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Why I don't buy MacBook for personal use anymore:

- in 2019 spent more than €3K to buy the best macbook 15' available (> 2 months of average salary in my Europe country)

- 2 weeks before the warranty (1y) the spacebar broke, the SPACEBAR!!!. It was a design issue and it got replaced in a few days by the local service under warranty.

- 1 year later, the battery starts dying out. Go to the authorized repairer and it was going to cost me ~€750 to replace the battery since I had to replace the entire keyboard and trackpad to do that.

- I found a PC repair shop that said he can do it for a couple hundred €, and it worked fine

- 3 months later the laptop shut down unexpectedly. The apple refused to fix it (even paying) because I used a battery not official. The Mac is now a brick

So 2.5y of personal use (not professional) cost me €3.5K. More expensive than a cheap car.

edit: the battery replacement with all top case cost me ~€750. Confirmed looking back at the emails
> The vast majority of people

You said "anyone". GP gave examples.
It undermines any argument that the technology was so obvious it didn't deserve a patent when you are going to the company that owns the patent to poach the staff to implement your own. If it is that obvious, why aren't you just hiring engineers off the open market?
I wonder if this code could be even further speed up, by taking into account the througput versus the latency of the FMA operator. If the latency is 4 cycles and the througput is 0.5 cycle for example, that means that doing n dependent operation will cost 4n cycles, and n independent operations will cost 0.5 cycles, that is an 8x speed up. By dependent operation, I mean that the input of an operation depends on the output the previous operation.

In the current final code, each loop has 3 independent FMAs. And in each loop iteration, the 3 FMAs are dependent on the FMAs from the previous iteration.

So one thing that could speed up the computation is to do 6 independent FMAs per loop iteration instead of 3. This can be done as follow. Instead of doing cumulative sums from 0 to n-1, one could split the computation of the cumulative sums from 0 to n/2-1 and from n/2 to n-1. So the main loop goes only from 0 to n/2-1, and at the k-th loop iteration, we do the 2x3 FMAs corresponding the entries of indices k and n/2+k. And at the end we add the cumulative sums.
Ok no one literally cares what you think. Apple is solving a problem and you’re just an annoying nerd.
The laptop could come with a USB-C "master key" on the box, tied to that specific laptop. Keep that key at home, and all the anti-theft benefits continue to apply, while keeping the owner in control of their hardware.
I assume this is needed to be able to handle triggering the doorbell chime in series without disrupting other communication or resetting the doorbell.
> it’s already doing well

> search

many people disagree..
Copyright only protects "unnecessary", i.e. creative work. If there's only one way to do something (eg. maths), it can't be protected by copyright. If copyright is an obstacle to somebody creating something, they always have the freedom to create something different and just as good instead.
Can you provide some context about why this is relevant to the article, which posits that Google is uniquely positioned to win the AI space and hence the future of computing?

The potential payoff, though, is astronomical: a world with Pixie everywhere means a world where Google makes real money from selling hardware, in addition to services for enterprises and schools, and cloud services that leverage Google’s infrastructure to provide the same capabilities to businesses. Moreover, it’s a world where Google is truly integrated: the company already makes the chips, in both its phones and its data centers, it makes the models, and it does it all with the largest collection of data in the world.
I don't think you have thought this through. Organized crime gets phones from thieves that go around in (for instance) concerts and pick pocket and then sell the phones which then get sent to a location where they are reset/parted out and resold. Would they be willing to pay money to the thieves just to sit on a hoard of phones for 3 years and then sell them at suitably discounted prices? I'd wager that is doubtful.

Non-organized crime is generally opportunistic. Would the opportunistic criminal know of this reset date, and if they did would they be willing to wait 3 years to fence the phone? I'd wager that is doubtful.
I'll let someone else jump in here, but do remember that Japan was one of the first places where you could use your phone to pay for just about everything.
I mean, if you set your permissions very carefully, you could use database accounts as user accounts...
LibreTube also incorporates sponsorblock.
I thought this saga ended already?
LoTR itself drew heavily on existing culture, to the point that some at least hinted that Tolkien had plagiarised. Good cultural works don't happen in a vacuum, they build on what came before.
Unfortunately (?) the only free state in Australia has been sold, and is now just farming land again.
>It's only the part in parenthesis that disturbs people. If I told you that you can now search your drop box via open AI's integration, you wouldn't really care.

I wouldn't be into this at all. Dropbox serves as one form of backing up my files and a shared environment for multiple computers. I don't want it to do anything proactive beyond that.
What’s IA stand for? This sounds like an interesting article, I wanna try to find it
In this context (international sales of heavy machinery), I'd argue "quantative" is a mistake even if it were "legitimate but rare".

That said, I think there's still a strong case it's an ancient-mistake in general. Not only is it missing from some spell-checkers, but it appears so extraordinarily rarely [0] compared to "quantitative" that it's hard to see it as a synonym rather than a typo.

