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This article frustrates me.

>Starting in 2009, Apple began to phase out removable batteries across its laptop line in favor of batteries that were sealed inside the case and were not user-accessible.
>The upsides, which Apple touted, were many: lighter weight, smaller size, better reliability, longer battery life.

What are you talking about? The link provided to Apple's press release for that laptop did not include anything about why a non-removable battery was advantageous. They provided other reasons the new battery was great, but they did not say the elimination of user-serviceability allowed for any of those benefits.

>The iPhone defied so many other norms that the sealed battery was less remarked upon than it might have been, but it was still noted.

Noted by who? Remarked upon by who? It sounds like this author is generalizing his own opinions to the entire population. I'm sure this comment sounds nitpicky but I just don't like this kind of fast and loose writing.
The easiest approach I've seen is just paying for YouTube premium. Support your favorite content creators.
The only platform you can truly trust is the one you handcraft down to the NAND gates.
Edit: preface by stating that I agree with you.

Well I have a different approach. Sometimes I write and hack it to solve a particular problem. The code might be elegant or not, but if you understand the problem you can probably grok the code.

Next I generalize it a bit. Specific variables configurable parameters. Something that happened implicitly or with a single line of code gets handled by its own function. Now it’s general but makes much less sense at first because it’s no longer tied to one problem, but a whole set of problems. It’s a lot less teachable and certainly not self-evident any more.

The problem with math education is that we think the solution approach would be inherently superior to the first, and would make a better textbook—because it’s more generic. But that is not how real people learn—they would all “do” math the first way. By taking away the ability of the student to do the generalization themselves we are depriving them of the real pleasure of programming (or math).

Maybe back when paper was scarce this approach made sense but not any more.

Ideally I would love to present a million specific solutions and let them generalize themselves. That is exactly how we would train a ANN. Not be regurgitating the canned solution but by giving it all sorts of data and letting it generalize for itself. So why don’t we do this for human students? When it comes to education I think people have a blind spot towards how learning is actually done.

Education != learning.
Both (emotional) trauma and suffering sound pretty subjective to me, as does psychology in general. How are we getting to "objectively good?"
Because drumming up talk about AGI is a really great way to get funding for your startup. The tech industry sustains itself on hype.
You’re usually eligible for credit immediately after going bankrupt because you can’t go bankrupt again for several years. Nuclear option, but an option.
For certain definitions of the word “fast.” The period is officially 5 years, but I believe you could be waiting years on either end for the initial permit as well as final citizenship.
Psychomath
While it has ultimately come up in this discussion my honest input is most of the comments I see here evaded the elephant in the room of all of it which is that Google doesn't do a good enough job of vetting the people who advertise with it, its search engines have repeatedly allowed malware to slip through the cracks leading to people being exploited and nothing stops those same malware developers from serving up ads on YouTube with the self same malware and engaging in malvertisement.

"Entitled" came up a lot, but I would have to disagree. Au contraire, YouTube is the one that feels "Entitled" to show me advertisements, even when that feature potentially exposes me to the risk of Malware.
Green house gases emissions and the collapse of biodiversity are two reasonably conservative examples
Lots of us (well, me at least) use fly because it's a bundled set of aws best practices that I could configure in aws if I wanted to, but I'd waste another week of my life. alb + various vpcs + autoscaling group + fargate + ecs + their super shitty vpn service to vpn to a console + rds + elasticache or... just type "fly deploy" and go from zero to live in 20 minutes.

That said, fly's deploys are flaky. I hope they get it fixed because the rest of the service is pretty good.
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Unfortunately, I haven't been able to train a model on my database just yet (although I have seen great results using it as a RAG data source for GPT-4). I'll keep ollama in mind once I have something to share.
Odd format for a review, really seems like it should be labeled as notes on the book (or cliff notes of particular topics). The literal hero worship for John Ray in this is strange to me. As is that audio clip where John Ray misinterprets the question, says he didn't help Michael Lewis with the book (even though he clearly did in the quoted sections of the book), and then seems to make fun of Lewis for eating dinners with SBF.
Common enough to have a couple customers in the EU or apac who consistently complain that your site is glacial and it turns out to be pretty bad for them...
Does this mean we'll have handheld Ghostbusters-like guns soon?
P.S. I missed this part:

> The membership is as easy as joining a local gym.

Your local gyms must be very different from any I've ever seen. Here's how the South Chine Morning Post described the process in 2021 [1]:

Joining the party is usually an arduous process that can take two to three years.

Potential members must apply to their local party organisations, initiating a multi-year process with more than 20 steps to determine their qualification, including submitting a formal application, meeting with the local party organisers and attending party study sessions.

Candidates also need a party member to act as a guide and mentor, who they often find through party organisations at their work and schools.

