skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that parking spaces will eventually come with slow charging systems - combined with better "standby" power draw from electric cars everybody might suddenly get away with just plugging in the car every time they park. Maybe they could be even made "free" or very cheap in the sense that you mostly pay for it by wear and tear on your battery (it would only charge to 70% guaranteed and everything above it could be used by the system at any time while its plugged in).

A system like that would be something that probably needed to be implemented at a level that works in several countries.

eventually such a setup could be a large component of the buffer renewables need together with storage in houses and at the municipal level.
Tell that to Donald Trump who managed the almost impossible feat to run a casino into the ground, and that not just once, but multiple times [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Entertainment_Resorts
> The "many more" and "random" ideas are made precise in measure theory (and elsewhere).

Well... one of the consequences of that precision is the theorem that there is no such concept as choosing a real number "at random".
Nope, that PR was an attempt to upstream my changes: https://github.com/macOScontainers/containerd/commits/macos

Vanilla containerd cannot mount anything on macos.

> If you really want good adoption, you’ll have to figure out a way for devs to try it out without first having to disable SIP.

I can't stress enough how I also would like it to work with SIP enabled!
Which country are you from that you still have cheaper night rates for power? Or is that something specific to EV charging stations?

Germany had this for a while with storage heaters but it got phased out a decade ago.
"Well, it sounds like they've mastered the art of 'Ctrl+C' and 'Ctrl+V'!" *

* generated by ChatGPT itself
No, it's 35A single phase at 230V or you get a three phase connection which would have 3x 25A and the possibility to get 380V if using multiple phases. But those are getting rarer in newly built houses.
It's sad to see so many negative comments for this. I get it's not an ideal place to start for macOS containers, but it's a start. Apple isn't doing it, so the community has to. Once you have a start, you can iterate on it. It might not be great now, but hopefully this makes it possible in a year or so. Who knows, maybe this is the kick Apple needs, and maybe they'll hire the devs of this project to fully work on this.
> GDPR for app devs from [...] Brazil

It might be worth noting that Brazil has a law similar to GDPR: Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (LGPD). It's not as strong as GDPR, though.
OTOH it is the same for an "immutable" linux distro.
SIP on consumer laptops/desktops is security theater. It only really makes sense on web-servers. For people for whom this is a deal breaker, can you describe a concrete scenario where SIP would actually protect you?
The current wave of AI seems more like an investment scam to me. Like crypto currencies and NFTs were.
> It also says "By cross-checking everyone who enters the store against a database of identified shoplifters and unruly customers, facial recognition can detect and deter repeat offenders" and "Using facial recognition, retailers can know precisely when an employee arrives, takes breaks, and leaves for the day"

Ofc you "can" - in principle.

Is any of this currently being done, however?
cries in Asahi Linux

macbook is the best laptop there is but macos...

can't wait for a stable release of Asahi and permission from corporate to install it even in a VM somehow. probably won't happen, but one can dream.
I'm sure the scenery near the cliff is beautiful, and climbing can be a good experience. But then I don't really think failing the first few tries is a lost.

Funny enough, the first few things that I want to learn before a "self-optimize" includes what could happen if I failed (and how to recover from it). The combined knowledge makes the process safer (for your time and effort).

The first time I tried to drive a car, the first thing I asked the teacher even before I started the engine was "what should I do in order to make it stop?", because I expect mess ups, the knowledge on how to react to it might be valuable later.

BTW: Another thing that I've learned in my life so far is don't get too fixated on something. Life is short, putting your effort on one thing removes it from another. Not all optimization is required, which is true in software development as well as in life.

The city where I live got a few cliffs from mining operations, almost 90 degrees up down and very tall. I lived under one of them when I was little, but I never developed any passion for it. If I try to climb it base on my none-existing skills, I'll probably end up as a missing-person record and food for mountain rats. But I never feel any lost in my life for not able to climb those cliffs.

There are so many struggles we can commit our lives to fight against, the act of picking a good one is equally important as the fight itself.
I'll let Parmenides take that one

> It needs must be that what can be spoken and thought is; for it is possible for it to be, and it is not possible for what is nothing to be.
The submitted summary of the video-recorded interview at TechCrunch Disrupt are occasioned by the article

Open (For Business): Big Tech, Concentrated Power, and the Political Economy of Open AI - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4543807

I suggest to read (at least) the abstract (too long to be copied here) to get some more proper idea of the debated area.
When do employers get to "how to properly write a job advertisement"? All these articles are only about what workers should do, not how companies fail again and again at writing a good description of the job.

E.g. "Describe your experience with software operations and running services in production" is a really bad question as it is too open ended and leads to name dropping. Asking for "engaging answers" judges the persons ability to write interesting novels instead of ability to solve (or avoid) problems.

