skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed but on the other side it makes the manufacturing more complex - another plastic part and screws as well as the time needed compared to just gluing in the battery.

I suspect this is a classic example of corporate beancounting at work, even if it just a dollar or two per machine, at Apple's volume of millions of machines that's nothing to sneeze at.

To fix it, we need laws that require a certain repairability score for all devices sold. Then doing the "right thing" would be a KPI that competes with pure financial incentives.
And its not like confiscating his property would do much. Like most billionaires his wealth is almost entirely stocks which while theoretically liquid would loose most of its value if you tried to sell it all at once.
The fattest, healthiest pigeons I have ever seen are the ones at Borough Market [1] in London. It must be pigeon heaven.

[1] https://boroughmarket.org.uk/
> your assertion that the issuing bank has the last word is simply not true.

Fair enough, I was categorising arbitration as legal escalation, given its binding arbitration and precludes the courts. But yes, the final decider is either a court or arbitration (for MasterCard).

Until escalated to arbitration or the courts, the issuing bank has last word. And in no case is the issuer eating the chargeback, the worst they’re eating is a few hundred dollars of arb fees and service costs.
No, this is all wrong.

Amazon are piling money into this because being able to deliver a small package over the last mile with zero people involved is a massive win to them. People are lazy, unreliable, hard to manage, and demand luxuries like toilets and water. The sooner they can get rid of them the better.
> I think what frustrates people more is that the more expensive options don’t usually last long

Yeah, well put. Just had to replace a dishwasher, and among the models of one brand it seems the more expensive models just add more moving parts and complexity that, ironically, may lead to more issues.

Don't get me started about clothes. The quality and weight of the fabric is almost completely disconnected from the price.
> It's about imposing your view of the world on others.

That's literally every ideology.
> Who doesn't want their Amazon packages delivered sooner?

I don't order from Amazon, and whenever I get things delivered, I'm usually fine walking 5 minutes to the store where I have it delivered.

And honestly, for the kind of items quoted in the article (toothpaste and batteries), I simply plan ahead to have stock.
The Trouble with Leader Elections in distributed systems
> My experience, is that the ones made in the 1970s and 1980s had crap quality.

Because a lot of it turned into a marketing machine thanks to GI Joe. Cheap cartoons enabled kid oriented commercial slots to sell ad time for junk food and toys. The 80's were notorious for throwing all sorts of action figure selling ideas at the wall. Every 80's kid had some cartoon merchandise toy crap.
Git bisect is the functionality that you're missing out on.
>Not necessarily. Last I looked Dell sold the exact same hardware but you could choose a Linux or no OS option and save money.

How often do those Linux laptops go on sale.

If you need guaranteed Linux support buy a Thinkpad. Windows laptops go on sale pretty often, you almost never pay MSRP.
Will AI have a taste all of its own?
I worry that every penny saved will fuel an unnecessary war
Musk's embrace of politics risks turning off car buyers
Rivian Will Unlock More Range for the R1S and R1T via a Paid Software Upgrade
> We're literally on the verge of collapsing
> because of climate change and mass extinction

We're really not, and that's not me being a climate change denier, but deferring to the UN's IPCC reports on the topic. I encourage you to read the reports. Yes, we're in some trouble, but even their bleakest predictions are nowhere near "collapse".

> Robots are not solving any of those problems.

How many of these people getting toothpaste or whatever delivered by electrically powered drone would alternatively be firing up their dinosaur-powered F-150 to drive to the local supermarket instead? It's solving that problem.
As the other commenter mentioned, I hope this is an excersize in trolling.
Please don't do this when using enums.

> Free-form text firle to hold the other value

> revise your enum as necessary, while migrating the dat

Both instances would defeat the purpose of an enum..

As for the original post, my 2cents are valued enums.

{

Other = 0,
Vanilla = 1,
Chocolate = 2,
Strawberry = 3
}

In this case it allows some flexibility to add later while still being able to make use of 0 (Other). Or maybe I missed the OP's point ?
Tracking gulls to prevent a bird flu pandemic
Slightly more from the company:

https://www.donutlab.com/motor/
> The battery powers nothing, but the microcontroller senses it’s voltage and when it is too low, it changes the behaviour of the thermostat to randomise the temperature cut in/out points by about 10 degrees Fahrenheit

This is really neat, if true, but I have to say I'm skeptical. This is just too good a story!
Funnily enough, the fact that these drones are being employed to deliver "toothpaste and batteries" is really kind of a perfect microcosm of the kind of American planning and zoning foundational to modern NIMBYism—in a different environment, daily necessities like that would be available at a corner store very close to where people live, but we've found it preferable to make such restrictive residential areas and require businesses to have large parking lots such that corner stores have disappeared in favor of strip malls and big box stores, and now we're trying to replace those with annoying drones.
CSS Meets Voxel Art: Building a Rendering Engine with Stacked Grids
I'm not really a supporter of drone deliveries but, to me, the benefits also include fewer delivery trucks on the roads. And, I don't know how many last-mile trucks are EVs but the drones don't run on gasoline, right?

