skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a focus on "bigger" makes me sad

I really want a smaller/lighter phone next time. My Galaxy S23 Ultra weighs almost 300g with the case.

I recently got wrist pain and some radiating pain in my pinky and ring finger. First I thought I'm getting carpal tunnel but that is quite literally the other tunnel in the wrist.

Took me a while to figure this out, but turns out holding a heavy phone in one hand, propping it up with your pinkie finger (bending the finger sideways) is not a natural way for the pinkie finger to function.

Stopped holding it like that and it seems to be getting better. Got a magsafe handle for the back of the phone which should arrive soon ... Hopefully it gives me more grip.
They are also a huge battery drain. I wish Garmin put the effort into their iOS app that they did with their Android so as to be able to filter notifications by app. Eg, I want iMessage notifications on my wrist, but I could care less about IG notifications, and I actively turn off bluetooth to save my battery life when my wife is forwarding me reel after reel...
I held on to my Pixel 5a for as long as I could, primarily for that rear-mounted fingerprint reader. Such a wonderful implementation. Fast, accurate, and fingers just fell naturally into place when picking it up. I'm still dreaming that someday they'll return to that.
> Looks like, unsurprisingly, the resolution is more about mandating censorship than it is about curbing actual crime.

Well, the EFF's take on the
resolution is always going to be more about the censorship it introduces than how much it enables law enforcement to curb actual crime.

I'm aligned with the EFF on this, and would vote against this if it were raised in any democratic forum I voted in, but that's because I care more about reducing censorship than reducing online crime. Yes, I, unlike most voters in modern liberal democracies, would let ten paedos walk free to save one Aaron Swartz.

If you really care about them ~equally - as you have to, for your comment to be made in good faith - then you can't take your talking points from the EFF.
FHE can be leveraged for LLMs such as ChatGPT in a privacy-preserving manner
> in my experience, this is only used in relation to luxury goods.

Not really. You can also "invest" in personal relationships, for example, which implies neither a financial outlay nor an expectation of financial return.

When used in the context of purchasing consumer goods, I think it is most often used in the context of goods which are expensive (the financial outlay) and durable (ie, capable of providing enjoyment--analogous to profit--for a long time into the future). And of course those goods are more likely to be considered "luxury" goods.
"Slave states" and "Free states" did not exist at the time of the constitution's ratification - slavery was legal and practiced in all 13 of them. And while south Carolina and Georgia were amongst the bottom half of the stack population wise, they weren't significantly smaller than the other small states. The EC was Explicitly laid out in the federalist papers (68 to be specific) to exist for the purpose of protecting the smaller states from those like Massachusetts and Virginia.
They never say. The 13 mini was the last one. Maybe there will be a 17 mini, maybe never again.
I was initially excited at the announcement of the "fold" phone, but then I saw it's effectively two phone screens, instead of one folded in half. Sigh...

I have a Pixel 3a, and it's still larger than I'd like. I realize that the market for folks who would prefer something smaller is, well, small. But, I look at the phone landscape, and I hate every one of them. I like the Pixel, because it's stock Android. I wish they would release a Pixel "Basic" or something. 5.5" screen, basic camera, no AI bullshit. Just a no-frills basic phone.
Cerebras Systems Announces Proposed Initial Public Offering
What they contribute mainly profits windows and/or wsl.
It's up to the reader to decide whether the journalist is trustworthy; based on the track records of the parties involved, I'm more inclined to believe the Verge.
The Count of Monte Cristo. Everyone loves it. It aged marvelously!
Sure, but the point is that now that a potential shooter knows that these daily inspections happen, they're not going to bring twenty suitcases full of guns and ammo. They're going to bring two or three suitcases full of guns and ammo, and still have enough firepower to do the same amount of damage the guy in 2017 did.

