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Sounds like a possible convergence of iMac and & XDR monitor!

If you have a couple thousand dollar display, throwing $60 in cpu, RAM, & storage on top of it seems like a pretty dead-obvious win to me. Most companies would just have nothing particularly good to offer- Android? Windows? webOS? Ok options but not great, and they are paying a lot more for less well-integrated cpus. For Apple, they have great chips made not bought, in vast volume, and can make their pick of OSXI, TV, or iOS OS software.

I believe the new iMac 27 might not have Target Display Mode, the ability to take HDMI input, which old displays had[1]. I'm not sure that kind of capability is really needed, for long. One of the things I'm looking forward to with USB4 is that there is a really good 40Gbps host-to-host connectivity build right in to the spec. This is a generic connection, not specific to video, but I can certainly imagine doing a really good low-latency remote-desktop over a high quality connection like that. So, my hope is, medium-term, that we don't need HDMI &c input on our computers for them to act as auxiliary displays. There's already a world of softwares out there for using tablets auxiliary displays, my Linux desktop runs Sway which makes adding a virtual/remote display extremely simple, all that we're missing is a way for two computers to plug in-to one another & connect! Amazingly comedically weird situation.

[1] https://www.lifewire.com/use-imac-as-monitor-with-target-dis...
Why 5 seconds?
Awesome idea - we own ~44 commercial sites in dense / infill locations and growing quickly - how do we get in touch?

For HN this is a great idea because today the process of engaging cell operators is an absolute black box - literally fill in your contact info in a modal and hope for a call back.

Zero transparency, totally inefficient and the companies themselves are a giant pain in the ass to deal with.
I think Hacker News tries hard to be constructive in its criticism and even upbeat. Consider the guideline: "Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

One of the reasons I visit hacker news is because of the collective will to try to abide by guidelines like these.
Your conclusions are true, though I think it may be helpful to further subdivide into some categories as far as what the target market was and where they were at with technical readiness.

Like, some of them (Anki, Jibo, Mayfield, Asimo, Reach) were 100% toys, and were always going to be at the extreme end price-wise trying to compete with increasingly "smart" toys being manufactured by regular toy companies with regular toy company processes, volumes, and margins.

Others (Rethink, Willow, Schaft, Blue) were trying to do something really ambitious and potentially provide B2B value, but were never far enough along to have a compelling value proposition for the end users they were targeting. They were never fast enough or reliable enough to be competitive with the minimum wage labour that they would have displaced— if robots are hard, then mobile robots are harder, and mobile manipulators are the hardest of all.

I think the saddest story in here is still Starsky, because they weren't in either of these groups: they really did have a clear value proposition, and they were technically there as far as delivering on it. The market needs what they were offering; they seemingly just ran out of runway at a time when investors were too starry-eyed about vaporous promises of L4 autonomy to want to back a company working on a viable hybrid solution.

(Disclosure: I work for a B2B mobile robotics company)
Computer programming has existed for some one hundred years.

Genetic encoding has existed for billions. A lot of time and randomness have driven it to become resilient to changes in a way we struggle to yet even comprehend.
True but not gladly :) It reverts to a much simpler view (at least it did last time I tried it)
If Facebook buys the next TikTok as a small startup when they have minimal market share then the federal government would have no legal basis to block a sale.
A consumer union is an interesting idea but not what people think of when you say "union." It is actually a really good idea if you think about it... if labor unions can counterbalance labor monopsonies maybe consumer unions can counterbalance monopolies.
In an interview, stopping at this might just make you not get the job. If you're lucky the interviewer will laugh and ask the appropriate followup question. It goes something like this:

Haha, awesome answer. I agree with you from a business perspective it seems stupid at first. Now I can't come up with a good reason to do this, but let's say I as your Product person have convinced you with enough good reasons that it is indeed a valuable task to fill this 747 with as many ping pong balls as you can. What would you do?

If you keep it at "I refuse to answer this question", you're out. If you laugh and maybe talk about your experience with Product people asking for stupid stuff all the time and then you ask some/all/other questions like these back:

Is this a 747 in it's "raw" state, i.e. no seats, no overhead compartments etc, basically empty fuselage? Am I supposed to fill the wings as well (i.e. the kerosine storage areas? Is the aircraft supposed to be able to fly after this? Do I have to care about the flammability of ping pong balls? Btw. how much do ping pong balls weigh and how big are they again, just to be sure we're talking about the same thing I'm thinking of here?

