skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would seem from your example that the issue is a lack of overall commitment to compatibility. There are Windows games from 1990s that still run fine w/sound - which is not surprising, given that every old Win32 API related to sound is still there, emulated as needed on top of the newer APIs. It sounds like Linux distros could do this here as well, since emulation is already implemented - they just choose to not have it set up out of the box.
Well NVME drives shouldn't fail at a high rate, but if they don't have good local storage capabilities, then yes they have to build something else that is different.
> It's surprising how Dubai with such a low population and low apple users as compared to India gets this preferential treatment.

In addition to the demographic differences, I wonder how much of this is also a difference of where there are official Apple Stores and where there are not.

Dubai has 3 official stores I think (I’ve only been to the flagship at the Dubai Mall and it’s one of the most spectacular retail stores I’ve ever seen — very close to the Apple Store in Singapore), whereas the Apple Store in Mumbai has been pushed back to 2023 or 2024.

Apple is one of those companies that in my experience, the customer support is much, much better when it can be direct from the official retail or repair channels than if you are in a region that only has authorized repair centers.

As an anecdote, I was once doing business in Europe and had my laptop break in a country that didn’t have an official Apple Store. The authorized repair center I found seemed to be of good quality, but they wouldn’t be able to do the repair I needed in the timeframe I needed it. I ended up just flying from Finland to Sweden to get my laptop repaired/replaced.

It was about five hours total out of my way and like $150, but it was just easier than the alternatives.

I hope that once Apple has an official retail presence in India that service will improve, at least in major cities.
He doesn't write like a crank. He's clear, concise, and has a history of work without sounding overly egotistical. I don't want to get prematurely hyped, but this could be the real deal.
> you never know when the mac will break because of something that was your fault

You have been gaslit by Apple.

You know when it's your fault... but with Apple, you can never be sure.
thanks for the reply, paxys. According to your link, the negative meaning is shown as the third use case, it seems the primary use of the "pro" is to mean "professional".
If someone now adds quoted green text to it we've gone full circle.
I researched machines and ended up with an LG and I have to run it for double rinse cycles. It's an HE machine and when I use HE detergent, the issue is even worse so now I just use a tiny splash of regular detergent. It's so bizarre to me that this is an issue for a modern machine. Every washer and dryer I had before this was an old school analog machine and they never had issues.
> Wormholes and flying cars are “crackpot stuff.”

Umm, wormholes maybe. Flying cars have existed for the better part of a century. The fact that nobody has successfully brought one to market yet means that you and I don't have them. But humanity certainly does.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_car
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_canals
Cash Converters is a pawnshop for those wondering.
It’s not rent to own.

You get credits for the rent you pay, you can move to a different rental and add to those credits. At some point in the future you have some capital value in the program itself, not in any particular property.

This allows you to move as much as you want (to other flow properties). Your credits accumulate and you can use that to either cash out or (more desirable) to create your own flow enabled properties with access to great terms via flow.

You will never own the properties themselves, just credits in a company that holds all the real estate.
> The early history of life on earth is an assortment of dead ends out competed by the few who emerged from the primordial soup that beat the less fit forms for finite resources.

I’m not sure how true that is, and reflects a somewhat older view. There was a lot of cooperation involved, particularly in regards to symbiogensis, which the older generation still opposes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbiogenesis

> In her 1981 work Symbiosis in Cell Evolution [Margulis] argued that eukaryotic cells originated as communities of interacting entities, including endosymbiotic spirochaetes that developed into eukaryotic flagella and cilia. This last idea has not received much acceptance, because flagella lack DNA and do not show ultrastructural similarities to bacteria or to archaea (see also: Evolution of flagella and Prokaryotic cytoskeleton). According to Margulis and Dorion Sagan, "Life did not take over the globe by combat, but by networking"…
> He's not a serious researcher and has no published papers in astrophysics.

according to wikipedia hes been funded by nasa. and also looks like youre incorrect about not being published

https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.08382
> Well, I spent my twenties (in the 80's) in school, or working for 30K or 36K/year.

Ballpark the 80's as 1985 and that works out to 82,604.83 to 99,125.80, for the curious. What most people would consider an excellent salary in their 20s, probably (software engineers in the current market excepted, perhaps).
I did that for years, and probably need to do some digging into the "catchall" mailbox they all dump into. I've had a few start receiving spam, which is how I knew when those companies had had some sort of data breach (looking at you, United Airlines, happened at least twice!) even if it was only via a third party marketing firm or the like.
How is IoT a hobbyist business?

I deployed a large restaurant equipment project on Azure backends and couldn't be happier.

I've made a policy of not touching Google for anything embedded-related and it continues to pay off.

I guess, yeah, anything non-AdWords related is a hobby. For Google.
That's just patently untrue. There have been countless widespread stories of non-Apple devices failing, batteries exploding etc.