This is all just security theater. And like most security theater, it infringes on what should be legally-mandated privacy rights. But of course we don't have those here in the US.
> our cosmic distance ladder calculations seem to have been very good

Not according to at least one research group described in the article: the Freedman group, which is only getting the higher answer using Cepheids, but gets a lower answer, one consistent with the CMBR calculations, by two other methods. Which raises the possibility that it's the Cepheid part of the cosmic distance ladder that's the problem.
Our app was specifically only for androids.

We didn’t test anything other than androids, my work laptop, and software defined radios.

Different brands, I recall Samsung devices being the worst on average. I believe the better Bluetooth devices were actually nexus/pixel phones… I think the top, by far, was the nexus 9, but it’s been a while.

The product was pretty cool that we built. It was essentially tile or Apple AirTags before both of those were around and ruggedized for usage in commercial usage to keep track of items (dumpsters, underwater diving equipment, mining equipment, portapotties, etc). You’d be surprised how easy it is for some of these companies to lose a dumpster or something else of considerable size and mass.

Building the mesh network and algorithms to determine if someone passed by, moved, etc the item the beacon was attached to was pretty cool stuff.

We also didn’t want to use data as much as possible, but the final determination of “what happened” to the item needed to be server side to ensure we took into account scenarios like 2 unrelated items traveled together for 2 miles, then went their separate ways. So we had to optimize for data, geo, temporal, spatial data, etc.

Given the speed a vehicle might travel and Bluetooth range, you could have 1-5 bbroadcasts to detect a beacons presence and update its location so missed detections were critical.
The configure generated from configure.ac has always been checked into Git for PostgreSQL. So with either the old or the new make dist approach, the configure in the tarball matches the one checked into the source code repository. So this is outside of what this article is discussing.
Great book! I loved Grapes of Wrath even more, but anything by Steinbeck is a safe bet.
The Halloween Blizzard of '91
You put your cursor on the "Range" portion of m.Range, and hit "Jump to Definition".

You can also just not import things that do crazy things with iterators. Based on the history of the community, that will actually be fairly easy. I'm yet to see anything crazy with generics get into a library that I use. I'm abundantly positive there's going to be a dozen "hey let's go do crazy things with rangefunc" libraries in the next couple of weeks, probably some will even make it to HN (with predictable comments bemoaning how complicated Go is getting even though these libraries have an expected use rate in the low dozens of people in the next few years), but the odds of them penetrating into common practice remain low. (Higher than previous attempts at such libraries, because rangefunc fixes some basic issues with them. But still low overall, I think.)

I think you could go many, many years programming Go in the next few years and not encounter any funny iterators in real code. If you just assume the iterator is doing what it looks like it should be doing and isn't doing anything funny, you're going to be 99%+ correct in the Go programming world.
Oh, it's even worse and more complicated than I thought. If they are breaking earlier versions of their non-dongle soft licensor then that's going to be a mess.

Frankly, as a long-time, non-professional user of Cubase, if they make using it any more annoying than it already was, when it comes time I need to do a major upgrade, I'll probably just move on to one of the new competing platforms instead. And, for me, it's not even about the cost. Beyond a certain point, the constant low-level annoyance of such invasive DRM measures on legit users just isn't worth it if you're not being paid to use it.
Google can already see every installation of every Go program/package in existence, unless you set GOPROXY=direct (or a custom proxy). The default is to use https://proxy.golang.org, which is operated by Google.
This is what happens when your phone and all it's apps are written in a garbage collected language.
Getting a security clearance comes with liability and potential downside that doesn't exist in the private sector. Some examples:

* Restrictions and reporting requirements around international travel and contact with foreign nationals

* Restrictions on discussing work with friends and family

* Prohibition on cannabis use

* Prohibition on reading publicly leaked secret documents (from the Snowden days: https://web.archive.org/web/20211120154017/https://sgp.fas.o...)

