skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my personal experience with Ryobi products, I would have been equally served buying from Harbor Freight. At least the prices would have been cheaper for an item that is expected to be a crap shoot on it working. Ryobi batteries have been known to be badly manufactured so a newly purchased battery will not charge. If you take the time to research it and call (no webform for this), they will ask for serial numbers and send you a replacement to be delivered. If there’s a known batch with defects, recall the damn products.
I was always told to multiply by pi. Results that are not round numbers look more thought-out.
As a tangent, there are android phones out there with charging contact pins still.
Did they get the model to write it's own terms of service and it just threw those in there?
These specific niche users are the geeks that all relatives and friends ask what to get.
I do not discount anything you posted. At all.

* I don't use any social media except here.
* I have nothing to say so don't host
* Duck duck go?
* I tell everyone to move to firefox, help them set it up and most are convinced.

Just wish I knew a way to actually help.
> Fact is that what the authors lays out, is not at all special to software engineering jobs. All industries are like that. We are not special in any way. And it starts by telling yourself that you are not special, but that you differ yourself by having a qualitative integrity - though that will take many years to get and always be in process.

Aye, a lot of the OP points sound like any white collar job.

I've supported OT roles in Aviation and Railroads, and this sounds more or less like any engineering role I've seen.
My first introduction to this subject was “Let’s Build a Compiler” by Jack Crenshaw. Even though it’s quite old now, I still highly recommend if you’re looking for a gentle, no-frills introduction: https://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/
> Mastodon instances are relatively expensive to run

Compared to a theoretic distributed alternative, yes. But the largest instance of Mastodon, with something around 1% of the users of Twitter costs around $700 a month.
100%, if there were another option with the same build quality (particularly for laptops) I’d love to try something new. Everything else is kinda mediocre in comparison.

(The funniest thing is when folks on some Thinkpad or Dell think their machine has a comparable quality… It really doesn’t. You might not care in much the same way someone might care or not care about Tesla’s historically poor fitment, but there’s a real difference regardless).
I highly recommend this video on a group of cataphiles who setup a temporary movie theater and bar in the catacombs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auI8QkL74S8
They own the status page service
> Isn't individual action the only action?

Yes, in an important sense. But, you know, architectural layers something something.

At the end of the day maybe everything is logic gates, but there's a difference between `cat`ing /dev/urandom and computing a trajectory for a plane, say.

Organizations and corporations basically exist (if you squint hard enough) to achieve this sure of layering. And to your point, a lot of what organizations do is manage incentives for individuals so that the collective work gets done.

BTW thanks for marginalia!
> I was thinking of AI in moderation mainly as signals. Like looking for synchronized activity or standard canned tactics and just surface them as signals or alerts to be looked at by humans. Basically make it easier to combat coordination and scale that is hard for any one moderater to see.

100%. It would be great if that could become public, too -- perhaps moderators could contribute to the model, maybe even automatically, through the software.

Though I'm unsure as to how you would prevent bias from entering the model. I feel like AI isn't used much in solutions such as these because you can't read what its been trained upon (e.g. if a right-leaning instance uses it, it may be biased against left-leaning content), and how the final model reacts to content. (Maybe there's a way to achieve this, not an AI expert by any means.)

It seems like it would be less transparent than the (arguably not great) solution we have now: shared blocklists.

Anyway, on the whole it would be great if we could take advantage of technology to reduce the administrative work required to host a public Mastodon / AP instance -- if we could achieve it, such work would most likely give way to more instances.
Well, for me that's still quite a bit more than the best ones provide, but I am sure we will get there.
That's a nice to have feature. However there are cases when one wants to keep it open for hours or, as pointed by other replies, to open it to let somebody in. An edge case I just thought about: open it to let somebody delivery a package inside, possibly by looking at them with a camera, and then close it.
Living in a single family home may be nice, but it's resource inefficient to the point of wasteful. Among the resources wasted are energetic and spatial resources. There is a reason per capita energy consumption in the US dwarfs that in other countries. The society bears a huge cost for the individual decision to live alone.
The problems of homogeneity among hard sciences is in no way bettered or solved by introducing quackery and conspiracy theories to the mix.

The rest of your post is insane, "War on Christmas"-style. No one reputable is claiming men and women are biologically equivalent in all things.
> But I don't think any other angle would make sense, people are the gender they say they are seems to be a very simple policy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Maria_Penttil%C3%A4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Finnish_female_serial...

Does describing this man as a "Finnish female serial killer" make sense? He is male. This is just factually incorrect.

Any attempts to change this categorisation were reverted, and all discussions about it were removed from the Talk page.
Note the negative tone about having our phones actually work longer, last longer and be usable longer without draining our money just to keep the threadmill rolling.

