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Canonical turns 20: Shaping the Ubuntu Linux world
Is it really that cheap? The company I work for has <100 employees yet we pay a FTE whose primary job is writing our weekly "newsletter"...
I think the hardware still feels pretty fancy. I recently bought a macbook air and iphone 13 and they feel really nice.. the imacs I got my brothers have been excellent as well....

But buggy software filled with ads. Yes. That much I agree with!

I have an android phone (galaxy fold 4) that I've been using as a secondary for like 14 months now. When my iPhone XS finally developed a swelling battery, I decided to retire it and switch the GF4 to my primary phone. I've been bouncing between Android and iOS for many years, but this time I felt a little bit heartbroken.....

One of the reasons I like using iPhones is you can send & receive sms/imessage on a Mac. But if you use the google messages app on an android phone, you can use a webapp on any computer (any OS) that IMHO works better (kind of). For one, it works on anything!

For another: MS Windows' link-to-phone thing is pretty sweet.

For another: I like the android/samsung oneUI way of handling phone calls. I can't quite put my finger on it, but it's way less obnoxious. Especially because the speakerphone button ACTUALLY JUST WORKS! At some point iOS decided to make that button pop up a menu. Caller ID also works... and the scam phonecall blacklist thing works WAAAAY better on Android.

I still don't like any other OS as much as I like MacOS, but I miss the days of 10.4/10.5/10.6... it feels like the OS has gotten heavily enshittified since then. Honestly it feels more like Windows XP lol. I blame it all on Notification Center. Notification Center is a badly programmed turd. It steals focus, the hotkeys don't work right and aren't obvious, the notifications are like constant nags and you generally have to opt out of them instead of opting into them.... I just fucking hate it.
NFT fantasy sports startup Sorare lays off 13% of staff
> The iPhone was the first mass market consumer phone to come with a cable that connected to a standard usb charger.

And had a device end connector that didn’t change every other model. Some phones used standard connectors for that but plenty didn’t, and manufacturers would sometimes change the connector without rhyme or reason.
PG said that a previous tweet by Tim Sweeney is one of the reasons..

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1765431238985187525
People can and do go to the prison in many instances when companies are just fined for similar offense.
> This platform for tech news should not become a place for political posts, nor even for posting regular news headlines.

What's a political post? What's "regular news"? And where do you draw the line? If not interested, you can just move on and ignore. There's plenty of AI articles all over the front page.
inb4 apple watch integration
That's a great blogcast/plot.
So for a contrasting anecdote, we've used SVGs for years in production on a high traffic site, using an automated Inkscape pipeline to turn text into plain paths, and it's worked perfectly
Elon Musk Wanted Control, Not Charity
You can read the article at https://archive.ph/oZcqu

It's not clear that this side effect is harmless.
How about a global Corvus network? Or a global WangNet network?

Some things just died, as is the way of all flesh.
> People don't want bloated slow software, they don't want GC pauses and stuttering and trying to pretend that hundreds of megabytes of java or lisp dependencies for hello world is the same as C is just sticking your head in the sand.

Baaaaased CD!

Garbage collection has no reason to exist in a world where Rust shattered the false dichotomy, proving you can have safety and speed.

For scripting, like with Python, GC is okay.

For significant software, the GC'd langs are almost all mediocrity-enabling abominations created out of corporate greed. Oracle made Java for the same reason that Microsoft made C# and the reason Google made Go; they can't find enough C/C++/Rust programmers, and they want to have their cake and eat it too.

Functional languages are an exception to that criticism though. They're not corporate abominations; they're a weird utopian experiment from simpler times, which, like the corporate abominations, bet that the party would never end, that Moore's law would carry us to heights or CPU power where the bloat is negligible. That was more correct with memory than with processing speed, but it seemed like a bad bet nonetheless.
Je suis Sweeney!

-- sent from my iPhone
Exograph now supports Trusted Documents (a.k.a. persisted queries/documents)
the fact that the default on the web is to ship something that needs a parser is very silly.
It’s still to be determined if this is illegal.
Some of the math competitions I participated would penalize for skipping around. You were awarded +5 for correct answers and -4 for incorrect or skipped questions. It was not uncommon for negative scores. In one test, any stray marks were also marked as incorrect. No erasing, no changing a 7 to a 9, or anything was allowed. The questions leaned toward an increasing difficulty, but there could something very difficult followed by a string of much easier questions. So additional math had to be done to see if it would be better to stop or skip.
Is there a way to verify this? I tend to agree, but I have no way to be rigorously convinced.

