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> Why does it seem like such "macOS bad Linux good" comments always compare the default macOS experience to a personalized Linux environment?

Because the "Linux bad macOS good" comments say things like the parent:

> Linux may be fine if you like tinkering

Are you now saying macOS requires tinkering too?
People are complex and researching them is difficult. We should expect to encounter more false starts in psychology and other social sciences than in, say, physics. Our power to know is less, but it's still an important topic to research because it allows us to better our lives and address important questions. We shouldn't blink just because we're bound to make many mistakes along the way.

It's true that people do employ the language of psychology as a cudgel. That's inappropriate. Unfortunately the nature of language is too be appropriate and used in novel ways, is inevitable that some of those will be counterproductive. The only solution I see is to educate people better about these concepts, and failing that to buy more time by abandoning terminology that has picked up insurmountable connotations and taking another step on the linguistic treadmill.

It's also true that a lot of people are profoundly effected by eg a romantic partner or boss who has those issues - not all of those people are wrong. I dated someone I believe has NPD, and it was an abusive and traumatic relationship. I have had family members who definitely had NPD, and they were abusive to their children. I've both been & seen people profoundly hurt by this (the NPD sufferers included).

It's callous to disregard people who have sought a diagnosis or to equate it to an astrological sign. If you haven't struggled with your mental health, or if you have struggled but have found adequate redress outside the clinical sphere, you may count yourself fortunate, but it's inappropriate to denigrate others who have had a different experience.

Personally I'm going to therapy and trying to find an anxiety medication that works for me, along with meditating, exercising, and other forms of intervention, and I have absolutely no shame about it. It was a great decision. I've seen medication and therapy make a night and day difference for people in my life.

I encourage everyone who experiences depression, anxiety, or other mental health issues to investigate professional help. Please don't let these judgemental misconceptions stop you.
> You mean, we would need to make sure the error type is always created via a new() constructor method, and that the new() method also has the `#[track_caller]` attribute? Something like this?

Exactly. Although I think because `T: Impl Into<T>` it may not be necessary.
Yes, that's an assertion I would dismiss. It's easy enough to say "we don't know", and far more accurate.
The assumptions for my wild ass theory are that he thought the coup was going to succeed. Remember, he drove something like a thousand kilometers towards Moscow, AFTER it was clear what he was doing. There are videos of Rosgvardia soldiers just standing by and letting his column through. He was attacked by helicopters, and shot at least one down, so it was going pretty well. IMO he honestly should have just gone through with it, but that's only because I hold no value in his life or Putin's.

After it failed, I assume he knows Putin was going to at least try and kill him. That's why I think he would try to fake his own death.

But eh, that's just as likely to me as some other crazy 3D chess.
Reductio ad absurdum, and a straw man as well. Of course if you eliminated all punishment for crimes, crime would skyrocket.

I think that long sentences are counterproductive and expensive, both in terms of societal expense and in how we treat people. The US would be wise to wean itself off the nipple of hatred and revenge that feeds our punitive "correctional system."

And it doesn't take much googling to find the answer to your final question. The majority of murders are committed in anger, because of mental illness, under the influence of drugs/alcohol etc. Few murders are committed by people planning rationally in cold blood, weighing the pros and cons.

Do I think some people deserve to be locked up for life? Yup. The man who murdered my niece and two others in a fit of drunken rage should never be allowed to walk freely in society. In the state where he committed his crimes, the DP was an option, but I'm glad it wasn't imposed. Having the DP on the books sure didn't deter him. And it hasn't deterred proven to be a deterrent in states that have it as law; homicide rates are higher in states with the DP than those without.

I have family in LE. In the justice system. Colleagues who work in the FBI and DoJ. Coworkers who were COs in prison. None of them think what we're doing is effective, either for less serious offenders or the most heinous prisoners. We either put them in a SHU, give them the needle or throw them to the wolves in Gen Pop. Prisons have become our toxic waste dumps.
> Green light for people turning right while also providing a green light for pedestrians crossing that stream

It's actually not that big of a problem - in the right situation. My country does something similar, but only in low-traffic situations and with good visibility.

