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> Unless you're already sitting on FU money, I don't understand why anyone would spend more [than $50/yr on phone upgrades].

Among the people I know, there's more people living paycheck to paycheck and getting annual phone upgrades than people with FU money doing upgrades. That said, the percentage of FU money upgraders is higher than the percentage of paycheck-to-paycheck upgraders.

Google/Samsung/Apple/etc may be making more total money from the not-well-off than the well-off, at least thinking about people I know.
This will only end when companies serving ads become responsible for their content. Yes, thorough verification of ads "doesn't scale", but cheap scaling is mainly a benefit to the company, not to the consumer.

I can imagine a major cable channel receiving heavy fines if they were to show an ad like that on TV. Why is it different with the ad giants?
Out of interest, what exactly do people use Grafana for? Is it always monitoring infrastructure/ systems or is it more general purpose than that? What is special about it?

I come previously ran an analytics team and I work on an open source BI tool (https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence) but I have never actually used grafana or come across it when talking to other "business analytics" folks. Everyone in my world is just using tableau or looker or jupyter notebooks.
Insurance companies insist they need to pay some smaller portion of the charges. They expect that getting paid through them you will give them a discount. Raising the insurance charge until insurers pay the same amount as the direct pay clients makes sense as a business. After all, dealing with insurance companies increased costs through increased overhead.
> planes don't need ground traction

They certainly do. First, they need it to get the pointy end airplane pointed in the right direction. Then, they need it until they are going fast enough for the rudder to work.
The unlimited “freedom of contract” is an idea that the US Supreme Court reversed position on in the 1930s – merely 30 years after it was invented – and for good reason. For those wondering, “freedom of contract” as a term of art is essentially the idea that a government cannot regulate the behavior of parties to a contract, because the involved parties have some unlimited power of contract. The US Supreme Court found this in Lochner v. New York (1905), and reversed it in West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish (1937).

You seem to have implied a business’ right to exist, and operate at the expense of others free from regulation. As demonstrated, the earlier part of your comment was rather light on factually correct information, but could you cite the jurisprudence backing this idea of yours?
The OS update can grow a heat sink as well as add waterproofing and microwave charging?
Depends on the browser used to read it. No problems with the one I'm using, for example.
Yes, I think the "footnote" showcases this well. You can use it to interactively explore your visual imagination.

Some examples here: https://youtu.be/ihDbAUh0LXk?si=i3LFfkDXIDKKvne3&t=91
Intel does have the Cyclone 5 SoC which integrates Cortex-A9 cores much like the Zynq 7000 series. That product predates the acquisition though and they don't seem to have released anything to compete with newer entries in the Zynq lineup
Much of the thickness of a road is to have it hold up under fatigue damage. A one-time use tarmac could be a lot thinner.
The first paper suggests that there might be an issue based on mentions in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) data.

The second takes this more seriously and looks to see if there is an issue by examing a wider set of data and studies, more or less concluding that sufficient evidence is lacking so far but perhaps further trials are worth pursuing.

This isn't a "womens voices are not heard" thing it's more of a "if there's anything there it is barely peaking above the noise" thing.

It's worth reading the conclusions of the second paper, keeping in mind how to read such papers, this:

The primary limitation of this systematic review was a lack of data from randomized clinical trials investigating the effect of COVID-19 vaccines on the menstrual cycle.

Most surveys included in our analysis were performed in the US, UK, and Norway, which are countries belonging to the ‘Global North’ in terms of health access and utilization by women, due to which, their findings cannot be extrapolated to the rest of the world, particularly countries with low healthcare access and resources such as Pakistan and India, where smartphone apps used for collecting and tracking menstrual data by users may not be as prevalent as they are in the countries where the studies were conducted.

With a lack of peer-reviewed evidence from South Asia, which includes population centers such as Pakistan and India, it cannot be stated with certainty whether COVID-19 vaccination would have similar low reported menstrual abnormalities.

highlights that overall, with app based menstrual tracking, there are low reported menstrual abnormalities (largely being that for a few women, cycles run a day late).

Data science wise the issues are; How often does this happen (sans COVID or vaccines), How much does stress play a factor (the stress of being concerned about the vaccine (which is a real thing)).

The conclusions are that "more study is needed to say anything definitive, throw money our way", which is a reasonable request and one common to many such papers - bear in mind there is no obvious smoking gun here so no immediate need to panic.

As a note about VAERS - consider routine haircuts, now scare the pants off of everybody about haircuts and open a Haircut Adverse Event Reporting System database for anybody to add theor stories to.

The reports of eveybody who died, injured themselves, got the runs, had cramps, etc. within a week after their haircut will mostly be real .. the data science challenge is to pick out how many of these events are related to the haircut and how many are statistically "as expected".
NFT ads. Web3 here we go!
I'll be honest, I can't figure out if you're arguing for objectivism or if you're a bleeding heart liberal justifying that a drug addict mooching off everyone is just a misunderstood existentialist philosopher.

