skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We recently had a similar problem with BestBuy. We had a launch day order of a Google Pixel 9 XL but we got the base non-Pro model inside the box. Tracking showed it as delivered, obviously. Chat told me to go to store. I went to store and they told me they would be able to take it back but not exchange it, which would make me lose the trade-in promotional value and suggested us to call and have BestBuy online store folks ship a replacement. Some agent was good and did it, but it tripped some fraud detection thing (apparently because the original IMEI showed as activated, which probably did because they switched ours with someone else who is happily and quietly enjoying a better phone than they ordered).

That saga took a couple months to get resolved and only after the threat of legal action and sending them scary letters (thanks ChatGPT).
Hmh, that's an interesting site. On the one hand it uses the time-tested playbook of "we are a silent majority beleaguered by some evil outsider and we need to act now to protect us" to create a siege mentality and a distinction between US and THEM. Then you ramp up the rhetoric to dehumanize THEM and make atrocities palatable. You never let up on the point that US are fighting for our very lives.

But that site claims US is winning. That's an unusual move in the playbook. Something doesn't add up.
It’s also saying don’t worry we will give you this new tech very soon (as soon as we have something much much better which will then be non-exportable).
> it's all stored for YEARS from one mating afternoon

Do we know how this works? The sperm is not frozen and must be kept alive for years?
If the government hadn't kept delaying electrification, and even building new lines without electrification, this wouldn't be an issue.

https://www.railmagazine.com/features-1/time-for-electrifica...
Personally, beyond providing the basics like food to eat, shelter, clean clothes, and being emotionally responsive, I think the best think you can do with little kids is read to them. And you can read them literally anything.

When my first baby was little and I was doing my first degree, sometimes I didn’t have the energy to read children’s books on top of my study stuff, so sometimes I read my baby textbooks and journal articles so I could kill two birds with one stone (bedtime stories & study). With the first son, I did this from about 8month - 3 years, and second son just joined in on that action at birth until about 1year. When the older one started wanting actual children’s stories, I had to buy some children’s books. We went mostly for Dr Seuss, partly they were also the cheapest books I could get.

Ultimately, I don’t think it matters what I read a child that small, I think it was the act of reading with them, and them hearing the language as well.
People always used to comment that both my children had amazing vocabularies for their ages when they were little. I like to think it’s because they got stories like “Human anatomy and Physiology” “Human development through the lifespan” and journal articles, and other really dry, but informative texts.
>so it's the US without access to the cutting edge technology now?

no, but the newest cutting edge chips can't be manufactured in Arizona right now. US companies can still purchase them. It's a pretty obvious hedge against geopolitical insecurity and support from the US to keep the most advanced manufacturing capacity in Taiwan at any given time.
Programming employment-creation measure - to prevent them doing damage elsewhere by adding abstraction madhouses.
Copernicus covers it:

https://browser.dataspace.copernicus.eu/?zoom=13&lat=40.2387...
Interesting, my user experience with them is top notch (Prague). MacBooks, iPads, musical instruments, mountain bikes, really expensive stuff generally. The delivery slot is kinda long ("in the afternoon"), but the tracking info is spot on, they always call and so far I have never lost anything with them.
People who make $700k a year generally do not live in a way that makes it possible for them to retire at 30. Usually they’re aiming for 50+ or even 65 like everyone else, which of course means they both are spending more than someone making $70k but also their requirements when they retire are more. If they let go of the latter they could in fact be “set for life” sooner but it’s typically not the case that someone is capable of doing that suddenly. You have to plan for it over years and decades even then.
Tellingly, the propaganda and AI slop are free. The combination of democracy and capitalism has a multitude of failure modes.
Keep in mind that he is comparing a Russian province with the German capital city, much larger in size.
“Not facilitating” isn't exactly the same as threatening with retaliation though.
I mean, selfish vs compassionate is a huge philosophical problem, and we
can use a shortcut and just say that the only real behavior is a selfish
behavior, because even compassion ultimately fuels our own selfishness
(it's about making us feel good when helping others).

