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Actually, iphones which are much costlier sell well in India! In fact, all the top-end phones sell well in India.

Indian population seeks value, and are pretty smart about their choice of investment. An iphone even though is much costlier in India, has longer os / security updates than any budget phone. So over a period of time, this would translate to a higher value for the device and hence the purchasing decision. Usually Indians try to ascertain the price to value ratio (something that Nothing phone ceo has acknowledged publicly) while making these decisions.

Definitely Fairphone has the appeal of repairability (which again is valuable for the average Indian) and the longer os / security updates are a boon.
The usual mistake people make in reciting this is to say the fox jumped over the lazy dog, causing them to omit an ‘s’ from the sentence.

Making sure it’s ‘the’ lazy dog rather than ‘a’ lazy dog is actually important if you care about completing the lowercase alphabet, as without it there’s only an uppercase ‘T’.
This is more than a little melodramatic.

https://frame.work/ and the https://mntre.com/ MNT Reform: Exist
Yes. It is part of the job requirement and the essential character of a good wage slave for an hourly, minimum-wage employee to lay down their life with joy and zeal in defense of their employer's profits and property.
If that were true, we'd all fling off of the surface of the planet!
A previous company managed to do hotdesking very well. The key was they started small and rolled it out as they learnt. By the time they moved building and went full hotdesking, they'd ironed out the problems and made it workable.
No idea why you’re being downvoted. Your answer sounds fine to me.
I care about making things available to other people. My initial attraction to IPFS was that it looked like it could help me do that - but then I learned that just publishing a file to IPFS doesn't permanently solve that problem for me.

It solves caching/distribution, but it doesn't solve make-this-thing-available.

I've been using and paying for S3 for this purpose for 15+ years. I was hoping IPFS could offer a better alternative, but I don't think it does.

I might consider IPFS in the future if I need to distribute a prohibitively large file and my target audience are the kind of people who can access IPFS.
You're missing the use-case for folks that use it for large data transfers for video files. Having to shut down the phone to do that is burdensome. It's why the new iPhones with USB-C that can record directly to flash drives are being praised.
Secure by Design: AWS to enhance MFA requirements in 2024
I guess it is more like brute-forcing.
I'm curious how it's 50% more expensive than (new) thinkpads. Personally I'm looking for machines where there is at least 64gb soldered, or the possibility to upgrade later. In the thinkpad line that means basically only the X1 now for 13/14 inches laptops. And it's not cheaper than the framework.

I agree about the rest, a few things are not quite there yet, or maybe will never be. But on lots of things it is really refreshing.
It's hard to say how effective it is but an aspect of that sort of punishment is general deterrence which became more common versus reformation approaches in the 80s and 90s, where the intent is to increase the perceived risk of the crime. I think generally more approach on reformative punishment in the US would be good, but there also still examples where deterrence is useful.

One more recent example is DUI enforcement and license revocation,[1] or tax evasion jail time. The goal isn't entirely to reform those who commit the crime, or keep them from being able to commit further crimes, but to increase the percentage of people not committing crimes by changing the perceived risk to reward ratio.

[1]https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/809950.pdf
The buying agent’s 3% cut is paid by the seller; if there’s no selling agent, do the buyer’s agent still get their cut?

I’m not really clear on why it’s structured that way in the first place — why doesn’t the buyer pay his own agent directly?
Retail applications have gotten lazy recently. I put one in, and they wanted a recorded interview. No one on the other side, I was expected to just awkwardly record myself answering some questions and send it in.
This is really a question of depth vs. breadth. Focusing on cultivating individual relationships is building depth of connections and experience, as any one of them will happily assist or recommend you. Focusing on prestige is building breadth because your brands can open doors to external people who haven't met you but see the brand as a proxy for some metric they're evaluating.

While balancing the two of them is important, personally I'd prioritize building depth over breadth whenever I have the choice. You can only trade off your brand for so long. Shallow connections are good for bouncing between networks and climbing ladders, but eventually you'll need depth. Also, I'd rather work with people who value depth over those who treat shallow brand associations as a reliable proxy for qualities they find important in people with whom they work.

Also IMO, in general, thinking about this kind of stuff is revelatory of a transactional attitude that many will find offputting.
New York is never going to be affordable though. The whole concept of "low rent" in New York is an inherently stupid goal.

The reason rents are high in New York is primarily because it's tourist hotspot, but because people are serving a market. If you want rents to be cheaper in NYC then the fix here is really to make the city less desirable to tourists so people don't want to stay for the week. But then is it even New York?

In an ideal world New York could have low rents, be a tourist hot spot and be a place people can live and raise kids. In reality that's never going to happen, and politicians trying to "fix" the problems with New York is just a waste of resources and is going to come at the cost of people who invested in property in NYC to serve the actual demands of the city (yeah, I know f** landlords, etc).

