skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These anecdotes are useful to highlight the low quality of Google devices. Certainly case reports cannot replace defect rates and other meaningful statistics, but if manufacturers are deaf about the issues then it doesn't bode well for instance for security related issues.

I had similar bad issues with the fingerprint tech and would assume that the issue has at least 20% prevalence among the affected Pixel models.
It's $120 per year or $15 per month. That covers the SOS, 10 text messages and unlimited check-in messages.

https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/837461/pn/010-06003-SU
You forgot "cuts the salary of everyone each year, ensuring anyone who can update a resume finds a new job"
The EC doesn’t provide balance. It provides a layer of indirection which can be used to game elections. And all of the EC delegates are political hacks, not honest brokers with the country’s best interests at the center of their duties. The “tyranny of the majority” talk about elections is just FUD — direct elections of representatives make the government more responsive to the desires of voters.

The EC is a fossil from a time when representatives didn’t trust the average person to vote, but they sure as hell wanted the benefit of the average person in their state counting towards their census tally.

Your view, while an accurate representation of the original result of the negotiations of the Founding Fathers, disenfranchises more Republicans in California than there are Republicans in any other state.

State lines were mostly arbitrarily chosen and should not matter when choosing the leader who represents all of the states. For the same reason we use the popular vote of the entire jurisdiction to choose the elected officials for Senate and House, the NPVIC is a good compromise to improve the responsiveness of the government to the voters.
I pay $20/mo for Visible, and it works great. The average phone plan with a "free" iPhone from a major carrier is $100-120/mo with a minimum 3 year contract. So yeah, paying for your phone yourself is always significantly cheaper. You can even get a device payment plan if you want, and the payment plan + phone bill will still be cheaper than the bundle AT&T or Verizon offers you.
They were doing rides for members of the public. That's a public ride.
This is a great example of why it's utterly useless. In the link we're discussing, the release notes say:

> To help us keep Go working well and understand Go usage, please consider opting in to Go telemetry by running go telemetry on. In that mode, anonymous counter reports are uploaded to telemetry.go.dev weekly, where they are aggregated into graphs and also made available for download by any Go contributors or users wanting to analyze the data. See “Go Telemetry” for more details about the Go Telemetry system.

If someone who is genuinely interested in knowing where it is can't click one link for information, what chance do the go team have of people turning it on?>
Fuck. This is why making lists never works for me either. I always lose the damn list...

Just make a notes.txt file on your computer. Now which directory did I keep that in? Also gotta keep it up on your screen all the time or you forget you even have it.

Just get a paper pad with your lists on it. Then place it in a random drawer and forget you have it for 3 days. Place it in a dedicated home, forget where that is and lose it again.

Just put it on sticky notes, and put them where you will see them. Now you have 5000 sticky notes everywhere, and don't even understand what you wrote on them. Then learn to ignore all of them.

A notepad that I carry in my pocket? Now I have more shit to take with me that I will forget. What about that computer in your pocket? I already have it silenced to keep it from distracting me... No easy way to keep basic text files sync'd with my computer without using a cloud service. Where did you store that text file on Cloud Storage anyways?
Yes, but the automakers and car salesman aren't selling to you.
I don't think any of those issues are commonly associated with, or attributable to, being a well-socialized young adult.
Same with opt out.

Just have to accept that you are not going to get perfect data. And it doesn't excuse one to behave like an asshole.
It is in the Izzyondroid repo: https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/org.polymorphicshad...

I can also highly recommend the app sponsored by Louis Rossmann: Grayjay.
It can do everything that Tubular does and much, much more. It also uses a plugin architecture so you don't have to wait for an update of the app when Youtube blocks it again. https://grayjay.app/

It's also on the Play Store but without any plugins due to Google policy.
Do those same cars have 0 problems with them and not require any scheduled maintenance in those 13 years?
Phones are really rather secure. Even a 2 year past security patches android rarely has any of the most severe vulnerability (remote code execution with no action from the user).

The common security issues (app can get permissions it shouldn't have) are nowhere near as important if you don't download random APK's from dodgy sites.

Overall, my fully patched linux laptop has far bigger security holes than a 2-years-unpatched android.
FWIW .NET tooling telemetry can be easily opted-out, which the SDK explicitly tells you about, and there is a page that has full list of the kind of data that is collected (CLI usage metrics and tooling crash stack traces). You can also review the metrics yourself.

About: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/telemetr...

Collected metrics: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/telemetry

Source code: https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/tree/main/src/Cli/dotnet/Telem...

