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Stop with these techdirt articles that just copy large chunks of other articles.

Discussion from last week when this was news:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39220462
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If they arent making 11bn on 19bn as the article says, then I'm wrong and the whole thing is withdrawn -- that's just a premise.

I take it that they are however, since their pricing seems extraordinarily out of keeping with the cost of manufacture.

But if the article is wrong, or misleading, so be it. I don't see signs of a undue market power at 10-20% profit, just a little inefficient in the competitive landscape
Unsure if your thoughts come from recent experience, legacy experience, or a need to run CUDA-accelerated workloads, but if you're citing the old wisdom that AMD GPUs on Linux are a pain to deal with, I'm happy to tell you that your knowledge is a bit out of date. AMD's OSS drivers (with closed source firmware blobs, yes) are mainlined in pretty much every modern distro's package manager, and work surprisingly well. Mind you, I tend to not run Linux on laptops, so if there's some nuance you're aware of wrt sleep or something that I'm not, please feel free to share.

I will say "Here There Be Dragons" wrt CUDA/OpenCL workloads however. You have to switch from Mesa to the AMD closed source drivers, and I did have some wonky issues, with, for example using things like Davinci Resolve with those drivers.
not all the destructive actions are on file system
Rust Is One of the Most Energy Efficient Programming Languages [video]
I personally enjoy Monarch. Nice looking UI, full financial picture like Personal Capital but they use multiple data aggregators to sync your data and most institutions you sync they allow you to choose which aggregator you want to use.

Link to site:
https://www.monarchmoney.com/

If you are feeling charitable, my referral link: https://www.monarchmoney.com/referral/d8nz9odkbx
Definitely not everything works with microG, it kinda depends on your daily usage, for me, I have 3 banking apps working by installing additional modules to have the security checks bypassed(FYI, not all these kind of app uses SafetyNet or Play Integrity), but some apps from government doesn't work so I had to give up on those, other than that it's been a pretty nice experience since about 6 years ago.
If you just want to review your spending categories across all your accounts and don't need all the fancy planning features with more involved programs, I have been liking Fidelity Fullview. It's free and lets me keep tabs on things which is all I really used mint for as well.

Fullview also is one of the few services not married to Plaid, if that's a factor for you.
I was talking to a friend a couple of days ago who believes climate change is all wrong science and he brought up that "the guy who 'invented' the hockey curve is being sued because it is wrong".

It doesn't matter whether he wins, the damage is done and now his children believe it is wrong science... That's the damage...
I sometimes do write a letter to my future self. I should do it more often though!
I'm quite happy with Monarch.
Arguments against same-sex marriage are often framed in terms of defending traditional or religious values. This is common refrain in anti-gay hate groups^1 and is used to push homophoic agendas.

1: https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/11/06/traditional-values-poten...
why punish twice for one crime ?
If you read the Wikipedia page on Koch's postulates you'll see that Koch himself abandoned and modified them for various bacteria. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch's_postulates#Postulates

Viruses, and some unculturable bacteria and other organisms, are simply unique with regard to Koch's second postulate, in that they literally can't be cultured in a pure manner. Hierarchical and tangential flow filtration can, however, get them incredibly pure (as quality controlled by electron microscope) after culturing. I'm not an expert here. This is probably not routinely done as it would be costly and to no purpose for the particular experiment. But it can be done, and I'd be extraordinarily surprised it it hadn't been done.

> We've never, again as far as I'm aware, isolated a virus from a sick person, exposed a healthy person to it, and seen the same disease symptoms show up with the virus now present in their system.

Yes, we also don't typically expose healthy people to disease-causing bacteria either. This is a hard sell post-WWII.

Typically when you culture a virus you'll also have a separate culture that is exposed to everything else minus the virus. You'll "purify" both in the same manner, expose some animals or cultured cells to the purified virus culture, and expose other animals or cultured cells to the purified control culture. The only thing that differs is the presence of the virus.

You can also literally view cells being infected by physical viruses in culture, and image or video what happens to them during this process. E.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6330349/

Read the "Routine Diagnosis" part of this article.
ARM Morello does that check in hardware.
I'm in the energy sector and have been thinking of fine tuning a local llm on energy-specific legal documents, court cases, and other industry documents. Would this solve some of the problems you mention about producing specific answers? Have you tried something like that?
Suppose you want to describe someone by the action they perform. There is a normal way to do this, and "pocket picker" is an example of it.

There is also an extremely marked, almost-never-used way to do it, and "pickpocket" is an example of that.

What are you trying to say?
It seems to me like this is a core problem with the scummy nature of this business. I’d like to believe you’re weong but have trouble given the business model.
Maybe Satoshi was a group of people
They care insofar it can affect EU residents outside the EU (this legislation ignores physical regions; it's your nationality in a EU country that makes you eligible for these rights). With the GDPR, the easiest solution is to make this info a voluntary choice for the user to say or to assume all your users are EU residents.

