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I read years ago that the local Indians, instead of farming or conventional gardening, would create gardens with the desired plants all mixed together (including trees and bushes). This would create an ecosystem of interdependent crops which would provide food year round.

They're largely abandoned and forgotten, but one can find them having gone wild in various places. They're marked by a marked diversity of flora.
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Fwiw, you can get a desktop CNC for a few hundred dollars (I mean they're very similar to 3d printers in design). You can get pretty good ones for under $5k.

But yeah, getting that chip off with just heat looks pretty hard without affecting anything else. I'd still want a heat sink to pull away heat from other parts but I'm not at this skill level and overly cautious. But this does look doable.

And since it's HN, I do encourage everyone to give more repair a go. Things like micro soldering are easier than you think. And remember than your phones can be turned into servers (raspberry pi? How about my old nexus?). Though I'd love to hear if people know how to do this stuff on iPhones because I plan on switching over. I guess no more bash scripting for automatic backup of all my photos and stuff to my server :'( someone please tell me there's a way )':

https://all3dp.com/1/best-cnc-router-desktop-cnc-machine/
I've almost been hit by a car. I was crossing the street, they were turning left and failed to yield. Missed me by inches. I would NOT use the term traffic violence. At least not for that incident. It isn't the correct term. Draper the fact they knew I was there, and they were impatient. The word "violence" has a connotation that doesn't fit here.
My local makerspace is very active, and some very knowledgeable people who maintain the printers. But even with the limited amount of people permitted to use the printers, they still fail way sooner than they otherwise would at the hands of a single, experienced operator.
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Is there a hardware restraint for why he chose just 1TB?

I'm seeing 2TB/4TB/8TB Nand Flash being sold online (the latter for a hefty ~$650). Is there anything stopping me from paying a professional like this to install an 8TB unit?

edit: I see those NAND flash models are supported by Macbooks. Perhaps I am mistaken in thinking an iPhone could support it.
I'll just ignore the "IT pushback comments", as if we don't have real actual reasons for pushing back against the stupid shit people with no experience think is a good idea.

The main problem, security aside, is when shit goes south (and it will at some point), IT will be asked to handle something they didn't set up, don't know anything about, and will be looked down upon when they can't get it working quickly.

As long as there is ownership of any problems by whomever set it up, yeah, go nuts, but experience also tells me that's never how it works.
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plus california has the literal example of the salton sea ecological disaster here to draw upon. like, brine is a well known and difficult problem to deal with at scale. it isn’t just the massive amounts of salt, it’s all the concentrated metals as well.
True. Among all noise over Durov being harassed by France it may seem to uninformed that this is some new development, but it isn't.

The first time I've noticed some "extremist" (I mean, I don't necessarily think they merited being taken down, but I need to find some word to communicate the idea that it was "serious business", like, you know, discussing firearms, being largest free library, being pro-Trump or COVID-skeptic, some spicy things) channels being taken down was January 2021, right after Biden came to office and all the fuzz that accompanied these events. Probably, it also happened before, but it was the first time I really noticed it happening at scale. Like, enough for me to finally learn that Telegram isn't some "old free Internet" kinda thing anymore.

And lately it even can be about forcing bloggers to delete something as mild as fancams from some sports-event a big TV-channel has all rights to. And when that happened everybody was angry at that TV-channel, not at Telegram, because Telegram abiding if somebody large enough is insistent enough is nothing that isn't unexpected. I'd just say they are kinda lax if nobody large enough is insistent enough, and it was like that for quite some time.
Generally, but also especially when the position is "WordPress".
My man’s got a legal notice out against him
Won’t that negatively impact the life expectancy of the device? FRAM is rated for trillions of reads and, if the SRAM is frequently read, a trillion reads isn’t that much.
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A lot of rebranding is just busy work, stuff for people to do to feel like they've done something without actually doing anything. Sometimes it's a good idea - maybe their previous logo was gaudy, maybe it's not distinguishable at different sizes, maybe it's outdated (a lot of people feel like changing a logo because it's outdated is a bad idea, but I think it helps convey that whatever it represents is up to date - people see software with a strongly 1990s logo and wonder if it will still run, people see a tax agent agent with an out of date website and assume they're coasting).

