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QNX always did it that way. One of their basic design decisions was to never process strings or complex data formats in the kernel. That's all in user space, which is good for crash prevention. It's hard to have kernel buffer overflows when you don't have kernel buffers.

The boot loader loaded an image into memory which contained the kernel, a utility process called "proc", and whatever else needed to be available at startup. For an embedded application, that might be the entire program. For a standard desktop environment, it would include a disk driver, a network driver, and a startup program.

Shared object files could also be loaded as part of the initial image. One of them was the program loader. The C library for QNX had calls for the various 'exec' functions, but they were just passed to the program loader shared object. With no special privileges, it allocated the memory for the new program, read in the program image, set up the Unix-type args, and transferred control to the newly loaded program.
In fact, City Directories were much more comprehensive, from the end of the 18th century. City Directories can contain people's exact home addresses, their occupations, and places of employment. The directories were a combined white pages-yellow pages even before the phone company got in on it.

Traditionally, in most small towns, privacy has meant something entirely different, because all the residents of a town knew everybody else's business, whether it was from open sharing, gossip, or low-tech spying. People in a small town do not have freedom of movement or freedom of anonymity. There is no crowd to blend into.
GPT-4 finished training in August 2022, before the release of ChatGPT.

If they had announced this sooner hardly anyone on the internet would have noticed. Props to them for adding it now.
It is a reversal. It's relatively loud in there (compared to a US library). Coffee shop levels. But there are study rooms and study areas. And actual books. I'd take that over the library in my town in a second which has half empty shelves and low usage and a vocal contingent calling for it's shuttering.
petrolatum is underappreciated as a moisturizer imo. Too cheap for a good marketing budget.

Most of the expensive moisturizers is going to be 80-90% petrolatum and a bunch of crap that's more likely to irritate than help (but smells nice!).

Don't get me started on "non-greasy" formulations... it's the greasiness that makes it work!

Pro-tip: put your moisturizer on just after washing. You want to trap in all that water!
I mean the posts are hardly what I visit Reddit for. The true value is in the comments. For posts I could simply use RSS instead.
This was inevitable, it's always been a secondary thing for British Gas.

I worked on the predecessor to Hive back in about '08-'10, the engineering consultancy I worked for designed a version of the "hub" and a number of their security and energy monitoring sensors.

It was the first thing I worked on that made it out into consumers hands (v2 of the hub). I remember one day buying a copy of Wired magazine, and it had an article about them. Seeing a product I had designed in that magazine was a really memorable moment.

Back then they were not part of British Gas but a Cambridge UK startup called AlertMe. A really good bunch of people with a vision for the smart home. The plan was clearly to start with the security products, then energy monitoring was a secondary market. However after getting a big contract with British Gas to supply monitoring to all their customers, they pivoted almost completely to that - and ultimately they were acquired by them.

As I said, they were a really interesting team, their CTO was a former early Acorn employee who had lead RiscOS.
I can’t remember the history exactly but isn’t Cal Newport the one who became famous for being a postdoc who was super prolific while still rabidly being 9-5 40 hour schedule ? Used to piss me and my friends off so much as if WE wanted to burn up by working more as opposed to the environment forcing it on us.

And if I recall correctly, he recanted on it after becoming a professor and realizing that can’t actually work if you are truly responsible for things in a lab? Or something to that tune? Please correct me my memory is frail on this.
Except for the exceptions. And off by one errors.
Not the OP, however here goes a quick sample.

Anything related to HPC and HFT, CUDA, game engines (Unreal/CryEngine/Ogre3D/Godot vs Bevy), Qt/WinUI/MFC/VCL/FireMonkey/wxWidgets/KDE, COM/XPC/Binder, compiler frameworks (Graal/GCC/LLVM).

