skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious, does or is it possible for this to support the APIs available on newer Android versions like scoped storage? Would there even be any benefit to supporting those APIs in an app like this?
> my iPhone XR is still going strong, 85% battery health and receiving OS updates.

Wow. My 13 hit 79% battery health after only 2 years of use, so clearly Apple products aren’t immune from this phenomena either.
> you cannot drop or blacklist customers for any reason

Trade law in Europe works like exactly that: you do not get to choose your clients; you either have to serve anyone that is willing to pay, or no one at all. The US should definitely adopt this principle.
Non-bloated and slick, love it.

Only complaint is the format of a date in the README.

>Date : 28-11-2023 dd-mm-yyyy

Please observe RFC 3339.
You would still have a perfect score after the question was annulled. It's just the difference between getting (for example) 33 out of 33 questions correct, or 34 out of 34 questions correct.
The current set of developers are often tempted to start again - to start a new software codebase which will surely fix all mistakes of the old. Was this a temptation in the days of big iron?
That’s not really a need for smartphone users. I can access an LLM on a website for free right now.

I also don’t see any indication that there will be impactful local LLM silicon at the smartphone scale anytime soon.
You can't seriously give Apple shit for this and at the same time praise Google. iPhones have, pretty consistently since the 5 or so, received 5 or 6 years worth of OS updates since the phone's release whereas with Android phones you'll receive 2. Only after years of complaining is Google finally promising to support it for longer. And that doesn't cover Samsung, etc...
I'm guessing a fair part of the population here on HN is too young to remember the Japanese takeover of the US market in the 70s and 80s. I remember my grandfather buying one and people still had the post WWII 'everything Japanese is junk' mentality going on. It was his first car to last 300k miles without an engine rebuild. Nothing US built was getting close to it at that time.
You almost never want to exploit, in a scripting language, the subtleties of the Boolean projections when writing the (un-) idiom `b = b or b_default`; it is more commonly a mistake made by script kiddies and hand-waving mavericks (i.e. People Who Finish First, a.k.a. People Who Never Write Proper Tests) that has become deeply ingrained due to the Look Ma How Clever effect. If `b` should be a Boolean with a default of `true` then `b = b or true` will quite obviously never allow it to be `false`. Rewrite that and put it in a row of such assignments as in `a = a or a_default; b = b or b_default`; c or c or c_default;` and it looses its fishy smell enough to pass as "OK, trivially no problem here".

I've indeed gotten tired by the entire idea of Boolean projections, yes, but that's not the point here, at least not almost always in practice.
Former red hat employee and open source developer myself. I am working on a system where the whole design requires the code to be open, so eliminates a lot of bad actors by default.

I think the current model of relying on licenses to enforce open source software is subject to interpretation by humans and hard to enforce.
What are your findings?
I have used Remote Desktop through private VPNs and have been able to connect to my workstation from cities away and performance has been good enough to do video editing and some 3D work.
Hi thanks so much. I also hope your issues are manageable!

I don't mean to pry, are the shots for macular degeneration or do you have retinopathy of diabetes? My mom has macular degeneration and has had some shots already (she is stable at the moment)... And the doctor says the MD could be hereditary.... Oh joy, but there's essentially little I can do about that. So (I figure) take an over the counter eye vitamin and basically try to stay away from more surgeries if possible ... Rarely are surgeries a better result (for anything) than yourself prior to the surgery; there are always tradeoffs to lens implants, replacement knees etc.
Exactly. My roborock works just fine without any connection. It's easier for me to just press the Clean button than to deal with "apps".
> exclude non-Google customers.

There are literally dozens of them! /s
> Lots of ways for this to go sideways even if the data stays local.

