skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True. Even Ikea's cheapest seems to be about 800.
>I've had a hard time guessing their intent

They were selling a service for $2/month. Did everyone forget that? For essentially a tosser app that could quickly be a pretty lucrative amount of money.

There is some white knight narrative that has suddenly arisen that isn't based in reality. That these guys are freedom fighters that just wanted to take on Goliath. In reality they're capitalists who saw a way to make money off of a proof of concept, and (ridiculously) thought they could shame the target into not taking obvious actions to squash them.
Even more backstory:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootless_cosmopolitan
No one on Android really cares. It's actually iPhone users either complaining or excluding Android users from group chats.

It's iPhone users creating the social pressure to use iMessage.
I find that node js based multiplayer backends will eventually slow to a crawl as the number of connections goes up. How have you solved this problem? Wouldn’t something like Go be a better alternative here?
> gas prices super low

EXTREMELY low. I was shocked in the PNW when we switched to a house with natural gas appliances how much we saved.

In some cases they are not even superior appliances but you save so much money.
Phone numbers are also recycled, probably much more often than email addresses.
Trains don't go to my office. And it wouldn't make sense for them to do so.
How would you do it quickly?

For example, HTML isn't divided into numbereres pages while PDFs are. A lot of latex interacts with page boundaries. Figures tend towards the tops of pages. And there's \clearpage. And the reference list might say which page each citation appeared on. All that stuff needs someone to decide how to handle it and then to implement that handling. Like... what value does \pageheight return? Sometimes I resize things to fit the page height, and if it was doubled then I should have resized to fit the width instead.
I've got one worse.

For those who know Clearcase, and winking in. Well, there was a team that had a 2 hour java build and they were suffering. Nothing was working right.

One could argue that using Clearcase and Clearmake was the error.. and even back then as a PFY I'd agree.

But help them I must. So I wrote a makefile, that wrote makefiles, that would then compile all the code into /tmp, and copy the jar back into place.

Because... Clearcase tracks every file you touch, it is critical, you ONLY touch your inputs, do not produce extra .class files where it can see them, or you'll end up with a bunch of files all interdependent and confused.

Their build went from ~2hrs to about ~5 minutes when I was done. Less if it "winked" in everything.

... The amount of good, stupid can do is amazing.
As soon as you choose to use any SaaS that doesn’t have a local equivalent, it’s over.

We were fine until we started using Snowflake. The SQL doesn’t quite transpile to Postgres, and anyway we’re using some Python functions where the equivalent SQL would be nightmarishly complicated. I hate that we can’t iterate fast on that part of the stack.

Could we build something that works nearly identically, but locally? Yes, but we’d need to submit some patches to sqlglot, which nobody has time for.

Could we avoid using Snowflake altogether? Only with a lot more work. It solves a few real problems for us.
Lawyer.

There's some truth to what they're saying, but is it any different than a handwritten signature? "I didn't sign that. That's not my signature."

In both cases, from a legal perspective, the issue is the same: I've got to prove to a judge or jury, by a preponderance of the evidence, you did sign or click. I can either bring in paid whore handwritting analyst to testify that in their professional opinion, it is your signature (and hope he doesn't get excluded for being a quack), or I can subpoena docusign to produce whatever evidence they have that the person actually clicked. In the end, the judge or jury will either believe them or not.

If this is a billion dollar life or death deal, my free legal advice is, in either situation, get as much verification as you can at the time of the signing. Both will be easier to prove if you have things like a copy of their driver's license, or even better, video of the person clicking/signing.
With the 2024 browser update, this means I can read these articles on my ancient Kindle perfectly fine.
> That's like people who said "I could do this dropbox thing in a weekend with just rsync, ssh and ftp"

And so begins the cycle of enshitification!
Because in US, it's just not a common application everyone has so you get a ton of "I don't have whatsapp, just text me!" from friends.
I’d never considered setting up citation alerts like this.