Ditto with “How would you approach the design and implementation of new features for a production service?”. This question is way too generic and a proper answer could fill many books. There is so many different ways of doing this and depends a lot on what the software is used for. When benhoyt says "In short, don’t be generic" then at least he could take his own advice into account when writing questions.

An example response like "At Shopify [...] doubled click rate, from 15% to 27%" likely violate NDAs. I don't think companies like you to tell this to their competitor.
Docker For Max marshals filesystem events over a VM host/guest boundary which can grind the most powerful computers to a halt if you’re sharing directories between the host and guest. For example, at my last company we developed Python apps and ran them in Docker for Mac containers by mounting the source code directory into the containers (so we wouldn’t need a build step) but as our project grew the filesystem event marshaling became exponentially slower until we eschewed Docker from our dev iteration loop entirely (the fidelity benefits weren’t worth the performance hit). Note: there are lots of projects and hacks that claim to solve this problem but none made an ounce of difference.
Why is it a wrong abstraction?
No idea. Looked it up, it turns out a lot of what we think is cellophane is actually plastic, so doubly no idea.
> something that I can already do

I would be very curious as to how you already run darwin containers.

The only alternative is spinning a macOS VM (including relying on macOS CI machines as a remote job executor)
Well I don’t want second hand bottles in premium Lego products. They got recently crazy expensive. The real premium toy. Few hundred grams of plastic for hundred euros.
This is one of those “it depends” areas.

The author is talking about a fairly “classic” approach. I was a hiring manager for a long time, and had a similar (but more flexible) worldview. It may not age well.

I personally think that being able to leverage AI tools will be an important skillset, in the future, and would not disqualify AI submissions, right off the bat (but maybe not consider them a “leg up,” either). They will just be part of the landscape, going forward. A lot of “classic” résumé advice isn’t really much better than what ChatGPT will provide, anyway. For example, he rails against “Buzzword Bingo.” I hate that, too, but it is also a “classic” CV technique, and many professional submissions will be absolutely packed with jargon.

I just think that there isn’t any way to avoid having to dedicate some real time and effort to screening applicants. In my case, it was something that I took very seriously. I had to fight like crazy to get headcount, and I was hiring pretty high-functioning people for a small, rather “elite” team. I really can’t relate to having to sort through hundreds of CVs of folks right out of school.
> [AI] requires the surveillance business model

I think this is putting the horse before the cart.

There is no doubt that the surveillance business model has captured tech. But "AI" - which to me is just the shortest possible way to say "algorithmic processing of digital information" - is just one more category of tools exploited to buttress and expand the dominance of said business model. It just happens that while other innovations (blockchain, quantum computing etc) are not immediately (or ever) usable, AI tools are practical and deployable here and now.

To better understand my point imagine the polar opposite system: a digital universe that fully respects our various professed humanistic values and uses technology only to empower individuals, bind society together etc. We would still need large scale algorithmic support if we are to manage interfacing our biologically defined brain bandwidth with the vast and growing silicon exo-brain.

In other words, lets us not concede that surveillance capitalism owns every possible future of tech.
butwhat?

> Butane (formerly the Fedora CoreOS Config Transpiler, FCCT) translates human readable Butane Configs into machine readable Ignition Configs.

igwhat? Why, WHY?!
The next step: systemkubed.
I'm probably getting confused between containers and VMs but, sorry, I don't understand what the difference is in the case of MacOS?
"data can either be useful or perfectly anonymous but never both"

Therefore…

AI is fundamentally a surveillance technology.

SOURCE:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/09/your-secrets-liv...
While you're technically correct, docker compose uses yet another process supervisor (the docker daemon) while systemd is already capable of doing that. This is probably what the author meant by 'external dependency' - not the need to install compose separately. Quadlet delegates the supervision to systemd daemon, eliminating this duplication of supervisor functionality.

Kubelets in K8s also have similar duplication of supervisor functionality. Perhaps this is a good place to mention the Aurae runtime [1], which is designed to replace systemd, docker daemon, kubelet, etc on dedicated worker nodes. Sadly, its chief designer Kris Nova passed away recently in an accident. I wish the rest of the team the strength of carry her legacy forward.

[1] https://aurae.io/
There are millions of houses like that over here. An 8 kW heatpump is enough to heat the house, and with the high COP that would electrically only be a 2 to 3 kW load.
But they don't make high-end and performant, low-power parts (yet).
>> because there is an infinite quantity of irrational numbers between any two given rational numbers

> Indeed, you've grasped the core of it.

What? That's not the core of anything. It tells you that the irrationals are dense in the real number line. You know what other set is dense in the real line? The rationals.
From what you wrote, sounds like one of the best. At least it sounds better than most other interviews I had that were basically random.
Mobi is a bit like epub, in that it supports standard HTML but it is propietary and contains some DRM. Amazon bought the company making the mobi format sometime around 2005.

