skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not surprising. I worked at NI for my first job out of university and developing software there was so painful
I think the issue is, dudewhoneverleavesbasement.com stopped working on his website and his potential successor is more likely to be trying to turn that information into an interesting youtube video.
Wow, talk about an unrealistic expectation. 2030? lol
Well, on the contrary, we’ve worked extensively with Bluetooth since we're in the business of creating wearables. Unfortunately, we've had to compile a list of unsupported Android phones that exhibited unusual behaviors, such as sudden disconnections.

I must say that both Samsungs and iPhones have always been rock solid in terms of stability.
They said 5 new customers per week so still adding twice as many as churn.

Still, it's going to plateau relatively soon.
As I understand it YouTube Premium viewers result in significantly more revenue than ad based viewers do [1] but represent a tiny fraction of viewers [2] and can't be targeted separately. I.e. if most people were willing to pay in just one way, even if that were just YouTube Premium, then there wouldn't be such a strong incentive for channels to rely on sponsored segments but most people prefer not paying anything and dealing with ads and/or sponsored segments instead leaving those that do a bit stuck with the latter.

[1] Just one example https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubegaming/comments/p1qmgu/conte...
[2] https://backlinko.com/youtube-users
Not ready to do that yet. But I hope so one day!
if your coworker says 'ana over in sales is a babe' they're almost certainly commenting on her appearance, not just mentioning her gender. even if they don't explicitly mention her b16 b00b5, you may reasonably wonder if they're judging you on the same basis, and in particular whether you'd have a better yearly peer evaluation if you were a dowdy man instead of a dowdy woman

if they instead say 'leslie over in sales is a dood' they're just being explicit about his gender, perhaps because someone thought he was female

i'm not endorsing any value judgments for or against these statements, just explaining what other people's thinking (factually) is which leads to the kind of value judgments that lead to policies against putting b00b135 in your source code

i suspect cafed00d was included as a (possibly counterproductive) gesture to allay equity concerns like yours rather than because of any serious concern that a cafed00d constant would cause anyone any concern on its own
Rounded rectangle clearly won the form factor wars.
Mobile phones are a mature technology. There aren't any opportunities to differentiate designs. For cars, they all look the same and differentiate brands with headlights and grills, phones only have the camera bump to differentiate brands.
No affiliation, stumbled upon it and thought it was a cool mashup of GNSS, mesh networking, and the presentation layer/UX. I hope you find reading about it as enjoyable as I did.
A regular Verizon plan with tethering that supports the "free" phones costs the same in three months for what I pay for a year of service on Mint.

But sure, the phone was "free".

$2,880 for a Verizon plan with a "free" phone (3 year commitment after all), $720 for three years of my current Mint plan. I could spend $2k on a phone over those three years and I'd still have spent less money.
https://archive.is/JrJIa
The MCU is $0.80 - $1.10.

$1.10 for a dual core Cortex-M33 with 2MB flash and 512KB is a bargain in 2024 compared to other MCUs available at this time, at least in terms of prices that you'll be able to get as a regular consumer in the US. The only other chip that even comes close is the ESP32.
Feelgood factor shaped by traits more than events, study finds
Eeeeeyeahhh. I've got to go re-read the papers, but the idea is that an AI would figure out how to approximate out the infinities, short-circuit the infinite regress, and figure out a theory of algorithmic similarity. The bargaining probably varies on the approximate utility function as well as the algorithm, but it's "close enough" on the scale we're dealing with.

As you said, it's near useless on Earth (don't need to predict what you can control), the nearest claimed application is the various possible causal diamond overlaps between "our" ASI and various alien ASIs, where each would be unable to prevent the other from existing in a causal manner.

Remember that infinite precision is an infinity too and does not really exist. As well as infinite time, infinite storage, etc. You probably don't even need infinite precision to avoid cheating on your imaginary girlfriend, just some sort of "philosophical targeting accuracy". But, you know, the only reason that's true is that everything related to imaginary girlfriends is made up.
> the Zenfone 10 is also 5.8” and is adored for it.

