skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait, have they changed handling of (e)SIMs? I'm happily using two eSIMs on my pixel pro 7 (work and private). But looks like this supports only one physical and one eSIM?
Oh yeah, I agree, and I learned it the hard way. In many cases you want to keep the customer format rather than the canonical format. This is why I stopped using Postgres's JSONB for customer data, and exclusively use String/JSON nowadays.
This strategy has been adopted by eBay as well and artificially drives up prices. Let me elaborate.

Recently, eBay has made it so that only the products with paid ads are shown in places where customers click. This drives up the cost of everything by more than 10% which is eBay's ad fee. I refused to buy a paid ad to sell my MacBook. It sat on the site for a month, which is highly unusual for an in-demand and rightly priced product. Finally I lowered the price enough to get it sold.

Most consumers use the default site, which filters by Recommended (i.e. ads) The play for consumers to win at this new payola ad scheme is to always filter by lowest price (or in amazon's case Prime + lowest price)

But really, consumers don't win (and neither do sellers) because now these ads take up space in supposed "search results" for items which don't match the search terms (but are close enough) This creates frustration when you are looking for something to meet a specification, like E26 light bulbs for example. Here, it is pointless to show anything that doesn't meet that specification and yet the site shows them, and the seller has to pay the ad fee.

Please somebody make a site with no payola!
> This is a political stunt. If Lena Khan and the FTC were actually interested in consumer protection, they would go after other industries first.

Totally! As we all know, the FTC is legally bound to only doing one thing at a time.

A more aggressive FTC is starting to target drug mergers and industry middlemen: https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/more-aggressive-...

How the FTC Is Tackling ‘Below the Radar’ Healthcare Deals : https://medcitynews.com/2023/09/how-the-ftc-is-tackling-belo...

FTC warns of ‘rampant’ pharma consolidation as it targets $28bn Amgen deal: https://www.ft.com/content/bbe06477-22e6-4d46-a4c2-03964a2f8...

FTC writing new internet rules to safeguard users’ search, health and location data: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/nov/22/ftc-writing...
No, and that comes at a cost too. There are cities where infrastructure improvements like sidewalks do not get made because the accessibility requirements make them too costly.

It is a tried and true tactic for politicians to be able to claim they did something, but also keep taxes low. It really screws the smallest and poorest businesses/communities.

IDEA 2004 - Feds mandate each and every kid get an “individual education plan” and make it very hard and expensive for school leaders to expel kids who cause problems. And of course, Feds provide no money.

So what happens? Poorer towns with insufficient resources for paraeducators to manage problematic kids just let the kids stay in class and cause disruptions. Poorer students who want to learn get punished.

Richer areas that can afford complying with all regulations are even better off than before, except their residents get lower taxes and their leaders get to say they did something to help people.

Legislating a minimum standard is easy and cheap. Funding it and executing it is expensive, so everyone tries to avoid it.
Every Prime member gets commit access...
JavaScript mind map core Mind-Elixir 3.2.2 released Image Export supported
- Lightweight
- High performance
- Framework agnostic
- Pluginable
- Export as SVG or PNG
- Build-in drag and drop / node edit plugin
- Summarize nodes
- Styling your node with CSS
- Undo / Redo
- Efficient shortcuts
I would assume that they could pull the numbers from the amber alert on what sort of numbers they should be seeing.

Then I would also assume that part of the system would report back saying "delivered" and they could just compare those numbers?
My wife successfully replaced her Pixel 6's batter with the iFixit kit. I think the kit was $50. It probably took 3 hours for her.
Do you think a person’s cartridge of Pokemon Sun is going to stop working after this?

Online services means multiplayer games won’t work anymore, but single player physical games won’t magically stop working just because the online services shut down.
Well it's not just scale. It's also a series of business decisions that hurt civility in various ways:

1. Focus on engagement means a focus on rage inducing, soundbite esque content that provokes anger rather than a reasonable conversation.

2. Algorithmic timelines mean content is often personalised to the user, potentially either leading to an echo chamber or a fight (by showing content from people the user fundamentally disagrees with)

3. Moderation is virtually nonexistent, outsourced to third world support teams or applied unevenly/unfairly, both encouraging bad behaviour and making those affected think the system is against them.

4. Short character limits and mobile focused designs encourage snarky responses and short putdowns over more thoughtful responses.

5. The focus on reply times and posting speed in how comments are shown encourages responding based on the title alone (on sites like Reddit especially)

6. Upvote/downvote system encourages people to see content as good or bad and nothing else, with the definitions of such being heavily based on whether the content agrees with their personal biases.

