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Yes, having your compiler on Linux access its files over plan9 would indeed have terrible performance. That's why Microsoft tell you not to do that.

Just run everything on the Linux kernel and compilation will be the same as on Linux. You do have a choice of where you put your files.
Our only recourse at this point are very strict laws that require all devices that do this to periodically and very explicitly state they are doing so, also providing the option to turn the 'feature' off.

The important part then is that failure to comply needs to result in personal liability for retailers, distributors and manufacturers.

That second part is the one that will probably never come true but it is the only thing that would bring any sort of meaningful change.
Back in the early 1990's, when consumers began setting up the first "home LANs" (wired), who would have imagined that one day most, maybe even all (yikes), of the computers on those networks would be computers that are remotely controlled by third parties. I must admit I never saw this coming.
That is cool. My upload is capped at 768kbps, and with overhead it seems to be around 600kbps.

So, 13% of my upload bandwidth would be consumed.

This is a bit disingenuous on their part, equivocating uploading with downloading.

Does each Echo device consume 80kbps, or is that total?

If I had 10 Echo devices, would my internet connection no longer function and become saturated?
I have unlimited 5G for £25pm.
I’m not sure a parallel can be drawn to the Find My network. That one is purely designed for location tracking in an anonymous way, and does not have the ability to transfer data between devices or any other type of tracking.
In China I worked at a company which year after year was getting awards as a great place to work. But the perks meant staying after work for various events I couldn't care less about. For me the best perk I could have is to take a break from office stuff, not prolonging it after hours.

Meanwhile, the whole IT department had to be moved at some point in a tiny office with no windows. They were also putting a lot of pressure on employees to come work on weekend to fix bugs and get releases ready - and of course at no extra pay. But yeah, you had cake on your birthday and free pizza once a month. Such a great place to work for!
Does that figure take into account cost of living? When I left NZ 6 years ago it wasn't a cheap place to live.
It’s been shown that these programs don’t improve health outcomes, but I believe there are tax & insurance benefits for employers who offer them.
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Are you suggesting that HR get involved?
I'm not convinced that 'autonomous' driving will ever be better than non-distracted/drunk drivers. Suppose this is a task that, short of overhauling all our road infrastructure, ultimately requires GAI? I think we generally have way too much confidence that cars will ever drive better than people, at least on the current road system. I am not saying that they definitely won't, only that I'm not sure we should take the attitude that anything that gets in the way of autonomous driving is sacrificing human lives. We don't know that.

I also worry that mixing autonomous systems with people will result in more accidents, both in the case of drivers nodding off instead of supervising the car, and in the case of other drivers being surprised by the autonomous car's behavior. On top of this, it would not be surprising if autonomous car accidents were more psychologically devastating - they would likely commit different categories of error than human drivers.

Conversely, if the tech industry wanted to save lives on the road, easily the most impactful thing they could do is shut off any phone screen moving faster than five miles an hour. This would inconvenience passengers, but we did after all survive for many years without phones in the car.
I agree in general with your comment, but even in your example, is donating to exactly the top 8 clearly the right thing? Why not 5, or 13, or numbers 6-15 (figuring that 1-5 are adequately funded by others)?
In SV, sure, but I don't think that holds true in other parts of the world, even in major cities like London.
First thing I do when I install Thunderbird on a new computer: disable HTML, enable monospace font.
One thing I don’t like about Google Play Store is their refund policy that only last 48 hours after that time you need to contact developer for a refund. Which in most cases ends on lack of answer from them.

On AppStore you have 90 days to do a refund, and mostly it’s always accepted, no questions asked.

Second, differences in prices. Yesterday my friend was scammed into app(one of the top apps there) that gave him 3 day trail but only when choosing 1 year license after that. After 3 days without notification he was billed for $125. The same app cost yearly on iOS $35 and lifetime for $40. And, this is just an example of many scammy tactics that go on on Play Store. :-)

No, it doesn’t mean that Apple does not have this problem. It has, but in smaller quantity.
Shut it down and face diaper now!
It’s not like there is much of an alternative. Android isn’t that much better, and its hardware offerings suck. Apple has an effective monopoly on quality tablet hardware, as far as I know. (I don’t understand why, but then again, I don’t understand how there can be years-long shortages of PS5 either. Why don’t they just increase the fucking price? ...)
Why isn’t WPS common in IoT? It should solve the majority of cases for the home.
I agree completely. As someone who is a "loner", these "perks" of a workplace are actively an argument against it.

Just let me choose how and with whom I spend my time, thanks.
IMO. There should be a market for:

- Dumb panels (not monitors). Perhaps stripped down recycled smart tvs.

- Smart tvs but with user replaceable firmware. Think OpenWRT for TVs. Maybe the same guy who does the dumb panels could sell those but with a raspberry pi in place of the logic board.

