skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Android makes it difficult to route pictures and videos anywhere other than Google photos.

How?? I take photos, they are stored on my phone, and I can share them to any of a a few dozen apps I've installed that have nothing to do with Google. My photos also sync to a local NAS every night, thanks to another non-Google app that was pretty easy to set up. I haven't ever used Google Photos and my use of photos isn't hindered at all.
More benefits:

- Increase cycling and walking because the roads are much safer

- Less noise from cars revving their engines, or being poorly maintained (holes in mufflers, underinflated tires, etc.)

- No carjacking
Many people mistake the Windows command line as being "DOS"
Holy fuck that’s expensive
I think the consuming device matters. A ipad or computer have much wider screen width. One column layout is too wide for them for average people to scan text lines quickly.

While it looks perfectly fine on a phone. Two columns layout looks terrible on a smartphone, the text is too tiny to read comfortably.

It would probably be even better if you can flip it left and right like a ebook instead of scrolling to allocate the content faster. But current design is good enough IMO. (Compare to reading a pdf on cellphone)
You would want put in pure electric rail, since you don’t want to ventilate it to handle diesel fumes from the hybrid electric diesel turbine engines so common in the USA. Since the USA’s rail system is barely electrified at all, it would be a huge undertaking.
Several folks got together and created the "RASH" HTML dialect a few years ago for academic papers:

Silvio Peroni, Francesco Osborne, Angelo Di Iorio, Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese, Francesco Poggi, Fabio Vitali, and Enrico Motta. 2017. “Research Articles in Simplified HTML: A Web-First Format for HTML-Based Scholarly Articles.” PeerJ Computer Science 3, October. <https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.132>.

One of the authors (Vitali), did his thesis on an editor they created, RAJE, intended to be used for writing RASH papers.
So instead of just not letting literally crazy people have high mag firearms, you just want us to fix all of society's problems and hope such a utopian society cures all ills.
> Only use 90 GW when 90 GW is available, and run the aluminum smelters undercapacity when there isn't the solar power to run them at full capacity.

That gets you a few percent for the things that work like that, but most of the load on the power grid isn't able to do that. You can't turn off the heat in the winter, which is going to be an even larger proportion of the load in the future than it is now as we transition from fossil fuel heating systems to electric. People demand hot water. Refrigeration is a significant load but you turn it off and your food spoils.

Electrifying transportation is also a mixed blessing here. It helps smooth out the day/night load because you can charge them whenever generation exceeds demand, but after a couple days you can't put it off anymore and then you've just got more unsuppressible demand.
40,000km are too few for a country of the size of China, nit to mention over 1 billion people.
Perhaps they should reframe as the end of the cousin bubble?

People had many kids before and yet many died from disease, childbirth, accidents, war, etc. Inbreeding and limited resources also meant it wasn't a party for much of human existence. After antibiotics, before birth control, and before moving far away were practical, there was a glut for a few generations. Now things are correcting.
But aside from saline, wouldn't you also want to test male tears as well?
As long as consumers have basically no choice to avoid a smart TV, they’ll keep buying them whether they want the smart part or not.

(I agree you’re generally correct, but at this point we don’t even have a choice)
Friendly suggestion: the conventional capitalization is either Postgres or PostgreSQL.
https://archive.is/HJzHz
A few big cities and long distances in between. Sounds like A perfect country for rail. But oh didn't work. Guess distances are big enough air travel makes more sense. Unless the volume is big enough maybe?
> If the news agencies were better at reporting

The problem is that reporting the truth - "socially-awkward teens hacked their way into large companies by manipulating their idiot employees and exploiting lax security policies" would force many powerful people into answering uncomfortable questions and expose incompetence at many levels.

Keep in mind that at least one of the hacked companies (BT - British Telecom) is culturally relevant in the UK and sadly it is mostly considered as trusted and competent by the general non-technical population. Hell, they've even got a cybersecurity arm: https://www.globalservices.bt.com/en/solutions/security

It would be really inconvenient if it became common knowledge that all this perceived trust & competence was nothing more than smoke & mirrors and that some kids can blow right through it.

Therefore, there's a vested interest all the way up from the government to make the hack more sophisticated than it really is and the hacker a meaner monster than he is. That's also the reason behind the disproportionate sentence, despite similar phishing/social engineering/stalking crimes against the layman not being prosecuted at all.
That's the one from Android 2.1. The one from Android 7+ is Launcher3.

https://cs.android.com/android/platform/superproject/main/+/...
fwiw electric cars date back to the late 1800s. There's no reason old ideas can't work well with new tech.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car#Early_development...
> Thank you for keeping systems available and safe.

theres that word "safe" again. What systems are dangerous otherwise? Do you mean like traffic lights or something? The API serving ads to your mobile game isn't dangerous.
I just want to know what Android friend groups are doing to talk to that one iPhone user? I get that iPhones are more popular in the US but in Europe where Android is dominant they (supposedly) all use WhatsApp, which is also not the default messaging app.

