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Spotify has an audio book service which they don't let you purchase on mobile due to apples 30% rent
Rumors Circulating That James Webb Has Discovered Life on Another World
For one, I have never heard the term "child raiser" in my life so I assume its even more confusing for those with english as a second language. It also just sounds so emotionless, like children are cattle. I'm really struggling to see what is gained by not using parent. For all intents and purposes, people use the term parent for those raising a child.
Never heard of de_dust2.

There is a short clip of a german porn movie that went viral (in Germany), keywords: 'Warum liegt denn da Stroh auf dem Boden?'
Early reports are that the Vision feels quite heavy to wear. That’s almost certainly going to make it a bad choice for virtual screens for more than an hour or so.
Similar specs and price as XR-4 from https://varjo.com Wipes the floor with Oculus and others, but IMHO 90Hz refresh rate not enough for truly immersive VR/AR experience.

Once the initial fascination wears out, you are not going to use it as replacement for the big screen. VR/AR needs improve technically and find killer apps and must-have games.
There are some specific use cases like creating digital artwork and certain gaming/video where the difference between an iPhone and and an iPad really is arguably a difference in kind. But, yeah, especially with larger iPhones (even sub-Max) I've come to see an iPad as increasingly optional for most purposes.
... He's spent 15 years in prison (the original sentence) and has been denied a parole already. Not sure what i'd describe as "comically light".
Ordered one but have fairly low expectations. I guess my main fear is that it really takes off, and there is a huge improvement in the V2 that obsoletes this one.
And excellent spam filtering. The irony of having an advertising company filter out your advertisements so you only see theirs. And loving it.

SUPERCUT Every "And loving it" in Get Smart (1965-1970)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aeETaCsop8
People are bad at understanding just how big LLM's are
> When the iPad was introduced, everyone was shocked by the very low price and the sleek form factor compared to previous Windows tablet devices.

What I remember is everyone making fun of it, including the name¹, for being “just a big iPod Touch”.

Similarly, the iPhone wasn’t taken all that seriously² on launch. The App Store wasn’t even an idea yet, let alone a reality.

That is to say this always happens: people discount a new thing and use as contrast something else which was also discounted at the time but framed as if it had always been perceived by the current lens.

I have no idea if the Vision Pro will “succeed” (however we define that), but we can be reasonably sure that the current version is the worse it will ever be. In other words, it will get better and it’s too soon to judge its impact.

¹ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTzhXMbOWHE

² https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywi0h_Y5_U
You can't just hostile takeover the NYT. The Salzberger family, who have run it for generations, have a dual class structure and a pretty classic setup to keep control.
It would be dangerous to teach anyone in ML what a function was, since they might realise, the premise of the entire activity is false.

(ie., that in the vast majority of cases there are no empirical functions to model, no f: Pixel -> Animal)

So better continue the current practice where few could distinguish a relation and a function; and fewer still are aware that they arent approximating empirical functions.
Open Sourced today. Author's annoucement https://www.placemark.io/post/placemark-is-now-open-source and annoucement video https://youtu.be/LGq1mI3U6CI
> I can't imagine attack techniques have improved and Google's internal technical staff have regressed so substantially

I can definitely imagine, and I in fact believe, both of those things to be true.
Caretaker or guardian is the word you are looking for.
Building an AI Algorithm Based on a Neural Network to Classify Fish Species
You also have to include the price of iPhone/iPad with FaceID.
Sorry, I was (trying to) use the same term as the person I was replying to.
> he also exfiltrated their customers' data and processed that?

AFAIK he did not mention if he created the hashes using the DB or locally. I suspect that he used a built-in function of MySQL to hash the data on the server.
Show HN: GitHub Desktop (GUI for Git operation)
GitHub Desktop is a graphical user interface (GUI) for managing your Git repositories. It simplifies common Git tasks, making it more user-friendly for those who prefer a visual interface over the command line. You can use it to clone repositories, manage branches, and commit changes easily.

What is your opinion about github desktop?
I love using it as a second screen when I’m out at a coffee shop. It works so seamlessly and I can throw Slack on there while I code, without looking like a complete weirdo
Microsoft is amazingly good at those opaque error messages. Such a mess of UX
I've found that all I ever use it for is to look at chord charts at jam sessions as it's easier to see than my phone.
From what I can tell it is about the same weight as the Valve Index which I have been able to wear for a fairly extended period of time while doing physical activities.

If I can wear that while being physical I can probably handle the Vision Pro for extended periods.
The shape of your face and how big your nose is also matters.
I'm subscribed to Netflix through my smart TV app. I'm sure Netflix pays money to LG for that button on the remote.
I don't know, but I gave it a try for a few months and was seriously disappointed. I tried 3 series, watched them to the end, and all 3 were severely lacking in quality. They had good casts, good sets, good music, but the stories were all very shallow and predictable.