The solution here, if anything, is transportation and remote working. Ideally people should be able to easily and affordably commute into cities like New York when needed, but they shouldn't feel they have to live there. But even this is probably too utopian. Not everyone is a software engineer with the luxury of remote working after all.
But then by that logic any action by any platform is never illegal. It's their platform, they can do whatever they want. If you don't like, don't use their platform, right? Is that what you're saying? I'm not totally unsympathetic to that POV, but in practice I guess it doesn't seem to be working out so well...
On the Risks of Attestation of Software and Hardware on the Open Internet
It doesn't need to be that slow to avoid nausea. I've been to the top of the space needle with a rotating floor, and didn't feel any nausea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh4QGey2zTk overview by Vox
What is wrong with PureScript? It has strict evaluation and the Syntax is 99% similar to Haskell. It transpiles to JavaScript, C++, Erlang and Go. It runs easily in older browsers without wasm, and has access to huge amount of software libs through npm interop. Yet it seems to be used by very few.
Thank you very much for your kind words, I'm honoured that you read it through in one sitting! In general, the nice feedback everyone has been very rewarding after working for quite a while on this.

I've gone ahead and fixed that - good catch, and thank you again!
Soldered LPDDR5x has more bandwidth, lower latency, and consumes less power than the equivalent DDR5 SODIMM. It can also be clocked higher due to signal integrity constraints, and you really want higher clocks with a Ryzen SOC.

If you plan on maxing-out the memory, the only advantage of SODIMMs I see are in repairability. That said, I have verified exactly one bad stick of RAM in over 3 decades of computing, so I personally think the downside of soldered RAM is overblown.
Other operating systems having a bad accessibility story is pretty poor justification for Apple backsliding on theirs.
Linked elsewhere in this thread:

https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2023/10/popular-physicspr...

I understand (at an undergrad level) superimposing light waves. But this blows my mind:

At the same time, Ferenc Krausz and his research group in Austria were working on a technique that could select a single pulse – like a carriage being uncoupled from a train and switched to another track. The pulse they succeeded in isolating lasted 650 attoseconds
This reads like your standard issue security-team-in-a-box JD. You might find the T-shaped candidate of your dreams, but anyone capable of delivering the combination of cloud admin/netadmin/IT/SOC II/HIPAA/software arch/devops is going to know they're a substitute for a team. They'll expect to be paid significantly above what you're offering because they're going to be doing the job of a director and a team of six on an engineer's authority. This doesn't even touch on policy or IR, but they'll inevitably wind up in there too.

Speaking as a security professional who is the T-shaped person you want, this JD is bad news. It reads less as the expression of a hopeful young company and more of a giant red flag warning that this company does not understand security or take it seriously enough. You may want to rethink it if you wish your company to have a reputation as taking the security of your customers' data seriously.

The advice to consider a consultancy is sound and well worth careful consideration.
The pricing reminds me of when contractors quote 2-3x normal for jobs they don't want to do. I'm sure Facebook is expecting that 99.99% of people will just agree to tracking and in a few years they can shutter the paid tier as an "unsuccessful experiment".
No, but it does have Snapchat Discover, the Worlds Shittiest Clickbait!
Id go insane with my environment pulsating at 0.016 Hz. It'd be like having a 60 second song on repeat, but visual. 60 s is short enough that I still have my short term memory of what was one rev before, but not fast enough to blur it away.

It's a hunch, but Ithink, as humans, we don't do well with frequencies from 0.01 to 100Hz [1]. Most (all?) of human cognition happens there, and to me it feels like a recipe for a a cognitive resonance.

[1] I find it cool that the range is centered about 1 s - a fraction of time we call "a moment" that, to me, best anchors the concept of "present".
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The term "isotopic analysis" is a bit more specific to what's going on here. There are dedicated labs specializing in it that will do samples for (relatively) cheap, especially for the fancier methods. Paleontologists aren't necessarily any more skilled here than anthropologists/archaeologists. Those three are fairly similar roles with a lot of skill overlap that doesn't necessarily include analytical/nuclear chemistry stuff. The labs tend to be staffed by specialists from non-historical departments at the institution they're associated with in my experience.
The view gives me nausea; I don't want windows! I want my spacecraft to have thick skin and a Whipple shield!
>Simply launching another search engine, even if it's better, won't be enough.