And the list goes on. This is just the stuff I could come up with in a minute without being in a high pressure interview situation :) One of my bosses once told me why he likes me working for him: You don't say "can't be done" you just ask back "How much can this cost?"
An unladen 747?
That makes sense. Ultimately when you have distress at home caused by poverty, violence, neglect, etc. the student will be at a disadvantage no matter how good the school is. Distressed parents will lead to distressed children and then distressed schools which creates a cycle.
This is ultimately a hard problem to solve because so many issues need to be fixed simultaneously. College is way too late to address this.
Market is not that big? What is the size of transportation industry alone? What about ride hailing? Investors are skittish? Cruise raised $10B most of it not that long ago, EmbarkTrucks is merging with a SPAC to go IPO soon, I could list others. Robotics is hard but that’s kind of the point.
It’s actually quite surprising they have an official position about people in Iran. Doesn’t the embargo cover this?
That's a hell of an indictment of the local schools. Where I live (Portland, Oregon suburbs) most middle/upper middle class families send their kids to public school.
Why not do 3d inside the monitor? You send it textures and triangles and you get great 3d perf when connected, and more power efficiency when you are mobile (without the monitor connected).
Ask my coworker which one is coke
This whole article felt like a great buildup to a good deep writeup, but then it just ended.

Very odd.
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Just came here to say Snow Crash deserves way better than this.
I get a ton of utility from the built in apps from Apple.
Gmail and Twitter as the only login option? Why not standar email?
How about doing the reverse? Listening to birds from different parts of the world on-demand?

Listening to bird sounds is now recognized to have positive impact on mental health[1], So how about selecting a particular region on the earth and listing to high quality bird sounds? There some good YT playlists[2] but a separate service could be more functional, Tie up with bird zoos to do it live, share a piece of revenue for conservation and you'll have my subscription.

[1] https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/how-listening-to-bird-song-ca...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EaSSgqsQs4
Well there’s the logical difference, wherein a multi core system could compute in a sequence other than the straightforward logical sequence A -> B -> C -> D.
Yes, you can transfer apps between accounts.
One has to tread very carefully when mentioning Israel in any context.

That said, I couldn't follow the logic of that; how exactly is it that Ben and Jerry's deciding not to sell ice cream in the occupied palestinian territories a "new type of terrorism" against Israel? (esp. as the B&J factory is apparently in Israel).
I was thinking of buying an Occulus Rift, and Facebook buying Occulus is the thing that guaranteed I'd never buy one. People said it wouldn't be a problem, and now you must log in with a Facebook account in order to use your Occulus hardware. No way.
Oil and gas companies will prevent world from hitting 1.5°C
The promise of cloud scalability never really materialized in the way that people talk about. The value in cloud today is really in hosted services. Why have loads of exports for different supporting infra if you can just lease them from AWS through a hosted service.

If you look at what it would cost to run bare metal with top shelf companies, it's often as cheap or cheaper than spot/preemptible instances at the cloud shops.
I am not sure if an official policy changed, but typically, in the past, if a Cuban refugee made it to the US they were granted amnesty.
Every major browser phones home for version updates. Do you have a problem with them, too?
Deployed Syncthing for the first time recently with Obsidian notes, setup was seamless on both Android mobile and Linux desktop (systemd), works flawlessly so far. Enormous upgrade over (lazily) using Google Keep for synced notes.
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The Starlink satellites are tiny; they burn up in the upper atmosphere and never reach the ground.
> IMO, a more analogous statement might be "95% of paint splatters OCR as grammatically-correct Welsh sentences." Unless the software is using something like GPT-3, that finding would be notable regardless of software tuning. Even if it tells us more about Welsh grammar than it does paint splatters.

Well, I'd argue that "potato" is a grammatically correct sentence in most languages. (Imagine someone asked you what kind of soup you're holding.) And so is "7" and so is "Fififz".

And that's literally what's happening with Perl with the vast majority of these. It's treating a single word/number as a statement.

If you want to say something notable about grammar, you need to be generating sentences that are longer than a single noun.
Long-term: Maybe insurance or government equivalent can help?

Short-term: Every new invention needs to start somewhere. There are plenty of rich, middle class, and even lower-middle-class families that easily have $50 a month to help out a struggling child / sibling / cousin / ect.

Remember, new businesses need to start somewhere, and that somewhere is often selling to a very tiny segment of the market that they intend to serve. [Edit:] Many times this means starting at a higher price, and then lowering the price as the company streamlines itself and can handle more customers.
The governments, one should say.
Second Life was awesome, but it owes a ton of intellectual debt to The Palace from the 1990s, which had a robust and functional version of FORTH built into it.
"Acquired by a banking startup"?

just fyi: Nubank is the largest financial technology bank in Latin America. It's not "some startup".
Let's not forget Myanmar.
From scratch? What starting point are you looking for? I don't think enough time has passed for a classical organic urban core to have developed from nothing. I guess for walkable postwar communities, I would look at college towns.
> The Windows 11 Taskbar sounds pretty bad from your description.

