skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I realize there are varying degrees and in many if not most cases it makes sense. There are a very small number of cases that are an unbearable burden on the entire system and if not checked it will bring the whole house down for everyone. There has to be some sort of actuarial science involved with this sort of thing when it comes to government spending on accommodating the handicapped and in terminal hospice care.
But then you can't charge with the USB-C port and listen to headphones at the same time.
Honestly, you can get great USB-C to headphone jack converters for $10. Just accept the market has moved on and live with it.

Also the headphone jack isn't 100 years old.
It sounds like you utilized a Bach song "form" as a template for composition; which is slightly different from Western theory or well-tempered tuning.
Thanks very much for that PNAS article. If I may attempt a brief summary: listening (paying attention) matters.
General optimizing processes are qualitatively different from processes like the collapsing of bridges, the poisoning of ecosystems by chemicals, and the performance of Hellfire missile guidance systems on their way toward political dissidents; optimizing processes in bacterial and viral evolution already result in mass human death even though killing the humans isn't what those processes are optimizing for, and actually is a thing they "try" to reduce. (The bacteria or viruses trapped in the human corpse cannot reproduce and are usually quickly destroyed.)

> There are simply too many problems with trying to reason about something that you accept you don't understand that effort framed that a destined to devolve into nonsense.

Superficially this sounds smart (except for the part that says "understand that effort framed that a destined", which sounds like a GPT-2 glitch, but I assume you mean "understand that efforts to do so are destined") but it's profoundly wrong. I don't understand fluid dynamics, and weather is driven by fluid dynamics; nevertheless I can tell you that it will not rain today because it is a sunny day with a few cumulus clouds, and it never rains here on sunny days with a few cumulus clouds. (And even if my prediction were wrong, it wouldn't be nonsense, that is, "not even right or wrong"; a nonsense weather prediction sounds not like "it will not rain today" but rather like "it will triangle heavily last week" or "the sun will shine in the sky all night tonight.")

Moreover, if we were to take seriously the idea that we can't reason about things we know we don't understand well enough for our arguments to have a truth-value, it would entail that we can't reason about not only weather but also people, materials, or orbital dynamics well enough for ideas like "the sun will shine tomorrow" to have a truth value.

Similarly, "a superintelligent AI will kill us" is a prediction which is perfectly coherent within the usual parameters of weather predictions. We can disagree about whether AlphaZero counts as "superintelligent" or "AI", but it's clearly "more intelligent" than Deep Blue in the sense that it can learn to play novel games, and also IIRC it plays chess better than Deep Blue. We can argue about whether or not a particular situation qualifies as "dead", and about how many survivors are required to qualify as "us". We can argue about what time frame is relevant. Maybe Venkatesh would argue that a non-self-conscious optimization process wouldn't count as an "AI". But these semantic quibbles just make its truth-value a bit fuzzy; they don't eliminate it altogether, and neither do they eliminate our ability to reason about these possibilities.
If that's the reason, why is it never ATT, or Verizon, or Comcast who are dramatically more implicated in ongoing cooperation with NSA/FVEY? Why is it never Palantir or Kratos or Pegasus whose business models are to explicitly market malware to the intelligence community? Why is it not Booz Allen Hamilton where Snowden worked when he took the files and is still chugging right along?

And why is the ultimate responsibility, which lies with the legislators and executives who put together these FISA kangaroo courts and NSL procedures, like a parenthetical on the way to blast Silicon Valley?

If, like me, you're deeply concerned about NSA/FVEY overreach, there are far, far more pressing issues, present day concerns than Google or Meta or Microsoft most likely having knuckled under to a bunch of NSLs rather than send their CEOs to Leavenworth in like 2009 or whatever when the Obama administration was collecting scalps from everyone with a datacenter who didn't play ball.

