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>Why, in this case, should the executive branch be given the power to interpret ambiguous laws, when that duty normally falls to the judicial branch?

Because the court isn't nimble enough to do otherwise - they can take decades to even accept a case that may have real-world ramifications while they (sometimes intentionally) defer to even hear the case. Regardless of the theoretical discussion of who should own the decision, the reality of this decision will be corporations pillaging public goods (land/air/water) further than they already have because there will be no ability for the EPA and others to even have oversight of what they're doing.

"But the law" won't really matter when your only option for drinking water is to go buy it from the store. We've seen:

Corporations won't police themselves, even when it means doing otherwise kills people because it turns out the government never seems to penalize harshly enough to make that a profit-losing situation.

Congress is perfectly happy ignoring issues unless it's politically inconvenient, even if they would all agree in private that the issue should probably be fixed. Heck often times they'll take a position they don't even believe just to be a contrarian.
Nice to see some cognitive semiotics surfacing on HN.
That’s nonsense. It does not lift GDP any more than breaking windows does. It redirects labor and capital from one use to another.
I don’t know about marketers, but being allergic to design by itself does not yield a good product. At best it’s orthogonal to it; at worst – see Amazon.
>> Unfortunately, they cannot be installed years later because the repositories generally no longer exist!

> Yes, this is a problem with any OS with network repos as the default source. It's way easier (most of the time) on 'that monster' because the program installers are self contained.

Not disagreeing, just adding some notes from memory :)

So, linux distros like SUSE used to be several CD:s containing the entire repository, and yet more CD:s with the src packages.
You normally would just use the first cd to install a base system, and then connect it to the online package repository.

See here for openSUSE 10 (2006): http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/distribution/1...

The installation even set up the package manager with the cdimage as source and you would have to edit the package manager config in order to even get updates over the internet.
Historic Victories Were Due to Decades of Union Reform Efforts
They really buried the lede here. Google Sync is their implementation of Exchange ActiveSync. Google Sync (or IMAP) is the only way to send emails with aliases on iOS with Apple Mail.

This is terrible.
The price needs to be balanced with the fact that you get a complete computer (compared to a VR device) right?
The linked article is not about AlphaFold itself, but about researchers verifying AlphaFold's predictions. So the article directly addresses your question. Unfortunately HN only shows the first half of the headline.

> Shoichet agrees that AlphaFold predictions are not universally useful. “There were a lot of models that we didn’t even try because we thought they were so bad,” he says. But he estimates that in about one-third of cases, an AlphaFold structure could jump-start a project. “Compared to actually going out and getting a new structure, you could advance the project by a couple of years and that’s huge,” he says.
> Anyway, does anyone actually think that VR isn't going to revolutionize computing over the next 10 years?

Well, Apple doesn't think so, since they're careful to call it a spatial computer and not a VR device.
> Can I buy Apple Vision Pro in the U.S. and take it back to my country/region?

> Apple Vision Pro is only available for sale in the U.S and is designed for customers in the U.S. to use at home, at work, and while traveling. We look forward to bringing Apple Vision Pro to more countries later this year.

So, why aren't they answering their own question here? Feels like they are dodging the answer.

What happens when I do buy it and take it to another country? Will it stop working, or is it just that Apple stores aren't equipped (yet) to service these devices?
I totally agree but the important phrase here is "produce actual print materials"

Reading on an electronic device is a different problem than providing something to be printed on a fixed format unchangeable piece of paper.

Thus you have different formats for the two different requirements. The issue is people keep trying to mix them up.
(Pitman doesn't require variable stroke width, but variable stroke darkness/pressure - important nitpick because you can vary pressure with a normal pencil, but need a fountain pen or uncommon carpenter's pencil for varying stroke width).
The refresh token shouldn't expire.
LittleFS Design
Super interesting read about COW, log-structures and a mix thereof (CObW -- copy on bounded writes).
Square Enix Wants to Release Fewer, More Diverse Games
After 1 round of technical interview for a Manager position:

> "Sorry, we're on a hiring freeze"

I pressed my contact to reach out to the guy who interviewed me. He said, 'Yeah. I like the guy. I gave a positive feedback' (I would've been his manager, actually).

