skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I dunno. I'm sure that's what people were saying about the [Monroe school PCBs] behind the scenes – return on investment! It's too expensive! – but we shouldn't be comfortable with those factors being weighed in the dark with so little public accountability. If you want to tell me that the EWG has a chemical wrong, I'd buy that, but it should be the job of the people who want to make money off that chemical to persuade the public that it's fine – not to argue the public should go back to unawareness.

[monroe school pcbs]: https://www.propublica.org/article/school-district-where-tox...
It's a common trend in industry. Here is this brilliant logical tool for reasoning about programs, in this case Hoare triples' descendent separation logic. Now let's figure out how we can keep our programmers from having to learn how to use it!

A logical description of what a piece of code does is evidently too much to ask of a working programmer. Instead, the prevailing dream is to just write code and then have some other code figure out what the first code actually does. Surely the sufficiently smart compiler is almost at hand.

This used to frustrate me and I suppose to some minor extent it still does. However, most of my frustration was relieved by Dijkstra's distinction between program correctness and program pleasantness. With vanishingly rare exceptions, revealed preferences show that industry could not care less about correctness. After all, it's pleasantness that determines success in the marketplace. Plenty of critically incorrect code nevertheless makes its owners billions. Sure, maybe all your private medical data and credit history got leaked, but here have a voucher for $10 a month worth of dark web monitoring for a year. I don't like this model, but at least it's in some sense rational.
Software peripherals were popular in the nineties when using Scenix 50MHz PIC clones https://hackaday.com/2022/08/17/chips-remembered-the-scenix-...

In 2006 we got 8 core risc chips running at 80MHz. 0.25 IPC = 160MIPS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax_Propeller

in 2008 XMOS xCORE came out, instead of 8 cores in parallel you get 1-2 CPU tiles running at 400-500MHz partitioned into 4-16 virtual cores. 1 IPC = 1000MIPS. 1 cycle IO. Super popular in audio devices where it bitbangs all sort of serial audio interfaces while performing DSP. Newer models have DSP instructions, and the newest ones might even have something for NNs.

"Each tile has 8 active logical cores, which issue instructions down a shared four stage pipeline. Instructions from the active cores are issued round-robin. If up to four logical cores are active, each core is allocated a quarter of the processing
cycles."

https://www.xmos.ai/download/XS1-L16A-128-QF124-Datasheet(1....

2012 TI sitara AM335x (beaglebone black) has dedicated IO cores.
HouseoftheDragon night in New York City apartments
Telling this first is a good way to have every company think that 5 days/week is an organizational requirement and brush off the candidate. Having the candidate wait until after the interview puts them in a much stronger negotiating position, namely it forces the company to assess whether or not 5 days a week is a legitimate requirement or not. Many parts of the interview process are unfair to candidates, such as not advertising salary ranges in advance, forcing candidates to take vacation time to attend interviews, etc. This is merely a way to balance the scales away from the company, which generally holds almost all of the power in a negotiation, especially at the start, before an offer is made.
This is the exact opposite of my experience. 2015 maxed out MBP bought USED off Craigslist for $500 in 2019. The machine had the stains on the screen. So I called up apple, got an associate explained the staining and “staingate” they didn’t have a clue what I was talking about. I then proceeded to as for their supervisor who knew exactly what I was talking about. After a few minutes on hold the supervisor said they would replace the screen as a one time curtesy (side note the supervisor tried to confirm the original purchase date which I didn’t have an tried to guessimate somehow that guess was only week outside the 4 year extension). Apple mailed me a box and I mailed in the MBP. MBP arrived at the repair depo and sat there for 3 days. I sweated thinking they’re going to kick it back. The next day I get a shipping confirmation that the MBP is being returned. Day or two later I received the MBP. Brand new screen, top case, keyboard, battery, they replaced everything but the logic board.

Just a recap: Bought 4 year old MBP off Craigslist for $500 within a week had almost a completely refreshed laptop for free (minus the time on the phone ~45 minutes and me constantly refreshing the repair status).