After about a year of study, applicants need to pass written tests. They must also pass background checks – those with criminal records or whose family members have such records may fail these.

If they pass all of these steps, applicants still have to go through a probation period of at least a year before the party branch decides whether to admit them.

Which makes sense. Why else would only 0.7% of all Chinese be members?

[1] https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3134071/why...
Yes, agree with you that it's a conspicuous consumption kind of thing.
A broad-based prohibition on encryption of peer-to-peer financial transactions is an incredibly authoritarian measure for a liberal democracy to propose.
Apple Picked the Unlikeliest Voice to Sell the iPhone
However well trained they may be, humans are notoriously easy to manipulate and engineer around. Humans in a customer service role especially, since they are by definition expected to be helpful by default.
In which which this article would be an exception to your claim.

1. Headline suggests an answer

2. Content of article delivers the actual answer

3. There are even links provided to previous articles showing that this had been a bona fide mystery until recently

Clickbait is stuff like a youtube video titled "OMG Car market just flipped!" and it's a 15 minute video where a podcaster gets told by his dad various reasons to believe the car market hasn't really flipped yet.
What, is that you likely have an IQ ~2 standard deviations above average. Most doctors are similarly intelligent. While he/she possesses more medical domain knowledge, you are able to problem solve with similar accuracy with a little research. Most people do not possess the domain knowledge nor the problem-solving ability.
I don't think that anti chest on Linux can be too serious.

Don't want that function to do anything? Patch it out! Had to be a secure kernel ? Sign it with your own key and enroll it correctly.

Can play this game all day.
"YouTube isn't rolling out the anti-adblock to everyone. It seems to depend on things like your account, browser, and IP address. And if you're not logged in or you're in a private window, you're safe."

If I am not mistaken one also needs to have Javascript enabled.

"And... if you're not logged in, you're safe."
> They also used AI to create some cringe promo website that tried super hard to connect their "hacker board" with Cyberpunk 2077. Do not trust them!

I'm not sure how much of it is "AI" and how much is just terrible copywriting. The other posts on the blog are incoherent filler text.

https://www.zimaboard.com/blade/the-story-behind-zimablade/
I guess my needs are relatively basic. I like that all I have to do is include it and things look presentable out of the box without me having to do much design work. What are your choices for more complex projects?
Now that you point it out.. I think this might be the most likely case.
I love this book!!! I also just finished writing a visual/geometric intro to Calculus and the derivative which you can find here: https://photonlines.substack.com/p/visualizing-the-derivativ...
It was probably written in the contact that if they were fired for cause, they'd have to return the signing bonus. That is pretty typical for most signing bonuses, so that the employer is covered from employees trying to get the signing bonus and then not following through on their work obligations, and also for the employee to be covered that they won't be fired right before collecting and then denied the bonus. They're basically trying to reframe a large layoff to save money as a bunch of individual employees being fired for cause.

When the market took a downward turn, the companies likely tried to introduce new 'cause' to fire them and attempt to legally claw back the bonus. Like this example of setting unrealistic performance goals given the market turn:

"Siegel, the former banker at a Guaranteed Rate affiliate in New Jersey, said when business slowed down last year, the company introduced monthly performance goals. They hadn’t been part of the signing bonus agreement.

He emailed his boss multiple times offering to leave the company and return a prorated share of the signing bonus, but it went nowhere, he said.

In October 2022, and then again in December, he received letters saying he wasn’t meeting the performance goals, he said, and that he was at risk of termination and having his bonus clawed back."

Unfortunately US worker protections are not great (IMO), so the employees in question will likely have to face a legal battle if they want to argue for keeping their bonuses. Mortgage companies also likely have a strong in house legal team, meaning their ex-employees will have to pay out of pocket for a good lawyer if they want a chance of winning in court.

Most places in the US are also "at will employment", meaning you can be terminated at any time without warning for any reason, and that makes it much harder to argue that you were unfairly terminated. There might be a chance you could argue that the company is obviously facing financial issues and so you were let go as more of a "layoff" type termination (and then you have some more rights to things like unemployment) but it's likely to be an expensive argument that some may not be able to fund, and even then you're definitely not guaranteed to win.

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I personally was laid off a few months into a position where I had been given a signing bonus, but they were laying off the entire office and did not ask me to repay it. It was a pretty small bonus and they probably forgot about it anyways, but given that it was a large layoff they probably would have a hard time arguing that I was fired with cause. They also tried to then rehire me at a lower rate in a different region, but I didn't want to relocate so I declined.
Step-by-Step Wizard Controllers for Rails
This is what I was responding to:

> I'd go a bit further and say that if you're not comfortable with the basics of mathematical proofs, then you're not ready for the subject of linear algebra regardless of what book or course you're trying to learn from.

