skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Swapping the battery means you save the carbon footprint of manufacturing the non-battery parts, which have a pretty high cost to all of us in aggregate that should somehow factor into the "is it worth to keep it going" equation. I wonder how we can make that happen.

My current phone is an S21 that's facing a plethora of failures (screen damage, flaky USB-C connector, weak battery, back cover delaminating) that are all individually fixable, but altogether I also find it hard to resist the pull of getting a new phone at that stage when I add up the numbers.

But I feel increasingly really bad about not trying harder to go repair-first. Also because there's otherwise virtually no tech/feature reason to "upgrade" from something as recent as an S21 these days.
That’s why you need the SAAS, for compliance and i18n!
Torturing and killing people just hits different, you know?
The CRTC policies and regulations aim to promote access, representation and availability of media content by and for minority language communities. But it does not directly control or pre-approve the messages or creative content itself. The creators maintain editorial control of their programming.
I was using the much-maligned term “conspiracy theory”, the term used to dismiss everyone from the well-read critic to the “kooky” Lizard International Government crank, but that was just to illustrate the point about how all of these get put under the same umbrella so that they at worst can be all summarily dismissed as dummies or at sort-of best can be equivocated by way of survivorship bias.

In the Year Zero (before declassified documents) it's not a bad theory that a powerful arm of one of the superpowers in a very free nation could be used for clandestine purposes since the State has a lot to gain from keeping the free men (people) of that nation from knowing about what it is really up to.

Thankfully though we don't need to guess at this point since we have history to back us up.
That first example is eye-opening for me. I always thought that when Amazon doesn't show a buy button on the product page, it's because that product is not currently available to be shipped from Amazon.
Poor tooling, black listed drivers, authors cannot ever be assured users get HW accelerated experience.
Have you heard the rule where, if a headline has a question, the answer is ALWAYS "no," because if the answer was "yes," then the article would simply be reporting on a fact and would assert it as a true fact and it would be a lot more convincing, no question required.

There's gotta be some corollary here where, if an article is nudging you to do something, you should always think twice, because if the thing was so good and popular, then the article would not be a "nudge," it would be a report about how many people are already using the thing, and would be trying to give you FOMO.
the "emergency" brake is actually the parking brake. it cannot hold up against engine power. if you have a car you can try this yourself.

apparently the car in question was stuck in a mode where there was a constant torque request (throttle setting) that was enough to overpower the brake. or, the car helpfully wouldn't allow engaging of the parking brake while the car was still in "D" mode.

i would also have tried opening the door. many cars will take the car out of gear when a door is opened. (frustratingly to me, as it can in rare occasion be helpful to crack open the door when in reverse, to look down for parking lines etc. a very loud warning chime would be better for me personally than this nanny feature.)
One thing that bothers me about a lot of the job posts lately is they are not including salaries, even when required by law in the states they are hiring in.
Yeah, Samsung collects data and sells it. So does every other company. Not going to stop me using the phone. At least Android actually asks me every time if I want to opt into a service or not. If Apple want me back, they can:

- Build a Dex competitor

- Allow apps to communicate outside their sandboxes if I allow them to

- Make it quicker and easier to edit settings

- Stop doing ridiculous things like borking USB-C ports on non-pro models
The airplanes too.
That's not what OP meant though. They were talking about custom CPU instructions implemented with FPGA logic.
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What's annoying if that Apple will only replace a battery if they deem your battery bad enough for replacement. I had an iPad that only last 90 minutes on battery power and I couldn't pay them to replace it because the battery passed their diagnostic tests.
Saying essentially the same thing twice does not an argument make. I'm sure if you re-read the article, you'll find that #2 doesn't even apply. And you haven't even bothered to refute the idea that it is a local government problem. Don't like it? Talk to the local zoning board. Otherwise, whining about the actions of individuals, assuming the law allows such actions, is going to do fuck-all to solve the problem.
Would we think of it differently if we called it LLC - large language correlation?
Restricted to a specific country isn't a huge negative IMO. Sometimes hiring internationally is really complicated and untenable for a small company.
I'd summarize it as: The Unreal Engine, especially in the 3D realm, gives you a far higher ceiling of possibilities, but it requires a lot more work and effort to use it. Godot, Unity, GameMaker, RPG Maker, RenPy and many more limit your options, but also need less work to get something going.

If you have 1-10 people trying to make something cool, you'd never reach for the Unreal Engine because it is just so much stuff to lift and juggle. If you're a large AAA studio looking to make Fallout 5 though... Godot might end up a bit limiting.
The lack of generally accepted definition for knowledge and intelligence makes these conversations difficult but the above post is important to remember.

