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> The reason lies in the extraordinary weakness of the gravitational force.

I recall reading Brian Greene giving the example of sitting in a chair. The molecules of the chair are stronger than gravity. You're not crashing through to the floor.
I think you GOT caught here. That's why you don't respond to the Nobel prize winning example of RL.
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They weren't venerable. They were anything but. They were designed to be a lower BOM on the motherboard and 90% of them were buggy garbage.
> LLMs are really good at regex

Maybe that's changed recently, but I have struggled to get all but the most basic regex working from GPT-4o-mini
The recent crash of two ships near the East coast of UK, could it have been caused by GPS hacking?
> Part of the motivation for this recent effort for a COBOL compiler front-end for GCC has been to help migrate traditional mainframe applications over to Linux for local use and in the cloud.

A unixy cobol isn’t what anyone needs for mainframe migrations. There’s a lot of weirdness around calling and linking “load modules” in mainframe environments, and calling programs via jcl (passing in file handles). Plus Will CICS support be coming? Maybe someone more knowledgeable can comment on these thing?
For the love of all that's holy, never ever ever use the user's IP address to determine their locale, language preferences or anything similar. It works for the majority of the users and is an absolute nightmare for the rest. Can't even begin to count the times a site has thought I'm from some random country and then switched languages, leaving me to look for the language picker that's hidden somewhere in the page footer. Don't do that.
Okay, your argument is fair enough - I'll admit that.
I think it's specifically a combination of 2 things for Apple, one of which Apple will absolutely never admit to, but it's something that I've definitely noticed back when I still got Apple devices. I was into jailbreaking at the time and that often meant deliberately not upgrading the main OS, which often made my phone last much longer compared to others of the same model who were running the last version of iOS.

The first is that Apple forbids you from downgrading the iPhone to a lower firmware. They're not the only device maker that does this, but this is mostly unique in the realm of "personal computing devices" - I can downgrade most Android phones to a prior Android version through fastboot if I wanted to and usually the only thing blocking you from installing older Windows versions is a lack of driver support for them (same deal with Linux distros). Even macOS at least in the past used to make sure that if you booted from the Recovery partition, it'd contain the installer for the version of macOS you got with the computer. Apple claims it's in name of security, which is probably true (although I do believe that a company like Apple should just maintain at least the last two major versions of it's software at a bare minimum and let users freely move between every version they've ever released - voided warranty is acceptable for this), but it leads into the next point.

Which is that I suspect Apple deliberately "overspecs" the burden of running basic iOS with newer devices. Basically, the iPhone 4 (yes I'm going back this far) last supported iOS 7.1.2, but if you read reports at the time, the actual most performant version of the phone at the time was iOS 6, not iOS 7, which was mostly characterized as being a slow mess on iPhone 4's that Apple only barely patched up to not be device crippling. I've from personal experience seen this pattern repeated over and over until I just switched to Android (with the main reason for doing so being the fact that Apple killed a bunch of older phone games I was playing by killing 32bit support in iOS).

By doing this, they can essentially force people to move to new devices, simply by making the last supported version borderline unusable for regular use. "Batterygate" was essentially the main consequence of this practice, but it was a symptom coming from Apple's support practices, not the cause. It's just something they boiled the frog with (because after the iphone 4, it stopped being reported, although I can personally attest to all their devices that hit EOL in the years afterwards having the exact same issue.)
Perhaps it's better to have different frontends for different time zones.
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Better yet would be to ban the practice entirely; spittoons in the US (think generic wild west saloons) were a major source of spreading diseases like tuberculosis. They (and chewing tobacco) went out of fashion in the '30's due to shifting perceptions of hygiene, and both chewing gum and cigarettes becoming the more favorable options. I'm not sure how much campaigning was done to achieve that though.
It isn't just state differences either, because schools are mostly funded by property taxes, areas that serve a more expensive area of properties receives way more funding. While an area that serves all cheap property gets dog shit in funding. The area I grew up in was mostly farms but had one lake that was way overly priced compared to everywhere else, a new development of cookie cutter houses but they were 4-5 times the price of other property around. And the school there was excellent, and had I not ever moved I would of assumed that was the standard public education quality level. But I moved schools in highschool to another mostly rural school 2 hours away, but they didn't have the new development well-off lake community, and despite being in the same state, the poorer school was literally 3-4 years behind in education and had a third of the material supplies and teachers were paid significantly less and thus were mostly of far lower quality. So that my senior year in the poorer school was essentially having what I learned in 8th and 9ths grade repeated to me my senior year, but of course for the locals that was the first time many of them heard those things.
The endosymbiotic theory suggests that there is considerable overlap in functions with what you would call "external" entities. At some point we might just consider these things part of the host system, even if they don't share the particular DNA of your nuclei. At the scale of trillions of organisms working together it becomes really hard to tell what is "you" and what isn't.
That's only half of what MLK Jr's observed:

