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> intuitive, reactive interfaces

Really? Do you think modern user interfaces are great? Everybody implements their widgets from scratch using html, css and Javascript. The boring old ui toolkits standardized a lot of features that are today non existent or different everywhere. For example a plain old list widget where you could select multiple items had standard ways to select ranges, to add ranges to a selection, to toggle the selection of single items, to select all of them. Most modern software doesn't have those actions. And even if it has some of them you have to find out how. Whereas such things used to be commonplace. Regularity of boring features is actually intuitive. Nice looking is not intuitive.
Yea that's fair, and I totally understand when sites limit to newer (last 2-3 years) versions of browsers or limit to Chrome, Safari, and Firefox.

But to cap it at just Chrome like its 2012 when browser compatibility has come such a long way is likely unnecessary and frankly lazy on their part. I can't think of an API that they definitely would need to use that isn't in Firefox.
The difference is India's been an API manufacturing hub for a while now, so I would think the hiccups are likely out of the system at this point. Pharma is also much less manual, and has standards and guidelines like GMP, so generally easier to export.

But to really understand what 50% means in the context of Apple, it would be interesting to see how long it took China to achieve such great numbers in tech manufacturing, and even seeing how long it took India to become acceptable to pharma QA standards
I am an entrepreneur & a small business owner in India. I did a small manufacturing in China & was blown away by their professionalism. The article mentions - `Chinese suppliers had a totally different attitude, aiming to exceed the Cupertino company’s expectations` - this is so true.

In India, most manufacturing companies or businesses are trying to sell what they have or can produce (without any attention to detail). As a result, false promises & contracts are prevalent. There are no SOP's or any organized sampling process in most Indian companies vs Chinese who keep everything very formal & organized.

I never visited China & the manufacturing went perfect. In India, I personally visited the factories & still could not get the job done. All samples were rejected. Lost money & most importantly time. It's a damn mess. People seriously lack work ethic.
It's your space to breathe on the internet! Let go of your old browser! Here are some pictures you can move around with your mouse. Give us your email address and you'll be given a place in line, which we'll inform you about...sometime.

Or if you want some actual information, this and several other preview articles explain what it actually is: https://www.theverge.com/23462235/arc-web-browser-review

Of you could watch their own interactive preview: https://thebrowser.company

I seems like it's potentially a very cool product, but I don't care for marketing departments that are too cool to explain why they deserve my attention and data. That's just playing on emotions like FOMO. I hope they reconsider and change their landing page to actually inform potential users instead of just teasing them.
What fraction of the recalls were fixed via OTA software updates?
This is the same kind of mentality espoused by "cut the red tape" types in the West. The kind who post images such as the 1930s construction workers having lunch on a suspended beam with a caption like "Back when we could build things". Worker fatality rates, of course, not even alluded to.

If you try to eliminate bureaucracy, you very quickly find out what it was all for.
And H3 is already pretty widely deployed, so unless TurboTLS has some really compelling benefits, it will lose by default.

HTTP/3 is in most browsers under 3 years old, and most server stacks support it (usually with a bit of extra config).
When uploading (drag&drop or choose file) an image, jpg is not recognized, only jpeg and png.
Sure, marketing for a great new search engine would be pretty easy.

But the demands of the regular user and the power user are very different. So before ChatGPT, I'm not sure that also catering to the power users would have helped Google with their regular users.
Is there any way to get unencrypted data in or out? I'd like to feed it real-world data and get real-world data out, but not know the internal state.
Newer software in most cases has more features but do we all really need all this features? All features I use in the newest MS Office where already present in Office 2000. Sure there are people who use features added recently, but if only a small fraction users uses a feature it can be implemented in a plugin (given an architecture which allows independent extensions). This way all these new feature would not increase startup time and would not send OS to swapping if you don't have enough RAM.
I think it's awesome that some people enjoy their work and love their jobs.

That said, if you aren't an owner of the company then I think it's unhealthy to be emotionally invested.

In my last job, I had received a competing offer and informed my boss that I would rather not leave but that this other offer was too financially good for me to ignore. My boss responded by beating the other offer and I stayed there for about five more years.

I later admitted to him that I felt guilt about leveraging an offer in this way. He said something that really stuck with me: "You've got to put yourself first".

In retrospect, the thing that actually stuck with me is that I'd gleamed into the mind of upper management. That is, they are putting themselves first, and so should you.
Well, fortunately I don't use Teams every minute of my day. When I need it it works mostly fine.

Of course if you use Windows, on other platforms Teams works completely unreliably or doesn't work at all. But that is another issue. I gave up using Linux at work on bare metal and started using a VM (not only for Teams). On macOS it works but not as good as Windows (I have some coworkers that has a mac, they loose notifications a lot)
All good questions, asked by all the devs here. I'm not about to defend the use of this particular product. I was just pointing to an example of FOSS that not only isn't free, it's very expensive.
Most (all?) of these 'recalls' were fixed over the air
Probably a distinction without a difference in this case.