Not to mention weird bugs in the iPadOS app - if you try to download more than X episodes too quickly, like because you're at the airpot before boarding a plane and want an offline cache to last the long flight, the downloads fail with a useless (classic Apple) error message, and nothing outside of a restart of the device fixes it. I hit this a few times, and there are forum reports going back years.

So yeah, had one free month, paid for 2, and cancelled because it isn't even close to being worth it.
I feel the $499 Applecare is the real story here. Lol
Well, compatibility with games is literaly hell.

And about ELF on elf/linux, I am more than sure, this is another hell because of those guys (I would fire all of them).
Learn how to connect the dots.....
It’s easy to have a culture of taking risks when you have unlimited revenue.

What’s amazing to me is how timid companies get when there’s limited resources. Instead of making another big bet to get back on the revenue train, they chase trends. Like Google getting caught off guard on AI and now chasing that instead of leading here or elsewhere.

I don’t know the answer. Part of the problem is you went from company leadership focused on a domain (search) to generalist business types. The domain experts had a strong conviction about their domain. But the business types are good at executing an existing business model, but not the domain wherewithal to find another big market. Even if internally there exists someone with such a conviction or idea, if it threatens to take focus away from the current cash cow, and leadership doesn’t have the expertise to understand the idea, such innovation will be discouraged.

You also tend to attract stability oriented careerists once people see how likely it is to make sustainable salary, with stock, by getting in. Once in I don’t think you’re incentivized to take risks or rock the boat of the existing business model.

And thus, and forever, cycles of business will continue. It’s hard to create a big company that has both a stable business model and takes the right risks.
My degree required a communications course, and a full year senior project course that included pitching, design documents, and demos. My understanding is plenty other universities require similar courses.

Furthermore, even if that were true, companies (especially ones like Google) look for project and product managers that have CS degrees or other STEM degrees.

Personally, my frustration with project/product managers often comes from (ironically) underspecified requirements and highly unrealistic deadlines. Neither of those I consider a failing of their education or skills, but a failing of the company's reward structures.
TBF back then no site was optimized to be viewed on a small screen, only after the iPhone and then Android came along did we get "mobile-friendly" or even "mobile-first" sites...
> To me, that is deeply unethical behaviour.

This is just 2024 again. My theory is here that regardless of what you might otherwise think of ESG, I think one of the key things to bear in mind is it imposes is that customer value is not the top priority.

I understand of course that the longer-term idea is that, say, all businesses get better at waste disposal, and once that happens businesses can prioritise customer value again, but that will take a long time, if ever, to manifest all its goals fully. Additionally, in reality it seems that it encourages businesses to become performative in the way you're highlighting.
> What do you mean by "I don't believe in evil"?

I mean that the popular idea of evil is a childs story and should not blur our reasoning.

One can consider an act "evil", but if you saw the other side of the coin, perhaps it was done out of necessity, revenge, fear or another "non-evil" reason.

(I am not trying to rationalize away horrible deeds).

I believe in selfishness tho. That's a real thing.
> you can not be that poor.

I don't think that the assumption that people run old hardware because they can't afford new is generally valid.
Is anyone aware of any good iPad apps for writing notes in shorthand, then converting to text? I currently use an app called Nebo to write notes and journal entries, then convert them to text before uploading into other systems. It works well, and I really appreciate being able to get away from a keyboard, but I'm a much slower writer than typist.
Title should say converting a SNES controller to USB. I was thinking there would be 3D printing involved.
I'll never understand the pricing of expensive tech stuff (well expensive for me).

Still a lot of people will buy it so why 3499, 3699, 3899? Why not 3999, 4199, 4399? Surely if you have the money you would buy it either way.
Yeah that is all we saw in the marketing, and I figure if it was possible they would have shown it since that would be a killer feature.

I am guessing there may be some wireless bandwidth issue with transmitting more than one screen but idk. Guess we will see if it just happens to not have been shown
Tangent: I thought you were going to hate the inflection point metaphor (and hence started your post with a pun about it).

The point being inflection points mathematically speaking don't usually imply a peak, rather a change in concavity (which might still be increasing).

It would be better for people to say something like "...it feels like we reached a high water mark..." to stress they worry about a certain maxima being hit.
It is odd. It all stems from this idea that engineers make ugly products but that's just not true. I do think some engineers are more well versed in design than others though. I will say the ones I've met who are well versed in design are prone to doing odd things when comes to stuff like storing data. Like they won't know that area well and will introduce slowness or delay which also kills the product experience. I think like anything to be successful you need a high functioning team w/ various specialties, oddly enough I'm not convinced you actually need a dedicated "product" person.
> masscan

> This is an Internet-scale port scanner. It can scan the entire Internet in under 5 minutes, transmitting 10 million packets per second, from a single machine.

