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If I recall, you’d stick the straightened paperclip into one of the holes on the mouthpiece and touch the other end of the paperclip to some metal part on main phone body.

War Games used a pull tab from an aluminum can to a similar effect?

(It’s been a while.)
Why? Apart from state sponsored violation of privacy, I think Apple does in fact provide the best privacy protections. I’m also happy they don’t do bizarre things like Android sometimes does, for example preventing you from taking screenshots on your own device because an app can do that on Android.

However, I dislike Apple for their extortionist approach to defending the App Store duopoly, browser access, moderation/censorship on apps, etc.
Stick with QCT, I’ve been coming back to that essay for 20 years. Given your other recs, you might want to go back to a few of the Dialogues: the Apology, the Laches, maybe the Phaedrus. And if you’re serious about the divine origin stuff, after reading the Apology, read the third chapter of Walden.
For one thing, it equates money with speech, which destabilizes our democracy by giving more power to those who have money. Obviously, money does that in many ways outside of the electoral process, but one would imagine that any serious democracy would want to keep its democratic processes maximally equitable.
I'm apple hater but you got to recognize they do better at privacy than Google.

If you care about the NSA, then you better not have any phone. Whatever it's a android, iphone, grapheneos, anything. Israel blowing up pagers is a proof that nothing is impossible to them.

But if you want to say fuck off to the big data harvester like Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and so on.. then apple isn't bad at all.

You just got to deal with the usual apple bullshit, no side loading, repairability, thunderbolt charger, no headphone jack, etc.
I've been saying that any armistace on drones won't come until the US starts being hit by drone warfare. Especially by a foreign militia or nation state
That’s certainly one way to interpret it.
I’m an adult and I didn’t know that
As a Rails dev from 2011-2018, having returned over the past year, it def seemed there was an exodus in or around 2015.

Part of it was due to the rise of SPA and Rails difficulty working with those (webpacker, anyone?), part due to poor perception of Rails 4, part due to newer options such as Elixir/Phoenix or Golang rising in popularity for backend work, part due to many of the leaders such as Yehuda Katz moving on.

Also watching from afar on HN, it seems like Rails 7 release was perceived as a sort of comeback, with quite a few articles posted in recent years praising the framework for a return to relevance.
Thanks for the suggestion, I'm interested!

Found it on Standard Ebooks, in case that helps someone else:

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/boethius/the-consolation-o...
You vastly underestimate what a 6yo can do. Case in point, one can understand the entire content of a book like Little Prince or Secret Garden, an entire plot of Marvel or Harry Potter movie, build 18+ yo lego sets, and play Theme Hospital and actually win levels. Animal sounds? Don't put speed limits on kids' learning.

Also, how would you listen to VHS tapes?
> Where do you check if it can get a type approval?

There's an abundance of news articles about Tesla's VP of Vehicle Engineering, Lars Moravy, saying they can't get it due to some 3.2mm exterior radius requirement that is impossible to do on the 1.4mm stainless steel they use:

https://www.topgear.com/car-reviews/tesla/cybertruck/buying

https://motortrends.net/news/tesla-cybertruck-wont-enter-eur...
There are publicly listed hi-tech companies that may not be that big...
> And those books should be modern and relevant.

What makes Pratchett more "relevant" than Shakespeare? I would posit to you that the same order of magnitude of people (or more) read and watch Shakespeare plays by choice as read Pratchett books. Let alone modern adaptations like West Side Story. I get that you prefer the one, but not everybody does.

English classes also have you read lots of other more recent and more modern works. It's not exclusively Shakespeare. I remember, for example, Death of a Salesman, 1984, and Slaughterhouse-Five being part of my high school's English curriculum.

Lord of the Rings is apparently in several English curricula now.

Comedies of all kinds (from Aristophanes to Pratchett) usually take a backseat to tragedies, bildungsromane, and other more "serious" genres in English classes because they tend to be much less timeless and much more current in terms of their themes and references.

> That modern writers reference old works is true, but so too did Shakespeare, and we don't reference his cultural ancestors to understand his works.

Schools do generally have you read ancient writers, often including Greek comedies and tragedies, and some have you read medieval British literature and those references do, in fact, come up. It's possible that you did not fully enjoy Shakespeare if you did not get that context.

> That fine, but it's not the job of school. If it was, we'd also have mandatory watching of foreign language horror films.

