skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good luck! People have been trying to shame Apple for their premium pricing since the day they started selling computers, and it has never done a thing to change their strategy nor sales. I think the issue is that a lot of tech people don’t fully understand what Apple is selling, what value is there, and why it appeals to so many consumers, despite whatever reasons we think we have. Nobody needs to prove you wrong, because most consumers do not know and do not care what germanium and plan9 are. Most consumers do not want to mod their phone or plug it into a keyboard & mouse, heck most programmers don’t even want that.

Framing it as greed and lack of innovation seems like a not well thought out argument. Which companies are you buying tech from that aren’t aiming for a profit, and wouldn’t change more if they could? As a dev I feel like I’ve been forced out of the Apple ecosystem, and I’m having a hard time being a fan these days, but I wouldn’t dare claim they’re not innovating. The M-series is a massive innovation and challenging everyone, and it follows behind literally world-changing innovations like iphone. For its time, OSX was an innovative successor to unix built on unix. They have a long list and a solid history of innovation that continues to this day, despite always having had seemingly high prices on RAM, so let’s look for a better argument why they should offer it for less.
Sure, loosely speaking it evolved into web apps as they are today, but that doesn’t mean they’re the same things. Cars are different from horse-and-carts, electric cars are different from ICE cars. I maintain what I said: web apps today are unrecognisably different from DHTML. The term “DHTML” froze in meaning and scope quite early on, and faded from use over the course of several years; and lingering uses of the term over subsequent years were very dominantly of that early scope and meaning—hence I say it froze.

(I don’t feel ActiveX, applets or Flash were ever part of the meaning of DHTML. JavaScript/JScript/VBScript, absolutely. But these others had their own drawing areas and typically didn’t interact with the HTML DOM. They were just embedded alternate worlds, not DHTML.)
Well, corporate warfare is just warfare since the megacorporations have essentially purchased the governments of the Earth. Much of government regulation and market intervention is a result of regulatory capture, and voting effectively achieves very little other than keeping the people fighting each other while the megacorporations and ultra wealthy divide the spoils.
Isn't that a good thing? It promotes creating jobs and sharing some of the wealth
Well, CI is where the costs are, and if the application is big enough, even a few percent reduction via faster linking times would equate to lower costs, while in contrast, developers won't really care or notice a few percent reduction on their local machine.

It's AGPL on Linux now, and they sell commercial licenses for companies that won't touch that license, and they were contemplating earlier making mold only available under a non-free source available license like BSL, so there's no "requirement" as such that it be free and open source, even on Linux.
Dungeon KeeperFX 1.0
> An equivalent Windows laptop can do mostly everything the Mac can do except have an Apple on the lid.

Or develop / test / use Mac software.

Or even check how Safari works for your SAAS (without resorting to BrowserStack or similar).
The last solar install I saw retrofitted to a (reasonably large) parking lot took about 3 days & the lot was only partially reduced in capacity for that time.

There’s really very little excuse
Vera Rubin Observatory could find up to 70 interstellar objects a year
> Examples include:

I get the feeling this is far from an exhaustive list. I think this person just mentioned two things that they had run into and could say didn’t support IPv6 without having to look it up.
I don’t understand why the distinction matters?

The intelligent few will produce more novel ideas, combined or individually, than the masses.

Whom by definition produce nothing (at least nothing novel).
Video is too expensive – Mux
Medival wars in Europe were smaller and shorter because of weakness and fragmentation of European states at that time. The Mongol conquest cost the lives of 50 million people and left huge swathes of Europe and Asia uninhabited.
Same, especially since he has shared a lot about his Crohn disease online https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/crohns-disease-takes-...
Normally the reasons for me don't tend to fit those who use Linux. And then it always turn in to a pissing match of "Linux can do that too". As linux suits to you for reasons.

It's up for you to take my recommendation and try for what you want the OS for rather than take my reasons to why.

I may recommend a Honda for that it's a Japanese manufacturer but the reason may be because my type of drinking cups fit the holders.