I'm Catholic. I believe I'm responsible for every ill in the world through my most grievous sinning, in what I have done and what I have failed to do. So its my fault.

More seriously, I think we agree? Fundamentally, we have a society that is (was) too rich and therefore too soft making a whole cohort of (mostly white [1]) boys into Peter Pans.

You'll have to explain me the white bread comment though.

[1] Inner urban cities aren't exactly peachy places to grow up in. For all their problems, inner city youths have being brought up to be a helpless wimp isn't one of them.
I mean that's cool. But sometimes it's cool to video call my wife and kids when I am away, or to use Google maps to navigate / find something in a new area, make a quick video when the kids are doing something cute, etc.

If none of these are your use case, totally cool but it does make life better for a lot of people.
How do you know it's not memory mapped?

Working left to right means you have to force the compiler to always align the code in the same order, which sounds difficult and like a waste of time.
Thanks for not downvoting me and attempting to see things from a different perspective. This is exactly what my reaction was based on. Anyone in the US is probably sick of hearing their crazy family members talk about "the jab" and all the nonsense that surrounds statements like this.
I don't use Twitter so, no, it has nothing to do with Twitter.
Simple voltage control for spindle motors and open loop stepping motors for everything else is just precise enough and most cost effective for hobby machines. Closed loop is technologically superior but ultimately not necessary.

(note: "sensorless homing" and sensorless BLDC are different things)
This is exactly it. Anti-vaxxers use "jab" as a derogatory term to try and make it seem malicious.
Or even better, install it using the installer from Determinate Systems.
It's a submarine article for Hired.
I was using portable apps off of a USB stick what must have been 15 years ago.

I thought this was the future back then, but now we all just carry entire computing devices with more storage than that and call them phones.

https://portableapps.com/

I can't believe it's still in development.
The government doing things is good, actually.
I absolutely do not believe Google will hold themselves to the threshold they announced. Gmail will remain an inscrutable black box ... by design.
The new version of macOS shows a purple box icon whenever something uses the "record your screen" permission, similar to how it shows the mic or camera icons when they're used.
It wouldn't actually be so bad if they just came out and said it like that, but it's always accompanied by some weirdly non-sequitur equivocation word salad 'justifying' the ban or whatever and it always resolves (painfully) to the same thing: 'it's not censorship/fascism/bad when we do it.'

The jannie urge to mop has surely got to be genetic
How is the software only 2-3x faster than human review, which lasted months? Little in this article is very clear
Agree with this, the plane is relatively young as well only like 17 years old IIRC
I'm just saying in general. Even human sized robots generally move very slowly. Boston Dynamics is pretty quick now but for hand stuff it rotates super slow
This wouldn't have been a problem if there were two driverless cars.
My scroll wheel is almost useless on the homepage in Firefox.
So it's similar to some features of Nix (namely the nix run command)
I am always skeptical when I see the word "problematic". It is often used to handwave over what the actual problem is, and is very often used when the supposed problem is either trivial or a subjective judgement that many people wouldn't even deem to be a problem.
The keynote said 50 MP photos. https://youtu.be/rtESARyV15g?feature=shared&t=2563
Well, it is safe Just not good for users.
https://archive.ph/to98X
> have either explicitly signed up for or that is otherwise from a legitimate sender that complies with your local laws and will honor the unsubscripti

2 points:

I'd agree that using spam for something a user has signed up for would be unfair, but only in the sense that they understood clearly they were signing up for emails, and not, for example, a confusing opt out tick tied to their purchase. You totally deserve the spam box for that latter one.

Similarly, honouring local requirements for unsubscribe is not enough to get you out of spam reports if you didn't have a reason to email me to begin with. That you have a new product or newsletter or corporate announcement isn't good enough, but many marketing people believe it is. The fact that they can't self police is why I'm ok with email providers being strict about this.

Really the one thing I miss since moving from Gmail is the knowledge that my use of the spam button hurt deliverability for senders of spammy emails more widely than just my own inbox.
If you can sandbox arbitrary malicious code, then you can make a unhackable operating system/runtime. Such a feat is frequently viewed as literally impossible in many software circles and would constitute a extraordinary claim that demands impeccable, extraordinary evidence to support it such as, minimally, mathematical proofs of the entire code base. Nothing less should overcome the sheer ideological inertia behind the common-sense view that everything is easily hacked as has been continuously demonstrated on basically everybody all the time.

So, unless you want to claim Amazon has invented a unhackable operating system to run AWS, has the mathematical proofs of correctness to support such a extraordinary claim, and has just not bothered to tell anyone, claiming AWS can actually securely run untrusted code is pure unsupported bluster. In fact, I bet exactly zero people at Amazon would back up such a claim if pressed, and if even the people doing it think it is impossible then there is no way they are actually doing it. The same goes for browsers.

