skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except there is no such thing as "AOSP" experience anymore.
Why? Because AOSP stopped providing majority of apps that would be considered core for functioning smartphone.
There is no more "phone" app on AOSP. There is a Google one, that is closed source, full off unnecessary integration and telemetry.
Sure, both are made by the same company (google), but that's not remotely what the original idea of AOSP was about. And we should stop giving google a pass treating it as if it's somehow better when doing the exact same shit as other third party vendors, simply because it has the brand.
Either you are part of AOSP, or You are a third party vendor's custom. No in-between.

You are mixing pixel with AOSP, but those are completely separate projects.

Sure, aosp development is sponsored and managed by google, but that doesn't make it synonymous with pixels.

I assure you that people who develop AOSP work with all the major vendors and definitely aren't just driven by what pixel team wants and nothing more.

>foldables
Seriously? Samsung had first foldable 4 years ago, while first foldable pixel launched this year. In what world does pixel contributed to foldableAPI more?
I mean, I guess in the world we're you treat AOSP and pixel team unanimously maybe, but that's not the real one.

>pixel is standardized experience

Just because google says so?
Standardized experience of AOSP is AOSP. Everything else is addition.

Your debian and Ubuntu analogy fails to acknowledge that Google apps are NOT open source.

More apt comparison would be samsung being modern ubuntu 22 with all the bloat that it has, while Google being "only" 14.04 ubuntu with less bloat, but still far from the true purity
Wrongly links to story about Bay area airport shutting temporarily...
Soon enough we’ll re-learn that you can’t trust anything except that what you can personally reproduce.

Personally I’m glad. Too many years of people subscribing to the most bone headed theories and saying “look, it’s peer reviewed!”.
I don't think it's possible to test a sufficiently complex system that isn't somewhat restricted in the states it goes through, which requires typing.

Consider a finite state machine with N states. There are a priori NxN possible transitions. In many cases however most of them are impossible, and you really have only O(N) feasible transitions.

Sure if you make O(N^2) tests you don't need typing... but typing could have made many of those transitions literally impossible. You don't need to test the impossible. For a sufficiently large codebase, you want to limit as much as possible the amount of tests you need.

Also I have more than once identified issues in our testing framework because when I made stronger types I uncovered bugs that escaped our tests. Non-deterministic concurrency bugs are extremely hard to test for. So yes, testing can uncover type bugs, but typing can uncover untestable bugs.
> This is how you spell achar in Persian, اچار. Find me a dictionary that has an entry for this word.

Here you go:

https://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/app/steingass_query.py?qs=...
> What is fantastic about it?

* The screen is crisp and clear and especially playable in bright light
* The crank is nifty and enables a lot of player interactions that you don't see anywhere else
* The device itself is a design delight. It doesn't feel premium, so much as just the right amount of quality and playfullness. It's cute and fun.
* Panic created an IDE that makes developing games for the Playdate super easy and fun. I've built a few (terrible) games and it was a blast
* Panic is throwing a lot of weight behind game development for this. You get a ton of great games for free with the device, plus access to a storefront that's filled with so many other games of all genres
* I think games are being priced sustainably. They aren't expensive, but they also aren't so cheap that the designers need to rely on ads or donations. I don't know if it'll last, but they're certainly heading in a good direction.
> "Sopping to" makes no sense in English.

English definitions are descriptive instead of prescriptive. In this context, an English dictionary will describe how words are used in practice rather than prescribing how they should be used in theory. It stands to reason that English dictionaries are likely to have holes in their definitions, especially in cases where words are used in novel ways.

It helps to keep in mind that a person’s written or spoken English is correct if other English speakers -- some, not all -- correctly interpret the words as having the communicator’s intended meaning. This particular case is just someone verbing with a noun, which is a common practice in informal English.
So, first of all, nix isn't a distribution, it's a build/packaging tool. Secondly, docker/containers are not a security mechanism
AIRTAC, which does have a China-specific division; however of course sanctions will of course still keep them from the incident.

I still suspect someone at Airbus AIRTAC is probably shitting themselves over this because some day this will come back for maintenance...

https://aircraft.airbus.com/en/customer-care/aog-and-aircraf...
I can invent a new protocol and app right now thats 100x easier to publish on and access. No one is using yet, is the harm of propaganda stories in corporate media lessened in any way by the fact of that tools availability? No
Because at least with current models, the pink-ness would spread to the rest of the image. You'd end up with not only a pink church but a pink sunset.

It's even worse with styles; midjourney can't do a guitar in one style and the rest of the image in another style. You really only get one style per image.
I actually think there are a ton of problems which could benefit. But there is just very little mindshare. You basically have 1000x the people working on building software to run efficiently on the GPU. No way FPGA touches that. In addition it's a specialized set of skills to build high performance circuits. Whereas running on a GPU is "just" software.

