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It's not the responsibility of the browser vendors. But they have an interest in un-breaking the experience for their users. In a sense, Google is too big to fail, so users want it to work any way possible.

It happens all the time, you probably just don't realize it. There is special code in Windows for supporting/un-breaking popular applications, same with Android and iOS.
It's supposed to be down to the board to decide what it means [0], and the CEO is supposed to follow the board's interpretation. In the event that a CEO fails to keep the mission in mind or has a major disagreement with the board about what the mission is, we should expect the board to remove that CEO and replace them with another.

The board is the teeth to the mission. What happened here wasn't that the mission was vague, it was that the board turned out to be a paper tiger.

[0] https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/running-nonprofit/govern...
I don't buy their claim, but the logic (I think) goes: in order to create an AGI that's good enough to benefit all humanity, they need huge amounts of money, and therefore acting like a greedy for-profit to get that money is justified because of all the good they'll do once they reach AGI. Or something like that.
Wow, Nebula on HN. As the original author of the Nebula engines it's absolutely astonishing and heartwarming to me that the University of Luleå has picked up the (open source) pieces and developed it into something so much better and more feature complete than the "inhouse Nebula" ever was :)

I still remember when I was visiting Skellefteå around March (? it was still deep winter up there though) 2010 to meet the students doing some pretty damn impressive game projects with Nebula even back then and on that same day I got the call from Berlin that our company (Radonlabs) had finally to file for bankruptcy.

Massive props to Johannes (who moved on AFAIK) and Gustav (who just added D3D12^H^H^H (oops looking at the source it's Vulkan!) raytracing and meshlet support - how crazy is that!).
Willis Gibson, 13-year-old gamer, becomes the first to beat Tetris
Really nitpicky, but not really a GFCI.

The USB connector is detecting a short circuit--a direct connection between the two pins--and cutting power while the condition is present. If you wanted to put this in terms of household electrical, this would be closest to a self-resetting breaker. (And actually, most devices you have already _have_ this. There's usually a self-resetting fuse/PTC thermistor protecting your USB ports from over-current conditions. The only novel thing here seems to be that it's done in software.)

A GFCI, meanwhile, works by detecting in imbalance between the hot and neutral lines. The amount of current flowing through one should match the amount flowing through the other. If power is being drawn through the hot pin but not returning through the neutral, it has to be going _somewhere_ and it's not where we intended it to go. It cuts the power off rather than let it continue to flow out and find a path to ground through your kitchen sink/etc.
Sysdig is neat, but csysdig in my experience was extremely fragile and fickle, felt more like a demo than a usable tool. Which is a shame because it had some nice things to it.

Also at this point I'd say sysdig in general is just another also-ran together with systemtap and lttng (and others)
I live in Florida and have traveled all over this country the last few years and haven't seen these in decades. These still exist in Texas?
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More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38917820
> It took decades before there was finally the evidence we have today of the social impacts of leaded gasoline.

True, but how many other things were hypothesized to be harmful, and turned out harmless? Can we even know the difference between the two beforehand?

In order to worry about something, you need evidence of harm. If you worry without evidence, you worry about everything.
HN is not actually good at programming and CS, either.
Maybe 8 years is not much in a career ? Maybe we had to support one of those browsers that did not support it ? Maybe your snarky comment is out of place ? And even to this day it's still significantly slower than Python stdlib according to the tester. So much for "why python not as fast as js, python is slow, blah blah blah".
Teams, Slack, Discord, whatsapp, imessage, etc are trying hard, to replace that too, though,
It's an interesting anecdote, but the floor on the stocks being talked about in this article is due to them already making tons of money. Warhols are worth a lot of money because a select group of people say they are worth a lot of money. The average person on the street probably wouldn't be willing to pay the price of an iPhone for a Warhol if they didn't know who he was. On the other hand, billions of people use Microsoft and Apple products, so it's not just due to an elite opinion that the stocks have lots of value. And it's not unreasonable to imagine a world where these companies dominate in AI and make much more money in the future.
It’s not bad here. Some aldi brand items aren’t as good (such as their cheez-it), but generally everything is of good quality. I think the only thing you can complain of is that the US stores are smaller and offer less (ex no in house bakery)
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Widevine L1 certainly seems to be holding up well enough to prevent major Netflix shows being released in 4K via torrent sites for weeks or months after launch.
I know that jumping in to mention Kagi has become a meme on HN, but I do think it's important to keep encouraging people to move away from Google. The specific search engine barely even matters, as much as I like Kagi. The only way that any of these search engines are going to improve is if more people leave Google in the dust.