Yes, many of those could be used from Rust, some of them already are, provided there are bindings, then again it is the classical question if one wants to maintain bindings, or write the application they care about.
I can also recommend "Never Lost Again: The Google Mapping Revolution That Sparked New Industries and Augmented Our Reality" (https://amzn.com/0062673041) about the evolution of Google Earth, Maps, and Street View. Written by one of the founders of Keyhole (the company that built what became Google Earth), the book is mostly about the founding of Keyhole and its mapping technology, but has some insider info about the political maneuverings between Google's Search and Geo teams over owning the map ads because everyone knew it would be a big deal.
They can buy Uber stock
i mean, it's fine if you believe that to get through the day but in my experience death has never been a desirable or peaceful thing no matter how wise the person was. i had to watch a very good friend die once who never had a shred of resentment, malice, only wanted what's best for everyone. in the end I gotta tell ya, it wasn't pretty, and I'm pretty sure he'd rather not had been dying. he was 74.
The range available with 54 bit fixed point is also staggering.

And almost any code that would work with 54 bit fixed point works even better with 64 bit floating point, and the floating point version is much easier to code.

So sure, floating point isn't optional when you start off assuming the same number of bits. But if you treat it as a small overhead to make code more robust to large numbers, easier to code, and often faster to run, then it looks a lot better.
The legal cases don't mean anything. The rule of law has all but disappeared from the corporate world. The idea that courts or regulators will be able to control AI is laughable. They are too corrupt, and they are way too slow.
You'd pay 50-100 euro a month ? Why ? How did you arrive at this number ? Even before google maps, the standalone navigation devices didn't cost that much. To stretch this, if maps is 50-100 a month, how much is the total bill of all software you use ? Surely, the h/w, OS, browsers etc. should be orders of magnitude more than what they are today too.
Better get one of those old C compilers that are still written in C then.
tl;dr: Men. It was men what made them miserables.
If you're goal is ergonomics, the physical layout will get you 90% of the benefits. Ditching qwerty might get you that 10% but at a higher cost since almost all computing is built around qwerty.
And nothing of value was lost. We need a do over that aligns news with incentives for a working democracy. Now of course this isn’t it, but burning down Facebook news is a good step into the right direction.
I’m excited to have my food and air supply stopped because I didn’t repeat the narrative.
Open source is usually inferior at first, because it's often one guy, or a small group of people doing it after work and at weekends, not a big company piling gobs of money into a full-time team. You usually only get that initial rush in open source when it's a big company driving the project in the first place (LLVM, say).

Linux is one of the great examples where FOSS has built up momentum and outrun several commercial competitors. Ditto for git (which actually was a bit "FC" in the first place). GCC and LLVM have between them stomped a few commercial compilers.

If you want examples of open source lagging the commercial equivalent: FreeCAD Vs SolidWorks, KiCAD (which is beginning to edge out some competitors: Eagle just went down) vs Altium, GIMP Vs Photoshop, KDEnlive Vs Premiere, Octave Vs MATLAB.

Not to say they're not amazing projects, or that they don't have their own share of technical debt, but they'll all have to play the long game to reach the overtake (and they're all decades into the race, so it's a slog).

Not being into home automation myself, I can't really comment on open source in this space, but the commercial churn puts the FOSS approach in a good place for the software side. Hardware, not so much.
That was about Google Earth, not about Google Maps, right?

(I don't know to what extent the tech stack is shared between the two.)
Apple Maps support for proper lane markings, road features, trees, building outlines etc is so much better. I basically only use Google maps for double checking business hours.

Google maps might mark that a road has a lane, but Apple Maps delineates lane size, has better direction and turn markers, is able to pick up bike lanes, slow zones, speed bumps, the _kind_ of lane markers! (Double line, single, single + dash).

Also the bike routing on Apple Maps is saner too. Google Maps regularly attempts to route me down highways or arterial roads…
I don’t think it is possible to end the derogatory use of the term conspiracy theorist universally, but I do have some hope that we can put a stop to it’s use as an ad hominem here on Hacker News.

It is never used in the spirit of promoting insightful discussion.

