skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely seems intentional. The author generally uses past tense to reflect the mental state of the protagonist, and present tense to describe events as they unfold. I found nothing jarring about the tense switches.
Lovely post! I've been dealing with chronic pain throughout the winters. Ended up with a fibromyalgia diagnosis at the start of the year. Here's some stuff that I've found that helps

- Compression clothing.

Not only does it help you stay warm but it keeps enough pressure on your joints to really help

- CBD Topical

I'm not a user of cannabis but when my pain first started a neighbor recommended it. I was in enough pain that I said screw it, and it's been absolutely amazing at helping. Only way I can describe it is, imagine rub a535 on absolute steroids
Word Deconstructor – AI-powered tool for visualizing word origins and etymology
But always protecting the maintainers' best interests over those of users or new contributors ultimately leads to the death of the project.

There's a fairly good chance the reason someone wrote that 10k line PR is because they actually understand the problem users are having, and you don't as a maintainer.
This is awesome. It actually inspired me to build an app so that I—and anyone else—could make my own.

https://lifeweeks.app/

I built it in 2 days so it's very MVP-ish but would love to get feedback!
Looking at this mess from far away in Switzerland.

I'm so glad we have a consensus democracy. We're a small country but I don't see any reason why a more moderate, consensus based system couldn't be adopted by larger ones. In fact I think this centralization of power around one person doesn't scale.

I'm also glad that we have the direct vote in order to reign in our government whenever they overreach or turn too far away from our interests. That seems much harder to implement in larger countries, but it's an excellent tool to course correct a government.
Can't speak for anyone else, but I have an issue when it's software too [1].

I think the reason that it's more prevalent with software is that it's easier to hand-wave away stuff, because you can say "well we're creating the market for this field". I don't fall for that stuff anymore, but I did when I was first starting in this field.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41723417
They are in the early stages.

I think the website said they recently raised 16 million euros (or dollars).

Making investments into data centers and hardware could burn through that really quick in addition to needing more engineers.

By using rented servers (and only renting them when a customer signs up) they avoid this problem.
My hands are too small to comfortably use the screen. Bezel size don't matter.

How about accepting that we know what we want and that we don't need you you to lecture us on our preferences? Seriously, what's wrong with you? "Oh you complained about your preference on X, but let me educate you about your preferences are wrong?"
I always feel a bit weird when reading migraine threads on the internet, because mine seem so much milder, but it's still debilitating. I remember first noticing the migraines in grade when I was 16, but it took me years before realizing they were migraines. I thought that most people had pain like I did, and just powered through with some Advil/Tylenol.

My migraines follow a very regular schedule. I wake up and just know that I will have a migraine. It's like a nagging thought. Worse after days of poor/little sleep, or days where the temperature changes dramatically, or if there is a big storm. At around 14:00 the pain grows in intensity, I feel nauseous and uncoordinated, very sensitive to light. Lying in a dark room and listening to a podcast/YouTube video is the best way to get through this period, I can get to the edge of sleep and it makes it easier. At around 20:00 the pain has usually mostly subsided, and by 22:00 I'm pain free but exhausted.

I tried a few prescription medications after talking with a doctor, but they didn't have much of an effect, so I just accepted that once every 1/2 weeks I would have to deal with it. Whenever I would read about migraines online, I would feel relieved, because mine seemed so much more mild. No aura, the pain is usually gone within a day, and if I needed to be out and about I could manage, even though it was painful.

About 5 years ago an ex-partner offered me a Bufferin (Aspirin mix), and right away it helped with the symptoms. Read into it and saw a study that suggested some people respond well to high-doses of aspirin and caffeine for migraine relief. It worked exceptionally well for me. 9/10 migraines knocked out immediately, with the rest being substantially reduced in length and intensity. I get maybe 1 migraine a year now that is truly bad.

Recently talked to a new doctor who prescribed me propanolol (he was afraid about the high dose of aspirin on my stomach), and it's been just as good.