And many, many other factors. Most social media sites and services are designed to make people act as unreasonably as possible.
I know GN2 might have been just an arbitrary example, but it looks like GN2 didn't make it to the 8 pro (contrary to the rumors).
> a requirement that (a) binaries be freely redistributable, and (b) binaries must authenticate against a blockchain and not against private servers

If the software runs on general-purpose hardware, it would be trivial to modify it to bypass the blockchain authentication step. If the software is only compatible with some sort of locked-down platform that won't run modified code, then it already has an enforcement mechanism (whatever is used to prevent running modified code), and a blockchain is redundant.
I am still using my Pixel 3 (now without upgrades) without major issues. So, happy to see the new phones have longer promised update cycles. Hopefully Google doesn't clawback this promise in the future.
It’ll never happen, but I think codifying a concept similar to “abandonware” in law would be a huge step forward. If a person can’t buy or rent a piece of media, then it should be able to be freely shared.

Maybe add a short time-out period in case there are momentary hiccups with a creator.

Make it apply not just to videogames, but books, movies, music, etc.

After all, if you can’t buy it, you’re not depriving the creator of revenue.

Actually, looking back at what I wrote, I think maybe I’m just describing the Copyright system as it was originally envisioned before times were extended to such ridiculous lengths. Whoops.
How many strong WFH advocates are anti school-from-home? The anti-SFH sentiment seems to come from antagonism to which groups have been the first to adopt it, but I'm sure my bias affects my interpretation.
You make points that seem great to me although I know almost nothing about Lisp or 20th century programming.

The thing is, I've yet to encounter a single instance of such an argument today. Every single time it ends up being "I like JS over TS because types are annoying and slow me down". It hadn't even occurred to me that laziness and sloppiness weren't the the only reasons to write in dynamically typed language.

I suppose what I'm saying is I'm quite interested in seeing what kind of evolution some dynamically typed language could offer in the future. Although with no signs of its coming, I'm going to stick to TS because it's objectively better for anything but very small projects.
We shut down CI. Earthly satellites are still going strong.
The First Peeks at the DOE Post-Exascale Supercomputers – The Next Platform
I’ve built a successful business from a TTRPG campaign manager (LegendKeeper) using CRDTs, specifically the Yjs kind. It’s been great, and the UX of CRDT-powered stuff is excellent. Zero latency, eventually consistent; overall users love the performance and offline capability.

That said, there are a lot of trade offs. Some things that are easy in a traditional server-client model become difficult in the local-first context that CRDTs provide. Role based authorization is hard, data model changes must be done additive (never mutative), and knowing what state a client is in when debugging is tough too, without a lot of “full-surveillance”-level tooling. Also with the automatic , bidirectional syncing a lot of CRDT architectures afford you, a bug in production that corrupts data can virally propagate and cause a huge headache.

Investor-funded services like Liveblocks are starting to pop up that promise to make this stuff easier, but as an indie I find them expensive; I’m sure they’re a great value for big corps or funded teams though. Rolling my own infrastructure for Yjs has been taxing, but I’ve learned a lot, and have been able to tailor it exactly to my needs.
Sure, there are a lot of factors like that.

- Bloated school administrations and the employment of all kinds of semi-professionals that were not needed or did not even exist in the past, and which are not common outside of the US.

- Excessive credentialist requirements that sometimes actively harm learning outcomes: for example, not only do degreed teachers not produce better learning outcomes, much education science is bunk that actively harms learning outcomes. If you employ only more expensive Master's in Education teachers who you have teaching three-cueing, you end up with worse results.

- Grift and graft where various school contracts are awarded to enrich particular people; there was a video going around of an extremely nice school with a swimming pool, large auditorium etc compared to an absolute junkyard of a school elsewhere, but the nice school was actually built for much less money than the junk school.

- Endless interventions that serve to do nothing but set money on fire, like the fads around filling classrooms with iPads and Chromebooks. All of my children's math education and homework takes places exclusively on computers. There was actually another recent story where Baltimore schools are buying every student a Chromebook. Lots of educators have a sort of cargo cult belief that handing kids computers makes them tech-literate and prepares them to be a SV programmer.

- Discipline. Unfortunately there are some uncomfortable truths that people don't want to address and take serious action to remediate. A few dozen really bad students in a school can absolutely destroy learning. You can find myriads of videos of classrooms where teachers have been forced to totally give up. The only day they even bother to give a lesson is if the worst actors decided to take the day off. Relatedly, in many places, policy is to do everything possible to not hold students back, which compounds issues over the years.

