skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can justify this all you want, but the truth is, for the price point, Apple is failing its customers with its minimum memory offering.

It’s not about what works: it’s about the perception customers have of the company, and this looks cheap.

Apple is a premium offering and questions like these are a product management failure that can damage the brand.

If you find yourself defending your product for looking inferior as a premium positioned product you have already made terrible mistakes. Apple should raise ram minimums simply to eliminate the perception of value questions. God knows (as does every investor) that they have the margin to do it.
What is "the termination period" and what obligation does the fired employee have to transfer any knowledge, do any work, or even communicate with the company any more?
Recent history has demonstrated the impotency of impeachment.
I talked about that point here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38215666
Ruby Open Source Review: Chatwoot
Disconnecting from social media reduces life satisfaction, according to study
I've built a couple ergonomic solutions for my RSI issues including a supine workstation and hacking chair. Wrist torsion is what did the most damage. Split vertical keyboards to the rescue. https://jck.earth/2023/11/05/diy-hacking-chair.html
So I have to write two versions of the data structure? I don't know if that sounds very simple to me, but it does sound like you could do that with a library and no language changes.
Did the company have various agents and other things installed? My company installs so much garbage on systems that they can make anything suck. Any time I have issues, it has nothing to do with what I'm trying to do, and has everything to do with the monitoring/management software. Windows, MacOS, more ram, less ram, doesn't really matter. They've found ways to destroy every system ever deployed.

My M1 MacBook Pro has actually handled it the best. My old Intel MacBook Pro would constantly be ramping up the fans, at one point burning through the whole battery in less than an hour if I unplugged it. No such issues with the M1 so far. There are still issues, but mostly crashes, not performance issues, which is a first in nearly 18 years of various desktops and laptops at the company.
1. Place mouse at, and parallel, to the spacebar
300k eur per year

Government taxes 50% of that
I think it vastly depends what you're writing. Any kind of function that does not have a fixed input and output gets a lot more complex with static types. And by extension any code that depends on that also gets more complex.

I tried at some point to use Rust for an API but then I depended on making calls to a very complex API. In JavaScript I would have just gotten back a complex object where I can then pick whatever I want progressively through object access methods. In Rust I ended up with more than 500 lines of type definition for the API and it still wasn't enough so I gave up. It is a bit extreme but when you work with an API from an ERP for instance you can get very very complex and extensive types that are not in your control and not very well specified.

Another good example is how complex all ORM internal code get once they try to add static typing. The typing in the ORMs code feels like black magic because they would really really need types as code but don't have it so have to rely on a bunch of crazy generic combinators.
This was one of the reasons that made me switch from iPhones to Android phones.
>My wife’s computer was getting slow so I stuck another 16GB of RAM in it for like $30. that upgraded added years to its life.

Not disputing this. But the vast majority people don't upgrade their laptops. They just buy a new one when it's slow.

I can't find it right now but there's been studies done showing that most people never upgrade their RAM/storage even though they could. They just buy a new computer.
Cake is terrible for you any ways.
Discoverability is the term; e.g., "What Can I Say? Effects of Discoverability in VUIs on Task Performance and User Experience" https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3405755.3406119
> Operating Temperatures 5°C to 35°C

LOL. Not made for this planet. Heck, put a jacket over it and your body heat could take it over 35.
> Those other language implementation strategies do not offer LTO-like features (that I know of), so I have ignored them here.

JVM implementations (and ART), alongside CLR do such optimizations.

Furthermore, nowadays PGO is part of the process as well, so the information can be carried over across runs, used as means for the JIT to quickly achieve the optimal execution point, and carry over from there instead of starting over from scratch every time.
The guy introduced himself by name, I was really confused for a while if it was just a human trained to sound like an AI, or an AI trained to sound like a human.
Valve also dont sell $450 device for £450...
But once you do that, you lose Google Play Safety net attestation no?

