skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When ripping with EAC, you want EAC to be doing the error detection/correction, not C2. EAC tries to read the data multiple times and takes the best results. C2 will hide issues in the raw data.
> All you need is a few tech “influencers” to switch to freebsd then crowds will follow.

As someone who would like to switch to FreeBSD but cannot, let me give you a few counterpoints. I also loosely follow actual fashion trends in clothing.

I actually think that FreeBSD is already fashionable. It scaled up WhatsApp and Netflix, two of the most impressive startups! Tarsnap uses it. It seems pretty stable, and I would be perfectly fine adopting it.

Where would I adopt FreeBSD? In two places – on the desktop/laptop, and on the server.

On the desktop/laptop: I need perfect screen resolution on my laptop and external monitor, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, and a way to correctly use my plugged-in microphone and headphones. Ubuntu delivers all of this with some grumbling, and MacOS and Windows do it flawlessly. What does FreeBSD do? Reports seem to say that Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are problematic.

On the server: I need a compelling way to manage thousands of servers if needed, and something like Ansible won't cut it. For whatever reason, distributed systems on top of FreeBSD seems to be something that the community refuses to build on. I'm not sure what kinds of frameworks WhatsApp and Netflix built to manage their servers, but none of it seems to be public.

So, I kind of disagree; I think FreeBSD is fashionable but fails to be utilitarian enough. Fix the problems on the desktop/laptop; or deliver a way of showing how to scale up quickly with FreeBSD, and you'll get your adoption.
At risk of sounding obtuse, what is being satirized here? Or he’s just proposing an absurd scenario?
And I'm free to call him a hypocrite over it. And all the others fine with this but complained previously when people where banned for ToS violations before Musks takeover.
They have roughly half the US market, and no one has the world market. This decision seems unlikely to have had the ability to change that.
There's Line, Kakao Talk, Viber, WeChat, SnapChat... all very popular in different countries & with different demographics. WeChat is of course the most sophisticated in terms of ecosystem beyond just messaging.

None of these may have arisen or become so popular if Apple & Android had created interop.
It's not a real bike until someone crosses the Simpson Desert riding one [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI3T_vM3VBI

Who's game?
I do the phone thing, too. It's just kinda clunky but you're right, probably safest way to be out.
syntactic sugar- you don't have to pre-declare them or worry about conflicting values. And occasionally the symbol.to_s method is useful in logging or whatnot. That's pretty much it.
Cop conferences are a big game of let’s pretend and 27 won’t be any different
Note: This is a different source and different reporting.
Good indeed! Whoever looks no farther than status symbols can be quickly skipped.
Yes I’m sure with 38% of cell phones users in the EU owning iPhones, that you have your finger on the pulse of the opinions of most Europeans…
Nope, a country so rich that it spends money trying to influence how money is spent. I’ll take advertisement over monopolies any day.
I don’t know how you’d track this statistically, but my experience has been that not just the pay but the quality of job is much higher for graduates of elite universities, and like pay this just feeds back into itself.

All the people I know who went to Stanford got very nice, “cushy” jobs straight out of college. Most of the people I know who went to state schools had to bust their asses for years at much less pleasant work before they worked their way up to the nicer jobs.

The head start you get from an elite school in the US, in things that have nothing to do with education per se, can not be overstated.
> with the iPhone SE you can get a $400 iPhone

Which is an absolute joke of a phone unless you just value the apple logo that much, which most of Europe doesn't. 720p screen? 4gb ram? What decade are we in again?
I think it comes down to social class. Most German, French, and Spanish people I know that travel frequently, make upper-professional incomes, and belong to what you would typically say is "upper middle class" are almost exclusively using iPhones.
I’m still shocked that they added this. It actually made the UX worse for people that only typically talk to other iPhone users. The entire existence of non-ephemeral call links / lobbies is confusing if you never have to share them and are just trying to call an iPhone user directly. And it’s such a prominent part of the new FaceTime UI instead of something that they could’ve hid in an options menu.
If they had foresight, they wouldn’t have made CDs at all. They do not want people ripping them and getting “perfect” copies.
Yeah I think a correction is likely - haven't seen anyone being nearly that pessimistic (or optimistic probably if you're younger and in the USA) but shifts from 5-15% depending on the market have been predicted by plenty of firms.
It's something that I often hear, but each time I check, the difference is minimal. So I did the comparison again between France and the US, for an iPhone 14 (unlocked, 128 GB) + AppleCare+.

