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Ask HN: Is Samsung phones created according to a planned obsolescence schedule?
Recently the Samsung Galaxy M Series phones are breaking down once they have crossed a certain number of years (for the tested phones, it has been 4+ years) and after the latest software updates, the phone has stopped working. Authorized service center visits yields only one solution and that is change of the mother board or system board which costs close to 50% of the phone cost.

It is just not me, but I have observed it across multiple close friends and have decided to stop using the Samsung phones for the worst practice. Also, almost all of the authorized service centers are on franchise model and one another reason why they don't want to fix the issue (whether it is hardware or software related, it really doesn't matter. For most part of it, it always a change of the system board or mother board which costs a bomb.

I have been using mobiles since the late 1990s and have not faced this kind of issues (except that I have read about how Apple has deliberately slowed down the phones on every software update to force people to upgrade and got sued for that!).

For unfortunately, whatever claim that I'm making here is without any proof or a probably root cause analysis.

Taking a legal router in a country like India is totally useless because of the totalitarian and authoritative, corrupt governments and rampant corruption across all levels (that has been the case since centuries and one of the main reasons for a many movements. Well, that's another issue and I don't want to open-up a can of worms with it).

My query here are the following:
Has anyone experienced similar incidents?
Is there anything that can be done to stop such things from happening? (Apart from not using their products)
Collate all possible data to present a case against to see how this could be avoided in future and more people are educated about the brand and the possible long term consequences.
Any other suggestions? Thank you so much.
Not only can you weld steel, it also is more forgiving in the failure mode. Steel bends and the damage to the frame is better visible (and could be corrected, if you prefer so) while aluminum frames can develop hidden defects and catastrophically fail.
Not sure what country you live in, but here separate brake levers and steel frames are still easily found.
Evennia supports using LLMs for your NPCs if you like :)
There is a 'Coming to Nu' section of the nushell book which covers 'how do I do x' coming from other shells: https://www.nushell.sh/book/coming_from_bash.html
In the end, the one who possesses knowledge will turn it into value going the most obvious and straightforward way: writing a piece of useful SQL or code hot from the head.

GPT is a tool for learners, and they will keep shooting them feet until they learn, just the weapon is different now.

Look at the law system, written in natural language. It is misleading and doesn't work well, so we have to gather thousands of people around courts doing non-deterministic work in order to process them. Natural language is a tool for learning, not making systems. You have to shrink your vocabulary down to code at some point in order to make systems, and you can do it much faster and better than GPT.
I think you are right. People argue if LLM's store or maybe generalize. I propose an experiment for anyone interested. Try and do this prompt multiple times and change the appropriate verse numbers:

> Provide quote from King James' Bible Genesis :25-31

or

> Provide quote from King James' Bible Genesis :1-25

or whatever you fancy.

I didn't go through the whole Bible, but I got pretty much a verbatim chapter. I argue that you can't do this with copyrighted books only because of guardrails and not chatgpt's lack of capability so the information is there, and it's verbatim. Plus other books don't have such nifty indexing.
Another benefit of text is search, especially across documents. Also great for spellchecking and rearranging phrases, sentences, paragraphs.

But writing enables arrows, lines, crossing-out, small-text notes, circling, variable pressure, colour, etc. Richer than ordering/indenting text. Also higher contrast.
My thinking as well. Reflects poorly on the company. I'm not in the market for whatever they're doing but if I was my impression is they have a bunch of hipsters drinking coffee and reimplementing stuff no one asked for.
Partly due to frontend framework hype, I would say. If we take traditional backend web frameworks, like lets say Django, you could simply look for Django devs and would find plenty, even though it exists for a long time. Choosing a hyped JS framework is what is the risky move, because people jump ship quickly. There are design decisions in Angular for which I would never even consider Angular for development.
Or Borch
One idea I experimented with for this was to use airport codes. Airports are the approximate correct frequency (the kinds of political entities that might make decisions about timezones usually have an airport), quite recognisable to people familiar with the relevant area and have an established short code and canonical list.

