skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fingerprint sensor is tricky, it’s not clear if it’s actually is Apple’s call or not as it’s part of secure payment flow which would make it quite problematic vis-à-vis the certification requirements that the payment card industry enforces.

FaceID devices don’t have that problem since the front camera including the FaceID IR camera simply move from the old device to the new one.

It also was technically possible to move the old Touch ID sensor just a tad harder.

Apple doesn’t lock down screens and battery replacements (currently at least) as I’ve done both on 6-7 devices for F&F in the past decade or so.

Apple has by far some of the cheapest 1st party replacement services of the major brands, and also the cheapest OEM parts now Samsung charges far more at least in the UK.

3rd party parts are also much more readily available.

I’ve just recently replaced an XS screen with a £30 kit from Amazon for a Galaxy S10 which came out about the same time IIRC the cheapest replacement screen kit on Amazon is more than £200 and Samsung does no longer offer repair services despite the fact that this device isn’t even 5 years old.

Apple does a lot of shitty stuff and whilst it’s about as far from being a right to repair champion as one can imagine in reality the long term support they offer for their devices and the fact that they release only a limited number of SKUs each year whilst moving extremely large volumes of them makes that in practice their devices are the easiest to repair whether you are using 1st party, 3rd party or doing it yourself.
because that's working out real well so far

https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/Issues/2023/01/31/wo...

https://news.sky.com/story/russias-economy-has-weathered-the...

https://www.newsweek.com/russias-economy-forecast-outperform...

https://www.politico.eu/article/west-munich-security-confere...

https://archive.is/2023.02.23-211202/https://www.nytimes.com...

https://archive.ph/4kbWG

https://archive.ph/HUyik

https://archive.ph/Icahm
A hazard of "seeing through bullshit" is that you eventually come to take the perspective for granted, think you have some innate ability to do so rather than the continual uphill battle it is, get complacent, and then end up getting stuck in a different reality distortion field.

The same dynamic is at play with all of these US-focused anti-imperialists who had spent decades seeing through the US's bullshit, but then end up getting totally taken in by Russian imperial bullshit because it's familiarly anti-US.
Even compared to normal society, HN seems to have a complete blind spot for any sort of performative behaviour on both sides of ‘cancel culture’.

The recent thread on all the ‘censorship’ of Dahl’s books made that incredibly evident. Plenty of people here seem so excited to point out any overreach by pearl-clutching modern progressives that they can’t differentiate legitimate pearl-clutching from someone (in that case, Dahl’s estate / the publisher) performing a poor imitation because they themselves are scared of the mob.

And then on the other side, people seem unable to differentiate between a run of the mill cancelling, someone manufacturing their own cancelling because it’d suit their narrative, and someone legitimately becoming increasingly unhinged and deranged.
There are also 'free for personal' use commercial systems that work in a similar way to some of the suggestions posted in the comments:

https://www.keystash.io
Note that there are both HTTPS and SVCB record types.

Regardless of the standard being finalized there's already some support in the wild. To name a few prominent ones iOS, macOS, Cloudflare, Akamai, and NS1 all support both types.

https://github.com/MikeBishop/dns-alt-svc/blob/main/svcb-imp...
Really troubling statistics if true. I suspect the lockdown has exacerbated this.

Frankly I worry for my own young children. I almost wish there was a place to live where there was little to no social media, no chronic cell phone addiction, people out in nature, together, socializing, cooperating.
If you ask it something that you do not know yourself, how do you know what it is telling you is not bullshit?
I try to minimize the amount of personal info I share. Hacker News community is smart people, and my thread history is triangulation data.

Wouldn’t say I’m a particularly proud alum. They dropped the ball on a wide swath of other topics that I would consider integral. For instance, distributed computing should be a more common undergrad elective, not something you get blindsided by when you get out of school. “Sorry, you said Who-bernetes?” Now, I get that Kubernetes is a relatively young project, as is Docker and other containerization tech, but it is nonetheless staggering how school felt like it was 10 years behind the ‘cutting edge’ when I was there. They seemingly had no interest in educating engineers to go out and join the web community unless that individual sought self-guided study.
Poor countries are generally bad at collecting taxes,[1] and what little is collected is at risk of being pocketed by officials due to higher levels of corruption.[2] Subsidies may also fall afoul of WTO obligations.[3] Besides, Western countries also have anti-dumping regulations that are in practice used to shield domestic industries being damaged by cheaper imports.[4]

1. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2015/04/30...

2. https://bigthink.com/technology-innovation/are-poorer-countr...

