skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that this table comes from "Techniek Nederland", which is a business association of (among others) technical retailers. They've an interest in lowering the expected lifespan of appliances, as that means their members have less warranty to provide. They actually note (probably for legal reasons) along with their table that it contains average usage, not expected lifespan (i.e. how long people use things before they replace it, as opposed to how long you could use it before it breaks).

Courts will, and have in the past, throw this table out, if you make a reasonable argument why you could expect a longer lifespan.
Having worked with Whisper for quite some time now, it's true that hallucinations can be a real pain point. Long pauses between sentences / silence and background noise make it worse, among other factors. Good news is, there are ways to mitigate and solve this.
Tivoization is completely orthogonal to the issue of opaque patched blobs.

For example every software/firmware using custom Risc-V instructions is tivoized.

The problem of blobs are inability to examine it and inability to reasonably modify it.

Tivoization just makes it harder to run a software/blob on different hardware.
I've had an introductory Scheme course in a smaller university, and have experience designing data structures, creating parsers & interpreters, and with multi-threading and networking.

I was never one to really dig lisp. I prefer the structure and the groundedness of a statically typed systems language (I mostly do systems work). But I took on reading SICP in the hope of finding something new and interesting, and to level up my skills. However, I got bored by the it. Probably made it through more than half of the book.

It's a bummer because I'm left with the feeling of missing out. Am I not worthy or too obtuse to get what's so great about the book? Or maybe I am in fact not the target audience, having too much practical experience that the book doesn't seem worth my while.
Deutsche Telekom / T-Mobile is running a Bitcoin node
Because the code for that is nowhere near stable/usable unless you have the exact planetary alignment and/or blobs in your distro, and you invariably have to convert LLM weights. The number of LLMs supported is very, very small right now.
Much of the hard problems these days require scale and with it coordination
Compiler-Driven Development in Rust [video]
We have gone full circle back to building the HPC supercomputer after quarter century of clusters.
Yes, they'll increase per-unit prices to do a longer warranty.

But that price increase will go into longer-lasting parts, because that costs a lot less than needing to replace every unit halfway through the warranty period.

And since the 20 year oven is a lot cheaper to build than two 10 year ovens, the per-year price to the consumer will go down.
This could use a comparison to sqlite-web. I think it's the only other web-based SQLite dashboard. Except maybe phpLiteAdmin which seems dead.
Disclaimer: I haven't seen the video (I'm in a quiet place right now.)

> And that those properties (being hard to damage/destruct and being easy to repair) might be mutually exclusive.

I disagree on a fundamental level.

You could say such a thing when talking about really small (micro/miniature) devices. But as size increases, the validity of such arguments rapidly goes down. A phone case/bumper for example - makes the device larger, yes - but increases strength while not hurting reparability.

The "problem", imo, is two-fold:
1. Apple does not care too much about making repairs easy. If it costs $100 to make a board they can charge a customer $500 to repair, or $800 for a new phone, it's easy for them.

2. (Some) people prefer sleeker designs. Samsung has its active range of phones, CAT makes durable phones - but many prefer a smaller thickness/bezel etc. This means that when tech improves to make smaller bezels, manufacturers decrease the bezel a little and add protective padding a little... haha no. It's only bezel reduction. Because it sell, I suppose.

For example gorilla glass/protective glass has improved in technology, but thinner screens (for thinner devices) have eaten up the benefits of stronger tech.

The real "killer" argument? The presence of companies like Framework. I'm typing this out on my FW13 & its build quality is really good. Perhaps a 10 year old thinkpad may be similar or better, but this is almost certainly thinner. But it is almost definitely more repairable.

It's possible, but requires companies to offer products, and people to use and buy them.
> It's weeks of legal battle over 300€.

We are not alike. As soon as it costs them several tens of billable hours (people on phone, someone making appointments, discussions, emails, lawyer doing it's thing etc) I'm all fair game and will definitely spend my time screwing with them simply to make them pay even if I lose in the end.

Since I'm going to be frustrated when I'm being screwed over I see no reason not repay that and to act out that frustration in the worst possible way I can manage for the companies involved.
That's the point. If customers don't complain strongly enough, the manufacturer is incentivized to develop products prone to malfunction. If the cost of malfunction is raised, the incentives change.

If they got invited to a hundred cases at the same time, they'd send a lawyer and perhaps even would tweak the design to include some extra $1 parts which actually work.
> That would be super cool! I'm not sure how it'd work together. I would think we need a higher speed fabric-type connection.

It wouldn't be a thorough emulation of a CM, just something that looks like one. More like a tool to play with clusters and MPI. Not sure there is an Octavo part (and the bundling of all passives in the module is important to simplify the design) with enough RAM to run Kubernetes (although Docker Swarm would probably run fine, but I've never thought about one with 32 nodes).