I didn't want to go that road. Just wanted to highlight, that sometimes
the act of ensuring that we live in a good environment forces us to make
sacrifices. This is what I meant by "compassionate behavior". And a
selfish person lives in this environment, but doesn't sacrifice anything
-- they live like parasites. So my remark was about being a slave to the
parasite, by having to sacrifice something personal (energy, resources),
so that others could live in the same quality environment, without
sacrificing anything. For me that doesn't seem like a good deal.

By the way,

> I agree with you in a sense. Let’s take a big global human problem. Obesity.
> How the heck does that get solved? Force everyone to eat what we tell them?
> Force them to exercise? Good luck.

Obesity is mostly a calorie intake problem.

Introduce sugar tax. Regulate sugar ads aimed to kids. Introduce health
risk information on sugar products (like it was done on cigarettes).
Increase the cost of healthcare if the obesity problem is not addressed
for an extended period of time. Stop allowing promotion of "heathly at
every size" agenda.

Force it, because obese people apparently aren't able to think straight
in this area.

I'm not saying that it's possible to eliminate obesity down to each
individual, just like it's impossible to eliminate the use of drugs by
even criminalizing them, but there's certainly a lot of things that can
be done.

> Ozempic is an innovation with lots of pros and cons.

I think that Ozempic treats the result, not the cause. So I don't think
it shouldn't be seen as a solution to anything.
I feel like that horse has already fled the stable.

Stable Diffusion has been kicking around in the wild for a couple of years now, and probably a million people are running it. You can't really criminalize that.

But key generation and storage can be in a hardware module, and tied to a unique device, so it would be quite difficult to hijack -- and, if you did, you'd only get very limited use out of it. So there might be a technological solution. Maybe not a perfect one, but one that's at least plausibly useful.
Sitting for 20 minutes is about all I can bear. A little voice in my head says to get up and move after that. I don’t mix in standing; I just make an excuse to go to the printer. I’ll stop feeling guilty because of it.
A lot of the DCF standard is designed around the limitations of FAT file systems, e.g. filenames limited to 8+3 characters, directories limited to 9999 "items" (which I assume is to make sure that there won't be more than 65,536 files in a directory). As Pixel phones don't use FAT, Google probably doesn't feel bound by this standard. Their naming convention allows the phones to store all photos/videos in a single directory.
It can be one tariff away from not letting US companies purchase them(after Chinese takeover or Chinese bullying).
Great, then all the kids will end up at 4chan.
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> Victorian era misnomer

Isn't this exactly the opposite? Read Aristotle or Aquinas and they have all kinds of definitions about why humans are fundamentally different in nature than animals; and Darwin, whose work made it much more palpable to believe that humans were just another kind of animal, did his work smack in the middle of the Victorian era.
I use EMWM and a Motif theme for QT5 because of that. For GTK, a nice one it's
'backwater', good enough. Not Motif, but it blends well.
I left it to run in the background and was pleasantly surprised by the Windows-Logo-Screensaver that started after some minutes.
tbf it aint the news

It was known for some longer peroid of time that TSMC is not

going to do leading edge node outside the Taiwan. They want the "Silicon Shield" after all

This announcement seems to be related more to Trump than anything else.
Animals have to get their enjoyment where they can. It's always fun to watch them play. You can start to think that animals are always optimizing the time they spend being active and are carefully preserving their energy in order to survive, but then you see some birds going sledding (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn0OjCneVUg) and it's clear that they're just in it for the fun.
I don't think so. One example: on Windows, vscode changed the behavior of scroll bars -- something that has been a standard since the mid-80s. They changed the paging behavior and removed the end buttons. Unbelievable.
Having been to protests, the police are the threat to the people there. defunding them would improve safety.
You are more than a troll account.
if they just block the card number, issuing a new virtual card from your bank (or use revolut or something like that) would easily solve this
I'm sure similar stories can be told for any country, but I've got to say that when I lived in Germany, I never had any trouble with deliveries. Maybe I just got lucky.

I did feel bad though for the people doing the deliveries, independent of what company they worked for. You can tell it's an awful job and they're working their butts off, sometimes delivering a package way after hours, like say after 9pm or so. I'm afraid it's like that pretty much in any country, though.
I would, if the thing stabilized enough.

For example, in a project needed to rely heavily on markdown and needed the exact same markdown renderer on both server and client. That alone made us choose node.js on the server side so that we could use the same markdown module.