So even though I think FPGA could win out from an efficiency perspective for some problems there is just not enough people/companies working on it to win out. It also doesn't help the tools are raging proprietary garbage fires.
Medicaid for all, free markets for those who hate queues.
Considering one can be a "MAGA follower", "Russian aligned disinformation source", and so on by merely liking the wrong tweet, nowadays, this should be deeply concerning.
On Mastodon there is the ability to block users, block servers and block keywords. Use all three.

There's a counter-argument, however, that people deserve to have their behaviors corrected (e.g. the bad habit many mastodonsters of using the word "fascist" the way some people use the work "fuck".) The counter-counter argument is that some people are acting in bad faith and just want to provoke people.
> Climate experts talk a lot about “cathedral thinking.” It’s the idea of working towards long term goals — like a medieval cathedral. These goals require vision, shared commitment, and decades, even centuries, of planning. The planners and builders don’t live to see the end product, but future generations reap the rewards.

We're living in the MBA/enshittification society where its all about pumping next quarters numbers to dump the stock and profit, even if it ruins the company in the long run. These are the kinds of leaders that we're the best in the world at producing.

EDIT: I forgot a shout-out to regulatory capture and rent seeking behavior that makes it difficult to get anything done at all.
https://archive.ph/dFd7A
Honestly this is why I really like having Kaiser as my insurance provider (for those who don't know, Kaiser is an HMO that is both the insurance provider AND the hospital/doctors office/pharmacy. You get all your care from them).

Some people don't like not having choices for doctors, but I would much rather just have one system to deal with. I don't have to print out medical records like I have to for my wife and kids (they are on a different plan), or call a bunch of different providers to find care, or go back and forth as two different providers say the other side is the one that has to do anything. I never have to argue with my insurance provider about paying for something, I never have to wonder if something will be covered.
Exactly why the entire system should be nationalized instead of outsourced. Further, nationalized healthcare promotes political engagement on a basis of material necessities that politicians must be accountable for.
Fantastic, thanks for clarifying.
I mean. If you, the original author, didn't even bother implementing and testing the idea why would you expect someone else would? I personally wouldn't touch such a project with a thousand foot pole.
Yea, the OP was referencing randos from his perspective and the responder subbed in famous software developers. They weren’t arguing on the same point
Up and down the board this is the game insurance companies are playing.

For example, I had need for a medical device. My doctors office submitted the claim for that device with documentation of it's necessity 5 times over 6 months before it was finally approved. The prior 4 times it was "You didn't include all the required information" even though each submission was identical.

There's simply far too little oversight on insurance agencies. They are perversely incentivized to give the worst outcomes for everyone which being to command high premiums because of the relatively low amount of competition or threat of "switching" (After all, you are using your employer's insurance. You didn't get to pick it, HR did. And they picked it based on who's cheapest. How did they become the cheapest? A race to the bottom in terms of service).

All of this burdens the whole system with cost and delay.

I'm all for universal healthcare, but if we can't get that can we at least get stronger regulations and punitive measure against insurance companies for playing these games? It's crazy that everyone has stories, regardless of agency, of illegitimate claim denials.

And to be clear, they do this because it saves them money and costs them nothing. By denying by default, a certain percentage of the population and doctors offices will ultimately just go away because of the headache it takes to convince the agency to provide the product you pay for.
>Rationing care, deciding who lives or dies, underpaying doctors and nurses till the best ones quit and the remaining have any care burned out of them

This is literally happening under the current system now. My cancer treatment plan, should I ever get it while I'm living in America, is to blow all my cash and buy an exit bag on credit.
> I mean, after all, if you cut out the immense spend they're making to throw ads at you, how much would it actually cost to provide the "good" part of Facebook's services to an average user? It really isn't much and it continues to drop.

I've often wondered about this. A social network could be operated quite inexpensively if you didn't have to pay for sales, marketing, attention hacking, etc. (Twitter is kind of testing this hypothesis.) Social networks should be as boring and everyday as blogs and email.
As other commenters have noted, the evidence here is really weak either way. The controlled studies are all done on college students, and therefore on pretty small short-lived projects. My instincts tell me that while static types may be optional at that scale, they are essential on large commercial projects that last for years, and projects like that are nearly impossible to properly study.

Other studies try to compare bug rates between open source projects, but it's hard to be confident in answers gleaned from that kind of observational study. As long as the evidence is so weak, the industry will continue to ignore the research and go with our instincts.
A good resource for research on topics like this is It Will Never Work in Theory: https://neverworkintheory.org/category/#programming-language..., https://neverworkintheory.org/category/#types
Moi aussi.

