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> that's why they go for cloud services.

We also have this.

> just that Open Source was not designed with your employer use case in mind

Yep. Free software was designed with user rights in mind. Open source was then designed to sell the idea of free software to companies, removing the "user rights" parts, which sounded frightening to businesses, focusing on the development model, targeting developers and not users. Free software is defined with the famous 4 rules, open source is based on the open source manifesto, basically a copy of the Debian Free Software Guideline (from the Debian project, which, coincidentally, was closer to the Free Software Spirit at the time, probably still is). They are both about the same set of software and licenses, for the most part.

There's nothing in those texts / philosophies about doing business, for or against (only that free software was explicitly designed to allow selling software, because why not - and at the time, to distribute software, you probably had to copy it to floppy disks and give them, so you had some copy cost to absorb). It's indeed up to businesses to figure out the business model around FLOSS.

But that's true of many things, isn't it?
I've been considering purchasing Msft Office non-cloud - and wonder if there is a way to install it in a sandbox kind of way?

I'd like to be able to open it and use it if needed, I'd be fine launching a new profile and not having it populate the right click menus and such - but the tiny bit that I would use it is not worth the updates and chasing the security and bugs tails.. maybe I just need a completely separate laptop to install it on and keep it separated?

If I pay for the license can I install on shadowpc in the cloud and not have to worry about 'too many activations' or whatever if I destroy that cloud and spinup another instance next month or get a new laptop.

random thoughts maybe someone else has already found answers to?
This discussion [1] seems to point to similar usage by British sources in the 1600s and 1700s.

1. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/515089/saying-in...
Is there a conceptual difference between the categorical database and hypergraph database?
> What can the UI do? Not show any estimate when the numbers would be nonsensical?

Yes, exactly that. Also, log a warning and, if possible, add the warning to outgoing telemetry.

Sure, in theory such a situation should never happen because everything was already caught in tests. In theory, our software should also be 100% bug-free. However, because that's not how the world works, it's polite to the user (and makes a better impression) to detect such output and correct for it.

You have the same situation with websites showing NaN in the UI: The website didn't catch it, because the variable is never supposed to be NaN - yet, for some reason it was here and the result was causing frustration for the user.
Thanks for your interest! It was definitely rewarding though I’m sure I can optimize a few things still.

The code is public:
https://github.com/iantbutler01/dart
the average cost of natural gas in the U.S. is a little over $100 per month: https://www.inspirecleanenergy.com/blog/sustainable-living/a...
Have you tried quarto markdown? It’s similar to rmarkdown but language agnostic and allows me to think in code in a way that can easily be added to notebooks. To work with them in notebook fashion I can work through one file a day and save the rendered pages in a folder.
>It has also become a place where all of Waymo’s extensive testing has produced just three data points against this view.

This is where you are bypassing the point about how much faith we can put in the data, because we don't have the full results of their extensive testing. We only have the results they are willing to share.

As an analogy, I have a relative who loves to talk about all the times he's won money gambling on the craps table. I almost never hear any information about his losses, unless they are couched to say how much more money he's won later. So would you say I can conclude he's an expert gambler who should quit his job to play craps full time, or do you think there might be some human bias in reporting going on that I should be skeptical about?
The desktop software has to keep up with the shifting sands of modern operating systems. But I don’t understand why the 3D printer itself needs software maintenance. It is just executing something like GCode right? How much does that really change?

> All software requires maintenance

Is this a law of nature or our youthful incompetence?
It's the digital equivalent of putting the cans of nacho cheese dip on a little rack in front of the shelves of tortilla chips.
I looked at a bunch of the ideas, they were all pretty good!
Presumably the patent litigator also knows all of those facts and may have been holding out for too much money (in Apple’s calculus) and the long-run game is better for Apple if they take some short-term pain now in exchange for being known as a difficult target.

Apple will be fine without watch sales for a long time if needed.
The use of ``this Self&& self`` in the ``at()`` method can appear to be an overkill. But this approach actually covers many scenarios and make the code much smaller. For details, you can read:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/cpp23-deducing-this/
> (I just wish I understood what in meant in "Effective Programs" by "typos are not important". They are, aren't they ? A typo is a runtime error begging to occur during the demo, how is that "not important" ? Never mind.)

They are going to create an error that you can see and fix immediately, in the vast majority of cases. Certainly in compiled languages (like clojure), but less so in interpreted languages like python, where a misspelled variable in a hidden part of the code may not cause an exception until that part of the code is run.

At least, that's my understanding of what he means by typos being less important than other types of mistakes.

By the way, when I saw his comment originally I was surprised too. But when comparing to the other kind of mistakes he talks about I realized that, yes, I'd rather have a typo than any of the other problems! Though of course, I'd prefer to have none :)
Spotify Wrapped: psychology principles that make it go viral every year
> Though it's still pretty hard to beat using pipes and cut to ingest a line-oriented stream of text.

