skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The irony is Wozniak and Jobs manufactured and sold devices, called Blue Boxes, that hacked the phone system to provide free phone calls.

> "If it hadn't been for the Blue Boxes, there would have been no Apple. I'm 100% sure of that."
-Steve Jobs

For your Apple collection:

https://www.bonhams.com/auction/24495/lot/109/wozniak-steve-...
Wait, are they not using Starship to refuel? If they are then that's 1 Crew ship (SLS?) + 1 Starship with 16 round trips. Considering we don't know the failure rate for refueling with Starship, they might need 2-3 Starship rockets.

Actually, are they going to be refueling in orbit with crew on board? Or are they launching a rocket into orbit and refueling it, then launching another rocket with the crew to dock with the fueled rocket?

> NASA says SpaceX’s next Starship flight could test refueling tech

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38612585

> In 2020, NASA announced agreements with four companies—Lockheed Martin, United Launch Alliance, SpaceX, and a Florida-based startup named Eta Space—to prove capabilities in the area of refueling and propellant depots using cryogenic propellants.

Ah, it's first come first served.

> without astronauts onboard. Once that is successful, NASA will clear Starship for a crew landing on the agency's Artemis III mission, marking the astronauts' return to the lunar surface for the first time since 1972.

So it seems they'll use a Starship for crew as well?
Trevor Milton Gets Four Years in Prison for Fraud
> Ruby have a subpar gradual typing story

Whether you agree with it or not Ruby's (the language not the developers) resistance to static typing is just how Ruby wants to be written. There are no types, only messages. The whole culture surrounding Ruby is burying all the underlying data in favor of pure message-passing nirvana. I have no ducks but I must quack.
Reddit has an API and many clients.
Medium absolutely has login walls. Scroll past a couple of paragraphs and there it is.
Wouldn't the network cost be absurd in such case? Not only the pod-to-pod communication cost skyrocket, all the heartbeats, health checks, metrics, daemonsets pinging each other will probably end up costing more than the CPU and Memory
My wife and family were there only a few months ago. Good timing.
I mean... it's not until you get robbed/burgled.
GPT on top of GPT. It is turtles all the way down.
Yes, more than Tolkien.

It isn't just racism and racist stereotypes (DS halflings as "jungle primitives" as one example), but a history of extensive genocides, widespread cannibalism, pervasive oppression and slavery, systematic forced breeding to create the Mul player race...

All wrapped up in a very violent grim-meathook-future milieu.

Any one of these could be fixed without neutering the setting, but probably not all (or even most) of them at once. Even with the most respectful approach to the material, by the time you were done fixing, it just wouldn't be Dark Sun.
it is almost never the schools and teachers. It is the culture and parents.
I keep thinking that the right solution to this problem is to add an HSM that functions as a bearer title for the device, layered above the existing Apple root of trust, that comes in the box.

It could sign an activation lock removal and give it to the device through the usb port.

If the HSM is lost or fails, revert to the status quo.
His cohost (I might be wrong about that) just finished a live drone flight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJsNTX0nGkk

It almost looks like a still image.
The better solution is to not have "anti-theft" nonsense to begin with. They invariably involve giving up the keys to the machine to the trillion dollar corporation. It's not our computers anymore, it's the corporation's and they're merely allowing us to use them. This "anti-theft" stuff is really just DRM disguised as a feature.
I mean, this is the obvious end state for a lot of us. I've been an Apple fanboy and Mac owner for over 10 years, and Apple is slowly but surely losing me as a customer due to all these ideas that nerf their computers "for my own sake". I don't need protection from my computer and applications, and my computer does not need protection from me. The user should be the final authority on what gets run on the computer, and Apple has been steadily drifting from this principle.

