skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a Pixel 7 Pro, and my Bluetooth has been fine. No issues there, ever, but I do have complaints about features suddenly not working and it mostly revolves around Google Assistant. It is utterly inconsistent with what it does, and it is maddening.

It randomly wants me to unlock the device to play music, but I'm using voice controls because I'm driving. It has my car's bluetooth device set as "trusted" so it shouldn't even require it to unlock to continue, and it's not like asking it to play something on Spotify would reveal any information about myself. Additionally, sometimes it just leaves the screen on in the off chance that it _does_ start to play music, and I feel my pocket getting warm but there's nothing that I can do because I'm driving and I don't want to mess with my phone.

If I knew that it was going to leave the screen on I would just queue up music before I leave, but it doesn't always do it and it drives me nuts. I don't think that my next phone will be a Pixel.
>absurdly expensive for what they are (maybe this is a US thing)

It's actually a European thing. Luxottica, an Italian company, has largely monopolized glasses worldwide.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/anaswanson/2014/09/10/meet-the-...

from wikipedia: Luxottica retails its products through stores that it owns, predominantly LensCrafters, Sunglass Hut, Pearle Vision, Target Optical, and Glasses.com. It also owns EyeMed, one of the largest vision health insurance providers. In addition to licensing prescription and non-prescription sunglasses frames for many luxury and designer brands including Chanel, Prada, Giorgio Armani, Burberry, Versace, Dolce and Gabbana, Michael Kors, Coach, Miu Miu and Tory Burch,[8] the Italian conglomerate further outright owns and manufactures Ray-Ban, Persol, Oliver Peoples, and Oakley...In March 2018, the European Commission unconditionally approved the merger of Essilor and Luxottica.[14] On 1 October 2018, the new holding company EssilorLuxottica was born, resulting in combined market capitalization of approximately $70 billion.[15] The merger with Essilor additionally gave Luxottica control of Foster Grant and Costa Del Mar, sunglasses brands acquired by Essilor prior to the merger

Now, I'm not an expert on European regulation, but I do get a lot of good information from Europeans here on HN, and I'd guess that the EC approved the merger because the company respects the GDPR
As shocking as that sounds, I had a Pixel 7 and after sometime calls stopped coming through making me miss some emergency calls.

I have never ever had a phone do that and I have used some really cheap phones.

So I don't think what OP is saying is far from the truth. I am resolved to never buying a Pixel again.
Neither have I on all my android phones. Only device that failed me was an iPad 3 (yeah 12 years ago) that I got replaced in the store due to it crashing right in their hands. But hey, anecdotes.
Thanks.

I was using gpt-3.5-turbo-0125. It was before the recent pricing change.

But I have a bunch of updates to make to the json schema, so will re-run everything with gpt-4o-mini.

Sonnet seems a lot more expensive, but I'll 'upgrade' if the schema changes don't get sufficiently good results.
> It blows me away that people actually care how much other people spend on something at all.

It's an idle discussion thread about consumer electronics. Not an attack on the core of your personal identity.
to disambiguate, it is not at all controversial that the younger dryas was a thousand-year-long ice age in the northern hemisphere at the relevant time; that is universally accepted by the experts. what is 'controversial and not widely accepted by relevant experts' is the comet impact hypothesis which the nyt presents as an accepted fact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas_impact_hypothesi...
Can you give a concrete example of "async hell"?
Airplay doesn't qualify as "convenient" for me. First is the frustration of even getting it to work, and second if I have a phone or mac open, I'll ignore the TV and get sucked into work instead of relaxing.
I think phones really stopped differentiating a few years ago. A $200 Motorola is extremely capable and does 99% of what normal people need. I bought a Moto G Power for my kid who always forgets to charge it because the battery lasts 3 days. That's more valuable than having 3 cameras and an AI chip.
> but the tone comes off as so defeatist

Because it is.

