skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"According to an anonymous source", "according to someone familiar with X's thinking", "according to someone close to X", "we're told", etc., if I ever see anything like any of those I instantly assume I'm being lied to and I stop reading.

All of those mean absolutely nothing and carry zero weight. It could have been the President that told them that, it could have been the homeless guy down the street. "Someone familiar with X's thinking" could be the journalist in the next room or it could be someone that used to work with them, nobody knows. All such phrases are weasel words/phrases, and any use of them is a major red flag.
I'm trying to read this in good faith, that what you're describing is about how "[formalizing] the rules of engagement for gray-zone operations using a third party" will help prevent certain kinds of tensions from rising again to a potential boiling point (arguably the _only_ point of the UN), but the tone comes off as so defeatist it's hard to see that as a positive.

Can you elaborate a bit further on why you see this as a necessary step for a given outcome?

Otherwise this just looks like giving in to bad faith actors and weakening our own protections in the process.
Staying logged out off Google at all times is slowly becoming basic web browsing hygiene. Picture a situation:

- You interact with a bot in a mostly-idle, public chatroom (such as !commands on Twitch)

- Bot pastes a url-shortened link that redirects you to a Google doc

- Anyone who had that document already open can now link your Twitch identity to your Google identity (which may include real name+photo)

Granted this particular vector has been open for well over a decade, it may just catch you off guard sooner or later.
lol what makes them degenerates
I don’t accept that I owe anyone any kind of additional data on any of this. Just like I don’t have to have a proven solution to the problem of finding a theory of everything to suggest that string theory may not be the truth of the universe while still acknowledging that it can be a worthwhile thread of inquiry and study.

Suggesting that we avoid possible dogma has intrinsic value. Let us step back and consider the fact that the combination of general relativity and the Standard Model already cannot explain our most basic cosmological observations. We cannot explain the stability of even our own galaxy based on current models. This situation clearly calls for some basic caution before we enshrine possible unproven explanations into humanity’s view of the universe. There’s a lot of evidence, both long established and newly growing, which shows that our models can’t consistently explain many of the basic things we see around us when we look up at the sky.
Thirdparty roms are very good about backporting patches after Google drops support.
If they want to make money, they are totally free to have a website hosting their content behind a paywall.

Than I can decide if their content is worth money to me (let me tell you: in 999 out of 1000 "creators" it isn't).

But I already pay for a few select content creators. And happily shell out more than I would pay YT for an adfree experience.
But if configuration is the example, a full fledged Lisp program as your configuration is TOO MUCH. Do you want configuration files functioning as malware vectors?

And what about Lisp is enduser friendly? Configuration files are intended to address people that are programming-lite to poweruser-not-programmer level. Lisp s-expressions are recursive tree structures with prefix ordering, which is a "great filter" for the IQ of users.

Greenspun's law, being a joke of Lisp users, actually indicates the inability of the Lisp community to understand why their language is niche to ultra-high-IQ people. If syntax patterns, formats, and programming languages survive for decades, there is a grassroots practical reason for their existence that ironically the ultra-smart all-knowing Lisp hacker just can't properly fathom.
Go is superficially readable, but be careful. It has some (in my experience) quite non-evident semantic aspects, such as interface nils and channel “edge cases” (which aren’t “edge” at all, you do have to handle them). The Timer thing they just fixed is an example of how the Go core team really expects you to read the manual.

The good news is that the language and stdlib docs are concise and extremely clear. One of the really impressive things about Go.
> One of the big problems with Pixel phones is their lack of thorough testing. You upgrade and suddenly you encounter strange Bluetooth issues, call problems, or other features that were working fine before but suddenly stop functioning. Tons of people will be complaining about this in forums, and you won't receive any updates to fix them for months. IMHO all Pixel phones are just developer devices and you can't seriously use them as daily drivers. Adding more AI features won't help unless they start taking their customer service seriously!

I've been using the Pixel/Nexus phones for over a decade, and I find this complaint bizarre. I've had issues with the phones (just like I have with my Apple hardware) at times, but nothing like what you're describing.

The real issue with Pixel phones is not that their software or hardware support is worse (it isn't) but the customer support. If my iPhone breaks under warranty, I can walk into an Apple store and get it fixed or replaced immediately. When my Pixel device breaks, even though I live near the flagship Google store, the best Google will do is send me a replacement phone "within 5-10 business days".

The customer support experience is a huge issue, and I wish Google would do something about it. But the other points don't resonate at all.
Cooling inflation data supports Fed rate cut at September FOMC meeting; when interest rates go down, asset prices go up, causing the equities market to rally.

Bond market is 50/50 split on either a 25 or 50 basis points rate cut as of this comment [1]. The equities market is clearly confident in the cut based on the asset allocation rotation.

