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I'm not going to buy anything designed by Ive again. The Apple products in the era between Job's death and Ive's reign were awful by Apple's standards.

Apple products have gotten much better since he left. While some Apple products still take form over function, they are no where near as bad as when Ive was left unchecked at Apple. The 2016 - 2019 Macbook Pros were prime examples. Apple undid every single Macbook Pro design decision from that era.

From my work experience, a bold designer needs to be partnered with a strong product person. Otherwise, every project will end up as an impractical, idealistic art project.
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Old joke: How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb?

New joke: How many engineers does it take to enable a light bulb to turn on?

I see we've made overall progress.. 120 years should do that.
Honestly Android is as much of a walled garden as iPhone these days. Remote attestation destroyed all the user freedom remaining in the platform. If I must be in such a garden, might as well choose the better kept one.

What changed was I discovered Termux and it quickly turned into something I couldn't live without. So now I'm waiting for the next Pixel to come out so I can buy it and run GrapheneOS on it.

Still, it just feels hopeless. I mean, who even knows what Google's gonna kill next? Termux already has to direct people towards F-Droid because the Play Store restricts apps which make Linux system calls or something. Perhaps those system calls will not even be usable at all in future versions of Android. If they kill Termux, I'm gone.
The PACE trial has been widely discredited.

From Wikipedia:

”A 2010 meta-analysis of trials that objectively measured physical activity before and after CBT showed that although CBT effectively reduced patients' fatigue questionnaire scores, activity levels were not improved by CBT and changes in physical activity were not related to changes in fatigue questionnaire scores.“

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_fatigue_syndrome_treat...

See especially the section on “PACE trial controversy”. It’s easy to see that it’s a poor study.

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The paper I pointed towards describes multiple demonstrated means of neurological injury from SARS-CoV-2 infection. It’s just one single paper selected at random. It shall not be dismissed as “proposed mechanism”.

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The unproven and unprovable negative claim was indeed yours to prove.
> - motion sensing

> - voice

But we already solved that with "Clap on!" :D
That's not true. We have things in place to protect people and objects from lightning strikes. For example, lightning protection systems on tall buildings.
I'm used to working with GloFAS, GloH2O, ERA5 and local re-anlysis. Is there anything that XRain does better? Is your customer base simply comfortable with working with IMERG data directly (or the products I mentioned above)?
Do you have learning resources you are using?
Militia in the language of the day refers to local level trained, drilled, responsible men that can fight as an organised unit to defend the local area against outsiders.

It doesn't mean that the village idiot gets a gun to threaten and start fights with.
The example map of New York on the linked page has rather odd labeled places and street names. At the default zoom, it’s marked up as if New York, Hoboken, Weehawken, etc are literal points marked by tiny circles. This is particularly silly in the New York area, which is a continuous gridded metropolitan area.

Then, when zooming in, you have to zoom very very far in before street names show up. This makes a map zoomed slightly less far in mostly useless, because you can’t tell where you are. I realize that people mostly don’t navigate by map any more, but if you are literally selling map tiles, presumably mostly not tied to the end user’s GPS, then whoever is looking at the map would like to know where they’re looking. For example, in Manhattan, the actual useful coordinates are the cross-streets, and the map is not very helpful without the street names.
Great tool. I'm a videographer in Ghana building a solution with Rowy and buildship backend with Other low code front end.
FBA seller here, too. I make and sell my own patented device which nobody else makes or sells. I have competitors in the same category but my product is novel, more functional, and more expensive to make.

I was doing FBM (fulfillment by merchant) because I like shipping my product directly from my place of business but I had to switch to FBA to get my sales to go up. They were already getting half but now Amazon is getting more than half of my revenue.

I also have my own site where I can sell for the same price and keep much more of the revenue, but most shoppers won’t buy if they didn’t find it on Amazon. If I leave Amazon or raise my Amazon price to recoup the costs or stop paying for FBA and Amazon ads, I lose almost all of my sales. This is all because Amazon is doing anticompetitive things with its monopoly power. Enforcement is needed. I don’t know what the injunctions will propose to do but I’m eager to find out.

What really kills me is knowing how my customers would feel if I told them how much of their purchase price is being kept by Amazon. They value my product enough to buy it for that price. The few who really understand Amazon always offer to buy it directly from me so I get to keep more of the money. If only everyone understood that.

I have to spend some more time and money optimizing my Amazon listings and then I will turn my focus onto my site and spend all my effort building my business to survive in spite of Amazon.

Literally in spite.
What are you talking about? Data has been collected since they opened up, enough for people to be writing books on it like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coming_Collapse_of_China

Now are you going to say the data collected before is unreliable somehow and this time it's reliable?
Some people see Hacker News internet points.

