skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> With 300k income you should be able to save a 200k/20% down payment in a year

A 300K income is well below 200K net, so even if they could live with zero expenses, they can't save 200k in a year. But of course they do have expenses, so it'd be a lot less than that.
The electrolyte doesn't evaporate.

The "capacitor plague" thing was because in the early 2000s every manufacturer started buying the same kind of cheapest electrolytics they could find that simply did not meet spec.

If your electrolytic caps are failing after six years, you're running them at too high a voltage.
To actually solve this, we need AGI.

That’s good to know -- once we reach that last milestone, we can finally stop moving those goalposts!!
Could it be, that just for the potential of a malfunction or accident, it’s beneficial to have a human on board to handle such situations?

And if that’s the case, the human might as well just drive the train while he’s waiting.
That's my experience as well. The ones that fail are 3.5" HD floppies (1.44MB). Over on the ctech mailing list an old-timer expert explained that it's basically because the 3.5" HD floppies are just above the density limit the medium and technology can handle, which is why the 720KB DD floppies are fine (and 1.2MB 5.25" ones are also fine), but the HD ones fail.
I tried to recover all my floppies from the eighties and nineties, it went very well except for the 3.5" HD ones - couldn't recover a single one, whatever drives I used. From what I'm told the 8" ones should read fine too, we'll see.. I have many, and I have a drive, but I haven't got it set up yet.
I recently came to think this is true because of a couple of things. First, and it might be cliche, but I've been in many meetings that consisted of back and forth, rephrasing what the previous person said. It felt like we were building consensus by playing word games. We left feeling that we accomplished something, but I had to look up in the minutes what we actually decided.

(I think there is a postmodern theory that a large part of our society is actually based on word games and not deliberation or contemplation. I used to dismiss the idea, but think about how important it is how you say something vs. what you say, and how people fight over definitions.)

Second, there are disorders like Wernicke's aphasia where people are able to speak grammatically correct sentences, but without communicating anything. Some people even confabulate whole stories that are somewhat consistent. But they are not drawing from their memory or their conciousness.
Except Meta also filtered with the same filters they used to form an engineering org around serving ads.

I have pretty extensive experience in the embedded Android space and have worked on products everyone here knows, Meta reached out to me very excitedly, and when I let the recruiter know I don't do Leetcode they assured me the coding phone screen was a merely a formality and I'd do great.

It took all my willpower not to leave the moment the interviewer dropped some generic LC merge sorted lists problem, though I don't think I did was that much better their eyes (poked at it for about all of 5 minutes, called it, and asked them some questions)

They actually tried to set me up with a second phone screen but I declined, even on the principle of it, I don't like working at places that filter by LC. In cutting edge stuff like wearables especially, I'm sure you'll find a ton of people with no time for jumping through LC circus. I'm sure I could take a few months and grind out those problems in my sleep (or rather I've been told that), but I'd rather work on interesting and novel things.
Oakland Ransomware hackers dump gigabytes of sentive city files on the web
Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35050040
That's a weird comparison. IMO most newspapers fall under "ads" as well.

Political ads.
It's a physical storage about the carrier. as far as i understand it's more convenient for carriers to onboard clients and also for users in general if a phone dies for example you can swap it into another.

There are CDMA enabled phones that do not need a SIM card but they're a pain to transfer to another carrier. At least today.
> Some percentage of the top of the range will always be unaffordable to the median income.

Maybe not in Manhattan, but you can certainly imagine some more modest town where the median house and the highest priced house are priced within the same order of magnitude and the latter is still affordable to the median buyer.
I’ve seen no ads on my AppleTV, other than what apps/services show me.

However, each app in the top row gets to populate the top half of the screen with its own content. I primarily use Netflix, which just displays the shows I recently watched. Maybe other apps are showing you the ads you’re seeing?
Yes, but at the same time most inbred strains have genetic disorders precisely because they are inbred. E.g. the most commonly used strain C57BL/6 develops age-related hearing loss. To avoid this, there are other lab strains like CD-1, which are deliberately bred to maintain a controlled level of genetic heterogeneity.
LLMs keep demonstrating that they have an internal "world model" representation of concepts and the relationships between them.

