skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One never notices the inconvenience of not having something one is unaware of.

This is the biggest challenge for answering “why Lisp?” It’s different enough from the programming that most people are used to that it rises to the level of a radical novelty, with all the explanatory difficulties that entails.

In fact, it’s a defining characteristic of the radical novelty that it can only be understood experientially. And even then experience is merely necessary, but certainly not sufficient.
Every summmarization is a choice of salience: what to include and what to leave ou, and how to express something in a different way.

The failure foolishly and misleadingly called “hallucination” is only one manifestation of an attribution error. If your summarizer leaves out something very important because it doesn’t understand it the result will be quite misleading.

For your average web text which these days is 90% filler and not important anyway, this is no big deal. This particular lawsuit appears the same. But for anything important, I wouldn’t trust it.
I think we learnt enough when big tech offers something for “free” and when they call it “absolutely” free it just means you are absolutely the product.

So thanks but No thanks
"Caregiver burnout" is a flavor associated with prolonged stress and putting everyone else's needs above your own. If you're a people-pleaser, you'll probably flirt with this at some point in your life unless you deliberately prioritize your own joy, rest, and well-being.
For context, here's what it sounds like:

https://youtu.be/MCCYMys6aDw?t=890

(14:50 in case the time link doesn't work.)

And from the video embedded at the end of the article:

https://youtu.be/zUU0aW3yyMc?t=32

(32 seconds in.)

Meanwhile, here's the Ford GT40:

https://youtu.be/KJJ0nIbn_Ts?t=120

This is a replica GT40 with a modern Ford 5.0 Coyote V8:

https://youtu.be/6g3Ay83JLJE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Modular_engine#5.0_L_Coyo...

Now let's listen to a Porsche 917 (flat-12):

https://youtu.be/5m8JrGD_ph4?t=82

I'll take that 917 any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

Now let's listen to the ugliest sounding motor ever:

https://youtu.be/CIwq71KZqbA
If the law had been passed in 2015, they probably would have picked USB-C as the newly finalized, and increasingly adopted, standard. Micro had already started to show its flaws by that point. Also, it's not like everyone in the EU needs to buy a new charger overnight; plenty of people would have a while before their next replacement, and plenty of others would have already gotten some other peripheral with the new port.
Nobody is insisting the cutting edge technology from 10 years ago is superior to today’s. I’m arguing that whatever company should be free to choose I/O interfaces without supervision.
You are not better off in one walled garden over the other. With greedy corporations in the US pushing subscriptions for products that get discontinued and China spinning up cheap crap companies everyday, there is zero reason to invest in anything IoT in your home that is not fully open sourced or completely cracked.

Currently the best indicator is checking Home assistant's or ESPHome's integrations. I'm a little worried that they are guided by one company, Nabu Casa, but atleast the product is open source so the community can take over if they pull an OpenAI and completely reverse. They cater to a very combative group of customers that will absolutely take over the product if they get greedy.
From the perspective of today, the dot-com era wasn't really that different from before from the perspective of consumers. OK, e-commerce was gearing up but it's not like we didn't have mail order catalogs before. Many of us had feature phones but didn't use them a lot; you were mostly still tethered to a desktop of maybe laptop. Online information could still be pretty sparse for many things. Not really any streaming entertainment. Etc.
FDA was pushed for, I think, over six years by laws to allow over-the-counter hearing aids. I don't know why they even started regulating them.

There is no credit here, whatsoever, for FDA.
It was likely flagged, unclear if it was due to a) the difficulty of getting the complaint or b) the insanity of the complaint.
Only to the extent that conditional probability is causality -- i.e. not generally, but they often lead to the same conclusion. Often enough that people have to be warned that correlation is not causation!
So, they stashed $500,000 away in a brokerage account, but feel it's important to mention "costly visits to the hair salon ". How costly must they be?
> Structural software impacts both operation of the vehicle as well as “infotainment”.

From my limited insight, it seems that they are tightly coupling these two together: operational embedded code and the infotainment layer.

So they cannot roll out a UX update without also updating the embedded code that steers the vents.
I've driven across Kansas twice, once eastbound and once westbound. I remember the state trooper waiting for speeders leaving Colorado - in the western states, driving 75-80 mph or more on the interstate outside of urban areas is pretty common, so they were most likely waiting for someone not paying attention so they could nail them with lower speed limits in place. Fortunately I noticed the patrol car in my rear view far enough back so I could ease up and stay in the right lane. I still remember when he or she pulled alongside me, I kept my eyes straight forward, think that they might also suspect me of transporting CA marijuana to the east or something, but eventually they slowly pulled ahead.