I take the phone unlocked, with AppleCare+, to attempt a normalization across regulations. Default warranty in the US is much weaker than in the EU, but should be the same with AppleCare+. Buying a locked phone is also cheaper in the US, but AFAIK it's not possible to buy a locked phone in France anymore.

US: 978 USD (excluding sales taxes), France: 1198 EUR (TTC, including sales taxes) or 998 EUR (HT, excluding sales taxes), so about 992 USD at current rate. So the iPhone in France costs about 14 USD more, or 1.45% more. That's not "much more" in my book, although it is a little bit more.

I think the common mistake is to compare European prices with sales taxes (20% in France) against US prices without sales taxes... Hint: prices displayed on the Apple store in the US are always displayed without sales taxes, while in the EU prices always include sales taxes (I'm not sure it's true in all 27 member states, but it's definitely true in France).
The United States cannot simultaneously push the benefits of free trade and block foreign investment. Reactionary laws like banning the export of crude oil ultimately drive up costs. There's no such thing as a free lunch.
There are a few dimensions to this puzzle: hearing the sound, being able to reproduce the sound and then being able to string enough of the sounds together smoothly and naturally to form a different accent.

Think of a Japanese native speaker listening to English. The L/R sounds don't really exist in Japanese, so they sound the same. You can say "copy this sound" as much as you like, but if someone can't discriminate between the sounds in the first place then it's very difficult to copy. Practicing with minimal pairs (words that differ by only a single sound) can help build the ability to hear the difference between the sounds. Fortunately, this is not such a big issue for learning accents in your native language: If you can hear the accent you can hear the sounds.

Reproducing the sounds comes next. Learn about vowel placement. Learn IPA. Listen to snippets of the target accent and try to pinpoint what particular sounds make that accent that accent. Practice producing those sounds, recording yourself and using those hearing skills to notice if you are creating the right sounds.

Finally, you've got to put them all together into an integrated performance that becomes an accident. People doing "bad accents" are usually doing one or two key words and then slipping back into something much closer to their regular accent.
Some are, some aren't. If some function required the same ratio of admin to students to perform, it would be. But many things have been made more productive. Most schools have fully automated the course selection process except for the academic advisor. Schools can take advantage of automations in admissions, bursar, financial aid, etc.

I think Baumol's cost disease explains a lot of the increase. I find it suspicious that it's not mentioned in TFA. But there are other drivers, of which much higher student expectations play a part. A school patterned after a typical university in the 60s would have some charm but probably students would not enjoy the Spartan living environment or the lack of support services.
I received an email inquiring about my note-taking system, so I'll copy-paste my response here:

Nothing revolutionary about my system. The short answer is that I use Notion, because it checks a lot of boxes right out of the gate: it's cross-platform, easily searchable, shareable, and strikes that perfect balance between unstructured and structured data.

The longer answer is: I have top-level documents for each facet of my life, and each of those documents is organized with a particular structure to optimize for a particular use case. Much of it ends up as some combination of nested documents, databases, and kanban-style boards. The databases and kanban boards make use of templates to normalize data whenever possible.

For example, I have a top-level "Automotive" document. Within that document are sub-documents for each of my vehicles. Each vehicle document primarily serves as a quick reference with vehicle metadata like VIN number, license plate number, etc, and maybe some general notes. The vehicle document contains a "Maintenance Log", which is a kanban board to track upcoming maintenance, completed maintenance, repairs, and everything in between. The maintenance items are templatized to streamline entry and reduce cognitive overhead.

