skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard to describe what exactly I don't like. Initially I thought it was just a muscle memory thing but I've had it long enough now that I've got used to the different UI for everyday things and try to use it's shortcuts on my old phone.

But overall I don't like it.

I don't like how it handles notifications, it seems to hide most of them, and the ones it does show it doesn't show in a useful way compared to my old phone. What exactly is different I can't say, but it's weird.

It also handles permissions differently. Some apps when I disable certain permissons get stuck in a permission loop because they can't cope with the idea of only having a particular permission denied. I never had this problem with my old phone despite it also having granular permissions. Seems to be related to a change in how notification permissions are handled exactly.

I don't like how I can't quickly change the ringer volume. It used to be a separate slider when I hit the volume on my old phone. Changing now is a gamble and finding how to get it to vibrate mode seems beyond me.

1Password used to allow biometric unlock on my old phone. I can't get that to work on my new phone so have to type the master password (extremely long password) on a mobile device, which makes it useless to me. I'm not going to type my master password on a phone keypad in public, that's asking for it to leak.

The fingerprint sensor is okay, but I preferred the below-screen sensor on my old phone.

It's fiddly to get back to the home screen. On my old phone if I scanned my thumbprint it would go back to home. On the pixel it's a finicky swipe-up-from-the-bottom thing which sometimes goes home and sometimes goes to an app-switcher.

Setting up the phone required giving google rather more permissions than I was comfortable with, but denying them locked out key features of the phone so I felt forced to accept.

The pixel 8 is also slightly smaller than my old phone, though of course I knew that when I bought it. I didn't realise how much 0.1inches was going to feel like a major loss. I didn't want to go over-sized with the pixel 8 pro though.

Overall a downgrade and really horrible experience compared to my old phone, which I only replaced because it was so old and stopped getting regular updates. It was a Huawei P20 pro and in terms of general use still feels just as fast as it did when it was new.

The only feature I like that the pixel 8 has which my old phone doesn't is the wireless charging. That's a game changer when it comes to preventing wires wearing out.
next up, retailers find out that copies of the board game Sorry! are being autodeclined. The human review that should have caught it was so backlogged that there is a roughly 1/3 chance of it timing out in the queue and the review task being discarded.
It's also important to understand why we'd even want vectors in the first place.

This article covers the advantages of semantic search over keyword search - https://medium.com/neuml/getting-started-with-semantic-searc...
> Who doesn’t think China has a ten year AI algorithm to takeover Taiwan?

anybody who works in either AI or natsec
My terrible suspicion is that these algos are good for the majority of people in the sense that they are prone to manipulation and buy these inferior borderline fraud products all the time, so the algo finds its target function results and optimize for these.

This is what we don’t seem to accept. Enshittification.

Also shipping and return policy is so convenient, that even the grumbling people are eating this up.
I've been hearing a lot of complaints of later that amazon has also become a complete crapshoot, primarily from .us based friends.

I'm in .uk and have yet to have a problem (there was one sneakily labeled listing but the keyword they'd stuffed in wasn't one I understood and the price and product were both what I wanted/expected so -I- wasn't disadvantaged by that listing at least).
They're listing with AI descriptions. They're getting taken down fast. Here's an example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38972344
>The worst thing for me is how the Amazon search algorithm seems to want to show you everything but the item you searched for.

They may be suggesting on sellers request unsold or rarely sold products that vaguely relate to searches, but sellers want to get rid of quickly.
If Hobby Lobby can be Christian, any business can be Buddhist.
Previous discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38950721
I feel like Meetup has always been a somewhat bad product. Stuck in the early 00's. When they started charging crazy amounts to organize a meetup I got sick of them.

Recently we've been using https://guild.host to manage most of our Svelte Society meetups.
Oh, sorry for not being more clear. That's not the one. It's "Package management: make notebooks reproducible down to the packages they use": https://marimo-team.notion.site/840c475fd7ca4e3a8c6f20c86fce...

