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> Apple is a best-in-class second mover.

Apple's biggest successes have come from being the first mover in a brand new space.

Apple II, Macintosh, iPod, iPhone, iPad, Airpods, Watch were all category defining rather than "me too" products.

In fact Apple is terrible at throwing its hat into an already crowded space, and doubly so when it comes to software.
Does a computer understanding me make it better? I find that attempts the computer makes to understand me, "delight" me, etc. just end up pissing me off. It's a tool. All I ever want a tool to do is be completely invisible and become an extension of my body, which enables me to get a task done. Computer software which does anything other than exactly what I tell it to fails at this, because it instantly breaks my connection to the task I'm trying to do and refocuses my attention on the software itself.

I wouldn't dream of trying to use a Siri, it sounds absolutely maddening. All I expect is that when I press a key on the keyboard the character I commanded with my key press shows up on the screen before I can blink, and does so exactly once.
Slow thinker here.

When asked a question, I can give a great answer 10 minutes; an hour; a day later. It's not a full day of active thinking, but time is needed to "stew" in my mind for a while. So I give my best answer in the moment (which might be "I don't know"). Then I follow up with my awesome answer whenever it comes.

Slow thinking makes conversation more difficult. Anything beyond 1:1 conversation usually means the conversation flies faster than I can think. I'm OK with that and just enjoy listening to the conversation and occasionally contributing. On rare occasion this makes other people uncomfortable. However I have generally surrounded myself with people who accept my quiet nature.

Also slow thinking comes with its advantages. Embrace those. Despite being a slow thinker, my client repeatedly tells me that I deliver high-quality output really fast. He's always asking how I come up with these amazing ideas.

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Derek Sivers says he's "a very slow thinker:"

> When someone wants to interview me for their show, I ask them to send me some questions a week in advance...

> People say that your first reaction is the most honest, but I disagree. Your first reaction is usually outdated. Either it’s an answer you came up with long ago and now use instead of thinking, or it’s a knee-jerk emotional response to something in your past.

> When you’re less impulsive and more deliberate like this, it can be a little inconvenient for other people, but that’s OK. Someone asks you a question. You don’t need to answer. You can say, “I don’t know,” and take your time to answer after thinking. Things happen...

HN discussion:

- https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/35039358

- https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/17694306
"A competent Siri."

This, but it is really exciting because for the first time, you can just tell your computer what to do. Not just a given set of tasks, but e.g. "go to my gym and book a slot with my personal trainer"; "contact Shauna and set up a meeting to talk about X, then book me tickets to get there".

Think about how much monkey-work we all do with our smartphones. We might look back in 10 years and laugh at the idea that we had to press buttons all the time.
A single process is already demanding, especially while holding a 9-5 job. Two simultaneous ones I can see. For three or more, I don’t reckon working full time at the same time is possible.

That also doesn’t account for all the factors outside one’s control, such as speed of the processes. One might finish with an offer on the table weeks before others do, even if initiated at the same time.
Apple was never going to release a product that would inevitably kill lots of people. Absolute non-starter.
What's this, an geopolitics article for ANTS?
I agree, that's pretty shit to not mention the salary range at the start, but Meta and FAANG wages in general are quite well documented already on levels.fyi, even for Europe, so it's normal to expect something in that ballpark as you go into the interview process.
Got my Herman Miller in dot com shutdown too, except it was facilities guy wheeling everything out into the parking lot saying "Take it all.."
I used a keygen when I was a cool kid, but as a cool adult I finally bought a license (at roughly age 35)
The Azure_AI extension to Azure Database for PostgreSQL, definition and demo
So all I have to do is generate my own private-public key pair, replace the hardcoded public key in the code you linked, then generate a license key with my private key. But yeah, I don't know what should be the payload of the signature.
Lower UK pay was not the complaint. Knowing if they would be competitive to the current (UK) job was the issue (as I read it).
I hope you’re right. Surge pricing defeats the purpose of fast food.
Identifying the Mystery Vessel at the Site of Trinidad and Tobago's Oil Spill
They have large low level software teams with compilers, runtimes and what not. They also have great hardware teams to develop whatever custom hardware is needed for purpose. I think they can do a full stack thing for AI.
I don't think 'we're going to lowball you by $50-100k / year unless you can show us a competing offer' is an agreed upon standard, no.
I knew there had to be a downside.
It is a smart move in the sense that building a car was a stupid move.
It's a highly regulated product, something they have no experience with.
Ya, I was hoping for more nuance related to this. I'm sure the air foils generate lift, but atmospheric pressure at cruising altitude is ~4psi, and the pressure differential across the foil must be only a tiny fraction of that. According to my understanding of Bernoulli's principle, you'd have to quadruple the speed to cut the pressure in half, and I can't imagine the top air traveling that much faster than the bottom air.