3. https://www.trade.gov/trade-guide-wto-subsidies

4. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Ten-Years-of-Anti-dump...
Of course it is, since there's no such thing; Melanin-challenged humans are pink, not white, and no humans can fly without technological assistance.
I don't know how you can take away the idea that the media is a tool of corporate interests, given that it's running stories about how the water in East Palestine is giving schoolchildren rashes and headaches, despite the fact that it hasn't been impacted at all by the derailment --- East Palestine draws its water from 5 wells that are presumably some of the most tested water in an America, and nothing has changed since before the derailment.
> If you think at all that a Black american celebrity would be cancelled for saying to stay away from White people, then you havent paid attention. It would be celebrated.

Are there prominent examples? Kanye West is one star who has dimmed significantly after making some racist remarks.
I have. It works for some people, but there are scores of situations where it isn’t enough.
Sure, but NixOS goes one step further than Nix and also manages system packages.

These include the kernel and kernel modules such as drivers, which was the OP's complaint.
Does this mean that Sagittarius A* will become active once again (in the tone it takes for the orbit to decay)?
They do if they're a normal corporation selling an easy-to-ship product in mass quantities.
That’s not particularly effective since it seems that most repair shops even the none official ones have ways to rest the devices.

Also the screen can be still easily reused and the rest of the parts can be salvaged for components that end up even in Apples own supply chain I suspect.

If your iPhone is stolen it will be in an electronics chop shop in China within a week.
Drug manufacturers are extremely regulated.

In these recent cases it’s the non-regulation of celebrity posts on social media and rent-a-docs causing shortages of medicines intended for diabetes.
Written by an LLM.
> Of course it is, since there's no such thing; Melanin-challenged humans are pink, not white, and no humans can fly without technological assistance.

:slowclap:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight
I’ll reply to your question with a question: once VSCode has proved one could build hyperscale complex apps that perform well, would you be fast to bet for less proven tech?

I’ve had a great experience using VSCode on occasion (I’m a JetBrains guy), and loads of other people, including some great programmers, rave about it. I’ve similarly had a fairly solid experience with Spotify desktop across different platforms.

I’m asking genuinely, is it such a subpar choice when there’s such proven success cases?
these are extra requirements in addition to updates and ability to use headphones, and which are specific to you.

Looks like you are 0.001% minority, who doesn't pay enough money to draw interest from large manufacturers.
As much as there are problems with HK, I think most of us have realized this is the next chapter of the technological revolution. One that we all thought was supposed to be ushered by crypto/web3 but never really materialized for most.

That said I think this technology will only be exploited to make big tech only bigger.
It’s a good thing I’m able to even do exercise at all because my baseline mental health is managed with meds. I’m not sure what your point is, mine was a “yes and”.
The big issue is that OpenPlus is Chinese company, so they can install some backdoor on your phone anytime if CCP will ask.

It may be safer to have another phone without security updates.
Right, which the original poll highlighted too "it's not ok to be white".

It’s basically one group characterizing another group who is characterizing the first group.

It’s just people with too much time on their hands yelling at each other.

Its not important and most people would improve their mental health if they just avoided all the drama.

The problem with the internet is that it gives anyone a voice and people who hear that voice assume it's important.
A large number of software engineers, even those at rival companies, actually use Macs for their work. If Apple forces those users to set up an online account for basic functionality, I'm sure Apple would lose so much business, because those companies aren't going to want to deal with iCloud.
Thanks for this. Super cool but the public feed shows the true hearts of mankind... lol may want to hide that.
US puts forward Ajay Banga to lead World Bank
Windows is too much of a resource hog to be a virus.
Life's Like a Sauna Session
That’s the grievance. He wasn’t “fired for wrongthink”, they didn’t want to continue to work with him and said why. They’re not under any obligation to continue to publish his comic, right?
Ask HN: Why hasn't YouTube removed those fake MrBeast $1000 giveaway ad scams?
Example scam in the YouTube app: https://ibb.co/BNVy1ZR

I have been seeing this scam ad in the YouTube mobile app for the last few months, that claims anyone who sees this ad will get $1000 dollars. It seems crazy to me that Google/YouTube hasn't done anything about it so far, or have they?
Chris Titus Tech: The Teamviewer Scam [video]
I hear they receive glowing reviews
“Does the Javascript language inherently result in a bloat runtime?“

No

“Are the runtimes accidentally bloat?”

Not accidentally

“Is it all the browser stuff and not the JS runtime per se?”

Basically, yes

“Or maybe just bad programming on the dev side?”

No

Essentially the reason Electron apps are so heavy is they run on a browser, not on an operating system.

In the beginning, programs ran directly on hardware, and things were good. (e.g. Pretty much every game would ship with a custom bootloader that knew how to address the hardware and exposed this to the program, you didn’t - couldn’t - have anything else running at the same time.)

Later on, programs ran on the operating system, and things were okay. Operating systems abstracted over all the possible hardware configurations in an acceptable way and users got the benefit of running multiple programs simultaneously without too much of a performance cost.

