skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple Arcade allows these types of games and removes all monetization like this. The games are still kinda predatory in their frustrations, however there’s no coin to spend. You just randomly get items and that’s it.
I describe it as failed because once they went public with it they were faced with how easily it could be abused and -- quite reasonably in my opinion -- decided to abandon it.
Many years ago I worked for a company that offers a very popular in-browser game. The company branched and expanded and had more than 10 games with various levels of profitability, but this game, which was bringing in about 30 millions EURO per month, was the only thing keeping the company alive.

Then they decided they want to try to sell the company to a fund and wanted to increase the revenue this golden goose was bringing, so they implemented a wheel of fortune. You could spin the wheel for free once per day and get some sort of in-game resource, but you had unlimited spins if you paid coins, which, you guessed it, costed real moneyz.

There was a huge uproar from the community stating that the game was now pay-to-win and virtually unplayable otherwise and they had to reverse the change. The company didn’t get sold in the end, but they’re doing fine still
As a Colorado resident I love this law. Saves me much wasted time.
As a pharmacist, I kinda like this
I used to go to a chiropractor, at a time when I had a high-deductible health plan. It was definitely cheaper to tell them I had no insurance. Basically, people without insurance tend to be less wealthy than people with insurance, so providers use this as a way to "price discriminate" and get the most out of both parties. Of course, the fact that insurance probably covers a good chunk of the total cost makes this system even more profitable.
I used to do this, but with fish shell unless I have very similar commands, I just type part of the whole line to something I (personally) associate it with and that’s it, that’s the command.

I press a space before commands with sensitive information so they don’t stay in my history or throwaway commands that I’m 99% sure I won’t use again.

Complicated ones I create a function for it, but I no longer carry aliases on my shell configuration, and I prefer the legibility of my commands/history.
That's incredible. I was just speaking with colleagues about the best conditions for surfing waves. The best waves here in California originate in storms on the opposite side of the Pacific. The waves travel thousands of miles over the course of days without appreciably dissipating.
Standardise job titles in a nationwide regulation and make employers pick titles out of them (with an allowance to propose a title for an exceptional work, subject to approval) instead of using arbitrary titles.
Sapiens has only been around for 300k years. Writing and, arguably, civilization is only 5.000 years old. If you subtract 5k from 300k, you still have about 300k left.

If you subtract 300k from 10 million years, you still have about 10 million years left.

The point here is that we are notoriously bad at gauging how big numbers are. We are also bad at intuitively gauging how fast/slow evolution moves.

We are very much still evolving and adapting to our surroundings. It's just that the big changes only become visible way beyond the horizon of a future we are able to conceive.
> For the smartphones, that's pure commercial war. Huawei was a big competitor.

Big competitor of what? There’s no popular Android phone OEM in the US. Sounds like you’re making stuff up.
Basically you end up with bicycle/motorcycle inside a teardrop shaped bubble... And limited speeds.
How is that going to make them money? They would have to withdraw enough units to raise the market price across an entire city -- and forego the rent on all of those.

That kind of thing only makes sense if the city is imposing some kind of rent control or similar so they can't rent them out for the market rate and start getting weird incentives for rich people accounting chicanery.
Best because of the price not the performance. Though the outrageousness of the black hornet drone costing 200K is too much. https://flymotionus.com/2021/11/05/flirs-black-hornet-is-the...
First, I think he meant that the out-of-pocket cost (not including the insurance premiums that are already being paid) were higher than the no-insurance cost.

But even if he meant the total cost, the way insurance reduces risk through diversification is analogous to investment in a less risky index fund vs a more risky single company: beyond some minimal operational overhead, the risk reduction should be free.
TLDR: Taking something from flight hardware doesn't make it great for ground use.

As much as I (and this article it seems) would like this to be a silver bullet in the climate crisis and battery market worldwide, I don't think the breakthrough-esc headline is warranted.