The existing status quo over cyberwarfare is untenable, and runs the very real risk of causing chaos if we don't tamp down on the usage of third parties for plausible deniability.

Most countries have offensive security capabilities directly under direct government control, but a number of them will also tolerate third party actors attacking a rival country so long as they don't attack the host country.

This is what LockBit (Russia), ChamelGang (either China or NK), Appin (India), etc has done.

Either everyone allows cybercriminals in their countries to attack other countries (and spark actual chaos in our entire internet infra that could escalate into actual violence), or all nation states agree to tamp down on third party attackers.

The Budapest Convention was the previous cybercrimes agreement, but most countries outside of the West that matter didn't ratify it. This meant terms of engagement over cyberwarfare weren't truly formalized, and a bad actor like NK or China could in good faith argue that a North Korean or Chinese cybergang did no wrong.

The brutal reality is that performative treaties like the Budapest Convention have no teeth, and a global Internet means that terms of engagement are needed for warfare, or the entire Internet splinters.
Note that they can't "take it away" completely. The AGPL ensures that the community AGPL licensed code will always have to be open source, and that anybody else can use it too. So a developer who has contributed to an AGPL codebase cannot be denied access to it. Due to the AGPL license, any code will always be open source and thus the CLA cannot claim exclusivity over the contributed code and prevent its (re)use by the developer in any manner.

The only concern then is ethical - will the developer be monetarily compensated if the product makes money? I believe they should be. Other open source developers may disagree.

Note also that for a commercial open source project, a CLA can offer some legal protection - by signing a CLA a developer declares that they own the copyright on the code, which reduces the liability of the commercial venture behind the open source product if someone contributes "pirated" code.
It was just a friendly game of water balloons. We had no intent of destroying your planet.
> To be fair we do already know that energy is not globally conserved over cosmological timescales.

No, what we know is that there is no invariant global concept of "energy" at all except in a special class of spacetimes (the ones with a timelike Killing vector field), to which the spacetime that describes our universe as a whole does not belong.

However, "tired light" (at least the versions of it that aren't ruled out the way the Zwicky model you describe was) violates local energy-momentum conservation, which is a valid conservation law in GR (the covariant divergence of the stress-energy tensor is zero).
Plus the fact that the inReach has a mad battery life, and is a very simple and dependable device.
Git 2.38.0 is the version where git archive uses an internal gzip implementation instead of calling the actual external gzip. This internal implementation has two improvements for this purpose: First, it doesn't store the timestamp. You could also get that with gzip -n. (But the old git archive didn't do that, so you have to run the gzip as a separate step after git archive.) Second, it stores the platform identification bits as "UNIX" on all platforms, so the output is identical on all platforms. There is no gzip command-line option for that, unfortunately.
> This article is written entirely from the "state" point of view and completely lacks any "humanity" whatsoever.

Well of course it's pro-statist: it's from The New Yorker. There aren't many more leftist publication than that one and leftists love the state: it's their religion.

To these people every single problem is due to "not enough state" and the solution is always "more state", which can be seen here:

> But democracy on a mass scale depends on mass institutions—mass media, mass education, mass culture ...

Yeah. Mass state. Mass mind control. More left.

I honestly don't understand how anyone who thinks for himself cannot see through this pile of horseshit.
Thank you so much for sharing your approach. It’s incredible that you are donating 10%, I do the same percentage as it doesn’t really affect your way of living and enjoying life.

I wonder how do you usually find out about your local, overlooked but impactful organizations?
Principles I Find Interesting
Design looks almost like iPhone. Seems like the design patents have expired.
i want to se a Fluid simulation of this drop with an earth model
Yep. I think I'm in the "fool me twice" category on Pixels now. This is the third one in a row with a bad USB socket.
Building a ChatGPT Clone with Rails in less than 30 minutes with Claude 3.5
RGPs are initially not very comfortable, it's been a long time but when I first got them I would only wear then a few hours, then I slowly worked up to wearing them all day. But now I rarely notice them, unless I get a bit of dust or a loose eyelash under one of them (that can be really uncomfortable).