Now, programs run on the browser, itself a program running on the operating system. Because the browser wants to be a platform for any other program, it has to hook into almost every part of the operating system, so that it can support almost any program. This necessarily brings with it enormous bloat - in effect you’re running one general-purpose pseudo-OS framework per program.

At places I’ve worked there have been discussions about whether to use Electron. Something one dissenter said has stuck with me. “Imagine every Python module you imported ran in its own Docker container. You would quit, but that’s what we’re asking of users.”
No that's entirely the point, when you push it then it starts to fail. Three paragraphs and no other story elements is way too short.
Because a minority of black people responded negatively to a poll question about a racist, dog whistle phrase, Adams now considers black people a hate group. And he recommends white people avoid black people.

Sounds like segregation to me.
'Sonication of Wine' comes to mind:

https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2017153618A1/en

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8348054/

Apparently similar applies to Whiskey:

https://qz.com/907619/the-many-scientific-ways-to-age-whiske...

https://www.pastemagazine.com/drink/whiskey-/rapidly-aging-w...

https://robbreport.com/food-drink/spirits/distilleries-using...

https://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=66552

SACRILEGE!
Tesla Offering $15,000 Discounts on Existing Model S and Model X Demo Inventory
That wikipedia entry is racist: Identifying one part of humanity by an immutable characteristic, and judging them for it, is the definition of "discrimination".
Can you be more specific in your criticism of DNSSEC?
So, better to throw decent shoes in the garbage than take a chance of being lied to.
How to work with freelance software developers
Screenshot says 1W or so. My laptop uses about 10W on light scrolling.
Exactly. I also think increase in house prices, cost of living and lack of free time also contributed to this.
He also dropped his glasses into the toilet.

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQNV3KGQiS0
I'm sure enough people make compilers from scratch to avoid this issue.

Yeah, most people bootstrap using a pre-existing compiler, but I know at least one person who compiled their initial compiler to ASM by hand before using it.
NJ has a long history of being used as a toxic waste dumping site. It's unsurprising that a train accident on the outskirts of Philadelphia didn't raise many eyebrows.
Stanford University’s Pernicious Snitching Apparatus
The problem with that "3 years of update" promise is afaik it only counts if you buy it on launch day. One would expect that kind of guarantee to start on the last day they sell the device, not the first one.
Can you elaborate on what's logical? Also not sure I see the hypocrisy.
I have a similarly new PC and found there were BIOS settings needed to allow it to get windows 11 -- some security stuff that wasn't turned on by default.

Of course, then I looked into what windows 11 provided and decided I'd wait a bit either way.
Bluesky: Building a Social Internet
> people do plenty of things for other people without any economic benefit to themselves.

Maybe small nominal things, but I don't know many that spend considerable amount of money on anything other than themselves.
> POSIX, C, X11

There's such a thing as lasting too long without deprecating old cruft.

POSIX isn't too bad, but is still kind of a mess. C has a lot of broken features. X11 doesn't fit how hardware works these days and trying to force it with extensions isn't a good fix.

There are real problems with faddishness on the scale of 5-10 years, but there are also real improvements that happen across decades, and if 40 year old tools don't get updated then they should be replaced.
The Supreme Court Understands the Internet
Does this include the Ractor stuff?
> VSCode has proved one could build hyperscale complex apps that perform well

did it though? It might perform "good enough", but its still an order of magnitude worse than native solutions. the only reason to ever use Electron or similar is for rapid prototyping. once you have an MVP, you should immediately work towards a native solution. people seem to forget that part, out of laziness or ignorance.
>Despite our citizens’ penchant – almost enthusiasm – for self-criticism and self-doubt, I have yet to see a time when it made sense to make a long-term bet against America.

https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2022ltr.pdf

I'm an American in my early 30s. My impression is that within my lifetime, the self-criticism and self-doubt has increased a lot. Does this accord with the perspective of older Americans? I remember my dad (in his 60s) said that the pre-Watergate times really were quite different in terms of the trust that Americans had in their government. But he didn't give me a sense of the overall trend over the past few decades.

It does feel to me like we've reached the zone of diminishing returns to negativity. For example, if America now was like the America I grew up in, I feel like we would make at least a token effort to figure out what went wrong with the CDC's response to the pandemic and how the agency could do better next time, through some sort of blue ribbon commission. But it feels like the pandemic (and everything else) has become hopelessly partisan in a way that interferes with constructive change.
Wow, I forgot just how many ads are in older magazines.

Somehow still better than most of the internet.
You would probably appreciate Kagi’s Universal Summarizer: https://labs.kagi.com/ai/sum
The question is a racist dog whistle. Knowing that I'd hesitate to answer in the affirmative even as a Caucasian. I'd probably decline to continue with the poll.
Ask HN: Is language or paradigm important while learning to program?
Some say that language doesn't matter while learning to program for the first time. It is the principles that matter.