The other thing about Kansas is how cheap it is. On my most recent drive in 2021, the Motel 6 in Salina, KS was easly 30% cheaper than any other motel I had stayed at in many different states including other Motel 6s.
Whether or not that is the case, once enough wrong'uns do their thing it becomes correct, correct? Whatever the history or logic or what have you.
So it becomes more a question of whether "90k instances on Wikipedia, has made it into dictionaries" is either far too late, or merely a lost cause.
A 1) Still, as this were humans, there was a purpose and an agenda behind this, which was pretty much the give-away. Now it'll be just junk content superficially optimized for high approval rates. And the economic incentives provide a strong hint for this being soon the majority of any (written) content, there is, esp. on the Web.
The title of the article is misleading. The author says the phone cannot be bootloader unlocked without first connecting to the Internet. Once they have connected they are able to unlock the bootloader.
100% agree. I’ve found that one way to make sure that disposable prototypes are disposed of is to build them someplace like CodeSandbox, where nobody can mistake them for the real thing.
If you aren't aware, the word "jargon" is the term for industry-specific language. It will organically evolve in any industry for a reason but it can be used intentionally or unintentionally to condescend to others outside that industry.
Where more than one product has the same name then both should be renamed. From that point onwards, they should never re-use an old name. Things would be so much less confusing.
Here’s a look at the human health outcomes of our best research into high-LA seed oils: https://www.the-nutrivore.com/post/a-comprehensive-rebuttal-...

> The notion that modern culinary oils containing high amounts of PUFA, particularly LA, are inflammatory is an idea that has managed to permeate virtually every diet camp imaginable. The paleo/ancestral nuts believe it. The vegan/plant-based nuts believe it. The keto/carnivore nuts believe it. Zealots belonging to Ray Peat's diet cult definitely believe it too. But is there actually evidence for this claim from human experiments?

Intrigued?

Make sure you’re not just regurgitating things to be true that you’ve merely heard repeated a thousand times online. Because that got me too not long ago.

The anti seed oil sophistry is one of the most ubiquitous nutrition misconceptions today. On social media, at least.
Five Books: The best books on everything
I guess pandering to governments worldwide tends to have such effects.

Just wish we could crowd fund another country or planet to avoid all this BS....
People still occasionally wake up in morgues and funeral homes. Rare but it happens, though often only a very temporary reprieve.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/07/us/new-york-woman-found-alive...
USB is standardised and yet here we are. It seems to me that somehow those standards aren’t sufficiently well mandated and I don’t really know how to improve the situation. Maybe there is some incentive for the people selling the low quality devices to move to higher quality devices over time (e.g. you get kicked off Amazon less) but that feels pretty weak to me (if better devices are more expensive, you won’t get any sales). Possibly figuring out how to punish Amazon for their third-party sellers selling faulty or non-compliant devices would help but it seems like something that would be pretty difficult to me.
Yup, I am quite annoyed too with this practice. I have had 3 pixel phones and first thing i do is to unlock and flash calyxos or graphene. Since I always purchase used phones only, I just make it a practice to buy them in cash and unlock at a public WiFi.
I would guess for the reasons insonable wrote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35846322

> I don't really get the purpose of this article other than to maybe rile some people up. It offers no analysis and only one idea

Kooky ideas can play on HN, but partisan and blame-game stuff tends not to.

Based on what lostdog wrote, the kooky ideas also seem to ignore the reason the situation exists in the first place (ignoring Chesterton's Fence), and thus the article doesn't add to aggregate knowledge, but adds to misinformation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3584644

> > But upgrading the urban wastewater-treatment facilities surrounding the bay would eliminate nutrient pollution, permitting more delta water to be directed to California’s farms and cities—a lot more water.

> The main reason for "flushing" fresh water into the delta is to preserve the delta ecosystem. Without putting fresh water in the river, the salt water from the Bay works its way up the delta.

> I tried a few searches to understand whether this wastewater issue is real or not, and the main "nutrient pollution" issue that comes up is not human waste, but instead fertilizer runoff from agriculture [1,2].

A few other commenters offer additional critiques.

Ultimately this article fell afoul of the first rule for article submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
If you want a UVC setup then the purethermal carrier is the route to go.

You buy FLIR because they're well made, reliable products. Same reason people spend the money on Fluke. I'm not sure you can necessarily say the support is better for consumers because they mostly cater to OEMs, but the camera cores are (mostly) very well documented and software support is good.
Where did I say I’m not concerned about my own politicians? Don’t twist my argument.
I call mine a startup but… same as you,

I considered investment and growth, but having been down that path a couple of times, instead decided to just set modest goals and work hard to achieve them.

