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There is no fraud here. The guy addresses all of these things. It's a PR stunt with a piece of paper he owns, carried out openly for all to see. That's not fraud. Certainly, the recipient could turn around and try to do something fraudulent with the diploma, but there is nothing inherently fraudulent about anything this guy is suggesting.
Weird, not sure what went wrong (bad caching?) but the submission link definitely took me to a previous TV4K marketing page. I refreshed and am seeing the new remote now, very happy to see that.
Correct me if my layman's understanding is wrong, but the M1 in an iPad is not as significant a change as it was in the Macbook/Mini, isn't that correct?

iPad was already using Apple's Arm A12/13 chip, etc so this is kind of incremental?
From your original comment I assumed you actually would want to know how to do it, I see now it was simply whining.

edit: sorry, this came off more aggressive than I intended. I just meant that I thought you were looking for a solution, but you were actually critiquing, so I felt like I'd wasted the time trying to help. Sorry to be an ass.
> Downvote away but i strongly believe this concept is horrible.

You are absolutely correct, mate.
Apple needs to do something about the software situation. You can write computer programs on a Surface. You can do CAD and play AAA games on a Surface. Windows, for all its flaws, does have a lot of software that targets it. Big things, and the long tail. iPad OS is rather limited.

I have an older iPad Pro and I like it better than any laptop I've had. It doesn't have any configuration to tune, it doesn't require a 2 hour update every time you turn it on (like my Surface Pro did). But, you can't deny that it is limited; you have to SSH somewhere to do real work, and its hardware isn't exposed to web applications. (For example, it has a 120Hz display, but web apps can't use it.)

Even with these limitations, it's still my favorite mobile device. For $20/month I have unlimited 4G anywhere in the country, and so sshing somewhere to do real work is no problem. (The whole pandemic thing really killed my desire to travel, though, so it just sits on a table until I use it to read a book or something.) But, there's no need to upgrade it; it's fast and the battery lasts forever. Only better software would make me want to upgrade, and it's not there yet. People still treat the iPad like a toy. I'm willing to treat it as a computer, but people that make software I use aren't quite there yet ;)
That’s really disappointing.
This is by far the least “Apple” product IMO. I hate that I can’t remove stock apps and I hate that I’m being sold to every second I’m in the UI. It’s so blatant. I paid for the box - I just want to use it for AirPlay and a small selection of apps I download, that’s all. Yet Apple treats it as a giant digital billboard in our living rooms.
To be fair, that car saw quite a few instances of the other type of "working on the car" too. I have 58 entries in my work log from two years of ownership...
While I agree, VS does a LOT more than VS Code does... VS Code is also a lot more than Sublime Text.

I would also say that VS Code's plugins don't block the world. Web projects in VS are absolutely painful in general.
> was previously primarily a Java programmer

same here, except Apollo GraphQL, we still use REST. it is indeed nirvana. wish the community finally settle down on a stack at least for a decade.. shifting the backend every few years doesn't do good for dev productivity.. (had to recently use Go due to peer pressure. while performance wasn't a concern it was purely due to the "feel" that Node.js is not good enough for serious backend work - lack of multi threading , potential future performance and scalability etc.)
I use the original TV remote to navigate the AppleTV menus, it works by HDMI-CEC.

Its amusing to me that this new appleremote is very similar to a traditional TV remote.
Most companies who use Grafana or Loki as part of some deployment would use an unmodified version, so the only AGPL specific clause, which you cite, would not apply and is irrelevant.
it's a bit late tbh. looks cool though.
This is an unfortunate Safari limitation that Apple has intentionally put in place. We'd like to be able to use temporary storage space on the user's device (which can be automatically cleared as soon as the user or another app needs it). But Safari gives web apps a 1GB limit after which the app must prompt the user for an additional allocation of 200MB.

So if the app needs e.g. 5GB of space the user will need to click "okay" on twenty prompts for 200MB more space to make the app work. Needless to say, this is totally ridiculous and definitely not an API that Apple would ever find acceptable to ship for native iOS apps.