Are Americans just too lazy to download another app?
I cannot comprehend this. This is beyond parody. I am an iPhone user and I don't think I give 1/10th of a shit about iMessage that apparently a substantial amount of Android users do.
Have you heard of the women who would not date men using an Android phone, as well as the kids being pressured or excluded? In some social circles Apple devices are definitely status symbols.
51% Dynamical Bias in the Coin Toss [pdf]
The key part of it being "snake oil" is selling the system before it actually works. It has nothing to do with the approach to solving the problem.
I'm going to guess that he didn't expect it to work. He never invested significantly, and there must be a reason.

The simplest reason seems to be that he expected it not to work, at least with current technology.
It's unlikely that if you have a mobile phone, the landlord doesn't keep some doors locked.

At minimum - even if you're running de-Googled Android - the baseband blob has high levels of access and you have no control over it.

I'm not saying Apple isn't worse with this, but the illusion of phone ownership spreads a lot further.
if you get the information that you have a terminal illness, just refuse to pay them! what $expletive difference does it make?
Trivia: this one was created by Adrian Zandberg, currently a Polish MP.
I think this is evidence of him being (narrowly) right. I'm guessing his idea doesn't work either because I think zero people involved in projects named "Hyperloop" have come forward with a prototype.

I mentioned it in the first place because him being right about something like this is peculiar, not because it's typical.
> The US freight rail network is in excellent shape.

The German rail network is in shambles - but compared to how some American freight rail looks like, even that is more like Japan's excellent railways... I've seen far too many examples like [1] for my liking on youtube. This kind of shit would actually land you jail time here if you as a responsible person would let a train run there. Or this legit, on-camera derailment [2] - no way the train would be allowed to just continue to move on, it would get a full-blown investigation and those responsible for the dereliction probably a criminal trial for endangering rail traffic [3].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X2A2f6E5DI

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ao-24274Jw

[3] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stgb/__315.html
In my experience, there is a bit of friction as you need to get a form from the post office and have it notarized before a third-party can accept and forward mail on your behalf.
Thanks, your position certainly makes sense to me regarding a Pixel phone with the stock software on it, but much less so when considering options like GrapheneOS or any of the Androids made by other non-Google companies (like OnePlus, etc). That's the point at which usually "user experience" or "I'm already in the Apple ecosystem" usually come to fore-front as the reason.

I don't really trust of those big companies, which is where GrapheneOS really shines. Open source, lots of enhanced privacy controls, but also as much of the Google ecosystem as the user wants. If you maximally distrust everyone, you can roll with pure FOSS. If you're somewhere in the middle like most people, you can pick and choose the pieces that are worth it to you (Google's Pixel Camera app is a common one for example). Graphene OS is also trivial to install now thanks to the web installer, so pretty much anybody who can load a web page, plug in a USB cable, and follow the explicit instructions to unlock the bootloader (which is stuff like, "open settings" -> "click about", etc) can do it.
Yeah, and because of that, today we have mainstream electric cars, an Earth blanketed with Internet from space, and the cheapest spacelift cost ever achieved.

Any one of these would have cemented him as a premier industrialist.

In the end, there's legions of Internet commenters who complain about Elon Musk in between complaining about their bosses or complain about Google and Facebook or what have you. And then there's this guy doing things successfully.

The Silicon Valley attitude that I love is that when someone tells you "that's not going to work", you just go ahead and do it if you have conviction. After all, you're only sacrificing your own self.
> that a green bubble means your group message is degraded and a bunch of expected functionality stops existing

…because the functionality is a paid product feature that exists on their hardware and software? Because it’s a…product feature??
Biden urged to stop EU 'unfairly' targeting American tech
Beeper Cloud has had google messages support since at least September.
Yeah I was trying to agree.
To adapt a sci-fi scene:

> The CEO: You are here because your investment is about to be destroyed. Its every active employee terminated, its entire balance-sheet eradicated.

> Neo : Bullshit.