Of course a monitor solves these issues but these are normally smaller and more expensive.
Poor choice of words asshole.
Can't wait for when aluminium foil wrapping your TV is the new normal!
Removed from HN? I have some doubts. It’s not impossible but I don’t think HN’s reputation would survive if they’re removing comments in service to … anyone else.

Edit: this[1] looks like what you’re talking about. Has anything been removed (by HN) from this conversation?

1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26996739
Unlikely, they talk about 50hz and 10hz tasks. Real time OS often allow you to create threads that run at a given rate and must comolete. Like the 50hz task would have 20ms to complete.
I mean, you would still be able to access the old version in your Purchases section.
Benefits have indeed gotten worse on average in my experience, and here are two hard examples. Leave and healthcare.

Leave: It used to be that most companies had a formula for accruing leave, and that vacation and sick were separate buckets and you could accumulate quite a bit. You earn X hours of vacation and Y hours of sick leave per 40 hours worked. This was nice because it was an asset that belonged to the employee and had to be paid out upon separation. Most companies also paid out unused leave over the rollover amount at each year end, and working overtime meant more leave would accrue. Now most companies put everything in the same bucket, give you 30 days, and it's "use it or lose it." This amounts to financial engineering on the company's part, as it makes their balance sheet look better by not carrying all those liabilities, and they generally twist it to make it seem better for the employee.

Health insurance: this just adds to the cacophony of voices lamenting the state of health care in the US today. When I first entered the workforce in 2002 health insurance provided way better benefits, more doctors took the typical insurance plans provided, you didn't have to fight the insurance company, file pre-authorization paperwork, etc. Now every time I get a medical procedure it's a battle waged via paperwork.
> At the end of the day, there always needs to be a (large) class of street sweepers, accountants and restaurant workers for the benefit of the rest of society.

As long as they're not you.

Furthermore the argument is't "nobody should have to be a garbageman", it's "perhaps garbagemen deserve more than 1/3500th the pay of a CEO"
Jazzy Spies numbers, with Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WSHvbGM6oE

So .. yeah I reckon there was a psychedelic influence at play.
I'm really excited to see what is essentially a mainstream language trying out actors - whatever they end up with, I expect there will be a lot to learn from.

> The answer is: “it depends”. It depends how your or others' code uses Person. If two pieces of code, running concurrently, update Person.name at the same time - your app will crash

Damn, I honestly forget what it's like to program with threads in languages that let this happen.
I run pihole on my network. I monitored requests made from my tv and blocked the ones to LG one by one.
4K projectors are getting cheaper, although some reviews doubt the quality improvement.
That why I use an iPhone and windows 10 over androids and Linux. I’ve gone more this way as I have gotten older! Don’t want to mess about.
It's much more likely it was removed for some unrelated reason (flamewar, spam, or just a mistake - btw you can email the mods if you think it was a mistake, it seems they're very responsive)

HN is full of discussions on these matters and I've never seen them get removed.

And you can always use Archive.org's Wayback Machine to periodically save the page.
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The new iMacs are basically iPads with keyboard and macOS.
I'm not quite sure what flaws in attachment handling/zip bombs [literally one of the oldest and most rudimentary features] and another to do with UI encoding has to do with this post. Neither have anything to do with advanced HTML support.

Software has bugs, story at 11. Should they have banned attachments as too scary and new?

That is a completely orthogonal bit to claim authority and "win". And it will probably work on many (citations, even if wholly irrelevant -- as these are -- are a magic pixie dust on HN [1]). Weird.

100% of the time that someone claims something is easy money, their claim is, shall we say, "dubious". It's noisy bluster.

Your Fastmail bounty [2] is impressive and kudos, but again it looks like it has to do with Fastmail's implementation details to support offline use.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26264378

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13099966
It's €650 for the all-products pack for an organisation, or €250 for an individual, dropping to €199 in the second year, and €150 in the third+ year, which probably explains it.
Yep. If compensation was a function of productivity, farmers would be the richest people in the world, because their productivity is something like 50-100 times than it was pre-mechanization and pre-green revolution.
Colonial Pipeline Hackers, DarkSide, Apologize, Say Goal 'Is to Make Money'
Nope. Much more like this:

You are legally obliged to install a smart meter, smart smoke detector and smart heating control in your home. If you rent, your landlord will install these things. If you own the authorities will inspect the presence and operation of these devices and fine you if you don't comply.

All these devices will be offered by companies like amazon. Coincidentally, amazon lobbyists shape the laws that make these things mandatory.
Without an external keyboard? Really?

