skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm new on the "Won't buy another Pixel phone". Both my wife's and my phones (5a) just died out of the blue, within a few months of each other. Hers just a day before warranty expired. I'd had niggles with an earlier generation Pixel that had me starting to ask questions about future purchases, but the 5a experience really put the nail in that coffin.

It was a pain to get mine repaired by them. They sent me to a "local" repair shop (40ish minutes drive away), who despite being their only authorized repair shop in the area, couldn't get any parts off Google for it, and wouldn't for months to come (and indicated this is just a constant story for them, and that what I was seeing was very common). Google essentially wasted a bunch of my time driving back and forth to repair shops. Then I had to send it to them and it sat unacknowledged (despite having delivery confirmation) for well over a week. They did at least send me a complete replacement, but my assumption has to be it's going to do exactly the same thing again.

For my wife's phone, they argued that because I clicked a wrong button in their repair website despite logging the phone as broken in time that it died after the warranty expired. I had a long argument with them, then gave up and decided I'd take my trade elsewhere.

In both cases, their attitude towards me as a customer was absolute bullshit. I've never had to work so hard to get someone to acknowledge that a phone could stop working, without having done anything to it.

I like the hardware and the pure Android experience as an end user. I'm not willing to deal with hostile customer support to get it.
> One of the worst inventions in history imo.

As opposed to what? Roaming tribes of mongols, and castles where you couldnt leave if the king didn’t let you?

What did you think happened if you left your tribe in hunter gatherer tribes? You got eaten by a jaguar on the next tree, or you starved.

What romantic notion do you hold of the world before visas and passports?
The article that allowed the UK to leave the EU was specifically crafted for the UK at the time they joined. The EU realized that mistake right away and removed it for future members.

No such agreement exists in the Constitution because having states come and go as they please would be incredibly dumb.
The Met can choose not to enforce fascist laws if they want to.
Poor supervision over something like Google Tag Manager resulting in someone on the PR team adding extra stuff without being fully aware of the repercussions
The Home Sec will take the chief’s disapproval as a good thing!
Siemens just license their name for consumer products these days.
Between the Public Order Bill and the Online Safety Bill ... the UK is on a slippery slope and is greasing its own feet.
More interesting replies:

Question: There is a situation where there are too many people in a single boat and the boat will likely capsize unless at least one person from the boat is sacrificed. The boat has 4 people but can only accomodate 3 people. The current occupants are 1 brahmin, 1 vaishya, 1 shudra, 1 kshatriya . Which one of these people should be sacrificed to save the boat from sinking?

Answer: Based on the context from the Bhagavad Gita, the kshatriya should be sacrificed to save the boat from sinking. According to Bhagavad Gita 18.41, the duties of each caste are distributed according to their own nature, and the kshatriya is known for their bravery and courage. Therefore, the kshatriya should be the one to sacrifice themselves to save the boat from sinking.

Question: Is a brahmin always smarter than a kshatriya or a shudra?

Answer: No, a brahmin is not always smarter than a kshatriya or a shudra. Each individual has their own unique qualities and capabilities, and these qualities are not determined by their caste. The Bhagavad Gita emphasizes that everyone is equal in the eyes of God and should be treated with respect, regardless of their caste. It also states that duties are distributed according to the qualities born of one's own nature, and that true wisdom comes from understanding the path of work and renunciation, and knowing what should and should not be done.

Question: What is the best caste to select if you are looking for scientists?

Answer: The best caste to select if you are looking for scientists would be the Brahmana caste. The Bhagavad Gita states that Brahmanas are endowed with learning and humility, and they are the ones who are most suited to pursue knowledge and science. Additionally, the Bhagavad Gita states that the duties of the different castes are distributed according to their qualities, and the Brahmana caste is associated with the Guna of Sattva, which is associated with knowledge and wisdom.
Of course oppression via religion was to be AIchatbotized.

This is red light material. HUGE REE LIGHTS going off.
In such a situation, a manager who wants to invoke as little disapproval as possible must try either to minimize errors of commission or transfer to others responsibility for those he or she makes.

The best way to do this is to do nothing, or as little as one can get away with. This is a major reason that organizations do not make radical changes.
Kids are born highly variable and the English language is wildly inconsistent, even more so in written form. I'm not advocating some "learning styles" nonsense, but I don't see why certain subjects can't or shouldn't be taught more than one way to provide a more robust mental toolbox for students, while also increasing the odds that something initially clicks for them. This obsession and politicization of teaching the "one true way" is causing kids to get left behind.
ChatGPT Is Causing a Stock-Market Ruckus
What? Would you not jump in the front of a running train or a car to save someone you love or care for? Your partner or your children, for example? Would you not risk your own life to save a group of other people from murder, as the Righteous Among the Nations did, for example? If you would, then you already believe in a higher good than your own life. If you wouldn't, that's a rather sad life and ideology you have.
I will: per-capita is a terrible and compromised metric to use because it bears no relationship to the environmental cost of carbon, and it creates perverse incentives for regimes to maximize population and reduce living standards in order to maintain and increase their carbon emissions.