In either case, many teams have CIs with 'DOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT=1' and call it a day even if it makes no difference to them.
One stat that takes me out of my bubble on this one is we are closing in on 2/3 of website visits being done via mobile devices. I.e. it's not necessarily the ultra tech focused folks that make up high end mobile user base, it's people using phones constantly as their primary device that are often spending a grand on them.
I read the first few pages and couldn't figure out what it actually does. All it talks about is how it "works" without saying what "works" means to the users of the device. Very frustrating.
Probably started as a function in one program. Somebody copied it into a second program. Somebody wanted it in a third program and copied it into a library.
Okay, but just because you use something a lot doesn't mean you need to spend huge money on it.

That's the argument I don't understand.

Like, Taxi drivers don't buy the most luxurious and comfortable car you can think of because they drive it all day, they get Toyotas and sometimes Teslas where EV support is decent.
It was clear and understandable to me, but follows a format I've seen many times.
Headlines in English tend to have a style that's widely used, but would not be considered good usage outside of headlines, which I could expect to be troublesome for non-native speakers.
Conversely, maybe it's a European thing, but I couldn't imagine having my phone in thrall to one provider. So I buy a phone and then pick whichever monthly-contract provider is offering the best package at that moment.
I suspect you're linking to this without having read it recently. This section now explains that there used to be problems on macOS and that they're now resolved + some optional extra information about what the installer is doing. And to be fair, the mac installation issue was quite bad for a few years.
Depends how cheap. Midrange phones are fine and cost half the price of the equivalent iPhone.
I don't feel like I moved any goalposts, but I'll fully admit that I'm not among the best at using language here. Objective fact may be possible, but truth is a human value and I no longer believe that such a thing exists. It's actually rather simple to get there from just what you said above. If "Philosophy is the study of fundamental questions about the nature of reality, knowledge, and value." and "we don't have answers to the philosophical questions of our time", then it would seem to follow that we cannot agree on the nature of reality which would seem to me to mean that we cannot find a truth that all can agree upon.

Believe me, I'm not happy about it either.
The fact that it can happen at all, anywhere, even on just 5 miles of Las Vegas Blvd, is a stark reminder that the US has very little in the way of legally-mandated privacy protections.

Mass shootings happen because the US has one of the most-armed citizenry in the developed world, and because we have ridiculously backward views about how easy it should be to put deadly weapons in the hands of anyone who wants one.

Daily room inspections are not going to stop any mass shooting where the shooter is aware of the inspections. The 2017 case was egregiously bad, certainly, with the shooter able to bring an insane amount of weaponry up to his room. But he could have been just as deadly with the contents of two or three regular-looking suitcases, something that wouldn't have raised any red flags during daily room inspections.

It's security theater, plain and simple.
I'm still on Pixel 2XL. The battery is not that good anymore but has no issues with the phone. I'd definitely not spend 1k on a phone. A Pixel 7 Pro is now a much better deal.
5G vs. Wi-Fi: A Comparative Analysis of Security and Throughput Performance
For what?

Because sure as hell it's not a working machine.
Yes, your personal experience is not the same for the average consumer class. Which is the majority of phones & cars are designed for and sold to.
If you find the official release notes a bit dry (they really are), I've prepared an interactive version with lots of examples:

- Iterators (range / types / pull / slices / maps).

- Timer changes (garbage collection and reset/stop behavior).

- Canonical values with the `unique` package.

- HTTP cookie handling.

- Copying directories.

- Slices and atomics changes.

https://antonz.org/go-1-23
> The current way to protect against these attacks is to ensure a size limit on incoming requests. This can be more difficult than you may expect - Paul points out that alternative paths such as WebSockets might bypass limits that are in place for regular HTTP requests, plus some servers may apply limits before decompression, allowing an attacker to send a compressed payload that is larger than the configured limit.

Interesting...a security researcher that thinks it's ok to trust the client.
Exactly why I instantly stopped paying for Spotify. They even went so far as to have regular advertising before podcasts.

Not paying for shit like that, only because they put a clause in the TOS that says ad free only means ad free music.

I have no qualms using any ad blocking option available. And I am happily paying for creators using patreon or other means they provide.
I assume, then, of course, that you bought (or would buy) your house in cash only? After all, "If you don't have the money to pay for it upfront, you can't afford it. Full stop."
Never had that experience while I was there, but about a year after I left the entire office I was in was closed and everyone laid off
The same dude (Ajay) also made a "clickbait title and thumbnail fix": DeArrow https://dearrow.ajay.app/

It's not as well known but also really great once you get used to it.
The sphere for all liquid water seems to be close in size to the asteroid Ceres.

https://lightsinthedark.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/ceres...
There is randomness there, but it'd require a lot of filtering to get: there's a lot of rhythms too. The lavarand stuff already mentioned probably resembles what you'd need.

Once you're going to all that work the noise source you use can be almost anything: sensitive enough ADC hooked up to a ground rod would probably do.
No, anecdotes are data. You can't just ignore customers and claim their experience isn't hard data.