Meanwhile ostensible "expert" humans continue to regurgitate obvious falsehoods like "it's just a fancy autocomplete" or "you're being fooled by a system that just predicts the most probable next word".
Dual-SIM phones were the hot shit for years when phones were beginning to take off. I remember some weird adapters that cycled through SIMs when the phone was restarted and all kinds of other hacks.
Is there a regex that matches 1-365 that looks like a racial slur if you squint?
I feel like this is gearing up to bring back contracts or phone locks, in a way. A family member recently bought an iPhone from the US to a non-US country, without realizing that the US models are eSim-only. They have to change carriers because only the fancy, expensive carriers offer eSim. I would not be surprised if they find other ways to make it harder to install an eSim in a different carriers phone.

Also, another thing I hate about having an eSim is that it sorta forces you to install your carriers app, which for some cheap/mid-tier carriers is an ad-infested mess.
The immigrant melting pot, and the food that results is American food culture, at least when you're outside of homogeneous strip malls that the Midwest is famous for. So in Southern California, there's no shortage of immigrants who started their own restaurant or food truck. Next to the 99 Ranch or H-mart, there's little boutiques of food from back home. And then to top it off, there are fusion places targeting the American palate, which just couldn't exist anywhere else in the world.

If you think American cuisine consists of massive chains; TGI Fridays, Olive Garden, Red Lobster, Hooters, Texas Roadhouse, etc, then no wonder you don't think highly of American cusine. But if you branch out from there, there's a ton of food culture, and Southern California's a great place to experience it.
Security. To get an idea check out Java Card:

https://www.oracle.com/java/java-card/
Terms Every Crypto Beginner Needs to Know
Can you please write a blog post or book with "Sucking ass at customer comms" as the title ;)

I say this as someone that loves fly :)
Which is awesome, but it also means that dual-sim capabilities is completely software based. In 10-20 years, could this be part of a subscribption, or be disabled by certain carriers who don't want you to use a cheaper data plan along with their sim?
Unauthorized withdrawals happen all the time at banks. They don't just reverse money because you claim it was unauthorized.
You have to prove it. Within a limited time period. Under certain transaction types. Good luck doing that.
That’s a completely incorrect interpretation of what I wrote.

EA destroyed a valuable brand by managerial greed. That’s a fact. Another company got funded by public means when capitalist institutions didn’t want to give them the time of day, and is now a successful business. That’s another fact.

I didn’t say anything about an inherent evil or sin. If you believe capitalism always executes perfectly and is beyond criticism, that’s your ideological position. You may be projecting this expectation of ideology onto others.
Back when we started to use CDs for backups I was horrified when I found that in general those CDs started to become unreadable after only a year in storage. We never had any problems with original CDs (say, the tons of CDs that came with an SGI computer), but the consumer-type writable ones didn't last at all. I think the technology got better after some years, but I still wouldn't trust a writable CD or DVD to last. For flash, at least, they are actually spec'ed.. and they don't last. They can't. Every bit holds a charge.. which will dissipate, eventually.
I have worked at Sluggish Enterprise™, which I was referencing. I had the luxury of moving on. So, I understand that you can always come across worse, but that doesn't absolve Atlassian, now does it :)
Interesting distinction I haven't heard before but it makes sense
Probably a moral hazard problem: we could track it, but why would we? As we all used that very same system to move up the corporate ladder.
I have the impression that the spam is crowding out the long tail of products and is also driving away some better products with a unique selling point.
Except it doesn't, not even remotely; there are dozens of other ways of buying things online, people just choose not to.
What interest is conflicting, exactly? Seems like interests would be pretty perfectly aligned to maximize revenue.
YMMV, but our Bosch dishwasher has 5 modes and one of them is "party" mode. When selected, the machine first preheats water for 30 minutes and then you can load it repeatedly, each load only takes 10 minutes to wash. It does have two drawbacks though. First, you have to use liquid detergent, as tablets do not dissolve fast enough. Second, it consumes a lot of power and water as opposed to the regular 3h+ setting. But it is handy if you ever need to wash a lot of stuff fast.
Where does Plex fit in though?

