skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But basically I think phones have now reached a place like laptops and desktops where HW capabilities are stable, and there's no good reason for devices to be obsolete in 5 years any more.

Unless you care about your phone working as a phone. 2G was discontinued years ago, 3G is rapidly being dropped by the carriers and how much longer before 4G is discontinued?

> streamlining the Android update process? (To Google's credit they have already done a _lot_ of positive work in that area as I understand it).

What exactly is Google doing? Apple released a security update for the 2013 iPhone 5s earlier this year.
That’s not part of the law, and it absolutely shouldn’t be.
Incorrect claim. These nations actually invest into preventing such risky trips.
This is also a cultural thing. I come from Romania, where it is (was before the pandemic?) very uncommon for people to work part time. The expectation when having children was to have the grandparents take care of them during the week until they are independent. Otherwise to hire a full time nanny until the kid goes to kindergarten and then have the child go to kindergarten or after schools for about 10 hours per day, with kindergartens closing late in the evening.

Now I live in Germany, where there is little reliance on grandparents, children don’t stay that long in kindergarten (they close between 15:00 and 16:30) each day. This, to my understanding was because the women would assume a housewife role and would have time to take care of children. As the economy shifted and two income started becoming necessary, the society adapted to the old rules, but did not change them. Some people work part time, some work flexible schedules. For most office jobs I’ve seen, it’s easy to have a flexible schedule. My wife starts later and takes care of the kid in the morning, I start earlier and take care of the kid in the afternoon.
I know this has been absolutely beaten to death and I'm sure dozens if not hundreds of people have already said it better than me. But nevertheless I persist.

Setting aside the question of whether Mastodon adoption has actually stalled, I submit that federated social media will not grow to replace centralized platforms (Reddit, Twitter, Facebook) because that would require "normies" to adopt them, and normies:

- Do not care enough about 'freedom' to leave Twitter and Reddit

- Do not understand what 'federation' is, and/or don't care if it's technically 'better'.

Normies will leave Twitter and Reddit when everyone else does, and they'll only leave to go where everyone else went.

To me, federation is a nothing-burger, a solution in search of a problem just like blockchain. I do understand how it works. I use Mastodon and Lemmy. I can't find any benefits that don't come with tradeoffs. And the "email is federated" comparison holds no water -- it's a completely different use case.

I believe the long-term usage of these technologies, eventually, is either zero OR an eventual community decision to pool resources and merge all instances into a single isolated Mastodon or Lemmy instance as a responsible commercial entity or nonprofit that aims to not make the same mistakes as Twitter or Reddit.
> It would be admirable if they held the same standard for vehicles, including brands from the EU

This regulation does cover vehicles.

It also covers a wide range of devices, including ones that are indeed made by the EU.

Beyond that, I think "only regulate things you make" is a silly standard. The point of regulations are (or should be) to protect consumers, not to disadvantage companies. The EU has lots of consumers who buy smartphones and thus has a very legitimate reason to want to regulate them to protect their consumers.
Cars are trending towards a consumer electronics lifecycle.
The plan is financial repression: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_repression
Shovelware has certain traits because it wants to get your money so bad, and that makes it easy to avoid. There is the default shovelware UI look (skeumorphic and performative - not a lot of substance but very flashy, lots of emphasis on graphic design and little on content), the default shovelware sounds in trailers, and the default shovelware design ideas that come up again and again. These things are palatable to the vastest possible majority of people, so they are a sign of shovelware to be avoided.

Another sign of shovelware is that it tries to sell itself to you too much, or please you too much. Like a good people pleaser person, usually there are ulterior motives. This includes games that are way too easy and much too rewarding, fake trailers and key art that looks unreasonably good for a mobile game, use of IP-adjacent words (Great Mafia Auto: Miami) and so on.

In contrast, games I like will have complexity and it will usually be clear from their key art and trailers that losing is very possible, and some mastery is expected. For example, Zachtronics Soilitaire, Mini Motorways, Osmos, Elevate, and so on. Looping back to the first paragraph, these games also have UX and game design that is very different from the shovelware bunch.

I pick PC games the same way - if they are very heavily advertised but it's the same formula that has been done a million times and they don't offer much on top, I'll pass it. And if it's too hand-holding, I will pass it, too. There are games that are made to be extremely easy to consume and sweet on their players, and nothing else. Where all the game design (or incremental game design since the last release in the franchise) went to make it appeal to people more and not to offer anything new.