Believe it or not, if you take advanced French classes, you're going to watch a lot of French films and listen to a lot of French music for school! Since most students in English-speaking schools spend a lot more time studying English than French, they read a lot more English literature than French.
It doesn't gather as much light as ground based telescopes, but the background (for example, from airglow) is also much lower, so the SNR is pretty good.
Yes! AI is any sort of machine intelligence and its been around for more than 2 decades, the 80s even had its own "AI winter" after all.
If, like me, you don't have a Twitter account and want to see more than just the single post: https://xcancel.com/notengoprisa/status/1842550658102079556
> I think you're dismissing the people such as myself that would note you as an idiot without comment and move on wanting nothing to do with you.

Not OP. But I would say the filter is working. If you would treat somebody like an idiot for liking a book you don’t like, I indeed, would want you filtered out of my circle of friends.
Sounds like another government-approved leak to a compliant corporate media outlet by 'anonymous sources'. I don't know why the relevant government agencies don't just issue a press release unless they're unusually embarrassed by this apparent security failure. The other possibility is the story is no more true than all those 'anonymous source' leaks about Iraq's (nonexistent) chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs from two decades ago.

If we're not going to accept Seymour Hersch's anonymously-sourced claim that the US Navy was involved in the destruction of the Nordstream pipelines, why accept this claim at face value either? For an example of reporting of a major hacking incident not reliant on anonymous government sources, see the OPM hack:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/us/breach-in-a-federal-co...

Notably, the WSJ source report doesn't include any mention of reporters attempting to get official statements from the relevant US government agencies and being rebuffed. That smells like plausible deniability of the kind involved in the bogus Iraq WMD leaks.
Until Google breaks search syntax/tags again...
I see a couple of people here bashing on the practicality of this project. That's obviously not the point, it's an interesting weird use case that's more explorative/educational than practical. I thought it was an interesting and inspiring read!
Not sure which one I would pick but the Culture series by Iain M Banks probably had the most impact on me.
> Pro tip: outside Docker, don’t ever use the OS’s own Python if you can avoid it.

Why not?
How to Use StateContainers in .NET MAUI to Manage State in Applications
Indeed, but you would really need to drink a lot of green tea to get the same amount of L-theanine you would in a supplement: "2.5 litres of brewed green tea would be needed to get 200mg of L-theanine". Also a question of how much dose you want of course...
japan has limited land, no oil&gas resources, so the nuclear is the perfect source of electricity for them, plus they have the expertise.
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should"

At that point, maybe stop fighting with service workers and simply use a framework like Vue. It allows html templates to be swapped in, in much the same way. Except you can actually debug it and store in localStorage if you desire.
Just remembering my first reading thinking: hey they had complex financial instruments back in the 1800s. Also - market manipulation by use of faster comms.

But really a nice story.
My intention was not to say that including the radio is going to lead to communism? I'm actually advocating for us to keep the radio in.
Show HN: Termichess – Play chess in your terminal
Hey everyone,

I have been trying to build a terminal based app for sometime now and this is an attempt at trying to build a chess app that one can play right inside terminal.

I was inspired by `chess-tui`[1] which is a rust based project and was looking to build something similar using python. Luckily I stumbled upon textual[2] recently and it made my task of building this far more easier than I thought.

[1] https://github.com/thomas-mauran/chess-tui
[2] https://github.com/textualize/textual
If you can keep all the data in core memory why not just use you favorite balanced binary search tree (BST) like a red-black tree. B-Trees only help performance, at least in common understanding, when all the data can not be in core memory (which is why databases use them).
Largest operational steam locomotive is in Houston this weekend
I hope we build Single-page apps with iFrames one day like how the web originally used <frame>. Everyone only talks about iFrames as if their only purpose is cross-origin content and <frame> is forgotten.
On a OnePlus 6 with mobian. GPS is spotty and the camera quality is not as good as on android but it's acceptable.
You can pay apple premium for a lot of things doesn't mean you actually get it tho. people really forgot PRISM that quickly...
Best book I've read in a long time: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt -- it's not often that literary fiction reads as smoothly as a Stephen King book. It's a coming of age story, a drug story, a heist story all rolled up.

Best book I ever read (for myriad other reasons) probably remains Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- never has a book amused me like that. I don't think much about my sensibility, beliefs, way of looking at the world would be quite the same if that book hadn't have come along when I was eleven and said, "you're okay, you're not alone. Don't panic."
Yes, that would be nice to add. Meanwhile, if you want, feel free to shoot me an email at elina@nutritionprices.com and I'll send you an update once we add Canada support
Can you please link me to a raised issue for this? This sounds concerning.
This is pretty close to Matz’s stance as well.
I loved this book. I read it as a kid and I didn't understand all of it but it was the first book I encountered of that scale and scope and it showed me what books could be like.
They haven't stopped maintaining it because the programs still run on X11.

