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Thing is, practically every modern programming language has zero-length arrays or lists. This is derived from Lisp, which had zero-length arrays (and of course zero-length lists). It's not at all surprising. What ought to be surprising is that among languages developed in the last 40 years, C++ almost uniquely does not have them. I use zero-length arrays all the time in my coding, as does everyone I know. I think they're probably much more common than you imagine.
I'm not suggesting that my library should be able to transitively depend on multiple versions of base.

I'm suggesting that which version of base my library depends on should not be tied to what the GHC version (used to build my library) depends on — unless my library is using the GHC-specific stuff in base.
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Yeah this. Hasn’t changed then. 25 years ago I finished a few years sitting in front of Virtuoso. I did some days working in the internal fab as well. Left and worked for a web design startup and tripled my salary overnight.
>"The past is never dead. It's not even past."

Silicon Valley is an espionage innovator--it has been since its inception. During the dawn of the high-tech age, an engineer named James Harper begins his industrious climb. But as Silicon Valley blossoms into what it is today, so too does the dark side of all this newfound wealth and ambition--right as the cold war reaches its final crescendo.

As Harper works to build his fortune, his ambition endangers his nation's safety. He sells nuclear secrets to the Soviet Bloc intelligence that might still help Moscow in a nuclear exchange today. It would become the chase of a lifetime for San Francisco's FBI spy hunters.

In this series, we'll walk you through a maze. One of nuclear spying, technology theft, and double agents, and the too wild-to-be-believed events that placed James Harper at the center of this story.

And you'll hear that story from James Harper-the Soviet Bloc spy-himself.
> But it should be my right to accept that risk and move on.

That's the problematic part. Even as (or maybe because of, at this point I do not really know) somewhat knowledgeable in hardware I am not sure I can confidently enumerate the risk beforehand.

If I go to a cheap third party repair shop to replace my computer/phone screen I kind of expect there to be some compromise in quality. However, I usually have no what quality level will I get. Will the screen be as bright and sharp as in manufacturer's store or is it going to be invisible in sunlight with constant color smudge like screens from early 00s? I have no idea and have to prepare for worst.

The same with battery. I know that at manufacturer claims 10 hours of use, my actual use squeezes 6-8 hours. What am I going to get with an off-brand battery? I can live with 6, it's cheaper, I could probably stomach 5 hours if the price difference is severe, but I am not willing to compromise down to 4.

If my phone's EMEA radio dies I can maybe have have it replaced with NA one. Generally, it will work. Some channels/frequencies will be unavailable and therefore my battery life and coverage will suffer. How much? Again, I have no idea.

So while I wholeheartedly agree that it should be my right to accept the risk and make a compromise, I know that in quite a lot of cases I either lack expertise/experience/knowledge to make an informed decision, or there is simply not enough information provided to make that decision. Sadly, "the market" will not solve that, because cheaper products are quite often sold by hiding the deficiencies
No I agree. Tesla still has a realistic path to fairly significant increase in revenue. I still think it's too high, but compared to Nvidia, it's downright reasonable.
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I used it to transfer mp3s between phones and now I cannot find the files on the destination phone. I mean I can play them from within the app, but they are not available in phone's file browser
I don't get it. Reddit's OP shared a screenshot along with an automatic translation that says "independent research and development". This is not an authorship claim by any means.
Apple would probably be fine with a world where consumer can replace broken display at home, as long as it costs $300, because reasons.

Oh and a usb connector requires replacing the entire board, for $400. Maybe just buy a new one for $1000 instead?
wait, why not just ssh/sftp?
Maybe, but I don't see why that's my problem. Society has created a system by which my risk increases exponentially when I engage in friendly conversation with women. The rational response is to reduce exposure to that risk.
Most of the world is broken when compared to the US?
(for readers wondering where then does ignite come from? it comes from ignire, latin which roughly translates to to set on fire, ignis being the latin for fire. the verb has a derivation similar to how we google, googled)
ssh/sftp is interoperable
Who do you think is paying for it?
Yes. And exactly what should have happened with invasion of Iraq and Afganistan.
Then that sounds like a very elegant solution in that case.
> Software salaries have to fall a lot more to keep semiconductor experts from doing lateral moves.

It's quite similar to the Baumol effect [1], and I think that's what the CCP and the Chinese authorities more generally had in mind when they cracked down on the likes of Tencent and Alibaba a few years ago, meaning forcing the big Chinese software companies down a peg or two so that Chinese engineers would also go into the hardware industry.