[0] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=quantitative%2...
Experiences are expensive. Things are cheap(er).

A medium-quality dinner for two in an expensive city costs 100$. A beautiful kitchen knife costs about that much, but lasts 20 years.

A Broadway musical for a family of 4 costs about 800$. A good mattress costs about that much, but lasts for 20 years.

The given wisdom seems to be that we should value experiences more than things. Good things also cause small dose of repeated joyful experiences.

I am 50 years old, and live a reasonably opulent, upper-middle class, big city life. I am guessing here - all the items in my apartment put together, is probably worth 6 months of my work. A bargain, compared to the joy they give me.
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Or they could sell a service to manage the device keys. The could even bundle it for free. They might even give it a terrible, anti-descriptive name like “find my”
unless i'm misunderstanding `whisper.cpp` seems to support streaming & the repository includes a native example[0] and a WASM example[1] with a demo site[2].

[0]: https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/tree/master/example...

[1]: https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/blob/master/example...

[2]: https://whisper.ggerganov.com/stream/
That describes the "inverted pyramid" model where a lot of the YouTube channels especially reside. Instead of a replaceable CEO at the top of the company, you have a foundational CEO at the bottom, who holds up the rest of the company above.
Congrats and thank you for this. If you’d asked me when I was a young h4x0r just starting out, what sorts of links I should find on a site called Hacker News, I’d have said something like this one. Looking to get lost in these issues during the holidays. You made my day!
Because Google has burned it’s good will by cancelling so many projects.

Yet another new Google project is simply met with “ok, but when will it be canceled”.
If one has a serious health condition that affects blood oxygen levels, pulse oximetry can be useful. For the average healthy person, the medical value is very little to nil.

Uses of pulse oximetry: https://www.healthline.com/health/pulse-oximetry#purpose-and...

Most of the above conditions listed above occur in very sick people already under close medical supervision, with the exception of asthma. But even in asthma, pulse oximetry has limitations: https://asthma.net/living/lets-talk-pulse-oximetry

I think it’s cool the Apple Watch has this, but it’s mostly a gimmick as far as I can tell.
Can you articulate what a spec for a programming language entails in your mind. I am sure it is a niche opinion/position, but I base any discussions of formal specification of a language on ‘The Definition of ML’. With that as a starting point I don’t see how the implementation process of a compiler would do anything that could force a change to the spec. Once the formal syntax is defined, the static and dynamic semantics of the language laid out and those semantics proved approximately consistent and possessing ‘type safety’ (for some established meaning of the words). Any divergence or disagreement is a failing of the implementation. I’m genuinely interested in what you expect a specification of Rust to be if, as your comment suggests, you have a different point of view?
The rich stay rich, and control our culture. Tolkien has long since left this and Middle Earth.
“All hell broke loose” is some fine hyperbole. Someone found that the bot was just a ChatGPT frontend, due to the prominent “Powered by ChatGPT” label right on top of the chat window, and got it to write some python script. Other people went and got the bot to talk about some stuff, and engaged in some not-very-interesting chatting. The End. Nothing broke, nothing was lost, nothing happened.

Saved you a click.
My little programming project has been all about the data model, and a ton of fun.

But I don't enjoy UX work at all.

So if I can get it to a "mud fence" level of usability, I'll need people with a shred of aesthetic sensibility, since I'm done around vi with the UI.
I’m entertained that Apple has an informal customer support service built under Tim’s email. He doesn’t actually personally read these does he? I’ve heard of a few other examples where this worked, including for other companies. How does this work internally?
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Clicking through to the lending tree report, Tesla drivers have below average DUI rates: 1.02 per 1000 drivers ranking them 19/30, with BMW the worst at 3.13, and Mitsubishi the best at 0.89. I wonder how much of this is due to Tesla drivers drinking and driving less, and how much is due to Auto Pilot making them less likely to be caught unless they crash.
Wanted for Wirecard's Missing $2B, He's Now Suspected of Being a Russian Spy
In my case (below) ACCC said they dont engage for individuals, its an industry level org.
Quote: "The ACCC is not a complaints handling body, so we are unable to help you resolve your dispute"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38691458
It's wonderful (for Apple's bottom line) that you believe these things. I assume you can show source code and provide access to production systems to verify?
> How is it that society is preferentially allocating resources to creating lawyers rather than engineers or researchers?

money.
that's not the problem. The problem is that your back-end always has things to do OTHER than crud to DB. What about working with users' token? in-memory caching? calling other services? sending emails? And don't tell me that you have postgres plugins and other roundabout ways to solve it, that's just more insanity.
(I don't know LinkTree.) It Seemless an Instagram clone?
Also a friendly reminder to close accounts for people who have left your company.
A Scheme that runs on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM).
Monopoly rings hollow when it comes to a community open source project.