GIMP supports PNG. That doesn't mean GIMP contributes code to libpng, or libpng needs updates. It just needs to have code to make it work with PNG.

X11 will stop being supported when the developers literally remove the code to make their programs run on X11 from their projects. Until then, it's still supported.

Why would I need updates when things already work in the current version?
>so it’s an issue you kind of need to take on faith.

Thanks for playing.
When the Arctic Melts: Letter from Greenland
Thankfully that doesn't apply to this post. sq is a great, full-featured tool.
https://archive.ph/ofFQF
> It's an operational definition: if you claim AI is not intelligent because it cannot do X, then you necessarily exclude a whole lot of humans who also can't do X.

Sure, but I think most people are intelligent according to my definition, but AI is not…

You’re already coming from the assumption that people are “souless automatons,” which is probably why the idea of a machine being “intelligent” is so easy for you to accept.

> There used to be a strident faction that would say "but AI can't produce original art/a symphony/novel/etc". My answer was usually (correctly), "neither can you."

This is a dumb apples and oranges comparison. AI as a concept is different than a concrete person.

AI as a concept can do anything, it’s a conceptual placeholder for an everything machine.
I would say the analogy fails because it's not about discomfort or weirdness (or taste); left-handed scissors just don't work if you try to use them right-handed. But right-handed scissors don't work if you try to use them left-handed either.

So it's not about taste or preference, left handed people learn how to use right-handed scissors, but they can also use left handed scissors in a way that a right-handed person would struggle to.

All that said, the analogy still works because most people don't understand why it doesn't work.
> It used to be the US government worked to secure American communications.

When was this? As far as I remember (but I'm not that old to be honest), it seems to mostly been about the US government making sure the government has secure communications, while the rest get to fend for themselves.
The use case I'm working with right now is eCommerce. Landing pages need to be served as quickly as possible to score highly on various page speed SEO metrics. I have seen a number of server-side implementations that need to have most of the common landing pages cached to score better than client-side rendered pages.

Many of these page renders require calls out to third-party APIs, which is responsible for some of the slowness. There are definitely optimizations that can be performed (e.g. caching the results of the backend APIs). But it's easier for less experienced developers to just cache the whole page with a reasonable TTL.

Also agreed that you won't be able to cache much (or as much) if the user is logged in. Logged in pages matter less for SEO, so we haven't focused too much on it.
Slowftware Development
Seems like it could be rather expensive to retrofit, compared to cost of putting it in the house to start with (certainly I couldn't imagine getting it retrofitted into my UK house -- the labour alone to dig channels into walls and then make good again and redecorate would dwarf the equipment cost). But the thing about features put in a house when it's built is that they have to meet the economic bar of "do potential buyers value them enough to pay XYZ more than they otherwise would", which can be quite hard. If the average buyer wouldn't value the house at an extra $1000 then it's not worth the builder installing one...
When choosing a product, are there other parameters to consider than protein per dollar? Are there any interesting metrics for "quality"? I'd assume it's not just "protein is protein". Would be interesting to see other metrics deployed, and the ability to find my own "sweet spot".
Latency's not going to stop being a problem for geostationary orbits, which is why lower altitudes get used.
Just posting on X (replying under trending posts or in 'build in public' communities).

Some people used the share feature of Audioscrape to emphasize their points in discussions on X. For example, 'Here, this is what Zuckerberg said recently about Y <Link to moment>'
There are 2 books that have fundamentally shifted my thinking:

- The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics.

This has been covered by CGP Grey and now has a Netflix adaptation, so I figure it lies well within the HN Zeitgeist already. There's a lot to debate in this book, but I fundamentally didn't understand political power before reading it.

- Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men.

I have a more complicated relationship with this one, in fact I never finished it. It's about men (mainly) who are abusive in relationships, and how they are able to manipulate their partners. It hits close to home because I've seen a lot of that growing up, and I've seen a lot of women close to me end up in abuse in a predictable but devastating cycle.

The primary controversial idea is that domestic abuse can be from man→woman, man→man, woman→woman, but the author pretty much discredits woman→man abuse. I don't think I can reconcile that with my own experience. But, where it changed my thinking was a chapter about "it's not emotions, it's values". I'd grown up knowing the importance of emotions and being open and communicative, but I was never able to put to words the disconnect I was feeling. Emotions are secondary, it's what one values that determines their emotions and actions, whether it be in an abusive relationship, or in any other place or time in the world.