Yet a 747 can produce 850000 pounds of lift with only 729000 square inches of wing? Feels like a very incomplete description at best
The much-overstated “Apple premium” largely reflects that they don’t compete in the lowest end of the PC/phone market. They’d be competing with BMW, not charging even more.
Ok, why didn't those Christians abolish slavery in the ~three hundred years between that schism and the birth of Muhammad?

I always feel like this argument is almost closeted Islamaphobia, kinda reinforcing my viewpoint there.
The existence of a labor union does not make your point. You point to an industry group; I'm asking if there is a specific instance in the Boeing 737Max mishaps that is attributed to a union-member disregarding generally good safety practices by the very nature of being defended by the union. I'm not aware of one, but the opposite is true: white-collar decisions can be shown to be direct contributors to the problem(s), and I don't think they have anything to do with union membership.

E.g., Boeing did not 1) classify MCAS correctly in their hazard analysis, and 2) even with their mischaracterized risk in the HA, they did not follow their own procedures to have redundant sensor readings mandatory for the equipment as classified. Those are designer decisions, not some labor-union issue. To my knowledge, those held responsible were relatively high level engineers, implying they were not being protected by the union for their decisions.
Is this current news more irreversible?
Related:

https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse
I guess market rate isn't a thing? Time is a limiting factor with regard to getting offers. What this is saying is don't waste time on making Meta your first offer.
Gen AI is a toy, a useful one I have to admit but it is not solving any real world problems. I use it sometimes, the product is just not production-quality ready.

Chatbots are not what's going to make AI great. Am sure there's some commercial utility out there for AI to improve efficiency in certain specific industries, that's what am more interested in hearing about instead.
The expression is a bit different but this is literally a (minor) piece of worldbuilding in Daniel Suarez's 'Daemon' (2006).
I often read Caddy is nice for smaller projects, but to use nginx for high performance. What kind of magic is nginx doing that is so hard for others to replicate? (I’m interested in the simple case of serving static files - nothing fancy)

Edit: I just saw the other post here saying it may be as good as nginx.
You just described second movers.
SuperTux
Klarna in Talks with Banks for US IPO at $20B Value
Awesome work! Would love to see exit stats / multiples.
Lucid is not a car company.

It's a strategic, capability building project for Saudi Arabia.

They want to turn the country into the AI / advanced manufacturing / software development hub of the Middle East and they need an innovative brand that can help to attract talent and foreign investment.
You mean advertisers don't like to see their ads next to bigoted content? Truly terrible.
So how will you ensure your service is only used for "good"?
>> however, I do not think there is any real danger in airing with the side of caution and trying to fight the innate biases in the training data. It seems like this was Google's goal.

Could you please provide evidence of this being google goal? From everything I have seen, from the posts of google employees who worked on it, to Geminis own responses, they were being racist against white people. In fact considering google retains so much power over your average person I believe it would be considered systemic racist.

To claim it is being overblown to me sounds like you are trying to say this form of racism is okay.
>So, why should you try Emacs in 2024?

>You’re a curious person and a constant tinkerer who likes playing with (insanely cool) vintage software.

