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While ThinkPads are great machines (I just bought a cheaper one), I'd consider Dell XPSs as well, for the much better trackpads alone. Only two or three years ago, the displays on ThinkPads were absolute jokes. A traditional ThinkPad is a somewhat "masculine" and bulky thing, and the trackpad button layout really gets in the way of a fluid workflow for me. I bought mine because my XPS was dying (the XPSs' weak point is the battery, with high failure rates), but I'm planning to buy a new XPS later this year anyway.
"Our secret telemetry dataset gives us reason to believe that the cars produced by us are not safe."

Would a statement like this be a surprise for you?
I ditched Microsoft about 10 years ago and have been a fervent proponent of Apple ever since, but since WWDC 2019, I cannot honestly recommend Apple to a new user anymore.

There are just too damn many bugs.

In everything. Operating systems, software, services, built-in apps, even their developer tools and even in their frameworks and the Swift language itself.

I run into at least one bug literally every day. Someone could write a daily blog about this. Core features like keyboard input, text selection, AirDrop, photo picker, iCloud Drive etc. are erratic and unreliable. It's a death by thousand cuts. Apple is no longer the clear best, just the least worst.

I love the 16" MBP though, and restoring it to the exact state as my previous 15" MBP from a Time Machine backup was smooth and effortless. But when I tried to backup the new system, it seemed to ignore the existing backup I had just restored from, proceeding to write 300+ GB all over again and not showing the older snapshots in the UI.
Wouldn't it work via a VM?

Aside from that, Aperture was abandoned 5 years ago. I would blame Apple for not releasing a 64-bit version of it before dropping it, but not for dropping 32-bit altogether.
Thanks for taking the time to write and authentically share your point-of-view :bow: ️ I deduce that you don't have some process in your team for increasing the team's EQ other than 1:1 conversations? But you have a process for sharing frustrations/morale/etc. in your group? Do you do it usually in your weekly meetings or it piles up and it's discussed in some kind of reflection meeting?

for the record: I agree that if there's no consensus from the team to volunteer to create habits for psychological safety, it will become a recipe for disaster if it's made mandatory. People will leave, lie or disengage totally.
It would seem sensible for the "autopilot" to have knowledge of where the lane markings are known to be reliable, and only enable itself there. The vast majority of the world's roads have lane markings that absolutely cannot be relied upon.
Good point. I do agree with you vastly. But in my few work experience it was never discussed nor shown. Which led .. well lack of leadership. And ultimately deep anxiety.

Do most jobs have a team chat to talk about it before going into actual work ?
Exactly my first thought. I like Threema and one of the reasons I was an early adopter is that the founder worked on m0n0wall before, an OSS firewall that I used for a long time, in contrast to it being just some guy I never heard of. It made me accept the closed source nature. Another big factor was that I indeed consider Switzerland to be a more trustworthy/neutral party in general when it comes to global politics, but this obviously doesn't have to apply to every single individual in that country.
This module is basically just a 3G baseband chip on a board. By your definition, no circuit that contains a chip would be open source.
This is great, I'll have to port my small board game from Python into this so as to be able to run it cross platform. It's a little bit frustrating working with the tkinter Python GUI and not being able to "export" the game to other platforms.
>It won't happen man, don't worry ;)

Fast forward a few years, ICANN v2.0
I switch users quite frequently and have never seen this or anything like it. (I see some others have mentioned that Firefox might be the culprit, though, and I don't use it.)
As does all software made by Apple.

I was a fervent fan of apple around 2010, with Snow Leopard and iPhone 4. It really "just worked".

Now it just doesn't.
I read about this quite a while ago, and while it's a revelation, it doesn't seem big enough to be Assange's dead man's switch. Most people are just going to shrug at this.
Cool, though having recently used a rotary phone to navigate a phone menu I'm glad they died out.
Smartphones are probably pretty close to being powerful enough for 80% of desktop use cases. Having one device that can dock to a "laptop" shell and give me a full screen desktop OS would be amazing.
It’s $75,000 USD for the LIDAR sensor, a far cry from $2,000.
IMO that’s a very modest sum considering what it does. LE scales extremely well.
So it's a metaphor that only a limited amount of people can use at any given time?
Ask HN: Does image optimisation affect browser memory usage?
Does image optimisation actually affect memory usage of a web app, or just the initial download size?
Or to put it another way, once the browser has unpacked a compressed image, is the memory usage more down about dimensions of the image?
Response makes sense, I've never thought about it before but I don't like gadgets at all (EE and programmer for 25 years). I like simple things, don't have home assistant, don't have tablet anymore, rarely use computer at home, like simple things in my musical instrument and tv setup, no games consoles (used to love games as a kid but not anymore). It's less to worry about and I feel I get more done.
Why use Threema when there are alternatives that are not closed-source? You had to begin to use Threema, which presumably carries the same difficulty as beginning to use something which isn't as questionable.
How Dr. Matt Lipscomb, CEO DMC Biotechnologies Raised US$15M?
This "driver aid" model itself is starting to sound like a problem to me. You either have safe, autonomous driving or you don't.

