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You can always count on out of touch Microsoft PMs to over salt a good idea.

Always one step forward, two steps back, and one to the left.

I remember interviewing in Redmond once and the PM couldn’t understand why Windows Vista wasn’t doing well because it seemed to run excellent on his overpowered PC.
You're splitting hairs, here, but fine: I'm referring to browser engines.
You don't have black soot everywhere?

For outside you put Citronella torches around your area, so the smoke makes a perimeter. Take account of wind direction and speed.

Then a candle in the middle for the interior. The candle won't do as much as torches since it doesn't produce enough smoke.

They don't stop mosquitoes but they lessen the effect. Instead of 30 bites an hour you may get 1 or 2.
When I go to a free people search website (I usually use fastpeoplesearch.com) and search for myself, the only accurate information there is from real estate data (and USPS address changes). But reading the article, I have reason to believe that if we were to pay a people finder website, it could be having better data sources such as credit file header information.
Nothing important submitted to the app except for a full psych profile of every user updated in real time. I’m not a very creative person, and I can immediately see how this could be used to identify and recruit potential assets or improve psyops.

And there’s nothing hypocritical about both using and blocking an exploit, although I disagree with the reductive view that US companies are as aligned with US policy as Chinese companies are with China’s policy.
Great video, Thanks for this overview!
Chris Kemp unplugged–Astra’s CEO dishes on the space company’s struggles
> Science does rest on unfalsifiable foundations, but this isn't productive to discuss.

How could you possibly know such a thing? What does "not productive" even mean in this context?

> I'm talking about the faith that scientists aren't making stuff up given the reasonable foundations we all already agree on.

Ya, me too - is it not weird that those who subscribe to science because it "does not" deal in faith do so based on faith?

> I don't think so. If you accept my premise that authoritative fields should be held to strict and conservative scientific standards, then critical theory is categorically ruled out by it's own definition. Yet people dress it up as if it were strict and conservative field, like a cargo cult.

"Thou shalt have no other gods before Me"

See also: Meme Magic.

>> You are discussing your opinion/interpretation of critical theory, necessarily, but it would be very easy for readers (or even yourself) to form a belief (which is typically perceived as knowledge) that your subjective evaluation is objective and accurate.

> I think I made my premises clear, but I dislike the suggestion that they are merely my opinions.

Where did this word "merely" come from?

> Most people actually share my views, but are willing to pick and choose when they apply them.

You have no means of knowing what all people believe.

> I'm not applying science to critical theory.

What about: "If you accept my premise that authoritative fields should be held to strict and conservative scientific standards"?

> My issue with critical theory is it's methods.

Technically: your impression/model of its methods.
Accuracy of the Hubble Constant Tested with High Resolution Observations by JWST
I think Luxembourg gets combined with European micro-states, Andorra, San Marino, Vatican City, etc. But it is quite a bit bigger than them. Luxembourg is 5x bigger than Andorra and 3.5x smaller than Cyprus.
Lot of discussion around Consciousness on HN.

This article is a completely different take on language and the un-conscious, that might give some new insight to some.
On the app development side of mobile, I find Android so much more messy to develop for. It has its perks like the Jetbrains IDE and ability to use bleeding edge libraries (Jetpack), but those don’t counteract the downsides like needing a laundry list of third party libraries to do practically anything, there being no well-supported vendor-preferred “happy path” for various things, Java ecosystem baggage, fighting Proguard, etc.

And that doesn’t even get into the “fun” of there being differences between the versions of Android shipped by different vendors significant enough that maker and model-specific bugs and behavior inconsistencies are a concern, which is only a thing because of manufacturer insistence on deep customization (compare to Windows where if it runs on fine your PC, it probably does for 99%+ of other PCs too).
I'm frustrated that "good management" involves breaking things down so small that there is no room for enquiry or engineering. Jira ticket #5229 "Port get_order_* API" doesn't leave much room for problem solving.
Definitely agreed. I have found diagrams, and tools that let me edit them quickly, to be great "state trackers" in design and planning meetings. You can get consensus, keep track of the decisions that were made, and then have a shared model you can use to coordinate building that plan.

This has value even if the diagram is immediately obsolete and discarded once the project is complete.
hn hug of death
I’ve often wondered what is the solution to Goodhart’s law. Obviously a business can’t abandon metrics. Perhaps this is where qualitative management skills come into play - humans in the loop making good decisions instead of blindly marching to the output of an automated reporting system.
Benchmarking Mercury as the “Fastest Firefox Fork”
> chips were accessible enough to use in hobbyist projects

Sure that's nice, but hobbyist use doesn't move the needle for ST Microelectronics even a tiny bit.
(Been meditating for about 15 years).

