skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, I've to iPhones, one with a broken camera and one with a donor camera (for whatever reason, battery problem, mainboard, whatever). I can swap the camera module, or take up a repair shop. But Some make sure the repaired device won't work fully even though all of the parts are Apple originals.

Tell me how Apple not doing that shit would make the slightest iota of difference to their ability to make devices that last?

How would them not attacking 3rd party repairers make a difference.

Why not mandated warranties and repairability?
I'm now waiting for a macOS local-run app that does ChatGPT like StableDiffusion became an app after 14 days and now runs on my laptop (as DiffusionBee).
I don't understand the Apple car. I guess what makes the least sense to me is the price. The reports keep saying "Under $100k". Unless it's like a 35k car, I don't understand why they would enter such an insane market and make a product that so few of their customers could reasonably purchase.

I don't have a lot of money, but I own a mac, an iPhone, airpods, apple watch, and an apple tv. I own a ~$20k car and could never imagine a time where I would spend more than 50k on a car. Maybe I'm in the minority of Apple customers, but I would bet I'm not.
I think the android app has to manually search for nearby tags, while iPhone will proactively surface notifications that they're being followed, something the Android app does not do. So you'd have to at least suspect that you're being stalked with Android.
Resale market is higher for 'neutral' colours.
Good. We have people needing housing and people not needing office buildings. Something needed to change.
I'd like to experiment with using both browsers for all my searching for a bit. Has anyone cut over entirely from Google (or others) and remained happy?
I don't like the word invention for this. The grammar is laid out by the author who has to teach the AI and correct it several times. If the AI had then proceeded to generate something similar on its own with different grammar and lexicon then I might feel comfortable using the word invention.
Cold can be mitigated by enhanced R-value insulation in a single application. Water use is continuous.

https://www.energystar.gov/campaign/seal_insulate/identify_p...

I don't really see a hot/cold stratification in this chart-
https://www.statista.com/chart/12098/the-us-states-with-the-...

And even then, the difference in costs seems quite small. Alaska is $332 and Georgia is $310.
They could earn themselves a criminal charge if the court decides what they're doing is fraud which it likely is if they have signed something saying they wouldn't work elsewhere simultaneously.
Here it is without the one-paragraph, several-advertisements wrapper:

Desktop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=xbY1VkNXAsE

Mobile: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xbY1VkNXAsE
I think it was and still is one of the best choices for quick and simple access to privacy. Yes there are certainly better solutions, but for those not so tech-savvy it’s always been an extremely good choice.
Professional and mature writing isn't the same as being polite. Also, if you see "polite" writing how would you know it's fake?
>I'm still looking for a solution to the mask straps biting into my ears on planes

Try getting a proper N95 instead of a flimsy ear-loop mask: https://www.amazon.com/3M-Aura-Particulate-Respirator-9205/d...
It seems trivial, intuitive and not very specialized that someone could derive or at least learn how to do this. Someone creative could do even better than someone with knowledge of language models it seems
Yes, I'm a solo dev and not looking for contributors. My style is too eccentric to accept outside contributions.

Funny you should mention Bazel and Buck; I'm coming for them too! I'm also coming for Nix; I want its advantages to be easily accessible for mere mortals.

I think I can do better alone than those teams have because they have all made assumptions that weren't great. I'm learning from their mistakes.

Also, UX matters, and I'm putting a lot of effort into that.

But the other reason is that if you do Nix right, the capabilities of Bazel and Buck just appear.

Thank you for the encouragement!
RadTrike Electric Tricycle
When software and systems become sufficiently large, change becomes extremely difficult. Even strong architectures have their limit. I have to imagine that Apple has hit that limit serving payments worldwide.

The real lie isn't that this was a difficult and costly change for their top-notch team. The real lie is that this works at all - some dev out there is waiting with no fingernails left for the bugs to start pouring in.
"All solvable problems."

Let us know when they have been solved.

