skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most companies that relied on "cheap gas supplies" for heat generation are affected. Every manufacturing process that needs a high temperature oven for melting metal, for example, is highly affected by the gas supply. Due to gazprom basically being used as an economic weapon of Russia right now, that's not gonna change soon.

The CDU sold us out to Russia, and it's not gonna change immediately. What we can do now is plan accordingly, and try to move to solar power as soon as possible. And by that I mean, yesterday.

Bills exploded for private households, social media shows regularly pictures of ridiculous bills like 1600EUR+ for a month of heat for a simple family household. That's where it's at right now. Lots of people laugh or mock at the plus of 18EUR/month for Kindergeld that you can now get, because it's basically worthless in comparison.

Prepare yourselves, this is going to be a war of cyber and energy. In my personal opinion it's inevitable, because Putin and his propaganda of the supposed "growing Nazism in Central Europe" has been going on for decades after the revolution attempt of the opposition. It's only a matter of time until Putin wants a strategically easier-to-defend Moscow, because the mountains in Poland and Finland sure look juicy to him.

Always keep in mind: Whoever controls the oil and gas supply, controls the planet economically. The reason for the invasion of the North-East Ukraine was the oil fields, and the independence of oil supply for Europe was too high a risk for Putin's strategical control over the European Union.
One of the things I've noticed recently is that spam call numbers have gotten smarter -- somehow they're figuring out numbers corresponding to regions that I spend time in that aren't related to my area code or central exchange...
Stats on your service/app and workload?
The heat flux management from the plasma is certainly not dumb engineering, true. However, the actual heat transfer technology is, I think it's fair to say, "dumb" compared to all of the plasma physics that has to enable the reactor in the first place. It's more or less just running cold water through the lithium blanket, which they hope to keep under around 1000 Celsius or so.
No, it's not going to be slow no matter what. Didn't you see my example? The hexadecimal non-machine-native textual representation was 4000 times faster than the decimal ditto. On a number that was much larger, I might add.

Hex number parsing is linear time.
It's easy enough to solve... point an energy-collecting device at the giant pre-built fusion reactor in the sky.
> kill journalists who draw mocking cartoons of their prophet

You're speaking of the Charlie Hebdo attack right? I'm looking over the wikipedia pages for it and I don't see any links to Iran. The two were ethnic Algerians born in France. One of them got arrested while trying to travel to Syria, presumably to fight for al-Queda in Iraq. Mentored in prison by an Algerian terrorist who had been radicalized by Jordanian and Egyptian preachers. Arrested again for recruiting fighters for a Jordanian jihadis. Trained with al-Qaeda in Arabia (AQAP, a Sunni group.)

Where is the Iran/Shia connection? When I search for "charlie hebdo attack Iran" I find articles about Iran denouncing both the cartoons and the attack. Denouncing the cartoons doesn't make Iran culpable for the attack; free speech cuts both ways. The cartoons are free speech and so is denouncing the cartoons.
I may be reading between the lines on something you don't intend, but it seems like this data, in isolation of control variables, could just end up with an incorrect clickbait conclusion that YC is sexist.

For example, someone already made the point that many of these founders who could raise on just an idea were likely on their second go around or prior FANG employees. Most founders have historically been male (not saying this is good - just matter of fact) and only 17% of engineers at Google are female (and I think it goes without saying that YC has a bias towards engineers).

So if YC has an explicit positive bias towards second time founders and FAANG employees, you could easily see what appears to be anti-female bias, but in reality is just positive indexing towards other attributes that historically skewed male. This may or may not be the case, and there probably are instances where there is implicit bias towards non-positive male-associated traits (macho attitude? unwarranted overconfidence?) but this data in isolation doesn't tell us much.