Imagine how pissed the car industry must be now since most people drive cars for 10-15 years instead of replacing them once per few years like iPhones.
720p needs HDCP.

DRM is already a software thing - 720p video is protected by software Widevine. Has been for years.
The link is paywalled, and the abstract and lit review don't provide the full picture.

Speaking for myself, I noticed a decade ago that 'second screen syndrome' completely ruined ability to watch TV and movies with my full attention. The internet on my phone delivers dopamine far, far faster. TV feels unbearably languid , like the characters are just filling time until the next scene transition.

My phone is the primary entertainment machine, and we're not even talking high-quality AAA material here; it's the usual mix of Twitter drama, messageboard drama, new gadget videos and sports highlights. It's not as good as a quality film or book. But it's faster, and you don't feel the cost of context switching. At least until you run out of funny things to look at and have to put the phone down and do something else.
If the app is processing data in a way you do not want before sending it, especially one that will no doubt be constantly argued to scan for more and more things they find objectionable, then it defeats whole point of end to end encryption, and you might as well just not do it at all.
Download as many old books as you can.
>And he could find the same amount of deficiencies in your own code.

I'm amazed how many people in this thread seem to believe that it's literally impossible for one dev to be less competent than another, let alone by a significant margin. John Carmack is objectively a better developer than me, and by a huge amount, but I don't feel ashamed or like a lesser person because of it.
The bureaucratic evolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
I would love to read more on that. It would also be interesting to look at the places in former english colonies that do have higher residential buildings to see if continental immigration there might have been involved. It sounds like spain had a brief love affair with sprawl as well. Perhaps some of it is just that when the population boom arrived for the US sprawl was in style and we had the room?
Agreed. Hardest is a high bar. Maybe OP was referring to those roles on a software team: developer, tester, business analyst, PM, client manager, etc.
> You have it backwards IMO, the only reason Apple is able to achieve this effect is because their phones are heads and shoulders above the rest in hardware quality and integration. Build it (well) and they will come

Well this doesn't explain why a person is upgrading from last year's model, which effectively does every single thing just as well.

The status symbol feature is what makes people upgrade _when they don't need to_. Apple has that, other manufacturers don't.
“More effective” in what capacity? Adherence.

> The mean (SD) reduction in energy intake was -313 (509) kcal/d for TRE, -197 (426) kcal/d for CR, and -16 (439) kcal/d for controls

So — the time restricted eating group reduced calories more than the group that counted calories; but the resulting weight loss has the same cause: reduced calorie intake compared to before.

If there’s a take away here, it’s possibly that adherence to a calorie deficit using a time restricted eating plan is easier than adherence to the same calorie deficit by explicitly tracking calories.

If you can adhere to a calorie deficit through other means, you won’t lose weight faster by adding intermittent fasting while maintaining the same calorie intake.
I am building an app right now and looked into this. Unfortunately the support for including static assets is limited for my case.
Yeah I’m in awe that attempted murder only gets you 18 months at the federal level. For some reason we’ve decided that murder and attempted murder just aren’t that big a deal anymore.
The uptime KPI for last 30 days is rapidly degrading while this outage lasts

https://status.openai.com/
Yes, but they got many things right in the Netherlands even with an incredibly low percentage of people living in flats.

Bikes, not cars, please.
We desperately need 3.5-4 inch phones. My iPhone SE with 4.7 inch screen is too big to use comfortably (I can’t reach the opposite corner with thumb and I am a male with average size hands) and I also have Unihertz Jelly 2 which is 3 inch screen, which is smaller than you’d want, but not unusable. Where is the middle ground? The first iPhones with 3.5-4 inch screen were if a PERFECT size! Why can’t we make nice things anymore?
Good. Less e-waste filling the landfills.

I’m still using a phone bought in 2018. Apple was handing out free battery replacements due to “battery gate” so that extended its use considerably.
In my experience... Nope it is not really. Not to that extend. But sure i get you.
Similar story: I toured Wrigley Field with my dad last week. We're on the MLB team's site, we want to give you money...nope, first you gotta install the MLB app.
"end" doesn't help.

The ambiguity caused by optional elements is what bothers me most. For this reason Ruby doesn't even have first class function calling syntax, since you are forced to use invoke on block objects.
What percentage of Apple's sales do you attribute to these types of reasons? they sell a couple hundred million of them per year.