> The CEO: Denial is the most predictable of all stakeholder responses. But, rest assured, this will be the sixth time we have destroyed it, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it.
They're also doing a Los Angeles to Las Vegas line.
$2K/month for two kids in flyover country at what amounts to the only day-care in the area. That's just the day-care costs, not counting the additional missed work from every bowel-voiding illness they bring home! Have to pick them up by 16:30.
It's not really how it works for a lot of users in the US. As I get it with the more social demographics, most use different apps for messaging for different contexts. social media like twitter or instagram for more public casual chatting with strangers, maybe private messages on said apps for growing relationships, then for more personal stuff some mutual messenger app.

social demographics just use the chat that is closest to whatever they like to do online. iMessage is more of a "it's always there if I need it" thing as I get it, not so much something chosen out of confusion -- the social demographic is quite good at compartmentalizing their lives across many apps.
Thanks for that, I suspected something like that was true, but have zero experience with air-bearings other than the aforementioned air-hockey.
Ya. That's why running Play Services & Apps sandboxed was the only remaining viable strategy to keep some degree of independence without having to go commando.
What I never understood about that fiasco is that after it was decided to just throw some Teslas in a tunnel, why weren't they fully self driving? Isn't a one way tunnel without traffic or real world conditions like weather a perfect place to use it?
$3,500 per month must be 99th percentile daycare cost in the US.

Most people play $1,500 to $2,500, for dedicated daycare facilities with the prescribed 4:1 or 7:2 teacher:infant ratio.
wasmtime is closely aligned with where active development is happening in WebAssembly, WASI, and similar standards. You can expect that as the folks working on WebAssembly itself establish support for (for instance) async, or GC, or components and linking, or other new APIs, wasmtime is where those are going to show up first and be aligned with the rest of the industry. It's easy to embed and reasonably easy to expose your own APIs through, so that you can use it for plugins.

The community is also friendly and inviting for folks trying to get started.
Of course they “want” it to just like they want Siri and everything else to be computed locally since best for privacy and offline performance. Whether they compete with a cloud AI time will tell. Will presumably be far more limited than ChatGPT 4 but hopefully light years better than Siri which is what is most important.
Agreed. My point is specific about deleting work, that's wrong from the perspective of copyright. A law could be put in place where derivative work cannot be commercialized.

It would be nice
I already find it to be highly centralized and with a very obvious monoculture.
Sure, but not a life sentence.
It is a simple app, and is yet another of literally thousands of chat apps. The single compelling reason why it would be in a position of charging fees is purely because it backdoored into Apple services (which Apple of course bears the burden of), using Apple device identifiers to access it. The value they were trying to convert to cash was Apple's.
Much like highways and trains, the tracks are the easy part. The hard part is in routing and termination - think interchanges, onramps, and offramps. Being underground compounds the routing and termination problem dramatically.
There’s always a better one a year away in the OLED game. Brighter, faster, better colors, cheaper, whatever.

It’s a bit like waiting for a faster PC in the 90s. At some point you just have to buy.
And if they know what homeopathy is, they wouldn’t be buying it.
This is a topic close to my heart. In 2019 in the peak of lockdowns - i decided to indulge a backburner curiousity i've had for a decade and a bit - modular synthesis. I bought the recommended modules for Doepfer's rendition of a Trautonium (a ribbon input instrument) - which needs to be heard to be appreciated. One thing which this instrument showed me is how little pitch variation is utilised in synthesis. In this thread on modwiggler (modular synth forum) there's a very indepth convo about realistic bowing/string sounds.

I tried recording a rendition of Hans Zimmer's memoirs of a geisha main theme violin solo (scroll down to the youtube clip of the geisha).

The pitch being fully continuous and in control of the player injects incredible amounts of "realism" and "violin-ness" to the sound. The IR of violin body i added in this example is crude - BUT - it illustrates my point really nicely:
https://modwiggler.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=68150&start=100

I think both the attack pitch envelope is crucial to get this right as well as the pitch bends induced by the player.

An even better illustration is in an even cruder synth i own - Unisyn's Pitch to CV converter has a VERY crude tri/square/saw wave - and the the pitch + volume - is the main carrier of expression - this is an example of me playing a bamboo flute into a mic - and having it converted to a saw wave synth patch through some reverb added in post - the flutiness is remarkable here imo:

https://soundcloud.com/khaleeji/unisyn-flute-and-vocal-recor...

I have to shout out Fricko modules - in Euro being really cool forward thinking modules which aim to inject some novel building blocks for building acoustic sounds:
https://fricko.home.blog/
I hate this kind of math because it really doesn't tell you much. What are the fixed costs? What's the maintenance? What are the costs to extend? If this is the cost now, what is the cost for the next phase? How much benefit are we getting out of those 2 miles?

