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> "Today we are announcing the general availability of the WORLD'S FIRST commercial cloud computer"

(emphasis mine)

I'm having a hard time getting past the first sentence of this blog post.

Maybe I'm missing the obvious.
On a complete tangent, your last sentence was quite jarring to read (at least for me).

I couldn’t work out what was wrong for a minute or two, but it’s the order of your adjectives.

> They are loud, big, and dangerous

To me reads easier as

> They are big, loud, and dangerous

Not nitpicking or trying to correct you, just a bit of personal commentary on the matter.
[dupe]

More discussion over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38003292
It seems to me that one of the primary purposes of society it to mitigate the inequality found in nature. That is to say: A system where the strong and/or lucky thrive and the weak and/or unlucky suffer doesn't need society, it's what happens by default. People band together into a society in order to thrive collectively despite their various weaknesses.
TikTok itself is part of the process. It was conceived in a pre-enshittified state. If MySpace was Lucky Charms, each new step along the way has been fundamentally a play of increasing the marshmallow ratio, until now it's perhaps (somehow, I'm not a cereal scientist) even higher than 100%:

MySpace -> Facebook -> Twitter -> Instagram -> TikTok
I wonder how long it takes to reach the representative. So so soooo many companies hide behind excruciating customer service hell holes to get out of being responsible for fixing mistakes.

"You can right to repair, you just have to wait 3 hours on the phone on the world's least stable customer service line."

I shouldn't have to drag my balls through apple's pile of glass to use the product I purchased. This is nearly every giant corporation these days, so I guess i have to just stop purchasing anything but necessities.

I should note I do not blame the customer service representatives for this. Most businesses are obviously running a skeleton crew and most of the people you talk go have zero authority to fix an issue.
(I) you don't need those crowds to have a high value product. Vast majority of people don't own a games console or a gambling account or buy many books either.
(II) many of the same people that don't bother turning on webcam at work meetings do care about it when talking to their family or spend hours immersed in MMORPGs or exploring other people's world's through video and being seen to follow all the right trends on social media.

Sure, mainstream VR has been "just around the corner" since before the average person had access to the internet and I think there are still technical and fashion questions about how mass market-ready the tech is and whether Meta is remotely the right company to market its Android, but if we judged the long term potential of a tech by people's enthusiasm for being observed by their boss even the internet would have been written off...
To this day, I have created only a single Ilograph (with 3 perspectives), which simply visualizes our architecture and tech stack.

I‘ve used it dozens of times by now — whenever I have my first call with a new job applicant, I give them a 30-minute-tour through our platform using Ilograph.

Minds reliably blown every single time.
I'm doing boring enterprise maintenance for a lot less than Google money, maybe I should just apply. "No, I'm not Ivy league or MIT, but I'm great at taking abuse and grinding away thanklessly". Any chance that buys me a pass on not being great at memorizing algorithims?
Yegge classic:

> ...GNU Emacs, which is a sort of hybrid between Windows Notepad, a monolithic-kernel operating system, and the International Space Station
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> Instead, the "chipless" PulpaTronics tag uses the geometric pattern of the circuit itself to convey the information. In the company's concept designs, for instance, it's a labyrinthine pattern of concentric circles.

So does this need special hardware to read? Seems like if so, it would be more expensive to install compared to traditional RFID systems.
> It's the right of every open source software author to continue working on their software privately under a different license, and that's exactly what happened here.

Yep, and nobody had any qualms about it in this thread, which is why I find such posts to be tiresome to read.

> Just because you are not happy that you don't have access to their software for free any more doesn't mean it's against the open source spirit.

This is exactly what I'm complaining about, I never said I wasn't happy.
Hang on... So this means that when I check the token as per the guide at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/guides/a... , it returns the information regardless of the access_token parameter matching the app id or not? My assumption without reading the docs would have been that if the input_token was from another app, FB would refuse to debug it if the access_token was not associated with the app id.

What's the point in asking for the access_token at all for that endpoint otherwise?

Am I misunderstanding the bug? This feels like a foot gun that was happily handed over to a lot of people all this time.
Those of us who've bought large "turn-key" solutions from Dell etc. have often discovered that it's actually just a cobbled-together bunch of things which may or may not work well together on a good day, depending on what you're trying to do. Just because it's all got the word "Dell" written on it, doesn't mean that the components were all engineered by people who were working together to build a single working system.

When it breaks, good luck!
The Apple Reality Distortion Field still definitely exists.

Apple has an embedded advertiser ID, yet apple fanbois breathlessly exclaim that they don't track.

There's tons of examples, up to and including terrible repairability and locking down components. Crazy stuff.

