skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Achievements in space, safety, and skin printing robots
Nest is doing some cool stuff with Soli on their hubs to monitor sleep patterns: https://www.xda-developers.com/google-nest-hub-soli-motion

Disclosure: I work on Fuchsia which is now the OS for some of the Nest hubs (https://9to5google.com/2022/06/23/google-fuchsia-nest-hub-ma...)
California’s ‘crazy train’ is still going nowhere fast
courts award damages based on ... damages
>If you don't, you can report on a controversy (like when someone is accused of a crime) but be clear you're describing it without the ability to resolve/shed light on it

Well, I guess there's degrees of lying.

I 100% understand what you're getting at though and I do believe _most_ companies and journalists do practice this... however I've noticed a trend where you'll have a headline or statement that is based on "anonymous sources" or "twitter user says X." Intentionally packing in as much of the claim as possible while minimizing the "source."

One of the most recent examples is from yesterday.

This is the headline VICE News put out yesterday:
Elon Musk Spoke to Putin Before Tweeting Ukraine Peace Plan: Report
https://www.vice.com/en/article/ake44z/elon-musk-vladimir-pu...

No reasonable person could infer that the entire headline is based off of a claim that has been denied by everyone involved. Musk can weather "negative" headlines like that but I'm more concerned about those that don't have the luxury of shrugging that off.

>And when you do make mistakes, you should have a practice of correcting them and documenting the fact that you did so, so that your audience is about equally likely to encounter the correction as they were the mistaken report.

I want to believe that... but there's certainly enough examples of people having their reputation completely trashed by the media with the truth only coming out years later. News companies have incentives to get views/clicks. I can't imagine "we messed up" is as attractive as "this person is a monster."

I 100% agree that they should make best effort to correct stories.
Counterpoint: Alex Jones' life is now valued at minus a billion dollars. So "worthless" would be an inaccurate statement because it should actually be "less than worthless".

But less tongue in cheek, I think Hamuko's comment has the right idea.
I guess it's a no-brainer to imagine why Meta did not choose FaceTime for VR integration instead of Teams :-)
I love travelling around Europe on a train but Western USA really isn't built for it, the geography nor the lifestyle.
The iPhone ownership tends to roll on to the laptop/compute choice. And much lulz the apple kids are basically stuck in the realm of fisher price kids computers using apple.

They watch on in awe as the normal pcs play games, open any program they want and so on.

Tbh I actually find it quite depressing. I setup online games and score free stuff for the kids and half their mates can't even participate cus they are cucked by apples stubbornness and general refusal to play ball w the rest of the world.

Been on a slow mission to donate them all pcs. I run a micro msp so I get used gear regularly. Theyre all getting exposure to Linux too cus why the hell not.
He is referring to the degrading battery fallout in 2016: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/11/apple-settles-wi...
Remember that it you give the employee the computer, you need to pay payroll taxes on the value of the computer, and the employee needs to pay income taxes on the same.

That's why many people reject 'free' gifts from their employer.
The cards are definitely stacked against this when it's at Google. Because of:

1. Google's solid track record of killing things because they didn't grow quickly, after a half hearted effort. Stadia being the latest example.

2. Google being pretty bad at cracking the corporate communication space. Teams and Zoom ate its lunch.

3. Google not having a strategy behind communication tools in general. Meet, Hangouts, Chat, Duo, Alo, ... already it's weird where this fits.

4. Google being bad at supporting new hardware gadgets. My Daydream VR came out 2 years before my Pixel, somehow these two things don't support each other.

I wish they at least would sell their divisions instead of kill/hamper such moonshot products. This looks like the next Google Glass.
Zapatistas (EZLN) are a common example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapatista_Army_of_National_Lib...