Monopolies are bad when they stifle progress, but rust's written under a free software license. At any point, anyone can take the project and fork it into a new one, can carry on the progress under a new flag.

Unlike traditional monopolies, the rust project's priorities aren't extracting profits or holding power, but rather in improving the language, and they're open to anyone (well, anyone who's tolerant of others) joining and helping.

The argument here is that we will end up with a better outcome if we work together as a community, rather than if we fragment just for some perceived ideal of multiple implementations.

While you're criticizing the rust monopoly, you might as well go and also yell at the group of friends voluntarily picking up trash off the sidewalk for free since they're working together as one monopoly of friends instead of creating two competing cleaning groups.
It needs to be at least many hundred million disagree to matter.
It's free to use while in alpha, and we're working on beta pricing.
> When you lend money from a bank, you will not spend it on fancy restaurant visits.

Given the amount of people with insurmountable credit card debt and nothing to show for it except Instagram pictures, I'd say you're not entirely correct.
> Also anecdotally given the acceleration, a few of my friends that drive teslas sometimes seem to ignore yellow lights.

Can you uh, ask them to stop doing that?
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> ensures that bus service is only used by people who don't have any better option.

This is more or less my impression of Greyhound already.
Keeping up with 1000 slack notifications per day.
For most people, this is a "You didn't know the consequences, so you never did it" kind of situation. I partially blame the process. The OOBE workflow gives you the option to not enable Find my Mac, so some percentage of users refuse. Not all Mac owners are fluent in Apple's walled garden.

But to counter my last point, owning a mac requires a mild investment in learning, and a lot of buy-in for their ecosystem, including linking and locking it with an online account. Apple Store. Apple Music. Activation Lock / iCloud everything. Not all users are fully aware of that though, and OP's scenario is one of those journeys.

But now that you know, this scenario is analogous to keeping a spare key outside your car. Someone can take it and install a new lock cylinder.

If your laptop changes hands and someone wiped it and put an activation lock of their own on it. This is working as intended. There's no functional difference between selling it to that person because anyone can wipe a machine and put a new lock on it.

The alternative includes setting up an activation lock of your own, or putting MDM on it.

This is a feature of Apple's walled garden. You either go all-in, or you go against the grain and lose the benefits and get blindsided by an unforeseen experience.

Personal thoughts: I manage Macs for a living, but never will buy one of my own. Not just the walled garden complaints above, but a 5 year old Lenovo with similar specs is a better technical investment than a 5 year old Mac. The Mac will be slower with 5 years of OS updates, meanwhile the Lenovo you won't really notice a difference. It's also less than half the price.
Found it on hn just now
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When or Just Won't Do: Using Union for Higher SQL Performance
Slash Slow Queries by Rewriting OR to UNION
Study: Many of the "oldest" people in the world may not be as old as we think
So you just believe what others say without actually looking up sources? Got it.
Way too early IMO. Think about something like Google Fiber. It looked extremely promising, but the inability (or lack of desire) to expand it left it as mostly irrelevant. With Waymo they also have some major issues to work out as they're bleeding billions while charging as much, if not more, as human driven cars charge. It might end up getting worked out in the future and turned into something neat, or it might just eventually find itself on the ever-growing scrap-heap.
How Games Move Us
I guess I just don't understand why a desktop application intended to read e-books would need a remote server in the first place.

I've already got my e-book library on my local drive, and synced to my own storage server with NextCloud -- why do I need my desktop e-reader application to force me to use a separate, parallel server solution?

And even if I were to self-host, the UI does not seem to expose any way to point the frontend client at my own server instance.
I believe some ASUS laptops come with a built-in security key called the "keystone" that slots into the chassis. It's visually similar to those security devices built into treadmills that will stop the machine if it gets yanked out (by someone falling or etc). It could probably be used like a master key.
IIRC, the comparisons were because Ruby was supposed to be a fully object oriented 'perl-like' language. Even the name was a nod to its Perl based inspiration.
I have the same sense - but they can only get away with it because a) people have excess savings b) people are willing to spend those excess savings.

When consumers start reducing demand, or substituting other products things will change - I’ve already started changing my behaviour - but it takes a little while, you buy a $7 jar of mustard, $12 bag of granola, or a $30 hotel margarita - and you’re f** that never doing that again, but it feels like it takes a while for that to work its way through the system.
Nebula is probably the biggest and most mainstream, but like Floatplane it has a certain kind of niche it serves, and typically only existing fans of the channels that are available on it join, it doesn't have the same kind of audience that can sustain new content creators who don't already have an audience elsewhere.
Over discussion over mundane things .
>Why should they have to justify providing free software?

They don't, but they have to be honest about what they're presenting. There's this shitty motte-and-bailey situation in open source where their website ( https://librumreader.com/ ) looks like marketing for a serious application - but the moment you treat it like a serious application, people are like "it's free, why are you treating it like a serious application?".