>You want to experience life outside the mainstream.

>You’ve always wanted to learn a bit of Lisp.

>You want to build an editor that’s uniquely tailored to your needs and preferences.

>You’ve got a lot of time to kill.

Is this sarcasm?

I think focusing on the killer apps might have hooked me more than that closer!
I've almost never been part of an interview so well thought-out, but I continue to hope to be. I find this is also helpful reading for candidates.
I’m guessing that most of Ferrari’s market value comes from the brand compared to future revenue or IP. Apple is just not that elite of a brand, I don’t see how selling million-dollar vehicles would significantly change their brand (assuming an Apple logo hood ornament).
That makes a lot of sense, thanks. I hadn't even thought about that. I guess you could also have MultiplicationExpression have an implicit coercion operator so you can use it in places where a matrix is expected, which would just compute the multiplication without any corresponding addition. That's pretty interesting.
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So, they're spinning this as a positive - limiting content that should be scraped - but ultimately I see this as just another cash grab.

A real positive, IMHO, would be to funnel that money back to the creators of the content that they're selling.
Life is too short to give stuff away for free. Monetize wherever possible. Almost everyone who gives away useful software for free burns out and stops doing it.
When YC had their headquarters in Mountain View there used to be a warehouse about a block away from there called Desk Depot - https://maps.app.goo.gl/GL9YpxsBt79M1Rxi7 - Google thinks it may be permanently closed now.

It specialized in second hand furniture from tech companies. It was AMAZING. The owner could tell the story of the past few decades of Silicon Valley illustrated by second hand desk furniture - like that corner over there is Sun Microsystems, this corner is Yahoo! etc. He had the full chronology of Herman Miller chairs as well.

Practically a museum. I'll be said if it's really closed for good.

https://www.yelp.com/biz/desk-depot-mountain-view says it's closed but has a comment from someone in 2021 saying "This place is NOT closed. WTH is Yelp reporting it as closed?"
Ironically this was something Apple used to be good at but they killed off all the fun things with apple branding on them, now all you get is two campus exclusive shirt designs.

I'd love some retro apple "lifestyle" gear, throwback porsche racing jacket would be clutch right now with the yoots
I've had a few of these interviews. Some do it well by showing genuine interest and maybe they have expertise in the area and it's fun chatting about the project. Other's see it more like cross examination or make it adversarial. I personally get nervous and tense up when I feel attacked. Maybe it's a good way to opt myself out of working in those environments.
Everytime my companies have done a fancy building remodel, they fall apart after this. It's like corporate version of jumping the shark
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> This is generally how most people approach the negotiation, no?

Definitely not, or if they do, they cave to whatever the counter is.

Edit: I see many people state their preferences in negotiations, but they rarely take non-negotiable stances with large corps when negotiating working conditions. To be fair, I’ve seen the other extreme, where people have non-negotiables that are not feasible or realistic (e.g., reserved parking in a building with no parking, 2x-3x market rate for entry level positions, etc.). That said, I think these are rare, and these excessive asks reveal the wackadoodles fairly efficiently.

I’m guessing a decent percentage of those hired take the team they are assigned to at roughly the total comp that they were initially offered (e.g., maybe a few thousand more rather than 100k more… or maybe just the initial offer).

People default to being bad at negotiation, and many aren’t willing to walk when an offer is insulting. There’s some room for discussion about accepting offers and then bolting when the labor market shifts towards labor, but I’m not sure that’s optimal.
CDA 230 exists because the Wolf of Wall Street was trying to censor evidence of his crimes. He got one ruling against Prodigy saying moderation makes you liable for defamation; and another from Compuserve saying no moderation means no liability.

Let me be very clear about how the law would work sans CDA 230: any time someone does not like what you are saying, they can sue the platform you host it on to get you censored. The only platforms resistant to this would be ones full to bursting with spam. This is already really bad. If you want a partial repeal, i.e. one where platforms are still allowed to "protect minors from child predators", I'm not sure that'll pass muster at SCOTUS. Selectively removing speech protections based on content is a no-go.

