skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> therefore phone support exists and therefore I ,also apparently, pay for phone support.

My misunderstanding. So, in that case, you got what you think you are paying for and are clearly happy with what you got in return for your money as you continue to pay for it going forward. What's your concern again?

> I am fairly certain if more options were available, this run towards the bottom would not be so awful from customer experience perspective

Perhaps there aren't more options because you're too price sensitive? I'll give you all the top quality telephone support you could ever want for $10,000,000 per year, but I strongly suspect already that your answer is "no thanks". If I had to offer you phone support at the same price as T-Mobile it would be unquestionably worse, not having the economies of scale they have.

Since you are clearly happy with the product they offer, at least given the price they offer it at, how could any other options rise up? Anyone smaller trying to offer an alternative would have to charge more just to provide the same level of support, and a lot more to provide better support. Are you getting out your wallet to see that happen or is this one of those fake rants that "actions speak louder than words" was coined for?
Given the ass security that these things likely use, you might just be able to use man in the middle attacks against http and it might just work heh
I find it's a cruel trick people, usually inadvertently, play on me at work: "when you've got a sec can you look at x?"

There's a portion of my brain that's immediately hijacked and starts thinking about the problem whether I'm actively working on it or not.

Happens to me for work problems outside of work, too. I'll just be chilling in the shower or something and suddenly I'm thinking about a work problem.

Maybe one day I'll retire from programming and do something less theoretical e.g. driving a semi.
Yes the improving strength of GPT is magnifying the problem but is unrelated to the solution. The solution space steps outside of examining the content of the message for truth. The solution is to sign the messages using a social trust graph; and scoring posts based on the social trust distance.

It's not a very compelling argument for me that a (very short) 20 year history of failing to solve this problem means that it cannot be solved.

I'm willing to bet you $1000.00 that this will be completely solved in 10 years. In 10 years we will know if content we consume is "fake" or "real". It may still be offensive, and harmful to gullible people - but it will all be scored as to how real it is. Real will be defined as the likelihood that the content comes from a real human being type person, as agreed upon by other persons in-between you and that person. Content one hop away from you, from a friend, will have a score of 100% real, and content many hops away will have lower score. You will probably start your day by sorting the content you consume by the likelihood that it is real.

I did actually work on PGP - and I'm willing to concede it didn't succeed. But DNS works and bitcoin works (technically). So we do use various flavors of cryptographic trust to make sure that actions in a network are "real" versus "forged".

And yes - it's true that bots can creep into a social trust graph... so yeah, it make take effort to keep pruning the weeds in the garden in a sense.

Note in some ways I'm not really trying to argue FOR crypto per se - I'm just saying that the OP should at least critique crypto if they want to make the thesis they are making. And I'm arguing that it is a big omission to gloss over the utility of crypto and the argument will be hard to make that crypto is not a significantly powerful modifier to the original thesis of the OP.
You're crazy not to take the anxious bomb-disposal guys.
Soundsource [0] on macOS can do this! I run Chow Tape [1] and it performs quite admirably. I've never measured the latency but it has never affected me much. I'm certain a similar solution is available on Linux.

To be fair, (quite janky, ime) VST hosts are available for Windows, via the music player (e.g. Musicbee) or system-wide, but those have never been reliable. Your mileage will vary.

[0] https://rogueamoeba.com/soundsource/
[1] https://github.com/jatinchowdhury18/AnalogTapeModel/tree/dev...
I don’t understand point 2 of the dilemma..

Groups of humans already can distinguish other groups of humans secretly. That doesn’t necessarily mean one group is more intelligent than the other. It just means they have access to a guarded secret.

?? What’s the problem?
Love this comment as I'm a total believer in how if you have billions and opinions ..you're gonna use your money to shape the entire world/change culture towards your opinions.

One thing I think someone's money has been used is the rise of the trans movement (awesome please be yourself and identify as who you feel best suits you).
They seem pretty consistent with temperature 0. Maybe not 100% but very close.
Watching porn is a natural part of growing up. It's almost unavoidable.
That is not "net" metering, then. "Net" metering is having an import and an export accumulator meter and charging the customer for the "net" value in the equation "net = import - export". Anything else is marketing bullshit from utility industry organizations.
Then... move to the woods?
It's like asking you why you risk imminent death going out of the house and driving to work every day. People die on the roads, you know. It's just the risk factor that makes you not to think about it much (and just drive carefully). For a prosecutor (or police officer) this risk is even MUCH lower.
Ask HN: Why the hatred towards Microservices?
I've been a user of Hacker News for quite some time now. I always preceived a hatred towards microservices in many of the comments to any post related to the topic. I am not a software engineer but a DevOps and I have to admit that I find the idea of microservices, at least conceptually, fascinating and powerful: a piece of software that performs one task within a domain and comunicates with other parts of the domain by using the network. Like a well defined cog that is part of a bigger machine.
The concept fits in my head really well. It follows, IMHO the "Unix pilosophy" which I am fan of (Do one thing and do it well™). So, I would like to get the take of the experts in the room:

- Are microservices inherently bad or your criticism might come from a terrible implementation you've had to suffer?