I don't think the things you're describing are particularly 'superhuman.' I definitely can achieve (if that's the right word -- it's almost certainly not -- how about 'experience') psychedelic states. Everything is kind of a psychedelic state if you look at it the right way. What is your personal experience with psychedelics? I wonder if you maybe haven't done them much you might not know how to spot it.

To me, clearly, the big question of superhuman meditation claims is the claim of some people to be enlightened. I personally think there is something to it, though I don't really know exactly what it is and I'd like to learn more about it.

BTW, my experience with meditation comes mostly from (controversial Wild Wild Country guru) Osho. Sounds like you're familiar with Buddhist traditions. There are a lot of ways to meditate.
Your self-confidence and entitlement are impressive.
>driver problem, touchpad randomly not working, wifi failing, all of which I've had with thinkpads.

Those are Linux driver issues, not HW issues.
On Linux you may also want to consider an alternative browser for performance and battery saving. The recent addition (Firefox 115 I believe) of hardware accelerated video decoding should make things better, but I'm still regularly seeing 50-90% CPU for a tab just playing a Youtube video that my Intel GPU should be decoding. I can tolerate that on desktop, but on my laptop I want to preserve battery life.

I'm not sure why but Linux also seems slower in Firefox's benchmarks. My guess is that Mozilla is optimising for their most common users (and Linux users have a high probability of picking Firefox anyway). Hopefully more Windows features will make it into the Linux build soon.
Makes me wonder... is it possible to use this from macOS?
'Benefits of Slavery:' Google's AI Search Gives Ridiculous and Wrong Answers
Ive had the FSD beta for about a month now and never once has it gotten me anywhere without a disengagement, and has several times very nearly caused a crash. I know its anecdata but from all the youtube videos and press I was really expecting it to at least be half-way decent. At the moment its absolute rubbish and should not be allowed on the roads.
I had a top of the line XPS. Battery life is less than half that of the Air. The speakers in the XPS sound like they are from the 90s. It gets painfully hot on the bottom case. The keyboard wrist rest area is cheap plastic. It was thicker and heavier than the MBA. Intel Iris GPU (ie slow af) versus M1/M2 GPU.

One point to the XPS: the pixel density of the 4k 13" was absolutely LOVELY. I have never seen a screen so nice.

There is really no comparison overall, though: the Apple laptops blow them (and everything else in that category) out of the water.

The top end iPhones are similarly 2-3 years ahead of the flagship Pixel devices in build quality, too. I tried, really I did.
I don't have an argument either, just a strong feeling that animals who show signs of emotions, playing etc and are very similar to us biologically, probably have a subjective experience. I would be astonished if they didn't.

But I have no clue how we could find out whether they do.
Ah I see. So the subject/practice of your meditation is what is considered advanced. i.e. metta, vipassana, samatha, etc. I read the entire article and it hardly spoke about what is considered "advanced" from the monasteries.
That paperwork is trivial compared to the amount of effort that goes into building an IPO ready company.
It isn't even social engineering because the credit bureaus are for-profit entities and want to sell any data they have to the highest bidder. Right now, the cost of a (subset of a) single user's data on the competitive market between the three terrible companies is roughly as low as $15.

This isn't a "bug", it's a "feature" to these companies' profit models. It's maybe a bug in the American system that so much of this data is in the hands of for-profit companies running a race-to-the-bottom auction on it.
This reflects my assumptions more than anything else... my first impulse was to go look for the source, but it doesn't seem to be open-sourced either. (Of course, I shouldn't expect that.)
"Say all parking spaces vanish over night and now a lot of people are left with cars. What then? What is the next step?"

Parking spaces won't vanish over night, so I'm not sure it's worth entertaining this rapture-esque scenario. I do think we should begin gradually reducing the amount of parking spaces in the United States, though, for various reasons. Instead of subsidizing car usage through building free or artificially cheap parking lots (and highways, for that matter), I'd like to see my tax dollars subsidize public transit and bicycle infrastructure instead.

"What if I need a car for commuting? Is it really reasonable to ask me to start using public transportation and completely revolve my life around a their schedule?"

It's reasonable for some people right now, as evidenced by the millions of people who use public transit for their daily commutes. The alternative is to revolve our lives around finding a place to store a very large piece of property, in addition to planning around traffic congestion.

But I get it - I live in a suburban area outside of a major metro area, so while I have access to an okay bus network that I sometimes take advantage of, it often doesn't make sense for me to take the bus. The busses here simply don't run frequently enough and their routes have to cover a lot of points, which means that the routes sometimes take too long if I need to be punctual. And sometimes the bus stops aren't that close to my destination, which is fine if I want a little exercise and the weather is nice, but often it's annoying. I own a car, so I don't have to take the bus if I find it too convenient.

But I'm advocating for better public transit, which means buses that run more often, have more direct routes, and have stops that are closer to where I want to be.