If people don't want to pay for Kagi, then use Brave Search. DuckDuckGo was really gone downhill, so it's hard to recommend that.
Primarily by moving them to other, less visible parts of the city? I don’t see how that’s a lasting solution. The same forces that cause congregation of homeless folks and drug users in every city in every era will do it again. As is evidenced by the article.
Intel is definitely on the same level. 10-th gen Intel Core had two different architectures for laptop chips - both 14 nm Comet Lake and 10 nm Ice Lake. 11-th gen Intel Core was 14 nm on desktop, but 10 nm on laptops. Now Intel 14-th gen is 10 nm Raptor Lake Refresh on desktops and laptops, but also 7 nm (Intel 4) Meteor Lake on a specific laptops, as Core Ultra.
X suspends Ken Klippenstein, TrueAnonPod and numerous other large accounts
Ah, didn't know that. Is there a plan to enable more of it or has the EU already allocated 6 GHz to some other use?
They call this a “lifestyle” business apparently - and part of the issue is that those who do that kind of bootstrapping are often comfortable stopping and some small millions. Who needs more?

"Lifestyle business or scalable business", and "bootstrapping or vc" are largely orthogonal concerns. Not completely as there's basically no path to taking VC funding to build a lifestyle business. But the converse does not hold - you can certainly bootstrap a company that is meant to grow into far more than a "lifestyle company". Is it easy? No, but nothing worth doing ever is...
Another HN commenter the other day suggested baby pomodoro to take the first step. Minute on, three off. Then two minutes on. Stretch it out longer and longer.
I agree that people have invented some version of SF that probably hasn't existed for a very long time, if ever. At least not in my lifetime.

But I can't deny there have been periods where it's been palpably worse than normal.
> My understanding is that Becky Chambers does not have any more books planned but hasn't ruled out writing more.

Ooh, that's really sad to hear; I had assumed it would be a trilogy with the city being the last one!

If the first book typifies the climbing-the-mountain archetype (quite literally in the books case!) and the meaning crisis, the second is a great exploration of neo-luddism and being critical of new technologies effects on people (even if the technology by itself isn't bad), and I was really looking forward to her view of anti-car, utopian urbanism with a third one.
(7) at the bottom of https://www.apple.com/uk/iphone/compare/

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Liquid damage not covered under warranty.
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Yeah if you sell out... you sold, someone else now owns some part of the organization.

I don't mean "sell out" in the colloquial sense where it is a negative. Nothing wrong with selling something, but that has consequences.

If a founder is really worried about this I guess they could see how investors feel if you want a "but you can't ever fire me" clause or something, at the very least it should make the exchange clearer...

Taking a step further we see regular "Founder sold company to mega corp and is now sad about the result". Dude got paid and got his ... that was the deal. I get their sentiment but when I'm a customer I am sometimes a bit miffed when I see that expressed as it's my problem now and he got out with the cash.
so he is a "villian" .. and due to his trajectory, a famous "villian" .. is this really new? you suggest a scarlet letter?
I would assume this is more intended for locals or frequent visitors. Paris is nice, but after a few months it becomes like any other city.
While I agree with your characterization of debt v. equity capital (e.g. VC money), it is important to recognize that what are strengths of debt from an entrepreneur's standpoint (limited upside, no control) are weaknesses from an investor standpoint. That's why debt is only applicable up to a certain level of risk. Lenders won't lend to a raw startup with no history; the upside even with relatively high interest rates doesn't make up for the downside. Only equity offers the risk-reward tradeoff necessary to attract investors in those situations, hence venture capital.

That's also why equity-like investing in some form or another has been around for centuries (e.g. whaling ships), and Venture Capital in essentially the same form as today has been in the US at least since the 40s.
Heyja Vu: App Store Rejects 37signals's New Hey Calendar App
I work in software for CPU design/verification. Even here, where in theory there should be a rock-solid spec, there's not. There's a 12,000 page architectural specification, which is very helpful for specifying all the end-user visible state. But the microarchitectural specification is scattered all over different PDFs, visio docs, excel sheets, and sometimes the only spec is the RTL code itself.
Question is if summer is coming or if another winter is looming after this spring.
Ted Chiang: What's expected of us – Nature
Hey,

I've been thinking about what you said, and I believe it has helped me gain some clarity about myself. I have written a response specifically for you, and I hope that as someone who is in touch with reality, you can sense the sincerity in my words.