- In an ideal scenario where said implementation and architecture is well designed and robust, would you enjoy working with them?

- Might be the case that your "hate" comes from the fact that this approach presents a lot of unknowns where a monolith provides a well known solution that you are familiar with?

- Do you think, honestly, that it is just a trend that comes from the big companies and book sellers and eventually will dissapear and there is no a real need for it for the vast majority of cases?

Disclaimer: I've had to manage microservices architecture as part of my job and also developed some side projects, so, I am not speaking from just purely a theoretical POV.

Thank you in advance for your answers.
Granted in practice, but my point is that engineering should care.

If you've got nice insulation from your customers, how do you even know what you built is working?

I've seen too many bizarre real-world failure cases and complex systems-on-systems to trust that my metrics are capturing everything that breaks.
> if millions of documents disclosed didn't reveal a fraud after the whole community pored over them - it's at least as good as any other financial product

Every time Tether has disclosed anything, it’s been caught lying [1]. That anyone thinks Tether has anything close to standard financial disclosure, or is anything but a fraud, is a testament to the ongoing problem of mainstream American financial illiteracy.

[1] https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2021/attorney-general-james-...
Pornhub requires ID from Louisiana users to comply with state’s new porn law
Most of it is available in these two links. The justice.gov is the easiest and shortest but the justia.com has some information about their appeal and evidentiary challenges.

1 - https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca10/1...

2 - https://www.justice.gov/usao-nm/pr/albuquerque-couple-senten...
> CostCo sells several brands, but in particular Sony, that they have arranged to ensure that these TVs are fully functional when you decline the T&Cs and never connect it to the Internet.

Do you have a reference for this? I guarantee that it would be interesting for people.
This is funny, I'm currently working on a second system that replaced the first. It's awful and I think we need to build the third version.
> However one of the unexpected consequences is that we are now doing a lot of network calls between these microservices

I wouldn't call that entirely unexpected. :-) It's a rather well-known issue:

Microservices

grug wonder why big brain take hardest problem, factoring system correctly, and introduce network call too

seem very confusing to grug

(from https://grugbrain.dev)
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hyponatremia/...

Careful going too low sodium. And high fiber + dehydration can result in constipation. That said, it sounds like you may well be getting a good amount of water from the vegetables themselves, depending on what form you're eating them in.
Paper link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09055

Abstract:

We show that for any union-closed family F\subseeq 2^[n],F≠{∅}, there exists an i∈[n] which is contained in a 0.01 fraction of the sets in F. This is the first known constant lower bound, and improves upon the Ω(log_2(|F|)^{−1}) bounds of Knill and Wójick. Our result follows from an information theoretic strengthening of the conjecture. Specifically, we show that if A,B are independent samples from a distribution over subsets of [n] such that Pr[i∈A]<0.01 for all i and H(A)>0, then H(A∪B)>H(A).
>Why not install filtering in your home router and kids cellphones?

The average parent is incompetent when it comes to technology. They wouldn't know what to use and would likely install some sort of malware.

Perhaps Microsoft and Apple could implement something in their systems or the ISPs. If it is up to the parents to find the appropriate solution it just won't work.
What did you settle on?
> See https://www.metabase.com/jobs/

It's 404 until you remove the ending slash.
I had one of these back in the 90s that turned out to be a compiler bug. It was code that ran a mobile robot with an arm. Exact same code running on a Sun workstation never failed, but running on an embedded system running vxWorks crashed intermittently, but only when the arm was moving. Entire heap was corrupted, so by the time the crash occurred there was no hope of getting a stack trace or any hint of what went wrong upstream. Turned out to be two mis-ordered instructions that accessed a value on the stack after the stack pointer had been popped. On vxWorks, interrupts used the same stack as the currently running process, so if an interrupt occurred exactly between these two instructions it would clobber that value, and chaos ensued.

Took a full year to figure it out. Good times.
If the paper is correct then yes, it would be a huge improvement in the required space even accounting for the overhead of error correction.

Shor's algorithm requires performing a modular exponentiation under superposition. For an n bit modulus this requires 2n or 3n qubits of storage, plus let's say 50% overhead for routing and gates. You end up needing 5n to 10n logical qubits for an n bit number. So to factor a 2048 bit number you'd need on the order of ten thousand logical qubits. Improving that to a few hundred logical qubits would be a big improvement. Also, there's fewer operations so the code distance can be lower.