In this case it sounds like a bad change. The old logo is easily recognisable, it's simple, it's had a ton of press, most people would probably be able to say "that's OpenAI" from looking at it. A plain black O is too generic. There are a million companies with O logos.
I'm astonished that it works! To my understanding, the 128GB has specifications for how to "talk" to it on its datasheet and same with the 1TB. Do they have the same manufacturer for them to have the same pinout?

And, how come they're the same size lol. Intuitively, I'd expect the 1TB to be way bigger.
I think it depends on what you mean by ‘nefarious’.

If someone’s paycheck depends on them not noticing a particular problem (like things not working, or a possible metric that could be used but that would result in funding problems), then the people that still notice that problem will tend to no longer have paycheck eh?

Self correcting problem.

That the non profits are doing PR/publicity to guilt trip the public into giving out money is just good business/survival. As long as they aren’t getting too aggressive anyway.

Nefarious, in my mind, would be something like someone going out and setting peoples houses on fire (or starting riots) to make more ‘customers’, or sabotaging their job interviews to keep them locked in the system.

Ultimately, the voters are the ones who have to decide what they want. Are they okay continuing to give money to the same ‘beggar’ who has been camped on the side of that off-ramp for 20 years now, or do something different?

Don’t expect the beggar to like them stopping though.
It’s election season. Gotta get union votes in swing states.
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>The 7 October attacks on Israel killed 1,139 people, including 815 civilians.

From the linked wiki. Not 1200. This would be much clearer when the Hannnibal directive kills are excluded. Such a shame that the most moral Army would kill their own.
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I started watching this and as someone else commented, yeah, things looked doable at the start and then got progressively more impressive and insane. It's clear they know what they're doing. From the extremely intricate tools for each and every specific step, to the screwdriver that tightens only the exact amount when putting things back together, to - what! - CNC milling off an entire component?! I was so impressed. Surely their day job must be in some way related to assembling this phone?
Back around a decade ago I worked as a software engineer for a company that specialized in botique residential real estate with the gimmick of allowing buyers to use VR headsets to visualize/place high end furniture and "walk around" the space.

At one point during some of the development, I remember doing some testing in one of the VR environments and suddenly felt an urge to scratch my nose, so I quickly laid down the VR remote on a nearby table... and a second later heard a loud cracking sound as the VERY EXPENSIVE VR controller smashed into the floor. That was my first "woah" moment where the incredible potential for VR immersion really clicked for me.

I don't know how frothy the VR space is anymore so while I can't necessarily recommend it from a financial perspective it was certainly a lot of fun.
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I think there's a bit about that at the end of Seeing Like a State.

Sometimes this is what is meant by permaculture.
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Telegram will now provide some user data to authorities
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I was actually thinking the same thing; a maintained milling machine can easily grind at those tolerances. Get your Z level be the most important so you don't cut too deep into the solder pads.

The being said, I'm wondering if he used something like a cheap SainSmart CNC... sounded like a dentist drill
Phone theft in areas with predominately iPhones went from ‘very common’ to ‘non-existent’ because of Apple’s remote bricking.

In theory there may be a point you’re describing, but in SF for instance people just started looting cars instead of mugging (or snatch and grabbing) phones.
The Doomed City is also great. Tried to read Noon and it was too unfocused for me.
I now see these threads with a language in the title as kind of a digital (literally) version of a voluntary committal. Those herein are, of their own volition, taking their thoughts and feelings about technology X out of the Internet at large and into a safe place where they can do no harm. No one in threads such as these are going to change their mind. It's a beautiful thing.
>You're saying non-profits trying to save lives are the grifters?

Is that so inconceivable? Do you think nobody makes money at non-profits? Do you not know of any for-profit interests that might benefit from vilifying cars with hysterical, misleading language? How about companies selling surveillance or autonomous vehicles?

>Not the for-profit car companies selling lethal weapons to anyone old enough for a license?

Cars are not "lethal weapons" because they are not intended to be weapons. This isn't Mad Max or some video game.

>If you're more upset about the language evolving than actual deaths caused by negligent driving and badly designed infrastructure, you need a reality check.

The reality check is that everyone alive has lived with the possibility of traffic accidents, which are rare. If you feel especially car-phobic then that's a you problem. You don't get to reinvent words to exercise moral authority on the rest of us to get your way.

>This reads like right-wing agitprop.