There are benefits other than the immediacy of delivery, but the noise pollution is too much for me, too.
Why. If you're going to college, often times you're being pressured into taking a loan. You're moving out, so finding contractors, etc, etc, is useful.

If you don't have all of your lifeskills in order by the time you're 18, what are you even doing.
One guy burns down a shop. A capitalist comes in buys the ground, builds a hotel.

Unless they were coordinating this, how on earth is it the same?
Som generations that I liked - https://imgur.com/a/VrNyx1V
a brilliant idea in the correct direction of naturally-organic UI, but the example site is rather slow in Chrome on an M3 Air
Is the curriculum that different? The fundamentals are the same no matter where you go.
The moon has a very thin atmosphere, or at least so the mission science reporters said.
What are they waiting for? They can unilaterally leave the union, right?
> But MP's inability to store anything more than (u)int64 and float64 does make its data model technically different from JSON....

Yeah I don't love the MP/JSON comparison the site pushes. I don't really think they solve the same problems, but the reasons are kind of obscure so shrug. MP is quite different from JSON and yeah, numbers is one of those ways.

> [1] Correct floating point formatting and parsing is very difficult and needs a non-trivial amount of precomputed tables and sometimes bignum routines (depends on the exact algorithm)---for the record I'm the main author of Rust's floating point formatting routine. Also for this reason, most language-standard libraries already have a hidden support for size-limited bignums!

Oh man yeah tell me about it; I attempted this way back when and gave up lol. I was doing a bunch of research into arbitrary precision libraries and the benchmarks all contain "rendering a big 'ol floating point number" and that's why. Wild.

> I mean, the supposed processability is already a poorly defined metric as I wrote earlier. I too suppose that it would be entirely up to the application's (or possibly library's educated) request

I think in practice implementations are either heavily spec'd (FIDO) on top of a restricted subset of CBOR, or they control both sender and receiver. This is why I think much of the additional protocol discussion in CBOR is pretty moot; if you're taking the CBOR spec's advice on protocols you're not building a good protocol.
I wonder if you could come up with a preservation metric tied to time investment or labor. The oral tradition is very labor intensive. How does it compare to the labor required to mine, refine, and build computers and hard drives for a storage service like S3 to preserve an equivalent amount of information? Or to chiseling everything into giant stone tablets? Printing and re-printing books?
How is gp suppressing porn by stating his views?
As you said above, random commenters on the internet don't get to interpret the law. Who is the recipient of the data and who is giving the consideration under your framework? The wider internet? Random people on Bugzilla?

Consideration is the word used, and it has a specific meaning which involves a contract between two parties. I'm not at all sure how that can be mapped onto "using the data to improve our own product", and you're just vaguely insinuating that it might without any evidence.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/consideration
I'd break things down into two broad kind of documentation:

1. Comments on code

2. User-facing manuals

There's no need for an LLM to write the former. Comments are left by a person to explain decisions when they're no longer present. LLMs don't go away. You can always ask the LLM why the code was written that way.

As for users... they famously don't read. UX designers take that into account, and try to make their interfaces self-documenting. A user who can't figure it out from the design in front of them probably won't find the right part of the manual to read, either. They'd rather dive in than read cover-to-cover.

The "for dummies" books seem to sell well. I wonder if you could get an LLM to write those.
The LWR is a difficult case for xenon poisoning (compared to other reactors) because of the thermal spectrum and the lack of homogenization (it's not just a temporal problem but a spatial problem) but if you add reactivity swing it can be managed. It's a problem for going from 0-100% quickly but not a problem for following loads across the day, see

https://www.oecd-nea.org/upload/docs/application/pdf/2021-12...
> In a case like this, yes it is NIMBYism

College Station’s residents appear to fail your own test. They are prohibited by Texas law from being “allow[ed]…to override” or stall anything, and seem to have made a good case for why a drone buzzing by “every 58 seconds for 15 hours a day” is at least a legitimate grievance.

I’d also add a necessary condition to NIMBYism: it’s not in my backyard. NIMBYs want the thing. Just not near them; implicitly: near someone else. The hypocrisy animates the exasperation inherent to the term. The complaints in this article seem to be closer to not in anyone’s backyard.
But you have to get a lot of other supplies to the moon to make use of that. Space travel will never be useful enough to pull that off. A self sustaining colony on mars is just barely possible (but I'm not sure if it is worth it), no place else in space will ever be colonized. The laws of physics are too harsh - only a "generation" ship could even leave our solar system (well you could put a child on something to leave and come back in old age without generations, but this would be pointless and unethical), and we have no reason to think those would last long enough to make the nearest star, much less one with habitable planets (which we might need to terraform).