That said, the Octavo parts have 2 GbE ethernet ports, so we could have two independent networks on the board (which is nice, one for in-cluster management traffic, and other for the outside).

How does one learn about ethernet signalling and the cable interfaces (would we need those if using PCB traces?). What could be the passive components between a switch chip and a SoC on the same PCB? This is where my electronic design skills end.
None of your examples are expressible in first order logic either. Those are all instances of mathematical structures which can be formalized in different toposes with different logics.

Groups in the topos of sets are different from groups in the topos of smooth sets. The structure of a group can be expressed as a diagram which can then be interpreted in any topos with the prerequisite mathematical structures. Toposes have products (finite limits) so every topos can potentially have group objects just like every topos can have a natural number object which is an initial algebra (colimit) for a certain diagram.

In any case, there is no royal road and if you're not willing to spend the time and effort to learn what others have written about toposes then there isn't much I can help you with here. There are no royal roads in mathematics.
Oral B sell a variety of Electric toothbrushes, dependent on the built in Li ion battery.

Some of them hook up to a mobile phone by bluetooth to track how you brush. The thing is once the battery dies the £150 toothbrush is useless, it's' sealed so replacing the battery isn't trivial.

I think in the battery may last a fair bit longer now.

Electric tooth brushes are quite an improvement over a normal tooth brush.
A not often discussed problem with the EU guarantee is that in the first 6 months, every defect is presumed to have been present at the time it was bought. After 6 months it is on the consumer to prove it, and for most things it is just not worth it to pay for an expert opinion.

So in practice the iron clad guarantee is only 6 months for most consumer
products.

At least that's the interpretation of the law in the UK.

edit: small claims courts are quite accessible in the UK, so often the threat of small claims can get thing moving.
The court of public opinion :)

That system fails unprivileged people though. Even if the "privilege" is "a number of Twitter followers".

That's probably why a tradition of more formal courts arose. But they probably worked better when they operated at a communal scale.

Think: "walk down the road to the courtroom on the second Wednesday of the month and wait your turn" and if you win, you get to boast about it at the pub for a few weeks: "can you believe ol' Jon thought he could pull the wool over my eyes?! Ha! Shame on him! He had to pay me for two days labor, the bastard!"

I wonder how we bring some of that convenience and public shaming back?

My sense is that there's not enough personal accountability because the courts and companies are too big for "ol' Jon" to held to account.
Hi, that's good to know :) Yes we are working on allowing users to add their own styles that represent their brand better. We will keep you updated once we release that!
I think this device is rather meant to be shown to old colleagues than be actually used. If the author wanted to give some late 90s vibes I call it a success, at least for me. I always had it in a screen corner playing some prog rock song in my phones while banging code back then.
i think there is a very very real limit to LLM technology that hasn’t been publicly solved yet. fundamentally, how do you get it to do something new? openAI’s moat is their training data, but again, all machine learning techniques fundamentally don’t get a model to produce something novel. they quite literally have to do something that’s been done before, maybe spelled a little differently. until that’s solved, i feel LLM’s will always have a peak below a skilled human.
I predict people generations hence will look upon Adderall and Tech the same way those of us today look back upon Tea and the British Empire.
> old school hifi at a thrift shop

I don't think I've ever seen a physical seeking slider. Fast forward, rewind, sure. Maybe even variable fast forward and rewind, but nothing like this, not even on modern analog devices. The main reason would be that it is hard to make seeking accurate and to make the mechanism as well wearing as a button. What I have seen are remote controllable physical volume dials where pressing the remote will actually move the dial, and something like that might be acceptably robust in a consumer product.

> entertainment industry and recording studios have 100s of motorized sliders

Definitely a thing in professional settings, but haven't seen this on consumer level devices.
TBH right now I'm wondering about the accuracy of the 2024 Wilson newsletter quote I gave (it could be true) as it stands in contrast to a 2015 Guardian article:

Proposals to build plants inland, as China ends a moratorium on new generators imposed after the Fukushima disaster in March 2011, are particularly risky, the physicist He Zuoxiu said, because if there was an accident it could contaminate rivers that hundreds of millions of people rely on for water and taint groundwater supplies to vast swathes of important farmlands.

- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/25/china-nuclear-...

The context of "inland" here is near rivers and farmland that provide food and water for the population that live in dense urban areas nearer the coast.

Both could be true, just talking about different moratoriums, or one lifted then reimposed, both may have errors, etc.

It really needs a far better China watcher than myself to clarify.
Yeah, and it's also a great way to reduce your energy dependency on certain non-friendly countries... oh wait: https://apnews.com/article/germany-france-russia-nuclear-pow...
Sheaves capture two properties: if you have a solution to a problem on a big piece of a space, you can shrink it to a smaller piece, and if you have solutions on small pieces of a space that agree with each other on overlaps, you can glue them together to get a solution on a bigger piece.