Thank you for the idea!
Why and how do they suffer? I hear things like exclusion, but that’s always possible.
When someone says "military base", then most people imagine barracks full of life, tanks and IFVs being worked on in garages, people coming and going, groups of soldiers doing their PT in the background like in establishing shots of Hollywood movies. Guarded warehouses in the middle of nowhere are none of that.

And defense agreements that establish exceptions from local laws are nothing out of ordinary either. For example, the agreement between Finland and Sweden stipulates that visiting forces are excluded from customs procedures related to weapons, explosives and other dangerous goods.

The Finnish-American one is much more detailed and goes into weeds like excluding vehicles transported by the US into Finland from car tax and VAT. :) It's common sense, but countries that are ruled by law must have these things written down.
How does that apply to thise case though? Asking for permissions on iOS is the norm and many apps include a message indicating what and why they are about to request something non-obvious before sending the request and triggering the popup.
There is a spectrum between copy-pasting a picture into a pdf and actually requiring user to bring their own CA-endorsed key material to produce an artifact. The most practical compromise is performing all cryptography on a service provider's environment with HSM and all that and issuing the end user ephemeral certificate on the spot, tied to their email.

In the end you can't modify (actually you can, because PDF, but it's a different problem) the data without breaking crypto signature, but identity that is proven by this operation is not government-endorsed. Everybody is mostly fine with a status quo.
just out of curiosity i stripped it down,

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/01/ will take you to a page of the lost

and https://www.npr.org/2026/

redirects here:
https://www.npr.org/podcasts/2026/government
The CEO and the Three Envelopes (2010)
This seems an extreme defense of capitalism.
This is a question I asked recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38652736
Apple doesn't allow any apps on iOS other than Apple's own Messages app to use the phone's native SMS/MMS functionality. Due to Apple's restriction, Beeper (Beeper Cloud) does not support SMS/MMS from iOS devices like it supports SMS/MMS from Android devices.

https://beeper.notion.site/a96db72c53db4a9883e1775bcb61bb80?...
Is there a safer clipboard alternative that can only be accessed by other apps with explicit user action/permission (like pressing Ctrl-V)?
Because he self-published and had some printed; he is able to have those recalled and destroyed still.
I also love being a green bubble, and telling people to use one of the several other secure, cross-platform messengers. I would personally never use Beeper Mini, because anyone in my social circle who cares about "blue bubbles" would be mocked mercilessly.

But I also hear all these stories about kids being bullied for having Android phones, and see Apple executives talking about locking entire families into the iPhone ecosystem using iMessage [1] on that basis.

To me, this is pretty evil, monopolistic behavior which needs to be regulated out of existence. I'm glad Beeper is bringing it to light. The fact that it doesn't affect me personally is unimportant.

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[1] https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1589450766506692609/ph...
[dupe] from yesterday

More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38713215
Glass topped electric (induction or not) beats gas in cleaning every time imo. You take a razor blade and some scrubbing solution and you can actually clean it fully. Gas stovetops have nooks and crannies that get gross and are much more difficult to fully clean. I dread cleaning my gas stovetop.
Intel bought Altera in 2015 when it still thought 10nm would be on time and an advanced node. That did not work out. The idea was to get a better FPGA and have more customers to justify fab build out expenses.
Gelsinger more recently said he does not want to force products to be on Intel fabrication. Use Intel processes where it makes sense. No reason to push Altera FPGA to Intel 10/7/4. No reason to push NICs to Intel 10/7/4. And so on.
Thanks for the feedback! The business with `cbind` is a facepalm, I'll definitely fix that. I don't think it will affect performance much since that last step won't be repeated many times, but it makes me cringe now knowing how redundant it is.

