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"These industries won't buy macs as they are too expensive to maintain and to integrate into their existing active directory domains. (With a few exceptions for jobs where the Mac is the optimal device like graphic design)"

I'm not convinced. About ten years ago one could say exactly the same thing about Macs companies located outside of California. I only had my first work Mac in 2012, when I convinced my boss to let inherit one from a graphic designer. Since then, I've worked in two extremely traditional corporates that gave me the choice to use macOS. And plenty of executives were/are using macOS too.

In the meantime things got actually easier than 10 years ago: web apps became prevalent and even Microsoft joined the party.
Albert's wife agreed to this:

A. You will make sure:

1. that my clothes and laundry are kept in good order;

2. that I will receive my three meals regularly in my room;

3. that my bedroom and study are kept neat, and especially that my desk is left for my use only.

B. You will renounce all personal relations with me insofar as they are not completely necessary for social reasons. Specifically, You will forego:

1. my sitting at home with you;

2. my going out or travelling with you.

C. You will obey the following points in your relations with me:

1. you will not expect any intimacy from me, nor will you reproach me in any way;

2. you will stop talking to me if I request it;

3. you will leave my bedroom or study immediately without protest if I request it.

D. You will undertake not to belittle me in front of our children, either through words or behavior.
Regarding fonts, I feel like when I modded my original Xbox as a teen, it was done using malicious font files on the hdd for the Xbox dashboard haha.
Like I said, if your allocator is actually the system allocator then yes maybe you're right. If instead you're doing something like using an arena allocator then OOM isn't a huge deal, because all you've done is exhaust a fixed buffer rather than system RAM; totally recoverable. There are huge performance gains to be had with using custom allocators where appropriate.
My router turns off all kid device internet at 930. So devices still have power but no connectivity.
Indeed. Moreover, I'm not (so) ancient and the words made sense to me instantly with no dissonance. Deep sea is purple and dark. Some wines are also purple-leaning. The association is very obvious unless you insist in "wines are red, seas are blue" or you come to analyze verses with a spectrometer.
“More quinoa”
> even if there are rooms currently empty but have been reserved for customers who have paid higher price, they won't give them to you.

In my experience (not very big hotel) - the emphasis was on full occupancy - rooms would only be held (with other guest with booking at the counter) in rare circumstances (eg we knew an incoming flight was delayed and we were certain the other guest would arrive. Even then we might bump the other guest if it meant we had more time to scramble to find an alternative room for the guest that hadn't shown up yet).
We're way off topic now, but well.
OSM is insistently not focused on a map, but on the data. On this data a lot of other mapping projects can (and are being) built.
In central Europe, we have freemap.sk, which combines OSM data, hi-quality aerial imagery - for Slovakia only, these were shot by the government and are licensed in a way that they can be combined with OSM data - resulting in possibilities such as displaying bike paths over super detailed aerial maps.
Also check out mapy.cz, they are based on OSM (outside of Czechia) and in some parts of the world can be switched to satellite/aerial imagery with roads overlayed over it.
I did not join social media until very recently but wanted an easy way to send pictures to close friends and family so built this small python script that sends N pics out of a text file list (so if even if I sort 100 in one day I only send 5 per batch) sends one pic per email, reduce the size of the pics, sets a custom from field, hide the recipients' addresses in the BCC field.

https://github.com/dorfsmay/emailFiles

There's nothing extraordinary about it, it's not far from a standard spam bot! What's interesting about it is that I've been using it for more than a decade with fairly little maintenance.
Because in a perfect world, everything is (by definition) good, and proprietary software is bad.
6.2V AC? That's 9V peak-to-peak, so after rectification it would be 9VDC less diode drops.
I struggle now with 16 GB on my work laptop. 8 is absolutely anemic for anyone planning to get several years out of a machine.
And it's not clear that we would want that either. ChatGPT uses responses similar to what people in the training data do naturally. It's completely normal for people to assume some alternative doesn't reach a threshold where its worth mentioning.
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No amount of personal wealth in the countryside makes it so that I can walk to the supermarket and to a couple other places. Urban life is appealing to many for reasons beyond fun, and for a lot of reasons that aren’t solvable in rural areas by purchasing power.

To your point I think there’s a lot of that which is more manageable than expected, and there are a lot of spectrums to navigate there
Maybe we are bound for the future not unlike the XVIII century where people who do original research have to be independently wealthy (or have a patron), whereas universities do something more akin to scholastics/theology (reiteration of existing knowledge with only occassional accumulation of new one).
> "Going back to the basic" _also_ means a drastically decreased life expectancy, dying of avoidable sicknesses and generally a dull, short and miserable life.

By having a bit less of mass scale animal abusing factories ? I fail to see the correlation
But rewriting after the exploratory phase is over (or to be more precise: long after the exploratory phase is over) is still an achievement of Rust: not only because it's fashionable (it sure is), but because it gives reasonable confidence that you won't find yourself regretting having rolled back multiple decades of weeding out lurking memory bugs.