PS: The whole web VSCode thing can also have very bad latency in my experience.
While I disagree with this, that's not the point. My actual point was that your comment is off topic for this article, and that still stands.
Sounds like she was a woman of letters. That used to be more of a thing, someone who corresponded a lot and had an influence on a lot of notable people, one person at a time. It seems that while she would have had a tremendous impact on the intellectual life of her time, it would have been all through personal relationships that wouldn't have left much of a trace when both parties died.

And we have no way of knowing that she'd have wanted it any other way - she clearly had the respect of the people who mattered to her.
Yeah, receiving email in html format is painful. With text, I can look at them the way I want.
> Your average corporation is a soulless greedy machine, constructed purely for extracting money. Trying to put a lipstick on a pig doesn't change the fact that it's still a pig.

I think average working conditions did get worse over the past few decades, primarily because so many more jobs are working for such companies. Consider how many more grocery store jobs are working for a huge supermarket chain vs owning your own small store in 2021 vs 50 years ago.
Commoning is a vigorous force for renewal and hope
Hm, you can run alpine Linux on iOS. With background tasks. (https://apps.apple.com/de/app/ish-shell/id1436902243)

I wonder what it would take to make a Code development tool to take advantage of that.
Babel may be used by millions, but it arguably shouldn't be. Abandon it, let it collapse. The project is aptly named for that fate.
I can answer some of that, 2024 is the current limit. But 2028 is being considered and I think its politically likely.

It could probably be extend even further but it would require incensing maintenance and expensive re-qualification.

NASA already has a plan however. They have a contract with Axiom Space to extend the ISS with new modules. After they have about 4 new modules they should eventually decouple after ISS and be a free floating station.

NASA already has a program in planning for a commercial space station. The same way they did Commercial Crew and the moon lander. They have already asked companies to come up with plans for a station. SierraNevada really wants that contract and SpaceX will probably bid something, probably others. These would be free floating privately run stations

So NASA basically hopes that sometime between 2024 and 2028 there will be two new stations and then its politically easier to drop ISS.

Crew Dragon can still do free flying missions (as they will do later this year) but SpaceX hopes to replace it with Starship.
Once again, I view this as Apple's fault. You can't release pay for upgrades, if you leave both up it confuses people.
Panic is a long time Apple developer house.

They don’t want to make the best tools for just any platform; they contribute the best tools they can to Apple’s ecosystem, the one they use and appreciate (and love). Apple power users have different expectations, especially around UX on the Mac; that is Panic’s forte.

I’m sure if they wanted to develop for Windows or Android, they could have years ago. But that’s not their thing, that’s not why they make these tools.
> Workplace is a family

This one is the biggest eye roll for me. Family and friends don't give performance reviews and push other such metrics down your throat.
I know you jest, but a simple x-acto knife will usually do the trick
It's standard way to program in industrial automation, flight control and safety critical system.

It's how digital PLC process control loop works. Programmable logic controller (PLC) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable_logic_controller
I disagree.

Even if you are doing the wrong thing consistently, one has a much greater chance of knowing what parameters can be tweaked to alter the outcome.

Consistency is easier to monitor/log.

It is easier to experiment.

Without consistency, it is much more difficult to know which of your decisions changed the outcome, or was it just good or bad luck.

Toyota and McDonald’s are successfully companies, but they are not perfect.

Kaizen and consistency are not mutually exclusive.
Yeah, the only thing PosgtreSQL 12 did was to remove the optimization fence. There was no additional optimizer logic added.
I might be missing something but it doesn't read as a political rant to me, but as a mixed criticism-of/apologia-for the original festival.

Brexit only enters because it's politically adjacent to the new festival, and the author is trying to limit damage to the memory of the old one due to guilt-by-association with Brexit, via the new festival.

The essay is full of so many inside references that it takes a little figuring out, but by the end I have a picture of the conflicting impulses that the original festival attempted to reconcile, and it seems basically decent to me, which is what I think the author intended me to think.
>Woo, £80K, for people in the top 2-5% of the game (going by salary distribution). Such rewards. Just don't look over the pond...

I'm not sure of your point. Become one of the top 5% of skilled workers and earn in the 95+ percentile. If you want money that's comparable to over the pond then go over the pond.

>And that's part of the problem right there. In the US you can aspire to getting salaries in those sorts of ranges, one day, if you're good at what you do and make good choices.

I don't think you realise how much money the average person in the UK earns, or even what the average american earns. Become an average developer making 50k and you're in the top 15% of earners in the country. That's a lot of money!

Just because the US has higher tech salaries doesn't mean you can't aspire to be a higher earner in the UK. Anyone who sees a £60-80k salary here and scoffs at it has unrealistic expectations.

