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> If we get the infinite resources needed to retire capitalism then those others should also be solved as well.

I mean, Nike destroys product to keep prices high and maintain scarcity [1].

I think everyone is aware of how housing prices are kept artificially high by agressive zoning restrictions.

The problem isn’t capitalism per se, the issue is that this is crony capitalism, not real capitalism.

A true free market would actually benefit the masses with more inexpensive goods, better, low cost health care, affordable housing etc, the issue is that there’s arbitrary restrictions put on the free market either by market makers or by groups with disproportionate influence over regulations.

Also it’s worth mentioning social norms, it’s easy to find an education online in lieu of a paying for a full blown college education, but individuals still insist that a compsci degree is necessary.

Anyhow, my point is that humanity has never been closer to a post scarcity society and rather than embracing it, it’s actually being pushed back against by a number of different actors for a variety of selfish reasons.

[1] https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/9/17/17852294/fashion-bra...
Wireless stuff is neat I guess… but it takes up much more space and is much less efficient. The power loss alone seems like a big deal that we don’t really consider. Not to mention that it’s not really any more convenient than say MagSafe is. I find my phone uncharged in the morning far more often because I didn’t align it properly with the pad, than because my cable is going bad.

I will say, it’s nice letting my phone stand also charge it… so I’m also kinda a fan.

This is a surprisingly tough issue for me.
> I'm sorry, but what examples could you possibly want […]?

Any? Any example would do.
I found a paper that was submitted recently to arxiv that has some more detail : https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.11173.pdf
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https://archive.is/MYr1s
Thanks, you guys just fixed my iPhone 12. Which previously required me to awkwardly move the cable to get it to charge

With a plastic toothpick I scraped the inside corners. At first nothing came out, but after a few scrapes multiple dust balls emerged. Honestly a surprising amount

I plugged it in, "that snap feeling again..." charging sound
I don't understand - many devices that aren't android phones use USBC. The only devices on earth that used lightning were Apple ones, and not even all their devices (laptops) use it.

Standards and interop are good. If the "free market" refuses to align on that value I'm happy for another mechanism to force it to happen. Judging from this thread, I'm not alone in that.
Wow I remember wanting one of these back in the day... never got to see one but this article covers everything you ever wanted to know about the product.

At the time it seemed that Atari had their hands in everything. There was the AtariTel video phone, Mindlink brain interface, AtariLab, and many other oddities that nearly/barely made it into production. They even had a device that connected their 8bit computers to Atari coin-ops to add up the quarters in the cash boxes and print reports (I think it was called the Coin Executive or something). There was something magical about that era, it seemed the future was right around the corner.
True, but I have yet to hear any good reason to have a stuffed nose so bad you can't even function or sleep well. Pretty sure that's just the illness helping itself spread.

I don't take meds for fevers, but first thing I do when I'm getting a cold is make sure I still have a box of pseudoephedrene to use. It turns 90% of colds or flus into just a boring few days instead of abject misery.

The other two essentials IMO are an expectorant and a cough suppressant. All separate meds so you can pick and choose (it's also cheaper typically, the boxes of random mixed crap tend to be stupidly expensive).
That's sweet. The "negative" effects of being too good at your job. :)
The advantage of a static site is that your server is simple, fast and secure, and requires little to no maintenance.
It's local first because you write your data locally, first, then you sync it.

As opposed to writing it remotely first.

Also how many well designed APIs for sync really exist in the wild? I feel like you need a decent knowledge of distributed systems theory to even understand the problem space. "Last write wins" is a cop out and just means you are throwing away data semi-arbitrarily.
What an excellent post. I love the "first felt PMF" criterion which is the right way to think about it because, like validated by interviews in this blog, most of the times you remain unsure that you have actually found PMF... and that's perfectly ok!
Might depend on what division of Samsung makes it, and there are _many_. Among other things, they make earth moving machinery, and freight ships.
We get it, nix is a better mousetrap.

Why are people ignoring you though? Because if it really was the promised land we'd all be there already. Must be something important y'all are missing about the good old fashioned hot stoves.
> If you can't get at least 50% voter turnout in your district, the election is forfeit, and we hold another one in two weeks.

What if you don't get 50% in two weeks? Or ever?
Crime and Punishment, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Frankenstein, Lord of the Rings, 1984, The Great Gatsby, The Chronicles of Narnia, and Odyssey (by Homer) are all books that I enjoyed that are varying degrees of old. I think comparing old vs new books is fundamentally different from old vs new movies. Let’s bring in another form of media since you brought up books: what about video games? Most gamers have some cutoff before which they either generally don’t play games older than that or they do but wouldn’t call any of them “greatest of all time.” This is not a deliberate decision, but a product of revealed preference. Even then, newest doesn’t mean good.