A C rewrite promising a moderate speedup wouldn't so much be skipped because it was not worth the effort, they are not done because the speedup isn't worth the risk of having to go through all that again.
I agree the BWT is genius.

"Glitch art"

It sounds like the real art is the algorithm and code. Would love to see it.
Technically interesting but I suspect it would be difficult to justify on a cost/benefit basis.

How many people will really pay for the option to crab-walk into a parking space so small that adjacent cars may not be able to escape without similar crab walking ability?
$ cat /usr/src/linux-headers-`uname -r`/include/uapi/asm-generic/errno.h | grep 90
#define EMSGSIZE 90 /* Message too long */

Nooo! errno from moreutils:

https://man.archlinux.org/man/errno.1

$ errno 90
EMSGSIZE 90 Message too long

or:

$ errno -s "too long"
E2BIG 7 Argument list too long
ENAMETOOLONG 36 File name too long
EMSGSIZE 90 Message too long
Unveiled yesterday by Palantir, using AI/LLM to plan military activities
Some developer tools that spun out of my current product (but not launched thus counts as "built for myself" and nowadays "ourselves"):

- A build system that is simpler and easier to use than Gradle. It also has a much better rendering of progress and output for tests when they fail. I mostly use it to run tests, actually. Supports parallel incremental and cached work.

- A Kotlin Scripting runtime that exposes a high-level UNIX shell-like API along with many other useful utilities like printing markdown, tracking progress of long operations (including hierarchically), working with files and remote programs over ssh and many other things. We have almost entirely replaced bash with it.
> Why isn’t your computer a Turing Machine?

The Turing Machine tape is infinite.
Ask HN: Most interesting AR/VR(e.g. Metaverse)applications you've used?
As augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) technologies continue to evolve, they're being used in a wide range of applications, from gaming and entertainment to education and enterprise. With so many different AR/VR applications available, it can be difficult to know where to start or which ones are worth checking out.

That's why I am turning to the HackerNews community for insights into the most interesting AR/VR applications they've used. Whether you're a developer, a gamer, an educator, or just someone who's interested in exploring these cutting-edge technologies, we want to hear from you.

Maybe you've used an AR app that allowed you to see how furniture would look in your home before you bought it. Perhaps you've tried a VR game that completely immersed you in a new world. Or maybe you've used an enterprise application that used AR to help you visualize complex data in new ways.

Whatever your experience has been, we want to hear about it. Share your favorite AR/VR applications with us, and let us know what made them stand out to you. Whether it's the quality of the graphics, the level of immersion, or the innovative ways that AR/VR was used, we want to know what you found most interesting and exciting.

So don't be shy - share your thoughts and experiences with the HackerNews community, and let's start a conversation about the most interesting AR/VR applications out there today.
This is so geeky and awesome at the same time!
The signal to noise ratio in your comment is off-the-charts awesome – thank you for the amazing links!!
Talk about not only burying but practically omitting the lede!

Apparently it's quite the impressive underground sundial.

https://bicyclenetwork.com.au/newsroom/2023/03/30/worlds-lon...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-worlds-longest...

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/worlds-longest-cyclin...
But it’s more than RAM and it’s enough even for web dev so for most people it’s way enough
I'm on the opposite side, I'm omnivorous and try to eat less meat for ethical & environmental reasons and I really want lab meat to become mainstream, for the obvious ethical reasons, but also hoping that we could use less resources and especially land and give it back to natural ecosystems.
Or when it unexpectedly decides to "call" someone when I asked it to play some song while I'm driving.

I'm mindful my English pronunciation is not 100% accurate, but Alexa gives me no problem at all.
Wish Amazon had a better selection of clothes. Major misstep in my opinion. Though, I still think Amazon's customer service is second to none, I have had issues with products and they have been almost seemlessly returned.
Don't large sectors of the economy rely on precisely consistent behavior to operate?
Depends on context though.

An LLM is useless (or not as useful) in OCR for forms where we are trying to extract the name "John Smith" from a name field whereas a HMM trained specifically on name fields may be able to do a better job.

LLMs may perform better as a post processing step for running text (such as book pages).
Bottom line: SoC doesn't always mean you need to use microservices. I have worked with people that think that SoC IS microservices architecture but it is just one possible, not always practical, solution. In my experience with these kinds of people, they also tend to be the ones that overuse things like the DRY principal.
All you need is soy beans, water and some acid... you can do that at home with a pot a fork and an old tshirt, good luck making chicken meat like that
36% of India lives in urban areas and that number is increasing rapidly. It's by no means an easy market due to a multitude of reasons (infra, supply chain, politics, corruption, you name it), but if you can pull it off there's plenty of money to be made just in the Tier 1 metros.
I was able to use unspecific religious and cultural preferences to get my school to allow BYOD, after many other attempts failed.