Happened when i rooted my last phone. And after that no banking/payment apps worked.
Given that no US president has been convicted after being impeached, I'm not so sure what's impotent. Mere impeachment doesn't have a penalty.
1. Not tipping in the aforementioned scenario is so far away from qualifying as "fucking with" anyone

2. Not only would spitting in food get you fired but it's also a crime. Do you really think it's common for people to be this reckless with their livelihood?
Having listened to her speak about random topics over the last 20 years, hawking subs to her laughable earth files site, posting clearly WWN-worthy garbage as real, seeing the trash she sells at “ufo shows”.

I’ll self-correct and say she’s amongst the worst. See Noory, Dames, Hoagland, Lazar, et al. Entertaining, perhaps, criminal charlatans, absolutely.
I don't think either of those are legal. The only law I can think of that has a relevant exception would be the law about phone use while driving, which has a 911 call exemption.

Regardless, I think those situations are relatively rare and the potential lives saved would pale in comparison to daily traffic deaths

I saw a post here recently about how even ambulance companies are considering revising their policies for speeding and disrupting traffic because there's data showing it leads to worse mortality outcomes. And that's WITH a professional ambulance driver using their lights and sirens

Edit: here's the link https://www.ems1.com/ambulance-safety/articles/14-groups-iss...
Tens? try hundreds of tabs, across three browsers.

also Docker.
Where is the evidence for that? Any real-world application made and running by describing software concepts to an LLM?

It is what it is – a novel search engine, lossy and non-credible. Effectively useless on codebases that extend beyond its fairly limited context
Paper Notes: Use of Formal Methods at Amazon Web Services
Whose complaint? The whistleblower's? Then why are they prosecuting the spy chiefs instead of the whistleblower, and for being too friendly to the media rather than for being too friendly to the NSA?

Am I wrong that the spy chiefs are super-friendly to the NSA?

It's a bit odd if your pretext for persecuting someone is the exact opposite of the thing you actually want to punish them for.

Seriously, it's no wonder the media is confused.
In my experience the class of people calling what I do “IT” has no conception of million+ dollar roles in software engineering. It’s sort of a (flawed and anecdotal) litmus test in terms of whether they are truly an industry insider.
Yes the reason is high risk high reward for the contractor - much higher salary.
Strong “Capitalists will sell us the rope to hang them” vibe here.
So your use-case may require more and the entry-level model may not be an appropriate choice for you. I can also come up with dozens of not-too-uncommon scenarios where 16GB won't suffice, either (4k video editing + commonly mandated corpware, for one).
No. Talon has a phonetic alphabet, one chosen to be short and easy to disambiguate.

Some detail about it here:

https://whalequench.club/blog/2019/09/03/learning-to-speak-c...
Companies are being purposefully obtuse with popups as a form of malicious compliance (and in some cases looking suspiciously like political statement) - and you're blaming the EU for it?
Not only that, it doesn't even work if only Apple does it. Developers will still write the bloated code because it runs on cheap PCs with 16+GB of RAM, and it runs on the pricier Macs that also have 16+GB of RAM, so the only thing it runs poorly on is the more affordable Macs which are a small enough market segment for developers to disregard.
I wonder how they plan to implement systems level programing features from Common Lisp on top of Lua.
Sigh. The cosmological model came into being after several years of academic discussions and finally crystallized around 1978, I believe. Plans for the Hubble didn’t even exist then. All people knew is what they could see from Earth surface and it was fine until later observations became absurdly contradictory comparing the math to known physics from agreed upon physics almost a century earlier. So… you solve for the math. You aren’t going to get a better cosmological model by observing distant galaxies from Earth surface. The only other options are abandoning the entirety of the cosmological model without a replacement or abandoning Einstein physics, which is worse.

