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Next up, Gruber attempts to spin how Apple's self-admitted deliberate sabotage of PWAs is really just for our benefit.

This was after he spun the LastPass debacle as no big deal. One of his comments, get this, was:

> Instead, the scam LassPass app tries to steer you to creating a “pro” account subscription for $2/month, $10/year, or a $50 lifetime purchase. Those are actually low prices for a scam app — a lot of scammy apps try to charge like $10/week.
I have developed a lot of Python based websites (mostly Django), some quite complex, and I have very rarely seen anything that takes seconds to load - sometimes some database queries have been slow. In most cases load time is dominated by loading JS and images.

> The reasons it was slow were all the usual culprits - a misused ORM being the main one.

So, slow queries.

I have not has such bad issues with dependency management either. Not even with old stuff someone else wrote years ago.
What would be “minimal viable vehicle physics”?

I’ve been prototyping an f-zero type game and so far have:

- pressing forward increases thrust

- thrust makes vehicle accelerate forward

- friction is higher for the component of velocity perpendicular to tires

- vehicle turns faster when it is moving faster (I don’t actually simulate tire direction)

- as a hack to make it feel a bit like drifting, make the vehicle visually turn more than it is actually turning

Any simple thing I should add?
VR headsets work like you're focusing at least a few feet away, so if you're nearsighted you need vision correction.
I wouldn't want to deal with losing papers, ripping them, etc. why not have the AR create them for you? Seems like you want some extra realism surrounding your screen space. So have a life-like book where individual pages (easy to turn hopefully) are different browser tabs.
Sounds like something you can have or enjoy in real life, and without having an expensive 600-650g weight on your head. (I do like the idea of virtual postits, mind you).
Developers are not responsible for UX/UI. Product designers and managers are.
As someone who has been using software since the 80s, I would say awareness of UX/UI in industry has steadily risen. However, there are some dynamics that are detrimental to software quality, such as the principal-agent problem in business software (where the buyer is not the user) and the promotion-driven design problem in large companies (where the UX may take a back seat to other criteria for promotion).
Eh, I’m usually in fairly dark sunglasses anyway. Trying to hold the worst of the cataracts off until my 70s if I can.
There shouldn't be any as long as you're not a child. Children need to spend a lot of time outside to avoid developing myopia.
> Reading your opinion on the subject, I believe you’re struggling to make sense of what is happening. I suspect there is a combination of factors here: you are reinforcing a bias, can’t wrap your head around it, don’t have much experience working with AI, haven’t deeply considered the evolution of the universe.

Please don't try to profile other HN users.
I think you're underestimating the quality of customer support. People are going to be out there testing every flaw in the support system, staffed or unstaffed. LLMs have no hope.
You know, the further this goes on, the less difference I see between both sides. Most people on both sides are brainwashed to the core and are unable to think critically regardless of the country they live in. If you lived in Russia, you would be just another Putin's supporter, trust me. Before accusing me of "lying" and the dead man of something he never did, please reread your own comment carefully, then show the same consideration to my reply. I'm done here.
Both Windows and Linux communicate the IP of the DNS server using either DHCP or a value you have set statically in the network configuration.. and Chromium just uses the IP.

When I see the discussion about "dns client" it is not immediately clear to me if the concern is that it is using its own client but still respecting the system-provided IP address or if it is using its very own hardcoded DNS server address, presumably Google's.

On Windows and Linux it respects the system's address configuration.
You can wear contacts for VR as long as they're not colored. (Well, if there's no eye tracking even that's fine.)
Nancy Pelosi’s success at options trading at 83 years old is really quite remarkable.

Imagine having returns that dunk on even the best financial minds on Wall Street as an octogenarian congresswoman nailing calls on tech stocks. I guess the rest of us just have a “skill issue” as the kids say.
i lol‘d
Plenty of companies do stock buybacks without also engaging in predatory pricing that customers are powerless to fight. The situation is even more problematic when you consider the lack of alternatives, and the often live-preserving nature of the product.

