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> The only two reasons to use Windows or Mac are:
- your workplace / school requires it because of specific software
- you want to play games with absolutely no issues

Have you ever met someone who preferred Windows or Mac? I know many, many software engineers who prefer Windows or Mac as their daily driver AND development machine.

Believe it or not, there are people who develop apps for iOS. They use macOS, and frankly the experience is pretty great. There are also people who develop apps for Windows. This, of course, is possible on Linux. However again, the experience on Windows is pretty great too.

With macOS in particular, although I hate to say it, their unified ecosystem is the best available. Nothing comes close to macOS/iPadOS/iOS/watchOS/tvOS integration that works with all of their apps seamlessly.

Sure, I prefer Linux for _some_ software development, however for a daily driver macOS has a lot of advantages that Linux currently can't offer. The open-source ecosystem still has a ways to go in man regards, and it has its fair share of problems.

> Use actual Linux, WSL should only be considered if you actually need Windows to be your daily driver, which I doubt. It's just an added layer of confusion and you'll end up confused as to where Windows ends and Linux begins.

This statement leads me to believe that you haven't tried WSL, or perhaps that you only tried a very very early beta stage.
How to back up a Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) distribution
Opting in to Transparent Telemetry
I think what would surprise younger people is how in the very old days it was unclear that RAM would win over all other forms of access and there was quite a bit of non-random access hardware available such as "bubble memory" and CCDs and various delay line schemes and magnetic drums etc. Much like trying to tell young people that tape was once used as primary storage for computing not as backup-only storage.

On one hand its annoying having to pump addresses and later rows and columns at memory vs "here's a stream, best of luck using it" but the program complexity and performance gains of random access are very high so RAM wiped out ideas like using CCDs as anything other than video sensors.

Seeing as tech is an endless wheel of everything old is new again (see 70s programing paradigms and stuff like that) "someday" someone will try to disrupt some corner of computing with non random access memory.

The experience would likely be similar to ladder logic programming where all the instructions operate repeatedly and simultaneously, well, at least as a programming model. Another analogy would be spinning rust hard disks, here's a continuous stream of bits pouring off the drive head, now write a program to simulate a block store that uses that bitstream, and that is called hard drive firmware or back in the old days that was a MFM or RLL drive controller.
Hey you and me are on the same boat. Feels like putting on the glasses from "They Live", but maybe I'm not that misanthropic about it..I've found that it's exceedingly hard for me to not look at the big machine around me as I'm 'doing my job' of cranking the lever.

In my voluntary time off I've just been playing with sculpture, reading books, and generally trying to understand this entire thing from the outside, being bored being a crucial part of this.

In the market I'm seeing things that fail common sense checks. AI powered X that is trying to 'solve' things that we barely have a grip on as humans, assemblages of startups that exist solely to manage self created problems, and a whole host of deathcult crypto stuff. Even the progenitors seem to not buy into the stuff they pitch; the zeal, to me, is often just an affectation ("we're going to completely revolutionize..."), maybe the charm is wearing off as decades of consumption and greed are slowly deflating our collective ego.

Anyways how are you faring?
I've noticed that Slice ( https://slicelife.com/ ) hijacks Google Maps listings like this. They setup a fraudulent website for a local pizzeria, then suggests their website to Google Maps. Google Maps will, at least in some cases, accept that fraudulent suggestion. As a result, Slice becomes a leeching middleman in the pizza order.

I wrote a comment about it before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23347930
And so the creators don't get paid when you watch their content.

I pay for YouTube Premium. Creators get paid and I don't watch ads. We have a family plan so this applies to the whole family.

We spend way more time watching YouTube than Netflix but pay for both.
It's making privacy more expensive and rare, while making surveillance cheaper and more common. Do we have to wait until it is literally impossible to share a single word in private before we start to worry?
> They don't have energy resources...

What? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_oil
> There are also many people who recognize that it is not solving any real world problem, and that up to this point it has just operated as a giant speculative bubble.

Both parts of this statement are completely false. I’m unaware of any system which allows secure pseudonymous online global exchange between two parties without any trusted centralized third party. That seems to be a massive real world problem. Additionally Bitcoin is not a speculative bubble by any stretch, that accusation has been repeatedly been made since early days and with each cycle adoption and value increases, it’s a false accusation.
87% of Container Images in Prod Have Critical or High-Severity Vulnerabilities
I love how it stops at YouTube, however Facebook and GMail/webmail definitely deserve to be included. Nothing else important happened after this. Maybe iPod, since podcast is already on the list.
Ask HN: Is it normal for Microsoft Azure support to send you to a 3rd party
I was interested in starting to use Azure for a project at work and was trying to figure out how much a VM costs when it is in the shutdown state. But the support/sales guy just said he could not give me pricing but told me to contact a 3rd party company for support.

