skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> worst most vile freaks on the internet (something your site has repeatedly made international headlines for)

You have to remember that Steve (spez), the CEO, is precisely one of those, and was the head moderator of r/jailbait before that finally shut down.
‘Almost still shines’: 3k-year-old sword unearthed in Germany
This is a great submission but it's too much of a follow-up to the ongoing related thread:

Two years of teaching high school CS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36355172 - June 2023 (179 comments)

... to be a great submission now. If you want, you can email hn@ycombinator.com in (say) a couple months and we'll send you a repost invite which will put the repost in the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308).
Not my experience… I replaced my iPhone 6 because it was slow, not because battery was bad

And since 2018 I have iPhone XR, and the battery is fine still. So is the phone speed. I’m not changing it anytime soon
Feels like, as per usual, people haven’t read the source text.[1]

In order to ensure that portable batteries that were incorporated into appliances are subject to separate collection, treatment and high quality recycling once those appliances become waste, provisions to ensure the removability and replaceability of batteries in such appliances are necessary. Consumer safety should be ensured, in line with Union law and in particular Union safety standards, during the removal of portable batteries from or the replacement of portable batteries in an appliance. A portable battery should be considered to be removable by the end-user when it can be removed with the use of commercially available tools and without requiring the use of specialised tools, unless they are provided free of charge, or proprietary tools, thermal energy or solvents to disassemble it. Commercially available tools are considered to be tools available on the market to all end-users without the need for them to provide evidence of any proprietary rights and that can be used with no restriction, except health and safety-related restrictions.

Nothing stopping manufacturers from using normal fasteners and gaskets to comply while retaining water resistance etc.

[1] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-9-2023-0237...
Yes, it is a needed feature in humid environments.
Social media (or any other means of advertising, past or present) has affected these things everywhere.

Even I complain about my inability to be alone on a trail in CA, or struggling to find campsites, occasionally shaking my fist at social media for it.

But the linked images from India showing extreme overcrowding has far more to do with the population size than social media. When you have that many people, any little force generating focused interest is getting multiplied by a huge number.
No one is preventing you from using it. Let me put it the other way: why should people work to support your old device? You are causing discomfort for others by forcing devs to pollute their codebase with code to support your obsolete technology.

What if after a number of years (<= 10 years) you would have to pay devs to support your hardware? That seems more fair to me than simply expecting your stuff to still be supported for free. Except I'll tell you what will happen: you will buy a newer device. Because it's cheaper than paying devs' salaries.

I fully expect after a number of years of using a device to receive a message: "Your device is unsupported as of now. Buy a newer one. We won't waste our lives supporting your stuff for free. Sorry, but not sorry."

How much wasted time is there in the linux kernel supporting old devices I wonder? At some point they will surely go for a great purge in the kernel to get rid of the old stuff. The thing is just getting more and more bloated.
That seems unlikely, since it would multiply the design costs.

But since I am in the EU I wouldn't mind.
if you are logged in, it has to check if you upvoted some of those listed items (submission and comments). If you're logged out, it doesn't need to check anything - so it's faster
> I'd much rather be able to swap a charged battery for the drained one in my phone especially in circumstances when I'm in a foreign country and dependent on my phone

I don’t deny that this is a valid use case for you, but I’ve absolutely never been in this position.

I carry around a battery phone charger in situations where I’d depend on my phone. If you squint, yes that’s pretty similar, but the big difference is that a USB charger can power my iPhone and my partners android phone without requiring the phones to use standardized batteries internally.

I think batteries should be replacing in a repair sense, but I’m not sure the “pop open the back and swap it on the streets of Tokyo” is a common use case we should legislate against.

Like others said, I would much rather have it be more durable (eg waterproof). Also I’ll add that thinness is a desirable trait (to a point).
I put up my own server on Vercel. The site can install your project directly from your GitHub repository. Pretty nifty. All you need is a JSON file on GitHub to configure the installation.

My project is just a simple proxy server: https://kraker-remote.vercel.app

It took me a while to figure out how to make it work.

Check out the vercel.json here to see how I did it:
https://github.com/8chanAnon/Kraker-Local-Proxy-Server
> I once had an advisor edit my draft over night and submit it as a paper with a bunch of juiced up numbers that weren't true,

I'm stating the obvious here, but that is not a good advisor in any sense. It must have been difficult to leave, but it would be the only reasonable response.
Daniel Ellsberg has died
Theorising I've seen on this - though, I don't recall where - suggested targeting resonances with HAARP in a similar way to how a human singer can shatter a wineglass, by projecting the crystals frequency, causing it to oscillate itself to pieces.