There are disadvantages too of course, one of which is overlap between airport codes and currently existing timezone codes. This led me to discover a couple of airports that have the same code as their timezone.
Oh the good ol days of being able to search things like

"index of:" AND private AND .jpeg
> Belt drives do need to be tensioned properly but again, this doesn't requires specialist tools

My LBS, which is familiar with Gates belt drives, uses for tensioning a rather old-looking metal contraption provided by Gates. Definitely a specialist tool. The phone app for tensioning a belt from the frequency of the twang it makes, is only for end-consumers. Shops are supposed to use the dedicated tool.
The cattle industry is the lowest hanging fruit in reducing greenhouse emissions.

Ranchers and meet packers won't be happy about efforts to reduce beef consumption, but there losses could be offset by higher prices.

Beef consumers would be very unhappy about higher prices, but beef becoming a luxury item would cause minimal harm, as there are plenty of substitute protein sources.

Politicians on all sides are afraid of policies that could be seen as anti agricultural, so they focus all there efforts on much more costly measures.
Well at least I won't have to open a ticket for that :D
You might be influenced by the perception that LLMs are autonomous.

They're just tools. The outcome depends heavily on the user skills. That's why prompt engineering is a thing.

Heck, even Google results varies depending on the searcher skills, and we're not calling the tool immature...

As with regards to therapy, I have had the opposite experience as you described.
> I sure as hell cannot force them to use "2023-09-20T20:30:59" instead of "2023-09-20 20:30:59". Because it's less readable, and it's not arguable.

RFC 3339 does allow the format "2023-09-20 20:30:59Z", which is more readable, although it requires either the "Z" specifier or an offset like "+00:00" at the end.

From the RFC:

> ISO 8601 defines date and time separated by "T". Applications using this syntax may choose, for the sake of readability, to specify a full-date and full-time separated by (say) a space character.

You can also verify this with the validator on the website OP linked.
The Four Color Theorem [video]
I don't get this whole commotion with LLMs and education. Isn't a Show & Tell and presencial classes enough to weed out the cheaters? LLM is a killer for homework but not when you are in a class with a teacher present.
This is sped up (look at the cursor blinking fast). This guy's experience on a 24 Mhz 286 is more like 0.1-0.2 fps. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1911540009
Cheap ebikes are already that - you can normally swap motors, batteries and motor controllers between brands.

Batteries are all 48v lithium, with protection circuits built in. Motors are all 3 phase brushless. Controllers just take DC input, and output to a 3 phase motor.

Most take pwm input for torque or a magnetic pedal sensor.

The resulting bike feels 'cheap' due to all the parts not working well together (for example, they always jerk a bit when pulling away because the motor has no position sensor)
Enshitification of medicine. Americans really going to subject themselves to corporate butchery.
Reminds me of my cancer scans
oh, oh. I know what.

I don't know much about the context, but I remember that datetime parsing code in Firefox was one of the messiest parsers around:

https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/nsprpub/pr/src/...

(I guess that means that at least in the context of browsers, it's far from standardized)
It's very easy to fight among each other so much so that the business sufferers because the fights become more important than the startup's success. It's important to make sure everyone is working together towards one goal.

Also, most startups will fail. Keep that in mind when you join.
An interesting feature of steel frames is demonstrated by Surly frames: their rear end spacing is currently 145mm, which is neither 142 nor 148 (the standards). What they say is that because it is steel, you can bend it a couple of millimeters without any negative side-effects, the frame will tolerate it and will not break. So your frame can accommodate both sizes.
> But he can’t buy himself a low Erdős number for example.