Also check out Intentional Communities: https://www.ic.org/

And of course, the IWW is an anarchist organization - I haven't read the entire constitution but skimming it doesn't describe an actual hierarchy, simply a structure and process of delegation and consensus-based decision-making of job duties and organized geographic branches. In fact, they explicitly decry it in favor of grassroots and worker empowerment.
Signal already colours SMS and encrypted messages differently. Unecrypted (SMS) messages are grey; encrypted messages are blue.
No, it's so bad it's better to have nothing for a while, save some money and then buy a better phone.

These phones really are so bad. Give it a go. Usually it's a horrible mess of Chinese tracking code, shitware apps you can't uninstall, and it won't be getting any system updates in a year.

Buy an older flagship second hand phone for $20, that's going to be much better experience than a new $20 one, even if it's 5+ years old and doesn't look good anymore.
> Wikimedia does way more than "just" Wikipedia, and the majority of the money goes to these other activities.

[Citation needed]

And by citation needed, i mean i think this is a false statement. Unless you count things that help multiple wikimedia sites as not helping wikipedia because it is not just wikipedia. After all, all of these sites run the same software, a bug fix affects all of them pretty equally.
Can I say that a Magic Window in my office sounds 1000x better than a magic headset that I have to wear (Meta Quest 2)
But Apple Pay doesn't require internet (on the phone).
It's a statement of opinion which perfectly fits under the guise of free speech.

I can claim that McDonald's hamburgers are made of cat meat to lower prices and it's the exact same thing. It's only because it's political (and Jones is a perennial example to be paraded about as the standard for "evil far-right conservative extremist" thought) that it gets contorted into what it has.

This will predictably bite people in the cheeks later when this case is used as pretense for going after someone those chastising Jones agree with.
x^1.2 is a polynomial (1.2^x is exponential).
Yikes. Ok. So I guess I should have googled before I wrote that. I just figured he would be a pro union guy given his background. I guess not. Then this makes sense that Apple is fighting unions since it’s what Steve would do.
Is Intel meant to be a jobs program? Should they just hire and retain people they don’t need…just to keep them employed? Should they hire me to twiddle my thumbs for $100k a year just because they can afford to?

Increasing productivity is a good thing actually.
Or they could have recalled faulty devices, you know. To fix them and provide the experience they promised originally.
> Why is bezelless a “feature” or improvement?

I mean, it makes the phone smaller for the same screen size. That's an improvement for me.

Not enough for me to drop $$$ on an iPhone-mini, but I'd be happy if Apple put future SEs into an "iPhone 13 mini" body (presumably with a single lens camera).
> Rebooting is simple, fast, and basically pain-free 99.99% of the time

That's an end user view. For a server used by many employees, rebooting is disruptive, has to be scheduled out of hours, and requires extra testing afterwards.

> It clears memory, hung processes, file handles, and a host of other things

So does restarting a given process / service. (unless we're in the "your system is broken anyway" territory)

Basically if the app is not modifying GPO, there's a tiny number of reasons to restart.
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I wonder if this will haunt Google and Apple as proof of their monopoly power.

One of the monopoly tests is whether or not it harms competition. This clearly did.
well one reality I partook in at a FAANG (engineering) for years essentially allowed the quality of design to be an emergent phenomenon through extremely vast internal testing and data collection, with evolution of alternatives competing for favor among testees. A tirelessly iterative process.

Thus, "good design" was derived from experiences, an emergent phenomenon, not something prescribed.

It's possible that distinction is what people are alluding to.
> I think people here take issue with the walled garden model of an intra-device comm protocol, not the price point

GGP specified ostracizing by Apple of those "who can't afford to carry around luxury phones." Now you are suggesting that Apple excludes communication from non-Apple customers by using an "intra-device comm protocol," which I believe most refer to as iMessage. I'm pretty sure it was conceived to save the user from paying for SMS and MMS, or at least being a relief to use of those for-pay protocols, and the dreaded "green bubble" merely an indicator that the cell provider may be charging for it.