Instead it is used to shut down a line of inquiry in its tracks. It’s like calling someone an anti-semite.

It is used as a soft form of censorship, to disqualify the mere idea of engaging in the specifics of an argument.

If someone dismisses a comment by implying it is a conspiracy instead of offering a substantive rebuttal of why the comment is mistaken, it reduces the quality of the entire community.

I think we can do better, but more people need to call out this bad behavior.
Philips Hue has so far been an exception to mediocre smart home products. We had Hue at home for ages now, it always works, no lights got deprecated or any of that nonsense, and even though they have a cloud component, it works fine without.

The only downside for me is that I don’t use the smart part. So for me they are just good lights. My wife does use the app/widgets, etc.
As a theoretical computer scientist his job was primarily to think and have really good ideas. Thinking at home all day was doing his job...
This isn't unique to Google. For example, the stripe PaymentMethod object is opaque and can't be moved to any other payment provider. That pretty much locks customers into stripe unless you want to force the customer to sign up to your service and enter their billing details again.
There was a time in my life where I was feeding the cement mixer and building walls wearing a pair of expensive kenzo shoes and a business suit. I was convinced that cynicism was the only possible ethos. Now that I don't work anymore in the field I don't even wear suits.
The battery is already a guaranteed failure point.
You just reminded me of my own mapping annoyance. Apple Maps, while navigating, will keep zooming the map as I approach my destination. The scale keeps changing! For a lot of areas, this makes it possible to glance at the map, see that my dot is 32 millimeters away from the destination, drive for a bit, glance again… still 32 mm away. The same unit length on my screen represents 3 miles or 300 feet.

I wish there was some visual indication of the scale, other than a tiny line in the bottom right corner.
Thanks for this comment. I don't have answers to these questions. I promise to keep you updated! Thank you!
So we’re enshittifying from an incredibly low base. Nice.
I assume people on the Google Maps team use Google Maps in their daily lives. Do they not feel the UX friction from all the ad-centric design?
You should take a look at Colemak. It keeps the zxcv at the same place, particularly for shortcuts.

I’ve switched now 6 years ago. I had a speed of about 80-85 wpm on Qwerty. And now recently I’m on the same speed with Colemak. So that took about 5 years, without deliberate practice. However after 4 months I was already at 57 WPM which is perfectly fine to be productive.

I still type with thumbs on qwerty though. So I haven’t changed my phone to colemak. I must say though that when typing at a colleague's keyboard, I have to type with 4 fingers in order not to confuse the layout. I’m not able to do both as touch typing
My understanding is that it's not easy to untrain a model of data already fed to it.

Regarding noai tags - is this respected or just wishful?

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I use it daily. Is become my default maps app, for over two years now
How can google maps monetize when openstreetmaps exists?
On mine too. iPad is locked into place on the Magic Keyboard. ‘Water’ goes to the top of the screen.
Taken in isolation maybe, but in things aren't isolated they are in context.

One bit of context: sky is a rare event, yet driving happens all the time.
100 Euros per month for Maps? What do you even need Maps for when you can just see everything from your flying yacht anyway?
ehhhhh, close. Just watch out when we don't have a leap year in 2100
In the US, famously the prohibition era, and there are similar cases all over the world, eg cases in Iran of people getting ethanol poisoning from homebrewed alcohol, and very common similar occurances in various states of India, where the government sometimes spuriously decides to temporarily ban alcohol consumption.

Put differently, the societal cost of outright banning some self-destructive things ends up being higher than just regulating them because a ban doesn't actually stop much.

We even seem to be heading towards a similar realization for many drugs (eg Marijuana).
The law in India that this was a direct response to... or the FTC's case in the US?

I'd answer those two questions differently, but I think you're referring to something I wasn't.
Big Insurance/Banking companies is around a hundred years old.
Uber is still a new business trying to prove it works.
It might the time mentioned at the bottom of the page since the author isn't sure that the GPU is being used:

>How to speed this up—right now my Llama prompts often take 20+ seconds to complete.
So there's an infinite pyramid of "who learned what from who", and payment flows upwards along the hierarchy, all the way back to people who are long dead, and then down to their descendants who presumably inherited their "knowledge rights"?