It really shifted how I think about the world, and let me sever connections to people I was kept in my life because they'd had a bad childhood or whatever. I realized that they would never get over their turmoil, because they valued using it to hurt others.
I think it showed the proper reverence for theology and geometry.
For cache locality, if the layout is more wide instead of deep, you can avoid many cache misses.
I agree with Josef Bacik, the constant trashing of btrfs is getting really annoying and disrespectful to the filesystem developers, and it's sad to see how another filesystem developer refers to btrfs.

The write-hole issue did take a long time to fix, and yes it's annoying that the fix requires full RMW cycles, and yes it's frustrating to know that the design of btrfs means that there probably won't be a better solution, but it doesn't mean that "people cannot rely on it after 10 years". Some people do rely on it, it serves them well, if it was that unreliable it wouldn't be the default filesystem choice on a major distribution.
The sample output is interesting - it has highly suggestive chapter titles which read like pretty normal story beats. It seems like it's guiding itself on these, then able to chunk out longer form writing per chapter.

For what it's worth, the writing is .. bland. In the way that only an LLMs writing can be -- relatively grammatically sound, and totally soulless. I will never think of the love story of Elizabeth and Thomas again, despite having read the entire thing.

In early days of GPT-3, I experimented a lot with getting it respond as certain authors, and it was really quite excellent at that. This is one of the many things that seem likely to have been nerfed over time, I'd guess partly because human preference training just asks for bland responses, and partly because the injected prompts from OpenAI strongly discourage doing things related to real people, and those preferences are carried through, subtlely or not, into the augmented training data most open models tune on.
Sometimes I wonder if it wouldn't be more efficient for people to just learn assembly instead of trying to build tools or layers on top of it that introduce more complexities and are harder to search for.
AI is the ultimate enshittification.
There's definitely some Russian funding. The Tenet media indictment shows that.
Show HN: Job App Filler (Chrome Ext) Makes Workday apps easy (more sites coming)
I've posted about this before, but it's ready now.
Check out the yt How-to: https://youtu.be/JYMATq9siIY?si=vqflreqCFVa1zcqY
I'm optimistic about Ruby's async story with the work Samuel Williams has been doing. https://github.com/socketry/falcon is the tip of the iceberg, which is built on top of https://github.com/socketry/protocol-http2 and a not of other repos at https://github.com/socketry.

It's inspiring other's in the community to think of interesting applications, like using the HTML slot API to stream responses to HTML without JS. https://x.com/joeldrapper/status/1841984952407110037

I know other frameworks have had asynchronous IO support forever, but it's finally coming to Ruby that seems like it will stick around and be well supported.
I just finished the Kingsbridge series last night! Excellent books.
I imagine this isn't the case if you're running GrapheneOS on it? I think it would be safe to assume that the factory defaults on any Android would be phoning home whether it's Google, Samsung, or what have you.
Yes, on the roadmap to add more countries and retailers e.g. Amazon, and other large protein retailers. Any particular countries/retailers you'd like to see first?
- "Also - market manipulation by use of faster comms."

Optical telegraphs! They were a recent invention in Dumas' era,

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

(How did Dumas colorfully describe those things? I think this is the paragraph: "Yes, a telegraph. I had often seen one placed at the end of a road on a hillock, and in the light of the sun its black arms, bending in every direction, always reminded me of the claws of an immense beetle, and I assure you it was never without emotion that I gazed on it, for I could not help thinking how wonderful it was that these various signs should be made to cleave the air with such precision as to convey to the distance of three hundred leagues the ideas and wishes of a man sitting at a table at one end of the line to another man similarly placed at the opposite extremity, and all this effected by a simple act of volition on the part of the sender of the message. I began to think of genii, sylphs, gnomes, in short, of all the ministers of the occult sciences, until I laughed aloud at the freaks of my own imagination.")

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1184
Disingenuous article. The headline should be "Google Location Tracking is on by default in a brand new Google account and I don't like that".

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3118687
Internals of Nova Part 2 – Rows for the Row God, Columns for the Column Throne
>do better at privacy than Google

so instead of an actual improvement just settle for second least worst? ironically google pixels are 100 times more private than any apple device will ever be because you can securely run your own 100% controlled open source OS such as grapheneos.org which is an actual private as in feature not marketing OS.
Middlemarch. It has everything.
saveitforparts on youtube recently setup an old satellite terminal and went through the pricing of doing so, its expensive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzTPZLtmSOM&t=664s