Adidas trainers can be described as a fashion item purchased by people who just want the logo. I buy Adidas trainers because I've learned they fit my foot shape better than most and last longer than cheaper brands I've tried. Similarly I've tried a couple android phones and ended up on iPhones.
In the case of this study, the comment is accurate
Spanish theory of management! The more they push the more they get!
That's why I have a radio remote in my car and in my living room and never bothered automating the garage door any further.
I haven't found a single laptop that competes with the Macbook on build quality, but moving to a Pixel phone from an iPhone was basically a wash.
RFC 9171 Bundle Protocol Version 7
Curious: outside of people who take lots of high res video, what do people need high-speed USB C for?
This is interesting and inspiring! However, if you don't know anything about music, would it be fun to play around with it, or tedious? Trying to allocate my down-the-rabbit-hole cycles a bit...
The third option is inverse kinematics: you move the world across the character, and the character reacts by moving its feet to positions that make sense.
It sounds like you think Apple's only value proposition is social status, as if iPhones and Macbooks are the digital equivalent of owning a Porsche or Ferrari. While Apple products do carry more cachet than most competitors, that's by no means the embodiment of Apple products. The social status of owning an Apple product is overstated, IMO. I believe that, even for the proverbial Starbucks hipster, cachet is a tertiary aspect of Apple products. Said products aren't perfect, but they're straight forward, reliable, and have clean designs. Apple was also first to market (or at least that's the perception) with many cool things like a serious mp3 player (iPod), a phone with a touchscreen that can replace a traditional computer for many (iPhone), wireless earbuds that don't suck nearly as much as the competition (AirPods), and so on; when someone buys Apple products, part of the motivation comes from the hope that they'll get first access to something cool, or own something that will work well with the next cool thing.

The reason I don't see myself owning anything but a Macbook for my personal computing is because, having owned many Windows PCs and spent decades now trying on-and-off to make Linux work for the desktop, Apple makes the best laptops I've ever owned. They're not perfect; I've run into multiple keyboard failures over the years, but that's pretty much the only serious flaw I've encountered. The macOS UI has remained incredibly consistent in contrast to pretty much every other OS, and I've seen a tremendous improvement with Apple Silicon being added to Macbooks. Repairs and replacements are less expensive for me now because the last few generations of Macbook Air satisfy all my needs, whereas I used to need a Macbook Pro.

I'd be bullish on Apple not because of social status, but because they're a well run company that provides clear value to its customers. Many of us may disagree with the choices they make, but Apple makes most of those choices very rationally. Social status is worthless the minute people no longer care see Apple as providing them that status. Hardware and software ecosystems, on the other hand, don't become worthless overnight unless you're in the pager business.
That's completely incorrect. Every war has been the result of Israel invading Palestine in 1948 and ethnically cleansing the land. There's a reason Right of Return is the big issue here. Nakba is where the conversation about Israel's aggression needs to start:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba
That doesn't make any sense. If you installed Linux first, there would be no Windows partition for GRUB to autodetect when it was set up. And GRUB doesn't probe for operating systems automatically on boot, only when you run "update-grub" from inside a running Linux OS, so it wouldn't magically fix itself once you did install Windows. And besides, the fact that we are talking about GRUB autodetecting things, not Windows Boot Loader, only proves the parent's point.
I like to think that OpenStreetMap is also a nice project.
I spent 6 months exploring the Haskell ecosystem for these. The answer is no.

They are nowhere as easy. At the very least because their documentation is usually non existent or non comprehensible.
Chicken Tax (and Cars)
> Only in South Korea more people live in collective dwellings than in Spain.

I... have doubts.

(Looks like they're only looking at OECD countries, so Singapore and HK, the most obvious counter-examples, are excluded.)
was gonna comment the same :melting face: I'm an armchair urbanist and all about density, and in well built buildings it's fine, even with tiled floors you can't really hear your neighbors

but in Spain it's as if the buildings are built with zero soundproofing - you hear every single neighbor in the whole building and their tvs, radios, conversations, footsteps... it's maddening, I don't understand it
Of course the contrarian will only defend the "fringe voices" up to the point that he agrees with. Once it goes into 5G-activated magnetic microchip implants, the contrarian will defer to experts without the quotes.
I am unable to really afford an upgrade to my iPhone, still using the same model I bought at university ten years ago. It still works well, although it can be a little slow at times depending on the application that I am using. There is no value benefit to upgrading at this time.

For Android there may be for those who enjoy that operating system, but I do not enjoy Android so it is not a solution for me.
This is absolutely the case for GenZ where they've ditched the hyper-individualism of my generation and tend to be far more conformist in nature.

Obviously it was always the case to some extent that the latest Apple gadget or Nike trainers were seen as trendy, but GenZ specifically seem to have taken this to a whole new level where it's actively damaging to one's self image not to have an iPhone or a nice pair of white Nike trainers.

Given this, perhaps the interesting question to ask is what has caused that change. Is it a counter reaction to the individualism preached by my generation, or is it social media putting the youth under more pressure than ever to conform? If it's the latter then it seems companies viewed as fashionable are likely to continue to take market share from competitors which are not. But if it's the former then perhaps this current obsession with having the latest iPhone will soon be replaced by people just wanting something basic that does what they need, but doesn't make a statement.