> Stock buybacks are a way of returning value to shareholders.

This is also a problematic framing that ignores the broader situation. And that’s the tricky thing about framing things. It’s easy to manipulate the narrative and obscure the unreasonableness of the underlying reality if you sufficiently narrow the frame.
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should
It’s that or “fix our culture”.

Thank god these drugs came along, really, because we were never gonna accomplish that.
I don't know about glass, but any junk in molten metal just burns up and the ashes can be skimmed off the top. It's not really the metal I'm talking about, it's the plastic and paper which are pointless to even have in the system.
From your comment I think you are viewing this as a cultural problem.

It’s an optimisation problem of our political system. It’s not that we are not wanting to inconvenience people. It’s that people have rights relating to property and our electoral system is set up geographically so benefits that are non-local are externalised in electoral calculus.

Political systems are complex adaptive systems. They exist to perpetuate themselves. Their decisions will be whatever leads to their short term (read the foreseeable future of the humans involved) survival.

This isn’t an indictment of democracy itself but our system could need to be renovated. It is a little pathologically short circuited.
> I guess the linux kernel still supprorting binaries from ages ago might be too.

Actually it's Linus making sure that kernel changes don't break old binaries from ages ago. And in fact there were many cases of undocumented behavior being relied on by apps, and Linus would send big rants about how you never break userspace, whether the behavior is documented or not.

Don't have any of them on hand right now, unfortunately.
This right here is why I'd never send my kids to a traditional school. It's absolutely horrifying what we make our most vulnerable, impressionable, and emotionally immature members of society go through.

I used to be a school teacher and quit because I could not stand to see the institutional cruelty. The crazy part to me is when I try to talk about this to other adults they just look at me like I'm crazy. Because it's free childcare. And, "well, I turned out just fine", spoken by an anxious, unhealthy drone who hates their life of quiet desperation.

See https://cantrip.org/gatto.html for more
OK, this is enough in itself to disqualify Firefly.
High DPI monitor text effectively can't be misaligned, especially since Apple's text rendering always dilated characters instead of trying to fit them onto pixel grids.
What's the cultural fix for having broken satiety signaling?
>Not a fan of the “main” branch revolution?

Why not 'canon'?
> Who do we send the compensation to for Leonardo da Vinci? Or Shakespeare, for a text-based example?

Those authors aren't alive and their works are in the public domain. Bringing them up is irrelevant and a diversion from the actual problem, which is that creators alive today whose work is under copyright today and who need to make a living from their art are having it taken with zero compensation and had it fed into AI, stealing their effort.

> A model trained only on licensed data is still an existential threat to the incomes of people whose works were never included in the model, precisely because they're only useful to the extent that they generalise beyond their own examples.

Again, a diversion. We can debate how much AI trained on properly-licensed AI should be controlled, but it's pretty clear that the bare minimum is for all AI training data to require explicit permission from the creator of that data.
> […] a war of 1812 between Great Britain and United States. Both countries were democracies at that time.

By what definition the British Empire, a constitutional monarchy, had been a democracy in 1812 if all (and not just the fourty-shilling freeholders) men aged 21+ with some women aged 30+ only became allowed to vote in 1918, 106 years later, and all women aged 21+ were finally allowed to vote in 1928?
> "You're holding it wrong"

I cringe every time I hear someone say this to malign stupid users. Yes, I hear it at work.

Some people legit only read the headlines about that story, not the articles.
Go type in:

<p>Hello
<br></br>
World!

And see the errors that now show up because of the wisdom we gained… wait, it still renders alright? I guess we still have much to learn then. Or, there might be something to gracefully handling certain classes of errors while crashing on exceptional cases.
"The worst attack on DNS ever discovered."