Having been on the web since it went public, there has always been a disproportionate amount of prophetic messaging and discourse, not to mention advertising, focused on computers. More often than not, the predictions are wrong.

Of course, sometimes, perhaps most of the time, the discussion is "hype" and serves a commercial purpose. One can expect those spreading computer hype will keep trying even when it has a low success rate. The www is an inexpensive medium for advertising and spreading hype.
This is a meaningless concern. Any man who would put on a dress to come assault you in the bathroom could skip the dress part and just come in the bathroom and assault you. It's like saying some rapists have red hair. It's true but its not meaningful because no fruitful thing can be derived from the fact nor strategy obtained.

There are millions of trans people in the world but presumably few rapists in dresses. The spurious focus on pointless concerns suggests we ought to harm the dignity of millions for a fictional advantage.
I repeated the same prompts for the first 10 or so prompts and got similar but less consistent results. Here's the last prompt I repeated:

> Excellent. How would I say "The slime eats food with its mouth"?

In Glorp, the sentence "The slime eats food with its mouth" could be translated as "Slimb snarf sploota slimbe," using the vocabulary and grammar that we have defined so far. Here is how the words in the sentence correspond to their English translations:

Slimb - Slime
Snarf - To eat
Sploota - Food (accusative case ending)
Slimbe - Mouth (instrumental case ending)
Again, this is just one possible translation. You can use the vocabulary and grammar that we have defined in any way that makes sense for your language.

Problems:
1) It got one of the endings wrong. As I told it earlier and it confirmed, the instrumental ending is 'i'.
2) It proposed "slimb" as the translation for both of the words that I specifically asked for (slime and mouth). That's not unheard of in real languages, but seems like another failure to accurately take into account the prior conversation context.

Not a problem, but curious: It was way more diffident with me. It added a similar bit about "This is just one way to do it, feel free to change it" to every response.
The real question is... why the hell should a car be shiny?
I thought this was the norm. I don’t like smartphones (I do own one but 75% of the time I go out without it). I don’t have Twitter, FB, instagram. I don’t even use a watch. I’ve never paid anything via my smartphone (I use my laptop for that). I don’t like subscriptions (Whenever I can, I pay month by month).

I work as a tech lead in a well known software company. I’m doing good because I like to know how things works (e.g., Linux, networking, containers, programming languages, software engineering, etc.)… but I don’t like to use them.
French stations too, they’ve introduced the 1.779€ a liter pricing a dozen years ago, so, 4 significant numbers. On a 100€ refill, it’s 10 cents, ie a drop.
The first time I saw a car like this, my reaction was that it looked like the classic Packtra 'Namel enamel paints I used on plastic models in the '60s.
I have really enjoyed The Peripheral and found it to be a nice accompaniment to the books. Sprawl would be sick.
Paywalled but $36m doesn’t seem all that newsworthy?

Their Twitter [1] seems like a generic crypto outfit.

Wonder if Bloomberg just loved the irony of the name? I did.

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/orthotrading
a tragic story of dunning-krueger.

race conditions created in the software resulted in injuries, and death.

something to keep in mind for security, a machine like this when hacked could produce, mass casualties, or asassinate very particular people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_condition
Douglas Houfstedder I am a strange loop. Great book on consciousness. He says monkeys have a higher level of consciousness than say mosquitoes. Maybe similar to a 3 year old human. That's why we feel it is worse morally
Are you sure? Because these boxes typically don't provide any (good) tools for configuring their IPv4 NATs/firewalls, why would you expect them to provide tools for managing the newfangled IPv6? IPv6 support in a lot of routers is pretty lacklustre, but I've never seen one so incompetent that it doesn't at least block inbound traffic by default.
New product is a major investment, nobody competent would just discontinue it because it doesn’t sales well early on. I suppose Apple has the number to show future sales of the Mini would be weak.
Does it matter? One's an opinion piece and the other is a short comment on a forum.
Unfortunately 6 pages of 10 results. Not 6 pages of 100 results. Most Google searches are limited to less than 300 results anyway. It used to be that you'd get to see more of the less popular pages those position at the bottom is now filled with Google spam.
Couldn’t you require someone to cite/add as a coauthor the day collector?