Games can be like refined sugar - very sweet when you eat it and triggering strong cravings when you're about to buy it; but after you've eaten it, you realize you've consumed trash. Nowadays, I like the games that have little bit more to them than just excessive player-pleasing (player service) as a form of extracting money at the fastest rate possible from as many people as remotely feasible.

So how do you find high quality games? Don't buy what's begging to be bought. Buy what's good on game design terms.
I used buy smaller items like keychains from AliExpeess. Then twice I bought pricey stuff costing more than $50 each expecting a better quality product. Boy was I wrong! All that changed was the packaging. It wasn’t dirty anymore. But the items were still extremely poor in quality. Reminded me of the book “Poorly made in China”
Their complaint seemed less like it was about budgeting and more about what we, the public, valued as evidenced by what we paid attention to.
To be clear: Vlang overpromised and underdelivered on many features. It also included features by shelling out to other executables like curl.

It might have all been fixed by now, but it is a fact that Vlang has had listed many, many, features on its homepage (without any indication that they were work in progress) that had no implementation and that had no proper prototype.

The defensiveness of Vlang supporters is not a good look.
Hey that looks very good. Do you mind walking through a bit on how the graphics work? Are they vector or raster? Or are they 3D?

In what format the artist sends the assets that get into the game?

Is there any trick you had to do to make the graphics look this sharp? Does adapting to different viewport size required a lot of work?
I would point you to the excellent book “The Design of Everyday Things”, and “Don’t make me think”.
does anyone have any details about how they do it? I briefly crawled the repos, etc but couldn't find any clue. Where is this disussion happening? IRC only?
Your setup sounds great. You might find it interesting that it's also very close to what 1Password does.

1Password apps store local state in an SQLite database. They then package up that database and encrypt it with your chosen master password and a randomly generated password. (The random password is only to protect users who picked a weak master password against a server breach, so it's stored in plaintext on your computer). That encrypted file is uploaded to their server.

There is also an android (and iOS) app. If you edit independently conflicts are merged.
Isn’t this the ultimate “let them eat cake” argument? There are many people in the world who can’t afford anything but the cheapest phone.
Slightly tangential, but I've been watching Duolingo go down this road for the past few years since one of Zynga's product people became their head of product. Duolingo was never the best way to learn a language, but it's increasingly become essentially useless as an educational tool as they push for more and more revenue from their "whales". Every aspect of the experience is shaped towards manipulating people into "engaging" for longer and keeping them coming back, ostensibly to make learning more effective but in practice at the expense of learning.

This blog post by their head of product is a great example of the problems in the industry—he talks gleefully about all the manipulative techniques he pulled in from Zynga, and doesn't seem to have any clue that he's sacrificed the mission in pursuit of relentless growth.

https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-duolingo-reignited-us...
> Why would the novelty of a leathal crisis influence the amount spent on the effort?

Frequency more than novelty, though novelty certainly brings attention. If we were launching multi-million dollar submarine rescue missions every day, we’d quickly see a system of cost controls and incentive management arise around it, too.
the problem is that the cost of converting an outmoded commercial building to residential is usually within the same order of magnitude as knocking it down and putting up something built for purpose.

If you look at the urban core of many cities, they are full of old commercial buildings converted to lofts/residentia. The old bank district in LA was empty and in disrepair for decades, then a huge conversion boom in the 2000's. Soho in NYC. Many buildings south of Market in SF.

The question is why can't we accelerate the process so the buildings don't sit unused for decades before it becomes worth conversion. <- though maybe that is the crux, the prices need to decline enough to make it worth it.
Even in your example you point out that 3G "is being rapidly dropped" but it's not dead yet. The iPhone 3G came out in 2008. So just today, 15 years later, it would still work on most networks (certainly I can still use 3G in Australia).
Women here seems to be clickbait, since working from home is more about types of jobs, with women and education level being a looser correlation to those factors.
Without internet in the open sea to stream it, would be very difficult...
I have found that "No problem, which of your projects may I put on hold for that?" is a pretty effective way of saying "No".

Doubly useful, because if they actually want it enough to have it done anyway, they will free up the time required for it by themselves. The important thing here is to memorize another phrase: "Certainly. Could you send me a quick email about that reprioritization?"

Which is just a very graceful and stylish way of saying: "Can I have that in writing?"
This comment is kind of baffling to me. I agree that first party end to end encryption is not a silver bullet and it is over sold. But in use cases where it makes sense, like messaging, it is a virtue and absolutely is worth the connivence security trade offs.

