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> Take Apple, they don't seem to care about speed or continuous delivery at all, yet are widely celebrated for design excellence.

For a large software product to be designed well I think you need at least the following four things organizationally:

1. Talented people

2. A collaborative culture that allow those people to argue their position

3. Leadership that believes in good design and is willing and able to invest in it

4. The discipline to maintain consistency across many surfaces

Apple has all 4. I'm at a company that had 1-3 but really struggled with 4 pre-figma. The transition has allowed our design team to really focus their creative energies onto more impactful problems and much less time designing settings page #32. Admittedly this done mean the less talented designers have less fun when they're working, but this griping is exactly what I deal with from mid level engineers who want to work with latest shiny framework, just part of making good product IMO.
As a democratic principle, "one person one vote" only applies to a single area. It means you don't get to cast two votes in the same election.

But if you have multiple citizenship you can vote in multiple countries, for instance.

And in this case being able to vote in two municipalities at the municipal level only isn't a violation of one person, one vote.

On the other hand, if they allowed a single owner of multiple LLC's to vote once for each LLC, that certainly becomes questionable. But another HN comment here indicates the text of the bill specifically disallows that.
The problem with these kind of pixel-perfect, inspectable design tools, is that there's no distinction between important details and unimportant details.

For example, if our app uses a letter-spacing of 1.2 for all the body text, and your Figma design uses a letter-spacing of 1.25, is that important? Or is that a mistake?

In something like Figma, being consistent is difficult for designers. But in code, being consistent is the default — exceptions are hard for developers!

There's a fundamental mismatch that just ends up being painful all around.

"The map is not the territory." Trying to get a design doc to 100% accuracy is often a waste of time. Design tools need a way to specify which details are important, and which are not.
The Microsoft controller is significantly better, with millions of dollars of R&D behind it, and I bought mine for $35 a few years ago.
My comment was based on visual acuity limits. A person with 20/20 vision and a 32" 4K display will hit that limit at around 2ft. Going to a higher resolution you won't be able to see individual pixels anymore unless you have better than average eyesight or sit close to your monitor.

The GPU bit was purely about games and how many pixels you are pushing in games vs cost for a minimum quality and performance level. For content consumption or creation use it isn't a problem.
Please add "RC1" to post title. Currently it's misleading than a stable release is here.
Charter Schools seem to often have trouble maintaining financially viable operations, let alone outcompeting other schools despite being able to pick and choose what students they accept: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_htSPGAY7I

It's been messy to watch this play out in Portland, the quality of education delivered is not consistent and each charter school (or chain) is on its own to reinvent the wheel (and waste resources doing so) on common infrastructure many districts would otherwise share.
> Also 80% of the population lives in the northern hemisphere. It's not an evil scheme to cheat the 20% who live down there.

Actually 90%!
> It coincided with the move of the masses to phones, away from the desktop.

In Cambridge, MA, on around 100 occasions I found a desktop PC that had set out beside the trash on the curb. But I think I recall only one laptop, and never a smartphone.

I wondered whether smaller devices were too easy to put in a drawer, sell online, take with you when you move from your college town apartment, or simply put into the trash can. (I don't think it was only that laptops and smartphones were more likely to be grabbed by a passerby before I saw them, because I was diligent enough that I still should've seen more of them if they were there.)
Thanks for checking it out, and thanks for the encouragement, it means a lot :).

> Your idea is great for indie hackers who want an email when something important happens on their site.

Yup, I built this to scratch my own itch, and it does. Don’t expect it to be super popular but glad to finally ship and move on!
I see 2-day shipping as a stupid twilight zone between urgently needing something (which I'd go to the store for) or being able to wait. If it can wait two days then it can wait a week IMO.
One aspect of the problem is we just don't teach Civics very well as a matter of primary education. It's a big mistake.
Yes, it's coming tomorrow.
Have used it for a smaller project for a bit now and I really like it as well. Concise code and I can still map it to actual SQL in my brain.

What has been a bit non-intuitive for me though is the expression builder since the latest major version of kysely. When writing queries with `OR` conditions it always takes me a while to wrap my head around it again. It is also challening to make this easily readable with lots of dynamic `OR` conditions and I usually end up with a wrapper function which returns the array for the statements passed into the `or(` block. Could be improved in my opinion, otherwise a great tool
Because if you own a summer house you have a legitimate interest in how the town administers utilities and garbage collection, zoning that affects your property values, police spending, etc.
Until recently, it was costly to fake a video of someone talking. Recent advances in generative AI have changed that.

One definition for disinformation is "deliberately misleading or biased information; manipulated narrative or facts; propaganda". The ad I viewed meets that qualification. This was not your typical advertisement trying to persuade the viewer that their product is better than others. It used a generated video of Elon Musk saying things that he did not say, endorsing a product he did not endorse in an attempt to appear legitimate. This is very different from traditional advertising.