It's hard to see Apple's decisions here as anything but outright hostile to the web and designed to push developers into making native apps.

It's especially ironic given that Apple recently suggested [1] to Australian authorities that they can't possibly have a monopoly on app distribution since they have no restrictions against developers distributing PWAs which "have the look, feel and functionality of a native app". But what they fail to mention is that they control exactly what functionality is actually available to web apps. And right now it's A LOT less than what is available to web apps.

Furthermore, most users are not aware that other iOS browsers like Chrome, Brave, and Firefox are actually just "light UI skins" on top of the Safari browser engine, Webkit, because Apple refuses to allow third party browser engines on iOS. So this means that it's not possible for users to just switch to another browser in order to use more powerful web apps. They're literally prevented from doing so by Apple's policy to ban browser competition on iOS.

[1]: https://www.accc.gov.au/system/files/Apple%20Pty%20Limited%2...
I know people who plug the hotel ethernet into their own travel router to circumvent the captive portal. Though now you have to travel with another device
The whole Settings app also feels like something thrown together in a really primitive GUI scripting language that doesn't support anything besides text and its alignment.

This is the old disk management utility: https://i.imgur.com/AqhYewC.jpg

This is the new one: https://i.imgur.com/DNb0qJl.jpg

While the old was far from perfect, it at least gave visual hints to how partitions relate to disks. The new """design""" is just plain text, some of which is clickable and will reveal "Properties" button. It's up to you to find the hidden clickspots.

I can't believe they are releasing such garbage. Sometimes I wonder: does Satya Nadella use Windows? How is he not raging every time he opens the Settings app?
Wow, as a Surface and an iPad owner I really disagree. The M1 is great. But iOS means that the iPad is mostly a device for media consumption and maybe writing or drawing. It had all the power you need to do that with the A12.

The surface can run JetBrains, Godot, Blender, a bunch of IDEs that make it useful as productivity device for a person in tech. Most people don't need that, so I am sure the iPad will sell great. But there is still a need for laptops/ tablets (whatever weird hybrid that is becoming) that are not locked down.
The world needs a patent waiver on Covid vaccines. Why is the UK blocking it?
Dev in France, sounds very familiar, except the force-quit bit.

As a fresh graduate in bigcorp world, especially foreigner who doesn't know on arrival how this works:

You get hired by SSII (Société de services et d'ingénierie en informatique), and do same work as regular staff employees of bigcorp, in the same building etc., except you get sad contractor badge, and no yearly bonuses and perks. The promise is to become staff after 2 years but the bigcorp has arbitrary quotas (per department) on how many people get converted, "hiring freezes" etc.; some people remain contractors for years and years, in the same team (which is pretty much illegal as far as I can tell) as the bigcorp likes to have a bunch of contractors that can be fired quickly in case shit happens (like covid).

It's not _too bad_ because the job at middleman company is typically "CDI" aka "unfirable" due to French labor law, but when all the people around you doing same job as you get a juicy yearly bonus and you don't, it gets you really angry. I was super glad when I found a better company which doesn't do that bullshit and hires everyone as staff.
Another idea I think is interesting. If we reach that level of usability and tech with an iPad, then it seems plausible that we could build tech where you just need to bring an iPhone near a monitor, keyboard, and mouse and you instantly have a usable environment for things we think of as desktop. We've seen usability across devices with things like the google suite or Evernote improve over time, but if you had a single device with you everywhere then data sync is totally solved.
This is really funny
I have zero interest in using a worse laptop. Touch screens are an anti-feature. For decades we have tried as an industry to do touch interfaces on “real” computers and it’s always horrible because it’s not actually a thing worth doing.

With M1 Macs being a thing I have no idea what benefits an iPad offers.
shouldn't HN have a gear/hardware section like ask HN or Hiring or show HN?
Apple's site says the power adapter is 143W, that's gonna be pretty toasty. The 4.5k display is probably the majority of that though.
yes it is, it's still essential for frontend devel, actually it's pretty much a must-have scenario.
That's pretty cool! I never would've thought of that. Nice to have one fewer cable to pull up onto the desk.
Every year or so I check back in to see if Cognito has gotten any better. I hasn't. I'd love to use it, but some very basic things are just not done correctly. Yan Cui has a nice writeup on Cognito [0] that touches on some of its shortcomings.