The nice thing is that they last pretty much forever and care is pretty easy. Just clean them daily and soak them overnight in disinfectant/conditioning fluid.
38 out of 50 trending YT-video's are shorts
One of the folding Samsung phones is the "single screen that folds in half like a flip phone" style! Played with one for a minute in Best Buy and it was pleasantly compact.
I used to think that, until I went to buy my first house and had no credit. Not bad credit, just no credit. I couldn’t get a mortgage, even though the payment would have been half what I was paying in rent, because I was financially responsible and had never needed a credit card.

Now I use a credit card as my default way to pay, and never carry a balance. I get travel rewards, and have an 800+ credit score. It’s a frustrating game we have to play in our current system.
tbf this is abusing the word anecdote a bit. Anecdotes are unreliable narratives and hearsay, not facts or data.

An anecdote is "I forgot to pray before bed last night and now I have a headache. See God is punishing me." and other people agreeing with this happening to them.

Saying, "here is a documented pixel bug that was released on day x but wasn't fixed until day y" is evidence and data.

Once its documented as a real bug then its no longer in the land of weird anecdotes.

How you categorize that is up to you. You can be dismissive of what that bug broke as an "unimportant feature" but its no longer an anecdote.
You can install all kinds of extensions on Firefox on Android my friend. Firefox for Android is one of the killer apps now IMHO. Termux, Tasker, KDE Connect, and NetGuard are some others.
A complex dynamic system has a large number of working parts, and responds in specific ways to inputs and stressors. It just doesn't make sense to think of death itself as a "complex system." They are certainly related- I think death could be seen as an event that irreversibly dismantles a complex system in some way, such that the parts no longer function together as a system.
I've always wanted to play a game based on defunct theories. I'm a fan of luminiferous aether myself. What are the impacts on a spacefaring civilization?

Sci-fi already grants alternative physics to enable FTL and other magic. What about hard sci-fi, but wrong-hard sci-fi?

Extra credit: go back to Zeno and all motion is paradoxical, what would you even do in the game?
A Sports Agent Went Viral. He Isn't Ready to Fade Away
That is a good clarification.
Study finds 94% of business spreadsheets have critical errors
I have a zFlip 5 and love it. I was pretty hesitant about switching (Pixel user before) but I like the smaller size in my pocket when folded and there seems to be a psychological effect of closing it when I'm done that results in my mindlessly fiddling with it less.
My comment is still valid for software killed in the mobile space. I don’t know what other people feel but I have a strange feeling that, because they have so much money, anything other than search is built temporarily. All their software, their apps and services aren’t build to last. It’s built for now and later they will abandon to start from scratch. It’s easier to start over from scratch with a new team than to make what’s been built last.
That comes from a shortsighted vision that I dislike.
Chapter 15 of the 2007 release of "Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation" gives a really good motivation for the async/await syntax. Here is a link: https://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Books/ProgLangs/2007-0...

> I would prefer an approach where calls to "async" functions are implicitly awaited unless a keyword turns then into a promise, and all functions are implictly treated as async as needed, unless a keyword specifies that they return a promise, which should be awaited instead. This would make the majority case clearer, and force you to make the minority case explicit where it's currently implicit.

This is a very interesting idea and feels good in an initial 'gut check' sense.
Also.. the largest sphere has a radius of about 92 miles. It reaches to the edge of the atmosphere, and about 1/3 of the way to low earth orbit.
Is that a MIP Garmin or an OLED Garmin? I've heard that their OLED battery life is getting better with newer models but usually you have to make a choice between battery life and sunlight readability (better on MIP) or brightness and vibrancy (better on OLED) with them.
Well, that's the thing. Where the money is is in novelty, not maintenance.