For example, imagine a junction between a high-traffic road and a low-traffic street. A left turn from the low-traffic street might turn out to be nearly impossible without traffic lights. However, the right turn onto the low-traffic street does not warrant a dedicated turning lane, and in space-restricted environments that often isn't even a possibility at all. And even a moderate pedestrian volume will lead to the high-traffic road being severely limited in the straight-ahead direction just because a pedestrian wants to close the low-traffic street.
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This subject always makes me think of that most prescient novel, Colossus, by D. F. Jones. In it, the world-spanning computer does become sentient and tells its creator, Forbin, that in time, humanity will come to love and respect it. (The way, I suppose, many of us love and respect our phones.) Forbin cries, “Never!” But the narrator has the last word, and a single word is all it takes:

“Never?”
We both know that on HN in 2023 Thiel is much more despised than Stalin.
Good point but the problem with local hosting is that if you want to use the larger models it will take a long time to transcribe a file. We use multiple gpus and we do speaker detection, sound detection and it is has a rich audio editor.
Gamers don't have datacenter budgets
Which conveniences are you talking about? Chocolatey gives me the "automatically updating my programs" experience, and vendoring dependencies with vcpkg is about as turnkey as it gets - add a git submodule to your project, reference the vcpkg toolchain in your CMakeLists.txt file, and you're done.
Ask HN: What is cheapest way to just receive (not send) email to a domain I own?
No $12 a month, I want 0 if possible. I just need to be able to use it as "work email" to sign up for stuff and get the code sent.
"In his splendid new book Mental Immunity, the philosopher Andy Norman writes that bad ideas can be regarded as mind parasites, and proposes strategies to inoculate our minds against them. Just like biological parasites can invade our bodies and make us sick, mind parasites can infect our minds and make us stupid."

This. Ideology and dogma are conventional truths.
The good new is that Nvidia's high GPU prices motivate everyone (Intel, AMD, ARM, Google, etc.) to try and tackle the problem by making new chips, making more efficient use of current chips, etc. For all the distributed computing efforts that have existed (prime factorization, SETI@Home, Bitcoin, etc.), I'm surprised there isn't some way for gamers to rent out use of their GPU's when idle. It wouldn't be efficient, but at these prices it could still make sense.
Maybe it's worthwhile to learn about the different kinds of assholes.
Broken Sword dev ‘simply couldn’t afford’ to remake it without using AI
legal documents refer to other documents for specifics all the time, these are legally binding references
Aka "Delegators".
This is good if it was your first post. It was your first post, so congratulations.
I looked into that when it came out.

1. the house uses novel construction techniques. it's more of a design exercise than a serious attempt at something people might build.

2. you can't use the plans without getting sign off from an architect or engineer. this defeats the whole purposes of "releasing" plans.
If you want to understand how keyboards function go ahead and do this, but unless you want a really wild layout this is just makework. There are cheap, reliable and flexible pcbs for just about every layout you could want available on the open market from sites like kbdfans and aliexpress not to mention dozens of local mom and pop sites that service the mechanical keyboard industry. It's a pretty big hobby these days.
Well, they still make gamer cards. As a company with more than one employee they are able to multitask, and the knock on benefits of all the investment will improving their gaming products as well. I think there are a fair amount of dual use cards being sold - I know I’ve got a 4090 that I use for local AI stuff, and it renders RTX Witcher 3 like a beast.
From the article "DBT is taken between 2 fires: its productive asset (dev community) and its capital assets (VC investors).

Satisfying both of them is probably not possible as they have opposite interests.

On one hand, the strong and engaged developer community is a valuable asset that contributes to the tool's popularity and functionality.