Microsoft is making their compliance with the DMA an option the user could pick during the OOBE. I assume Apple will use the region choice at the start of configuring iOS to do the same thing.

I can only think of one device maker that actively tries to region check the originating IP for legal compliance and that's Nintendo (who just start tracking you more if you're an EU citizen in say, the US.)
Where we’ve seen a lot of usage of Framework Laptop Mainboards is in projects that need stronger performance than an RPi but either a thinner form factor than something like a NUC or the ability to be battery powered. That leads to projects like this: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/rasti-computer-is-a-...
POSIX is just a bunch of rules some committee made up. People aren't obligated to abide by them. They should get rid of their "reservation" rule, it's pointless since people learn by copying examples and there's tons of _t type examples out there. It's not like the POSIX police will arrest them for it.
I find it depends on the number of subcommands and if those subcommands are clear. It's rather useful to have the options whittled down to just the ones you need if you know which subcommand you need but otherwise can be painful.

Grepping through a large list of options is also painful, seems ther needs to be a balance here.
So are you seriously advocating that there be no consequences at all for those who would hurt others, and even kill them, just because you personally define it as "slavery"?
Why don't modern vehicles show detailed engine codes?

Reduction in chances the vehicle owner will take the vehicle into the dealership for servicing and up-selling.

As a side note and FWIW many vehicles do have button/key combinations that will display this data. Youtube is full of videos that show how to enable displaying them and how to perform many undocumented settings on most vehicles. Even my 25 year old vehicle has debugging functions that can be enabled by holding in the odometer button, turning the ignition switch to ON and waiting 7 seconds.
TL;DR: real-world performance between the three will be highly dependent on just how bad your code is in different metrics. Also: the CE version shouldn’t be considered representative of the non-CE version performance.
Are we talking about non-Apple laptops? Because the used market for those is abysmal. My 5 year old Asus is worth about the cost of shipping and a new battery.
[dupe]

More discussion weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39118534
The create account page seems to have incorrect form settings at least for Chrome.

The email field prompts to create a new password (and generates it there) and the password field there is no prompt.
It sounds like you have to opt-in.
Actual Budget is fantastic and now open source. The bank integrations are only for European banks though I think.
How quickly, exactly? Do you think the US military would step in to resolve a dispute regarding a consumer electronics company?

> considering it’s the GDP of all these evil tech companies that’s paying for their national security and health care

I find the logic of the article you linked highly questionable.

> Certainly it is more difficult than what drug companies do now, which is to set a high U.S. price, assuring profitability, no matter how thin the profit margin on European sales.

So there is a profit margin, right? Otherwise drug companies wouldn't sell their products in Europe. It seems that this article and the MFN legislation is worried about the high drug prices in the US. Fair enough, I suppose, but how exactly is that "subsidizing the European health system"?

> The goal of the MFN concept is to deliver fair prices to Americans without diminishing drug company profits.

So you are specifically protecting the drug companies' massive *profits*. Not research or production costs, profits.

> Since the introduction of the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit, Medicare has been prohibited by law from using its volume-purchasing power to negotiate prices for the drugs it covers, while government-run European health authorities have used such volume-purchasing power to obtain drastically low prices.

That seems very dumb.
What are the issues with Mozilla's use of onerep?
It's small, but I wouldn't call it inexistent.

Ebay shows lots of parts available right now, e.g. https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=framework+lap...

And, if you switch to sold items, you can see that people are indeed buying used motherboards, speakers, keyboards, etc: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=framework+lap...
I don't understand how everyone keeps making this mistake over and over.
They explicitly just said "in 5-10 years".

So many people continually use arguments that revolve around 'I used it once and it wasn't the best and/or me things up', and imply that this will always be the case.

There are many solutions already for knowledge editing, there are many solutions for improving performance, and there will very likely continue to be many improvements across the board for this.

It took ~5 years from when people in the NLP literature noticed BERT and knew the powerful applications that were coming, until the public at large was aware of the developments via ChatGPT.
It may take another 5 before the public sees the developments happening now in the literature hit something in a companies web UI.
This has been my experience- i haven’t tried any of the newest generation, but have tried many.

“any vr headset that has a virtual theatre” won’t offer a good movie watching experience
> Decentralized micro-transactions would have been cool had they been used with a decent friendly UI and been integrated into a browser or two as an extension.

My position on cryptocurrency as well. I think that the ability to send money in this decentralized manner is fascinating. It's too bad it went far, far beyond that. Cryptocurrency should have never tried to replace normal currency, or any of that NFT bs.
Or perhaps, just thinking out loud, you could extend support for the service to other countries. The EU would love you for this at the very least.
The old.reddit link is a whole lot more usable for me so I thank them for that lol.
Pat, All i see is some kind of hidden affinity to religion among the sciency types amd some weird end of the world fantasy.