I am very sure there are many more items we could add to the list. Some items will apply much more to some areas than others. Unfortunately there is no one silver bullet solution. The point is that adding more money does not do anything to solve the real problems with American education. You just end up handing more money out for graft and waste to enrich people are not actually making a difference educationally.
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These downvotes for a genuine question (-3 points at time of writing) are why I don't participate in HN tbh. And maybe they're exclusively for my parenthetical request for feedback, in which case, still, like, come on guys. Those downvotes are why my posts and comments always shadowbanned in the first place. And they all started with downvotes for genuine questions. The typical response from HN is "I dunno, maybe post better content." But I post the best content I have in both submissions and comments. So yeah, I guess this community is not for me, that's all I can conclude.
Wording is a bit confusing:

> Today we announced our commitment to providing seven years of software support for Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro, including Android OS upgrades, security updates and regular Feature Drops.

So is it seven years of full feature OS updates, or the usual ~3 years plus only security updates after that?
I would also argue that the wording of her hypothetical test is terrible and that it clearly should use "or" instead of "and".
Interestingly the non-Pro pixels have been trending in the right direction for size.

The Pixel 6 is 6.4"

The Pixel 7 is 6.3"

The Pixel 8 is 6.2"

If the trend continues we only have to wait 3 more years for a < 6" phone
It's essentially the same thing but controlled.
yeah, exactly. We're not sure this is success.
Oh, do you have a source? The pre-release coverage still talked a lot about the GN2 even days ago, and to me it was more or less the defining new HW drop in this phone.

It's a lot less exciting without a sensor upgrade and would be mostly playing catch-up otherwise.
Wow, I have not noticed that before!
is this your prompt? "Go step by step and think it through".
Found this for next time you need to try GDscript on vscode https://github.com/godotengine/godot-vscode-plugin
I wonder if the audio magic eraser feature will make it to older pixel phones. That and the best-shot one seemed very interesting.

It also seems very arbitrarily limited to the newer ones, 7/7pro seem like they should be more than capable of driving these features.

Is software limiting going to be the norm going forward for phones?

Because, I don't think this is worth upgrading from last years phones from a hardware basis.

Perhaps, we've reached a point in smartphones where the development cycles will be more iterative, instead of truly groundbreaking.
You know I do all my Mastodon posting through my agent YOShInOn and I was thinking about putting in a filter to enforce me writing

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_Prime

but never got around to it. This one got me thinking about it again.
Why should society protect copyright for goods that are discontinued? Discontinuation of a product is generally a financial decision; in essecne you are making a public declaration that the product is unprofitable and throwing up your hands.

Your right to protection against piracy should end when you discontinue a product.
Agreed and agreed. $250 is criminally low
Researchers Use Nvidia’s GPUs to Simulate Qubits
> “Biden has forgiven more student loan debt than any previous president"

yeah, thats easy when you keep announcing it and never following through, because it wasn't a thing you could legally do in the first place.
>The consumer protection body got involved as well as a lot of negative media attention.

>They had to raise their prices so they don't become a monopoly.

You seemed to be suggesting that what was happening with milk was anticompetitive and the consumer protection body got involved to stop it. I pointed out that what actually happened is that the body determined that there wasn't anything anticompetitive going on and that the companies ceased the "milk wars" on their own because they were losing money (which is exactly what I was alluding would happen with soap if one company tried to drive competitors out of the market).

Seems like a big difference to me.
That just sounds like some food experts have chosen to use the word "rancid" for a technical measure which is actually at odds with the meaning of the word in common usage. This is a common behaviour of experts, but it's patronising and doesn't really help anyone.
How US intelligence agencies hid their most shameful experiments
Safari for iOS also has adblockers
Corn will need about 24" of water each crop. So, if there is no or little natural rain, two acre-feet of water per acre. There is no concievable method of transporting such amounts inland. It would require energy enough to reverse the flow of rivers.
I got my iPhone 6s life extended 2 more years with a non official battery. It degraded faster than the original one but also the OS updates probably caused more consumption after using the same model for 6 years
this post gave me PTSD
I still don't get the "premium feel" line when everyone covers their phone in a case anyway. I don't care if my phone is made of plastic when it actually makes it less prone to breaking when dropped.
How is it possible you are on this website?
Related

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/aug/25/coventry-mp-...
It's always promises about the future, and never suddenly adding support for old products.

Do people have any faith in the these sorts of notices, when nothing ever produced by the company has yet been supported that long?
I just had a moment today. I'm developing a front-end thing in TypeScript. I'm messing around with dates across different data types (date string, Moment, a Neo4j-compatible date type, and Javascript's own Date type). Real fun, as you may understand. Struggling to convert a specific type straight to a js Date, I decide to just `new Date()` and add all the fields I need. `jsDate.setMonth(convert(otherDate.month))`. Red squiggly line appears underneath. I first realise it's a js Date, so I add a -1: `jsDate.setMonth(convert(otherDate.month)-1)`, and the red squiggly line disappear.