One of my pet peeves is engineers making excuses for incompetence.
You can say that about anything: cars, headphones, appliances. To each their own. I can’t imagine using a 500 device in place of my 800 iPhone even though it would be “almost as good”. I can justify extra even for very small convenient features.
Out of curiosity, is there any workflow that exists for easy imports into Godot?
I personally find that Asesprite Wizard (https://godotengine.org/asset-library/asset/713) has been incredible for easy animation transfer. I'd happily swap to Stipple if something like it exists.
> year old industry standard should be better

Ballpark as old as USB if not mistaken, and that's saying lots ...
Insane. I love that these bugs are being found and fixed.
It makes sense, but I wouldn't rely on it. Current pseudorandom number generation kinda works the same way; you just seed entropy from random peripherals until you have enough randomness to pretend that you're random. It's not a perfect solution, but the "kitchen sink" nature of PRNG seeds makes it hard to crack.

The problem with seeding natural patterns like water anistropy is the fact that it's still a pattern. Depending on the time of day, large bodies of water will vary their chop and present more or less sparkles depending on the position of the sun/moon. If an adversary wanted to bruteforce your sea-sparkle cipher, they could reference recent moon phases and weather to narrow down the potential entropy that seeded the key.

It's a cool idea worth building, but still a toy.
He already did it with a 1km diameter ball (https://what-if.xkcd.com/12/) and the destruction was terrifying. Please keep him away from these other bigger water balls.
Wait until they update the OS
Ancient crocodile looked kind of like a dolphin
The Associated Press puts it this way. "Americans' refusal to keep paying higher prices may be dealing a final blow to US inflation spike."

Some of America’s largest companies, from Amazon to Disney to Yum Brands, say their customers are increasingly seeking cheaper alternative products and services, searching for bargains or just avoiding items they deem too expensive... "I think consumers have gotten to the point where they’re just not accepting it,” Tom Barkin, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, said last week at a conference of business economists... The reluctance of consumers to keep paying more has forced companies to slow their price increases — or even to cut them. The result is a cooling of inflation pressures.

https://apnews.com/article/inflation-prices-consumers-econom...
"for key, val := range m.Range" is syntactic sugar for using the m.Range iterator directly "m.Range(func(key, val any) bool".

In a vacuum I think it's fine, but I don't want to see stuff like this getting added to the language routinely. I prefer a small language.
i think reflecting on the stack is a valid solution to the problem and one that henry probably didn't think of. technically i think you need to extract just the first frame of the stack though. also reflection is often slow so it wouldn't be surprising if this ended up being a solution that was too slow to be useful
The value they get is identical they would get if they spent half of it.

Unless, idk, you're so deep into the Apple ecosystem, e.g. that it makes sense to stay in the gardened wall and lower any kind of friction.
Followed by the “I have outlined how a typical conversation on this platform will play out” guy
Building an interpreter for myself, can confirm. Saying "no" to feature requests is especially hard because I'm the one requesting them!
How smugglers skirt U.S. ban to get Nvidia chips into China
That's ... not the kind of temperature sensor they are referring to.
Even when they fit properly, they are slightly less comfortable and pop out a little easier, but they have gotten leaps and bounds better in the last few decades. If they didn't work for you a while ago, it's worth trying again.
I agree that the broad idea of client-side rendering is capable of much more than we currently see widely deployed in web technologies. However, I think citing Flash itself as an example is problematic because, while it was really good at some things, it was also flawed in many ways like being single-threaded, proprietary and having security issues.

Instead of citing a particular technology (whether Flash, HTML5, WebGPU, etc), which risks getting into the weeds of defending any shortcomings in one or the other, I'd rather propose that client-side rendering in general is still under-utilized and capable of so much more. I also think the under-appreciated elephant in the room is that Apple and Google have both been guilty of subtly manipulating web standards processes to nerf client-side applications. And they've been very clever about it. Sometimes proposing potentially exciting enhancements but later sabotaging them - always with some plausibly deniable cover, whether security, backward compatibility, accessibility, etc. Other times they'll 'embrace and extend' a new proposal - and then keep extending and extending until it either becomes practically unimplementable, unperformant, bloated or just collapses in committee under it's own gravity.

Bottom line: powerful, performant client-side applications securely delivered in real-time through the open web are bad for app store walled-garden models and businesses that rely on controlling centralized social media or gaming platforms. Advanced client-side technologies and standards aren't as good or widely deployed as they could be because powerful interests don't want them to be.
“Beautiful Racket” comes to mind: https://beautifulracket.com/
Funny I asked copilot and it pointed to

https://web.archive.org/web/20240318132203/https://nypost.co...

backed up by this Wikipedia page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxury_belief

See also

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limousine_liberal
This is quite cool. Being with a couple of friend in a large gathering this is probably useful to find eachother as it gives you the direction to where they are. I’d try this if I ever found myself in this predicament.
I paid $1000 cash for my Samsung Galaxy S10+ and the 5½+ years with it have been flawless.