I just feel fortunate to have easy access to migraine relief, and I hope that others are able to find something that works for them as well.
NYT feature: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/technology/microsoft-quan...
Hindsight is 20/20. They're probably doing better with backups now, and they certainly understood how beneficial backups are, when they were dealing with the data loss.
So that they can become contributors to society.

Economically, they still won’t be net contributors, only the top few percent are, but you still want them to contribute to the best of their ability.
Sounds like one of these stats where they just invert the cause and effect to get a story; i.e. People who are healing better will obviously walk sooner. Inverted to people who walk sooner are healing better.
Corruption and incompetence. There’s no accountability both because people have a vested interest in there not being any so they can profit off it in shitty ways, and also politics in general are so dysfunctional that any attempts at reform fail. I would argue the dysfunction is also deliberate, again due to corruption
It's basically 6% longer, wider, and thicker.

I like small phones. 6% doesn't seem all that different from the current SE.

The fact that all that space seems to be going to battery life does seem nice...
Why is it any better to force everyone else to "take one for the team"?

What I object to is other people forcing me to be exposed to threats against my will.
I have a Pro that I've set to only use 60 FPS (Accessibility / Motion / Limit Frame Rate). 120 FPS is ever so slightly smoother, but I would rather have the slightly better battery life disabling it.

Among mainstream users, people just don't care and this isn't remotely the differentiator people seem to hold it as. Similar to the micro bezel fetish, these are spec-chaser points that certain manufacturers convince people are must haves. But they really aren't.
With 128 GB storage.
To be honest, i do not care much for the clownish figureheads of the tribalist regression. I care for a extensive root cause analysis, so that there is a viable, voteable-for alternative in 3 years when democracy comes once again to the test. One that has no old democratic figureheads (well maybe except for bernie) and no "right on, right on" as program. I want party internal reform and if for that the party as a whole has to renorm and give up on beloved ideas it deemed more important than the voters thus far so be it.
This might be the new best price-quality iPhone after the 13 Pro.
Replacement PCBs is a method of data recovery used for HDDs. There's some videos of it on YouTube.
That page directly contradicts you since it lists weight lifting exercises like barbell squats
So no way to get rid of the AI portion and just have it be speakers and a camera that I wear on my face?

Darn it
The point here is to replace iPhone 15 which doesn't support Apple Intelligence without raising the lowest price point for an iPhone. Apple has made a bit of a blunder by selling hardware with such limited memory for so long, which gives them a large install base that doesn't support gen-ai tech. Of course, the urgency of upgrading depends on how bullish you are on gen-ai.
It sounds like this kind of essay isn't for you!

> "nobody knows anything about the Spartans beyond.."

"Sparta" is a "symbol" in our culture's "language of symbols" which stands roughly for "brutal and effective masculine warrior ethic, worthy of respect and fear". It is probably the single most unambiguous symbol available for this kind of thing, and is therefore used constantly—when somebody wants to make an argument like "might makes right", or "what if we didn't care about other people", or "men must be strong, austere, and violent to be worthy of respect", a reference to Sparta is never far away. Even when they don't make explicit reference to Sparta, it lends credibility to these sorts of ethics. It acquires its power from the fact that it actually existed in history and was seemingly successful, that it lives on with a generally admiring connotation, that it stands for the pinnacle of achievement in a certain sense.

The point of an attack on the historical accuracy of the symbolic Sparta is to weaken the power of the symbol to be used for evil. It did not exist as remembered, nor for all that long, it was not particularly effective, the admiration of Sparta has been concocted after-the-fact by commentators trying to fit it into their agendas, it was not as brutal as it is imagined to be, nor was it particularly important in history. It was just a weird and particularly unpleasant culture that existed at one point.

These are attacks on the structural integrity of a whole set of ideas which are regularly used to justify cruelty, abuse, and violence, and which mislead people—young men especially—as to the nature of virtue.

