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The purpose of government isnt to collect taxes, it is to benefit the citizens.
Apple operations in Ireland might not pay as much taxes, but still benefit the people employed. Furthermore, employees do pay taxes.

Even further, it is not a given that Apple forced out valuable local companies that have anywhere near the same value. It is not like there was an apple scale technology company in Ireland that was displaced or run out of business.
Recently I decided to try Rust at work as well, after using it a little as a hobby, just to replace a basic shell script with it at first. While reliability, ergonomics, and other positive sides either do not beat Haskell (which I use for most programs, except for a few small shell scripts or [PL/pg]SQL functions) or it does not matter here, I similarly ran into that "immature ecosystem" issue: apparently people are still supposed to run a nightly build or rustup, but not a compiler from stable system's repositories, let alone libraries. It was that way when Rust was really new, which was understandable, but it is odd to run into that now, and also as the article mentions, even with basic libraries: I ended up using eprintln! instead of a logging library (fortunately used it with systemd, which picks up stderr output, and did not really need to set syslog levels or additional fields), env.args instead of an argument parsing library.

Mostly agreed with the conclusion, too: the language still looks good, especially as a C alternative, and hopefully it will be usable in a more stable setting. Gradually trying it out does not feel like a pivotal decision though, that sounds overly dramatic.
Yes. Which makes it darkly ironic that the end result is them practicing medicine on tens of thousands of people a month each.
I think I am unclear what you mean by branch coverage. I assumed it means ensuring that every 'then' and 'else' branch is taken? But if so, that means every statement must get covered, right?

Put another way, you can only get 100% statement coverage if every 'then' and 'else' branch is taken, so 100% statement coverage and 100% branch coverage seems to be saying the same thing I think a misunderstanding you, an explanation would be helpful, thanks.
Could potentially Faraday cage it if you can find the exact spot it's at.
Woo-hoo!
Very much so. They'll get presented with several bullet points of reasons for denial based on their system, and be asked "do you see any need to disagree with this reasoning?" rather than any form of differential workup.
Thank you, Ken! This is especially cool to me after reading a recent article [0] posted here on hn [1], titled "Intel 80386, a revolutionary CPU". It gave me a new appreciation for how advanced the 386 was and how it formed the foundation of modern x86 architecture.

[0] https://www.xtof.info/intel80386.html

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38156486
And, importantly, these "ERISA" plans are exempt from state laws and regulations (although they do have to abide by federal laws and regulations).
No, it has nothing to do with price of labor (although in socialism there is no labor market), and everything to do with removing subjugation of others due to ownership of private property.

In socialism, if you want other people to help you build the company, you have to do so on equal terms, by giving them equal stake in ownership. That doesn't mean you don't own fruits of your labor.
Yup, when I read the blog post, my immediate thought was, "Hey, this sounds just like Microsoft when I was there." There it was blue badge vs. non-blue badge.

All the other stuff, too –– wanting to innovate but finding everything so slow, lots of process, feeling very pampered, etc.
not sure about its future success, but the Voice Interface will be the new paradigm for sure.
My understanding is that Windows is very buggy to boot into.
It would be cool to see an AI powered LEGO set design suite. First generate the cover image, then generate a low res 3d point cloud, calculate the individual LEGO pieces, analyze the structural integrity with specialized tools, and select portions of the model to regenerate/iterate. Then calculate the cost of the model base on listings from sites like bricklink.
Larger companies tend to be bogged down with dependencies that can easily leave you waiting on someone, especially if you have no incentive to press them to move quickly.

There’s no reason to care as an employee. I get paid whether or not our customers are upset (not long term, but long enough for me).
If you mean gambling in Counter Strike, at least it's not explicitly aimed at children.
> I hate that I'm going to have to say the word rural over and over again in this podcast. It's my least favorite word

> advanced people who are going out to talk with the rural people

> They are hooked up, trapped by, entirely captured by a gigantic propaganda machine

> rural people's opinions about renewable energy as such are relatively shallow and easily shiftable

> find people who speak [with a rural accent] and train them

The host's condescension towards rural Americans could not be clearer
> I'm doing meaningful work and making the world better, which was missing from the last couple of months at FB.

Does it mean you felt you were making the work a better place during the earlier couple of years at FB?
This is maybe getting offtopic but I still have no idea why the term "full stack developer" exists or why it's so widespread. Sure, if you specialize in JavaScript and you mainly work writing web UI libraries, you might mainly consider yourself a "frontend developer." Same thing for working on server frameworks that would, I guess, make you a "backend developer"? (I'd think in that case you'd probably just be into general programming, and not call yourself that)

Does a person that wires up a backend to do some business logic, hit some APIs, etc. and then send it to a frontend to be displayed really need a name like "full stack"? It almost implies your doing both of the jobs of a frontend and backend developer, but if you go by the example work I mentioned previously, you're not doing that. That's what I do for my job and it feels like I'm doing the Sesame Street of programming jobs compared to other areas of the industry.