The paper has nothing to do with the common sense problem.

While it is a preprint, I do wonder how useful this will be to improve generalization.

Termination analysis on linear polynomials is undecidable over the naturals without many constraints and is undecidable ofer the rationals.

If you think about how sstrees or even rtrees work, this isn't surprising to me that space and time are useful for compression which is required for learnability.

But I think people also see 'linear' and think that means easy. When it can mean serious restrictions on how it can be used.

Hard to explain the connection I have in mind without serious math but here is a paper that may cause some issues with trying to use these internal structures outside of the learnability implications.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.14805
> Our product suite helps funds and companies navigate the complex landscape of corporate debt deals and make better decisions with AI-assisted data analysis.

Hold on, you're selling an LLM/NLP product and you expect your prospective employees to avoid using the same?
I’ve watched Tenet and I’m not sure I can explain what happened either …
Python fits that niche now. Half the way tensorflow, et al work is by doing brain surgery on the AST in a way that resembles hey day Lisp's 'even the code is just s-expressions, process it as much as you want to the point of 80/20ing your way to your own compiler'.
I will complain about it once I see it happen.

Wii and DSi were released during the time when digital game stores were just emerging and were not nearly as commonly used as they are now, so, at the time, it felt like they were an afterthought. It was the first generation of consoles that even had digital stores in the first place (as Wii and DSi were a part of the same generation as Xbox360 and PS3, and GameCube/PS2/Xbox [from the prior generation] didn’t have digital stores).

Almost 2 decades later, in the present, digital game stores are the primary method of purchasing games for tons of people, and their share only keeps growing. I think these days, it is a bit more difficult and damaging to just abruptly sunset them the same way it went with Wii and DSi.

We will see how it goes, but I will save my outrage until Nintendo actually does or announces doing such a move. Otherwise, I would just be fighting the windmills created by my projections of what Nintendo might theoretically do in the future.

Love your username btw.
Bad systems beat good people.

Everything you listed is valid (through one lens), but they are symptoms. Distract yourself with symptoms and you'll never solve the problem.

Application Service Providers, as they exist today, are bad systems.

They provide tremendous value, that's why they exist. But they also carry tremendous cost. So far, nobody has solved the cost without compromising the value.

If you want to fix the web, moving us closer to a free and open web, stay hyper focused on solving the cost without compromising the value.

First past the post voting is a bad system.

In the U.S. you don't solve politics by voting for candidates, that's treating symptoms.

If you are a staunch republican, vote republican. If you are a staunch democrat, vote democrat.

Everyone else should be hyper focused on one thing: ballot reform.

If you want to solve the problem, focus on the game and solve it. A society full of good, but currently defeated, people will do the rest.
Sequoia was looking out for Sequoia. This should come as no surprise. They don't care who is left holding the bag, crypto, public securities, or otherwise. They're trying to make their rake off their LP funding, while also being a "thought leader" and being able to make a strong case you should be putting your investment dollars with them if you want VC/startup asset class exposure.

Incentives matter. Make investors jointly responsible for the fraud of their portfolio companies if you want to see meaningful change. Otherwise, there is no incentive to do due diligence, just to pump money into whatever the current lottery is, shielded from the blast radius by corporate limited liability. This applies just as much to public security institutional investors as it does to VCs or other PE investment arrangements. You're providing the powder, you can share in the blame when the cannon blows up. Returns must be earned through adult governance and oversight. If there are no adults in the room, that is what civil and criminal proceedings are for.
Thats plum island.
Yeah I’m setting the bar at the level of a child’s understanding. Because smaller models are well below that, just picking tokens at random. That’s how misunderstanding manifests with LLMs. They don’t say “I don’t know”, they just go off the rails.

The quality bar for different use cases might be such that an understanding of a system on par with a 6 year old is isn’t useful. But right now we clearly have two clusters and I’m drawing the boundary where it’s most useful.
But it was used as a verb.
Even with things like ABS and traction control your pedal does have a direct hydraulic connection. You can still use your brakes if your engine and computer shut off, just without those fancy features (or even vacuum assist).
That's nice, but the reality is that Amazon has almost 90% control of e-commerce.
They have huge monopoly power, and laws exist to protect consumers from that.
Is it the ideal way to build a society? No,
But the government should still step in when it happens.
They have not.

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2021-10-28/pdf/2021-2...

There were campaigners asking for one but it wasn't given.
Ugh.. this is exactly the problem. There are nuances to my argument that your knee jerk reaction just conveniently ignores, and claims that I want violence for any degree of disagreement. "And everybody will clap and cheer!" Seriously?