Why FreeBSD:

bHyve (Virtual Machines) within Jails. I have individual applications running in Jails, with proper ZFS integration including encryption.

The kernel is rock solid, its a fresh breath of air. Especially when to compiling your own.

Server stability is excellent minus this issue.

Everything just works, it feels less clunky than Linux in my opinion. That then turns in to a flame.

My personal opinion is that Systemd infuriates me. Microsoft has its grubby hands over it and many others. Political and non.

I don't have time to debate all this nor do people seem to accept that's how I feel about the Linux community. Both have their flaws and disadvantages.

Justifying my opinions is tiring and time consuming.
If it isn't a story from the US, it will be Celsius.
Yes, your recounting is like a bad novella.
Pi4 2GB with power source, SD card, case, fan is like $100. You can have nice Atom MiniPC for that. Or old PC from ebay...
That terminal and even the associated game look incredible!
Well to be honest I don't know for sure. I don't use the Mail app but I had assumed that pretty much everything on the iPhone was synced/backed up to iCloud unless you very deliberately are not doing that.
Can the title be updated to include the “Meet”? Otherwise it’s a bit ominous…
They should try a hybrid approach - self checkout only for registered members. This. Will promote store loyalty but keep the thieves out of the store.
same here, mate. though mine is haskell. I'd rather waiting for gleam to mature enough to mess around with it than to be miserable with the dynamics of the data. I just don't like to guess stuff down the line.
I'd be curious about data supporting this claim. Browsing through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anthropogenic_disaster... seems to suggest otherwise, but its also not relative to population.
I love that approach!

I go to every live standup show I can, especially small ones where new comedians are learning the craft. Being in the audience when one is bombing is incredibly uncomfortable (probably not as much for the audience as for the comedian, but still...).

I like it a lot when the comedian "acknowledges the suck" in a way that isn't self-pitying or audience-blaming. It really decreases the discomfort level a lot.

The audience is (usually, anyway) on the comedian's side and wants the comedian to be successful, so doing that makes the "we're all on the same team here" aspect more overt.
that seems like it would be against the spirit of the competition. Like entering a car into a marathon.
Iain M. Banks. Start with Player of Games and then read the rest of the culture series.
Ownership as the Key to Engineering Scalability
Financing the Gig Economy
Products compete on merit.

Parts of Europe ban political advertising near campaign periods. Yet obviously democracy works just fine. I view product advertisements in the same vein. I can review candidates on their platform and track record, just as I can review products on their merits by researching on my own.

I wouldn’t mind if all of the “impulse buys” that no one plans, but gets from an ad, went away.
> (He named SpaceX's drone ships after Iain M. Banks spaceships, thereby proving that irony is dead)

I don't get it. The Culture ships ("minds") are not cautionary tales about AI, or space, or anything like that. They're just AI-controlled spaceships. I don't know what point Stross is trying to make with this particular sentence.

EDIT: it's been pointed out to me that this probably pointing out the irony of Musk being a hypercapitalist billionaire, while the Culture is a post-scarcity leftist utopia.
I think of the smartphone as a culmination of many technologies. Efficient broadband wireless radio, efficient and powerful microchips, GPS systems, camera technology, display technology, battery technology, etc, and of course the software to make it all work.

All of those come together to make a powerful, easy to use, portable computer that enables its user to do so many things in so many places there were not possible before.
It's truly the end of an era. It feels like that generation of sites is ending, and a lot of how the internet "felt" at that time is ending too. Nowadays, it's all about clout and getting famous - back then, the internet just felt like a fun (and sometimes dangerous) place to be.
yes they can be. most of this is just who 'owns' the capital. Does the individual own it? Does the state own it? Does the state allow an individual to own it and they dictate what happens? When the argument should be about how monopiles (either state controlled or people controlled) are typically bad for everyone except the monopoly (and whoever owns it). One thing the socialists did very well was to hide the fact that fascism is a form of socialism like communism is too. If you read the nazi manifesto there are many aspects that are spot on socialist. Even the word 'nazi' is short for national socialist. The word is bandied around lot when people want to end an argument or make their opponent look bad. Without any thought what those people stood for.
For some reason I can't read the rest of the thread (I don't have an account).