>Thank you for waiting. Big Green It, LLC and GOBI TECHNOLOGIES INC will contact you to provide detailed information regarding billing and pricing for Azure VM. They are with Azure competency (VM)and certified from Microsoft. We hope to collaborate with your chosen specialist to complete an efficient business.

Is this normal operating procedure for Azure or is the support guy going rouge and trying to send clients to his friends?
> It feels as though Sundar and the board decide stray away from doing things that keep their employees at the happiest (and most loyal to the company) because that doesn't help the company grow at a rate that would please shareholders.

Which would be completely normal behavior for the CEO of a large publicly traded company and its board, which is the real problem.
I wish more documentation sites just loaded a wall of text with page anchors for navigation rather than separate pages. Ctrl-f/cmd-f is the best search engine for documentation
> Also spin off the media company, comprising Audible and prime video,

Prime video is what they use to get a foot in the door, then they know you'll want to extract as much value as you can from your prime membership, and that's done by buying shit from amazon
Honestly I find assembly language to be easier than Rust and very suitable for embedded systems.
That's my point. Google can just take money from any random entity and let them run fraudulent ads and the worst that will happen is they have to shut down the ads and get to pocket the unspent money.
Or do you merely believe that to be true because Previous Leon is currently filling your head with false memories?
The directors which decided to rely on Russia got millions in bonuses. Just like the ones which pivot now to China will.

Classic incentive duration mismatch. Short term bonuses vs long term profits.
I'm poorly informed regarding breakups of this kind, and I don't have the experience/research to assess the infra costs of a streaming service like Prime video. Assuming the hosting costs are a significant portion of their expenditure, what would it look like in a breakup, what kind of deal would they be able to get from the newly spun off AWS?
That cynical take is false. Many businesses care about their customers, as if you care for them they will come back again and again, while if you don't they will leave.

Lead generation firms care about their customers - but their customers are not the users, it is the people buying the leads. This disconnect is why they don't care.

You get the same problem at ad supported companies (news, social media...). For a long time news papers had careful public policies in places to separate the editorial side from the ad side, so they could be independent. Many advertisers hated it because the editors they were paying did things against them - but they put up with it because those editors brought in the readers of the ads. That has broken down in the modern age though.
Is it even technically possible for a public company to be "good" these days?

Yes, there are many companies that do good things, and some that exist solely to do good things.

The difference is that they focus on doing those good things, so they don't show up in headlines very often.
This is such a great point.

Disney makes a lot of money in theme parks etc.; Walmart makes something like $42B annually in healthcare; Costco sells cars & travel packages; Kroger sells gas (petrol); Apple (also a competitor) makes most of its money selling phones.

Why leave all those businesses intact and target Amazon?
Well, they don't mind selling their users to Google or Pocket, so are they really loopholes? or is that a PR stunt? i'm leaning towards the later, what about you?
An online archive of Agrippa: A Book of the Dead
Husky: Exactly-Once Event Ingestion and Multi-Tenancy at Scale at Datadog
> Amazon would absolutely be more valuable broken up

That is total nonsense, completely irrelevant, and true.

Conglomerates being worth less than the sum of all parts is one of the stupidest parts of Wall Street. There is no actual rationale for this besides maybe it being easier to evaluate a company doing only a single thing? Specifically with regards to the examples given - Amazon, Meta, Google - it's the cross-subsidising and reuse of stuff that makes them profitable. Prime video without AWS' cache isn't a great competitor to Disney; YouTube on it's own will have a ruinous infrastructure bill that is subsidised by Google now; WhatsApp doesn't make money so can only survive on someone else's dime, etc. etc. Same goes for traditional conglomerates - of course GE were stronger before they split up into three. What will GE Aerospace do next time there's an air travel downturn like a pandemic? Crash and burn unless it has enough reserves, because it won't have the benefit of being propped up by different businesses that aren't impacted (like say GE HealthCare). Bombardier today are in a much worse spot, focusing only on a minuscule and volatile niche (private jets), but at least in their case it wasn't their choice, Boeing bankrupted them with protectionist tricks.

The real reasons to split them up would be to improve competition and the choice of consumers, not because "idiot investors think 'value' will go up".
It's easy to be a really good actor for 30 seconds on a cellphone camera
Twind could help you there:

https://twind.style/grouping-syntax
Adobe Suite is always going to be around, no doubt, but you also have viable alternatives for the day to day work, and then you use Adobe stuff when you have to, for a client that requires it for instance.

Prior to moving to Figma 100% of the time, my current agency, and prior agency, were using Sketch. Adobe products were secondary. Others in my field have reported largely the same. Most of the time people simply don't want to change what's familiar and works, regardless of how much they are paying or who they are paying.
BlackBerry’s best years were after the iPhone launched.