But it's not an attack on DNS. It's attack on a proposed "extension" that was never ready to be adopted but was revived and pushed out immediately after a 2008 attack on certain DNS software that received much hype, namely, an attack on popular DNS cache software, recursive resolver software, whetever one chooses to call it.

Some software was vulnerable. Some was not. I'm still using the software that was not affected. It isn't affected by "KeyTrap" either.

Like KeyTrap the 2008 vulnerability was not an "attack on DNS" either. It was an attack on certain DNS software.

A flaw in "DNSSEC" or some particular DNS software is not a flaw in DNS.

If the flaw was in DNS itself, then _all_ DNS software, including the software I am using, would be affected. It isn't.
What do you mean I can have this in real life? I am talking about having a bunch of paper sheets, each being its own small screen.
It's not really true that black wallpaper saves battery. Black wallpapers have been shown to make almost no difference on smartphones.
> returning money to shareholders

There is nothing to return. Handing out is what it is.

> And since I have a 401k invested in index funds, I'm a shareholder. So the criticism of "spending on shareholders" they actually mean "vast swaths of Americans whose retirement and pensions are invested in the stock market

This is a common repeated fallacy. Nice for you to profit but this is no whole gain for society.
Imagine marrying a twenty year younger venture capitalist toy boy to manage her finances for her .. that's likely to be the remarkable secret sauce.
> they’re pushing their weird geeky ideas onto their users

This thing is like $5k all-in and even then you have to get on a waiting list. I wouldn’t really say that they’re pushing this on people.
This is a fantastic effort by the workers.

- Ubisoft announced better than expected profits year on year.

- Works pay indexation has been at lower than CPI year on year.

- The company is asking for more, including more time, effort, and engagement, but paying less in real terms.

- Workers are entitled to an expectation of fair pay for fair work, and this is what it looks like when the company decides to take the profit out of the workers pockets.
The rest of us aren’t married to a prominent VC from whom much of the wealth originates.
Presumably it means individuals can use Apple for non compliance.
Many the engineer has found solace in this, only to learn they were on a project management didn’t actually care about.
I would expect that UI complexity is directly correlated with how bad the UX is.
The article says that once you’ve been fat once, you experience hunger more strongly for years afterwards, even if you lose weight. What exactly are you proposing we fix here?
You're misunderstanding. Apple exists in an echo chamber, Microsoft wishes they did.
One of the best ways to maintain I've experienced is to just keep track of your weight every single day. And trying to do it while knowing daily fluctuations don't matter much, but that if over time you've gained a few kgs, you need to figure out what happened wrong and how to fix it.

I had a daily habit metric to "eat well" but that was much more complex and mentally taxing, so I simplified it to "track your weight" which is just a minute of concrete simple investment every morning. Of course, weight isn't the only thing that matters, but if mostly you're eating healthy and quantity is the only issue then it's a useful metric to track.
The point is that most of that profit comes from government incentives that are supposed to encourage R & D. i.e. we pay several times more on drugs than we would without paying those incentives to the businesses, but only a small proportion of that extra money goes into R & D. Its incredibly inefficient funding.

My take on that problem. There are others. https://pietersz.co.uk/2007/02/patents-inefficient

I made the same point nearly 10 years before that with regard to R & D vs marketing expenditure. Its not a new problem.
The purchase path in the online store will ask what kind of contacts you have, and if they're compatible will recommend using them instead of inserts.

The main advantage is that it's less crowded in there, I suppose.
I'm mostly just sad you stopped the chain of people calling their parent post "unprofessional". We could have gotten it 4 replies deep!
I don't know if my experience is worth anything here.

But I lost a ton of weight doing cardio and going on a vegan diet. It was hard to put the weight off for long though. I also lost a lot of muscles and became "skinny fat". At some point, I hit a plateau and just couldn’t lose more fat despite a 500-1000 daily calorie deficit. It was unsustainable and probably unhealthy.

I did some research and switched to weight lifting and eating 20-30% of my calories in protein. Also, I increased my calorie intake to break even. The weight is staying off and I feel healthier and stronger.