And what in God's name does the Federal government's energy policy have to do with it? You want clean energy (nuclear) take it up with the NRC and EPA.
Thank you! I'll give it a download
Leon Vitali, ‘Barry Lyndon’ Actor and PA to Stanley Kubrick, Dies at 74
Yeah OK, let me know when Bluetooth latency is the same as a physical wire connection. Or when a good Bluetooth pair costs the same as a good wired pair.
I think you are vastly overestimating the number of university users that actually used the Internet in those early days. For example, just because a school "had access" did not mean all their students actually used it. Around here, even as late as 1993, at a state school, you had to sign up for a CS class to even get an email address.

I stand by my statement that the total number of BBS users (including online services, like CompuServe, Prodigy, GEnie, pre-Internet AOL, etc.) out numbered the users on the early Internet in 1990.
As usual, it's a minority of users causing all of the problems. Most people on KF probably aren't doxxing or sending threats, but any time you get a group of people together to talk about someone, chances are some will take it too far. The ultimate example of this was Princess Diana (remember that?). The public was obsessed with her, and that demand fed a constant swarm of paparazzi which eventually led to her crash and death. If people were posting about her on KF, KF would surely be shut down by now.

There need to he clear rules. If we shut down every forum where someone says something bad once, are we going to shut down Facebook and Instagram? Of course not, we'll stop short of that. So we give an unfair advantage to Facebook and Instagram, forever entrenching them as the only platforms where speech can happen?

Getting back to the Princess Diana analogy, KF probably started as a harmless place to joke about public figures, but in the modern world where everyone is pushed to cultivate their own personal "brand", even someone as uninteresting as a nintendo emulator programmer, it puts regular people at risk of the worst kinds of stalking and harassment etc.
Green grass
No, I could spend all day at the beach for the rest of my life. Same with hiking desert climates. Same with spending all my time in my wood and metal shop.
Thanks for clarifying.

What’s your view on Thiel supporting Trump? Why would a deep thinker support a charlatan, destructive and narcissistic person like Trump? Zero to one had some good ideas.

And Elon apparently isn’t really a deep thinker. A good hype person… yes. Most of his projects are vanity projects, e.g hyperloop, neurolink, self driving cars etc. He badly wants to be seen as a real life Tony Stark. He’s also a narcissist and a terrible leader… e.g. the hyperloop project was to derail a public transport project.[01]

There is also a good video series outlining Musk’s false claims [02]

And Rand’s ideas are toxic [03]… just look at the state of America… huge inequalities in the richest country of the world. Or UK also getting worse… thanks to a similar mindset. Dog eat dog world… self interest trumps helping others to maintain a stable society.

[01] https://sfist.com/2022/08/11/musk-backlash-continues-with-ti...

[02] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeUvcJUdRK0

[03] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/column-this-is-what-hap...
What's being marked here as a "barker" is frequently someone who is actually trying to blow past what they think is a weak or deceptive point into another that they see as stronger. They're refusing to be interrupted when they feel vulnerable, and moving to where they don't.

If you wait for them to finish, and begin your response by commenting on their earlier point, they'll immediately interrupt you and accuse you of avoiding their final point.

edit: you end up forced to argue with conclusions rather than premises or steps. Instead of arguing e.g. "maybe Mrs. X didn't notice Y was missing, we both missed it the first time," instead you're forced to argue whether Mrs. X is a good person or not, and being accused of going out of your way to defend Mrs. X.
Taxes are a huge burden on small and micro businesses so this is no surprise at all. Big and rich companies just hire fancy tax lawyers. Small folk just deal in cash. This is why we are seeing governments working hard to bring and end to cash. That’s when crypto starts taking over,IMO.
As software engineers and the stewards of modern technology, we have a responsibility to build tools which enable capability for the rest of the people - particularly in the open source world.

People can't run their own encrypted messengers so we have Signal. People should be provided with interfaces, and advocated too, use cloud services for their data in a safe way.
I'd also expect higher performance for a rewrite of jq or, for that matter, any other tool that works as expected and being used for a long time.
I’m looking at the 99 section 11 chapter privacy laws. How has that affected Google, Facebook etc?