This isn’t the first time. Another time I dropped my Pixel and messed up the screen real bad. Pulled out my wife’s old iPhone 7 and used that until I decided which new phone I was going to get. About a week into using the 7 it wouldn’t detect the SIM card. Phone is out of warranty, no apple care, nothing. Book an appointment at the apple store. Show the genius my issue. They offered to provide a loaner (iPhone 6) and send it off to be repaired for free. Within a couple days I get an email that the phone is ready to be picked up. Pick up the phone and depot replaced EVERYTHING minus the metal back on the phone. New logic board, new screen, new battery. Completely refreshed iPhone 7 in 2019.

Just these two events along would make me stick with Apple. Either their customer service is top notch or I’m a really really good talker.

Ps. Still rocking the 15” MBP and the iPhone 7 sits back in a drawer until it’s needed again (I ended up getting a 2020 SE and now a 2022 SE.)
I'm somewhat sympathetic to this view. My parents moved between states a week after I was born and for the entire 12 hour trip my mom held me in her lap in the front seat. When we made short trips in-town, we as kids would get to sit in the "way back" of a hatchback without seatbelts (or even seats) as a treat.

Neither of these were optimal safety choices. We were definitely at a higher risk of death or injury. If everyone did this society wide, the number of child fatalities in traffic accidents *would* be higher. Yes, people who relate such anecdotes and then say, "...and we survived" are literally demonstrating survivorship bias.

Times change and I don't think I'd make these same safety trade-offs with my kids. I'm also not sure taking these kind of risk/reward trade-off decisions out of the hands of parents is a net positive either.

It's hard to talk about whether the current status quo is reasonable because for many of us, that status quo predates us and "wait, you're saying you are FOR more kids dying in car wrecks" is a pretty natural reaction. For that reason, I think it's easier to consider the reasonableness of an incremental, hypothetical change to the current status quo. Imagine a study comes out tomorrow that shows that children in wrecks have a 3% higher fatality rate in cars manufactured before 2015, so a law is passed saying that as of 2024 driving a pre-2015 car with children in it will be a ticketable offense. Is there anything that would give you pause about this scenario, is it an unalloyed good thing, or is it another "I mean, I GUESS it's for the best, it's complicated tbh" situation?
I think Apple has made major cost cutting changes on their repairs and returns department. As recently as a few years ago, Apple was much more liberal about returns and fees for repairs.

I've also noticed that the quality of the customer support around returns has gone south. I've seen cases where basic information about the context of the return seems missing and customers are put in long loops dealing with simple problems.

I've seen the miserly behavior myself. I've put a lot of cash toward Apple SW, HW and services but that loyalty is not recognized or rewarded in how you're treated by the company.

Between this lack of awareness of who their sophisticated customers are and their loyalty and cost cutting measure, I suspect some people have been shocked at how bad the repair / returns experience can be today.
It should really be this simple: Government says you owe $X based calculations that it shows. You validate, correct the mistakes (e.g. inaccurate $0 basis is a common problem for RSU reporting) and have a generous time to amend the corrections.

If you don't correct or can'd find anything to correct, then there's no work on your side (which would be the case for millions of people).
> I would rather we try new things.

This is contingent on the capacity of a society to weather any bad outcomes from the new things. which given as they new, their outcomes are unknown.

I'm trying to get to how freedom is related to some kind of background wealth.

If people are (or feel?) wealthy, they're willing to accept risky behavior. Using a example:

"oh, there they go the village idiots burning down a barn..."

--"oh well, at least there's still enough of everything for winter, no problem."

In contrast with: "[...] now we're fucked. time to ration our provisions".

Enter global warming; and with it the rise of autocracies, tyrannies, and so on.
> Chromebook: if in warranty fix, if out of warranty, buy two more Chromebooks for the price of one M1 Macbook Air screen.