[0]: https://theburningmonk.com/2021/03/the-case-for-and-against-...
Tile has user replaceable batteries on some of their products. Granted, it seems to be on their best sellers, but I somehow ended up with the thin ones, and I found out those don't have replaceable batteries after they died.
From the sounds of it, the “network” is just picking up ambient Bluetooth noise (which is constantly pinging around to find new connections, communicate, maintain existing connections, etc); the only way to stop tracking is to shut down Bluetooth
He's elevated and normalized white ethno-fascist voices. He is subtly transphobic. I used to listen to him constantly when I was younger but I find him to be a huge chungus these days. I think maybe its that I have changed more than his podcast has but I'm not sure.
If Amazon was really scared of AGPL then MongoDB wouldn't need to relicense.
Someone already has.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/03/04/researchers-rever...
Yet almost every marketing photo of the iPad Pro shows it with a keyboard + trackpad attachment.
I believe this is the first time has ever advertised RAM in an iPad or iPhone.
The macbook air screen is ok, its webcam is horrible, it doesn't have a touch screen, so you can't use it as a "digital blackboard" for remote work, and it can't use multiple monitors.

The iPad has a great front camera, great screen, great touch screen and Apple Pen, yet is software-handicapped to prevent professional use.

I guess Apples' goal is for people to buy both, but I've been on the market for a new "work device" for a while and this messed product lineup just means I'll wait till they get their s** together and produce a decent work machine with:

- support for multiple monitors

- reasonable webcam

- touchscreen and apple pen support

Until then, I'm out. Neither the Macbook nor the iPad are good work machines for me, and I'm not going to buy both to compensate for bad product management. I mean, the title says it all, iPads now have "Macbook Pro CPUs" in them. That's a super mixed message to send if they are not suitable for professional work.
The M1 has the necessary hardware to run virtualization. Apple could decide to allow VMWare or Parallels to bring desktop virtualization software to the iPad. You could have an all-in-one device for casual use, note taking, art and media consumption that turns into a capable Linux desktop at will. There's even 16GB RAM options available to make that reasonably comfortable, as well as a port to connect to a dock.

But I don't think that matches with what Apple considers the iPad to be, so we won't see it. Especially because virtualization would imply virtualized macOS too. I bet it remains amazing hardware crippled by software flexibility - from my perspective at least. It's hardware I'd really want to buy but really can't justify.

All the pieces are there in hardware, only limited by Apple's software choices. A shame, really.
Cuss & diss Disqus. Loving the name.

Can I suggest you add something of an architecture diagram/flowchart od the website? Just a little something that illustrates what the frontend talks to, where the data is stored, that sort of thing?
Wasnt this solved with GPLv3 anti tivoization rules?
Damn, I would love to have such job, too :)
A RF detector costs $15-$25 shipped from china. If RF anti-theft devices become common (either the GSM or the bluetooth variety), I'm sure it'll be part of a thief's toolkit.
Season 2 of Ginny and Georgia has been officially renewed on Netflix
Constructive Journalism
Announced: https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/20/apple-unveils-podcast-subs...

Press Release: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/04/apple-leads-the-next-...

Quote:

>Starting in May, listeners in more than 170 countries and regions can sign up for premium subscriptions that include a variety of benefits curated by creators, such as ad-free listening, access to additional content, and early or exclusive access to new series.

>Fifteen years ago, Apple took podcasts mainstream, offering creators a premier, _open platform_ to inform, entertain, and inspire hundreds of millions of listeners around the world,” said Eddy Cue

Interesting that the "open platform" part is no longer needed.
Until the iPad Pro gets a real desktop OS there will always be reason to buy a Surface.
The BUSL is worse - obscure licenses are problematic.