https://jxnl.github.io/blog/writing/2024/01/09/self-loathing...
It's fine on most screens for most content on an average TV screen even. Sure, not good enough if you are sitting down in a home cinema for the latest blockbuster, but totally OK for Chicken Run, Dawn of the Nugget or just tuning out with some tolerable series.
Learning to put work away for easier re-engagement is the exact thing I am determined to improve this year.
I can't speak to 30 years ago, but from 20 years ago to 4 years ago, SoMa and Market were definitely much better than they are today. I've been physically attacked twice since 2020 in SoMa.
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Reminds me of the old XKCD about "there's a monk out back with a ladder!"

https://xkcd.com/794/
Origin & usage of the term are fine, but structurally a lot of that Wikipedia article seems like original research.

Also, grouping the current "AI summer" in the "2005-" category seems questionable.
there's exactly dozens (120) of us!

https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/741437
Well, if water damage your iPhone then you are simply watering it wrong
Have you also given Shenzhen I/O a run?
Always a fascinating read when it pops up on HN :)

One thing to note - assumption that one might make is that "Rockstar shipped obviously ridiculously suboptimal code; how did this ever get past testing??"

However, based on the author's discussion of the code, and the issue being in inefficient parsing of an online store content, it is likely that this not only passed testing, but was sufficiently efficient in production too... upon go-live, when the store content database was small.

This likely grew slowly, and was especially bad for a specific subset of users (CPUs with poor single core performance). They may even have had trouble replicating it in non-production environments depending on their refresh policy and whatnot.

This is not to excuse it, of course; but I've seen a repeated pattern where a not-perfectly-optimal algorithm works well enough in development, testing, and initial production... then blows up in production with growth a couple of years later.

(In particular, I deal with a lot of complex SQL in my day job, and they have a nasty habit of going exponential with data growth. If you're implementing a greenfield application with no objective knowledge of its future size and growth patterns, it may be littered with trapmines despite reasonably good efforts to not make it so. Especially dangerous with "Big Bang Go-Lives" - though a game may have internal Agile sprints, I'd still consider it overall a bing-bang go-live in that majority of its content will go live at the same time, and then you get to see how your 100s/1000s/10,000s of SQL/code/libraries/etc behave:)
It would be wonderful if it were distributed by default more easily. For instance, an ipfs or torrent backend which automatically provides a backbone of thousands of computers with the repo on them as the remote, rather than just the single github server.

Ipfs remote for git should be the default.
> Those offices pay local rates, have as-strict hiring policies, and are growing.

Everybody goes into these arrangements believing, against all history and experience, that they aren't going to lower their hiring bar. Good luck with that.
It is not automatic though.

You need to have political will (and voter support) for policies that will get you there.
A Galaxy S23 can be had currently for just over 600 Euro, which is substantially less than an iPhone Pro (almost half), despite also sporting a 120Hz OLED display, tele lens, etc.

You can get a lot of great/premium Android phones in the 500-800 bracket (Nothing Phone 2, S23, Pixel 8).
> just takes some discipline

Step 0. Be committed to the principles even in the face of adversity and challenges when meeting goals, aka Don't cheat the rules to meet your goals.

Step 0 is very very hard to do. When shit hits the fan, the shoulders drop and tummy swirls and the only thing left are the bones that make you the person you are. Your biggest challenges will be to be a "professional" for the job you took.
Sorry for off topic.

Wolframalpha makes it easy to compare USD accross years and uses official inflation numbers. "2013 $300" [0] would be worth $386 now (2024).

If you use ddg, that's "!wa 2013 $300" or if you want it in reverse "!wa $300 in 2023"

[0] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=2013+%24300
> Many universities have both Math and Applied Math departments. Why have both unless the mathematicians in the Math department don't want to work on applications?

"Applied Mathematics" as a field is not literally "mathematics applied to something"; it's a fuzzy group of related topics (things like numerical analysis, PDEs, or computational linear algebra) that's grown large and culturally distinct enough to have its own department, much like theoretical CS or statistics. There are plenty of "applied" mathematicians who don't work on applications, and some "pure" mathematicians who do.
It should be basically any distro. The driver is part of the kernel.
You could also run CP/M in an emulator using less resources than the Arduino IDE. I think it's entirely fine to use modern and powerful parts, as long as you learn new things, or inspire others to tinker.
I've personally had a good experience with XFX cards. I haven't had that many (not a hardcore gamer), but they've all worked perfectly well over multiple years, and never developed any kind on noise. The youngest is a 5600XT I bought used in 2020.