> I would be the first to say that I am still committed to militant, powerful, massive, non­-violence as the most potent weapon in grappling with the problem from a direct action point of view. I'm absolutely convinced that a riot merely intensifies the fears of the white community while relieving the guilt. And I feel that we must always work with an effective, powerful weapon and method that brings about tangible results.

> But it is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the negro poor has worsened over the last twelve or fifteen years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met.

> And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity.
> There were real practical concerns that have only recently been worked around.

I would add the caveat that things have not been completely worked out yet. I agree that religious customs around sex served a practical purpose.

However, easier access to sexual pleasure seems to have unintended consequences. Traditionally, a woman and her family should be damn sure that a particular man is worthy of female costs of pregnancy. So there was more pressure exerted on men to be worthy of sex. Easy access to sexual pleasure lowers the bar for men.
My iPhone X battery recently dropped below 90% and even though settings show “peak performance capability” it has started to feel very slow. Lots of stuttering at basic things like typing, showing the keyboard, swiping and so on. It is very very frustrating.

DeepSeek says the “battery can't consistently deliver the voltage the A11 chip needs for bursts of speed. This causes micro-stutters.”

It is frustratingly slow at times. So do I spend $100 to repair an old phone or make the move and get a new one? Either way Apple is probably making money.
Don't worry the Elon interns will flag this soon.
The part about marketing/labeling is a fair one - I haven't thought about that.
> The batteries I looked at through ifixit are $20. No-name goes below $10.

The cheapest for my phone is $35, and Apple will do it for $90 or third parties for a bit less. If you’re seeing different numbers for your phone, I’m sure that’s true but don’t think it’s fundamentally changing the cost into a number which changes the average phone buyer’s decision. Again, I’m not saying it’s trivial but that people pay hundreds of dollars upfront and usually thousands over the life of the device. There just don’t seem to be that many people who intend to own the same phone for many years and factor the cost of installing a replacement battery into their decision.

> You can be pretty water-resistant while also having a cover normal people can remove.

Yes, nobody has said otherwise. It’s just more expensive and makes a physically larger device if you are making an equivalently durable device because you need to add screws, seals, etc. and make a mechanically more complex case.

Again, my point is simply that the entire phone market had removable batteries but shifted away over roughly a decade and it’s usually a mistake to look at a durable consumer preference and dismiss it as marketing or some kind of conspiracy. Apple is a single vendor so maybe they’re a lost cause but there have been many Android phone makers and their buyers also followed the same trend despite a vocal minority urging otherwise.
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Why are sine waves so common?
My German circle of friends is also still very active on BeReal.
It's always funny reading pagans arguing about middle eastern religions
But original MC ran on JVM, which can run on ARM...
The problem with two parties is everything is left or right. Coalition building can be hard but the work bridges ideas/approaches which pull more people together.

Two party systems end up governing from their extreme positions while trying to pull 1% over.
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I had a 2016 Intel MacBook Pro with integrated graphics. It was one of the first Apple laptops with a Retina display.

Well. That machine got progressively slower with each major release of macOS. The graphics performance degraded most clearly. If you did the gesture to show the desktop, the animation was noticeably janky - like maybe 20fps or so. Maybe Apple was increasingly using less efficient / more complex compositing or something with each new macOS version and the little Intel integrated graphics chip couldn’t keep up.

I almost forgot how bad it was - but then just before I sold it, I booted into recovery mode to wipe & reinstall the original OS. Turns out the recovery partition was still running whatever version of the OS that the machine shipped with - and holy cow performance was night and day. I’d almost thought I was making it up - but moving windows around was so delightfully snappy again!