If we shifted resources to supporting maintenance over novelty, this could change... But the people with the money want to make more money, and that mostly happens in the "come out with something novel and everyone gives you a buck" space, not the "keep the electrical grid control architecture running" space.

Incentives drive the industry.
So, crash Ceres into Mars, and we have made a huge step towards terraforming?
I don't understand what you mean by this. Are you saying you can patch out telemetry in Linux package managers are Firefox doesn't care? What does that have to do with 2006? I think GP has a valid point otherwise as people will just install the thing named Firefox and not check to see if there is a telemetry free version going by a different name.
Spheres/circles are definitely surprising in how a seemingly small increase in radius changes the volume/area much more drastically. The cubing/squaring exponent is easily taken for granted.
The author actually talks about ESS in a comment to the linked blog post from the article. Apparently their battery generates a ton of H_2 that needs to be managed. That could easily be the sort of thing that only is possible/realistic at large scales, thus eliminating sizing the battery down indirectly. https://chemisting.com/2024/03/15/an-open-source-diy-flow-ba...
I've tried contacts and as a counterargument, I've found that there are few scenarios where contacts work but glasses don't and that it's way more effort and expense to use contacts vs glasses. People have mentioned sports, but there are probably more sports and exercise where glasses work better than contacts like swimming (sure you need special goggles, but contacts are simply a non-starter) and cycling. I actually prefer a pair of aviator glasses for cycling because they keep things like bugs and pollen from going into my eyes even if it's too dark for sunglasses.

However, I totally agree that eye surgery is probably the best option since then you don't have the downsides of either contacts or glasses. The only reason I'm hesitant to do it is because my prescription isn't that strong and I've heard it can mess with your close up vision later in life. But for someone with severe issues, fixing the myopia and then just using reading glasses as needed is definitely a huge QoL improvement.
> The totality of all the observations we have cannot be explained in any other way than an expanding universe.

Surely there are infinite other possible explanations that fit the finite number of data points available to us. Probably what you meant is that the expanding universe theory is the simplest of them all and creates less problems then others.
Apple does not have a monopoly. They sell 27% of all smartphones. Samsung sells 24%. Xiaomi sells 12%.
In July 2024, Python published the first release candidate of its 3.13 version. The PSF announced some news about new staff members, and PyOhio US 2024 took place in Ohio. Finally, some fundamental Python projects, such as Django, Pillow, pytest, and Pydantic, also released new versions
When did this happen? I really just noticed when I was looking at the trending tab. Is there a way of reconstructing?
> The value they get is identical they would get if they spent half of it.

I'm pretty sure that the camera on my Pixel is twice as good as the OnePlus that it replaced.
I honestly don't remember how much it was when I got my last phone, but I don't remember thinking it was particularly expensive. I'm an Android user.
Why compromise? Might as well launch a solar gravitational lens [1] telescope.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_gravitational_lens
Ask HN: Best resource to learn the Network Stack
I feel like this is a significant knowledge gap I'd like to close. I had some courses at University but they were all too theoretical.

Can anyone suggest a few high-quality resources that explain TCP/IP networking in a comprehensive and applied way? Especially one that goes into detail on how to use the Linux network configuration and investigation tools would be great.
Nice. Could also give haiku a try!
Spheres are much more efficient. You must not have had the soap bubble question in an interview! Not everything in life conveniently fits in a box.
Indeed, at this point my workflow is pretty mature. The camera bump ends up unnoticeable to me because I'll throw it into a Spigen case anyway. Seems like a lot of people are doing that.
But who is going to have the data that we need to assess this?

The firm that has an interest in everyone thinking there's no data, and that we should withhold judgement.

There's not a lot of good choices here, either you assume that because there's no info, everything is fine, or you assume that the one guy complaining is one of many.
When did Chrome go from the most secure browser to there is a exploit-chain giving RCE by visiting a malicious website every second month? (Last one I recall was CVE-2024-4761 and -4671)..