Stop defending trillion dollar companies like they're your friends.
I don't know what to call it, but Minix on 286 had protection between processes. (Each process had its own 64k instruction + 64k data, IIRC.)

So effectively the same result as an MMU. But Minix is the only OS I know of which used this mode.
Hero’s get rewarded: allow something critical to break in a non-catastrophic manner and then get recognition for fixing it promptly (ideally with some high profile drama).

There is usually far less reward for preventative measures that avoided breakage in the first place.
Mandated tue/thu means they don't perceive capacity/safety issues, because its all-hands. Ignoring health issues for now, the good side is meetings won't be zoom-anyway because of the mass of non-present people thing.

Going to health, if they have HVAC and a good mask protocol for dense spaces, I don't personally see the problem in the building. Getting there, may cause increased exposure.

Apple can afford both the HMO, and the epidemiologists to work out if this change has any impact on health in the company, in the families at large, and in the wider community. I look forward to the research papers!
"Technical footnote: /127 addresses are supported"

Yes they are but I want a shit load of stuff on my WAN available to the world and I don't want to piss around with NAT n that.

The IPv6 address-space is big enough to deal with PtP links. It doesn't really matter, You could do a /127 for WAN and then I allocate a /64 from my /48 for WAN. Or you could use a recent RFC that enables a /64 or smaller to be used for WAN without a separate allocation.
Apple does next day business support. The problem is, they don’t do it internationally in every market (though it is in a lot of them). But if you buy enough product from them or pay for the Apple Care Enterprise, they’ll do on-site or next-day repairs.
or just resignations
You can take it to an independent repair shop. There's a supply chain of repair parts. Mercedes doesn't try to use trademark laws and DRM to stop you from using a third-party water pump.
Why not both? ;) - https://github.com/crossplane-contrib/provider-terraform
You don't have to travel much at all before a laptop is essential.

And at that point I'd imagine it's way easier to optimize for mobility, for a vast majority of people - unless they're working entirely in virtual workspaces/the cloud - in which case a laptop is perfectly fine anyway.
It is kind of like dress rehearsal before your important job interviews. You will be "interviewed" by professionals who have done many interviews in different IT companies.
That is right and it is not explained in the README file. Timelick based on Blockchain is not a security primitive.
This is like saying that you don’t think formalwear is a good deal because your Costco jeans are more durable. Desktops are great, I heartily recommend using them instead of laptops for most people, but it’s not especially revelatory to point out that laptops make design trade offs to hit their size & battery trade offs.
That is rather a concerning caching behavior. Does anyone know if other popular cloud provider services have this issue too?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32474827
Boomers in their twenties were mostly working. Gen Z in their twenties is finishing college, working towards a master's or even a PhD.

EDIT: No value judgments here. This is just a fact, people entered the active workforce earlier.
TIL Russia and China have a day of the programmer
How is it hand-wavy?

> emulate (transitive verb)

> To imitate the function of (another system), as by modifications to hardware or software that allow the imitating system to accept the same data, execute the same programs, and achieve the same results as the imitated system.

It's the exact same way its used by FreeBSD for its linux compatibility layer. It's the same way that Wine even uses in their FAQ.

> That said, Wine can be thought of as a Windows emulator in much the same way that Windows Vista can be thought of as a Windows XP emulator: both allow you to run the same applications by translating system calls in much the same way. Setting Wine to mimic Windows XP is not much different from setting Vista to launch an application in XP compatibility mode.

> [...]

> "Wine is not just an emulator" is more accurate. Thinking of Wine as just an emulator is really forgetting about the other things it is. Wine's "emulator" is really just a binary loader that allows Windows applications to interface with the Wine API replacement.
what does the [flagged] mean?

any theory that gets rid of dark matter is better than what we have now. the cosmological constant was one thing (turns out Einstein found the quantized minimum energy of empty space, before quantum mechanics). This dark matter folly is taking fudge factor to the extreme. it's lazy.
So much this. A lot of people are just checked out. Their plan if they get laid off? Take a flight to Mexico and live a better life while the storm passes.
This is why I don't wear a helmet on my bicycle
So, let's force that "value" on every user rather than let them build the experience they actually like?
> Get rid of Pocket. Nobody uses it and it was forced on users.

I use it daily..
Absolutely agree. This is a piece about relative poverty in disposible income against current inflation and % of post-tax income which has to go to rent/power &c against truly disposable income.

I'm not in the cohort, but I still believe the model. Look to UK power bills, and Australian rents, and rates of home ownership since the 1960s.
Just out of curiosity, would such genetic disposition make him a better or a worse fit for the job? Would the people of Galicia be proud that one of their sons works for Firefox or would they be ashamed?
> Why have we not seen a "modernized" x86 CPU that strips out everything pre-AMD64?