Well, a) that's fine for interactive use but awful for unattended use because it's so likely to go wrong, and b) it is actually pretty easy to beat that - JSON and jq is much easier, nicer and more reliable. Or Nushell/Powershell structured pipes. Or an autogenerated properly typed Python interface. Take a look at /proc/self/status before you tell me you'd rather use some awk/cut monstrosity than `jq .ppid`.

> If Fuchsia had beaten out UNIX in some parallel universe, it does look like we'd all be happier.

I'd definitely be happier - I wouldn't spend so much time debugging why Linux stuff breaks!
This is only the Masimo side of the story. Apple hasn't made a statement that I'm aware of.

I doubt Masimo has patents on the only possible ways to measure Blood oxygen.
iostreams were a mistake, is the shortest way to sum it up.
Not with the same oxen, not with the same wheat.

We’ve only been domesticating animals and plants for maybe 25,000 years, and that’s if you assume Gobleki Tepe means we have missed the actual cradle of civilization this whole time.

There are certainly going to be times when transportation improvements accelerate this process, from ships to Roman roads to steam power, but every generation will be different, and most of our livestock have fairly short childhoods. For a single human to witness twenty generations of goat or pig is not unreasonable. Or fifty generations of grains. Add in all of their neighbors, and the odds of seeing something special in their lifetime jump considerably. You would probably see several.
In the early days of the Internet, domains were free. They also took weeks to register.
Just because somebody disagrees doesn't automatically make them bigots or ignorant. I think the more likely reason is a "this isn't HN material" assessment by readers. (I didn't flag)
Considering your profile and comment history, the term is not unfamiliar, is it?
Ah, my bad. Unfortunately I can no longer edit the comment...
I went to a great Indian restaurant in Utah that did this relentlessly, each server giving their names and saying how much it would please their father if we would post a positive review on Google reviews and mention their name.

It then occurred to me why I always see so many reviews where the servers are mentioned by name.
Have you considered it is not the only house she takes care of?
Here [1] is the CEO of Masimo (a public company, making medical devices for decades)

It seems that Apple deceived Masimo that they are interested in collaborating, and then proceeded to poach Masimo's technical people to basically steal their technology.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR1o8EoW-Eg
There's no way now, for a quick one, I'd suggest to just take a screenshot
HTC practically ceased to exist as a consumer facing company in the West due to this. I don't know of any hardware they've produced recently outside of their partnership with Valve on VR, and they're not the face of that relationship.
37C3 Unlocked (37th Chaos Communication Congress)
A memory map of a gigabyte/whatever, that uses a bunch of large addresses but typically only uses 1% of the available space. Saves someone the trouble of managing the map or compressing it.

It does feel like a weird decision from long time ago that we're stuck with. I thought it was some quirky Linux feature but it's been around
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_file
That's quite the broad brush you're using to paint the Left as accelerationists who favor Trump over Biden.
PTO is just not getting paid all the time so you can get paid for not working some of the time. You’d be better off banking the money instead of one’s employer, just like tax withholding.
That's a whole lot of words that don't amount to a good excuse for NPR's deliberately shoddy journalism.
I have maybe a few hundred prints on Bambu Labs printers, and I've had fewer than 20 failures, pretty much all from bad design choices on my part. They have been quick, reliable workhorses that just spit out the parts I need.

I did have an issue with one of them having a warped bed, which caused bad adhesion on several prints, but I contacted support, they walked me through some debugging, then just sent me a new one. It seems that early on they had a manufacturer that was putting out warped beds that weren't caught in QC, but they've dropped the manufacturer. Maybe you got one of these warped beds as well? You can diagnose that with a straightedge, a ruler, and a flashlight.
Do the $15 pulse oximiters that can be found on Amazon also infringe on these patents?
Somewhat related is that a few filesystem types on Linux allows you to remove / insert bytes "within" a file. But it needs alignment to filesystem block size. This uses the same syscall, fallocate(2), which can be used to punch new sparse holes in a file where it previously had data.

See https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/fallocate.2.html
Yes; categories extend traditional graphs with systems of equations. Hypergraphs extend traditional graphs by allowing edges to be between multiple nodes. Most operations on categories are formally undecidable because of the systems of equations; most operations on graphs/hypergraphs are decidable. This makes working with categorical databases a lot like doing computer algebra in e.g. Mathematica and provides a huge increase in expressive power (you can e.g. encode Turing machines with equations.)
Heh, Gilad Bracha says exactly that in favour if objects here.

Each to their own. There's room for everyone.

https://gbracha.blogspot.com/2022/06/the-prospect-of-executi...
> "holy" (originally) means 'set aside' or 'apart from'.