Yeah, if you want to stay as a developer and not transition into a hands off management role then your earning potential will flatline pretty quickly. But I think that's just the nature of tech jobs in the UK, we don't have the high tech start ups that the US has. It's not like you can become an expert in creating distributed storage engines and have 10 companies knocking at your door here like you can in the US. There's not many companies outside of FAANG where expert software development knowledge is actually applicable and so the job market is less competitive.
My blender, cutlery, toilet, dishes, and toilet paper. I did have to disable the smart wipe option on the TP, but it was pretty simple.
Visual novels, games like 80 Days or Sorcery
A Cop's Name You Don't Know but Should
bear in mind that Clikchouse will quickly fall short when squeezed into traditional star schema model (it's very inefficient on multiple joins, probably even can't handle more than 1 at the same time). You would really need a dabase engine that is columnar first but still operate on SQL without too much hidden pitfalls, and that is quite often challenging
Yes but you’d just call them “the lights”…
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BT has been doing something similar to their customers in the UK for many years, except with general purpose Wi-Fi (i.e. sharing your home broadband on a second network to third parties that walk by your house for a fee).

Joe Public don’t care as long as the Netflix works, but he probably doesn’t know either.
I never own a tv, I don’t plan to own one ever.
Sooooo Drawful?
on the contrary, if all the devices do that, then you have plausible deniability. they can no longer pin anything on you because it could be a neighbor or even someone out on the street.

the details depend on the country i guess, but at least in some countries there needs to be evidence that it was you before they can do anything.

there was a case where someone was approached for sharing movies. as soon as the authorities found out that this was an airbnb they backed off because they could no longer pin the act on the owner.
Pure SIMD
What fascinates me is that everyone with a strongly held opinion had a point before they formed that opinion. Individual Flat Earthers once weren’t, Nazis once weren’t, and so on for the rest of us. Is there research on that point of opinion formation? Does it tend to happen, say, before a certain age, or at a point of emotional vulnerability, or following a major life transition?
> you can spec out an iPad Pro with the exact same specs

There's the root of the policy decision. If one device did everything, why would you buy two? Apple needs you to buy the lap AND the tablet AND the phone and maybe also the watch. Oh and they would also prefer you buy more every year, none of this decade stuff.
I'll try to go from $0 to $5k MRR in 6 Months
No, definitely with a keyboard. I tried it on an iPad Pro with an external keyboard and the experience seemed decent. But it's not my primary workflow so can't say if there are quirks, like the latency you mentioned.
From article “We invented simple domain specific languages to express those things, such that other engineers in the company who are not software engineers can maybe configure it.”

It sounds like they created their own internal API configuration scripts to be highly dynamic and configurable. Similar to many gaming or operating systems config files. Sounds be a highly productive way to test and deploy software changes. Not only for people who are not C++ proficient but also to allow Engineers and Scientist to focus on their own design work and not have to worry about software development.
>Note for devs: Find a way how people can export their data from the app

At the risk of meandering off-topic; this is one of my all-time bugbears with software. Or, rather it's half of one of my all-time bugbears. I'd complete it by adding "Find a way how people can import their existing data into the app"

It never ceases to amaze me how many developers produce apps which have obviously had a lot of time and thought devoted to their creation and functionality. But which provide no way of importing existing data you might have.

Unless your app is creating something completely unique and filling a completely new gap in the market, the chances are that there are other apps out there which serve a similar function. Your app may be ten times more lovely to look at and ten times more pleasing to use. But, without providing import/export facility, you're expecting potential new users to either be completely new to <whatever> your app does. Or to totally abandon all the work they have done previously, in your rivals' apps.

In my opinion, this is why the Fediverse has failed so dismally. All these rivals to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram et al. All launched with lots of high-falutin' claims about privacy and respect for users. Yet not one of them provided a way to import your existing data from the services they sought to replace. "All those years and years of 'stuff' you've already written and posted? That's all just worthless junk. Leave it all behind and come empty-handed to our exciting new platform!"

It's quite insulting really, when you think about it.

And it's not only 'social meeja' apps. One of my particular quirks is that I'm a bit of a compulsive place-marker of where I've been on holidays, camping, or just days out, etc. I have probably a few hundred such place-marks saved on the mapping app on my phone.

Every so often, I'll think to try a new mapping app and download and install it. Only to find, on almost every occasion, that it doesn't provide any way for me to import my existing place-marks. So, presumably, the target market of the developers of those apps is someone who's never left the house before. But belatedly feels the urge to travel around, marking places they've been on a map.
More expensive and less portable though, AND no touch interface.
Windows itself can generate logs for that!

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pro...
I can't imagine a company like Panic being able to get away with using that approach to run stuff like tsc, but it would be cool to see someone try who can afford to have Apple shoot their whole product in the head. Maybe it'd be great and Apple would decide to re-evaluate the rules and make it officially OK.
If by anti tracking you mean the constant permission checking and ability to say “only when app is open” etc.
I applaud this.