You can't be serious. Thank god our world doesn't work like that.
You can click the search icon while in navigation mode, to search along the route. It doesn’t work that great as you have to zoom to an aprox area and it seems somewhat arbitrary what comes up. It will show you how many minutes of detour a location would add, which is quite nice when choosing among a bunch
Sure there is. Ease of proof.

I can walk outside and prove gravity.

I can find a million pictures of the earth taken from space, look at a globe and view trade routes that circumnavigate it. I can also look to the sky and see the sun and moon are clearly circular which makes a pretty good case for a pattern.

Climate change or the age of the earth are based on a whole lot more interconnected bits of science that even if you studied your entire life you could not truly say that you understand. You’re putting your trust in layers of science that add up to a certain conclusion (which is good). When people are given good reasons to believe that science and peer reviews aren’t always legitimate it undermines that process of trust building on trust.

Modern aviation is layer upon layer of science building on each other, but I can easily watch a plane takeoff to validate all of those processes.

That’s it in a nutshell. If you can easily replicate it, it’s easy to trust. If you can’t, it’s not…especially when it’s used to drive politics.
Sorry for my ignorance, I don't pretend to be rude, but is this not just the same as one of the first iPhone apps where you pretended to drink a beer? I understand it was impressive 15 years ago, but I don't get why is so impressive today. Again, I don't pretend to be rude, just to understand why is people so impressed by this.
This is neat! Cheers
In grand scheme of things it hardly matters, because Apple doesn't compete outside mobile market, they own a very tiny portion of the worldwide desktop and laptop market, and have zero presence on game consoles, server and embedded markets, and are slowly abandoning the VFX workstation market to Windows and Linux.

Now if they actually cared to compete everywhere, that would be a different matter, regarding how threating their CPUs would be for everyone else outside the mobile market.
Can AI pretend to work all day ? That’s what management at all levels has optimized for in many companies
Every response so far is no i.e. the hobby website doesn't merit any compensation.

A contrarian take to support the original commenter is that if the site owner had ads, i probably got him or her some increment in site visits and helped in some small way with monetization, site ranking and boosted his / her public persona, credibility.

When GPT bot visits, none of that happens. Much worse - people who might have visited the hobby site and contributed to traffic and ad revenue will now start getting their answers from the OpenAI chatbot and never visit this hobby site.

That's exploitation and I think that's what most of the responses on this thread miss.
Was that feature the right feature though? How do you measure the org’s ability to ship another feature after that at an engineering level (ie, is it easy to maintain? Did they do good documentation or mentor others?)
You very quickly end up with giant spreadsheets of tons of variables trying to model this without “customers gave us more money” which rarely works at the individual or even team level.

I think about stories like this:

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Li...
I wonder what kind of mischief facts people are going to start sneaking into OpenAI's newer models, by selectively feeding different responses to OpenAI when their crawler is identified.
That’s a stretch but I agree id pay 50 bucks a month for a total Google Subscription: gmail google maps docs and drive. All of it. No ads, personalized only to serve me. And bring back reader and I’ll pay 100.
I’d like to see a defence of the reason why it’s so often a bit of a job to be able to read the street name… on a map. If only for the laugh I would have.
The distinction is scale at which OpenAI can make profit off of your work. Now this might sound trivial, but it's scale of fraud possible has been the biggest argument against online elections.
Windows also supports containers: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscont...
Thanks for mentioning Joe Darcy. He continues to work on the JDK at Oracle and occasionally works on numerics issues. Notable for this discussion, he recently updated the Java specifications for JDK 17 to remove non-strict FP semantics (which also entailed removal of the `strictfp` modifier, since the default now is always strict). See JEP 306. [1]

[1]: https://openjdk.org/jeps/306
This cycle of alternating didn’t start 40 years ago, which would be 1983. We have been cycling between decentralization and centralization since at least the 1970’s.