Could you name some?
If it involves private ownership, profit, and pricing through competitive markets, then it's capitalist. Everything I mentioned is already done under the current capitalist system. A few examples of non-capitalist solutions would be nationalization of drug production, enforced worker's collectives, and price controls. I don't think these are good alternatives, given their historical track record.
> you will always find a random ROM on xda

Installing random ROMs from random developers is an interesting take on security.
There is also what Sigilon (now Eli Lilly) is doing, which is to encapsulate living cells in a matrix they cannot escape. The cells sense glucose levels and secrete appropriate levels of insulin locally. In the current iteration I think the millimeter sized beads are injected in the peritoneum, and are removable.
Use PDFs of the books (pay for them, of course).

Searching and bookmarking make navigation much faster and easier, including for cross-referencing, glossaries, etc.

Annotations are far more powerful; they are editable, copyable, come in many forms (highlight, underline, text boxes, draw, hyperlinks, etc etc.). You can type much faster and fit much more than you can write with a pen.

PDFs are of course far more portable, and they are durable over decades (esp. PDF/A).

I'll never study a book on paper again; it's just too inefficient, so much that it's not worth matching PDF functionality. I'll just wait however long it takes to obtain the PDF.
As someone who's dabbled in both MakeCode and Scratch, I think there are a few solid reasons to lean towards MakeCode, especially in an educational context:

- Hardware Integration: MakeCode shines with its support for various microcontrollers like the BBC micro:bit and Adafruit Circuit Playground. It’s a game-changer for classes focusing on electronics or physical computing.

- Ease of Transition to Text Coding: Unlike Scratch, MakeCode lets you flip between block-based and JavaScript code. It’s a neat feature for students transitioning to text-based languages.

- Curriculum Tailoring: MakeCode often comes with tailored projects and curricula, especially useful when you have specific learning goals around hardware.

- Practical Applications: The ability to create physical devices or interactive projects with MakeCode can be really engaging for students, showing them the real-world impact of their coding.

- Community and Resources: Depending on where you are and what you need, the MakeCode community and resources might just align better with your teaching needs.

That said, it really boils down to what you're trying to achieve. Scratch is still king for introducing the very basics of programming and fostering creativity, especially for younger or less experienced coders.
> Is that even possible?

Trademarks apply within certain markets. Namco, for instance, is the name of both a video game company and a company that makes swimming pools. Because their markets don't overlap, each can own the Namco trademark for their respective markets. Famously, the name Apple was similarly contended over by a computer company and a record company owned by the Beatles, with the settlement stipulating that the computer company not get into the music business (which settlement was broken when the computer company could afford Boies-tier lawyers).

It is certainly possible to do what The Tetris Company has done, which is to trademark the tetromino shapes as applied to the video game market, while still leaving them generic for use in mathematical puzzles, physical tabletop games, etc.
It's the activity of the move that disturbs them. Same thing with mice/rats. Happens when nearby buildings are under construction, as well.
I went to try to see conclusively if you were correct. A pretty basic sofa at C&B is $1,800 - $2,000. In 1990 you could buy a basic Bassett sofa at J.C. Penney for $599 [1] -- $1407 in 2023 dollars. Furniture from Sears and Penney's (regardless of whether it was fashionable) was of fine quality, in that it held up for decades. I know because we had furniture like this in our home at the time.

So this tells me that the price for a sofa (that is made domestically and not slapped together from particle board, a half inch of foam, and about 4 springs) has gone up by 25-30%. And I think you're saying that therefore, this isn't an utterly crazy price hike. I'd agree it's modest.

Thing is, I think what's changed is demographics. In 1990, a LOT of people bought furniture at a department store or furniture store. They could afford it, but also here's the interesting part: It was much more rare then to find a $250 sofa. If that was your budget, you just bought a used good sofa and you probably got a better product. When super cheap everything appeared in the late 90s, it drove out the good manufactured goods, and many of the stores that sold those good items. People felt like buying the quality of things they used to buy would be extravagant, since they could buy an IKEA or Walmart version for less than half, and also, many families started to be worse off financially than their parents' generation had been, adding to their feelings of frugality. Unfortunately, this crap is so shoddy in most cases that it's actually more expensive when you factor in its lifetime.

