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Tell HN: iPad Pro rejects correct passcode
Hello, hn. I come here for help and to document a bug, maybe Apple will take notice of this and will do something about it.

The bug is the following:
an iPad Pro (iOS version between 14.x.x and 16.x.x) rejects the correct passcode for the device. I am 100% correct that this is the passcode, it has been the same for the device for more than one year. The device keeps locking me out, saying "Incorrect password". I have had to wait over a day to even try.

After almost giving up, I tried updating my iPad Pro to the most recent iPad OS version at the time (16.4.1).

After that, a Data Recovery screen appeared. It asked for the device's passcode. After entering the correct device passcode it asked for confirmation again, I entered it again and it said that it was performing data recovery. I assume that the device confirmed that the passcode was indeed correct because it did not say anything along the lines of 'incorrect passcode'. Now, the next problem is that after the Apple status bar (like in the updates) ends it says 'Data Recovery Failed'. I tried yet again doing the process of attempting data recovery by entering the passcode and confirming it again, yet it showed the same: 'Data Recovery Failed'.

I then tried to restart the device, did successfully and then showed a screen that said: 'Try again in 8 hours', just like the passcode screen that tells you to wait until you can try again.

Any suggestions on trying to debug this ?
2+ decade-old word processors were fantastic at their jobs, and did 98+% of whatever needs to be done today. It would be great if old codebases could be liberated, cleaned-up, and turned into all-but-perfect tools for the job. Older spreadsheets, databases, etc., could also be renewed this way — but I doubt the corporations holding the rights to them would be interested in making this sort of thing happen. Too little in it for them, especially as (ideally) spy/tracking hooks would not be included in the package.
Your app won't save my API key. It accepts it, shows a checkmark, then the pop up just sits there with the checkmark. If I click elsewhere besides the pop-up, it goes away, but prefs say key missing, and popping that window again doesn't show checkmark.
If you start writing a rendering engine today, using opengl or vulkan, the lib API is pure C, but that does not prevent you to have C++ code in your engine, in practice this is very common.

People are using C/C++, this is a thing.
Hmm. Over in the browser space, I'd say Google's shown significant, long-term investment in Chrome/Blink, especially compared to Apple's relative disinterest in putting significant engineering resources on WebKit.

Perhaps instead of this being about Apple vs. Google (or others), it's about companies investing in their core competencies and areas where they have a business interest.
Eh, no. This is pedantic for the sake of pedanticness - or actually, for the sake of making a pointless argument.

There are contexts where "C/C++" makes sense, sure something like "program Foo is written in C/C++" usually doesn't make much sense (though it can make sense if it is written in both languages - i.e. using both C and C++ modules) but something like "program Foo is a C/C++ code generator" (think something like a generator for header files for example) in that the code it generates can be compiler as either C or C++. After all, unlike Rust, Go and Kotlin mentioned in the article, C and C++ do share a sizable common subset (heavily biased towards the C side of course). This is why C header files can often used as-is in C++ or with the minor modification based on the __cplusplus macro.

Language is meant to be parsed by humans, not computers and humans can take context into account (and with the recent developments in AI even computers can do that too :-P).
Very cool! What was the process of publishing a book like? I just print my books and glue stick the pages together
David Goggins book , SEAL super tough dude that runs marathons on broken legs, has a narrator with breaks between chapters where narrator interviews him about what they just read or about the next section. Actually worked out pretty well. Thought it was smart.

Peter Attia, internet famous doctor, changed some things in his audiobook and included special things.

I only have 200-250 audiobooks unlike some here and those are the only two where something special is done for the format.

