skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lol RCS a standard. Because Google says so, just as with so-called "web standards"? In the real world, people use WhatsApp, SnapChat, Insta, Telegram, Signal, and, in fact, iMessage and SMS/MMS.
you’d still need to take drugs, a VR headset doesn’t stop you from being distracted .
You can walk into a prepaid wireless store and grab a new Android phone for $20.
What is Rack? Hard to search for
The Apple website prices only reflect the top end of the iPhone market. The iPhone SE 2nd generation is still sold new directly from low price/prepaid carriers for under half that price (right now $189 on the Tracfone website for example, probably even cheaper elsewhere). Compare that to new Android phones in the same price range which often are loaded with adware/spyware apps that cannot be uninstalled, and blocked from all security/software updates, the longevity makes an older SE competitive with the cheapest 3rd world country android phones in the long term, and with performance that exceeds even the highest end Android phones because of a better cpu.
This works if you're ok with sending all your messages in cleartext over your phone's radio.
I didn't find him from the mentions yet so I'll add Gas. Start with Zauberberg, Königsforst and Pop, and if you like them get completely lost with the rest of his productions.
Seems like Pat Gelsinger has at least a couple of ideas what to do.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/4/23385652/pat-gelsinger-in...
I think it would be interesting to have a system where all of these representations are collected in a single, unified projection of the object which allows you to see the object's contents, and the live object being edited would then be stored in a snapshot for the storage representation. The programming environment would then allow you to get the abstract representation by giving you the ability to traverse between the live objects, giving you the ability to navigate the entire system model end-to-end. Such a system probably requires not going through a compiler, though; it requires a Lisp/Smalltalk level of interactivity.
Oh, I don't have interest in seeing a drag race in video either which is what is leading me to believe it wouldn't be that exciting.

I agree with what you're saying about live events vs video.
this is the kind of arguments I come to Hacker news to read about.
You don’t need to explain, but I am actually interested. I don’t see it as hair splitting.

My point is that Trump may not be president now, and it seems you see that as a binary.

He is currently head of a large political organization that pre-dates the FBI which made him president once and may do so again.

Currently serving Republican politicians are calling for the FBI to be defunded because they support him.

https://news.yahoo.com/republican-calls-defund-fbi-boost-090...

He hasn’t stopped existing, nor has the organization that supports him any more than the FBI has.

We simply disagree that one is tangible and the other is not.

In any case, there is a huge gap between writing to your congress person to complain about past FBI abuses, and ‘defund the FBI’.
Pixel 6a was on sale a couple weeks ago for $350.

I haven't ever paid more than $500 for a phone, and even that much upset me!
My heart goes out to all these people who I've never heard of who suffered $1B in damage to their reputations.
I accept that the jury labeled the amount as compensatory damage. But it is obviously the case that that amount of damage was not dealt.

Nobody involved had a reputation that was worth $100 million dollars.
> These aren't punitive damages

I don't see anything indicating this in the linked article.
Open source tools to manage TODO, FIXME
I guess it’s nice when my wife pops in, but I could still interrupt my VR session for that.

This still sounds so bad.
Want more data? I've got a campus with roughly 60k unique devices. 50% are iOS. Another 20% are MacOS. Android is 7%.
LOL. This is not how "democracies" work. They are co-opted by the same mechanics of power just like any other governance structure.
https://github.com/rack/rack
Edit: after reading the explanation in the community forum linked here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33181636

I have instead come around to support this move 200% and have instead doubled my monthly subscription. The explanation at the blog post is an abomination, however.

Leave SMS and all its shitty successors for Apple and Google and carriers to kill/maintain.
Revenue or profit? It’s unclear. If it’s revenue, at 10% margin, I’d guess he’s close to broke after expenses.
Ask HN: What's a Good SMS App for Android?
Now that Signal is removing support for SMS, I'm anticipating an exodus as Signal users search for alternative SMS apps. Does anyone have any recommendations?