Interns-to-be should consider carefully whether this lasting infringement on personal liberty is worth any upside of employment at a defense contractor for 3 months.
Here's one about battery life:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255046014?sortBy=rank
> The methods Mrs. Peters chose were most definitely the wrong ways

Showing how systems are corrupt, broken, and vulnerable by technically illegal action was something that the left and the HN community have historically applauded. That's what was behind the Pentagon Papers, the Citizen's Commission, and Wikileaks. Apparently illegal activity motivated by the public good is only excusable if you aren't a Trump supporter.
Mint's unlimited is $30/mo when purchasing a year up front. The only "plus" is taxes and fees. It includes tethering. So even with whatever deal you've got going on its still $324/yr cheaper, $972 cheaper after a three-year commitment (if applicable in your case).

The "free" phone only applies to Unlimited Plus and Unlimited Ultimate. At a single line for Plus that's $80/mo. $960/yr. $2,880 over that three-year commitment.

But either way, I don't bother with the "unlimited" plans. You're going to get de-rated after 30-40gigs anyways on Verizon.

> Unlimited data is restricted to on-device smartphone usage. After exceeding 30 GB/mo of 5G Ultra Wideband, 5G, or 4G LTE mobile hotspot data, mobile hotspot data reduced to speeds up to 3 Mbps when on 5G Ultra Wideband and 600 Kbps when on 5G / 4G LTE for the rest of your monthly billing cycle.

https://www.verizon.com/support/important-plan-information/

"Unlimited" plan you're paying $80/mo for that you're going to get 600Kbps if you really treat it as "unlimited".

I personally don't even use all of my 15GB a month. I get lots of people live different lifestyles, but a lot of people don't need "unlimited". So really, I'm not even spending $360/yr, I'm spending $240/yr. $444/yr cheaper than your plan. $1,332 cheaper after three years.
> You're right in that the ideas are not new

It's not just an old scientific idea, but a popular idea discussed at length by the ancient greeks: Talebs whole thing is taking ideas from ancient philosophy, especially stoicism and translating them into rigorous math concepts for modern applications and audience. He's also obsessed with "The Lindy Effect" which implies that older ideas are generally also likely to be more valuable and lastingly useful.
> And what about Lisp is enduser friendly?

It's not, it's developer-friendly. A basic Lisp interpreter is like a few hundred lines of code, so it's a very tempting system to embed. I think Lua is similar, but I haven't messed with it.

It's also powerful enough that most things aren't incredibly awkward to specify in it. YAML/JSON/TOML/etc have issues expressing repetitive things that can be solved in a for-loop/map in Lisp.

I don't even think Lisp should be an IQ filter. I wouldn't call myself a great or even good Lisp programmer, but the prefix syntax and s-expr's aren't all that hard to pick up. I don't think it's any more difficult than JSON, although it is far less common.
I left my 1084S in my parents' basement, and they eventually threw it out. It had a fiddly power button but was working otherwise.
My Pixel Watch sucks and it's not because the screen isn't big or bright enough. The implementation of notifications is awful. It's actually faster and easier in many cases to whip out my phone to see a notification than to see it on the watch.

Why? Because notifications are not shown by default. The watch vibrates but nothing is there on the screen but the watch face. To trigger a notification to actually show, you need to rotate your wrist down (if it is up) and then up again (impossible if you are carrying something). Then you have to wait for it to recognize the gesture. Then you have to wait for a fade animation to an intermediate screen that shows half of the information about the notification. Then you have to wait for a fade animation to the final screen that actually shows the notification text. And if you lower your wrist at all during or after this process, the notification disappears instantly and won't come back without the use of both hands to activate the touchscreen or crown. And in many cases the information shown is useless, like "so-and-so sent a picture." Show me the goddamn picture then!

It boggles the mind that anyone could think this is a good experience to ship at all, let alone for three generations! Especially when Pebble had it right 10 years ago. You show the notification on the screen first, then you vibrate the watch, then you leave the notification there for at least 30 seconds so it can be read. You show the whole notification at once (as much as possible on the small screen, of course), and you also show a small clock at the top so you can still see the time while the notification is shown. How hard is that?