[1] https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/interest-rates/cme-fedwatch...
I switched from pixel to iPhone because I was fed up with bugs. I’m going to switch back to pixel for my next phone because I’m fed up with bugs on iOS. It’s really not better, just a different set of bugs.
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I've had several Pixel phones and using the 6a currently. Never ever had any issues. My strategy is to delay updates for a few days to be not the first one bricking my phone. :)
Tsk! I did indeed!
But that's not true anymore afaik: they get good repairability scores at ifixit and also have a deal with them to stock repair parts.
Correction: Ram is at the top, while Dodge is fairly low down. Ram is exclusively trucks (formerly Dodge Ram) and was spun off in 2010, and is now owned by Stellantis.

No muscle cars, just oversized pickup trucks with a high rate of DUI (second to BMW).
D'accord
Any interesting observations with respect to different brands? What does the overall distribution look like and how does it compare against other devices you tested, e.g. iPhones, laptops?
Doorbell live video integration looks pretty neat.
It seems like the right way to respect a user's privacy, but opt-in telemetry just doesn't work.

I see the concerns as a user (and disable telemetry wherever I can), but at the same time if I were to add telemetry to my OSS project, I would either make it opt out, or just not add it at all.

The people who actually enable telemetry are a huge minority, and the data collected would be completely useless due to bias.

The best way, in my opinion, is to have completely unidentifiable telemetry (not sure if something like this even exists), or nothing at all.
Even then I've heard of some channels uploading ad-free versions of their videos for certain membership tiers.
I'm intrigued on why you would want those two calls to memoize separately? I'm sure there are reasons it could be needed, such that I'm not trying to argue against it. Genuinely curious to see a situation it would be desired.
I've had a pet idea for a long time that is nonsensical but I still wish existed. I'd like a programming language that encodes the "why", like forces you to compile in the business reason for the code in question. And then it'd automatically survey you, and if your prior business assumptions are no long true, then compilation would fail, forcing you to remove or rewrite until the code fits your "why" again.
anecdotal evidence is what I usually base my purchases on, which is why I've never bought a Google device after being burned (literally) by the Nexus 6P battery issues.

you can pretend it doesn't matter, but bad word of mouth is all it takes for me.
Hate to burst your bubble, but because of `break` and early return, Starlark is basically Turing-complete.

https://gavinhoward.com/2024/03/what-computers-cannot-do-the...
Starship doesn’t add anything. Starship removes complexity by sheer brute force, cheaply due to reusabilty. You can architecture a mission with ridiculous (before starship, that is) mass and volume per dollar budgets.

Falcon Heavy can lift a lot of mass but unless you’re launching tungsten into orbit you can’t fit interesting things into the fairing.
it might be; you'd have to benchmark it to be sure
I suppose the problem is that there isn't a good word for this concept. I just find it interesting that, in my experience, this is only used in relation to luxury goods.
They also charge you for time spent with service suspended. We finally canceled ours when my wife got an iphone with satellite SOS - it was pretty expensive for something we would typically use (activate, not actually use - we've never had to SOS) one or two months per year.
Interesting. I thought “Till We Have Faces” was the main work that dealt with losing his wife.
Oh, it's worth a watch. The intro sequence (no spoilers, but when you get to the dog scene, you'll know what I mean) is just great, and there's a handful of classic lines I quote to this day. (Sarah Jessica Parker and the Coke question! No VFX needed, it's solid gold on its own merit.)

I honestly don't know how the film holds up today, especially from the eyes of a grown-up watching it for the first time. The overall narrative may or may not earn its keep, I guess. But all those VFX shots were in service of a larger story, and if nothing else I think you'll appreciate them more in context.
I don’t know how anyone could possibly trust a premium product from Google, regardless of how good the specs are. Their entire approach to QA and privacy is anti-premium.

When Google bought HTC the idea was the best of Google software and the best of HTC hardware, but we have Google level hardware and HTC level software. The glory days of the HTC One were a decade ago.
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At least it has this:

>Plus, a new better Battery Saver Mode extends battery life to up to 36 hours across both sizes, without compromising any of your health and fitness tracking or safety features.

I don't know if 48 hr battery is that much better. Charging it everyday is easier than remembering every other day. You basically have to jump from 24hr to a week battery for people to truly care.
Is that really a large subculture, or is that mostly car rental places cycling vehicles through their fleet?

The rental companies typically buy vehicles from the manufacturer at such a volume discount, that they're able to flip them onto the used market a few years later and come out even with taxes benefits factored in.
lol, made me chuckle.

It's a pet peeve of mine how often programmers argue from their niche perspective without even attempting to think of things from a broader or different perspective. It's especially annoying when it goes from "people do X" to "well I do Y so nyah!".