My thoughts (if you care):

1. Despite claiming that their batteries are affordable (and not rare) because they "only" use Nickel, the battery catalyst is a Nickel-Molybdenum-Cobalt alloy, which seems like a pretty rare, expensive component. Their published research cites a $~83/kWh cost for just the materials (that's not very cheap). For reference LiIon is $~75/kWh, LiFePO is <$50/kWh.

2. Their cell cycle life's are a little confusing. They say "tens of thousands of cycles", but in their paper I see only the number 1,500 cycles being referenced. Is there some other research or specs that I'm missing (if so they should be referenced)

3. Later in the article they claim that because their cells don't require heating or cooling (among some other features), but these requirements aren't always needed with ground based grid storage solutions, due to the abundance of space and lack of weight or space saving optimizations (such as with EVs). That's not really anything special, and you can really only stack those against LiIon chemistries (which do require safety and cooling).

If you are interested in what's going on, don't read EnerVenue's regurgitated marketing; read the actual science and decide for yourself:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1809344115

Read this for background:
https://www.storage-lab.com/
I’ve replaced several broken screens and dead batteries on Android and iPhones. It’s a very common issue. Screens break and batteries wear out.
The real deal often gets treated like a drone by potential employers. You make the mistake of believing they know how to accurately assess who is the real deal.

Plus, people who are the real deal are "coming up" all the time and they need to start somewhere.
Funny, I was just learning about Git revision ranges the other day, to get to something like the last one! Thanks for sharing.
I once saw for sale a new copy of "F**k Plastic", wrapped in plastic.
Many times. Before the first high profile hacks (that I remember) in 2011, Sony's CTO made a career of giving high profile talks about, essentially, reducing your IT budget by not doing security. Don't do pentests, don't do audits - they only uncover issues for your teams to fix! Certifications are an industry that sells you problems, he said. Ignore and skimp on the whole thing. IIRC there was even a great talk about how to ignore your engineers when they say something is urgent.

He didn't get fired after the first round of hacks, and he wasn't fired after the 2014 round either. I wonder where he is now?
People who are suicidal are often miserable and looking for a quick and easy out. Making them work for it absolutely can be a deterrent.
I'm not sure I follow. It's almost guaranteed that all chiplets are still on some global system bus just like they were on their monolithic dies. Unless Intel has taken sudden great strides with their SoC security architecture, there are likely still all the old problems (plus a bunch of new fun ones!). Taking it off die is a response to the physical scaling issue, it's really not meant as a security enhancement.
Hand me the controls and tell me if I'm steering it left, right, up, or down. If you can, congrats! You can see it. If not...
Am I speaking in riddles?

What part is hard to understand?

0. Do not self-medicate with illegal drugs. Bro science is best avoided when it comes to the brain.

1. Try exercise. Did it work? Good! The vast majority of sad people get happier with exercise. Did it not work? Go to step 2!

2. See a professional who might medicate you, including psychedelics.
Digital slavery and slavery both have definitions that are pretty different from how you use those terms.
So by your own words, in order to use the LLM usefully, I need to manually manage it? Do you know what I don’t have to manually manage? A person.

I can feed a person a broad, complex or even under formed idea and they can actively troubleshoot until the problem is resolved, further monitoring and tweaking their solution so the problem remains resolved. LLMs can’t even come close to doing that.

You’re proving my point for me; it’s a tool, not a developer. Zero jobs are at risk.

Also not for nothing, but no, sending the textbook in chunks doesn’t work as the LLM can’t then synthesize complex ideas that span the entire chapter. You have to compose a set of notes first, then feed it the notes, and even then the resulting flashcards are meaningfully worse than what I could come up with myself.
It usually ‘just works’ on your side. Configuring it properly is also fine, but a bit more involved.
The only thing that makes human selection unnatural is that we like to define ourselves as above nature
Nobody wants to believe they've been made a fool
Without knowing anything about them, the amount of plastic they saved could easily be many orders of magnitude greater than a few hundred cookie wrappers. You're placing more importance on the cookies just because they're more visible.
One could argue that they are in complete control simply because the average patient can never pay the amount the provider bills. So the provider HAS to play ball with the insurer, because good luck getting joe blo American to foot the bill (it's impossible in most cases).
FaceID data is stored in the front module. Can’t swap it else anyone can unlock your phone with a swapped FaceID module.