It has since been succeded for Amazon by more DRM heavy formats and epub.
It is used to identify malicious files, in their words, on some scenarios.

Gatekeeper sends all hashes of the opened executables/files.

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/catalina-executables.htm...

Also, the anti-virus sends, like Windows Defender et. all. They all do it to expand the storage of known files.

> macOS includes built-in antivirus technology called XProtect for the signature-based detection and removal of malware

https://support.apple.com/guide/security/protecting-against-...
So is Google X, fwiw
For what it’s worth, the Pixel 7 series (and maybe 6) has compatibility issues with some wireless chargers. It’s actually quite quick if you find one that plays nice: I measure 12-15 watts, so not much slower than wired. Incompatible chargers pull 3 watts or less, disconnect frequently, and often don’t even offset the phone’s regular drain.

I had to try a few to find one that works properly in my car. I’ve had good luck with chargers from Anker and Peak Design, and bad luck with Apple, JSAUX, and Spigen branded chargers. Google’s own chargers presumably work fine as well.

(Also, a lot of Qi chargers are extremely picky about the USB-PD or QC specs of the power adapter you use. I highly recommend using a USB power/voltage monitor to make sure they negotiate PD or QC power at 9/12v rather than the base 5v/1a. Without that, you’ll be charging at an absolute maximum of 5 watts before Qi losses.)
Not by definition. For example, radio broadcast isn't.
Thats almost 1.999 stadia lengths of lifetimes support.
I agree to a an existent, if you live in a supported country, you can find pixels for much cheaper with flagship features you wont find in anything in a similar price.
> and by “cover letter” I just mean an email that’s says here’s who I am and here’s what I like/do

This makes it sound like it would be something that would be "copied and pasted to countless other employers", just like a resume often is.

But your last point made it sound like the applicant should invest more of their time than that.

Conventionally, a good cover letter will be, at least to a degree, bespoke for that job. But that is a non-trivial time investment on the part of the applicant. And it can be a significant waste of time in cases where something on their resume disqualifies them from consideration regardless of their cover letter.

Also, in the last several years, the impact of a good cover letter on getting an employment offer has diminished tremendously to the point that expect it of applicants isn't not respectful of their time.
> It has been fascinating and demoralizing to watch monetization roll out. To younger generations like my brother, they don't know any different, it's just part if gaming for them.

A step worse too: they are being trained that being bombarded with adverts is acceptable. Genuinely heard (couldn't avoid hearing, the voices were fairly loud) on a train the other week a dad explaining to his charge how he should “watch the adverts all the way through because he'd get an extra coin to spend in the game” and that if he went to a particular screen he could find more adverts to watch. No idea what game it was he was playing.

Pay-to-win is winning, and people are encouraging kids to pay by opening themselves to a little light brainwashing.

[Not a parent myself, intending to never be, before anyone weights in with “you don't know how hard it can be to keep a child entertained”: I know full well, and it is one of the many reasons I'm planning to stay childless, my position on this is an informed one!]
Do you think that it should be legal, or illegal, for people to sell drugs to teenagers? Genuine question.
Except it’s more if I have text following a variable.

Try this:

STR.”x=\{x} y=\{y} z=\{z}.”

Compared to:

“x=“ + x + “ y=“ + y + “ z=“ + z + “.”

A string template incurs an overhead of 3 characters per variable (“\“, “{“, and “}”) plus the leading “STR.”, which is 4 characters. Concatenation incurs an overhead of 4 non-whitespace characters per variable (`”+` and `+”`), and that’s ignoring whitespace. If you have more than 3-4 variables, string templates are shorter.

The concatenation example is less readable as well. Have I included whitespace to exactly match the string template example? It’s a little hard to tell at a glance because I have to distinguish what is code whitespace and what’s included in the string.
> that they would write me a short answer about what piqued their interest

Honest question: do people actually apply to jobs because it piques their interest? I pretty much just... need a job. I'll assess whether I want to join based almost purely on the team - if the team doesn't feel right, I'll skip.

I don't apply for any jobs that require a cover letter. There's already enough information asymmetry and the effort required from the candidate is a lot higher than from the company as the company can distribute the work across multiple employees. A cover letter is a way to shift even more work to the candidate.
> You have medical insurance? Lovely - you will be forced to submit the claim yourself. When you visit the medical services supplier (doc, hospital, pharmacy, etc) for non-emergency services[1], you will be liable for the bill, and so you will have to lookup what that/those particular code/codes cost/s.

Ah yes. Because I, the lay person, know exactly what all those codes mean and their actual costs.

> IOW, the price rose to what the market will bear, and since the government was the market in this case, the price rose to what the government was able to pay, which is perhaps 3x to 10x what an unemployed 18 yo is able to pay.