Yes, this is exactly what all the complaints are about in this thread: all of the customization supported by the Taskbar since Windows 95 has disappeared in Windows 11 Insider Builds. It only supports the bottom of the screen. It no longer supports drag and drop (what the article here is specifically complaining about). It doesn't support "Quick Launch" and most other "additional toolbars". (That admittedly haven't been well supported since XP anyway, but that's not particularly here nor there.) It sounds like a complete rewrite where they didn't bother to implement even a third of the old features.
I can't say anything about how to find a teacher in the west, but usually its good to be with a satsang (set of people who do the same practice with an aim for the truth) at least in that way they can be guided in the right direction.
It might be a thriving city vs smaller town thing. Thriving cities outside of California (say Atlanta or Dallas) have valuable real estate in central locations just like in California cities. Nobody wants to be on the furthest outskirts with the furthest commute - it's more just an exhaust valve for growth so you don't get the same absolutely insane prices and resulting problems like homelessness to the same level.
What about the cover with the keyboard and trackpad?I know you've said it's expensive to make tooling for, but perhaps a 3rd party could offer an alternate version with a trackpoint or something?
Hmm. Games are already artificially split into so many different genres and subgenres that another "term" is the last thing we need. And outside of the relatively narrow "AAA blockbuster" genre, gaming has always been diverse and weird and wonderful (look at the Llamasoft games as just one example). It's only the "culture haute couture" which seems to have a problem with the rather pedestrian term "video games".
I looked into syncthing and have set up a folder pair as well but does anyone run a separate additional server to do remote access of a specific file they might want to download? I am wondering if there's any clashes to let's say having something like nextcloud folders overlap with the folders used in syncthing?

I am looking for an alternative that helps bridge the gap that is Google File Stream where even in windows it mounts as a drive but streams everything in the background as needed. Plex seems like a clunky way to go about it but I am open to any suggestions. The file stream feature was mainly used to stream videos in an uncompressed way.

I mainly do local sync between android and windows and a rpi. I would love to have file streaming type support for the android and maybe an ios device.

Android has a way to do file streaming built into some of the cloud manager apps but a diy solution might not have remote access.

I am open to any suggestions, I understand that syncthing is about p2p syncing and the model is mainly for whole file copy.
I agree because I believe the future is likely to be some shape of a socialist dystopia.
What provider is this? It doesn't look like AWS
Your statement is what’s wrong with how history is viewed. I wasn’t talking specifically to the article, but the comments. He’s being glorified for his personality and his sexist views are were very much apart of his personality. Don’t erase him from history, but also don’t act like he is some role model.
The lack of a touchscreen and a tablet mode on the m1 MacBook is a major downside though. A lot of apps are more user friendly on the iPad too.
Makes me wonder if Microsoft is missing the boat with not doing more with Minecraft. Metacraft?
For the USA, that's not always true:

https://www.swlaw.com/blog/data-security/2015/03/12/why-you-....

But I know Audacity has a sizable European userbase, too.
I wasn't aware that it was a meme. My comment was based on my own observations from reading a number of his books.

> Yes, the novel ends and it's obvious that the characters' lives keep going. Lots of authors do that. Real life often doesn't have endings or clear resolutions.

The characters lives do end with the end of the book (unless there's a sequel). You can certainly imagine how their lives might proceed, but a satisfactory ending doesn't preclude that either. Drawing together the elements of a story, completing the arcs, creating some kind of resolution: these are part of the storytellers craft.

With Seveneves I thought he just ran out of steam. It felt like leaving a film ten minutes before the end and stumbling out into the daylight. Pretty dissatisfying at the end of a long book.
> The most prominent example is the American Civil War, where great effort was made to propagandize it as The Lost Cause.

You should look into some of the things that were only able to pass Congress once the Southern states were no longer around to oppose them. The Pacific Railroad Acts are a big example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Railroad_Acts
>As far is 'how did it advance spaceflight'. its called progress. 20% is better than 0%. Maybe next time they will be 40%.

"Progress" is doing something we have collectively already been able to do, and then some, for decades?
And Blue Origin has forced ULA to fall back to using Russian rockets engines because their engine hasn’t been finished yet. ULA probably regrets using BE now.
40 thousand euro?

That's insane and offensive.

There is an actual car in India that retails for 1/8th the price.

For 20k you could pay someone to build you a custom of the same vehicle and have money left over.

It almost seems like a conspiracy to make eco friendly transportation seem expensive.
> "when I was just starting Moonfruit, the world’s first SAAS website builder"

Moonfruit, launched in 2000, was definitely not the first SaaS website builder. Geocities launched 6 years before it and there were dozens of them by the time Moonfruit came around.