I think you just confessed that this tactic of redefining words is common on the left. The real agitprop is what the dude here is calling out, which is the tendency to redefine things in misleading and hysterical ways and to pretend that everyone you don't like is victimizing you.
I'd recommend this one instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Short_History_of_Nearly_Ever...
* yes the images would be an easy fix

* their CRM plugins did not support Salesforce

* even if it did, they didn't realize that was like an extra $1500/month for API connection (something like that), which was also balked at, but just a plain fact

* they already built everything out and changing plugins was not an option

* I have almost no experience with WordPress and 0 time to figure it out alongside the myriad of other projects on my plate

* 0 thought went into authentication and that was also something I couldn't change

* this was not built by a team with WordPress experience, or any technical experience

They said "it's set up like this, make it work". I couldn't, not without dropping everything and hiring someone to do it, and managing a contractor(s) which was also not an option.
If you have the know how and the discipline to maintain proper backup strategy, then local storage(@ home) always wins over cloud in terms of pricing, flexibility or freedom.
Nice attempt to use AI as a translator, it seems to translate from English to other languages but not vice versa. Am I wrong? I will try it. Kudos for the idea rewritepal seems promising.
haha Durov is singing like a bird now that he go apprehended
I think you've taken it backwards. The comment you were replying to is listing features that lead to robustness (many of which appear in strongly-typed functional languages in the ML family), not essential aspects of functional programming languages.
> No one is saying shoplifters are animal

Then why say "all animals respond to violence". What is that supposed to mean?

> but there are laws for a reason, they are part of what holds society together and holds back chaos.

You're right, the rule of law holds back the chaos. Not empowering and encouraging vigilante justice.

Oh sorry, I thought you pick pocketed me. Turns out my phone was just in my other pocket. Good thing I'm not liable for breaking your jaw! Better not swing back at me though, that would just be assault!

Oh sorry, I thought you slipped a candybar in your bag. Good luck with the medical bills! Maybe in a few months you'll be able to walk again!

And hey security guard Bob, you should definitely decide your life is more important than a few bottles of acetaminophen. Stop that shoplifter at all cost. We'll fire you after you stop showing up to work at the end of your FMLA though, good luck affording the rehab after that.

What a wonderful society you have in mind. If only we just normalized street vigilante violence we'd be such a better place!
Yes, I know, I use it too. But github is hardly usable by non technical users , nor is markdown. We are talking about marketing deps of billion$ companies.
Somewhat related book on how the concept of average can be misleading and/or detrimental, The End of Average

https://search.worldcat.org/title/The-end-of-average-:-how-w...
Am I the only one that thinks using profanity is a lousy way to explain things?
Discussion (152 points, 9 hours ago, 104 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41629620

You posted the story 1 minute earlier https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41633163
Yes, but being the editor of the software used by your competitor is certainly funny.
> Though I'd love to hear if people know how to do this stuff on iPhones

Very little in the realm of "server" or "raspberry pi alternative" could be done with modern iPhones despite even a 2-year old iphone being OP in terms of hardware for most home server tasks. They really work hard to prevent any use besides what's officially blessed by Tim Apple himself. Whether that's "for your own good" or not is a matter of opinion, I happen to think it's lame but don't want to debate it.
I have never thought of WPE as a competitor to WordPress.com but perhaps weirdly I think of WordPress.com as a competitor to WordPress.org.

For example, if I have a WordPress site I've built from scratch out of WordPress.org, I am just going to assume trying to put it on WordPress.com will be annoying (and possibly even impossible?), because of issues with themes or plugins or whatever due to the fact that WordPress.com is a separate, hosted SaaS-style CMS, and not a hosting environment for WordPress sites.

WPE, by contrast, is Just Another Webhost to me, with some special bells and whistles for WordPress.
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The first edition of MSX Computer Magazine from 1985 has them, and I doubt they were the first or invented it: https://www.msxcomputermagazine.nl/archief/bladen/msx_comput...

Perhaps it was less common in other countries? Things were a lot less global back then and things operated more on a local level.
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Telegraph, radio, phones, cars didn't guarantee success. Those things can't outthink you. Somewhat extreme case: let's say Israel saw that Iran was days away from getting AGI. It would instantly throw every nuke it had at Iran.

Now, scale that up to the global superpowers and near-superpowers. I wouldn't want to put money on what e.g. the U.S. would do if China was days away from AGI. There are a lot of options below going nuclear, e.g. assassinations, hacking, destruction of equipment.