This is why people cannot have intelligent discourse on the Internet. Instead of giving me the benefit of the doubt and space to elaborate my case, you point to me and say "look at this troglodyte, everybody," and find a way to use the causes and ideologies you believe in (women and gay rights, which have nothing to do with my argument) as a weapon to demonize me and my words.

If you do not see that as terrifying and anti-intellectual, you have been spending too much time on the Internet, because I truly believe that if we were sat in front of each other we would find we are of the same general opinion and would enjoy a pleasant conversation.

Honestly, this is quite tiring, so I have no interest in engaging further. You won. Have a good day.
This makes me wonder. I have a few side projects which if they ever got in front of a real engineer, they would poke so many holes in it and make me look like an incompetent impostor. Yes, transparency and insight into codebases is good and all, and enjoys scrutiny, but it's those hidden side projects I love working on, because there's no accountability (apart from me being better than before), and I can do whatever I want, without 'managerial oversight'.
This looks fantastic! I'll have to try it when I get my iPhone hopefully soon.
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The vast majority of homeless are addicts and wouldn't move into free housing if provided, or mentally ill and should be cared for instead of dumped on the street - and also wouldn't remain in free housing even if provided - because they are mentally ill!

If you sincerely think homelessness is just a lack of housing I heartily encourage you to get out from behind your keyboard and go volunteer at a local homeless shelter. Ignorant people such as yourself are our real problem in making meaningful progress towards solving homelessness - luckily ignorance can be overcome if you choose to actually get involved. And it is rewarding when you do reach the occasional folks who are homeless but don't want to be and just need some help getting out. They may be the minority, but there are still many there and they are underserved. Those are the folks I focus on and what inspire me to remain involved.
Same here (well, a 3a)! This phone does everything I need, and then some. Granted, I'm relatively light user who mainly uses the browser, a chat app, and not much else aside from snapping a pic here or there.

I'm honestly confused about the lack of updates (I really only care about security updates). I run Xubuntu on a 13 year old computer, and I get updates. Is this just a cash grab from Google, or is there more to it?
Some labor laws are pretty strict, where if you treat them like an employee, they are an employee. This is common in the US and companies have to be really careful, otherwise a contractor can come after them and impose a pretty big financial burden.
Show HN: I made a tool that generates UTM links from text description
I worked at a startup that did that. It was a good deal; Canadians got US rates as well, which is something that never happens. But, we got acquired and I imagine we will lose all of our non-US contractors because they are min/max-ing the cost of living or whatever. (A software engineer that lives in Wisconsin is less valuable than one that lives in New York, dontchasee?)

I stayed in New York during the pandemic, so I don't really care. Living 10 minutes from Manhattan will likely never be career-limiting.
The battery and the kit together cost $50. The kit seems to cost about $7 based on the price of just the battery: https://www.ifixit.com/products/google-pixel-6-battery-genui...

The replacement guide suggests about an hour to complete the task. https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Google+Pixel+6+Battery+Replacem...

For contrast, some people need YouTube videos with step-by-step instructions to even open the hood of their car. They will take far longer to replace a car battery than it took you. Likely they'll also need to purchase a screwdriver.
I did this with my Mom and really enjoyed it! Learned a lot.

I also applied for this role. ;) I love that you're using Svelte!
So? They're not investments. They're simply devices.

But, let's go with this. After ~5 years, phones will sell for $990 (up from 5 years ago @ $890). 990 - 250 (splitting the difference) is what ... 740? That's a LOT more than $89 (or even 99 in 5 years).

If my phone is still up to date and performant enough for my tasks, I would be stupid not to pay 99 vs 740.
Yes. Proper package manager usually proceeds to install only signed packages.
It means that usually OS maintainer has verified the purpose of the package.

It gives a quite lot more trust than running arbitrary content as shell script, without any third party verification.
That was to let wind blow in the Po valley from the West.

You can auto translate this from Italian for the details https://www.vice.com/it/article/bj7dn8/il-folle-progetto-di-...
> The Windows BACKGROUND mode is useful for stuff like virus scanning or database log compaction, where you want to make some progress, but only if you can be certain not to hurt any foreground workloads.

But you are hurting the overall system performance, or battery life if this is a laptop and you keep thrashing the working set for no good reason. I don't see how this proactive approach has any advantages over just swapping out the process first if you run into actual memory pressure, or maybe start paging out pages of that process if they've been idle for a few minutes if you insist on some kind if proactive measure.
Estimates of slave ownership at the household level range from about 20 to 30% of white Southerners. (You'll see much lower numbers that try to mislead by a) giving the percentage against the entire US, including free states and b) by only counting the head of a household as the official "owner", not their spouse/children).

