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> it should not be exclusively run by a private company.

Why? If you don't like the iPhone there are other general purpose computers that you can use, ranging from a laptop to a Pixel smart phone...

> General purpose computing.

If you want to call it a general purpose computer, then you also have to include tablets, laptops, desktop computers, and Android phones. All of a sudden there is quite a bit of choice for customers here. To name a few:

Google

Microsoft

Samsung

LG

Dell

HP

Huawei

Amazon

...

The fact that Apple may very well make the best one, doesn't mean there isn't competition or that it isn't a competitive market.
It's easier and more honest to simply say "ew" to a crassly worded comment, than to drag the discussion into a pity/privilege party by making up some narrative about the poster.
I’m so glad this post is still around. I cite it a lot when discussing creative tools with people who think that visual is the only way to go.

Obviously the best computer tools offer both visual and textual ways of working. But if you have to pick one, bet on text.

I was about to add a caveat about pure visual tasks, like image composition, but advances like DALL-E are starting to put those tasks into question as well. If I were making a photo editor today, I would bet on text.
Oh I definately agree, Delphi was a better dev tool compared to VB at the time. No runtime needed to be shipped, standalone fully compiled executable alone was the killer feature.
Aren't apple increasing not liking you doing that? e.g. MacOS phoning home to Apple on program startup.

I doubt Apple would ever truly stop you but there is a subtle level of friction that can't necessarily be assumed of the user.
The UK has been taken over by Spectre from the Bind movies I think. Some bizarre decisions these past few years.
I think someone reported the latest firmware or something pulling some shenanigans if there's no display connected, whether we use it or not. I don't recall the specifics at the moment, though.
MS is ahead of the curve here. Rather than trying to combat homebrew, they are embracing it within some predefined boundaries.

The 360 allowed for homebrew as well. I think they learned a lot from XBMC.
Well then maybe that's the cost of it, the public scrutiny of touchy things and political responsibility to justify such endeavors. It's like accountability is a bad thing.

If politicians would refused that, then that's a problem of politics, not of transparency.

I do understand that some subject might be too difficult to explain to the public, but that's more of an annoyance and extra work then anything else. Also could be a symptom of a education system with a lot of problems.
Yeah, this isn't really about "choice", it's about control. If there are exclusives on, for example, an iOS Epic store, your choice isn't really a choice, you have to install it from the Epic store.

I'm curious how this will play out in general. Android already allows side-loaded applications, and Epic allowed people to install Fortnite outside of the Play Store and it did poorly, so they begrudgingly added Fortnite back into the Play Store, so I imagine it would be the same thing on iOS. Arguably it could be even more challenging for others because Apple would likely not be forced to treat non-App Store stores the same as the App Store in some ways, which would very likely lead to a situation where users would get popups when when install the new app store and when they load an app, similar to how running a nonsigned program works on Mac now.
>That offers a way to get at the truth by trying to detect a picture, and looking at the parts that have been obscured, to make out the actual shape.

Like Mormon Bubble Porn:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/mormon-porn-bubble-porn
I have not left the software industry. During full-time assignments. I used to deal with burnout symptoms.

On a break for now...

> This book did a great job of describing my feelings.... https://www.amazon.com/Slack-Getting-Burnout-Busywork-Effici...
I agree that Nano has potential to actually be a currency, but does it actually matter? Those that buy a cryptocurrency hoping that it will increase in value 100-fold are not likely to actually use it to buy pizza.

What it needs is actual adoption in the real world. I want to be able to buy a pizza with it, but nobody seems to offer it as a payment option yet.