For example, iirc Palestine health authority reports the names of all the civilians[0] that have been killed. I think the number is something like 30k. I frequently wonder if that number is simply exaggerated, as it would be in Palestine's interest to do so. However, if the number is supported by a corresponding list of the names of individuals, I would think the Israeli intelligence services would be incentivised and capable of refuting a significant enough number of false claims[1] to cast serious doubt upon the claimed number of civilian deaths.

To my knowledge, Israel has not done so, and so I don't doubt the number too much.

[0] As noted, it is extremely challenging to pin down whether or not someone is 'Hamas'. I assume Palestine is reporting all deaths as civilian, in the same way Israel seems to report them all as combatant.

[1] whether it is an individual that does not exist, perished prior to Oct 7. '23, or is still alive.
DMA, Apple can't just retaliate for Epic complaining about them, this doesn't mean that Apple is forced to deal with everyone they are just banned from retaliating for certain things:

> 6. The gatekeeper shall not directly or indirectly prevent or restrict business users or end users from raising any issue of non-compliance with the relevant Union or national law by the gatekeeper with any relevant public authority, including national courts, related to any practice of the gatekeeper. This is without prejudice to the right of business users and gatekeepers to lay down in their agreements the terms of use of lawful complaints-handling mechanisms.

I am not 100% certain that would apply here, but if the DMA doesn't protect against these things then I am pretty sure that EU will plug that hole to ensure gatekeepers can't retaliate unfairly.
Kids write on paper just like everyone used to, or they use a tablet or something. There’s literally no difference except that sometimes they click radio buttons instead of filling out a scantron.
What does "on the side" mean? A controlled landing surely means the engine points down and has some element of lateral control to achieve some stability. If relative to the engine you land on the side, that's an uncontrolled crash, not a controlled landing.
You still need a developer account to notarise apps that are published on alternative app stores. Plus you need to agree to pay Apple the Core Technology Fee.
i mean, sounds fine? if i buy a physical product, i must be able to do whatever i want to do with it, no? who are apple to decide what i do with a device once i own it?
You're ignoring the second half of that sentence, and pretending like the laws will only ever be enforced morally.
https://archive.ph/axVc7
yes and as this topic matures.. Who pays, and how much? frictionless data access is great to think about but not real; rent seeking mafia types are as old as civilization.. so, it is a negotiation of policy. Techies and their hardware have changed the world.. so, update this negotiation.
Is it worth dedicating 1-2 low power NUCs (4-8 core) to this on a 250MBit/s connection? Or does it need beefier CPUs/network?
Still learning about the landscape so can't give informed opinions. LMQL is a new one for me, will check it out.

What we're mostly going for is composability vs abstraction. What's the smallest nugget of lift we can do for you, to make it feel natural to implement what you want? In this case it's treating the calls as functions and leaning on native python features like functions, docstrings, and types, so you can still use the python language like closures to do the weird things you need.

This is all handwavy, put on my wizard language design hat, so take it with a grain of salt. We're just trying things out.
I ditched iphones for a Google Pixel 6 when it came out.

Ditched my macbook for a Windows 10 beast machine running linux mint in VMWare Player. Flawless.

I had _zero_ issues ditching apple. Especially since everyone I speak to uses Whatsapp anyways. This "green bubble" thing never affected me.
An NFT is a way to attribute authorship in a mathematically guaranteed way.

If Taylor Swift signs ownership of a picture of her, you can know it is what she presents as real. If Elon musk signs a YouTube video of him offering crypto doubling giveaways, you can know he intended to represent the message as real. If the New York Times publishes an article signed with their key you can know it is meant to be published by the New York Times.
Economic violence is a form of violence - it isn't identical to physical violence... but violence can take many forms.
There is also https://dynv6.com/
Oh, sorry, I thought you meant operating a business that does not “swing for the fences” (as opposed to ones that do that are attractive to VC).
I like this trend of the FDA making more and more things OTC.
That's software not installed by default but available on the ISO, should you decide to install it.
Earlier ISOs of TinyXP were less than 150 Mb in size.

The "MicroXP" variant (also from the same ISO) installs in <10 minutes and takes about 250 Mb if you disable the page file. It can even be reduced a bit more if you know you're not going to use some components (e.g. a browser), I assume.
Google adds new developer fees as part of the Play Store's DMA compliance plan
Edit: oh, you were asking about comments. In my haste I missed that and thought you were asking about submissions.

