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Easily one of my favourite novels. It's riddled with beauty; there is a lens held up to the shepherding of knowledge that made me really appreciate what it means to be a scholar.

It's a wild ride and I think a book people should read.

My fav quote,

"When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.”
Windows own "my phone" app supports this.
KDE connect does support it at least on linux desktop.
JPMorgan hires Charles Lim to protect system from quantum-supremacy threat
A lot of preventable accidents come from the human brain discounting the threat after a large number of positive interactions. For all we know there once was a test three refactorings ago and someone fenced it away.
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Is that what S3 is for?

I've used it to store large datasets that are processed within a region, a backup system, logs and metrics, and as an origin for CloudFront. I think you're referring to using to host a consumer download service because of web objects in a serious business you'll need a CDN.
This is a great story and it brought back some good memories. I was in Portland, OR at the time and my wife had started the PDX Bug BeOS users group. We had Bruce, Carl and Scott over for a demo of Gobe Productive and it blew everyone away.

Both my wife and I ended up working for Be and moving down to Silicon Valley. I would drive by the Claris wedge building on my way to run on the San Tomas Aquino trail and think about what could have been if things had worked out a bit differently.

I eventually ended up at Apple along with some of the Gobe team and a lot of people from Be. Good times!
They do. Just good business sense. Why your order might be cold or incomplete. Well, one reason.

Hopefully the drivers are fairly compensated. (They aren’t, hence the driver tip.)

Delivery of food from arbitrary restaurants so you do not to leave the house, by companies underpaying drivers while raising prices silently, adding service fees, and trying to push the burden of compensating the driver on you via tips.

First world problems require first world solutions.
pre-trained and ready to go too
I think that's just different sources of imagery with different lighting. At some zoom levels it's more or less apparent, and it's mostly the same desert on both sides: https://www.google.com/maps/@31.03477,34.3411577,15440m/data...
> I think Cloudflare did some research into it a while back

I remember! They called it the Bandwidth Alliance https://www.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/
The "improper parking on a private space" example in the story a few posts up strongly suggests that the car was parked in their own driveway. And yet the car was towed and impounded.

Even in the event of a street closure, I expect that a car parked on my own driveway is fine. And since I'm not using public space to store it, your "public space to store your car" comment is not applicable.
Yes, exactly! Except it also has satellite as backup for areas that are line of sighted from existing towers. So there aren't any dead zones.
literal god?
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sap/latest/general/arch-guide-ar...

Each Availability Zone can be multiple data centers.At full scale, it can contain hundreds of thousands of servers. They are fully isolated partitions of the AWS global infrastructure. With its own powerful infrastructure, an Availability Zone is physically separated from any other zones. There is a distance of several kilometers, although all are within 100 km (60 miles of each other).
That's a strange perspective. If a game was designed to be fun, does that disqualify it from being the best game?
> Evolution does not have an intended purpose.

I never said it did. What's your point? I'm just emphasizing that humans have clearly evolved to have social constraints in face-to-face interactions that haven't evolved in async, remote interactions (which is unsurprising).

> That sounds a lot like heated face to face interactions

Except it's not, and that's my whole point. Yes, of course people can have heated face-to-face interactions, but it's undeniable that people can be a lot nastier, quick to judge, be belligerent, etc. in remote interactions vs. in-person. And it's not just social media. Louis CK has a great bit about how he can be a total asshole when driving in traffic in a way that would be completely unacceptable/insane if he did it in an elevator, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8062QEFk5g . The same dynamic applies in online interactions.
Scientists turn dead spiders into robots able to grip small objects
Possibly the one they use for satellites if they already have approval, or they can setup their own WISP.
Always cool to see new cloud GPU offerings, but isn't Lambda Labs' cloud offering roughly equivalent (in the case of V100s) or substantially cheaper (in the case of A100s)?

https://lambdalabs.com/service/gpu-cloud

Unless I'm missing something?
That makes sense, thank you.
On a second thought however, it could also work backwards: how can some people be motivated to subscribe for a new show knowing that the odds of it being cancelled are that high? Ideally, producers should ask by contract for a minimum number of episodes to give closure to stories. Of course I write this as an angered viewer.
I know everyone else is saying it as well but the lead time to get a high-specced MBP is insane. So much so that my company had to give new hires a base model M1 Pro because that was one of the only things they could get their hands on.