A model where a driver is assumed to disengage attention, etc but then be expected to rengage in a fraction of a second to respond to an anomalous event is fundamentally at its core flawed I think. It's like asking a human to drive and not drive at the same time. Most driving laws assume a driver should be alert and at the wheel; this is what...? Assuming you're not alert and at the wheel?

As you're pointing out, this leads to a convenient out legally for the manufacturer, who can just say "you weren't using it correctly."

I fail to see the point of autopilot at all if you're supposed to be able to correct it at any instant in real-world driving conditions.
... while using the same auto pilot that earlier steered your car towards certain doom
it becomes impossible (or at least rather challenging) to accidentally butt-dial somebody?
I'm very excited about the possibility of self-driving cars. Let the car drive while I take a nap or read a book.

But I have a hard time believing that the technology is anywhere close to being mature. You need a lot of contextual knowledge to drive safely in unusual circumstances. I totally believe that within well-defined limits, AI already outperforms humans, but traffic has no well-defined limits. Anything can happen.
My note/doubt wasn't about inserting/plugging/unplugging it (I am pretty sure that is fine or at least as fine as any other USB-C device), it is about leaving it plugged (and sticking out without support) to a PC or some other device (thus exposed to accidental hits).

And if at the end of it there is another little device plugged (or a cable) in the female connector, little by little the weight might losen the receptacle of the PC or however put too much traction on the connector soldering or even (I have seen it happening with some devices) slightly bend the board.
My code folder is a sym link to a folder in my iCloud drive. The beauty is all my code will be sync'ed to cloud automatically, and the bonus is I can see this folder in every machine that syncs with the same Apple account. I believe this approach works with any cloud drive like DropBox, Google Drive, One Drive, etc.
> To cite only one of many examples, a car engine needs torque to handle hills and provide traction at slow speeds, an airplane engine needs high speed to maximize propeller efficiency, and torque and speed are opposites

You can get around that by using an electric transmission. A turbine drives an alternator which drives 2 sets of electric motors one for the wheels and one for the propellors. As to the rest of the post it’s attacking a straw man. I don’t think people want a highway capable car that can also fly. If you can fly why drive on the highway?

A 50k to 100k VTL ‘flying car’ with maximum cruse speed of 80 MPH, maximum altitude of 10,000 feet, a range of 500 miles, room for 2+ people, and a cargo capacity of 1,000lb including people fits most people’s definitions of a flying car. Being able to move around on the ground at say 15 to 25MPH without giant spinning blades would also be a great feature.

Oddly enough I think we already have something close to flying motorcycles in autogyros, but the closest thing to a flying car is a vanilla small flying airplane and those run you 250k new.

PS: There is even something of a jet pack alternative https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpwd-T2Qvbk
If you want a real surprise, try a rewrite in Elixir.
People calling out Lambda is what PG's "Haters" essay is about http://www.paulgraham.com/fh.html
You could argue that uncertainty reduces the risk of war because you're only starting wars where you're reasonably certain that you can win. Uncertainty about your adversary's capabilities then prevents war.
I agree with much of that - but what I worry about is the perilous state of journalism - it is being hit by reduction in ad money resulting in less depth and more pandering to people with money.

You could argue the garbage is the problem - taking ad money from better sources, however if you have a blanket ad block then there is no discrimination - the Brave model offers you a chance to discriminate but still use ad payment model.

The alternative is to move to 'pay to view' models - the problem here is that then competes with free content that is free because it's paided propaganda.
It's fun, which is its own kind of "functional".
Code is both asset and liability; the asset is the feature set, while the liability has an interest payment in the form of maintenance.

The way you put it, you're optimizing for only one side of the books. The fact is that the value in a company is not in minimal clean code; it's in a recurring revenue stream, and ideally profits. Provide the most value with code which has low interest payments. Everything else being equal, smaller code has lower interest payments, but everything else isn't always equal. And depending on cash flow and market opportunity, maximizing value and to hell with minimal clean code - throwing money & devs at the problem - can make sense.
> The best thing to do in that situation is to accept the fact that you are not feeling in the zone. But the solution is not to give in into that feeling and start binge watching NetFlix either

Ah I disagree, as a sample side of one.

I tried pushing through for a while and doing a small amount of work / refactoring, but it didn't really click.

Finally decided to try not working on the days I wasn't in a groove, and have found that if I do, I have much better ideas and crank out a massive amount of work over the next couple days until I wake up feeling out of the zone.