Then they released the enormous 6.8" Zenfone 11 Ultra this March, with still no indication that there will be a smaller variant. The small Zenfone 10 might not have sold well enough to justify doing another one.
Same feeling here. It's gotten twice as expensive, which is insane by itself. But worse is the jarring rotation of sponsored advertisers.

it's reminiscent of NASCAR. Or, like being a kid forced to watch advertising during TV breaks, wondering why the TV screen istrying to sell me cigarettes.

It's maybe a bit social-media-toxic to say that some youtubers are my "favorite people" in that i look forward to their takes on the topics they cover. I lose interest though when that youtuber presents to me an unprompted ad for my testicular health.

I have no solution for creators consumers or google :(
Are you talking about

for key, val := range m.Range

I like that a fair bit more than

m.Range(func(key, val any) bool {
not all of them work the same, only some of them need to be line up, others will line up on their own
<del>A wizard</del> <ins>dang</ins> did it.
> Oops, I did it again

I played with `eval`, got lost in codegen: O(AB), maybe?
How to encourage technical community to adopt an open-source mindset
Yeah, same here. I'm happy to save the housekeeping staff some time and effort for something I don't really need, and I just don't like people coming into the room while I'm gone. Including security-theater room inspectors.
I suppose it's fair to describe both as niche, even though basically every facility that requires high reliability controls (talking chemicals, energy, medical, etc) uses Emerson. They're enormous, but they do focus on one kind of thing.

It happens to also be what NI does (did) except NI did it in a way that was more accessible to education and hobbyists. Still expensive, but with things like educational toolkits using LabView as a base they have products that address the market for lower cost, lower reliability, but more flexible prototyping tools that I've never seen Emerson focus on at all.

But yeah, I knew about this a year ago because it's the kind of thing that matters a lot for my work. And since then I've known to not build any new prototypes that use NI software and instead move towards anything else...
Compute with DirectX 12
At which point us, the Linux packagers and other package maintainers, is just going to patch it out. I wouldn't be very worried.
>IMHO all Pixel phones are just developer devices and you can't seriously use them as daily drivers.

I've had Pixel 3XL, Pixel 5, Pixel 8, and Pixel Tablet all without issue. I realize that can't be everyone's experience, but the idea that you can't "seriously use" these devices is untrue.
I've been working on a toy compiler on-and-off, which is basically just a "reinvent-the-wheel simulator" since I really haven't looked at much existing literature. A very janky, bug-prone part of it is a sort-of mini parser generator, which you can feed a dictionary of rules (as strings) to. This, while slowing down the compilation speed, has allowed me to expand the grammar incrementally from dead simple to more complex, which has been a nice thing.
Nutty pricing. Google is not, and will never be, a “premium brand”.
I'm currently on the 6 and one issue it has is a pretty bad battery drain. Every so often it gets into superheating mode where the CPU is doing... something... and the phone gets wicked hot. I've even replaced the battery and the problem persists.

I don't care much about photos so the 9 really just doesn't have anything that would make me want to buy it. I'll probably be holding on to my 6 until it reaches the end of its security updates.
Freedom to say what they want, not freedom of consequences from saying it.
Rationalizing a purchase because the monthly payments are small is a terrible way to approach shopping. If you don't have the money to pay for it upfront, you can't afford it. Full stop. People actually finance their phones, believe it or not. It boggles the mind.
It would use up roughly the same volume, but it'd be a lot more water.

(Much heavier, I suspect, as well.)
They don't get security patches though
> I'm hoping the broad deployment of this tech allows phones to SOS on collision from within remote areas.

Presumably this tech will be integrated into car built-in emergency call systems sooner or later.

There's already a mandate for (terrestrial phone network based) dial-112-on-crash in Europe. With something like Starlink's Direct-to-Cell, even existing cars might be able to use this without an upgrade.