So, what really happened?

> Sorry, we're only looking for women candidates for this position.

(My name can apply to both genders. The recruiter called and heard my voice before scheduling the interview.)
> Deaths in wars and murder are way down across the board, and quality of life is massively up.

Seemingly it does care about quality of human life. I guess the benefits outweigh the trauma.
> When the iPad was introduced, everyone was shocked by the very low price and the sleek form factor compared to previous Windows tablet devices.

I remember history a bit differently.

I recall lots of people dismissing the iPad as "just a big iPod Touch".
It's trivial to add 2fa to smtp/pop/imap.

Take your preferred auth module in Dovecot and modify it to read the input password as: pwd+otp code. If the user is 2fa enabled, read last 6 digits and compare against totp.

If match, allow the IP through for x minutes or whatever other policy you want.

It works surprisingly well
Would the outcome be better if a 4-year degree converted to a 3-year program?
I think yes.

If a 4-year degree or software engineering degree (for argument's sake) is converted into a 3-year program, it will help the student study better and get into the field sooner.
Can you really call the iPad a general purpose computing device? I feel like that should be reserved for things that can run whatever code you want.

The iPad is closer to a "consumption device" than general computing, I'd say.
Apple says the Vision's device weight is 600–650 grams and Meta says its Quest 3 is 515 grams. The Vision is between 85-135 grams heavier despite there not being a battery on the part that you wear.

Anecdotally and in my experience, there have been many complaints about fatigue for the Quest, and I wonder if Apple will be able to get away with more premium materials in the future versions. It seems like there will be a big tradeoff between adoption and the materials used.

Vision isn't out, but I am curious what V2 looks like and/or a version that optimizes to comfort.
Yea. Remember all the memes of the iPad being 4 iPhones taped together? It was widely criticized and considered to be a flop by some. A pointless device even.
> When the iPad was introduced, everyone was shocked by the very low price and the sleek form factor compared to previous Windows tablet devices.

Honestly no. It just looked like a giant iPhone
Unless I have missed it (someone please correct me if I am wrong) it only does 1 screen for a Mac.

But I agree, and the ability to do that really would make the price "reasonable". I mean I have 3 monitors on my main setup and one of those alone cost $1200 (I realize I didn't need to do that, but it still puts the price in prospective if I can have 3 virtual monitors on this thing.
Let’s say their repo architecture didn’t help soften the blow of various business decisions of abandoning products.

There was a time when Google was also Guava and a myriad of Java libraries helping the rest of the world. It’s a design choice, they chose to stop helping, because of their repo. Perhaps it also helped avoid leaks, since copied code can’t be used outside of Google.
It's an expensive toy for rich people. The good news for Apple: there are quite a few rich people in the World and Apple is a respected brand.

I also thought the Apple Watch was a gimmick, but apparently they have been selling tons of those.

This Vision Pro thing is different from the watch but also might not be that different, just "up scale".
Amazing! You first need to buy an iPhone to be able to buy this.
child-riser is a lovely neologism, more self-explanatory than caretaker, but still caretaker is well established.

and to clarify: I chuckled with sympathy reading your response :-)
Yes, sure, we're all playing with amino acids in order to create proteins that can then synthesize complex things. This doesn't mean that it's easy to create the pathways that create these complex things.

The synthesis of opium, for instance, requires two specialized cell types, complex organelles, and hundreds of different proteins, all told requiring thousands of different genes [1]. This is all for the purpose of creating one single highly-complex molecule. This isn't something you get at easily by "playing with the same Lego blocks."

The question is, if it's not a coincidence that both poppies and a small subset of animals both go through all this work to create two versions of this extremely-specific molecule, then what's the reason?