Base MBP with M1 Pro, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD: $2,499.00

Minimum desired MBP with M1 Pro, upgraded GPU so you can get more RAM, 64GB RAM, 1TB SSD: $3,699.00

And that's just assuming we wouldn't have considered M1 Max chips. We are a smaller company but have had had to buy at least 2 "compromise" laptops that I know of due to lead time. I imagine larger companies are in a similar position so Apple is losing $1-2K per laptop just because we can't buy the one we want in a reasonable timeframe.
But Google Earth was a terrible app with inconsistent UI! To my mind it’s one of the posterchildren of why making crossplatform native apps often ends up a total mess.

I feel like when everyone says “this should be a native app” their imagined app is absolutely flawless and integrates seamlessly on every OS. But reality has rarely matched that ideal.
There would be exabytes of content on youtube over 5 years old with under 20 views. Stuff no one will miss when its gone.
> The book itself is the prediction.

The book itself is literature. To see it as a prediction and especially as a failed prediction seems simpleminded (in the techie-futurist way).
Yeah. Pip already has that feature built in. I've hacked up partial solutions for some other languages but they're not as seamless. For C I tried git submodules but it's not really designed for that.
Building your own datacenter is hard (think the logistics for just keeping the lights on).

Even if you don't own/manage the building but simply buy the hardware (and spares, and DC ops) from HP/Dell/EMC and friends things can become suprisingly even harder, because it leads to a rabbit hole of and tons of badly implemented ticketing systems and badly baked processes you don't really complain, which open the path for the "stale IT" developers complain about. Offloading that further to more consulting companies leads to an even bigger mess of staleness and sluggish movement/execution, with incredible lead times to expand the capacity for services and getting it for new projects.

Unless you have very good processes (I've never seen a company with those), iron clad contracts (your CTO chose the consulting company because he is playing golf in the weekend with the consulting company CEO. Oh sorry you don't even have a CTO, that was your CEO instead) and plenty (relative to company size) of good people in the right positions to drive things (no, you won't have those) managing your datacenter is massively harder compared to just using the cloud.

Then there are the benefit in financial sense (capex vs opex, opex always wins).
Microsoft's Phone Link app only supports this on some phone models by some phone manufacturers. It might be all Samsungs now I can't remember.

Also, Phone Link uses a non-trivial amount of CPU (~7%) just to stay alive so I torched it with fire as soon as I could.
Why would paying more help? You want representatives that represent the public well. Sure you might not want all of congress to be welders, but I also don’t think parliaments around the world should be filled with people who chose between being high rate lawyers or business leaders and holding public office.

The current pay is more than enough. If anything, it could be extended beyond the term to guarantee quarantine periods between office and businesses.

Allowing stock trading is insane. Allowing the amount of campaign money currently circulating is also insane. Provide candidates with campaign funds and limit spending, so they can’t be indebted to corporations once in office.

Basically: just look at some country where politicians aren’t just racing around raising money, and ask “what’s done there and can the same be done in the US?”. This is the that-would-never-work-here thing again.
The problem is you're still failing to demonstrate a causal link between threats of legal action and GNOME3 or Unity.

I was around during this time and early adopter of GNOME Shell (i.e. 2.31.x); there was and is zero evidence indicating that legal issues were even a consideration.

There is, on the other hand, mountain ranges of evidence indicating this was driven by everything but legal issues[1][2][3].

[1]: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeShell/FAQ#What_problems...

[2]: http://wingolog.org/archives/2008/06/07/gnome-in-the-age-of-...

[3]: https://wiki.gnome.org/Events/Summit/2008/GUIHackfest
I'm considering everything under Alphabet to be at risk of going away at any second.

