skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like cool demos as much as the next guy, but maybe I just don't get it — why is this a feature and why would I want this?
The article mentions the the French indice de réparabilité, but it's not perfect (and you need to speak French).

> For some products, the French indice de réparabilité can help you take this into account, in order to choose a washing machine that scores 10/10 for spare parts price instead of one that scores 2,5/10, or a TV that scores 7,5/10 instead of one that scores 0/10.(7) However, you cannot search for or filter products by spare parts score on any website. You have to check them one by one by reviewing the scoring grid, which may not even be available online—although the seller is legally required to provide it upon request.

This is the website: https://www.indicereparabilite.fr/
The "Cash Cow" model for selling apps
> I can’t imagine a world where code is written by computers, that’s maximum cruelty to me.

We've been living in that world since the '80s, most of us; almost nobody writes code anymore. Computers write all the code for us, via software we call "compilers", and we merely give the computers high-level instructions indicating what we want them to do. In fact the majority of programmers these days don't even bother to generate or interact with code, preferring to feed their instructions into interpreters instead!
Still on 802.11n in an old solid-wall house with multiple APs connected over ethernet, because it works reliably and cost under £100 to implement with second-hand kit.
I like the notation of "product across X" for "for all". I don't intuit the "sum across x" for "there exists", that seems more distinct. Although I can see that applying OR of the predicate across the population would achieve the same result.

It would be nice to express logical aggregations such as AND and OR across sets like sum and product can be. Since their symbols are not Greek letters, it's not as simple as choosing the capitalized letter.

For that matter, a way of separating map-reduce from the reduction function, so that max, min, or other functions can be expressed uniformly, would also seem like an advancement. Probably it's been done and I'm simply ignorant.
Oh, good call. I didn't consider this quarter's profits. My apologies.
My take is that Apple’s prepping to have some chock-full content streams for when the Vision Pro or its successors become more mainstream, so that Spatial Audio can become part of the draw for using those devices.

I also suspect this is a big part of the reason they developed Spatial Audio in the first place.
I wiped mine, but then a couple of hours before my appointment for a battery replacement they called and said due to heavy snow the techs could not get, and gave me a new appointment a couple of days later.

I didn't want to fully restore the phone for just a couple of days, so just set it up with a temporary passcode and signed in to an Apple ID I normally do not use [1], so that I could use it for that couple of days without things asking me to sign in.

After the battery replacement I then wiped it and restored from a backup under my normal Apple ID.

This mostly worked, except it messed up my Longest Move Streak with my Apple Watch. I'm not sure if this was just due to the wiping the phone part, or the having the phone on a different Apple ID than the watch for a couple days, or something else.

What the Fitness app tells me about the streak now is just weird.

The streak started on 2019-05-07 and I've not missed a day since then. The battery replacement was on 2022-12-21.

When I checked the streak in Fitness on 2023-02-04 it told me that:

My longest streak was 39 days ending 2023-02-03
My current streak was 1368 days

Note that it is reporting a longest streak that is entirely within what it is reporting is my current streak.

17 days later, 2023-02-21, it was reporting:

My longest streak was 41 days ending on 2023-02-20
My current streak was 1385 days

Note that when it thinks that the longest streak started was sometime during the previous longest streak, so that makes no sense.

A few months later, 2023-09-23, it was:

My longest streak was 37 days ending on 2023-09-23
My current streak was 1600 days

I hadn't checked between that last and now. Checking now, on 2024-01-22, I get:

My longest streak was 1710 days ending on 2024-01-11
My current streak is 1720 days

That's better in that now it thinks the longest streak and current streak started at the same time, which is correct. But it still has the longest streak in the interior of the current streak which should not be possible.

[1] I've got two Apple IDs because originally you couldn't use the same account for iTunes and their cloud service, and so everyone who wanted to use both had to have two accounts. Later they made it so one account could use both.
The abstract indicates that there was no control group without treatment, but two groups given two different mushroom combos. As such, the "baseline" clearance is not revealed by this work.
Part 2 of the article after 3 years:
https://drewmccormack.medium.com/cash-cow-revisited-4c2185e2...

Actual product:
https://agenda.com
Agreed, i've only ever turned it off, why would I want L and R to swap when I turn around? maybe if it was realtime i wouldn't notice it but with airpods at least there's a noticeable delay in the mix catching up to your movement
These are stellar. Thank you for the write up!
> the work that was erased from BitBucket was restored from one of the employees that didn't yet pull

Actually those commits that you considered lost, were still stored on everyone's personal computer in your team. You just didn't know how to use `git reflog` to find them.
OK, so that diagram was intended to be horizontal, not vertical. Obviously you want to minimize vertical movement as much as possible.