I don't want to use the default Android SMS app, because apparently it will soon support sending and parsing iOS fallback messages (i.e. 'Liked "..."'). I just want plain, standards-compliant SMS, with no risk of accidentally sending fallback messages. Plus, I don't agree with the notion that Apple should be able to bully others into recognizing their SMS extension features.
Is that RCS having encryption or is that Google providing an extension to RCS only with their Messages app? And to what degree does RCS with encryption have buy-in from American carriers?
I couldn't find either jackets for sale (broken links), and the promo videos were rather underwhelming. Seems like a smart watch can already do all of these, albeit in a less "cool" manner, and it's not tied to a piece of clothing. I was imagining something more cyberpunk, and not just an input device. Perhaps, that goes beyond what Soli tries to achieve.

Edit: I can imagine more interesting use cases where you can't use precise input, for example when wearing gloves (construction, space suite, etc.).
By this standard, a really large number of people have had their lives "permanently ruined" by all kinds of different things.
Is this a cable news doesn't lie pitch? Or is this just another 1sideism?
> It was also very frustrating when trying to share photos to put together a slideshow for a funeral. And on that subject, it's her primary camera now and the quality leaves a lot to be desired on that front.

This is actually one of the main reasons why my other family members prefer to stay on Android. While the average Android handset may not have a camera better than an iPhone, the best phone cameras are generally on Android handsets. This is partly just because Android runs on handsets from many different manufacturers and everyone competes on camera / picture quality for their flagship phones, and there is iterative improvements in technology over time. While the recent DXOMark report disagrees, in our testing ourselves, the S22 Ultra outperforms the iPhone 14 Pro, although both capture very good photos.
The biggest concern I have from this is how comfortable the next generations will be in walled gardens where they are unable to look under the curtain let alone tinker.
I am always surprised by stories like this. I'm part of several distinct, mostly non-overlapping social circles. The majority of people in all these circles are iPhone users. But none of these circles use iMessage as the chat app.

I'm in NYC, so it's not like I'm in some obscure corner of the planet either.
From https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2005/2005.08940.pdf

> The sailcraft transmits 100 Watts, deriving its power from a 700-Watt hydrogen
beam that is normally incident on the sailcraft when it faces Earth. This hydrogen beam is simply a manifestation of the interstellar medium, incident on the sailcraft at 0.2 c.

From https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.01306.pdf

> One way to tap the sailcraft’s kinetic energy could be via the interstellar medium: The Local Interstellar Cloud is primarily composed of 0.3 atoms/cm3 of partially ionized hydrogen. From the sailcraft’s perspective traveling at cruise velocity, this manifests as a monochromatic hydrogen beam that is incident from the direction of travel, having a combined kinetic energy of 55W m−2, or 0.7 kW over the sail’s area if it faces the direction of travel.

The report for Starlight suggests a RTG:

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/roadmap...
LOL, the most ruthlessly effective capitalist of the last 100 years would be pro-union? What gives you the confidence to make such a wildly implausible claim?
Punitive damages in Connecticut civil cases are awarded in a later phase of the case. The jury recommends that punitive damages be assessed, and the number is worked out later. These are compensatory damages.
I wonder if there is something similar for elevator music?
There is nobody preventing Apple from developing an Android app for iMessage. They already have a bunch of apps on the play store, including one for Apple TV, Beats, and a migration app for iOS. https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Apple
Decimate this comment thread!
I feel like "full local access" to a camera you paid for is something that should be available anyway.

So I'm voting for the github option.
This is a nice fantasy but it's not grounded in reality.
My questions are:

1. Does it only support 1-on-1 meetings (the demos only show 1-1)? I think that's still useful, but note probably 90%+ of my online meetings have at least 3 people.

2. Sounds like the expense means it will only be installed in offices, not people's homes. Which, again, is still useful as long as it hits the 3rd bullet point.