The moon lacks too much to be self sustainable. Mars is a stretch: it is likely someone will reply that mars isn't possible and they will have good points, so while I have concluded it is just possible I can see the points of those who think it is not.
It would likely result in a drop in discretionary consumer spending, but would not necessarily have negative impacts on the economy as a whole. If you tax consumption, investment can become more economically attractive. This destroys consumer surplus in the short run but can lead to economic growth in the long run. Lots of countries in South America are like this; they tax goods like smartphones and video games because they would rather that money be spent or invested domestically.
I mean, any given Turing machine has finite code. But with even a very small number of states you start getting into crazy territory.

We’ve constructed Turing machines with fewer than 800 states that halt if and only if ZFC is inconsistent. Which means that even given infinite time and space, we still couldn’t find BB(800) without fundamentally changing our system of mathematics.
> AWS is using cat qubits

Is that a nod to Schrödinger?
Or that Apple space based file system back in the 80's.

Try this a bit, it would be nice to be able to go directly to the grand-child, instead having to bring up the parent before going the child. Other wise can be a much better file naviation system then what we have. Especially on touch screen I would image.
Energy use in the developed world is actually going down. Electricity use is expected to go up in the next decades.
Delivering toothpaste and batteries is just a means to an end.

Businesses will go to any length to make money. “Community”? Does that make money? If not, don’t care. Bulldoze a nursery with the babies still inside? They’ll do it if it makes $1 more than the alternative.

AI safety people talk about a hypothetical “paperclip maximizer”: a powerful AI programmed to make as many paperclips as possible. Left unchecked, it converts the universe into paperclips.

But we already have them! They’re just called giant corporations, and instead of maximizing paperclips, they maximize money.
git is one of those things thing that separates programmers from software engineers and I will die on that hill.
Next version: stick man is context aware and does different actions based on the content, for example it jumps whenever the user scrolls to an h2.
Yeah, I know. It's a shit show. I was just throwing the only frustration I have -- that every one of the Democrats aren't going on Fox "News" (or other distribution outlets) every night to argue. But I was talking more about the Democrats and everyone else who recognizes the problem. I'm just surprised I can still contact my representatives by phone. Maybe more are calling than I realize and they just fixed the "full voicemail" problem.

My R house rep hasn't held a town hall in his district since 2017.
> At least in the case of this food-deprivation finding, there is nothing you can do to/with the animal afterward, that reverses the impact of this epigenetic change.

I just want to add the obvious addendum again: that we know of. We've tried a few obvious things and that didn't change the behaviour, but that doesn't mean much in something this complex.
I don't think this is fully accurate.

There's been a huge cultural shift over the past several decades, which I would broadly describe as moving from a philosophy of "companies are here to provide a good or service, and make money by doing that" to "companies are here to make as much money as possible, and most of them have to provide a good or service in order to do so."

Naturally, there were people and companies with the latter philosophy before, just as there are with the former now, but the overall attitude of our corporate world has moved more to the latter.

I think that to a large extent, this has correlated with the dismantling of regulations, the gutting of unions, the relaxation of antitrust enforcement, and the rise of the unchallengeable power of wealthy corporations. (Causality is definitely murkier, and probably goes both ways to some extent.)
Towards a test-suite for TOTP codes
Runs pretty ok on Chromium (degoogled) on Linux with 8GB ram spec.
Ironically Amazon charges less to deliver it in one day rather than two, which is what leads to this kind of madness in the first place.
I wholeheartedly agree. When was progressive enhancement thrown out the window?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement
It works with git??? I had no idea. I highly recommend anyone reading this to try out P4merge as the merge conflict resolver for git. It might be the better alternative to jetbrains as jetbrains usually involves buying into using the entire editor.
Not so much the Walmart ones...

https://local12.com/news/offbeat/drone-shoot-walmart-deliver...
I think the evidence shows this isn't exactly true.
that's ok. Not every solution must work for all situations.

the point here is that agrivoltaics tends to work well, especially in certain conditions. In central Africa, those conditions are reducing evaporation and providing shade to certain plants.

In north america, those conditions are often sheep grazing, as is common in New York and Ontario.
Even more funny CORS allow * has very funky interactions as it simplified "doesn't allow the client to provide credentials" (e.g. Authorization header, cookies, etc.).

If you have public call-by-JS focused HTTP API which should be accessible from pretty much anywhere and therefore set it to * but also want an `Authorization` header you are in for bad luck.

Solution 1. use a custom header for your credentials like e.g. AWS does, works for JS focused APIs but cookies and as such e.g. cookie based XSS protection won't work.

Solution 2. dynamically return the callers domain as allowed origin. Works but requires dynamic responses to pre-flight requests and kinda undermines the whole CORS system.

honestly neither is really satisfying
You might find this article by Michael Nielsen interesting: https://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html

In particular I liked the section partway* through the article where he talks about using Anki to get up to speed on the AlphaGo paper for an article he was writing for Quanta.