An easy example is a function on a set. If you have function defined on the whole set, you can shrink it to give you a function defined on a subset. If you have functions defined on several subsets, and those functions agree on the overlaps of the subsets, then you can use that to define a function on the union of the subsets. More interesting examples arise in topology and related fields.
A discussion of discussions on AI Bias
Financial Nihilism [video]
thanks for saying it a lot better than I did!
Adderall in a grocery store? Why not add a Xanax isle...
Elon Musk never passed a law. The representatives chosen by the voters did. These representatives do not magically enter the government; they are selected by the voters. The voters freely decide wether they wish to have representatives who pass laws which are benefitial to Elon Musk.
Hey! Great to hear that, would love to know your feedback.
An oven should last way longer than 2 years even if it's just 200 euro. These price/lifespan things are cow manure and made by trade associations and have no value in law.

200 euro also says nothing: 200 euro for a small tabletop oven is extremely expensive, for a large build-in one it's cheap. Considering as well it's usually a build in one, you can expect to not have to change it every two years.
well, you have a way bigger pool of women to work with there at least
Importing it from where? Russia? Ukraine? China? Australia & Canada are probably viable options for Western nations, but that introduces more dependencies.
They aren’t exactly the same process though. Pre training produces a model whose outputs are a reflection of the training data. The fine tuning is a separate process that tries to map the outputs to the owners desired traits. These could be performance based but as we saw with Google’s black Nazis, it’s often a reflection of the owners moral inclinations.
I would not call any of that a debunking, even quasi. Just a different dance around the same hard-to-swallow pill.

Company X makes a great product that everyone only needs one of and lasts a long time. Over time, the market starts to dwindle and. Company X is going broke. Now, Company X must either invest in innovation or reduce the lifespan of its current offering.

There's nothing inherently evil about this concept, but we tend to want to chalk it up to greed when Company X really just wants to survive and make a profit, which I suppose is the point.

The problem is the concept is ripe for abuse. If Company X makes their product worse, but starts charging more while laying off employees, posting record profits during recessions, adopts unnecessary subscription models cosplaying as continued service and development, etc...now we get to the greed part. There seems to be a line between designing a product to secure the longevity of Company X and straight up using your customers as micro-transaction ATMs with planned obsolescence. Some companies conspire to cross it.
If you look at the list of the corporate sponsors for this think tank, it is pretty obvious that tech has awoken to what the state can do to foster "innovation and advance".
What other micros are you talking about? STM32 can easily do it (I suspect that any ARM based micro can), and I've seen some vga libraries for ESP32. There's not much special about the RP2040 other than it's price and brand name.
Did she pay with credit card? Often even debit cards offer chargeback although it is not a statutory right.
Focusing on the language used to implement these is missing the forest for the trees
Hey! That's sweet of you haha, good to know that this could be useful for others. Do let us know your feedback on the same!
Half of their posts have been flagged.
The reason for deduplication and incremental backups is that you can recover accidentally deleted photos.

You don't need to keep the previous backup on the disk, it's enough to have it on the backup destination (at least in the case of borg).
I literally did a double take reading this. The very possibility that an adult in the world has never interacted with analog controls on anything more complex than a toaster trips me out a bit. Like, how in the hell has software driven UI (with all of the problems that entails) managed to take over? Why must literally everything suck?
Some free society we live in. The feds are just looking out for their real employers: the oligarchs and their companies.
This is not true. You have the right to a "deugdelijk product" (good product) for the entire expected lifespan of the product, and if it breaks in that, they do have to fix it (or provide a comparable replacement).

If, however, for whatever reason you don't want that, you can't demand all your money back, but only 50%. That's only if you agree to the money though, the seller can't unilaterally choose to give you 50% back instead of repairing it.
Hand-repair of mass-manufactured objects is really expensive, unfortunately. Especially in the West, where you require a bunch of scarce resources like "city land" and "human time".
Ok, why not?
would that 6 figures be as meaningful as 6 figures was when that was the “dream”.
If only Ivan was that clever and foresighted what trouble we’d be in
That’s the same situation with the appliance but not with the law, because you have to use a lawyer.

Under New Zealand and Australian consumer law (the laws are different but similar) we have access to a low-cost tribunal. In fact in New Zealand you’re not allowed to be represented by a lawyer - on either side. It’s a single hearing with immediate resolution. Appeals and re-hearings are very limited and pretty rare.

I’ve used it twice. Both times the vendor magically found the warranty to be valid and fixed the issue before the tribunal date arrived. You don’t get a refund on the filing fee, but on most home appliances it’d be NZ$45, or about €25.
By international standards, China's ores are low-grade and production has been inefficient, due in part to the remote, mountain location of deposits. In 2022 uranium production was an estimated 1700 tU.

