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Agreed strongly. I would rather develop on Linux as my development environment will not be destroyed on updates, and my applications run on Linux based systems. The only thing that saves MacOS from being completely unworkable is that there are so many devs on Macs, so workarounds/fixes to the breakage done to *nix subsystems are plentiful.
> I think this has generally been true of a lot of American companies for a while now.

Lenovo isn't even an American company. Wikipedia lists their global headquarters as in Beijing.
Not looked, can't see me looking at this rate.
Some states have tried to make this better with anti-SLAPP laws. If the purpose of the litigation is to bankrupt the other party who is doing something legal, then the case can often be dismissed very early, and the plaintiff will have to pay a fine.

I am not sure if reverse engineering video game consoles fits into "a matter of public interest", but if you get nastygrams, it's probably worth talking to a lawyer. This might be something they can deal with in an afternoon and not a multi-year battle that bankrupts you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_publ...
> If unicorns exist, but humans can never observe them do you really care whether they exist or not?

I do, actually.

It depends what you are using the unicorns for. If you use them for their blood for extending your lifespan, no they don't exist. If you are using the metaphor of unicorns as "the go-to thing which is used as a counter-example of existence", then they do exist. "Existing" is nebulous.

> The interesting number paradox only works for countable sets unless I am mistaken. You can have "interesting" real numbers.

Ah yeah, right, that relies on on sequencing.
I wish CXL 2.0 excited me but it doesnt. It's still a tree of peripherals attached to a computer.

3.0 is where we get switches & fabric. Most of the marketting shows devices woth multiple virtual functions & those VFs attached to different boxes. I really really hope we see some box to box traffic too, but Im so not counting on it: hists exposing CXL.mem of themselves for others.
Insert "BUT WHY?" GIF here.

Seriously, if you're in a position to be running native code in your environment why would you chose WASM? If you're building WASM for the web, is it really more expensive to build a pure native target out of the same source? Surely, performance wise you'll always be ahead going native.
> ...seems we have spent a significant amount of effort avoiding it, but it time and time again is the best way to query your data.

It isn't that SQL is the best way (that these solutions keep gravitating towards it), it is just that SQL is pretty much the industry standard at this point. And supporting it is a predictable and usual ploy to expand userbase further.

More so for the fact that ClickHouse continues to threaten seemingly a critical portion of the business of both Snowflake and Elastic.
Was anyone under the impression that Eric Schmidt wasn't investing in AI companies? Tech billionaire invests in tech companies seems pretty expected to me, even if he was doing consulting work for the Feds during the same time period.
Ok, he is a lawyer so he knows what the law currently is. And he should also know that the law is always lagging behind, especially in technology. However, being a lawyer doesn't mean that you know how the law should work.
Right, so you believe it is for analgesia. But sacrifices need not be humane: they could just as well include components of ritualistic torture for the purpose of punishment. An example: https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/kerala-human-sacrifice...

I am curious if there is evidence that this is for analgesia or for something else.
To play devil's advocate here...

Would you want an advisor on any sector who had zero investment (monetary or otherwise) in that sector?

And it is totally standard in the US (and UK) for law makers themselves to invest, vote, and divest, literally being paid by the market for their support. So why shouldn't a mere advisor make a long term investment? If this behavior is wrong, ban it for everyone, don't pick on one guy because he used to work at Google...
Honestly, if Apple were to care, they could undo the course of computing history where at one point Windows became the monopoly.

Launch a 500$ category laptop, say 3 gens old. That would soon be M1. Won't be very profitable, but a direct competitor to the typical crappy Windows low-end laptop.

Yet it's so much better in performance, security, battery life, total lifespan, etc. Double down on making it idiot-proof. Optimize the onboarding experience for ex-Windows users, including prominent placement of alternatives for popular W32 software. Make sure Office works well, and so on.

I would admit that it would take many years to make a dent, but there's no rush to it. Windows seems a sitting duck. Nobody, including Microsoft, seems to care about it.

Edit: oh yes, forgot about gaming.
A lot of this is a result of culpability/liability/blame. Intelligent use of aesbestos will be precluded by extreme legal risk. Your coworkers probably avoided repercussions for their experiences by shifting the blame to Postgres.
Just curious, what did you end up switching to?
That is more than I have spend on computing hardware in my entire life...
They are slowly changing iPadOS and macOS to bring them closer & closer together. I have a feeling that they are going to be one & the same in 3 or so versions.
If I ever go back to a team that has daily morning stand-ups, I plan to ask that we use the meeting as an opportunity to do some morning calisthenics.