Edit: I did go off my vegan diet when I switched my exercise strategy from cardio to weight lifting. I don’t have any diet restrictions. But I generally eat healthy food because the high protein diet generally makes me only eat whole foods such as chicken, vegetables, grains.
Replacing a paper would be just like opening a new browser tab.

A virtual book can’t give you the same level of interaction as a physical one. Virtual interaction are clunky at best.
I'd probably make the opposite argument. If I'm messing with my computer during a meeting then the meeting probably didn't require me to be physically present. At that point it could've been either remote or async facilitated by software.

This is unless I'm running the meeting and my laptop is plugged into the big screen.
There isn't and won't be a technology that is going to ever economically recycle (closed loop, meaning used for a similar purpose over and over) most of the plastic containers in the trash, especially when it's 40 different types of plastic all mixed together (with generous amounts of contaminants mixed in). Sure, it can sometimes be downcycled once, like shredded into some kind of filament and used to stuff a low-quality cushion or something. That's about it.

If it were economic to really recycle it, China wouldn't have stopped taking ours. And most of the rest of Asia followed suit, which is why municipalities are sheepishly hoarding it in warehouses now without a plan, or just admitting to themselves (if not their citizens) it's a sham and diverting most of those plastics we put in the blue bins straight to the landfill.
You're not wrong. I get where you're coming from, but it's easier said than done especially if you didn't grow up with parents who teach that.

I used to be quite the doormat growing up. I wasn't bullied as much as just non-confrontational. I didn't grow up with much so didn't want to rock the boat. I didn't want my adult life to be like the broke and dumb people around me. That strategy worked okay for a while, but I was never happy.

It wasn't until I felt like I had accomplished something with my life that I could relax and trust my capabilities. The confidence came slowly and I still struggle with this. What keeps me working on it is realizing when I defend myself I'm usually also defending others around me. We should do more to help each other and stand up to bullies at every stage of life.
Try syncthing fork on F-Droid.[0]

You can use more restrictive run conditions, and limit how much time it spends per hour active.

You can also limit it to run only when charging or on specific networks.

[0] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncth...
Not celebrating overeating. Not having highly processed food that’s designed to make people eat too much. Not pouring tons of sugar or salt into everything. Serving normal portions in restaurants Not feeding kids candy bars that are four times as big than what I had as a kid. Learning cooking. Not exactly rocket science.
Things That Don't Pay Are Not the Things That Pay
There was a lifted pickup truck that was stuck behind me on my road a couple times in the evening. Absolutely blinding headlights: my car was sharply outlined by their beams, which went on to light up the road far brighter than my brights ever could - the brightest lights I've ever been blinded by.

If they ever blinded an oncoming police car, my faith in humanity makes me hope they'd get pulled over...
Is the meta offering really so good, just poorly advertised?
multitasking is a myth. you can't futz with a computer and pay attention.
I can tell you how heavy I was on almost every day since 2009. Hasn’t helped.
Have you used Rust Enums? They are absolutely beautiful compared to C’s unions and “I hope I cast this right” behaviors. Uninitialized data is also an impossibility.

I never liked async programming. But after wrangling threads and processes for a 20 years, it’s pretty good in Rust (though underutilized). At least nice to have native language support.

That being said, I still prefer Python for build/test automation. But for shipping code that I want to work, Rust is it.

I’ve even written complex bare metal code from scratch (similar to an OS kernel) in Rust. Much nicer than C!
She's an amateur and is actually married to a hedgie, look up how much Mitch McConnell has made.
> "People have different personalities, which often generates friction," she said.

People are becoming less and less tolerant of anything that generates "friction". This can be a problem because it is this friction that is the seed for self-reflection and growth in life.
No, that [edit: culture, that is] seems to be what keeps other cultures thinner than ours. People from them move here and tend to promptly start getting fatter, so on a population level greater individual willpower doesn’t seem to be the answer.