Or maybe it was never really secure and it was just good marketing?
Are these quotes taken out of context or total lies? The first seems a bit sketch, the second seems like it should be illegal.
Those are called "fully integrated ads" and most of the time you don't see them because creators want more money for the whole video being an ad vs 30second of the 10 minute video. They also tend to involve a lot more back and forth with the creator and the sponsor about what is "allowed" in the video.
More and more of societal services “require” a smartphone. I went to a baseball game where it seemed like it was required to install their ticket app (might have been an offline workflow available).

For someone with a limited budget, a phone seems wildly more valuable than a laptop.
yes! we agree how this works.

so we disagree on terminology?

in my CS upbringing, sharing the memory location of a thing as parameter was tagged "call by reference". the hallmark was: you can in theory modify the referenced thing, and you just need to copy the address.

call by value, in contrast, would create an independent clone, such that the called function has no chance to modify the outside value.

now python does fancy things, as we both agree. the result of which is that primitives (int, flot, str) behave as if they were passed by value, while dict and list and its derivatives show call by reference semantics.

I get how that _technically_ sounds like call by value. and indeed there is no assignment dunder. you can't capture reassignment of a name.

but other than that a class parameter _behaves_ like call by reference.
Maybe we need to have a "stop killing DAWs" initiative along with the "stop killing games"...
> Just imagine, you are in a life or death scenario and your literal phone has a bug preventing you from calling help.

> All other issues are minor. I cannot forgive a bug of this nature.

Does that mean you will never use Verizon, AT&T, or T-Mobile, all of which have had carrier-wide 911 outages? Will you never visit the state of Massachusetts, which had a state-wide 911 outage, affecting all carriers, just six weeks ago?

This type of failure is bad, but it's unfortunately a lot more common than you think.
Elon Musk uses his X social media platform to amplify right-wing views
If those weren't so expensive, I'd get one in a heartbeat. It's downright luxurious!
You get 256 colors per frame. Want more colors? Use more frames! There's some really impressive software/gifs at https://gif.ski/ if you want to see just how far it's possible to push this terrible format.
Go to the homepage. https://www.totemlabs.com/ The OP article looks much more like something to read if you know what it is, and want to know how the engineering team pulled it off.
Freezing? Wouldn't it boil instead due to the low pressure?
Have you held a Pixel 7 Pro? They are _way_ too smooth without a case. It's like trying to hold a wet bar of soap.
I've only heard from others but the people I've talked to all had some issues post-op which they seemed to rationalize and claimed that it was a net improvement, but I've ruled it out as something I'll ever have done.

It would be really nice to have 20:20 vision without contacts or glasses but some of the stuff I've heard (extreme dry eye feeling, distortions, glare/dazzling at night) just don't sound worth it.
This is me + wife with Pixel 3 despite "Battery Saving" mode and killall apps.

The screen is eating up the battery like me drinking water on a hot California weather.
I assume you meant 10c and not 0.1c.

(See https://verizonmath.blogspot.com/)
I really enjoyed both The Call of the Wild and White Fang by Jack London.
It’s good to be european, i guess
Iodine used to be commonly used to reduce pseudoephedrine to meth, but these days most meth comes from superlabs in Mexico, who use a very different process. I doubt you'll catch much heat for it these days, especially since it has a number of legit uses. And even if it gets you on a "list" you're more likely to just get raided once rather than no-fly'd.
But the photos are nowhere near twice as good.
Just like Bezos and the mainstream media use their platform to amplify left wing views?
Thanks a lot for your input and the 10 years you have put into volunteering.
It is definitely quite often way more important than giving money, especially with your particular skill.

Would you mind elaborating on your take about the salaries of people working in the nonprofit sector?
Do you believe their salaries should be covered by the government, or a separate donor pool covering overhead specifically? Or otherwise?

There is a brilliant book about the charitable sector of the UK called “Our common good. if the state provides less, who will provide more?”. It gives a good insight into UK’s art and education institutions, as well as healthcare.