skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, they do. 14% of American believe the Earth literally is not getting warmer. Another 26% believe it is getting warmer, but due mostly to natural weather patterns and not human activity.

11% of people believe the US federal government should literally not be doing anything about climate change.

The article I'm getting these numbers from literally uses the word "hoax" several times: https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2023/08/09/why-some-amer...
> As a fellow ham I can assure you that the FCC does not care about interference from these devices if they are only causing issues for amateurs.

This isn’t true at all. FCC would care greatly if a company the size of Apple was selling a product that violated the emission limits.

That said, I don’t think this device violates the official limits. The author’s problem is that they need something extremely quiet, beyond the acceptable limits.

> If all the cheap switching power supplies and other devices were actually tested, almost none of them would be RF quiet (or even compliant).

If you’re suggesting that “almost none” of the power supplies on the market are actually compliant, you are incorrect. I’ve done my fair share of compliance testing. It’s true that you can find random supplies that aren’t compliant, but it’s not true that we’re all out here fudging test results and lying our way through certification. These things actually get tested.
> You would be too if you were barely making ends meet, the expected outcome for "a customer asked me to accept an unusual form of payment" was almost always "it was a con, the 'customer' got the merchandise/service for free", and you'd most likely be fired as a result.

Just the millionth example of why trust is a critical component in society. Its presence allows things to be flexible and efficient. Lack of it makes things suck for everyone.
> the article claims the main reason for them losing so much money is lack of throughput, which demonstrates that the claim is bullshit. If they made even more cars and "lost 30K" on each one they'd be worse off.

Generally speaking, the cost per unit goes down as throughput goes up, especially in the car manufacturing space. Production rate is insanely important to car manufacturers making any money at all.

Virtually every single new mass produced vehicle ever made started off losing money on a per-unit basis until manufacturing scales.
You probably know about these, but just in case - glasses for the color blind - https://enchroma.com.au they apparently work.
I can sympathize with the sentiment that scientists should just report the objective facts and not inject their own opinions into what they tell the public. Another comment suggested that this can lead to distrust like with COVID-19.

That said, I think science communication is an art form which takes skill and practice. If you are a scientist doing research on aspartame in mice or whatever, then what the media and laypeople are interested in is what the results mean for their lives. At some point you have to give your informed opinion or else others will interpret the results for you, probably incorrectly.

I think that the scientists are trying their best to communicate their professional interpretations of the data, but it's difficult to do so in a way that will please everyone. Especially when some parties are actively hostile to the message you are trying to communicate, and will nitpick whatever you say using the least charitable understanding.
You forgot NFTs are a thing? That's a good sign, if people start to forget this nonsense, there is yet hope for humanity.
Nearly got me fired from a graphic design job when they figured out I couldn’t see red or green. After two years. (I had a cheat sheet)

:)
Interesting question.

The book that popped into my head from my subconscious when I read the question was 'Catch-22'. I was a teenager when I read that. It taught me to be less naive, more cynical. It was also very, very funny. And it tickled my offbeat Sense of Humor.
Seems the newer issue would be dialer related as well then.

I have several apps with their own dialers on my phone... I just never realized they could break the system dialer in such a way.
I'm an occasional user, but the one thing holding me back is the almost complete lack of intellisense. I mostly work in JVM languages, and I get that JetBrains-level language awareness is hard, but if you're aiming for the professional market it's what you're up against. And it's really fraustrating, because you're solving a big problem! But JetBrains solves an even bigger one.
I was going to complain about the screen size but my Pixel 5 has a 6.0 screen and I might actually finally upgrade to the Pixel 8. The pixel 8 is still half a cm wider than the pixel 5 but they appear to be the same height and nearly the same thickness.

I had a Pixel 6 briefly, at launch, but returned it almost immediately in exchange for a 6.0" screen Pixel 5 because the 6 was ludicrously too large for daily use on the go and uncomfortable in my pants pocket. Hopefully they keep shrinking the non-pro models and we settle on 6" as an ok size.
... says an unidentified entity serving you a website.
> You'd get paid in cash and you'd buy and sell in cash.