I also think there are a lot of creative ways to tackle the "last mile" of a trip, such as bicycling and scooters. For example, the busses in my area have bike racks, and since I enjoy biking, that really expands where I can travel without a car. Some scooters can fold up small that are easy for people to carry, and other options can be rented on the spot. And with my bike, there are many places I can easily travel to without ever needing public transit, like the grocery store about a mile away. A 3-5 mile trip feels pretty pleasant on a bicycle, imo. And parking a bicycle obviously requires significantly less space than parking a car or truck.

Ideally, I'd love to see better train networks as well, something approaching the train networks in Europe or Asia. Some major cities in the US are expanding in their train networks, and I'm hopeful that Amtrak will become more robust as it receives some significant funding from the infrastructure bill that Congress passed in 2021.
Would adult developers not have made sure they had enough automated tests?
https://www.xdesk.com/wirecutter-standing-desk-review-pay-to...
FWIW, you are my single most respected commenter on HN, and I often find that you've commented with what I would have wanted to say myself were I only a bit quicker.

But while this is very interesting and I am learning a lot from it, I do think you're stretching a point to breaking here.

> Here we go,

:-)

> Android uses the Linux kernel, tranparently!
>
> Officially only native shared libraries are allowed by non-rooted devices.

OK. I didn't know that.

> Windows Phone 7 only allowed .NET applications for common developers, C++ applications required a special license from Microsoft.

Interesting.

> Windows Phone 8.x used MDIL (Machine Dependent IL), with a on-device linker at installation time.

OK. Both only ran on Arm32, though, didn't they? So, not native, true, but also not cross-platform binaries?

> Windows Phone 10 used MSIL as main package, and Windows Store does the job of AOT compiling that MSIL with a so called cloud compiler.

Again, fascinating stuff. Still Arm-only, though, right?

> Doesn't matter, unless one is using Metal C, all applications use TIMI.

I submit that it does.

I was saying that 2 OSes I knew of allow the same binaries to run on multiple different CPU architectures: Inferno and Taos/Intent/Elate. There are no native binaries and if you compile source to a binary, the result is inherently natively cross-plaform.

These examples are all fascinating but they are examples of a different phenomenon: where the OS does not allow or does not have native object code for the metal underneath, the only permitted binaries are in some abstract form or for some abstract architecture...

But if the OSes only ran on one arch, then the cross-platform part of the equation is missing.

> What matters is the orignal version.

Did MCP run on >1 native CPU arch?

> There were commercial systems using native compilation like Corvus Systems workstations.

Did the resultant binaries run on different platforms, though?

> Modula-2 was designed for Lillith and M-Code originally.

Originally, maybe, but that is not where it enjoyed mainstream success. I first encountered it as Topspeed Modula-2, the fastest compiler of any kind for the original IBM PC and compatibles.

> Lillith uses bytecode with interpreter on microcored CPUs.

Bitsliced, weren't they?

Anyway, I did not know that. I'd argue that in all other implementations it was just a natively-compiled language like Pascal before it.

> Oberon System 3, nicely documented on its manual.

I will read up on that. I see someone's added it to the Wikipedia page since I did quite a bit of work on that.

> Xerox PARC systems use bytecode formats, before booting the OS, a microcoded interpreter for the respective bytecode format is loaded into the CPU.

OK.

But did that bytecode run on anything else?
This stuff was apparent 20 years ago when PIs gave talks at hacker cons telling them all the legal ways you could get any information you ever wanted. If you Google around there are 500 online services (public companies, not hackers) to dig up private info for a small fee. I guess somebody just finally made a bot to make it easier.

Articles like this read to a hacker like an article that door locks aren't secure.
Should probably have (2017) in the title. Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14002995
We have established ways of sharing the burdens of social life. This burden sharing is already happening. We negotiate it in real time. I personally began pushing back on certain norms of politeness at age 5. I became labeled as a troublemaker. That’s the price one pays for bucking the system. But it’s not a terrible price.

The author is unhappy with the social order, which is fine. Her error and transgression is in the misappropriation of the concept of “theft.” That is an important concept. We use it to keep order.

It’s like someone pulling a fire alarm to report that she feels really hot.
Ask HN: Down-levelled with no rationale given
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At the moment I have been trying out FigJam, mostly because in an org that already uses Figma it's convenient and doesn't require another signup, account, or subscription.

It's not particularly targeted at software diagrams, but when diagramming for and during planning and design meetings I prioritize quick buildout and editing over conforming to any particular standards or iconography.
>> Hi I work on Excel, can you write a summary of why that's important to you and send it to

How out of touch with the real world is the Excel team?
Using velocity as a KPI is to be prevented at all management levels.
> Computers, with computational determinism, don't have free will.

Define (the properties of) free will, if you will.