Does that align with what you're talking about?

That page has some scrawled brainstormed notes. But we haven't spent time designing a solution yet.
> impending recession

Hum... That graph shows recessions being a signal of impeding cuts and really not the other way around.
Here's a link to the archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240112170316/https://www.amazo...
This is harder than it looks..

Is there a "quality filter" setting you can toggle on and off? Who decides what goes on which side of the filter? At Amazon's scale, it would have to be automated.

Much like search SEO and every other algorithm, people would start to figure out how to game it, and eventually Amazon would give up trying to police it because it would cost them more money than it's worth, and you're back to where you started except now you have an additional - and inaccurate - "quality" attribute on every product.
because of the adjective shatters.

"doubles" is accurate but not as strong in the mind of the reader.

it's like seeing an entry in youtube titled "person x DESTROYS person y" and it turns out it's just your normal, everyday, point/counter-point discussion.

It's meant to increase the odds that you click, and that's literally what clickbait is.
My experience has been similar to yours in that things at least "felt" nice and convenient. That is, until the brand new first aid kit I ordered came with the safety seal broken and hastily taped over. Who knows what was done to the product? What if it was resealed with better effort? How could I possibly trust anything from Amazon?

Maybe ignorance is bliss.
Archive from 20220805:

https://archive.is/4l509
What are your standards for quality?

I’m an enthusiastic amateur home chef. I have ordered some of these “trash” whetstones.

My knives get sharp. They aren’t damaged. The whetstone works over time.

If you are like a knife artisan, yeah I guess Amazon won’t work for you. But I’m guessing the results work for 99.9% of people.
Show HN: Just F-Ing Ping
Haha yeah I think that journey is worth taking into creating your own ecosystem as well, if there's time for it, otherwise having a polished walled garden is good news to me. Like in The Secret Garden.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108071/
This was custom software on custom hardware. Bit different from some web app with built in debounce.
Why Are Salt and Pepper Paired?
All the smart ones probably already test their games on proton. IMHO they'd be idiots if they didn't. Stuff just works mostly and when it doesn't it's probably relatively easy to address the issues for developers. And of course the Steam Deck is becoming a pretty popular console so there's that as well. Steam on Linux is becoming a pretty nice juicy market with quite a few users. Targeting that is going to be an easy choice. Especially when it is essentially almost no effort to do so.
I hate that quote, because it's dangerously false. Even if the power is off, that doesn't mean it's safe to stand on it.

One example would be if the gearing breaks so that the segments move freely:

Congratulations, you and the crowd--given false confidence by a comedian's joke--just piled onto the top of a downhill treadmill... It will now accelerate until you crash into a smothering crunchy heap at the bottom.
> If I want Chinese quality merchandise there's a Chinese store very nearby where I can go and look at the plastic at least.

You mean like the equivalent of sorting by lowest on eBay??

Like a Chinese guy I can walk up to and say, "I need a 120 foot HDMI and I will not be paying a cent over $22.43 for it because that's what's all the lowest cost sellers on eBay charge."
Im referring to the 2nd gen, never really saw the first gen until now but the charging method now is quite nice.

First gen still is no worse than first-gen Magic Mouse, which launched under jobs though. Which is my main point, I don’t think Jobs was solely responsible for apple’s focus on design

> Near-useless gimmick

Man, millions of procreate enthusiasts would beg to disagree

> doesn’t work on the giant trackpads

Does anyone who stops to think about this for more than 2 seconds actually want this? What would you use it for besides digital signatures? Writing-to-text is just barely usable on tablets, I can’t see it being viable when you can’t see what you’re writing.
This comment is interesting in that it itself exemplifies principle #5.

(And also principles #6, #7, #9 to some extent.)
Yeah we use Meetup for probably 3-5 events a week at our makerspace. Their gradual decline has had us ready to stand up our own minimal replacement but Meetup.com is so good for discovery, SEO, etc.