The idea of competing for space here seems to be very popular, and there are many alternatives, such as WhatsApp, WeChat, Facebook Messenger, Kik, Signal, and many others. I just had the strongest sensation of deja vu, no, yes... something... do you at all remember IRC, IRQ, AIM, Yahoo Messenger, Jabber, MSN Messenger, Google Talk? I don't recall anyone complaining about iChat or any of the other services mentioned for being exclusive, which they all are.

Are you sure the grievance is legitimate? Where were the complaints before with the legacy chat apps? What makes Apple deserving of special scrutiny while every other message service with similar exclusivity is doing nothing wrong?

I also don't see how Apple is responsible for narcissistic parents raising bullies and shitheads. Innocent kids being ostracized really could be, and I think really is, the responsibility of bad parents.
No. In the Texas case, Jones lawyers successfully convinced the jury to award relatively low compensatory damages and to hammer him, if that's what they wanted, in the punitive damages phase. In Connecticut, Jones lawyers failed catastrophically to accomplish the same thing. The entire $965MM in this case is compensatory; we haven't reached punitive damages yet. Notably, the torts involved in this case don't appear to have capped damages in Connecticut.

(I have no particular reason to believe this verdict will stand unchanged, but whatever happens to knock the damages down, it will be something very different than what happens in Texas, where state and federal law caps punitive damages in relation to the underlying compensatory damages).

The other obvious difference between this case and Texas is that there are many more plaintiffs here.
BBC reports that Jones asked live on air for financial donations during the proceedings. He will be bringing money in over this long before paying any out. He's proved himself to be utterly shameless.
The screen size/battery size would probably be larger on a price competitive Android phone then the SE, however I doubt you'd get as fast a processor/as many years of software updates either so it really depends what you prefer. I may be biased though having the SE, think I'll only bother to upgrade it when Apple finally switches to USB-C
Historically high employment rates == historically low unemployment rates, right?
Sure. I just don't think it would work too well in practice.
> 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.

honestly, with all the cool stuff coming out of computer vision these days, you might see something that can create a similar effect on your laptop in the not so distant future.

high quality, single camera (realtime?) depth maps are a thing now.

head tracking is easier to do now as well.
“Optimising economic output” is the last thing most ADHD people are looking for. Being able to live day to day without nerve-shredding vertiginous chaos touching every part of one’s life is much stronger a motivation.
> TSMC does way more volume than Intel

Do you have a source for this? The only one I found says Intel is 2x TSMC:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/883715/microprocessor-ma...
There is a place for both:

If you are searching for a specific ID/ISBN some random token, keyword search will be always useful and easy to implement.

If the goal of the search is more semantically ambiguous and can not be expressed by a unique phrase, then neural search will be the way to go.

Most of the interesting applications of search will be semantically driven and therefore neural search has a big role to play.
A union will almost always eschew a contingent, quirky perk like 'Coursera credit' in favor of a smaller increase in take home pay, anyway.
Has "efficient" in the title, but the article is entirely about energy security. (I was curious to see how efficiency was defined. It wasn't.)

Yes, from a political energy security perspective, nuclear is an option. Is it best?

That depends on batteries. Battery prices are dropping even faster than PV did over its six decade history, and the technology choices are still diversifying. We'll know by 2030.
Interesting article, I've got a few thoughts on this space.

Endless West (https://endlesswest.com/) has a "molecular whisky" (they aren't legally allowed to call it whisky because it wasn't distilled from a certain mash, aged in oak for a minimum number of years, etc. etc.) that's the same idea, minus the machine learning (which probably isn't that helpful, IMO [1]). More on the process in [2].

To my knowledge, it hasn't sold particularly well, and most reviews (granted, likely biased by the origin of the spirit) tend to say "it's fine, but it's not the same as 'real whisky'."