I think Morrowind, Ocarina of Time, and FF7 are GOATed, but I also don’t go out of my way to play older 2D games and certainly would never call them the greatest. On top of that, I have to admit that the games I mentioned are less enjoyable today than they were back then, and are on the same level as other 10/10s that I played in more recent times.

The medium by which books are conveyed hasn’t really changed meaningfully (holding fixed what is being written about). They’re still words. That’s not true of movies and video games.
Mine is also a 2017 and can barely charge my phone. :(
A local first tool, for me is one that works for most productive purposes without any network connection after the initial page load.

Having just returned from a multi-day hiking trip without a lot of network coverage I think people don't realize the utility to such things.
Maybe?

...but it's not really very clear is it? They've done their best to make it simple, with multiple examples in the FAQ, but fundamentally, what they're introducing is a very very complicated scheme.

Multiple rates, multiple tiers.

> All determinations, calculations of installs, and revenue related to the Unity Runtime Fee will be made by Unity in its sole discretion.

Ouch, expensive. Don't worry:

> Qualifying customers may be eligible for credits on the Unity Runtime Fee based on the adoption of Unity services beyond the Editor, such as Unity Gaming Services or Unity LevelPlay.

How much?

> please contact your account manager for ad monetization

Got a problem with that? Not what you were expecting?

> Unity may also waive all or any part of the Unity Runtime Fee in its sole discretion. As we implement this program, customers may see an invoice for an amount less than the full number of installs (or for $0) to help with the transition.

> We recognize that users will have concerns about this and we will make available a process for them to submit their concerns to our fraud compliance team.

Some amount. With some discounts. Based on your subscription, maybe? Or maybe you just get credits?

...

I mean, trivially, yeah, sure. Did you make more than $200000 in the last year? Probably not. So, you probably don't care, and this doesn't have anything to do with you.

However, it's really a bit shit to go from a predictable fee to an arbitrary rolling fee which you can't easily predict; and you can't, because despite all their examples, they've really failed hard at two things:

1) How much will it cost?

Not, you tell me later how much it will cost. Not, I get a surprise bill I can't afford in a month. Me, without you input, calculate how much it will cost. How much will it cost? It's pretty clear to me that the answer to this is who the heck knows?

They decide what an install is.

They decide how many installs you had.

They decide how much of a discount to give you.

They decide how much to charge you.

They decide how to deal with any disputes.

Does that sound cool to you? It doesn't really seem cool to me.

2) When will the rates / terms / values change?

There's no rules. They decide that too.

Published a game today? Well, in a year maybe it'll cost more than it costs now per install. Maybe not. Who knows?

...

It's easy to say, 'its no big deal'; but unpredictable pricing is very very bad. They've totally messed this up by making it too complicated and too bespoke.
People are less likely to pay their debts if they think their debts will be sold to someone who will forgive it, so the debt issuer's other non-written-off debts will be harder to collect (since now those people know that they might be able to get out of their debts by waiting and hoping they get sold to a debt-forgiver).
Sure, you have. Many professional cliques have unstated dress codes. The more rarefied the clique, the more expensive the look. Banking and venture capital come to mind. If you make it to the top you can wear what you want again.
Why Apple’s 2nd Gen UWB Chip Is Exciting
> its not a step backward to use a part of your body for something that used to use a part of your body

Arm vs fingertip is much more than just parts of the body. How long does it take you to reach the top left corner of your phone with your finger vs reaching for it with your whole arm behind some submarine goggles? That wouldn’t bother you when you just want ti sit down and relax?

> Turns out, people actually are fine learning “obscure gestures”.

Are they, says who? I’ve heard plenty of mixed views. But to answer, my argument is the former.

How’s it going to be in VR when you have to raise both hands and pull down to open some app drawer? Or move both hands to the left to open the settings pane? I could go on and on, it’s freaking sign language. Why don’t I just click my tongue for brightness up and do a p sound for brightness down? I’d tell Siri but when I’m in public I’d feel like Captain Picard.

There are things a smartphone will never do as well as a computer in terms of productivity and expression. But phones are extremely better with portability, better suited for leisure. So much so that every time I use a laptop on the couch to read something, I’m instantly going “what am I doing, this feels arcane” But I don’t see where VR fits, it feels more toy oriented than something you’d want to take with you when you’re at Starbucks.
Makes me think of the Foundation series, and the late stage of the Galactic Empire, when science and culture both were stagnated.

Cool new iphone feature: USBC!

Cool new movie: It has Ironman and Spiderman in it!
I wonder if the new heat pump could somehow interface with my old Samsung refrigerator so that ice no longer forms on the bottom of the freezer
Looks like you're trying to use the public GPT models for tasks they aren't really built in mind for. ChatGPT and the API are not the only OpenAI-based services available. OpenAI is trying to play it safe (though not anywhere as safe as they should), which is more than can be said for most tech orgs this century.