What are you talking about? I've never received a paycheck in actual cash in my entire life, only checks and then deposits when they became the norm.
Reminds me of the time a 747 Dreamlifter[0] accidentally landed at the wrong airport (a tiny public airfield). Boy was that crazy what they had to do to get the plane back in the air.

Edit:
[0] - thx to commenter below for the reminder it was big bertha (aka the 747 Dreamlifter) and not just a 747. Been almost a decade and I forgot.
It's not anymore, it's just another job board as many others out there..
I went to zoomcare recently, which is a clinic that does cash and/or insurance. They claim that without insurance the max for a simple visit is $200. With insurance they charged me over $300, a hundred more than people without coverage. When I asked how that was possible they laughed and said. “You know how insurance companies are.”

No the fuck I don’t. How can they get away with charging more for someone with coverage than without? What exactly is the point of my insurance if that’s the case?
Because it probably isn’t violating the FCC limits. Looking at the chart he shows, there isn’t much power coming out.

The author’s use case is relatively niche. The FCC limits aren’t designed to be so strict that devices can’t emit measurable radiation at all because that’s an impossible task.

The only reason the author is hearing it is because he is literally tuning a highly sensitive radio to that frequency and putting it right next to the device.
Please keep in mind that most (nearly all?) of our climate models only include rising carbon emissions from human sources. Thawing permafrost and warming swamps and burning forests and such will (very likely) produce additional carbon(-equivalent greenhouse gases).

They use the beautiful term "Unrepresented Earth system feedback mechanisms" in this 2019 paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1368-z.pdf

Keep on alarming, doomer!
That is a bug :)
They did for me as well (dysgraphia is the technical word). They made me practice handwriting after class and I think all the times I resultingly burst into tears because my wrist hurt made them take pity on me.

For how much schools talk about how useful handwriting is at memorisation and such - I seldom see anybody in the working world pulling out some paper and handwriting notes. Schools seem to care more about teaching you to pass closed-book tests than they do about teaching you useful skills like how to create high quality, organised, and searchable notes.
I have no idea what "another dimension" means if we're not talking about degrees of freedom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qORYO0atB6g
This is insanely cool! Very impressed you managed to implement a full parser in Rust.

I implemented a basic one in Rust a while back: https://github.com/ZephyrBlu/rust-parser

And a full one in Python with a few bells and whistles ages ago: https://github.com/ZephyrBlu/zephyrus-sc2-parser

Don't maintain either of them though :(, and the Rust one is super rough.

SC2 is a very interesting area for data analysis, but at the same time I found it very challenging. There is so much nuance and inconsistency across games it can be really hard to do accurately do things like categorize builds or measure build timings.

The area I ended up focusing on was builds, and I feel like I did some interesting stuff there: https://sc2.gg/reports/top-openings-2022/.

I found personal statistics less interesting than aggregate statistics. Even pro games are very volatile, ladder games even more so. Extremely hard to get reliable signal out of them if you're trying to track things across games. Even simple things like Collection Rate are poor indicators without significant categorization work (Matchup, build, opponent build, etc).
I can speak to this, at least anecdotally.

Some of my family are conspiratorial thinkers, trumpy types. They’re in Texas, where the power grid is continuing to slowly buckle, and they will happily agree it’s hotter than it used to be, even getting too hot. They also agree that pollution is bad.

But they simply don’t connect the two. They don’t think we can possibly be the sole reason for climate change, but why they think that is fluid — it’s gods creation and we can’t mess with that. Or if we can it doesn’t matter because we’re destined for a heavenly kingdom and this planet will pass away. Or they say more “grounded” things like we’re getting closer to the sun or the sun itself is hotter. Or they buy into the idea for a while that it’s just a natural oscillation. We’re actually headed towards an ice age!