Of course this isn't the only way the Pixel Watch software sucks. The whole UX is pretty terrible, like they had some ideas and went straight to final implementation, never bothering to iterate based on user feedback. Low information density, low customizability, feature-poor, unresponsive interactions, blocking animations. It's everything bad about modern UI in a tiny frustrating package.

I don't know what is wrong with all the tech reviewers that fail to call Google out on this stuff. Maybe it's better than Samsung or whatever but that doesn't make it good. At least the hardware is nice. Though, like all smartwatches except the Pebble Time Round, far too thick.
Cloudflare encrypts your data with lava lamps (2017)
Plug of my own work on the topic :

Using images as input to show conformal deformation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMMrEDIFPZY

Better phase portraits with a grid, zeroes, poles https://www.shadertoy.com/view/Ms2Bz3
> this is only used in relation to luxury goods.

It isn't. People say it in regards to quality goods of all kinds - shoes, mattresses, food.
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
I agree they are 100% data that's why we can say with absolute confidence there are no issues. (source my anecdotes)
Dangerous Misinformation
There's a very large community of people in which their smartphone might be the only luxury purchase they make (I'm pretty close to that).

Now that we no longer upgrade every second year (or, in fact, every third year) and given I usually get 50% of the cost back by sending the old phone in, spending $1500/phone means that I'm typically amortizing a $750 charge over 4 years - or $15/month for the only luxury item I own. I'm probably more concerned about the $85/month AT&T bill than the $15/month cost for the actual phone.

Never having to even think about storage, like literally zero concerns about how much I download is one reason I always grab the high-end model (now around 1TB)

Also - there are lots of weeks, (in fact, sometimes a month) that my mother doesn't touch her (pretty high end, nice 4K monitor) computer system - but I doubt there has ever been a single hour that she wasn't using her phone. The Phone, for many, has become the new computer.

And, with LLMs becoming pervasive, the new knowledge-system. (I can go many days without touching google - but I hit up some combination of Claude/ChatGPT pretty 7-10 times/day) I can already envision the day in which you will be able to run an LLM on your phone - but the H/W specs for that thing will likely be insane and I have a hard time seeing how the first releases of (reasonable speed, reasonable model -I'm aware you can do it today) - in a 2-3 years from now that can run an LLM will go for less than $2000-$2500.

And I will be standing at the front of that line begging them to take my money. Entirely new device at that point.
Black Friday usually gets a couple hundred $ off as well. Only risk is that if the phone (or watch, etc) is selling well then they won't discount it, so you might end up waiting a long time or waiting a couple months and still paying full price. I always try to hold out for Black Friday though unless my old phone is broken.
Does the case make the candybar-style camera feel less bulky? I'm in the market for a new phone, and the Pixel form factor is really nice, but the protruding camera makes me hesitate.
I think this may have borrowed liberally from Corridor Crew’s video about the same topic earlier in 2019: https://youtu.be/b3_Abb2Vqnc
Harris-sponsored Google ads put news outlets in a tough spot
Yes, you're absolutely right. The past starts to all blend together.
It might become a real thing that tech companies exit the EU market

I think this swould be fantastic.

Lets dump all that US crap and start our own versions. We dont need the US.

An entire Euro inspired tech eco system with Euro data protections, privacy and encryption with everything and a legal framework to protect it.

It has already started with some wonderful companies like, Qwant, swisscows, meteger, mullvad vpn and browser, protonmail and vpn, nordvpn, kdrive and kmail.

Just some of the ones I use every day without having to send my data across the altantic to some tech bro billionaire who doesnt give a shit.