With nitter I can read the rest.

https://nitter.net/Jonathan_Blow/status/1722709573071433996#...

> Confirmed launch platforms are Windows, PlayStation, Xbox, and iOS and Android for Netflix subscribers. Mac and Linux will come later in 2024 after the initial launch.

This feature sounds interesting:

> Sometimes in the commentary we ask, "Why was this level designed this way and not another way?" You'll be able to play counterfactual redesigns of these levels to see how they would have been, if different decisions had been made.
Sibling comments are on to this too, but I think an important detail here is that the water in lakes, river and ground in the nordics is so clean that the extra cleaning needed to make it "tap water" isn't really as big of a deal as it might be in other parts of the world.
This framing shifts responsibility to an abstract virus, rather than the human response.

Early statistics showed the overwhelming majority of people would be fine if exposed to the virus, given that at least half of people were asymptomatic. Older people with comorbidities were at higher risk, though survival was still the order of 98%+. The overall mortality was on the order of the 1968 Hong Kong flu, which most people have forgotten. Children especially were never at significant risk. The choice to lock down and do Zoom schooling was at the cost of the youth, which have seen marked declines in academic performance and increases in mental illness. We can see that nations like Sweden which never locked down turned out fine.

The virus emerged from Wuhan, where there was the virology lab working on gain of function for coronaviruses. The NIH had funded such research while Fauci was leading the organization. A revolving door between pharmaceutical companies and the FDA helped lead to the suspiciously rushed vaccines, while restricting the release of Pfizer's trial data until 2096. The mandates did not make sense since the vaccines were shown to not limit transmission. Given how many boosters some people are on now, they are probably some of the least effective vaccines of all time, compared to the actual good ones for smallpox and polio.

Supply chains shattered, or in other words, the trade war that Trump initiated against China had escalated. The virus was the compelling justification to shut down factories, causing supply shocks across the world, demonstrating the foolishness Neoliberal globalist economic policy and just how dependent the West had become on manufacturing based in a hostile totalitarian state. Monetary policy in response to the supply shocks caused widespread inflation and reduced living standards for young Americans with little wealth.

Authoritarianism, surveillance, and censorship expanded, which was already the long term trend in the West as its elites seek to emulate the strengths of the Chinese state.
Switched to heroku. 1/5th the price with Postgres service. Still use s3 for storage though.
It will be listed on android store as a "Free" app. Only to be greeted later by "login to your Netflix account".
Macs are luxury goods, price is the price. If you have an issue with it then you are not the market.

No one goes to a Lambo dealer and complains about the cost of an oil change. Price is the price for luxury goods.
The famous APProtect bug was patched in a silicon rev IIRC. Unless you're thinking of another exploit
Be careful what you wish for. If you are like the median HN commenter your job may depend on one or both of them.
I've worked at Google for nearly 8 years and nothing in this post resonates with me and I've been on several teams. It's a big company and so there is certainly some variance. It seems like folks who have the worst experiences are the ones who write blog posts which get popular. Typically if I tell folks why I really like my experience at Google they tell me I'm just shilling and bought into the corporate propaganda.

It's not clear to me where the average experience is closer to mine or the one on this blog post, but I hope it's closer to mine.
yep, and it's always hilarious.
Its actually bike messengers
Isn't TrustZone inherently evil, though? Isn't its main use to let the megacorps trust that your device won't do what you want and will keep secrets from you?
well, you can avoid this if you try to limit the number of public functions so you don't have to do this as often. make as many defp functions as possible, really.
I hate to say, but this is the correct answer. Implement the policies that you know work, do not ask for permission. They'll adapt and be better for it -- and I am saying this as someone that successfully implemented such policies in a similar situation.

