skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes, but their strategy for this sort of thing is pretty inconsistent. You have stuff like the bundle of Super Mario 64/Super Mario Sunshine/Super Mario Galaxy which got ported pretty much as-is, warts and all (except for maybe the infamously misheard line in Super Mario 64 after beating Bowser), without even minor quality of life or graphical improvements, "deluxe" versions of Wii U games like Mario Kart 8 that didn't really get the time to shine due to the lackluster sales of that console, and then a sizeable but by no means exhaustive catalog of older games available only via subscription to their online service (which to its credit is very affordable at only $20/year) and aren't playable if you've been offline for more than a week.

None of this is necessarily indefensible, but it paints a very unclear picture for what to expect going forward. The hard copies of the deluxe ports will presumably always be playable on Switch hardware, but will the next generation be able to use them? Similarly, one would hope that digital-only games that are fully offline after installing like the Mario bundle would be playable on consoles they already are installed on indefinitely, but will the store shut down and make it impossible to download again on a different device if your hardware dies? Will digital purchases made for the Switch ever be available without having to purchase again on the next generation console?

As for the subscription-only online games, I don't think there's much reason to believe that anything at all will transfer over. Even being able to transfer saved games from them to a new generation console would be more than I'd expect.
Obnoxious? Yes.

Opposite of what I claim? No.

"Samsung Electronics informed its executives and employees that data entered into ChatGPT is transmitted and stored on external servers, making it impossible for the company to retrieve it and increasing risks of confidential information leakage."
Apple's mobile "privacy" features are about monopolizing advertising on their mobile products so that Apple is now the number one iOS advertising company.
Interesting. That sounds a lot like what Akihabara (in Japan) used to be before it became the over-commercialized geek-trap it is now.
Principled is defined as “acting with morality and showing recognition of right and wrong.”

How is abiding by the decision of a court not following a principled view? Wouldn’t going against the rule of law be non-principles behavior? Apple is not required to license the patent nor is the holder required to ever license their patent. They can tell Apple to go pound sand as this isn’t the seemingly typical cell phone FRAND dispute.

Trying to find a way to build an Apple Watch 9 that doesn’t infringe on a patent is a valid and principled way of behaving, even if it’s perhaps a bad business choice. If it takes them a week or two and stands in court it’ll be seen as a good decision. If they can’t and pony up anyway it’ll be seen as a poor choice of action. We’ll certainly know soon enough.
Seems to be a function available in high quality cooktops? Here, called ProfessionalMode: https://www.vzug.com/ch/en/products/kitchen/cooktops/inducti...
Spontaneous ICE car fires are most likely to be caused by the 12V systems, so you’re not going to smell gasoline.

Here’s an example:

> Tension on the transmission wiring harness could lead to wire insulation pulling back from the electrical connector. As a result, water from external sources could penetrate the connector. The presence of water may create a short circuit over time. As a result, the short circuit could lead to thermal overload if the vehicle's ignition is off for longer periods of time.
Subsequently, the risk of fire cannot be ruled out.

https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2022/RCLRPT-22V533-6872.PDF
This is interesting to me, because exercising, and changing my lifestyle to support that, are what has given me that hunger for life.

Runner's high or the sense of accomplishment from a 100 mile bike ride or a tough day hike make me feel more alive than any party ever did.
It is similar, but the idea is the files are closer to plain text and reable with a regular text editor if needed.
Tagging ins tedious. Especially when it’s not you who searches but lots of other people, all with their specific ways of describing what they are looking for.

And yes, the results are between amusing, annoying and infuriating.

The “alcohol” example finding mostly comes from alcohol free products advertising this feature in their name - no need to name your regular beer or wine “with alcohol”, at least not in the product name.
She was in the lottery and was able to get some package deals ..they are staying in Venetian which is part of the package deal (4k for all 4 days of Phish and a few nights at the Venetian).

So are all the resale on seatgeek and stubhub sold out too?
I’m 100% in favor of money not always being the primary purpose of a business. That being said, you still have to be profitable (if even by a penny), or the business will cease to exist at some point. I hope there is enough of a niche for what Prusa wants to continue to do, but I’m not sure.
Many business in Massachusetts either have signs in the windows asking you to leave a Google review or at the end of the service ask you to leave a positive review. This has happened to me with tours, moving companies, at barbershops, laundromats, tailors and restaurants.

I don’t think it’s unethical but a requirement of a successful service business to ask all its customers to leave review, as long as the company/employee isn’t asking for the review quid-pro-quo.
The only way this would ever work is if we have a body with authority that defines/approves standards (I guess with industry input), and devices that claim to do X must be certified, and certification must be clear during purchase. Customers can then choose to only buy certified devices. I’m very willing to sacrifice some flashy feature for interoperability.