The AI shitpocalypse is here. We get to watch it play out in real time over the coming decade.
Did they say thriving? They will be the initial foray. There will be enough of a market for early creators (like Apple TV which had small numbers) but reduced competition. The early creators will have some return, reputation and experience to carry through for when the audience grows.

It won't be the opening of floodgates, but I think it will be interesting enough.
Not letting you skip more than 15 seconds at a time should be an indication of how off their strategy is.
You cannot be extradited for civil matters in any jurisdiction that I'm aware of, not that I'd recommend ignoring them either.
OOP has always felt to me like it was inspired by writing GUI APIs; Sun's Suntools -> Sunview -> xview (if I'm remembering the names right) were early-mid 1980s C, and felt beautifully OO, and very clean to write GUI programs. I enjoyed writing image analysis and manipulation in them. Never used the successor "intrinsics-based" Motif and CDE, the code was yucky. Didn't write another GUI until I did a dashboard (for automated software deployment) in TCL/Tk. But yeah, C++ never interested me for OO, C was fine.
I have long envisioned something that I describe as a reverse-stripper clip for toe socks. Maybe it's a little like a shoehorn, too. You stick it into the sock and it puffs out all the toes and holds the top open, and you just jam your foot in.

Tiny TAM? No MRR? Not a unicorn, to be sure. I still really want one.
Corporations are not people. They are constructs.
It's popular because it's a profound topic, and Sandel is an amazing orator who makes the topic interesting, and when something is enjoyable, almost everyone wants to do it.
Legality is irrelevant, as long as it's still viable.
The article is using art in the sense of craft, i.e. the craft of refurbishing old PCs. If you read the article there's no comparison to high art or collecting, in fact they mention doing this in the context of donating computers that still have life left to people and organizations that can't afford new ones.
Genius move making the battery enclosure for very temperature sensitive items dark blue/black. Genius.
I received a competency based bachelors degree, Northern Arizona University. These are great degrees for people already in the industry who are looking for additional credentials (my situation was I already had an associates and was employed as a developer). I would never recommend a program like this for someone with zero/low experience and without a good deal of self motivation and management.
Very interesting summary.

Now the question I have is how small a model could be that can fascinate a big population of smarter creatures. On one hand we know that the human brain has a lot of power but in the other it could be "manipulated" by lesser intelligente creatures.
I have ignored this for years when I was a digital pirate in Europe.

Fake DMCA bogus can also index you out of google, even your homepage where no 3rd party links are found if you don't fight them

I got lawsuits from the RIAA but non related.

You can safely ignore DMCA's if they're not applied to your jurisdiction, BUT your host and other providers won't when they go upstream unless they also are like in china russia or whatever ignores the US asks
Apple Publishes Updated Human Interface Guidelines for VisionOS
> In USA and Canada, it seems to largely be an instinct to say "Don't take off your shoes, please!" out of politeness.

Yes, but then you take them off anyways, out of politeness.
> I guess ObjC is unrelated to the macOS of olde, but does it also encourage handles somehow?

No, in some ways it allows memory optimization (1. since there is no inlining, clients don't know the internals of data structures, so they're free to change behind your back 2. tagged pointer objects) and in some ways it disallows it (since all objects are heap allocations i.e. there are no value types, object trees can't be "flattened" the way C++ sometimes can).

> I understand that one reason apple silicon is performant is that it has specific fast handling of typical ObjC references?

It's just ARMv8. There are some features like TBI, but the security improvements are more interesting than the performance improvements.
Feel free to AMA about this (organ building in general; I have nothing to do with the site specifically). Before I moved into tech I did a pipe organ building apprenticeship.
Is this as bad as my gut feels it is?
The point isn't paying to publish apps, the point is that you can't hack into it if this is anything like iOS.

If this runs a version of iOS, we can't access the code that is running in it, we can't open a terminal, we can't use our programing language of choice. We can't use the actual device for building anything hacker related by itself.

We can make apps for it using an actual PC made for building, but only if it runs MacOS, ans using their proprietary language. The actual device is far from a hackers dream or plaything if its as locked up as the iPhone. But very cool device though, hopefully it brings VR into Mainstram outside of gaming
To me a more interesting thing is that we always show “north” as “up” or at the “top”.

Even recognizing that it is “natural” given our use of compasses, one would think we can be more playful showing earth with different “up” orientation.
Agreed, your host/servers/isp are the ultimate frontier, they can also seize your domains with the eagle via ICANN
Arnold is Austrian anyway
Turns out we're fine with turning our world into a dystopia as long as that dystopia has predictable chancery courts.
‘Flying Water Taxi’ Can Zip from San Francisco to Redwood City in 20 Minutes
Maybe punishment for this, because he is notorious for pushing the production/efficiency envelope, perhaps the feds should confiscate Jeff's boat. Allow taxpayers a ride.