3. Does everyone need to be on a Starline device to participate? I'd expect/hope to get "graceful degredation" in functionality for folks who were just joining from, say, their laptop at home.
I think the legs thing is overblown. No legs is better than uncanny valley legs.
Rumor has it that, despite Apple's public claims, one reason why is that iMessage is tied to a physical device. This helps keeps spam, malware, and banned devices all under control. Expanding to Windows and Android by definition means that iMessage can no longer have that per-device tie, which undermines these controls.
from what I recall he doxxed a few of the families and invoked a call to arms to his listeners to harass, stalk, and threaten said families.

It's not as if he drove by the homes of these people and yelled expletives.
Every time it updates it asks me if I want to enable "messaging features" the next time it opens.
I'm pretty certain that a lot more interaction occurs through phones than through jeans.

As an adult, some of my friends have asked me to switch to an iphone so they could use imessage features in a group chat. It's not hard to imagine being left out of a group for this reason. I don't think I've met a girl in my age group who has anything other than a negative opinion of "Android Users." This stuff doesn't bother me, but I can see how it would upset kids.
What are the economics of this?

Yes electricity is very expensive, but once the war in Ukraine issue concludes, I'd expect gas prices to quickly fall, and the price of electricity to fall with it.

Then we are back to wind and solar power producing copious energy at low prices for most of the day. Meaning the more capital intensive forms of electricity generation are going to be harder to pay back.

And that is the real question; nuclear isn't going to make much headway if no one can afford it.

The UK's contract for difference looks quite interesting. My point being the economics of nuclear power was in doubt, and I'm assuming they'll be in doubt again should we revert to the mainly gas powered power generation.
For those of you scaling Ruby on Rails: are you more constrained by memory or CPU consumption?

If you could choose a 50% reduction in process memory footprint, versus a 50% reduction in CPU cycles to serve your average request, which would you pick?
It's not just a trivial difference in bubble color. SMS conversations in iMessage lose features. The social rejection is a result of the features lost when an Android user participates in a messaging group.
Is there a playlist of his music on Spotify? Otherwise someone should make it.
RCS (as in: the standardized version) isn’t encrypted. Google’s proprietary extensions to RCS provide the encryption layer [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services
You can get a new Android phone for $20. The charging cables alone for an iPhone, which don't come with the phone, cost $19 each by themselves.
Nexus was a mid/high-end model (google branded), budget android phones are usually from chinese manufacturers like ZTE.
Q: how many of you will add support to Passkeys to your application? Is it worth the effort of adding yet-another-way-to-login for your users? It will be a long time before you could use it as the ONLY way to login. You will need to figure out how to enable your existing users to convert to Passkeys. Apple has a glide path for converting username password -> but not for other mechanisms.

I believe we in letting the user choose whatever way is best for them to login -- and to take that burden off of the developer. If you want to learn more, check out the Show HN post on Hellō I wrote this morning. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33177705#33182379
Which part of raw web performance? These don't seem like web performance benchmarks. IOW I'm not sure how calculating digits of PI impacts serving HTML.

Seems like we need benchmarks for actual web workloads. :)
Columbo: How can you tell a good wine from an average wine?

Frenchman: By, uh... the price.

— Columbo S03E02, Any Old Port in a Storm
same, I've used both -- gave vscode a good year of trying to do python with it and Pycharm is doing more to understand my code. I'm not even using the integrated database junk either and it still does more.

That said there is one part where I still have to turn to VSCode and that's when I want live breakpoints inside of a Tilt powered Kubernetes pod. I like the way that those settings are persisted so that other dev's can also use the debug functionality with literally one click. If pycharm just made remote debugging easy I'd never have to open VSCode for python development (but I'd probably still open it for something else like a quick editor of a file -- it's like my new vim). VSCode shines for supporting odd-ball languages and libraries sooner than JetBrains - and opens relatively quickly, sublime is much faster and I still use it for large files -- I just wish it was a little less involved to extend like VSCode.
Exact?