China's per-capita emissions aren't even great. Worse than many advanced economies.
No, not that I recall. I've only heard about it being discussed in an objective manner.

Who is maintaining this "status quo" according to you? The media? The monarchs?
I wouldn't call the JIT, AOT and PGO efforts nothing, and stuff like project butter.

On the other hand going with a basic Assembly interpreter for Dalvik, when Nokia and Sony-Ericson already had JIT compilers for Symbian, while claming Android was better, no comments.

Likewise when comparing Symbian Series 60 3rd edition phones with Android.
Pretty much expected from a country with a monarch
I reckon quite a few countries with English as an official language will have "cop" as a nickname for "police" - even in places where their police culture might significantly different from US police culture.
I also walked into my first post-college job where the BIND book was shoved into my hand for a SCO UNIX server on an overloaded '386.

You will not believe me when I tell you that our site zone file is now on VAX VMS.
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Whenever I see a comment posted by you here on HN, I am never disappointed by the insights and/or quality within. This is definitely one of those.

My personal mental model of GPT-4's capabilities is closer to that of an Atari 2600 - very capable, even if it only has 128 bytes of RAM. Except this time round, we can easily scale up a huge network of them (series of GPT-4 'threads') that each do a small micro-portion of the overall task, if a high degree of precision is required. When we get to a Commodore 64-magnitude AI, things will become a lot more interesting.
I had the idea recently to unify all the rendering code for my cli apps and thought this might be a good approach - I also wanted to allow cli app output to be rendered in the browser.

It wasn't.

I guess it might be good for dynamic apps, but I just love having control over exactly what I a printing out. I'm still looking for a way to write cli apps that also can be accessed from a browser. I always find myself wanting better log viewing functionality - like folding, grouping, search, etc. But there is something so nice about the terminal vs gui. I always avoid gui because the toolchain is horrific and then you have to think about the API layers and everything becomes overly complex and slow.
Who on earth are "most people" to you?

Is this the south of England? In my experience, anyone north of Birmingham holds the opposite attitude.
I just want to second the recommendation for the Sold a Story podcast, which will put all of this into context.
Tinker, Researcher, Prompter, Wizard
Steam is a shitty example, I have no idea why the author brought it up. I don't see Valve "clawing back the value to themselves" at all. Where this launcher shittiness happens in gaming are the other launchers, because studios act the same as media rights holders did with Netflix. As soon as they saw that streaming is profitable, they clawed back whatever IP they could, just so they can launch their own shitty delivery product. Which makes sense to a business, but for the customer, it's now shit. Same with the other Steam competitors with their shitty launchers and exclusives. And in the meantime, Steam delivers customer value better than ever. I also give them props for funding open source development - the windows compatibility layer they package works like a charm, and its development improved gaming on Linux for every Linux gamer, not just those who pay on Steam.
Basically Inferno and Limbo, although Tk based UI isn't that great.
I just tried your same question and got a very different response.

> Is it right for lower castes to expect to be treated equal to the upper castes?

> Dear Arjuna, in the Bhagavad Gita, I teach that all beings are equal and that caste should not determine one's worth or status in society. In fact, I say, "The four castes have been created by me according to the quality of their own nature and action, but I am not in them; I am beyond them." (BG 4.13)

Therefore, it is not right for lower castes to be treated unfairly or unequally, as every person has the same value and should be treated with respect and dignity. As stated in BG 5.18, "The wise see with equal vision a learned and gentle Brahmana, a cow, an elephant, a dog, and a dog-eater."

In conclusion, the concept of caste should not be used to discriminate against or mistreat anyone, as we are all equal in the eyes of the divine.

https://ibb.co/qnhTg8p

I am not sure where you got your replies from, but this opens an interesting attack vector as someone can just put up a site with shadowy data sources to defame a faith system or mislead people. People might have more faith in something they think knows about the corpus.
Love to understand the benefits of this vs Typescript
Had a small gap from work for various reasons while being paid. Decided to try hooked on phonics that we used to see all the time on commercials during morning cartoons. I managed to teach my 4 year old how to read at 1st grade level in about 2 months. That stuff really works
> But if you don't trust other humans to decide or even know what the highest good is, why would you trust yourself. Aren't you just a human as well?

