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C#'s problem is it's quickly becoming C++ in that it doesn't just have the kitchen sink, it has three kitchen sinks...

Unlike C++ though, one day the powers that be will just remove features as part of yet-another framework rewrite and you'll just have to deal with it.

The other issue is just how tightly coupled C# as a language is to the .NET framework/platform. Some of the things people like C# for are actually framework things and they don't realize it because that separation isn't as clear as with Java and say, JavaEE or Spring or $X.

If you talk to a C# developer - of course they're using .NET and of course they're using Entity Framework - to them, there's no other way. It's inconceivable that any other library or framework might do it better than Microsoft's official offering... and then you'll find the official offering to be lacking in fundamental ways.

Talk with a Java developer and you'll find there's a lot more diversity of frameworks and libraries being used - so there's a lot more differing opinions on priorities and a lot more good ideas being tried out or implemented everywhere. The communities are vastly different in that regard.
Silly attempt at shrugging off legitimate complaints notwithstanding, at least use an average sales tax when you do.

Now it just comes across as you saying that half the country is above 5%, which would’ve been a more honest statement as it seems considering few states however around 5% combined sales tax: https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/2023-sales-tax-rate...
Like many companies, they prioritize short-term profits over their long-term reputation. This is very common with publicly traded companies.
I don't feel as if there was so much of a dominant paradigm back in 1987, when RISC OS first came out, at least not outside of the US?

I recall that period more as a melting pot of ideas and approaches from lots of manufacturers independently trying to figure out what paradigms might stick.

There were many disparate approaches to text-based OSs: MS-DOS, Acorn MOS on the BBC which is the predecessor of the shell found in RISC OS, Sinclair, Atari, etc. Likewise, separate approaches to GUIs: Mac, Gem, RISC OS / Arthur, the Amiga, etc. Windows 2. Teams from Acorn, Research Machines, Sinclair etc all basically did things in their own way.

While the Macintosh UI paradigm was considered dominant in some market segments at the time (eg DTP), there wasn't yet a universal expectation around how GUIs would work. That started happening more after Windows 3 came out, in 1990 iirc.

Certainly there must have been cross-pollination of ideas between these different groups. Pretty sure these Docks and Task Bars with icons, that we all have at the bottom of our screens now, was an idea first seen in RISC OS.
You can scan ipv6 because the addresses aren't arbitrary. Blocks have to be purchased and then ranges within routed.
That's where the reversing comes in to switch the function call to check the revocation list to a NOP and just keep on going. At least, that's how I imagine HDMI equipment that ignores HDCP works

What stops them from being sold that way would probably be the licensing agreement and honest players. I'd imagine in China, there are lots of these types of devices available.
The problem is that they're susceptible to accidents like Dahlerau.

If this light thing runs into a freight train, it crushed the passengers.

It wiped out 2/3rds of the senior grade (2 classes IIUC).

But remember that in e.g. rural areas between Hamburg and Berlin similar single-car D"M"Us are used for servicing the villages.
I wouldn't be in favor of winding down the military. I would be in favor of giving private contractors a choice between subjecting themselves to meaningful oversight or we can reallocate their funding to entities that will.
That yet to be announced product is the iPhone 15 Pro, for the record.
yeah ofc, but you can have, for example:

- runtime checks for all loops

- specify required upper bounds for all loops

should be enough for a massive class of useful AI-generated subroutines. the goal is not to allow all-code, but to have predictable resource limits

and btw, unlike people, AI won't be too lazy to specify those
> Can you be certain that at 3:46 in the morning that you'll be able to pull this up on your phone from bed and it will just work?

If not... I'm walking to the kids room to check. Which is not such an uncommon task that a slight risk of additional instances is a big deal.

> What about if you are out and left the kid with a babysitter - can you reliably access from outside.

If I left the kid with a babysitter it is because I uave sufficient level of trust in thr babysitter, and a baby monitor accessible from outside is a risk, not a benefit.

> Say what you want about Google but I probably trust them more than most places to not let the cameras get hacked trivially.

I trust a baby monitor that isn't exposed on a network more than one managed by Google.
This makes little sense when the product is already filled with tainted reviews related to a seller.

All those fake positive reviews also go along with the new product.

Therefore the only logical thing to do is to associate these reviews of the practice with the original product, as an indication of review quality.
Twitter is complying with more government demands under Elon Musk. [1]

Before Musk, Twitter's full compliance rate hovered around 50%; since the takeover, it is over 80%.

These countries include China [2] and India [3].

[1] https://restofworld.org/2023/elon-musk-twitter-government-or...

[2] https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/twitte...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/05/twitter-accuse...
The original question was "in the 21st century?" which doesn't make much sense combined with "in personal computers". The fight was long over for the 68000, or for PCs, by the time of the 21st century.
Thanks for posting a list of interesting ideas. Sadly, the last few are not applicable because they don't really help the majority of citizens.