Their API changes have been a big pain in the ass for us. Just let us pay for access to the older API and we'll gladly do it. Then they turned off RSS feeds and nobody can get any answer out of them about whether it was intentional.
There are indeed several other examples of this partial delegation of authority for decisions concerning safety, either to industry players or to third parties, though the FAA "ODA" mechanism is probably the most prominent. EASA's mechanism is similar in many respects, but more focused on properties of the oversight entity within the designer-manufacturer firms than on properties of the individuals doing the work. I wrote a discussion paper on precisely these issues a few weeks ago, which discusses some of the questions related to independence from commercial pressure, access to expertise, and so on:

https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21ALZ0IuyZGHImolY&id=D37...
True. I was only talking about the non charging aspects, bc I drive an EV at home and the charging bits are known to me already. If you're not used to using EVs, best not to rent EV except if you know you won't need to charge.
I don't mean to rag on ikea here, i have a bunch of ikea furniture and find it to be generally sturdy and good enough to stand up to anything i ask of it. i've also got some similar wal-mart furniture that i have no complaints with. i guess i haven't had the experience you have with whatever the bottom tier of furniture truly is.

my point was more just that "good enough" furniture is often good enough. we don't usually demand too much performance from a chest of drawers: heirloom-quality furniture is nice, but mostly an unnecessary luxury item.
It was a product listing where the title was a ChatGPT apology message: https://i.ibb.co/THZbWFP/IMG-4052.jpg
Right so you have plenty of options to pick from in every price range.
I dunno, I bought a MacBook Pro because:

- I cannot stay happy with a WM/DE config on Linux. Most of then can’t even render a desktop at a reasonable size (or even consistent across all apps)

- I like the hardware and I’m not particularly price sensitive

Now I can add the performance for local AI to the reasons to do so again.

I almost entirely use open source software though, and I don’t think I use anything Mac specific except Alfred.

As far as I can tell, there is no viable alternative for people who are simultaneously very demanding of their tools and unwilling to spend half their life fiddling with configs.
Still, imho, hardly the scale to have the effect visible, if you think how many servers exist vs. the electricity demand reduction.

One example I'd find reasonable, perhaps the Apple Silicon M family has a shot at it, when comparing the energy draw diff (less than half of Intel's equivalent) multiply by the adoption at scale.. maybe that.

One more straightforward that definitely have a chance at achieving the effect: LED lightbulbs: huge consumption reduction, huge scale.
I agree with your perspective overall but I find when something like this is posted the responses are usually along the lines of "how do we know that statistical prediction on a large enough scale is not akin to understanding?" Which to me is a somewhat lazy retort but highlights that one huge issue in this field is not really having definitions or an understanding of our own about what we are debating, and that we can't rely on saying "X is not Y" to dispel hype because at our current level of rigor around definitions, someone can just as easily say "nuh uh, X is Y".

For me the biggest indicator that something is still missing, and a reason not mentioned here, is the lack of any killer app besides general chatbots and code completion, even more than a year out from their explosion onto the scene (at which point both of those use cases already existed). It was assumed that the LLMs would quickly change everything but it appears their seemingly-minor limitations are pretty fundamental for many use cases.
I'm in the south of France, owning a Tesla Model 3 since 2019 now with 104k km on the odometer (152 Wh/km average). Before that it was a Renault Twingo v1 2006 model.
Lawyers don't like losing cases.
Are you able to acknowledge that I have said that both HXML & Siren are hypermedia? A simple yes or no will suffice.
That's fine, and isn't the responsibility of the author of the GPL code you want to use. If you can comply with the terms of the license, great, you can use it. If you can't, you need to find something else whose license terms you can comply with. And you might have to pay money for it, but that's life.
Wal-Mart and Target are the 'curated' everything stores. My biggest disappointment with them is that they never have what I want.