That it is sometimes used harmlessly doesn't have much to do with this at all.
This reminds me a lot of the 3Com "Audrey" [0]. And of course HP now owns that as well. I have some bittersweet memories of hacking on that thing after the services were terminated. Maybe this could follow that afterlife legacy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3Com_Audrey
Coding Mistakes That Will Annoy Your C# Colleagues – Part 2
I can't believe they were able to squeeze $118 million out of this scam. There ain't no justice.
In what universe would you leave that market share on the table?
Nature paper: Interferometric single-shot parity measurement in InAs–Al hybrid devices https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08445-2
Not a biochemist... But, isn't there a problem with test coverage here? "cells in a dish" is not a full organism which requires cell differentiation, where more specific genes are expressed?

Isn't some genetic code also conditional and expressed under different external pressures? Kind of like how you can delete or break (within syntactically correct changes) huge portions of code in the Linux kernel and still have it build and run fine locally.. because they are featured you don't happen to be using right now or are device drivers for hardware you are not currently running.
Testing concurrent code with testing/synctest
> much of what it does do could easily be replaced with a generative AI model that produces new space pictures for desktop backgrounds.

Ok, you're obviously trolling here. This is clearly bait. But for anyone else reading this:

NASA's budget for 2023 was roughly $25 billion [0]

For the same year, NASA generated (again, roughly) $76 billion in economic output [1].

Every dollar of funding goes back into the economy three-fold. Doesn't really seem like a waste to me.

Also, NASA's operations in 2023 created/supported over 300,000 jobs to Americans[2]. Again, doesn't seem like a waste to me.

[0] - https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/fiscal-year-...

[1] - https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/final-fy23-n...

[2] - https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/nasa-fy23-ec...
some of the phrasing is also a giveaway:

> but guarded defense, caught rebounds and played the role of playmakers.

nobody who has watched basketball would say "guarded defense" or "caught rebounds". I saw "throw 3 pointers" elsewhere in this thread, which is similar, though I'm not sure if that's said by the article author.

Imagine if someone commented on the state of tech today and said that programmers "type code programs".
Dune Awakening Release Date Announcement
You're getting downvoted, but I think that's sort of the same effect that you're describing.

Demonizing (or behavior on that spectrum) isn't unique to any side. It draws one side together but repels rather than converts the other side. Not demonizing creates a lot of what is considered "PC speech".

Which demonizing quotes from progressives do you remember hearing/reading? Not any vague retellings of something someone else heard. You do recall how Springfield immigrants' pet eating was not real.
Indeed, this is the most notable aspect about this launch from a technology perspective. Apple's been working toward eliminating their Qualcomm dependency for nearly as long as the iPhone has existed.
Yeah, have a Ubiquiti home network, and want to optimize placement of my access points (before I install mounts on the walls/ceiling) and also would like to use it to compare different APs to see if an upgrade makes sense vs installing an extra AP for the garage that doesn't get good signal.
The author calls this out too.
This is just as unhelpful than the comment you responded to. Without any context, or links or sources for either side, it's just adding uncertainty and doubt.

I'm an outside observer, and I want to to believe your side, but I can't any more than I can believe the comment you responded to. Regardless, nobody wants the discussion to descend into unsubstantiated "you're lying" ... "no _you're_ lying".
I know I was reading think pieces by the mid-90s that accused these early adopters of being unreasonable elitists, who were gatekeeping because they just happened to get there first, and should shut up and sit down instead of complaining about their clubhouse having all these new faces in it.

I'm gonna say it.

It was better before them.
> I remember something like dex2jar also, which gave you a jar you could use in any java decompiler, like jdgui, procyon etc.

https://github.com/skylot/jadx is very handy for that nowadays. It also supports interactive variable/method/class name renaming to make the decomplied code easier to read. The decompiler isn't perfect, but I guess all available Java decompilers have their limitations with more complex bytecode…
Ha ha, but you needed Unity's feature set, didn't you? You don't even belong to "the vast majority."
> LinkedIn is a weird place where we all post like Stepford wives for our employers.