How many emails does Jeff@amazon.com get per day you think?
What are the drawbacks? Seems like a skill with very opportunity cost. She even drew a decision matrix in the post to illustrate her reasoning around it (whether or not you think that's accurate). The "downside" of attempting this was spending more time playing with her kids.
I get that gamepads are a great universal interface for machinery control. It makes total sense to me. But BY GOD, couldn't they at least have gotten a WIRED controller? What if that's what happened to the sub? They forgot to charge the controller? This whole thing is just so fucking insane.
Intel Manufacturing Gets Its Own Profit and Loss Potentially for a Spin-Off
This assumes there isn't a statistical deviation in who is working multiple jobs amongst the working parent community.

Just look at https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery... and tell me there isn't a severe income issue in 1 out of 5 kids lives that causes them to be SNAP eligible. You don't end up on SNAP cause your parents are doing well financially!
Also useful: these codecademy cheatsheets are easy reading and cover ruby syntax basics: https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-ruby/modules/learn-ru...
I don't have a question per se but this post was the first time I've heard about your company and I find it to be a really interesting offering and I've told a few people about it. Having done a small amount of portrait photography in the past (professional headshots, I mean) I think people underestimate how intensely difficult it can be. rock on!
In more formal environments, software requirements are NOT written by software engineers: they're written by systems engineers.
I agree with this.

Meta's attempts are currently limited because the sticky use cases seem to be fitness and a little bit of gaming. When you have a device that is viable for some level of work, it's a somewhat easier sell. Apple will be testing this for work (and hybrid remote work) with staff and will have a strong idea as to how viable this is going forward.
Maybe we are using different maps of this literary territory.
Generation Gap Inflation
China’s Cloud Computing Firms Raise Concern for U.S.
Because the equator in the Mercator projection is the closest to "true size"...which means that the wealthier nations, well above that, are in fact exacerbated in apparent land mass.

I like this site[1] for showing the true size of countries on a standard projection. Look at how much the US actually changes in size when you move it's latitude even a little.

Like it or not, the perception of scale of a problem is linked to apparent size - Africa looks smaller then it is, whereas the European countries look a lot larger then they are. When we talk about a problem affecting somewhere, the idea that "most of the world is experiencing it" is contraindicated by our maps even if only subconsciously.

[1] https://www.thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTc0MzY1MDE.NTAzNDg...
The Rainbow break in period is a form of torture. But once you get through it, they surely are comfortable.
Mark Zuckerberg is ready to fight Elon Musk in a cage match
I think nunneries and monasteries qualified as well. Maybe one of the first recorded women voting was an abbotess.
She is neither celebrated nor an outright fraud.

She was disgraced because she reported inaccurate claims (on WMDs in Iraq) from government intelligence sources. Specifically she reported them without sufficient skepticism — without checking the sourcing of the claims (I.e. asking questions like “how did the CIA acquire this intelligence”) or giving sufficient credence and attention to counter claims.

Although this is considered bad practice, it is not considered fraudulent. She was indeed takling to highly placed government sources and had reason to believe they were credible.

My opinion: Although what she did was rightly viewed, eventually, as journalistic malpractice, she was clearly pleasing her editors who routinely moved her stories to the front page. These editors also failed to demand skepticism and wider investigation, and while at least one was pushed out, the institution of the NY Times remained credulous about government claims. I routinely see stories where they uncritically repeat government claims — especially where classified intelligence is involved and especially relating to military operations. Therefore I believe Miller is also something of a scapegoat.
I skimmed the first couple of chapters and the syntax you have to go through to make this work looks painful at best. void * everywhere. Structs with C's function pointer syntax all over the place... It looks like it can certainly work, but it's not going to be pleasant compared to almost anything designed for OO.
Isn't perjury the act of swearing to something that isn't true? He did do that. Whether he was required to swear to that is surely a separate question. He wasn't required to swear to that, but he did. Is there not a penalty for just plain lying under oath?
Several tech companies send transparency data of take down requests to www.lumendatabase.org. You can get a sense of scale and pattern.
> In 2022, it stopped offering machinery that needed DDR2 memory; it simply isn't affordable to upgrade machines to more than four gigs of such an old form of RAM. That in turn meant saying goodbye to most Core 2 Duo PCs.

Which is a shame, because Core 2 Duo is perfectly fine for most modern purposes other than video games.