I'm not saying that diversity is bad, or that we shouldn't be looking to increase female representation in the founder community, but we should be careful with understanding cause vs correlation and maintain intellectual honesty when looking at statistics.
I own a Garmin InReach that I regularly take with me on hiking expeditions (mostly Scotland, Iceland and South Africa) and it’s super handy on remote areas with no coverage. The ability to send an SOS is the main feature, but the two-way messaging system is just amazing for peace of mind, for me and my family.
However, the main thing about the InReach is its ruggedness and battery life, which I consider essential. I always carry an iPhone with me that I use when and if I get reception, but I need to carry a battery pack for it and it’s always in the back of my mind that an iPhone is a relatively fragile device and it’s one misstep away from cracking/breaking/etc, hence the inReach.

Moving forward, having both will be great, but I think having to rely only on an iPhone would make me a bit nervous, so I’m not sure how much of a threat this is for the inReach devices (at least for now).
I’m excited to be able to use my phone as a camera for video calls. The quality difference between my phone and MacBook webcam is quite large.
Low grade villainy is actually even more sad. Entertaining for sure though.
I highlight comments bright red in all editors, and it's really no different in terms of "filtering into separate streams". What it does significantly change is my initial approach to entering foreign code. Instead of immediately reading the code, my eye is drawn to the comments, often providing me with insightful commentary that then guides me in understanding the code. As a bonus, it has also made me more sensitive to outdated comments, which I views as a plus.

Of course, comments also often contain the hidden assumptions or limitations of the algorithm that were too expensive to check. Often the comments actually do contain the bug you're looking for.

I suggest you give it a shot. I didn't expect it to make as much of a difference as it ended up doing.
In my state, the bill will be in the five or six figures -- but if you were legitimately in real danger, they will usually opt not to charge you. If you called them by mistake or as a prank, you'll pay.
The iPhone macro uses the ultra wide angle lens which has huge depth of field and can focus really close, so can get very close to objects. Without the ultra wide angle lens you can’t take what most would define as macro photos.

You can still take photos as close as the camera can focus otherwise on other models, I suspect your S8 is doing this but the macro mode locks it to minimum focal length. Macro mode (or anything focal) isn’t something explicitly exposed in the iOS camera app so it would actually be weird to have it there - you take macro photos with the Pro by just moving the phone really close to something, there’s no way to force it.

You may like to check out the app Halide, which can force macro focus and will even do its best on non-Pro iPhones (but the results won’t compare without a lens that can focus really close)
Or, swap (and hibernate) are the RAM cache flushing to disk. ;)
I call bull on this -- the plastic halves of the earbud casings are ultrasonically sealed together; you have to break them apart to get at the guts (and IIRC the battery is also soldered in). Just look up the iFixit teardown; they're completely unrepairable. My bet is, they are just swapping them out with refurbs and writing off the loss against their AppleCare earnings.
Are you in a low cost or high cost location?

I would expect job cuts in high cost locations to come first.
It means they only use an adblocker on desktop.
Snapchat's Turnaround Plan
You cannot build a grid out of solar and wind alone.
> We really, really want to make the append-only mode with restic work but the security implications of the restic serve model (and mount ? going from memory here ...) make us very uneasy.

That's fair. The words "serve" and "mount" ring alarm bells, but I think it's misplaced in this case.

rclone "serves" over stdio, so all communication occurs over stdio-over-SSH.

rclone doesn't mount, but does have an internal VFS, which is entirely userspace and implemented in rclone's Go.
No. The terms seem designed to have the fallback option be for Apple to
purchase the company outright, or possibly to purchase at least a controlling interest.

They have rules requiring the current Executive Chairman to retain majority control for 5 years. They have a right of first offer with him if he wants to sell stock.

With the company they have the right to submit a counteroffer to any sale of assets required to provide the services, or proposed sales of the company itself.

All of this makes me feel that they want to have this company as an independent supplier, but have buying it up as their backup plan.
I'd also highly recommend watching The Bit Player documentary. Not as info-dense as an article or paper, but it's a fun ride.
I’d like to know the context this information is being shown in. Isn’t hide my email receive only? Who would be seeing this header except the person in control of the alias? Can anyone untrusted see it?