My next computer will sadly probably not be a Mac. Who knows what I won't be allowed to do with it by the time it comes to refresh mine.
I'm currently planning a trip to India. I've been to several countries around the world and never worried about reviews too much, but India really seems to align with this story. I'll see hotels with countless 5 star reviews (hundreds or even thousands!) that are overwhelmingly positive and get ready to book. But with one hotel my BS meter got triggered, since it was in a rather dingy seeming part of town but still had thousands of great reviews, the pictures were gorgeous, and it was fairly cheap. Also, the reviews were all written in the same voice. "The owner is a very good sir top number one" style.

The low reviews had pictures of holes in the walls, bugs, exposed wires, and dozens of comments of people saying "I don't remember posting it, but this hotel posted a 10/10 review under my name. I think they hacked my account" or "the owner forced me to write a positive review before checking in" kind of stuff.

Since then, I've gone back and given a second look at all the hotels I've reserved so far and order reviews by negative first. So many are just fake or coerced reviews. I compared against places I've stayed in the past and I've seen no such thing. Delhi, in particular, seems overwhelmingly fraudulent and with owners openly getting pissed if you don't leave positive reviews. Small towns in India seem like they're probably okay (guests posting smiling selfies around the hotel and nothing overtly suspicious or anything), but I'm definitely feeling anxious about my upcoming trip.

Then there's the famous case where Thailand tried to arrest a man for a not positive review: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/29/american-wesle...
I've heard from establishments after leaving reviews on several occasions. Typically they will either offer a free meal or a refund of the unsuccessful meal. I will update a review to let people know that I was taken care of, but I haven't ever taken down a review. I would consider doing so if my experience had been one-off, and I understood that it would not happen again (e.g., if an employee acted terribly and was no longer working there).

One frustrating incident I had was when I stayed in an airbnb and found cockroaches, lack of hot water, and general filthiness. I wasn't able to leave a review because airbnb moved me to another unit (after many hours spent on the phone), and my account showed I had never stayed in the problematic unit. I can see why hosts would like a policy like this, but it's terrible for guests.
This also deters one from buying a used Mac or iDevice, because apparently it's on the seller to remove the device from their account, and they can lock/deactivate it remotely at will. Any proof that the device was actually removed from the seller's account is subject to forgery.
The lengthy post boils down to this quote " Google could build the AI to win it all" but it is not guaranteed. I appreciate the context as someone who hasn't kept a close eye on Google's AI efforts, but Ben doesn't cover why Google has a right to win outside of search data. Interestingly, there is no mention of AWS and Amazon's wider efforts to create AI tools. There is hype around chat bots but what is the likelihood chat functionality is the premier AI gateway in the near future?

Edit: I thought about the topic more while wrapping up my work work. I am on the periphery of AI at one of the large US tech companies and we've placed AI bets along many of our existing products. Every day I run into this – "I manage xyz product, we plan to add AI to help with XYZ in 2024" or we added this chat functionality for "manual job to be done." I don't claim to have insight into the future on which of these solutions will be successful for their intended clients. The pattern I see is that AI can be quickly (relative) integrated or coupled onto existing software services. Is that the secret to AI? It will permeate through our digital lives either in small or big ways – but critically it isn't one AI to rule them all. AI micro services will act like intermediaries between humans and some end service.

It is like chocolate. Why not pair chocolate with [enter any food stuff]? You could hit a home run like chocolate with peanut butter or chocolate chip cookies. Now we have chocolate everywhere including drinks, but chocolate isn't required for a tasty result. And importantly chocolate isn't always a standalone dish – it can be though.
> we want to make people eat tofu not because it is healthy but because it is tasty

That’s an incredibly sad statement, especially for something that has been produced and eaten for a thousand years. This is how you end up with industrialized garbage snacks.
call yourself book perfect and try to shame on author's kids is very different.
What are you even talking about? That's just a bunch of exaggerated nonsense lol
That's weird, gas costs $3/gallon in the US right now.

This the same price as was in 2004 ($1.88), adjusted for inflation.

No fracking is a big "citation needed." Did the US ban fracking?