Sure, in the end the reason will be "it's advantageous for both species," but it's still pretty mind-blowing, and I think we're still missing a bunch of steps.

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3877807/
Ah thanks - so why is this not more common in other countries.

I do know why it is not in US as giving bank account details to others allows other to withdraw from your account.

This is not true in the UK so why no similar system here?
University chops students' Microsoft 365 storage to 20GB
I listed many reasons why open sourcing wouldn’t make sense and you seem to have hyperfixated on just one.

Yes - Google chose a monorepo because of the engineering and business advantages it gave them. For example, all binaries had a common dependency that implemented all sorts of common functionality they found binaries on their servers needed out of the box - that’s why a simple c++ hello world on Google3 results in a many many mib binary that includes an http server for performance monitoring. It’s an opinionated codebase but the opinions are largely documented and explained and aren’t crazy (just because you may make other decisions or prioritize things differently doesn’t mean Google’s choice are wrong). And again, please don’t hyper focus on what I wrote as “oh it only has this one advantage”. There’s lots of advantages and I’m just giving very basic examples. It’s been a fairly long time since I worked at Google and someone who works there is going to have a more authoritative explanation of how things work now as things will inevitably changed some.

You may say they dug their own grave while the internal teams find it helps them run services and maintain things because there’s 1 way of interacting with the artifacts of lots of different teams. And they weren’t going to open source EOL projects anyway and maintenance decisions have nothing to do with google3 and are product and engineering led decisions.

Also, they have a bunch of tooling to manage open source projects that mirror google3 projects. It’s doable for projects that care / who it’s important to but it is also a lot of work (eg can write rules that bidirectionally rename files, functions, c++ namespaces, comments that can strip out code before outgoing synchronization, etc etc). if I recall correctly the tool itself was open sourced too.

As for customer trust, again I point out that not only is the Google3 aspect a minor detail, open sourcing wouldn’t even impact customer trust in a large way. It might with a certain segment of the technical population, but that’s not the people Google cares about in terms of public trust. And any open sourcing also has to find motivated maintainers who are not going to be motivated by 0 pay and a huge amount of bug reports and feature requests from users who started with maintenance support of paid engineers and focused product vision. Make sure not to extrapolate your own predilections as a tech engineer onto the general population.
But they can't blame the users for that, so that's not a problem.
It does come with a battery included. It does not come with a travel case.
I'm hard pressed to remember a feature in Wave that does not exist in Docs now. What is it that you miss? I just remember it being dog slow with a lot of latency.
> to know that the cost and difficulty of arranging childcare is one of the things that drives people to exit the workplace and become stay-at-home parents, or perhaps part-timers in a less 'all-in' place than google.

oh got it. Top comment made it sound like it was cheap/free of cost
Not that I am running to buy this thing.

Remember, the first iPhone shipped with no ability to copy and paste stuff, sort glued hardware inside the case, and no ability to add a microSD card like those of the Nokia phones of the time. If the first iPhone pre-order was posted on HN, it would have received a similar comment… :-)

It is a first gen device. It is not for everybody, and it is going to be severely lacking in feature set. The key is what they are trying to genuinely bring to the table rather than what is missing(or that it is heavier or needs a battery hanging on the side - these are fixable things in the next iterations).
Placemark Open Source Project
https://xkcd.com/1020/
Breadings will be impacted.
"psychotic" seems to have been a typo as the subheading is "Psychopaths".
But did some behaviour of the artisanal fishers actually change that would lead this decline back to them? It could just as well be industrial trawlers disrupting migration routes, pollution, ocean acidification etc disrupting ecosystems etc.
I'm not arguing that the most destructive attitude should overrule all others - that would be an implicit argument in favor of the colonizers who did far more damage than ISIS ever did. I'm arguing that that cultural transactions should be voluntary and mutually beneficial. It wasn't the conscious choice of anyone to be colonized and exploited by the British, any more than by ISIS or any other dictator.