Depending on your definition, I might be able to come up with code that exhibits those properties to your satisfaction.

A lot of people believe that the choice is between deterministic and stochastic, while there's actually 3 different classes of deterministic behavior (static, periodic, and chaotic), one of which is most interesting indeed .

Basically a lot of interesting systems are chaotic, and have some similar characteristics. They are nominally deterministic as a prerequisite for being chaotic, but that's about as far as it gets. If you can get the exact same initial conditions twice then yes you do get the same exact behavior out of a chaotic system (due to the criterium that the system is deterministic), but in practice: good luck with that.
"Of course, Asahi Lina and I are two individuals with minimal funding. It’s a little awkward that we beat the big corporation…"

While I'm glad they did this, and it's a crazy fucking accomplishment, it's not really a beating. It's just Apple doesn't care. They were never in the race to begin with.
Yes, it is. Such a case. A team should be dependent on what needs to be implemented.

For “boring” and “well-trot” stuff that people can just do on autopilot, sure, that scales.

For projects with zero obvious paths, an experienced and lean team is necessary.

I have wasted too much time for superficial CRs, and hand-holding people who didn’t provide value.
I’m working on exactly this idea, if it goes well I’ll launch it as a product. I am trying to figure out the value proposition and who to sell it to and for how much. If anyone has ideas, please reach out. I would be very grateful.
> Its like gunpowder has just been invented and leadership still wants large formations marching against each other.

Incidentally, marching large formations against each other has been the dominant strategy for most of Gunpowder's history. Only in the last 150 years did guns become lethal enough to make this a bad idea.
I've been meditating since the 70's. Nothing I see today exists in the meditation world without a taint of snake oil and predatory capitalism. We live in a conman's paradise.
For anyone else looking to customize OSM maps, here is a handy Figma plugin that imports OSM data. https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1251030017228239072/V...
> Critics call it “McMindfulness"

I am both amused and disgusted by this term. Why does everything nowadays have to generate profit or else it's worthless? I'd like to get off this capitalist roller coaster please.

As an adult with ADHD meditation is helping me greatly with some of my executive functions. That being said I don't use any apps as I despise my cell phone in general; It's just a constant stream of micro-aggressions and distractions.
How to spin up a ticketing system in Slack
Show HN: A.DOM – A tiny markup language with reactive components
Hi everyone,

After four years, I'm finally open sourcing my little markup language that compiles directly to HTML, and has all the "modern" features built into the core, (reactive components, server side rendering, modules, bundling, etc.).

No metaframework required!

Feels like I really have something here, I'd love your feedback :)
I'm probably more on your side that you think WRT the law and copyright law but let's not pretend Spotify, Uber, and Lyft are doing some social good. They're greed-driven corporations (a bit redundant, but it's especially true for them). They may have partially broken up the walls around their particular industries, but not to democratize them, just to take ownership of whatever they can grab.

And in doing so, each has failed to realize better solutions for people. Uber & Lyft have increased our dependence on wasteful, dangerous, expensive personal vehicles. Spotify is a worse model than Bandcamp for indie artists. It's also a worse model than pretty much every other streaming service in that it pays so little to artists. So, yeah I don't like it when rich people break the law to get more rich at society's expense. We should be breaking the law to make society better.
Supernatural claims made by meditators that are obviously not true are what keep me from experimenting with meditation. I don't want to mess up my brain. I value it.

All the senior meditators I know have some element of irrationality. The openness that meditation seems to promote seems to also promote a certain level of gullibility that I did not expect from them.

Obviously, an out of body experience is not really true and is just a hallucination. People have looked at these.
There are plenty of (particularly debt/bond) investment funds structured this way too ie you buy an IOU from them (for varying reasons from tax to regulation to legal costs) - "securitization vehicles", CLOs, etc.
https://archive.is/cZXNY

Also, for anyone lurking the comments who hasn't read the article yet, the lab in question was at the University of Wisconsin.
> This puts Apple to shame, plain and simple. They obviously don't care about standards, or compliance, because they like people to be walled in their own little private garden

Is everyone missing the part where Apple left the door open for other operating systems and development thereof when it would have been relatively trivial for them to lock the laptops down.

They literally made their own silicon and built an entire platform. Do you think it's a mere mistake that they left it open to running other operating systems?

It's really disappointing to see everyone bashing Apple when it's clear to anyone paying attention that they made a conscious decision to leave the door open for 3rd party development.
The only thing you are achieving is to add extra paperwork and hassle to your daughter's future when she later has a job or opens a bank account.
They learned from Microsoft in the 90’s.
Would it make sense if crates.io was owned by a 3rd party? I don't think I would use it.

So shouldn't flakehub be owned by The NixOS Foundation instead of being a 3rd party and proprietary? It seems to be a critical feature for flakes.