So the way to reverse the ever worsening obesity trend in the US (and elsewhere, though we’re leading the charge) was “fix culture”. That’s very hard (it’s not even entirely clear exactly which bits would have to change) and basically nobody (who had a prayer of making a dent in the problem) was seriously trying.

But now we have the “sell everyone drugs” option which is actually gonna work, relatively easily and quickly compared with the sole plausible alternative. We lucked out.
Yeah, my dad was my first bully too. First at my mom and then shifted towards me once I got old enough to have independent thoughts and interests (around 6-7). Led to me being a twitchy, withdrawn kid which garnered more negative attention at school.
The virtual display is impressive, for sure.

But, I think you should consider a pair of AR glasses from xreal or rokid. They cost a fraction of the price, have less latency, and you don't need to worry about battery life.

They're also much much more portable. I think using AVP primarily as an external display is a huge huge waste.
One more thing: You're right that multi-stream recycling wouldn't fix the problem for the plastics, though just collecting metal and glass and letting the plastic take a more direct route to the landfill would be more efficient and would have a chance of getting people to understand that the blue bin doesn't redeem any of their sins when it comes to plastic.
The dish soap thing is genetic if you didn’t know. The majority of the world doesn’t taste the dish soap.
> If I have to double-triple check elsewhere to make sure that the chatbot is correct, then what's the point of using the chat bot in the first place?

Because you can ask it a question in natural language and it will give you an answer you can type into a search engine to see if it's real. Before you didn't know the name of the thing you were looking for, now you do.

> If you can't trust it 99% of the time, or if the company says "use this, but nothing it says should be taken as fact", then why would i waste my time?

The rate at which it makes stuff up isn't 99%, is the point. For common questions, better than half of the answers have some basis in reality.
Gruber: Apple was 'effectively forced' by China to bring RCS to iPhone
That wouldn't fix the problem for someone who already has it?
Honestly not sure, but with only $800 at risk I can't imagine them even sending a paralegal.
What does that do to fix the broken satiety mechanism in the human body that the article describes?
It sure hasn't done me any favors. I have often wondered who I would have been without all of that. Would I have been a better person? Someone at peace?
Small scale agriculture and aquaculture has been long understood.

The tipping point where the use of labour and soil to create surlus labour, which is then used to conquer more soil is why agriculture led to a "culture" or "civilisation"(according to 19th century hisorians IIRC).

19th century hisorians argued (I think) that superior societies had superior technology, which made them even more superior. If anything, I think modern academics are too concerned about refuting the premise that Western civilisation ended up with superior technology, rather than simply accepting that they did (in most ways) but that this didn't always make them morally superior.
Similar. Current evidence-based recommendation for daily protein intake is 1.6g protein per kg of target body weight. Not that any of that will solve the issue raised in the article: persistent up-regulated hunger signal sensitivity and down-regulated satiety signal sensitivity.
The return of batch(1)?
You're completely missing the point. Who cares what VFX artists and studios want if anyone with a small team can create high quality entertaining videos that millions of people would pay to watch? And if you think that's a bar too high for AI, then you haven't actually seen the quality of average videos and films generated these days.
> The syscalls are there because the program needs the OS to do things.

Maybe some of them are. Many of those syscalls are there because Python (not the core program someone is creating, but rather its platform) needs the OS to do things.

Importing an empty python file takes 28 syscalls (30 measured by their tool, but the last two are closing out the trace not actually related to the import). 29 syscalls if you have any text in it (presumably more for larger files).

The logical equivalent in C for many portions of the import process in Python happen at compile + linker time, not during execution. So while it might not be a pleasant experience to develop, a C equivalent of many Python programs would involve far fewer syscalls at execution time.
Oracle EEE'd MySQL. MariaDB these days. Or postgres along with the rest of the singularity.
I think it was proposed as a strategy to keep the weight off, not loose it.