skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So they technically did the wrong thing.

Is this a website for software engineers or lawyers?

> Not really. It was the cheapest way to protect their reputation without acknowledging anything was wrong.

Worked out great for reputation management!

But this isn’t a fact, it’s just your opinion. Mine is that they wanted your phone to keep working without much fuss. The fact that this is still how iPhones operate even now bolsters this point. They just now disclose that your battery has degraded to a point that impacts performance.
IMHO this would be a publishable result.
Honestly, I could feel it. In 2023, I practiced ~200 leetcode problems and learned how to create an LLM but I felt like I was the least employable I'd ever been. It was very difficult to get interviews, and even though I managed to get multiple offers, many of these were at companies I'd not normally have accepted offers from. It took a long time to find a job offer I wanted to accept.

I do feel that there are signs of recovery now, so good luck to those that are still looking. I know it's very hard -- particularly if you're also supporting a family.
This is the thing that surprises me most about credit cards: you can pay with just the information that's easily visible on the card. And you share that information directly with the merchant. Surely that's a gaping security hole? I'm not surprised they need to be paranoid about fraud, if it's that easy.

When I buy something with my bank card, I always have to provide my PIN. If I buy something online, the site redirects me to my bank, where I authenticate myself with my bank's system, and then authorize the payment with my bank's system (involving 2FA), and then the bank tells the site that the payment has been authorized. The site can blindly trust my bank and can immediately ship stuff to me, because the payment will go through.

I've never had any blocks nor fraud issues with this system.
I was wondering if that's why you are doing this, impressive how much smaller Wiki2Touch is. Very cool project of yours, hope you succeed!
I think that’s supposed to be the joke.
Profit can be made to be 0 very easily though (a big capital investment, for example). So, it's hard to use that as a barometer of size.
Basically, "there is no (scientific) evidence of X" means that nobody published a peer-reviewed paper yet presenting evidence for X. At least that's a common interpretation...
It only kicked in under certain conditions so I’d bet it was based on monitoring current battery output. I had a phone affected by it and first noticed the problem in the winter when cold temperatures meant it was relatively easy to trigger outdoors but it still never happened indoors.
Interesting Oldschool Runescape recently released some new bosses with a new drop mechanic. Historically a rare drop could mean a 1/5000 dice roll, some people get very lucky but others can get very very unlucky. The new mechanic was to have 3 more common invisible "drops" and then on the 3rd one you get the item. The result compresses the distribution, it's more unlikely to get very lucky or very unlucky.

Time will tell how this impacts the game's enjoyment.
The brilliant play is to be like the elves and say both yea and nay. 50/50 and either way you can look brilliant!
Federal Judge Orders Removal of Wind Farm in Osage County
Isn't this good publicity for Apple? A phone that survives a 16,000 foot fall?
Don't worry, the U.S. government will respond by increasing the H1B visa cap as they always do.
violating users privacy and acting as a hostile monopoly is ballparks different than receiving a ticket
It is amazing how the hype for this went off a cliff, especially as the LLM stuff went into orbit.

There is a large contingent that understandably want a new iPhone type success, along with new App Store level opportunities, but like with the VR wave I suspect they will be disappointed by this one. The computing industry appears to have run out of obvious things to do with what it has developed.
Excellent time for brick--and-mortars to hire skilled people.
I do care, I'd never put my time (my worth from marketing perspective) into watching these money-infested events, it doesn't matter if its cycling, football, hockey etc. Constant money chasing deformed these sport events into something I can't respect and won't expose my kids to due to all the toxicity, with the usual hard talk prior it about the reasons.

Also, if somebody is giving their 99.9% to the effort it doesn't matter what the objective results are, the effort should be respected regardless. This kind of competitiveness goes directly against all good that sports can and should bring into healthy society.

Luckily there are plenty of sports where money is scarce and folks do it mostly for the love of sport itself.
Where it lands is the biggest factor. A phone will almost never break if it falls on soft grass or mud. And no phone is surviving a high velocity drop onto concrete.

Angle of fall is another big one. From what I've seen phones are generally fine if they fall face up or down, but even a slight bump on the edges is enough to crack the glass.
Not to mention that many Chinese immigrants will give their children European names.
Most calendars have the option for you to subscribe to an ical by pasting in the web address. Which they will then keep in sync.
Show HN: BrowserBox on Windows
This product is the first step to the real future of tech. Just like the iPhone took years to catch on (similarly to Vision Pro, the big problem was price), this product's successors will be the market leaders for all tech in 5 years (maybe longer, but I think 5 years is fair).
After driving a Fisker Ocean I think that car has the opposite problem. It's so responsive and sensitive that it's hard to get your bearings as the numbers become a blur unless you're literally looking straight at them. It'll happily tell you that you're going 67...68...69...68...69...70...71...70...69 and so on. The numeric display actually feels more like a distraction than an aid because the rapid changes demand undue attention.