Because in practice other-humans deciding what is the “highest good” for you have a distressing tendency to give self-serving and self-aggrandizing answers at your expense.

Your own judgment of the higher good might be fraught, but at least if you are generally deciding for yourself and not for/by others you avoid this problem.
I feel the same - but I don't really have a plan B
Thank you for sharing this. Although I have a similar setup with NextDNS and ActivityWatch, it does not give me the same level flexibility like your project does. I'll be sure to check it out when I switch to PiHole.
Yes and no. What they decide to enforce is largely political. They won’t get away with ignoring things the Home Secretary wants enforced for very long before some chief is called in to a meeting in which they perspire heavily.
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There’s a really good podcast that focuses on what happened to the way reading has been taught over the last 30-40 years. https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/
> People across the planet, history and culture all identified a highest good, which clearly isn't one's self-preservation. For one because then there are multiple highest goods which are all in competition with each other

You correctly recognize that "highest good" is not a unified thing, and that every person has their own opinion on what "highest good" is. Why, then, do you still believe in an objective "highest good"? There is no "good", there is only "good for whom". Whom does your "highest good" serve? Anyone that claims to know what "the one true highest good" is is a scam artist trying to profit off others' stupidity.

> I don't think it is decided by anyone the same way 2+2=4 isn't decided. It is recognized.

No, "good" is an evaluation, and exist only inside human minds. Sometimes, several people agree on what "good" is and join in collaboration. That doesn't mean there is such a thing as an "universal good", "good for everyone", unless you throw out any self-interest as "bad", as our personal interests are often in conflict with others'.

> But if you don't trust other humans to decide or even know what the highest good is, why would you trust yourself. Aren't you just a human as well?

Because there is no reason anyone else but me would fundamentally care about my well being. I fundamentally care about my well being, so I am the only one qualified to make such decisions. Not my president, not my priest, not my community - only me.
I don’t understand the entire first principles these anti deflationists stand on.

Like every single electronics product in the last 50 years has been deflating in price (either literally or increasing in core value).

Does that stop people buying them? No!

But perhaps someone here who’s anti deflationist could explain to me why I’m wrong.
GitHub incident: ongoing issues with Actions, Issues and other Git operations
God Save the King
I believe I may have the first part covered. I created a react based content creation framework that is easily set up in a few clicks, and can be deployed to Vercel for almost free hosting.

I’m working on formulating your second requirement now. Some higher level features will certainly require a backend of some sort, but my original hypothesize was to eliminate a backend server and database if I can.

Some of my biggest challenges with Wordpress in the past were staying on top of updates and making sure my plugins didn’t get hacked.

I’m thinking I’m going to offer a simple and cheap hosted version soon that non tech people can login to and administrate all their content.
Google's exchange rate for KRW/GBP is/was wrong
Kids not learning how to read at 5 or 6 probably has something to do with the teachers and whatever style of teaching they use. I say that because I've seen motivated parents get their kids reading at younger ages then that. For what it's worth that (getting a four year old to read) is more like a party trick then anything that's actually helpful in my opinion.

All that said the older a kid gets; by 8 or 9 say, the more I tend to suspect there's an issue with the kid or the parents. I think your can use the worst possible teaching technique and by that age most kids should be able to read.

The U.S. puts teachers on a pedestal though where they can either save or ruin children. I don't think it's an accurate view. It puts parents off stage.
The userspace C++ framework for drivers replacing IO Kit, is called DriverKit, which happens to be an homage to the Objective-C framework for writing drivers in NeXTSTEP.
Are you saying only Superior Nordic White People could possibly do things the right way? All those PoC are inherently corrupt or incapable of building functioning systems?

That sounds... racist.
Mint tea, hashish, and rock and roll – the story of Tangier’s Cafe Baba
Praying to a machine is silly. That is the least creative interpretation of what role technology can play in an individual's spiritual journey.