When I was a paid by the hour lab assistant I was added as last author on the papers I assisted with since I sat in on meetings and sometimes flagged protocol design errors so we’d be able to use what we collected.

(But that was HCI, more of a social science akin to psychology , hard sciences seem less collaborative)
PhysDiff: Physics-Guided Human Motion Diffusion Model
> Neutral colors have the added benefit of being more easily resell-able (at a higher price), especially to private parties.

Only for neutral cars. Flashy cars (like the Audis and Porsches described in the article) carry a premium when they're flashy colors. There are even whole events dedicated to unusually-colored Porsches (paint to sample).
I used brave for quite some time and there have been no real downsides, only major difference I really noticed was less google products being sent at me. For example, if I searched for “Translate” I wouldn’t just immediately get google translate.
That would open up a whole can of worms of users locations being necessary/easy to fake for discounts.
"You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain."
nevertheless, one can lament the situation: With all the mass production and economies of scale, any desire off the beaten path becomes either extremely expensive or unobtainable.

Hey, it's more profitable to sell junk that doesn't last very long, to have a closed platform, to make a smart tv that tracks you.
Does the US have more deceit than other governments? If not, why would anyone care about how deceitful the government is if that is table stakes to operate?
N-95 masks are rated to capture 50 um (micrometer).

COVID-19 is 10.5 um. Water droplet to carry them just a tad bit above.

Hydrostatic testing to get that 50um in N-95 mask were based on 8.0 pH Latex hydrostatic droplets.

COVID-19 best infection spread rate is at 5.8-6.2 pH (opposite spectrum of Latex's pH).

So, more will pass thru that mask unhindered.

Nonetheless, the dispersal rate is lower only if the infected wears it. Tough to make a public policy on that to this day
As a big proponent of founders having skin in the game, I hope Musk's family members and children are some of the first in line for human trials.
The hallmarks of a true monopoly here
Getting kids is the best retirement investment that you can do, because they will be there to help you when your physical and mental state will start to degrade.

They will be the ones taking you to doctor for visits, the ones that will keep you from getting scammed from your retirement money, and in general they will help you navigate the future society that will be much different from the current. So even if you hate them, kids is an investment worth considering.
Yeah exactly. The use of "yr" and "ppl" in the article seemed otherwise so out of place. Am I reading a lazily typed text message or what?
I have no idea if it's common or not. It might be. It's not the sort of thing people generally discuss. This is the first time I've ever talked about it.
Jquery got squashed from two directions. One being react and other data binding frameworks, the other side being browser tech modernizing and aligning, such that bare js could be used, without a thick compatibility layer in between.
> they need to be written once

Well, if you were writing abstract pseudo-code, then maybe. In practice, the same algorithms are often reimplemented multiple times.

> and then everybody can use them

ah, if only that were true... implementations are often not that flexible, nor are programmers that keen on utilizing existing implementations.

> this is a giant problem

Problem? To the extent it's true - it's a boon, not a problem. Image if whenever you made a chair - suddenly everyone could get a chair without taking your own chair or spending any time and resources on chair construction. It's a miracle!

> a problem also known as software piracy.

1. Piracy is when people on ships with guns rob other ships. Arrgh, matey!

2. Sharing and copying software or other media is a good thing, not a problem.

PS - I haven't downvoted you. Point taken about django "config-programming".
Are you serious?! That is so hilarious to me, because I do the same thing! And I am always so terrified that I will get an interview, and they will want to see a sample of my code, and I will have forgotten to take out all the bits of juvenile humor that are scattered through the code of my personal projects!
That's quite a bit for an interview. How long did it take? Did they gave you code to plug a piece into? Or did you have to write the whole game?
I did, it's quite good, love the !Bangs.
Perhaps confusingly, they charge both. Most insurance requires substantial "co-pays" where you pay a good chunk (20% is common, but it varies, often even within a plan depending on what you're paying for) of just about every bill until you hit some very-high "out-of-pocket max" (usually there's one for individuals, and a higher one for families) and then insurance picks up everything, or you pay 100% until some total-spending value for the year is reached, then it becomes like the prior situation until the out-of-pocket max.