We know what effect affective privacy policies have - the ten line policy change on Apple App Store has caused all of the ad supported platforms to announce falling revenue. The GDPR has only caused cookie pop ups.
Honesty, I wish self hosting was easy enough for ordinary people to do. Then there would be no reason to recommend people to fragment their digital life among dozens of ad-funded SaaS platforms. There is no reason why it has to be so hard. But not enough effort has gone into developing such systems due to obvious reasons. Sandstorm project, for example pioneered a model where users could deploy web apps like they would install mobile apps on their phone. Sadly, it didn't achieve the level of popularity it needed.
This is such a weird complaint.

Firstly, yes, you can can get USB-C to headphone adaptors that allow charging[1]

Secondly, the scenarios where this is an issue are combinations of edge cases. You have to choose not to use wireless headphones, not have a wireless charger AND for some reason be unable to spare the 30 minutes to do a rapid boost charge.

If that's really a problem then by all means get the charger that allows both.

[1] eg, first result: https://www.amazon.com.au/UGREEN-Headphone-Adapter-Charging-...
Fi is definitely the way to go if you're buying a Pixel.

But you should know that 5G only really shines in really crowded places like sports stadiums and music festivals.

The other noticable difference is the faster battery drain; I disabled 5G entirely on my Pixel 6.
> The Google Pixel 6a is good, it takes great photos, and it has great software. Nevertheless, that doesn’t change the fact that it’s missing quite a bit of what other people are looking for. Most people don’t care if their phone has the best camera in whatever class their phone is in, they just want a phone that takes good photos for social media.

So it takes great photos and has great software, but misses what users really want, which is taking photos and using the software?

The actual point of the article seems to be on phone carriers, which are a big problem, but every country that successfully dealt with that stared with setting up strong corporate oversight. I'm not sure the US is there yet.
Sure, maybe, but usually the new stuff the old is being abandoned for is at least better....
I use Backblaze B2 and ‘PhotoSync’. PhotoSync is great in any case, as it can push and pull from basically anywhere. The only issue is it’s phone based.
The reality is that Grace is smart but that doesn't mean everyone else in the room is wrong. To interject and argue a "better" perspective requires a certain level of arrogance that not everyone has. People like Grace, who don't have this arrogance, will instead just let the louder more arrogant people run the show because at the end of the day it probably doesn't matter.

Moreover, this arrogance can easily mark you as "problematic" and "argumentative" by other arrogant people. I'm sure having quiet people speak up sounds great to you until you realize this means getting into more arguments over everything. We need people like Grace that are competent but let louder, more arrogant people run the show because at the end of the day, we'll be more productive that way.
Use a wireless charging setup.

It has been standard on most flagship phones for a few years now.

I rarely (if ever) use the port to charge my devices anymore. They just look messy, wear out and take more time to plug in and un plug.
> unless everyone adopts it doesn't that run the risk of it just being My Favorite Canonicalization

That's true regardless. The IETF has no enforcement arm. Even if people expend the effort to agree a standard, and make whatever signs and follow the rituals, if nobody implements it then de facto that isn't the standard after all.
>Mark’s wife grabbed her husband’s phone and texted a few high-quality close-ups of their son’s groin area to her iPhone so she could upload them to the health care provider’s messaging system.

It sounds like it was probably the texting (maybe via the Google Messages app?) that got the images flagged, rather than the telehealth system.
Even if VPN services are like you said, still they want to sell more and it's possible by ads. Degradation could be justified for "privacy".
Writing this reply with HACK, thanks for the app! If you are comfortable with it, could you share rough revenue estimate for the app of such popularity? How do you approach promoting such a specific app?
Non-marketing emails from the company to push information to you while you’re out of the app. Think stuff like:

1. receipt / shipping notifications from an online shop
2. emails from enterprise chat apps that let you know you’ve missed messages
3. “Suspicious login” or similar notifications
4. prompts about billing if credit card is nearing expiration or a problem charging your account
I tried Inspire but it didn't work for me. My doctor said it's about 50:50 in terms of patients that it works for. CPAP works great for me. I also recently got a mandibular oral device which also works fine and is useful for situations where I don't want to lug a CPAP around (eg travel)
Using Google for anything at this point feels like a ‘told you so’ waiting to happen.
Studying the positions movements of single molecules in a fluid is near-impossible; increasingly (as we've eaten all of the low-hanging fruit), more science is being done through simulation. Certainly, we should vet those simulations very carefully (as should we more direct experiments). But they're just another tool to understanding the world.
he is spot on, you know - this software is a contender for foundational infrastructure. The best foundational infrastructure software is like SQLITE - more tests than code, tiny and runs everywhere
I don’t mind people saying hello, but also would prefer they then go ahead and state their need. I don’t always respond right away, and often times by the time I get around to answering the need is gone or the person is unavailable. I definitely don’t mind interrupting my work flow, especially to route somebody to the actual correct person who can help them with their problem, but I don’t like the expectation of a synchronous conversation, so a “hello” with nothing else will usually fall to the bottom of my list of actual concrete problems to address for that minute/hour/day.
With the exception of some, but not all, newer GDI (Gasoline Direct Injection) engines, fuel injected engines have fuel injectors in the intake manifold upstream of the intake valves. Some GDI also have a combination of traditional injectors and direct injectors. It is inaccurate to say "the intake valve only ever sees filtered air."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_injection#Multi-point_inj...
Plus amazon like everything else entices users into leaving reviews...reviews should be for when someone actually has something to say, not feeling like you have to say something
> ideal California reception

you must not spend much time in California
Doesn't work on all phones, like my Pixel 4. That was a big surprise. There is no way to connect anything else but BT.
Are you asking if Apple has ads in the app store that are personalized using data that apple collects from third party applications? I'm pretty sure the answer to that is no.

If you are asking if Apple has personalized ads using data from within Apple, then yes; but Facebook has that too and isn't banned from doing that.

I think it's very strange people keep equating the level of Apple's and Facebook's data collection. Facebook tried very hard to track you across the entire internet. Apple said you need consent to do that. Then people say "Apple tracks you too". Yes so does every other app out there that installs an analytics library. But you know what I can do? Just not use apple products. However with Facebook, you'd find that the Facebook SDK is installed on every app that didn't even have a social integration and Facebook would build shadow profiles on you, with no reasonable way to opt out.
> OLED is great but the near instant pixel response means for lower frame rate content such as movies (24p) and most tv shows (25 or 30p) there is stutter

One thing to check is that it's not judder from a frame rate mismatch or dodgy motion smoothing. Usually if something is noticeably jarring, it's judder rather than frame rate.

It can be notoriously difficult to get these settings to do what you want on most TVs. For me, I always want "no motion smoothing but with automatic dejuddering enabled", which can be almost impossible, or even impossible in the case of some Samsung TVs.

Worse, some device/app combinations seem to just introduce their own judder. For example BBC iPlayer is awful for judder and stuttering, and Amazon Prime on Android TV seems to struggle with some shows sometimes. Android TV is a bit janky in general. Apple+ on Apple TV is always perfect.

What I normally do to conclusively check for judder is I use the slow motion video on my phone to record at 1/8th to look for duplicated frames or other weirdness.

Interestingly, I believe some amount of subtle panning judder is actually created by cinematic filming. Convention is to use a 180 degree shutter, which means each frame only has half the expected motion blur. 180 degrees is usually the best for 24Hz, but it can make certain types of panning shot look a bit unnatural IMO.
I have Frontier FIOS and a physical DVR Box. Yeah you have to get really good at stopping at the right point. But I've never found a cloud FF/RW that's close to as snappy as a physical box.
Wow. Well done. Great work. That's what I call overqualification for a work.

Besides that, i never have seen a strong stack for a simple game. This is really impressive.