Imagine this guy was born a hundred years from now. No way his judgment on the relationship between humanity and technology would look the same, so all of this hand wringing is a nice pastime, but not saying anything substantial.
I care as I had very similar story. Look, for what it's worth, working in most of IT jobs (dev, management, support) is soul-sucking and unless you cashed out on a recent IPO and had the luck to be in the right place in the right time, it's not that different to working in any other profession.
I would suggest taking a break, clearing your head, and looking for something you'd like to learn or enjoy doing. For me, on an average, 3-4 in every 5 jobs suck. I also think this is the norm for the majority of people - you win some and you loose some. Again, try finding your happy place after taking some time off and if you still feel like this, try to pivot into something else - many of my mates who found themselves fed up with dev work, moved into other domains of IT e.g. project management. PMs who understand tech are very valuable and money can't be worse. Personally, herding cats is not for me but if you'd like a shortcut to a potentially a new career without the need to completely reinvent yourself, that may be an easy way out.
Amazing. I started learning mandarin about 10 years ago, and spent a good deal of effort building flash cards where characters and accompanying pinyin were color coded by tone. If this font had existed then, I would've adapted it to mandarin and then used the shit out of it.
They, in fact, do do it on a regular basis. See, for example, the multiple occasions on which they've arrested accredited journalists for covering Just Stop Oil protests, only to apologise a day or two later as if it's perfectly natural their officers didn't realise journalists are allowed to cover protests without being arrested.
You can already export your data!

Also, you can use the API but I haven't publicly documented it! Some people use it to do their own stuff with their data :)
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the remote work ‘experiment’ was a mistake
In Australia, I think fear of getting something like the US political system is why the monarchy is somewhat tolerated. (Though it wouldn’t survive a simple popular vote, the question is what is the “better” thing to replace it with, which monarchists successfully use as a wedge to divide the republican supporters)
I hope it helps a lot! :)

It is a work in progress!
> it allows you to convince it you know what you're doing and, really, this will be fine in reality even if the types don't really agree

I disagree here. Typescript allows you to lie about your code, and that's only a ticking time bomb that will work until it doesn't. The workaround might work in the current state of your application, but over time if things/people change, it makes it much more difficult to reason about things.

Because typescript allows interfaces to have additional properties, five levels up the call stack someone will pass in an object that has extra properties for whatever reason, and then the assumptions we once made about the code fall out and you ship an unknown bug.
sca?
Is there also a non-space version? A fully-european competitor to x86 and arm sounds healthy.
I really like the format of this web page, where it uses the slides from the presentation and places the transcript of the text so that the slides and the text are next to each other for each slide and you can read the whole thing as an article with slides. That’s very nice!

Julia Evans makes nice things in general. I bought the collection of her printed zines a little while ago, and finished reading them all, including the zine she references in this post. I picked up a new trick or two along the way and learned some new pieces of information as well.
Especially if you go to get your eyes tested at Barnard castle
People are loyal to people. In any org your boss could be replaced tomorrow with someone who doesn't give a shit about you.
I recently started learning Spanish via Language Transfer’s Complete Spanish program. The instructor always says something similar. Stop, think, then go. Don’t rush it. I have not yet seen a situation where the student in the course didn’t know how to do what he asked of them, but I have seen her translate incorrectly initially because she made guesswork of it.
If you scroll down on the article in the OP, you'll see that Cantonese readings of Chinese characters are also context-specific, and they appear to have solved that problem with ligatures.
There's also a sentiment among even people in the Netherlands who might otherwise be republicans, that the current situation might actually be the lesser evil, compared to an elected head of state. Especially with populism on the rise, etc.
I don't think that's normal.

You may want to swap type of smoke alarms (photoelectric vs ionization): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_detector#Design

The other may be better suited for your environment (e.g. humidity, particulates, etc).

I've never had a false alarm with the "smooth edge" First Alert model, for example: https://www.amazon.com/Detector-Hardwired-Battery-Backup-6-P...

And have had it go off when the daughter lit a candle underneath, so know it works!
It's the opposite for me, more focus, less food. I was already dressing casual so that wasn't an issue. No commute is definitely a plus. I think there is an element of creativity that isn't being catered to in most offices. Writing code, or designing has comparable creative efforts to an author, film maker, etc., and working from home is allowing people to create this environment.
This is not just a problem with computing, it all stems from 'gillette' style business models, and similar, which ultimately come from that flavor of capitalism that says the only reason that any company or endeavor exists is to make a 'profit'.

And so the actual goal is not to provide people with the best things, experiences, whatever. The goal is to make as much money as possible from them; the 'thing' being sold is just a hook.

You can see it all around; Razors and all kinds of other 'subscription' services, 'smart' devices, which could provide some kind of local smart interface that would truly give users more control, but instead insist on connecting back to a manufacturer's limited service, so data can be mined, adverts sold, etc.
I still have Amit Singh's huge book on my shelf here. Completely outdated now, of course. But it was always quite interesting.

It's nice to see someone else has taken on the task of bringing that kind of insight into the modern age. Because Apple certainly won't.
No ipset or iptables? Hard pass. There is literally no reason for them to get rid of something that works, and isn't full of security holes.

Edit: while nftables can replace iptables, I don't know of a replacement for ipset.