As to zero days in browsers being big news, they are really not. Zerodium only pays 500 K$ for a Chrome RCE+LPE [1]. That is pocket change. Ransomware attacks ask for millions of dollars per attack these days. They can literally afford to burn multiple Chrome RCEs per attack (if needed) and still come out profitable. The cost of sandbox escape needs to be somewhere around 20-100x higher for it to be viewed as "secure" against the common threats seen every day.

[1] https://zerodium.com/program.html
Ramesh you need to let that hate out of your heart. It will kill you.
Yes. I am speaking from specific experience.

I got into Rust around the 1.4 to 1.5 days. Rust 1.50 programs can't be compiled and run with Rust 1.48 rustc. My rustc compiler was literally 3 months old. Both times I went to compile a rust program I found they devs used features not included in the rustc I had. One was a software defined radio spectrogram generator, the other a web scraper and assembler for web serials. I talked to the author of the rust sdr spectrum program and he was able to write a version with older up-to-1.48-only features that worked.

That and the insistence on always using out of repo rustc via curl rust.up | sh etc put me off rust completely.
Once upon a time, when I was working at Broadcom, I put on a nice demo for some colleagues.

I had a long serial line strung across my desk from a USB-Serial dongle to an embedded board. It ran under the LCD monitor. Weird banding and noise was showing on the monitor.

The demo was: "watch the artifacts on the monitor go away, as I clamp this ferrite bead around the serial cable".
Classic Mac Video Signals Demystified Designing a Mac-to-VGA Adapter with LM1881
So does anyone know if Apple intentionally code hijacks popular apps to make them perform better on their phones yet?

There are a number of specific hacks in WebKit to make big websites work well, and I would have thought by now that Apple does some sort of coalescing or trampolining for the big names in tech and most popular apps.

Microsoft did similar work for Windows in the distant past. Not sure if they still do.
As a robust sandbox, have you considered using a micro-VM? Firecracker [1] comes to mind, the VM behind AWS Lambda. It's designed to be lightweight to launch, suitable for running ephemeral code.

While I agree that it'd be nice to be able to use WASM for this purpose, it seems like a microVM might provide a more convenient interface: you can "just" run any existing programming language inside it (without needing any specific support for e.g. WASM). Indeed, you could run multiple processes built with different programming languages together and allow them to communicate in standard ways.

Additionally, VMs offer a number of advantage from a security perspective. Hypervisor VMs take advantage of hardware support, and their surface area is arguably well-hardened and smaller than alternatives (hence why VMs are used for cloud computing).

> I've not found a good pattern for running a JavaScript interpreter in a WASM sandbox yet

Is there a good reason to do this? I thought WASM typically used the V8 JavaScript interpreter as its sandbox and to execute code. If you could launch WASM, couldn't you equivalently launch an instance of V8 with the JavaScript code running inside directly? I do think this is a good question, and it raises further questions like: what if I want to run JavaScript and WASM side-by-side, so that they can communicate with each other and/or with native code.

[1] https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/
I don't need opportunities to demonstrate that I'm not a jerk, I just avoid behaving like one in the first place. The implicit premise of your argument is that the men who attended the conference had no other choice than to act as they did.
> Windows is full of these arbitrary constants, like the 32kiB paging chunk for instance.

I assume you’re referring to the 64KiB allocation granularity? That’s actually not at all arbitrary: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031008-00/?p=42...
And your problem with it is?
That article is from 2018. 2 Year Contracts were still a thing back then. The contract included a hidden fee that covered the cost of the device spread out over the length of the contract.

That is all gone now. Carriers have post-paid plans where the monthly device cost varies based on device. These are 0% interest loans from the carrier. At the same time, people have started holding their phones longer. Renewal periods when to 30 months, then 36 months.

Some people will never be happy but cellphone customers are never happy.

Why can't people just enjoy our pocket computers with their always on connections?
It's like someone encountering chopsticks for the first time and declaring them a puzzle utensil because they cannot find the edge to cut with.
People who receive money dont necessarily expect and demand to sit on their ass. It just happens to them and they got lucky.

And theres not a "pass" you or anyone else is entitled to give. Its not your property or family matter.
Most of that is because the OS defaults write about 20 times more crap than anyone needs, and devs consistently do not care about preserving write cycles. There's still a culture of "Beautiful code is everything, hardware is disposable and meant to be upgraded".

An industrial SD card plus a few software changes would largely solve the problem, but I'm not sure it could be done in a backwards-compatible way, some apps might not work if you stopped letting people hammer the disk with crap.

Even with a standard card, phones don't have any issues with FTL firmware level corruption due to power loss, they have a builtin UPS.