But here we are.
This, Apple is not primarily an advertising company. I buy quality products from them that last, still using a 2013 iMac that has never had any issues. Even original AirPods work so well, I replace them as the battery degrades.
The purpose of calling is probably to hear it ring, rather than to guess where it is based on the lack of signal.
If Apple can access your account, they can see any device location the same as you. Which means that three letter agencies also have access
The way I interpret it: an integrated stack of compute, storage and networking hardware and monitoring software that you can plug in to your data center (owned or colo) and can e.g. deploy Kubernetes to, and then use as a deployment target for your services.

The main USP: you own it, you're not renting it. You're not beholden to big cloud's pricing strategies and gotchas.

Secondary USP, why you buy this rather than DIY / rack computer vendor: it's a vertically integrated experience, it's preassembled, it's plug and play, compatibility is sorted out, there's no weird closed third party dependencies. Basically, the Apple experience rather than the PC experience.
I worked at that chair at Uni Bayreuth for a while. Here is the github repo (webpage is hugged to death)
https://github.com/jsxgraph/jsxgraph

Shoutout to Prof. Wassermann for keeping up the good work.
> For larger programs in Python, you need an upfront design stage because the lack of static typing will allow you to organically accrete classes whose job overlap but interfaces differ.

You can also install pre-commit and mypy, and have static typing.
They get cause and effect backwards.

What they think is happening: investors are buying lots of houses, which is driving up prices, so getting them out of that business would lower prices.

What's really happening: supply shortages are driving up prices, which is making housing more attractive to investors.
Lua came first but was both encouraged by and hampered by Brazil's limitations on technology imports at the time. The lack of access to other tools is what led the team to develop it in the first place. But the country's lack of connection with other IT outlets at the time prevented Lua from taking over.

If Lua had gotten "out in the wild" earlier, it would be where JS/TS are today. It's just as powerful as JS and more in some ways, such as embedding and encapsulation. It's also widely used as a modding language in the game industry precisely because it can be "dropped into" another project and allow coding in a limited way without affecting the other project.
Yup, probably another round of Apple pretending to do one thing while doing the opposite ...
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There's a big innovation I'm looking for in microwaves and I simply do not understand why nobody sells it yet:

An interior IR sensor/camera that will cycle/adjust power until my food is fully cooked to a certain temperature but not above it.

I don't want to pick a duration and I don't want to pick power levels and I don't want hot spots and I don't want to have to check the food every 30 seconds or 3 minutes or whatever it is. I just want to cook to a certain temperature, and avoid hot spots above that temperature.

So instead of fiddling with dumb things like 100% power for the first 2 minutes and then 10% power for another 8 minutes, I just want to reheat my chicken breast to 145°F or my salmon to 120°F or my soup to 165°F or my maple syrup to 180°F or my water for tea to 205°F. (Just examples, not looking to argue over temps!)

So let the microwave blast it full strength until there are hot spots, then cycle off to let hot spots spread their heat to the rest of the food, then blast more, until the whole food exterior is within a range of the desired temperature, then ding it's done!

And while it can't detect interior temperatures directly, you should be able to use the rate of exterior cooling during the off cycle to determine whether the interior has come up to temperature. E.g. the outside of a chicken breast with a still-frozen interior cools rapidly; the outside of a chicken breast with a hot interior stays hotter for longer.
If you control the client, you can. Because when you get the redirect response, you then take the auth code that is included there, and you don’t follow the redirect.

Then you send the auth code to your backend instead.
Yes but they’re so nice to use. It’s the integrated part that matters. The collection of tools just play well together.
> Proxmox and a full rack of Supermicro gear would not be as sophisticated, but end result is pretty much the same, with I imagine far far better bang for buck.

I think the question is how well they can do the management plane. Dealing with the "quirks" of a bunch of grey box supermicro stuff is always painful in one way or another. The drop shipped, pre-cabled cab setups are definitely nice but that's only a part of what Oxide is doing here. No cables and their own integrated switching sounds nice too (stuff from the big vendors like UCS is closer to this ballpark but also probably closer to the cost too).

I suspect cooling and rack density could be better in the Oxide solution too, not having to conform to the standards might afford them some possibilities (although that's just a guess, and even if they do improve there these may not be the bottlenecks for many).
Why Apple's weather app is so bad
A few days ago I posted "It's more that robots don't care if people die. Some humans too." -in a discussion about robots.

When I got a down vote I guessed that it was for the second sentence. But it sent me into a whirl of thought. What do you feel that results in a down vote for something so abstract? I assumed it was someone on one side of that conflict, but which. Either way they must feel that they are somehow culpable or why take offence. So really was it for highlighting what they already thought? Is that the real cause, something like - I feel uneasy about my side so I would rather you didn't challenge me with it?