Yes, the first party can secretly undermine the end to end encryption for a single customer without alerting the customer. However, this would be exceedingly hard to do for an attacker (insider or outside) compared to there being no end to end encryption. You would need to have the first party on board with this which would be very illegal unless directed by a government. So you might still be vulnerable to state level attacks, but the company might be able to resist it by pointing to end to end security vs encrypting it self. It still strictly better than no end to end security where the government will request everything that was ever sent.

What is most odd is that you say that end to end encryption is not worth the convenience trade of but you think everyone hosting their own stuff would be better? This would be a disaster for both convenience and security. There zero chance that 99% of users would be able to securely self host their data. Even for the 1% that can and will secure their data, their data is likely also hosted in the other 99%. You just need to exploit the other side of the conversation and you are still screwed.
I don't believe that at all, the idea of challenging what you know and how you know it is extremely useful across all subjects. The problem is that the efforts to teach critical thinking has been colossal failures.
> If you had a society where people worked 80 hour weeks to produce X amount of economic activity, and you moved that to a society working 20 hour weeks with the same productivity, that's an improvement in everyones individual lot.

And that would show up as an improvement in GDP growth, because unless you banned private businesses, there's always going to be some people (business owners, independent contractors) working more than 20 hours, so they'd produce more than before, which would show up in GDP.
Of course they would. The coast guard saves thousands of people every year. Most of them aren't billionaires.
Is ROM really used anymore? It seems like these days, everything is OTA update compatible.

Customers aren’t forced to buy new devices, they just no longer get software updates after N (5?) years. You would need an alternative OS, like a version of Android that lacks google apps or something.
As a Belgian, it is always a surprise to see people from all around the world mention Tintin! I think a lot of us grew up with it as well as The Smurfs, Lucky Luke or "Spirou" and it's only when I was in my teens that I realized most of those were known internationally! Even though I'm in my twenties, I feel like this is one of the truly inter-generational piece of culture we share in a somewhat divided country.
> We don't manufacture any other product with buttons that invoke illegal functions and then spend millions on education and enforcement to persuade people never to press them.

There's one more. Just like cars, misuse of it is also the most prevalent in the USA, more and more are being sold, they're getting bigger and more dangerous, the usual excuse for it is freedom and the license required to operate one is (again, mainly in the USA) granted to basically anyone.

It's like Americans are allergic to public safety...
The technical term for this idea is the “lump of labor fallacy”.

Contrary to the idea that there is only a fixed amount of work to do, increasing an economy’s population tends to increase its aggregate output at an even greater rate than the headcount, ie average wages increase. One of the reasons is that it increases the ability for greater specialization. If some other economy paid for the unproductive years of childhood, the benefit is even greater.
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Found this post insightful on the topic: https://blog.mobile-patterns.com/practical-ux-design-tips-fo...
Unless we go with a very cheap option (kill all the houseless), housing them is actually a net positive for the city. Being houseless as a lot of negatives that cost us directly or indirectly. Think police enforcement, garbage cleanup, emergency rooms, even lost productivity.
Most of the world's population lives equally or nearer to the equator than Australia.

Australia has a head start on solar mostly due to low costs of capital letting people invest long term. Same reason Northern Europe deploys more solar than you'd think is globally sensible.
In Italy I have noticed that the air quality is usually considered bad only in places that actually have data. For a lot of the places that are considered good, checking the sources for them usually result in only 1 device.

It's a nice to have certainly but I wish it was more consistent.
Exactly. It's ridiculous to leave environmental protection to "the market". We need regulations that properly account for those externalities so that the market can do its thing.
As designed and built by an HN member:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35974546
> it really doesn't require any effort.

That's because you don't have or don't know about all those custom fields that don't get exported by LastPass, which turns real migration from 30min to many hours

Also it'd be wise to change passwords during the migration as well given all the hacks, which is another set of hours
Those are all reasons why I hope the crash is as big as possible. Let's enjoy the show.
The whole area of this place is very interesting from a governmental perspective. You got the City of London which has its own governing and even police, and you got an area called Temple which also has its own powers historically.
They have a beacon id and you are supposed to register them [0].

[0]: https://beaconregistration.noaa.gov/RGDB/registrationRequire...
Formula E team caught using RFID scanner that got live tire data from other cars
Requirements for Vectorizing Loops with #pragma SIMD
https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/topics/forced-...
Do the migration first, then change rotate passwords over time.

If you're still using LP, and haven't been bitten by this, do it now. Do the migration.

Once the migration is done, start rotating passwords as soon as you can.
> Always check your classpaths for duplicates kids.