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/07/a-new-nuclear-reactor-in-the...

https://www.businessinsider.com/more-solar-power-than-any-ty...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/US_Natur... (shale gas = fracking)
Is that really a problem in Cloud environments where you would typically use a Cluster Autoscaler? GKE has "optimize-utilization" profile or you could use a descheduler to binpack your nodes better
Curious to which Google class action payout you are talking about.

I'm still waiting for the check from https://googleplaydevelopersettlement.com/, was it this one?
> Since then, I've gone back and given a second look at all the hotels I've reserved so far and order reviews by negative first. So many are just fake or coerced reviews.

Of course, there's also a risk of fake negative reviews, from competitors.
The majority of new renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels.

https://www.irena.org/news/pressreleases/2021/Jun/Majority-o...
What are the core features of calibre for you? Do you use any plugins?

I’m working on building a replacement for Calibre that is backwards compatible. I’d love to hear what you expect in that kind of tool.
Agreed. f Apple did this they'd quickly go from a $1 trillion dollar company to a $999 billion company.
That is dumb and counterproductive. Your entire scenario presupposes unlimited labor capacity and funding (monetary or otherwise), so “diversity is better!”

In reality, the people wasting their time to produce a redundant ground-up rewrite of existing functionally could have spent their time and effort on something else that actually moves the world forward.
Imperial exams arguably started in the Sui and Tang dynasties, in the 6th century AD.

The 722-222BC in the article you linked to is the "wrong period". That period was a time where Chinese states transitioned from feudalism to empire, and the clan-based aristocracy was replaced by a class of educated and scholars due to societal change (which needed lots of literate administrators, and not so much nepotism). The typical path for a person who aspired to work in government is to apply to be an "employee" (very loose translation of 門客) of a prominent minister, and rise up the ranks by impressing their bosses. It was also common for rulers of the time to hold meetings with intellectuals, who then tried to sell the rulers on the latest ideology/methods to run a country -- if the sales pitch worked, they'd have the job of implementing those policies. In general there were no exams, although one would assume to become an "employee" they'd test your skills in some way, but it was not systematized at all.

Between 222BC and 6th century AD, the educated/scholar class gradually consolidated into a handful of prominent families who tended to monopolize high government posts. During the Jin dynasty (266–420AD) people generally believed one's virtues/abilities were tied to their birth and family status more than anything else. This was a time when prominent families monopolized government power and systematically rejected outsiders from holding important positions, even if they proved their abilities.

The imperial exam system introduced in the Sui/Tang dynasties gradually reversed this trend by allowing commoners to participate in the government exams, though it must be noted in the Tang dynasty exams the circumstances of the candidates were taken into account (family background, social ties, subjective opinion of the examiners, etc.), so it wasn't purely based on the paper exam results.

The exams were gradually systematized in the later dynasties, ultimately ending in the "Eight-legged essay", which was famous for its rigidity in form. It provided a great opportunity for intelligent aspirants from a underprivileged background since everyone took the exam on an equal footing, but it kind of sucked the soul out of learning the classics.
The aggregate 24-hour trading volume of Blur, Magic Eden, and OpenSea is around $24M.
According to DappRadar, the OKX NFT Marketplace had a daily trading volume of over $50M.
The 24-hour trading volume of known NFT markets, including OpenSea, Blur, and Magic Eden, was eclipsed by the NFT arm of crypto exchange OKX. According to DappRadar, the OKX NFT Marketplace had a daily trading volume of over $50 million at roughly 10:00 am UTC on December 18.
When I first got into computers, I lived about 30 minutes from his home town.

In middle school. I was reading back issues of BYTE magazine, it was all technical jargon noise, but I just kept at it until I got the hang of it. This was back when BYTE still published full source code for featured programs, and there was Steve Ciracia's Circuit Cellar for electronic schematics and timing diagrams.

The computer industry seemed a different, glamorous planet from south-Georgia (not the island) slash pine swampland. And it was... but not that far from Carrollton.