[1] https://christmas.musetechnical.com/ShowCatalogPage/1990-JCP...

* Some present-day comparisons:

- https://www.jcpenney.com/p/signature-design-by-ashley-camila...

- https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/paerup-sofa-gunnared-beige-s293...
Seems reasonable - they probably broke the TOS of the site
I really didn’t realize I gave off that impression, thanks for letting me know to improve my writing!
It talks about shedding energy at a constant rate per distance. Which, sure, ends up giving the same result, but it's a much weirder starting assumption, IMO.
AirLLM enables 8GB MacBook run 70B LLM
RDP still still like it would be a better solution, one mouse and keyboard for both PCs and not only that you could have both PCs dual screened.
Advice to father of 13 y/o coding savant
The quality of Pizza Hut has been going downhill for years. Support your local pizza joint
Yuescript

https://yuescript.org
Can it log into SMB shares on the local network?
Washers and dryers are a field in which older models were definitely built better. I inherited a set from the late 1990s that is still going strong, and repairmen have told me that I should never get rid of them, as nothing today is made as well. The dryer blew a thermistor after more than twenty years, and that was easily fixed.
I mean, what did your mother pay at that time?, because there was plenty of appliances from back then that were total crap too.
Wow they want to kill it. I wonder if we've just lived through the golden Napster era of LLMs.
It's also a good history of what "free speech" in America historically looked like.
Finding their ritual pathways helps in deciding where to sprinkle stuff that's bad for their health and that they'll bring home with them. One such thing is borax/boric acid. Ants, as well.
I was just guessing here and didn't know about `//`; this in turn comes transparently from C as an enhancement of the C idiom `b = b || c`; it may have been a later introduction though (me learning Perl was way back in the (early?) 90s) or I missed it (not unlikely)
Which country deserves the most credit for the fall of the Third Reich?
Just train on NYT articles no longer in copyright. We may be better for it.
Thanks for the attention to PartCAD and all the contextual information shared in this thread. It was just the initial version released a couple days ago. It doesn’t even match the OpenVMP’s internal “bill of materials” library. For sure it doesn’t yet implement all of the tool gaps discovered so far by the OpenVMP project and other robotics projects I consulted with. But PartCAD will incrementally get there. The goal is not to replace core features of other engineering tools. But to connect such core features with appropriate collaboration and data storage tools (git, cloud storages etc) while dismissing some absurd features (such as saving a design into a binary blob from CAD tools…). Have patience and consider to contribute.
I have a ~20 years old Philips toaster cost around (1500 INR)20-30 dollars than. We don't use it every day, but I don't see what can go bad.
Also Phillip K. Dick's Ubik.
And you just stated to know where the name came from, even though you made it up instead of looking it up.
I was watching a Russian YouTuber, and I was quite surprised that even after the war in Ukraine kicked off, gasoline prices advertised in Russia are in US Dollars.
> their heat-resistant eggs require temperatures upwards of 125 degrees.

Achieving that temperature in a home would be nearly impossible unless you live in very hot summer area and likely cause substantial damage to a lot of things.
How to Win an Oscar (2019)
Hey thanks for posting this. What’s a good way to learn about successful B2B companies? All my experience is in B2C and while I can imagine some B2B ideas, a concrete set of examples would help. Btw, I went to your website on your profile and saw some examples, but would like more. Also, the hamburger menu on your website was broke for me, iPhone 13 mini Firefox
This is true for Turkey as well.
n = 1 is not a great sample size for analyzing long-term trends with multiple factors (purchase price, maintenance/treatment of applicances, environment, etc)
There is some correlation here. If something 'never' breaks its not very likely to be repairable since no one will make spare parts for it. At the other side if something always breaks but is cheap in total cost, parts are commonly unavailable too, as people replace the entire item.
The logic was that I could have 36 hours uninterrupted, and then sleep for like 12, averaging 6 per 24 hours, which seemed reasonable.