* Do a Ctrl-F for "AlphaGo"

He also writes here about how to use spaced repetition to see through a piece of mathematics: https://cognitivemedium.com/srs-mathematics
so far i haven't been able to get it to generate anything. so my feedback is to test it to make sure it generates things.
"Curly-brace language" is a good way to put it. Rust does an excellent job of cribbing features that aren't mainstream and giving them a more intuitive name and design.

Most people will conk out if you start talking about how your language has "algebraic data types." But if you rephrase that as "we let you put payloads in your enum," well, that piques people's interest. It certainly worked on me.
That's actually crazy and I'll keep it in mind. Right now, I am mostly using it for data generation, so no untrusted prompts are going in. I'll add a disclaimer to the repo.
In general, it benefits everyone if countries are strong and successful, though there's also the issues of a strong country using their power against other countries. When there's a strong U.S. it means that there's plenty of wealthy customers for European products and also it's a lot easier to find well-educated U.S. talent to be employed.
The performance upgrade, fine. I get it. I don't like it. But I get it.

But the more range upgrade? You're kidding. So they locked some battery modules behind a software upgrade. Meanwhile, without the upgrade, your car is literally carrying these useless batteries around, which decrease efficiency.
Great example of how accumulated technical innovations unlock unexpected opportunities. Flow, Shrek and Toy Story have roughly similar technical quality but vastly different price tags. That cost reduction allows more experimentation, which delivers more compelling outcomes.
Iceland is one of several geothermal "high temperature zones", other zones include effectively the entire West Coast of all of North and South America, including Alaska, as well as a zone stretching from the Mediterranean through the Red Sea that encompasses basically every European country with Mediterranean coastline. There's a major zone stretching from India through Southeast Asia and a separate independent one basically going along the whole western perimeter of the Pacific Ocean.

Geothermal is currently deployed in 32 countries and is regarded as the most abundant source of renewable energy outside of solar, impressively ranking ahead of wind.

So I think the most charitable interpretation of Iceland's example is that it represents one of many regions where geothermal is viable.
Too many on HN seem to forget that Safari exists and has a large market share. If you break Safari then no one on an iPhone or iPad can use your site. That's an unacceptable level of breakage for almost every site, and is enough to ensure that if Apple doesn't implement it it won't be used.

Ironically, Apple's walled garden is the last thing standing between Google and total web dominance.
> I know about the paradox of tolerance.

Do you?

Because Russia is the invader. It lied about the troop movements being a prelude to invasion. It lied about the reasons for invading. It has committed, and continues to commit, war crimes. It has made nuclear threats to dissuade others from helping Ukraine defend itself. It has threatened Finland for daring to join NATO.

> pretty sure there can be a compromise

Why do you think this?

Russia can stop their unlawful invasion of a sovereign country any time they want. That they have not done so ought to be a QED that they don't want to stop.

> Would you talk about suicide bombers in the same vain though?

Would you talk about the invasion of your own country in the same vein?

I don't know where you live. USA? Imagine Russia had in 2014 annexed Alaska the way they've annexed Crimea, and in 2022 started trying the same on the states of Washington and Montana, and briefly had control of the I-90 as far as Chicago before being repelled.

If that happened, would you say "pretty sure there can be a compromise"?

The "compromise" Zelenskyy is offering Putin is: "get out of my country that you've illegally occupied, and I won't keep shooting drones into your oil refineries".

The "compromise" Putin is offering Zelenskyy is: "Be our puppet or die".

Nothing about Russian state behaviour looks like they're willing to behave. Not the military action, not the broad-daylight assassinations (not only in Ukraine, but also in Germany and the UK and Turkey), certainly not the war crimes.

Right now, the Russian government is acting, and talking, as if Ukraine isn't even a real country.
Perhaps I misunderstand, but your criticism seems to me rather to agree with Penrose's argument. Points (1) and (2) argue that human reasoning is not computational, in the sense relevant for Gödel's theorems. That is exactly Penrose's point (and was Gödel's point too). He's arguing that we are not going to get a fundamentally super-computational system thru a stack of computations, no matter how big your stack gets. You seem to be confirming this.

I don't understand how you mean (3) to apply as a criticism at all. He is not making a claim about truth at some level, he's just reminding us what computation is and what its limits are.

afaiu, there are two ways to counter Penrose's claim:

a. Prove that consciousness is actually just computational.

b. Prove that merely stacking computations can somehow produce a super-computational system.
Passive Solar Greenhouse Technology from China [video]
This is my explanation for what you describe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43219380

I don't like it, but I can't deny that he's made it work more often than expected. Possibly with some negative downstream effects we haven't seen yet. Time will tell.