> Protecting the lives we have matters.

I'd argue saving lives matters regardless of population dynamics...?!
Do you have a specific recommendation for a machine?
it seems likely that the degree of importance they accord to current mainstream political shibboleths is informative about the community's value system and decision-making process, and therefore how it will change its policy on module versioning and c code in the next few years

probably some people will think it's encouraging information, and others will think it's discouraging information, but either way it's important information
I thought he was just trying to allude to the word slut without actually saying it. They were talking about a package being banned because it was a wordplay on a slur and another package and I guess the name of the package was 'SLUT' and the other package was 'LUT' (pylut?).

> One of the very few split decisions I recall from my Board days would fall under the “CoC” label today. It was about kicking a package off of PyPI, because its docs repeatedly used a word that Dan Akroyd used to apply to Jane Curtin (brilliant comic actors from America’s “Saturday Night Live” TV show, but back in the days when it was genuinely funny :wink:).

> It won’t surprise anyone that I was one of only two who voted to leave the (seemingly dead anyway) package alone. The other has also been active in this thread, but I don’t want to name them lest they get even more death threats than usual :wink:

Also, if this was the statement from Tim Peters that the python statement:

> Using potentially offensive language or slurs, in one case even calling an SNL skit from the 1970s using the same slur “genuinely funny”, which shows a lack of empathy towards other community members.

was referring to. Then it is a misrepresentation of what Tim said. Because Tim didn't say the skit using the slur was "genuinely funny". He said the show was "genuinely funny". However, there are a bunch of removed comments from Tim in the discussion so it could have been referring to a different message.
This being HN, let me give you a relevant example.

Can you ban investors “colluding” to all invest in a startup? They do it for many reasons:

Signaling (social proof)

Reducing risk (other investors are likely to top up if needed)

Network opportunities (if others are opening doors for this startup, it’s more likely to succeed)

Networking opportunities (getting into the same round as a famous VC)

Strength in numbers (banding together)

As we found out, half the VCs in Silicon Valley even banked at the same bank!

Even the government overseers supposed to oversee these industries (eg Wall Street, Big Pharma etc) are also part of the revolving door.

But nevermind all that. I have that simple question. There are many reasons why emergent behavior occurs among investors who collude to invest in the same startups, the old boys’ clubs, the demo days.

What will you do to ban all that natural emergent behavior, to “prevent emergent collusion”?
Are you including the extra $50/mo you pay your carrier for this privilege? There ain't no such thing as a free lunch; you can either pay up front or pay over time (and often more than you would otherwise).
I broke my iPhone 12 mini and part of me died that day. A tired dad moment – set the phone on the trunk lid when getting my kid in the car and then later opened the trunk. It slid down and crunched in the hinge.

I could replace it with another mini but have been holding out hope for another updated version. I love the small form factor, even at the expense of battery life and camera quality. I just want a reasonable phone with solid hardware that fits in my pocket.
Often features that are touted as being only for the newest Pixel phones, come to all Pixel phones (or all Android phones) in a few months.
what about a mechanism that 'locks' the trackball in place at rest, and then requires a little bit of force to 'unlock' the trackball to track?
Borland made the best dev tools in their day, but they sorta lost the edge early in the Builder run and other tools became more desirable. At least, that's why I stopped using them.

I don't know about Mac support. I did Apple development during those days as well, but I didn't use Borland tools for that, I used CodeWarrior.
That's how you know that they're not proud of the CPU specs.

They went with the Samsung foundry so they could get a bespoke CPU design because Qualcomm doesn't have time for that type of stuff. Turns out that the Samsung ARM cores aren't as performant as the Qualcomm/Apple ARM cores. But at least Google has these Tensor thingies...

[edit] in Dave2D's video about the Pixel 9 Pro XL, https://youtu.be/67hVZOJDFxQ?t=323 , he shows a Geekbench comparison of recent Android CPUs, the new Tensor G4 is still slower in multithread GeekBench than SnapDragon 8 Gen2 & Gen3.
perhaps https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41238488 will provide helpful context on the different ways people think about these things
Yeah that. Pixel 6A and 7A. Unreliable as hell. Went straight back to iOS.