That still does not make something entirely without evidence thrust into existence. It certainly doesn’t explain the level of emotional investment. Your only arguments supporting your position are purely social conduct: expertise, agreement, confidence, and apparent sadness. These are not observations. They are not physics proofs. They aren’t even measurements. They are the equivalent of the church calling Galileo a heretic. You call my opinion absurd only because it, according to your own words, inconveniences you, god forbid.

Actual science has been slowly chipping away at the social stupidity of this subject. Here is yet another potential example:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38215274
> Even GNOME and KDE are rife with bugs (depending on your hardware somewhat).

Even though you'll have diehards that claim they haven't had any issues since X year. When I had KDE installed at the start of the year, I had bugs dealing with multiple monitors (apps wouldn't remember position if I had closed them on any monitor other than the left-most monitor). I had the UI crash repeatedly, issues transferring files using Dolphin (it would just simply hang on >500 files or if the files were large - it was fine if I used GNOME's file manager or the shell). I had slight issues getting wallpaper settings to stick. Shortcuts wouldn't always fire depending on how they were configured. The list goes on.

I firmly believe that the folks who don't have an issue with KDE are just exhibiting forms of Stockholm syndrome or have worked around issues automatically (forgetting that they exist). When you see issues crop up when users are switching, and you aren't having those issues- maybe the issue is that you've created a mental model that effectively works around those issues without you realizing it.

The solution isn't to blame the users having issues; rather, it's to take a hard look at what the problem is and realize maybe there is a real problem here.
Doesn't what this comment says solve this for you? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38166928
People pay 5 bucks for an avatar skin. You're just a bit out of touch with the times.
Olkiluoto 3 was a first of a kind project too. Was built by an established company, but one that had been on a decades long hiatus in building nuclear power plants.
> That's why I said normal office workers and students.

Costing 9 hundos a piece, Air is not something a regular company would buy for their employees.

They're more likely to buy a budget laptop in the 400-500 range which you can bet will do just fine for office work, and you can always upgrade it if necessary.

If a company really does need their employees to work a Mac, they will have to cough out a lot more for the 16GB version, and this is what the article calls corporate greed.
GDPR is extremely important and should be adopted worldwide in my view. It creates protections for handling and storing of personal data.
the employee is being paid during that period, so probably the money.
Do not firewall them off. Serve different content and break functionality in a self-explanatory way (i.e. an email that tells what's wrong).
The future is even more horrifyingly bland and dystopian than imagined by our best cyberpunk writers
Ctrl-w or ctrl-backspace backspaces away the whole word and then you can just retype it. Often faster than trying to continue somewhere in the middle.
This is why I don't even transit in the US any more. No holidays, no layovers, no work aspirations any more.
My brief summary of Apple's new "dynamic caching"
brms and rstanarm make using it very easy. Blavaan likewise. The transition from
Conventional model syntax is great scaffolding.
The jump from developers will use more RAM on abstraction layers to computers shouldnt get faster was never made by the original comment, and implying it was made is the worst possible reading of the argument made which is against HN guidelines.
> They're an entirely rational and predictable reaction to it.

The problem isn't that. The problem is that people are being convinced that malicious compliance is somehow the EU's fault. This is clearly the bad actors being bad; the thing that's being gamed isn't GDPR, but publicity around it. As in, the EU should probably invest some money in naming and shaming actors complying in bad faith (if at all).
This would only make sense if there was some way for people to show off their extra RAM. A MacBook Pro with 8GB or RAM, or 24GB for $400 more, look exactly the same, and no one cares how much RAM someone else has. It's not a flex.
NuScale, UAMPS terminate small modular reactor project in Idaho
Good for you, but also irrelevant to the argument
tell everyone you aim for iso certification.

Then bring some auditors in to assess. And given the lack of doc, bring some consultants to 'offload' the documenting work.

Usually toxic employees do not like to write documentation. But like to brag about their design to juniors.
The 'rare' comes from the fact that the ore is not at all concentrated. The material is 'rare' within your earth.
Is there a way to filter out these misery parades via keyword?