But with phone-scale production there's no reason they couldn't define a new SD variant that had SMART diagnostics and guaranteed reliability properties for similar cost to eMMC.
> not seeing a just portion of the gains

but who paid for and took risk to create those gains? Why should the gains be "just" (aka, shared equally i presume), if the cost of said gains (such as the R&D cost, the risk, etc) wasn't also shared equally?
I like pets. Not everyone is a rancher.
I put one of those ridiculous military spec, carbon fiber reinforced type cases on mine, it would be in pieces otherwise. It bulks the phone up a lot but every time I drop it, I smile.
They did fix the installation into VSCode on Ubuntu recently, so that's nice.

Will be happy to try this. C# is a good and seemingly underrated language, and building web apps in .NET MVC is still probably the best experience I have had doing so. That was years ago, and I'm looking forward to potentially using it again for some side projects.
> However, the Hexagon DSPs are notoriously hard to program. While the Snapdragon CPU and GPU can be targeted using OpenMP and OpenCL, respectively, no such model exists for the DSP.

It's true, this is a big drawback. Something like OpenCL would be really nice. I haven't used OpenCL for a while but way back when the design seemed to consider that the memory used by the accelerator device was a separate destination to be copied to. For the SoCs where Hexagon shows up, that's generally not the case. But hopefully there's already some tweaks to OpenCL to enable different SMMU contexts instead of copies.
SF Startup Temple Linked to Russian Oligarch Heads to Auction at Steep Discount
It will indeed apply to online services and affect their recommendation algorithms.
This sounds so foreign to my experience.

Even when I just had 2 paid domains with Cloudflare, there was real time chat support that seemed to always have an available engineer when something came up.

Maybe they don't provide support like that to free users.
It’s too bad that HN doesn’t allow multimedia responses; I’m imagining a bunch of memes of farmers busing passengers wearing peasant garb to the plane in a hay trailer behind a tractor, or passengers boarding via a grain elevator hehehe
Yes, the unsaturated portion of the oil is most subject to oxidation from the environment, like from the oxygen in the air which acts more rapidly at warm storage temperatures than cold storage.

The expert odor committees are condemning oils that have an amount of oxidation that is so low it is hard for them to all agree so their consensus is the most accurate overall judgement.

Ordinary chefs are not likely to even notice such a slight amount of degradation.

This is a far cry from highly oxidized cooking oil like you sometimes have in fast-food operations who wait until it's long overdue to replace the oil in their fryers. This can often be so rancid you can smell it from quite a distance, anyone can agree about it, and any oil which is only a small fraction as bad doesn't earn the qualification as "rancid" by ordinary people.

And plenty of them go back for second helpings anyway.
Given Yahoo's stake in Alibaba that Jerry brokered for getting out of the China market, Yahoo's valuation actually eclipsed that $35B MSFT was going to offer ($80B): https://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2016/07/25/yahoo-v...

"The deal for Alibaba was expensive and risky at the time, but ended up as the most lucrative bet in Silicon Valley: at today's prices, that stake would be worth more than $80 billion. Normally, such a success would preserve a company for years, but on Monday morning Yahoo announced that it would sell its operating business—the web properties without Alibaba and other investments—to Verizon for less than $5 billion, pennies on the dollar it would have commanded at its peak 15 years ago."
There are medical company systems in the US that operate similarly to a nationalized system (insurer and provider bundled, I’m not mentioning the name) and have similar downsides - cancer care or any advanced care is sub-par and mental health is hard to impossible to get. The funding to physicians within is distributed on political instead of performance grounds so best ones leave. I’ve lost several friends who used that insurance.

In Bulgaria where I have many friends and family, the system has always been nationalized, barely funded by the government. I don’t know a single Cancer survivor there.
The reason Google releases a phone every October is because Apple releases a phone around the same time.
One-click unsubscribe (no action beyond "visiting a single internet web page") is required under U.S. law:

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-I/subchapter-C...

It's illegal to require users to sign in with a username and password, or click a link in a confirmation email, etc.
Thinking about security-in-practice isn't the worst thing a project can promote.
The summer riots that were fueled by people not needing to be anywhere.
> Making it easier/safer is better.

But who bears the cost of this betterment? I certainly don't want to be responsible for paying a cost for someone else's bad choice, esp. if the bad choice gave them an advantage or "profit".

That's why all individual choices should have individual consequences, and only under some circumstances where there's a prisoner's dilemma should there be a method/regulation to enforce cooperation.
Yeah I guess anything is possible but it takes effort
> to act as they did

What exactly did they do? The article talks about people lining up to speak to recruiters, which hardly seems outrageous.
Isn't it silly to link a throwaway account to a patent you invented? :)
You just gave me PTSD flashbacks. Man I am getting old.