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> For anything else it (or any form of Javascript) isn't the right tool for the job, in part for the reasons outlined in this post.

I genuinely don't understand how someone could make a statement like this. You mention command line apps and servers, but surely whether TS is the best solution would depend entirely what you're trying to achieve. If there's a great NPM library to help you with the problem you're solving why wouldn't you use TypeScript?

Not to mention the fact that TypeScript servers when paired with web frontends have obvious advantages. One project I worked on involved analysing 3D objects then visualising this on a web app. The simplest solution we found for visualising the analysis we were doing on the backend was just to build it all with Three.js and TypeScript then use common libraries.

I'll also note that good JS developers are generally competent enough to avoid "bad habits" and that "bad habits" in my experience are not isolated to the JS ecosystem.
I need that celebrate switch on every website, how whimsical.
True, but Musk is in the social media game now too!
That's in a small town not Dublin proper, right? Gotta say that's a huge number of deliveries for a weekend in a place with only 30,000 people living there. Was that weekend during a special offer?
What a terrible article. First, this is hardly a new insight, having been discussed extensively even on HN for many years, much less in the press, blogosphere et al. Isn’t it in Thiel’s book?

Second, it only applied to a few businesses.

(And those few were mostly in SF, not SV anyway :-).
Retail investors are always the losers.
Sounds like a YC idea?
But 32 hours a week is far less than 8-10 hours a day for 6 days. Not sure what you are getting at.
I would say "Causation" is when an effect can be explained by a provable deterministic mechanism.
Nice to see the nuanced problem explained clearly.
Yeah it's funny how for example, Uber kind of followed a curve.

It started out, in NYC at least, as a luxury "black car" replacement.

Then it got flooded with the cheaper tiers, and it was hard to understand how anyone was making money - the drivers, the company etc. And they weren't!

Now its more expensive than ever and generally far cheaper to get a yellow cab again.
Even though I myself use Android over iOS, a Meta executive saying this makes a lot of sense, as unlike iOS Android is not trying to kill their ad based revenue stream.
The landlords pass the costs of property taxes onto their tenants in their rents. So who is really paying for them?
Nothing special. Just that if I have a DNS resolving around that timeframe, Firefox becomes noticeably faster.

All of the networks I have have a DNS server around that speed now, and Firefox works visibly faster on all of them. Possibly an intersection between human perception and hardware capabilities of my systems at hand.
Which manufacturers are doing it well in your opinion?
Sometimes it is as much because there isn't something better so people default. And there often isn't much better because it is more financially rewarding to get a “not bad” reaction from a large audience than it is to produce something that only appeals to a smaller one.

Sometimes people actively want something that allows them to, even requires them to, shut off parts of their brain.
That's not what 'void*' is for.
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> your average car user already perceives transit as unprofitable and would therefore find it not just unfeasible, but deeply unfair.

The average car user probably need to adjust their sentiments on this. Car users are being heavily invested in not only by the infrastructure they get, but also the opportunity costs of the land the roads occupy.

Even in Denmark where cars are taxed at an additional 150% (on top of a 25% VAT) I am quite sure that the regular tax payer subsidizes the car user.

I would love to see actual profitability analysis of these technologies. I am not ure the car users would benefit however.
These posts are really funny because its people like us who love contraptions, and people going "wow linux doesn't work huh"

yet I typically run weird systems(xmonad, arch) and they're infinitely more reliable after the initial couple hours of setup than my windows install.

My thinkpad with a 7 year old Antergos install and i3wm "just works", but without a hint of irony. Literally the only issue with the laptop happens equally in windows and linux, and that's the USB ports going to sleep and never waking up until reboot.

The big thing about playing around deeper in the system, is you can fix it relatively easy. It's like a 90s honda civic where you can step into the engine bay vs doing any kind of maintenance on a modern audi or bmw. Sure you can see the guts but if a bolt loosens on both, which one would you rather have to fix?
Or more likely strncpy plus forced last NUL. Return a flag on truncation unlike messing with return code or errno.

Call it safe_strncpy and be done with it. Otherwise asprintf and snprintf exist.
strlcpy is a more garbage version of snprintf.
I would like to see Universities take the lead here. A bunch of high profile degree revocations would generate some waves at least.
FWIW the Firefox address bar also searches your history and bookmarks, so you can still retrieve those sites by searching for them without keeping a tab open for each one. Feel free to do what you like, obviously, but if having a zillion tabs open is causing you problems, know that there are other solutions :)
>Second, it is a bit rich that this legal maneuver is framed at "protecting claimants" when it blocks those claimants from pursuing cases that maximizes their damages.