Absolutely insane
I'm an Apple developer.

When I release my apps, I only do so as iOS, and that runs on iPadOS.

In the code, I check for the environment, in some cases, and do things differently, if it's an iPad.
Made the swtich to Tuta (previously Tutanota) about 2 years ago and never once looked back. I only wish they had support for some sort of protocol for third-party clients.
> A groundbreaking study shows kids learn better on paper, not screens. Now what?

Now, there are another 100 new studies that show that kids who have an iPad or a Chromebook in school are better than the kids who learn on paper.
Sponsored by Apple or Google (or by NGOs sponsored by Apple or Google) of course. /s
I think we both have a quasi-understanding of the word :)
I haven't driven one but I assume the same thing happens to steering when you want to stay in your lane.
The product they often presented as started in 20% time is Google news. I don't know the actual details, just this is what I remember from my time at Google (2006-2012).
Fuzzball was named after Lynn Gold's fuzzy little white Bichon.
I prefer my takes lukewarm
You aren’t wrong, but we used to teach Latin in schools. Things aren’t getting better in a lot of these arenas, they are being chipped away… and the center cannot hold forever.
It seemed like they were blowing smoke with this. How on earth could you feasibly accomplish self-repo if the person parked their car in their garage? Or what if it was booted? Or just simply parked in the woods?

So many common scenarios that would yield this to not work at all and just be an extremely expensive joke.
It seems like it’s also a dev device. Reports are that Apple is working on cheaper versions so the Vision pro provides an early adopter market and high spec device for developers. In a few years when they go for a mainstream launch there will already be an app and game ecosystem.

Different from a watch, some kind of mixed reality wearable will eventually replace phones and laptops, I am sure. It might still be several decades till the technology fits in a pairs of eyeglasses.

Consider this your 2050 preview, like the Apple Newton to your iPhone.
I met Keats through Dan Simmons - Hyperion. It's one of those books that hasn't quite left my mind despite finishing it some time ago.
I've never been to a European house that has drywall over concrete or brick. The only time I see drywall used there is in finished attic areas to cover slanted roof rafters.
> If you don't believe in evil (I don't) that not only means he isn't evil but that he also didn't murder his ex because he was evil. So there must still be something to him 15 years ago that made him plan to and murder his ex, hide the body, use elaborate lies to deny his actions and then only admit to it when offered a deal to disclose the location of the body to allow the victim's grieving family to bury her.

For sure, there were reasons. We just don't know them.

> but you can't argue that means he should be treated as redeemed or released early.

I'm not. Was just saying people deserve another chance.
I highly doubt VR is going to replace a phone for users. People will still sit in bed and stare at their phone. vr is more of a hobby than it is an everyday computing device
This password should not be in any leaked database of hashed passwords, because it is completely randomly generated. You can't even set it.*

*unless you take this password after it's generated and start reusing it in other services, but that is pure self sabotage
Financial markets in general do not demand this. As someone else said, the return expected is just a basic risk-free rate plus some compensation for the added risk of owning equities instead of treasuries, which isn't nothing but it doesn't mean you need to double in size every year indefinitely.

The problem for FAANGs and Tesla is their valuation was predicated on indefinite rapid growth. Once you have that valuation, the only way to keep it is to actually grow at the rate the valuation priced in. If you don't, the price will drop and all of the various directors and high-level employees whose compensation is largely in the already heavily-priced stock will lose a lot of net worth. This isn't a problem for all publicly-traded companies. It's a problem specific to a very small number of extremely highly-valued companies whose value was based upon the expectation that they would grow very rapidly.

Venture capital is another matter entirely. Being far riskier than owning publicly-traded equity shares, they do demand outsized growth from every investment. But venture capital is hardly ubiquitous. Outside of software devs, all small business owners I've ever known would not have even tried to consider it. If they need money, they ask their parents or a bank.
French cheese under threat from lack of microbial diversity
Delta is pretty great, let's you do upserts into tables in DataBricks much easier than without it.

I think the website is here: https://delta.io
I was considering those. Is there some sort of accelerometer in there so the screen moves in your field of vision as you turn your head, or does it just kinda float there? I haven't been able to understand that from their product pages.
I did try different 8BitDo controllers, and one issue with them is the "multi-mode": in order to make them work with Android/iOS/Windows/whatever, you need to press some key before connecting them, to change the way the OS recognizes the input. Which is a deal-breaker for small children, and prevents keeping things simple (e.g. "remember to disconnect and reconnect the USB before turning the power on", e.g. when using a Raspberry Pi-based console emulator). For wireless controllers, it's even worse (extra Bluetooth mode). If only they had mechanical switches to select this behavior... You may need to keep the instructions booklet with it, just to remember which keys must be pressed before turning it on, to see which mode will be activated. The controller in TFA is more useful in this scenario, since it will always behave in the same way.
Just did a search, found this image [1]. It looks like the geographical overlap is a small area in Illinois (light orange and brown regions in linked image).