What ISIS is doing is wrong and a crime against humanity, but the "enlightened West" still has no right to step in unannounced and ransack the place just to ensure a marketable trade in Syrian artifacts. Because that's what imperialism and colonization are really about - not preserving history or archaeology, because that can be done ethically - but capitalism. The British Empire wasn't interested in preserving the cultural heritage of the world for its own sake, they robbed Egyptian tombs, ground up mummies and ate them.
Absolutely, I don't believe VR will revolutionize computing in the next 10 years. It already has had two chances of doing so. Like 3D screens it has a wow effect but isn't that much better given its very real downsides.
When the iPhone came out they lowered the price by 1/3rd 3 months later. This brought it in-line with Palm/Windows/Blackberry handsets. The browser was also really incredible compared to other phones/devices at the time.
What? No, they're calling it a spatial computer because they don't want it to be lumped in the same category as the other VR devices. Because... theirs is $3500 while other VR devices are $400.

They literally just built a VR headset... do you seriously not think the Apple Vision Pro is a VR headset?
If the cow you've been milking doesn't seem to run out of milk, what you do? Squeeze harder!
The announcement says "while traveling" - I think there is a reasonable expectation that your Vision Pro isn't just going to stop working when you land in Europe.

The reasonable explanation here is that this product is in a soft launch... similar to when a restaurant opens for the first time to friends and family. There is almost certainly an entire book worth of experience that apple needs to get with rolling this product out.
The Quest 3 is really really good though. So a higher res version of it is not a bad thing - just not revolutionary.
https://oecd.ai/en/wonk/how-much-water-does-ai-consume
Sure, I just meant compared to what we have today.
Too bad that tech is put out by the guy who said, “People just submitted it. I don't know why they 'trust me.' Dumb fucks."

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I will never ever willingly give FB any of my biometric data, face scans, etc.
Large institutions have been "failing" for over a century, in most countries, similar to things in orbit being always "falling". Just go find old newspapers and you'll see similar wording. The constant criticism and renewal of our institutions is part of the system.
What, the iPhone too? The iPad was called a big iPhone (especially when they showcased on stage that you can run iPhone apps with 2x magnification), but I remember there being a lot of hype for the iPhone.
In 100 years most paper will be gone, thrown out, without any attempt to archive it. In 100 years most digital will be gone for the same reason. The exceptions in both cases is where something is “fortuitously forgotten”, a box left in an attic after a move, or a web page that remains in a fossilized state.

Preserving both paper and digital records requires the active effort of convincing people (some of whom haven't been born yet) that the records should be saved. That's the hard part.

Disaster recovery for millions of paper records is hard. So hard that even the US Government, which has been archiving paper records since its inception, sometimes fails. The majority of the 1890 census records were lost to a fire as well as a chunk of military service records (to a different fire). Disaster recovery for millions of digital records is much easier, make a copy on a different disk and give it to someone to hold. Repeat once a decade.
The marketing showed that use case if i remember correctly
When the iPhone came out, people criticized it for the lack of keyboard and 3G. The price was similar to other premium phones of the time.

VR has always been about to revolutionize computing in the next n years. The technology has been available for decades, but so far nobody has been able to find good mainstream use cases for it.
It's not that it's not big. It's that it's not as big as it could be. It's not gmail-big or maps-big, at least for me. It is outclassed by many other, in their respective niches (video streaming, music, and social networking), and despite the huge efforts, Google never managed to turn it into a subscription-based service.

It's not that it's not big, it's that it is not on the same level than maps or gmail, IMO.
Because the government is not a corporation and it's obligations are different from the private market.
some kids are raised by other relatives or even non-relatives. will they at some point say "my real mommy was aunt xyz"? possibly. but still in no world auntie is a parent, in all worlds she is the caretaker.
this is exactly as I remember it as well... it was quite mem'ed on that dimension alone, as to why would you need a giant one of the thing they already had.
It's not a password, it's an API Key. A GUID is 16 bytes represented as 36 characters with hypens but we consider those secure. Even Stripe's private keys are kinda short but their restricted keys are not.
> basically being already solved.