And this should be across domains. A data or diagnostics scanner for example should be able to retrieve data from my car, from my fridge and from my hear rate monitor.
Again, I can't see those things as necessarily bad in any kind of global sense that applies to everyone, unless you claim to know what's best for everyone. Escapism might be a problem if you're neglecting your duties as a parent, for example. Infantile behavior might be a problem if you're expecting to be constantly helped in the workplace. But those are individual problems caused by underlying issues.

It's similar to gaming. You could say solo gaming reinforces escapism far more than meeting of like minded people in a furry community. But that doesn't mean gaming is bad - it's only bad to the degree that this escapism causes problems in the gamer's life.
I can't answer about the intent of the person you responded to, but my reading was that they were commenting on Apple's history of patent lawsuits, both as a defendant and a plaintiff. Particularly the prolonged IP slapfights between Apple and pretty much every other mobile device company, aka the Smartphone Patent Wars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone_patent_wars
The apparent comfort of the community with Tether is proof for me that crypto is nothing but the greater fool theory playing out over and over until the music really stops for one last time.
With 1 Sentence, Patagonia Just Gave a Masterclass on How to Treat Your People
Is it though? The lack of standardisation on the layer above means that compatibility between vendors is iffy at best. Even zigbee2mqtt unfortunately has its inconsistencies.
they did that in battlestar galactica, the remake. it was a joke at first, and then.. all papers they handled on set had those corners cut. even books.
heh - my final question in a months long panel interview for a position at google ~2007

Interviewer: "Quick, how to do a global search and replace in VI!"

ME, blanking: "...I'd.... google it..."

Interviewer: "best answer!"

(wound up not getting job for not having a degree, and Sergey was still personally signing off on all hires, according to them... (after they told me they were sending me an offer in the morning))

Just having a memory for a sec - some other notable interview moments:

Google: "What kind of company do you think Google is? (2007)

Me: "People think you're a search engine, but youre really just an advertising company."

And at twitter: "What kind of company do you think twitter is?" (~2011?)

Me: "I think you are a global sentiment engine"

(Didn't get the job allegedly because "I didnt read enough industry news" (seriously made what I read a big deal in the interview - and I fumbled trying to think of all the various things I read - this interview seemed to be looking for what physical publications I read, like DataCenter rags and such (I was a pretty successful datacenter design-team consultant at them time))
"Web3" is going great!

https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com
They faced internal pressure from employees as I remember it. They shutdown their Chinese sites after the PLA was caught hacking Gmail accounts in Hong Kong, but this was when Paige and Sergey were more involved (being from formerly authoritarian communist countries).
I can’t imagine why I would want to purchase BTC on a vehicle intended for retirement savings. This is absolutely asinine to me and I see so many people losing their shirts and could be rife with abuse. If people really want to, they can gamble their money away at Coinbase.

This is really feeling like tragedy of the commons and needing to find more ways to pull in real money into this system so whales can swim in their piles.
That was also my first thought, references, virtual memory, etc. But I insist the value is incorrect. The measurement units got mixed up. You cannot say X Tb (virtual space) of Y Tb (physical space). These are different units! I can see how Apple tried boasting some inflated numbers to impress users, just like they try to sell 8gb mbp saying it is same amount as the old 16gb.

By the principle of least surprise, the reasonable expectation is to show used disk size is less than total size. It is reasonable for both technical and nontechnical users.
My life at the holiday table has gotten easier when someone inevitably brings up climate change in whatever capacity. I simply state that, until the mainstream consensus is "build the hell out of nuke plants", I don't want to hear about it. As cool as it was to strap DC motors to your car, they still rely on a carbon-fueled grid and I'm still amazed at the horror on some faces when reminded of the fact.

Anyway, another example of France keeping it real yet again.
There's going to be a brain drain and the number of startups that are basically OpenAI API+React is going to plummet.
valid point but reductionist by narrowing the terms that are considered at all before reaching a broad conclusion. Just as the essay mentions that software distribution is no longer a bottleneck, the "social ecosystem of inventors-builders-makers-users" is a far different proposal in 2024. Some here recall when "using a computer" was a niche activity, now "all of China, yes or no" is ordinary talk? Fish need to see the water - coders need to see the social ecosystems. In this small post, markets are a subset of social ecosystem, but a powerfully charged one.
Not to say Apple is good but there are definitely worse actors out there. Qualcomm comes to mind.
I guess though with Obsidian, even if you get locked out or they dry up tomorrow, you don’t lose anything in your knowledge base because it works on top of your existing directory structure

The only thing you could get locked out of is the convenient curation that Obsidian provides

Im normally opensource-or-bust but the way obsidian is set up is pretty low risk
It was interesting to visit Battersea Power Station in London...which is now a mall.
Or maybe retail investors are more worried about inflation (realizing it's ruining them anyway) and buying BTC as a hedge? (doesn't matter if it is one or not, it's about what they believe)
What is your point?