I feel better already.
There was no USB-C in 2012.
This is a huge pet peeve for me. Shouldn't this be a “solved” style problem in 2023! I'd gladly fire every tenth web designer responsible for this problem regardless of their other merits.

Small fonts are one thing. There are browser hot keys to change the font size. And I'm a huge fan of the "Zoom Text Only" option in Firefox where the rest of page doesn't go flying off the edge of my viewing area. But low contrast text is hugely annoying. What are my options? Open the developer tools and tweak the CSS every time? Try to find a good browser extension that solves the problem? Write my own? And some of these solutions are inconvenient or impossible on mobile.

I understand using low contrast text (and small fonts) for tedious but necessary legal disclaimers. But if you use it elsewhere, I'll move on—either you have nothing to say and don't really want people to read the text, have a poor designer, or are generally incompetent.
Agree 100%. My old workplace is making everyone commute to office next week so that they can “team bond and destress” by playing with office-provided toys. Really. It’s so patronising and I hate the control bosses think they have over your entire life and personality instead of just your work output.
The technical term for this is macrostate. It is not a linguistic sleight of hand.

It is literally within the formal definition entropy. Debris is a high entropy macrostate, while a car occupies a lower entropy macrostate. There are less possible atomic configurations for cars then their is for debris. Each of these individual configurations of atoms is called a microstate.

A macrostate is a collection of microstates that you define. Depending on the definition you choose that definition has an associated probability. So if you choose to define macrostate as a car, you are choosing a collection of microstates that have a low probability of occuring.

The law of thermodynamics says that systems will, over time, will gain entropy meaning they naturally progress to high probability macrostates over time. So in other words, complexity is destroyed over time by specific laws of entropy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(statistical_thermod...

The reason why this occurs is straightforward. As a system evolves and randomly jiggles over time it trends towards high probability configurations like "debris" because simply that configuration has a high probability of occuring. Generally the more billions of microstates a macrostate contains the higher entropy that macrostate is.

Through logic and probability and the second law of thermodynamics we have a formal definition of complexity and we see that complexity naturally destroys itself or degrades with time.

This is the thing that confuses people about entropy. It's definition is a generality based on microstates and macrostates you choose to define yourself. It's similar to calling a function with generics in programming where you choose to define the generic at the time of the call.

But even within this generic world their are laws (traits in rust or interfaces in c++) that tell us how that generic should behave. Just like how entropy tells us that macrostates we define will always trend towards losing complexity.

The heat death of the universe is the predicted end of the universe where all complexity is inevitably lost forever. You can define that macrostate as the collection of all microstates that do not contain any form of organization.
That’s brown-field at best.

Green field (to me) is a new product entirely. A blank slate, a wonderful opportunity.
Isn't the proper solution to just use the HTML <select> element, instead of one that recreates the visual, recreates the behavior with JavaScript, and recreates the semantics with ARIA?
I've definitely come around to unit tests, but I think that whether they're good in all circumstances is a matter of taste. Obviously you want to have good test coverage by the time the codebase is starting to solidify- I assume there are people that would argue against that but they would be wrong.

Writing tests at more intermediary stages is not as much a matter of best practice, but I see know the appeal. At some point I started writing one-off functions to rerun the same code over and over in the REPL- that's when I realized it was time to start writing tests even if the API wasn't finalized. But full TDD is a matter of taste. There are people that like to have a really good idea of what they're getting into, and it seems like TDD works well for them. I myself have trouble. When I try to write tests first, I wind up paralyzed by making decisions without knowing the costs and benefits. That's where the REPL comes in handy for me- figuring out what shape I want my data to be, double checking edge cases faster than I could reference the documentation, and playing with new building blocks.
I'm not equating it with solving the entire problem, I am pushing back against the idea that autonomous driving can be sub-divided into completely discrete sub-problems. So I guess you could say no, I do not understand that sub-problems can be solved.

Object detection is inextricably linked with prediction which are both inextricably linked with planning.
The Prime Video microservices to monolith story
Are you arguing that Apple didn't understand the spirit of the law? Or that technicalities are more important?
In the old days, we wouldn't dream of taking up a new editor without first printing out a cheat sheet for it, to have lying next to the keyboard for the first few days.

Yeah I know, archaic terminology: 'printing'. It's a thing we used to do.
Thx. It's already removed.
Thanks, I see that there is more info in this article too. I mistakenly thought this post was an older article that I had already read about her.
> Yeah, just like Perl. Or Latin. No one uses them, these are dead languages that belong to a museum.