LiDAR not sure what’s happening.
Yeah but they paid $155 in unnecessary labor for the medical billing specialist and the insurance company billing rep to go back and forth for 3 months.
IIRC, Bezos used to sell $1Bn worth of Amazon stock every year to fund Blue Origin, not sure what the funding format is now.

Blue Origin is proof that just throwing money at a problem does not achieve results, and saying the Musk's only contribution to SpaceX to was "using his money to buy success" is a fallacy.

I don't how much you can look into his "engineering" prowess.. but clearly it was more than zero.
> To even begin to decide whether this claim is scientific (testable), thoughts and their content need to be defined physically here.

Where did you get the idea of "scientific"? Where did you get the idea of "begin"? Where did you get the idea of "definition"? Where did you get the idea of "physical"? Etc. You didn't create any of those ideas. Are you seeing how many ideas you are borrowing from society in a single sentence? I see society dancing through your mind!

And if I keep going through your entire answer, "most" of the ideas are borrowed. Your "value-addition" is re-arrangement. In this case, the way you've arranged the ideas is full of holes (and eventually not enough to 'pass the test of reality') :)
Either these companies have an unlimited amount of money and the construction companies should thereby hire everyone in the city to build ever more housing so they can make an unlimited amount of money, or they have a finite amount of money and the construction companies will eventually have taken all of it and yet still be able to build more housing after that.
I mean, they do. Being a doctor is the one profession where you're guaranteed to be rich, especially if you specialize at all. Even software development is no guarantee of riches - there are a lot of software developers making the same (or not much more than) accountants.
Replace 'China' with 'USA' in your post, and for most of the world both would be identically true.
In our resource-abundant modern world, you should expect genes that cause people to want kids to do very well. Fertility is low in most developed countries, but that masks particular sub-populations that are growing at a rapid rate. See this article for instance: https://medium.com/migration-issues/how-long-until-were-all-...

Similarly, expect future generations to be full of people who just can't stand wearing a condom during sex.
I think parts blacklisting (i.e. you report a phone as stolen, all of its OEM parts are blacklisted) is good as an anti-theft measure and achieves the same functionality.

I can also understand parts pairing for Face ID for security, and maybe even the battery. I've had aftermarket battery repairs swell up, which is a safety risk.

But what Apple is doing is using this as a pretense to lock down repairs.
I was on Bitwarden for a bit. I really really like the secure notes feature, it's great for storing secrets like keys that aren't used in a browser or android app.

But Google is so much more convenient.

I still wonder why there's no completely P2P password manager using SyncThing plus a layer of encryption. We have this near perfect tool for making multidevice apps but we don't use it for much!
> Their iteration rate is amazing.

Sure, some companies do. Though what I see from the SpaceX launches I don't respect much. They just don't care at all about the impact on biodiversity around the launch site. I would be happier with slower but more sustainable.

> You haven't explained why? Move fast and break things mean to iterate fast, that includes finding way to cut the cost, improve specs, and just make the overall product better.

Difficult to say why. They have really good people and they have built a pretty solid technology, I guess. Their software really sucked in the beginning (10 years ago), but then it got much better.

"Move fast and break things" is also often an excuse to do bad engineering, IMO. "We hacked it because we need to go fast", and then the whole product is a piece of crap and people wonder why.

> Is it or is it not competitive what what DJI is selling on the market?

Nobody can remotely compete with DJI. I just meant "if you are ready to pay for something that is not DJI for ideological reasons".