I feel a moment of horror. Type coercion. In front of my very eyes! I quickly added proper conversion everywhere.

I have no problem with dynamic types, but type coercion is the devil.
Ironically, not paying the producers and maintainers of the code is classic capitalism.
Thanks, I appreciate that. I've passed it along.
true. Is the danger from nukes done now?
And knowing your dependencies and resource loading.
WASI is great and obviously Extism supports it as a superset of functionality - but you don’t always want to give your guest code access to system resources even in a limited environment.

Extism also offers a bunch of other features that you don’t get with WASI. But use what’s best suited for your needs!
> They will find some other reason to remove these sellers.

I think this speaks to the nut of the problem. Unless there is an incentive upstream of the misalignment of parties, then any number of lawsuits after the fact will have a "war on drugs" level of futility.

What to do then? In an alternative universe perhaps the FTC was implemented to improve trade by promoting standards, ontologies and authenticity verification that lead to greater freedom of trade and less gatekeeping.
>A word means exactly what most native speakers of the language believe it means.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancidification

...except when it doesn't.

Is it so hard to understand that words can have different meanings in different circumstances? Context matters, words don't have one universal definition.
I don't know if I trust this website. Like it rates the 2019 rav4 as one of the least reliable vehicles with

Hesitates And Lurches At Slower Speeds 2019 RAV4

Average Cost to Fix:
$20,000
Average Mileage:
3,000 mi

I'm not sure I believe the "average mileage" of any problem is 3,000, and if it were, it'd be well under warranty. This data also doesn't align with NHTSA complaints.

Garbarge in, garbage out. If this site contains bad data it's worse than having no site, because it could move you in the wrong direction.
I was a long time iPhone user for about 15 years - never had an Android. My iPhone 8 Plus finally reached end of support for OS updates and I'd heard great things about Samsung Dex so I ordered a Samsung Ultra S22 last week and I absolutely love it. Once you get it set up and used to it, I've found the experience to be superior to the iPhone. I just find it quicker to do the things I want to do because of the way it's set up. Things like editing the settings is just way better thought out - the search works really well in the main settings app and if you want to change the settings for a particular app (e.g get rid of the notification badge) you simply have to long press on the app, hit the "i" button on the pop up, and you're taken straight to the settings for the app.). And Samsung Dex is fucking awesome, especially if you've got a pair of AR glasses. My entire computing setup now fits in a small reporter bag. I'm now going to sell my Macbook and use the Ultra as my sole device which means I will have completely exited the Apple ecosystem. In the early smartphone days, I think iOS was superior to Android but I really don't think that's the case anymore.
Note: The author of Calculus is wrong in the table.
This hasn't been my experience. Chinese battery tech become much better in the recent years. I've replaced battery in my Pixel 3 with an 8$ knock-off from AliExpress with good reviews and it's performing just as original, both subjectively and by AccuBattery metrics.
Is Instacart an Amazon replacement for you? Generally, if I can buy something at a store within 15 minutes of me I'll usually just make the drive to buy it rather than going to Amazon. I use Amazon for the things that I generally can't get locally (such as heavy duty floating shelf brackets that I bought recently. No idea what store sells those near me).

But the idea of replacing Amazon with Instacart is definitely intriguing to me
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

You have no idea what I do or do not understand, and my comment provides additional context which makes it pretty clear in what context I'm using the word "understand."
Yeah, Overcast has a service written in Go that polls RSS feeds and then use iOS push notifications to send new episodes to clients.
Pixel 7a ?
But that would nationalize profits as well. What kind a world do you think that's a good thing??? /s
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Funnily enough, we've never actually been on WebGL! The runtime's built against wgpu [0], which is an abstraction layer that supports the native rendering APIs, WebGPU, and yes, WebGL.

However, our renderer was built with native capabilities in mind (compute shaders!), so we would have had to rewrite it to support WebGL. We decided we'd keep up with WebGPU and see where it takes us :)

In the future, we may write a fallback renderer that's compatible with WebGL/older GPUs, but we wanted to focus on getting our existing renderer working first.

[0]: https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu
Toyota Patented an EV Manual Transmission That Stalls, so It Feels Real
I hate paying subscriptions for anything, but I have found Greenlight to be worth it for managing allowances, letting my kids build their financial competency, and keeping an eye on their spending.
Honestly the most appealing thing for me is the seven years of software support. The Pixel 5 support leaves a lot to be desired, given that I don't even want to upgrade from the hardware.

The demo video of their AI photo editor was kind of mind blowing but ultimately not a feature I would use. I've seen a few complaints about their automatic photo processing as well, which you can't disable in the official camera app.

Overall the majority of their features seem to be software which is tied to Google apps/services, which doesn't sit well with me.