Thank you for this horrifically accurate and insightful characterization.
Sorry for the inconvenience. Another time perhaps.
You can turn it off, still. (For now?)
> It certainly does not! (At least, not in any meaningful sense).

The problem is, there are applications that for the foreseeable future cannot be made to work on batteries - airplanes larger than bushcraft and large-scale maritime shipping (the large ocean liners carry upwards of a million gallons of fuel).

Assuming we want to convert these away from fossil fuels - which we have to! - there are only two renewable alternatives: biofuels, which carry serious ethical implications given world hunger and soil depletion, and synthfuels made from hydrogen and sequestered CO2 as base chemicals. The problem is, synthfuels are absurdly expensive because there is no hydrogen market yet so there isn't much happening in scaling up from lab-scale.
I don't think it's ideal for a moron who's a geography failure to come along and just call it whatever they want, myself.

You need to give average people a chance too, as well as those above average :)
> if the law defines how an agency is staffed and makes policy

Strongly contingent upon this, right? Wasn't the whole "administrative state" / "Chevron deference" argument that Congress did the bare minimum in defining what an executive agency is supposed to do, left it up to the executive to direct it as it sees fit? And worse, the supposedly apolitical career civil servants in charge of these agencies may from time to time thwart the will of the democratically elected head of the executive?

Where is the people's recourse then?
Great description. But what is UWB?
And the voice acting was amazing. Especially for a game.

I think I have rose colored glasses as I remember the game being difficult in the sense of lots of walking around trying to find the solution to the last couple of puzzles. Having played the remaster, it was clear how clunky the controls were. But wow, I still love that game.
Same! Big shoutout to Dr Thuillier at UCSF. Really changed my life.
I didn't get any sense of magical realism from this story. It seemed to delve a lot into the internal thoughts and reflections of someone dealing with the absurdity of the outside world, so Kafkaesque seems the best description.
Sounds more like a bid for funding than a real product. Looks to me like there is not any suggestion at all in these articles that this thing can today do anything.
You're arguing legalities. That's orthogonal to my objection. Plenty of bad things are legal.
They already have perfected vSLAM system for their VR headsets. Feature point extraction -> ego motion derivation -> environmental mesh reconstruction.

The data will all be relative to initial positions and it will have drifts, but how those affect your research goals will be use case dependent(esp. since this is pitched for researches than as ready to go entertainment).
If the only things left to compete on are the camera and frame construction, maybe it's time for the non-pro line to go away.
>I don't think they actually exist anymore, in practice.

There's Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco, San Marino, and the Vatican. All are basically client states of their larger neighbour.
> difference is where you want to catch the error

Catching is pretty similar no? In Java you match by type and in Go, you match by `errors.Is`? I guess the static checking in Java js better, but in terms of code written it is no different.

> additional args to error in Go could mean changing dozens of files

Just to be clear, here we are talking about a function that already returns an exception/error and adding args to it? That is also a local change in Go as well. The call site already handle the interface for error, not sure why changing a field or modifying the error message would make a difference.

Arguably, this type of thing is harder in Java. Adding a new type of exception requires modifying all dependent callers to declare/handle the exception (unless they handle the generic Exception), whereas in Go it is a local only change (except if you need to actually handle the error).
He's been flipping the same coin for 20 years and it has never come up tails. That's quite the coin. There is no data set more relevant to a person than their own experience.

Meanwhile I don't have enough fingers and toes to count up all the people I've known personally who have been killed or crippled in auto collisions.
“Ultra Wide Band”, used for finding things at short range.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-wideband
This is the first time they use linear (classic zoom) design. The previous one was a 90-degree periscope design. From 16 Pro Max specifications:

> 12MP 5x Telephoto: 120 mm, ƒ/2.8 aperture and 20° field of view, 100% Focus Pixels, seven-element lens, 3D sensor-shift optical image stabilization and autofocus, tetraprism design. 5x optical zoom in, 2x optical zoom out; 10x optical zoom range

An image showing what they did earlier: https://i.4pda.ws/s/as6yz0d0FvbZniF2YYSyZ3z2HOWajz2.jpg
Discussion on official release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43103536
ultra wide band
If they're going to buy a regular iPhone for $100 more anyway, and the likelihood they buy a small Android instead is near zero (what small Android?), then yes, I absolutely would say to cut it and simplify the engineering, manufacturing, and checkout process.