(My main Debian machine is still Core 2 Duo. RAM usage usually hovers around 1-2 GB, including buffers (and I don't enable swap), and that's when often running 3 dissimilar Web browsers at once, plus a couple other programs once considered memory-hungry.)
In my experience the designer and the developer need to be co-located, either physically or virtually. There's just too many questions that come up during implementation of a design that can't be expressed in the design doc (or it's inefficient to do so) and so the feedback/communication loop between these two needs to be fast and high-fidelity. I.e., the dev can't be offshore while the designer is onshore. I've tried it a number of times and it never worked.
If biking or walking I'd worry less about a heavy new car than an old car that doesn't have automatic emergency braking.
No, no one believes this sort of thing except perhaps a tiny minority of halfwits. Don't confuse enforced "company spirit" with reality.
In case anyone from central Indiana stumbles upon this thread, the Indianapolis Art Center also has a darkroom with inexpensive classes. I’m anxiously awaiting my next class this fall.

https://indyartcenter.org/
And "excellence" initiatives are usually led by people who have never accomplished anything :-)
> Current employees are afraid to say anything as spez reads Blind and complains about it at all hands. 100% he will try to rat out who is speaking. Not worth it.

Are employees worried he knows someone who works at Blind who can reverse lookup emails? By all appearances, no one's ever been identified on Blind in the 6 or 7 years it's been popular (with the exception of people who shared too much personal info). Seems like Blind really does throw the email away.
That's interesting ! I would like to read a bit more about it - any pointers ?
> So what’s really happening: Apple is trying to prevent others from using apples, including ones that don’t look particularly like Apple’s apple (2d, monochrome, bite out of it) from being used to compete with them. You couldn’t start “granny smith’s headphones and use an apple as your logo.

As far as I can tell, the apple in the trademark application looks exactly the same (except for the color) as the green apple in the Apple Records logo.
"Where there are separate DEI teams, they tend to be the most diverse,"

That's not my observation at all.
It's called lambda, or serverless.
It's possible to subscribe just to Prime Video. I highly recommend doing that if you only use Prime for video. It's cheaper than full Prime and you pay month by month, so you can cancel it for a few months then come back.

The only issue: I seem to remember the process of switching from full Prime to Prime Video only was rather confusing and hidden.
> I'm constantly amazed at how hung up people are on apparent size of countries.

Something that jumps out at me with the size is that the arctic regions are often viewed as huge and massive. However, when viewed with their true size, it greatly highlights just how fragile they are.
They could. They don't. It may not even be their fault. They don't know. They just change things. They live in their world. You tell them, they are sympathetic, apologize, vow to do better next time. They're in their world. They do it again.

The flogging still happens. Is that broken? Yes! Does it still happen in too many companies? Yes! Is there an easy fix where you "trust but verify"? Yes! (as in, sure I trust they will notify me next time, which even if they actually do may be too late. So we made the process "figma is the 'working theory' and what we actually build will sorta look like that". Not every stakeholder may understand that but we sure will tell them when the flogging is about to start. (I say flogging, but in reality it's a gradient of course and while in some companies it will resemble an actual flogging quite closely in others it's more like what you describe. Not all countries and companies are as chill as some others ;))
Sure, but would it interrupt with auto-complete nonsense too soon or would it know when an interruption would help?

> This reminds me of

>> A cool spring day?

> that movie where uhhh

>> Star Wars is a movie.

I'm human, so I can understand when I have enough info for a good guess (The Green Mile?) but that's a much different skill than what an LLM does, right?
Qualcomm Introduces S3 Gen 2 Sound Platform
Sure but if the job listings are saying “College Degree in something” applicants without a degree are likely to get rejected well before interviews because it is an easy filter for HR.
It's a stretch, but I can imagine it happening to someone!

Reminds me of Hal fixing a light bulb (from Malcolm in the Middle): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSehcT19u0

Thanks for sharing.
They accomplished that with the iPhone, which is small, sleek, metallic....a status symbol like jewellery or a fine watch. It's not imposing, it doesn't overshadow your outfit. AVP is the complete opposite of all that.
This is a hilarious comment because from what I remember (article seems to be down) the biggest descriptor I remember her giving is that its an app that leaks memory. I think that was the very first thing she said about it.
I've tried vapor gloves, xero, lems, bearfoot... All supposedly "wide toebox," all too narrow. So far, five fingers and earth runners are the only footwear that works for me.
The obvious implication made by mentioning it is that it's somehow connected.

Maybe the future article will try to claim that we like Mercator because it matches apparent size to importance.

Maybe it'll try to claim that wealth differences are caused by different apparent size.

With the current fashion being to see all inequalities as imposed by force, the later seems more likely.

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... And since the date on the post is a couple months ago, I looked for that follow up and it was two days later but mostly paywalled: https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/are-maps-decei...

The blurb at least sounds like it is indeed exploring that second option, but the meat of whatever argument and conclusion isn't public.
I watched a video compilation of VR headset mishaps (running into walls, hitting things, etc) and I think that most Vision Pro users will be a lot more reserved in their use. Apple's promotional collateral showed fairly static use cases: couch, standing near a desk, etc.

I'm keen on trying it or getting one, but I have zero interest in using it while cooking or similar.