I've found that the combination of templatized kanban boards and free form documents can be applied to basically anything, from programming projects, to house renovations, managing job interviews, cooking / menu planning, etc, with slight variations to adapt to a given use case.

--

I'm really pleased with how well this system has worked for me, and have considered writing about it in more detail. How meta. Perhaps I should blog about it :)
I considered it but, as others have commented, the author works in Defense. You don't usually satirize a system or culture you're actively and willingly building.
"NIST Breakthrough: Simple Material Could Scrub Carbon Dioxide From Power Plant Smokestacks" (2022) https://scitechdaily.com/nist-breakthrough-simple-material-c... :

> [What to do with all of the captured CO2?]

>> - Generate more formic acid to capture more CO2

- Make protein powder (#Solein,). And nutrients and flavors?

- Feed algae

- Feed plants, greenhouses

- CAES Compressed Air Energy Storage

- Firefighting: https://twitter.com/westurner/status/1572664456210948104

- Make aerogels. Aerogels are useful for firefighter protective clothing, extremely lightweight insulation, extremely lightweight packing materials, aerospace; and no longer require supercritical drying to produce: https://twitter.com/westurner/status/1572662622423584770?t=A...

- Make hydrogels. Hydrogels are useful for: firefighting: https://www.google.com/search?q=hydrogel+firefighting https://twitter.com/westurner/status/1572664456210948104

- Make diamonds, buckyballs, fullerenes, graphene

- Water filtration: activated carbon, nanoporous graphene

Is there a similar process ("MOF,) for capturing Methane from flue gas? Is that before or after the CO2 capture?

- Methane is worse for Earth than CO2 FWIU. And there are many uncapped wells leaking methane, as now visible from space: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33431427

- It's possible to make CBG Cleaner Burning Gasoline from methane (natural gas)

How does the #CophenHill recycling and flue capture facility currently handle CO2 and Methane capture?

- "Transforming carbon dioxide into jet fuel using an organic combustion-synthesized Fe-Mn-K catalyst." (2020) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20214-z
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25559414
I didn't realise that making my pasta cooking more efficient would stop China and India from polluting both the air and ocean like there's no tomorrow.
I have no idea what great satire risked anyone taking it seriously. Was anyone convinced that Irish babies were really being eaten?
I suspect you might be grossly extrapolating from your own social circles.

I think it’s a really safe assumption that most people don’t really care what others have, or really care that much about a device vs it doing what they need.

I don’t think that’s a US vs Europe thing. I see people in tech circles in America make the same judgements, but don’t realize that it’s irrelevant
Well this is obviously not true. Apple releases point upgrades to iOS along with Safari changes throughout the year.
> Twitter has scoops, gossip, first-hand accounts, and opinions that people want to see.

That *some* people want to see.

> It's like saying the NBA shouldn't let Twitter be the place the league is discussed

That is not what I'm saying.
I wonder how Telegram was not mentioned in the thread so far.
There are plenty of automated formatters - clang-format, prettier, gofmt, black. You would delegate to one of them, configurable in the project/editor, and adjustable by file extension.

If the code doesn't parse, save it as-is. If it does, run the formatter with the defaults before saving. When opening, run the formatter with the user's preferences before displaying.

Gets you the benefits of a formatter, with the freedom to control your environment to your tastes. You can already pick your editor, font, and color theme. You ought to be able to pick your formatter settings too.
So in the rest of the world that uses Android are they equally “brainwashed”?
- implies that iPhones are more productive than Android phones.

That's a crapshoot of an argument. If it runs the apps you need to be productive and doesn't get in their way, what's the difference?
The whole thing is a bit mind boggling to me. Everyone I knew that had gmail was also actively using hangouts. How they could screw that up is beyond me. It even had voip integration. All they needed to do was polish the app.

They announced the shutdown of hangouts and the removal of google fi integration and despite the uproar they doubled down on it.