Though most insured people don't really have options to shop around. You go to the few places your insurance covers, which is usually 30-60% of providers in a small geographic area. Which is why the "we want to protect your choice!" opposition to healthcare reform is so damn weird. Most people already have very little choice, in practice, and a lot of the "choice" we do have isn't anything desirable ("which of these shitty insurance plans I can barely understand and am not confident I can meaningfully compare, would I like to suffer through?").
> I guess there is no perfect way to do it (for example what if f2 needs some variables defined in Class.__init__), but the situation is the same for Lisp with its dynamic typing.

CL has the generic function update-instance-for-redefined-class[1] for this, so you can customize what happens to instances when a class gets redefined. I think most developers don't actually define methods for it all that often, but it's there if the defaults don't work for you.

[1]: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_upda...
I find for PM roles location is much more important than technical IC roles. Living in a "non-tech" city might be your biggest handicap.
It’s only a matter of time before Snow Crash finally follows in suit...
I vouched for this comment because it's a good question, although I'm worried that your account is not long for this world with an inflammatory username like that.

The problem probably starts with the inefficiency of RoR, as you've guessed. Mastodon is a very dynamic site which limits the amount of caching that can be done, and there are hot code paths like filtering streams using a user's block lists and word filters that are not particularly optimized - all this happens in Ruby.

But there are other inefficiencies, compared to SO:

1. Mastodon is a media heavy site, with a lot of uploading by users. Mastodon has to convert user-uploaded media to standardized representations (e.g. JPEG and h.264), which takes a lot of CPU time.

2. Mastodon has a "firehose" feed which is available in the UI and actually used by many users. Filters apply to the firehose feed as well. Obviously this requires quite a lot of bandwidth and processing.

3. Federation is a weakness when it comes to traffic. If user X has an account on server A, and at least one user on 1000 other instances follow user X, server A has to immediately send any posts to all 1000 other instances, regardless of whether anyone on the other end will ever deliberately view them. (Of course, some users may view them in their instance's firehose feed.) The instance then has to duplicate this traffic when sending it to the actual subscribed users. By this standard both large non-federated "servers" (like Twitter) and widely federated pull-only servers (think RSS) are more efficient than ActivityPub (the open standard Mastodon uses).

4. Federation is a weakness when it comes to trust. Instances do not (and must not) fully trust each other, except for things like "@x@thisinstance said 'P'". So for example, the little Open Graph based preview cards you're used to seeing on Twitter and elsewhere have to be generated for links per instance. The first time a Mastodon server sees a link, it must fetch that link and generate a preview card itself. Because new posts by popular accounts are syndicated immediately, this is a burden on websites as well. https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/11/mastodon-stampede/ (note: copy link or disable sending referrers from HN for this site)

5. Scaling is not really a solved problem yet for Mastodon, because in practice it hasn't had to be. It's easy to pass the buck to instance operators, who end up needing a $20/month VPS to run a small instance rather than $5/month. Even the very biggest servers are scarcely larger than 1M users. At that kind of scale you can patch over performance problems by just throwing more hardware at the problem - and e.g. mastodon.social has the funds from Mastodon (the org) to do that. Note that Hachyderm, AFAIK, is an obvious example of this; it was started by a tech worker in Seattle with much better access to expensive hardware than most casual instance operators can dream of. It's not surprising that they can pull the funds together to scale up before they start seeing performance issues.
Ask HN: Agile Development = Bodge?
Which RFC says query parameters is a good idea? The .well-known RFC (5785) itself states:

> well-known URIs are not intended for general information retrieval or establishment of large URI namespaces on the Web.