You don't need to be an asshole about it, but just make it happen and provide instruction on how it all works.
Before clicking on the link I thought you meant he was writing articles on Ansible and putting his non-Ansible opinions in the same articles. I have no problem with him writing his thoughts on his blog, whether they are on Ansible, abortion, or anything else.
One day will come, when network admins will be so happy to finally turn off IPv4 on their stack. When router manufacturers will feel happy to support only IPv6. It is definitely coming within my lifetime.

So, these intermediate steps are just cooking the final dish.

Peace. ;)
IPv6 provided some features people needed (larger addresses), made some changes born from experience (removing IP-level header checksums in favor of packet checksums like those in UDP and TCP, removing fragmentation), and then bundled in a pile of mandatory added complexity (DAD, SLAAC and router advertisements rather than DHCP, initially mandatory IPsec).

If IPv6 had left out the mandatory added complexity, and just focused on the larger addresses and cleanups, it would have been easier to adopt. The other changes could have happened via other standards, rather than bundling them all into "IPv6".
Seconded. If you’re already in Norway the flights are not too expensive. If you feel the romance of remote far north environments, Svalbard will not disappoint.
Espressif always seems to be ahead of the game.

The premade compliant modules, shifting to riscv, providing a rust sdk, and so on.

I like Nordic products in some ways but they are becoming very complex and not necessarily in all the right ways.

Esp32 having ble and Wi-Fi in a single part is especially appealing, add in I can now program in rust and avoid all the cruft of C and it’s becoming an ever harder sell.
That's what I would normally have assumed, but 100C seemed a little hot for water just sitting in a big cistern
It would be more efficient without the heat exchanger, but you’re almost certainly right - the reservoir water would probably be too oxygenated/mineralized for direct use if being stored in contact with the rock, at least without a lot of additional treatment.

Don’t want to kill all those underground pipes with mineral buildup as things precipitate out as it cools.
That's insane. So in a British winter your expensive, subscription-only phone replacement... just doesn't work?
I think that if IPv6 would just be IPv4 with bigger addresses, the rollout would be much easier. Sure, you would still need new hardware, but the basic operations would still be the same as IPv4. Currently, it is far from that.
the Mansible of Ansible
Thanks for this article. LWN articles are good quality.

I think locks, parallelism, multithreading, async is difficult. I would like some visualisations to visualise locking behaviours and obvious bottlenecks. Being able to visually see a lock convoy or priority inversion would be helpful.

The kernel-userspace transition seems to be expensive and if you have 90 threads all contending for the same resource, then you cannot scale memory write/mutation access by 90 times by locking.

If the holder of the lock is not scheduled and is preempted then the lock attempter shall spin, potentially preventing the holder of the lock from being scheduled.

I wonder if there's lessons from static and dynamic scheduling here? If you know the lock hierarchy in the kernel, couldn't you intelligently schedule? I read a really good comment on HN by jcranmer about VLIW architecture recently. [1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38118441
Just thinking about bitcoin utility. Could it be wise for a country to hold it reserves in Bitcoin. Just in case other country tries to freeze its holding.
I'd just like to emphasize that discord is the place to go. A very friendly community that's been working on this for years and years. Super fun project to follow: https://discord.gg/hE4p7vy2Hb
I tried to do that in college and all I got was the FBI listing me as a white supremacists.

It turns out the KKK member I tried to befriend was working for the FBI and the university I was attending. He was there to fake a white supremacists movement so they could cancel all the merit based scholarships and replace them with race based scholarships

I needed my scholarship.
The base M3 MBP isn't a true MBP. It's to replace the 13" MBP w/ touchbar, which was always a lower-end black sheep of the MBP family. Now that they've removed the touchbar, they've consolidated it into the regular MBP lineup, but it remains crippled.

If you were considering a 14" or 16" M2 Pro MBP, the equivalent M3 Pro MBP would not be the base model, and WOULD be an upgrade... just avoid the base M3 (non-Pro) config.

