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Absolutely this. The current Labour leadership is, for all its faults, laser focused on actually winning the next election rather than making the party's long-term loyal supporters purr.
i have fastapi server which gets and mangles data. and calls numpy with that. data is badly formatted, i need to make it right. functional code is better for that. i do not want one more service now to be added in typescript, with effect ts.

there are no apis for haskell or other functional langs for data i need.
Alot of these ad centric platform moves fund things like the popular free TV apps like Tubi and Freevee.

Vizio had an eye on something not dissimilar, and Walmart until 2020 owned Vudu and while that didn't pan out in this space, I think they see this as another avenue in that space to try again, its relatively good business if you can manage it.

I'm honestly shocked they didn't buy Roku yet.

Not that I like it, but I see their business reasoning here. There's a whole new set of streaming services that are becoming similar to over the air TV delivery in the sense that they're 100% ad supported and Vizio wanted in on that, and I think Walmart does too.

Its not only about showing "homescreen" ads, though that itself is a surprisingly burgeoning advertising business.

All this is to say, I'm glad I have an Apple TV and I don't put up with any of this. None of my TVs have ever connected to the internet. The next one I buy might just be a monitor made to purpose
What a headline.

Developing markets are not going to scale back. The people concerned with climate change need to explain how any of this is going to work. Apparently they are going to try do so with explanations like, "yes, more coal and coal plants, but maybe they'll burn less?" Good luck.
Ignoring this kind of absurd distinction is what made Apple the most valuable company on earth. (That doesn't justify their behaviour in this case, as PWAs are a secure alternative to sideloading.)
> Spawning multiple tasks requires that each task be 'static, which means they cannot borrow data from their parent task

Is this just tokio thing? For example https://docs.rs/async-executor/latest/async_executor/struct.... does not have 'static in the signature, but I'm not nearly familiar with the topic to understand fully all the details
The price of a brand new Dell precision PC with a core i9 13900 CPU (24 cores), 64 GB RAM and 2X2TB NVMe is probably around 2.5k$. It costs tens of Euros per month in electricity to run this PC. The hardware is good to go for some 3 years, before running into various issues (newer CPUs becoming much more power efficient, firmware updates getting less and less frequent etc). Consider also the cost of components failure, time wasted in dealing with hardware, etc.

On hetzner it all costs less than 100$ per month. Doesn’t this imply that it’s better to rent than to buy?
Your examples are not what the PP was talking about.

If I know some information you do not and I make a trade with you based on that information to my gain, that is not fraud. There are rules that could put me in the "insider trading" target, but there are plenty of situations that don't. I might have done better market research than you did and know that some commodity is about to jump in value or some company is about to become more valuable due to some other activity in the world. Me trading on that information is not fraud, it's smart investing.

You examples are fraud and maybe (?) fraud. I'm not a lawyer so I couldn't say if lying to someone selling you something about it's value is fraud or not. Morally it's wrong, sure. Legally, I have no idea. Both of your examples are, IMO, bad.
Interesting. Balancing exercises can strengthen your legs too, although obviously leg exercises would work better. I noticed a problem in older people who have never gone to a gym, is that they have no idea how to exercise, and no motivation to either.

I guess they really need physical therapists.
The sky hasn't fallen for the 70% of smartphone users who have an Android.
bgfx and The-Forge come to mind:

https://github.com/bkaradzic/bgfx

https://github.com/ConfettiFX/The-Forge
Well, I guess it's some sort of public gesture of false reassurance, since all I have been hearing about these past two years is Russia's hypersonic missiles with plasma shields that cannot be shot down, and China's hypersonic arsenal. I am old enough to remember how Ronald Reagan was roasted about the SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative, or "Star Wars") program aimed to develop space-based systems to protect the United States from nuclear missile attacks. Hey, it mentioned lasers and particle beams, so as a Trekkie I was all ears. It would be interesting to see the fits and starts of that program over the past 40 years. It was renamed the MDA (Missile Defense Agency).
We didn't even know how many stars had planets until not so long ago. The idea we're any good at detecting advanced civilisations in the visible universe is highly questionable.
They’re a lot of the same people.

John Gruber for example used to rail against the Security by Obscurity argument (correctly, IMO), but makes the same security by obscurity argument today.
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As a fellow UB nitpicker, I'd like to hear more about your favorite UB triggers. E.g. in the space of file IO.
> Unless you are 'free speech absolutist'.