I don’t think it was malicious at all on Apple’s side. I think they just didn’t care enough to make sure each new version of macOS didn’t degrade performance. I’m sure their engineers were excited to add visual flourishes using metal - even if older machines struggled to render them.

In retrospect I could have screen recording it or something for proof but I didn’t bother. I was getting rid of the machine anyway. Maybe I should have? But the difference was very real and very obvious.

(And no, I didn’t have any 3rd party software clogging up my machine. The only thing that would routinely peg my cpu was - for no reason - photoanalysisd and the spotlight indexer. Both part of macOS itself.)
> This kill switch, the DOJ said, appeared to have been created by Lu because it was named "IsDLEnabledinAD," which is an apparent abbreviation of "Is Davis Lu enabled in Active Directory."

All time feature flag name
Theory (I live half a world away though): totalitarianism. China has a very strong and top-down government, where if the leadership decides for example that streets should be clean, millions of government officials make it happen. I don't know if that is just good organization or if it's backed by e.g. legal repercussions if it's not done right though.

But of course it's got major downsides, as the Chinese government is also pushing hard to remove distinct cultural identities from the various regions of China. India is still much richer in terms of cultures than that, the government can't just come in and start erasing that.
You liquidate rapidly if the market is way down. If you are planning on withdrawing ~4% of your stating portfolio annually to pay your expenses, the market tanking by 50% means you are now consuming 8% annually.

In the accumulation phase the value of your equities is likely to return. You never end up selling anything. But in the retirement phase you liquidate in order to pay your expenses. If you end up liquidating down too far there won't be enough future growth to cover your retirement needs.

Market crashes right after retirement are very dangerous for retirees.
Wow, fascinating. I wonder if in a few years every in-game opponent will just be an LLM with access to a game-controlling API like the one you've created.

Did you find there are particular types of tasks that the models struggle with? Or does difficulty mostly just scale with the number of items they need to place?
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Generally this fails.

Most LLMs lose the ability to track facts over about 20k words of content, the best can manage maybe 40k words.

Look for "needle" benchmark tests, as in needle-in-haystack.

Not to mention the memory requirements of such a huge context like 128k or 1M tokens. Only people with enterprise servers at home could run that locally.
Nah it's not a WW2 thing. Not sure about Western Europe but in Central/Eastern Europe, especially in rural areas, people still have chambers and basements full of jam, compote and basically anything else which can be preserved. Not one or two jars but enough to last several years, that kind of stuff.
If you want a mainframy COBOL there is Hercules to play with so that need is covered already:

https://herculesmainframeemulator.weebly.com/add-and-compile...

(just the first hit on the query hercules mainframe cobol, there's plenty more where that came from)
Oxygen isotope ratios on the Moon are extremely close to those on Earth, which indicates intimate sharing of material during the event.
> what are the next steps?

I'd say huge investments in improving things like infrastructure (roads, water, sewage, electricity), quality of housing, etc. China has a lot of experience in this regard with huge, admittedly failed projects of building entire cities from scratch (failed because nobody actually lives there).
> I went through and gave Wikipedia links to many of the ideas presented because many of those ideas are much larger than the words themselves can convey.

& You did well. Thank you for comment. Forgetfulness is not a luxury we Americans can afford at this juncture.
Lists of things and similar reading material can't be Show HNs which is for things you've made other people can try. Take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
People will do anything not to get eating, except getting rid of the beast.
I guess this is more about "if your product has bluetooth functionality, this section of compliance also applies to your product" than "we have regulation on switching off bluetooth"
There is not a single mention of Elbe in the linked document. However, there are numerous references to the 2+4 agreement, which is the informal name for the treaty I previously cited. That's what they were discussing and that's what they agreed upon. Soviet representatives have confirmed that the discussions were limited solely to the placement of foreign forces in East Germany until the Soviet withdrawal was complete.

As the Soviet foreign minister stated in a 2014 interview, there was simply no reason to discuss NATO beyond that. They did not expect the Warsaw Pact to dissolve. The idea that the world would change so drastically that the Warsaw Pact would dissolve and its members would seek to join NATO was unimaginable at the time.