My theory is they’re inconsistent because they do accept it, but accepting it means they have to understand consciously that shit is bleak and it makes all the work they’ve done in their lives potentially meaningless. They don’t want to face the reckoning of disillusionment so they close their eyes to it.

Or maybe they just don’t believe it. I don’t know, I’m not in their brains.
drafts follow-ups, updates CRM and notes - based on the recorded call.
Why would Apple (or any company) put a ferrite on the cable if it wasn’t needed to pass FCC?

Expecting every company to make their products ultra-quiet beyond the FCC limits so amateur radio operators can use them right next to their radios isn’t realistic. You certainly wouldn’t like paying the added costs of all of your products just to make them extra quiet for hams.

The author showed how easy it was for hams to solve their own problem as needed. Putting a ferrite on every charger in the world just to appease the handful of hams who want to use their radio right next to it is unreasonable.
Any app can register as a call app. Which Teams does since it supports VoIP calls.

The issue is the pixel/aosp dialer framework tries the apps first for emergency calls instead of going straight for cellular.

I say Pixel/AOSP because I’m not sure if it’s prevalent in AOSP since other Android phones have had the same issue but nowhere near the same scale.
Remember Oct 2022: Australia Medibank all childrens and abortion data leaked
Yikes. She contacted the journal to report this clear fraud they were perpetuating and received no response for 6 months. Yet people equate “peer reviewed” and “absolute fact”.
> I'm not sure that Amazon is winning in the long run with this strategy

Completely agreed. Anecodotally, I used to shop on Amazon for things. As in, use the search function to find items to buy. These days, that is impossible. The only way to use Amazon today is to know exactly what you want, or for the item's value to be small enough that it doesn't matter (deoderant, ethernet cable, etc...).

It's quite frustrating to shop on the internet today. Google search sucks since SEO has made the results terrible. Amazon search is a frustrating mix of FANPOP brands and Amazon Basics. DDG, Brave, Bing, etc.. are all slightly better, but still very difficult to find anything genuine. Appending " reddit" to searches sometimes help, but the quality of reddit is quickly declining.

It seems like there is a significant opportunity for disruption in this space. The user experience sucks and prices are high. Sure, shipping is fast and free, but that doesn't help with product search.
The iPhone 7S does not exist. You have linked to a pre-release rumour article for a non-existent device.
Tell it to the car industry. They invented it and it's been going strong.
> but it could harm anyone around you using these frequencies.

Not really. Part of the FCC certification process is that devices need to accept interference from other devices operating within the limits.

Go read the FCC sticker on the bottom of any nearby device if you don’t believe me. It’s spelled out in the text.

The only reason the author had a problem is they put it right next to, quite literally, a highly sensitive receiver tuned to the exact frequency. It doesn’t mean the device was exceeding FCC limits, it means the ham operator needed to carefully set up their environment more tightly then even the FCC limits.
I was going to say that everything around interoperability in Wasm has been stalled for years, but hey, looks like garbage collection has reached phase 4! That's a pretty big one!

The component model (aka interface types aka snowman types aka...) is still stuck is phase 1, though. After almost four years, that's not encouraging.
This seems neat, so I thought I would share it. It applies the web of trust model to the fediverse. It has the benefits of a shared blocklist without all the horrible chaos-inducing downsides since it's built on mutual trust or distrust rather than centralized curation.

I don't know how well it'll work, but if you've been tuned into the fediverse meta over the last month or so, you know the existing system of big, shared blocklists populated from actions by a few large Mastodon instances with aggressive and questionable blocking policies isn't working for anyone.

A blog post announcing the project: https://dbzer0.com/blog/overseer-a-fediverse-chain-of-trust/

The FAQ: https://fediseer.com/faq/eng
Walmart is not all-non amazon customers.

If Amazon's market share is 35%, then the non-amazon customers comprise the other 65% (which, being greater than 50%, constitutes "most").