I think I'm OK with Amazon being Aliexpress for the US market. Sometimes I want to get random crap from the depths of Shenzhen, and Amazon is that. What is unfortunate is that they can't get "real" brands to sell there, because of their counterfeiting issue. The "mistake" Amazon made (that has probably made them hundreds of billions of dollars) was to let someone send in a box of crap and get paid when someone shopping for "Tide Laundry Detergent" gets their box of crap instead of Tide Laundry Detergent.

Other than that, they're where they are today because they're good. I just wouldn't buy anything valuable from them; laptops, cameras, phones, etc. Those you'll have to find a dedicated electronics retailer. But sometimes I'm like building a 3D printer and I want a touchscreen display or something for it... for $20 I can have one the same day. That is super neat. It works because no "brand" makes parts for hobbyists, and some company you've never heard of in China is actually the market leader. Amazon connects you to them... but also to billions of scammers. Caveat emptor.

Edit to add: I'm talking about the in-person stores. I have no idea what Wal-Mart and Target do online.
Empathy is free
I dunno, I’ve never tried. It’s just one of those scenarios where I find the visual is a much more useful medium.
> For the builders of the European Union, nationalism was a scourge that reduced their continent to ashes, not a path forward.

What? The EU is a nationalist institution, that has a parliament which can't pass its own laws, and where all the real power lies with the EU comission, which is appointed by national governments.
Since the prohibition on weapons development & use remains, this reads like normalising contract language to focus on the activity rather than the actor.

Both are vague and problematic to enforce, but the latter more so.
> And government should only have as much power as you think the worst possible people in charge should have.

This immediately falls apart, by that logic we should literally have no government or society to speak of. "Only as much power as you think the worst possible person should have" would mean literally no power - there isn't a single decision in my life I would pass off to the worst person I could think of. What you're describing is anarchy.

You build checks and balances, but you cannot have a functioning government without the assumption that the people you put in charge will act in good faith, but also have a reliable means to remove them from power if they act in bad faith.
If they keep you showing you ads, and you keep paying them $120, then I can't see why they'd stop showing you ads.
The 70's through 90's were littered with the corpses of computer companies that were outcompeted and never recovered - the IBM PC/DOS/Windows 3.x effectively killed not only the competing CP/M (8080/Z80) market for PC's, but outcompeted the Amiga, Atari ST, and of course the entire 8-bit market was obsoleted by the 16-bit 80[2]86. Apple's struggle to enhance MacOS to keep up (vs Win95/NT juggernaut) at that time are well documented. At least Apple still had some brand recognition, so maybe you are right.
Having to care enough and educate yourself about how to tell the difference adds a lot of friction to the shopping experience. I have no qualms about buying from Amazon if I know exactly what I’m looking for and I’m shopping in a category where I’m at least pretty confident I’m not going to get counterfeit stuff (Apple accessories? Forget it).

But when I just need some basic household thing and don’t want to become an expert on the category, I often shop from other retailers where I can just be pretty sure they aren’t selling garbage.

Any porcelain measuring spoon someone like Crate and Barrel sells is probably a decent porcelain measuring spoon, but if I buy that on Amazon, I have to worry about which brands are legit so I don’t end up getting a spoon with porcelain-look paint that will flake off or something like that.

A marketplace where almost anybody can sell almost anything has a completely different level of trust than a store where professional buyer is making a conscious decision about what products they should carry - the presence of many low quality products dilutes the entire marketplace, even the quality products from legitimate brands
You can search for something simple on Amazon - scroll past to the end of the results and not find it.

You can then open up your favorite Search Engine and see it as the first result, linking to Amazon.
Well, if you don't find them interesting, you don't have to be here? Many of us still do find value here.

Do you have other similar forums you recommend?
You never chose option 1 or 2 :)

"that isn't how the UN works anyway, especially the ICC which charges individuals"
Exactly so to resolve the current situation, Israel has no options. Doubtful that the court would convict Hamas anyway for just killing a few jews.