Or maybe it's just about robots.
Many years ago I was connecting APIs from ~100 companies into our application, they all essentially did the same thing -- update information in our system based on a tracking number. At this time, about half were web APIs and half were WSDLs. The WSDL APIs were by and large the easiest to work with, I didn't have to write much of any code. On the other hand, the web APIs required me to have a custom flow for each and every one and they could break at any point without me knowing.

I've seen a lot of hate on WSDLs throughout the years but they were honestly really productive for getting work done.
Crates.io has publisher information-- namespacing is not required for that. For example, here are all the crates owned by the `azure` GitHub organization and published by the `azure-sdk-publish-rust` team: https://crates.io/teams/github:azure:azure-sdk-publish-rust
Language support for static code analysis is a constant struggle and excited to see so many new languages covered so fast, this is super exciting for the PHP developers/security engineers protecting 76.8% of the websites on the internet
That's a good one. Sadly, I have nothing to share.
Give me Iphone
Interesting, it's almost double in SV the cost of Berlin!

How much salary do you think should allocate to base and how much toward any location adjustments, in general?
That's so Microsoft can make money from non-corporate Windows users, which it makes very little from otherwise.

Apple makes billions off hardware and it's cut in ecosystem sales and has a brand image of privacy which helps those sales.
Most LLVM projects I see are simply replacing -O3 pipelines. i.e. the code has already been heavily stress-tested prior to a safer optimization port of a stripped binary.

I also do time critical stuff, so llvm is a nonstarter for predictive latency in code motion. For most other use-cases, clang/llvm typically does improve performance a bit, and I do like its behavior on ARM.

Happy coding =)
Don't get me wrong; I'm a fan of formal methods, when they can work.

But you're also weakening your own point; you admit that if you test enough, they don't work as well, and you also admit that they work less well the more complicated things get.

The other problem is showing that the artifact you proved is the same artifact that you are using. The enormous amount of effort put in by the seL4 people is proof that that is non-trivial, and seL4 is tiny compared to SQLite.

So when you say, "formal methods are more powerful when they work," you are right, but "when they work" is carrying a lot of weight.
I think it was game makers toolkit that did an episode on Mario Odyssey. If I remember correctly it was a new (for the series) director and the theme of the game was “different and surprising”, so for example, every desert theme in Mario had been themed around Egypt but this time it was themed around Mexico (and cold!)

My hot take is odyssey was a success and the idea of “different and surprising” as a guide for a new 2D platform we is what gave Nintendo Mario Wonder.
Answer: Overreliance on algorithms interpreting data from models like the Global Forecast System (GFS), which can be imprecise. Terrain also affects the app's performance, with better results in flat, predictable climates than in varied topographies.
Not sure there's all that much Lua criticism around here?
I was going to say that this probably isn't fair because they do get quite a few languages and nobody is going to have the bandwidth to get all languages... but then *they* say "...for all programming languages...". I mean, there are a LOT of programming languages out there. Was it really going to hurt them to say something like "almost all" or "many" or even "all commonly used".

Ultimately, this is a nitpick on the website. However, the whole point of static analysis is that you're nitpicking because not nitpicking can sometimes have disproportionate consequences. So I agree that it would be nice if they cleaned up that particular section to be a bit more accurate.
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It does get close to deadlocking traffic at rush hour. Wait time for cars to enter is like 5 minutes at 6pm.

And you know, I'm OK with that. There are plenty of other ways to get around my city, so if you want to do it in your own personal metal box at the busiest time of the day, then you can wait 5 extra minutes.

Pedestrian overpasses would look butt ugly and way exceed the city's budget for this intersection.
Not all of it. I could have bought electric toothbrushes and a waterpik much sooner, I could have been brushing and flossing more frequently.

Also in my case, I was told I needed 3 crowns after my fillings popped out a couple times right when I was between jobs and had no insurance, and was told I'd need to spend $2500 each on them, which I didn't have $7500 at the time, so I ended up letting them rot to the point they had to be yanked, which led to me needing to get 2 bridges (which was even more expensive, but at least I had a job to pay for it then) which stripped 4 more teeth of their enamel to attach the bridges, which led to complications in keeping the anchor teeth and gums clean over time, which led to them needing root canals, which led to one of the root canaled teeth cracking and no longer sticking out of my gums enough to serve as an anchor for a bridge, which means I am now saving up the $10k+ to get two implants on that side of my face and get another new bridge made to put on those, and my other bridge I just had to get a root canal for an anchor tooth through my other bridge, and that's only supposed to buy me about another 5 years at most, so I'll need implants for those eventually as well, and I'm sure I'm in for more crap in the future, etc.