Good advice on `col_grouping` as well, accessing those components of an aggregation rule by index rather than by name is a bad code smell and decreases readability for sure.
There’s also people pursuing mRNA delivery systems to do this. Might be cheaper than viruses and there’s precedent now with COVID vaccines. https://www.capstantx.com/
Vercel, Supabase, Vue, and Vite
Another fun one is upper case vs lower case. I’ve been bitten by systems that are case sensitive, while the rest of the email world mostly is not.
Funny thing is that Intune/Autopilot aren't infallible either to this regard.

I acquired one of those weird lil' mini PCs that are all the rage, from Minisforum. The BIOS UUID was, essentially, 1-2-3-4-5, if we omit all the zeros. That UUID somehow tripped a fresh Windows install into Autopilot mode on the box to some random company that enrolled a similarly "blank" UUID in. I was absolutely befuddled and laughing my ass off once I figured out what happened... after the shock wore off of sitting at a Miratech Azure AD login.

... then dug out an AMI utility to go re-roll the RNG on the UUID since the OEM didn't do it and reinstalled Windows again and all was well in the world.

You'll also find this happens when you get a Mini PC with a sticker telling you "if you cannot log into your personal account, please turn off WiFi and LAN, select the skip option, and then log in"...

All they need to do is boot a damn flash drive. `AMIDEWINx64 /su auto` for the win... also thanks to Lenovo for accidentally leaving that executable in some BIOS updates.
Reaction: England outlawed spring guns a hair under 2 centuries ago. The Chinese were using explosive artillery shells in the 13th century, and naval mines a few centuries later. Why can't the law just say "we don't give a crap about the supposed autonomy or indirection of your clever-but-lethal gadgets, your legal situation will be the same as if you'd tried to stab people with a dagger in your hand." And maybe provide a shiny AI electric chair for the most weasel-worded of the offenders.
Maybe you're not aware of what happens when big companies buy smaller companies that were the main stewards of open source projects. There are many comments in here detailing how much can and usually goes wrong (for contributors, users and the community at large).
I don't think you've paid sufficient attention to battery production ramps:

> Automotive lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery demand increased by about 65% to 550 GWh in 2022, from about 330 GWh in 2021,

https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2023/trends-in...

and

https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/lithium-ion-b...

Which puts global production of all battery usages at 1.5TWh in 2022
That is the thing about RCS.. it seems like a whole lot more of it is proprietary Google product than many people realize.

I would not be surprised if there was another patent stew going on with Google's RCS extensions.
I'm baffled by the claim that Apple locks users into iMessage. I use iPhone and Macs and I haven't used iMessage in years.

Apple doesn't lock anyone into messaging apps (they have pretty great system intergration for alternate apps!) - social groups do.
Hi! You've got an extra "/" in the url and it gives a page not found.
Probably more accessible in general. (PDF) Papers are psychologically scary.
Given we already have nuclear weapons the probable risk of developing such measures is logically meaningless. It's not like we are giving nasa armed ICBMs ready to fire at a moments notice. We are merely exploring a new use for existing hardware which could be deployed in a reasonable time frame.

We also aren't liable to experiment on any mountain sized rocks and accidentally steer it into our path. We can absolutely experiment with manageable sized rocks. The only meaningful risk other than wasting our money is dealing with something that is within the margin of error and turning a near miss into a hit.

As this risk is inherently a small subset of the probable hits its hard to imagine how this risk could possibly be larger than its superset.

The remaining risk would be in an accident during a test run involving a live nuke. It's not obvious that such a test would be advantageous to conduct on balance nor needed.
Wow, this is _so_ much better!
Glad to see more open source projects like this out there. Surprised it has under 100 stars on GitHub.
Wow Waymo’s PR team is absolutely killing it this week. They crushed their biggest competitor and now they are on the offensive.
They pretend that "android cost money", then go on to explain that "Google Mobile Services" cost money.. but pretend that GMS is really android?
The Orbital Index Issue No. 249 – Dec 20, 2023
No, I mean the kids working at the local corporate store.
Bad drivers are reality. If waymo drives in a way that leads to more crashes, even if theyre not its fault, its clear to me that it still deserves some responsibility for not following expected road etiquette.
This is exactly what would happen, if iphones weren't so dominant already. The problem is, many people will not add "a second messaging app" just for one "green bubble" (which as an aside, is a great way to de-humanize "the others", something we humans naturally do. Robert Sapolsky's book "Behave" is phenomenal if you're interested in that). They'll just cut that person out of the group chat.