Strange how this didn't play out in (most of) Europe.
It is regulated. If it looks like a die in a game of chance then it is a fair die. If it looks like a deck of cards, it is a fair deck of cards. This is written into the gambling laws of each regulated gaming jurisdiction.

And like most regulations, these rules exist precisely because someone tried exactly this scheme at some point. And the regulators saw it and said "Oh hell no" and made a rule. As the saying goes, regulations are written in blood.

Source: Casino game developer and mathematician for 20+ years.
> Local pharmacies just apply a markup to get their profit.

You'd think so, but not on medication. Most of them at least.

Looking into it recently since the business fascinates me, independent pharmacies operate more like gas stations selling gas as a loss leader, making it up on convenience items.

Many drugs don't even get reimbursed at break even by PBMs these days.

Within a decade not a single independent will exist.

Local pharmacies absolutely want to work with you on stuff like this, many have for decades already. Like many industries, they are being squeezed out as some Ivy MBA decides they want every ounce and then some of that consumer surplus. This is done on purpose to push patients to the vertically integrated options like CVS Caremark.

They cannot compete in an environment where consumers will walk over a $3 difference, and they get squeezed by PBMs on the other side.

Anyone fulfilling via Amazon is playing with fire in my opinion. It's gonna work until you eventually get hit by the shortages that are only likely to increase. The ability to talk to a human is going to become extremely important, and likely only available to the very wealthy at this point.

Amazon is less taking advantage of scale, and more that of regulatory capture in my mind. The big innovation is being big enough the other monopoly players can't just totally dictate terms.
Who knew that opposing nuclear power and depending on Russian oil could backfire on you politically?
As I understand it, something like a lead-acid battery using volumes of acid and volumes of reactants so a cube gives them more power with the same surface area. NiMH batteries use boundaries between states instead of acid. Therefore, you want long thin batteries of alternating materials to make them more efficient.

Or, to put it a different way, NiMH batteries require a large interior surface area, and so the square/cube law forces them to look longer and thinner as they get larger.
It's funny because I've read that details scare people, so you should avoid them. May be include something the employer likes (saved the employer 200K per year using xyz solution) but technical details?

I guess it depends on who's reading.
I also agree that it is a bubble, but I feel like it is more of a "dotcom" type of bubble rather than crypto/NFT type of bubble, if it makes any sense.
I agree broadly that the modern QoL improvements in IDEs are better, but not better enough to make those old methods even close to useless!

Syntax-highlighting - sure, nice to have based on semantic meaning of code, but keyword syntax highlighting works fine +90% of the time when you are reading code.

Semantic search - once again, now it's better than simple grep, but ctags provides 90% of that functionality too (I still use ctags daily in Vim).

Semantic code-completion - nice, but code completion in VS circa 2005 (and other IDEs, like eclipse) were partially semantic as well. They did not autocomplete a `#define` keyword when you typed the '.' after an instance variable, the completion was still limited to only those fields that were relevant to those instance variables. Once again I feel that the partially semantic autocompletion did maybe 90% of what Jetbrains does today.

As far as decompilation/third-party library support goes, in 2005 the languages did not have package management, so not automatically downloading the 3rd party library is not a fault of the IDE - where would it download from?

In those cases, like VS, where you were using the Windows SDK, VS itself knew where to get those libraries from (because they were stored locally), and I have many memories of the VS debugger in 2005 stepping into the Microsoft SDK libraries.

To me, comparing 2005 IDEs as the equivalent of a dumb text editor when they had 90% of what you have now, is an inaccurate comparison.

(Of course, all of the above is just my opinion, so feel free to disregard it with prejudice :-))
https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/2c4fad0w6irk83...

I agree and it is the current last hope investors are putting their dreams in for the overvalued stock market to keep going up. “But what if AI changes everything?” I don’t really see their point of view and I would love to see how AI would usher in this new era of value being created if anyone wants to share. Wouldn’t it more be used to lay off millions of people and information workers that can be replaced by AI, that now can’t buy things?
We had two 2013 Nexuses: one with 3g radio and one wifi-only.

First, the 3g one died, on sudden black screen of death. Then, year or two later, the wifi one, on the flash deterioration.

The flash issue wasn't problem only for Nexus. The Asus Transformer line had exactly the same problem (Nexus 7 was made by Asus).

The 3g one was replaced by Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact. That thing still lives, albeit it is on Android 6 and the battery life is short. Too bad Sony doesn't make tablets any more.
Cheaper than a reactor...what is a hearts output, how many would we need to run an industrialised country?
List of all official full-time employees of the GDR intelligence agency (MfS)
I know a pharmacist in England was grouping medication for my grandma.

Maybe they only do it if they think you'll have difficulty managing it yourself.