It also helps that while pure software is important for fighting a war, actually making physical stuff is even more important. No-one has ever won a war by employing Tik-Tok against the enemy, while autonomous mass-produced cheap drones have been as close to a game-changer as one could get in this current war in Ukraine (for both sides).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect
"This coexistence between superconductive and non-superconductive compounds may be the reason why certain LK-99 internet videos (if legitimate LK-99) showcased a phenomenon dubbed flux pinning, where external magnetic fields are able to penetrate the superconductor compound through the parts of it that aren't superconductive (everything that isn't lead-apatite), pinning it in place."

This was my non-expert opinion as well..
Apple machines aren't somehow immune to developing errors like that. All it takes is the "experienced" user doing something atypical sometime and not remembering what they did to be able to revert it.
Ask HN: Did I create something useful with this AI shopping assistant?
Hi.
Im one of our founders of this shopping app called Benjamin and I don't even try to say that I am super experienced with LLM/AI stuff. We've wrapped around this AI tool that helps you shop online (or at least should) so that you wouldn't have to wonder on every page when you are trying to find something useful.

What you guys think, would this be any useful for release? We haven't announced this yet anywhere, but we have already created a small CTA to the end of the messages to potentially get some users for our app which is our main product.

https://www.benjaminone.com/benjamin-ai

And yes I know, the first comment will be ''I would have built this in 1 hour''. Rather than that all the feedback is well appreciated :D
If it's around for 3000 years, show the plentiful "non-physical evidence". If you still need to talk about the "possibility", it's just flim flam BS.

If you think testimonies are evidence, and are making appeals to antiquity/tradition, you just aren't thinking in an educated way. None of that is "evidence".
Didn’t they ask for it?
Off-topic and might sound strange but I find it intriguing that you wrote behavior and behaviour in these two different forms in the same sentence:)
> Give it a year or two, maybe?

Maybe? It’s not clear what would bring a qualitative improvement, barring massive amounts of new training data.
lmao you would be soaking in 2 minutes, do you exist in our same dimension?
Hard agree on Hoogle — it's amazingly useful.

But wrt. other tooling, I use haskell-language-server every day and it makes me so much more productive. Sure, it isn't perfect, but so much better than what we had just five years ago.
The fact that the only change of pricing ever done was due to an anti trust lawsuit and copied straight over to start with? It's basically admission of guilt.
> People are focusing too much on the CPUC decision

The CPUC commission decision was to allow this as though no was an impossibility.
Embedded UVM: Multicore enabled and natively compiled UVM in D
The more you know, thanks! Good thing I didn’t pick a career as a rocket scientist!
Personally, I do not want anymore cheap Chinese knockoff parts anymore. I don’t want screens that have off colors, batteries that last 1/3 of their rated power, toner cartridges that last half as long as the OEM ones, etc.

I really am willing to pay 4X the price for something that’s twice as good. Half as good isn’t good enough for me anymore.
> it's another to make components actually available to make repairs.

Everybody [1] can buy parts at https://selfservicerepair.com and download manuals

> only to find out they didn't work after the swap.

AFAIK, Apple ¿currently? doesn’t support cannibalizing systems (because they’re greedy or to prevent stealing of phones for parts. Your pick)

> So even if you can get a replacement component, do you have the management software to update the eeprom

Their manuals tell you how to do that.

[1] in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden, the UK or the USA and, by extension, in the entire EU (https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/selling-in-eu/selling-...). I don’t know whether Apple honors the latter, though.
I honestly tried most of the note taking apps, none really worked out for me, I always end up using my memory directly, with a mix of few large txt files synced in my drive.
Transform this to OS for DIY NAS and you'll have great success !
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Which is more than TSMC offered some of my friends in the US who had industry experience. They're cheapskates.
Totally untrue. i know this for a fact.
Does Remotely Save not work on iOS? If it does, you can host a WebDAV server on your NAS.
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> there will be manufacturers out there who will skimp on quality to make some money at a lower price, and repair shops will buy that stuff to grow their margins.

This exists already. Apple is denying the consumer to purchase a legitimate Apple part to fix the issue unless they take it to an "Apple authorized repair shop"
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"You humans"? Have you been meditating so hard that you are now hallucinating yourself as beyond human? I can't say I am surprised.

I studied cognitive science. I know cognitive biases. I also know how meditators around me are basically drowning in them with ridiculous psychic beliefs, laughable arguments and no evidence.

I'll leave you to your imagined irony.
Are there any films or books about, say, a civilisation living in such a place?
It would be great if all the waste generated by e.g. burning coal would be put in big barrels and labelled toxic and dangerous (because it is) - people would get a much better understanding of why nuclear isnt that bad in comparison
Why should shareholders put up those funds, and where do they get them from if not the running business?