At this point I think government has to force a set of rules on this industry. I can't see self regulation as a reality. As far as I know, there is no legislation whatsoever controlling what TV manufacturers can show on your screen, when and how. They could display the most objectionable, offensive, disturbing and inappropriate content on that screen and you'd have no say at all.

If we think about kids, faith and a range of other classifications, it is easy to see that having TV manufacturers do as they please with these screens isn't good for citizens. The things they might display can easily be in a range between unwanted and deeply offensive to various portions of the population.

In short, I think nothing on that screen should be showing without opt-in. If all you want to see are buttons for the apps you pay for, that should be it. Nothing else. No ads, recommendations, etc.

Apps, like Netflix, are a different matter. You can unsubscribe and that's it. The TV is this physical device that cost a significant amount of money. Today, consumers have very little control on what's shown when they turn on the TV.
I have been NVIDIA cards for compute capabilities only, both personally and at work, for nearly a decade. I've had dozens and dozens of different issues involving the hardware, the drivers, integration with the rest of the OS, version compatibilities, ensuring my desktop environment doesn't try to use the NVIDIA cards, etc. etc.

Having said that - I (or rarely, other people) have almost always managed to work out those issues and get my systems to work. Not in all cases though.
What you write is correct, except for this part:

The IRGC is not a 'special wing' of the Iranian military. They are a completely separate organization which has no equivalency in Western societies or defense departments.

The IRGC is tasked with protecting and spreading Khomeini's brand of Islamic theocracy throughout the world. This is why you see Iranian proxies in Yemen, Nigeria, Lebanon, Gaza, Syria, etc.

The Iranian military is tasked with protecting the Iranian nation and people. The military is a lower priority and less funded that IRGC, especially since the IRGC is a major actor in Iran's economy via various bonyads.
so honored to have you there!
The most common misconfiguration in your democracy is creating an agency with the mandate to spy on everyone (friends and foes alike), defeat all encryption, generally make information security always have at least one flaw. Hopefully one the “good guys” are able to keep private. And one they are able to avoid misusing. And not get caught misusing.
> Well they could just not allow prompts that seem to participate in blogspam.

Unfortunately, any question that lots of people legitimately ask will also be a prompt for blogspam.
> Some experts warn that the New York law, if signed by Hochul, could lead to an exodus of financial firms from the state.

Where exactly are they going to go? There's a reason they're clustered around NYC, similar to how big tech clusters around SV.
yeah, there's a lot of names, but the Mega Drive was indeed the only mainstream hit. SNK Neo Geo was a niche^2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_68000#Video_games
Fakespot is a tool that can help identify products with manipulated reviews.

https://www.fakespot.com/
Nope. You can still statically link everything but libc, and if you know your kernel version you can statically link your kernel too.
> Deno apps don't seem to need/want to be dockerized. Which means less overhead.

Why do you say that? I can’t think of any reason a Deno project wouldn’t benefit from Docker more or less any other application. There’s an official Deno Docker image, so I wouldn’t say that not using Docker is a part of Deno culture.

But I could see the single executable being easier to use than Docker if you’re just trying to run a script on a home server!
I find it hard to believe they are having such a hard time locating what they want. Something small enough to travel with which is ONLY a clock, alarm clock and countdown timer with just a screen, battery and buttons hardware. So a basic old digital wrist watch then? Heck, maybe even one of the newer tamagotchi's meet those requirements :)
IMHO, somebody's Andromeda mission blew up in mid flight.
> IMO as soon as you're deploying a computer into any kind of "appliance", or you're offline for periods of time, or you're running on batteries or your primary network connection is wireless

yes and in those instances you do not reach for pytorch/tensorflow on top of ubuntu on top of x86 with a discrete gpu and 32gb of ram. instead you reach for C and micro or some arm soc that supports baremetal or at most rtos. that's embedded dev.

so i'll repeat myself: if you want to run extremely high-level code then don't be "surprised pikachu" when your underpowered platform, that you chose due to concrete, tight budgets doesn't work out.
Its very telling when this is the kind of equivalence someone tries to make about service industry workers.

The act of physically SERVING someone and answering to their every whim is a unique role in society. If you lack the empathy to comprehend that role, then that's on you.
Just supplying more money to a system almost never fixes anything about a broken system.

of course, hence the need to also push for reform

the trouble with trying to teach students is that they do not have a secure home life

i am aware of that, and i realize that more needs to be done than to just improve schools. but this subthread was about taking money away from schools because they are not good enough. not about students struggling because they have a bad home. those are related but different issues.
I've said it countless times now: until there is criminal liability for negligence with regard to data warehousing/safekeeping, this is going to keep happening. because they do not care, and will not care (regardless of what their PR puts out) until their toosh is on the line.