Perhaps what will make it take off is some video game or other digital economy adopting it as their in-game currency. It seems perfect for that.
A former co-worker of mine passed away 8 or 9 years ago, and every year I get a LinkedIn notification asking me to congratulate them on their upcoming work anniversary. It's terrible.
That would be just two more hours that you're expected to work for your boss but in theory it sounds great!
I think the quickest answer is that weather is chaotic and incredibly complex.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Norton_Lorenz - under scientific career and then Numerical weather prediction as well as Chaos theory, there's a good summary
Yeh for teams they are terrible. For solo development using a single branch they can see okay.
I've been a manager for a while and at best I get 20% time to code. With 8+ reports the weeks tends to break down into:

* 20% for 1-on-1s and dealing with management level issues people bring up.

* 20% spent on hiring

* 20% on various status meetings (team, cross-team, with my boss, etc.)

* 20% spent on pro-actively finding or solving issues before the explode. This includes networking with my counterparts in the rest of the org so I get information and build political capital.
Fortnite is a free game, I pay to own my iPhone.
Trump's medical doctor was clearly evasive and obfuscating the actual diagnosis. That much is clear and was clear at the time, but the author goes a step further and starts playing doctor and diagnosing (in hindsight) the condition ... that's not critical thinking. That's bad reasoning and it's inline with conspiratorial thinking with a good mix of confirmation bias. An alien conspiracy theorist when presented with a particular phenomena would follow a chain of argument that look like this: "This isn't Venus. This isn't a weather balloon. This isn't anything I can imagine, therefore it must be aliens". It's also very typical of the media reporting on Trump throughout his term with more and more outlandish claims and conclusions.

Also, there is something distasteful about the author writing an entire blog post about how he is a critical thinker ... Uh huh. Sure you are.
Yeah, I was sort of getting what they were saying until they started complaining about political correctness. If you don't explain what you were being censured or censored over, I'm just going to assume it's some vile sexist or racist remark, because 9 times out of 10 that IS the quiet part.

I'm starting to think the Bay Area trend of hyperfocusing on identity politics is just the trendy way of deposing shitty managers.
Tories*

When the tories give out money to their friends, it's for the greater good, remember?
I once worked for a team was historically over worked, that had changed recently for the better, but the team culture was still pretty stressed and nose to the grind stone. We were working to bring that down, but it takes time.

The offices were being renovated and our team was moved next to HR.

HR formally complained (apparently there was a process... where HR sent some sort of complaint to ... HR) that the team sitting next to them was not very friendly.

Before what I can only imagine would have been a horrific joint team meeting / culture clash could occur, someone very smart put the kibosh on the complaint / meeting ....

The culture / work experience differences were extreme.
> Any idea we had was quickly co-opted by Google Maps ... Looking back, we could have probably grown faster and much more efficiently had we stayed independent.

This is a great example of the difference between startup people and big company people. A big-company exec would have known to (how to?) fight that battle. Waze was a superior product, while Maps just had superior resources: they should have built support. But there's no mention of other execs.

As a big company guy, I read this and think "oh man..." - I can only _imagine_ how frustrated this guy must be
Finance was very immature industry at that time. There wasn't a lot of money in private investment funds and the investment vehicles to capitalize on this research didn't yet exist. Today's private market would likely seize on an opportunity like the internet. There is appetite for long term focus in today's investors. Just look at PE (price-earnings) ratios of today's stocks, and the frothy revenue multiples in valuations over the last ten years.
> It's more disappointing it takes 10 years for regulators to step-in

To be fair, until it was limited to a small section of the population, it wasn't a big deal. So rich people want to live in walled gardens, so what? But when you start talking about 20% or 30% of the whole population, then it's a significant problem. It took a bit for Apple to reach that level but they are definitely there now, and since they don't seem to be willing to change, they have to be forced to accept that it has to happen.
Yes they do, 100,000s do. They're called consultants and businesses use them every day.
It's been a while, but I think it's a Hitchhiker's Guide reference.
Materialize and other databases optimize SQL subqueries
> need managers to be coding.

