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Does the modularity make it easy to steal the accessories? I'd be sad if my new customized truck were downgraded to the base model while parked on the street overnight.

On effective engineering teams, there's always at least one person who is fluent one layer below where the rest of the team operates. That person tends to be extraordinarily useful in tricky situations. Examples: someone who can read assembly on a team writing C; someone who spends a lot of time in the browser debugger on a frontend team; or someone who is comfortable stepping deep into third-party library code with a debugger.

If any of these examples are familiar, you might chuckle that of course everyone on the team has these skills. But there's a big difference between someone who can barely parse the symbols, and someone who can actually interpret them and extract meaning.

Five to ten years from now, I have no idea whether software engineers still be coding. But I'm sure there will still be code. Do you want to be the person on your team who is fluent in it, or one of the rest who rely on that person?

We're seeing the first 20 years of the dot-com cycle, but compressed into two years, and trying hard not to fall into the tar pit of ad-supported services.

Hopefully it would be less of a criticism of the system, and more spurring people to ask questions like "Wait, why did you leave a hunting knife on the coffee table?"

Design a scheme that equips parents with better tools to be better parents, rather than one that reduces the scope of parenting responsibilities.

It makes more sense to focus on its value as a console platform than its price as a PC.

The lower the price, the more boxes sell, hopefully making the platform large enough for publishers to target.

The higher the price, the better specs the box can afford, increasing the platform's longevity.

The hidden value you don't see in the specs is that publishers will target this platform specifically for a certain amount of time.

It works only once per civilization, but Steam could run a dutch auction, then surprise! sell to the winners at list price.

Rick Beato has at least one child with absolute pitch, with stunning ability to name chords and the discrete notes in them. Here's the short video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t3Cb1qwCUvI

I'm not a musician, but I'm told the kid's way of naming the chords is particularly adept from a musician's point of view, and that's because the dad (a very accomplished musician) helped teach the kid. I am sure Rick has made more videos about what he did.

That's right. This requirement makes a little sense if you don't actually know the signer and could conceivably end up in court with a forensic handwriting analyst testifying whether the signature was a forgery. Anything involving notarization, for example, should pass that analysis.

But for the other 99.99% of signatures in the world, any mark at all is fine, and insisting on more is wasteful bureaucracy.

I think they compared the first signature to the second and saw that they were too similar. They wanted the sequence 1. Download PDF 2. Print PDF, 3. Find pen, 4. Use pen to scribble name on paper, 5. Scan paper to PDF, 6. Upload PDF.

Without diving into too much minutiae, a legal signature can be any mark the signer intends to act as a signature. It could be a bird you've trained to poo on command onto signature lines.

In my case, this instance with Schwab was the first of a lot of similar paperwork I was going to have to do, so I pulled the ripcord when I saw how they were going to approach it.

Charles Schwab, the brokerage, didn't like that my signed form retitling an account looked too perfect (I had scanned my signature and then inserted the JPEG into their PDF form, which is absolutely 100% legal as a signature). So I printed the form out and sent them a picture of the printout. They didn't like that, either.

So I moved my money out of the account. That worked fine.

I suspect there's just a bit of training data on the other side of the Great Firewall that western companies can't access.

I want Scrabble rules for HN AI challenges. If someone finds an AI-generated comment, the commenter has violated HN guidelines and the comment should be deleted. But if the accusation is wrong, there should be a penalty for the often massive disruption the accuser has caused to the discussion.

(As of now, that four-word low-effort comment has generated over a thousand words in response, none of which improve this article's discussion.)

Doesn't the UK already have geo-targeted age verification infrastructure in place? A website or app could require the user to submit a live video of themselves quaffing a local beer.

Maybe "few words" means your larger vocabulary lets you use a single word to represent a concept that someone else would need several words to say. But the conversation ends up longer when the other person asks you to define the obscure word you just used.

Plus a scroll on mobile because the submit button is below the fold, though it seems to stay in the right place after the first scroll.