For a brief period I got into listening to classic radio dramas. Surprisingly hard to find. For as much screen time as I get, I do like to be able to just listen. Plus, I think it helps with my concentration.
Is .exe a tld yet?
What, you expect me to wear those gaudy glasses for my HUD? Can't you just send me the Neuralink version instead?
I am hyped!
Shell is an interactive, concatenative string language with transparent file system access and binary execution capabilities. It doesn't need to be a general purpose programming language, because it's great at what it does. When I need something lower level, I can write that in low level and integrate into the shell language seamlessly.
text to image requires a lot less compute for training and has far less business applications

also...porn will make people achieve anything they set their mind to
We really need more competition in the GPU space. Nvidia's release strategy seems designed to exploit the mid-tier gamers.
Yeah, but those never replaced kanji apparently. So Japanese people always had to learn ~thousands of characters instead a hundred.
I mean just get your groceries delivered.
Just 1MB? That's most of a double-density floppy disk!
Maybe because other other AAA devs are wasting their efforts on monetisation and useless graphics instead of game play. If publishers let studios have more freedom they could produce better games.
Why humans haven’t evolved to cope with cold, yet we dominate northern climates
When the Voodoo 2 card launched it was $299. Adjusted for inflation that would be about $550. The latest 4090RTX is RRP of $1599.

High end is now becoming a case of throwing us much money at the problem as possible.
I had a side-job installing active, subslab depressurization systems in the 90s, and they were quite well established at the time. The EPA has quite clear and cogent guidance on radon, paraphrased as follows:

Before going with active depressurization, start by installing a sealed sump cover, caulking the basement wall-to-floor joint, and caulking all the cracks in the basement walls, in that order. If that doesn't get the number down where you want it, drill the subslab access hole and install the ventilation piping to the outdoors, but don't install the fan in the middle. Only of those fail to get adequate results, install the fan.

It's really simple and quite cheap. I don't think we ever did a job that was over $1000. Costs of running the fans were pennies a month, and Fantech still sells the classic FR-100 fan all these years later, though there are even quieter options now.
Can you use the nreal without activation?
Or, as I've taken to calling it, C+C++.

All jokes aside, this is just too nitpicky for me. I'm not sure if the author is personally upset that C and C++ get lumped together because they don't like C++ or something, or if they have some other gripe with the confusion, but I think it's very obvious why C and C++ get grouped together: they're... Similar and related.

The argument is "No; they're not similar! They're actually very different" and I simply reject this. Yes, they are not the same. Idiomatic C code and idiomatic C++ code are quite different. They are not compatible.

Yet, they share many concepts that basically only languages derived from C do. They aren't compatible, but mostly because they diverged over time, and it's easy to port C code to work in C++ (typically it can be done mechanically, unless you count some newer features.) Hell, is there a C++ compiler that doesn't support (some form of) C?

And while idiomatic C code and idiomatic C++ code may differ, they're not oceans apart. What really sets C++ code apart in my mind is the concepts of RAII and operator overloading. The existence of classes with inheritance may push you to code a certain way, but I think a lot of modern codebases don't even wind up using inheritance the way you might traditionally. For example, it has become common to only use inheritance for pure virtual base classes, using inheritance to implement a sort of interface composition system instead. This is also not so different from a pattern you would often see in C software where you pass a table of function pointers to implement polymorphic behaviors... In fact, it's basically the same thing.

C and C++ may feel far apart to die hard fans of only C, but it should signal something that most of the rest of the world doesn't really see it. C and C++ are definitely different, but fundamentally closer than C and C++ are to many other languages, including languages with C in the name like C#, and arguably "modern" successors like D and Go, too. (Not to mention Rust.)

I am certain that this notion does upset people because they feel it gives C a bad name, but people are always going to have misconceptions and misplaced stigma about your favorite things sometimes. Policing the way people speak is not an answer, not necessarily because there's no truth to the point that "C/C++" for example is misleading, but because there's enough truth to the point that "C/C++" makes sense to make it difficult to convince people to stop naturally associating the two.
I was about to post a snarky let me Google that for you link, but I couldn't find anything relevant for bradgpt.
I’m sure we can see where this goes astray when dealing with public goods. When physician reimbursements get tied to customer satisfaction, patients start to become over medicated, for example.
Well, that explains why there's a Ninkasi brewery in Eugene, Oregon and another unrelated one in the UK.
Apple Campus 2 is about a superblock away from Apple Campus 1, so unless we’re talking about someone whose 5-minute commute doubled to 10 minutes, no one’s commute doubled in any sense where the comparison is meaningful.
ShiViz
The same article (in the abstract) says that the 1M number was the high end of the range of estimates and that a more reliable number is less than half that.