Because it's free but absolutely riddled with ads these days.
I didn't know they were for profit, interesting.
Yeah it's still too early for us to know for sure but I'd expect LLMs getting pretty bad pretty quick.

Once ads are added there is, again, a motivation to make replies very long and rambly. Even now I begin getting "annoyed":

Yes it's grammatically correct and "humanly" sounding but all I really want is five dashes with ingredients and instructions for an apple pie.

Given enough time, I'm confident the "Certainly I can help you. Here's what you need to..." will once again turn into a paragraph or two to have more opportunities to sell to advertisers.

The economics still don't seem to favor brief responses.
Intel and SK Hynix Show Two Paths for Flash Memory’s Future
It's funny to me; what halcyon days are people longing for? When was the Internet an organized, easy place to navigate?
I assumed that this is a legal requirement for all big online stores - is that not the case?
Is there a single example where in hindsight, a SPAC wasn’t a red flag?
NY Fed Says Worldwide Supply Chains Back to Normal
SIM cards were never swappable for me. They were locked to a phone. Changing to a new handset meant going to the carriers store or having them ship me one. I welcome the ease of portability that eSIM brings.
And to be more specific, possession and home production are difficult to detect, so enforcement will be ineffective or highly invasive or both. Victimless crime laws erode citizens' respect for the law and government respect for citizens' privacy. That's what's wrong with them.
I'm trying to be cool? That is certainly a new one to me as I wasn't even trying to be witty. I was legitimately impressed at a far more interesting answer encompassing the anti-intellectualism mass reaction and philosophical framework. I am more curmudgeonly yelling at clouds.

What kind of quietly desperate insecurity drives reading not opting into a trend as desperately trying to be cool instead of dismissing them as out of touch?
> Plex will randomly flash static on the screen when streaming plain old h264 from the local network.

Like, actual old school static like on an analog TV that's tuned to a dead channel? Because (with the exception of the HBO intro sequence), that really shouldn't be happening since the switch to digital.
How many options are there for retail?
Removing phosphates from dishwasher detergent was stupid because phosphates are measured in the discharge water from the waste treatment plants where it is regulated, and they can be dealt with chemically. All removing phosphates did was save a tiny amount of money on water treatment. Zero effect on the environment. Total greenwashing like plastic wish-cycling.

If you want zero effort spotless dishes, just mix STPP in a 1:4 ratio with cheap powdered detergent.

https://www.amazon.com/Sodium-Tripolyphosphate-Super-Cleans-...
Glad to see it's not https://www.embark-studios.com/ that is shutting down... that was my first association with the name.
Me too, https://spacegoods.com/ and I can confirm it eliminates the need for coffee during the day as well as it helps for staying in the zone a bit
Too late, LinkedIn has already become kind of a Facebook+Twitter mixture now…
Minimalism is trendy, especially in recent times, but there's an argument to be made that there is irreplacable usability in something being Big and Chonk.

Chungus data mediums, connectors, etc. almost never go missing or break from simple daily use.
The difference is that there are many stores to negotiate with for shelf space - in the online world there is only one serious player (although this does seem to be changing over time)
Banks have little to no control over this. Banking regulation E controls this aspect.

So yes, a reason to keep it at your bank (which is regulated heavily).
In Q3 2022 they made about $4.4B net profit on revenues of $27B.

Across the whole of 2022, it was $23B net profit on $117B revenue.