I am open to a good argument. I am yet to see one though.

Per the crazies we are to spend trillions that pushes 100s of millions into poverty by spiking energy costs (esp cost of reliable energy), which will affect most econ activity downstream. This will create more conflicts, mass migrations and deaths NOW.
Yes, every part of the Bluesky (atproto) network is composable, including moderation (labeling).
What happens when markets have opposing requirements?

Ex: China, Russia, KSA, EU? No, they cannot dictate rules world-wide. Each market can dictate market requirements but they can't have them imposed in other jurisdictions they have no control over.
Several years ago I learned from the shop owner across the street that the guy who ran The Hippie Shop, a place I often visited, had a fatal accident while crossing the street in winter (icy conditions). It's still a downer, he was rather young, extremely friendly and his shop had this unique and lovely atmosphere that I still miss.
If you put a screen 1 inch away from your eye, your eye can't focus on it properly.

To adjust for this, the optics in all VR headsets are set up so that the "focal distance" is around 1-2m.

Articles aren't really addressing this concern because this kind of eye strain has been a "solved problem" in the VR space for a long time, so any tech reviewers wouldn't pay attention to it even if it's a good question.
Many articles don't address visionOS limitations for 3rd party app developers. Everyone want to have a killer app but many ideas are simply not possible because:

1) there is no access to video/depthmap stream like in iPhone ARKit so it's not possible to roll your down Object Detection or ML Model or even simple QRCode scanner

2) Latency for Image Tracking seems to be around 1-2fps comparing to iPhone ARKit

3) in some WWDC videos hand tracking seems to be not as precise and also having latency

4) You cannot implement something similar like Mac Expose because iOS/iPadOS/visionOS is much more limited than MacOS

5) At least on iOS/iPad depthmap from lidar is much worse than those provided from TrueDepth (and even those got significantly worse from iPhone 14+)

Overall for productivity I find some future iteration of XReal glasses more compelling and better direction:

- much cheaper

- very lightweight

- work with connected to desktop or mobile phone

- can have lower latency since connected directly with usb-c cable

- can possibly have less software limitation if connected to desktop

Ideally I would like to have some combination of google glasses / meta ray-ban / xreal so that you can wear it outdoor for simple HUD and AI voice control but can be connected to smartphone or laptop to provide AR experience similar like in xreal but just with better resolution.
see also https://www.iccl.ie/2023/new-iccl-reports-reveal-serious-sec...

Google unfortunately is no longer providing cached data for http://isasecurity.org/patternz
I think there are ways to detect if stdout is a pipe and operate differently (e.g. by using different defaults for coloring output), but I'm not sure if there are ways to detect what the other side of the pipe is, much less what `dry-run` would actually be expected to be in this case
Not a dumb question at all. Yeah, in the process of finding you within a data brokers system and sending a removal request, they need to send that broker your personal data... it's a bit awkward. Optery, another PII removal service has a whole section about this in their privacy policy (section 7 of https://www.optery.com/privacy-policy/):

> Optery, Inc. must send your PII to the data brokers and information aggregators included in the Removal Lists... We cannot control, guarantee or warranty how these third-parties will treat your PII or what they will do with it.
The Expansion Cards are indeed hot swappable!
For anyone reading the parent comment, you should avoid YNAB if you use an American Express card. YNAB uses Plaid and the overall integration from YNAB through to Amex and back does not work.
Why? That's already the case: US law applies to US citizens and there are already some laws that are extraterritorial and impose burdens that companies in other countries must comply with.

For instance, financial institutions in Europe have special reporting and KYC requirements for the accounts of American citizens, even if they're long-term residents in European countries and dual-citizens, because of FATCA.

Extraterritoriality is not unique to the GDPR and the EU, nor is it new.
I've never seen the social contract, let alone signed it. I suppose I used to sort of believe that it existed, but that belief, like so many others I once held, has not survived the past decade or so. Certainly I believe in consequences, but they seem little better than random, though they quite rarely touch the wealthy/connected.
Put some dates on your blog posts Mozilla!
Theoretically.
The language in laws should be structured similar to code. It has some logical structure. Thus should be more easily adopted to LLMs than other 'natural language'.

So despite the early news about lawyers submitting 'fake' cases, it is only a matter of time before the legal profession is up-ended. There are a ton of paralegals, etc.. doing 'grunt' work in firms, that an LLM can do. These are considered white color, and will be gone.

It will progress in a similar fashion to coding.

It will be like having a junior partner that you have to double check, or that can do some boiler plate for you.