On the other hand, venture capital investors often seek ways to maximize their return on investment, which can lead to changes in pricing models or strategies that may not align with the community's expectations."
> The interesting thing about the Vision Pro is how what hype there was has just flatlined.

Why wouldn’t it flatline? Apple said “you can’t buy or even order this today, it will be expensive”, and, IIRC, followed that up with “we don’t expect to sell many of the first generation”.

Also, at the moment Apple doesn’t have any reason to do any marketing to the general public. They’ll be working on getting developers onboard.

> if the entire sector takes off at all.

I think that’s a big question, too. Even if it does take off, there’s the question of how fast it will take off.
Cargo ships swap 40’ containers at ports, many of those have electrical hookups for internal cooling. So, doing the same thing with bigger batteries and thicker cables is hardly a massive feat of engineering. You don’t even need charging infrastructure in port, toss them on a trick or train and charge em wherever is cheap.

I am not suggesting a wind turbine is an ideal fit for a cargo ship just mentioning how much power we’re already extracting on floating devices that move with the ocean.

Ultra slow steaming is 40% of max power for a 46MW cargo ship that’s 24MW so we’re in the ballpark what comes next is hardcore engineering by companies who understand the industry and they say the math is really close to working at current fuel prices. It’s you who wants people to swap to ultra expensive fuels and I’m just point out that “bunker fuel” > wind but wind > ultra expensive fuels.
Assuming that you already have an internet connection at home and assuming your ISP allows port 25 inbound and assuming you are not behind CG-NAT, then the cheapest option would be opening port 25 on your home router and forwarding it to a machine running postfix or a mail server of your choice would be the cheapest.

Most ISP's block outbound port 25 now, but many still allow 25 inbound which works fine for receiving email as per your requirements assuming you can DNAT port 25.

If your home IP is not static then you can use dynamic DNS to update the IP for your home. Use a Dynamic DNS client to update "somename" whatever name you choose for your home IP. This assumes your DNS provider supports dynamic DNS or has an API that works with a dynamic DNS client. You will not likely be able to update the PTR record unless you are on a tiny and very cool ISP but this is fine as FRrDNS is not required for receiving emails.

somename 1h in a your.home.ip.address
@ 1d in mx somename.yourdomain.tld.
Which is a weird possibility to miss. When it comes to Russian crimes in Ukraine, shooting an entire civilian air liner out of the sky is something that is on the table.

Even if he honestly didn't think Putin would shoot him out of the sky, Russian defense batteries are on high alert with the frequent drones, and they've been terrible at FoF already in this war. Honestly, any plane in the sky over Russia is actively at risk of being shot down by accident.
While interesting, maybe that should be a reply to the comment I'm replying to as well? :)
How is HN different ?

To me HN and Twitter hit that sweet spot of productive procrastination, where I feel like I'm keeping up with the tech world and learning new things, while in reality most of the things I read here aren't valuable and it's just another way to procrastinate
ZFS is still very special. Compared to the limited file system capabilities of the machines in the world using FAT32, NTFS, ext2, ext3, ext4, etc.
Sure, but try to import a euro-spec Volvo or Mercedes into USA or Canada and the safety authorities will treat you like you’re pointing a gun at them.
Fedora is supposed to be the new focus.
It's a tough game. Gotta have the guts to get in and stay in
It's pretty overpriced already if you're looking at the fundamentals, and has been for a while. But fundamentals haven't really mattered in tech stocks for a long time.

If you want the responsible advice, it's overpriced. If you want my personal advice, well I bought more yesterday afternoon.
I actually have current gen GPUs from all 3 manufacturers through my job and I'm glad there are choices now but I'd still recommend Nvidia over AMD or Intel to anyone. Of course it depends on the budget, the games you play etc. but DLSS alone is such a difference that AMD still couldn't catch up with. I really hope Starfield will deliver because that will be the first game with FSR3.0 and introducing the technology, yet DLSS3.5 was just revealed yesterday. It's a huge gamble for sure going all in on Starfield but tbh that's one of the hypest game of the year so worth it. And Intel is nowhere near that (apart from the price and getting 16GB for cheap)
Just to be clear, 7zip, gzip, bzip2 and others all have their own CVE's with arbitrary code execution. Open source software is not immune from these flaws.