Furthermore, platforms being able to take down political speech they disagree with is not a "loophole". That's just what moderation is. The whole point of a moderator is to silence the loudest voices, so that others may speak.
Oh awesome! I was just putting together some utilities for a barebones, no-bundler, vanilla javascript game library, and was wondering what kind of physics engine would work for demonstrating it. This looks perfect! I love that you already have the compatibility libraries available.

Actually, now that I take a look at the webpage, I really love everything this company is doing. Very interested in working with these libraries!
> It effectively means “we charge extra when you need us most"

It also means "we charge less if you are flexible"

Done right, I generally see dynamic pricing as a positive thing, generally more fair than a fixed price for a given amount of profit for the company implementing it.

Here is the idea. Let's say a company offers a service for $50 during rush hour, $10 otherwise, the alternative being a $30 flat fee. In order to get off rush hour, you need to wait for an hour. On a flat fee model, you also have to wait 10 minutes during rush hour. Not let's say your time is worth $15/hour, you can wait an hour, and the service would have cost you $25 or 1h40 of your time. Now let's say you are richer and your time is worth $100/hour, you don't want to wait and pay these $50, that's 30 minutes worth of your time. Had it been a flat $30 fee, the $15/hour guy would have spent 2h10 worth of his time, while the $100/hour guy would have also spent also about 30 minutes worth of his time (including the 10 minutes wait).

So, total value, the $15/hour guy got it cheaper, while the business and the $100/guy got even.
Car does not make sense to me. But I would love if Apple will make a home robot, like HomePod on wheels maybe with a projector.

I would also really like if they will make an electric skateboard, or some kind of personal electric vehicle.
One of the looming risks is that other nations lose faith in the FAA to certify their aircraft. Particularly smaller nations, which, in effect, inherit the FAA certification as safe instead of levying their own.
You'd think so... GM has stated that they're doing away with CarPlay and Android auto in favour of their own thing, which will most likely suck on large ways.

Ford, on the other hand, came out and said that they lost that battle 10 years ago and are going to keep them.
I’m not sure why reliable, timely news of the death of the person who set up the account would necessarily mean the company closing the account, as long as the bills were being paid. Your estate is a legal entity.
I remember a quote from when I was in Amway.

Points can’t be eaten and have no nutritional value.
I believe Musk once admitted on camera that ~"full self driving basically requires AGI." If anyone could help me identify that video, I would appreciate it.
> Finance

I have a ton of friends in finance. Many worked for the most prestigious IB firms out of undergrad and moved on to PE/hedge funds where they make mountains of cash. I don't know 1 of them who has even considered retiring anywhere close to 35, nor of anyone in their professional networks who've done so. Not saying its impossible but the likelihood of doing so is vanishingly small.
AFter 15 years, what could they possibly that would actually add to the bottom line? I mean, craigslist never seemed to add a single feature and yet they dominated for well over a decade and then some.

For some products, at some point it makes sense to hunker down and go into maintenance mode. Not every business can keep growing exponentially.
You're kind of contradicting yourself. If a high token count tells you all you need to know about how smart a model is Ultra 1.5 would be just as good as Pro 1.5.

The fact of the matter is it remains to be seen how smart either model will be.
Ad budget will answer after they have everything else in place. How did they get here so quickly? Almost impossible for any startup or new player.
Forums improve by rejecting rude and deceptive language - as Gen. Morrison said, the standard you walk past is the standard you accept.
Thanks for your input on this, especially for S230. I never understood the concept that a private business has to entertain or host content that they do not want on their site.

If a friend invited me to their house I can start calling their wife a fat cow and tell them how ugly I think their children are. It doesn't mean they have to put up with it or accept that sort of speech on their private property. That doesn't mean he censored me or inhibited my freedom of speech.
This is why we in the business world do something called "Marketing" and "Branding"

An Oppo or LibrePhone might be a peer substitute to an iPhone a neckbeard on HN, but an Apple iPhone is still a luxury good.