You are clinging to an erroneous understanding of a few transcript snippets against the words of the direct participants and their actual written agreements.
It's not all or nothing. Within EU nations, you will find many systems that sit within a spectrum between a rigid 2 party system like the US, and a full blown multi-party coalition type government broken down into specific levels, like Belgium.
This happens on Reddit- you'll make a comment that makes sense to Europeans or Asians, and it gets n upvotes. Then America wakes up and all of a sudden it gets n downvotes.

It's especially interesting in local expat communities: in Asia local time, you'll make a comment that is the ground truth and it gets n upvotes from locals and other foreigners in-country. But then the children of immigrants in America who are associated with that country wake up, and suddenly 8 hours later you're a monster.
How is there no transaction taking place? The CEO is exchanging their labor for shares
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America has many American workers at minimum wage and above. (and below)

In this specific sector, the entire industry including retail has shown they will pay many multiples of a higher price for GPUs and cloud services. So if a US grown supply already cost that much out the gate, there is already examples of the market being able to bare that.
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Yes. That's usually how the term is defined. You have a lump amount to invest and you invest it over a period of time.

Meaning shifts, and now the term is also being used in web forums to describe the investment strategy of "in each paycheck, invest a bit of money." This creates confusion.
Nope. No circle. What the nodes say goes. The nodes are the vote of the people. Clear?

As for centralisation of mining - you're mistaking ASIC farms with mining pools. Miners can switch mining pools in milliseconds if a mining pool goes rogue.
>This sounds like bit of column one and column two. On one hand, poverty by income in USD must assume that the world's economy had globalized enough, such that, there can be no such locations on Earth as where $0.01 pays Michelin star lunch for dozen healthy adults. That's going to completely break premises of this metric.

Poverty levels are measured with PPP dollars, so that's already factored in.
You’re only looking at one side of it. Consider how much value that excel adds, and how many use cases it enables. It’s incalculable. It’s always easy to poke at excel’s issues, but errors are almost always a skill issue.

From a financial perspective, there are many ways you could enforce checks to ensure the model is balanced - it just takes time. Data entry can be an issue, but you can automate that too. The deloitte report is saying the health department should benefit from adopting a gigantic erp system but you could get 90% of the benefit by employing a couple people that really know what they’re doing.

You could say that excel should allow those things to happen but the flexibility is precisely what makes it so valuable.

The people writing the reports are consultants. Consultants recommend things that benefit consultants. In their case, a multi year process and tens of millions of dollars trying to install ERP software is more a windfall for the vendors and not the companies.
It's clear they burnt through all 1 million pre orders and now you can get them in less than a week. Based on when they reached July 2024 pre-orders and roughly 25k built at the time, it is speculated only 3% of people actually chose to purchase the car, with 97% getting a refund.

Compare that to the ~80% conversion rate of the Model 3 when it launched, it appears the Cybertruck is a massive failure.
>WEF-imposed restructuring

The WEF is a talk shop that has no power to impose any sort of restructuring. Are you talking about the IMF?
There are many, like mosaic.tech or causal.app
I've actually been thinking about this concept for a while now! I miss the old days when social networking was actually social and was wondering if placing restrictions like this one can actually make it fun again.

Some other restrictions I think can work:

* No more than 1 post per day

* No more than 500 friends

* No followers

* No public posts

* No posting links

* No commercial pages
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I think it depends on the brand of printers you buy. I bought a Brother and had trouble getting AirPrint to work. Only to find out after a year that there was an update of the firmware I had not installed, which had been available all along, that fixed the AirPrint issue immediately.

Please just stop buying HP and Canon printers!
this thing that a comment slightly not aligned gets downvoted, must stop
Those are some far fetched numbers, that's the price of premium/specialty coffee and the amount is easily a double shot, even triple by Italian standards.

Common commercial beans are ~$24/kg at retail prices, and while 14g would be a double shot around here, let's assume that's a "single shot" since standards seem to differ a lot. That puts us at a much more reasonable $0.39 per "shot" of coffee after accounting for 15% waste.

On a personal note, I would actively choose to pay $0.40 more for coffee if I knew that the money went back to the farmers who produce it.
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It's fraudulent in the sense that it's a fake loss, as you say created by clever accounting.
Yes, at this stage, if you want increased privacy, you need to jump through hoops.

Monero has a place - to increase the privacy of bitcoin when required. But I'd never store value in it for any length of time, I'd only use it temporarily.