But I see what you mean about the sides (as drawn) being parallel.

And, yes, I meant isotropic, not anisotropic. Embarrassing.

OK, how about this: I have an equilateral triangle, with vertices A, B, and C. I synchronize clocks four clocks at A. I send one clock to B directly, and one to C and then B. I send one clock to C directly, and one to B and then C. I do the same from points B and C. Then, I can look at the difference between clocks that came direct and clocks that came the long way. If all the differences are the same, then I can say that going A-to-B-to-C has the same effect as going A-to-C-to-B or B-to-A-to-C or any other route. Doesn't that show isotropy?
I did try spatial audio. I have compatible Airpods (Max) and also it will play through my home theater system from my Apple TV.

But after about a month I turned it off. All the stereo mixes sound better. It some cases, a lot better. I don't want music swirling around my head every time I look left or right.

Sorry Apple. Sorry artists. Stereo has endured this long for a reason. We have two ears.
Huh that's pretty clever, requiring both would make it pretty foolproof.
I've always wanted to see someone encode/decode Base64 in their head.

At best, I've learned to recognize a base64 string that begins with "eyJ" is likely JSON.

Also, if you asked me what the base64 encoding of "password" is, but if you showed me "cGFzc3dvcmQ=" and asked me what the decoded value is, I'd recognize it as "password". Though you could probably change a few digits and fool me.
It's at the point where people regularly record the vinyl LPs of an album and post those online because the mastering constraints of vinyl force these lunatic mixers (or their corporate bosses) to stay within the realms of sanity.

Otherwise it's just early 2000s loudness wars all over again.
Mass and energy curve spacetime. So you could accelerate two clocks identically and still have to correct for nearby mass and energy.
Compare a clear "allow cookies/allow only essential" to the industry standard wall of "we care about your privacy, so we sell your data to thousands of trackers that you have to opt out of manually"

Though yes, government services shouldn't use anything but essential cookies (for which you don't need a cookie popup)
Childcare, elder care, home improvement, picking up a piece or two of litter while on a stroll, cooking & cleaning, gardening. These don't contribute to GDP, but if all this unpaid work halted and the people doing it suddenly demanded payment, the economy wouldn't exactly be in for a good time—we do need some amount of this, and it's not clear the amount people have time for is optimal, rather than just an accident.

Regardless, I don't think a ton of people would be content with UBI money and would probably do at least some paying work anyway. People want to live a certain place, have a certain lifestyle, provide for a family (have a family!), send the kids to good schools, have nice stuff, have some pocket money for doing stuff with friends, et c., and none of that goes away just because everyone's getting enough money to scrape by. Concerns about an epidemic of people declining to do anything productive because they won't literally starve on the street if they don't, seem like fantasy to me, and I've yet to see any remotely-serious proposal for UBI that pays out enough that people wouldn't still want to double, or triple, or quadruple that amount, by also having a job.

I know some folks who are probably in the category of people that some worry would stop working entirely (low-paid, not-great prospects, drug enjoyers to a greater degree than is probably, ah, healthy) but guarantee they would not. They'd still want to have money for, like, all the stuff you can spend money on that's not barely-scraping-by, and they'd want it enough to keep working. Now, they might put up with a little less bullshit at work, and employers & managers that can't seem to help treating everyone terribly may have to adjust, or else suffer, if being unemployed isn't quite as bad as it is now....
Right now we're trying to get it to users who prefer something that just works, and don't want to think about hosting.
But you can actually run Diversion in a container (that looses distributed storage and DBs, which means it won't be as scalable). Other providers would definitely be great, if we succeed in standardizing it like git.
'Spatial Audio' needs to be included in the basket used to calculate CPI.
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I've tried it before on AirPods Max and wasnt' that impressed. But just yesterday I've tried it on a very nice home cinema. Some songs seem basically auto-generated, but some songs have a very cool surround mix. It's a bit of a gamble right now what you'll get. Either is a fun experience though.