> understand what tech is relevant to them

can they really understand tech by merely reading whitepapers and youtube videos?
You’re wrong about that, newcomer. The APIs I’ve been scraping report smartmeters that are off the air. It’s all automatic.
Show HN: DeltaCI: Bare Metal CI/CD with much faster builds
The world produces enough food to feed everyone. Doubly true if you scope things to the developed world. Triply true if you scope it to the USA only. "No one starves" is just as reasonable a minimum standard to strive for as "no one gets raped".

Yes, there are serious implementation details, but there's a big societal will factor at play too.
I'd be happy to vomit all my sexual weirdness upon you. Then you'd have those 40 years to rebuild your psychology from ruins...

Come on, you can't possibly think seriously about what you just wrote.
Why should I believe that Apple actually care in anyway about their users? Fortnite and co. are going to be regulated severely in the coming years - probably not by Apple.

Have they not hosted Fortnite right up until they wouldn't pay their rent?
My graduate program was interdisciplinary, and attracted students with a variety of backgrounds, including social sciences, math, and CS.

So there was a huge need to have a survey class like this to get everyone to a common baseline level of knowledge. Some knew math but not programming, others knew programming but not math, and still others knew a little programming and a little math, but not quite enough of either.
I am confused. Seems like this unit does not boot yet according to the postmarketos Web site.
If you don't care about sideloading? Don't sideload, just use the Apple Store.

Users like you have zero skin in the game. Nothing in your workflow will change, other than you might get cheaper applications.
>>> Perhaps Corp-Tech should move to employee share buy back where employees must sacrifice some of their salary for equity or change equity to vest by a product related metric to connect the teams performance with the employee returns.

Wow. It would have to tie into making upper management Pay-for-performance linked to similar metrics ;-)
Hello HN, we’re launching DeltaCI, a cloud-hosted CI built with self-hosted CI performance.

In our previous day jobs, we sometimes see ourselves keep hitting refresh on GitHub for 10 minutes just to wait for the test to finish then we can merge a PR.

In every build run, docker build image has to be pulled, `npm ci` has to run although we haven't touched package.json. Even with an optimized caching setup, it's still painfully slow to pull a ton of node_modules from cache.

Existing CIs also run their jobs on a Cloud VM which hardly go beyond 3 GHz, but our dev laptop can easily boost and 5GHz, then finish the same build in half of the time.

We always migrated to a self hosted CI or build agent once the problem went beyond our tolerance. However it was always extra effort to set it up and maintain it.

Since all existing solutions charge you on a per-minute basis, they literally have no incentive to make it faster for us. In the end, less build minutes = less revenue for them.

So we came up with the idea of inventing a new cloud hosted CI to solve all these.

Instead of paying AWS for the over priced VMs, we run your build jobs on latest Zen2, Zen3, 10th gen Intel desktop CPUs, as well as EPYC server cpus with upto 64 vCPU and 128G of RAM if you have builds which can make use of that.

We developed our own VM hypervisor management solution based on libvirt. It will run your builds on the same disk image which are kept persistent between job runs, just like your local dev machine. We also made it easy for you to avoid repeating steps like installing dependency. For example, you can easily do this:

steps:

- run: sudo apt install rsync
when: first_run
- run: npm ci
when.changed: "\*/package\*.json"

Our system keeps your build environment persistent, and it also takes care of that rsync will be installed the first time you run the job, node_modules will only need to be touched when you actually have a dependency change. If you are building Docker images in your CI, then you also get Docker Layer Caching for free, since the building environment is persistent.

We dog-fooded this setup for half a year, and it cut off our web applications build time of testing/e2e testing/releasing from 12 minutes to just under 4 minutes. We also benchmarked several open source projects, and also saw similar speedup. You find them at https://deltaci.com/ and check out the actual job runs.

It's the first time we ever show this early stage product to the public, and it still has rough edges to be smoothed out. So we prepared a coupon code HACKERNEWS that’ll give you 99% off for 3 months.

We’d love to hear your thoughts.
I have a relative who was making these "food" items out of acrylic and resin in art school 20 years ago. She had made a lobster on a bed of ice cubes that looked so real (and was intended for high resolution photography).