You didn't make a point yet.

You claimed I misunderstood, then quoted a sentence that starts with "if".
I wish there still was decent boolean keyword search out there.
> Dependency injection ... is a handy concept that’s often explained terribly

Dependency injection is putting the dependencies in the constructor, hence:

> a 25-dollar term for a 5-cent concept.

> Dependency injection, a.k.a. DI

DI is dependency inversion.

OK - so what are we "inverting" then?

We are inverting the typical direction of dependencies FROM high-level->low-level TO low-level->high-level. By "typical", I mean the one you'd reach for first. For example:

A HeadChef has a dependency on a SousChef. The HeadChef can getIngredients() from the SousChef. The SousChef is even injected into the HeadChef, per dependency injection.

Then it comes time to write your unit tests. You decide (rightly) that's it's too much work to design an entire SousChef just for the purposes of testing the HeadChef. One of two things happens here:

1. You modify the code a little to use an interface/test-double. SousChef and TestSousChef both implement ISousChef.

2. You use a mocking framework to pretend you have a real SousChef, and just override its behaviours one-by-one as you encounter NPEs in your test case.

This is the state in which most software I typically see ends up. HeadChef is coupled to SousChef. Using an ISousChef instead is coupled-but-with-extra-steps. And the mocking framework just adds brittleness.

Fast-forward a little. SousChef is a little slow, so now we add hitWithWoodenSpoon() and berate() so that the HeadChef can get ingredients faster. And we update the interfaces and the mocks. And the coupling gets unmistakable tighter.

Eventually the SousChef calls in sick, and the HeadChef completely shuts down. Despite the SousChef being injected, the HeadChefs methods are still littered with direct calls to the (I)SousChef.

So.... inversion?

Rather than the HeadChef depending downward on a (I)SousChef, the HeadChef should point upward at something way more abstract, i.e. A supplier of Ingredients. (Sometimes the 'upward'/'downward' metaphor doesn't exactly pan out, so DI is sometimes phrased as "A high-level class shouldn't depend on a low-level class; both should depend on (high-level) abstractions".)

Three things happen when you do this:

1) Testability goes way up. A Supplier<Ingredient> is so simple to mock that it's probably going to be a lambda. No Mockito. No ISousChef.

2) New implementations suddenly become available. The HeadChef can get ingredients from the fridge or from the back of a truck. Or in more realistic coding examples: a CachedSousChef, a RetryingSousChef or a SousChefPool.

3) You are prevented from tightening the coupling when you improve the HeadChef class. Supplier<Ingredient> simply does not implement hitWithWoodenSpoon(). It is possible to add hitWithWoodenSpoon() to Supplier, but unlikely you'd do so. You are somewhat forced to come up with a better solution: instantiate a SelfHittingSousChef class and inject that into the HeadChef.
Point taken about rsync, but you are assuming incorrectly that I haven't read it and that I haven't tried batch mode, but it still failed to run under cron inside an expect script.

It's not my orgunit that manages the contract with the vendor. I will absolutely use paramiko instead of trying to explain a technical problem to two middle managers in another orgunit to take it up with a non technical person on the vendor side whenever they feel like it when my deadline ends at the end of the year
Multiple vendors have literally shipped products which implement those standards. They are being used to production today.
Right now, part of that pressuring public also includes elected representatives in positions of some power over Google, which is quite the stick.

Of course, such elected are replaced every few years.
One advantage of lab notebooks that the article does not mention is that by design, the pages are firmly bound to the book, so you cannot lose them. I started to use lab notebooks because I would otherwise just write thoughts on loose-leaf paper and have a difficult time keeping track of the pages and their order. The lab notebook (or any notebook with firmly bound pages) solves that problem.

That said, I don't use lab notebooks for coding/software development. I tend to use Markdown files in a Git repository for that. That setup serves the same purpose, since I write down what I intend to do and whether I was able to achieve it or not, but it is much easier to use when coding in my experience.
The same tow trucks that would tow away vehicles after a crash would tow an EV to an impoundment yard where it could be monitored.
Haven’t heard of Neo before but it looks amazing.
Could you explain your process and likes/dislikes with the Neo/reMarkable?
Sorry. Yes I agree that you can be morally culpable for it, but not legally. I didn't notice the distinction there.
Very interesting, thanks for posting. Although by using the Kademlia infrastructure, which is also used by the eMule network, it could be blocked by some ISPs.
read the code. and i liked doing that. while i do mostly java, c++ and rust. there is an elegant beauty in pure C code.
It was exquisite to see Apple complain for several generations that everyone was copying them, then turn around and pretty much clone the HTC M7.

Then they had the gall to sue HTC. Glad the judge ended up forcing their hand, a rare case where might didn’t make right.
There are no statistics to back up this statement. All we know is that both EVs and ICE car’s spontaneously combust on rare occasions. There are examples of both here: https://normantaylor.com/blog/which-cars-catch-fire-the-most...