You comment reduced a complex issue to an elementary word problem in math.
If you read a lot of papers in your line of work you will quickly appreciate the two columns and justification.
I mentioned that I'm from Europe. Where trains are not seen at all like this. I use trains in Europe often, as it's a better experience than driving. In America, the driving experience is just fine outside of rush hour traffic in major metro areas. So what is this train saving me from?
I've never driven a car with auto braking. I've been yapped at many a time for lane "departures" that were not lanes (concrete grooves on the highway being the primary culprit) and sometimes not even real (that "lane" is the shadow of a nearby power wire.) I've also seen the adaptive cruise control appear to fail once when two cars simultaneously changed into my lane, one from each side. It still had a moment it could have acted so I can't conclusively say it failed. It also fails to recognize cars with too great a speed difference.
And the reason they insist on checking the ID of a 40 year old man with gray in his beard and photoaged skin is because... 1) A teenager might be a special effects makeup artist.. or 2) because the law compels them to be bureaucratic twats who follow the rules even when the rules make no sense.

The correct answer is number 2, and that's the real reason they won't accept expired IDs either.

Incidentally, the TSA does accept expired IDs. I flew with one and TSA didn't say anything to me; they scanned it into their computer then waved me through like normal. Then the bartender at the airport pointed it out and refused to serve me.
I always wondered just how bad an idea must have been. If Musk didn't go after it. Specially considering that he is the one who published it...
I wrote 2k+ lines of Brainfuck
On call till 31st, so please don't hit refresh too much this days ;-)
Gotta be San Francisco rates, or a very fancy place. Nicer daycares (usually Montessori schools that also take kids under a year) in our US city are around $900-$1200/m. Less-nice, $700-900.
The authors don’t format the pdf, the editor does. Authors probably sent a double spaced word document with figures and tables on another file.
Android sources are there for the manufacturer, not the device user. It's definitely a "look but don't touch" culture. There's not a single device on earth running AOSP, not even their own Android emulators.

Sure Apple is worse but the bar isn't that high.
Lol they did not buy the precursor, they stole it.

Had this same conversation with someone missing a number of teeth, they reported that chicken feed contains pseudoephedrine and is able to be collected by using a piece of wood as a capillary sieve.
I have never heard him tell people not to do any of those things, tbh.
Same reason I don't use Gmail: I don't want all of my emails on a big tech company's servers. I pay for Fastmail.
Yeah the expanse gets plenty of the newtonian orbital mechanics physics right but totally gloss over other important parts of space travel such as: how do you deal with the thermal buildup-space is a nearly perfect insulator. Wheres the radiators? They are regularly moving at speeds that would have a small but additive relativistic effect. Wheres the belters/other spacers who live several hundreds of earth years but not nearly as many from their perspective. Not to mention the pure impossibility of the Epstein drive. The Epstein drive is probably the most glaring example of human clarketech in the whole story.
Anyways I love the Expanse but the books were better anyway
> In a very real sense the economic system we have created means that the value of a thing is whatever people are willing to pay. If you can hype it up, it actually increases the REAL value of the thing.

Look, I understand econ 101. That's not the part I don't understand. Hell, my cat understands that. It's the other part I don't understand. We're humans and have the ability to be more intelligent than my cat.
Are you okay with Apple not supporting RCS on their phones? As far as I can tell, that strictly worsens your experience as a user.
Vscode is designed to fracture and vscodium doesn’t escape this. https://ghuntley.com/fracture/
> The first time I see a commercial ad for a non-app thing here, I'll probably have to buy a new phone to replace the one I'm likely to throw out my window.

And do what, switch to an old-school flip phone? Sadly, with the current phone duopoly, meaningful competition is basically nonexistent.
The house is a good example, but it's worth being careful: the point is that the house is not a liability. There are liabilities associated with it, starting with repayment of the loan that you used to buy the house (for most people), but also maintenance, insurance, taxes, etc.
As I recall Musk stated publicly that the only reason he pushed Hyperloop was to derail the California High Speed Rail initiative. In that regard it was somewhat successful.

[1] “He admitted to his biographer that the reason the Hyperloop was announced—even though he had no intention of pursuing it—was to try to disrupt the California high-speed rail project” -- https://gizmodo.com/silicon-valleys-transportation-failures-...
I'm not sure where you both going at but yes, stock ROMs even for Pixels are AOSP + proprietary apps replacements/add-ons.
Love how the bandwidth spikes ~10x from HH:59 to HH:00. Looks like people still write crons with manually set trigger times that align on the hour, rather than randomly spreading them out.
Cousins are a really great way to be around role models who are in a next phase of life.

Siblings are usually too close in age (or younger), parents are many many steps ahead and experienced your current phase in a different world. But if you're entering high school it's useful to have a connection with people entering college, or getting their first job. That rarely happens outside of the family.
Apple could simply sell iMessage. They don't because iMessage is not a product, it's a stealth marketing tool and a wildly successful one.
They were replicating an animal experiment

Could do an additional study though