Engineers frequently need to learn some fairly advanced mathematics. Are you suggesting they can’t use the same textbooks?

By the way; I don’t think the original poster is wrong as such (every similar textbook is undoubtedly full of proofs), I’m just suggesting a different viewpoint. Not everyone learning Linear Algebra is intending to become a mathematician.
I can second this, in my Engineering degree the Linear Algebra course (and the Calculus course) were both taught by the Math Faculty at my Uni.

The textbook we used was "Linear Algebra: And its Applications" by David C Lay 20 years later I still keep this textbook with me at my desk and consult it a few times a year when I need to jog my memory on something. I consider it to be a very good textbook even if it doesn't it doesn't contain any rigorous proofs or axioms...
Okay I see your point now
I disagree. The headlines may designed to drawn you in but the back it up with good content in the articles.
I dunno, failure seems okay. Wouldn’t expect a better paradigm to beat SOTA at first. It’s totally plausible that neurons use eg. transposons in a way we don’t yet have the instrument resolution to characterize, which would suggest that you don’t need 1000 layers, but a lookup table or something.
Oh come on, not again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37819114

In short: this is just re-packaged underperforming SoC overstock and neither special nor worth the money. The same money buys better things. A little bit extra money buys order of magnitude better things.
Show HN: Easily create montages with no vendor lock in
Hey all,

I've made Digitapes because my wife and I frequently love going photos of when our 2 year old was born.

Google Photos (and the icloud equivalent) loves to give us "montages" which really tickle our fancy, but they're never enough, and they don't pick the best photos (or what we would have picked) --- and what's more, is that we can never "share" the montage to our friends and family, because it's some in-app thing.

If we try to look at memories from our holidays, it's usually that I have half the photos (google), and she has the other half (ios). -- basically everything is a big, locked in, inflexible, and annoying mess..

So I made Digitapes to allow us to:

* Make a "tape" (which is like a mini photo album).
* We can both "share to" (using the digitapes app) that tape, as if we were sharing in whatsapp.
* In the background, digitapes will make the montage for us.

So now, when we go on holidays, we can just take a bunch of photos, "share" the best ones to digitapes, and when the holiday is over, we can just download or link a url to that montage so that our friends can see what we were up to.

I haven't gotten the android / ios apps "in the stores" yet, but let me know what you think and how I can make this better!

(This is kinda really early first look)
Anybody that needed to use 'dates in the future', such as banks, weather forecasters, insurance companies, insurance companies, etc, etc, etc. had discovered the Y2KBUG long since and had fixed it up years or even decades beforehand.

The year is 1975. And you want our Bank to give you a 25-year mortgage to buy your house? Oh look, your mortgage will be paid off in 19100, or in 1900.

The idea of 'planes falling out of the sky' was absolute bullshit as I, and every other pilot, could have told you. If you wanted to listen, that is.
I can't agree with the dismissiveness of this comment, and frankly I find its tone out of line and not with the spirit of Hacker News.

There are insights that can come from studying the brain, that do indeed apply. Some researchers may not glean anything from such studies, and some may. I have no doubt that as neural networks get more an more powerful, we will continue to find more ways they are similar to the brain, and apply things we've learned about the brain to them.

I certainly prefer to see people making comparisons of neural networks to the brain, that the old "it's just a glorified autocomplete" and the like.

Relax.
Apple is walking antitrust case.

Apple should know better than to use its weight to tear the flesh off of small players in new markets. This isn't innovation - this is pouring unrelated economic gains from one economy into a completely different market segment. It's wholly and utterly unfair.

A watch company should not be a movie studio.

A movie studio should not be a grocery store.

A search engine paying for 100% placement should not also be a music platform, movie platform, thermostat vendor, cloud vendor, ...

This is all levels of fucked.

The government needs to break these obese mafia companies apart. It'll be better for competition and the consumer.

Fair competition would help more rewards flow directly to innovators. Instead, these Megatech companies staffed with their reams of PMs grow like a blob [1, 2] into anything that pops up on their radar.

[1] actually a great analogy for these companies; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blob

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blob_(1988_film)
Can you explain what the linked article has to do with the stated cause of the elephants dying, septicaemia?
Bed Bath and Beyond Bankrupt.