They have never been top of the line models, but one or two steps down. I've always used "silent" cases, since I hate noise with a passion, but I'm not sure how much that actually changes things.
Can AI be the new UI? As artificial intelligence continues to advance, its potential to reshape user interfaces is increasingly evident. The traditional user experience is evolving beyond static interactions, with AI offering the prospect of intuitive, adaptive interfaces that respond intelligently to user behavior and preferences.
Most people tend to engineer for maximum TDP on thermals, and maximum power draw on power supply. It's good design practice, since it depends on what causes the "max performance."

You don't want a $100 light switch, running in an enclosed space, risking a house fire from a bug in code code. You also don't want a lot of embedded devices crashing hard if a bug makes them draw more power than a small battery or power adapter can source (even momentarily).

All these problems have solutions, but the central point is the instant I need to explain "thermal design power" to an eight-grader in an afterschool club for them to get their project working, (as they're struggling to figure out what a current versus a voltage is, or what 'ls' does), or why they should pick a 3A over a 5, the Pi has lost most of its raison e'etre.
Would they still be sleeping on the street and committing crime to afford food, clothing, etc?

IMHO, if a person is prepared to habitually commit crime to fund their habit, it's time to get them off the drugs, by force if necessary.

Develop 'rehab jails' for addicts, where they can be kept off the streets, tapered off the drugs, and given decent treatment for underlying mental health issues.
> This wasn't my experience with IRC.

The thing is, my experience is different, but of course similarly anecdotal. I essentially got my entire professional network and career on IRC, and that includes contacts all over the modern tech stack and adjacent interests, being on just two IRC "servers". And I could connect many other people in the same way.

On Discord, there seem to be just more barriers against this. Getting someone into a new place doesn't just require hopping into a new channel with a single /join command, but an entire new "server" with a new crowd. There's more inhibition against that.
Would you rather try to build the next YouTube or the next big YouTube channel?
A zero-sum product is one that can only “win” when another product “loses” an equal amount, i.e. the sum of gains and losses is equal to zero.

A positive-sum product is one that can “win” even when another product doesn’t lose an equal amount, i.e. the sum of gains and losses is greater than zero — it’s possible to have a win-win game.
BilR is a gut microbial enzyme that reduces bilirubin to urobilinogen
Devices that connect brains to computers are increasingly sophisticated
Vitamin discovered in rivers offers hope for salmon with thiamine deficiency
The answer is compulsory licensing. People have been doing that for decades. It's a solved problem. Look at e.g. radio. There's a compulsory licensing scheme for radio stations. They pay into a pool that is divvied up to rights holders based on some kind of keys and metrics. Radio stations can play whatever music they want, no additional licensing required.

We should have that for streaming music and video. Any streaming platform could offer any content they'd want to host, and they pay into a pool for rights holders. Streaming platforms would have to compete on quality, features, price, availability, etc. But not on holding content hostage.
If you are buying staple goods, Aldi quality is quite nice. For some luxuries (fancy cheese, chocolates) their quality is very good, especially for a discounter.

If you only want to buy processed food and meal kits that require minimal cooking, then Aldi has subpar quality. Many of the prepackaged meal kits and processed foods are notably lower quality than what you find in other grocery stores.
Hackers can infect network-connected wrenches to install ransomware
It was not. They are losing far more money because they removed the content moderation team and advertisers don't like their brands showing up next to questionable content. The buyout added a ton of debt to Twitter. It's far worse now.
There's also an adverse selection bias where the people that talk the most are more likely to be less-informed since they are talking instead of doing.

What's tough is that there's no way to tell who exactly they are. I could be a member of this group for all we know!
I was hoping that the heat pump could just hook into the existing ductwork (replace the AC unit) and use its own separate thermostat. The existing thermostat might try to turn on the non-existent AC just nothing would happen.
Is it "sabotage" when you don't intentionally devote resources to making some random third party's browser work? What obligation do they have?

Mozilla has cachet with nerds like us because of its history. Not because it's particularly better than alternatives or because it has enough of a user base to throw its weight around.

In contrast, they do test on Safari. They'd lose double-digit percentages of users if they didn't.

The ecosystem, unfortunately, generally has room for three top browsers. I'm not even sure Firefox is number four these days.
A battery accumulates something desirable, right?

I think I got it finally. What you describe is aloneness battery. First you have a lot of it, then it drains and you need to recharge. It is the opposite of “social battery”, but does not roll off the tongue.

“Social battery” means you have a lot of social interaction as optimal state, then it drains and you need to replenish.