Amazon: ($5 selling price - $3 fees - 0.80 COGS) * (100k * 35%) = $42,000

Not-Amazon: ($2 selling price - $0 fees - 0.80 COGS) * (100k * 65%) = $78,000

If a seller raises prices to match Amazon, they can be undercut elsewhere by those willing to forgo Amazon for the larger overall market share.

Amazon is convenient to small sellers in that they offer more customers on a single site than any other, and with limited bandwidth sellers logically want to minimize how many different sites they need to interact with, but charging for convenience is not inherently anticompetitive behavior. Amazon may have abused it's position in the particulars of its MFN implementation, but MFNs in general are fine.
> My typing however, is very fast.

This is because you can remember where the keys are.

> For Haxe, I thought it was not a method so I think it's either part of Std or StringTools.

How would autocomplete help you here? If you need to know if it was a global function or else where? This is learned knowledge that is available through the proper docs and not through autocomplete. This is how you know not to look for a global function.
The difference is that instead of reaching for autocomplete to try and fill in the gap, I go to the documentation. I basically share the same feelings/experience with this comment[0]. Either I know what I am doing and I do not need autocomplete, or I need to learn in which case autocomplete just gets in my way and I would rather go to the docs.

I know I am not alone in this, for example I watch the lead developer of pidgin, Gary Kramlich, on twitch[1]. He does not use autocomplete, any time he has to look something up, its straight to the docs.

Similar with Jonathon blow[2], who is working on his own game, game engine, and language who just uses emacs (with no autocomplete) and visual studio for the debugger.

And even Mitchell Hashimoto[3], who has a similar workflow of using a dumb editor and then going to the docs when needing to learn.

> I can also see the documentation on the parameters. Is the second parameter an index or a length?

The documentation on a per function basis does not contain enough information on how to use the library/framework. Take for example django's QuerySet aggregate function, would you learn enough from reading the function documentation here[4] on how to use it or from the actual documentation here[5]? Autocomplete wont give you anything close to the latter.

> Also, if you work in a big codebase, you can't know every class.

The classes you don't know are just one "goto definition" away.

> Needing to dig through code seems such a waste of time.

Needing to juggle through the autocomplete menu is a waste of time as you need to know _something_ for it be useful. It doesn't help you when you know _nothing_. I'd rather just go straight to the documentation or code.

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0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37768953

1: https://www.twitch.tv/rw_grim

2: https://www.twitch.tv/j_blow

3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rysgxl35EGc

4: https://github.com/django/django/blob/main/django/db/models/...

5: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.2/topics/db/aggregation/
I think it's got a certain "cool" factor. For some types of content in some cases it might also make sense, almost like a slideshow or paginated document, allowing each jump have its own self-contained focus.

For example this page has action buttons and community links with a video on the first page, a written blurb about system configuration on the second page, screenshots/visual showcase on the third page, etc.

Personally I'm on the fence. I think it probably more often than not tends to be annoying, like most overrides of default conventions, and feels more like you're being force-fed marketing instead of reading information. This specific page would probably work just as well if they kept the sections, dividers, and even the animations, but just let you scroll naturally.

But then, maybe it gets them more downloads or something.
Frustrating that an article about images has none.
For the downvoters: there is precedent in this industry for this behavior. Samsung has been caught doing it, and I have vague recollections of HTC being caught as well although I can’t find a reference at the moment.

If you are asking for proof of this claim, you obviously won’t find it. But when there’s smoke…
The problem you want solved, perfect sandboxing for untrusted code, is only just THE single most important problem in operating system security. If you can solve that then you have the basis of a perfectly secure, unhackable operating system. Anybody claiming to solve that problem at speed in any other software domain can trivially use those same techniques to create a perfectly secure operating system runtime.