Today, I'd probably find a rust / c etc markdown renderer and compile it to wasm. Use it on the server and client as it.

This is a silly example but wasm being a universal runtime would allow interfacing things a lot easier.

Ah also, things like cloudflare workers let you run wasm binaries on their servers. You can write in in any language that can target wasm and you have a universal runtime. Neat.
Isn't the law to be enforced?

It is terrifying that the public want such laws in the first place, but that is the democratic right for them to choose, I guess.
Gwern.net - I don’t read it everyday or anything but there’s some real snippets of literary gold in amongst that guys prolific generation of texts.
> I can't understand how Apple can possibly get away with this. Is there any chance for them to win if the case were brought to court?

My naive understanding would be that you entered into a contract with them to supply a MacBook in exchange for a sum of money. The money was paid, but the MacBook was not delivered to the customer, so Apple are in breach of contract. I would imagine that a credit card company charge back would be the easiest solution if it was paid for by one.
Taiwan is giving Donald a lot of credit in thinking he will understand the significance of this move.
> People want order rather than chaos

No, people want safety. But it's easier to enforce "order," so there's a bit of a bait and switch.
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It's just a metaphor. Unless...?

This stuff is how the Overton Window moves. It starts out as jokes and metaphors, and once people are used to hearing it, it starts to become real.
There's nothing like Zine https://zine-ssg.io/. Alpha for now.
I move when I'm standing. I stretch my calves, my feet, my back... All of that pretty frequently. I move my legs, I shake my arms loose...

Standing still might be about as bad as sitting but a standing desk has completely transformed how much movement I get whilst on the desk, allowing me to generally avoid breaks to stretch and move as those things happen naturally.
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Same in South Africa. Delivery services (like Courier Guy, Fedex, DHL, Fastway, RAM) are very good. They are fast, phone you if nobody opens up, and I have had zero issues in over a decade.

The country went a bit delivery crazy after COVID, so the competition is healthy.
Personally I think this was never less true than today. Many durable, more cost efficient, machines that run Linux perfectly fine :)
Standing desk with threadmill was/is a winner for me. May not be a fit for everyone but I feel like the constant walking functions as a fidget toy for me. Huge boost in productivity, creativity and I’m getting my steps in. Good amount of water and electrolytes are also part of it.
Economics works exactly like this, but at a fractal level: there are many different subfields living in the grand family of economists which barely communicate with one another, often have dramatically different theories that lead to opposing conclusion, none of which even trying to give an accurate description of the world but instead promote one particular ideological bias.

Every once is a while someone from one chapel is going to actually do science by refuting one other chapel's bullshit, but it's almost never seen as a good thing by anyone, and the Nobel committee sometimes ends up giving the price together to people from different chapels even when their work contradict each other (Fama being empirically being proven wrong by Schiller and both being given the price in 2013 to appease the feud).

Economic behaviors are so complex that studying economics seriously requires gigantic efforts for little results, and people who attempt to do that stand no chance of survival in the publish-or-perish competition against the grandiose bullshitters, and that's how we get where we are.
Potentially interesting sci-fi story/movie setting there, blending GATTACA with this hive specialization.

Ie some are chosen as breeders, and get implanted fertilized eggs. Kids are brought up by society, an extension of the current kindergartens and schools. This frees up people so they can focus their time and energy on working.

Got the feeling I've read/seen some aspects of this, but not fully going all out on this concept. Not saying it doesn't exist though.
> TB remains the deadliest infectious disease on Earth, killing about 1.2 million people every year.

I would guess, in 2024 Covid killed more than 1.2 million people. I guess many people are assuming that Covid was a temporary disturbance, and will attenuate in the coming years. But what if it doesn't but will keep at about the current levels from year to year for a long time.
a misnomer is a failure in naming ie peanuts, koala bear, etc.
I think you mean misconception.
Great work! I have been looking for an excuse to try out Krita. This just might be it.
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> Customer is afraid to issue chargeback because they might get kicked out of the digital feudal state.

It's wild to me that the credit card companies (and the law in general) actually allow this.