It would be good for all kinds of reasons. Helping people to wake up, discouraging long soliloquies, encouraging camaraderie, etc.

That being said, this paper uses 15 minutes of jogging as an example, and I suspect that might qualify as anaerobic exercise for many of us...
And tomatoes!
To my lights, we're in a bit of a golden age with the Mac platform; the newest revision of the M1 Macbooks are some of the best they've ever made. I'm not in love with much of the new OS stuff, but I don't need to be; I'm mostly not the audience for it, and I don't need my OS to have whizzy new stuff just for the sake of it.

I have a hard time getting myself wound up over the UI design of the System Preferences app.
The texting is actually pretty good from the watch, can use Siri or type into the watch keyboard. Same with phone calls, I use the air pods to connect and its like talking on a regular phone.

Apple pay works very well. Get emails, slack messages, etc. Can easily reply to slack messages from the watch. Cant see conversations but

Basically everything works that I need.

Alot of apps dont work, but thats the point. I dont need those apps all the time.
A Single Human Hair Nearly Halted a SpaceX Launch
Primarily because there are stricter requirements via FDA on the US food supply. If a US producer gets caught adulterating they're going to face legal issues that a foreign producer will not face. Not saying it's not possible that CA producers could be adulterating, but if they get caught there will be consequences that an importer won't face - the importer can just say they were trusting their suppliers overseas.

Also found this (from 2010): "The research team found that 69 percent of the imported oils sampled, compared with just 10 percent of the California-produced oils sampled, failed to meet internationally accepted standards for extra virgin olive oil." https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/most-imported-olive-oils-don%E2...
> Specs seem to list UEFI Secure Boot, which has been unlockable on all of Microsoft's Surface devices and previous ARM outings

That doesn't quite seem accurate.

For one example: https://www.theregister.com/2016/07/15/windows_fix_closes_rt...
To be fair, the article might have been written before that URL was up, and/or the writer received the material in a different way.
Yeah, I won't say that I've enjoyed the restrictions that've come with the various security-associated measures added over the years, but I leave them turned on anyway because all it takes is one zero-day on some site you visit that manages to worm its way through your blocking extensions.

I've been using computers for 25+ years and have been technically capable for the better part of that, but that doesn't mean I'm any less vulnerable. I'm not going to be intentionally clicking on fishy links or anything but we all make mistakes, which makes it more a matter of when than if.
It means mostly backend development. There is a whole lot of reading, a whole lot of real-time audio/video communication (via all possible communication platforms), a whole lot of web browsing, a whole lot of editing, containerization, lots of command line work utilizing my Unix/Linux knowledge from the past 20 years etc.
Lago – Overconsumption alerting workflow with n8n
Are you familiar with vim q macros? It's a similar thing but you don't need to use maps/remaps to use them: q<letter> to start recording and q (in normal mode, so <Esc>q sometimes) to stop recording. Then you can rerun the macro with @<letter> (or @@ is rerun the last macro). (Even fun things like <count>@<letter> work to rerun the macro a number of times.)

VSCodeVim seems to support q-macros just fine. The lone silly missing bit is that VSCodeVim makes it slightly tougher to save/reuse q-macros than proper Vim [1]. In Vim those letters are the exact same "registers" as copy/paste so that you can record a macro to register 'a' with `qa…<Esc>q` and then if you want to save that macro for later you can just paste it into a document somewhere `"a` (paste register a) and pull the macro back in with the right motion and yank to the register you want (`<motion>ya`). VSCodeVim unfortunately uses separate registers for now and it is a bit more work to save/restore q-macros.

[1] https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim/issues/1658
It's unfortunate that some of what made MacOS great for developers is now being phased out in favor of features that are lifted out of iOS. Apple has made developer-hostile moves over the years that seem out of line with it's old 'think different' ethos. I hope Apple takes this customer segment seriously and reverses course here, but I'm not super hopeful.

The real problem is that there isn't a reasonable alternative. Windows is out of the question for me due to not being a POSIX-based OS. WSL isn't integrated deeply enough and is still a pain in the ass to use coming from MacOS. I experimented with using a mostly stock Xubuntu setup for a bit and also found the user experience to be really subpar. Call me old, but I have no interest in dealing with the amount of configuration and tweaking necessary to be productive in a Linux environment.

Ultimately, I'm just going to stick it out with MacOS.
Ask HN: What are the success factors for AI development?
Im wondering if anyone could shed some light on the question, what contributes to some companies being successful with making use of AI in their operations, products, whatever and why struggle other (usually big / traditional) companies so much with it.
Are there underlying organizational reasons? People? Leadership? Innovation?