>So I'm quite excited at the prospect of Meta getting there and releasing the foundational version.

Speaking as someone who has had a taste of raw GPT-4 and its tool use abilities and participated in scenario exercises about it, an open source model with GPT-4 capability is not in the cards. National governments will confiscate hardware and detain individuals before they'll allow human reality to disintegrate like wet clay. Drone striking foreign datacenters is a very real option in the protocol books defense and intelligence communities are writing. The only other choice is the total death of general computing, comprehensive implementation of universal control mechanisms like WEI, and severe criminal sentences for any conspiracy to tamper.
LastPass is centralized, which makes it safer than self-hosted sol.. oh, well, never mind. :-)
Sometimes the older tools are the better ones :))
There's a cigar company that did the same thing (not naming names because I'm friends with everyone involved). Over 20 years ago, a famous Cuban cigar roller came to the US to start his own cigar business. He worked out of a small factory with other rollers in Miami, and sourced all of his tobacco from a specific farm out of Nicaragua. The deal was that the farm owner would be a part-owner of his tobacco business in exchange for the tobacco since he came from Cuba with nothing.

Well, years later the cigar roller is now a cigar magnate, and he wanted his business to be owned by himself and his children, not his business partner. So he started another company on the side and started pushing all of his new brands through that company. The farm owner found out, sued him, and they settled out of court for millions with the caveat that the roller would no longer be able to use any of his farm's tobacco.

Cigar roller shrugged his shoulders and kept going. Bought some farmland in Nicaragua and other places, built a fermentation barn, and started growing his own tobacco too, at least what he couldn't source from elsewhere. He also largely stopped making third party cigars aside from his son in law's by way of jacking up the prices on almost all long-run projects by over 100% (to get out of making them). In 20 years he went from being near penniless to being one of the most successful people in the business.

Are the cigars as good as they used to be? Hell no. He used to create cigars for third party vendors that would put most of the best Cuban marcas to shame even when you found a quality box of them. But they're good enough for people who don't remember what they used to be, and that's what counts.
In this case it's Samsung Electronics, same division that makes the home appliances.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=32&v=qZvmRuB80lY

14Pro phone looks good at 240 fps. 14 had issues, assuming it will be the same this year
It’s great your Samsung freezer still makes ice. Mine stopped a few months ago.
> I built two such a systems after burning that much in a week on ChatGPT.

What are you doing!?
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Amazon is one of the most prestigious tech employers in the world.
They’re technically QI compatible but they don’t work as well with those chargers — much harder alignment issues and therefore less stable and reliable charging in my experience.
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This is truly ironical that some apps refuse to work on system that is much secure.

I use LineageOS and it is true that I have to use Magisk to have banking app working. And I understand that this is not for everyone.

I just wanted to mention that there is a way to use older phone and have security updates longer than vendor provides it. And even longer than Apple.

I get the argument about binary blob updates. Security is never 100%. And it also shows another reason why binary blobs make things worse.
Also individual airpods please, for those of us, who, have, ahem, washed an airpod. (Secondhand case, sure, secondhand airpod... ew)
Not anywhere in the US as far as I know, but even the requirement of showing ID is ridiculous. What has it accomplished? And how many people got tricked into buying the useless stuff that's 10x easier to purchase?
It is a thing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PJ1_TrackBite
The whole presentation evokes the unsettling sensation of the uncanny valley for me. The presenters appear eerily humanoid in their demeanor, posture and gestures. The peculiar emphasis they use on certain words adds to this feeling too. I said this in another comment, their outfits also don't fit with what one would expect in a typical setting, they feel strangely "off" and out of place. Also... the disorienting special effects and the ambiguous nature of the campus visuals (real or simulated...or both? I can't tell) is just ... a lot. I know Apple is going for a certain look with these presentations but for me it's crossed a line. Kind of like watching one of those weird overly produced Netflix shows or something, where the lighting/coloring/etc is all wrong and fake feeling.
The welfare system requires more than a minimal amount of paperwork, and a lot of people are surprisingly bad with paperwork. Then you have immigrants who don't have access to this system, or are afraid to use it.
Reminds me of the millionaire next door.
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What leaves a bad taste in my mouth is that one is forced to twitter to raise awareness which only works if you have a sizable following.

This combined with the band over posting ASNs is alarming.

It also seems to me as companies grow they become more interested in policing.
It is for an HVAC that heats via water - i.e. a radiator system. It heats water, but not for your shower.
A winemaker once gave me a sample of his own hot sauce which was great. The next year's batch he gave me, the body of it seems to separate a lot more to the point where it ends up with the sauce settled at the bottom and then brine/oil/whatever up top. In commercial sauces, I'm sure they have additives that keep it consistent, but I doubt he's doing anything like that. What's likely caused that difference over the previous batch?
Why are you drinking alcoholic beverages if you don’t care about getting drunk?