While not a big lie, it's an odd way to start a post like this.
The Apple II enabled expansion and the creation of (for the time, amazing) software like VisiCalc. Starting with the original Macintosh, Apple has had a continuous tug-of-war over whether "creative freedom" is better than a "curated experience". iPhone give the "curated experience" side an unprecedented amount of ammunition for their side. Malware apps like Facebook continue to feed that side.

You can see it in the back and forth dance on the Mac. Will Apple ruin it by closing down too much? Time will tell.
> Everyone complains about vendor "lock in" for anything AWS related, and I've never thought so since they've always reduced prices across the board.

How would keeping prices high for these services keep people locked in? The whole point of vendor lock in is there is some other indirect cost that you bear by switching, which is why you don't switch.

For AWS, this indirect cost is bandwidth. It is the lock in mechanism.
It must be a lot of work to design a laptop. The PCBs look very complicated and the components are tiny.

What I don't really like is the price. I think a good laptop should cost somewhere around $400. It is not necessary to install the most expensive CPUs because they usually have lower performance to cost ratio than cheaper models. Webcam, fingerprint reader and Wifi 6 are not necessary.

The laptop doesn't have space for a HDD which means that user has to buy an expensive SSD storage. 13 inch screen is too small to work with code or texts. Also, modern websites have gigantic font size so only several lines of text would fit on such a small screen.

64 Gb RAM limit is higher than most of laptops which is good. But why not 128 or 256 Gb? It it difficult to add several more address lines?

They have written that they would love to hear a feedback on keyboards. Well, here you go.

Sadly the keyboard is a Latin-oriented 26-letter model. Russian language has 33 letters so I would prefer a 33-letter keyboard with two dedicated keys for switching layouts. This means that 9 new keys should be added. Currently nobody makes such keyboards, even Apple. Manufacturers seem to have no interest in adapting keyboards to needs of Russian users and instead use inconvenient 26-letter western keyboards. Adding more keys for me seems more important than unnecessary back light. Also, I think it would be better to make up/down keys larger and make Home/End/PageUp/PageDown as separate keys. These keys are useful for browsing or editing texts. On the other hand, CapsLock is useless and can be removed.

The touchpad doesn't have buttons. How does one do a right or middle button click?
I absolutely agree that Blizzard's worlds are weaker than Games Workshop's. GW has a real talent for genre fiction, where Blizzard struggles with the basics of plot structure.

The thing I disagree with is that Blizzard's problem is that they 'copied.' Everyone copies! The bits that Blizzard copied are the most compelling part of Starcraft. The reason it is weak is that they were not better at drawing on the ideas of others. They did not understand what was compelling about 40k, so they create this unsatisfying narrative mishmash.

Warhammer FB -> Warhammer 40k is a great example of this being done better. You could type out the same kind of demeaning summary of Warhammer 40k as you did for Starcraft: "Tyranids are gross, chitinous just like Geiger's xenomorph; the Eldar are just space-high-elves; The squats are just space dwarves." It's all true, as far as it goes. But - because GW is better than Blizzard - they went further and added other ideas (many of which also came from other works). The problem is never that they drew on other sources. In fact, looking at other worlds and using the core of what 'works' about that world before transforming it is at the center of basically all good works.
Young people look at Instagram the same way they look at Twitter: it's a platform filled with millennials and older people that take it way too seriously.
Something can be of public concern but not justify violating a person's privacy.

For example, a politician being a murderer would be of public concern, but that doesn't mean we should be tracking and invading the privacy of every politician on the off chance they are a murderer.
I love FF on Android (it's my primary browser there), but there is a serious limitation on what extensions can be installed now. I think you're limited to only a certain curated list of like 12 extensions. Thankfully, uBlock is one of them, but I miss some of my others.
Serious question regarding my flagged comment in this thread since I'm new here:

What's wrong with it? Is it not ok to express that I feel a phenomenon is sad? Did I need to go into more detail about how the phenomenon arose? Is criticism of capitalism or our societal systems unacceptable?
If you are talking about the marketplace, yes, but if you as an individual want google out of your life, there are multiple android distributions without Google included by default.
Yes, this is different. Not because you live in California but because you live in the bay area. Urbanization has been so intense that a lot of large metro areas have avoided this fate. The land values rise so high that it becomes "worth it" to fix up the houses. The author alludes to this when talking about how some downtown lots with high enough real estate value are refurbished while those without it are dozed.

But this is not the case throughout the vast spread of rural towns in America. Some are shrinking, some are stagnant and some are growing but still not sustaining land prices that unlock the capital necessary to significantly overhaul structures.