Also it's not a "good experience" for everyone, not as much as just cutting that green bubble loser out. With no green bubbles, you get to use the default messaging app. With a different app, since you can't change the default on iOS, you have to have at least two apps, and many people balk at that.
I don't know, Most stories like this sound more like "clever" than "stupid" to me. You have a set of constraints and some tools. You use those tools to workaround/within those constraints to solve a problem.

Clearcase being a tire fire is "stupid". But your solution is "clever"
anywhere in the US; software/messaging apps/security
Black Children Who Speak AAVE Are Routinely Misdiagnosed with Speech Disorders
This needs to be more known. The industry is utter garbage and filled with terrible people, or at best people put in a bad position that respond with abuse.

I'm not saying none of them could be pretty good, but it's tough.
I'm an Android user who cares.

Not necessarily for myself, but more generally for the damage Apple is doing to society by creating a divisive wedge between people for the sake of luxury signalling.

Like you say, there are lots of iPhone users who pressure and exclude outsiders to try to force them to get iPhones. Android doesn't do anything like this.
> The result is that I have an actual codebase to work with now rather than a billion broken notebooks.

This is the biggest part. Giving yourself permission to make real abstractions, rather than forcing yourself to go directly from data-on-disk to pandas (or whatever) makes it that much easier to test, repeat, modify, and extend whatever analysis you're working on.
Are you… dropping cast iron cookware on the stove? I don’t know any recipe that would require some movement that would damage a glass cooktop. Cast iron cookware seems to scratch glass tops over time, but that doesn’t seem to crack or damage them (unless you drop something on it, of course).
It's because buses are controlled by people, not a computer made by the transportation company. If the transportation company wrote a program to control buses and it was responsible for an accident, the company would be at fault, but there is no transportation company which uses a program to drive buses so ofc this wouldn't apply.

If the cause of the crash is the program, it's the company's fault. If the cause of the crash is a person, it's the person's fault. It's not that complicated.
Yeah. In some cases it's so bad it's good. Have you ever heard of a character called "Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way"? https://myimmortal.fandom.com/wiki/Ebony_Dark%27ness_Dementi...
To be fair: it is hard to not be around internet connected devices now
> but the challenge is if folks can access the database directly

This is not the challenge. The challenge is that you think you can do an 'almost-as-good' job of data integrity as the RDBMS designers.

Even if you could, you will not always be the person that maintains that code.
Where are the computer vision people? This is the perfect type of problem for multi modal LLMs
Imagine reverse engineering AWS keys, using AWS services for free, reselling them, and then trying to sue AWS when they fix the security hole.
Almost universally, we prepare conference papers as LaTeX files made to export to PDFs which fit within the conferences template.

It's nontrivial to export this to HTML in all cases, and even then, nobody is asking for HTML from us even though we all want it. I'm guessing Arxiv is using some kind of converter which _usually_ but not _always_ works.

That said, this is a long time coming and PDF as the standard should've died a decade ago. I wish I had this when I was in my PhD program.
> Does it scale?

> So far I haven't run into any performance problems. Whenever I've opened up a DoD website to several users, my hard drive tends to get wiped long before I discover performance issues.

I was floored by this dead panning
A New Way to Treat Chronic Back Pain Starts in Your Brain
They are you. You is they. It’s one company with one goal — keep companying.

The idea that ever “department” should access every other department’s data through some bespoke interface that the latter department maintains might work at some corporate behemoth, but at almost all other scales is absurd.
The correlation between gas and children's asthma is pretty weak. And there are already existing correlations between gas usage and cold climates, and cold climates and children's asthma.