I know heartless Europeans, but besides bureaucratic tips, there seems little to hack and it's all in all a daily downer to see sentient being beeing mutilated and thrown away cause it's cheaper. And then the whole population treats it like some selfflaggelating religious thing.

Yes I brought it on my self for clicking.
When I was in college, I interned as IT support at a large corporation. We were buying $1200 Lenovos for normal office workers and $2000 laptop workstations for the design engineers. You'd be surprised at how much money enterprises spend on each laptop.

I happen to think that the enterprise is an untapped market for Macs. Not tech offices. Other industries that run on Lenovos and Dells.

If I'm a small business, I still wouldn't buy $500 Windows laptops for my employees. I'd buy $750 M1 Airs. They last longer, "just work", and have fewer support issues.
Apple computers are reliable for 5 plus years. The additional few hundred dollars to upgrade the memory or storage is peanuts once amortised over the life of a computer.
Hopefully you don't live at Legal Sea Foods, which is a popular New England restaurant, so maybe you're in Boston where it's that expensive?
Just saying that the speed is limited to the maximum speed limit of any road within 1 mile would be a huge improvement. When nearby highways have speed limits of 55mph, there's no good reason to allow cars to drive 70 on surface streets.
Woz is one of the most selfless people I've ever met. At a conference he keynoted for (SynBioBeta), he said that even if immortality were available to him, he wouldn't want to live forever, because he'd be taking up a spot in the Earth's population carrying capacity, and even if that's just one spot of many billions, he wouldn't feel right taking up that spot, when he's already lived his life and now it's time for someone new to get the chance to enjoy the adventure that is living.
Premium pricing absolutely factors in. They charge $200 instead of say $199.99 because it’s meant to feel expensive, not like a good deal.
Literally every app developer who want to target the iPhone user market.
No it isn't, because of lazy developers that keep pushing Electron apps for those office workers and students.
Is it really unethical to replace employees?

I'm not invalidating your decision, maybe that owner really was an asshole, but I don't think the move in itself is deplorable.
It is snark behind a thin veil of praise. The only way I can read it. It might by my confirmation bias talking.
How would the massive pollution from the refining be handled if it occurs locally?
Do you want the charts to keep going up? If so yes, they need to do this and more...
No, your position is invalid so long as you claim dark matter is a physics model. It’s a substance (or not), but not a model.
Perhaps, and I think you're probably right about the "spirit of the law", but I would hope that the "letter of the law" would still hold weight and have to be applied here.
Thanks for replying!

It seems as if you've had a bad experience with this and feel quite angry about it, but also know enough to have been involved with the "scene" I guess.

Did you go through disillusionment because you felt you'd been lied to? It sounds like you feel they're defrauding you about something, what do you feel they're defrauding you about?

You make a lot of claims that may come across as overly negative, dismissive and disrespectful, but also vague. Can you elaborate any more on specifics? Or provide evidence for what you're saying?
In my experience, static typing takes a different way of thinking that can take a while to get the hang of, and during that adjustment period a lot of people are going to significantly slower. I definitely felt it coming into Swift, being used to Objective-C and to a lesser extent Ruby.

Having grown accustomed to static typing, not encountering errors until runtime, or worse having errors manifest as type-related misbehavior and potentially not be immediately apparent is much more frustrating than it used to be.
> In the climate in which "oppose the current thing" is a valid platform in many voters' eyes - I don't know how can we achieve that.

Problem solving

Step 0: Analyze if and how you're helpless

Step 1: Start problem solving

The trick to problem solving is to skip step 0, which is a complete waste of resources.

Moving on to step 1: Note that the reactionaries, world wide, have changed the political climate to something unimaginable and unprecedented in ~7 years in the US, and they have nothing but lies, despair, hatred, violence and disorder to sell. But they skipped step 0 - good for them, because anyone would have told them it's impossible.

We have truth, public welfare, freedom, peace, prosperity, integrity, etc. to sell. Most of history has been on our side. We can change the climate too.