Once someone has a thing that can invent, hack, assemble, strategise 24/7, replicate itself, all bets are very much off. We need to sleep, it doesn't.
What a heretical idea. Surely all storage should be soldered down to the logic board, for security.
If you visit cities in China that are heavily invested in the electronics industry you could buy a cheaper iPhone 16 pro with 128GB and upgrade it to 1TB.

But if you do that regularly, you probably have the money to buy the 1TB version outright.
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I think prusa have been resting on their laurels and fallen very far behind. Bambu sort of raised the bar with their printers and the price points they are offered at. They took much of the tinkering out of the equation that filtered most people from producing quality prints.

If you're working with more exotic or engineering materials, it can still require a bit of work to dial in. But the most common like PLA, ABS, PETG will print without issue.
ROCm is not even worth the effort for inference workloads. Vulkan is much more convenient and performs fine.

llama.cpp and stable-diffusion.cpp offer Vulkan backends but generally you can run most models on Vulkan if you use IREE[1].

[1] <https://iree.dev/guides/ml-frameworks/>
Some of us do do this stuff with iPhones, and it’s do-able, sort of - TrollStore (available up to iOS 17.0 currently) + NewTerm/bootstrap gives you a native CLI, add Filza in there and you can do almost whatever you need (with some manual work). I must admit, it’s much easier/potentially more functional on iOS 16 and earlier, but what can you do…

Alternatively there is iSH or a-Shell.
Pacman packing?
I have never paid telegram for their business
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"Just because we can parameterize an arbitrarily flexible class of distributions doesn't mean we have an algorithm to learn the optimal set of parameters."

This is equally mangled, if not more, than what Altman is saying. We don't need to learn "the optimal" set of parameters. We need to learn "a good" set of parameters that approximates the original distribution "well enough." Gradient methods and large networks with lots of parameters seem to be capable of doing that without overfitting to the data set. That's a much stronger statement than the universal approximation theorem.
I wish all explanations made complicated concepts this manageable!

> the simplest way to differentiate most discrete objects (like database insertions) is to insert them probabilistically and apply your derivatives/slopes to the likelihood of the insertion succeeding.

I hope it wouldn't trouble you to go a bit further with this idea? Namely, the idea of differentiating an object or database insertion sounds like it shouldn't be structurally possible.

And why would there be a probability function for a db insertion succeeding? How could it fail - if the db was full or if there are too many requests?
Microsoft explained why we love Rust so much ;)
Bad news for the OSINT community who gets tonnes of leaks from Russian war telegram channels
"[I'd do it but] I only have 5 fingers"
I don't have a problem with Mr. Beast doing charity as a business model. Better to reward good behaviors over demonstration of private virtue. It doesn't matter if Mr. Beast is a genuinely nice or good person if he's actually improving the world.

However, his content is fundamentally uninteresting, and ironically non-addicting. In other words, it's boring, especially after a dozen or so videos. So it doesn't actually appears in my youtube recommendations, which I mercilessly and aggressively curate.

So, the better question is...how do you make these videos feel uninteresting and uninspired?
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"In a surprise visit to Ukraine on 9 April, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said "Putin is a war criminal, he should be pressured, not negotiated with"

In retrospect, the attempt to win the war instead of negotiating was a catastrophic mistake that many people paid for and are paying with their lives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_negotiations_in_the_Russ...
One strategy would be making PyPI packages fetch any external resources from PyPI, or at least add PyPI URLs as mirrors for such resources.
All of those phones still have soldered storage as their primary storage. Removable primary storage isn't really a thing for smartphones, so calling it an "unnecessarily soldered component" is an extraordinary claim presented without any evidence. There's no standard removable storage form factor that's small enough to use inside smartphones that offers adequate performance for what's typical of today's smartphone operating systems and applications. microSD cards are fine for storing photos and videos (more for reading than sustained writing), but are horrible for random access and the performance gap between microSD and the soldered primary storage in phones is only getting wider.
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> removing and replacing the nand storage.

But... with this kind of removal, what would these government agents gain besides a free blank phone?
We have ample land for landfills in the US, it is not cost effective to ship it to the third world.

The ganges is filled with bodies and trash unrelated to anything we are doing here in the US.
2009 - discussion at the time (276 points, 97 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=965982