The Canal really does not like sailboats, so it’s expensive, and can take upwards of a week to get all the measuring and certification done, which must be done in person in Panama and cannot be done in advance.

A small racing boat (it only had 2 people onboard) may well also not be able to accommodate the required pilot and handlers onboard.
I’m not sure that sufficiently explains an apparent ability to do three dimensional reasoning when performing statistical inference in two dimensions?
I'm not sure if you realize how what you said looks, but I clearly cut the whole college thing early. Studying the required math for programming, even leaving out DS&A, is very hard. It's a lot of book reading, not a lot of hand holding, and self learners will probably have to learn the same thing many times over. That's to say, the deliberate training is exactly what I was speaking to from my own experience.
Can't be that abysmal if you're jealous of it and is similar to your idea of a holy grail. Is it Jedox perhaps?
There is a (in)famous interview with Steve Jobs about why Apple is manufacturing in China.

Paraphrased it went something like "we could fit all experts in $hardware_field in this conference room, but in China we can't fit them in a stadium".

The scale at which China has built up an educated work force is at a staggering scale.
The trouble with a single, unstandardised implementation is that it's only available on the OSs and CPUs that the lone implementation developers choose to target.

By creating a standard, and allowing multiple implementations, someone creating a new OS or a new CPU architecture can create their own implementation of the language without having to wait for anyone else to deign to create the port.

Maybe a new implementation won't compile very fast, or produce great code, or it might not even catch all the incorrect constructs that it ought to. But if it can make all the existing code written in that language suddenly available for the new platform, that platform instantly becomes orders of magnitude more useful and powerful.

> How hard is it to write C++20 code that will compile with all major compilers on all major OSs?

That depends on the code. You want to compile Firefox? You might be out of luck.

You want to compile curl? Based on how portable it already is, chances are it might work out of the box once you've got a libc implementation working.

You want to compile Gnu bash and coreutils, to get a basic Posix shell environment up and running? It might be a bit of work, but easier than having to reimplement a whole userland from scratch.

> But please explain how Python and Go managed to succeed with one impl.

It's not that the language can't succeed - at least, not on popular platforms that the devs are interested in targetting. It's that those devs get to dictate which platforms are even capable of making use of the software written in those languages.

And that just rubs me the wrong way.
> However, you can also advertise H3 support via Alt-Svc, so presumably you could do the same with TurboTLS.

Alt-Svc is an http header, by the time you get http you already have TLS setup. In a Alt-Svc workflow you generally advertise h2 in TLS ALPN, then use Alt-Svc to advertise h3 capability in the headers of the first response, and then the client establishes a h3 connection and closes the h2 connection when it is ready (and the h2 connection does not have any queued requests). At least that is my understanding.
Suggestion: add a toggle for dark-mode, for websites that use it.
Angle in radians is just (length of arc) / (radius). That is length/length, which cancel out - so angle is dimensionless.

Solid angle is area/area.
True I knew in the moment I wasn't quite right about the exact agency. The core point stands though imo, car crashes don't receive the same scrutiny airplane crashes do in most cases.
Clipping at 40 mph would make for some heavy winds on the main deck for recreation.
This runs fine in RAM constrained (<2gb) situations: https://huggingface.co/EleutherAI/gpt-neo-125M

It's bigger brother, 1.3b, uses ~5.5gb of memory but yields slightly more GPT-like answers. Both take ~5-20 seconds to generate a response though, so take that into account when building with it.
The third example (locksmiths) I get, they're making a little show to avoid a difficult conversation with some customers[0]. A bit scummy, but then again, plenty of customers are no saints themselves. However, the first two examples feel like self-fulfilling prophesies to me.

Normal people have no reference point to judge how fast or slow software and hardware should be, other than through direct experience. By adding fake delays to avoid being honest and perhaps reassuring occasional surprised users, vendors just screw with the mental frameworks people build, at scale. It's a wasted opportunity, too, because if you're brave enough to be honest about execution time and weather the initial wave of distrust, then you may become a new reference point for your users, who will now view your competitors' software as bloated.

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[0] - Though recently I brought this story up with a locksmith, and he said he thinks it's just stupid and there are hardly any situations in which it would even make sense.
Yes, Hyundai/Kia are out there!
I wrote my first program in 1994 in Turbo Pascal.

Yes, you're right, Ctrl-S is so deeply embedded in my subconsciousness that I will be probably pressing those keys on my deathbed.
show me Reason that is not axiomatically embedded in language.

for anything else, how can you possibly know it's not operating on a (massively) complex statistical model? are you gonna ask it? if you do science on it to discover it's complexity, why is the computationally shorter method to achieve the same results any worse or less authentic?

it's like saying the closed form solution of a summation isn't "really" a summation either

finally, you are letting the word "semantically" do a lot of work for you.
It's not about corporate loyalty - it's about passion to do good work without blaming others (colleagues, tech stack, corporate environment) for why you suck.