...but don't forget that "if the paper is correct" bit.
It's 93% sure it SEE'S a bus, not so much it's 93% a guarantee it actually IS a bus.

Confidence can corrupt in many domains, not just AI!
I think it’s mainly that STEM majors are smarter, and thinking is hard slash unmotivating.

Of course any non-STEM field has geniuses, but our impressions—like the parent’s—are formed from averages, and STEM majors are smarter on avg.
yup agreed; parental controls and parental knowledge is the key here. if you want the kids, take the responsibility and due diligence to keep them in check
Isn't that basically implied by the ending of Sneakers (1992)?

It would be fun fodder for a sequel, but I feel like it'd come across as histrionic disaster-porn.
I'm not sure about that though I haven't used tcl in a while and was never an expert. I think tcl upvar allows you to explicitly do what lua's closure implementation automatically does.

They aren't the same thing but they are closely related concepts and similar solutions to the same potential problem.
Sounds like Jobs is reminding them of their non-poaching agreement.
https://techcrunch.com/2009/08/07/source-apple-and-google-ag...

The document came to light in a lawsuit which Apple, Google and others eventually settled.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/apple-google-others-...
Twitter was clearly where business took place... Isn't calling them by phone, as if you're still stuck in the 1950s

You're using Twitter like you're still stuck in 2008? All the cool kids are on Vazpe32shaau! If you aren't reaching out to customer service on Vazpe32shaau, then you're not worth having as a customer!
Troubles at Sam Bankman-Fried’s Alameda Began Well Before Crypto Crash
I tried to jump on the Qi bandwagon and got a bunch of Qi chargers, and various devices (iPhone, Airpods, Mouse)

Unfortunately, the experience just sucks. Charging is slow, if you misalign it it doesn't charge (some devices have the coil off-center!), devices get hot while charging, chargers that work well for phones don't work for other devices...

I'm disappointed and I've mostly gone back to charging with cables.

I haven't tried any Magsafe stuff yet, but since it only works with iPhones it's a non-starter. I don't want a charger that charges just a single device.

If Qi2 gets adopted it may be worth a try, but I think ultimately wireless charging is a gimmick that may be useful in special scenarios (eg. car mount), but for the most part I don't think it's a replacement for cables.
Render vs. Digitalocean Pricing in 2023
Of only the humanity could invent something what could store the settings even in absrnse of power. Maybe it could be called like a non-volatile random acess memory, or something like that.
> Why do power companies even buy back solar power in the first place? It seems like it's not in their interest to help their customers compete with them.

Good question! The more power you generate locally, the less you need to transmit along expensive infrastructure, so it is actually in the interest of utilities to utilize and pay for all of the generation capacity they can as close to the consumer as possible. You can't get any closer to the consumer than paying their neighbor to power their house!
That's what I thought "net metering" was before getting solar too. Most don't do that.

Unfortunately, billing departments run the world.
Depends on the security of the service you want to use - I'd expect my bank or my email provider to send me my encryption keys by a recorded letter. Hacker news can probably email me their key instead.

Again, we're talking about some "world ending" scenario that OP mentioned - where all "normal" forms of encryption are already broken. If OTP is the only unbreakable encryption around, them I'm sure we'd find a way to distribute keys.
I guess this is how this project managed to work http://openlgtv.github.io/

Unfortunately the repositories are not very up to date.
The problem is that there are solutions available (e.g. blockchain and the decentralize movement) but those which managed to get attention in the early days were soon corrupted by the current system to serve the current system. Then the movement proceeded to discredit itself through intentional, repeated scamming of customer funds.

I think there is a chance that SBF of FTX will not go to jail because he is working for the system.

I guess the solution now is a legal and political one. Expose the crimes and lock people up. The scale of it will be of epic proportions. Probably won't be enough room in existing jails. We'll have to seize assets and send the criminals to some new penal colony.
Well, I don't make my living off of growing grapes. I just do that part for fun. So my napkin math is basically $1.50 per pound, which is on the low end of what I pay when I buy them from a vineyard.

Real grape growers are looking to maximize dollar per acre. There's a lot that goes into it if you're trying to turn a profit. But at the end of the day it's about keeping the yield high and the input costs (especially labor) low.
Is the term “abortion” completely off the table these days? I keep seeing “reproductive rights” and I’m not sure how that’s different other than the marketing. Is there something else included in that term that is inclusive of abortion?
On iOS the file manager is called Files.
He would owe the tax of he would sell the company. I fail to see how that is relevant? If he simply kept it he would also not owe the 700 mil.
I've seen significant negative effects in myself and others, but there's way too much clinical evidence at this point to dismiss the potential upsides.
when I first saw that headline, before clicking I spent a couple minutes trying to complete the phrase "___ ___ ___ ___ ___ thing as free lunch"

thanks, heinlein
Isnt that what a T-cell does?
He seems to have missed the biggest difference which is the lack of visual information.
This attitude isn't helping anyone, yourself included... but if you leaned into responsible disclosure you might find your way into a job that saves you from homelessness.
SPC does not charge any membership dues or rent for members to be part of the community.