Also, no idea IMDB was Amazon.
GPU pricing of alternative clouds (lowest price to highest):

[A100 PCI]

Lambda Labs: $1.10/hr

TensorDock: $2.06/hr

Coreweave: $2.46/hr

Paperspace: $3.09/hr

[A100 SXM]

Lambda Labs: $1.25/hr

TensorDock: $2.06/hr

Coreweave: N/A (I think PCI only)

Paperspace: N/A (I think PCI only)

[A40]

TensorDock: $1.28/hr

Coreweave: $1.68/hr

Paperspace: N/A

Lambda Labs: N/A

[A6000]

Lambda Labs: $0.80/hr

Tensordock: $1.28/hr

Paperspace: $1.89/hr

Coreweave: $1.68/hr

[V100 SXM4]

Lambda Labs: $0.55/hr

TensorDock: $0.80/hr

Coreweave: $1.00/hr

Paperspace: $2.30/hr

[A5000]

TensorDock: $0.77/hr

Coreweave: $1.01/hr

Paperspace: $1.38/hr

Lambda Labs: N/A

Jonathan thanks for the post. A question: it sounds like TensorDock partners with 3rd-parties who bought these servers and TensorDock doesn't actually own any of the servers you rent out. If that's the case, how do you ensure security? If not, please ignore.

[References]

https://www.paperspace.com/pricing

https://lambdalabs.com/service/gpu-cloud#pricing

https://coreweave.com/pricing

https://www.tensordock.com/product-core
> literal supply chain god

I mean this is what he was known for (and still known for) before he took took the CEO role.
The UK doesn't have a 5th Amendment.
It's been clear for a couple of years now (to me) that Apple devices have become a sales platform for Apple services. It first started when I was constantly getting notifications that I was "running out of space" and needed to sign up for paid iCloud services. This, in fact, when I had plenty of space on my Macbook.

Such things have only continued. They're adding new products and paid services at a slow but steady pace, and regularly sending me notifications to sign up for those services. When you "upgrade" the OS, you're confronted with a whole slew of opportunities to sign up for more services, with no way to just ignore these prompts. I don't blame them for doing this, but it's become increasingly grating, and turned me off of Apple in general.

Like a lot of companies, they're focused on growing their bottom line, and don't see how they're angering their locked-in customers.
If that's his core argument then it undermines the entire blog post right? Not to mention it calls into question other information he's provided .All AWS pricing is available publicly , saying the prices are "held very secretly" and being obviously wrong isn't a good look.
Dinopass.com Are they reasonably secure passwords?
What do you guys think about these passwords?

I understand that they're easily hackable if someone got ahold of the actual hashed password somehow. But they seem impossible to guess in any system where a time delay is enforced such as if someone was trying to guess passwords to an account such as gmail or trying to remote SSH into a linux server.

In everyday operations, its nice to have passwords that can easily be read and re-typed when copy-paste is not feasible.
Make it easy to find out what's changed in your API
Alas, we have to wait until CockroachDB becomes a bit more capable SQL-wise. I gave a more elaborate answer in https://github.com/edgedb/edgedb/discussions/3403.
Just grab one by oneself then. Taking a walk can increase appetite too.
People keep complaining about "The End of History" but never for good reasons. It predicted president Trump as the sort of "megalothymia" that that might come to power in the end of history! It's just about the lack of alternative credible opposing ideologies. I still found it an incredibly disappointing book but not for any of the reasons that everybody dumps on it for.
first of all, it's not literally "boys will be boys" -- female sales people are the same. I don't think you were implying otherwise, but I want to be clear.

> I'm reminded of all the sales people that try to scam you

Yep, there are a lot of people like that and you need to get rid of them as soon as you realize you hired one. You experience them in the company too. Build your comp plan so that you pay out for the successful deals (to the degree that is within the salesperson's control -- it's not their fault if engineering does actually screw up.). Pay out more for long term customers (often companies pay less, figuring it's less work to renew, but this incents the sales person to sign a good deal and make sure the customer is happy).