It's not hard or difficult, you just have to try!
I'm sure we could also find anecdotes of some iPhone users having features necessary for them blocked or non-functional. It does not mean that the vast majority of people cannot still use the device without incident as a "daily driver."
a more plausible example than memoization is something like a polymorphic inline cache, where the cache can be very small and therefore fast to search but tends to be different at different callsites
Lavarand, also known as the Wall of Entropy
Came here to say the same thing. Revanced YT patches for Android are extremely sweet. And yes, even better features (for viewers) than YT Premium.
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ditto, I bought a 2020 SE refurbished for <$200 and it's been totally fine. If it were better, I'd be using it more, which I don't want.
I haven't researched, but I watch the guys on Rogan who talk about Younger Dryas. What are the arguments for/against?
You can learn more about the tool in the article: https://dev.to/mr150/atomic-css-deep-dive-1hee

This is a transcript of my talk at the tier 1 JavaScript conference (HolyJS)
Brazil has a long history of dubbing, not only translating but also localizing tv shows and movies. In some cases the shows are actually better dubbed, because the voice actors are better at emoting than the original cast.
That entirely misses my point. Antifragility is a property complex systems can exhibit. Concept systems can also 'die' but the concept of death isn't itself an example of a complex system.
I like the idea of eSIM, but the reality is different. I think it all depends on the country that issues the SIM card and/or the telecom. For example, right now I'm using a SIM card from a telecom that provides eSIM with their app and has very limited support for phones (it's basically only iPhone and Samsung). Even though the phone supports eSIM, I can't use it due to some artificial limitation. But I can use the old and trusted physical SIM card. So I'd stick with it.
If the feature detects signs of pulselessness, infrared and red lights also turn on, looking for additional signs of a pulse, while the motion sensor starts to look for movement. An AI-based algorithm brings together the pulse and movement signals to confirm a loss of pulse event, and if so, triggers a check-in to see if you respond.

The check-in asks if you’re OK while also looking for motion. If you don’t respond and no motion is detected, it escalates to an audio alarm and countdown. If you don’t respond to the countdown, the LTE watch or phone your watch is connected to automatically places a call to emergency services, and shares an automated message that no pulse is detected along with your location.

This seems like a great way to be awakened in the middle of the night. Either by your watch beeping at you, or by emergency services battering down your door.
Similar to my comment in the phone thread, a focus on "bigger" makes me sad.

Kind of hilarious to pair that with bragging rights on "all-day battery life."
>I've been legit hacked, but I don't have enough fingers to count all the times ?>that software bugs did things like get me stranded, cut me off from my finances, >almost get me killed on the road, and so forth.

I hesitate to defend apple on Hackernews but I have never experienced anything like these issues with any iPhone. Major problem is battery life, other than that I can say the core features of every iPhone I've owned have 'just worked' pretty consistently.
Ok, so my Pixel 1, 3, 5, and 7 have had no problems.

Data shows 100% reliability then?
This is encouraging especially as an increasing number of our watches and cars have cellular chips in them. It’s not like you can just hid your phone in a silent pocket and be excluded from these anymore.
Some of it is a status symbol. I don't know any well to do tech friends that buy expensive watches or jewelry, but are happy to drop 1k+ on a new phone every year.
> What if the universe doesn't expand at all?

Not possible. Redshift is not the only observation we have. The totality of all the observations we have cannot be explained in any other way than an expanding universe.

> How can we be so sure it's space that's expanding, not time?

Our best current model does not say "it's space that's expanding, not time". It says that in one particular frame (the comoving frame), the overall spacetime geometry can be described using a "time" that always corresponds to the time of comoving observers and a "space" whose scale factor increases with that time.

> The more I read about this, the more it feels like phlogiston theory

This is an extremely unjustified comparison. Phlogiston theory never accounted well for actual observations.

> as more observations are made, some contradict the theory

None of the observations being discussed contradict the general model of an expanding universe. They only pose problems for the indirect methods we use to convert our direct observations into model parameters.
It could get bloated rather quickly

try {
concurrently {
const user = await getUser(userId);
const session = await getSession(sessionId);
}
} catch (err) {
…
}
I agree that it's probably the best situated for that, but most conferences don't need the best.

Let's look at San Francisco. A city that is not as well-suited for conventions as Las Vegas. Dreamforce (Salesforce's annual conference) draws 40,000 people. DEFCON drew 30,000 this year. DEFCON could easily be held in SF. I'm not suggesting they'd want to or should move to SF, but it would be... fine.

As someone who (very) occasionally goes to conferences, Vegas is fun! I get that. I enjoy Vegas, at least for a few days before I get sick of it. There are good restaurants and shows, and virtually no puritanical laws around alcohol consumption like you find in nearly all other places in the US. It's a 24/7 city, the only one in the US. I see the appeal. (And also get why many people dislike it, largely for the same reasons many people like it.)