Why not? With that much money I'm sure he can spend enough to convince somebody with a low number to "collaborate" with him in some capacity. Even if it's spell checking the English text or something.
I think people are greatly misunderstanding why those standards exist. ISO 8601 is a building block for other standards (and itself builds upon other obsolete standards). If ISO 8601 is not a good fit for your application, you have no obligation to use it. But if you don't have a very good reason to do so, I'll just pick (a specific portion of) ISO 8601 and call it a day.
Thanks, did not know.

Maybe this is the reason for his dislike. Would like to hear more about Larry Paulson's experience.

(maybe it was no fun at all)
It gave me the impression this person is concerned about helping teachers navigate this new and challenging reality.

Call me crazy, but that was the impression I had from the comment and the course website.
Don't worry, the original developer who started the project has a created a fork with the new license.

They removed some of the enterprise functionality and has rewritten that part as a closed source product. The core will remain open source forever.
Ah yes the beautiful myth of the Andalusian Paradise. Turns out it's probably just a myth. For a different historic take I recommend https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Andalusian-Paradise-Christians-M...
> I find it hilarious that you intentionally quote one half of a sentence because the other half would defeat the argument you make.

It wouldn't because the coming regulations will compel those exchanges working with crypto to force you to use KYC to cash out your cryptocurrencies, even your cold wallet isn't safe from this.

Significant volatile prices and regular manipulative depeggings of stablecoins will force you to make a compromise to cash out to an exchange.

All roads lead to KYC in either case. So yes your privacy point is well and completely useless.

> No, and phishing and ransomware aren’t what you’re targeting.

But you know that businesses are being targeted which defeats your ridiculous previous point on 'No, things you voluntarily participate in aren’t scams.'

You're also ignoring the truth that they aren't private, so my point still stands and you know it.

Nobody accepts Monero, Bitcoin in the real world, so if you're serious about privacy you wouldn't use crypto.

> Since you intend on banning general usage of crypto, you need to prove I’m being scammed when I volunteer to run a set of instructions on my computer that are available for me to read. Which is an impossible task, because your response to my “I consent” is “No you don’t”.

This is complete nonsense, and won't hold in any court regardless of country. See my crypto ransomware argument that you keep ignoring.
> There’s also a hidden game in the Stagg EKG and Corvo EKG kettles. If you remove your kettle from the base and toggle the F/C switch back and forth, you’ll unlock a snake-like game called Wormy that you can play using the dial.

Funny, how I’m finding out about that from a CT scan of my kettle :)
She Sacrificed Her Youth to Get the Tech Bros to Grow Up
House prices see biggest yearly decline since 2009
So far, in Rust, that has always felt unidiomatic and I haven't seen this pattern around a lot. It always felt like reimplementing Option/Result but worse: "Why use this when something conceptually similar exists in the stdlib?"

But that is exactly the point: it's only conceptually similar, but in this case deceivingly so. In Rust, we make abundant use of newtypes; this enum is also a new type. Only once it is treated as such does actual type safety kick in. I take it the same principle applies to Haskell. Good to know there's some merit to it.
That risk is practically zero, especially if you are operating out of a country that won't extradite to the country of your targets.
I cannot really express how much praise I have for Organic Maps. It has got me out of the mire a couple of times due to the complete offline capability and paper maps being completely wrong. The OSM base layer is better than a lot of native maps out there.

Not only that, you can search for a toilet almost anywhere, including in the middle of nowhere in central Asia, and it found one!
Actual arguments? Yes. All smear? No.

Would you like to have a TL;DR too?

Would you like us to assign someone to butter your muffin?
Thanks! The hard part was actually understand Chrome extension's lifecycle and communication between the content script, popup, and service worker. What I initially thought was going to be hard, ended up being actually quite easy (cf socket.io).

Good luck if you ever attempt to build it :)
I am probably going to get flak for this, but this "scam flow" including a forged Microsoft login, is pretty much the problem I had when I first encountered OAuth and the "Login with XY" concept.