[1] https://cdn.britannica.com/32/222432-050-E9798FB1/map-emerge...
Nothing against AdaFruit, but this really should link to Roy Longbottom's detailed comparisons [1] that this very short post links to.

[1] http://www.roylongbottom.org.uk/Cray%201%20Supercomputer%20P...
I just recently went through the process at age 49 to get my pilot's license. Purely for fun, however the vast majority of the students that I trained with were just like many of the hopefuls in this article - pursuing a high paying career.

I could write a book about flight school management dynamics. The personalities, the hopefuls, the dreamers, the wild power dynamics between a flight school and a student who desperately wants to get to the airlines (the promise land). The instructors, who all were just recently students now grinding out hours to qualify for an airline job. Safety. Studying and learning. Relationships. Accidents.

The financial aspects are incredibly risky for many. The statistics: only 22% of students who begin training for the first step - a private pilot license - end up finishing. For those wanting to make a career or progress further, there's your instrument rating (to fly in bad weather), your commercial license (to fly for money), your flight instructor license (so you can teach - which essentially is your only path to gaining experience/hours without having to pay for it out of pocket), and then your Air Transport license, which ... airlines. That requires 1500 hours of experience.

It truly was one of the more fascinating adventures I've done.
Because everyday people should totally have to pay the price for a decision their government made they didn't want and could do nothing about.
Yep, I think people are equating the new headset too much with VR. It is the AR aspect that is game changing.

Giant, better than 4k monitor for my macbook pro while still being able to see and interact with people in the room, yes please.
Gleam's New Interactive Language Tour
This guy gets it.

Remote is a competency that as a business you develop team by team, position by position.

So is async (can we do this just as efficiently when people are in far-flung timezones?)

I want to sit in my PJs and work from home just as much as the next guy. But the reality is if you're going into the office 5 days a week they haven't figured out how to replace you with someone from India, Argentina, Canada or wherever else. The competition for your position is still georestricted. You just being there grants you a local monopoly, there are a million people who would like to have your job but they're not in the running because they lack the proper visa and can't show up to the office you can show up to.

Once you go remote and the company sees that it works just fine, your monopoly disappears.

Many objections were raised in response to my post, none were convincing. That is because no one wants to acknowledge that they're just labor and firms are literally profit maximizing machines, they either maximize or get swallowed/killed by a firm who did. None of this is new or radical, labor just hates staring it in the face because it's dehumanizing: they are a cost that the firm always wants to optimize away.

Welcome to capitalism.
I know what you mean, but I think we can say for sure that it's definitely not globally optimal to produce durable goods (of any kind) that are half the cost but a quarter the lifespan. Half price for half utility is fine, but half price for a quarter utility is just pure waste -- even if you don't need the tool for 1000 hours, you can resell it to somebody who will use it for the next 970 hours (or the next 30, after which they sell it again). There are transaction costs here which make it a little more complex, but in a society where this was common, they would be driven down by scale -- more pawn and consignment shops would pop up, culture would teach people how the process works, etc. (By the way, there are also extra transaction costs for the people who need 1000 hours of tool time but have to buy it 30 hours at a time.)

Any system that encourages this behavior (i.e the one we have) is obviously not a winning system.
> Uh no, that's exactly the proper term.

I thought that maintenance meant to regularly change your engine oil in order for the engine to not become clogged.
But hey, English is not my mother tongue. /s
The iPod Touch was a highly successful product; if that was supposed to be a dismissal it wasn't a very effective one.
8BitDo makes great controllers. I have an SN30 Pro, a Zero 2 and a pair of Ultimate Cs. All of them have been used extensively and they are all excellent quality.

On the other hand I've had back luck with generic NES and SNES knockoff USB controllers. The quality is much worse than the originals especially in the D-Pad. It seems nobody but 8BitDo can get this right.

If you stick with 8BitDo you'll have great quality but they don't necessarily match the form factor of the originals. I can see why OP would want to convert a real one.
Yea, there is a Rust implementation of the Delta Lake protocol that lets you do upserts without Spark too. This allows pandas, Polars, DataFusion, and PyArrow users to easily do upserts as well.
Should have answered to that then, sorry. Was just a quick lunch break thought.
Well, this is definitely TLDR. That said, I don’t mourn Google - nostalgia is for the privileged. Google is pure evil, and should be dismantled.