Not a contradiction. You can believe in absolute free speech but still be law abiding.
I would say this is more of a dig on enterprisey executive corporate speak, but I can see it applying to the startup world too
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I told you you should all go back to the office for the culture and the interpersonal relationships. Now you got this.
An alternative (and hopefully pessimistic) take: China sees itself being in conflict with most of the world’s major military powers in the next decade, and is girding itself to eliminate reliance on its long oil supply chain. If you’re a pessimistic sort, you’d also note that many of the US’s Asian allies have a similarly long/disruptable oil supply chain, which will make their economies extremely vulnerable to disruption (as an example, notice how much damage a single Iranian-supplied militia has been able to do to middle eastern shipping.)

Eliminating fossil fuel dependence isn’t just good for the environment. It might be a matter of national survival.
>I'd like to buy a TV and know it will work the same in two decades as it does today.

Don't connect it to the internet.
It's better for me, a user of an iPhone.
It's hard to make commuter rail work outside of commuting hours beyond a few locations like Manhattan that are so painful and expensive to drive in and park.

I'd have trouble justifying subsidizing every off-hour rider with a $100 bill given there are trains; it just will probably take you 2 or 3x the time relative to driving if you want to head home after a play or a dinner.
They are not allowed to give their browser an advantage under the DMA. If you take a look at BrowserEngineKit and BrowserKit there is a significant API surface area they offer for third-party browser engines. They must have been building this for some time. It's really detailed, down to allowing developers to implement their own JIT! [1] they have custom UI components replacing their standard scroll views with ones that better support nested scrollable DOM elements. It's a staggering amount of engineering effort

I can totally believe that there is not enough time to re-think and re-architect how to implement push notifications, local storage and whatever other perks PWAs get for non-Safari third-party browser engines running as "apps." They may have lots of money and engineers, but throwing more of them at this problem is not going to build a well designed, thoroughly tested, and secure implementation any faster

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/browserenginekit/p...
Cool and normal HN at its finest.
Actually your post suggests that AI may increase the use of low-level languages because of its ability to generate code. I think auto-generation of code, especially C, long predates LLMs.
It is a big problem and all it takes is one visitor who neglected to clean the boat they had used in an affected body of water before boating in a pristine body of water. Here is only one example. [0]

The problem also occurs for things that grow on land and can be pretty difficult to deal with. [1]

Ecosystem changes due to introduction of non-native species is a global problem. [2]

Texas is like Montana in that we have notices and instructions posted on many popular lakes and on the TPWD (Texas Parks and Wildlife Dept) website. The problem is that many people do not see these notices and they regularly visit multiple lakes during the boating season. I personally think it is a common vector.
[0] https://www.nps.gov/subjects/invasive/aquatic-invasive-speci...

[1] https://www.fs.usda.gov/wildflowers/invasives/index.shtml

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7087615/
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Sure, but historically Apple made that recurring revenue by simply selling expensive hardware devices at intervals, one sale at a time. The growth period of those is now over. There aren’t ever going to be 5x as many smartphone or tablet or laptop users in the future as there are today. To support continued y/y increases they need to increase revenue somewhere and it’s not going to be from new product categories, at least for a few years, such as when the AV(non-P) is much lighter and an order of magnitude cheaper.

The problem is that they can’t simply continue to earn four hundred billion a year - that’s not enough. Each year it must increase. No revenue figure is ever sufficient.

Apple’s eras are:

- the growth of the pre-graphical personal computer market

- the growth of the graphical computer market (Mac) (worth noting that they mostly failed to capture this)

- the growth of the portable/internet graphical computer market (ie affordable personal laptops)

- the growth of the smartphone market

- rentseeking (and maybe the growth of the VR hardware market if they and Zucc have guessed correctly)

There isn’t another growing hardware market for them to surf at this point. They’re doing their best with smart speakers, earbuds, headphones, watches, and tablets but in the grand scheme of revenue nobody really cares about those and they won’t grow substantially in the future.
> This is absolutely incorrect. Whole industries exist to generate information advantages for trading. It’s perfect legal and encouraged for price discovery and market efficiency reasons.

Of course one party in the trade may actually have more information than the other. But the point is that they are both trading on the basis of public information. The industries you mention are involved in harvesting and analysing that public information, not selling inside information.

> It becomes illegal when I have an obligation to the other counterparties in the trade.

Again, I think you have it backwards: you have an obligation to the other counterparties (not to trade on inside information) because we have decided that insider trading should be illegal.
Nobody cares (nobody should care) about the amount of coal, or gas, or oil burned or number of coal/gas plants constructed. We should care about the amount of CO2 and other GH gasses in the atmosphere. The actual important number, not the derivative numbers intending to hide issues and misdirect public. And that number is constantly rising and that rise is accelerating. Always, so far.
1. Contract says that goods must be delivered at 4pm UTC

Problem solved, unless the government changes the law too little before 4pm UTC. But handling this case in software is impractical.
They did it this year (or the end of last year maybe) as well :)
> Should open-source projects allow disabling telemetry?