Aside from the fact that I can't keep the way the auth flow works in my head for longer than 2 days before my understanding of it becomes fuzzy again, a layman is not supposed to understand what's going on at all. Because if they were, they would ask "does this service get my XY password if I enter it here?" and unfortunately, trying to get this answer will lead them down a rabbit hole of auth flows, OAuth2 vs. OpenIDConnect and whatnot, because it's only ever documented for implementers.

The normal user is to just believe in its trustworthiness, which may on a technical level be warranted or not, that's not the point. If you keep logging in with XY to different services, you become conditioned to not question anymore whether it's correct to enter your password right now, and where the login form, which always looks the same across different services, comes from.

But oh well, I don't know what the solution should be here, maybe mandatory 2FA yet again, or passkeys. The market will decide.
Look at fedex/ups/maybe usps jobs near you. Package handling at a sorting facility is a physical job, and should be easy to get with no experience. Let them know you can type, and you might get on SWAK (scan, weigh, and key), which is a bit easier.

Doing deliveries is more social, but there's a lot of deadline stress.
Ventilate your cellar avoiding Radon
It was all fun and games until The most basic rule of the λ-calculus is β-reduction, which replaces (λx.M)N by M[N/x], which denotes a copy of M in which every free occurrence of x has been replaced by N. Obviously, [...]. You know, obviously.
This was quite helpful during my early climbing days. It's a shame that sometimes you just can't beat a YouTube video with someone tying the knot you're trying to learn.
OWASP Top for LLMs
IANAL, but I don't think anyone can change license of something that has already been published. Doing so would defeat the purpose of having a license, in the first place.
Shame. It was a killer fs...
The ISO format can be used for a lot of things which your JSON format could never be used for. ISO works great in file names, for example.

And it's really nice in some circumstances (such as the file names case) that alphabetical sort is identical to chronological sort.

And just... why would you spend 10x the space to represent timestamps when ISO timestamps (or, well, RFC 3339) works just fine?
That was the point I was getting at. Since eagles are untouchable, if they somehow learned to take down drones, nobody can do anything about it ;)

(I'm not actually advocating anybody do this.)
Hey thanks!

Editing/deleting notes would require some sort of authentication for the backend to recognise ownership of the notes, but this could be a great incentive toward pushing users to sign up for the tool.

Will definitely look at scaling down font size for longer text (it should already be the case though but doesn't work well with long words or URLs).
When they write "Scientists have long predicted that this isotope is unusually stable", does that mean "unusually stable for unstable isotopes"? I.e. they expected it to remain stable for considerably longer than it actually did, but that would still have been in the order of seconds/miliseconds/nanoseconds? The article is frustratingly light on concrete numbers, but if you look at Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_oxygen), the heaviest isotope for which the half-life was actually measured was 26O, which lasts 4.2 picoseconds.
As a web developer I’m impressed by the consistency, practical beauty and the respect of users.

We as technical nerds often forget how people actually interact with technology and assume way too much attention, familiarity and ability to understand UI patterns.

We often think of accessibility in terms of screen readers, but that’s just a fraction of the story…

Add varied devices, slow connections, very bad performance etc.

I’m craving for things like simplicity, performance, robustness and accessibility.

This looks like a holistic, carefully crafted design system. I’m looking forward to study it.
EXPI by p01
It makes a simple thing (pair) complicated.

This may be true for Category Theory as well (Product of two objects):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_(category_theory)

But Category Theory captures the essence of Products/Pairs, so I am more inclined to accept it.
Salt never accidentally turns itself into cyanide. This argument is moot so long as llms hallucinate.

llms are not a source of reliable knowledge as a result. they are knowledge augmented in knowledge cases. So really you are arguing students should read the knowledge base, the "augment" is just a thin conversational summarizing veneer.
New report sheds light on average developer salaries in Germany
Ok, Not 80%, but 79% percent! You actually think a party that doesn't care about democratic principles can gain so much popularity, that too in the largest democracy in the world?