Kudos
The rate of change of acceleration is going to be massive in a cannon though. That intuitively feels worse than very high acceleration but with a more gradual increase in the rate of change.
> such b.s

> I think you skipped over parts of my post

> "I refuse to change" is what you are saying

> you can think about this longer than a minute

> if you read my comment before replying

Why are you so hostile? Why use an online forum at all if you will attack anyone engaging with you?

You do have some good points there, but is this really the only way you are capable of expressing them?
The state should. Otherwise, what’s the point of having it.
It's always been my opinion that market value aside, Kindergarden teachers probably deserve the HIGHEST pay because they lay the foundations, and without sound foundations, the building is unstable.

Apologies for extended metaphorical language, but the underlying point is really what I think: Pay the ones at the front the most. They do the groundwork.
It is called Miracast, via Wi-Fi Direct.
> Proponents will argue endlessly that it isn’t the right formulation of vitamin E and nitpick trial flaws […]

Vitamin E is not a single vitamin but is a group of eight different vitamins with different properties. Detrimental effects of large doses of α-tocopherol that was used in the study have long been implicated and cautioned about.
This was the generally accepted approach nationwide in the past, until we realized it fuels systemic transgenerational inequalities, a bit like economic, racial, residential, etc. forms of segregation.
What is your response to each answer? Why is either answer important here? What if my questions are Socratic in nature?
> Probably the vast majority of those users also called local BBSes.

This is an absurd notion. The opposite is probably true, that most if not every single BBS user also used dialup services, but most users of dialup services probably were entirely unaware of any BBS.

btw, CompuServe never had more than 250K subscribers total. Prodigy had far less. So it is likely Facebook math being performed here with subscriptions that existed but were never used.
I wanted to thank you for taking the time to reply, especially as a physician.

I had written a reply, but abandoned it due to personal matters.
Why not? Firefox is freely available and works on (almost) every platform Chrome does.
You know, while phones marginally get better with each generation with a heavy emphasis on marginally, overall the progress is questionable. I am so old I remember when it was laudable a new phone was lighter.

Let's look at the Pixel 2: 145.7 x 69.7 x 7.8 mm, 143g, released in 2017.

Let's take a look at phones released since 2018 which have a full HD screen, are less than 145g -- it seems like a reasonable way to say "small phone": https://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?nYearMin=2018&nWeightM... this is it. These 14 are your entire selection over four years. If you restrict this to 2021 or later, the selection drops to a grand total of two: https://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?nYearMin=2021&nWeightM... The Carbon 1 MK II is circumventing my "small phone" search by using a larger carbon fiber body. The iPhone Mini is about to be discontinued if rumors are to be believed. https://9to5mac.com/2022/08/02/iphone-mini-going-away-upgrad...
(Cough) homeopathy (cough)

Give 'em five hot minutes...
The way quantum computers are purported to work, is they search a problem space simultaneously for all solutions, then spit out the correct solution.

It could be a factorisation problem, or any other.

for cryptography find x and y when f(x,y)=z given z

That is what "post quantum computing" means, aiui. It starts with x and y in all possible values of x and y, then spits out only the values that give z.

All encryption is only as strong as the difficulty of finding x and y given only z.

AIUI anyway. well aware I could have been misled - FUD.
You also need brief physical access to a naked child at the same time as the phone. That may be a bit more difficult to arrange.
That’s doable, but it’s not without its own issues.

Plus, you frequently don’t want to architect your client code the same as your server code (you’re not going to run a bunch of micro services on the client side for example)
I think tptacek is saying something meaningful in suggesting that there's already a long history to this discussion. Personally I disagree that the soul of HN is about curiosity. If you removed all the explicit comments about curiosity and showed the site to new tech people, I don't think there would be consensus on curiosity. If you showed a bunch of people the Rust subreddit, there would be consensus that it's soul is Rust.

Personally I see this site as the Reddit of tech with 20% of its flavor coming from YC companies. That is how it behaves, as opposed what moderators say the site is about.