You can't trust completely, but you don't trust your junior devs do you, but it gets you 80% there.
> Only when the shell calls other external C programs. Ten lines of calling ffmpeg or curl is not shell programming.

100% wrong. this is what the shell was designed to do and where it is at it's best.

often shell "scripts" are used like "macros" or power-tools, shortcuts to save off a complex invocation or workflow. error handling isn't as important in a one-off and "adequate" is whatever gets the job done for the user, which it does.

it's rare that 1kloc shell script is the best engineering choice vs. (in the ancient days) Perl or (today) Python. e.g. "real" programming languages. you mostly should not write large programs in shell. and you really should not glue together pipelines of external programs using, for example, Python or C, which is onerous.

ah, the HN crowd: where everything is either black or white, great or terrible. how about "each to his own" and "use the right tool for the job"
That's for a court to decide. It's certainly reasonable to guess that that court case is coming. The only question is how soon.
Did you possibly enter the prefix +49 as part of the number?

It seems to expect a number without the country prefix, starting with a number like "174" or whatever your provider prefix is...
Easy answer, create a separate company called Apple EU that licenses and resells services to the EU and follows EU laws.

They already do something analogous for taxes purposes.
I doubt you speak from experience, but I do - I've spent a couple decades doing government contracting of one sort or another. I'm not desperate - I know I could make a lot more money in another sector - I'm patriotic. And I would say the majority of people I've worked with over the years fit that description. Certainly not all of them, and certainly it depends on where you go, but I think it's more the norm than the exception.

One thing I've seen a lot over the years is people moving around the industry to what they perceive as problem spots, with the intention of making everything better. They get there and find it's much more difficult than they expected. I'm not saying there's no corruption or abuse, I hear about it on the news the same as you. But it's rare enough compared to the sheer amount of honest work that I've never seen it personally. I think a lot of what is perceived from the outside as dysfunction is people trying to solve hard problems imperfectly. Government is hard.
There has been some work by others already on this front: https://docs.bsky.app/blog/feature-bridgyfed
I have been a bit lax with my budgeting lately, but YNAB has been a constant in my life since 2014. Syncs perfectly with Barclays UK, Starling Bank, Revolut.

I recommend their Four Rules to budgeting to anyone that wants to learn how to manage money and expenses: https://www.ynab.com/the-four-rules
There have been a few. I know https://www.hootsuite.com is one of those, but does not currently seem updated to support any of the ones you asked about!

https://fedica.com/ seems to maybe be a parent company (acquisition?) of Hootsuite.

https://buffer.com/publish I first heard about this ages ago as a way to build a queue of things to put out to Twitter. They likely support Mastodon and LinkedIn now, but probably not yet the others. See https://support.buffer.com/article/567-supported-channels
Temperature increases will be much larger over land. The values are for global averages, and most heat capacity is in the ocean. Not only that but some places will warm far more than others. Yes, all the other stuff is bad too, including ocean acidification. But they're intimately connected, and the rate of temperature change might be one of the largest changes in habitats worldwide.
> You act as if they are given a choice but it is made under duress.

No, under threat of *torture*.

Solitary confinement is torture.
Well now i kinda want to talk about Nostr. I heard of it before but i'm always wary of prototype projects dying.

What's your opinion of Nostr? I like that they seem fond of SSB, and have the same opinions i do of SSB (and it's flaws!)[1]. Though i do find it odd that there doesn't seem to be more attention to somehow chaining/federating/propagating notes between relays. I don't think it needs a super robust method, but from this[1] it sounds like there was basically zero attention put towards that.

[1]: https://fiatjaf.com/nostr.html
Lawyers have been resisting technological advances for years. No industry rejects technological tools as vehemently as the legal industry, arguing that everything has to be judged by people. Even laws that are available online do not even link to the paragraphs that are referenced. All in all, progress is institutionally suppressed here in order to preserve jobs.
Given that it appears to be completely broken (last tweet for that account was 6 hours ago, and it's showing a 6 month old cached version), why would I bother creating an account?
More here on official post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39274631
> I wonder why apple is so hell bent on enforcing Safari/Webkit as the browser engine?

security. browsers are famous for escaping their sandbox.

this is from November 2023: https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/30/23982296/google-chrome-b...
Artist Used Microsoft Paint to Create Art into Her 90s
The browser has a built in ad blocker, effectively removing the ads that pay for a website. To then put your own ads _anywhere_ after that and pretend that you're helping website owners is a scam. Imagine if YouTube started blocking sponsored content and put their own ads there.
> The problem: a command line interface must be human readable and machine readable at the same time. There is no canonical way to solve this problem.

It's not really the "same time". Usually, human and machine use the same command, but at different times. And there are many ways to enable different outputs, even at the same time. But this all depends on having some standard which everyone follows. And that's where it becomes complicated.