As it stands, this looks like an incoming message which has been assigned a thread ID on your domain for _your_ reference, rather than any information going outward
VRMs also have a trigger rate where payments increase, you can't accrue principal. Not sure how the banks will handle this yet, it's not in their interest to crush marginal mortgage holders.
I use it for some light personal finance calculations. My CV was written using Libre. I find that LibreOffice is good enough for my needs. People with different requirements might experience bugs but that's not so in my case.

I don't consider LibreOffice to be bad. Quite the opposite.
12 mini isn't available from Apple anymore
> One could equally assume that a call coming from an area code they've never been to, 5 states away is spam

Not equally. I have an area code from the opposite coast. If I get a call from that area code, it is 100% spam. Spammers just love outing themselves by spoofing the same area code of the person they are calling.

A call from any other area code is only 30% chance of being spam.
You could fix the tax system in a few easy steps:

- Eliminate capital gains tax. Taxing capital gains is essentially blind theft, and there's a strong moral foundation to stop doing it. I believe the US would have greater economic prosperity by eliminating a capital gains tax.

- Just tell people what they owe/what they are owed. You're the IRS, there's no reason why I should be telling YOU how much I made when you already know the answer. If I think you're wrong, I can prove that.

- Stop auditing people who are making less than $5m/year in income. The amount of revenue recovered from smaller earners is negligible and resources that now go to the IRS to staff thousands of agents could be used a hell of a lot better.
It’s a software issue.
>is there an ecryption that's actually secure against state-level actors

Any modern symmetric encryption is extremely likely to be safe against state-level actors for the observable future assuming your encryption key is not compromised and has enough entropy in it. Even with quantum computers you only need twice longer keys. Roughly, AES-256 would provide AES-128 level of security in the presence of practical quantum computers.

If you feel especially paranoid about potential backdoors in algorithms, you can chain several algorithms from different organizations (e.g. AES, Kuznyechik, ChaCha20, and SM4) initialized with different keys. Though such practice is frowned upon by cryptographers.
Why not a weapon injury? Because they didn't have sharp swords etc 31000 years ago? Well, we're to believe they had sharp surgical instruments...

This doesn't add up.
Do Stargate next :)
The improvements with photo sharing seem promising. Right now my partner and I have Dropbox Photo Sync enabled on our iPhones, but viewing the shared photos must be done through the Dropbox app.

But now with the new improvements it looks like there is an automatic option "you can share photos instantly right from Camera, choose to share automatically when other shared library members are nearby".
I replied to the gp saying I had similar issues, this fix appears to have improved the issue quite a bit
There's a useful iOS app called Number Shield that lets you block all calls coming from numbers that match the first six digits of your phone number. That's the most common spoofing technique, so it really does help.

E.g. if your number is (555)555-1234 it'll block anything from (555)555-0000 to (555)555-9999.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/number-shield/id1319082167
My guess is that they'll do this ongoing. So, you buy an iPhone 15 and you'll get 2 years complimentary, and so on.
I know this is unpopular opinion on here, but I believe all this packaging madness is forced on us by languages because Windows (and to a lesser degree osx) have essentially no package management.

Especially installing a tool chain to compile C code for python is no issue on Linux, but such a pain on Windows.
I happened to have my 12" PowerBook G4 out, I just installed Sorbet Leopard* on it. I downloaded TinyClock and it's working on it.

*Sorbet Leopard is a modern update of Leopard, incorporating speedups from Tiger and the unreleased PPC Snow Leopard.
> The Flex might be ok, but it doesn’t use the same chipset as the AirPods

The Beats Flex actually do use the W1 chip, which was used in the first few AirPods, and a bunch of Beats devices. It supports ‘AirPod-style’ pair once/use on any Apple devices use.

Would recommend.
Yeah, you can get a web view by asking Siri to search for something. I was able to get my JS game (https://stardust.dev/) running on it[1], but it was pretty slow (though it's not particularly well optimised, nor does it use WASM).