Because they both suck, either side “winning” is worse than staying in the middle. But we only like pendulum swinging in this industry so nobody stops as the bottom of the arc.
Musk lied about his degree (sources: https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1SZerKotu3YRHtuPyqeCa...)

He's a grifter and a narcissist who was very good at throwing money at the right companies and taking credit as 'founder'. I guess he is 'smart' in some sense, but not the kind he likes to pretend to be.
Non proliferation treaties simply mean existing nuclear states can’t share with others.

They do exactly nothing, except apply a stigma/some worthless sanctions, in the event a state decides to fucking do it themselves. See: North Korea.
Much more detail on funding problems here: https://nhsfunding.info/nhs-crisis-making/
It also often equates to safer vehicles. Crash safety matters.
Manticore Search 6.2.0 is out
Strong recommendation for organic maps on Google.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.organicmap...

It's still OpenStreetMaps, but presented in a much easier mobile app with an experience closer to Google maps than, say, OsmAnd+

Google continues it's enshittification and this was one of the last things I started migrating due to reasons very similar to the article... The usefulness of Google maps has declined significantly.

Organic maps (streets, utilities and businesses) coupled with something like Citymapper (public transport routing) and Waze (car navigation) offer a far better experience than Google maps ever attained in the UK.
Glass houses etc. The site hosting the article is awful.
I'm sure there are similar lists of why Javascript developers should avoid writing 1st class functions at all costs and stick to arrow functions. I can't say I've ever understood them and the first stack trace you get when some exception gets thrown instantly reveals the rather serious problem with abandoning named functions.
So how's this different from browsh?
As always he was a trend setter with a hybrid work style.
Don't know about Australia. It's available in Sweden though, so it's not only for US.
I don't know whether this actually happens, but it's an interesting thought that removing street names could indeed lead to higher engagement metrics.
The first image shows the back of the thing.

In the second one, you can see the keyboard, and the pointy end is on the bass side.
Google Maps creating new neighborhood names has been such a problem that it got a New York Times article: "As Google Maps Renames Neighborhoods, Residents Fume" (2018). One example: Google Maps renamed San Francisco's SoMa neighbor (South of Market) to the "East Cut".

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/technology/google-maps-ne...
Then Uber wouldn't exist. It was an exorbitantly expensive and risky plan to disrupt an entrenched taxi industry all funded by investors.
They kinda fucked themselves over honestly.

They support iphones for a loooong time and batteries are probably one of the biggest reason ot upgrade
Sound travels through water (hello Dolphins!) so compression/expansion is possible. I imagine shaking will create those kinds of waves and allow molecules to mix faster than if the water were still. As well as allowing floaty things like oil to move downward.
Sometimes I don't know what I'm searching for, I just want to browse what kind of businesses exist in an area along my route to see if it's worth stopping there and taking a break. Also if I use the search feature it auto-zooms out the map and then I have to fight it within hundreds of milliseconds to get back to where I was on the map. Once it auto-zooms fully I may have trouble remembering where exactly along the route I was looking. I may have been searching for food near a particular weirdly-shaped lake along the route that I spent 15 minutes tracing the 500km route at max zoom to find. Once the search auto-zooms back out, my 15 minutes of "work" is instantly wasted and I can't find that lake again.
Bit too fucking fast for a "90's Internet Experience". =)
What about levitating humans?
Interesting to know that OSM lists businesses, but GMaps contains more information, which can sometimes be crucial. (E.g. opening days and hours.)
I'm not saying they should not be required, as I have not thought about this deeply, but in whichever way I imagine this playing out, it seems likely to lead to situations in which people are using some device with a lot of security vulnerabilities that were made much easier to find and exploit once the code was opened up.
Where are the tens of alternatives to https://www.podbike.com/ . There should be lots of competition in this area