The chargeback procedure was created exactly for situations like this, and designed to be maximally friendly to customers at the expense of vendors. One would think that "you cannot exact revenge on customers when a transaction goes wrong" would be credit card rules 101.
This is why we have small claims court in Canada.
It's interesting though - I'm not sure why they submitted a police report... they weren't robbed, Apple was.
What use cases are you imagining where you need arbitrary data output and processing at 100GHz speeds? It's my understanding that even 100GbE is running at a fraction of those frequencies.
Since I had some trouble getting my credit card accepted at the apple store I always order my apple products by phone and pay with cash on delivery. When the delivery person comes with the box and leaves with the cash it feels good.
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I really don't like measuring muscle strength with money.

What if the US is not very efficient with their defence spending? In Ukraine, we found out that the US made shells cost 10x more than the Russian ones and do more-less the same. How many drones Chinese can build at the cost of just one US Aircraft Carrier? How much of the cost of the US defence is actually firepower and how much of it is salaries and operating costs of all the bases all over the world?

There's this idea that Trump was elected to dismantle US from its current world order. America did not step in against Russia to fulfill its guarantees to Ukraine, even before Biden and Trump Obama folded when US was challenged in Syria. They only fulfilled their obligations to Israel and that's against orders of magnitude weaker forces. Trump is also known for threatening his allies with not upholding the US obligations unless something extra is given to him.

US removes its presence from the world and deals with internal issues instead, China takes over as the high-tech world order enforcer and Europe goes into soul searching.
Which law prevents a convicted felon from running for and/or winning the presidency race and why are those currently tasked with enforcement not enforcing it?
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What works for me is that I only have a small glass of water or a coffee at my table. If I want to drink more, I have to get up and walk over to the kitchen. Early in the day this can be about about every 20-30 minutes, later it goes down to maybe 45-60 minutes. Then there are, of course, rest room breaks. So I'd say I get up and move 10-12 times a day in an unforced, natural way -- not always 8 minutes, mind, but it's about progress, not perfection.
I had a similar case only with the local courier. Courier company couldn’t provide proof of my signature (cause I never gave it).

I don’t know what happened at the courier end but Apple shipped me another MacBook and told me to forget about the other one and to leave it with them.

Crazy to think it could have gone this way.
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I was always told that the best position is always the next position.

It's like the Monty Hall problem, switching is always the better solution.
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> Mary is “left-trunked”—the equivalent of left-handed in humans—so holding the hose made it easier for her to reach her left side. She tended to spray her right side with her trunk, because she preferred to curve her proboscis that way.

I can't believe this line, it's such a ridiculous and bizarre thing it sounds like a joke. The famously singly-appendeged creature can also be left-handed. Come on.

Apparently though, not a joke, elephants really are right or left-"handed." https://dspace.spbu.ru/handle/11701/7138 "Context-dependent lateralization of trunk movements in wild Asian elephants." What a hilarious planet.
Packets are a TCP concept. IP sends datagrams :)
The main issue with that is that the PIO does not have decent support for external clock inputs, let alone any kind of clock recovery. It can easily send a 100MHz signal, but it can't reliably receive one.

The PIO allows for single-cycle or dual-cycle data output, which essentially just pulls bits from a FIFO and puts them on some pins. The "side-set pin" makes it really easy to generate a clock signal as well. If the target devices samples on rising edge, it becomes essentially "output data, clock low; nop, clock high; implicit repeat" or even "output data; implicit repeat" if the target can do its own clock recovery or uses DDR. This is great, because you can output a lot of data at quite high speeds.

But the opposite is a lot harder. The PIO has no native clock support, so you're left simulating it yourself with a multi-instruction operation. If you need even as little as two instructions to receive a bit, that 133MHz MCU clock already limits you to a 66MHz signal!
In theory you could use an external clock input - but those pins are limited to 50MHz. You could also feed the external clock into the main oscillator input - but that breaks a bunch of other functionality, especially if the external clock isn't reliable.
Oversampling isn't an option either: you'd have to read the pins at 4x the signal frequency (limiting you to 33MHz) and dedicate a lot of computing resources to that.

In other words, high-speed input is only really an option if you don't care about synchronization, such as a free-running logic analyzer. But bitbanging 100BASE-T Ethernet? Don't count on it. Even the 2-bit-wide 50MHz RMII interface has proven to be quite challenging.
Taiwan Tightens Grip on TSMC's 2nm Tech Amid US-China Geopolitical Struggle