All in a zero interest rate era which is now we are seeing the cheap money disappearing out of these worthless businesses and stocks.
A neurologist is a medical doctor. Neuroscientists are the PhDs who do the actual research.
This person is not a sailor. Sailing orthogonal to the wind, a "beam reach", is the fastest point of sail due to the lift of the sail.
I wonder if MDs realize that engineering and math can easily be longer schooling, without being paid like an MD that last four.
I'm guessing the original developer was only $50/hr with a cheap, non-scaling setup like that.
While reading this I realized this is exactly the kind of form that makes up many of the YouTube videos I end up watching, with just a good narrator voice and any amount of editing this would be good content. I do also get the opposing point of many people liking written content a lot more though...
Doctors do entire appointments in 10-15 minutes. I think they can rip through messages sub 3 minutes.
The JS backend for Gambit is also out of beta and a documented, stable feature now as well.
It sounds good, but a lot of people just aren't mentally equipped for that: some people are fighters, some just aren't. So instead of confronting the assholes and putting up the "wall of shame" like you suggest, they'll just give up and go find another hobby that doesn't result in receiving such vile messages.
I cannot stand these clickbait titles that explain the content of the article. I only read news where the article is zalgo text renderings of Bukowski quotes. Real news should have titles so off putting and repulsive that only geniuses in the throws of lunacy might dare click.

What kind of baby society has conditioned us to expect “short summaries” as the title to an article? The only appropriate title for this article is a word-for-word copy-and-paste of the entire text of the book 1984.
That's very cute of you to blame "a low-level analyst." The Tesla deal was executive hubris -- an activist CEO (INTERIM CEO at that) of a ruined global company in bankruptcy trying to make a name for himself by swinging for the fences.

Employees could have produced piles of documentation and analytics predicting massive losses, low demand, high repair costs, whatever, none of that would have changed his mind. Because of that, it's more than likely there was no analysis whatsoever. This was not an analytically-driven decision, it was an impulse buy.

Electric vehicles are now mainstream, and we've only just begun to see rising global demand and interest," Hertz interim CEO Mark Fields said in a statement.

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/25/1048953565/hertz-will-buy-100...
This x100. I use gcp, DO, and Vultr, for almost everything (ml, be, vas, etc.) but for webapps, vercel wins 9/10 times.
What is the point of a cost-plus contract? At that point why not do it in house, it's explicitly more expensive than that
Mars wouldn't instantly become uninhabitable once the shield collapses. Atmosphere loss is something that occurs over the timespan of millions of years, it would be entirely reasonable for a civilization with sufficient spacelift capacity to terraform Mars without a shield, with the understanding that the atmosphere would require active management over millennia.

Also "throwing space rocks will be trivial for a terrorist cell" makes a lot of presumptions about how social organization will work in orbit. IMHO there will never be the spacer society presupposed by so much sci-fi, because any spaceship with an interesting propulsion system is also always a weapon of mass destruction (and not just against orbital infrastructure). The solution to this is that weapons of mass destruction are only owned and operated by large, powerful states with things to lose. It's worked for nukes for 80 years soonish.
It’s an idiom that means I never want to do this again. Even if I waited an infinite amount of time, it would still be too soon to have to write httpd.conf or nginx.conf files again.

https://hinative.com/questions/337452
Youtube doesn't work with javascript off, I don't understand your point. It's like saying you need to have your computer on
You’re right the VFX is often rushed and under budgeted. However realistic fire IS really hard and frankly I’m sceptical you can do it yourself on your desktop. On its own on a plain background, maybe. The moment you comp it in to a live plate our uncanny valley spidey senses kick in — to take it beyond “looks good” to “oh, I didn’t notice that was a VFX element” is still REALLY tough in many situations.
Unfortunately, after all my observations of humans over the course of decades, I feel like real empathy is actually pretty rare in humans. It might be common in fictitious characters, but not in real people.
The latest effort from AWS to address this seems to be copilot.
CNNs actually are biologically inspired. The receptive field in a CNN mimics the way that cortical neurons only respond to stimuli in a restricted region of the visual field. Different cortical neurons have receptive fields that partially overlap to cover the whole visual field [1].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolutional_neural_network
Electric "floating" rental cars work very nicely. In many European cities there are fleets of rental EVs which you unlock with a smartphone. The cost is per-minute, or you can prepay a longer time, like a day.

I typically use them for moving bulky stuff around the city and small day trips outside the city.

There's a 20 minute free credit for ending the trip at a slow charger which is usually easy to do and means the cars are usually close to fully charged.

(I still wouldn't want a surprise EV from a normal rental company.)
＂1. Headline suggests an answer

2. Content of article delivers the actual answer＂

that's literally the definition of click bait .... They bait you into clicking to get the answer

They could have instead changed the title to include the answer

"Scientists discover the death of dozens of endangered elephants was due to blood poisoning"

But then no one would click, bc most people wouldn't care to learn more. And then the Guardian wouldn't get its sweet sweet ad revenue
First make it work; then make it efficient.
They don't know who specifically to reach out to in many cases. The alleged dishonest behavior is feigning interest in acquiring a potential competitor in order to gain information about the identities of the engineering team that works there.
Why go to the moon a second time?
Australian language with free word order provides unexpected insights