So I think the technology is quite cool and I will use it again. It won't be very often though, because all my regular listening areas/devices are stereo.
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I don't know, it really confused me during a train ride as well, because I thought my phone was playing out load, and not through my airpods.
Copernicus is a bad example. He proposed a heliocentric system based on vibes. Actual progress required decades of cutting-edge precision measurements by Brahe and then analysis by Kepler. Objections to heliocentrism were on scientific grounds which were resolved by the discovery of inertia, Airy disks, and stellar aberration.
But was that your job? Because if so, you really got salary+bonus. And if you'd found nothing you'd still have got salary. So you can look at it several ways.
Why only gyms ? I keep reading horror stories about people trying to terminate (for example) their cable service.
I think I read this kind of discussions too many times, imagine how the training set of GPT-5 will look like? all sorts of theories of "whether AGI wants to help or kill the human race" spread over the internet and analyzed to death. It is going to know this topic in-and-out. Will be able to write a masterful dissertation on the topic.
It seems to me that the reason Agile gets such a bad rap is not because it's necessarily inherently bad but, because most companies don't implement it properly. Out of all the companies I've worked at since Agile became popular most didn't do it properly and it kinda sucked. It really did improve the quality of the software at the companies that did implement it properly, however.
> What does the average person know about engines in cars? Materials their houses are made of?

They don't know much about how those things work. They do know if they're losing functionality even if they don't know how they work.

My observation is that people seem endlessly patient about losing functionality in computer adjacent devices-- far beyond what they would tolerate with other devices. I simply don't understand why this is the case.

For virtually every consumer good there is some ability for independent repair. I think people would be up in arms if their car stopped working and the manufacturer said "Yeah, you just need to buy a new one". We have consumer protection laws in the US to prevent this very thing.

With software connected to "smart" devices there are no significant protections. I don't think people even know to be up in arms about a device that doesn't work because it's "old" and the native app stops working or the Internet hosted servers went away. Worse, they just landfill the device and go buy the newest one.

I assume it has something to do with the subsidized nature of smart phones and relatively short time people stick with a given phone. The "wow" factor of new technology probably dazzles people into forgetting about long-term usability too.

Hopefully when the "throwaway" mentality of smart phones really starts to cost people (as more durable good type "smart" devices embrace this model) we'll see some public backlash.
> How can any company be considered a competitor to Starlink while relying on SpaceX to get into LEO?

They're competing with Starlink not in the launch market. How the satellite gets into LEO is a different thing - and its own global market.

[edit] There's many ways into space. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_launch_service_provide...
> If your daughter is anything like mine, she loves getting badges in apps

This may sound curmudgeonly, but I try to drill into my son's awareness that he should aspire to be a producer of technology, rather than just a consumer. We face regular discussions about why he shouldn't spend $30 on Robux or some other digital currency. I try and explain that these digital currencies don't have real value like, say, a tennis racket or a pair of shoes.

As such I also try and give him the tools to fight against gamification, and not to be sucked into grinding for hours to get some badge or other worthless digital artifact.

So my 2 cents would be not to add features like this to an app aimed at kids. Let them see that there is a such a thing as a non-gamified, non-ad infested app that adds real value to their lives.
Isn't that gimmick rock bands use to get you to dial the volume up to 11? AC/DC is the only band I know that doesn't do that.
Astronomers hate this one weird business trick.
I have noticed search quality has dropped off for anything related to video games. You used to be able to search for guides for a specific level or class and it would return high quality content usually on game specific sites or maybe a wiki. Now its all AI blogspam that just regurgitates the same low quality content over and over in a generic article format while maximizing ad space. They are bad on desktop, but unusable on mobile. The wikis are never the top response, and well made guide sites are no where to be found. You have to find the specific site and search there.

Maybe they addressed affiliated links, but the bar for content generation is so low now, that everything is being impacted. I first noticed this kind of site for recipes (ones that make you scroll past 4 ads and a life story before you get to a recycled recipe), but its infected everything. Google used to be a first stop, and its becoming more and more an option of last resort. This completely seems to be their own doing by driving the web towards an ad centric model. I wonder if it will ever collapse as search degrades, devaluing the ad revenue that people are so quick to chase.
This sounds like a cool engineering project in search of a reason to exist. The fact that they're trying "encourage" artists to encode with this does not diminish this impression.
sure, wants all come from somewhere.

If something isnt wanted, it cant be profitable.
The absurdity of the return-to-office movement
Because the person doesn't matter. Policies matter. And Europeans largely prefer privacy-protecting regulations
> If so, in the traditional "I cut you choose" model, as there are risks associated with cutting (what if you intend fairness, but you ended up with lopsided 49:51 cake due to an error?), one may not volunteer to cut the cake; if so, how can we encourage / compensate one to cut the cake?

Why is that important? There's always someone willing to step up to the plate, if person A doesn't want to, then person B, or C, etc...
I’ve just tried that and it’s true although on my instance searching ‘airplane’ gives good results. I wonder if it’s due to an insufficient number of images in the demo? I also took the advice in the forums to tweak the exact model version used.
Probably by detecting near infrared that is transmissive through the stovetop glass. Just like handheld infrared temperature meters. Silica glass is good at transmitting infrared that is not too far below red light frequency.