I actually prefer a combination with a slower refresh rate on the numeric display (or at least less sensitivity to small changes). The gauge can help with the vague sense of how fast you're going while you're looking at the road and the number can help you calibrate when glancing right at it.
You can usually identify the direction, what is nearly impossibly hard is identifying the time.

Also known as “the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent”.
Not really on topic, but question about papers: when viewing the linked paper, at the top it says title and names of authors and universities, but no date. The way to guestimate the age is to scroll to the bottom to the references and see the most recent date visible in the references. But of course that method is not fool proof if the references happen to be all older.

Putting author names but no date at the top seems to be some sort of standard template or convention that every single paper author or institution everywhere uses since forever, since I never see dates at tops of papers.

Why is date not part of the standard template? Knowing the date is so incredibly important to know the paper in context, and in relation to other science. Especially for science I just don't understand why they don't have a convention to date their stuff.

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Anyway, why I was interested in the date was because the article said "Why aren’t we all SIEVE-ing?". Well turns out the paper is from 2023 or newer, so that could explain why.
hx-boost is the simplest way to do this, but it updates the body content rather than the form. In most cases this will probably be effectively the same.
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They're just tools. How often do you upgrade your screwdrivers because you like the handles on the newer model better? Sounds silly, doesn't it?

My iPhone is 4 years old, it's a 2nd gen SE. Still does what I need it to do. My laptop is a 2012 MacBook Pro. It still basically works but it's starting to have issues so I'll be replacing it this year.

I was late to the Apple Watch game, having just getting one a year ago. I don't see why I'll ever replace it until it simply fails mechanically.

I stopped using my iPad because I couldn't do everything I needed to do an an iPad so I still needed my MacBook. Given that I have an iPhone, it just hit a spot I don't need. It seems like the options are laptop, table, phone - pick two.

Is that downsizing? Not really. I just get the tools I need as I need them.
Indeed I missed that.
Depends on context. If (say) Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands again, then the UK declared war against Argentina and launched a major military campaign against them - would you expect your employer to be cool with your vocal support for the Argentine side?
By automating producing more of the same drivel.

"The more things change, the more they stay the same."
What do you see with it? I see a better in some ways (display, cameras, maybe finger tracking) VR headset than an alternative like the Quest 3 but also with some serious downsides, no controllers, insanely high price and potential weight issues because of all the metal/glass.
If we still lived under monarchy, I'd agree 100%, but we don't.

There's at least a theoretical chance of voting the government out in favour of someone marginally better. I don't know what are the odds of that happening, but it's definitely bigger than 0%. And if we're not in the board of directors of a company, our odds of making them less corrupt is precisely 0%.
Swing by archive.org, they have full movies!

This one is next in my watch list:

https://archive.org/details/Gattaca

I've also "discovered" their software tab recently.
I raise my cup to Apple for raising the bar in new HCI, even if I don't find the product particularly compelling.
A lot of people are surprised to learn that the whole narrative of Satan as a fallen angel comes from this book and not the bible.
> I eschewed desktops in favour of laptops

I went the other way. I get gaming desktops - they have all the power I need for working in this industry, and they are expandable and re-configurable as times change so I can just update parts instead of needing a whole new system when needs change. No "whole device" upgrades are needed.

Clearly, this doesn't work for travelling for work, but if my job needs me to have a more mobile solution, they they need to provide it.
... other than "person x has never been and is not presently a citizen" this is as clear as it can get. Naturalized citizens are not eligible to be president, there is no gray space on this matter.
Driving policy decisions based on this fanfic seems like a poor move. The federal government already has several centralized databases of residences (to pick a boring one: income tax forms).
It’s not true if you’re looking at sheet music in Safari while playing an instrument for example, or looking at engine assembly diagram while working on an engine with greasy hands.
>Symfony is still a pos framework

Symfony was a bit rough in the beginning, but I'd definitely rate it as one of the most well engineered web frameworks out there right now. I've been keeping small and large projects up-to-date for the past 10 years with only minimal effort. You just have to keep 3rd party deps in check.
I not wedded to this system.

My personal standpoint is that copywrite should be the minimum necessary to encourage and allow people to create works.

That would suggest to me somewhere south of 10 years, possibly varying with the specific art form.

The doubling fee thing is somewhat appealling because it acts as a tax on valuable works.

If Disney wants to spend millions to protect Mickey mouse then there is that option, yes the public domain loses, but the tax acts as compensation for that.