Another project involved some beverage being poured into a wine glass… it was actually constructed horizontally on a pane of transparent glass, with a half wine glass constructed over it. Truly amazing.
Truly it has quite a bit of depth and is not predictable from the start. Certainly it appeals more to girls. Pixar movies tend to be rather didactic: "OK we are going to talk about [death|depression|aging|following your passion]" whereas the best kid movies just tell a great myth.
I saw comments talking about a hypothetical utopia where no one needs to go hungry and where talent gets notice without having to sell their body or soul.

As with many things, the problem is not technological. We have the technology to create such a utopia (there would still be other problems, but the world would be utopian from those aspects). The problem is sociological. In order to do this we need to both all work together, and think long term (on the order of 50-100 years). The problem is that nations can't even stay together in just an economic union when it's in their best interests economically (Brexit, Paris Accord), and internally those same nations bicker and vote on party lines (Tories vs Labor, Democrats vs Republicans), instead of voting what's best in the long term for the nation.

What's happening in Texas right now is an example. Texas had the money to buy snowplows. They didn't. Texas had the money to winterize wind turbines. They didn't.

We have to get beyond our short term greed and work together in long term action to succeed at addressing these problems. Otherwise there will always be Epsteins, etc. in any industry where people are vying for attention (most of them).
I agree with you, most of the CDPs already ingest the data into data warehouses which can answer almost all these questions. We have a similar product and we already have Segment Warehouse integration and Rudderstack seems to be a good fit (maybe even better!) for us as well. Having said that, early stage startups usually don't have a data warehouse so I believe that June would probably work better for them.
If bitcoin is worth $50k, people will destroy MORE than $50k of energy to acquire bitcoin, using resources that are subsidized either intentionally or unintentionally.
All this suggests to me is Epic has a limited path to growth without courts deciding they indeed are entitled to more profit without producing anything net new.
That's part of the fun, and the 'inspiration'. Of course you know that the items alone won't get you that IKEA look. And most people don't want that anyway. It's the whole package the catalog offered; room lighting, wall paint, window positions, curtain types and furniture placement. Being able to to look at this on a magazine-sized canvas (as opposed to a tiny mobile screen where everything is in neat grids) that causes our minds to run free with the possibilities.
The printer does not use voxels, it uses G-codes, which are tool paths for the print head.
I agree on the principle, but not the example :)

Year 0 in Judea (and Rome, Damascus...) was a pretty literate period and literacy was (the story of jesus confirms) already a religious requirement... bar mitzva or an ancestor of that custom. Bar mitzva translates roughly to "eligible to uphold commandments." You need to read for that, or so the custom implies.

I'm sure that most of the religious/rabbinical tradition was still oral, and that rabbis did a lot of oral teaching. But, I think high fidelity oral "technology" was already heavily diluted, especially in judaic culture. Scriptural worship starts very early. It's hard to say when exactly, but it had to have happened while hebrew/canaanite was still spoken in the region. Aramaic had overtaken hebrew circa 400-500 BC. From that point, high fidelity transmission was done with writing.

Also, the multicultural/multilingual/multiregional context makes it unlikely that a high fidelity oral tradition existed in early christianity. IMO, the new testament was almost certainly compiled from earlier written sources... and oral telephone. I mean, the new testament isn't even in the same language as the sermons.

The same can be said about mishnah/talmud... the jewish contemporary to the new testament. Traditionally, it is seen as a compilation of jewish oral traditions, received at mount sinai and maintained with fidelity for two thousand years. Realistically, there were earlier written versions of (eg) Rabbi Hillel's teachings available to the scribes who compiled the Mishnah.

The traditional reasoning for writing the "oral torah" (resulting in talmud/mishna) was that oral traditions were dying, and that writing was necessary for fidelity. Multiregionalism, multilingualism and such were to blame... and the christians would have had even more of those problems. Fewer, more dispersed. No institutions. No common language. No old traditions. It's possible that there was a tradition of reciting Jesus' sermons, but that would be kind of culturally out of place. I think it's pretty unlikely. If there was, I think the new testament would have been compiled in aramaic.