Look:

>Simplicity

>Focus on what actually matters, using a simple and straight forward interface.

>Your time is too valuable to be wasted on complex applications.

What does the tone here convey? Is it "this is just a cool project I wrote"?
(while nail biting)...we are back?
Yes, especially since this paper was published following the Korean Validation Committee's statement on the 13th, which did not support LK-99. However, the Chinese team's experimental data is quite substantial, and the material they synthesized is also difficult to classify as LK99.
"YOU CAN NOT HAVE A MEANINGFUL CAMPAIGN IF STRICT TIME RECORDS ARE NOT KEPT." [Gygax, 1979]

(I missed a chance to use "thrice".)
It's a goldrush and no one wants to share their secrets.

Here's a good example from previous HN comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38482347
https://archive.is/G6IjB
Nonsense. Apple does nothing to prevent you from installing WhatsApp, Signal, FB Messenger, or any one of dozens of other messaging services which also don’t allow third-party interop with their protocols!

There’s nothing anticompetitive or even out of the ordinary going on here. You can install competitive services on an iPhone at any time.
Are they rich?

Regardless, something has gone wrong when a creator’s retirement aged grandchildren win lawsuits regarding rights to their grandparents creation.

Most of us should earn more from the long tail benefits from our work, but the copyright situation is just ridiculous.
Statute and common law are the basis for legal liability. The modern concept of regulation, as promulgated via various administrative agencies, is distinct from, and often displaces, the traditional function of law.
I don't set it up. Crime is not really an issue in my house.
Amtrak basically sells mostly coach bus trips rather than train trips anyway.
I meant what is your belief that it will be successful, or even workable, based on?
I dont know, but probably more.

The cells dont like running in the reverse direction so you either research bidirectional cells or double the capital costs making cells optimized for each direction. Also, over potentials are pretty high and the catalysts foul easily but for the cleanest of inputs.

Also, is RO the cheapest for DS? I thought modern distillation is back on top, especially if you have waste heat
Costco's hottest item isn't rotisserie chickens. It's $2k gold bars
Lambdas feel more like CGI scripts. Too bad they didn't just use the CGI standard instead of something proprietary.
It was only Season 1.
> "We see that the longer a female fly has been dead, the more alluring it becomes to males. This is because the number of fungal spores increases with time, which enhances the seductive fragrances," explains Henrik H. De Fine Licht

He’s a Licht! It says so right there!
> but if actually taxed the wealthy as much as we tax the middle class

The top 10% of earners paid 74% of all income taxes. The top 25% paid 89%.

85% of all fed tax revenue is either income tax, corporate income tax, or SS taxes (on income).
There's Wyoming, Where-oming, and Who-oming... Illinois and Illinoisn't.

My favorite is Tennetucky; The Buffer State. Long tradition of diplomats coming from there.
This is correct. If you're around the space long enough, you can see the hundreds (thousands) of tiny channels (per big channel that could conceivably grow into anything resembling a business) that are pulling in 50 views per video with 22 subscribers, languishing for 5+ years.

Unless you are extremely lucky or already have things set for you, building an audience is a very long-term grind, and typically a large percentage of those with some potential get burned out after 1, 2, or 5 years.

(None of this to say you shouldn't try, especially if you love the work... I enjoyed editing video since grade school when my Dad first bought an analog video capture card so I could dump a few minutes of VHS footage into a video editor and make dumb family videos.)
>since it rationalizes a push for remote attestation

No it doesn't. By this logic, Apple should have gone through with plans to implement CSAM scanning on iCloud. Except customers complained and they abandoned it. Then they debuted e2e encrypted iCloud storage 2 years later; completely antithetical to the school of thought used by CSAM scanning advocates.
The power of Elixir is not in the syntax, it’s the BEAM, OTP, and the fact that you can launch a million processes on a single node that all have their own soft realtime behavior with their own state. Supervision trees, processes that can crash and be restarted without taking the app down, first class messaging across nodes/networks/continents, rolling deploys without restarts… if you are a true systems engineer thinker there is no better runtime.
The Illustrated GPT-2: Visualizing Transformer Language Models (2019)
Computrace is just another rootkit that you might or might not want to install on your hardware. Intel AT has been discontinued since 2015, good riddance.
Only a handful of laptop vendors ever had the chutzpah to have the rootkit preinstalled on sale, and only Apple currently has the preinstalled rootkit in firmware.

>Are they at fault?

Yes, they are at fault of being customer-hostile.

>should not be something that someone else can bypass

That would make sense if the credential was on a piece of paper sold with the laptop, rather than in the vendor's database somewhere.

Still any laptop is fundamentally open to an evil maid attack, so anything past encrypting your hard drive is mostly crap.