They are the ones we remember.
"Why yes, our silver-haired CEO enshittified the product with a data-mining clowd service!"
The guy hasn’t worked on that many good games. Only Wing Commander, Ultima Underworld, System Shock, Deus Ex, Thief…oh, wait.

> One of the most important lessons I’ve learned is that if your game doesn’t have a clear vision, and you can’t express and “sell” it and if you don’t hire people better than you are, you’re likely to fail.

…

> We’ve developed an entirely new art form. We’re the only medium in the history of humankind that can turn every consumer into a creator and, astonishingly, we do that through the power of play. Think about that!

I’m looking forward to the next game Warren is working on, whatever it may be, and I think System Shock did introduce environmental storytelling to video games, which reminds me I must play the recent remake.
> the benefits of lowering costs of production are captured by increasing profit margins

Or increased diversity, customisation, higher quality, more availability, and because of competition - where it exists, cheaper products and services.

Increased capability leads to demand scaling. Making a road wider will increase traffic to match.
This is a big difference in viewpoint between the US and EU. The US has an undying belief in free market forces. Yet its government is beholden to those same big money forces through campaign contributions. Leading to a peculiar corporate oligarchy (really how democratic is it if you need millions in donations with strings attached to have a chance to win?). We in the EU want to avoid this and keep government serving the interests of citizens.

The EU tries to balance this out with more regulation to prevent the stalemate and conflict of interests that exists in the US. Things like the Senate launch system that just exists for pork. Our welfare is for citizens, not big business :)

And it's fine, Apple doesn't have to enable sideloading in the US. But if they want to sell here they'll have to play by our rules.
We need so much more than some combination of (1) trusting experts and (2) doing your own research.

The first is practically necessary but unsatisfying given well-known concerns about scientific replication, knowledge dissemination, and industry incentives.

The second isn't practical for most people.

I don't have detailed interventions to suggest right now, but it seems clear that we need better _systems_ that result in less dogmatic behavior among experts and legal systems.
I don't know what's going where I live but so many houses and temples use this horrible, ultra-bright, sterile blue/white lights with no diffusers. Many have pure white concrete walls as well so it's just like looking into a hospital or something. You'll be walking down a quiet alley and then BOOM witness our unfiltered arc-weld!

It's gotten to the point to where when I visit someone and they have a warm-colored light I compliment them on the fact. It's so rare.
I think any of it. I haven't seen a full episode myself and I'm not that young at this point.

In general, it's now just stuck in my mind as a stand in for any sort of thing. I think there's an XKCD for this sort of thing (and XKCD may be close to being something you have to be over some age to know about). In general, just consider that someone not knowing something is a joyful time to introduce them to something new, instead of scolding or being disappointed they don't understand it.
That’s nuts. Even if you were correct about that, and I’m not admitting any such thing, it isn’t how people work. If the state doesn’t provide justice, then the mob will.
This was the plan all along. Build an ecosystem, not for value or utility, but to extract as many dollars over as many years as possible. The trillion dollar IoT market at work.
One thing that Nintendo learned in the 80s is if you want to sell a platform with a sustainable perception of quality, you take responsibility for ensuring that garbage doesn't run on that platform. That means restrictions. Opening everything up on iOS/iPadOS will severely compromise Apple's ability to maintain its value-add in the marketplace as the best quality, most end-user-friendly mobile platform, as well as their security posture.
would love to see some of the others and your associated comments
You are human? You must be amazon's first gen astroturfing infra, mechanical turk style. I'm part of amazon's skunkworks Astroturf-LLM service. Automated, at scale astroturfing. I believe we will make it public facing via AWS soon.
Any guesses when will we see the first trillion dollar IPO?
I'm reading it right now and really appreciate the short chapters, which really helped grabbed me and keep me reading. The whole backstory of founders of the original semiconductor companies is stranger than fiction.
Our twins were put into my wife's arms, and we were wheeled into a room to stay for 48 hrs, being woken up every 2 hours by a nurse, which would wake up our kids, making the whole thing a living nightmare. I have no idea how I drove home.

They had no care for my wife's ability to heal, rest, or anything, just subjecting us to the worst kind of institutionalized checklist torture. The medical system cares for nothing other than preventing lawsuits and providing a place for doctors to do their 1 hr of work on their 18 patients a day.
Indeed!

I’ve also dabbled in this area http://leopard.sh/
Imagine having such a superiority complex thinking that China's survival hinges entirely on western investment and graces. That's some jingoism right there.
> Licensee shall not … store any address or point of interest data from Radar's geocoding, autocomplete, or place search APIs for more than thirty (30) days;

So if an e-commerce site user starts typing their address, it’s autocompleted via Radar, and the user confirms it, then the site must delete the user’s address after 30 days?

