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I only use it to set timers and it sucks at that half the time, not even going to bother with the faff of doing anything more complex. It's quicker to just do it myself as I'll probably have to unlock the screen anyway.

"Siri, timer, one hour thirty"

"Timers can't be set for a time of day, so I set your Timer alarm for 1:30"

Every damn time. Siri hates Brits.
I agree with you.

This very much reminds me of Apple's Newton. It was actually quite amazing given the technical constraints imposed on making something to be shipped in volume, but not only was it underpowered for what it tried to be, the "killer app" for mobile devices would turn out to be wireless internet connectivity, and the world simply wasn't ready for that yet.

Apple started Newton development in 1987, killed it in 1997 when Jobs returned, and launched iPhone in 2007, arguably the biggest consumer product hit in history.

I'm rooting for Meta's demise, but history shows that it's quite possible for a company to try something, fail spectacularly, but come back and get it right when the universe catches up to the ambition.

Then again, Palm launched their first device in 1996, and had a big hit. But by the end of 2011, they were done. There are no guarantees that the company creating a market will be the one to profit from it.
Easy to throw over a cart when you have no stake.

Why dont you build a better model then replace it?

A lot of jobs depend on ads, dont shit all over people :)
Everyone, even bitter permanent enemies and polar opposites, came together to fight ISIS, so I think there's a chance, even if it's tiny.
This is one thing Microsoft had right in the Windows NT days, dog food the product. If the devs you're paying aren't willing to use it, there's no chance the paying customers will touch it.
The relational model.

Is so simple, that for like a decade I was using it with great success without having a clue about it.

Then when I start looking for my hobby programming language, was the one that pop-up as the easiest to implement with the greatest level of potential and expressivity. There is when I truly pay attention to the actual theory.

And the shocking part is that the theory is so small that you can put in in a single piece of paper.

Why is not more prevalent? I dunno!
I think Apple will come out with the best hardware.

Why?

1. Best mobile SoC designs by far. Not even close.

2. Hardware company at heart. Their culture is built for hardware.

3. Way more supply chain and mass manufacturing experience which means cheaper manufacturing.

4. Hardware designed for iPhone, iPad, Mac can be reused for VR/AR which means lower costs and more economy of scale. IE. M2 is used on both iPad and Macs. M2 cores are derived from A15 from iPhone 13.
Exactly.

In any substantial language, the "lexer" and "parser" represent less than 1% of the work of implementing the language. In the Ecstasy (xtclang) project, writing the lexer and parser (and then bootstrapping them both in the Ecstasy language) took less than 4 person weeks, out of 750+ (and counting) person weeks spent implementing the language.
Just remember the Mantra of Silicon Valley: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win" -Gandhi

To be ignored or laughed at is, in a traditional SV company's mind, simply stage 1 or 2 of the plan, and if stage 4 never happens it's because they were "ahead of their time" or something, never can it be that the idea is fucking stupid.
No I don't agree with this - the expectation is that the ads are there. Whether they're successful or not is their problem.
Not sure if comparison to Texas is appropriate. Gun laws and property protection laws are very different there and act is a big deterrent for such crimes.
I'm not necessarily buying that Meta is going to have the best hardware.
reading reports for the last years, surprising to me was to find out the huge changes in sea level in fairly short time spans. Not "geological time" like some distant multi-hundred thousand year units, but instead more like sixty thousand years ago.. that is not so many human generations..

secondly, overall, the profound beauty of living ecosystems will be reduced brutally in the coming age. Monotonous and harsh regions will replace large areas, with ecosystem die-offs -- maybe slightly analogous to coral reef death.

It has been two solid decades of science reports for me, probably many others. Certainly some appreciation is called for, for the hard work of a few boomer scientists who have seen this unfold, and are now basically facing "geezerhood" with the toothless and feeble reality of that, while the Earth systems continue to degenerate at such a pace.
People love discussing RM2, so I suspect just a PSA. It's also a PSA that Boox exists :)
Not to say that Metaverse will necessarily fit the bill, but the question is whether your boss will be interested enough in getting Facebook level stalking power into their employees working day, me thinks.
It takes a lot less time to learn to be fairly productive with awk than with, say, vi / vim. Over time I've realized that gluing these text manipulation tools together is only an intermediate step toward learning how to write and use them in a manner that is maintainable across several generations of engineers as well as portable across many different environments, and that's still a mostly unsolved problem IMO for not just shell scripts but programming languages in general. For example, the same shell script that does something as seemingly simple as performing a sha256 checksum on macOS won't work on most Linux distributions. So in the end one winds up writing a lot of utilities all over again in yet another language for the sake of portability which ironically hurts maintainability and readability for sure because it's simply more code that can rot.
That's true but we're talking a very long time when you look at how many decades of gains were priced into these peak prices. Most people that got into an even worse situation (~07) never did get back to purchase price to this day. From what I've seen, these recent peaks didn't match what was going on back then.
"Every population ideology eventually skews sinister. Opponents of underpopulation, just like opponents of overpopulation, issue decrees in their thunderous way simply to conceal a monstrous program of eugenics."