As noted in peer comment uranium is energy dense and relatively little is required.

Also, by global known deposit standards the ore density and ease of mining in parts of Canada, Africa, Australia, Kazakhstan (!!! 43 percent of global uranium production in 2022) dwarf those in most other parts of the world.

For interest, re: Uranium in China, the initial quote here comes from

https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profil...
Potosi is well worth the visit, if anybody had ever doubts how brutal slavery could be, look no more. Slaves lasted 6 weeks before dying horribly in some of the jobs they had, mostly in ore processing parts. Or if you want to see why its really not a good idea to be pregnant in >4000m altitude, look at their local church.

Mines themselves are surprisingly still open and locals work there, even if they know very well within 15-20 years most of them will develop aggressive lung cancer. IIRC its from fine silica dust that is all over those mines in form of thick dust (and sometimes even raw crystals form on the walls). The hill in which the mines are is pure emmental, around 5000 entries IIRC from various directions and ages.

Visited them with my wife/fiancée few years ago, local woman whose husband died from what I described above guided us quite deep inside. Never saw actual red sticks of dynamite with the burning string till that day. We offered very strong alcohol and coca leaves to Pachamama, had some leaves with 'activator' ourselves (and then went blabbing for half an hour due to mouth and tongue anesthesia). Those silica in the air are not benign, so there are warnings everywhere (and good modern masks should definitely help, we didn't have those unfortunately this was well before covid).

A powerful experience, as backpacking around whole Bolivia is, to us its the most interesting country in South America to visit for intense adventure and lifelong memories. Yungas death road on a rented bike is another very memorable experience, from snowed plains and glaciers 4700m high into jungle in few hours.
How is it possible Synapse and Banks can't find a $85M shortfall?
Better knows as “I, Robot” and its sequels.
Isn't it the scientific consensus that humans also show signs of domestication?
> but seriously running a "real" one generates several kW of heat and required even more kW of power.

No, both are the same :) It converts the power into exactly the same amount of heat, save for a tiny fraction in light from the bulbs which eventually ends up as heat as well.

Totally agree you wouldn't run these at home though. We had a PDP-11 at college and even there they didn't like to switch it on. Never saw a PDP-10 though.

I have the PiDP-8 and -11 replicas but I won't be getting this one, it's pretty big and expensive (especially now that it ships from the US, I'm in Europe) and it lacks the nostalgia factor for me due to not having known it in real life.

It is however a real piece of retro art, just like the others (and it looks like it's been done even better).
In Europe we have: state mandated closing of perfectly working plants, cancellation of previously granted new plants permits.

I studied civil engineering at a public university and was told "we are being asked to downsize our physics department".

In these conditions, how can I reasonably believe that state is the solution here ?
Why not a pharmacy?
So it is autocratic nuclear vs democratic nuclear now? Perhaps we could instead work together to tackle climate change and seek common prosperity ...
The PicoGUS uses PIO to implement a PSRAM interface in order to store 1 MB of audio sample data: https://github.com/polpo/rp2040-psram
I found a copy of the sources in an archive of comp.sources.misc:
https://usenet.trashworldnews.com/?thread=639838

and unpacked and uploaded the sources to github:
https://github.com/michaelengel/producer
15 years seems darn short for an oven. The (electric) one I have now is from the late 1960's, and perfectly functional. At church, our (gas) kitchen oven is about a century old - and the last service man we had said that it should be good for another century, if we're careful not to let it rust out.
A recruiter gets paid a commission if they put you forward and you get the job.

So they only put candidates forward if they have a good chance of getting the role.

You can use them to get feedback on the current market and how they think you might fit into it.

It's worth a try.
From the article, the parent company themselves clearly say 13 years for ovens.

To quote from that article on the parent company's website:

According to the American National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) - who
helpfully released research called the Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components
- the contemporary average lifespans are as follows:

• Fridges - 13 years
• Dishwashers - 9 years
• Electric ovens - 13 years
• Gas stoves - 15 years
• Microwaves - 9 years
• Dryers - 13 years

http://web.archive.org/web/20240318135242/https://www.winnin...
> It's not as good for the environment, though.

Depends on other laws, here they have to take it back and recycle it. This also applies to old appliances. I had some empathy for the poor guys who had to take my extremely cheap, completely rusted washing machine away when I bought a new one.

While repairing might be better, it's not the worst outcome to replace it.
> That needs a qualifier: it can make easy problems tough if you're not familiar with how to solve them in a functional context.

All problems are easy if you are familiar with how to solve them. Unfortunately it's part of the problem to find out how to solve them, and that can be unusually hard in case of functional programming. Like solving something with recursion instead of loops + states. There is a reason cookbooks use loops not recursion.
In general it's very common for CEOs to be of a business/MBA background. Apple and Google both have this, along with tons of other companies outside the semiconductor industry.