That is high-watt transmission power may not be required. And further, it was suggested it's not done in isolation by HAARP but cooperatively with various transmitters also transmitting the same frequency at the same target - using standing waves.

It makes sense conceptually as an idea but I'm not sure there if there's any evidence of it?
They don't give a shit about us (14 year old account here), they've already gotten everything. What they want is the endless hordes of TikTok normies posting animated gifs and HD user pics etc. And it's working. The old reddit we loved is never coming back.
Have you investigated single phase dielectric liquid immersion?
We aren't talking about the earth being blown off course though, just that there is a large amount of energy that was previously unaccounted for and that this energy is large enough to trigger an earth quake at vulnerable parts.
From: https://gov.louisiana.gov/index.cfm/newsroom/detail/4158

> There is no indication at this time that cyber attackers who breached MOVEit have sold, used, shared or released the OMV data obtained from the MOVEit attack. The cyber attackers have not contacted state government. But all Louisianans should take immediate steps to safeguard their identity.

> OMV believes that all Louisianans with a state-issued driver’s license, ID, or car registration have likely had the following data exposed to the cyber attackers:

> Name

> Address

> Social Security Number

> Birthdate

> Height

> Eye Color

> Driver’s License Number

> Vehicle Registration Information

> Handicap Placard Information
I irrationally think that I go to too much effort to make a point in our field with over-the-top clever stuff.

Nope, I’m undertraining. Get ready for TauOS.
No, it's batteries too. And water/dust/fluid ingress protection. Modern phones are sealed up pretty tight because users want them to be waterproof. This makes it very difficult to build in replaceable batteries!
Have you purchased a fair phone? They exist promising that exact product and yet I've never come across a single person that actually purchased what they claim to want.

Personally, I love the thin phones. I'd pay extra for it. It feels better and is easier carried. And the large screen makes it easily readable for my poor eyes.
Because Apple went through the certification and validation tests
The other other alternative is for Reddit to meaningfully engage with the issues that the mods have raised around API pricing.
You guys are every esthetician’s dream. Yes, please continue believing you’re following some great skincare tradition by submitting to the whims of your local sephora and the five skincare instagram influencers in your local county, I play volleyball with them once a month. Oh, you want a tattoo and need help to navigate the lawyers nest of weird local tattoo parlors? Great, you can choose from one of three instagram tattoo artists that know the local tattoo regime as it applies to your section of skin. I play volleyball with them too, and (coincidentally) we all bill $110 an hour.
I believe that the average replacement rate of smartphones is less than 3 years.

That's one of the reasons manufacturers have given up on (easily) replaceable batteries. It's simpler and allows for slicker design and anyway, most people will buy a new smartphone before the battery reaches its end of life.

The EU is fighting the wrong fight here. It'd be more useful to improve recyclability and actual recycling than to force more complicated phones where it's not needed.
That's an interesting idea - though it'd speak really poorly of Spez's qualities as a leader. There's a reason the gas station near has a much higher price over than two decades past while from week to week you'll never see anything more than a 20cent difference and often times see a bit of price lowering to break things up. This may be due to our hunter past or something else but humans are terrible at noticing large gradual changes - but suddenly double the price in front of us and we'll definitely notice.
MOVEit breach shows hackers' interest in corporate file transfer tools
Sorry for this, I just downloaded Brave to test it out, and you should still be connected... Maybe refresh the page? The top right corner of the page should display buttons to access your dashboard and account settings.

Please tell me if that still doesn't work!
Actually the EU RF, product liability and cyber security regulations rather point into a direction that disallows use of aftermarket firmware that can delay onsolecense and encourages lockdown. Instead of overregulation we need create an economic system that encourages sustainable use of resources. The EU just does what they can do best: regulate
Google Sells Domains to Squarespace
Came here to say this! I hacked phpBB to build a “Facebook before Facebook” for my friends in high school. Added features like a poetry authoring tool, turn based games, and a blog feature. While I don’t use php any more I absolutely would not be where I am today without phpBB!
USB-C, battery:
Taiwan, Ukraine:
What is the process for starting a new subreddit?
So, you want a very large, enclosed mobility scooter with parking sensors?
Then your blame would be ill placed. If anything, Apple is to blame for fragile phones. They're the ones that introduced glass rear covers with the 6 I believe. But in terms of thinness, the thinnest phone I recall was the Galaxy S3.
So how come they aren't making car (EV) batteries replaceable?

Ah yes. Europe still has a car industry whereas there is zero phone or computer industry left.
What's your hex editor?
Why do we need moderators at all?