Others say functional paradigm should be taught first before imperative to make code less error prone.

Some others suggest that we should focus on data and its structure more and learn coding based on the data we are operating on. So pick a project to solve.

And then there are language suggestors like do Python, or Javascript, or Scheme, etc, etc.

But do these really have any importance or is any place good to start?

Does it depend upon a person's age?

I know there are many people on HN who started in the era of green and black terminals with assembly or very low level languages. But if someone decides to start today, what would be the best choice?
It will take at least months and usually years before their report is complete. We may see a couple initial statements or abstracts, but it’ll take a while to complete their in-depth report.
Precisely. It’s very… ahem… American… to think that company owners can and should basically treat their employees like livestock. And also that the figurehead deserves thousands of times more compensation than anyone else, by virtue of them being there first. It’s all based on the myth of meritocracy.
For an example of how most of these cost-sharing plans go, see this article on the implosion of a commercial plan that preyed on the Mennonites of southern Ohio: https://www.propublica.org/article/liberty-healthshare-healt...

Amish economics are weird, because the deep aversion to debt tends to create winner-take-all scenarios: an Amish farmer might become wealthy from mineral and gas rights on his property, for example, and plow those funds into setting up a general store, which creates funds that go into a restaurant — and from there a hotel, a gas station, a gift shop, and pretty soon half the county is working for him. Since no Amish would consider a bank or SBA loan, new business starts are confined to either English outsiders or a small number of very wealthy Amish. (One guy in the cabinet business had a Rolls Royce with solid rubber tires — don’t ask — and an English driver whose name the car was officially in. Technically, not a violation of religious strictures!)
> The nature of software prevents experience.

This feels like a profound statement about programming work. And at the same time, I find myself pushing back on it in that we end up encountering things that are enough like something else but can’t be encapsulated in a library that experience still counts, whether that surfaces in the form of common practices (algorithms, design patterns, programming idioms, etc.) or just plain experience (I’ve seen this king of bug before).
It sounds like typical sloppy journalism, CHinese whispers if you will. What might have happened is this: monazite contains rare earth elements, thorium, small amounts of uranium and trace radium from radioactive decay. Once you have separated the rare earths and thorium you are left with the really good stuff, especially Ra-226. It's an alpha emitter with a halflife of 1600 years, it's no joke at all. An establishment unaware of the radiation risks contamination at Marie Curie level.
Also: Figma, Linear, Notion, Slack, Superhuman, Pitch, Loom. All Electron.

I’ve never understood the hate Electron gets on HN, when it powers so many great products that users love.
Uh huh, and this revolution will occur how many years away from today? 30? 20? Wake me when you're sure we've made it into single digits.
My father in his 70s has stuck with one of these old phones. I keep on expecting them to end security updates - no go. The idea that apple makes unrepairable throwaway phones makes me laugh. Easier to resell and easy to get fixed (I use applecare with no complaints)
YouTube doesn't have a huge incentive to remove these ads immediately (after all, if they're working, YouTube is making money).

YouTube just generally isn't known for being the best about spam stuff (comments, ads, etc.), so this fits within that narrative.
Yeah. The 1zpresso grinder is really another level tho. The coffee will be much better than the mini mill. But I won't really knock it. I'd just suggest the upgrade if you can afford it.
This is cool! I've had similar ideas, but when it comes to creating the curriculum it was always the time consuming part. If the graph was in something like a wiki, where people could contribute, add linkages, add new lessons, etc., and a system to automatically prune the graph to each student, there could be a globally sourced and maintained "school" for all human knowledge.
There is something to the older ads, more effort went into them, however, I would venture that in this case, it's because the old ads are not ads to you, they're genuine curiosities in and of themselves.
Where did Tesla mention about reducing acidity?
People lose $10m all the time gambling on a new business, I don’t see the issue here. Don’t start what you can’t finish.
Even if you discount Syria, the rest of the examples are NATO projects. If NATO was a defensive alliance as you claimed then it would not be constantly invading countries. NATO literally murdered and displaced millions of people in wars of aggression. It's absolutely surreal that somebody could possibly respond with I want to see more atrocities before I agree this is an aggressive alliance.

NATO massacred over 6 million in war on terror alone https://bylinetimes.com/2021/09/15/up-to-six-million-people-...

Meanwhile, US is obviously the biggest NATO member and what it does is clearly condoned by the rest of NATO members whether they are involved directly or not.
Paying Ourselves to Decarbonize
An essay by sci-fi author Kim Stanley Robinson
YouTube ads have become mostly spam for me too lately.

Some of them are making very dangerous medical claims, I'm also shocked google has done nothing but also not surprised at all.
Why? Do you suggest the US has intrinsic rights to the goods of other nations?
It's possible! All the entities are US-based, but I'm not aware of any laws that would require orgs to send emails like this.