Also, the population of Rome collapsed less than a century later.
Sure, that'll just be $184K to ICANN, provided no one else wants it. Anyone interested in getting .gpt?
Opposite for me, I’ll rewind the book and remember where I was and what I was doing when I previously heard that section.

I’m always backwards I guess.
Sure. So Tesla and SpaceX got big by complete accident.
What amount of ram and GPU are people considering adequate for playing around with all the local inference possibilities over the next year?
Intel is trying, specifically at the mid-tier. These look good though as long as availability doesn't become a problem.
How is posting this link a legit use of hacker news? I get that Hacker news is often used for important product releases/updates, but when it comes to Nvidia and AMD, this feels like product placement. Nothing in this is particularly newsworthy hardware, and we're talking about the coke vs pepsi of the pc gaming adapter world. If it was someone reviewing it, that would be different, but this is right to the vendor. I expect more from the mods.
Yikes. What started the fire?
4060 Ti w/16 GB seems like a sweet spot for machine learning hobbyists. Only bummer from what I can see is the 128 bit bus.
This guy is giving off a major hall monitor vibe. If you write C in C++ it’s legal C. C++ is C with classes. That’s it, there’s overlap AND divergence between them.
I think Apple wouldn't ship this if it wasn't a very, very good AR headset. Something you can read in and work in for VR, and see the world around you in for AR.

Maybe $3000 is just the minimum price to get such a thing right now.

There are tremendous downsides to wearing such a thing on your head, it would take a magical feeling device with tremendous upsides to warrant it beyond the niche VR gaming population. I'm willing to bet the thing isn't just an expensive Oculus Quest.

But I also doubt anyone (internal or external) knows how magical it has to be for the upsides to be so much greater than the downsides that it attracts significant adoption.
I don't know whether they've backed off from the open plan office layout for Apple Park[1], but that sounded terrible to me.

Personally I'd almost certainly prefer a real office (even a tiny closet-like one) with a door, maybe in Infinite Loop.

[1] https://www.macworld.com/article/670869/complete-guide-to-ap...
I don’t think it’s wise to trust the rumored prices much. Even if the rumors are overall right because of multiple points of leakage in the supply chain, price would be one of the easiest information for Apple to keep secret.

In fact the rumored price may even be planted by Apple to create an anchor and make the product look cheaper once released.
That's good, but the context of this thread is redesigning urban areas to encourage reducing car traffic.
Maybe you compiled in Debug rather than a Release mode? There is also definitely enough time before Zig reaches 1.0 to improve things.
Out of curiosity, are there any real reasons to buy these over used RTX 3070's or used RX 6700XT's or other stuff like that?
> there is very little agricultural import from a region half a world away.

And yet, I feel the price shocks nevertheless.
HN is for talking about stuff that hackers find interesting. Hackers are interested in cheap GPUs to level up their machine learning abilities.
> Honestly, though? The right answer is to transpile a better language to Sh.

I like this, but I think it's even better to just escape sh entirely. If you are on a system that supports sh, it almost certainly has a c99 compatible compiler which can be used to install lua(JIT)? or another better scripting language. I wrote a little script idempotently installs lua 5.4 (that I tried to include but HN formatting messed up) and then runs a luascript embedded in a heredoc. The first time I ran it, it took 5.4 seconds to print "Hello, world!" including downloading the lua source code from their website and compiling the whole thing. The second time it took 11ms. I really see no great reason to continue using sh for anything new except for the purpose of installing something else.
Jobs drove a Mercedes SL55 AMG into work, sticker price $121k for the 2003 model.