I otherwise agree but defaults are a very powerful tool.
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Also, anyone know a way to automate undoing the all-capsing Workday does with resume data? Sometimes the data makes it to the correct field but it might as well not since I need to retype the whole thing anyway.
He also has a unique style. To me it appears intentional that he doesn't tend to write as realistic as possible depictions of possible futures, even allowing for the sci-fi elements. Rather, characters tend to act and speak like current day people thrust into a sci-fi scenario. Technology is highly advanced in some areas, but less so in others (which helps keep humans relevant). At times I found that took some getting used to, but it can also make the story more accessible, lends itself to humor, and can allow for exploration of how the kind of people we're familiar with would react in wildly different scenarios.

Basically, I can see how his style wouldn't be for everyone, but I enjoy his books.
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>>> This breaks down if you have teams in more than one location which have to interact.

for seperate distinct teams that's fine. See conways law. but often the people are in same team across different locations - meaning their interaction is just kaput
What meaning are you conveying with the "l" in the word else in the last question?

Is it verticality, persistence, or something else?
Poland is the biggest EU supporter of US military presence. You think Andrzej Duda is a patzy of US influence?
I applied to company using workday recently. The job was a referral and the JD made it explicitly clear I didn’t need a degree. Yet it was a required field.

And of course, it wasn’t a free form text field that would allow me to just enter N/A or my high school. It was a drop-down/search box that had a predefined list of colleges and universities. I ended up just entering some college I attended for two months before dropping out.
Given the proliferation of illegal downloads (I can get a bad cam rip of the Barbie movie on release weekend just fine, plus a VPN would protect me from DCMA takedowns), and illegal pornography (just ask a torrent tracker for the fappening), and the proliferation of fake news (esp on eg, Facebook) despite a lack of it needing to be ML model generated, and companies and OSS in the space doing the democratizing and releasing complete model weights, and not just lone individuals trying to do the work in isolation, (aka stability.ai), are they really four horsemen, or four kids on miniature ponys?
"The counterargument is that you have to pay for AppleCare. I don't pay for anything for my phone
"

But you have to pay for the new parts, don't you? What I'm saying is that I don't know of a head-to-head comparison of long-term maintenance of a Fairphone, including buying parts to fix it, compared to buying the cheapest iPhone and Apple Care.

And when they give you a new iPhone, they refurbish the old, (and the "new" one they give you is actually refurbished), so I don't see how it adds to e-waste.
Allowing the database and the application to be out of sync (to +1/-1 versions) is really the point of pgroll though.

pgroll presents two versions of the database schema, to be used by the current and vNext versions of the app while syncing data between the two.

An old version of the app can continue to access the old version of the schema until such time as all instances of the application are gracefully shut down. At the same time the new versions of the app can be deployed and run against the new schema.
I'm about 90% through this book that I picked up based on some other HN comment I had read. I would highly recommend it
Interop 2023 Dashboard
"Interop 2023 is a cross-browser effort to improve the interoperability of the web — to reach a state where each technology works exactly the same in every browser."
it looks like he is trying to take the kinesthetic intuition of an abacus and apply it to programming. Neat
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The EU is about to adopt a dangerous law with international consequences
that's insane

I remember applying for a position getting a phone call and then getting rejected afterwards but the funny thing was I got another email from the same company asking about my availability for the interview and I was like Woahh, are you sure you sent the email to the right person because I remember you already rejected me
It is more complicated than it needs to be, but very similar to the BitTorrent ecosystem.

https://docs.ipfs.tech/install/

IPFS is a protocol, it needs a client. That client can be a web page or local software, just like torrents.

Curl now supports downloading IPFS resources (but uses an HTTP gateway, it doesn’t talk to the DHT directly).
What will change about a Facebook with users as customers. Will Facebook (re)invent the chronological feed? Will they employ fewer dark patterns?

Anyone have experience running ads on Facebook? How is the UX?
In most of the US, I would bet that skilled labor willing and able to do the job of going to people’s homes to do appliance repairs will be expensive enough such that any ~$1,000 appliance just gets replaced.

My brother in law just called his 3 year old washer’s extended warranty line, and they didn’t even want to verify the issue. Immediately told him they were sending him a check for the amount he purchased the washer for, and all that was left was for him to buy a new one.

I imagine the labor itself costs $100 per hour, and including travel time, you are looking at $300 just to diagnose the issue. Then a couple hundred for the part, and if they have to wait for it, come back, that’s another $300. And you are already losing money.

I imagine that is why Citibank got rid of their 4 year Costco appliance warranty.
GDP growth is not the indicator we should be looking at now. It is not compatible anymore with a viable planet for the years to come.
The TLDR on Ruby's new TLDR testing framework
At some level it seems deliberate - For example the breathless reporting re: "conspiracy theorists believe that 5G radiation activates microchips in COVID vaccines" seeds a thought terminating cliche in anyone concerned about enabling (more) pervasive surveillance through better data coverage
My heart aches in a way I cannot explain when I watch this or think about space exploration in general. It's a mixture of inevitability, inspiration, pride, and sadness.