Dang.
This article is just reporting on these findings:

https://www.lendingtree.com/insurance/brand-incidents-study/

I don't know why you would seemingly discredit the messenger but eschew from the main point that Tesla drivers have the highest accident rate.
The Museum of Broken G.I. Joes: When soldiers come home
That's something I've definitely worried about and seen some people mention in reviews around India. I mostly try to identify the voice of the comment writer. If they're from America but talking in odd English with a 10/10 review, I doubt it's real. Same if it's 1/10 from America and written with strange grammar.
>Physical access should always trump any remotely installed policies

so if you steal something and therefore have physical access to it, that should trump the original owner who no longer has it because you stole it even if they have the receipt with the serial number on it?
This whole thing is absurd! DOJ investigation against whom? Aren't beeper's author's technically in violation of CFAA for knowingly bypassing security measures and accessing systems (imessage servers) against authorization?

This entire society us upside down! Just because apple is big bad corp doesn't mean any issue against them is right!

Kudos to beeper but don't make this a legal thing against apple.
Expensive for Apple? This is a $17 billion annual revenue product category for them.

Masimo's market cap is $6 billion.
I think they were asking for something like Creative Commons for patents. Prior to CC anyone could write a note that says “free to use” but then you would need a lawyer to do due diligence and scan each with a fine toothed comb. The value of CC is it normalized all of that so the economy around using the free thing got easier.

Yes publishing work will allow you to bring it up as a defendant. But by the time you’re called to a law office in west Texas you’re already out millions in legal fees and still run the risk of getting a judgement against you.

What I think they were asking for is something more formal.
Millions of children are gonna die if iPhones don't have DRM? No.
> What is the better solution that retains the anti-theft capabilities of the device?

One that doesn't literally make the device unusable in the case of a mistake. We protect far more valuable property with far less fancy mechanisms. If you're genuinely worried about theft, then you need layers of simple security, not a one shot nuclear bomb embedded into your device.

> The inability for a thief to just flash the device with fresh firmware and use it as if it were new is a key selling point of the device and might justify the higher price tag to some buyers.

Is that why people care about theft?
Not in implementation but surely in spirit. Didn't you mention in road 1.0 that the idea came from go?

Edit: ok rewatched it and I didn't see that come up, i was just misremembering
The world at the scale of insects is truly brutal.
Not all tech, of course, but a lot of tech (eg, HFT and adtech) is zero-sum, so it's low impact by definition.
I don't think that tracks because the reason people like Go is due to it's lack of expressiveness.

It feels like expressiveness is the quality of a language to allow the programmer to change the behavior of the language constructs themselves. Python __getitem__ would be a good example allowing the programmer to control [].
The power company is a monopoly because you can only get power from it. iMessage is not a monopoly because you can get messaging service from multiple other providers, and you are not even limited to using iMessage on an iPhone.
Yes. In a well-written claim, then each limitation is only there because it was necessary to get the examiner to allow the patent (i.e., to be valid in light of the known prior art).
I only clicked this story because I was worried someone was just using canvas and JS and ignoring the fact that it's entirely invisible to accessibility features. I heard there is ongoing work to introduce a direct accessibility tree API, but for now the DOM is required.

Instead it's much adieu about nothing since you could simply serve a text file.

That being said, <plaintext> is a nifty historical footnote I didn't know about, so that's cool.

Side note, a lot of people aren't aware that businesses in the US can be sued for violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) for non-accessible websites.
BloXroute MEV Relays to reject blocks with OFAC tx
https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-tesla-cars-being-produced-now...
More likely they're getting hand-me-downs from relatives or buying very old used cars. It's hard to keep an old car running if you don't either have capital or free time to replace aging parts.
It’s short term thinking - if you want don’t want repeat business burn your customers.