Genuine question to people here. Why ? They keep claiming that they're a data driven company. What data are these decisions based on?
Irrigation water is not potable, it's not plumbed to the point of use, and no sewage treatment is needed afterward. There's definitely some perverse pricing of agriculture use due to the water rights legal framework (e.g. use it or lose it discourages water saving) but tap water and irrigation water are different commodities.
That's where you are wrong. The truth is that for a for a massive chunk of the population a 200€ phone straight from China like a Xiaomi Redmi Note 11 [1] is plenty enough.

Not great, but not terrible camera. Not flagship, but not sluggish processor. Nice bright 90Hz AMOLED display. 33W Fast Charging. Runs TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Chrome and so on without a hiccup.

What else do you really need?

[1]: https://www.mi.com/uk/product/redmi-note-11/
They absolutely never said this.
This link might help explain the taxpayer subsidies that result in the 30 year fixed with no prepayment penalty:

https://himaxwell.com/resources/blog/30-year-fix-3-gse-refor...
ya all the devops people I know use android. what were you thinking?
Not sure how universal its in all of Europe but at least where I live, nobody uses SMS for communication. To the point that government services are unofficially using viber and WhatsApp to communicate with citizens.

In recent years I only used SMS for 2FA.
The people at the top are not Gods. They are regular people, just like you and me; or more just like HN since they are working in Tech.
Changing people's habits because it's the "right thing to do" is not the way to solve climate change. The main reason why is that it's very hard to change people, especially so if the benefits are not immediate. What we do need is lots of innovative new technologies to solve the problem. Carbon capture is just scratching the surface.
I thought most of it was a little surreal to converse about innovating that way, as though innovation was specific. No one here would ever say, "what we have to do as HN members is innovate. Once we do that, we can make our comments better and draw in more users from Slashdot." I thought the whole thing was fake until I got to the end and saw what Internal Tech Emails was. Then I just thought it was all pretty phoney. That isn't how ordinary people converse. I'd almost think they can walk without their feet ever touching the ground.
That's what EBT cards are
ah this makes sense, thank you.
Glad to see this, she's fair. Analog computers have some narrow use cases, and that's what quantum computers are. A blast from the past, in a way. Since I gave up my high school slide rule for a handheld calculator in University, I haven't had much interest in analog computers.

The whole hype reminds me of the hype about holographic memory long ago. I got to give a lecture at an International Conference at Harvard disproving that particular hype (even though I was just a grad student) just before my career ended: A Professor at the University of Calgary drugged me against my knowledge for months with LSD (ramping up), raped me, and then killed my academic career with a whole lot more LSD to make it very hard for me to figure out what happened or to do anything about it. There was much more of that in that time then history records.
I'm glad you know every European iPhone owners' financial situation. Good for you.

Also I happen to live part of the year in Europe. And found the price of Apple products to be within 10% of Apple US.
I can't think of anything as bad in terms of specs / money spent in the android world as the Iphone SE. You would have to go out of your way to avoid most known brands to find it.

Just compare that to an S10 which is roughly in the same price range now
> Getting non-work people into a video call if you don’t have an iPhone is painful.

Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp both have video calling...
Wasn't Yoshi from Tekken?
I suspect what is happening is that the affordability crunch is causing a noticeable drop in demand in the HCOL areas (hence the pronounced decrease in prices in the Bay Area I noted in the original comment).

The availability of remote work and the retreat of the HCOL population to other areas in the US is likely causing an increase in demand elsewhere, as we have seen as a macro trend since the beginning of the pandemic. This demand will keep supplies low in LCOL areas.
I'm pretty sure we're also allowed to discuss and even criticise it to our hearts' contents.
Yes, Europe absolutely detests having a phone that fits in your hand.
Elon Twitter Texts
Why is Apple is being attacked for not providing a viable platform-level messaging solution to a mobile platform they don't own or control. Isn't that Google's job?
No, they could not; that is either wealth redistribution or pointless.