I've been hearing launch times in the minutes to hours before the probe is too far away to accelerate it enough to be worth while. The problem is lasers (on those scales) spread quickly so an ever smaller (even with perfect aiming) fraction of the laser energy will be delivered to the probe.

I am curious if the red shift at 1% of the speed of light is enough to throw off the efficiency of the material that's designed for a specific laser frequency.

For the same reason the cone of light will be larger than the orbit of any planets around Alpha Centauri. So the exact direction is tough, but that it's heading towards Alpha Centauri is easy.

The formula for the angle (in radians) of dispersion:
(The laser's wavelength)/(π × The laser's aperture)
> People need to remember that desktop/laptop ARMs outside of Apple have kind of royally sucked...

I've got an SQ1 and Apple M2 and they're both truly excellent.

(disclaimer: I worked years in engineering in both Qualcomm and Apple)
No, the point we’re making is that you need to just try it instead of making lots of terrible and wrong assumptions about a subject matter that you’re not very familiar with

Today you don’t need to invest a lot of time or money in order to be familiar with VR. A meta quest is an affordable console, and so are many older gen PCVR headsets. You can also rent the meta quest or borrow it from certain libraries.
I read your comment to my wife and her response was “what is a green bubble?”.

We are living in Japan and here we only use Discord, WhatsApp, and Line for messaging.
Yes, only highly qualified people attain CEO jobs. You never see any baffling CEO hires who flame out spectacularly taking shareholders and employees down with them.
> Working to manage it seems to be the best alternative.

Yeah - I tend to agree.
I'm not a lawyer, do I can't say with much confidence what most "defamation cases" are.

But LII at least suggests that the law as written, is about negligence: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/defamation

EDIT: According to LII on libel: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/libel, there seems to be different awards for negligence, recklessness, and malice. Negligence is capped at actual injury, while recklessness and above can have punitive damages.

EDIT: Alex Jones's $965M penalty here is likely punitive? (I don't know for sure), which suggests that it was at least of the reckless level and proven so in court?
This always comes up when non-Americans talk about US messaging systems. The simple fact is SMS was good enough (being pretty cheap or even free for many years) that people didn't care to switch. In contrast, many other countries had much more expensive SMS so free messaging systems were built and widely used.
I guess I'm old in that I basically never use emoji unless the platform changes something like :-) to one. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Same here in Spain. I have not communicated over SMS with a real person for 5 years or so. Only thing I get is MFA and spam crap.
Google R&D projects don't have the longevity reputation, so they might not deserve attention.
If unions decreased lifetime earnings, do you think companies would fight them so vehemently?
Pixels have unusually high rates of hardware and software problems over time. The reliability isn't there. The current issue of the month is random failure to call emergency services. If you randomly experience this problem, you could call 911 over and over, dozens of times, without success. It also doesn't matter if you have 4/4 bars.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32713375

https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/y039zn/i_compi...

https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/rfld6m/comment...

https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/x5ea32/life_an...

https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/wpirx8/had_an_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/v1enh5/cannot_...

https://support.google.com/pixelphone/thread/176875269/why-w...
> It's the only motor sport left where the attendees can go into the pits and watch the mechanics at work.

It's almost certainly not useful for you but one other motorsport which is comparable in this way is the IOM TT. You can walk around and speak to the guys on the pit crews as they work.

It also offers some visceral experiences, like standing 2ft from the bikes passing you doing the best part of 200mph. In fact when I went a couple of years ago selfie sticks were banned, as you are so close to the action that there is a real danger of hitting a rider with one.
In the context of the user making a very inaccurate comment about the free speech rights of someone running one of the largest conspiracy theory websites, it is worth highlighting their own strong connections to an organization very similar in intent/spirit to InfoWars. I provided no direct link to any personal accounts, did not doxx OP, and will defer to dang on this one.
Semi-transparent head, probably. But it means he can only see light intensity, which is why he falls into holes and runs into dangerous objects on the regular.
Emoji only 'old people' use that have Gen Z rolling their eyes
There are some tools specific to some transformations at least:

https://c2rust.com/
Yes I've got objective proof of my qualitative opinions on sociological topics. Let me just dig that right up for you.