Most of us in the developed world have ready access to a variety of alcohol free drinks if the goal isn’t to get buzzed.
I think I speak for many readers of Hacker News when I say that I never imagined COBOL to be fertile ground to develop lasting human relationships
You may be aware of this already, but the current LiveView generators address many of these concerns by serving the same LiveView template for multiple routes, but the assigns will be different based on which route is accessed. So, for the :index route, the modal will not be visible, but it will be visible for the :new route. Plus, with live patching, you preserve back button functionality (and it even preserves the page state as a bonus). So that addresses the back button problem.

But the problem still exists where clicking outside the modal (or pressing the back button) will destroy the form and any unmodified content, which is super annoying. This can be addressed by listening for changes to the form's input fields and showing a warning when any navigation event occurs when the form is changed-but-not-submitted (easier said than done, but ).

I'm not even disagreeing with your point, really. It's just worth mentioning that 1) many of the problems described have an out-of-the-box solution when using the current LiveView generators, and 2) refinements can be made to address some of the remaining issues.
> In New York it was so utterly baffling how long it took to get from Brooklyn to Manhattan on the subway. Like 3-4x a bike, 1-2x a car.

I live in Brooklyn and commuted to Manhattan 5 days a week before 2020, primarily by subway, but occasionally by car and a few times by bike, and this was not my experience.

At rush hour the subway was consistently faster than a car, and I think comparable if maybe a bit slower than a bike, but certainly not 4x. For a road distance of 3-6 miles between various offices/home addresses I spent 25-45 minutes door-to-door on the subway.

I’m a big proponent of cycling infrastructure but I’m not sure I’d choose to commute by bike if I went back to working in an office, though I imagine a modern ebike would go a long way towards helping with the sweat factor.
Maybe “culture of science” happened in gradations?

Having scientists is not the same as everyone going through science as a required subject of education.
>Just get what tastes good to you and forget about the noise.

I think that's a hugely underrated point. Personally I really like devils cut beam as a cheap tasty option, and I much prefer it over a lot of the $100-200 options.

Go with what tastes good to you. Price is loosely correlated at best with "tasty".
He states that they typically won't sue you for debts of just a few hundred dollars, but if it's over $1000, then they're more likely to sue you in order to be able to garnish your wages and bank accounts, and/or file liens against your property.

So, "maxing out all your credit cards" it depends on just how much that maxxing would be.
> Arm vs fingertip is much more than just parts of the body.

Motion tracking doesn’t mean you control things with your arm. It can even be with your fingertips. AR + motion tracking could mean “an interface just like a touchscreen phone/tablet/giant-Surface-Hub-digital-whiteboard, but on any surface you choose at the moment”. Sure, its not there yet, but neither were handheld devices anywhere ready for ubiquitous general use for the first few decades.
Very valid point regarding the value. We've been training our own LLAMA model for this app https://www.instagram.com/reel/CwgtFORyCuu/ & we ask ourselves the value questions every day.... We love using the app but we need to see session times increase to justify the value aspect.
Community is showing up. Go somewhere every week and see what happens.
> all of it gets you drunk, which is what you're after.

A substantial amount of wine is consumed at lunchtime by workers who most definitely don't want to get drunk, because they are due back at work. Wine is also consumed at monasteries by monks who are forbidden drunkenness. This beverage is consumed in more contexts than just for the alcohol's effects.
Re: the controversy about what's really going on here, here's an informal literature review from a writer I like: https://asteriskmag.com/issues/01/is-wine-fake
Is there any big brand of appliances that are actually good nowadays? It’s all designed to break in few years and make repairs unfeasible.
This is a great project! Are there any stopgaps to prevent malicious data entry?
Go find me the papers showing me it is. You can't ask someone to prove a negative.

Here's another one: name the private (not gov contractor) orgs who are currently working on fission/fusion or even radiological weapons. There aren't any. For as disparate as the cultures of China and the US are, both realize the fact that DIY nukes are bad and universally disappear anyone going down that route.
Do you have an equivalent to an oaky bourbon that isn't alcoholic?

In the same way I drink coffee for the taste, decaf even is often not the same.
Is Samsung considered a reliable brand in other parts of the world?

My Samsung TV, electric range, and fridge have all been repaired or replaced under warranty several times.

Currently my electric range is out of warranty and one of the burners has broken yet again.
> I've played 3d games, at what looks like 60fps, on my Apple watch. I...don't understand why I should be able to do that.

Exactly — it feels like Apple is going with a high-power device that gives modest battery life, when what I want is a lower-power device with extended battery life.
Yes, but EMI noise is (Its called frequency). Which is the mechanism by which the the Sony module in question operates.

It's weird for yoi to bring up thermal "noise". What you are referring to is thermal decay, entropy. Yes, you can harness this too, but it's a different mechanism and not really pertinent here.