I love the knobs on this hob/stovetop.

It took me a lot of work to find an induction top with analog[1] knobs for my mum. Touch "buttons" and sliders are always a sign of absolutely shit usability/accessibility in my experience.

[1] well they were actually digital knobs not analog potentiometers: one of the knobs has a fault in the internal optical sensors or something because it can get into a state of flicking between two digital readings.
For three people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaMKInkV7Vs
I would say everyone understands that "quantum effects" refers to situations in which classical approximations break down.

Likewise when we say "numerical issues", it's understood that we're talking about situations in which the usual approximation of real numbers by floating point representations breaks down. "Disk corruption" doesn't necessarily mean anything is physically wrong with the disk, only that its contents have become inconsistent with the filesystem abstraction it normally supports, etc.
It’s scammy because the gym business can very difficult unless you have people paying and not coming in.

https://medium.com/bull-market/sweaty-january-and-how-gyms-m...
> Watches all kinds of sports, but never participates in sports himself.

This is incredibly ableist. I don't necessarily disagree with the rest but this stood out a lot.
Reminds me of the TiVo creator interview in "Programmers at work." There's a line somewhere that you should not cross, lest involved parties take action. The line for TiVo was making it possible to skip commercials. This feels like it has crossed a line as well, especially with text like "eliminating the need for Spotify Premium." If this actually becomes popular, Spotify would have to lock down their API's.
The i/o album really blew up the usability of Apple Music. Three mixes per song, one of which (in-side) is an Atmos mix, unless you don’t have Spatial Audio active, when you silently get one of the other two. And they released it one song at a time throughout the year, so it was just a bag of unrelated singles. At the end of the year, the album came out with duplicate tracks for the two stereo mixes, and I don’t even know for sure how to get the in-side mix.

In general, the situation with Spatial Audio mixes is confusing, and it is really annoying for back catalog tracks where instead of the established (sometimes iconic) stereo version you silently get an Atmos version that the label commissioned without input from the original artist/producer/engineer.
Can Apple win back music? A proposal for a fan-centric revenue model [video]
Jack Stratton of Vulfpeck has been vocal about frustration with music streaming services' artist payout models. In this video he proposes a specific alternative.
"Apple continues to search for the Vision Pro's killer feature."
My wife is using some custom software to create photo albums, so 99% of tablets don't work for her. With this I'm finally able to give her dream machine: affordable, lightweight and photo making machine.
Yeh, that'll do it. It's totally impossible to avoid having children if the condoms are pulled off the shelf at the local gas station.
Sure, but you can just ignore that, or tell them to sue you because the debt isn't valid.

They are not going to take you to court and if they put it in your credit report you can dispute that as well.

The only thing they can actually to do you is prevent you from going to the gym again
Okay, so why not stipulate that parts need to be available at a reasonable price?
Compute? Never heard of it.

Whatever it is, just drop it and use computers that can execute some high level languages like JavaScript to perform directly useful actions like storing information in embedded DB like SQLite, reading information, transforming information, transmitting information and displaying information - stuff that can be done with huge performance even on 5 years old mobile phones.

So all that "serverless" stuff is basically that but its using traditional server software behind the scenes to provide maintenance free interfaces to do all the things I mentioned. Another aspect is that the client devices may connect to server resources and directly manipulate data without an intermediary code on the "server" and you still don't need specialised hardware to handle it, its handled cryptographically using algorithms that any computer can run.

The problem with it is that its proprietary non portable software that locks you in. Instead of that, you can run the exact same software on every computer(in the datacenter, at the company building, in the hands of people etc). Bottlenecks occur in certain situations, so you don't store all your clients information on every machine and the problem is solved. You run the same platform everywhere but each machine operates with an algorithm suitable for its role.

Modern consumer computers are beasts, they are capable of processing huge amount of data. Its common for handheld devices to load megabytes of of JavaScript, compile it, render graphics with it, handle inputs and send data tens of times per second to multiple servers as the user is interacting with it. I don't believe that a device capable of doing that will have hard time storing and fetching from an SQL database with a few thousand rows.
Its one of those things that you might not go out of your way to get, but once you have it, its pretty nice. Not game changing by any means, but it adds a bit of immersion.

Also, think of it as not an intentionally developed feature for the current gen of devices, but rather the "next gen" of AR glasses and such. I don't think apple went out of their way to build it as a selling feature today, but as a consequence of building it for their AR vision of the future, they can release and test it today.