I think there’s some value in having a modern, atheist, philosophical church to yield positive bureaucratic results. It reminds me of the early internet’s Church of the Subgenius [0] and people playing around for lulz. I had friends who were ironically Satanists and still have some who claim to be Discordians, but I think that’s just to mess with census takers.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_SubGenius
This is useful advice but, the frustration is warranted if a user needs to modify a sub-sub-sub menu to undo a default that is not even grammatically correct.
What I find weird about lab grown meat is that it runs into all sorts of problems like how the cells have a lack of immune system so entire batches can be ruined by one errant germ.

I think we’re going backwards by trying to replace the natural bio reactor of the body with steal and piping. It’s all too labour intensive. To make this work we’ll need to genetically engineer an animal that has only the parts we’re interested in. Including skin to replace the steel bio reactors.

Cows due to generations of selective breeding are already remarkably close to this.
Within rounding error, no chicken or pigs are raised this way today
The Turing Machine is just an idea with which to argue. The numbers are infinite, but if I am holding two peaches, I am holding two.
+1. There are multiple comparisons in the paper, and we plan to provide a few more soon. The typical story that if the model is at least a bit unusual, not overly optimized manually, Hidet can provide some speedup even over TensorRT.
Asking the same 3 times per day will only get your HN account restricted. Try once per week maximum.
I’m guessing the Amish have way higher SAT and lifetime income stats.
Indeed, the first sentence

>While Intel's sales *beat its own expectations* in the first quarter, the company on Thursday posted the largest loss in its history as its margins plunged to a new low over the last several years.
"This was especially annoying since I had already taken this thing home."

There's no going back now- we've come too far.
I can relate to this, though. I have it, so now I must solve it- pointlessness be damned.
With the right equipment, if not now, soon you will be able to.
I can't believe in let's say 200 years from now humans will still consume animals - if our species survives that is. I'm sure this will be looked upon as very barbaric to breed real animals and eat them.
Is there a specific benefit you think that would bring?
I didn’t exactly build this from scratch but it is pretty heavily modified: I use an ESP8266 with a relay module to control my garage door via Home Assistant. I use a second one mounted on my bike as a WiFi presence detector. This way when I turn the bike on, the bike module connects to my home WiFi and Home Assistant opens my garage door. Once I leave the property and WiFi disconnects, the garage door closes a minute later. When I come home the same happens: as I approach the garage door opens and after I park and shut the bike off the door closes. There are a lot of solutions for how to open the garage door from a bike but this has been the most elegant that I’ve tried.
The most interesting tech I've build for myself is boring: a writing tool I use every day for journaling: https://enso.sonnet.io

With that out of the way here's some more ridiculous stuff:

In 2016, I made a browser based AR party game where you'd fight kittens falling from the sky by dancing with vegetables in your hands (CMYK was easier to track using the webcam). I have some photos here: https://goo.gl/photos/g6Dp8GLDbuuhT1TRA

From a technical PoV it was exciting (running AR, in a browser, in pre Pokemon GO, pre WASM times!)

I also made a simple photography lighting tool, replacing professional lights with computer/tablet/phone screens (facade.photo). I put it in an old wardrobe bought in a thrift store on Brick Lane and during my startup launch. Results: https://goo.gl/photos/RZ3fCRcScYSGr7aG6

Ah, I also made an AI-powered voice assistant in 2014. The tagline was HTML5-powered voice assistant, as AI wasn't really _the_ buzzword then, but _HTML5_... oh yeah.
> Of course they care.

If they care they sure don't act like it. Microsoft is clearly squeezing Windows users for whatever revenue is left. Nothing else explains the user hostility, backwards compatibility breaks and unending advertising and data collection.
> What makes you think windows is in a death spiral? They still have a good 75% market share

The biggest threat to Windows isn’t Apple and Linux, it’s mobile phones. People aren’t buying computers like they used to. Most day to day things can be done on a smartphone now.

I see this first hand in my own family. My wife and mom both use their phones for pretty much everything. Email, web browsing, etc. If my wife needs a bigger screen for something like a yoga video, she usually uses a TV in the house which has a Roku, chrome cast, or similar attached.
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Have you tried home made seitan/tofu/tempeh/&c. ? Once you master the thing it's not even a question of taste, cheap meat becomes vomit inducing
That ship has sailed? The cost of food is a great estimate of it's cost in electricity etc. Techno-farming cost more, in fuel and resources.

And those gigantic ships? The absolute cheapest (in fuel) way to move goods, responsible for essentially every advance in living in the last century.