I've never had a Reddit account but in the spirit of the current Reddit discussions, moderators are required due to the sheer scale/size of Reddit. Automation is far from being able to keep threats, illegal content and abusive messages off the system. One set of global admins would just shuffle where these admins are to a centralized location much like how Facebook is moderated. There are pros and cons to distributed moderators, too many to name here.

I also understand that Reddit may not have invested much in human capitol around moderation meaning that they must have the volunteer distributed moderators to keep running or they would need to start building large centralized moderation teams like Facebook. From what I have read thus far I would not expect this to occur. If they centralize the volunteers then there would be a higher risk of power-tripping moderators managing communities they are not actually a part of. This also increases security risks. Pop one moderator in a centralized model and now the entire site can be nuked. The risk of this is lower in a paid centralized model as the moderators are employees or contractors can their access can be limited with VPN's and other corporate tools. This type of moderation also requires really good audit trails. I have no idea if Reddit has this level of auditing.

Even in the old school forums phpBB and the like I had moderators for specific sub-categories that could only moderate the part of the forum that they focused on. Global moderators carry multiple risks and require a great deal of trust.
If that also resulted in little or no change in how often you (and everyone) opened reddit each day, then it is a "success" for them. They have your eyeballs for longer, so you likely see more ads.

If only they were trying to maximise enjoyment and not addictiveness. They don't care at all about enjoyment, just like Facebook doesn't care about genuine connection to family and friends, or twitter to useful and constructive discussion that leads to positive social change.
Seems figuring out what it is they're doing and duplicating it would be a straightforward thing to do. Surely there's a research group working on it?
>. Are you trying to argue that abstract logic games like chess have no impact on how people otherwise live?

Yes, they don't have an impact from everything I've read.

Again, it should be easy to prove. Why not see how the best chess players in the world do outside of chess?

You'd think with all those abstract logic skills we'd have them running companies, universities, and being secretary of state. Instead all seem to be stuck as chess players.

>Science is not a good tool to win an argument with.

Feelings are better? No bud. It sounds like you just really want Chess to be useful.
It is significantly more complicated than that. Water isn't just dangerous because it short circuits, but because it also attacks the materials.

You do not want water in your phone, seperating the battery compartment also increases thickness and complexity.
Do you remember the whole phone throttling issue on a bad battery?
They're referring to DMCA compliance. Basically, if you're hosting a site where people can post videos, images, text, etc. You have to accept the possibility that someone will try and post every Disney movie in full on there. And you need to have a plan to deal with it, as you'll be receiving a lot of DMCA take down notices from companies that don't want their copyrighted shit on your site.

I suspect you're a little too early in the process to have to consider that, but it's worth thinking about if things start going well.
Waterproof phones with replacable batteries might not be waterproof after the replacement - so why don't you just keep the original battery, and have a waterproof phone? Win-win for everyone.
> Replacable batteries are at odds with water tightness.

Are you sure? I've seen many phones that are both IP* rated and have a replacable battery.
I paid $99 to get my iPhone XS Max's battery replaced directly by Apple a few weeks back. That phone is almost 5 years old. I really don't think that $99 is unreasonable.
The software slows the phone down so not create current spikes that the aged battery cant handle
Would you mind expanding? How did he go off the deep end?
DONT USE THEIR APP!!!

They've purposely remove i.reddit and reddit.compat first to not provide a proper mobile web experience.

then they cut off their api's to mobile developers.

Don't reward their deplorable behavior
“ my point is purely about the effective output of an individual. If we were fighting an existential threat, say an asteroid that would hit the earth in a year, would you really tell everyone involved in the project that they should go home after 35 hours a week, because they are harming the project if they work longer?”

— doesn’t this depend on the outcome of your work to fight an existential threat? If you fail then going home after 35hrs was exactly the right thing to do (as you’ve optimized for making the most of your remaining time on earth) if your successful then however many hours you spent was worth it.

Surely this entire argument is pointless unless you know the result of the time you spend?
> To you, does MAU stand for monthly active user (singular noun?)

correct.

> Do you know the difference between a request to the API and a site visit?

sure, you can incorporate your view on difference into you calculations of how you could arrive to 5x estimation.
When heads of state are involved you already won.

They dont have to do anything, they already got the money :) and will get sweet government/eu contracts/grants no matter what for at least couple of years.
Looks neat! What’s the tech stack?
> Remember, the US is not the world. What major carriers do in the US is not necessarily a global fact. Where I live 2G and 3G is still a fallback if 4G or 5G doesn't work. It will continue to be that way until 2025.

And it’s two largest markets - the US and China don’t support 3G GSM. What’s the market share of iPhones in your country?