1 - https://twitter.com/d0m96/status/1356670213090066432
Maybe there are different kinds of burnout.

The reason that statement seemed profound to me is because I have had experiences where I was doing something that was easy, that didn't involve any unethical behavior in this case, but it just seemed useless to me. I didn't care about it, I didn't find the work rewarding at all. And it led to burnout, eventually. Eventually I couldn't manage to get any of the (formerly easy) work done. It was still easy work. I was just burned out from doing work I had no interest in doing, even though it was easy. It wasn't really about stress, the work was easy, there wasn't too much stress.

You're right that my motivation dropped as I got burned out -- that's why I couldn't even accomplish the formerly easy task anymore. But I never really cared about it, which is I think why it led to burnout. If I had found the easy work really important and rewarding, I didn't think it would have led to burn out. Maybe "motivation" isn't the right word, or maybe motivation can mean a few things at a few levels...
I don't follow. What you said seems to me the definition of the most efficient. Or at least.. it is what I assumed they meant.
doubt they'd support that. it's surely technically possible, but apple & the carriers like to gatekeep the eSIM provisioning process to make you reveal your identity.
Postdocs are payed well, but PhDs get around 30k AUD per year, which is quite low.
100%. Most of my calls to the backend literally only need me to type the function name `fetchItems()` and CoPilot correctly uses my axios instance, set the return type to be my base API response wrapper, sets the generic in my base wrapper to be `IItemDTO[]` (it guesses this correctly probably 90%+ of the time), and even shoves the response into a Vuex store just like I would have done (same deal, guesses right about 90%+).

It's not like it's a ton of work to do that myself but normally the way I would accomplish it is to copy an existing function, change the return type, change the url, change the Vuex store it puts the data into but with CoPilot it handles that perfectly for me the vast majority of the time. And if I'm doing CRUD endpoint I don't even have to write the other function names, it will autocomplete the "RUD" part after I write the "C" (and by write I mean I put `createItem(payload: ICreateItemDTO)` or similar and it writes the body of the first function as well).

For me it's the perfect blend of "generated code" and "human tending" to get exactly what I need without having to do the repetitive/boring parts. It's been a joy to work with.
> which popular website is using SQLite as their main database

First, I don't think this is a good metric for software quality or use-case analysis. Just because people don't use X doesn't mean X wouldn't be a superior tool for their use-case.

> How do you maintain consistency between all of these databases?

You don't, in the GP's example, you would shard the database schema. Sharding is easy to figure about, because many database services do this already to spread data and analysis across several servers. You might use Litestream to then send those thousands/millions of database files to some S3 bucket somewhere. Then, you could analyze the shards together in that bucket using one of the many available solutions for such things, like Apache Hive or whatever the BigCo clouds provide.

> By the time you implement all of this, and you certainly can, why not just use Postgres?

Because you analyzed the pros and cons to SQLite vs. Postgres for your specific use-case and determined SQLite will be better in the long run. Perhaps your particular use-case will turn up "Postgres" and you won't use SQLite, or maybe you'll use both of them, but for different data stores.

No one technology is "the chosen one", sometimes you need several different options.
> a move which turned out disastrously for the french.

Any more to add?

IIUC, France has one of the highest percentages of nuclear energy of any country in the world.

Is this supposed to be bad?
Let's be real here, TSMC's growth is there with or without Apple.
> who needs to create "documents" any more?

Um, lots of people? MS-Office is still heavily used.

The bigger issue is who needs to create "documents" AND prefers open source software BUT not command line utilities.
Is Zig's string API documented anywhere? Or is there a design document outlining their intended API?
Most banks have 10 year fixed, too.

But going long term fixed means you're in a forecasting competition with the bank. It's no gimme.
The only issue with wearing them long-term is ear wax buildup. That's it.

