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Perhaps the watermelon is not the best choice of symbol, given the current situation in the middle east?
Damn, that's crazy. Yeah, I don't see how that's physically or mentally possible. Completely alien to me.

The "laptop only, one app only" guy I knew actually was really verifiably productive. Which again is insane. We were working on a big Rails monolith. A task that inherently involves working with dozens of files simultaneously and looking at things up and down the stack while also looking at documentation and running code in the browser.
And this plot's area is about 390 nanowaleses.
(American, teenage) Girls don't like guys with Android phones. It's really that simple.
Yeah, it's a terrible name. But ChatGPT is even worse, and 100m people know what that means now.

Leaning into GPTs at this point feels sensible to me. What's ChatGPT? It's the place you go to chat with your GPTs.
"Transplant" is the critical factor here. Introducing foreign tissue is significantly more complicated than shuffling around native tissue.
Thanks for highlighting this for the community!

Besides this, you can also see on our repository that we only send line diffs, titles of pull requests, and descriptions of pull requests to the GPT API, not your entire codebase.
A fundamental problem in tech is that most upper managers cannot know which engineers are good and which are not, since it’s very difficult to understand what they are doing.

Unless a lead or front line engineering manager is making good evaluations of the team members, it’s ultimately a lack box of people when viewed from above.
The lack of full and seamless interoperability for SMS between Apple and Android should be illegal.
As someone who used Android from day 1, and recently (about 1 year ago) switched to iOS, I think all of this comes down to the trend of unification and same-ness in smartphones over the years.

All of the reasons I liked Android from the start — replaceable battery, SD card, headphone jack, diversity of of hardware options, customizable software/launchers/default apps, rootable — have been slowly one by one removed in flagship phones over the last 5 years.

Sure you can still get a low or mid tier phone with some or all of these, but all the expensive Android models (read: good build quality, software support, acceptable perf and battery life) have slowly become more and more like an iPhone, yet without any of the small things that make iPhones good to use: excellent build quality, extended support, ecosystem…

So android isn’t cool with teenagers, but it’s mostly because Android devices just suck now.

As an allegory: when I was a teen, PCs weren’t “cool” compared to Macs (remember those old ads?) But in 2023 PC gaming is more popular than ever, so PCs are cool with the youth.

Teens today will buy a PC so they can play CS or League with their friends, something they can’t really do well with a Macbook Air. Would you buy a $1000 android phone when it’s just a worse iPhone?
I think you have your timeline wrong. Android phones were seen as "not cool" in the US before Blue Bubble was a thing. iPhones have been aspirational and cool since shortly after their launch.

(Source, worked in mobile / mobile-related industries for >15 years in the US, worked at Google in Android division for part of that time.)

IMHO: Apple invented and invested in creating a great product (iMessage / Messages) - far better than what was out there - and continued to invest in improving it. No one who calls themself a "hacker" and wants to "build something people love" should shame them for doing so.
It's all inside. The wow64, very good management, etc. etc. And Win7 is the last to have the "no desktop compositor" (aka "win95 looks") fallback.
stumbleupon was reliant on putting websites into a frame with their menu at the top, once websites started blocking the framing of their content, for various security reasons, the idea was dead.
Yeah, it's like sex, it's so overrated when there's p0rn!
Also, the parts of science that affect our everyday lives come together to form a coherent picture which explains many different observations. Religions don't have anything like that.
Thanks for your input! It's a valid concern and something we can improve.
On the one hand, it sure seems like most school buses should only need 100 mi a day or hopefully less. This seems gigantic for the need.

On the other hand, a bus that did have to travel >200mi a day would have emitted proportionally more pollution than a shorter range bus! Targeting longer routes makes sense!
Graviton CPU is a year older.
>I'd also like to see police and prison officer's unions eliminated.

There is a particular balance that is needed here... This just shifts the abuse to the typical abuse non-unionized workers receive. Low pay, bad working conditions, dangerous working conditions which leads to more staff rotation and increasing danger in the work environment.
Historically there have been similar diets for ages before there were modern supplements (as we think of them), and per-industrialized seed/olive oils etc. I don't know how effective or ineffective they were relative to other contemporary diets.
You run into those 10 million actuations really quickly on anything Logitech branded.
How about banning unions for any government employees? These employees should be held accountable only to the public and its elected representatives.
The sheer iron of a post calling SV out for being thin-skinned manchildren immediately getting flagged on HN. Way to tell on yourself.
Well, I specifically stay logged in so that I can opt out of the redesign they dropped a year or so ago. Never made an account before that.
Android is seen as a poor person's smart phone. iphones, despite being so popular, are still a status symbol.
Not pushing back on the book per se, just it meeting the required-reading bar. Someone else will need to refine it to meet that threshold.