Every time there's a breach, they pull a British Petroleum "we're reallllly sorrrrrry" and buy a bunch of people LifeLock. Its absolute bullshit.
Yes, they armed them directly.

Yes they supported terrorist groups. As did the US. No one is innocent. But the US has always supported democracy and civil rights. That includes civil rights activism deemed "terrorist" by China and Russia.

The West represents civil rights. That's just as fact. Ask yourself, are people enjoying civil rights in China or Russia living with a quality of life far below Western nations? Obviously not.
Intel won because of windows. None of those answers adequately give credit to gates.
Changing the port reduces the traffic, yep, but definitely doesn't get rid of it - all my servers use non-standard ports for ssh and there's still ~10 login attempts a minute.
Amazon should publish the percentage of buyers who returned the item
I love that I can now do an LLM fine tune on my local Macbook. IMHO, this is why Facebook open sourced Llama. Rockstar programmers like this guy are going to make it scale out on cheap hardware and give them an edge over even their well funded competitors.
I got an empty red bar and, when I clicked on it, it said "error." This doesn't seem very personalized. I mostly read textbooks and the closest genre match is "nonfiction," which is pretty broad, and if that's all I get to select, I'm guessing you're going to show me puff-piece crap by ex Navy Seals and ultra endurance athletes that top the best seller lists. Not exactly what I'm looking for. Personalized implies it would recommend based on what you've read and enjoyed in the past.
Is it possible to make ChatGPT curious and "desire" to pick your brain with Custom Instructions?
This is precisely why, though I find it to be a fascinating idea, I have steadfastly refused to do one of these genetic tests.
It's worth asking if the service fee is actually a gratuity or not. If it's not listed as a gratuity, then legally the owner can be taking a cut.
Oh definitely. The Mac lost because it was a closed platform in an era of open platforms where that open ecosystem was constantly driving up performance and capability while crushing prices.

The modern Mac is actually more open than the classic Mac because it's a BSD system. The UI is proprietary but the underlying OS is pretty commodity and loads of software that runs on things like Linux runs on it with little or no modification.

It was really a pretty magical time. I was a kid and a teen then and it seemed like the PC was this wide open field of limitless permission-free innovation. New software, new hardware, new capabilities were constantly being introduced and you didn't need an "entitlement" in an App Store or any of that nonsense. Nothing is really like that today except maybe the open source world, and even that kind of feels like a tar pit. There's still an open PC ecosystem but it's smaller and less dynamic.

Of course I also understand what killed it. It wasn't just cloud/SaaS or mobile. It was also the fact that we now operate in a "dark forest" war zone environment where we all have to navigate a sea of malware and exploitive surveillance-driven borderline-malware. It's hard enough for knowledgeable people but for end users downloading software is terrifying. It's like going to the worst neighborhood in the city in the middle of the night and walking around among living-dead drug addicts asking people if they know where to find something.
You would very likely find that there is very little actual squatting of IPV4 addresses. The big problem with IPV4 addresses is that there were so few of them to start with.

Though back then, in the early 1990s, when I first got my 256-host block we were still being amazed that there were A WHOLE MILLION hosts on the Internet, and surely 4 billion or so addresses could never run out. (That's what Arthur C. Clarke called 'A Failure of Imagination' in his book "Profiles of the Future".)

In my own case, I have been asked many times by the regional IP-address allocator (APNIC) whether I would be willing to allow my block of hosts to be given back for re-allocation.
Unfortunately, nowadays it's hard to get someone interested without a beautiful website, and a beautiful website needs js.
That would be OK in that specific instance. However, there are a lot of rules like that, and I just wanted to mention a couple.

In any case, I'm not saying that it can't be done, just that it may be a lot complicated than adding a fixed percentage to every price label.
> > GDP is literally the primary national income measure.

> No, GDP is Gross Domestic Product.

Congratulations, you've expanded the initialism.

Now what are the group of economic measures including GDP, GNP, GNI, NNI, and a few others called as a group, because of what they all measure with slightly different inclusions and exclusions?
> Nvidia has spent huge amount of work to make code run smoothly and fast.

Well, let's say "smoother" rather than "smoothly".

> ROCm code is slower

On physically-comparable hardware? Possible, but that's not an easy claim to make, certainly not as expansively as you have. References?

> has more bugs

Possible, but - NVIDIA keeps their bug database secret. I'm guessing you're concluding this from anecdotal experience? That's fair enough, but then - say so.

> ROCm ... don't have enough features and

Likely. while AMD has both spent less in that department (and had less to spend I guess); plus, and no less importantly - it tried to go along with the OpenCL initiative, as specified by the Khronos consortium, while NVIDIA has sort of "betrayed" the initiative by investing in it's vendor-locked, incompatible ecosystem and letting their OpenCL support decay in some respects.