What’s interesting to me is that most people talk about NMC batteries in EVs, but from what I can tell LFP batteries should be safer and are becoming more popular. Would be good to see if there are stats to back this up.
That is very encouraging to hear! In the US we have a few forward thinking utilities, thou go perhaps not as forward thinking as imagining a 6x capacity grid. But it seems that most are stuck focusing on the disadvantages of change as opposed to the immense opportunity this transition provides.
Tool for what though? The cons far outweigh the pros anyway.
Even the pros are done better elsewhere IMO:

Connecting with family and friends? Calling/texting is better.

Groups? Forums are better.
You should read his biography. The idea Musk isn't technical will seem absurd after that.
"an open mind" to getting rug-pulled?
No longer. Too lazy and censored. Stopped performing even mundane tasks. Cancelled my sub and have been using bard and jetbrains AI for code. Haven’t looked back.
> Fiio etc.. make great products for a fraction of the cost of previously well-known Japanese or western companies and have the measurements to prove it.

Ironically, most of the ADCs on the market are equalled or beat out by a $10 Apple USB-C-to-3.5mm dongle smaller than my pinkie finger, and the measurements prove it.
Will the Japanese population disappear? A declining population isn’t the absolute end of the world. Human population has ebbed and flowed throughout time. What I’m saying is that we’re at 0 risk of a world wide population collapse.

Also the feedback mechanism for sex selection isn’t some hypothetical thing I invented. Look up Trivers-Willard hypothesis. Whether there’s a similar social pressure mechanism that determines how many offspring someone has I don’t know, but it’s silly to rule it completely out of hand when we know that social pressure between people do impact number of children.
I made myself such a tool: https://pdf.rere.re

It's js only, nothing is sent to the server. It automatically makes the background of signatures transparent. The result is a raster pdf as if you printed, signed and scanned the document.
I use it on desktop, not sure if it works well on phones.
I think order by price might be ordering by the lowest available price at time of index. This could be an out of date price if the index isn't updated when other pricing is updated. It almost certainly doesn't include shipping, as that can vary depending on where the item is and where you are so it can't be indexed. Filtering by seller doesn't change the sorting, in my experience, and I think neither does filtering by condition.

So, if someone is selling a used item in poor condition with maximum shipping, that product is going to sort as a low priced item.

At least, that's my reverse engineered understanding.
That's an extreme example, but: definitely.

Having an interface to turn seat heating on/off if simple stuff. Having the upgradeability, DRM, the subscription thing, and circumvention protection is significantly more complicated.
> Alongside lots of other signs, it was clear to me that the tech work being done there wasn't important to many or any people who would be using it. It seemed to mostly be about the value of the company's stock.

I worked for a medical technology startup for 8.5 years and the tech work really, truly mattered. Then we were acquired by a huge public company and I hung on to see what might happen.

Before the end of the first year it was apparent that all that was happening is verbatim your last sentence here. I left shortly after. I have some former colleagues who have hung on and they report that they have literally nothing of value to do today. They think the company is playing chicken with them, more or less, and hoping that they'll get bored out and leave.
When did that happen? I used to write a lot of C++, but it's been years since I've had to use it everyday.
A death rattle can often be mistaken for a rally
A huge downside of writing this down on paper is team collaboration. Imagine that instead this is kept in a tool like Notion which the entire team can access. At first this feels incredibly uncomfortable - your notes are there for everyone to see. However it’s a massive force multiplier because often the work is picked up by someone else later on, and instead of asking you they can self-serve. It’s pretty common that by the time they need it you would no longer be at the company.

I don’t have experience writing in a lab journal format, but for documents like growth experiments and how they worked, or RFCs, this is a godsend. It takes a lot of work to keep it tidy, but it’s worth it.
Switched back-and-forth as well, and ended up with Logseq long term.

In practice, logseq’s block-oriented system works really good for the daily journal, and with obsidian I always devolved to just prepending points to a single file anyway.
> Are you intimating Apple has been litigious with patents? Or just saying you have no sympathy for companies with lots of money?

This is a false dichotomy. Apple can be evil, and deserve to have bad things happen to it, without performing its evil through the medium of patent lawsuits.
"No seriously u guys, some people made mistakes but we are totally legit now.."

Is that the us government you are quoting? Or maybe the police or I know, it's international bankers!

People who reflexively shit on cryptocurrency are amazing, people have no clue what fiat currency is and isnt, and it certainly isnt legit -- yet you believe in the fairy tale that a dozen bankers in a board room can set the price of money for billions of people. Thats the fairy tale you believe in. But dont worry, they are from the government so we know they are here to help...

Unbelievable, how many outright lies do you need to be told before you question the government and state lead propaganda?