You can't make risk disappear magically.
Australia is FB Messenger is iMessage/text. Iirc we have around the same mobile marketshare as the US, i.e. ~55% iPhone
Let’s save the planet…

…Here is one more single-purpose device! Filled with batteries and plastic, that does what? 2 minute timer and nothing else your generic kitchen thermometer can’t do. If you are nearby it’s obvious when things start boiling even without one.
Similarly, the delusion of the "house poor" hoping for another 2008 is frankly hilarious.

The difference is, if you picked up a house at 2.7% you will be winning for a long time. There are fewer ARMs, which means a small more protracted "collapse". Housing supply is still non-existent and will be into the near future. Wages will need to keep pace with housing costs in order to provide anyone a chance to succeed. Even after a so-called "recession" in housing they'll still be too expensive. For example, if my house dropped 50% in value, it'd still be way over what I bought it for.

The only deluded people are the ones not holding property. Make no mistake, if you didn't buy/refinance in 2020 you lost out on a literal once in a lifetime opportunity to lock a massive short against the fed.
Never argued I do. I provided anecdata which does describe a common difference between the EU and the US in this matter.

I reside in the EU and I use an iPhone. This is dependent on context and social circle, but it does happen.
Yep.

My spouse once worked at a TV station. They were broadcasting in digital HD -years- before most people even knew what it was, let alone had the hardware for it.

Apparently, the first digital HD tv broadcast made by a station was in the mid-1990s.
cfengine3 and puppet both work on FreeBSD, at least. Looks like people are using chef with it too. And, as you point out, Ansible treats it as any other Unix-like system.

I'm not sure what you've tried that does not work!
well there goes my hope of handing my Meta Quest Pro down to my grandchildren
most of the coverage is meant to drive hysteria about the looming iPhone shortage, there’s little care for the covid situation on the ground in China contributing to the problem.

Apple stories get clicks, but there will be virtually no research on how China’s zero covid policy is the root cause, as it will be deemed “negative sentiment” which will get less CPM, or their content may even get demonetized. Modern “tech news” is a joke.
Windows 11 is an insult to the user's attention.

@anyone frustrated and willing to try Linux, give Fedora Linux a go. It's a really solid pick for first time users and has great security defaults.

Some people will be nervous because Fedora used to be a 'slightly harder' distro but this is no longer true IMO and I would actually consider it easier for many cases (in particular: stock GNOME is way more consistent than Ubuntu gnome).

If your friend is nagging you to start with an Ubuntu distro, Kubuntu is a really good one for ex Windows users. The KDE desktop actually pioneered some of the desktop patterns that Windows has adopted (and of course vice versa).
The difference is that regardless of what device people don't seem to care what others are using. There is no iMessage effect cause other messaging platforms are used which behave the same on both iOS and android. At the same time it's also not a status symbol the way it may be in US. A top end Samsung generally costs more than a top end iPhone.
As opposed to what? It’s the same as any other network effect in any other social group.

Using signal or telegram or WhatsApp isn’t intellectual superiority. It’s just a network effect motivated by other factors like cost of data vs cost of sms etc… at a certain point of time.

while using other messaging services isn’t a sign of intellectual superiority, judging others for their choices is very much a sign of low self confidence.
None of that is at Ark B in Redwood City. That location is entirely administration.
My theory is that Googlers feel extra special and entitled and it makes them lazy.

And products just languish as a result.

The theory isn’t anything deep, but it seems to fit the facts.
Will We Soon See an American Law Firm Go Public?
> Is iMessage an American phenomena mostly?

Pretty much.
> I don’t think that’s a US vs Europe thing

I had never encountered the "blue vs green" bubble problem until moving to the US.

It's partly because the US has a higher rate of iPhones (through subsidized phone plans) and partly because the US hung onto SMS much longer than other countries.
A Modest Proposal was satirizing how the English treated the Irish.

What’s being satirized here? The whole write up is basically a love letter to Sword Art Online.

If I made a game that shocked the players like in Never Say Never Again (which I have thought about doing multiple times since I was a kid), it wouldn’t be a satire. It would just be a thing.

Satire has a message. It has a target. What’s the target here?
I think you can find the same circles in the US.