EuroX sounds great, Eurotube sounds great, eurogram how lovely, eurodroid OS superb.
Reporters ordered $3,600 of fentanyl precursors online, enough for $3M fentanyl
The Universal Server
I animated the power in this video after 18sec : https://www.shadertoy.com/view/Ms2Bz3

Please note that complex powers involve the complex logarithm, which is multivalued, it should be a surface in 3D to really see the whole function. The animation I made is only taking one value of the power
To quote other posters: this isn't about email. But, this provision doesn't include the usual exemptions for politicians/campaigns, so if you ever set up recurring donations to a campaign, this might require that they behave with decency.
They switched the home and back buttons... why? I can only assume it was to make competing android phones feel awkward such that those who step foot outside of Samsung quickly run back to "safety".
What Is Mediumalism?
unfortunately the terminology here is very unclear, but i think you're right; the megafauna dying in america was part of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Pleistocene_extinctions which happened before the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas, which is the '1200-year ice age' whose name the nyt didn't think was important enough to mention

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas_impact_hypothesi... discusses the comet impact hypothesis, which it describes as 'controversial and not widely accepted by relevant experts'

also note from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas that the younger dryas didn't happen in south america, which is where the largest extinction of american megafauna happened; instead south america had the milder and earlier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_Cold_Reversal

however, it seems obvious that a widespread glaciation would have caused some extinctions, and there was a long tail of megafauna extinctions that extended long after the younger dryas. glyptodonts like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doedicurus apparently didn't become extinct until only 8000 years ago, and the wrangel island mammoths didn't become extinct until only 4000 years ago
Your argument that almost every web app is bloated is dumb. Where did you get that data from? Based on what you say the native apps aren't as bloated? You are talking out of your A.
I don't disagree but..
1) To me there is a lot more variety in cars than phones. An SUV is very different then a sports car or some luxury car. Phones vary a lot in OS (but people don't cross shop), a little in battery and a lot in camera.

As a thought experiment, if you put me in a civic I will know I am in a civic and not a BMW in one second. If you gave me an iphone 10 or an iphone12. Or a google 8 vs google 10... You get my point. Yes Android is different then iOS but people are usually locked in.

2) In general people spend way too much on cars, either to buy capability they don't really need or can't use. Or to try and say something about themselves.
In large events (100k+ people within a square km or so) cell phone networks often get saturated to the point of not working anymore. You can have 5 bars but not be able to download anything because the cell site is overloaded.
For the most part, the connected additional effects tend to involve our over eating too often.

If you're on a Carnivore diet, you also have more autophagy, which helps clean the brain of proteins that cause a variety of brain diseases.

GLP-1's main effect is that you eat less. No matter what it is you are eating. Autophagy occurs by prolonged periods of not eating.

We eat too much as a society, many of us can't control ourselves because our food has been designed to be as cravable as possible, to compete against other foods.

GLP-1's compel humans to feel fed, and not desire food which prevents the cravable nature of our food system.

Our food system isn't natural, it's created. More GLP-1, that is longer lasting helps manage the situation for those that cannot overcome naturally the unnatural food we eat.

The ideal situation would be to redesign the food system (can't under capitalism) to optimize for something other than competition, and cravability.

But given that's very unlikely, we need GLP-1s to do the job for us, and help us live in this ridiculous world.

At least until food scientists break the code on how to make even GLP-1s no match for the cravability of food.

It would of course be very profitable to be the one fast food place that's food is so desired, even GLP-1s can do nothing to stop it.

Weird world. Regardless, outside of the addiction research, I have yet to see anything that isn't just an improvement in life from longer periods of not eating.

Which is good. We all know long periods of not eating (if you have excess fat) are positive in a ton of dramatic ways.

It's just that not eating wasn't profitable, so there wasn't much research in that direction. People tried, but you couldn't get funding.

Now we're getting tons of funding because it's profitable now to not eat for long periods, provided you are on GLP-1s
But would this sphere of water have enough mass to hold itself together as a sphere in space? Put aside it freezing into a ball of ice as a thought exercise.
It blows me away that people will spend $500 for a phone when there are good options for $150 or less. :0
I'm in Android 15 beta with my P8P. Zero issues. So where are the problems I'm supposed to have?
> In-browser Postgres

NICE!

> with an AI interface

... uhh