I don't see why this doesn't work for the little guy. If they want to pay the fees they can, the point is people are only going to pay fees if it's worth it. That applies to Disney or Joe blogs. If it isn't worth $1/$2/$4 why should you get to stop everyone else using it?
So you propose punishing people whom have nothing to do with the crime? Interesting take on the rule of law, to say the least.
That confirms my anecdotal experience. At times I felt I was losing my mind with all the "record low unemployment" and "soft landing" stories in the press. 2021 and 2022 felt like great years in terms of the job market. 2023 felt horrible.
See, now you're using the seat belt as an excuse to not avoid other risks.

Avoiding a car crash in the first place would definitely be the better alternative.
TBH the only thing left from american dream is Taylor Swift concert EUR 500 per ticket in my nearby city in Europe.
I get that it might be a lot of stuff, but for the record, couldn't you post it here on a public forum for the other interested parties to see?
If you want to catch both `open` and `openat`, the opensnoop BPF[1] program is pretty nifty, especially if you are trying to figure out file stuff across several different programs ("which #$%^-ing program keeps modifying this file", for example).

[1] I've been dipping my toes into BPF recently, and while complicated (best to simply clone the bpftools repo and work off of that) there's a lot that can be done that tools like strace won't be able to match.
With a minor press release and just 256GB storage, it seems like Apple is losing faith in this direction. Hope I'm wrong, underlying tech seems super cool.
Oh, this thing is still ongoing?
It seems like it requires an external unit. I cannot easily mount an external unit. The bathroom is far from external walls, boiler is connected to the shared air intake in the wall that leads to the roof. So this doesn't look like a drop-in replacement.
Ask HN: Which roles in your org could you lay off to increase productivity?
I will start.

I would kick out any person that did not take active part in delivery of our products in a hands-on fashion, on a daily basis.

I would also kick out 50% of the technical staff all together since most tech orgs has a tendency to be simply oversized. I wouldn't matter which 50% because the other 50% would learn and adapt.
How? Did it even reach significant mobile share at any point?
> After extensive optimizations it turns out, that the interpreted code is not significantly smaller than the native code in most scenarios (although there are cases where the difference is significant).

Does that mean that the whole thing was ultimately a failed experiment, or that the native code optimizations have become so good that the interpreted mode is made obsolete in most situations?
This is a great simplistic scheme to sell to a typical corporate go-getter simplistifier manager.
https://bitslap.it/blog/posts/playground-it.html
> Office can open them.

Maybe, but it's probably more reliable for them to just grab LibreOffice to open it.

It's much easier to get LibreOffice than MS Office.
Hedge funds are what their name says - they’re supposed to be a hedge for particular situations, not a main investment. But they became “cool” to own and talk about.

Properly used, a hedge fund should just be a drag on your portfolio, but you have it because you’re hedging against risks that others don’t even bother with (like, say, total US collapse).
iPhone Survives 16,000-Foot Fall from Alaska Air Flight
They're only dupes (by HN's duperules) if they have significant discussion anyway.
Just started reading Bogleheads’ Guide to Investing, quite a good read so far. It’s very informative about how the investing/trading industry relies on regular people giving up their gains on fees, loaded funds, etc when a simple investment plan like above is incredibly low risk.
Well, I'm certainly going to go into an Apple Store and see if I can test one out. I'm really excited about the potential for productivity focused VR and while this isn't that yet, hopefully it'll get there. In the meantime I've got my SimulaVR pre-ordered.
What if Crazy Carl has ever published a scientific paper? Does it count? Does the paper need to specifically be about turnips? Or about aliens?

It's not like there is a "scientist" card that some people carry and some don't... and it's not like none of the hypothetical card-carrying scientists would ever have crazy opinions.
What's hearus.me? Why does the GPT want to connect to app.hearus.me? Aren't you guys called mavex.ai?
I don't think hype was ever _that_ high anyway, plus, this is how it is with every product more or less. You hear about it, there's a wave of interest, then generally speaking it tapers off until closer to launch. We now have a launch date so I anticipate interest continues to go upward until launch day and we'll start getting real world feedback as to whether it's a game changer or a flop.

Personally, VR type stuff does not seem like it's going to be a big deal for me. But. I do believe that if Apple can make my work flow better for the work day with a device like this, it would be a big win and that is where my hype for this is coming. It actually allows that separation of work and home easier if work is always in the headset, so there's a potential work life balance win in here.
How about using the GPU to render something? Blender lets you render stuff with the GPU right?
While it may be convenient for walmart and large chains to leverage delivery companies’ infrastructure, for consumers and small businesses it is not. Nor is it for the economy at large. Whenever i discuss the topic with a small business owner their eyes lit up. I am fortunate to live in an area where community is still a thing and you can sense the strong desire to move away from the status quo.
Nice. Who will host the website? Can you also add custom qr code designs?
Is it just me misremembering, or is the light seal (last picture carousel on the website) a lot larger than when they originally presented it last year?