That’s incredibly wasteful.
I wish I could throw marketing people into a Game of Thrones style dungeon. I really hate being advertised to.
If you are UK based, I would strongly suggest a move into the contracting world. The day rates are fantastic, and the stress is pretty low as you are contractually obligated to only work agreed hours. Less reason to get involved in work politics, higher pay and I find I am generally left alone outside of necessary meetings.
Eurovelo – the European cycle route network
Isn't it against at least the law somewhere?
And for those that have a Github presence, to Github as well.
That actually happened, yo. Obama did a federal takeover of all standard student loans, way back in 2010.

I mean, you can look it up. Over 90% of student loan debt is now held directly by the federal government (rather than merely being guaranteed by it, as was the case in the past).
I tend to agree with your point about voluntarily buying devices to allow corporations to spy on ourselves. Nobody is forcing you to get one of these things. At least not yet. I don't think the danger is that the government is going to force you to install a surveillance device in your house. The danger is that this will come from the free market.

This is what the point of the Shitty Technology Adoption Curve. The surveillance starts with people who don't have the agency to opt out of it.

We in the software and IT industry have a fair amount of choice when it comes to our work environments. If a potential employer insists on a screen recorder or keylogger, we can see these as warning flags and generally have options to go work someplace else. A lot of people don't have this luxury. If it's the choice between either working somewhere where your boss is timing your piss breaks or not being able to pay rent, that's really not much of a choice.

I don't think it's too much of a stretch to envisage a possible future where you won't be able to participate in the modern economy if you don't agree to corporate surveillance. Not that it's impossible to opt out, just as it's not impossible to live off the electric grid today if you really want to.

Hopefully the free market will drive idiot corporations that time their employees piss breaks out of business. Clever corporations that are smarter about their surveillance could still be around though.
Just wanted to add that prices are also rising because of higher transportation costs (sea, land, air), all are on the rise.
Yeah, that’s fair. It’s very common that candidates get surprised on the downside at the end of the process, though, so I think it’s generally fair for the candidate to hold back some information until you’re sold on them. Though it’d be nice if they didn’t have to.
Maybe it’s just me, but it feels superficial. The comment doesn’t engage at all with the substance of the article, and instead focuses on an orthogonal observation about a writing flourish that doesn’t appear anywhere in the article again.

As a comment it’s a distraction not unlike the very thing it’s criticizing. Seems hypocritical and self-congratulatory; but again, that’s just me.
Why does everything on Netflix look like that?
But the author is moving there to open startup. It's a business opportunity, not just a place to live.
Star Control II - hands down the best
I have been using Tauri to develop a Kubernetes IDE: https://github.com/nirops/yakiapp

One additional thing from my experience, is if using Rust as a backend, the turnaround time for hot loading Rust changes is not trivial. This leads to longer times in building things vis-a-vis building in Electron with .ts/.js backend.
> If remote working was a point on the collective organizing table then management would be able to request mitigating actions to compensate for whatever they felt was lost because of WFH.

What you are missing is that there does not seem to be a "collective organizing table" that you speak of at Apple. An edict from above comes in saying staff need to return to office. Apple execs did not "request mitigating actions" they demanded it.

> This, on the other hand, is a single issue action, which involves no bargaining and places demands from 1 side without a corresponding opportunity to mitigate negative effects.

Any bargaining starts with needs and wants from both sides. Apple has made their demand to the employees telling them to return to office. Some employees are trying to organise to put forward a counter-demand. Apple execs could respond to said petition with an offer to come to the same table and negotiate, but it does not seem like they are at that stage yet.
This is a snapshot of the cognitive dissonance that causes AdWords to keep growing despite the people building it being smart folks.

It doesn’t affect me and I like free stuff, so seems fine.