Sell goods with a strong brand cache and they will continue to sell like hotcakes.

You will be skewered for using a knockoff.

Conversely, this is why Temu and Shien do well - why should I spend $20 at Uniqlo or $40 at GAP on fast fashion when I can spend $10 for the exact same thing on those Apps. It comes from the same factories in China and Vietnam anyhow
Legality isn't the question here. If you want to speak to the legality, anyone circumventing a robots txt that explicitly has your bot's user-agent and 'disallow: *' is unauthorized access (I imagine it's more nuanced for 'user-agent: *'). No website is required to allow anyone to visit and can discriminate against any client or software any way they want.
> Why can't they just say "exploded" ?

The rocket exploded because it was instructed to explode. In fact, one of the problems was that it didn’t explode on time: the flight-termination system did not destroy the vehicle immediately.

Many rocket failures, especially those are high altitude, do not explode in a classical sense. The correct term would be that they failed; RUD seems more fun.
Again I have to question: why do you feel like most of these experienced, skilled white-collar workers are housing insecure, and worried about their next meal upon getting laid off with severance?

The only alternative to having layoffs be a fact of life and business is for companies to provide “jobs for life” regardless of profitability or business results. Businesses who do this don’t exist outside of uncompetitive state-owned firms which need to be propped up by state spending (taxpayers).
I've seen that and honestly, as long as they do the job well, I let it ride.

I've also seen doctors where their social skills honestly impaired them from getting through to people and thus getting the needed outcomes.

Also... Your "roadkill" doc may do well with me. Smooth talkers always seem to come up short for me.
Pretty sure there are these things called streaming platforms for that.
While it's likely not the answer you're looking for, I've had a colleague walk their in-law through starting Pop on their home machine while traveling, so they could remote in!
> If Google announced that they were going to ingest all Mastodon content and post it in a new Google Groups kind of thing, they'd be pretty understandably upset about that, too.

Except that's not what the bridge does, at all. It only follows you on someone's behalf when someone on Bluesky specifically requests to follow you through the bridge.
Tart: macOS and Linux VMs on Apple Silicon
iPhone was category defining for sure, but it was far from the first smartphone.
I've programmed in C++ only sporadically. Are the functions really declared to have type Error, or am I misreading things? For example one function starts as

Error
calibrateEuropean(
f64 v, // option price
f64 s, // stock price
In my opinion Temu and Shein are examples of Chinese companies picking up shitty western business practices and taking them to their logical conclusion. Amazon already resembles AliExpess thanks to hundreds of drop shipping "brands" - Temu just consolidates all this activity. Western "fast fashion" brands already exploit and abuse cheap foreign labor, Shein just shaves down the margins. None of this is really new, Temu and Shein just take a little less margin for themselves than the hundreds of small drop-shippers operating on Amazon or companies like The Gap so they can compete on price.

I agree that this is, broadly-speaking, bad, but it has also been going on for a long time. Before Amazon, WalMart was hocking cheaply made stuff and driving mom & pop shops out of business. The one positive here is that Temu/Shein are much more explicit about what they are. It's one thing to spend $5 on a pair of shoes made with child labor. It's entirely another to buy shoes made under similar conditions for $100 because of marketing/branding.
No, aircraft land on carriers while applying full forward thrust and (I am 99% sure) no wheel brakes. The idea is that if the wire fails to catch they "bolter", i.e., do a touch-and-go, so they can come around for another landing attempt. (If they stopped or reversed thrust and the wire didn't catch, they'd end up in the drink.)

Based on other comments (or re-reading the authors comment carefully), it turns out that "wire only" mean that the wire catches before the wheels touch the ground. (This puts additional strain on the wire and airframe.)
see the problem here is you somehow associate socialism -- i.e. socialist urbanism and architecture -- with dystopia