But c'mon, there are plenty of other US cities that have the infrastructure to support a conference like DEFCON. Conference organizers pick Vegas because they like it, not because other cities can't support them.
For me, when I am using the phone during roaming or in situations when the signal is bad, I can see increased battery drain and the phone itself sometimes gets hot. I assume this is the bad Exynos modem, but I heard the new modem for Pixel 9 will be focused in efficiency for the first time (still Exynos though), so I am hopeful that the situation is better because this is the only time the hardware from my Pixel 6 bothers me.
I didn't say that complex systems can't die, I said death itself is not a complex system. Antifragility is specifically a property or behavior of a complex system. "Death" can't anymore be antifragile than the color red can be.
Who defines sensible? For most people, a phone is a far more sensible purchase than a laptop. How many sub-$500 laptops have cellular modems? How many sub-$200? How much of the technology that people realistically use day-to-day requires a laptop?

I’d even question your premise that phones churn more frequently than laptops, especially at the budget end.
Yah this is basically a weaponized version of “Brandolini's law” and other related concepts like “Gish gallop”.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini's_law

I personally remember it as “an ounce of bullshit takes a pound of truth to clean up”.
It's my understanding that iodine is one of those things watched very closely by the TLAs enforcing prohibition. Be careful, lest you end up unable to move about freely because this gets you on a list.
> This would reproduce the observed redshifts, but it has issues predicting pretty much every other cosmological observation.

Not to mention contradicting the laws of conservation of energy and momentum.
And crappy Swift apps invalidate my point how exactly?

Note how you addressed nothing I wrote.
Just a few quick calculations to make it more relatable...

They say the smallest sphere of freshwater lakes and rivers amounts to 93,113 cu km. There are 1 bil cu m per cu km. With a global population of 8.2 bil people, that comes to 11,355 cu m per person. That's a 22.5 meter wide/deep/tall cube (or about 7 or 8 stories tall building).

If we use the sphere that includes groundwater, 10,633,450 cu km. Then we end up with 1,296,762 cu m or a 109m wide cube per person.
I don't regret knowing Unix tools. But I very frequently regret that other people chose to write non-trivial operations in a bash script instead of a real programming language! If Unix utils didn't exist and everyone just used Python instead I'd honestly probably prefer that.
You point out a good general problem that I find when blogging -- like, you don't want this, right? The whole premise is absurd; the point is not to memoize an expression, but rather to demonstrate that you can share values between compile-time and runtime. But in order to do this you need some specific example of the idea so that readers have something concrete to hold onto and generalize from. And then the difficulty is trying to present that specific example in a way that gets the general idea across, right, without the reader overfitting to the specific example you presented. It's hard! I don't think this one really succeeded.
Weird, I could swear that I haven't seen that message.

Thanks for the correction.
Makes sense, I was thinking this is largely recreating L2 caches and such. Where you don't mind that they would memoize the same data, but the expectation is more that each caller would have a small subset they are specifically using over and over.
So the fact that my iPhones wifi failed means that they're all terrible products and we shouldn't look at engineering practices like failure rate statistics?

Or do we just do that for brands we're not fanboys of like __true__ engineers?
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41239006
Yeah but when you get into the taxi comparison, it’s based on roi more than anything.

For a phone, it’s purely esthetic, ergonomic and user friendliness that most people are buying them. Not usually roi based decision.
Not the same vibe, but I feel similarly fascinated by Posy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSS6yAMZF78

and TodePond: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4OIcwt8vcE
Another user posted in above

"As of 2023, the global average replacement cycle length for a smartphone is 3.6 years."

I'm not disagreing on a technical level. I agree. I use a pretty cheap ass phone myself that I bought off the rack.

I think it's clear though that phone makers and telecom companies are more than happy to sell people a new one every few years and intend to continue doing that.
The funny thing is the Fold is actually the smallest phone by height, and the thickness change isn't as big as you'd think...
If you use it for 3 years, $1000 is about a dollar a day. Does a better phone generate that much value each day - about 1/5 of a cappucino? Probably.
Wouldn't accept it as a gift after having several generations of Pixel phone. Half baked software. Also Apple has hammered Google on privacy and rightfully so. There's a 0 chance I'll use android handsets again regardless of the hardware.
Could be the article is written by someone outside the US. If you aren't in the US (I gather—at least in the UK I can speak to personally), the app just doesn't offer body temperature at all because they haven't bothered to get it certified for medical use.

(You can work around this by spoofing your location, but it's not obvious to do.)
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I have been burned twice by iPhone battery issues (specifically my iPhone X).

Battery started discharging rapidly, I got it replaced, barely a year later it’s dying again.
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