I recently discovered extra-enforcer-rules which can help with that, as long as your classpath comes from Maven dependencies.
Because I have four devices I need my passwords on, on three different OSs, and no admin on one.

All of my banks use a mobile app for confirming transactions, which requires me to login. Sometimes that requires reauth not just biometrics. I'm not going to go home and try and type a 20-30 character password into a phone when trying to pay for car parking.
Productivity of work has increased extremely in all the years though, which easily could compensate for that if it wouldnt be wasted for less important things:
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Global-productivity-grow...
I've heard this argument multiple places. While I agree with the underlying sentiment, the US spent $592 billion on Medicaid in 2022.

There are plenty of legitimate criticisms of the US medical system, and government support programs, but the lack of nuance detracts from your position.
Synchronization is inherently temporal. The "chron" in the word even means time. Synchronization is unambiguous communication with respect to some time coordinates.

It's certainly possible to communicate in a way that appears to be unambiguous without explicitly referencing time, but the time is always implicit. Practically, all communication is otherwise ambiguous.
It links to the individual lectures' notes and slides, as well as tutorial and documentation for the "C0" language...
Hence the rash of articles against work from home.
The bridge collapsed. Looks like an old steel-truss bridge, installed around here (Iowa) in the 1800's from essentially a kit. We've replaced all of ours in the 1970's. Odd that Montana still had something like that, and still ran a train over it.
This would be sooooo nice, especially in DI heavy languages like Java. It might not be turtles all the way down, but finding the final turtle can be so difficult.
Having joyfully never dealt with any form of "academia" I am still morbidly curious about what it's all about and these cryptic warnings about it from its victims. Why can't it just be a place where people learn and research and support each other? Actual question, not rhetorical.
IMO the example you provided is an anti-pattern.
There are better ways to avoid deeply nested code, but it depends on the programming language.

I try to make each method/function to have a single entry and a single exit.

Cond, case, pattern maching in function heads, decision tables, and syntactic sugar in some PLs, allow you to flatten the nested code / branchinbg / conditionals.
I think this is also not available in either iPhone or iPad Safari.
I see your point in terms of individual musical talent and skill.

I think we agree…

They unlocked something as a band where the musical sum is greater than the individual parts, which makes them special.
I don't solo regularly but I have soloed a few things(5.6 is the hardest I've soloed if you're familiar with climbing grades).

my answer to this is basically once you've gotten to a certain level in climbing, some of the lower levels feel effortless and it doesn't actually feel risky. As an aside, roping up for some of that easier stuff wouldn't be worth it because it would just take too long.

Take walking up stairs, that feels incredibly easy and risk free to your average person but if you slip and fall down a flight of stairs you will most likely get pretty badly injured or potentially die... but no one puts on a rope to go up stairs because the risk level is so low even if the consequence level is very high.

that's how I feel about soloing and I suspect its how many others feel about it too.

fwiw, climbing hard stuff on a rope is way more fun for me than easy stuff without one but to each their own
What console wars? What year do you think this is that you still it a "war"?
Better speakers is an easy add on. Power windows are probably uncontroversial. I don’t think there is wide demand for built in gps. I just don’t see the problem you describe. Design a basic dumb car base that can be extended with addons. There may be regulatory and other non-necessary obstacles but the ideal seems widely agreeable.
The iPad was meant to de-revolutionize general purpose computing.

All the rest is just made up fluff.
In my (admittedly limited) experience, American corporate culture is stronger than most with respect to encouraging people to say no.
3G is alive and well in IoT.
Trying to wallpaper over complex and deep rooted systemic issues by just declaring the outcomes we want to be law is the toxic zeitgeist that will probably both be our downfall, as well as what our era is best known for in the future.

Creating an unsustainable pension system solves nothing. The only real solution is to root out the causes of unsustainable cost of living and address them. But doing that is far more difficult than just giving out "free" money, and gets almost no recognition from voters.
I mean realistically there's never been a good reason that phone OS's are as specific as they are. The driver situation is absurd. The most common highly integrated feature - the camera - doesn't even really run on the phone OS anymore since there's usually an image processor of some sort inline.

I have absolutely no problems with running a USB-C on the phone and component manufacturers to get their act together and figure out an open standard to support common components (i.e. basebands, cameras, audio routing, security chips) so hardware can be supported after release (which I would hope in practice would just be "in the Linux kernel tree").
I just read a whole thread on their forums, apparently no one has. There seem to be a few issues with getting it over.

Affinity mentions it takes $500k to develop a Linux version and their market research says they will never recoup that.