It’s a recipe for burnout, but I did get a lot done. A good protocol for very tight important deadlines, but it took its toll.
Thanks! It looks like they use the same shortcut key!

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/shortcuts.html#project-files
Infiniband is not a proprietary interconnect. Water is not a proprietary cooling system.

High scale is about using commodity components (hundreds of) thousands of times.
Fork (File System)
They're not charging you, the user that 30%. They're charging the developer. Yes that does trickle down to you in the developer's pricing, but, in this instance, a phone no longer receiving security updates is not an inferior product from the point of view of the transaction in question.
Penlight[1] was supposed to offer python like batteries. It's kind of been abandoned by now, as has most of lua IMV. To me you still need luastd and a couple of other things (posix, lfs, socket, luasec) you can just fetch with luarocks and you're semi set.

[1]: https://lunarmodules.github.io/Penlight/
My friend bought a townhouse in Seattle just a few months ago, and bought a C&B (very nice) couch for it at around $3000. It was delivered within a week or two of ordering, so I believe they're available.

When I bought my couch in late 2019 it was also delivered within a couple of weeks.

Are you custom ordering something? I believe that common configurations ship immediately, but any kind of customization requires that multiple-month lead time.
What the Prisoner's Dilemma Reveals [video]
The thing is, if someone decided to stock that toaster on the shelf at Target, it wouldn't sell. Most people make so little toast that the words "duty cycle" or "slices per hour" are not even in their vocabulary. People are simply making purchasing decisions with a higher weight on other criteria.

Maybe, for the environment's sake, people should be buying and using appliances for 70 years. But do people actually want a kitchen full of appliances that are 35 years old on average? Probably not, thrift shops are still full of contemporarily made appliances that were discarded before their useful life ended.
It's obviously a frivolous suit that will only net at best a ceremonial victory for NYTimes: 8 figure max payout and a promise to not use NYtimes material in the future.

The trajectory and value to society of OpenAI vs NYtimes could not be greater. They have won no favors in the court of public opinion with their frequent misinformation. It's all just a big waste of time, the last of the old guard flailing against the march of progress.

And even hypothetially if they managed to get OpenAI to delete ChatGPT they'd be hated forever.
Love these, have used them in a bunch of games and they generally fit in great with any other style you're using, huge vouch
> "we just need a couple of 2x improvements in data efficiency, and we’re golden”"

100,000x is only seventeen 2x improvements. This[1] says world volume of data doubles every two years, citing a 2016 McKinsey study as the source. That puts it 34 years away. 2056. This[2] says the estimated compound growth rate of data creation is around 61%, that's a doubling time of 1.32 years and puts it 22 years away. 2045.

It's not tomorrow, but it may not be all that far away.

[1] https://rivery.io/blog/big-data-statistics-how-much-data-is-...

[2] https://theconversation.com/the-worlds-data-explained-how-mu...
God I hate reaction videos. I wish there was a filter.
I've generally found they're all correct. Sometimes, I run into situations where a particular exit is closed because it's after-hours (some stations close certain exits when it's late), and Google Maps doesn't realize this, but I haven't noticed any exits being outright wrong.

I think this is probably a local issue: Google Maps is better in some places than others. Google has a huge office in Tokyo, in Shibuya overlooking Shibuya Crossing, so Tokyo is probably one of the best-supported cities in GMaps for this reason. Other cities might not have such accurate information.
My only point was that today you don't need to spend $5000 for a "good" couch. I don't know about the historical context.
I've the feeling a lot of people trash the car itself and modifying it

Of course it's going to be unreliable
I wonder: is this person incredibly bad at making purchases? I mean… just incredibly bad? Or do they not do maintenance?

The LG washer and Dryer I bought 20 yrs ago still works a champ.

Come to think of it, the only appliance I’ve had issue with in the last 20 years is my coffee grinder, which after about 10 years of heavy use I sent to Baratazza and paid for it repaired.