No kidding. There is quite a collection of stories and quotes here that make me squirm.
Hot take: we really should rethink those lines, since they were drawn to balance a power struggle resolved >150 years ago.
With Certainty
The parent comment was about a knee-capped economy which would also affect the rich, wouldn't it?
>Imagine the Cambrian explosion that will take places when playing becomes as simple as clicking a link?

We've had Canvas/WebGPL since 2011. Emscripten came out 10 years ago. WebAssembly 5 years ago. I've seen countless of these kinds of demos over the last decade. Literally no difference between this one and what was demoed years ago.

So for years a plugin-free browser was good enough for 'modern fidelity' gaming - but it never happened.

There is no 'Cambrian explosion' coming. Casual mobile killed casual browser gaming.
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>Google has next to no presence in mobile/non-browser ads so I dont think they care much.

Uh... what?
what indicates Apple will even play in VR market?
Diem – Facebook open source Cryptocurrency written in Rust
I am clapping for you one handed :), thank you for your service!
Judging people because they don't have YOUR moral code? So cringy.

Please define these morals explicitly so we know what it is we have to do instead of just berating people for arbitrary violations.
Canada is tripling its carbon tax meanwhile residents e.g. in Newfoundland are suffering extremely under the cost of fuel prices for heating their home, so much so that even liberal mps are voting to exempt home heating from the tripling of the carbon tax. So this argument definitely still valid in Canada, though I do agree that it is more valid is more developing countries.
Google should throw resources into Project Starline and shift their focus from business to personal use. I get it's insanely expensive and that shouts "enterprise!" but people will pay a lot for a realistic enough experience of being with their loved ones that they don't get to see.
Parental availability has been steadily declining for decades - the same decades where video game usage took the place of other activities. You can do your own research. If it's difficult to get hard data, use soft data and draw inferences, but don't invalidate what data we clearly have and from which plenty of valid use can be extrapolated.
People have been worrying about Apple locking stuff out for decades - and they haven't. And why would they? What do they gain by restricting access to the hardware? It just doesn't make sense. People love to ascribe all sorts of motives to them that are, quite frankly, utterly ridiculous. They aren't perfect - no one company is - but they certainly are one of the better choices given where things are going in general.
I still can't picture how anyone is supposed to get any actual work done when they've got that thing on.
A mindset that is unfortunately too common.
The stock dropping 23% tells you that it's (much) worse than expected. That bad news were anticipated (and priced in) makes it even worse.
One thing I'm not seeing in the discussion is usually the customers start by-passing support all together and you end up with that guy that gets like a million emails and doesn't have time to do his normal job.
Ask HN: How did you learn to draw diagrams?
I find myself getting into more situations where I have to convey the structure of a project, or the workflow of a functionality, or a general idea for a UI, and I have very limited skills at what I can produce. I can usually get by with simple diagrams and meetings to clarify the rest, but it would be nice to produce more expressive diagrams to convey more complex ideas.

Do you know any books or articles or software that have helped you develop these skills? Did you learn to draw diagrams for different scenarios (databases, networks, UI, workflows), or do the skills in one scenario translate easily to others?

Currently I usually get stuck into one of the following approaches:

- UML, but I find that you almost never want the whole database on screen when discussing something, and to show only parts of the database UML is not so descriptive to highlight the different functionalities.

- Boxes and arrows. I always find that colored boxes and arrows work well for 3-4 components, but start getting mushy after that and I need more resources to be able to convey different levels of abstraction.
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Is it possible to see it in VR?
Meta's problem is that mark just told wall st. to fuck off. Every investor is screaming to lower costs and he's raising them. It's not next years profit that investors are scared about, it's their lack of control over mark. This earnings report would mean Mark is fired even if he controlled 40% of the votes, it was that reckless.
Unlikely, a significant proportion of VR sales are due to gaming. Apple may win the business VR market but it'll likely fall flat for all other uses.
Do you live far away enough from the coast ?

Rising costs of food and energy won't be a problem ?
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson is a fun book, where diamond becomes an extremely cheap building material due to nanotechnology.
I would only want a headset that could give me experiences I couldn't get anywhere else. Being trapped in a box and working sounds like prison.
US Level
Growing up in Illinois in the '70s that was the "time and temperature" number. It was also the fake number you gave out if people asked and you didn't want them to get your real number.
I don't believe that Metaverse would be a success, but I still think $META could be a good value buy at this point. Investors are forgetting that $META still has an asset that it has not realized the potential of—WhatsApp. The app has 2B monthly active users and many of them are non-tech savvy who would loath at the idea of switching to another app. There are ~500M users in India alone[1]. Can you believe that? 40%+ of the country actively using an app?