There are also strong correlations between electricity in the home and harm to children, but anyone in their reasonable mind would understand that you can improve consumer protections. So it's a bit of whataboutism to imply that only gas users are making safety tradeoffs.
Stop raising a country on winning at all costs at sports? The jocks in the police are just carrying on with their game.

For people following in a different land, US kids are raised worshipping winning and (american) football and baseball players. And mostly in that world, winning is what matters - for individuals and for the team. Fair play is a british kind of nonsense, so is the spirit of the rules. And cheating is a means to an end (getting caught is a problem: you have let your team down). When that becomes a problem the rules are touched up so that "everyone is a winner" - but winning is still the point and anyway the kids know this is BS and that they have lost. I caricature a little but only a little.

American cops are THAT. They are there to win and everything else is for the losers. They are still playing their game - and their team.
For anyone who didn't notice: the CSIRO report above is specifically about the relative marginal costs of building nuclear vs. renewables in Australia.

Australia is in a pretty unique position, energy-wise. I wouldn't attempt to generalize the findings in this report to any other country.

On the nuclear-power side: Australia does have uranium ore deposits of their own. These are currently exported to partner nations. But Australia doesn't currently have any uranium refinement capability. Australia is not a "nuclear nation." Building up such a domestic capability would have large capital costs, and large ongoing operational costs.

On the renewables side: one thing Australia has tons and tons of, is "land with low property values for renewable energy generation to live on." Consider:

• A majority of Australia is nearly-empty "outback." While some of this can be used for farming, most of it is inhospitable even to that use-case. Much of it is hot near-desert conditions, getting tons of sunlight throughout the year — so solar farms are super-effective here. (There is already a huge one in production, feeding energy to Papua New Guinea: https://www.power-technology.com/data-insights/power-plant-p...). And unlike hypothetical proposals to cover the Sahara in solar, the Australian outback is also "close enough" to power demand that it's economical both to visit these farms to regularly to maintain the panels, and to run and regularly mantain HV power lines to deliver the power.

• Because there is so little mountainous terrain in Australia (just lowlands and higher plateaus), Australia as a whole also has high levels of predictable, directional wind — perfect for wind power generation. Same arguments apply for building wind farms as for building solar farms. Put them where nobody's going to compete for the land — probably also in the outback.

• A large part of the Australian coastline is also unpopulated, and undesirable to either population or shipping — being flat stretches of rocky shore without inlets to encourage make commercial/industrial use. This sort of environment, however, is highly economical for wave-power generation!
The new Ryzen chips already have this as "XDNA" AFAIU
For this to be evidence, it requires that there are countries in the dataset where phones did not become widespread? Are the Asian countries better at controlling phone access?
It's fake open-source. A charade. Install AOSP and see how useless the phone becomes. You'll have missing hardware drivers and no Google apps. They've also removed the messaging app and dialer from AOSP. The foundation is open-source but nearly everything in userspace is closed-source.

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-kill-android-aosp-di...

Edit- There is also no browser in AOSP, just webview, which is enough to look at the F-Droid website but not download and install F-Droid.

https://web.archive.org/web/20131225075731/http://www.unwire...

> Android 4.4+ KitKat ships without browser app. OEMs have to license Chrome or build their own

> According to Android developer and author Maximiliano Firtman, he just got official confirmation that KitKat “… doesn’t ship with any browser, just the WebView. The emulator has it but not real devices. It’s up to each vendor to create a browser app using the WebView (such as Samsung) or to get license to preinstall Chrome.”
I don't have any special MDM creds, but I do have an admin account on my OS.

Probably not the avg user or engineer (though giving engineers admin account on their local OS is common). But that's hard to predict because usually you'd want to enroll, so I don't often see people trying to avoid it. Usually it's because of a bug. In my experience if the MDM process is buggy then it's more likely to be bypassable.

Setting a firmware password and blocking boot to external drives makes it harder, but a lot of orgs don't do it.