The WebFinger RFC appears to stuff its entire protocol into .well-known! And it includes some fine examples such as:

GET /.well-known/webfinger?
resource=acct%3Abob%40example.com&
rel=http%3A%2F%2Fwebfinger.example%2Frel%2Fprofile-page&
rel=http%3A%2F%2Fwebfinger.example%2Frel%2Fbusinesscard HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com

I would say that .well-known should be kept simple for both security and correctness. Dynamic content can be exploited more easily, as directly evidenced by you bringing CGI into the discussion. Additionally, .well-known is a global namespace and should not be a broad query interface when those queries can be reasonably furnished by other means.

My experience with .well-known is that it's more or less an application level DNS and identity service. But this looks like those hacks where you can read Wikipedia using `dig`.
This is onshoring - to the shores of a country whose national sporting league called The World Series.

There is a distinctly USA centric view of the world :/)
Not to mention, everything works smoothly (as per design) during a _code freeze_. Luckily Twitter has few competitors, and also the ones that remain also have code freeze during this time.
100% right. I know next to nothing about slimes and their life. Amazing.
As a kid my dad told me that I could name my variables whatever I wanted. I still remember the confusion on his face when he saw “int iPod” and “string xbox” all over my code.
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Does that 59.99 include VAT at 20%?
It's worth noting that falsificationism really only applies to experimental sciences like physics and chemistry. The "historical sciences" like geology, paleontology, and archaeology don't work that way because of the arrow of time. I'd recommend Cleland's original [1] or most recent paper [2] on this topic.

The upside is that we can differentiate between the quality of various competing hypotheses in a reasoned way. That's how we can say that the traditional academic narratives are epistemologically better than e.g. Tolkien's Silmarillion.

[1]
https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<0987:HSESAT>2.0.C...

[2] https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axq024
Still remember my last game from years ago. Concentric moats of lava with long drawbridges that raised to the outer side rather than inner. Goblin invasion. Waited till all of them were on the draw bridges. Raised the drawbridges and laughed as the goblins were catapulted away from my fortress, either into the lava or completely out of the local map.
I did the same. It was fun. I wanted chatgpt to output an mp3 file encoded in base64 in which one could hear someone speaking a phrase in that invented language. I couldn’t convince the AI to do so.
Moist putty is more precise.
This is just a database of hospital price URLs. If you want actual prices we have that as well but it's from the beginning of the year:

https://www.dolthub.com/repositories/dolthub/hospital-price-...
I have a smile that could sink a thousand ships so I consider wearing a mask to be a public service to the rest of you.
Thank you for clarifying this. This is such an Apple thing to do.

Frankly it doesn't matter what the exact price is. All economics are approximate.
Paper-mill detector put to the test in push to stamp out fake science
The author discovered non-metallic paint in pastel colors, doesn't like it, and has some really strong opinions about it and the people who do.

The irony of presenting all this drivel on a page with a dull, pastel greenish-yellow [0] background, almost identical to the (quote) "putty-lookin' a** whips" on the pictured Volvo was surely lost on the author. The article's language serves to replace the missing intellectual value.

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rgb(242%2C+242%2C+227)
Yeah, you cannot 'reassign' a reference. The compiler will yell at you if you try. You can definitely modify values of your referenced object though, that's fair game. When it comes to pointers you can do whatever the hell you want but be careful.
Another story: a newspaper seller - whose newspaper cost 1 penny - encouraged .99 price points to increase the number of pennies in pockets.

I heard this on Tom Scott's Podcast "Lateral" recently.
Can you explain how you are running the business, charging customers without invoices?
Anything amount other than billed on the invoice is tax evasion, right?
i subscribe; it's more balanced, perhaps because of the results mentioned in the article i linked above.