced or dismissed.
> mypy is laughably primitive compared to advanced static typing systems

I don't disagree, but that's not an argument I ever put forth! (and I actually sort of disagree a little bit, mypy has/is getting a bunch of really cool powerful features that put it in the realm of "as cool as" those languages: PEPs 544, 586, 591, 647 (this is a weak form of contract types!), 675 (~constexpr string type), 646 (variadic generic/numeric dependent types!))
Going Deep on the Climate Bill with Hank Green and Jesse Jenkins
It does not make any sense to me that voters are voting for the exact opposite of Bernie (Republicans) rather than voting for someone closer to Bernie (Democrats).

> but they choose to go after big corporate interests instead.

Yet we established in this very comment chain that Democrats have passed some significant bills against big corporate interests, and Republicans have done the opposite.
> Your stuff never runs on a different system because some asshat clobbered your `/usr/lib/...`.

Yeah. I've had some success just dropping all that user space stuff and targeting Linux directly with system calls. I boot up Linux straight into my program. Not viable for every use case but it's amazing when the system is small.
So this is basically DRM, but straight out of the camera. I can only think of a few situations where attestation that early in the chain would actually be helpful (forensics, biometrics). However, even if they are using a per-camera secret, tamper proof hardware is often not very tamper proof, especially in consumer devices. Even things like SGX have glitch attacks and similar. I question if it would really stop a determined attacker from extracting the key and using it to sign edited images. It’s next to impossible to prevent jailbreaks. Further, a low tech proof of concept solution could be to telecine an edited image onto the sensor. You’d then be able to get a signed image of almost anything without even jail breaking the device
I built a marketing automation system for Udemy content creators. Alas Udemy decided to block all crawling of their site which broke my ease of use proposition so I abandoned it. I'm still pissed at Udemy.
one area where human artists excel: learning. if i ask dall-e to draw something that was made after it was released then it wouldn't be able to do it without a very detailed description
Interesting, what I like about kanban is that (in my opinion) it explicitly recognizes that work proceeds through specific stages, and therefore tickets go through a mini-waterfall. Waterfall is great with a small enough batch size. In contrast, scrum seems to pretend that design, development, code review, QA, etc, all happen at once throughout the sprint.
Yes, they precisely have that. Have repaired three Kitchenaid mixers over the years, from different eras. Even in the higher end machines where it is almost all metal gears and parts, the helical gear box in those too is all plastic parts for easy and cheap replacement, and so that anything getting stuck doesn't burn out a more expensive elctrical motor.

I have an immersion blender that also has plastic gears, and even though the motor is sold as a single unit that is not an FRU, you can take it apart and service it with off-the-shelf gears you can source from eBay.

The two coffee grinders I have, high quality metal burrs, plastic gearing, for the same reason.

My higher quality power tools- track saw, drills, etc, all plastic gearing, metal everywhere else.

It just makes sense when it comes to repairs, though can be frustrating when they strip out.

That said, most consumer crap made today is complete shite.
In some cases it’s impossible to build older software, or very difficult.
Thought this was a great dive into the new Inflation Reduction Act that just got passed.
For beancounters, a brand's reputation for expensive but long-lasting products is an amazing opportunity to "create shareholder value" and boost (short-term) profits by cutting corners on quality. Obviously the reputation will eventually adjust and this strategy will stop working, but besides the disgruntled customers, bonuses have been paid, people have been promoted and shareholder value was created. By the time the brand dies the people involved would've moved on to their next victim.

Paying more indeed isn't a reliable signal because even if a brand truly has a reputation for reliable stuff there is no guarantee someone isn't pulling the aforementioned strategy in the background.
You're a combination of a lucky, healthy, fast sperm AND an equally fast, healthy, and lucky EGG. One egg survives to ovulate out a handful because it outpaces and outgrows all the other eggs vying to ovulate. Without the egg, there is no you.
Does it though?

IMAP is really kinda a object store, where the objects are emails. Modify emails stored remotely is already extremely trivial.

DKIM and ARC make this a bit more secure, but they are the only way to validate an email is authentic.

DKIM key rotation with providers like AWS SES and others, after a period of time it is impossible to validate old emails as authentic. For SES it takes only 9 months for that to happen.
How is a recipe fundamentally different than a program?
They do. I've replaced ours twice in 15 years of ownership (and have 3 more replacements in the junk drawer, since they came 5-for-$10: ASIN B07Y7S33RF).

It's a pretty elegant design. Unfortunately, a lot of people (including my wife, initially) would be prone to concluding that the whole unit was “worn out and needed replacing”.
Appreciate this softer side coming from someone known to be absolutely vicious on the football field. Also while I think it's fair to lump Suh in with all of the other "I got rich, you can do it too" hucksters, he does stand apart from his peers in professional expectations, performance and longevity. So I imagine this is solid advice for an NFL rookie or pro who is trying to navigate the leeches and scammers endemic to pro sports.
If our goal is to minimize cost (ignoring the environmental side of things), longevity must be taken into account. If energy savings at the expense of longevity truly makes refrigerators cheaper in the longterm then that's awesome, but I worry planned obsolescence is ruining the appliance market and increasing consumer expense.
>the technology will be good 99.99% of the time

This is the kind of technology that's useless if it's not good 100% of the time.

Parachutes can be useful even if they open 99.999% of the time.

But this is either 100% cryptograhical proven forgery-proof or it isn't. There's no "good enough" middle ground. You care for forgery-proof when important things are hanging on that being the case.
This doesn't work in all categories, but when the product breaks before a reasonable lifetime you buy a new one, and return the old one.

The store ships it back to the manufacturer, and if they are smart they tear it down and improve whatever caused it to break.

If enough people did this quality would improve.