All software should, regardless of it being open-source or not. It should also be opt-in.

Not even anonymizing the data is also a MASSIVE red flag
Depends on the data types and if the WASM code can make use of SIMD.
Oh definitely. I only meant that it isn’t necessarily aligned with the typical assumptions people are likely to have about “engineering”.
Not when you're thinking in terms of probabilities.
Sadly, some of the countries doubling down on coal, are going to be most severely impacted by climate change.
Hopefully it’s a correction. The banks get a little smaller but it’s a huge opportunity. Once these properties are written down and sold to residential developers, we can add more units and make cities more livable.
Unfortunate that it sounds like they're going to use their platform to shove even more ads in our faces, Wal-mart has oddly become one of the last places you can still find a brand new "dumb" TV.
I actually agree with you. I think it's easier to make money on shitcoins than on on employer stock.
I've never really agreed with this assertion. What gives it the weight of being an axiom?
I thought all maps were drawn using web Mercator and that things were simply not large enough to be really distorted. Does gmaps and company do projected rendering?
Apple has been abusing their dominant market position for more than a decade, blocking browser competition with security being one of their excuses. They can't be trusted to be honest about what's a legitimate security issue, and what's just them using security as a smokescreen for anti-competitive behavior.

And in fact, they are not being honest in this very case. Their entire spiel is based on the idea that the 3rd party browsers will be malicious, and permit data sharing between different PWAs. It's a risk they've just made up, because they're already making all kinds of other security requirements on 3rd party browsers before allowing them on the platform. They could just have made this one of those requirements.
Another wealth transfer, yes.
I'm a person who generally prefers to pay money rather than attention and time, but if people really like to be bombed with ads and (mind) seeds planted to their brains, I can't argue.

On the other hand, I don't watch "TV". I watch a couple of shows semi-regularly and use my TV as a glorified HDR monitor for movies I own or as a second screen, that's all.
They do say the long real-estate cycle is 15-18 years. 2007 is 17 years ago.

While I don't like that type of rule of thumb, I can clearly feel why it makes sense.

I am on the brink of buying my first home as it is. And having seen peers having earned several hundreds of thousands from their houses over the past 4-5 years really adds pressure and FOMO.

I guess that is the sign to be extra cautious on buying. And I also think that this feeling is quite prevalent creating the perfect storm for a financial crisis.
> And incorrect casts from pointers to longs (instead of using uintptr_t).

That's not an issue on mainstream Linux, since uintptr_t and long always have the same size, both on 32-bit and on 64-bit. It's an issue only when using some new experimental stuff which uses two machine words per pointer, or when trying to port to Windows (where long is always 32-bit even when compiling for 64-bit).
On this conflation, I think the best discussion I read up to now was this: https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/in-the-shad...
No. This isn't about dictionary pedantry. 16-bit is actually frequently more expensive than 32-bit on x86.
Yeah, I thought the Mac comparison was easy to digest, but ultimately left me feeling still a little hungry. I'm thinking those that would install malware are obviously going to target the platform that is always online and that sells millions of units.

I remember how few Mac viruses there were back in the 90's vs. the PC platform. I don't think it had anything to do with System 7 security. ;-)

I'm not sure though if it wouldn't in fact hurt Apple's brand to give up the fight and instead install a big lever you can throw when you set up your iOS device that says, "Turn off security". Apple seems to be saying instead, you have choice — buy an Android.

I've never owned an Android though so I can say, is it rife with malware and other security compromises? Is the platform as hardened as iOS? Or it another case where the market is not as appealing as the iOS market to malware developers?
The main reason is that they need energy, and coal is cheap, reliable and abundant. Worry about the environment is not at the top of the list. They aren't making cement or steel with solar panels. This is the reality.
You are conspicuously not noting how much Apple value the $89 billion they made on app store commissions last year.
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That can be the case, but there are also other causes.

Here's a study looking at some numbers: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10242407/

They found that in 2016 about 36.8 (± 1.0) million people had balance problems in the US.

Also, many people don't know they have these problems.
I've always wondered if there's a way to more efficiently tax more aspects of the "business world."

By "business world" I mean business operations and interactions between businesses. I realize that to some extent these taxes would ultimately be passed onto consumers. However, I think there is an upper limit to which that can happen.

For example, I feel like there can be an added or increased tax on mergers and acquisitions. I'm thinking more "sales tax."