Whats the solution ?
I don't think we're losing the macro "why" at all. We may be losing the wisdom of the path they walked to get to their design, which is certainly very valuable from a pedagogical and historical perspective.
The perception of autonomy at Google was somewhat marketing. In reality the company was extremely rigorous and top down. They used the perception to hire the creative genius types they wanted.

Eric Schmidt (Former CEO of Google) discusses it here: https://youtu.be/hcRxFRgNpns?t=2154
XReal Air are pretty good for that purpose. I can just plug them into my laptop or any phone that supports DisplayPort over USB-C and mirror my full screen.

The clarity is good enough for dev work, but my eyes feel a little strained after a few hours of use. I'm curious whether Apple's product will be more comfortable for longer use.
"iPad? Why did they name it after a tampon hahahaha never getting one of those. Similarly priced laptops are more powerful and have a keyboard." TBF the early models weren't as good and didn't have the keyboard and Apple Pencil of today.
> If we are being pedantic about it

It's not pedantry; you're just taking two roughly analogous things and acting like they have no differences. It IS relevant that EVs call it "regenerative braking" because it does "magically recharge the battery".

> that is what the EV manufacturers want you to think via their marketing.

And yet we're in a thread for an article from the U.S. Department of Energy, not a car manufacturer.

> Because basic physics dictates that you're playing a net-net zero-sum game ... i.e. what you "generate" you then loose when you next stop at the lights and accelerate again

You're missing the point entirely. The point of regenerative braking isn't that it's more efficient than maintaining a constant speed the whole time. It's that it reclaims energy when you would have to stop anyway, traditionally with the brake. i.e. city-driving when you hit stop lights.

A 5-10% net gain is an incredible benefit; I don't know why you're downplaying it. If I could make a 10% improvement to my fuel economy solely by coming to a gentle stop (which I already do anyway) it would be amazing.
The built-in feature does just one I think.
I ordered. I enjoyed my Valve Index, but resolution is too low for work applications and the lighthouse situation too annoying for casual use.

Looking forward to testing development on the Vision Pro, building some Vision Pro apps, and also playing Baldur’s Gate 3 in bed via screen mirroring.
> Greenland's ice sheet melting faster than scientists previously estimated

So we will be able to finally see some green land in Greenland. /s
People who used a blackberry can understand how big of a jump the iPhone was for mobile browsing.
the idiom is "take offense in sth"
To a first approximation, that's what it still is all these years later. The software might be called iPadOS now but it's not fooling anyone that it's much different to iOS.
I feel like skeletons are much better than loaders. I never used them until recently (I have had the displeasure of using an API that takes 700ms+ per request for critical pathways) and the change was jarring until I used skeletons, now it feels 2x faster!
I strongly believe that Google Video would have been killed by Google long ago. They bought YouTube because they couldn't create it themselves. And they never managed to turn that into a real product, IMO.

But there are just my opinions, of course.
Of course completely awesome to make a modification like this.

However, if you yourself want a USB SNES controller, consider buying one instead. 8BitDo offers them with the SN 30 Pro - the quality is good, they work with the Nintendo Switch or PC (including Linux), they have the additional buttons needed for modern games, there is a wired and a wireless version and the newer variant has afaik a replaceable battery (unlike the first).

Edit: I was probably wrong about the replaceable battery, that was the 8BitDo Pro 2. Which might indeed be the better choice. Looks less like a SNES controller, but at least still has the correct button labels and core layout, see https://www.8bitdo.com/pro2/
Well, RHEL9 minimum is the x86-64-v2 "microarchitecture". I guess the reasoning is more a business case for supporting a baseline for isv's.