I don't like how the term "software engineer" is overused either. Maybe just cause most of what comes out of the software industry really shouldn't be compared to what comes out of industries that build bridges and large machinery. I don't feel like people who regularly joke about copy-pasting code snippets from Stack Overflow are really implementing proper engineering practices.
> They have no idea what they are buying, and have no idea if the seller is scamming them or incompetent.

It's worse than that, important healthcare decisions are often made while you are unconscious, and you just have to pay for whatever choice was made. Not only do you not know what you're buying, you don't even know a purchase is being made.

I am convinced that it doesn't make sense to discuss healthcare as if it is a market. Patients are not "buyers". You pass out, some random person calls 911 and they send a private ambulance, you wake up at the hospital, and now you owe money to the ambulance company. In what sense have you "bought" anything? There has to be more to the definition than just "money is involved". We don't talk about the parking ticket market or the taxation market (just move to a different country if you aren't satisfied with your taxation provider!), and we shouldn't talk about the healthcare market.
The weirdness is caused by the incantation all these things have. Once you can just talk to the AI without doing anything, just talk to it, it'll catch on very easily.
The anti-Israel left is finally showing its true colors.
Doesn't work in China (I've heard).
Sorry, where are these schematics? I was not aware.
I'm surprised that the data plan is priced so high. For an Apple Watch, you can add it to your existing cell plan with unlimited data for as low as $10/mo
Ok but then contractors have the freedom to work whatever hours they want, not show up to the office, and subcontract out their work - right? If so that might be more appealing than being an employee
I don't know anything about their CEO, except that Wikipedia notes that in 2020, "GMG Union, which represents the staff of six G/O Media sites, announced a vote of no confidence in CEO Jim Spanfeller, citing, among other issues, a lack of willingness to negotiate for 'functional editorial independence protections.'"
I violated their brand policy. I’m assuming it’s because of the domain name.

I also say assume because I’m not even 100% certain.

It’s a bit scary though cause in their TOS they can just remove your profile and tell you to F off with no warning or explanation like they did to me…
I think there are more 1M per year small businesses than execs making 1M in salary

Besides, by being a 1M small business you're solving problems for society, by being a 1M per year top exec you're probably at the level you're bribing politicians, brainwashing people with ads and woke marketing and generally making the world a worse place.
I'm one of them. I had no idea.
Lost me when I realized the resolution is the same.

1080p is a minimum in 2023
No, it's got nothing to do with workplace protection or wages. The original suit was actually about participation in the stock purchase program (which in the mid-90's was extremely lucrative at MSFT!), something that no contractor would normally expect to get. But because the contractors got free food at the cafe (or whatever), they did. Or rather they got a settlement making up for the stock the courts said they should have been able to get.

Basically, the rule per Vizcaino is "Any benefit offered to salaried employees must be offered to temporary ones too unless you deliberately discriminate against them in all your other benefits not related to their job."

And yes, that's a stupid rule. But it's the rule, and it's universally enforced at every US employer large enough to have a legal department.
Could have a constructive dismissal case, but would need an attorney to review and confirm. Filing a Dept of Labor complaint can also help establish a paper trail, but by no means ensures success.

https://webapps.dol.gov/elaws/eta/warn/glossary.asp?p=Constr...
> Recognizing the food you are holding and coming up with a calorie count was the only part of the demo I found genuinely cool

That's a software problem, though. A company who solves that and does it well will be a killer app and doesn't need gimmicky hardware.
> Of course you produced nothing of value. Learning in school is about absorbing already existing knowledge.

That's certainly how it's set up today, but I find it difficult to believe that the most optimized, useful, and productive way to teach children about reality is the method we've settled on in the modern US. School could instead be designed around the production of art, goods, and services that are actually desired and used by people in and outside of the school. This would be a great deal more difficult to set up and maintain than a series of gradeable worksheets.

> Learning in school is about absorbing already existing knowledge.

Under the current model, is the knowledge really absorbed? Math class is great example. Most people struggle through algebra and trigonometry worksheets for a few hundred hours and then immediately dump the knowledge when they graduate and can't even name the three primary triangle side-ratios five years later. Was completing curated problem sets under threat of a worse career if they failed really the best use of their time? That can't be the best way to teach them.

> I spent a lot of time maintaining an internal inventory management app, which was eventually deprecated and now it's probably not used by anyone anywhere in the world, if not completely lost forever. Such is life. Still, I learned a lot from that.