> The fact they can offer all of that at a lower price point is (in my opinion) a sign of things to come in other industries: electric cars, space travel, renewable energy.

Electric cars and renewable energy are part of a much, much more complicated problem. We just don't have any viable way to replace fossil fuels entirely, so we will have to use less energy (and hence degrow, hopefully in a controlled and smart way).

Space travel is a joke. We need fundamentally new physics if the hope is to go live in another solar system, and I don't understand why people are excited about the idea of surviving in a spaceship. Instead of paying really smart people to work on that useless idea, we should pay them to find clever solutions to degrow. Use less, better, smarter, more sustainable technology everywhere in society.
It’s not even virtue signalling, he’s just straight up saying “the crap is produced by white people”
There’s so much more math though. More than will ever be seen or used in structures, thought about, etc even in principle. E.g. if string theory isn’t real the math still is, so where is it? Part of the universe is pretty unsatisfying.
> Maybe it's because I see how the sausage is made.

I feel the same, only without the maybe.

It just struck me that taking a picture of the white board and sending it to the printer would add up to acceptable use of technology. I have no idea why I never thought of that before. It seems actually nice to uses. (provided you delete the picture from drives, clouds, backups and trashcans)
Funnily enough I followed the Nexus 7 with a Samsung Tab A 10.1 and that also became an almost unable laggy mess in short order. The iPad mini bought around the same time as the Nexus for my wife if still going fine, as well as my grandmother's iPad. As much as I don't want to this point I think if I ever need a tablet again (I do like them for PDFs and schematics, but I have never found a good way to send and organise files for quick access that makes it worth it), I might just forgo Android tablets and go to the dark side.
Would love to see the final project - my email is in the bio.
Just because we have defined ourselves outside of the term "natural" _doesn't_ mean we aren't evolving like any other species does.
Yea, like how they destroyed Ford, GM and Chrysler? While the auto industry recovered, International did not.

Unions were willing to work with other companies in the early 80s during the oil / financial problem, but from everything I read it was a two way street and their priority was the workers they represented.
This is CO focused but I feel like some investigation is needed in other regions as this seems to be a large problem with many places.

Building rental units has just become the no-brainer choice.
And Apple has services for replacing that. Although I used to repair my devices myself, it makes sense from Apple’s POV. There’s far more people who don’t know how to do this (or couldn’t be bothered to learn and when they fuck up, they blame Apple) than people in HN’s demographics that are willing and knowledgeable enough.
> Wasm has been really great at shipping the MVP, but they are pretty slow about shipping the many features that build on it. In general, this makes sense as the system can't be changed once its stable. But it also means that a lot of things are still in limbo and will probably be for the forseeable future.

I concede that development of post-MVP development has been slow, but I am also optimistic for the near future based on recent progress. Are there particular things in limbo that you're particularly interested in or concerned about?
True, you can compare tic-tacs to other similar candies, and discover that they all have zero grams of sugar, apparently.
Books are one of the trashiest mediums
Tablet packing as a service (TPAAS)
Parks Canada says bear bells are not an effective deterrent against bears.

https://parks.canada.ca/pn-np/mtn/ours-bears/securite-safety...
Do you sincerely believe what Apple is doing is the least restrictive means to achieve that goal?
Well, I didn't say that support today is always good. But by construction ChatGPT will never be able to answer a question that was not written down and trained (unless it hallucinates it, and many times the answer will be completely wrong).

I can read the website, I don't need a fake person to give me the information available on the website. When I contact support, it's because I need to talk to a human.
Agreed. I just thought this little paragraph at the end of the article, which does directly address the title of the article, was amusing.
> Why did it come to this? Just more profits?

It seemed to be specifically aimed at free to play mobile games - and if studios really had to pay per install, it would basically kill this entire genre on Unity (because it would count every install of f2p games, even though people aren't buying them - so the economics don't work out, and the more popular the game, the harder is to pay the install fees).