For most people in Silicon Valley, particularly decision makers, the relevant Wikipedia articles are a better use of time.
Breach to private health information that can be linked to an individual more exactly? Is this kind of information all around the organization's computers?
When you work on a consumer app, it's often important to correlate incident events to real clock time, especially if an external event caused the incident. It's much easier when your logs match your clock.

Speaking from my 30 years of experience reading logs. :)
Nope. It's a mechanical trackpad with similar pressure issues (super stiff in the top corners, a little softer in the top center, best in the center and bottom). I switched to tap-to-click.
I fail to see how it's all that different from places where you have to use WhatsApp or WeChat or Telegram to "be cool".

At least iMessage is somewhat compatible with Android. You can't message someone in WhatsApp from Telegram.
I get the same amazement when I think about an ant I see on a tree five feet away. A photon was born somewhere in the middle of the Sun thousands (or more) years ago. It eventually made its way to the surface and—at extreme improbability—it traveled directly toward Earth. With more extreme improbability, it found itself on an intercept course with a tiny little ant on a tree.

Layer on yet another high improbability, that photon-ant collision just so happened to send it directly toward me. Wait, not just me, but the tiny little pupil in one of my eyes!

Tremendously large numbers and crazy minuscule fractions can be found in your backyard. Don't even need to leave the Solar System.
Show me the lie

The exception is in the context of a relationship, but you only enter those by meeting rare drop people with good chemistry (which is precluded by staying indoors all the time) or as a coping strategy for low single income (but you're on HN hahaaa $$$).
This is a solid post. The Nexus 5x showed us what the future of Android phones was.
If you haven't already, you should absolutely seek help and medication for the non-ADHD issues. It sounds like they are seriously affecting your life.
> The semantics of the language can be quite complex and it took decades for browsers to agree on them for most use cases.

That's ancient history. JavaScript has its quirks, but it's not a difficult language to learn or use. Frankly, I don't know where you get this idea that the semantics of the language are hard. In contrast to what? Maybe if you shared some examples I could understand what you're talking about. JavaScript was challenging in decades past not because it was complex but because it was way too simple. Using it on a webpage to do more than very rudimentary things with the browser API meant doing a lot of whacky stuff and using libraries for operations we take for granted today.

> WASM arose out of a failure of browsers to figure out ways to deprecate this—mostly unnecessary—complexity.

As someone else mentioned, no it didn't. WASM came from the same desire as Java applets and browser plugins for Shockwave and Flash, which was to develop applications that run in the browser using entirely different languages and authoring tools.

> The same can be said about the implementation of javascript in browsers as well.

No idea what you are basing this on. Nobody (as in the vast majority) thinks that modern web development is a failure because JavaScript the language is too complex. Everyone is complaining about web development because of all the tools that have been added between the keyboard and the code running in the client, and said tools failing to live up to their promise while encouraging patterns that commonly backfire.

> our reliance on javascript and its myriad interactions with html and css functions

What does that even mean? JavaScript only has as much interaction with the DOM as is demanded of it. If there's a myriad of ways that JavaScript can interact with the DOM, well, that's by design... how else would you have it? CSS functions have nothing to do with JavaScript, if that's what you're actually referring to. At most, JavaScript can listen for some events that are emitted by things like CSS animations.
Not just teenagers. I see this trend among people in their 20's and 30's too. And it is primarily just about the proprietary gatekeeping Apple imposed on SMS.
Anecdotal evidence from France and UK doesn't agree with "isn't generally true outside of the US". When a diverse group of people is involved it's way more likely to use WhatsApp (or Signal to a lesser extent) outside the US, but iMessage is still used a lot IME.

I don't think it's a new form of discrimination either, brand awareness and social position via brands is incredibly prevalent in teenagers and has been for a while.
Well, since you specified a recurring meeting ... you have to "actualize" the meeting for some distance into the future. So, you'd create a whole bunch of meetings in that timezone, on that date, then convert it to UTC. Sure, some will be 15:00, some will be 14:00, but that doesn't matter if you stay in the NY timezone.