> they have compatibility issues between cards.

such as?
I remember when this first occurred to me from me deciding that I didn't want to click download a series of things on some website where this was the intended use. I wrote a small shell script to curl it for me, and somewhere during the process of writing the script, I realized the true "power" of this. Ever since then, GET with search queries were protected against in everything I wrote from that point forward. Luckily, that was in the late 90s, so it's been a minute.
The title definitely implies that this is what you can do, I was definitely disappointed.
Agreed. I value music highly and consume a great deal of it. I may be on the far end of the spectrum when it comes to consumption, but I'd gladly pay twice as much for something that brings me such value, especially if I knew that it meant the creators could receive improved compensation.
The whole "TPM required" thing probably necessitated a major version increase...
So what is that in Manhattan Islands?
Not true. People got interested in general-purpose GPU compute (GPGPU) in early 2000s when video cards with programmable shaders became available. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-purpose_computing_on_g...

People made a programming language & a compiler/runtime for GPGPU in 2004: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrookGPU
I was expecting the same! It's literally in the name.
I don't know what they do with ROCm, but with OpenCL, the answer is: Certainly. It's called SPIR:

https://www.khronos.org/spir/
>Maybe instead of hiring private contractors to invent new propulsion systems and then conceal them from the public good, ...

Citation needed.
Now's the time for open door and start it! Don't look back so nothing to lose / Party just goes on!!
Interesting; for me NiFi is tied with Airflow as my most-hated software I've had to use professionally.

This was a few years ago but NiFi only supported editing the DAG from a GUI; you could store the resulting XML in git, but no human could read or edit it. Python steps were stuck on Python 2.6 or 2.7. Hard to debug pileups. Is it better now?
Debt to GDP has no meaning as one is a balance and the other is a balance over a time. A better indicator will be Debt to GDP until the year infinity. Same goes for military budget, it’s for a year.
Ask HN: Best resources to prep for the Case Study portion of a PM interview?
What are the best resources to prep for the Case Study portion of a PM interview?

- What guides should candidates take a look at

- What websites can they use to practice (does something like pramp exist where candidates can spar against one another?)

- What are some example case studies PMs can expect to see? I'm interviewing for a TPM role, so I'd be curious about the variation one might expect for a Technical Product role vs a Product role.

- Are there any resources for case studies people have submitted and whether they have received an offer or not?
Do you know how come that app doesn’t work on the IPhone 15 Pro?

I don’t have the iPad, but just recently got the 15 Pro, and it’s able to do a bunch of things via the usbc port (wired Ethernet, SD card reading, driving a Pro Display XDR etc), but I wasn’t able to do something like that Orion app is showing.

Was thinking of pretty much same use case as shown in the app, where I could plug in an external camera and use the phone as a high resolution / high-nit viewer display. Are these apis only for iPadOS because the iPhones are missing some required hardware for it?
Well, you had other issues going on within the group. IBM only seemed interested in server chips and later on their higher volume chips for the Nintendo Wii and Xbox 360. Apple alienated Motorola by pulling their license for MacOS right before they were going to release a series of laptops that would compete with the PowerBooks. Motorola was not going to prioritize chips for Apple from that point on. Apple finally gave up and moved to Intel after that.
No, I'm just saying that even if we don't use a framework and have to do more work without it, we can build great, secure systems
Al Gore Doesn't Say I Told You So
I found 68k assembly language easier than that for the 8086. Just got down my copy of "MC68000 16/32-bit Microprocessor Programmer's Reference Manual" from the bookcase. Published by Motorola, don't remember it being particularly expensive.
The original commenter could be referring to Deno's permission system being similar to Docker's sandboxing, which could be true; I am not familiar enough with Docker to confirm that.

Personally, I tend to run my Deno/Node services using simple SystemD services rather than using docker or running the executable as-is.
> reseat the solder and it was working fine for a few months after but obviously none of these are long term solutions

This is why I want to eventually get MiniWare MHP30M Mini Hot Plate
There is generally no criminal prosecution for paying ransoms. There might be if the ransomware group is sanctioned but that would true regardless of payment method. If a public company paid a ransom via cash or by buying a bunch of bitcoin through an exchange they would still have to make the same 8-K filings and accounting changes etc.
I’d say they are “your bunch of sneaky bastards”.

I’d rather have my government doing web analytics than some faceless corporation from across the globe.

Might be of course different for people in totalitarian regimes - but as far as I am concerned I still can vote on ones in my country.
US curbs on chip tools to China nearly finalized
So I keep getting told "Macs don't use memory like Windows", "8GB is fine for everything on Mac" (with quotes from people who use it to Photoshop) and "the SSD is so fast if you use virtual memory anyway it's not noticeable"...
Is 8GB suitable for LLM use like this, and has anybody actually used it?
That's exactly what a spy would say. Get'em boys!