Here's a forum post saying they were selling for $160k at dealerships https://mbworld.org/forums/sl-class-r230/25583-how-much-2003...

Really not a "pedestrian" Mercedes, at the time it would have been in the upper tier of their price range. The current-day SL AMG model starts at $178k.

And he leased a new one every 6 months.
Why would any renaissance occur if copyright didn't exist? You'd be eliminating financial incentive to produce interesting new work. If those financial incentives weren't required, we'd already have those works today.
Maybe a typo for Google Bard?
I don’t know if there has ever been this much transparency in a company. Linus is a true rock star and I can’t wait to see what comes next. Really wish I could find out when I subscribed to him. His channel has been over a 1/3 of my life.
For big applications maybe.

But for "I need something that compiles to native to frob a couple syscalls", being idiomatic matters less than remembering what compiler needs to be installed.
Generate a special RSS feed URL for their subscription posts that has a unique token in it? Then serve the RSS yourself and validate the token?
Because they probably never programmed in modern c++ (c++11 onwards).
But people forget we're getting taxed more now than the colonies did
When you are retired you don't need to live at the same place. World is your oyster. The capital gains from your house ($1.2M already, more in 10 years) will allow you to pick new house almost anywhere without worrying about mortgagees. You won't care about schools or extra bedrooms for kids, for instance.

Statistically very few people stay at the same house for 30+ years, most move within eight.
I personally use NextCloud to sync all my photos to my home server. You can also copy them using ADB or MTP from your phone. I think you can also send them as a photo with standard android sharing and it will send the video in the concatenated format, though that may depend on the sharing app and settings used.
> Also, Teslas and Mercedes aren’t exotic or rare.

Tell me you live in a rich neighborhood without telling me you do.
See my other post in this thread, active ventilation is the last resort if passive methods don't get results. Perhaps in the middle of a real-estate transaction it's easier to just pull the trigger on the sure-fire method and get it over and done with...

...but if you ever get annoyed by the whir of the fan, unplug it for a month and do an alpha-track monitor. (Or get a continuous monitor, they're cheap now!) There's every chance that simply having the cracks caulked and the piping in place, might do the trick all on its own, with no need for active depressurization.
Beyond the content, kudos to the author for crisply and clearly laying out the intent of the article and prerequisites, referring to prior art for larger questions. Really enjoy the style.
I'm pretty sure they advertised the curation as being for our benefit as users.
Why would the recruiter ever know much about technical details?
Not saying you're wrong, because intel stagnation was very real, but please don't use userbenchmark as a source of numbers for anything. They're a terrible source with biased benchmarks and reporting. Just look at the dribble they write for basically any AMD product on their site (https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/SpeedTest/1817839/AMD-Ryzen-7-..., or this https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/SpeedTest/2081998/AMD-Ryzen-7-... which just find-and-replaces half the 5800X3D comments).
I love this. It describes what I’m thinking pretty much perfectly.
AirPods where and are loathed by some, but ultimately they present a well designed product that made the underlying product category more seamless and consumer friendly and accessible.

Their winning traits may seem banal, but in everyday carry objects small utility improvements play a huge role. Not having to deal with cables and increased range of movement are enough - what elevated AirPods though is that a visible, wearable product is an implicit fashion statement. Apples product designers succeeded in making st thing that is clearly recognisable and stands out against similar products already on the market, but is subtle enough not to disturb anything or polarise by totally overthrowing stylistic and societal convention. Perfect mix of identity and brand that is easy to integrate with your personal image.

Apple silicon is another kind of thing: it's just the same thing as before but cheaper and more powerful, without compromising any trait that made the predecessor products appealing.