The problem with the AGPL is it's very unclear what counts as linking, and this has never been tested in court, and that it's not clear what "network access" needs to look like.
Of the households I’ve visited with Apple TV, I’d estimate half have surround (and that’s out of a mostly techy set of people). My impression is that many customers are not interested in setting up a receiver with a dozen wires plugged into it, and soundbars are a growing segment of the market. They “just work”.
> My guess is that they prefer to sell more than one device to everybody, so not anytime soon.

Sharing the same OS never precluded people having both an iphone and an ipad.
Why would anyone want their screen to be anything other than a featureless rectangle?

If they had the tech, they would have done this a long time ago.
> Committed to the Environment

That section is just nasty and dishonest. It perpetuates an image of Apple as a company caring for environment, which isn't exactly true.
They should at least be honest that their devices are artificially hard to repair, so that they can squeeze more money out of the consumer. If someone does not have money to pay Apple to repair the device, where it lands?
It’s not really a laptop replacement. Apple’s philosophy shared by Phil? is that you should be able to do as much as you can on each device before having to move up to the next product.

Watch -> phone -> tablet -> laptop -> desktop
Do We Have Free Will? Maybe It Doesn't Matter
Tongue Smacked – How teen hackers terrorized Xbox Live
Why do you need route?

Can't you just use the roads you've got as the base case and then say

road(X, Z) :- road(X,Y), road(Y,Z)
Yes, the file management is absolutely terrible, along with the extremely limited multitasking. These are the two biggest factors keeping the iPad from real desktop usage.

It seems most of the successful "pro" usage is by those who can work entirely within a single app that provides everything they need.
"invest more into automation"

Like they were sitting there and paying for all this work they could automate, but now they are gonna wake up and autonate it all in a day
Microsoft wants the audience AND the know-how about how to engage with them and atract new one. Due to Microsoft culture they don’t know how to do it.
Apple would be giving up an incredible amount of control by allowing anything more and it's obvious their customers don't care.

I've personally completely given up on Android/iOS even if that means I won't have a working cell phone (although I mostly do.) There's way too much money involved for good firmware to be written.
Do I really need to throw away my racing wheel just because it's USB A ? How about my Arduino ? Hell, my Apple Watch charger is USB A

Plenty of devices don't benefit from an "improved version with USB C" and in a computer this size it shouldn't be a problem to include at least one
I don't know if you've tried going from a universal app to Catalyst but it feels very subpar compared to the Mac app variant. EG: Catalyst does not have the proper sidebar support that a Universal App with a Mac target has. Also there's no 'click' in Catalyst (at least not in the way that those components work on the Mac... they feel quite different). The experience is definitely "iPad" with Catalyst instead of "Mac".

I believe Apple is going all in on the Universal App model. You can already get most of the way there today with some limitations (many libraries don't support Mac yet). Making different targets for each hardware with a 99% Shared code base is really excellent.
Excellent pick. Mentat approved.
The supply side changes haven't worked because people are selfish and the system is perverted. “I’ll see your family struggle with gentrification before I lose my bay views and stupidly inflated house value.”

The problem is boomers treating property as an investment vehicle the value of which must go up up up. Introduce affordable housing to cool the market off? Not over my dead body if it means people won’t be clawing tooth and nail for properties in my neighborhood anymore.

The incentives are so backwards. I’ve got mine fuck yours. I don't see how demand side regulation addresses any of this...
It's understandable that locals see no upside to this trend. These remote-work or second-home urban expats don't add new jobs locally except perhaps wait staff at restaurants or boutique shops. Real estate costs rise. Rents go up. Property taxes climb as do the costs of basic services. People like them exit (as do the budget-based businesses that served them) as the cost of living rises. For locals who aren't well-heeled, gentrification of this kind is strictly a lose-lose deal.
This isn't suitable for pets. The crowdsourced Bluetooth tracking will only really work for objects which will stay in one place when lost -- which pets are notorious for not doing.