https://swarajyamag.com/politics/about-80-per-cent-indians-h...
Not necessarily? I assumed the author was doing this in a work context and passing data between a physical corporate asset and a VM he created within it. It hasn't been exfiltrated until it leaves the corporate network.
I "think" that I was being sarcastic, the point being that a future of elders left to rot in the care of robots is dystopic in itself, and might even be less preferable than euthanasia for some, and that a future that doesn't involve care robots or kill robots would be preferable altogether...
I experience this as well, that's why I don't update my phone. Runs longer with less problems that way. I'm sure, it's riddled with viruses and trojans, but as long as it runs, I'm fine with it.
Also, I don't buy new phones, I get one on the flea-market and that's fine.
And I decided, that the next work/life phone will be a dumb phone and the smartphone will stay home for stuff like online-banking, telegram, whatsapp, and whatever.
All this stuff around is overwhelming, and the nano/microplastics debate isn't helping as well.
IBM's provided a free developer course, including a free z/OS account, for at least a decade now: https://www.ibm.com/z/resources/zxplore

Going through the challenges is worth it just to see how the mainframe way of doing things works, even if you never plan to use a mainframe in your career. There's a lot of core concepts and cultural touchpoints that help you build more reliable systems everywhere else.
... and the most beautiful theme music, loaded with appropriate melancholy:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N3_fjdUiamc

Great that the composer put it in the public domain.

Play it at my funeral!
AI is taking work away from lawyers, and instantly creating more work for lawyers.

Ain't that interesting to reflect upon?

I speculate there is a hidden force in the universe, something physicists are yet to identify, which mandates: "they shall always have something to do".
The cost of energy does not only depend on the cost of production: Denmark has a lot of cheap wind energy, but it costs almost three times more than in France. And the higher share of intermittent sources you have, the less valuable the production of energy can be, because it is sometimes produced when not needed, so you need to build up infrastructure, accumulators, etc.

Nuclear is insurable, and in some countries is mandatory: https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and...
Keeping an eye on second hand market, I noticed that many were desperate to dump their VanMoofs in past few months. Some going as low as 1000 bucks but apparently, were finding hard to find someone fool enough to buy a bike who's parts are not available off the market otherwise in case something goes wrong down the road which means, you're purchase is total junk.
Organic Maps is less powerful than OSMAnd (on Android), but it's much more straightforward and easy to use. It's the go-to app I recommend to all casual map users that want offline maps.
There are currently no flights arriving or departing Hong Kong
Having worked with a proof assistant is what separates you from Granville (the interviewee in the article). If he had formalized at least a couple of proofs he would not have written things like "people who convert the proof into inputs for Lean". One does not "convert the proof into inputs for Lean" for a simple reason that a proof written in a formal proof language usually contains much more information than the informal prototype. At best one can try to express similar ideas, but it is far from converting a proof from one form to another. If he had formalized a couple of hundred he would have gained a different opinion on the quality of informal proofs as well. A nice list of typical mistakes can be found in this [answer](https://mathoverflow.net/a/291351/163434) to a MathOverflow question.
> falafel you find in every salad bar in the US

Off-topic, but I have never seen falafel in a salad bar in the US. Where are you finding these buffet falafel?
Definitely not new.
> this implies that now you do have an understanding of logarithms. how did you acquire this understanding?

Not knowing logarithms (a) didn't prevent me from successfully using the log tables books and (b) using the log tables books didn't prevent me from developing a better understanding of logarithms. I expect something similar with happen with GPT based education.

I acquired a deeper understanding of logarithms through a bit of reflection and thought.

The math lessons and teachers didn't help illuminate logarithms in any significant way. They simply rattled off the theory of logarithms and moved on to teaching us how to use them. I had to go out of my way to understand it myself.

Is this any different from a GPT giving you a superficial, regurgitated level of knowledge which you then have to deepen through some effort on your part?