Most people would probably benefit from not having a 2 day block weekend, but rather having downtime on say Sunday and Thursday. In the same way athletes have staggered rest days.

I'm lucky enough to have a job where I can do this, but it was also a semi-requirement during my last job search.
The US can spy on you; they just don't want anyone else to do so as well.
Excellent point. So how does Google solve the problem? Do they just coordinate the heartbeat intervals with the carriers, or do they bypass the Internet altogether and use some cell-network-specific push mechanism? If the latter, is this mechanism available to everyone or just partners of the carriers?
It's only a problem if you believe in driverless cars, then it becomes a Hard Problem: "it works in situations where it's irrelevant", but so does plain old not holding the wheel: look, it's self-driving!* (in ideal conditions)
Assuming it has a comparable-size battery to other "feature phones", I suspect this could get better battery life with a bit of time spent on making sure everything goes to sleep whenever possible.

Having said that, hitting "more than a day of usage" is crucial, anything more than that is much less important for most users.
If you use git, even without remotes, then perhaps use rsync or rclone to sync those repos to one or more storage areas? Could be sent to an SSH server, Google Drive, Backblaze B2 or whatever you like.
I hope remote work is banned by law sometime soon.
It's utterly dreadful for everyone involved - the worker(unless they are slackers and have no problems being unproductive while getting paid), the co-workers, customers, society.
It's fantastic that Let's Encrypt made short(er)-lived certificates possible. With automation in place it doesn't matter if the cert lives a year or a week. Eventually it will get short enough that we won't have to bother with revocation lists, OCSP, etc.
Are you making Tesla inc responsible for videos that some other people put up on the internet? How would you even propose to police this, to make it illegal to use a car in a video unless the usage is somehow approved by the car manufacturer?
"just a 3G baseband chip" does hide an enormous amount of complexity. The point is just that this design contains both non-open-source hardware and non-open-source software (running on the 3G baseband chip). It's still mighty cool!
lol, nah.

I did my own PhD thesis a couple years ago on donor atoms in silicon, specifically selenium, forming hydrogen and helium like systems that "could" have been useful for forming a qbit. tldr selenium has 2 more valence electrons than silicon so when it is substitutionally doped into silicon then you get a helium like system, which in some cases ends up hydrogen like when, presumably, imperfections either local or remote cause enough disruption to whisk away/capture one of the electrons, thus forming a hydrogen like system. I didn't investigate the cause of the different molecular like complexes that spring up when you dope silicon like this though, I only probed things with light and did calculations relating to that probing, I didn't do any modelling concerning the diffusion and behaviour of dopants which I kinda regret.

Then you can optically manipulate that remaining donor electron. It didn't really work cause it's hard and the lifetimes of the donor electron systems are not great (tens of ns to ~100ns for some of the systems).

It was then I realised that physics research is a dangerous thing to attempt if you can't stomach the constant uncertainty and risk about your own personal future, when you are found to be not good enough due to not publishing, so I abandoned academia so I could massively reduce that stress and constant anxiety and actually have a life.

So the tldr is that this is not bullshit at all, it is in-fact very interesting and a promising line of work. But it's not going to make anyone's career by itself, and without appropriate pumping of the importance of the work and sufficient mentoring no-one who works on it as a grad student has a future as a researcher.

So no, it's neither Nobel Prize material or total bullshit.
I use restic on my Debian laptop and I think that it misses a GUI to be perfect.

I am fine with using the CLI for setup but unless I closely monitor systemd timers, backups could be failing silently and I would not notice.
AOP tools that effectively rewrite the app have incredible amounts of leverage. That can work to your benefit but it's also an enormous footgun if you get your aim wrong. It leverages up both cleverness and stupidity.
I tried renting a desk at a co-working space as an alternative to working from home. The space was nice - modern, nicely decorated, quiet. However, the internet connection was managed by monkeys who hard-limited everyone to 5mbps on the Wi-Fi network and blocked everything non-HTTP on the wired one. As an employee of a company who makes heavy use of video conferencing and, well, lots of non-HTTP things, it was completely unworkable. Got a refund and cancelled two days later.
um - why hasn't anyone mentioned www.transferwise.com/borderless yet ?
TransferWise.com/borderless is a pretty neat solution to a few of the problems N26 was solving. Anyone here - tried it out ?

Disclosure: Been building this for 6 years :-)
Why Bruce Perens Is Proposing ‘Coherent Open Source’
>that's a pretty obvious hint that there's something wrong with the tool.

Or that the problem space is inherently difficult.
It's an infinitesimal step down a fork in a road of many paths.

They link an article regarding warmer qubits coupling (which is required for useful quantum computation) suggesting that higher excitation states could improve that design, but yield that it needs further study.