If you have strong static typing you don't need all those dumb functions like string_to_number("1234"), etc. to change the type you're given to the type you find you need right now.

When you know that a variable is of a set type, you DO NOT need to keep looking to see what type it happens to be at the current moment, and then juggling it to suit.
Maybe to him. He has... strayed from the path... as it were, lately.

I've got to wonder if direct reader feedback isn't the cause here. Back in the day of postal email, it just wasn't worth it to object to a risible editorial, except for the most dedicated, or for the most hackneyed editorial. Today, someone like Brooks gets publicly roasted instantly for any misstep.
We'll never be rid of it. It's politically impossible to get rid of. And I don't mean "political" as in D vs R.

The amount of money we spend on healthcare in excess of the OECD average is more than we spend on the military. 10% ish of that is the entire yearly profit of the healthcare industry. The other 90% is raw inefficiency. And where does that 90% go? Mostly to salaries. Eliminate our inefficient system, and you eliminate millions of middle class jobs.

No politician will do it. They may talk about it and campaign on it knowing it won't happen. But they will never pull the trigger because it would be political suicide.

Also, if you want to know more than you ever needed to about the US healthcare system and why it is so expensive I highly recommend this report: https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/mckinsey/industries/healthc...
On the one hand I agree, bumming off your parents/state/etc is mooching and shouldn't be applauded or tolerated.

On the other hand, so much work that does occur these days is incredibly frivolous and debatable if it adds social value at all. Let's take Video games for example. It is now a larger industry than movie or music combined. And the stereotypical drop-out is the "lives in parents basement playing video games" dude. But if that is a waste of life and mooching, shouldn't we also turn our eyes to the people/companies making these games? If playing game is a waste of life, what does that say about those making them? But these people are never spoken about in such terms.

The same logic can apply to music industry, movie industry, sports industry, tourism industry, etc.
There are two reasons why that 65% number is wildly unrealistic:

1. We're ignoring fixed costs associated with onboarding with an ecommerce platform. Selling on one website has significantly lower fixed costs than it is to sell on every ecommerce site on the internet minus one. We're talking thousands upon thousands of retailers, not a handful. If what you were thinking is that they could sell across the next 5 to 10 most popular ecommerce marketplaces, you're somewhere between 15% and 20% marketshare.

A more realistic number for that strategy is:

Not-Amazon: ($2 selling price - $0 fees - 0.80 COGS) * (100k * 17%) = $20,400

https://www.statista.com/statistics/274255/market-share-of-t...

2. Not all ecommerce sites represented in that 65% permit third party sellers. You can't just sign up and sell your stuff. You may have to convince their buyers to stock your product. This is not easy or cheap.
It definitely could not have done that.

In the same year that Google had Borg, and AWS released EC2, at Yahoo, David Filo was still personally reviewing hardware requests.
The browser has offered this kind of sandboxing for JavaScript for decades at this point.

The reason I'm so excited about WebAssembly for this is that it's not even new technology: it's been supported by widely deployed browsers since 2017.
Nothing prevented merchants from offering a cash discount. Terms used to prevent merchants from adding a surcharge solely because they were paying with a credit card.

A class action lawsuit was filed, and the networks settled by allowing merchants to charge a fee only up to what they actually paid to process the charge if they inform the networks first. I gather most merchants don't inform the networks. And when they do charge surcharges, the fee they charge is obviously higher than the payment actually costs them.
> From where I'm sitting software is millions of times better today than it was in the 90s when I first started hearing people saying this.

Define better. I enjoyed computers more in the 80s. There was less bureaucracy. Cubase on the Atari ST never crashed. The modern C++ one does crash, often.
Just to clarify, I was solving for radius. Diameter would be 2x, and circumference would be 2pi larger. So 11.6 million km circumference for the 24-hour rotating ring.

If you had a trans-ring commute, at 100 kph, that would take you about 6 years 7 months one way.

A jet aircraft operating at nearer 1,000 kph would cut that to a far more manageable 7 months. Though I'd still use it as a reasonable argument for return-to-office.

Ping times would still be about 38 seconds even for free-vacuum direct transmission, around the ring itself. Given lightspeed is reduced to about 66% of its in vacuo* value in fibre optics, you'd have almost exactly a 1 minute delay. Something to keep in mind during those Ring Zoom sessions.
Almost every claim of astroturfing is from someone who doesn't understand the basic argument opposing their position.
Pro starts from $1000. First Android phone 's HTC Dream launch price was $180 (with a 2y contract), the phone had a physical keyboard, a physical trackball, a replaceable battery, it was a real work tool.
"It is only through technology that you can destroy/disrupt so much past value in a short period of time and call it progress."

Oh how true. I've spent much of my life as a technologist and occasionally I've been at its cutting edge. Yet there are few tech things that have truly improved my life. Most modern tech simply adds irrecoverable overhead to one's life—and one's life speeds up just through maintaining it.