In many segments, binary compatibility with legacy software is still vital. This is why you can run Windows 3 software on Windows 11 (and why you can run x86 software on M1 Macs).

For me, I could spend most of my time on Linux and there binary compatibility is a much smaller issue - I'm sure I'd be very happy with a POWER workstation (birthday is in March, Raptor folks) and perfectly functional there. Same on ARM (biggest constraint for me is memory - 16 GB is enough, 32 is good).

Unless I look too closely, the CPU in the box is the least important part.
Are there any tutorials successfully convey the tao of those things?
Unless things have changed in the last few years, there are apparently countries in Europe that don't require registration: https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/9ziqfi/european_cou...

And that's a quite high regulation part of the world, I'd be surprised if South American or African countries were stricter.
I had a brand new MacBook Air M2 whose trackpad arrived cracked. Didn’t even know there was glass in the trackpad. For the first few hours of using it I thought it was a hair or something that had fallen on it. Kept trying to wipe it away and triggered all sorts of gestures.
There is a really good government site for showing the location of all these ancient things. (you have to zoom in quite far before the dots appear)

https://maps.archaeology.ie/HistoricEnvironment/
baffled by a lot of the demands already in the thread. Firefox needs one thing right now and that is market share or else the browser is dead in a few years.

Privacy, telemetry, and Linux don't matter, sorry folks, if they did people wouldn't use Chrome or Edge. The most important thing is compatibility with major sites at this point. if people's banking or health insurance page reject Firefox, people are just going to use Chrome.

The mobile battery drain is a disaster as well. with less than 1% usage on android phones there should easily be room for many more users if you baked in ublock origin and fixed the performance because people actually do hate mobile ads.
I've owned macs for decades and every single time there's been a problem or defect, they have been gaslighting assholes the whole time. Things were particularly bad when the only way to get a laptop repaired was to ship it to their repair facility in Texas. Weeks of waiting, only to get the machine shipped back to you with a letter saying they found nothing wrong.

Apple is infamous for "secret" recalls that staff will never mention unless you specifically know about them in advance.

One example: I had a Retina MBP with the infamous antiglare-flaking problem, which Apple was sued over and initiated a secret warranty extension program for people who complained...but the settlement did not require notifying owners of said extension. I assumed they weren't doing repairs until I heard about the program second-hand...a year after they stopped doing it.
Indeed, nowadays everyone knows that radio waves propagate through quantum fields which pervade the entire universe including vacuums.

Definitely not ether, those foolish old scientists got the name wrong :D
Makes sense, a Boomer in their twenties could buy a house and support a family of 4 with a high school education.
I really feel for the younger than Gen X (which I am) groups.

My older brothers who are boomers did have it easier (than me) and I had it easier than the younger groups.

Purchasing power and a general decline in society's support along multiple axes for what most would call a 'normal' life really does make me think that some form of strife or revolution is coming.
Apple takes their brand extremely seriously when it comes to employees posting on social media. Apple is most likely worried that the video can be interpreted in some kind of negative light.

The whole video at a glance can be summed up in three words, “extortion”, “foreign country” and “Apple Engineer”.
I use pocket, so I’d like it to stay.
Not just burying, but very disingenuously so. Than you for looking that up, it speaks volumes.
They do some monkey business with sgx to make brute forcing harder but yeah it's worrisome.

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2020/07/10/a-few-th...

https://signal.org/blog/secure-value-recovery/
Both of your examples are software related. In my experience, anything hardware related Apple tends to shift the blame to the consumer. I wonder how much of their profits are based on repairs.
From my experience it's better to use both laptop and workstation. When I'm normally working I use the comfort/performance of the workstation, when I'm on the move I can use the portability of the laptop.

Basically all developers I know have "hybrid work arrangement", working some days from home/travels and some from office. They all remotely connect to their workstation at work either from their home computer of from laptop when traveling.

Maybe it depends on type of development or age of developers, but I'm not 20 anymore and laptop is an ergonomic nightmare. If you want to use it for a longer period of time and avoid health issues you should get an external keyboard/mouse/screens anyway. Which means you just recreated workstation, but it costs more money, has worse performance and all kinds of issues while connecting so much stuff to it.
help me out. historically, at what point in bayesian probability estimation did "there is no such thing as ether" theorists go from crank to lets pay attention to these guys
It's ... complicated.

I worked as a tech guy in a store for about three years, more than 15 years ago. I had a lot of autonomy in deciding what I could and couldn't do, what I would charge, whether I would waive charged, etc.

At some point you just get jaded. You have this nice guy and it's all fine and you even go beyond what you need to do for them (sometimes even taking things home because they really needed it at 9am in the morning) and they're so thankful. And then they show up three days later even though you TOLD THEM you would take in home in the evening so they could have it by 9am the next day and they will shout at you over the €40 we agreed on like you just punched them in the face.