That qualifies as "many" in my book, and pushes slave ownership well into parts of the middle class.

(Slave labor was sometimes rented out to non-owners, as well.)
Are you serious? Where can I learn about this bullshit?
Could you link one at-the-time zero-day RCE that is really without user interaction and will hit any user with an old phone regardless of the user applications (like the browser) used?
I think they have it figured out and they are just stalling the introduction not because they lack technology but they still own a lot of stake in conventional solutions, they will probably peel away a line of cars soon for western markets that are EV and reduce sales of Corollas/Yaris with petrol engines but they will continue providing pickups/suvs for other markets. It is just they cannot slot a line of EV on top of all of the existing models and variants as they can still reap the reward of the investment they made for conventional cars. They would spread themselves too thin with a line of EVs on top of current portfolio
Apologies for the less common words. Other examples: Buttering them up. Giving away the farm. Rolling out the red carpet.

Essentially giving them whatever they wanted without asking any hard questions.
it's not a fair point, it's factually incorrect. Google has supported plenty of products for longer than seven years. those things just haven't been consumer hardware.
Context and intent matters, but context and intent are very subjective. Justices are apt to read the context and intent that they want to interpret legislation in a way they personally think would be beneficial. If you want an example of this, see Scalia's dissent in King v. Burwell. It's very entertaining.

A textualist approach can also unfortunately lead to biased decisions, but only to the extent Congress is imprecise with language. A textualist approach has the benefit of discouraging Congress from crafting bad legislation that requires judicial interpretation in the first place.
I was annoyed by the process of creating UTM links myself, so I came up with a chat GPT prompt and wrapped it with a simple UI.

I decided to make it as a free tool that you can use yourself.

It's still an early prototype, but it helps me to get going when I need to track a new marketing campaign or channel.

You just type the URL and describe how it will be used, e.g. "A link in a sponsored Instagram post by @naval" and click generate button.

From there, you can copy to link with UTM parameters, modify the parameters or regenerate the link.

Would love to hear all the feedback!
"i think xyz would be what finally kills twitter"
"this time bro, just trust me.
it wouldn't go like the 1000 other times i predicted twitter would get killed"
I believe Actual Budget, a local-first personal finance app uses them.

https://github.com/actualbudget/actual

The original author has both written about and given presentations about CRDTs.
It wouldn't for a sociopath, though.
Would love to see what others have to say on this but I suspect Apple replacement batteries are inferior compared to the one that comes with the new phone.
4 years of usage and battery max capacity was around 76%. I replaced my iPhone X battery last year.
The new one I got is at 86% already and it is not even 12 months. (No usage pattern change. I replaced it from an Apple Store.)
"Very few teams are like Google in its heyday. Firing on all cylinders. Innovating. Meaningfully moving the bottom line with tech is actually rare"

Very few companies have products or a need for developers that require innovation. 1% do, the rest are CRUD apps and other applications that support the business.
OpenSSH 9.5
also, typesense
Imagine working on a networked system that uses types to make it impossible to express operations that violate data security and integrity constraints, and where such constraints control whether data is allowed to be read or written from or to a given endpoint. Imagine further that the types governing permission to read or write depend on environmental state that can change at any time--for example, as soon as a specific person changes roles, the set of ports they are allowed to read and write changes.

The type system enforces those permissions: writing to an impermissible destination is a type error. The types applicable to an entity are not necessarily knowable at compile time; some of them might change at any time.

I had a job working on such a system. It supported a type system implemented in Haskell with both static and dynamic type disciplines, where values were tagged with base types designed to be checked dynamically in hardware.

Was the programming language dynamically typed? Yes. Was the programming language statically typed? Yes.
Txtai looks interesting, maybe you could help me collect some of the comparision parameters for it?
Yikes - posting like this will get you banned here, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Looks like "swmon" beat you to the punch.

https://crates.io/users/swmon
That you aren't familiar with something hardly makes it imaginary. That exact formulation of unit system is, I think, pretty uncommon, but there are widely used languages (vhdl) where uniting is more directly part of the type system and widely used uniting systems as libraries (boost) where it is not directly a language feature.
So you understand your effect in participating in this system, but life's too good for you to do anything differently. Nice.
It's honestly not so wonderful an idea when you're downstream of it, which given the Med has a significant and continuous in-flow, means that people along the Costa del Sol swimming in the sea are probably having more than their fair allowance of Gibraltarian effluent.
Ongoing declines for the world’s amphibians in the face of emerging threats
If diversity is the goal: there are going to be fewer white men because they don't count as diverse. It's tautological. Anything else is speaking out of both sides of the mouth.