The best analogy I have for Lisp is that it is the wheelbarrow of languages. It was invented long ago and is in no way obsolete. In many ways it achieved a level of mastery of it's use domain that makes it almost impossible to think of a substitute.
When you need a wheelbarrow, a dump truck will not do, and neither will a bicycle or automobile. There is a reason for this rather famous quote: "Whoever does not understand LISP, is doomed to reinvent it."
And everyone but Apple embraced the original specification[0]. Given Apple's previous moves, a heavier hand seems warranted.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_external_power_supply
Russians do indeed want to have some different regime eventually, but usually not at cost of losing the war, having their economy destroyed or getting their country torn apart, etc.

Only the young 'children of summer' generation who did not witness 1991 fallout would root for immediate uncontrolled regime change via revolution. Hence it is not a very popular point, and many of its adherents have fleed the country.
Don't forget to choose a VPS close to you with low ping for this. Also, depending on the skills you want to learn, you can use nftables with DNAT to do the forwarding at L2.

I know this started as an anti-cloud stance, but there is a lot that cloud servers can do for the DIY self-hoster, for really not that much money per month. And one of those things is knowing that even though you're having a power outage at home, that your server is still up.
A while back I built out a quick guide comparing all of these alternatives, because the core value prop was pretty similar and it was annoying to compare between pricing plans. (My personal vote goes to Fathom.)

https://buttondown.email/comparison-guides/google-analytics-...
I think it is mostly iOS people that are not used to waterproof phones. Many top quality Android phones have been water resistant for years. My first one was the Sony Xperia Z1 released a decade ago.

So, controlling a speaker from your phone in the shower is an obvious solution versus trying to talk to it.
How will starting a new country or colonizing a new planet help us avoid the problems we've already created for ourselves?
What about when it happens 500 times in a row, a la John Wick?
This is with MagSafe. Sure, there’s not the same misalignment issue, but there’s still a gap, made worse by cases.
this is your brain on (neo)liberalism. neurotically paralyzed by the hypothetical and counterfactual demons in your imagination.
Couldn't it be anchored to the page? Instead of anchored to the screen and require repositioning?

Is there a limitation in CSS preventing it?
Which study was that?
> Request to Google: ungrey the “OEM unlocking” toggle in the factory, before shipping store.google.com devices to customers. Do not make your customers connect the device to the Internet before they are allowed to install the operating system they want.

That won't happen. I can think of two big reasons off the top of my head:

1. Supply-chain attacks, someone gets a hold of the phone before it gets to you and unlocks the bootloader and then proceeds to modify or install another OS.

2. Warranty reasons, very likely they want to have it phone back and send a record that it was unlocked so they can deny warranty in cases where user damaged the device through software.
Yeah! They made this one bad decision so it's hypocritical of them to make this other good decision!
This is a Stupid Idea.

Obvious things that will happen due to this:

1. High profile nicks get sniped and offered for ransom to the original owners.

2. Discord steps in on some high profile cases from #1

3. Everybody who lost a nick they cared about appeals to discord to intercede in in this behalf, citing #2.

4. Nearly ends up with a bitter taste in their mouth and no value at all will ever be generated from this change.
Thank you for your response, I appreciate the time and perspective; I stand by my observation though:

None of what you listed I see as a defining feature of Communism. It feels like some people have heard that "Communism is a bad thing that Russians did", and then they apply it to anything and everything they disagree with or may have centrally-planned authoritarian approaches.

"Centrally planned undemocratic / authoritarian" has so many wonderful implementations and versions, and communism is barely one of them :)

I remain unconvinced to see "USB-C Standard" as a "left-wing communist conspiracy" :-/
Loved AWStats! Still can be useful — but bots, client side caching, CDNs, and did I mention bots..? have made the data hard to rely on for much. A while ago I switched from AWStats to GoAccess (https://goaccess.io/) for this kind of thing. I prefer its interface, and it's way way faster to churn through big log files (C vs. Perl).
I don't dislike that Zenni does this.
Glastonbury will refund the ticket minus an administration fee if you genuinely can't go because of circumstances beyond your control.

https://glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/0...
Do you have scientific evidence for bias, or is this just normal culture-war rhetoric?
Couldn't agree more.

'But those who are determined to be rich fall into temptation and a snare and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin

For the love of money is a root of all sorts of injurious things, and by reaching out for this love some have stabbed themselves all over with many pains'
I was going to make the same argument using parallel.
> But the idea that a trans-national government over 750M people should be trying to regulate in this level of detail is just obviously a recipe for disaster

Why? Standards harmonization has big upsides too.

For example, the EU PPE safety standards are so good that there aren't even North American equivalents for many products.

If you buy a climbing carabiner in the US, it's being tested according to a test procedure defined by the same EU bureaucracy you deride.