So, you have to wonder to yourself, if they can do that why do they not just go and write a unhackable operating system. It is only like one of the single greatest problems of all the commonly used commercial operating systems in what is viewed as one of the most hardcore of software disciplines where solving it would instantly establish you as a supreme software guru. Basically, if you can solve that problem you should make and advertise a unhackable operating system; anything else is selling gold bricks as ballast.

To channel Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD: You are absolutely deluded, if not stupid, if you think that a worldwide collection of software engineers who can't write operating systems or applications without security holes, and then turn around and suddenly write browser sandboxes (originally virtualization layers) without security holes.
The vortex that is formed sometimes at the front of jet engines will not mix well with a dirt field me thinks. https://i.stack.imgur.com/u9AZW.jpg
Exactly right.

cost per unit = cost per unit + total non-unit costs/total units.

So they're loosing money overall, but the unit economics may still work.
Who the heck downvoted this. I’ve literally collected this data myself from my production AI applications. But it doesn’t gel with people’s preconceived notions so they downvote ?
How long will we Americans submit to these rent-seeking vampire insurance companies? Single-payer now, please.
I have a dataset of ~20k (?) pro replays from 2017-2022 if you'd like that. I don't think a dataset of millions of pro games exists. If you asked breath (Owner of sc2replaystats) nicely he might give you a dump of ladder games though.
I know David and have used txtai extensively. txtai is awesome and if you care at all about open source, you should give it a shot!
Sure but the practice of whatever-you'd-call-Japanese-pollarding is obviously older than daisugi since that's just pollarding with the discovery of a particular tree that's really really good at it. That discovery wouldn't have been made if people weren't already pollarding. Other extremely meticulous plant manipulation traditions like bonsai are confirmed to be over 3k years old
Best data I can find is that only 50% of US parents have let their kid use a debit or credit card for online purchases (and many wouldn't do it again). I think it's incorrect to say that 50% of American kids should be written off.

(https://www.lendingtree.com/credit-cards/study/kids-and-cred...)
Not on the Pixel 6a, at least.
I have no idea who this appeals to, or why. If I want something, I want it to be installed and available, not mysteriously cached. If I want multiple versions of something, there are tools like asdf and rtx.

This feels like a solution for a problem that doesn’t exist.
Aside from such a scheme dominating a particular region and being a potential playground for other anticompetitive practices, nothing about the idea in general strikes me as inherently anticompetitive.

Insurance cos can still compete on the merits of their networks and, in theory but sadly I think not in practice, these schemes could work in favor of the patients if the insurance company uses their network to balance cost with service quality.

A very dominant one could effectively rule a region as a cartel, though.
Note the link is broken becuase the dot needs to be within the URL.
> i’m always surprised the first thing people think is that other people are lying, and than if they cannot answer a question right on the spot they must be lying

Where did anyone suggest this is what was happening?
> Super Amazing Sound playback (next level)

What does this even mean?
Best suggestion I've heard all week. Maybe it would finally realize my desire to cleanly keep a constantly-synced "hot standby" phone ready for deployment in case my primary one is lost. (Even better both would "just work" so I could grab either one on any day).
You gotta just ignore annoying tweets
That was exactly my situation, too. Until just recently, when I cracked two almost back-to-back.
> Why in the world is the whole network thing even legal?

Lobbyists
> What are you talking about?

I'm talking about before digital payments. Deposits are digital payments and the problem of having to find an ATM to get your money is something that happened in the transition period after digital payments became the norm. In the time when everybody where getting paychecks, they were probably not difficult to cash?

I didn't really think about paychecks, because that system was/is very regional.
But here's a thing: it still needs electricity, but not Internet. The shop owner might have a battery or a generator that'll keep the register running. Unfortunately, the Internet cannot be stored in buckets full of bits, so if that's down (and that includes simply the servers at the other end being down), there's nothing you can do.

Put another way, it's always a good idea to avoid hard dependency on a working Internet connection whenever possible. Be it your "smart" toaster, or your payment methods.