Another thought I've had is implementing a tax on advertisement viewership. I don't really know how that'd be implemented so I haven't put much thought into it.
Yeah, that's for sure true.
Gentrification has way more to do with landlords - your neighbors and a couple of corporations - than the people that can afford the prices they were offered

I’ve been to a lot of cities in various time periods and almost nobody in any of them seems cognitively acute enough to recognize this

This seems to benefit the landed gentry as the squabbling they cause from their gambles on the highest rent and ownership prices possible completely exempts them from criticism

(In this model it draws the line at renters who offer an even higher rent to close faster, since there tends to always be units available at the offered price.)
Personally I have never found any consistent, widespread differences in the meaning of the words "software engineer", "developer", and "programmer", or even "coder". It's people who make software, with differences in job titles depending on company and fashion.
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Not going to happen in any meaningful scale. Absolutely not in Canada and perhaps on some degree in US. Media is already conditioning population about that in Canada.
I broadly agree with your overall point, but:

>High taxes

Compared to where? Taxes in the UK are pretty middle of the road when compared to other Western democracies. A bit higher than in some, a bit lower than in others. That's not to say that the tax system is particularly fair, but the overall tax burden is not unusually high.
Isn't "amount of coal burned" a direct proxy for "amount of CO2 released into the atmosphere (by coal-powered electricity)"?
But how easy they are to detect is separate from the Drake equation - it's there only to demonstrate how many uncertainties there are.
Apple has made some significant improvements in their handling of PWAs recently, most notably supporting push notifications. Which makes their recent moves even more discouraging.

https://www.thisdot.co/blog/the-renaissance-of-pwas
Thanks!
I will add completions soon.
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> risks from installing software that compromises system integrity with malware or other malicious code

Sorry, what? Are they implying that iPhone's security isn't built inside the OS itself, but somehow depends on having every app pass their 30 second review on the store? That doesn't seem right.

> exposure to illicit, objectionable, and harmful content due to lower content and moderation standards, and increased risks of scams, fraud, and abuse

Like the deepfake video ads of politicians trying to sell me crypto that I constantly see on YouTube or Meta's apps, all coming from the official store?
> - economically Russia has been doing surprisingly well since the war started. The EU sanctions drove the gas price through the roof last year so Russia could make billions selling it to countries like India and China

The counter argument to that seems so obvious I'm surprised I have to write it down:

If you're a government official and pass a law that in a month a cinema will be demolished - the cinema is going to increase its revenue a lot in that month. There are multiple reasons why, for example:

1) People who planned to go to a cinema two months later have to go there sooner. russian resources are cheap, and so people rushed to buy them BEFORE the sanctions will in effect.
2) The cinema might be selling popcorn cheaper in order to sell all its stock. Plus it's not buying new resources for the following months, so operation costs lower. In case of russia, they were incentivized to sell the resources cheaply; this doesn't necessarily mean cheaper than before, but normally at a surge of demand you increase prizes and that didn't happen here. Understanding this is just a temporary surge, and moreover, the trade might fall down considerably below the before-surge times, russia likely scaled its resource industry down, not up.

So it was good for russia in the short term, but everyone, even in russia that is full of propaganda, recognized hard times are coming.

> - the earlier invasion of the Crimea went pretty smoothly and there were hardly any repercussions

Look at the history of USD to RUB exchange.

> - one of Putin's arguments for starting the war, was that it was to stop the Nato from expanding towards its borders. This argument is not new, Russia also brought it up in 2008 when there was talk about Georgia joining Nato.

Georgia has an order of magnitude smaller population than Ukraine. I think what's even more important is size and logistical problems. Was it really so hard to see that before the war?
It's a failure of incentives for accurate tracking.

It's the same reason that when you buy from McDonald's, the order shows on the screen as "ready for collection" then "collected", then disappears from the screen well before the food has hit the counter at all.

The staff are incentivised to just press everything through the system asap regardless of the actual status of the food. They're presumably performance-measured against targets and aren't punished for just checking that everything went through quickly regardless of the reality.

Domino's are particularly bad (or noticeably bad) for it.

It's an important lesson about remote top down control and a failure mode of JIT systems. I've long wanted to prepare a proper blog post about this exact phenomenon using Domino's and McDonald's as examples, but I haven't put in the effort to collect the right evidence to fully understand the negative effects of IT systems misrepresenting reality.
Because it's "enterprise".
In this case, however, it is both.
For a financial services company they should be using a compiled language. Something like C# or Java or Rust or Go with Postgres.
I am with you. Complex architectures where you have to fight it even for simple changes is a recipe for burn out as you paddle and paddle and you are stuck in the same place.