Do you expect that shareholders should run a permanent loss on the business?
> It seems to me that the real question here is what is true human intelligence.

IMHO the main weakness with LLMs is they can’t really reason. They can statistically guess their way to an answer - and they do so surprisingly well I will have to admit - but they can’t really “check” themselves to ensure what they are outputting makes any sense like humans do (most of the time) - hence the hallucinations.
Yes, the Higgs boson results in an attractive force between fermions given by the Yukawa potential (see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukawa_interaction).

This potential takes basically the same form as the gravitational potential but with an additional exponential decay with distance due to the mass of the boson. Resulting in short-range interactions. So yes, in very short distances (~(inverse of the Higgs mass) ~ 10^-18 m) fermions do experience an attractive force between them due to the Higgs interaction.

It works in exactly the same manner the rest of interactions work, the boson (Higgs) is the mediator of the force.
> Add the cost of this kind of storage facilities to the cost of nuclear energy.

It's factored in, and especially on new projects such as Hinkley Point C it'd actually a pretty sizable chunk of the budget, and increases the price of the electricity produced even more because the timeline is quite short (the goal is to reimburse the construction costs within 20-25 years, meanwhile the power plant can operate for 50-70 years with some maintenance; that's what happens when you add a commercial profit incentive to such long term projects that simply shouldn't have one).
There was a documentary about this by Michael Madsen in 2010 called Into Eternity.
Sure, but even then you're expected to back up your speculation. There doesn't seem to be anything within the article to support the claim that we're at the tail end of development; just assumptions that today's limitations will apply tomorrow.
This one's part of windows, but in case you're not aware of win+v for clipboard history I'd probably put that at number one. (There are also some third-party alternatives with more options).

Aside from that:

PowerToys (I mostly use fancy zones and file locksmith, others are useful too).

Anything for getting recursive folder statistics (I use TreeSize, WinDirStat is also popular).

ClickMonitorDDC if you need to change on-board monitor settings a lot or want to automate it. Sadly seems to have been abandoned.

I use vscode for anything plaintext related (text editing, file/folder diffs, git history). It works decently as a terminal too.

WSL

A nice CAS calculator. wxMaxima is the closest I've found to what I want.
Disagree. The old version of (largely youth) counterculture died when the Internet happened and sped up the time to propagation and commodification of any given fashion or thought.

I agree that now counterculture sits with the deplorables. The old style stuff has been fully adopted by the mainstream.
Most of the world isn't US, EU, Canada, Australia, New Zeeland, Singapore, Korea, Japan. Life is very difficult outside those areas right now.

Most people who complain about vocally about life in the US tend to be financially stable expats from western Europe or equally developed nation, not India, China, Bangladesh, Pakistan, etc.
What specific skills are missing? Is that covered anywhere in other articles?
That argument is moot, all disassembled iphones are as worthless as a rock, even if they are not stolen.

If you have two broken iphones in your house, you can't make a working one with them.
Forking it, but assuming that claim is also true, I would be interested to know why as well, since I can’t think of a reason why would someone go in all that hassle (and maintaining it) just to change an icon.
We don't truly have MAD with someone who has a small amount of nuclear weapons. Specifically one of the reasons the US dropped out of the ABM treaty was because they argued that they should be able to defend against countries with a small amount of nuclear weapons.

It's also unlikely that everyone else launches their nukes during MAD, it's a doctrine that specifically applies to an attacker and a defender.
obsidian is very cool:) but saying “something better for this” is weird:)
> like every car manufacturer does

I don't know a single car manufacturer which denies genuine parts with custom fake software errors.
Geoffrey Hinton, Andrew Ng, and quite a few other top AI researchers believe that current LLMs (and incoming waves of multimodal LFMs) learn world models; they are not simply 'stochastic parrots'.

If one feeds GPT-4 a novel problem that does not require multi-step reasoning or very high precision to solve, it can often solve it.
In terms of population centers yes? South America, Africa, Asia (at least 90% of it if you're generous).
Of course not everyone uses the app every single day. That's a poor assumption to make.

I think nearly $100 a year is steep for something that doesn't meet my needs (I use a community sync plugin instead). So I made a one-time donation instead because I still want to support the core product. I only recently realised you can do this: https://help.obsidian.md/Licenses+and+payment/Catalyst+licen...
Being the devil’s advocate: how do we help the Earth more, by mandating genuine parts so that second- or even third-hand apple devices can fulfill their whole lifespan with a general guarantee on the buyer’s end that they get what they pay for, or by being able to replace non-genuine parts, putting the whole second-hand market a much larger luck/trust factor?