I checked this thread for an expansion of that initialism, which I didn't recognize. It likely stands for "low-dose naltrexone." https://ldnresearchtrust.org/what-is-low-dose-naltrexone-ldn

"a prescription medication used primarily to treat alcohol use disorder and opioid use disorder" (in addition to the off-label uses discussed here)

You could make a similar argument about voting in democratic elections. It's still important to vote.

You should flag it. That's much better than polluting comment threads, and it'll help dang identify polluters.

We're saying the same thing. The bootloader unlocking process includes a step that destroys the FDE key.

Just nausea for me. What you're describing sounds like the recovery phase of sea legs.

If it's any consolation, the wipe* requirement before unlocking the bootloader is generally a good thing, even if it's inconvenient. Someone who is targeting your personal data gets access to your encrypted phone, either by stealing it or in an evil maid situation. They unlock the bootloader and install privileged code that helps them recover the symmetric encryption key or intercept your PIN. Then they either have your data or wait for you to enter the PIN. In theory recovery shouldn't be possible (access to the key depends on a secure element that rate limits brute-force attacks), but security bugs do happen. Wiping* your data before removing the bootloader's signing requirement is an extra layer of protection.

*It doesn't actually wipe your data; it just destroys the symmetric key, making the data permanently unreadable.

I suppose you could design an experiment that mucked with proprioception but not the vestibular system. Count me out as a test subject.

:) it's the price of progress.

Are you asking me? The rule is in the guidelines at the bottom of your screen. "Don't post generated text or AI-edited text. HN is for conversation between humans."

I see trivial variants of your comment on almost every long-form article or comment posted to HN. They're so repetitive that it raises doubt whether they're written by humans.

Once it starts for me, it's not stopping for at least a couple hours, even if I immediately get back on solid ground.

But I used to get sick playing Quake, so maybe I'm in the 11 group.

You're correct, but there's a good reason: they need to draw over other apps to do what they do. So it's not necessarily nefarious. But it is an excellent reason to build the functionality into the OS.

(The reason the permission is so dangerous is they can trick you into pressing the wrong button by relabeling dangerous text with innocuous text.)

You might ask why motion sickness even exists in the first place. Why do nausea and vomiting make sense when your body is in a car or on a boat? Nobody knows for sure, but there's a convincing theory.

Zillions of years ago, we were foragers. We ate what we found. And if we ate something bad, like a poisonous berry, we could die. One of the first symptoms of neurotoxin ingestion is that your eyes lose their tracking ability. And an easy way for your body to detect this is when your eyes and ears (vestibular system) disagree about your body's position and motion in space.

So we presumably evolved a simple rule:

    if (eyes != ears) { vomit(); }

Which gets that bad berry right back out of the system.

This is why these Android and Apple gadgets work: they restore visual cues helping your eyes match what your ears are telling you. It's why looking at the horizon on a boat helps. And it's why reading in the car gets some people so horribly sick.

Have you (or anyone else) tried letting agents compete? For example, give the same coding task to two models, or to the same model with a different seed, and have the reviewer choose the better result.

Some think the human brain works similarly: thousands of mini-brain cortical columns, each with a slightly different take on the situation, voting in a majority-rules system.

If you're younger, having the condition is less likely, but it's possible you have a nonspecific injury that behaves similarly.

One weird trick to try is a "heel drop": https://www.modernapothecary.org/blog/the-healing-power-of-h... Even if you don't have a hernia, it can't hurt to try it; you can even do it accidentally by drinking a sports drink and then jogging around the block. I was shocked to find it ended an awful bout of laryngopharyngeal reflux. (I had a scan long ago that incidentally observed a sliding hiatal hernia, but I didn't have symptoms for many years.)

In any event, I'm sorry you're having this trouble, and I hope it resolves itself.

The MoE variant was perfect for speedily generating hundreds of vocabulary mnemonic flash cards for my daughter to study for the SAT. "Ant bait abates our ant problem" and "A droid adroitly fixes things around the house," for example.

We also used z-image to generate accompanying illustrations.