Perhaps this is a useful design for a Q-DIMM?
I've written an intro to writing webapps in Go

https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo...

Intro to python:

https://github.com/thewhitetulip/build-app-with-python-antit...

Both are project based
That's true but it seems like the people advocating for policy on both ends don't understand the difference in density and therefore transportation needs between Boston and Boise. Everyone wants policy to be a state or federal level cudgel these days and quite frankly that is stupid.
SAE Level 5 is completely transformative, it will utterly change the market and the use of cars. Once you can conveniently call up an automated Uber the need, at least in cities, to buy your own car will effectively vanish.

This is Uber's endgame - get humans out of the loop. As long as cars still need human drivers this cost savings can't be realized.

> Forget better braking systems that apply themselves automatically.

This already exists: Mercedes, for example, first rolled out "Active Brake Assist" to a production model in 1996. Moreover any fully self driving vehicle will definitely need to be able to apply the brakes.
Yeah, but in that case you would use your own allocator fit for this purpose and not just new or malloc.
I once opened up a government code base (in C) that lead with this: "void * * * * x;". It took a while to learn that code. Taking time is fine and good managers will support you, so long as you have something to explain what your time is spent on.
A man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones
Over the past few months, I’ve been mostly working on adding new features to https://wfh.team, and I plan to continue to do that for a while. But lately, I had been feeling like there is something missing from my project.
I use a simple todo list to keep track of all the things I want to do in the future. One thing that was on my list forever and kept getting pushed down the list was:

- Give Back

This was basically on my vision board since I started my first side project. But every time I pictured it in my mind, I imagined myself running a big company that could afford to give back to the community in a big way. I always thought about this with the mindset of “Put on your oxygen mask before helping others”, like my business needs to be very stable with a growing MRR before I can even think about giving back in any way and In some cases that might be true, but that doesn’t mean there is nothing I can do.

In fact, if I learned just one thing after doing many side projects over the past few years, it’s to take small steps when taking big steps feels too hard or even impossible.

So I recently started revisiting the idea and thinking about how I can do it on a smaller scale. I wrote down my thought about what I was looking for:

1. No matter how small my contribution is, I wanted it to be made toward a big problem the world is facing right now, like hunger, homelessness, climate change, etc.

2. I wanted it to be somehow aligned/related to what I’m doing at WFH and what my mission is.

3. Something that is affordable for me at this stage

After some digging around and looking into how other companies are doing a similar thing, I found the perfect match for what I was looking for

- For every job you post we plant a tree

I couldn’t think of a better way to breathe life into my project by actually creating life! I’m very excited about what comes next and looking forward to making the planet a greener place.
Best I can tell, CMSIS-NN is just a software library, and not even a state of the art one at that. No hardware work was involved in supporting that.
These are from earlier small scale studies, I believe this study has much larger cohort (1000+ patients)

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.10.20021675v...
> Studio apartments aren't a thing anymore?

Where did I claim that? I think you’ve misread.

I said _some_ young people. How have you expanded that to think I was writing _all_ young people?

Not everyone can afford a studio to themselves. This does not imply studios do not exist.
And some already trusted CA to cross-sign your certificate...
Some abstractions have no overhead under any circumstances, others have no runtime cost if not used. It is not inconsistent to include the former, trivially.
Except it's not "just" a 3G baseband chip. That chip[0] runs a closed source software that even contains a Lua interpreter. That's a proprietary binary blob that I don't know what it does, so this is not something that I would call "open source" even if the controller is open source.

[0] https://simcom.ee/modules/wcdma-hspa/sim5320/
What we learned from dinosaur teeth in North Africa
Multi-team development is radically different to a two-person project, especially when it's in production with lots of money depending on it.

You can't rewrite much without the risk of breaking things, so you need a lot more testing. There's a lot of value in the code, so there's more to leverage to add functionality, but the other side is there's more to learn and analyze to efficiently leverage. And when there's lots more teams working on the code, there's more of it and it changes faster than you can expect to fully comprehend; you're continually analyzing and learning.

When I'm off on my own, spiking a new service or library, I can churn out 10k to 20k lines a month; it's very easy when it's greenfield, when there's no team coordination overhead, when you don't need to refactor other people's stuff when you redesign, you don't need to go through full code review cycle, the whole thing fits inside your skull etc. But that doesn't last forever, and it's not business as usual for feature development.

Fixing a gnarly bug might take several days of investigation and end up with a 1 line fix; and delivering that fix might make the difference in avoiding 6 or 7 figures worth of revenue churn. Does that mean it's 10000x less productive?
OKRs are a thing in tech circles. John Doerr wrote a book on it. My company rolled it out and most people struggle with coming up with meaningful metrics for their job.