The issue with the "luxury spirits" market is that (to paraphrase the Scotch distillery Bruichladdich), "terrior matters". Like fine art, one's enjoyment of such a beverage comes from both the tangible (taste, smell, bottle presentation, etc.) and the intangible ("having good taste", "buying a bottle of whisky older than you are"; generally signaling value). Like most (all?) luxury goods, the tangible costs account for a small percentage of the overall cost, with the intangibles and associated signaling value.

There's a reason that "The Macallan" which is marketed as such costs significantly more than vs "the macallan" that's been private labeled by Costco or Trader Joe's. Same juice, different intangibles.

All of this is to say that:

- I think the technology is super cool and I want to see it come to fruition

- I don't think "luxury goods" is the right segment to target because nobody buys a birkin bag to carry their laptop to work

- Create a novelty for mass affluent consumers; not super high margin but make up for it in volume (what Glyph was attempting)

- Target a niche consumer group who cares about a different signaling metric, e.g. eco conscious consumers who want the same "end resuly" but are unhappy with traditional processes (which is what Endless West seems to be doing with e.g. [3])

[1]: Cognitive Cooking with Chef Watson (https://ice.edu/partner-with-ice/IBM) is a great cookbook because chefs fed IBM Watson a bunch of recipes and then asked it to create new recipes, which it did, with some _very_ wacky results that chefs then tweaked. Definitely possible to create new/unique/interesting things, but I think it's hard to get people to buy into the end result, especially if the majority of folks would initially reject it as disgusting/too weird.

[2]: https://fortune.com/2019/05/25/endless-west-glyph-engineered...

[3]: https://shop.endlesswest.com/kazoku.html
> I don't believe they will last more than a few years if my last samsung is any indication.

I think this is the real reason for kids using iphone, most a seeeded with parent's castoffs. If your parents are android users the phone is probably broken. :)
> its the only iphone model with a physical front button.

It's definitely a great feature if you wear a mask often. I find I only have trouble with it if my finger is wet.
Not sure if this is a joke given that Signal uses Blue for sms and Red for encrypted...
This is the third comment in this thread along these lines- Isn't this just splitting hairs? Is there any significant percentage of defendants in such cases that have judgements like this against them that don't actually appeal and just write a check on the spot?

I am asking honestly here- I am not sure if this is just typical engineer type "well actually..." type stuff going on, or if some attempt to downplay and discredit the judgement.
Misleading title, it is not a clone, but a client for the actual Instagram.
Looks to me like a patched client a la vanced: https://www.theogapp.com/
How did he cause his fans to harass families? Did he specifically brigade families or tell people to go after them?
Indeed. And the market has a lot of products that already attempt to address that. Aside from being physically bigger and therefore more expensive, what is the value-add to this for those scenarios?

We'd all love a 65" window to stay in touch with loved ones, but the price is the problem not the tech. This doesn't attempt to address the economics, and to be honest I'm not sure what is new or interesting about Starline?
Yeah, good point, if I remember they did give you the option to override the battery safety feature and preserve your clock speed. Still, I think it is fair to say that iOS did over time start to feel more sluggish as they were adding more ambitious features which an aging chip couldn't handle.
I think I just answered my own question via https://blog.google/technology/research/project-starline/. It appears some kind of “3D display” is being used.
FULL CIRCLE! haha.

People used to have this crazy bundle of streaming services called "cable TV" People started to complain that it was getting too expense to pay $150+(even with commercials) a month when you only watch a dozen of the hundreds of channels at most. Then came streaming services. People were thrilled they could only pay for one channel at a time for 10-15$ per month.... problem solved.
Corporate members can also can elect board members – as can the other classes of coop member. See https://www.hello.coop/pages/cooperative.html
Can't help but notice the irony of how much judgment is in this post
First let’s see if prices really will come down for patients.
Greece runs on 100% renewables for the first time on record
What's the difference between historically high employment rates and historically low unemployment rates?
I'm assuming a long tail of "everything else"
> Why would you not?

What kind of a stupid question is this?