I’m not saying Adobe’s looking at a similar collapse, but trends can be misleading.
It seems you've forgotten about the organisation that grew out of the European Coal and Steel Community with a common agricultural policy towards self-sufficiency? They've been doing some work in this area?

https://www.eurofer.eu/assets/publications/brochures-booklet... : "a turnover of around €125 billion
and directly employs around 310,000 highly-skilled people, producing
on average 153 million tonnes of steel per year."

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/infographics/how-eu-count... : EU remains one of the largest exporters.

You're going to have to quantify "survive". And stop reading doomy implications out of fairly minor news changes.
Contrails are a problem for aviation – but there could be an easy solution
"The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder... Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.".

edit: GPT-sama after some coaxing:
"Dear God, we offer these prayers to you today on behalf of our dear user. We ask that you grant them strength, comfort, and wisdom in their life's journey. ..."
I'm sure that everyone that Google would fire because of this would receive at least the severance prescribed by law: nothing.
FWIW, I found dinkytown.net for basic online financial calculators with no frills or upsells a long time ago. They sell to websites that want to use financial calculators, so they don’t care about consumers.
Looks like Valve removed it from their official build. Can you still download and privately play this map?
For the uninformed (myself), how is the U.S. profiting from the war in Ukraine?

I suspect it would be from financing and selling military equipment to Ukraine and allies?
> Google Search feels almost useless now for anything other than shortcuts [in]to websites you already know about.

In my experience, not even that. I used to be lazy and use google search to get to websites I knew, but it can no longer find them even if I type it in exactly! So I've mostly had to revert to making sure I bookmark the sites and go in that way. (And of course I've switched to ddg for search.)
> Source? There were no Russian troops in Donbas until 2022. There were volunteers that happen to be Russian, because a lot of Russians have relatives in Donbas and stepped up to help. The was no official operation there.

A yes volunteers that happen to be Russian, with Russian weapons, and Russian equipment funny that isn't it.

> It's long been proven that passenger jet was shot by Ukrainians.

There was literally a court case about this that just ended in the Hauge, findings where the Russians shot it down, but im sure you won't believe any of that evidence because it's inconvenient.

> So far you haven't presented any proof of your "objectively true truth", so shut the fuck up.

Theres no need to be rude, personal attacks against people are against the rules on hacker news.

If you cannot calmly state your views then maybe don't comment.

> Russians who? Russian cashier in a storefront? Russian factory workers? Russian engineers? Why tf you generalize 150 million people so carelessly? Criminals are everywhere. Would you be ok with me calling your entire nation criminals if I saw a video of one of you murdering someone?

Russian soldiers, have been seen on camera many times just straight out executing citizens, I mean im sure you'll find a way to justify a Russian tank deleting a vehicle in a town they where meant to be 'liberating'.

> This makes perfect sense. It's a statement along the lines of "see Ukrainians castrate Ukrainians, Russians don't castrate Ukrainians, so better give up and you'll be perfectly safe". Don't you get it?

But they posted it AS them castrating the Ukrainian, so once again this is just straight up mind blowingly stupid.

> What tf is this nonsense? Please elaborate.

The Russians have a reputation for kinda doing terrible things during wars so saying something like "it's just Russians being Russians" is not meant to be literally applied to every Russian but more to the situation.
I think crypto has made it easier for them to steal money. I would be curious to see how much money oppressive regimes were able to steal and use before crypto to after
The pistols are not necessarily any less accurate than a modern one, in my experience. But, of course, marksmanship with handguns at further than a few paces is often difficult.

I'd guess the big danger for duelists would have been damage to internal organs or deep wounds becoming infected. Bullets could do this, as could the smallsword, a purely thrusting weapon which would have been the sword used in the 18th century. McBane (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_McBane) wrote of the difference between cutting and thrusting swords "the smallsword kills, yet you might take fifty cuts and not be disabled".

If McBane was telling the truth he certainly managed to get away with a large number of duels, though.
That there's still shreds of evidence for transformational improvements to the dreadfully arcane, inefficient, proprietary machines that are currently "the best".

Personally, my favorite is the Deutsch-Josza algorithm which illustrates a task which can be trivially understood, and provides exponential speedup over any classical algorithm that I can fathom to perform the same task.

Consider there was something like a half-century delay between the discovery of the photoelectric effect and the invention of the triode.

What's most striking to me is that these inherently optical phenomena apparently haven't been well-investigated for how they can provide speed-up to graphics processing.
The Semaglutide patents expire in 2029 and it's already available (borderline illegally) from China via compounding pharmacies. Tirzepatide doesn't expire until 2037, unfortunately.
> China is a rapidly growing economy. Where else should they invest?