This seems wrong.
I'm not sure what you're talking about, since videos can be up to 10 minutes on TikTok. Sometimes the algorithm favours longer videos to promote "educational stuff" (don't quote me on this, but that's what the corpspeak says, and it's definitely a thing in the Chinese version of the app). I would say 3-5 minutes is more than enough to give a general opinion of a book without going into details.
? Sure there is

Newegg Best Buy Walmart Home Depot bh photo wayfair webpage that takes you to shoppay or something else
People from domain other than CS turn out to be better programmers
Is this generally true or just my anecdotal experience. I have encountered physics, math, geology majors who learned to program because they needed it or they liked the idea of it. Later these were the people who turned into awesome programmers rather than someone who exclusively studied CS in undergrad.

Did anyone else have this experience?
>macOS is a BSD

it really isn't
Cool article! A little feedback for the authors, if they read this: PoPs is used in the first non-intro paragraph and thereafter, but not defined until nearly the end. A reader _could_ find the definition by clicking the link from the first mention, but (IME) it is preferable to provide the expansion in-line (as you did with, say, AZ) at first usage so users do not have to "click out"

EDIT: and, for any potential smart-arse who points out that I did not expand "IME" - TBH, that rule does not hold value (IMO) for abbreviations that are widely-known, e.g. "AWS", etc.
> We could easily feed, house, clothe, entertain, and care for everyone with 25 hour work weeks

Assuming zero innovation or growth, yes. If a society is comfortable opting into declining relative living standards, they should have the right to do so. But framing this is a costless trade-off is facile.

Better argument: we can afford to feed, house, clothe and care for every American, possibly, almost every human. (The long tail is exhaustingly costly.) But it would come at the expense of some peoples’ lifestyles, majorly, and everyone’s, in small ways. It almost certainly doesn’t occur with a reduced work week and current adolescence/education and retirement expectations.
Well, if they were the people aimbotting, that would be an effective solution to the problem.
I think I’ve seen someone here comment something similar before but I don’t know the back story. Did DS management infiltrate Google after the acquisition or something? I have never heard of anything like that. Would you mind filling me in?
If I were Google I would celebrate by renting a car. It’s crazy to think that in ten years they’ll be old enough to run for president of the United States.
I have a bunch of EDM wire and thought a machine like this might be a good use for it.
Actually, "all over the news" is what it's NOT.

Just yesterday there was a story about how Judge Mehta caved to G's desire to keep everything secret. Consequently, the journalists have nothing to write.
Webcam with motion detection pointed directly down at our cat litters. Motion triggers a lamp switching on so I can hopefully get to and remove any poo before the stench of it bleeds into the house.
You may find being willfully ignorant acceptable but that’s really not the norm. I do have kids. If I knew they were not mine I would not leave them but I would have kids that were biologically mine. Either ways I want to know.
No, I'm saying ban all crypto in its current form.

Start regulating exchanges. Make all crypto coins who wish to be listed securities.

If you want to sell your tokens and have them circulate like equities, fine. Just follow securities rules.
your regurgitated talking points are copy pasta at this point, they have been thoroughly refuted a billion times - so I'm gonna keep it short and sweet, if Apple doesn't like the European guidelines they are welcome to stop selling their products there.
Wish that company would just fail already. Thank god openai is dominating the next chapter in technology
It's interesting, I've been using OpenBSD for the past couple years and it has _not once_ enraged me the way Windows and Mac do. I still use Windows for work, and own a ton of Macs (probably getting close to ~30 by now), but OpenBSD is the OS I use for most general computing stuff.

I mean, I'm using a GUI that is really primitive by comparison to Win/Mac (i3wm) but it's actually great. Extremely fast, efficient, and stays out of my way. There is literally no mechanism in the OS to pop up a notification or bounce an icon or blink anything at me. It couldn't interrupt me and piss me off even if some piece of software wanted to. It's amazing. Nothing updates on its own, and the OS runs very very few services or other background stuff -- basically only whatever I have explicitly configured and enabled. Again, awesome. I'm easily aware of every single process that runs on this machine, and if there's one I don't know about, there's comprehensive documentation about it, including how to configure it. That's honestly effectively impossible for someone using Mac or Windows.

Oh, I just installed a security patch in about 20 seconds. Open terminal (winkey->enter), "doas syspatch -c", type pass, see there's a patch, "doas syspatch" to apply it, done in 2 seconds. Once I reboot the newly-patched kernel is active. There is full documentation of the patch, including why it's needed, how the patch resolves the issue, and a diff of the patch is included.
It does - but note that I made no mention of disapproving of impoliteness!
Citation? Are we talking consumer GPUs or enterprise class?
I have nearly all of our light switches on Casetas (except for things like bathroom and closets, where we're not sitting/lying down or care about dim levels).