If you were considering the M2 MBP w/ touch bar, then the base M3 MBP is the equivalent chip.

On the other hand, if you don't need the GPU improvements, or the mild CPU speed bump, that M3 gives and you can find an M2 Pro cheaper because they're "old", go for that.

edit: Adding "Pro" to M2 and M3 to indicate which were the proper MBPs.
There is a Zephyr BLE stack that can be used as well as a SoftDevice stack but SoftDevice isn't a huge binary anymore, much more modular to save code space.
Douglas Adams predicted, to a remarkable level of precision, the process of enshittification.
Want to boost your Steam Deck storage capacity? Add a 61TB Solidigm SSD
Had to mangle the title as it was too long.
Both the right exercise and not obsessing about a change or pain in your body is a good way to get rid of join pains, trapped nerves, stiff muscles, etc.

Obviously people should watch out for the signs of common chronic diseases, but in my experience I get far more aches and pains when being less active. Going to the gym once or twice a week and doing some compound exercises will help vastly, even after just a few weeks of regular exercise.

Oh, and get a good chair if you are sitting a lot, it's definitely worth it.
> Or develop / test / use Mac software.

Or even check how Safari works for your SAAS (without resorting to BrowserStack or similar).

You're making my point still. Because you are developing software and testing in the Mac environment, over there everything is more expensive.
> Can a society/political movement be socialist and fascist simultaneously?

Sure, nothing really excludes one from the other I think. You can take all of Europe now, give them a superiority complex, and you’d have a fantastic facist socialist republic.
sure, but there's a lack of responsibility there that amazes me.
Svalbard has a very weird legal status. It has visa-free right to live there and work there. Russia maintains a population there at a loss-making coal mine, arguably to keep a persistent claim of having a national interest in it. As well as the location being ideal for polar satellite comms, with the opening of trade routes past Svalbard (with the melting of the Arctic) suddenly a lot of nations care a lot more and Norway and NATO allies have picked up the pace on exercises in the region. I have reason to believe that "what do we do if Russia decides it wants to take Svalbard" is regularly considered in military planning. The Svalbard treaty is a weird leftover from a different time; a time when Svalbard was much less valuable.

Svalbard has a surprisingly large Thai population. I don't know about today, but at one point about ten percent of the population were Thai citizens.
Book of Record of the Time Capsule of Cupaloy (1939)
Sorry, is this an insomnia discussion or like a "I'm hot before bed" independant of how the sleep goes kinda deal?

I would advise against cold showers/baths/immersion as the will shock you into wakefullness and vigilance. Can't see how there's any evidence for that actually working. Its like saying "Ya, I turned my phone as bright and blue as it goes up to and I STILL couldn't sleep" :/
God Emperor
I've used it as my desktop OS since 1999 or so (first on FreeBSD's DEC Alpha port, so as to eat my on dogfood as I was one of the main contributors to the alpha port), with a brief detour running Ubuntu Linux on x86 when I was doing almost 100% linux work from 2010-2015 or so.

I run very basic GPU (GTX 750), use ZFS for everything, run lxde, and use linux firefox as my main web browser (via the LinuxJails project at https://wiki.freebsd.org/LinuxJails).

For day-to-day use its nearly the same as linux, and runs nearly the same apps as linux. The biggest frustration I have is "linux recipes" for doing things often don't work (naturally, since the OS is different), and electron apps are a crapshoot, since the electron is chrome, and the emulation needed for chrome is incomplete. For example, I'm listening to spotify right now and I can listen to playlists, but can't just play a song..

EDIT: One the things I loved about Ubuntu LTS is the packages being essentially frozen, aside from security fixes. FreeBSD is a "rolling release" OS for 3rd party packages, even on stable branches. That's one of the reasons that I use the ubuntu LTS firefox ... I can apt-get update & apt-get upgrade just the web browser and its dependencies, rather than the 1700 unrelated packages that I'd need to update just to get the newest firefox.