Like, some place they would like to be rapidly growing instead of China? Also some place that we don't expect to be at war with in the next few years?
AI chatbots are having their “tulip mania” moment
There were dialup BBS sites all over before the web took over. And sharing images was popular.
Exactly, why isn't the regulation going after those fradulent businesses?

Why are actual criminals being unpunished while you wring your hands on how megacorporations aren't playing the police?
Trying to search for almost any generic phrase or term just floods the results with links to shops and "TOP 10 BEST thingYouSearched"

eBay is the worst for this.

"Pancreatic cancer now on sale at eBay!"

"The best Libertarian Morals now on sale at eBay!"

"Buy discount Rings of Saturn now at eBay!"
The super-wealthy think they can outrun any geopolitical shitstorm (up to and including WWIII) as is evidenced by the surge in luxury survival bunker construction in places like New Zealand.
> The best and brightest minds of our generation being treated as children.

That's always been Google's move. Get some CS graduates from top schools, ideally right after graduation, and stretch out the campus experience as far as they can into the working world. Prevents them from developing the kind of independent thinking that might lead them to conclude that working at Google is not that great.
Sponsors are the way ads should work. Ads aren't the problem, tracking is.
Amazon Has a Donkey Meat Problem
Nothing wrong with some investments in China. But there is a difference between "investing" and making the "largest investment ever".

Basically their are betting half the company that China does not attack Taiwan and/or does not ship weapons to Russia and/or does not give them the "Jack Ma" treatment. Quite risky, if you ask me.
Jim Keller Interview AI Hardware
Jim now leads an startup called Tenstorrent, designing ML hardware and software, with a lot of clever people in the team. In this interview, we discuss RISC-V, Chiplets, IP, Expertise, and if they'll sell PCIe cards.
I know fridges certainly used to have those egg compartment things in the doors, but never saw anyone actually use them - tends to be the cardboard egg box is in the fridge, this would probably absorb any extra moisture.
Are there prompts that are tonally discordant amongst themselves? Most of the responses are what I'd expect a decent person to say (atleast with moral and ethical queries), regardless of religion.

Also I wonder if subsets of the faiths are taken into account, like Islam's Sufism etc.
> Let parents flip tables. Only go to college if employers in your ideal profession strictly requires college, and only if you have a scholarship or the means to pay for it without debt.

I absolutely agree, with the caveat that somehow young people need to be prepped to have this attitude. Everything society stands for right now communicates the exact opposite values.
I would gladly pay for one of these.
> Assuming the hosting costs are a significant portion of their expenditure

I would consider this unlikely, for reasonable definitions of "significant." Costs to license IP and develop content are likely the dominant term in expenses.

> what kind of deal would they be able to get from the newly spun off AWS?

The same as everyone else, or it was a re-org and not a breakup.
Ah, another Niklaus Wirth's work.
Any guide on how to build and run it?
I think the point is that China is not exactly predictable in terms of geopolitical aims. Meaning that we start depending more on China, then Taiwan could become the next Ukraine and western economies will be looking for the next cheap place to invest in.

If BASF is diversifying then perhaps into more Western-oriented places - wherever these might be.
Economist Says AI Is a Doomed Bubble
How exactly many? Can you name them?
So you are suggesting that there is a large selection of such places available?
Except, Stevenson being a smug right-winger (or at least the Stevenson who wrote this, I haven't followed his books in recent decades), this was the Federal government of the time he was describing. Back in reality, Google is a large publicly traded corporation. Surprise!
I would think the monopoly deflection is much more valuable to Google than being Firefox's default search engine. 3% marketshare, comprised primarily of, if I had to guess, people who are the most likely userbase of any browser to know how to change their default search engine.
To build truly intelligent machines, teach them cause and effect
Portable low-field MRI scanners could revolutionize medical imaging
I'm pretty satisfied with YouTube as a viewer other than Firefox on Linux can always decode the ads, but not always the actual content (many other sites have this issue as well).

There's so much great content on YT for just about anything. Gardening, mechanics, computers, games, sports, you name it. It's all there.

Most other platforms are quite vapid. I suppose that's fine for the drooling masses, but I'm a quality of quantity person.
I'm reminded of the "forever day" exploit story from way back. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/04/rise-...

Basically, so many of the exploits are not a problem, until they are. Containers have gotten too many of us to think we've solved that problem. :(
MSFT Let Its Principles Go, All for a Creepy Bot
If I'm really blocked I just remove things until it starts working again
Good for you.

I personally very much applaud the effort to port Rust to Espressif chipsets.
America is - perhaps - profiting geopolitically. Had the European Union and Russia come closer together then that block would represent a block - financially seen - which would be larger than America.