However... in some rooms (office and board game room), I do like having the option for cool white during the day, and warm white at night. So I like having Hues there.

So, while Casetas are good for automating a single color, you still need bulb-level automation for anything involving multiple colors.
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Are you sure? Isn't the Scandinavian model essentially "Socialism" by US standards. Last time I checked they were doing quite well compared to literallly everybody else on the planet (excluding other, similar social democracies).

The US went like: socialism is bad, let's go for the polar opposite and make the poor poorer and the rich richer. For many that are poor in the US people "being equally poor under socialism" is not the threat you think it is, even for the ones that currently go the authoritarian route. Something is brewing in the US and it is an explosive mixture — you can squeeze out only so much from the people without things going sideways.
is this where aliexpress comes in hand?

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004718007133.html

One of many products speaking both protocols for just 10/20$
The saddest part about this article is the end: forget Hue, just buy IKEA.

Did OP even read what they wrote? OP is collapsing into stupidity along with the IoT market.

No, don't buy Ikea smart lights: just buy a mechanical light switch from the 1920's and drop the whole idea of smart automation of every goddamn thing.
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I doubt it will ever happen but it’d be interesting if this somewhat backfired and Apple says EU is too much trouble and pulls everything out.
I came here expecting to see this thread completely filled with the usual Google hate and was pleasantly surprised to find this here instead. Thank you!

I'm fully in agreement with most here that the modern Google is a danger to the internet, but it's pleasant to be reminded that this wasn't always the case. It's a bittersweet anniversary, so let's take the sweet with the bitter.
I had one included in a home security package, and the one useful thing I found to do with it is automate it to turn on and increase brightness slowly in my bedside lamp before my alarm would ring. That was a gentle way to wake up each morning, and much cheaper than doing the same with automated blinds.

The second best use I could think of was automatically controlling outdoor lights in the evening, given that my front lights are on a different floor than my main living area. But I never really bothered with that.
I'll always remember waking up in the morning to the sound of my grandmother cutting pineapples...
I came to write exactly this comment, specifically I wanted to check what the pricing for forward geocoding was, as I've got a very significant monthly Google Maps bill for geocoding and if Radar gives results which are 95% as good as Google's at a cheaper price then I'd be jumping
I miss iGoogle............. :'(
So the defense attorney (since it wouldn't be the da anyway) is going to convince the jury that not just the witness but the entire medical profession is suspect because of its heretofore unanimous belief that shaken baby syndrome is the only explanation of these phenomenon.

> Do you seriously think courts operate by "the doctor said so, case closed"? We wouldn't need courts if that were the case.

For certain things.. yes. If a doctor tells a jury that these injuries could only be sustained via shaking trauma, most juries will believe them over a rogue doctor or a non doctor. Doctors have some of the highest trust ratings of all professions. Attorneys have some of the lowest. That means convincing the jury the doctors are wrong.

The blame should lay at the feet of the medical professional bodies.
four councillors – a majority – refused to vote to uphold the law, consistently opposing any limited desegregation. For refusing to follow the court order, the city of Yonkers was crippled by heavy, possibly bankrupting fines [..] Basic services stopped and parks and libraries were shuttered [..] Wasicsko was forced to comply. [i.e. the housing was built such that it broke up white neighborhoods]

It should be noted that this ruling creating a precedent that all pubic housing had to follow, and was not the only such ruling [1] or executive order to that effect, as my 2nd link [2] from that post shows. A few more publications reporting on it, if you don't trust the NYPost: [3,4,5,6]

[1] The lawsuit was finally resolved with a verdict mandating that the Chicago Housing Authority redistribute public housing into non-black neighborhoods. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidized_housing_in_the_Unit...

[2] https://nypost.com/2016/05/08/obamas-last-act-is-to-force-su...

[3] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/obama-administration-an...

[4] https://www.today.com/tmrw/what-obama-biden-affh-rule-why-di...

[5] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-13/biden-to-...

[6] https://www.investors.com/politics/policy-analysis/obama-hud...
> Philips is a Dutch multinational conglomerate. You cannot make any sincere argument about how this is the fault of Silicon Vally

I never said it’s Silicon Valley’s fault. It’s the fault of managers emulating Silicon Valley in businesses that lack the underlying growth drivers.

> only common denominator remaining is the underlying economic system

If you ignore the corpus of counterfactuals I mentioned, sure. Blaming the entire economic system is a great way to stop marginal reforms. Perfect is the enemy of the good. (And in this case, it’s not perfection—it’s a utopia borne out of misreading the current economy as well as its history.)