I got given a Patagonia bag (not my thing), the wheel broke off (thanks AA), took it to a store, and the customer service was so good I’m a convert. Conversely, I recently stopped using a service I spent >$20k a year on because their customer service was so bad. Can you boost profitability short term? Definitely, but I suspect in the long term you trading long term customer NPV for short term profits
You know how else is a Nobel Prize winner in economics? Paul Krugman

Don't fall for the "appeal to authority" fallacy.
Casting at all really solidly puts it in that group. The idea that there’s a program and a type system and you tell the type system when it’s diverged from the program doesn’t really work in the other group of languages.
It depends.

Every time I joined a new company, I dreamed that they would have a robot trained with data from their 15 documentation sites, 3 ticketing systems, and some emails and chat history. I will happily ask all kinds of stupid questions all day long and if gets back to me with a minute with 70% correctness.

In a lot of conversations with human customer service representatives, I found that they were no more than a search engine backed by their internal documentations. Sometimes I could feel that they indeed knew the actual answer to my question, but they were not allow to say it out and ended up embarrassingly repeated some scripted sentences. Both parties felt terrible.
This data from 2018[1] indicates that the most frequently driven car models are driven 25% more than average, and the least are driven 75% less than average. That is individual models, which you would expect to average out over multiple models. The large car companies like Ford and GM with a broad range of model types and customer base are in the middle of the pack in the lending tree report, as expected, while smaller companies tend to fall at the extremes. This could be explained by either differences in the types of customers they attract, or differences in driving distance.

For example RAM only sells trucks, and their drivers may not be any worse than other truck drivers, but they don't sell other vehicles to bring the average down.

Looking at the brands with the lowest crashes, they are one that are stereotypically owned by older drivers who drive significantly less miles.

All in all, enough suspicious correlations for me to take the data with a grain of salt.

[1]https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/mark-phelan/2018/07/2...
This is great. We need more people doing this kind of work. The degree to which company employees and leadership insulate themselves from their customers should be unacceptable.

You shouldn't be frustrated by your account being terminated. Why would you want to continue to do business with such a shitty company. I'd take that as an opportunity to explain to other people "who only use Cash App" for whatever reason, what a shitty company they are.
Thanks for pointing this out. I'm visually impaired but don't tend to need a screen reader that often. But the times I do want/need to use one, I inevitably find things that are just awful. For fun, I tried turning on TalkBack on my phone and this demo site was completely inaccessible (TalkBack didn't pick up anything other than the archive.org controls). Maybe part of that is it being on archive.org, but I suspect it's due to the lack of any real HTML.
> 1 year later, the battery starts dying out. Go to the authorized repairer and it was going to cost me > €1K to replace the battery since I had to replace the entire keyboard and trackpad to do that.

So what you seem to be saying is that Apple laptop batteries cannot be replaced for less than €1K if the laptop is out of warranty?

Absolutely incredible. If that's the case, it should really be reported as front page news so that nobody else makes the mistake of buying an Apple laptop ever again.
> The project wants to make sure that it does not create a special "GNU Rust" language

That's disappointing. GNU's extensions to the C language are extremely valuable features. I'd like to see what sort of contributions they would make.
“We therefore appoint the most possible mechanism to the superconducting vortices. The low-field absorption of microwave power with the assistance of dc magnetic field points to the small superconducting gap, and the relevant metastable excited states emerge to be vortices.”

It remains to be seen if this is a misunderstood experiment or a new discovery. Regardless, this is science operating as it should with people sharing the data that they have. But no need for the general public to speculate aimlessly.
Portal 3D, portal demake for TIC-80 fantasy computer
Apple got away with it on their mouse pads. I’m still surprised it’s more efficient than an actual button.
Right - GP puts up a strawman:

> Micropayments on the internet don't work. Payment processors charge 30¢ per transaction, plus a percentage.

Nobody ever said that you'd have to use payment processors directly for micropayments, and most schemes that I know of don't, because of those fees.
Will the Mixtral 8x7 run well on a 64GB M2 Max then?
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