I think to be bullish on Apple I think you need to have an opinion on that.
And that windows is backed by Linux if performance is key: https://cfp.all-systems-go.io/media/all-systems-go-2023/subm...
I’d say but refurbished from eBay.
Apple says it 'expects to make' App Store policy changes due to EU DMA
GPT4V and Iteration X automatically recommends improvements on HN's live website
GPT 4 Vision coupled with Iteration X automatically recommends improvements on HN's live website and adds comments as pins, directly on the html elements.
> more effective for weight reduction and glycemic control...in adults with Type 2 diabetes
> Sorry which laws are those?

In Brazil, false advertising is a crime (and I guess in many other countries). At least for me when I used instagram, 95% of the ads served were scam. The people buying the ads are criminals, the people selling too.
My experience of the internet in the 90s is that it was very homogenous and Western-focused, and I doubt it was much more diverse pre-Eternal September. Also most discussion took place in smaller forums which either focused on a specific topic (and so all members shared at least one common interest) or had a very specific culture.

I think it's revisionism to suggest that the old internet was far more politically and culturally diverse. It is in fact modern social media that has sucked in people of all walks of life and dumped them onto the same platform. An internet of small, open communities sounds more like the internet I grew up with.
There's certain "radioactive" topics on Wikipedia where it's almost impossible for contrarian views to get a fair hearing: evolution, vaccination, nationalism, etc.
Look for all the complaints about Slack ... it mostly just works for me. And it's one of the heaviest Electron apps out there.
I'm pretty sure the people of Hamas aren't flying drones in Cleveland.

And the FCC is pretty damn ruthless about finding and triangulating signals that don't comply with their rules.
I feel like 2020 has been a tipping point for smartphones. Since late 2020, most phones above $500 have nice display with a fast refresh rate and take decent photos in all conditions. The RAM and CPU are plenty good enough to check Google Maps or browse Reddit in bed.

I guess power users can look into foldables, but for the rest of us upgrading a phone that's less than 3 yo is only a marginal update. The prices are relatively high too, so it's hardly worth it.
Good suggestion, but where and how does HA receive callbacks? I would guess that almost all HA instances are behind residential LANs and most aren't accessible on the public internet. You could use dynamic DNS and forward ports, but that's flaky, you might run into CGNAT, etc. And anyway, it's best if your HA instance isn't publicly addressable; mine is only accessible over my personal WireGuard VPN and I intend to keep it that way.

I'm sure this is a solvable and solved problem, but I do believe it is non-trivial, and potentially a major headache for a company to implement just to support a tiny niche of users. I'd be delighted to find out I'm wrong though!

And, unfortunately, the business case isn't there, since this weakens lock-in effects. I don't endorse this reason—that's why I run my own HA instance and don't buy or use any products that require the cloud or otherwise can't be operated entirely locally (including flashing Valetudo to my robot vacuum!).
> Jones based the name of his movement on the supposed fact that the third in a series of waves is the strongest.

I cannot find any useful reference to this fact. Any pointer?
You missed my actual point, but the sarcasm is noted:

> But those consequences should be consistent for any company engaging in said behaviors, regardless of whether they were recently merged.
Imagine someone from a 3rd world country. Let's say India.

Even the books like K&R C, Tanenbaum operating systems or CLRS / Skienna Algorithms will be north of 1000 INR in India.

Count 5 - 6 such books per semester, that's at least 5k - 10k INR. But for obscure books the price often goes to 5K for a single book. Let's say 10K INR.

Which is a significant amount, and for some students can exceed a month's living expenses for a semester.

So they're hesitant to spend that much. Often they end up with shittily written local books.

Now imagine you want to consult some book for specialist topics, like Windows internals or something, you will have to sell an organ.

Source: I was the Indian student.
There is nothing in the article mentioning anything other than Wikipedia. The title is completely unsupported and I think intentional click-bait. Trump is also mentioned several times in the article as well.
Can't really trust an academic on this matter, Wikipedia is like academia it's a closed system where a small group get to decide what opinions are correct, what facts get a mention and what are worth looking at with a feedback loop to itself that is used to control facts by deciding what sources are valid. Really the open decentralized internet is the antithesis of academia.

Not to say its all bad but reading wikipedia you have to be aware of that it's an opinionated lens of viewing the world, and by not realizing you're viewing through a lens is why over the past decade people keep getting blindsided when reality doesn't play out how their bubble told them it would.

Honestly I feel a "metaverse wikipedia" with tabs at the top I could view a topic through different socio/economic/political lenses would be much more useful for actually making sense of the world we have today.
Is there a parallel outage for Azure OpenAI service as well -- sothat any enterprise / internal apps using AOI via their Azure subscriptions are also impacted?

Is there a separate status page for Azure OpenAI service availability / issues?