You can argue for your political beliefs, sure, but let's be honest and not claim that there are any security benefits.
Part of me wants to ignore that it's a constructed image and go on imagining entangled particles forming yin / yang images. Perhaps I can't critique the media too much for implying the same. Though the actual research seems interesting.
That is a truly bizarre thing to say. Do you believe that everything with a name exists? If I say the words "the great replacement" does that mean that it actually exists? If I say "COVID-19 lab leak" does that confirm the truth of that theory too?

I tried saying "my enormous wealth" a few times, but I'm still not enormously wealthy. Do you have any tips for how I can learn to make things true just by referring to them?

To be more serious: "stochastic terrorism" is nonsensical because it attributes to a person some act that is not his responsibility. It doesn't matter how large your audience is or what you suspect they might do with the information: saying "this hospital performs masectomies on teenage girls" will never be a terrorist act, even if some audience member allegedly called in a bomb threat later. In no way, shape, or form is that act attributable to him. If you say something, and someone reacts by doing something, that is not your fault, and never will be.
LLMs aren't chatbots. That's just a nice consequence of what they can do.

Their prediction abilities stretch beyond just language even if they're only trained on it.

https://general-pattern-machines.github.io/

There's nothing specialized about being able to predict meaningful completions from arbitrary token sequences.

There's a whole lot that can be done with that even if they were constrained to language.

https://tidybot.cs.princeton.edu/
https://innermonologue.github.io/

There's nothing stupid about GPT-4. There's no testable definition of general intelligence GPT-4 would fail that a chunk of humans also wouldn't.

Vision understanding does not have to be a separate model. https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.14824
When you sell to open, there is a buyer for the order to get filled. At this point, you become the buyer to close the option if you thus desire. If you're selling puts, yes ensure they're cash secured. This avoids anything like the scenario you described.

The difference here is you're not betting with leverage. Modest, high probability returns.

If this didn't make sense and to be super clear. You described buying an option and attempting to sell it later. This is not what I'm describing. I'm describing selling and option to open
Any good, mostly-automatic tooling to go from a Keyboard Layout Editor (KLE)[1] JSON to a laid-out (not necessarily routed) PCB design in something like KiCad?

[1]: http://www.keyboard-layout-editor.com/
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To reply to myself: I guess I should say that what the Fed is doing is class warfare and a major unspoken reason for what they're doing is to remove bargaining power from the workers. They would be more concerned about pay and breaking the back of union organizing if they thought and talked about it more clearly. But they don't consciously talk about class warfare, they've got terms of art they use to talk about it like "2% inflation target" which is nice and ambiguous. However, "removing bargaining power from workers" is certainly a large enough bucket to stuff "remote work" into it as well.

So they certainly do want to remove bargaining power, and some managers will think it'll be effective at enforcing RTO, but it isn't clear to me that the crude mechanism they've got will actually result in that. All they can really do is run the economy into a wall. The exact way that it breaks will depend on the push/pull of desperate workers willing to take office jobs again vs. desperate CFOs wanting to get out of office leases and crashing commercial real estate. The real driving force is just reducing worker bargaining power around pay and benfits and organizing though. The effect on remote work vs. RTO will have to play out to see how it happens.

My own personal bet is that the cat is out of the bag when it comes to remote work, and that a recession will cause more companies to re-embrace full time remote work to cut costs to survive and flourish. And current RTO companies may start looking at their commercial office properties as massive boat anchors.
> Can't they just hire all of nvidia's developers and pay them 5x as much?