I was very hesitant to spend $1000 on my first smartphone but if it can easily last 5 years, I'm impressed.

Even now, I can't think of a reason to upgrade aside from wanting a new, shiny gadget.
Strangely, I found the image at the beginning to be very informative: (https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/65e4ed3b65febd941c403512/...)

Each person's device shows the bearing to each other person's device, based on color. You can find other people with linked devices, and the UI looks dead simple after pairing is complete.
Knew I recognized this. "This project has no meaningful contribution to society" lol. Wait until they see my github.

But really great job so far.
From the release notes [1], which I think this post should actually point to:

> For backward compatibility, existing usages of //go:linkname found in a large open-source code corpus remain supported. Any new references to standard library internal symbols will be disallowed.

How does this work? Does the compiler have a whitelist of allowed uses?

[1]: https://go.dev/doc/go1.23
It doesn't actually work. I pasted in a House Resolution and asked it a question and it immediately spazzed and asked me to Google. I used Claude and it just worked. That's the thing about Gemini: it has a lot of stats but it doesn't work. With Claude I could then ask it the section and look at the actual text. With Gemini it just doesn't do it at all.

This feels a lot like when people would tell me how the HP laptop had more gigahertz and stuff and it would inevitably suck compared to a Mac.
That would be a ridiculous acquisition. The shock was justified.
> IMHO all Pixel phones are just developer devices

These were the Nexus. Pixel phones are definitely consumer devices. Nexus phones were designed to be rather generic, meant to be used as a model for other manufacturers and as a test platform for developers. It was when Android really was open (or at least more than it is today). They were usable phones, even good ones, but without any "personality".

Pixel phones on the other hand advertises exclusive features, and is mostly picture-focused, hence the name, and also AI, but who isn't nowadays. Nexus advertisement was little more than its spec sheet.
The "IBM PC" was a category of machines, not a model. Many of which had advanced processors with MMUs and 16-bit support:

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

If what you're referring to as the "IBM PC" is the classic model 5150 and we follow your arbitrary designation of a "real OS", than no. But, by that same logic, I can say ducks aren't birds "if we consider birds only those with non-webbed feet".
The beauty of a sphere is that ANY dimension is EVERY dimension! Height, length, width, depth, etc. are all the same.
An article from The Register, which also questioned the claim: https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/13/trump_musk_livestream...
> Interesting to see a two-character dot-com domain.

Indeed. There's also this one letter dot-com with 500 million MAU: x.com.
It might be different for different people, but if I don't align mine, it takes more than a few blinks to align them. I think they will eventually but it could be a very long time (hours?)
On the same note, Benny Kjær Nielsen, the developer of MailMate for macOS is absolutely amazing.

He spent half a day debugging a rather trivial issue with me and even sent me a custom build.

MailMate: https://freron.com/
The fact that more than once, you could not call 911 due to a bug, should be enough to convince people that Google doesn't test their products or have any quality control.
It's actually the same of the average consumer class, people are updating phones less and less, as there's really little reasons to do so. New phones are marginally better, at best, but not in any meaningful way.
Thank you for your trust and for the compliment!
just want to add the comment has been flagged again after being unflagged.

This is absolutely wild to me.
All of the cosmologists expected that too!
yeah, i don't think that's valid because it turns a local transformation into a global transformation (sort of local, but only to the entire top-level function, which can be arbitrarily large)

if you're willing to do the global transformation yourself instead of enlisting the computer to do it for you, you don't even need macros at all; you can do that with henry's example:

const resultMap = new Map();

above the function
this is a very funny way to do this, thanks! i was thinking of using the (deprecated but still widely supported(?)) `caller` property but was sad that it wouldn't admit multiple memoization dictionaries per calling function (also wouldn't work at the top-level but, like, who cares). but using the stack trace is great.

i mean, you know, this isn't really... this isn't really a thing that you would ever want to do, but i am glad that life found a way
"all-day battery life"

Ugh, Apple really has lowered expectations. In order to switch from my Garmin, I'd want at least a week.. Even my MS Band from 10 years ago had 48hrs of battery life.
Sentry's Response to U.S.-Russia Sanctions
Graphene only supports pixels.
Pixels are the only androphones on which you cab install GrapheneOS...
"Apps" suck. Use a web ui and tell Apple and Google to shove it. If anti-trust and/or our consumer protestors in various US legislatures won't fix the app stores by breaking them up, the app devs can just drop making apps. I've done many apps and would estimate that 90% have no real need for the API toolkits that Apple and Google give you, they can just as easily be done as "web apps" -- if, that is, everyone dropped the apps and used web apis so cooperation of apps would be based on them, not the toolkits. Exceptions do apply but they are in the minority IMHO.