It still does, to anyone religious.
> which donates 2/3rds profits to charities

Assuming you mean this:

"66% of Tata Sons’ equity is held by the Tata Trusts and dividends flow directly to support the philanthropic work of the Trusts."

"66% equity dividends" is a world away from "2/3rds profits" and "Tata Trusts" is a long way from "charities". I mean, it's better than most companies but it's almost certainly a tax optimisation and/or money hiding operation.
Evidently pigeons can count to 9. When I asked ChatGPT-4 to identify the irrational statements in this comment, it said there were 9, and I'm pretty sure pigeons can't tell if something is irrational or not.
Making the Teletype Christmas Song [video]
A perspective from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean: a company I used to work for moved from n days paid leave, freely distributable, to n - m days freely distributable plus m days fixed in that Christmas/NYE week with its horrible weather, thankyouverymuch.
That is a legal question that depends on how much revenue is generated by said companies.
implementing a toy datalog should take no more than a week.
That's gonna be tough to emulate because the ECU is gonna be running a hard-realtime OS such as VxWorks or QNX so things will indeed need to be cycle-accurate.
> USITC and exclusion orders are rendered void if everything was made domestically
You can limit patent holders options by bringing supply chain here

Correct. Companies want to offshore their stuff then want protection from the US gov paid for via us citizens.
Sounds great! I could probably use it myself, I'm still learning the basics.
pwn.college
I'm responsible for ~6 hours per day out of that schedule. I pay above market for those hours, but she chooses/needs to work this many hours for her own reasons.

I'd never think someone could be happy or productive spending most of their waking hours working, but here we are. I'm sure she's at least a 1.5x maid compared to your average worker, too.
This is funny. It's a slight dig at those folks (of which I'm sure the author is one, or the self-effacing sort) who want every one of Bob's incoherent ramblings to be 'deep'.

"Because I grew up in a world where nothing that Mr. Dylan ever did was too insignificant not to be worthy of serious intellectual scrutiny, I immediately understood that this was no ordinary, haphazardly arranged, string of colored lights. It had to contain a deeper meaning."

A lot of Bob's work is the intellectual equivalent of a paltry string of Christmas lights. Your outlook with figure if that's an insult or a compliment.
Years ago, I cobbled up a simple search engine for some FOSS web forum software, mainly for people who were running private instances behind login walls -- i.e., stuff that public search engines couldn't crawl.

Someone complained that for public instances, Google worked better (this was back before Google started to suck).

My response was that if I could write a better search engine than Google in my spare time, I'd be living a lifestyle considerably more luxurious than the one I actually had. :-)
I'm not aware of anyone who is familiar with the situation who think that a 1 state solution is viable. If you can point to any essays or blog posts where someone lays out, how you get the Israelis to agree with it and how you keep the 1 state from devolving into a brutal civil war I'd love to read it.

The 1 state solution turns a Palestinian self determination and Israeli security issues into an existential issue for both sides. This raises the stakes considerably. I can't see it ending in anything but 100's of thousands of dead and a complete meltdown of the middle east.
No, population growth slowing down has nothing to do with a collective agreement on their being too many people.

It's simply that people in developed countries don't want to deal with the trouble of raising more than 1 or 2 kids because raising kids is difficult and expensive. You need 2 kids to replace the 2 adults, but then you add in other mortality factors and it drops below replacement.

Most of those people aren't agreeing that there are too many people, hell in cases like Japan, even their governments want them to have more children, they're just focusing on what strikes a balance for their comfort.
No, inflation has not gone down.

It has. Inflation is the derivative of prices. Prices are increasing but less rapidly than before, which means that inflation has decreased.
ttc fees increased since lightning became a thing.

It gains speed by compromising security. Lightning enables whole new classes of attacks. You also need to have a server or something constantly online, or trust someone to do it for you. Trust, for a supposedly trustless system.
As a current researcher in the field I am perpetually annoyed by the overeagerness of AI research to make fantastical claims. Reading and extracting information from papers is a minefield, and we've learned to always at least A/B test the conclusions of any technique that is supposedly proven to be useful. Even foundational papers about basic concepts in LLMs, for example, can sometimes boil down to "this worked well on our cherrypicked tests"
Thank you for this clarification and perspective. I have edited my above-comment.

>I mean, it's better than most companies but it's almost certainly a tax optimisation and/or money hiding operation.

Extremely part-time, but I assist a wealth manager's charitable allocations FOR EXACTLY THIS REASON. Not a dollar more gets donated than is deducted.
This was back when steve jobs was suing anyone making rounded corner phones right? The apple watch patent seems like an actual thing.
C++:

Do I contradict myself?