There isn’t a missing logical leap in the middle. The tracking is self-evidently anti-democratic.
Mission statements are worse than worthless
camelCase - native functions

SQL_STYLE_CASE - compatible functions
Geforce Now has been a great experience, running Windows-only games on the M1 Mac Mini just works. Still: many games download content, require you to log in, and generaly annoy on first startup with a new computer. With Geforce Now you get each team an (as) new computer...
I've heard them referred to as ClownStrike...
Does Rosetta on Linux support 32 bit code? I believe FEX does.
And if they kept it, at least they could punch the "yes" with a preceding m-dash. Punctuation fluency is dropping too!
Poor repairability is not usually an obvious cost when buying a laptop. And many people don't buy laptops frequently. Sharing stories like this helps people make buying decisions that are right for them, making the market work better. As you say there are plenty of alternatives, although computing platforms can be sticky (by design).

What would obviously be even better than anecdotes is some statistical data on the likelihood of failure, average cost & convenience of repairs etc. I don't know if such a thing exists - in its absence we have to make do with anecdotes.
Assuming otherwise precipitates a collapse of the world to meaninglessness. There is too much intelligibility in the world for me to reconcile with that.
Where does the myth that cable TV was ad free come from? Cable TV was never as free. Cable was first introduced to bring broadcast TV - with ads to places that couldn’t get reception.

Then the “Superstations” like TBS and WGN came to cable. They were local broadcast channels that used satellites to broadcast nationwide to cable companies.

Then came cable TV channels like CNN, ESPN, MTV etc with ads.

Cable TV has always had ads.
This is why the Asahi Linux project is so exciting!!
You get the great performance at low-power (M* ARM processors) while still getting the more performant and useful Linux experience.

I am really thankful to the Asahi Linux team, and specifically in this instance for the GPU, [Alyssa Rosenweig](https://github.com/alyssarosenzweig), [Asahi Lina](https://github.com/asahilina), and [Doug all Johnson](https://github.com/dougallj).
I'm pretty sure "Sorry to bother you" wasn't meant to be an instruction manual.
I've noticed hcaptcha being used more widely.
“Free services” are not free. They are ad-subsidized, and thus anticompetitive. They are affecting your life by messing up the competitive market economy. The fact that you value them greatly means you should pay for them, which you are - with your limited attention span. Its an insidious price to pay.

You may accept this bargain, but most of us hate it, and are not being offered a competitive market alternative to this version of reality.
Putting this in a sibling comment because it's tangential to my more-relevant response about an alternative business model.

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The claim that citizens of western-style democracies have mechanisms to modify government behaviour is technically true, but meaningless. The average Western citizen has more chance of becoming an Astronaut or solving a Millenium problem than they do of effecting real govenmental change without access to extraordinary social capital or Super-PAC-level donations. Especially given that most western-style democracies' mechanisms consist of "pick which of these two broad bundles of choices you want to support" (as cogman10 pointed out, "the candidate who is opposed to data-tracking" does not really exist as a viable option; and even if they did, they would need to have a broad platform of popular positions, not just that one) - so if the option you want is not offered, you not only need to change voting behaviour to support it, you first need to create that option out of whole cloth.
Is it possible to access it via less js heavy frontend? Owner of Nokia N900 here :D Would great to have Ghost in the Shell style super lightweight maps
Hi the_duke. The base implementation of that key-value store (written in Golang) can be found here: https://github.com/surrealdb/rixxdb

I don't think the implementation of the ideas in the thesis were added to the public project in the end.

We will be working on this in due course in Rust, however, and the implementation will be completely open source!
It feels like that among my friends. Our situations are comfortable but there's nothing to look forward to, so we just coast. It's not like we can afford a house or any sort of retirement. Everyone seems quite cynical, but not willing to kill the mood by talking about it.

It's just weird.
you're dancing around the issue though, which is crowdstrike lying in saying there's no vulnerability when they clearly tested it and found there was one
I noticed the same, could not figure out the cause.
Endpoint Protection may be useful but credibility is everything in the industry.

CrowdStrike has done loads to damage their own credibility to anyone paying attention, but because they've chosen to be favorable to certain power players along political lines there are folks out there that treat them like the be-all-end-all of the industry.