This is purposefully obtuse. If a few courts award 5 plaintiffs the entire pot of gold, then there's nothing left for all the other claimants. And of course it's in J&J's interest to consolidate the cases. It's also in the plaintiffs' interests, especially those who weren't first.
The idea is that modern windows (10,11,12) boot fast enough through various tricks that booting is faster - or as fast as - awaking from hibernation.

TBH It's probably not wrong, I wouldn't know because for some unknown reason my motherboard sits doing nothing for over a minute before starting the POST. Once it's past that, I can be at a linux prompt in 20 seconds, or at the windows login within 40, depending on whether I interrupt rEFInd
Maybe, maybe not. Point is that there are lot of factors at play that can make the market-share diverge depending on what you measure.
Original C compilers only guaranteed comparing up to 6 characters in an external symbol, which I think is part of the reason why many nanes are so short.
Google Maps is by far the strongest consumer product the company has to offer, and one of the most important online services, if not the most important online service of all. Google Maps was the reason I bought a smart phone. It is a revolutionary service, not only for navigation, but much more for finding restaurant and hotels, reviews and opening hours.

With that said, the interface is awful and laggy on all devices, and keeps changing.

Apple are total morons for not allowing crowd source of information on their maps. Business owners usually don't put their stuff there, and they think Instagram is a much better use of their time than having their adress and opening hours on Apple Maps.
Extensions can have a measurable effect on the benchmark, be sure both browsers have no extension, or the same extensions with the same configuration.
When you maintain your lifestyle on $16/hour?
it took some thinking, but i did manage to figure out that they must be talking about chrome OS even without reading the article, so i approve
Same here. It's simply a convenient way to work with a browser.
While I agree with the marketing aspects of Apple not using the word "AI", I fail to understand how local models will be able to outform LLMs.

First things first, we don't really know what these LLMs will evolve to be in future. Then comes the question, whatever they evolve to be, can they be implemented locally?

A key point the author talks about is Siri is garbage. Perhaps it is garbage because Siri didnt have LLMs but it is worth noting that it is still garbage after it was made local only in ios15 (2021).

Here is what I think:

Traditionally Apple has never relied on AI. They didn't need to as other than search, there were no big AI use cases. Even now, AI use cases are still being developed, so it makes sense for them to wait and watch to see how things evolve & then implement the best possible solution.
That's literally the point he's making! The terms "flawed" and "zombie" reflect positive identification of dodgy data, so of course when the data isn't available, they are less likely to apply, hence why:

> This finding alarmed him, too: it suggested that, without access to the IPD — which journal editors usually don’t request and reviewers don’t see — even an experienced sleuth cannot spot hidden flaws.
That is quite the exception... The thing that is supposed to be the next big thing
Yeah who needs truth and accuracy anyway? Think of the small businesses who will never be because they couldn’t get a simple drug on market with minimal testing
Who then turn around and pass those costs along to renters as landlords. Or they take transit and get value. Or they drive and benefit from every vehicle not on the road since someone else took transit.
I find no solace in evolutinary psych “explanations” during dark nights of the soul. It feels like nihilism dressed up in Science, with an undertone of “well this is the best we got so tough luck!” to be frank.

If they work for you, great.
Should the Pentium II have been socketed?
Oh, that looks great, thanks.
Sadly no cycling directions for my city. Despite their size Apple aren’t great at supporting smaller countries. Even when there seems to be no good reason. No AQI data for many if not most countries, for example.
Firefox already allows for proper tab UIs, so no need to search for other solutions there :)
maybe just go back to a startup?
I think that is somewhat off topic. I don't see why rent seeking via IP laws should be bad while doing it via provision of AI wouldn't be.
You may not know the function is doing C string manipulation, since const correctness in APIs is not a 100% thing.
That's actually mentioned in the article, which is quite good and worth reading:

> In 2016, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), an influential body that sets policy for many major medical titles, had proposed requiring mandatory data-sharing from RCTs. But it got pushback — including over perceived risks to the privacy of trial participants who might not have consented to their data being shared, and the availability of resources for archiving the data. As a result, in the latest update to its guidance, in 2017, it settled for merely encouraging data sharing and requiring statements about whether and where data would be shared.
>People seem to find "if I don't then someone else will" to be an unacceptable answer but it seems to me to be fairly central.

Because you can use this as a cop out for truly heinous work. I.e. gain of function research, autonomous weapons, chemical weapons, etc. It's not a coherent world view for someone that actually cares about doing good.
What about the users? This whole thread is entirely developer centric. Odds are you are going to have 1000x more time users than developers. A native solution and not some node interpreted monstrosity is the right choice. We all loathe electron apps because they perform like shit. What's worse, inconvenience a handful of developers to learn a native language, or make thousands of users run node apps? The carbon footprint alone is worth it.
How can you be so sure all your colleagues are useless? Are they doing any important but non-flashy work (planning, documentation, cleanup, etc) that isn't captured by the "story point" metric, which is a pretty bad tool to gauge productivity anyway?
Thanks for the info! Still impressive!
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Your own source shows that when adjusted for population size/etc the trend has been flat/slightly down.