Sure, but you were producing something of value. When you learned about an issue, you went hunting for the root cause because people were actually relying on you to do so, and when you fixed the issue you felt real satisfaction, and retained a desire to remember what you'd done. Also, you were paid.

I would wager a good deal of money that what you learned while managing the app stuck in your brain a lot more effectively than if the same activity had been taught to you in a class where you completed worksheets based on the inventory management platform.
> The biggest game changer is actually just using a cooking oil - there are plenty of alternatives that will have absolutely no impact on the final taste...

I'm pretty sure I can taste the difference between popping corn in peanut oil vs. olive oil. In any case, I can certainly smell the difference which affects taste.

> and olive oil actually has a relatively low smoke point compared to other cooking oils.

I'm pretty sure I've popped corn with olive oil on multiple occasions without hitting the smoke point.

And for things like pasta sauces or roasting potatoes it's not even close to the smoke point.

There's also a fringe health benefit. Because high quality extra virgin olive oil is so difficult to find-- and so expensive-- relying on it as one's sole cooking oil essentially adds a tax to frying the hell out of all one's foods. This encourages healthier eating. :)
Are you saying using llvm would have also made things better, or are you saying that it would be better if everyone just used gcc?
Sam might be completely wrong about the most important things (I don't think so, but I don't think it's super unlikely either) and I still peg him as mostly genuine and smart, while not being very concerned with and certainly not being very good at being likeable.

He was fairly outspoken about getting (even more) rich off of other investments and believing OpenAI was simply too important to make it a conflict of interest, and mostly considers it a nuisance/distraction. That's fairly arrogant, and, again, might be completely off but I still do believe he means that and I would give it good odds to be the entirely right course of action, if most impact/most quickly is what you are going for.
It's possible install only the components you want from Visual Studio. I chocolatey to install only the compiler and a component needed to compile Cython codes on Windows:

```
choco install -y visualstudio2019buildtools
choco install -y visualstudio2019-workload-vctools
```

I this case it's installing Visual Studio 2019.
Large animals require large amount of food. It's why there's countless fish but only one humpback whale.

The question for Google is: how much are they willing to bet they're the whale and not just a fish that's too big?
Apple, an Airport, 802.11 Channel Flags, and Some Binary
Regardless of whether people liked the content or not: it only employed 23 people (not sure how many were freelance or part time), and I assume it had good traffic throughout its life.

Yet it wasn't able turn a profit?
I thought I would use mine docked more than I do, but the hardware shows its weaknesses when you try to drive too many more pixels than the built-in display.
Not in eu
Their on-screen chemistry is super odd -- particularly considering they are married and cofounders. It's giving low-rent Apple.
i don’t understand why you want a portable beat saber setup that requires hauling around an entire VR setup + a steam deck + all of the peripherals that requires? imo you might as well buy a little laptop with a proper video card if you’re going that route. the deck’s video capabilities aren’t intended to drive VR or run windows, you’ll almost certainly have issues of a million varieties.
Careful with that or it might just eat up your battery trying to contact cellular towers at maximum power with a short retry interval.
That is a good point, but unless people work for free, someone is selling and someone is buying. While you might not have explicitly bought anything, your agent (whether it be family or the government) did buy something.

More broadly, anytime you are dealing with limited resources (including time), you have to be buying and selling (i.e. there are opportunity costs to making a decision).

> We don't talk about the parking ticket market

You cannot buy a parking ticket, so this is not comparable. However, people do often calculate the cost of legally parking versus the probability * cost of potential fines.

>or the taxation market (just move to a different country if you aren't satisfied with your taxation provider!)

This happens all the time, but everyone may not have the means to do it. It was one of the factors for my relocation within the US.

Even businesses use it to determine where to expand or close operations. Warren Buffett mentioned it in his annual letter some years ago.
Does anyone remember the Cicret bracelet scam? This seems an exact copy of that, except now on your shirt.
There's something deeply wrong when a gastroenterologist who hasn't seen a patient in person for decades can deny a neurosurgical procedure.

Maybe you make it like jury duty; if you're a practicing doc, you periodically get randomly assigned some appeals in your speciality to review.

The current system already has a massive quid-pro-quo; if you aren't willing to spend 1.2 seconds to deny tens of thousands of claims a month (not an exaggeration! https://www.propublica.org/article/cigna-pxdx-medical-health...), they'll find someone else. The docs and companies doing these "independent" reviews are completely captured by the industry already.
Hey, cool. I run a parallel / tangentially related little Ed tech business at www.reportcardcomments.com.
Yeah the rental/subscription model is what turned me away from CLion. It was cool while it was still in free-trial mode and I'd have happily paid for it as an app that doesn't require a subscription.
I've noticed the latest iOS speech recognition model works with whispered speech pretty well. Not a perfect fix, but it's something.
Except, as pointed out, a lot of the tech was literally developed at Google. It’s like Xerox Labs all over again.
> I don't understand how anybody, on any party or political spectrum, can say "Yup... this is a reasonable system that helps people and needs no change".