The advertising potential is insane. But again, it's only speculation that the potential can be realized. I do think it doesn't hurt to have one risky bet in your portfolio.

[1]: https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/whatsapp-may...
The thing it reminds me of most is when Michael Jordan tried to play baseball.
Ah, I commented with the command message since I felt uncomfortable with a bot giving out medical advice over the internet. But given it seems to specialise in medical advice, it's fine (maybe?). Perhaps add a disclaimer at the end of messages?
Ads were much more relevant in a time when micropayments were much less feasible than they are today. There isn't any good reason Facebook can't charge $40/year if they commit to making it good again (e.g. rolling back to 2011 or so) and hosting only the highest paid ads (e.g. Superbowl level production values).
It looks like this ended because they moved to permanent UTC+1 now... Casablanca is at 7.6 degrees west, nearly on the border between theoretical UTC and UTC-1. I understand relations with their African neighbors aren't great, so this is presumably to synchronize with European neighbors? It looks like they do still drop back to UTC for Ramadan.
What is the reason that Mixpanel and GTM are on this page? Is there a specific reason that such invasive tracking is required for an educational resource that does not generate revenue?
>I think that having a framework written in general purpose language is part of the problem because it allows for things to turn into horrific balls of mud.

Yeah, the problem definitely is that people are able to write code that gets thing done, instead of being unable to perform their work.
> advertisers to create unblockable ads that are served from the same domain as the website

Why would I visit an advertisers web site? :)

Ads inline with content are usually "sponsorships". I have no issue with ads where it's the case that a publisher has a relationship with a product. And this isn't what ad blocking seeks to address.

They would be harder to block. But it is no challenge really for a browser extension. But again - such "sponsorship ads" don't bother me in the least.
It's going to be an interest year or two if all tech stocks continue to fall. Most of these companies pay largely in RSUs for more senior ICs and managers. RSUs strike a price at the grant date. If you're paid 50% in stock, and the stock falls by 24%, you just took a 12% pay cut.

Meanwhile, the new guy doing the same job as you got their RSUs granted at today's stock price, but the target value for someone at that job level- no pay cut for them, effectively.

It's a recipe for a lot of people swapping jobs just to keep their incomes at the same level.

Or, companies can do as my employer did (bias note) and switch to a new comp system that avoids these problems: https://news.shopify.com/rewriting-the-story-of-compensation
VHS: CLI home video recorder
It's more geared towards organized lessons or competitions. In something like FLL, kids are given problems to solve on a board (move this from here to there, trigger this mechanism, etc) and they need to use the robot to solve it. So they are not building bipedal robots but tools geared toward a specific "mission" (an FLL term). When my kid did it the team needed to do everything, including building the robot, and needed to collaborate since generally each member of the team had a mission and the robot needed to do all of them in a certain time. This often meant returning home, swapping out an attachment and starting again, so a design that was quickly modified on the board was an advantage.

It's all arguably less fun, but certainly easier to sell to institutions designing curriculum.

EDIT: One thing I want to add is that though I also played with technic, I saw FLL attract kids who wouldn't otherwise be attracted to STEM because FLL had a social aspect. I felt it was a great way of introducing kids to robotics and programming because they could do it with friends and work towards some goal. I loved technic, but it was a solo pursuit and though that worked for me, it doesn't work for everyone. So when I say Spike is "less fun", I mean that it probably doesn't attract the kid who wants to build a robot, but it certainly did work in bringing in kids who would never play with technic at all.
Youtube is a great example of your argument - you can subscribe and avoid ads (I think?).

I would gladly do so, except google is also stealing my data and now these thieves have it tied to my CC#.
Tested a short bet yesterday. Was not disappoint.
Apple's new iCloud web interface is much more useful than before
Truly unreasonable people often only look unreasonable right up until the threat of actually losing one of their most valuable employees looks credible. Then they change their tune pretty quickly.

Either way if you are negotiating with the leverage to just walk away then you have placed yourself in a win/win scenario.
> without Russia any of these goals are senseless

This is an absurd take... Russia emits 4.65% of world output and has been decreasing last year the most out of the top 10 [0]. Could you base your arguments? I'd like to understand where this is coming from.