Look, I've been creating software for 40 years now in a wide variety of industries and many, many tech stacks. The people passionate about doing good work simply do good work. That other guy? He's all bluster. They eventually wash out. Nowadays their strategy is to get hired at a FAANG and have earned enough to retire by the time they wash out. It's really pathetic and frankly I say good riddance to those people. I've seen many of them come and go over the years and the team is almost as better off after they leave.

Meanwhile, if you're solving real problems real people are having and they're willing to pay for them to be solved then you'll remain employed.
Is this the same car that is famously about to be best seller even tho it's 2-3x the price of the current best seller?
I think this downplays some of the work Valve/Steam has done for Linux, especially recently.

For a long time, playing games on Linux wasn't a "nerd" thing, it was a "nobody" thing. Getting AAA games to run on Linux was a pipe dream.

Valve has put in the work (and in some cases, hired the people putting in the work) to get us to today, where most games work with decent performance (the major exception being anti-cheat, but Valve is slowly working on those as well).
Few people seem to know this, but you can disable auto-suggest in Copilot, so it only suggests things when you proactively ask it to. I only prompt it when I know it will be helpful and it's a huge time saver when used that way.
Creative! Will there be a Linux version available?
was he a physicist or not? studied but no degree
Nice. Nuclear powered. Reminds me of Russia's nuclear-powered ice breakers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arktika-class_icebreaker
Germany has a very unique history when it comes to how records of their population were used...
Ask HN: Is anyone familiar with Technical Content Marketing?
Hello HN,

I have an undergrad degree in bio engineering and have been working as a javascript and ruby software engineer for about 5 years. Recently a startup reached out to me about a Technical Content Marketer (TCM) role - it seems a little interesting and somewhat of a hybrid between technical writing and interfacing with other devs.

I'm "curious" about the role and think it could be an interesting change of pace but it's not something I'd seek out myself normally. Ultimately, if/when I ever switch out of a "purely technical position" it would be with the goal of moving towards an Eng. Leadership/Director type role. It seems moving from a TCM position to Dev. Advocate position could make sense but am just spitballing here.

Has anyone worked with/as/for TCMs in the past? What is typically expected from the position? What future "makes sense" for someone working as a TCM?

Thanks for any thoughts, cheers.
> Very cool stuff if you're into clean/sterile living.

One concern I've heard about UV (and ionization) stuff is that you're adding 'active chemistry' into your ventilation system, which could possibly cause strange reactions you may not want.

Besides 'bugs' and dead skin, there are are VOCs and other chemicals that we use in our homes: how will those reaction? If these units are new and working properly, things may be fine, but how many homeowners will do (or have someone do) regular inspections/maintenance? Having this stuff in non-residential places may be fine because Facilities has a role in keeping HVAC working: regular people don't do that.

Having good filters (MERV ≥13) will get rid of most of stuff you don't want in a simpler fashion.
That sounds like an endorsement of their ads platform?
Many people in US prisons are there for drug related offenses, which were invented precisely to jail the black population. And while you probably can’t be jailed for praying, you definitely can be put there for rough sleeping or many other non-crimes invented for that specific purpose.

But you are right it’s not directly comparable - the usual American way of dealing with the Uighur ethnic group is killing them from safe distance (see Middle East), not incarceration.
> That is, they are putting themselves first, and so should you.

Another point to make is, it's possible to know this, put yourself first, and still love your job.
Would this also work by using the accoustic field on the material that instead of air, was suspended in a liquid? It seems like it's using the relative densities of the materials anyway, so whether it's sound through air or another medium seems equivalent.
From the utility? That's crazy.
I'm sorry, but if I implied anything about loyalty then I apologize.

I don't think loyalty or trust are needed in an environment where all parties adhere to agreement(s) and have the process that lets everyone win.
Where is the evidence that these objects existed at all? The US Government has refused to share the footage captured by its airplanes so far.

The US Government is likely responsible for the trickery behind "The Battle of Los Angeles" and similar tricks in 1941 over NYC, both of which were likely staged in order to frighten the American public into supporting the war. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-time-a-ufo-invaded-lo_b_6...
> Is the obsession with aliens/UFO's a human thing, or just an American thing?

Mostly an American thing, pushed on by continued interest -- eyeballs drive all.

At this point I'm convinced it's a US Gov ploy to distract crazy right-wingers and domestic saboteurs, since UFO crazes in the press tend to follow right-wing agitation. Runs all the way back to the 90s and Oklahoma City. Keep the conspiracy nuts busy for a few weeks until things calm down, etc. etc.
Skin cancer is easy to prevent by not allowing the light to shine directly on anyones skin, and using non-UV reflective enclosures.