Very well then I contradict myself,

(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
Is poaching talent illegal? I thought tech employees have successfully sued big tech companies for anti-poaching policies many years ago?

Could they have spoken to Masimo, determined that their asking price for the technology is unreasonable, the patents are not very defensible, Apple could develop it internally for much cheaper, and finally decide to also pay Masimo's employees more to increase development speed?
My favorite books about new ways to think about the world
Thank you, I appreciate it! I spent quite some time selecting and organizing them
Don’t use the term “poaching” to refer to workers deciding to work somewhere else. Workers aren’t owned by their employers, like the king’s deer.

https://medium.com/42hire-don-t-panic-just-hire/stop-calling...
Benefits and Risks of Threads Federation
I can speak to Third Room, although haven’t dug enough into the current incarnation of Croquet to do a side by side comparison. I’ve called out the bits which I’d guess are more unique about TR.

TR is/was:

* Open decentralised platform for spatial 3D collaboration, end-to-end encrypted by default thanks to being built on top of Matrix

* Web native built on WebGL/WebXR; no proprietary Unity or similar. glTF native for content.

* Apps written in WASM (compiled down from C, JS, and in theory Rust or Zig), using WebSG (our proposed web standard API for manipulating glTF content)

* Triple-buffered engine that can get 120fps on typical hw, including full immersive VR and XR on Quest Pro

* Direct manipulation in-world editing and inspector (“web style”), exposing the same model used by WASM apps.

* Networking is full mesh (so limited to 20-30 players per room), but these days could scale much higher by using the Element Call SFU (or by tiling the world)

Unfortunately, despite the Creator Update kicking ass in June (https://matrix.org/blog/2023/06/07/introducing-third-room-tp...) we failed to lock down long-term funding for Third Room and the team disbanded in July. The code and servers prevail though, and hopefully some day it may live again.

The original Croquet was a major inspiration for TR, and it’s cool to see the name live on. Hope they have more success than we did with TR.
You mean you prefer to aks for your breaks, your boss determines your breaks, unless they are mandatory.
Is anybody using bcachefs yet?
A headlees browser like e.g. puppeteer would do the job. I use it a lot for exatly that purpous...
In one of Bjarne Stroustrup's books he recommends focusing on software engineering rather than learning every language feature, or something to that effect. I think it's good advice. (And it's a good coping thought, but no less true.)

An actual engineer or carpenter doesn't master every conceivable tool before beginning their work, they can't, there's too many.

Say what you will about C++ programmers, but at least they are free from the burden of trying to use a perfect language and can focus on more important things.
The CPI number you cite is for the year (November to November), the retail growth rate of 3.1% is for Nov. 1 to Dec. 24 only. Additionaly, that 3.1% number represents only retail growth, other (more booming) sectors grew by much larger percentages. For example, restaurants grew by 7.8%.

I see how those two numbers both being equal to 3.1% could be confusing at first, but they're not measuring the same thing at all.
You evaluated a single trace (from twenty years ago) and claimed that S3-FIFO is worse; why not show more traces? Most of the traces we used are open-source and can be found here.

https://github.com/Thesys-lab/sosp23-s3fifo?tab=readme-ov-fi...

Disclaimer: This is the author of S3-FIFO.
I want to become a user - but I have not been able to set up a sync between my Android phone and Onedrive or Google drive for the Obsidian vault file.
> you're just choosing between a square kilometer of office space for cheap labor or GPUs.

No, with LLMs you're getting both, because a. LLMs need the human-curated data to ingest and b. after training the model is going to get RLHF.

Also, a square kilometer of office space still uses much less electricity than a square kilometer of GPUs.
That’s isolated to the App Store and News app, exactly where you would expect it.
Incorrect.

They chose to do it in summer. Because they found more than they had anticipated, it took longer.

You're welcome.
Poaching to re-implement patented technology, is.
You could probably modify Linux to fix those problems, but most users won't know how to do that and want something that just works.
The first suggestion that appeared for me was “Trying CBD”. Is that really a “unique activity idea for the holiday break”?
The rate of inflation is still about 50% higher than their stated objective. They want to pause to review like you mentioned in an attempt to nail the soft landing, but there is legitimate concern that inflation will remain too high and the Fed is going to break things in their search for 2%.
Amazing that North Korea secured so much in stolen funds. I do wonder how they and others convert to useful fiat or goods though. Exchanges seem to be under a microscope, at least in the US and EU.
There's definitely something else there because it's been shown to improve things for people at extreme latitudes during their respective winters. But supplements are probably not necessary for most people in regions where you can get at least some access to sunlight every few days.

So while there is a decent bit of established evidence from more extreme environments that Vitamin D is important, there's only now really been enough research covering whether a supplement is necessary for people who can source it through "normal" pathways.