Except that.. they later announced that they would waive the install fees if mobile devs migrated to their ad solution. So they didn't want anyone to actually pay the install fee; the idea is that game devs would need to choose between shutting down their game, or using Unity's ad tech.

So in the end this was all a ploy to get ad revenue, which is analogous to revenue share, but for f2p games.

Here are some sources for this (I just found at Google, but I saw this discussed in many places)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/16j6cip/ironsource...

https://mobilegamer.biz/unity-is-offering-a-runtime-fee-waiv...
We know time and space are the same fabric, because different relativistic speeds let us see the same regions of space-time with different space-time coordinates.

The “angle” of time vs space is different based on perspective. Each perspective sees a different direction of time through the 4D space-time.

Yet from any perspective, the space time regions coordinates are still best represented with three real values and one imaginary value.

This is the form of coordinates in the space time interval equation, and reflects time dilation and space contraction.

So space and time are identical stuff, but from any vantage point you will see “your” time dimension acting differently than 3 spatial dimensions.

It’s a really interesting property.
> one view is that mathematics is a stiff and fixed set of rules and algorithms while the other view is that mathematics is flexible and our understanding of math comes from questioning of why mathematics functions so effectively

I havent read the book but this dichotomy is not an intrinsic feature of how people pursued mathematics historically.

The "stiffness" and excess focus on rigor and accuracy developed gradually over the 19th century because people were being loose canons - primarily around calculus.
You don't have to be, but e.g. in the UK the average full time author themselves earn below minimum wage, while the average household income for a household with a full time author is far above average.

And the vast majority of writers never make it to full time.

You can also get some indication from the average age at first publication (late 30's if I remember correctly).
The initiative seems to have been abandoned. The results they managed to achieve were nowhere near adequate for live performance. The best results they got on the best possible hardware was about 14ms, which -- as you know -- isn't adequate for real-time audio performance.

My guess, based on experience with Rasberry Pi's: to do better than that, you need all drivers on the phone to have PREEMPT_RT patches, and contention with GPUs may be a deal-killer.

You might be interested in this approach:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.twoplay.pipedal

https://rerdavies.github.io/pipedal/

PiPedal delivers sub-4ms latency (measured using loopback) without dropouts using a Raspberry PI that's accessed from a phone using Wi-Fi direct. (disclosure: I'm the author).

A few observations:

- An SMP_PREEMPT or SMP_RT Linux kernel is mandatory. Audio threads need to run with high real-time priority.

- Real-time and audio and GPUs don't seem to play well together. PiPedal delivers stable low-latency audio -- I think -- primarily because it runs headless.

- On Raspberry pi, GPUs have a dire effect on low-latency audio. Using non-GPU graphics drivers helps.

- SD card i/o has a moderately dire effect on low-latency audio. Ethernet and Wi-Fi i/o seems to have little to no effect on low-latency audio. Drive i/o to USB-connected storage devices is less of a problem with the caveat that the USB 2.0 ports share a bus, and USB 3.0 ports share a separate bus. The storage device should be on a USB 3.0 port, and the UBS audio device should be on a USB 2.0 port.

- All of this requires a Linux kernel later than ~5.15. Round about that time, the kernel ingested a significant portion of the PREEMPT_RT patches; and USB audio is essentially unusable prior to 5.10. This disqualifies a lot of ARM SOCs which still have 4.x kernels!

Contention with SD card i/o may just reflect the fact that full PREEMPT_RT patches haven't yet been propagated into mainline device drivers for that i/o path. Or that the patch set doesn't exist at all. A PREEMPT_RT kernel doesn't fix the problem.

Significantly, the Linux 5.1x audio and SMP_PREEMPT improvements post-date the Android real-time audio initiative. It might be time for Google to take another kick at the can. But in the meantime, real-time audio on Android remains borked.