If you only want interest from a particular gender, why advertise that you want interest from all genders?
Apple phones are cheaper and last longer than Android devices.
No. If you built a multimillion-dollar media enterprise and used it to state that you had actual knowledge that McDonalds used cat meat in their Quarter Pounders, McDonalds would likely end up owning your media enterprise, and might also erect a PlayPlace(tm) on the ground your house stood on. We just saw this happen to Oberlin a few weeks ago: you can do tens of millions of dollars of damage by materially misstating facts, and "McDonalds Quarter Pounders Meow Instead Of Moo" is a statement of fact, not opinion.

(The numbers in the Oberlin case also flatly refute your argument as well; there, a conservative-friendly plaintiff won a number comparable to what the Sandy Hook parents won here. The big distinction is that there were many more Sandy Hook parents than there were defamed Oberlin candy store owners.)
It's worse than that. At our kids' school, they are required to have iPads for their school work. By default then, iMessage becomes pretty much the only game in town for them to message with their friends. If they want a phone that can also then participate in those conversations, iPhone is the only option, it's not even a choice. SMS isn't a thing, if you have any other phone, your friends with iPads only don't even have a phone number to send it to. Something like Discord is really the only other option, but that only seems to have any sort of mind share with kids who are more than just casual gamers.
1) Fixed

2) This is kinda the hard part because it depends on where you are hosting it. If you ping your Sandcats address, does it return the IP of your server/location? Is there a firewall, router, etc. you may need to open a port or forward a port?

Agreed that the parent posts suggest this should be easier. It really probably should, but it's hard to do that securely without depending on some outside service. Sandcats and Let's Encrypt removes a lot of difficulty but CGNAT and port forwarding and stuff might be best defeated by autoconfiguring something like Tailscale or Cloudflare Tunnel.
The law leaves room for the jury to form such moral determinations on their own, and in this case they have done so. I disagree that this is in any way disastrous.
Interesting, their way of demonstrating a 4th dimension is very unique. love how it became a game mechanic
Right you are. I'm surprised such things can be sold.
You mean on the jury's personal opinion of him?

A defendant has a right to trial by jury. The consequence of exercising that right is trial by a jury.

In some venues, "unfair" (quotes here because reasonable people can dispute how "fair" is to be assessed in a circumstance such as this) damages rulings are back-stopped by statutory maxima. I don't know Connecticut law, but that appears not to be the case here.
> the trend of large amounts of people giving them credit

Agreed. Screw that neanderthal dummy Joe Rogan for giving credibility to Alex Jones.
I don't think we're in any danger now, in 2022 of returning to 18 hour work days and acceptable workplace deaths.

Yes, unions helped usher in a new age of employee rights, and we are all thankful for them. However, in the absence of anything real to fight for, unions in the modern day have increasingly become more of a nuisance than a necessity - for both the employee and employer side.
Not understanding that they've already been manipulated by Apple is a (slight) red flag to me.
Sure but the wiring is thinner, thereby somewhat equalising.
Infowars has $53MM of revenue, so this is 20 years of revenue for knowing, persistant and harmful actions and then misconduct during trial. For comparision, 20 years of income for the median american is less than a million dollars. I think million dollar damages are common even just for negligence, let alone this severity.
And what makes you think that competing in a female-dominated arena would make for nicer people?

If the women-dominated workplaces I worked in are any indicator, it wouldn't change much at all.

> The Iron Lady was not your Mum

Yeah, and Gengis Khan is not my granddad. What's your point? People cunning, ambitious, and ruthless enough to reach the highest offices will not be representative of the average human, independently of their sex.
My understanding is that in many places outside the US it's near-universal. I've never used it myself either.
Don’t forget explosively formed penetrators!
Forgive me for wondering whether an account created 27 minutes ago is arguing in good faith on a topic that frequently gets brigaded by FUD trolling. An actual lawyer will have to weigh in on whether this fits the damages awarded in similar cases.
Best Buy has some: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/apple-pre-owned-iphone-8-64gb-u...