Not sure what you mean by “core business”. About 97% ($113B) of their revenue comes from advertising on Facebook, and half of that is in the US.
merging sorted lists is not a leetcode nightmare interview question though, if you can't manage it in an interview, chances are you can't program very well IMO
Which is why they recommend a security key or a TOTP auth instead of SMS.

https://help.coinbase.com/en/coinbase/getting-started/verify...
The GDPR is quite clear on defining PII, I don't understand why you would claim otherwise?
Debatable. It probably failed like any other Google project that is not creating billions in revenue on day one.
That's great, love to hear it! Really excited about what you all are working on.
The Suspicion Machine
"Is there something about the actual media that put a hard limit on how tightly information could be packed on it that couldn't be solved with a better drive?"

For floppies: Yes. It wouldn't help to use better precision. The medium itself can't handle that kind of density. 3.5" floppy drives actually went over the limit with 1.44MB ones - they fail when kept in storage for some years. Much much more than 720KB floppies.
They could have demanded this from physical dual-sim models as well. There is always some kind of software involved.
I even find it largely worse than not upscaling. The smaller the image on the retina, the higher the density of detail, and the higher the perceived sharpness. I don't mind the small viewport — the brain is already adapted to concentrate on just the fovea when looking closely at things.

Downscaling is also a substitute for frame interpolation. 24-60 fps video becomes noticeably smoother, but the effect is weaker with animation ≤8 fps. Why does this even happen? That less of an absolute difference between frames is less jarring makes intuitive sense. However, I can't find any research, only the seemingly single forum thread where it's been discussed on the internet.*

Finally, I contend that even with a high-resolution source, a smaller viewport is not necessarily a worse experience, merely a different one. Because peripheral vision is so poor, by looking at a smaller image, you see the 'bigger picture' faster, without having to move your eyes. It's most noticeable in fast montages where you'd rewind to see something that you missed.

See also the opposite: "attention deconcentration"

PS: Downscaling below 1:1 increases sharpness with little detail loss when the original resolution is higher than the actual level of detail, owing to the likes of intermediate upscaling, optical limits, or compression.

* https://forums.blurbusters.com/viewtopic.php?t=380
Like supporting TOTP?

https://help.coinbase.com/en/coinbase/getting-started/verify...
Discord is nice because it lets you have small talk and build strong communities with a more natural cadence. In the same way we don't record every spoken conversation, I think we don't need to stress about discord going missing. I imagine any historically relevant outcomes of conversations on discord will be recorded outside of discord.

All that said, it's still important to have knowledge bases to reference I agree, but I think that should be an effort separate to Discord. I wouldn't want to search an arbitrarily long chat log to find answers to questions, it's not well suited for the task.
> "But it’s disappointing all round. I absolutely love how easy it is for me to buy a new phone, swap in my old SIM and I’m instantly using my old number."

In theory, with an eSIM it's even easier to swap in your old SIM because you don't have to deal with the physical SIM card. Especially so if you don't have the physical SIM because it's lost or whatever. In my experience it's super frustrating to have to wait for a new SIM to arrive in the mail because you lost it or the old one is faulty!

Some carriers [1] also support "eSIM Quick Transfer" which allows you to swap eSIMs between devices instantly in the phone's carrier settings, with no need to contact the carrier or deal with their website/software.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT209096

eSIMs are a massive win when travelling, too. Instantly activate a data plan at cheap local rates in whatever country your travelling to, without having to first get your hands on a physical SIM...
"Dying" is probably a bad word to use, because people will think you mean "becoming unprofitable". Instagram is probably more profitable than ever, because it's in the same category as TikTOk at this point (which is the same category as youtube - mindlessly watching content). But yes, it's no longer a good place to look up your friends. Heck, half the friends of friends I know have their profiles set to private, which makes them completely unviewable (except for a very small profile pic to try to figure out if it's the person you know or not).

Any new social media project that tries to reconnect people without inserting heavy-handed promoted content and native advertising has my vote.
I'm not just talking about border disputes, and I don't make this connection lightly. Pakistan was explicitly founded as a country for 'Indian Muslims'. The 1971 war wasn't over a border dispute: West Pakistanis openly genocided and raped[1] Bengali Hindus (and Muslims, for that matter), declaring Bengali women 'war booty', which forced India to step in.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_genocide

As for 'no united India before colonial times': what about the Maurya and Gupta empires, or even the Delhi and Hyderabad sultanates? They governed over a significant portion of modern-day India + Pakistan.