Any thoughts?
This Qualcom chip is very similar to the Microsoft SQ3 that is available in the new Surface Pro 9.
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For my own reasons I needed a TUI - I’m aware that part of what I wanted to do could be replicated with tmux and some tails. It wasn’t _just_ logging though, I had good reason to want a python TUI.
> I certainly lean towards virgin OO when I’m feeling that I want to be healthy.

Fwiw the use case for non-virgin olive oil is different. You’d want to use non virgin in anything that involves heat as it won’t burn or break down as easily.

For anything that you’ll taste (eg dressings) you’d want an extra virgin oil that will have more of the plants’ taste. Could be worth splurging on nice oil for dressings/dipping oil but don’t waste it on anything that’ll be heated.
Show HN: ReactiveSocial – social media image generation with React
Fair, I edited that out.
Coalinga a Town in California will run out of water by December
Yeah iMessage has a pretty great tie in with iPhones to the point that they don’t even have to be on the same network to send an sms from your laptop via your phone.
I appreciate your honesty. You are not alone in working without considering social impact, it's rife in tech and I am previously guilty too.

Alzheimer's seems a challenge! Here in China they apparently approximate it for research purposes by dosing primates with MDMA... should be easy to find volunteers!
Of course it is subjective. There are at least two parties involved. One party wants this. The other party wants that.
I find the legal and ethical implications more interesting than the technology as it stands. Maybe I just don't do the kind of work it's suited to, but I didn't find it terribly useful when I gave it a go. I had an experience that went "oh wow, that turned out a lot of code fast and it looks pretty good" followed by "oh, it made the exact subtle mistakes everyone makes when they write this kind of thing". No surprise given the nature of ML.

On the other hand, I find myself torn between "information wants to be free and this is one more nail in the coffin of our odd and ahistorical concepts of 'intellectual property' and 'plagiarism'" and "oh great, another way for giant corporations to reap all the benefits from work done by individuals and smaller businesses".

I don't think I'll ever use the thing, and I have ~0 power over the societal implications, so overall - yeah, can't get that exercised over it either.
This is kinda what I'm getting at with my original, downvoted post.

It's a giant forest of tiny little details that scientists talk about. There is nothing close to the "we're all on the same(ish) page" that software developers have. The example I went with was one I had some partial familiarity with as a former structural engineer, but ever that I found boring, let alone what type of enzyme a specific frog in the amazon uses to evade the poisons of a given snake.

The graph is too large for science to have any sort of meaningful discussion these days.
On the proposed $1.7m one there's a line item for $30k to pay a consultant to do budget estimation. Absolutely insane!
And guess what, you're gonna die some day!

What a terribly pessimistic view of sharing. MIT license gives ability to copy for any reason and it's very popular.
If I wrote a post for every major discussion or controversy i didn’t care about, that would be a lot of posts
I dunno. If you taste olive oil from a trusted source (like at the grove where the olives are grown and perhaps pressed), and compare it with $random_storebought_brand, there's a major difference in taste.

The difference doesn't make it objectively better for you, or even better tasting.

But in a world where the phenomenon of olive oil adulterated with other oils is well documented[1], it's a legitimate question to ask why the small batch oil tastes different from the big box version.

1- https://www.epicurious.com/ingredients/seven-ways-to-tell-th...
I believe midazolam can cause amnesia, it's not technically an anesthetic in the sense that it doesn't knock you out, but it's a sedative.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midazolam
You have to dig deep during the interview to suss it out. Don't make judgement calls right from the get go.

Having said that, I've heard from multiple recruiters and other engineering leaders: you have to deprogram people with long Amazon tenure. I guess Amazon really does a number on people from warehouse to codebase.
What makes you think tiktok even needs profesional paid content creators?
> StreetComplete is meant to be usable by a complete novice. Every Door looks like it's for mappers who already have a bit of an idea of what's going on and want more control over what they can add to the map.

I just discovered this app today; that's my understanding as well. It's also easier to all kind of nodes; with StreetComplete we're limited to add shops with the dedicated overlay.

Also, compared to my previous editor of choice to add nodes (OSM Go!), it seems to offer a better source of background imagery. I can actually my local government imagery source (swisstopo) instead of mapbox.
>>I'm really not an expert...

A lot more people should come to this conclusion, reflect on it, and then not post whatever thought helped them come to this realization. Just go read enough to inform an opinion on the matter before sharing it.
Ah, propranolol... how I wished it was a thing back when I was in school. I used to practice my instrument for hours every day, just to choke when performing a solo in front of an audience. Fast forward 20+ years, and I embarrass myself by freezing up during a VP review. That damn lizard brain!