There are lots of comments in this thread that aren't flagged, so discussion isn't being prevented. It's true that a lot of the earlier comments were flagged, but that was (or should be) because they were flamebait. It's one of the downsides of internet commenting that the flameiest and most reflexive comments appear first in a thread—because those reactions are the quickest to flare up. Better, more reflective comments always take longer [1]. This goes 1000x for a topic like this one, unfortunately.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

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I've answered that several times in the links I listed; can you take a look and, if there's something specific I haven't addressed, let me know?

(I don't mean to be dismissive—it just takes a surprising amount of time to write those things and I can't do it at the moment.)
Razor and Perch merge, raise $100M on a $1.7B valuation
If you can pass the exams with the knowledge you have, you don't need to study for four years unless you want to spend the money.
If you can't, feel free to repeat the exams after four years of studying.
The whole system is a game and you can either play it honest or game it to earn more money with the phd. The losers are the honest ppl, who think they can study and then try to work their loans off for the next 10-15 years...
There's an API that abstracts vector search only. vectorize.search() and that part is not unique to LLMs but it does require selection of an embedding model. Some people have called embedding models LLMs.

vectorize.rag() requires selection of a chat completion model. Thats more specific to LLM than vector search IMO.
Yep, even in far away places.

"
FIRST TROOPER: Have you seen that new T-16?

SECOND TROOPER: Yeah, some of the other guys were telling me about it. They say it's, it's quite a thing to ... What was that?
"

""The T-17s, as far as I can tell... are a great improvement," one trooper said. "Yeah, that's what they tell you. But believe me, they don't hold up,""
true, but my m2 is already leaving key-prints on the screen
Yes, I can see that. A lot of their store brand items in clothing, housewares, etc. are losing their quality. It used to be that Walmart was the lower quality, but in many cases they’re now similar.
It’s a weird article. It claims that one only needs Postgres but then presents a half-baked solution: the takeaway I got is “it’s not HA or horizontally scalable, and it’s probably slow” so it sounds like I _do_ need a dedicated cache service?

They just handwave benchmarking against cache databases as “out of scope”, that is very much in scope to claim I can use PG rather than redis.

Also a cache would impact the rest of the application (reading/writing to this cache consumes cpu and IO).

Also, missing an index on the inserted_at and there’s no uniqueness constraint on the key.

Overall, it reads like someone read about UNLOGGED and thought it could be useful for caching use cases. I don’t think anyone doubted that PG can be used a cache really, the trade offs would be a more interesting read than the POC
All side loaded apps still need to go through Apple notarization. It's malicious compliance from Apple.
> Around 10% of Gaza's journalists have been killed versus 2.5% of healthcare workers.

One possible explanation is that journalists have a much higher probability of being close to where the fighting is, than healthcare workers.
// assumptions that Truth sells //

Yeah, I can understand why you thought it must be an assumption; most people today have lived their whole lives without having any first-hand experience of how news used to work.

But it's not an assumption at all--its direct observational evidence. I was there; I saw it with my own eyes.

Until the mid 90's, news sources competed on credibility--because people would be willing to pay more to subscribe to a trustworthy newspaper, and they would watch the evening news from the newscaster which they considered to be the most accurate.

Because of this, newspapers and tv news payed top-dollar to hire the best reporters, editors, and fact checkers they could. Every line, whether printed or spoken, was intensively scrutinized, and if it made a factual claim--even the most obscure or seemingly unimportant claim--that factual claim was noted, and the report could not be published until somebody had verified that all those claims were true.

Remember a while back, when Anderson Cooper was put in the doghouse for a while, because he just made up a story about how he flew in a helicopter during combat? Well, in the 70s or 80s, if Walter Cronkite or Peter Jennings had done any such thing, they wouldn't have gotten away with just a slap on the wrist: their career in journalism would be over. What more--and crucially--the TV networks which broadcast their shows would lose viewers, and they would have to spend years to rebuild the broken trust with their audiences to get those viewers back.

So yeah, I'm an old fart, and I saw how this system worked, beautifully, with my own eyes. What killed it was the business model to support it got nuked. If you have to pay-out of pocket--a couple hundred dollars a year to read the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times, you care a lot more about whether you are buying horseshit or not.

And if the video you watch is delivered to you by Tik Tok or YouTube, and not the TV networks directly, well, the lion's share of the ad revenue will not go to those who are creating the content, but just the middlemen who serve up the content, and whose business model does't depend on whether the content is true at all.

If you don't have to pay anything--all you just have to do is doom-scroll-- well, who wins is whose content sucks you in and glues you to the screen the best.
People go to jail for non-violent crimes as well.