For finding a lost pet, you really want something with cell reception and a GPS for real-time location. There's a number of products which specifically provide this, like the Whistle dog tag. Unfortunately, they're bulkier and require relatively frequent charging, but that's the price you pay for that functionality.
Sure! Saying that the parent’s “develop an proprietary UI and use Loki as backend” is a slippery slope to “user sees data that incorporates data served from Loki” which I am arguing could be interpreted as data that would require the developer to maintain a source repository for Loki under the AGPL.
Discord 365 Home Edition, with Lync (64-bit) (Not Responding)
Russia lost controlling access to the ISS last year after SpaceX performed its first operational mission to the orbiting lab for NASA. Vladimir Putin has also warned that the US' decision to launch a Space Force suggests the White House views space as a "military theatre and plans to conduct operations there."

The fears seem well-founded. And competition should do us all good.
I don't think Intel/AMD make any guarantees about instructions being constant time either.
It does, but it comes with a wireless keyboard and super great trackpad, which aren't cheap on their own.
It creates confusion since both share the word wormhole and the goal the share files.

If you still can, changing the name of your product would help a lot, and also show respect to the older FOSS project.
You can get USB A to USB C adaptors for like $1. They work totally fine.
I'm with you on this one... While the VS Installer has checkbox options for X or Y... a lot is in the box regardless of what you're actually using/targeting.

A lot of the tooling options with VS are getting better month over month even. There's a reason why a fair number of developers for Go, Rust, TypeScript and other languages are absolutely preferring VS Code over other options...
Touch isn’t great but styluses are for those of us that work on presentations.
For some reason, this doesn’t always work, even though I see the 30 sec jog icon appear.
How would the anti-tivoization rule that discusses physical products apply to a service?
It wasn't marketed as MagSafe, just as a magnetic connector. And why not? Magnetic connectors are awesome.

Also, putting the power brick on the floor and extending it so you can route ethernet up to the desk via a single cable is a nice idea. I hope that is a hit with customers and they expand it to other systems (namely MBP) in the future, I wouldn't mind having a couple USB-C ports down there too.
This article is a great example of "essential journalism", which is quite rare overall.
Right to repair has nothing to do with the environment.

Additionally Apple supports their devices far longer than any other company.
But they aren't anywhere near as seamless or slick as Robinhood. I exclusively use Charles Schwab but I don't even really think they're competing for the same type of users that much.
2043, the year of the Linux Desktop
But that assumes all of us want longer lives. If I work a job I hate with no alternatives, then why extend my life? I just deal with what I have to and get by until the clock runs out - and that's fine.
Are there official specifications for the bit-depth of the new display?
People who profit of other people’s housing should be imprisoned for exploitation.

It’s a deeply hateful system perpetuated by spoiled rich clueless assholes.
Many devs at Google routinely use GPLv3 code, in GNU Emacs, to make an example.

Unless you’re repackaging Grafana into an app bundle for customers to use, there’s no violation occurring here, right?
So what is Discord's path to profitability? They tried selling video games and closed the store not too long after launching it. Nitro/Server Boosts definitely don't come close to the cost of operation.
I was replying to a post that praised Discords UX. I agree, it's mostly excellent, but there are points that deserve critique, which prompted this response.

If you feel like that's whining, well, as an UX designer I'd welcome feedback on what could be improved.
1TB harddrive and 16GB of RAM puts the ipad at $1,800.

Macbook Air with the same RAM/storage is about $1,600.

If you want to compete, you need a $350 keyboard for the ipad which makes it a full $550 more expensive.

As to tradeoffs, you get a better conferencing camera and touch on the ipad, but you get a better trackpad and two thunderbolt ports on the macbook.
I really like the design, including the colors. I realize it's just a standard "slab of glass and metal" design -- and in the mobile space competitors have caught up -- but I've never seen a monitor that sleek, except maybe the Pro Display XDR.

Edit: In fact, give me just the display in a 27" form factor and put all the display connections in a "connect box" like they did for Ethernet and I'd even be willing to pay an Apple tax for such a product. Oh, and give it a way to mount it on an arm rather than use a stand.