> even older 2.5G dumbphone had higher PPI on the screen and could run useful j2me apps

J2ME games weren’t nearly as advanced as App Store games. The App Store was introduced a year before the iPhone 3GS came out.
A lot the post above boils down to "Trust me bro." As early users of a new website, what assurances can be put in place to help us believe the motives here? As the site grows, and costs exponentially more, your mindset and desires are sure to change.

One of the big issues I see with Reddit right now, is that we the community never "owned" the data. Now that the site owner's motives changed, we're stuck in this weird state where the community made the site what it is today, and now the owner is taking it back to monetize it for his own gain. If the community is required to help moderate, grow, and maintain an organized dataset, it would be ideal if somehow the community shares ownership or has assurances it remains faithful to the statements above we are buying into.
Huh, really?

I use my cell phone in the rain, I use my cell phone in the shower. I drop it in the mud and rinse it off in the sink.

Waterproof is a top-tier feature, right up there with "not exploding the screen into a thousand shards when I drop it".
Games are better because you can choose who you play with rather than having to pretend to like some asshole. In a similar vein you don't have to submit to some bullshit boss and his bullshit rules.
The battery probably made it slow: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/11/apple-settles-wi...
I had a couple phones I really liked where the battery got puffy - ie, very very bad - while the device was otherwise great. Tried replacing with an ifixit kit, but the screen got borked in the process. Total waste...
Yeah battery will virtually always be the first to go. Unless you crack the screen.
I don't think Carmack would deny that overwork exists for knowledge workers. He admits that anyone can have a peak and not be at it. I don't think Carmack would deny that a knowledge worker can be overworked and increase their bug output, for example. I do not believe anything I've said is against a strawman.
The hot button issues with people having to use Reddit's official app also include the trackers it uses. I'd certainly suggest getting rid of Google Analytics here and replacing it with something more privacy concious.
I've been on 8 for a little while and it's fine, but then again I never used 7 so I don't know any better.
That is a neat idea; a calculator to plug in the numbers and get back a hypothetical payoff number. It would be also neat if we could track which lenders are willing to take the deal; it may lead to people preferentially using them in the future.
> Not so long ago some people claimed apple would rather leave the EU market than implement USB-C or open up the app store

It's just a case of Americans underestimating the size of the EU market. But the large corporations that already do business in the EU know very well that they can't leave a market that represents half of their revenue.
https://archive.is/fSVmc
The moment it went with Catalyst on macOS and forgot Linux exists entirely it was dead on arrival. It's Xamarin Forms but worse. Well done Microsoft slow clap.
Well, if I'd wanted a career in science and didn't have ethics, then they would have been a good advisor because they knew exactly how to ride their wave of falsehood to a professorship at Berkeley.

It wasn't hard to leave, I just contacted another professor at berkeley and joined their lab the next day. The new advisor, while fairly dull, was methodic and pedantic and the idea of faking or juicing results would probably never have occured to him.

In short, in science if you're not a super-genius, it can be hard to compete with the super-geniuses and the cheaters. I found it easier to move to computer engineering than stay in science.
I use my phone in the pool all the time during the summer, ever since they became water proof. Or take pictures in the lake, etc.

As well, once a day I run my phone under the faucet while I wash my hands and give it a clean. I absolutely want my phone waterproof and happily will trade a user replaceable battery for a waterproof phone.
I completely agree, that overall water resistance and IP rating would be more valuable.

What's stopping figuring out how the hardware can achieve both battery replace-ability and water resistance?

Phones already have holes in them, e.g. speakers and charger port, and yet are able to survive a water immersion event.
>"Is waterproof even a real needed feature?"

Depends on one's lifestyle that can include hiking / cycling under heavy rain for example.
This is misguided, even though Apple is going to implement USB-C on the iPhone for the EU market, they're still not going to offer it in the US. It's naive to think big companies act in any interest besides their own unless forced.
> the EU was born from authoritarianism and has no democratic value

Oh please. Enlighten us how it's undemocratic and authoritarian.

I would like to reminder before you start that every country joined willingly (and Brexit proved they can leave), its parliament is elected by the population of the member states, and the council of ministers are representatives of each member state democratic elected governments.

But please tell us all how it's undemocratic.
Barracuda email cyberattack may have been used to spy on US Government
Turns out that every problem can be solved with one more level of indirection also works for privatization.
Also anywhere that drops below freezing in the winter. Coming indoors with an ice cold phone is going to cause tons of condensation. If the phone isn't sealed (or placed inside a sealed case) then water will get inside.
Yes it is. I had a phone accidentally fall in water 3-4 times, was pretty happy waterproof phones are a thing.