Ozone is already a known and easily tested quantity, and generally only happens at 240nm and lower wavelengths. So 222 as listed might produce some, but doesn't seem optimal (180nm seems better).

Found a paper - seems likely that is the case [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/php.13391]

Note scale on the first graph.

edit: ah hah, but many of these lamps have defects that can result in higher freq. light emission and high ozone production! See later parts of the paper.
Disclaimer that I’m in the current YC batch with a company trying to solve exactly this (resync.ai has a contact button if you’d like to learn more).

I think this is a real and very substantial problem on a bunch of different levels.

For ICs, they spend a bunch of time finding scattered resources which usually involves pinging each other on Slack “what’s the latest on X” or “where can I find Y.” This incurs continuous cost on the team’s attention.

For PMs, if they’re good they’re in all the different convos and tools and they become the “reducer” for the rapidly changing team state. But this duty takes away from the more strategic/future-looking work that a PM should be doing.

For director++ people, what we’ve learned over the last few months is that they don’t know what their org is working on either. In easy-money times you just keep hiring through the inefficiency but now companies are starting to take account of what their org is actually working on and we’ve heard some real horror stories about these efforts (e.g. discovering you have many more large eng projects ongoing than you have engineers).

The underlying fact that makes a solution difficult for each party is that no one views maintaining this truth as their job, or if they do, they do it in the cheapest way available (see the PM who just sits in every single meeting, watches every Slack thread, every file’s comments) which tends to just move the problem.

The key thing to solve is how do you make curation and updating of “shared truth” and its associated resources a natural byproduct of doing the work you’re already doing. You’ve got to figure out a way to connect the substance layer of the work (various documents, chats, mockups, issues) with the ”meta” layer of the work (indices, decision logs, status reports, etc) with close to zero work from IC level people.

We’ve found this problem emerges around 30 headcount, gets super painful around 100, and continues to just get worse from there.
Reader is expensive, but the best as you can save and annotate PDFs & Youtube videos as well.
Write total shit for code, then look like a 'genius' for 'fixing' bugs, only to have them come back again in the future (further looking like a clown to the rest of the team)
> I think this downplays some of the work Valve/Steam has done for Linux

Quoting myself: "the achievement is still nothing short of miracle" ;)
Looks great and works great! A reset button would be nice to undo the horrible mess I made.

A minor note, when I load the page I get console warnings about an Audio Context being prevented from starting automatically, but once I click play everything works perfectly fine.
Did HRC's campaign website get hacked? I know her mailserver was hacked, but that was when she was secretary of state, no?
By the time the S/360 was announced, IBM had already been producing top-of-the-line systems with the main processor sharing memory with several I/O "channels" for several years -- which would be "mainframes" by any reasonable definition I can think of other than "S/360 and derivatives" (which, by the way, excludes competing mainframe systems from Univac and Burroughs, among others).
More than once I had to leave in order for an employer to take action against a problem employee, including my boss once. In these cases the employer suddenly realized that it made no sense to attempt to replace me without removing the reason that drove me out.
I think that is perfectly acceptable for a product that is otherwise very good and completely free. You don't even need a Google account to use it (at least in the browser, not sure about on phones).
Just fixed! https://github.com/daveearley/screenshot.rocks/pull/59 - Thanks for letting me know
South Korea is a much smaller country with a national healthcare system, strict weapons laws and CCTV everywhere

> Over 10,000 cars were stolen in Milwaukee in 2021

A third of them weren't Kias OR Hyundais

> American social dysfunction

All your stats are about Milwaukee, not America at large
It's rather amusing that there are other comments here talking about how the balloon coverage is American media distracting you from the derailment.
Not that unusual for transatlantic liner to be close to that kind of speed.

They’re transport, not recreation.

Titanic could hit almost 30.
Do you think Apple is drastically underestimating the scale and sophistication required to move their manufacturing? Do you think Tim Cook made a strategic error here, owing partially to his lack of understanding of the involvement of these processes?

There will be growing pains moving and scaling manufacturing anywhere. The fact that there are early obstacles and hurdles does not mean we should simply throw up our hands and say "whelp, looks like China is the only option, we have no choice but to stick there!".

Apple is developing manufacturing infrastructure to derisk their supply chain. Because they have 50% rejection rates for iPhone casings at one particular manufacturing facility in India does not really imply anything other than teething issues with scaling up.

The original Financial Times original this blog post is based on fleshes out the issues and obstacles in greater depth IMO and is worth a read:

https://www.ft.com/content/0d70a823-0fba-49ae-a453-2518afcb0...
Pretty sure Apple will allow you to connect the headset to a Mac.