We do have two community spaces, one in the South Park neighborhood of San Francisco and the other in the Soho neighborhood in New York City. All members are welcome to use the spaces to work, mingle, and collaborate, and we regularly host speaker and builder events for both members and guests. We also have members who participate remotely.
It’s absolutely an amazing replacement for cables IF you can get the magnetic alignment that MagSafe has. Have you used a Mac? You really want to stick to the USB-C charger that can drag your computer off the table?
I'm a developer and am right there with you. But if you're a decades-old corporation with 10,000 engineers, you need some set of signals to help guide improvements to tools and processes, right? This benefits developers, and there should be a set of signals to enable this.
There was an article recently about the amazing optical stabilization of some higher end Canon models:

https://www.theverge.com/23523047/canon-image-stabilized-bin...

That being said I would be wary of recommendations from sites that write articles around affiliate links. Not saying the Wirecutter recommendation is necessarily bad, just that I would be wary. Same with the Verge link I shared although I could not spot any direct affiliate link for the item itself in that article, only for other related items.
> That’s due to the biggest problem of all: finding buyers willing to pay more for a TV.

Looking at one dealer's website in the UK, they're selling a 65-inch LG OLED C2 for £1,700 which is on sale marked down from £2,700. The 65-inch Loewe OLED is £3,900 - more than twice the cost. The price differential isn't just a couple hundred more. It's a couple thousand more.

I think specialty items like this become tough because there isn't the same market pressure. With the LG OLEDs, there's pressure from Samsung, Sony, Vizio, and others on the price. Likewise, there's supply chain pressure - if LG and others start making more TVs, there is pressure to lower the price.

I think the issue is that there usually isn't an option for one to pay a small additional fee to opt-out of this garbage. For example, I don't think Roku, LG, or anyone is making £220/year off each customer (assuming a 10-year TV lifespan). That's the up-charge for the Loewe TV: £220/year for 10 years. If it were just an additional £100-300, I think some people would go for it. Instead, it's more than the price of a second TV.

I think the issue is that these TVs are way more than the revenue that spying companies are making off the data. For example, the article says that Roku makes around 83% of its $2.7B in revenue as "platform revenue". That includes both the ads and spying, but it also takes a cut of subscription revenue from services you sign up for. Let's generously say that two-thirds of that 83% is ads/spying. We're talking about $1.5B/year. Roku has 65M active accounts and I'm guessing an average of 2 TVs per account. So they're making maybe $12/year per Roku device. I'm not saying it's insignificant revenue. It's huge revenue when we're talking about all the users.

But there's no option for me to say "I'd rather pay the $12/year and avoid all the ads/spying." Instead, I need to spend 20x that to get away from the ads/spying.

To an extent, Apple fills this niche a bit, but not entirely. It would be great to see Loewe start selling Loewe os7 devices separate from their TVs. I think there could be a market for a $150-200 smart-TV device that wouldn't be so ad-driven - or maybe a $50 smart-TV device with a $15/year fee. It's hard to sell anything without recurring revenue in a world where you need to keep updating and supporting software. Still, $15/year is a tiny amount compared to the £3,900 TV.

Yes, a smart TV could still possibly do content recognition on what is displayed on the screen, but presumably HDCP should prevent that and I don't think a mainstream TV manufacturer would want to draw that amount of ire defeating copy protection. It would also be a lot of work on identifying the content without the ability to act on it. Sure, you now know what someone is watching, but they're using a platform that you don't control and can't serve ads on. If I'm using a Fire TV and they're spying on me, they can use that information to serve me ads, suggest other content someone has paid them to suggest, etc. If I'm using Loewe os7, they can't do the things that would earn them the money.
Reported this, and a few more parsing bugs:

https://github.com/pixie-io/pixie/issues/678
Physics' Biggest Myth: That Projectiles Make a Parabola (2020)
And for the record, the taxes were far far worse at that time. People were being absolutely opressed via the taxation scheme which was utterly corrupt. And Jesus tells them to pay it.
I thought the famous Hobby Lobby SCOTUS case wasn't abortion, it was contraceptive coverage in the health plan?
With all the brilliant minds out there finding all these tax constructs I am sure one could have found something that works if one really cared.