They can press charges while Hamas continues to rape and murder and wait and then even with a conviction, the rape and murder continues or they can do what they are doing now and resolve the situation. Any long term solutions can come later.

Also assume the US should just bring a UN court case against the Houthis in Yemen as well instead of using force to defend ships?
"looks like an esg"

Go read the rest of the thread where they discuss the very technical reasons this is cool.

What kind of world do you live in where you equate ESG with being harmful? Sounds like "conservative uncle who doesn't know anything about the topic".
Well you’re not correct there. The first round was in November and 300 managing directors, representing 10% of the employees at that level were let go.

The cuts expected next week are for middle management at the next two levels down. Subsequent to that there is an expectation of one more round. Additionally Citi is shuttering the muni business.

I think most people expect that after those changes attrition should get to the headcount target by 2026.
Talk to friends and family, and only buy when someone has had a positive experience with a product before. Use outlets like consumer reports that do long-term reviews, etc.
I have spend few years in San Diego doing hikes inland. There are decently sized mountains in the desert between say Borrego Springs and the coast. Not an optimal area to build a pipeline cheaply.

Pipe going along Colorado river should have less bumpy course but there is a biosfere reserve just on the top of Baja California. Not a good spot to suck giant volumes of sea water, even less so to construct a pipeline or heavens forbid dump the concentrated brine.
Having both is still important in tempered instrument notation. Even if they sound the same, they aren't from a music theory standpoint.
No, that's not what whataboutism is.

Whataboutism is if someone says something like "Oh, yeah well, we have a bigger problem - humans kill more, so who cares about cats?" No. I'm literally saying that when it comes to cats killing birds, there is no problem. There's no radical ecological devastation happening. There's nothing to fix.

What is happening is that the number of birds killed by cats is emotionally large, such that humans interpret it as a problem, because big numbers are scary. "Did you know cats kill close to 4 billion birds every year? That's awful! We have to do something!"

"Did you know that spiders kill and consume 600 million metric tons worth of animals every year? That's awful! That's more meat than humans eat! We have to do something!" Except, we don't, because no matter how scared you are of big numbers, their presence doesn't mean there's a problem.

Similarly, with cats, we can maybe make their bird-killing sound even scarier by framing it like the spiders above: "Cats are killing 1 million metric tons worth of birds every year! Birds are doomed! We have to do something!"

Big numbers scare me too, especially the spiders one. 600 million metric tons is a lot of meat. Four billion birds sounds like a lot. But are these problems? Don't think so.
If you stand by the pumpjack, and the sun is at just the right height, and you carefully position yourself in such way as to place the pumpjack structure directly between yourself and the sun - you could personally experience the abject misery of having a moving shadow be cast upon your person - so that you can experience the horrors of the wind turbines first-hand.

However do take care of not breathing any fumes or stepping into any toxic spillages in the vicinity of oil equipment as not to pollute your immersive experience with any negative effects that are unrelated to the wind turbines.
Google search results still have -some- useful links.

(I'm still having good results from amazon but I can understand 'entirely enshittified' as an opinion from people getting a similar thing there)
> If firing 40 people every quarter is normal for you then your company culture is fucked.

Turnover in sales is often 25-40% across industries, some are voluntary, but just as many aren't. If about half of all departures are firings and Prince's numbers are accurate, then Cloudflare is significantly below the industry average.

Though, he does say "go to market org" and not "salespeople", so it might include other professions as well.
That's right, there are many job opportunities in Cleveland. The current unemployment rate there is only 3.7%. Anyone who actually wants to work can find a job.
no, now, you're thinking of Silk Road or some such.

The vast vast majority of consumers will only expect to find legal products/services on an everything store. If you are going to qualify everything to include things that will potentially land the user in prison, then sure, we shouldn't call it everything.
And touch interface works on the casted lovelace dashboards too!

Completely opens up these displays to be a virtually unrestricted canvas for doing or displaying anything you want.