If this is your sort of goalpost, then even relatively homogenous countries like Germany and Italy shouldn't really exist today, given that they only coalesced in the late 19th century.
This feels like an American perspective. In Europe (and Asia too?), sim-swapping is pretty seamless, and relatively common.
In the Apple TV interface, there are tiles for other shows and movies to watch, some of which I'd have to pay extra to watch. Which is totally an ad. If you have AppleTV+ you might not be seeing those as ads because you don't pay a la carte for each show.
I found similar enjoyment in mini-disks.
Semantic or keyword search for finding ChatGPT context. Who searched it better?
Citadel harnessed the weather to claim hedge fund crown
https://archive.ph/aoBzL
Luckily, I mostly don’t see any ads. Only for work, and on Amazon pretty much. Some more as product placement and in the physical world, but not a ton.
If you're renting out the house, does it need to be in a HCOL area and does it need to be just one house? It goes against the idea of 'housing as investment being a negative thing' though.
i think you meant to write piracy not privacy
This is rather sad that one must give up the range and add the signed range just to avoid overflow bugs. Is there no way to make overflow not the default and instead trap unless one uses `add_wrap()` or `add_no_wrap()` in case it's not default?
Neither does he.
That's a nice theory, but it may not survive the next few decades of regulatory capture by the same type of company you believe it's intended to act against.
Airbnb won't sue them since it's not their money. Host won't sue them since they would be laughed out of court for trying to recover a thousand bucks for nothing.
Thousands if not tens of thousands of domains expire every hour

How many Gmail accounts expire and then get held hostage with higher renewal fees before going to auction? Oh yeah, zero
Space Travel was more successful in the sense that 90% of the "gamers" of that area played it.

Barely 1% of today's gamers even knows what Veloren is.

:)
New Mexico is known for its drug problems (including alcoholism). 30% of fatalities involve alcohol on the part of the driver or the pedestrian, and 14% involve other drugs (these percentages might overlap).

https://gps.unm.edu/sites/default/files/traffic/NM_Pedestria...

New Mexico’s pedestrian fatalities have actually stayed fairly constant or even gone down a bit the last few years, during a period when the country as a whole has had a significant increase. And we’re still #2 nationwide! That’s how bad things are here.
I like this design less than that of Fabien Sanglard's older pages like https://fabiensanglard.net/quake2/index.php. It is more distinctive, but the text is harder to read. Justified monospace text also makes it harder to scan. I think the goal is to look kind of like a man page, but man pages have more varied indentation, which helps you scan their content.
What even is Prime without faster shipping?
It's heading to nation state regulation. It's classic "fuck around and find out" territory: if it's his private toy then the ad money is never coming back nor is rental income from users and he destroyed $40b of value for a whim, potlach style to prove something, goodness knows what.

If he wants his money back then rules have to apply with a process which costs staff, and legalism and now he owns a free speech space but it's semi regulated and his own stupid posts are subject to the same rules the FTC wanted when he tweeted bullshit about Tesla stock while stoned.

They will teach the whole story in MBA classes for decades to come. Name me anyone since an emperor who has done as much for "look what burning a pile of money does" theory of value.

Still: look on the bright side. If he was female and shaved his head, they'd lock him up and seize the money (Britney reference)

Yes, it's leveraged. It's his and banks money. It's gone. By now, his cohort of backers must realise this.
You could implement a HTML renderer with Collagraph (https://github.com/fork-tongue/collagraph).

From the README:
Write your Python interfaces in a declarative manner with plain render functions, component classes or even single-file components using Vue-like syntax, but with Python!

- Reactivity (made possible by leveraging observ)
- Function components
- Class components with local state and life-cycle methods/hooks
- Single-file components with Vue-like syntax (.cgx files)
- Custom renderers