Wearing earplugs is worse, since they form a tighter seal and breath less. People haven't died from wearing those, so earbuds are just fine.
> Apple has partnered with Globalstar to use geostationary satellites

globalstar's existing network and licenses have nothing to do with geostationary at all.

please don't comment on things like this if you have fundamental misunderstandings about the nature of different types of mutually incompatible satellite network technology.
I don't, because it means people in less fortunate industries that can't be pickers, but also programmers if a downturn comes, would have more companies pulling this shit to deal with...
Err, Apple was replacing those things left and right during the pandemic - you didn’t need to go to a store.

Sorry you waited so long, but…
> it has a fuse inside the plug because of historical copper shortages during war

That’s the UK plug, Shuko doesn’t have a fuse

I still prefer the Italian plug design due to compact size tho
Im sure there are tutorials on the net on how to pass for particular desired type. As anything, once you measure something it becomes the goal.
https://www.icloud.com/reminders/ :)
Meta smarter
There are fusion companies that are trying to make aneutronic fusion work. This form of fusion doesn't involve boiling water.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion

Helion Energy is the best known.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helion_Energy

HB11 is another one

https://hb11.energy/
Apple went through the Myers-Briggs phase in the 90's, along with a lot of the other tech giants.

It was a half-day seminar. "Professionals" gave the tests and told everyone their type. That took only an hour. The rest of the time was spent doing role-playing, where you were supposed to use your coworkers' MB types to adjust your interaction with them in various settings.

It was a waste of time then and I bet it still is.
I could imagine people overlooking that little "m" in your example's output!
It would be interesting to hear from the victims of their crimes, too.
EDIT:

Thanks for the replies, I see now that they're talking about pixel binning.

But doesn't the iPhone 13 sensor also have sensor "sub-pixels" that it's grouping into effective pixels to get a 12 MP camera?

i.e. does the iPhone 14 do something different with the data coming from the sensor, or is the sensor different (for example, it allows some sub-pixel control that the iPhone 13 sensor does not)? Apple says the sensor (area I suppose) is 65% larger, but that's not enough to account for this 4x'ing.

Thanks!

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I might be totally wrong, but could the 48 MP not be... real megapixels of any one camera or sensor, but a software fusion of the 3 cameras' sensors? Is that possible?

There's language on the iPhone page that makes me think this -- "So the new sensor groups four pixels together into one large quad pixel, gathering 4x more light and producing spectacularly better photos at the practical 12MP size"

What does "at the practical 12MP size" mean? Which "four pixels"? Where are the pixels captured/coming from?

There's also "For the ultimate combination of detail and flexibility, shoot in ProRAW at 48MP resolution. A new machine learning model delivers sharper images and less noise for unprecedented detail."

How much is the 48 MP a mix of sensor fusion (which could be purely software, or running on a chip, but still, post-sensor) and AI versus an actual 48 MP sensor?

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I have similar feelings about the crash detection (accelerometer-based) and even the satellite (5G-based?) capability. Are these features just... rebranded existing things // new software features?
You ain't seen nothin' yet.
can you give examples please?
Doesn't matter.

Public perception > reality.

Look at hydroelectric. Terrible for ecosystems, decent number of deadly failures over the years, way better perception and less pushback from the public than fission.
“No wireless? Less space than a Nomad? Lame!”
Suggestion: Let users share their piecharts via a link/image on twitter, reddit etc.
Probably less entertaining if you're a family member of Apollo Legend.
Enabling "Voice Isolation" might help: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iphb54d5dee2/io...

I don't think the microphones are great but I've found this helps.
When I was managing, I informally typed people during the interview process, which was very helpful in predicting both how they would interact with other team members and how they would do at particular tasks. However, I learned not to rely on self-reported personality types or tests, which are often answered aspirationally, not realistically.

To me, MBTI or Big 5 (not the actual tests, but their framing of aspects of personality) are mental tool kits for trying to make better predictions from limited data (i.e., the interview process). As a manager, I've found them incredibly helpful for avoiding problems (i.e., assigning the wrong task to a person).

Interestingly, in my personal experience, I've found logicians (ISTJs in MTBI) seem to be the most resistant to quantifying aspects of personality.