Then there are the people who will physically threaten and even assault you... Had a few cases of that too.

For those (profoundly) negative interaction you may have had a whole bunch of positive interactions, but negative interactions just register so much stronger. When you drive or cycle to work you may encounter hundreds or even thousands of other cars, but you only remember that one asshole.

It's been a long time since I worked there, and I've had some time to reflect on things and my attitude when I worked there, and I'm also a bit older now. But if you're in the thick of it in your 20s ... yeah, it's complicated. If you're not careful you get jaded, start treating everyone like a potential asshole, and after a few years it becomes harder and harder to really care like you probably should and did when you first started.

And for what it's worth, I do miss that job sometimes; I could really help regular folks in a very direct and satisfying way that I rarely do as a software developer.
Can you connect an SSD via USB-c and boot from it instead, once the internal drive dies?
It should be noted that 32-bit versions of Windows include support for 16-bit DOS and Win16 binaries. The last 32-bit version of Windows was Windows 10, which is still actively supported.
As a former head of engineering for a mid-sized IoT company with many tens of thousands of devices deployed in the field using a competing product (no, not the AWS one), seeing this made my stomach churn.

This was my second biggest fear after waking up to a ransomware attack.

It's hard to imagine anyone trusting Google for IoT again. I will certainly put them at the bottom of my list for any other infrastructure I develop against in the future, and ensure that we have a documented exit strategy should it come to pass.

The idea of having just one year to develop against a new IoT core, test it, update all deployed devices, and then coordinate logistics and budget to do truck rolls when things invariably go wrong is really grinding my gears.

I feel for all of the startups having to deal with this. To the folks who are invariably scrambling, I really hope you either got advanced notice, or you're getting an extension far beyond what is publicized. Edit: The more I think about this, the more I want to believe there must be contracts in place for certain customers that extend the lifetime of this product beyond what is public. There must be.

IoT is not an easy business. Designing and programming hardware is hard. Supply chains are hard. Maintaining working inventory is hard. Building logistics networks for installation and maintenance is hard. Courting and explaining to investors why you don't have the profit margins of a pure SaaS business is hard. Relying on your cloud provider to give you more than 1 year notice should be the easy part.
Curious if Discord considered using FoundationDB. Its read performance is pretty good and its replicated, distributed nature would also protect from data failure to an extent.

My takeaways:

- Cloud vendors should offer a hosted "Superdisk" so users don't have to implement themselves.

- Reading good engineering blog posts can save you the trouble of having to re-learn their experiences!
Yes, that's segmentation. And I was just wondering if you could call that an MMU. It's not the same result as an MMU across the board, since you have no paging: You cannot freely rearrange pages in virtual memory with their frames in physical memory, you can only "segment" linear portions of physical memory. You also cannot fault in pages on-demand at their time of being accessed, only when the whole segment is loaded (i.e. the selector written into the segment register).

If an MMU is something that sits between memory and the rest of the CPU, and abstracts physical addressing away, then I argue the 286 did not have an MMU. Segmented access is more of a mandatory addressing mode, where you always access relatively to a segment's base, and have to keep within the limit.

OS/2 is another OS that made use of pre-paging 286 protected mode.
Good way to think through weird ideas. Something can be just plain weird (dare I say, the Earth is triangular, no evidence for that) or just sound weird but with good understanding you realize it isn't so weird (no one knows how to make a pencil).

I think if you have a weird idea X, you may need to teach the less weird prerequisites first. Then sell the idea once people are acquainted.
Just finished first and definitely will check that out.Thanks for correction
See also the (oft-submitted to HN) Tale of Two Programmers:

https://c00kiemon5ter.github.io/code/philosophy/2011/10/30/T...
Isn't it a natural consequence of capital growing faster than wage?
Huh, maybe Greek named Rust disk controller would be better. Since it's not written we do not know one way or the other. Besides all these messaging/chat apps have same pattern: Optimize on the cloud/server side, peddle some electron crap on client side and virtue signal all the way about how serious are they about engineering(on server side).
Well there are 2 types of models, CLIP and diffusion models. With VoC, Disco, etc. latent diffusion, you pick multiple CLIP models and a single diffusion model. The CLIP models are the big gigabyte ones like ViT and RN, and you can use CLIP search engines that search on the LAION datasets to give you a rough idea what will happen when you use those words in your prompts:
https://rom1504.github.io/clip-retrieval

I will otherwise refer you to the "Bible" of latent diffusion: https://sweet-hall-e72.notion.site/A-Traveler-s-Guide-to-the...

Whatever isn't covered in there is probably in the Disco Diffusion cheatsheet: https://botbox.dev/disco-diffusion-cheatsheet/

There are tons of resources out there, and it's a nonstop learning and experimenting process to try to achieve what you want.