It looks like it will stick out to the front a lot. They seem to "hide" this fact by having nearly all pictures at a 90 degrees angle from the face.
I agree, it would likely have extremely diminishing returns in terms of lives saved to have more stringent safety requirements. Needs to be a balance after all.
if it can handle my 75 IPD, i'm in for two

(else I may need two...)
I thought it was inspired by the Sieve of Eratosthenes which scans for composite numbers.
I think dolmen was saying that if its likely that a phone can be found after being sucked out of an airplane, a scenario like yours is also prone to happen
Yep. Same chip: 6502. I'm guessing the nearest thing to this is probably cc65: https://cc65.github.io/
Why Most VC's Don't Sign NDAs (2006)
I have never had problems finding work, until now. It used to be easy. Recruiters used to call me at night. Now they ghost me.
2Advanced Studios v4 Flash Website in 2003 [video]
Details were missing and it was surprising that 120 wafers per hour boils down to 1 every two minutes. I got further confused when an earlier x/y positioning was related to a later vertical positioning in context of magnetic levitation.
Congratulations Rohit, Ayush and team Portkey on the launch!

Excited to take it for a spin and contribute!
We don't typically efficiently explore the space. This is why coaches exist.

The feedback loops are often long. Getting a review on a performance, etc.

If a device were set up to trigger pain within some milliseconds of an incorrect activation, surely we could speed this up?
I do hope this is successful. The cult-like behavior that Apple inspires may be the big push needed to help VR become adopted by the general public. If it fails, then I'd be pessimistic that VR will have meaningful progression in the next decade.
The last time I bought a bike was in the early 90's - still have and ride it. I didn't notice it being any different, repair-wise, from the bikes I had as a kid in the 70's. What's not easy to repair?
Google settles a $5B lawsuit over Chrome's data collection in incognito mode
Beyond that, it’s not even clear that it’s possible to make money doing this. The major players all lose money, and they have years of traction built up.

This might be interesting from a technical perspective, but it’s unlikely that there’s a viable business model here.
I've never understood how the right-wing thinks that having a government agency work to determine if people are 'poor enough' to 'earn the right' to have healthcare provided is an efficient use of resources. Seems backwards to me. If we want people to be able to work, basic health is a requirement.
Yes, but society generally doesn't like liars and certainly doesn't seem appropriate for them to live in luxury. And what is doping if not lying about your actual skills, efforts put into training and your mostly genetical limits
A Key Clue in the Alaska Airlines Blowout Turns Up in a Backyard
I never noticed this before, but you're right, it is very weird!
Perhaps your corporeal flesh is a biohazard to be incenerated on your death but my God considers our bodies sacred and tells us to return to the planet to sustain life. I don't believe life ends at earth.

The idea that we must "leave no trace" on the moon or any other heavenly body is idiotic and impossible. It stems from scientist looking to protect their own interests. We will live on the moon, and mars, and many other planets some day. These were all gifts given to us by the Almighty.
The shareholders are already held accountable by the practice of fining. The shareholders have a "merely financial" interest. The ptoblem with not piercing the corporate veil is specifically that execs end up getting a "free pass" as it were to do scummy things.
SteamOS isn't yet available for non-Valve handhelds, mostly because that means Valve would need to support a variety of hardware. They've stated they're trying to make it more broadly available now that the OLED has shipped.
I just read the release section of wikipedia and it doesn't sound like it took long for the iPhone to 'catch on'.

"As of Q4 2007, strong iPhone sales put Apple no. 2 in U.S. smartphone vendors, behind Research In Motion and ahead of all Windows Mobile vendors.[50]"

Im also pretty sure that, why its interesting, the benefit is still less than runing your outfit (literally) and this alone will be a deal breaker for A LOT of people.

Despite the price: A lot of corporate phones are top seller phones. I don't get budget from my company to buy this one AND any other deivce and you need both, a laptop and that device as you will not use it 8h a day
> There is an endless supply of corporate robots to replace them.

If people will be held personally responsibly they have good incentives to not do this kind of stuff. Right now the incentive is exactly the other way: do anything to earn a profit and it will be good for your personal bank account. If it turns out some stuff was illegal, then well, not something that will be your problem as long as you didn't commit outright blatant fraud.

That Travis Uber guy may have fallen from grace somewhat, but he's still more wealthy than most of us will be, and part of why he's wealthy is because he knowingly (and very explicitly) broke a bunch of laws, never mind he resigned for reasons other than being a Uber's criminal activities.
>With Mac Virtual Display, users can even bring the powerful capabilities of their Mac into Vision Pro, creating an enormous, private, and portable 4K display, ideal for pro workflows

this to me would be the more immediate selling point(compared to more consumer type stuff), if this is good enough to replace external monitors so I can essentially have my ideal setup wherever I want. Companies could offer these as a return to office incentive, in theory they would cut back on a lot of the productivity complaints of open office compared to home office.