[0] https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-by...
I was watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6AOwDttBsc about Meta's VR prototypes. They seem pretty clear-headed on where they need to get to, but a lot of it seems like a decade away. At double the price-point of Quest Pro, Apple may solve some of VR's issues (battery-life, speed, ergonomics and looks) but the screen-tech just doesn't exist yet.
This is where I started and it's engaging and bleak and heartbreaking. Such is much of his work. Blood Meridian is generally considered his magnum opus, but it's a much more difficult read.
Just individuals' hopes and dreams that VR will some day be useful I think.
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I really want a hybrid solution. Where my files are in both the Cloud and my Local NAS. I can cut off my subscription whenever I want, and I can change and sort the files on my Server at much faster speed. I also get the extra protection of offsite backup and redundancy check for files corruption.
Employees assess themselves as being the most productive working from home, management assess them as being the least productive. Management absolutely want in person office level control over their employees. Take a look at some of the things Microsoft Purview now tracks (and in some cases had to stop tracking due to backlash)
Every report, rumor, public interviews from executives have pointed to a VR device in 2023.
It’s interesting that moral and social burden is somehow put onto people that don’t want to be tracked/shadow profiled/spied on, and NOT on the companies that do tracking/spying.
Shopify’s system drastically limits the upside which is unattractive
The lack of features is a feature until you discover how much better the Boox experience is, where you can download apps for Safari Books, MS's One Note app, and even the default reader gets much better.

To say that the lack of features is intentional is a bit disingenuous. It doesn't force you to focus, it just forces you to pick up your phone to get distracted.
i am using it on an iPhone with Firefox right now
Also, mechanically, as someone who was paid primarily in RSUs last year, you pay taxes based on their value at the date of grant. This is painful if they go down quite a bit between when you receive them vs tax time.
The fact it is a "losing battle" for the next centuries has consequences. But not all of those consequences is despairing. Even if geoengineering is the only possible, yet dangerous and uncertain, way to make a dent in our CO2 "credit card debt" we still need aggressive investment in CO2 reduction. Continuing to bear down on the causes of anthropogenic climate change is the most effective way to reduce risk from geoengineering.
If your solution involves Russia getting on board then you've already failed. Russia is actually encouraging climate change because it opens up more shipping in the arctic circle. This is to illustrate that in the short term climate change leads to winners and losers. In the long term we probably all lose, but we're not known for our long term thinking.
"Quiet! The commercial's on! If we don't watch these, it's like we're stealing TV."
What moral and social burden? If you don't like it, ignore them and don't visit their websites. They aren't forcing you to.
Seagate will cut 3k employees in latest sign of major PC and cloud slowdown
My guess is Valve is bought by Apple at some point.
I believe you meant Jancovici? https://jancovici.com/en/
If it was in any sense "known," the stock wouldn't have moved 25% in a day.
A prison with sponsored skins for your virtual keyboard and mouse.
Incredible. Going through this gave me similar sentiments to when i first used my school library copy of Encarta 98.

Question: there are some blurred out areas, how come?

e.g. https://imgur.com/a/6Ca5EYG
Have you heard of Apple Arcade?
Let me check... yep, it's down. It makes sense, these I Bonds are a great investment in the current market.
Poor people care less for the environment than wealthier people, as a general rule. So if you push more people into poverty you get a population that will care about environmental concerns less. E.g. they will overharvest fish populations, or care less about other environmental pollution because their primary concern is getting food on their table and surviving. It's like maslow's heirarchy of needs. People generally need to look after their own and their family's survival first before they look at the survival of the environment.
How do you make sure the developers are trained to handle support. Sorry, that feature isn't scheduled to happen anytime soon. What happens if the customer blows up at the developer.
tldr, for those who skip directly to the comments:

> Commitfest is a month-long activity that Postgres contributors dedicate to looking at the patches, reviewing them, improving, and committing to the master branch. There are 5 commitfests each year.

Commitfest #40 is starting in November - you can see the current set of patches here: https://commitfest.postgresql.org/40/
I think you missed the most important point - no one wants VR apart from a niche audience.
the rebranding was to skirt antitrust and regulatory scrutiny. They’re trying to convince regulators and the jury they are a AR/VR company, even though their entire business is (and will be) all funded by ads and data mining.
I actually think capitalism and free markets are the most viable solution. The problem is "short-sighted" capitalism that focuses on quarterly "hand to mouth" profits as opposed to people seeing the long-term business opportunities that lie in pivoting to renewables. As much as I detest Elon Musk, I think making the eco-friendly option cool and desirable for reasons beyond environmental impact is one of the best ways to encourage growth towards a more eco-friendly society.
>This was priced in

Ah yes, those perfectly efficient markets, where everyone is doing DCF analysis.

Feels a little silly to be talking about things being "priced in" when a trillion-dollar-company loses a quarter of its market cap in 24 hours, no?