The commonality between this and (including, but not limited to) homelessness is that the tragedy is laundered into political ammunition used against their opponents in the next election. I dislike the trite expression "Don't let a good tragedy go to waste", but I'll say it to preempt the reply. But it's true: if you can't use human suffering (denied medical coverage | no place to live) to attack your party's enemy, you are less powerful as a candidate.

The other factor is lobbying. These companies (just like in many other industries) have US congress bought and paid for. The suffering aspect keeps people distracted and divided, so we never really hear about campaigns to end lobbying (because it would apply to both major political parties). Instead we joke about it and roll our eyes at how ridiculous it is (but still told to "get out and VOTE!" as if that somehow matters). My opinion is that it should go beyond financial contributions. Industry and trade groups should not have access to congress at all, it should be citizens only.
So does the Steam Deck not support VRR for the onboard display? I see articles saying support was added for external displays, but it’s not clear whether the onboard one has it. If it does, then it seems like it shouldn't be a problem for a frame to be slightly late.

Edit: I read some other comments that explain the situation. It sounds like there is no VRR for the internal display unfortunately.
(Nango co-founder here) We help teams who don't have the resources or expertise to build & maintain integrations. Sometimes, they need to build a lot, complex or scalable ones, or they want to invest their energy elsewhere.

Building integrations comes with specific challenges (security, ETL, etc.), which are usually not the core competency of SaaS teams.

We often see that problems related to building integrations are underestimated and can spiral in terms of engineering costs. Authorization in itself is complex, data synchronization even more so!
Oh, so they did. I guess I got bored after reading so many bad approaches trying to write go/rust in python.
I was wondering where they sourced the OLED from.

Makes sense. The highest volume OLED with the right size is... the Switch's!

>Basically Valve doesn't do large enough volume to make proper custom display economical so they have to take whatever they can get.

Yeah exactly. I see a lot of online complaints (mostly outside HN) about no new APU or no custom display, but the capital costs of doing either from scratch are just hilariously high.
I think they're talking about copper electrical wiring not semiconductor use. If we couldn't use simple copper to bootstrap our energy intensive aluminum industry in the 1800s we might be using rhodium.
It's more like: you're building a traditional motorbike, some guy comes around and offers you an electric bike's engine, you think "oh well I didn't have the combustion engine yet, so at least I can get to demo/market faster with this and I'll replace it with a real engine when the time comes"...

and by the time you're done with the handlebar, the electric bike engine has been upgraded 4 times and is now better than any combustion engine, so why bother replacing it?

By the time you get to the market, the bike's engine has gone through multiple more updates, is fully self-driving and can fly. It is also self-replicating and now your buyers might not need you anymore...
It means my infotainment system is a dumb screen, so no opportunity for irresponsible development practices to leave an unsecured text message database lying around.

I'm not going to go as far as to say it can't be exploited, but that is a significantly smaller risk surface.
Does it know where your hand is? or do you have to put your hand in a certain spot?
Apple will simply own this market as well, if it even becomes a market at all.
They are by far the best positioned company and everyone already is locked in to the hardware.

As soon as Siri becomes good by leveraging llm, Apple is bound to dominate here. You don't even need another device to get half of what this does. Next gen airpods/ apple watches provide similar use cases.
Ah yes, the TVCs. Nothing said "We're evil" more than the subclass of contractors. It is almost a trope in Sci-Fi literature that our characters in this Utopia world discover there are people who are essential to the utopia and yet aren't "part" of the utopia.

Of course in the stories our heroes rally the rest of the Utopians to the plight of this 'untouchable' class, the evil overlords are over thrown, and a more equal society for all is established. But that's why they call it fiction right?

Given that this article is written by a team that was acquired 8 years after I left, and yet experienced the same systemic problems that I explained in my exit interview would eventually kill Google as a company, I feel sad.
> general public has started to see those bigTech more as a dystopian place than a source of pride

It really has not. Unless you consider commenters on HN and r/technology the general public.
FC naming was added as a brand management technique.

When you watch soccer, you expect Tier 1 soccer aesthetics and branding - especially as an owner trying to recoup your investment.

It was Abu Dhabi that started the FC/SC naming conventions in MLS after they were the first international investor in MLS with NYCFC.

After that, the door was opened for plenty of investors who didn't see an RoI or have to ability to invest in Tier 1 European Soccer.