Edit to clarify: constant problems with payments, bluetooth, eSIMs.
Second chance pool

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308

>HN's second-chance pool is a way to give links a second chance at the front page. Moderators and a small number of reviewers go through old submissions looking for articles that are in the spirit of the site—gratifying intellectual curiosity—and which seem like they might interest the community. These get put into a hopper from which software randomly picks one every so often and lobs it randomly onto the lower part of the front page. If it interests the community, it gets upvoted and discussed; if not, it falls off.
I thought the same before I bought it (Pixel 8) but with a case it's okay.
People trade in cars every 3 years. I imagine it's similar to phones. Plus phone battery life does degrade pretty heavily over time and heavy use.
But now I have to understand what m.Range does, and I can't assume it's a slice or a map etc. Prior to this change, you could almost always correctly assume what a for loop is doing as it was very primitive.

It's changes like this that will make Go less productive for users over time, IMO. Java-fication.
The key to success in business is to goose profits in the short term and GTFO before the consequences hit.
Are there resources you would recommend reading regarding ML and audio?
That is Google‘s stated goal of long term support.
Where have you learned about this? I’ve been casually spelunking into the US economic past, mostly via Wikipedia, but I’d love to know if there are other better sources to check out. Especially around where you drew that conclusion of “capitalism” vs “financialism”
> It is much more frequent for -ffast-math to generate bigger errors than to benefit from an accidental cancellation of the errors.

In my experience underflows are very uncommon and indicate that you're doing something wrong, whereas fp contractions are extremely common. So I disagree with you.
My real criterias would be way more, but if I put all of them together, the answer is there is nothing.

I ABSOLUTELY need to be able to use a glass screen protector, because my phone falls a lot, so I'm really concerned about the fingerprint reader on the screen.

One criteria I won't be able to satisfy is: I like fingerprinting on the back. I don't think there are recent phones with that feature at all.
Check out https://github.com/kieraneglin/pinchflat or https://github.com/meeb/tubesync
You have to install them on a server or desktop, but they can both snip out sponsored sections from videos.
Poetry is a reasonable solution and has been for a few years now. We use it in production for deployments, and it's worked well for us.
I've never used the fold, I'd be a bit concerned about the screen wearing at the crease. Damage is another thing to be worried about.

As for the pixels, my advice is to hold off buying the latest until like Feb or even May. Google pretty aggressively drops the prices after release so waiting just a little bit will save you several hundred dollars. By Feb, generally the phones have been pretty stable.
>Brian Kernighan gave a talk on the readability of code ... I am aware he's one of the Go designers

I don't think so.

Not according to Wikipedia at least. First sentence:

>Go is a statically typed, compiled high-level programming language designed at Google[12] by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson.[4]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(programming_language)

Maybe you confused Brian Kernighan with Ken Thompson.

I think I have done that in the past myself. He (Ken Thompson) also worked a lot on Unix; maybe that is why the confusion.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix

Or maybe the confusion is because Kernighan was a co-author of The Go Programming Language book.
> That means your Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro will be supported all the way into 2030

https://store.google.com/intl/en_uk/ideas/articles/newest-pi...
Do they have an Apple Airtag / Samsung SmartTag style tracking dongle, and an UWB model phone that works with it?

Phone tech specs: both models have "Ultra-Wideband chip for accurate ranging and spatial orientation"

Tracking tag: ??

Any experiences with that?
Plus Garmin devices use the Iridium network which has truly global coverage (as opposed to Globalstar which is only in select areas of the world) as well as other features useful for non-emergency backcountry travel. I won't be dropping my Garmin InReach any time soon.
> IMHO all Pixel phones are just developer devices and you can't seriously use them as daily drivers.