I would argue that having these devices live for close to 10 years in someone else’s pocket, even if a potential repair was a bit more expensive is more important.
But no one wants to live in Houston because it’s city planning is a mess.
> The very fact that functional brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have been created demonstrates the brain is indeed a transceiver.

That is not a sound argument. I think you can see why anyone would disagree.
The brain does seem to do a lot of pattern-matching and prediction.
I loved how each letter in LILO would signify a boot phase when I learned about it the first time my PC got frozen at "LI".
> They excel at extracting patterns from noise and learning them.

You can argue those are facts too.
Thanks for the replies, it seems that the closest I can get is a rack mounted server module, which is expensive and over kill.
Or just ignore the graphics in a mini pc.
Nice. I had used fluent search for this until now. But recently I have been looking for an alternative.
If you rarely need an API but set something up like this just to rarely use it, it seems one needs to write their own code for this functionality and not go through hoops to run someone else's. That just sounds so bizarre.
California doesn’t want building near the tree line because those houses keep getting burned down. It’s not like Florida, where you can constantly rebuild on the beach with subsidized federal flood/hurricane insurance in play.
My favorite is the vertical swing that can be found in some playgrounds. Lean forward and backwards to accelerate. It seems you can accelerate to infinite speed on these, and once you start to feel uncomfortable your natural instinct is to lean towards the center, which will only increase the speed, like in a pirouette.
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It may not be nefarious, but it's antagonistic to the candidate getting the exploding offer. If you're hiring for a particular role and the candidate is dragging their feet on the offer, you've likely not made a strong enough offer. Making the offer exploding limits their ability to negotiate.

If you've made an offer to one candidate, and you're holding your response on another, you're already doing a disservice to that other candidate. They should know that you've extended an offer to someone else, and that you'll contact them if that offer falls through.
Car manufacturers make very few "parts" themselves. Gearboxes, as an example, are often designed and manufactured by companies like ZF[0] or Valeo[1]. They also sell these to the public at (usually significantly) elevated costs. I'm sure this could be done for specific Apple parts, but like the car manufacturers, Apple will want some control over the parts they design.

[0] https://www.zf.com/
[1] https://www.valeo.com
> who do you think that customer is holding accountable for that? Themselves? The repairer? Nope, it’s Apple

Nope, the repair shop absolutely gets the blame, even when the fault is coming from Apple, like the fake software errors which got introduced in the last models in order to blame third-party repair shops.
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Cool, it needs a dark theme though.
> I work in games

Are there any gaming companies not known to have a poor culture? That industry is well known to be exploitative, with low pay.
When molars and canines touch, the hip flexors can relax.

When you lost a tooth or had a correction in your youth, they might not fit correctly.
You're trying to solve a straightforward engineering problem with an unfit solution to an ill-defined problem. The solution of sybil problem would not solve the case of coordinated attack by multiple nefarious agents. You can also call this meat botnet owned by master-coordinator. The solution would distinguish this from a normal botnet but in the end your service down in the very same manner and clients gave up most of their privacy for nothing.

Imagine instead the following trivial scheme: instead of burning resources the client would pay to be served in reverse order of payment value. Let's say client is willing to pay 1 cent to be served in the next 10 seconds. The attacker would have to pay more as he have to occupy the whole head of this queue all the time to be successful. Let's say server can process 100 rps - now he's making over a dollar per second, which he can use to scale his serving capacity.
I'm put in mind of the OpenAI DoTA bot that was winning 99% of its games and some people refused to admit that it knew how to play DoTA based on some esoteric interpretation of the word "play".

We're going to see exponential increases in processing power of the best GPU clusters and human brains are a stationary target. And there is precious little evidence that the average human is much more than an LLM. LLMs are already more likely to understand a topic to a high standard than a given human.

They're going to progress and if they aren't intelligent then intelligence is overrated and I'd rather have whatever they have.
58k/year in Taiwan is also considered crazy good money. The average income in taiwan is about $58k NTD/month (aka $1900ish USD) https://www.statista.com/statistics/319845/taiwan-average-mo...
(Nix) The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model (PhD Thesis) [pdf]
Exactly. So why can I go into an auto parts shop and buy the original Ford Spark Plug set for my model (which of course is made by an OEM) but not an Apple repair part?
There is nothing new about people who are alt-right and believe in conspiracies.

It's just that the internet has allowed them to form communities.