Apple "reality" or whatever - I don't see carrying any of those same traits. It's much too visually disruptive to become an AirPod, it's much too close to similar products to be an M1, and on top of this it's success fully depends on expensive-to-produce software content within a technically complicated ecosystem, while Apple has long lost it's profile as a developer centric and welcoming brand and rather capitalized on it's ubiquity and alienated many developers who only still contribute to the platform it because they have too by sheer numbers.

Apple might be able to not totally fail spinning up the platform, because of buying power, image and again numbers.

But those just slightly more practical, still bulky and odd looking VR glasses are nowhere near replicating the seamless product fit of iPods, IPhones, AirPods or CPUs.

It's Metaverse all over again.
A lot of people claim this is nit picky but I disagree. Especially in the context of job descriptions.

I would entertain a job that involved C development but I would be very hesitant to to entertain one for C++
But C++ is a superset of C (kindof, but they even admit that this is one of its benefit) so any C program is (kindof) a C++ program?
You mean like...

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/02/1172301798/workers-affordable...

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-09-16/amazon...

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/apr/18/is-elon-musk...
The current best uses for VR are engineering and gaming. Given this is a consumer product, it won't be used for engineering, and given it's Apple, it won't have a big gaming library.

Apple will have to come up with something new for users to do for this product to justify a $X,000 price, almost regardless of how good the hardware is.
No, you lose it by not being sedentary.
Basically I removed all of the default panels and setup desktop widgets. The launcher widget is the most used. Within it I created custom launchers to open a web browser in full screen mode directed to a particular site like Netflix, YouTube, Prime Video etc. and downloaded icons for it. Other widgets I use is a task tray, weather widget, clock, external HD manager and power. I also found that I had to add the volume widget to get the volume controls on my USB remote to work for some reason.

I also configured font sizes, cursor size and mouse acceleration for usability. It works really well.
It's like the resumes you come across where the person says they know "C/C++", but doesn't really know anything beyond the very basics of either.
I meant things like whitespace and non printable characters though. I guess I could have been more specific.
> How to quit cars

Step 0: Start watching Not Just Bikes - https://www.youtube.com/@NotJustBikes/videos

Step 0.5: Browse through r/FuckCars - https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/
I suppose what I’m wondering is if those features would matter at all to other species. They’re highly salient to us from micro to universal scales, but other species might not even have a sort of mental construct for that notion to begin with. Perhaps it’s possible to be advanced and still have that kind of detail be present and visible yet not interesting or beautiful.
Is it 10^100* bigger?
Yes I think that cheaper Nvidia board with 16GB VRAM is newsworthy (though memory bandwidth is bad)
This is a wonderful deep explanation of Neo-Riemannian theory. This IS the "secret sauce" of modern cinematic music IMHO.

https://alpof.wordpress.com/2021/10/09/neo-riemannian-exampl...

https://www.youtube.com/@alexandrepopoff8628
No, culture is different. Enjoying the people you work around is not culture, it's having good coworkers. You can have coworkers you don't like but a good culture, and coworkers you do like and a bad culture. Culture is distinct from enjoying who you deal with on a day to day basis. People mistake that all the time though.

Culture does matter for this as well though, as enjoying your coworkers but not the culture may still make the job somewhere you don't want to stick around.

I think physical surroundings may help with the culture some, but they'll always be a much lesser influence than the people and policies in place. What's worse, sometimes companies will think the physical surroundings are much more important than they are, and focus on those instead of fixing the policies destroying their actual work culture. I think most people past their early twenties would much rather have a better set of work policies than a really good view out of an office window. Sometimes that's doubly true because those policies might allow you to spend less time in the office and more time at home, around your real family.
People are very interested in generative AI which can be VRAM hungry. LLMs, Graphics, etc. One of these is a mid range SKU with 16GB of VRAM. The next notch up doesn't even have a 16GB VRAM SKU.

As far as the Coke vs. Pepsi comparison, Nvidia's CUDA is like not even that right now. It's a curbstomp in developer experience. You can get in on that action for cheaper now.
Wartime is certainly motivation.