It's easy to mark 'profit' as 'evil' but senseless to do so, as it correlates so closely with fuel etc. You want to find an egregious waste of resource to do something that can be done much simpler, well, look no further than 'vertical farming'
Dropbox is popular because it's super-usable and works super-well. Approximately 0% of ordinary end users want to gaffer-tape something together by hand. (Happy Dropbox user here, but I've been tempted to do it by hand at times myself. If only rsync to s3 was easier ...)
Indeed - I can understand that some languages like JavaScript don't care, thats fine.

But the entire value proposition of Rust is reliability and predictability. Use this in critical applocations. And this is the first time this language is being used in a major Os.

The fact that these changes weren't accepted is not a good sign.
Of course you can make your own chicken meat in your house, with just a knife and a chicken. But this is about not needing, you know, the chicken.
>food for me is equal to traditions, know-hows, local

There's not much less things that I care about when talking about food. I care about taste, texture, nutritional value, availability of ingredients or ease of preparation. If some Italian-Mexican-Japanese fusion scores better on that then I'll very happily eat it too.
Most of what you say feels religious; you seem to believe humans have something special we cannot fabricate in the coming decades. You will be proven wrong and maybe you will even live to see it.
This is awesome! I'll definitely use it.

It'd be a one time stop for me if it supported definitions (similar to Collins Dictionary) but beggars can't be choosers.
I really prefer such factories over the way a lot of tofu is produced (by burning plastic):
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/14/world/asia/indonesia-tofu...
This is interesting! But how does a dense crowd of people compare to a queue of lorries carrying cement or building materials in terms of mass per square metre?

Let's try to find some data ... ... ... A fully loaded Hanson cement lorry seems to be 32 tonnes / 2.55 m / 9.15 m, which is about 1.4 tonnes per square metre. That corresponds to 20 x 70 kg people per square metre, which would be a disaster whether or not the floor gives way, unless it's a very special kind of crowd (acrobats or something).
I find it kind of amazing that Intel haven't found a way to profit during the global chip shortage. Look at food and energy over the past year or so: supermarket and oil & gas companies are posting record profits. They are riding the wave of price rises and supply constraints. What's different about CPUs?
That's always been the best part of Amazon. They've always made returns super easy with pretty much no questions asked.
I can ask siri in the car "Check parking" and it will tell me if there are any available spaces in the parking lot near my building.

There is also a telegram bot that can show me the latest camera image with vacant places highlighted.
Yes, these are the same issues faced by databases on spinning rust disks. The solution was to figure out how many keys fit in a disk block / cache line, let's call it k, then have a k-ary tree instead of a binary tree. This is called a B-tree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-tree

With caching on modern CPUs, as opposed to databases on disks, there are multiple levels of caching and you may not know the size of the caches. And the caches can be shared with other work you're doing, or other processes are doing, so the effective size can be smaller. So there's some benefit to algorithms that are independent of cache size.
this! I was thinking the same
A large majority of people seem to not like ambiguity in their entertainment. So what's the problem? You can still use the models to generate low quality 'content'.
This is an odd argument. I'd bet the environmental impact of a battery farm chicken is less than a free-roaming chicken, in terms of hectares of land use, feed (less energy expended from movement), water use.

So if you are vegetarian for environmental reasons and had to eat a chicken, you should go with the battery-farmed one.

You would go with the (arguably mythical) happy chicken if you were vegetarian for moral reasons.
> What other merchant lets you trade up products literally over a decade old for free no questions asked?

Bear in mind these aren't physical goods (so no real cost to them), and they want to minimise users investigating other OS's.
How will the EU enforce this? Will they go through the training dataset of each company’s AI models? Also, given that training datasets are closed source, there’s practically no way to reverse engineer the source of new models, I’m wondering what will stop companies from being fully transparent (besides ethics of course)
Gotta say I'm not especially impressed with my Google assistant on my pixel either. The hit rate makes it worthwhile only when I have to use it.
Can you describe the difference between “privacy” and “privacy theater”?
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They feel unnatural and unconventional and is something a large part of the population will be unable to relate to.
Food is a very cultural thing.

We've also been educated to buy and prepare our own meals from the most natural/unprocessed ingredients as possible and avoid heavily industrialized/preprocess ingredients for health reasons.

Lab grown meat is the opposite of both of that.

I am just playing Devil's advocate here. I understand the appeal and potential environmental benefits as well.
I used to think like that, but it doesn't match my experience from my years of building (traditional) GUIs. I believe it is almost always better to stick to the couple of standard widgets that are available everywhere and known by everyone.

In the very rare cases it's not it is better to build a custom widget that matches your customers requirements exactly. Nothing is worse than a half-baked GUI element idea, badly implemented and sloppily maintained that matches like 85% of your customers requirements - and that's what most non-standard widgets are.

Quality and consistency trump quantity in my opinion.
Udemy's abuse of dark patterns is the most blatant I've ever seen. They make airlines and travel agencies look honest. It's a shame because they are loaded with good, cheap courses.