I finally got a prescription, and a full bottle of pills at the ready -- but I haven't tried it yet.
Seeing a lot of comments about how supposedly a lot of EVOO sold on store shelves isn't actually pure olive oil, and I'm curious where this belief comes from. Any data or studies you can point me to?

Here's an FDA report of 88 EVOO bottles purchased from supermarkets that were tested, three of which were identified as impure enough to possibly indicate they were adulterated: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286479191_Authentic...
You forgot to mention Ubuntu’s worse part which is snap :)
I develop on Windows every day and have no issues with it. It works great if you primarily use an IDE like Visual Studio Code, and especially if you are working with .NET or Typescript.
AI Provides Substantial Improvements to County-Level Fire Weather Forecasting
Why should I care if you care. If you value your time you'll maybe be interested in having it write unit tests for you (It worked for me™). If you value protecting intellectual property you might care that it's sucking up a lot of it and making available to people who do care. I think it's a losing game because there's enough people willing to give it their intellectual property for free that by the time your get your stuff removed it's already found something similar somewhere else (Drainage my boy!)
I'm 50 and I start to struggle. Not because I can't keep up with the tech but because I refuse to. No smart tv or doorbell, a 2004 unconnected car, physical light switches etc. I spend too much time figuring out what printer will not DRM me into buying branded ink. I wonder how much longer I can keep up with this, because everything is becoming smart and "as a service". It seems the perfect products for me are the products from 15 years ago that I can hardly buy any more.
I agree. Ubuntu and VSCode has been the typical dev environment on most company-issued Windows machines for years now.
This is an excellent article. It's fascinating (if a bit sad) to see examples of what was once common knowledge disappear for no good reason.
Good reporting. Growing up, the conventional wisdom was that child services would punish families that made them get a warrant with even more unreasonable inspection and a slanted write up. I suspect not much has changed, but this New York law is so oppressive that it’s probably worth the community involving warrants more often to force these inspections to become more cursory due to limited resources.
Does the Tesla Semi Make Any Sense?
I've been using Macs exclusively since 2010, and I basically feel the same way. The hardware is still fantastic. I still plan to replace my 2015 MBP with an M2 Max MBP when they become available. But I am intensely frustrated by unnecessary and inferior UI changes that would frankly never have passed muster when Steve Jobs was alive. I know it's trite to say, but I honestly think the current Apple UX team doesn't have the same philosophy and understanding of the Apple UX teams of yore.

I say this as someone that has pretty much entirely shifted my tech to Apple over the last 5 years. I don't see me going elsewhere at the moment, but I do see a shift towards turning Mac devices into walled gardens that don't give the user actual control similar to iOS devices. I'm fine with that for my phone, not for my laptop, end of story.
Given that Steve Jobs actively colluded with Eric Schmidt to depress worker wages, maybe he was just a bad person and should be memory-holed. We can build a better world without him.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/time.com/42322/steve-jobs-chill...
Also, this wiki is a great ressource: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell
Or Alfred, been around much longer.
I couldn‘t do job interviews without -I‘d probably be unemployed.
I don't love everything about MacOS, but the IMO the Apple ecosystem is worlds ahead of everything else when it comes to amount of time spent using it vs maintenance/tweaking/updating.

As I've gotten older, I have 0 tolerance for spending time fiddling with hardware or OS issues. (I've reinstalled/tweaked Windows so many times just to keep it running well, let alone sitting through install wizards or messing with drivers).

I don't need to shop around for the most reliable hardware, I trust Apple that it will be fast enough, ergonomics will be better than most, and most importantly - will just work.
I prefer to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission whenever I want to build on something I found online.
The first thing you would have to do would be to remove much of the internal walls and structure, followed by running new electrical and plumbing. The latter two are very skilled-manual-labor intensive.
I just have a separate machine for Windows. That's not the concern.
I've done exactly that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33319875
I heard that it's the same or worse in other capitals. The message is not "it's not so bad", it's "housing is spiraling out of control in all major cities, what's the endgame?"
Except the macOS bug of being able to run 3rd party applications that don't pay 30% cut to Apple.
I share your apathy.

The legal and ethical aspects are fascinating, but I have no interest in that debate.

I care much more about my job security as a software engineer and systems architect, and on that front Copilot does nothing to challenge that.
Is there any point in switching to mesh shaders if I don't have any use for the flexibility they provide? For example, do the new semantics allow faster execution on newer hardware for converted boring vertex shaders?