As someone in-industry, hearing people parrot press releases from CrowdStrike has me looking at them sideways.

Edit/Addendum: Just to lay bare my opinion of them... CrowdStrike is a clown-ass company run by clown-ass people and with a clown-ass product.
This has happened to me many times. I generally start by making it clear that I don't make purchasing decisions and asking not to be contacted again; if I am called a second time, I use the same techniques I do with tech support scammers, including giving fake or "insult hotline" callback numbers and asking them to hold for indefinite periods of time.
So 72% of developers and designers will work only via their mobile? Can't wait to see more of those huge fonts, 5 words per page and 'tap here' cta :)
What you just wrote is violence, since it caused me to feel defensive and anxious and also think about it more than I'd like.
They shot themselves in the foot already - but is there any proof that european labour was cheap? I kept reading about this, but my anecdata shows otherwise. At least in tech. In many cases it was the opposite tbh.
> Pretty sure an HOA could fairly easily collect this data

I agree, but on a large scale this would mean that every HOA needs to have access to someone who can/is willing to do this. If you expand this to other environmental factors (e.g. noise pollution, waterway health, etc) I could see that becoming a large burden on the few people in each community that care enough to collect environmental data. Seems more efficient to pay someone to do it full-time for a larger group.
Agreed. Memes have a highly limited shelf life. Two things guarantee a rapid death of a meme: going mainstream, and attempting to revive one after its viral cycle is over. As such, they should ideally only be used in either 'ephemeral' and/or 'niche' media.
Permanent media should stick to simplicity because it is timeless.
Why does the "if you don't like Apple, you can choose a competitor" pat response have to extend everywhere from buying an Android phone to changing your employer?
tl;dr: You can improve performance by clearing up some space from a full storage device. Also, video game streaming exists and can be a more affordable alternative to buying a boutique PC from Alienware.

Counter point: it's okay to turn down the specs on your games. Modern "AAA" PC games are usually pretty good about helping you tune your settings to find a good balance between performance and visual fidelity.

It looks like this author has a Corsair One, which I suspect has an RTX 2080 graphics card. He considers that "questionable for a number of new games [he] wanted to play". As someone who has been using a GTX 980 Ti for over six years, I find that very hard to believe. Maybe he's a very competitive gamer who needs high frame rates but doesn't want to completely sacrifice visual fidelity. But then how is the inherent latency and artifact from streaming an acceptable compromise?
At a previous startup, we dumped CircleCI and switched to Jenkins on our own EC2 instance. We had a lot less problems. (This was way back in 2016, I'm sure things have improved now.)
If you haven't changed hardware in five years it's more likely SSD degradation or RAM speed than the difference between 16 and 32 GB.
Their data is also subject to this policy: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap_License

They also heavily discourage bulk downloading tiles so I'm not sure if you're that much better off building your own tile server.
Yes I think we need less abstraction. Best illustrated with RPC, when we try to treat it the same as local call we lose so much information. We want to reason about latency and failure so we need our language to represent this information and allow us to apply our logic to it.
Which regulators? Or rather which regulation threat? Are you thinking right to repair or something else like the EU monopoly stuff?
Running your whole company cloud off a credit card is OK pre-seed round, but then you should get a proper business account setup w/ ACH payments/invocing.

Better still, after you grow a bit, use a GCP reseller (SADA and DoIT are great) or a usage commitment with your account manager for a nice discount. I've never heard of one of those accounts getting turned off in the middle of the night.

Sure, it sucks to hear of account lockouts like this, but productionizing your finances is part of the startup lifecycle.
Apple's equipment is also designed in a way to be difficult to repair.

Swapping the battery on a Dell laptop takes a few minutes for someone unfamiliar with the process -- unscrew 6 normal screws, swap the battery, replace the cover and screws.

Replacing the battery in a MacBook takes an hour for someone familiar with the process, and several hours for someone unfamiliar. It also requires special tools.