Also... there are quite a few convergences between new testament stories and other (broadly termed) rabbinical accounts from the period. John the Baptist has his own religion, for example, and in their books you get some of the same stories, but with John in the Jesus role. I suspect there were many others, but have no modern adherents.

Judaism of that period aggressively trimmed out any new or recent "revelatory" writings. New prophets, new conversations directly with god. That's what many of the "apocrypha" are. From then on, religious scripture needed to be wisdom received from oral traditions, old sages and stuff. No revelation.

These, to me, strongly suggests late 2nd temple judaism was no better at oral tradition than us. That said, you can have conceptual fidelity without having word-by-word fidelity. When Jesus paraphrased Hillel, he was reaching across 400 years of oral (probably/mostly) tradition. Christians doing the same thing 200 years later probably had that level of fidelity.
Very nice release, i work with both D and GO, and it's been a pleasure, server stuff? i pick GO, everything else? D and sometimes Rust, just to spice things a little bit and be up to date with current trends, it's always a good thing to be curious and try new things
> how did you work out that the amount apple gets paid (30%) is the "correct" amount? The only way to find out is via competition. But due to the monopolistic powers of apple, there cannot be competition on their platform. Thus, we do not know the true cost of maintaining this platform - only that apple is able to maintain it with at least 30%.

30% is industry standard.

> nobody is forcing you to use the third party app store if it does exist. If you continued to use apple's curated store, you will continue to get the existing benefits. Adding an extra option can't possibly hurt you.

It hurts the ecosystem - and all its users. Splitting the apps in multiple app stores is a nightmare

I don't get the point: the whole idea of Apple is to have everything under their control. Nobody is forcing anyone to use Apple devices
The article is wildly incorrect: the 62% figure includes the losses during generation e.g. heat lost when burning coal or cooling towers for nuclear.

I recall that losses after generation due to transmission across the electricity grid are typically about 10%.
I really don't understand this usage of the word "trust".

Especially when one of the actual primary uses of bitcoin as currency (and not speculative investing) so far has been to pay off ransomware.

Who exactly am I trusting? The person I'm transacting with - a transaction that I have no hope of reversing if something goes wrong?

Please, if you can be specific about exactly what is meant by "trust" here, I would greatly appreciate it.
> And to be clear, are you seriously saying that any person saying, "what? Sushi again?" Is actually going to have a real empathizable reason for saying so?

(not the person you responded to)

Benefits are just a part of the total compensation. If you work for Google you don't get "free food", you get food that you worked for and that was a part of a large number of elements you weighed when you decided to work for Google. Maybe you get $X at Google but you were also considering an offer from Elgoog for $(X+Y) and decided that the convenience and cost of Google's food were worth more than $Y for you (Elgoog of course doesn't offer "free food" :)). If that "free food" isn't working out for you, it is natural to be frustrated at being short-changed on your benefits.

If you are in Israel, the norm for tech is to get a Cibus card which lets you buy lunch at local restaurants at the employer's expense, up to some daily limit. When you are comparing offers you can literally compare "this company gives $15/day but that one $20/day, so let's deduct $100/mo from their offer when comparing". If you work for Google and get a "free lunch" maybe you'll evaluate it as a $25/day Cibus. If you get a bad lunch at Google, maybe you'll think "Ugh, if I was working for <competitor> I could have been eating at <favourite restaurant> instead". If you get a bad lunch at Google, you effectively paid $25 for it and got a bad lunch, so it makes sense to complain about it like you would if you went to an actual restaurant, paid $25 and got a bad meal.

I agree that in the grand scheme of things these issues aren't all that important (maybe about as important as someone going to a restaurant and getting a bad meal :)), but I don't see how it is impossible to empathize with that sentiment.