I wonder if ancients felt this way about the sea, or sky, or mountains that seemed impassable to them, knowing or believing it was only a matter of time. Or did they wonder at areas just plain never-to-be-seen.
> It isn't the use of automation that is the problem. It's that in the automated applications we're receiving, there is very obviously fraudulent information in there. The applicants are LYING about their experience, in order to match the job specification.

Who cares? The specifications half the time include experience that's impossible to achieve because the people writing them either are also in turn using automated software and/or because they have no idea what they're hiring for.
This is a description of how it is currently being used in practice.

Yes you can use data well. It is unfortunately not being used well.
I'm typing on a P14s Gen 4 (AMD), which has 64gb soldered and a Ryzen 7840 SOC. It also has an OLED screen, which is hit-or-miss depending on your preferences; I value the high resolution and color accuracy, but it's not the best choice for battery life.
https://doesipfshaveablockchain.com/
These are limitations of a single text-to-image gen, which is the least interesting way to use those models. When guided by a previous low-res generation, it won't fall apart at arbitrary resolutions, that's how all diffusion upscalers work. Just don't expect being able to fit every detail in one pass, use multiple ones (that's how detailers work).
I'll never forgive the people that tried to kick him out of FOSS projects. He's made such a positive contribution to tech, and we need people like him more than ever.
You are right, I don't know why you are downvoted. META can't charge depending on your tracking consent, they'll have to do it for everybody in the EU.
Yeah I think there is a rough rule of thumb like "two pizza teams, that literally have pizza lunch together twice a week" for me makes the various issues coalesce - same people same team same location, often enough to eat together, plus eating together has big binding benefits for teams etc etc
And no known material has enough tensile strength to make it work!
What makes it desirable as opposed to bittorrent?
I would suggest Kinesis, they have bluetooth versions that are fine. If you need a far distance between boards make sure to get one with the 20" cable (the wireless models still have a cable between the sides). The freestyle is basically just a normal keyboard with a split. The keyboards are a bit pricey, but they really get you on the tenting kits. I just use some furniture pads as spacers and those work for me at 1/100th the price.

https://kinesis-ergo.com/split-keyboards/

I did a survey of split keyboards and they seemed like one of the few split keyboard brands that tended more towards the ergo side of things instead of the hobbyist mechanical side. I looked at the moonlander, but decided I didn't want to relearn how to type on an ortholinear layout.
Without changing the fundamental learning process, one could conceivably introduce a "post-production" step, where you tighten up the output according to a set of pre-defined rules (e.g., if an angle is 89 degrees, adjust the angle to 90).

Of course, changing the learning process would be best. One idea which comes to mind is finding a way to embed relationships into the ML training system itself (e.g., output no angles other than 90 degrees or some predefined set). Such an approach is a type of contraint-based ML, where the ML agent identifies a solution given certain constraints on the output. In my experience, the right approach to accomplish this goal is using factor graphs.
Honest question, why are you still using a 3.5mm jack for connecting to car audio? Outside of very old cars that have not been retrofitted with more modern head units, every car that I can think of in the last 10+ years has had Bluetooth as a standard feature. It's just far more convenient.
I would tend to agree, but my problem with the policy as intended here is that there is a “free” option which serves to prevent competition.

We all know how this goes, where the paying customers end up even more lucrative to advertisers too.
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Thanks! I’ll give it a look (their docs are offline atm)

DrizzleKit and several others do this for table changes, but nothing I’ve found (possibly excluding Flyway and other Java options) do views/functions/etc.
or capture a small comet!
Why database changes are hard
> should the tests be included in .npmignore or kept along with the library?

What are the reasons it would be a good idea to include the tests with the release/distribution of a package?

Seems like something you don't care about when you're just using it as a library, unless you want to modify something in it, but then you'll clone the library straight from a repository anyways, which includes the tests.
I think you're both sort of right? NYC is dense for a US city, but not really so for a global city. We're sort of space constrained on an island like Manhattan -- since it's an island -- but much of the outer boroughs are 3 story buildings (with of course exceptions in places like downtown brooklyn, williamsburg, LIC, etc.) There are places in Manhattan we could build more high rise condos, but it's probably easier to focus on the outer boroughs. No one is going to bulldoze brownstone brooklyn, but if we even built more like Paris, which has a population density of almost 2x NYC without skyscraper condos, there certainly would be a huge amount of extra capacity.

I'm not a big fan of what happened to my neighborhood (Williamsburg) with all the giant condo buildings that have gone up over the past decade or so, but people do need places to live and we probably should be growing denser across the entire city. There's definitely a lot of space left, just not a lot of will to change things.
It's really bad at the moment

I remember getting phone interviews within a week after applying but now its totally different.
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