Lol... Intel is famously stingy when it comes to salaries.
The market is also saying that Tesla is worth more than BMW, VW, Audi, Mercedes, Toyota, Hyundai, Fiat, Ford, and dozens of others combined. Mehh, I don't know.
It helps you recognize and deal with them. Narcissists are easy to take down a peg if you know how.
My rule is that nobody is working for the buyer or seller. Everybody is working for the sale.
That's the one. They do residential courses. Also a variety of masters degrees.
That's not my attitude to paid news at all. Quality news are often essential in order to understand things that are happening in your vicinity, that will have a direct impact on your life and on the life of people close to you. It is not necessarily about entertainment or wasting some time. Mostly low quality news media will have a focus on entertaining.

If we use Netflix as a benchmark, you shouldn't spend money on anything except for on Netflix, since almost nothing gives the same amount of hours of use per cent paid. Exceptions for lightbulbs, which are not that entertaining to watch.

I think most people sometimes go out for a drink, a meal, or a coffee - without agonizing much about the price, even though you could get many days glued to Netflix for the same price as that drink with friends.
Great to see other countries making accomplishments in space, I don’t see a cause for embarrassment when we’re driving rovers and helicopters around on Mars.
I feel attacked! :)

I mean, it's a hard problem - for many reasons you only have one button, with no way to display information. And you have to cram possibly many functions into that one button.

It's a really interesting exercise in UI, and there are benefits to different approaches. I actually like comparing the different ways manufacturers have chosen to solve this.
Open source does have some security benefits. If billions of (mostly) good people who want to help can read the code, they can find vulnerabilities more easily. Having so many contributors does help.
The argument against it is that the police and prosecutors don't care about your arguments.
Or tell your customer how much more it will cost to write and maintain the "thousands" of lines of JS, and let them and let them say "nope".
Should have sold a call credit spread instead!

For large shareholders, the dividend would still be worthwhile. From what I could find, Jensen has 1.3 million shares, so he'd receive over $200k in dividends this year. You might think that's chump change, but another source lists his salary at just under $1m; another 20% bump in liquid income is nothing to sneeze at.
Does the playpen in the back of my mom’s WV Bus count?
Not sure you're using simple in the same way other people use that word :)
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I wish more vehicles had more rear-facing seats. Can’t get used to it without experiencing it throughout life.

Seems like only bi-directional train cars have them, or trams that rarely slow down rapidly.
Have you had much success with companies post-VC?

eg after they're acquired, IPO'd, or dissolve?

Asking because things seem to still be at an early stage with yourselves (thus far), so not remembering anything that's reached the end of the VC pipeline yet.
This doesn't seem to have been a hoverslam, though -- the probe was hovering at, I think, 150 meters for quite some time, and then maintained a steady and slow rate of descent while still under power.
for a trillion dollars though... eventually you have to believe Pat gets fired and replaced by someone who is 100% all in on GPUs if he can't figure this out
> Modern building construction, at least in North America, is based around the “balloon framing” idea that the walls support subsequent floors and the roof, maybe with a load bearing wall in the middle somewhere.

I think you're getting balloon and platform framing mixed up.
yeah, it would be cool if HN was more of a DAG than a tree
Completely hearsay at this point, but a telegram channel linked above is saying that wagner has a contingency plan that will be "activated" following confirmation of prigozhyn and other leader's death. Maybe another move towards Rostov. Again, hearsay, but last time it was pretty spot on
Incredible company. It’s absolutely insane how far ahead they are with the investments they made over a decade ago.

So nice to see a “hard” engineering (from silicon to software) SV-founded company getting all this recognition. Especially after what has felt like a decade of SV hype software companies dominating the mainstream financial markets pre-pandemic with a spate of overpriced IPOs or large ad-revenue generating mega corporations.
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Why do old books smell so good?
Hi -- would love to connect and discuss more. Shoot me an email amir at dataherald.com.
There may not be many of them. But they run our corporate, political, economic, and - to an extent - academic systems.

The social reward system we have today selects for them instead of selecting them out.

There is one bedrock problem under all the others: how to fix this.