Now add inflation, that it was underfunded in the first place, and that the charts used start right after a major recession & the beginning of Thatcher…
> It seems M Series won't get native support in parallels for Windows 10 or Windows Server 2022.

This seems to be a hole left from Apple’s move away from Intel. I’m part of the niche group of people running Windows on Mac (via VMWare Fusion & Parallels). We’ve been buying Macs for 10 years now and suddenly we don’t have a path forward with new Apple hardware.

We’re currently deciding between changing our development stack to not require Windows or to just move away from Apple.
The Mac may well continue to be used for longer, even if it's by a child of the original owner, or sold to someone else.
They did? Hence why netflix?
Was about to say, wasn't all their source code stolen too?

https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/22/okta-breach-source-code-gi...

Okta looked very bad during the entire saga where they kept denying they were hacked until the proof was insurmountable. Pretty sure there was a large discussion on HN at the time too.
It might be the next big thing, but there's pretty much a 100% guarantee that the UK will not be the driving force for it.
Meta: the misuse of the term "scam" appears to be on the rise, often serving as a catch-all phrase for anything that one disapproves of.
Once you understand more about CPU caches you can usually just profile and find hot spots, then redo how memory is being accessed.

Making it work well is simple, you just need to access memory linearly/contiguously so the prefetcher can run ahead of your program and read it before you need it. Any time access patterns are skipping around memory it is going to be very slow relative to what the CPU can actually do, but it will mostly matter in the inner loops.
It's a "we checked the Linux desktop share and you won't believe what we found out!" type of headline.
That's not true. Judges can't just take cases from different districts and different states, different court systems altogether, and consolidate them. Plaintiffs can choose to file a class action, but you can't force them into one. If all the cases are in federal court, you can kind of consolidate into an MDL (multi-district litigation), but that just consolidates certain pre-trial procedures. Unless they settle, the cases still get sent back out to the districts they came from for resolution by the original judges and separate juries.

Bankruptcy is one way around this.
Everyone works slowly at a big company. What you should do is try to see how you can leverage your contributions to grow faster. People not only work very slowly at big companies, but saying something like that might land you in HR issues. People will work at different pace, and the company has decided that their pace is acceptable too. Just ensure that you get credit for your own work and rise fast.
Someone was selling a vocoder on eBay, so they made a video of the vocoder describing it's own selling features.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kc-bhOOLxE
Proficient? Yes. But I have better things to do with my time. I enjoy spending time with my family, woodworking, baking, gardening, home remodeling, painting, studying ancient Afro-asiatic languages, reading, hiking, etc.

The only way I’m going to learn a new language is if my work requires it and makes time for me to learn it. Well, we have far too much work to do to carve out time to learn new languages, so they just keep us using what we already know. That’s fine with me. I receive a hefty six figure income to pay for my life outside of work.
Is it? By its nature AI might add to Britain's GDP but seems unlikely to positively affect poverty or employment.
I had the luck of being able to go abroad and hear that native speakers don't speak like the actors sound in the movies.
In my experience, they are different (speaking as someone witnessing it from layman's perspective). Here is what I have seen in Phase II & III trials:

a) Pharma identities the type of patients they need (e.g., 25-50 female, not pregnant, with specific ailment if Phase III), specific tests, and measurements required throughout the study.

b) pharma contacts third party (3P) to manage study patients.

c) 3P has relationship with dozens or even hundreds of doctors' offices, knowing what office can fulfill the test & measure requirement, and has the potential trial patient pool.

d) 3P has existing contract with these doctors' & hospitals. They get patients onto the study. ( <--- #1 reason this is farmed out in my opinion)

e) Doctors & hospitals perform the study and collect the data.

f) doctors & hospitals pass the data to the 3P

g) 3P passes it to the pharma

h) repeat e) through g) as many times as the study requires it. This can be once, or many times over years.

i) pharma pays 3P, 3P pays doctors & hospitals, and they pay the trial patients - each taking their cut along the way.

There are variations on how this is done, sometimes no 3P, sometimes pharma will have their own pool of patients and 3P. Also this is a very rough flow as there are often checks, audits, and validations (should be) done during the study.
I switched jobs and two weeks later started the corona lockdown. I was able to get up to speed, form meaningful connections to team members, and do some of my best work for two years.