So I’m just not seeing this, even a little bit.
Probably not, it looks like it costs about 4x what my lidar vacuum did
> absolute trash for less than $1,000 or high-end, high-quality for $5000+

I've been noticing the same thing. But I also suspect that many people pay a little more for stuff, expecting that to make it better. The number of brands and variety of prices one can find on-line is astounding, and it must be much larger than the number of factories in Asia actually making the stuff.
Unfortunately you can't treeshake a language that supports reflections. So it's not like a C++ program where unused parts get dropped.

You can manually remove dependencies or.. I think in the Android world you specify what classes can be reflected on and then strip unused code with Proguard (though I could never get it working with Clojure)

Would love to be corrected if I got any of it wrong
All this depends on the person.

Personally i find studying from a pdf basically impossible.

Everyone is different though, what is important is finding what is right for you.
Don't ever even think about replacing them, but if you do want good unbiased reviews do check out this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/@bensappliancesandjunk

I learned a lot from him and when he reports a recommendation, it'll be specific and well-sourced which is important. Still, none of this current garbage will ever compare to a pre-2000 appliance of any kind.
I do not understand bruces concern, maybe someone can make it clear to me.

The source IS made available to software. The license clearly says you must make it availble in the same method you get the binaries, which is what is happening here.

What "circumvention" is going on ?
The show was wildly popular. It ran for only three years because it was cancelled under political pressure. Interestingly enough, Star Trek TOS ran for the same period ('67-'69).

You can watch this episode for more info. It contains an introduction and epilogue describing the controversy.

Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour ~ Never Aired Episode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbdAVIKtiHY
They're name brand appliances, kenmore and whirlpool while the deep freezer is a revco. They don't look like top of the line models, probably just whatever was mid grade at the time. I thought about telling her to throw them away due to power usage but used a kill-a-watt to determine it wasn't worth it. I think the fridge and freezer each cost around $25/year to run.
To quanitfy planned obsolescence, I once built a database of broken things to identify how long they last, where they fail, and how much they cost per month of usage: https://looria.com/reviews

If you have any junk products, please submit it there :)
There's a slew of studies mentioned in your link, not all aligned with some "official" policy of suppression - and they amount in total to tentative evidence of maybe something.

Statistically it's inconclusive whether slight increases in some zones from a bit below average to a bit above average cancer rates is linked to TMI or to stress and|or increased screening.

What is certain, beyond a doubt, is that within the last week an explosion at a nickel plant in Indonesia left at least 13 dead and 46 injured.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/24/explosion-at-a...

That's an example of the generally unreported and ongoing human cost of battery technology.

Note Well: I'm not pro nuclear OR anti battery - I am pragmatic about the real consequences of resource mining and extraction having been part of exploration geophysics and global resource mapping for several decades.
You have absolutely no idea what a cat actually fighting or trying to kill something looks like.

That cat isn't losing, it's playing. It's toying with the rat and the "loss" was it repositioning to stalk it (the pressed to the ground body pose.)

Cats will fuck up all manner of wildlife an order of magnitude or two their weight.
'Island in Between': In Taiwan, He Has a Front-Row Seat to a Geopolitical Dance [video]
I had the same experience, with a CD on long road trips. I still try to make references to talking to trees, vats full of chocolate, crevasses filled with pumas, boiling that cabbage down, boy, and baby John Henry wetting his dad's leg. Alas, only my own brother ever gets them
Clearly that doesn’t work, bc high cost of living states, like ny or ca. would have lower col

Instead we see the opposite.
Same for the Netherlands as this is happening for me
The point is you don't always want both PCs dual screened. I have my setup prepared for both (using Synergy and a KVM switch): Sometimes I need the screens to show each separate machines desktops, but want to be able to quickly switch keyboard/mouse between them. Sometimes I want one machine to occupy both.

For the latter a hardware KVM switch is vastly superior to RDP. For the former, no RDP server/client I know of provides a solution.
Fwiw, I've found that the main brush from the Q5 works better in my S7 than the factory one