Some tech has had great potential to offer advantages but has fallen short in delivery though greed, lack of agreement on standards, planned obsolescence and indifference and abuse from users. Combined, synergies have rendered much tech disappointing and very suboptimal.

I look at the many thousands of irrecoverable hours I've wasted on trying to make computers do what they're supposed to do and make software like Windows just simply work as expected—which it could have easily done if it were not for the greed and intransigence of Microsoft. And nowadays printers have evil intent thanks to the proprietary actions of Canon, Epson and others. These monstrous contraptions are so only because manufacturers spend so much time and effort at optimizing their profit, and it's users who foot the expence. Similarly, technology is too often used to abuse and inconvenience people. The article's photo of the Transport for London card only sign with the caption “You can use any shade of payment, as long as its digital" is nothing other than an abuse of technology, it's the sort of brazen technocratic instruction that would make me want to jump the barrier and say 'fuck you'.

Yes, it's deeply sad to see wealth misused, especially so by the powerful.

It's also terribly sad to read the words of younger generations and to know there's no way of putting wisdom onto young shoulders. It's through no fault of their own that imparting experience and wisdom to them is akin to explaining color to someone who's been blind from birth. Unfortunately, it's a terrible tragedy of the human condition that knowledge of this kind can only be bought with time.
It's astounding that the care plan created by myself and my team of doctors is regularly denied by a statistician at Blue Cross Blue Shield.

This means my care is ultimately in the hands of someone with zero medical training.

Astounding.
I've seen it using my Location outside of when I've asked, when I use "Only This Time" permissions, but rare, short, and near enough to my usage of the permission to think it was anything but a bug.

No screen recording.

Depending on how often, I'd be suspecting a malicious version of Signal.
Ocean acidity will go up worldwide though
An SNF fibre or material would be ... interesting.
Check out https://proaudioeng.com/fair-rite-ferrites/. Also dxengineering has them.
I second this advice.

Relatedly, I am in a Facebook group for $condition, and I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen people post that a doctor prescribed them $treatment. Although $treatment is a very common thing to give to healthy people, $treatment is KNOWN to potentially cause death in patients with $condition. The other patients in the group always jump in and alert the original poster to the danger, but I can’t believe it still happens week after week and year after year.

My point is that fully outsourcing your healthcare—even to specialists—is a very bad idea, especially if you might have a rare condition of any sort. No doctor will ever care about you/your family member the way that you do. And they are always so pressed for time that mistakes are to be expected.
History teaches us things can change fast. Think USSR in 1984. At some point things are going to give.

We have the technical means to provide a decent life for everyone. And I mean everyone, including illegal immigrants sneaking across the border. And we could do all that while everyone struggles less.

So yea. Most jobs are fake and stupid and don't need to be done. The ones that need doing could be given more support, distributed more evenly.

This was a mainstream economic viewpoint less than a century ago. What happened?
What makes the D-language forums so good? Never used them. (https://forum.dlang.org/)
lots of discussion in this thread from earlier

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37766446
> anecdotes don't matter.

exactly. you posted anecdotes.
most professions that bill by the hour work this way? squeaky brakes isn't a plausible example, but this isn't uncommon for electrical issues in luxury cars. the mechanic spends days/weeks chasing it down and eventually asks you if you want to keep paying them to look. if you say no, you still have to pay for the time they already spent. if you say yes, there's no guarantee they eventually fix it. or they come up with a root cause and give an estimate to fix. you still pay if they're "obviously wrong".
Oh wow, I hadn't checked in on this. Looks like a much more complete method than the one I explored in https://til.simonwillison.net/webassembly/python-in-a-wasm-s...

Thanks! I'll give this a shot.
What do people think about MongoDB's search offering and its pivot into vectors?
Yet we have examples of nationalized health care across the world that isn't this system you are describing. The US stands alone in it's terrible health care (and the price we pay for it).

We already ration care, it's based on what you can afford. We already underpay doctors and nurses like crazy, just go talk to one. We already drive them to burn out, because the current health care system is prioritizing admin pay over quality care.

The hellscape you imagine is the american system. It literally could not be done worse if we tried.
I would love, love for it to become a thing for Employers to put your money in a special type of account (similar to a Roth 401k) where the only thing you can do with it is buy insurance on the open market.

Heck, even have a list of 2-3 'preferred' plans that employees can choose from, if they don't want to do all the research. But seeing all that money go into their pay-stub, and then right back out for insurance is going to be very, very eye opening to people who currently just have their employer pay it, and they ever see it in their check.
you could, but you’d be wrong. (there are many other signaling modalities!)
Yeah I can’t live without Russian dashcam videos.