I didn't realize that HN was an academic journal where all statements should come with proof.

Do you have proof that I'm wrong?
Yes, AMD's APUs have filled the market vertical with good integrated graphics and CPUs starting about a decade ago with the AMD A4 through A10 lineup, and continuing today with the Ryzen processors with Radeon Graphics.

GPUs of the era your thinking of had high failure rates from issues with lead free solder, though the Nvidia GPUs on Macs and Laptops would outright fail from other issues, requiring a full chip replacement.

https://eclecticlight.co/2015/12/20/lead-free-graphics-cards...
I'll take updates that slow my phone as long as I'm also getting security updates. I don't like have my banking app cut off because I no longer get Android updates.
> My perspective is that if it doesn't serve ads it likely doesn't have a future at Google.

It could be a product under Workspaces. Google Meet is widely used and with no advertisements.
Tapbacks on text messages work on the iPhone side too. I just had the occasion to try that a few days ago.
I honestly had far more profound "mental calm" moments after a time-bending DMT experience than anything else.
This is a little bit apples and oranges, however. An asymptotic bound on the complexity doesn't say a lot about the number of multiplications needed for a fixed value of n=5 say. A lot of those complexity proofs say "for large enough n".
It's (iMessage) not a standard if it isn't open for adoption by anyone else.

It doesn't matter how much better it is, if the only way to use it is via Apple hardware. It's their prerogative to do that, and it makes good business sense assuming it doesn't bring them monopoly problems (and IMO it probably shouldn't due to the aforementioned stats re: worldwide usage at 27%, and even US usage is only at 55%).

But it in no way is a standard. It's just a proprietary piece of software. So literally any other standard proposal is "more of a standard" than iMessage.
I haven't seen a single example where it can justify its racial discrimination, which of course would require some real hard evidence of its own necessity. I think we agree that racial discrimination is very negative.
This is a nice headline, but doesn't match reality. I really hate how much of an Apple fanboy I'm coming off in this thread, but if you're just going to spout straight lies, it's hard to ignore.

It's true that overtime iOS has become way more bloated, but they have released major updates which actually sped up older devices because they were focused on bug fixes and improvements, rather than something that's flashy and looks good in a commercial.

Is it a useful tactic to sell more phones? Absolutely. It also means that iOS completely destroys Android's statistics on % of users who run the latest version of their OS.
That's not obvious to me at all. Can a 9-figure media and supplements company inflict 25-50 million dollars on an individual? Sure they can. Selling the memory of a parent's murdered child and defaming them to the point where they are followed into different states by lunatics threatening their lives seems to easily cross that threshold. How disruptive would it be to my life if that happened to me? Over how many years? It's a huge amount of baseline injury, and then it's multiplied by the demonstrable profits earned by Free Speech Systems at their expense.

Remember, it's almost a billion dollars because twenty children were murdered at Sandy Hook, and Jones' company managed to target all of the parents. If only one parent had sued, we wouldn't be batting an eyelash at the resulting damages. But Jones built an immensely powerful media machine, and then aimed it very carefully at his own testicles. Play stupid games, &c &c.
> ...the other countries on this list aren't the sort you'd expect to produce good statistics.

But those expecting the U.S. to produce good statistics, will just as likely be disappointed (or happy... depending on point of view). Dare we wonder why that is so?

"Black Americans were 3.5 times as likely to be killed by the police..." (oops, that looks "inconvenient" for accurate reporting).

"...the initial findings of coroners or medical examiners downplayed or omitted the role of the police when a Black man was killed..." Dare we wonder if under full reporting, if that 3.5 times more likely to be killed would go even higher.

More Than Half of (U.S.) Police Killings Are Mislabeled, New Study Says
(https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/30/us/police-killings-underc...)