If you start serving every 4% of needs in each product category, watch the portfolio balloon to catastrophic proportions. The very principle of the thing is anti-Apple; they would quickly become Samsung, complete with Samsung level naming schemes and weird decision making. Next thing you know, we'll have the Apple Vacuum Cleaner, the Apple Door Lock, the Apple Ice Cream Scoop, the Apple Exterior Camera, and so on.
>, with the only difference being the camera, which if you care about you go for the Pro model.

Some people may care a little extra for an ultrawide lens and spending more for the cheaper iPhone 16 with 2 lenses of regular + ultrawide is enough for that. Don't have to get the more expensive Pro model.

The Pro model adds a 3rd lens for optical "true" telephoto instead of digitized "fake" telephoto and increases the resolution on the ultrawide.

It's also not clear from from the Apple press release if the 16e has a macro mode. The regular iPhone 16 (not Pro) has macro.
For fans of this there's another '70s-era LP similarly inspired by the novel: Bernard Szajner's "Visions of Dune" from 1979. It's proggy, synthy, psychedelic, and just a weird fun listen.

https://bernardszajner.bandcamp.com/album/visions-of-dune
Gdansk (in the recent past) maybe?
What is "expect style"? Like Expect scripts in the Tcl scripting language?
You mean I could serve my 10 active user application on a literal potato writing data to Google Sheets, instead of spinning up a five node container cluster with ten microservices each? How would my solution architect justify his job then?

Jokes aside, I don't think this is really cargo cult. It seems more like people genuinely believe in adding bloat just to get promotions or bragging rights. In my opinion, actual cargo cult behavior would be a novice saying they want to solve a front-end slowness issue by migrating the whole application to React because "React just works, dude." Or it could be the Stackoverflow-driven development approach, which is now evolving into ChatGPT-driven development.

But the real winner is when there's a development process problem, and someone says, "What we need is Agile!" as if requiring the team to follow ceremonies that no stakeholders care about will magically fix everything.
> The DOGE logo literally has a Nazi wheel for an O:

If you read the link you provided, even a lot of people on r/EnoughMuskSpam are calling this argument weak - it is obviously an AI-generated image, and some subtle similarity between an AI-generated image and an obscure Nazi logo is much more likely to be just a coincidence than something intentional.
Havok, Bullet and several others. Unreal has it's own Chaos physics engine.

PhysX was open-sourced by Nvidia[1] but of course that doesn't help games built with it earlier, they'll just fall back to software mode if played on a series 5 GPU.

[1] https://github.com/NVIDIA-Omniverse/PhysX
Ultra Wide Band - it's how AirTags and other things give you that precise finding feature, I believe.
> Perhaps, but a multiplatform codebase won't call the console SDK directly from hundreds of random functions.

You’d think so, but some developers have a very adversarial relationship with abstractions, such as abstracting away platform-specific code behind a common interface. It happens more often than you’d think.

> And even if the developers were that crazy those calls need to be excluded when building for other platforms so can also be stripped form the source code in an automated fashion.

So they’re going to leave people code that either doesn’t compile or, if it does, doesn’t work? And what’s stripped out may have very important technical considerations that might only be known based on which function calls were yanked out.
What does the e stands for? Eviscerated? :)

It would be nice to put the last few years of developments since his death into a silicon brain and ask the digital Steve Jobs his thoughts on the current state of affairs.
What is Perplexity Deep Research, and how do you use it?
You picked it exactly. We left Australia for the UK in 2002.