I've seen all sorts of screwy attempts: contract contains development terms not signed off by engineering ("hey, the prospect already signed it, how can you refuse to sign it???). Don't book a deal until you have both a signed contract (by both sides) and a signed purchase order. I've seen plenty of sales people send in one or the other, or both but with a signature missing ("they guy went home but will be back in the morning") on the last day of the quarter in the hopes of hitting their target or getting into the escalation zone. Refuse to put up with that crap.

It's like having a child. Any pretty much any of the good sales folks, if you told them that they'd probably nod, say "yeah", and laugh. And then go earn more money than the CEO.
> two notable exceptions are climate change and democracy vs autocracy

"Notable" is quite the understatement IMHO.
I've had some interesting discussions about this with a bunch of representatives of our larger B2B customers about this. Interestingly enough, to them, a controlled downtime of 2-4 hours with an almost guaranteed success is preferable, compared to a more complex, probably working zero-downtime effort that might leave the system in a messed up - or not messed up - state.

To them it's much easier to communicate "Hey, our customer service is going to be degraded on the second saturday in october, call on monday" to their customers 1-2 month in advance, prepare to have the critical information without our system, and have agents tell people just that.

This has really started to change my thoughts of how to approach, e.g. a major postgres update. In our case, it's probably the better way to just take a backup, shutdown everything, do an offline upgrade and rebuild & restore if things unexpectedly go wrong. We can totally test the happy case to death, and if the happy case works, we're done in 2 hours for the largest systems with minimal risk. 4 hours if we have to recover from nothing, also tested.

And you know, at that point, is it really economical to spend weeks to plan and weeks to test a zero downtime upgrade that's hard to test, because of load on the cluster?
It is a thing though, look up 'keema matar' for example. But it has nothing to do with cleaning the meat afaik, just a texture thing. Definitely not for making hamburgers though.
I gave it an upvote for you, even though I responded to it.
beehiiv is for sure interesting, but also pretty expensive (for people starting out) with $50/month if you want to use your own domain. Just that people don't overlook that.
It's a poorly constructed sentence (and unfortunately the last, intended to inspire hope).
You make the X vs Y call.

Assuming it is material, at some distance the cost of land (X) vs the transmission loss (Y), it becomes economical to choose X instead of Y
Yes, we're probably in a recession, and that's fine
Honestly I do think it's racism that ultimately is responsible for the demographics of professional sports in the US. The system is powered by people and people do not consider all the players in the same way, e.g. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/how-we-rise/2020/03/06/march-....

That's without getting into the socio-economic factors that lead people to pursue sports as a career rather than playing in school and then going on to be an architect or whatever it is.

The rest of your comments have been dissected and examined to such an extreme over the last like... 80 years... that I don't have anything new to add to the discussion.
Meta is just driving down the drain....forgetting the swirling whirlpool. its fastest to the bottom.....what crock
Sebastian Vettel announces retirement for end of season
Why Vettel decided to retire – and who might replace him for 2023
Ask HN: Libraries You Enjoy Using?
I have seen a few threads asking for good code examples in various languages.

I am curious if there are any code libraries that you really enjoy using that have a great public interface.
I'm not sure I buy the rationale for not choosing drop() here, but then I'm not a Swift programmer.

It's true that this is a bunch of magic, while Rust's drop() is so non magical its implementation, which you could copy-paste if you wanted, is supplied in the documentation:

pub fn drop<T>(_x: T) { }

But the reason Rust programmers write drop(x) is going to be much the same as this proposal would have Swift programmers write _ = move(x) -- to explicitly tell the compiler they want to destroy x right here. So I think as a programmer the drop(x) would make sense.
It only works remotely in Firefox, in Chrome (with its arguably questionable filesystem API). Plus, running the files in WASM is also what happens in these containers.
This is just patently false. There might be a few things that Apple shuts off (though none are coming to mind, I had a Pebble for years and it worked perfectly), the truth is the competition isn't playing in the same league, mainly due to the chips/OS available. On top of that the Android Wear products I've seen don't hold a candle to the Apple Watch in terms of looks or capabilities.
People have enough gadgets already. The services income is largely going to be people switching from other brands services so it’s not much of a change for the user but they now get a more integrated experience.
There is a deep inconsistency in your argument. Countries bordering Russia should not join NATO as doing so would be a provocation. Yet Russia has shown that they are happy to invade bordering countries (who are not in NATO) and blow their people to bits. How do you think the people in Finland, Latvia, Poland, Ukraine view this situation? What is their right to self-determination worth?
Big Mac is $8 with tax. If I texted you right now and said I’d pay you $8 to stop what you’re doing, drive to grocery store to get buns, then get back to your kitchen and make the burger, would you do it? Not a lot of people would, there are nice jobs in America.
Ask HN: Why are some people Excel at computer programming but not math contests?
Any insight on this?
They will never pass this
The current Apple Card, fully Applized and wallet integrated is in partnership GS. The old Apple-branded card was Barclays, but it was just a standard retail-type branded card.

iPhone financing is CitizenOne, eg the iPhone For Life program, although you can also use Apple Card to purchase it.
This isn’t a good use of the term gaslighting. Accusing someone of gaslighting takes what we used to call a ‘difference of opinion’ and mutates it into deliberate and wicked psychological warfare.

Incidentally, accusing someone of gaslighting is itself a form of gaslighting.
"Point and click" is unnecessarily derogatory. During my career as a developer I spent my share of time racking my own systems, diagnosing (both network and disk) cable faults, etc. I also spent time working with the kinds of software tools needed to manage dozens of clusters up to 10K machines each at 36 disks per machine. At that scale you really need to minimize the number of people who get to muck with the physical bits, and the amount of time they spend doing so. The complexity has merely shifted, not disappeared, and most developers or sysadmins from the previous generation would themselves be hard pressed to master the management of modern systems. It's no more "point and click" now than it was "lift heavy things" before.

> if all you know is cloud, you don't need to know things like this.

That's part of the cloud value proposition, isn't it? Leave the physical (and other low-level) stuff to people who do know that stuff, and can also reap economies of scale, while you focus on your own parts of the problem. Do you not approve of such specialization?
China isn’t communist. China is a one-party state with state-controlled capitalism. The name CCP is only historical and fuels propaganda. Instead of looking at names, look at the actual economics of the country.
That sounds a lot like "let's hope the new AMD GPUs will be priced low so Nvidia will cut their prices"
To me it seems “fine” in terms of everyone is doing it, but it doesn’t fit what I understood the goal of even granting equity in the first place. Namely trying to mitigate the principal agent problem. Every layer of risk or new rules added on makes it more and more likely that the equity is worth nothing but it costs companies a lot to set up these systems.

It would be a lot simpler and cheaper to just grant stocks and then the calculation for employees is easy, you get paid big bucks of the company succeeds. The employers that are not doing that signals to me that they value keeping compensation down over actually having the company succeed
Plenty of companies don’t have much if any growth, utilities for example. It’s just Apple is no where near the end of the line for growth and new opportunities.
I lived in South Korea, and - I shit you not - if you look at the cars on the road 99% of them are either black, white, or gray.
> The short version is that to win primaries you need money. Money mainly comes from corporations and rich people. Taking money from corporations and rich people creates a relationship where you have some loyalty to them or they can punish you if you don't act how they want.

If this was ever correct, it’s certainly wrong today. Trump, for example, was primarily funded by small donors: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/04/us/politics/trump-fundrai...

That’s arguably a major force that’s destabilizing politics today. Technology makes it super easy to raise hundreds of millions from small donors. But the Act Blue and Win Red donors represent the most ideological segment of their respective parties. That creates a huge incentive to try and play to try Twitter audience by taking extreme positions. Going viral can be worth millions of dollars.