But first, we need to move on from step 0.
I thought about trackballs, but they didn't work for me. Mouse is still the best.
Customers don't like market segmentation.
Don't buy it with 8 Gigs. Where's the Problem?

If it's to expensive, buy another one!

Is there a "humen right" or something that says: NO ONE SCHOUL HAVE LESS THAN 16 GIGS!

A Pro(!) Machine which costs 4.000 Bucks with M3 Max, 36 Gigs and 1TB of SSD and ist used for 3 years or so costs 112 Bucks a month. For an absolute powerhouse which is doing Desktop-class Worstation-Performance on the go! And for a machine i am working on 8 hours a day and earn my money!

And as a Pro who has to buy a 112$/month machine you should have paid this thing in one or two hours work per month.

As a hobyist - well, it's a hobby! Buy whatever you can afford.
> Any achievement they did make was... stolen from somebody else. Yet now their successes in space, industry, science, and technology are completely taken for granted.

The two aren't necessarily in contradiction, you may note. Do we have reliable evidence showing Chinese IP theft has slowed?

Many nations "bootstrap" internal industry with organized mass IP theft. The US extensively (and quite intentionally) stole from Britain's industrial IP, for instance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Slater
It doesn't matter how well they protect it, they still have the credential, and they decrypt it in order to be able to use it, so for all intents and purposes, it's in the clear _for Microsoft_ (and whoever else manages to have access). This is not how it should be.
I was not implying GenZ is responsible for the wars. TikTok isn’t helping though, either. Misinformation being spread (on all sides) and being eaten up (and parroted) by our youth.

So you can be obtuse and read what you wanted to read, you can equate me to someone you hate to justify your anger, but again it’s not me you should be angry with. I completely agree it’s politicians who start wars. These same idiots are watching the same crap their kids are showing them - on TikTok. Why else would there be a congressional hearing over Chinese spying over an app about dancing and narcissistic behavior?

So who is rejecting reality? Here’s the reality. There are two (2) wars being fought. Both of which are being fueled by propaganda and misinformation being spread causing reactions, counter-reactions, and 3rd parties to pick sides. One of these wars has been brewing off and on for 50 years, with no path forward. Now there’s talk of occupation. The other, fueled by misinformation and lies. This isn’t some guy on HN crying about kids these days, it’s a genuine warning that if we (the hacker/coder/inventor) community don’t stop it, we won’t have a community because Russia or North Korea or some idiot with a spray tan will nuke the reality in which we have known all our lives.
> Some percentage of children who see a disclaimer saying, "Do not use if you're under 18, click here to confirm you're 18+" and decide not to lie and login

That's assuming the evidence I would like to actually see.

Age limits can have a perverse effect on kids, or even young adults, eager to prove to themselves and their peers how "mature" they are. Retail stores and clubs where I live have exploited this for a long time.

For instance, there is no government-imposed limits on the age you need to be to buy energy drinks, but the grocery stores have coordinated to institute a 15 year limit. I'm pretty sure they do this simply to increase sales, not over concern for overcaffeinated kids.

They also used to have big signs saying "Over 18? PROVE IT!" with a big foaming glass of beer. I'm sure that flew over the head of most adults, but there was nothing about showing ID there.
I still use my Windows laptops and Linux netbook bought around 2009.

Why? Because they are upgradable in what matters, battery, memory and disk space.
I don't share your sentiment about the guy, but that's OK.

Apple has a style, and he talks with that style very well, preventing the listener from drifting off.
What are the reasons for your recommendations?
One problem I might see is that it is even harder to spot a typo with this font.
The Context Length Observation
They don't seem to have tried the one thing that might have worked for them, namely, embracing the fact that they're first and foremost a porn site. Instead, they decided to be actively hostile to this reality, with predictable results.
You’ll certainly get close to that in SF with a couple drinks at $20 a pop.