My productivity tanked completely ever since we were forced back to the office. It almost burned me out.
> I actually think it's the opposite, I always see Americans getting really snarky about Europe

It's definitely both ways. Things Americans are snarky about:
- Europe starting world wars, America getting pulled in and 'winning' them (taking an outsized view of America's role)
- "Everything is so small here"

Things Europeans are snarky about:
- Not knowing geography or anything about the world outside the U.S.
- Tipping
- Atrocious public transit
- High healthcare costs for poor outcomes
It would be really bad if everyone used Firefox - just as it would be very bad if everyone used Chrome (or even any other browser based on the same rendering engine).

We all absolutely do benefit greatly from having multiple competing browsers and render engines - regardless of which one we individually prefer to use.

Therefore I really don't understand the many, many, many "my-browser-is-better-than-yours-you-should-switch" comments in this thread here. Why's everyone trying to convince everyone else that they should use the one and only "best" browser too? What for?

Are people truly that desperate for confirmation and validation, that they need others to agree on their choice of browser?
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Do you know of any studies on the discrepancy? My understanding was that Omicron came out and basically gave the middle finger to everyone's precautions. With what seemed like literally nothing working against it.
You’re probably optimizing for the wrong metrics. Look at the people that are promoted quickly and copy what they are doing.

It probably isn’t number of JIRA tickets.
I stopped using Firefox because it was killing my battery life. Also because I noticed more and more websites stopped supporting it and I just kind of gave up. I'm using Safari these days and it's fine.
Where do you see that? Could you provide more info? Tried to Google and all I saw was rumors that were debunked.
> The life expectancy of a male in the US is 73.5 years.

But 40 is when the warranty expires.
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Just curious, what does that UI look like with 1,000 tabs open? Isn't it just like, one pixel per tab, or a scrollbar 50 times wider than your monitor? Is that actually useful?
Interestingly, there is some gaming of the main number everyone looks at on the nutrition facts chart: calories per serving.

All snacks aim to fall at or below a certain number the FDA (or some other agency) put out as being considered a snack. Planet Money did an episode on different M&M varieties having different total weights to account for their different calorie counts. So you get fewer by weight peanut butter M&Ms because they’re more calorie rich
I'm in a rural area and find Apple Maps is generally always consistent with the real life conditions when it comes to traffic and road closures.

iOS devices report the flow of traffic, they just do it in an anonymized way. I'm also seeing more and more user-reported events (the Waze-like feature now built into Apple Maps). Reporting things like speed checks, accidents, etc.
> Retail investors are always the losers.

Among the losers anyway. Pretty hard to pick a bigger loser in this equation than the humble Uber driver or Amazon warehouse worker.
What about the chart leads you to that conclusion?
Note that the article discusses research studies and not clinical trials for drug or device approval.

These research studies are important (look at how many were conducted on COVID-19 over the last few years) but are typically not held to a particularly high standard, as with most science. Which doesn’t excuse bad data or poor statistics (the latter supposedly supposed to be picked up in peer review).
I pay every day for roads, infrastructure, pollution, traffic deaths, etc. even though I don't drive. How is that fair?
Those are definitely “step two” once you have managed to get the relevant services running. Fortunately, spam and basic phishing filtering isn’t too hard at small scale. You can get free access to very high quality blocklists for non-commercial use and you can use rspamd’s fuzzy hash API and various phishing URL data sources for free as well.

The really hard thing is to self host outbound email delivery. You almost have to use a relay service to get mail delivered these days. Most IPs at cheap hosting services are in a bad neighborhood and will be treated poorly by association. On the other hand, most transactional email services have a generous free tier that would work for a lot of self-hosted setups.

Relaying through MailChannels is free with no volume limits if you do it via Cloudflare Workers. Would be nice to see someone merge that with this project as an option.
I work in preclinical pharma research, so I have spent a good amount of time trying to recapitulate published data in animal models, so not quite clinical trial data. People who do this work learn how to evaluate trustworthiness. It can be as granular as "this lab is the only one publishing this kind of information, so we'll be skeptical" to a bit more broad "this class of drug isn't expected to have that biology" to "I trust this company over that institution". We route around the fact that some information isn't reliable, and that's not always because of dishonesty or fraud.

I'm not a clinician and don't deal with them regularly, but the impression I get is that new studies are published by researchers who have a lot of connections (dubbed thought leaders). They present at conferences. Other clinicians pick up the use case that matches their need (this patient has failed other therapies for this indication, let's try this new thing I'm now aware of). Then as experience grows, clinicians have more nuanced understanding of the use cases for that new information and its reliability. Frustratingly, this can take years, but that's bug that's also a feature.
I didn't see any mention of the homeless. Buses and especially trains are sheltered from the outside, have AC and heating and reasonably comfortable seats. You better have a strategy for the homeless.