But if you fly out to Amsterdam, it's really important that the time can and does reflect your current timezone ... or you're going to open zoom at exactly the wrong time. Even more fun is that EU DST is a different date than US DST.
Do you have any links to stories on this? Not meaning to question the truth of what you're saying, I'm just interested in reading more about it.
I think we can fight back against this to some extent. The most distant galaxies are fading due to increasing redshift. If we build larger and larger radio telescopes then we should be able to continue seeing them at longer wavelengths. If in a billion years we manage to colonize a substantial chunk of our galaxy then maybe we could build a gigantic radio telescope out of many small collectors spread out over several light years.
Best practice security recommendation for executables these days (in corp env) is to block all execution of all executables outside of protected folders, i.e. Program Files and Windows. Severely limits the initial attack surface (disable that rule or supply chain attack).

As a developer who hates installing programs that might be one offs, I hate the idea of it, but I can't deny the benefits.
Pretty graphics but .. how do they write such a long piece without mentioning elevated Carbon Dioxide? eC02. Certainly broad-spectrum, insecticides have a role in decline but there's also the background of eCO2 which gets no coverage here, just warming effects.

From an insect's pov eCO2 changes everything; how nutritions leaves are - also how unpalatable they are², increases in water acidity, changes to their habitat from increased rainfall, and leads to changes in insect physiology³

Jactel et al have an outline Responses of forest insect pests to climate change: not so simple https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221457451... but this is still an area of many unknowns, even less known than the effect of eCO2 on plants - which is deleteriuous across the board.

2 -Johnson et al 2023 eCO2 suppresses silicon accumulation and exacerbates endophyte reductions in plant phosphorus. Article is on eCO2-driven interlinked changes in pasture grasses and how productivity and insects respond to this.

3 - Liu et al 2023 Elevated CO2 leads to thick-skinned thrips by altering trehalose and chitin metabolisms. This would have serious implications for pest control. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10340-023-01697-3
I just don't understand why I have to buy midrange phones to get the features I want. It's the market force equivalent of dark energy.
> current T460s has really started feeling slow in the last year

Been there; web sites are rather heavy nowadays and two cores, combined with everything else running on the system, just can't keep up anymore.
That we are the universe alive and experiencing itself is the most amazing thought in the world.

By that same coin, the universe going dark is the most depressing and crushing.

Let's hope our feeble understanding of the universe yields to a future full of more possibility than we can imagine today.
I couldn't actually find anything optimistic after a quick search though. This 2017 study just looked at the biological viability of the eye, not function:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5417899/

And indeed, a popular article from a few days ago has this quote:

> “Whole eye transplants in animal models have shown that a whole eye transplant is surgically feasible, in that the tissue can be transplanted and major blood vessels and nerves can be reconnected, and the graft can survive in the short term,” [ophthalmologist Yvonne Ou] said. “However, no models have demonstrated restoration of vision, which is a major challenge to the field.”

https://www.aao.org/eye-health/news/did-surgeons-just-transp...

My guess is that the OP article is just wrong, possibly because they confused corneal and retinal transplants (which can restore some vision) with whole-eye transplants.
The fastest "filter inserter" in modern Factorio meta is the splitter, which operates at full speed of the belt.

There's almost no reason to use inserters for belt-to-belt transfers for modern meta, aside from a few speed-running stats where you use red-inserters while skipping logistics2 or something.

But if you're trying to sort items on a belt by placing them onto another belt, the answer is a splitter. Item A splits off to another belt, while all other items loop back.
There are cultures across the world that are vegetarian or almost-vegans. For instance, Jainism [1] is a thousands of years old religion in India, and they are dairy-only vegetarians. Obviously, for most of its history, adherents ate only food that was locally grown.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jain_vegetarianism
The difficulty with this is linkrot. It is not just that links break, but they change into content farms or domain squatters and unless you are constantly checking them, your neat collection of links quickly becomes useless.
It's important to note that our choice of the watermelon symbol was made two years ago, with no intention of causing discomfort or insensitivity to any situation. We apologize if it has inadvertently caused any unease.
How is it much worse?
This was YAGNI before YAGNI.
6-7 hours of browsing in Firefox, 4-5 hours when doing work involving occasional building/compiling, 3-5 hours of 2D native Linux gaming, 2 hours or less of 3D AAA gaming through Steam/Proton.
I think you're taking the law as written, noticing it doesn't say anything about predictions, and then assuming that predictions aren't what judges are supposed to be doing.