If I knew this was the path I was going down by not getting crowns I would have tried harder to find more options, either find a dentist that charged less for crowns (I just assumed that's how much crowns cost, but I've seen as little as $300 elsewhere since then), or asked my parents for help in paying for them and paid them over time, etc.
I'm not even going to read up on what they say they'll do. Apple has bait-and-switched on repair numerous times.
I'll wait for their actions and Louis Rossmann's review of them.
Valgrind was quite essential, but these days the various sanitizers are both easier to integrate, faster and catch more issues.
This is little more than hyper partisan drivel. Get out of your bubble
One of my favorite talking points in this propaganda tussle has been:
"Dead babies without heads != beheaded alive babies. Could've been done postmortem"

as if it could make a difference.
I work at a Telco that needs the teams to be able to create VMs, networks etc.. But due to legal constraints we need to host it on prem.

For those companies this would probably be a cost effective solution since now we spend a lot of resources managing varying Openstack installations with different hardware from HP / Dell etc...
Unfortunately paywalled
Furthermore you can use `cargo doc` to generate a documentation website that had everything you can do or you can use docs.rs for this. Whoever wrote this didn't embrace the tooling and just gave up.
Now to see how their development timeframes and synchronization efforts with big hardware companies go.

This is where they will enter the real “hard” part of hardware, with an exec team from software. Can they respond to the market while making hardware?

They seem to have presented as generally thoughtful about their approach. If they can release major variants about annually or even sub-annually that is what I think will enable them to win.
I've been getting these too, and it all feels very messy and out of character for AWS.

If automatable changes are required.. pop up a dialog and ask me to confirm them?
> We’re really excited to have the first commercial cloud computer — and for it to be generally available! If you yourself are interested, we look forward to it making its first impression on you — reach out to us!

Can we please stop with the "the only way to get our pricing is by booking a sales call with us." This is a 100% surefire way for me to never pay for your product, and instead go to competitors who provide straightforward, no-nonsense pricing on the website.

This is ironic given the amount of self-praise they give themselves in this article about how much they care about shipping something you can buy once instead of renting from the traditional cloud. Great, so then tell me how much it costs...
Wow. I didn’t know this history. Poor MessagePad… Eat up Martha!
Hah, this is great. Guess I'm going to have to update my analogy bank.
Apple doesn't have less incentive and their capabilities are catching up
I don´t want to hate on the opinion of people, but "X is better then Y" is a pretty useless type of article.

I have used AWS, GCP and Azure + some more that offer AWS style of services. In the end the question is "what is best for my organisation?" It really really really does not matter if a developer finds GCP more easy to use or if AWS is way better at feature X.

The service has to fit the requirements.

And even worse, sometimes the requirements do not care for usability, cost or features.
Classic hacker news!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
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I'd imagine they'll get to that eventually, these types of companies generally start at enterprise level because that's the most profitable and requires closing smaller numbers of deals. Once the product is proven and their support infrastructure is in place they can go for other market segments to try and maximize revenue
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> If you take out a loan from a bank, the bank expects 5% annual return on that loan. Where do you get the additional 5% that you owe?

This has a lot of implicit assumptions which don’t hold true in reality. The 5% would have to be the same as the return on equity prior to the loan, and the loan would have to be for the full amount of the equity.

What I said above is that you can have a stable business with a decent return without needing to grow the business.

Say you have a business with $10 million in sales, and a net profit margin of 15%, so you take out $1.5 million per year. In my mind this is a great business.

1. To your specific point re a loan, this could easily support a $4 million load at 8% without demanding the underlying business grow revenues at all.

2. Lots of people would be tempted to grow the top line to $100 million even if net margins shrank to 5%. This is the point I don’t understand. Is it just greed? The consequence is that, in the aggregate across the economy, businesses and people rarely become businesses like OP points out and usually end up doing a lot of shitty things that destroy any lasting brand value or loyalty. I’m looking at Google Search and Facebook, and a million other businesses in and out of tech when I say this.
I liked your story and technique in finding a need-now kind of audience with this method! And your bit about Square is underrated. Setting up auth/stripe/connecting everything can take so long you lose motivation. I like the idea of using Square.

I face a similar kind of situation in a similar market, would love to hear your advice on something, feel it may complement what you are doing as well - can be reached at lugg@revision.ai for this if you'd be up to chat.
True story. You can play with the app by downloading and installing. By default it generates PDFs.
Typically if you farm the job out to a browser, per the discussion, then you don't have control over the client.