While there's a lot you said that I agree with, I find this statement quite an exaggeration. I've owned Pixel phones for the last 7 years, both with stock and custom ROMS, and as much as Pixel seems to always have weird quirks, it's been reliable enough for me that I don't see why it couldn't be a daily driver.

That said, I share your view on upgrading so far that I really hesitate to upgrade anything, whether it's my Pixel phone or something else. I can count on one hand the number of times 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.

Although I've never been an iPhone user, Pixel is the best Android phone I've used. I'm a bit biased since it's developer-friendly I'm a software engineer, but I've had the least catastrophic issues (and less crapware) with them compared to other phones like Samsung's line. The strange thing about Pixel is that updates seem to always destabilize the UI, and I'll get weird things happening like the lockscreen coming up and remaining frozen for some time.
I don't think it's an unrealistic expectation for a hunk of bleeding-edge electronics that costs ~$1k and you interact with for a couple hours each day at minimum.

I've had an iPhone XS since 2018/09 (equidistant to 2030 from today), and have had no significant issues – my upgrade cycle is ~6 years, there is at least one of us!
ifixit has exclusive deals with some manufacturers where you can get an OEM replacement battery + tools for ~$30-50. can easily double the lifespan of a well-maintained device
Oh my god I could kiss you. It works on AppleTV.
Nobody, you just have to chose which kind of bad you can tolerate.

Personally, I navigate the Android fragmentation mess to avoid Apple's control-freak tendencies. One is annoying, the other is offensive. But I totally see why you might prefer the opposite.
Thank you for articulating these criticisms. IMO people like the author are pining for high modernism when we've been in a postmodern media (and cultural) landscape for at least a couple decades now. It's the same impulse that has extremely online right wingers pining for "trad" values while posting waifus. They seem to wish we could live in the Eisenhower administration forever. Unfortunately for these people, that's just not possible.

Edit: also want to add this quote:

>...disillusioned voters might adopt more realistic expectations about how much leaders can improve their lives.

This article positions itself against "nihilism" but this is the most nihilistic thing I've seen in a piece of political writing. This is no more than a way to say that elites should tell voters: "Peons, stop expecting your lives to get better. That's not our relationship. This is not a democracy, and your role in society is to suffer silently while also praising us."
Ask HN: Why do websites have scheduled downtime if AWS/GCP prove its not needed?
Something I've always wondered about

Big cloud platforms never take the service down for maintenance

They do any upgrades or maintenance live on the running service

If this is possible for them, why do so many websites have scheduled maintenance where they take the whole site down?

Are the engineers just not able to figure out how to do the maintenance without turning off the website?

What is the secret that these cloud platforms have discovered where they don't need scheduled maintenance like the rest of the web?
YouTube has something a bit more direct available for partnered channels via the "Super Thanks" comment option. It allows you to tie a dollar amount to your comment on the video.
People making an average hourly don't think of things that way. Paying $28/month for a phone provides much more liquidity for the unexpected, when the other option is spending over 25% of your months income, you're SOL if your car breaks for whatever reason, or you get a flat tire, or your water bill was unusually high.
Do you think this is recent? I've been using a Pixel 6A for over a year, this current one only a few months. In the last few weeks it has started (seemingly) randomly getting quite warm.
I mean you can go and argue with the biologists and economists if you need to. I'm just delivering the meesage.
Looks like that only works if you’re a Google customer?
Im still on a pixel 5 pro and it works great. Thats a 4 year old device. Im actually surprised how well it still holds up today
> I don’t think that this is a fair characterization of what it means for a circuit to have one of its decisions be heard by the Supreme Court. It makes it seem like being “reviewed” by the Supreme Court is a proxy for “out of the norm,” and that’s not the test for Supreme Court review

My intent was for the statement of their decisions being considered extreme and their decisions being reviewed often to be two separate statements, the former an opinion I've seen often and the latter a statistical phenomenon. The latter doesn't imply the former, but I don't think it would be surprising that the former correlates with the latter.