What I'm saying is that the system, as currently designed and implemented, reveals a judge's implicit beliefs, when they sign or veto a warrant. These beliefs paired with the result of a search directly reflect how good their "judgement" really is. And I'm suggesting that we make those beliefs explicit as predictions.
Unity WebGPU
Ten days ago my mate's dog died. I was so very fond of that absurd little creature. I've lost very few people that I care about so I don't have much to compare with, but the little creature's death hit me really so hard, more so than with any person. I have heard that the death of a pet can hit harder than that of a person, and that's what I seem to have found much to my astonishment. Has anyone found the same?
Here's the catch. I did an analysis earlier myself of the assistants API and discovered this good performance is ONLY for if you combine into a single text file. If you try multiple files it fails.

Here's my post with the analysis. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38280718
The really messed up part is, you aren't exaggerating even a little.
Reporting to it is entirely voluntary, so that's a broken premise.
Guards, police, umpires — all near-impossible to make get in line, much less get rid of. There's a common denominator here.
and it will in turn lead to situations where bribes are a cop's main source of income
Inko would be interesting (https://inko-lang.org/)
> So android isn’t cool with teenagers, but it’s mostly because Android devices just suck now.

You may be right about Android phones sucking more than they used to regarding replaceability, customizability, rootability, etc., but I don't think that's why Android isn't cool. I think it's because teenagers that have iPhones make fun of people who show up with green colored text bubbles in their texts, and make fun of Android as something for poor people.
Why do you assign such a high importance to 'help get the language and culture out there'?

The small number of people who have read it will further disseminate it themselves if they truly believe it to be valuable. As long as this is more then a few dozen people, then that should be sufficient.
I've recently thought that a return to site directories might be overdue.

Possibly something based on the dewey system.

If I'm interested in making shoes, I want to see a list of relevant sites (or videos, etc) that have been vouched for (possibly with comments) by actual humans. Obviously rating/review abuse is a hard problem, but imagine if most subreddits had a list of quality sites as determined by users of the subreddit. Then imagine it without the reddit bit.
> making them easy for parents to hand down to kids

This plus the last thing I need is to add another device with another ecosystem to my home datacenter. I am not going to hand my kid an Android phone and be on the hook for tech support when something goes wrong.
LitMT: A platform for LLM translations of novels into over 20 target languages
I feel like you might be attributing more technical savvy to the average teen than they might be due.
That sounds like sociopathic/imbecilic behavior, and arguably a national security threat. Do we know whether and how it was investigated?
Is there something inherently wrong with amphetamine use?
The Obesity-Drug Era Starts Now
Everybody with a subpar product thinks that what is lacking for them is exposure. Most of them start spending a lot on ads.

Most probably your website is not good enough to attract a public.

Edit: I know it sounds rude, but since you haven't linked to the site, there's no way to evaluate it either.
Really is crazy the weird place where seemingly otherwise normal adults think its their problem to popularize a for-profit platform built and controlled by an an ad-tech giant. Do y'all just not use your phones and that's the end if your relationship with the device? If Android isn't cool that's a problem for the giant billion dollar multinational corporations that build them to figure out.

Also it's amazing that "teenagers use iPhones because it's what their parents use" has go to be the most out-of-touch statement of the decade. A teenager that wants to do literally anything like their parents, in what universe?

I think Android as an ecosystem really suffers from the uncoolness of its insufferable community. I know exactly all the guys in my social circle that use android because they feel the need to tell you at every opportunity. I've yet to find any casual users of Android who aren't my parents age and call them "their Galaxy." Btw I use Arch.
I'm running NixOS + KDE on the AMD framework and surprisingly it worked perfectly out of the box. All I had to do was disable secure boot to get it running, and after install I had to configure the global scale in display settings to 200% so it looked right. No weird hacks needed at all -- the 23.05 installer just worked, including wifi, which apparently isn't true for Windows 11.
> Unless Microsoft is planning to acquire OpenAI fully

They're going to play a modified version of the old Rareware trick.

It's also a pretty great game to buy up OpenAI equity, which ultimately gets spent on Microsoft compute. Two birds, one stone.
You might want to try https://crushentropy.com/

It is mine, but it is completely free. Many programmers with ADHD have sent me fan mails about it, and that makes me very happy.
They require a phone number for signup. Not everyone is keen to give theirs out for an unknown thing. Also, signup fatigue.
Andrews and Arnold Ltd, an ISP in the UK.
Or on a Mars colonization mission!

The Earth, like socializing outside, is jejune. We are adapting for the new world.
I've seen gpts with a SQLite file that is loaded by the code interpreter to provide structured data as needed

I've seen gpts playing games with code that was attached to the prompt generating the turn results

I've seen gpt using API for converting YouTube to text to provide summaries

There's a lot of things that can be done, even if it's not the most dev friendly experience