Again, why does personal responsibility for harm to others bother you?
Dexcom and Freestyle both have options (G7, FSL2) that have a much narrower form factor than the old sensors. They end up being far more reliable, because the sensor doesn't dislodge. The new Dexcom sensors are more accurate. Less drift and no calibration.

Out of pocket cost is obviously your own situation but I think anyone with T1 should look at them. For me they are life changing, even moreso if you have a pump that can deliver based on CGM readings.

Plastic waste situation is still bad.
Or, you know, they could just comply with our laws...
By disinforming and pursuing misguided science?

They might want to rethink their marketing strategy.
> More likely, Apple needs to withdraw entirely from the EU and see what happens.

This uniquely American type of arrogance where TikTok/Huawei is guilty even if it complies will the laws, and American companies are innocent even if they break all our laws.

There are, I am afraid, only two ways to respond - aggressively or subserviently. As US economy loses its position as the centre of the universe, the second option becomes less appealing.
Digikey has made Ultra Librarian famous. I wouldn't be surprised if they were connected somehow. About 80% of Digikey components have models. About 80% of those are Ultra Librarian models. About 95% of the models are correct, which is a lot better than a few years ago.
Even if Airplane had been cash flow positive, slowing growth and a demotivated CEO and departure of key employees at an early stage is a tough pill for investors to swallow. See my other comment, but I find it highly likely that your investors were pushing for a way to wind things down and return as much of their cash as they could get, and an acquihire is a fairly employee-friendly way to do that.
Ultimately, the people performing the actual work will always have a collective veto power.
No. There is no sideloading at all.

Apple very begrudgingly allowed creation of alternative AppStores (marketplaces) instead, which are still completely under Apple’s technical control, and still go through Apple’s review.

Apple requires having a 1 million dollar credit line to allow opening a 3rd party AppStore, so consumers or small devs can’t just bypass Apple’s AppStore.
As the old saying goes: oracle has no customers, only hostages.
> But they don't even seem to be on premium Windows laptops.

Yeah, from that my conclusion is that the market for Windows laptops with really excellent touchpads is simply not large enough to be worth pursuing. My guess is that the increase in revenue between a "good enough touchpad" and "really excellent touchpad" is nowhere near enough to cover the astronomical costs of developing one.
Personally - never... but illegal adoptions are a very dark side of human trafficking so you may want to be more careful with your example. The truth is that we live in a far better society than fifty or a hundred or a thousand years prior - we have far more access to justice. But if you think that access to justice is universal then there are some hard truths in your future.
thinking about it, I actually like this comparison. You make a good point, in that the physical keyboard is a more accurate tool. But that doesn't mean it doesn't have drawbacks.

The advantage of the digital screen is the customizability and adaptability. If I never use the web browser or music on my iPhone, i can just move those apps off the home row. If my keyboard has a numpad, but I don't need it, I'm stuck with a numpad until i buy a new keyboard.

In my old Land Cruiser, the pull knob to open the vents is right next to the pull knob to open the choke which is right next to the pull knob to activate the hazard lights which is right next to the pull knob to activate the fan. None of them are lit, they all look the same in the dark. We've come a long way since 1981, but the point is that the improved reliability of a physical button means nothing if the ergonomics of the interface as a whole are bad. And it's a lot easier to improve the ergonomics of the system (or adapt them to the user's needs) if the controls are on a touch screen.
Is it less profitable than China? Doesn't look like it. They operate in more than 2 markets.
Are you planning to add other types like Claude or Llama2?
I think your experience was unusual in that you had so many failures (hopefully you at least got your broken sensors replaced for free; both Dexcom and Libre do this) and that you are good at managing your diabetes without many measurements.

The out-of-pocket expense can certainly be rough; I use Libre right now because my Dexcom out-of-pocket would be similar to yours and Libre is a third.

I lend my CGM to people to who are possibly prediabetic. I'm very glad I can point them to an OTC solution now.
I think the missing piece from that exchange is the reality that a lot of surviving, legacy, mission critical applications is that they are generally internal to large companies and have grown over decades to encapsulate business processes for entire industries. Consider an application that has been under active development for 30-40 years by 10-100 developers. The cost to rewrite is staggering, and the risk of failure is huge.
When this question is asked, it's always with an implicit bias that executives are all morally bankrupt demons that would be beaten to death by the public if not for police.

My response to that is: we should change the laws.

Nobody ever asks this question thinking about multi-generation family businesses where the executive is the head of household and if everything works out, the business will be passed down to their progeny.

Of course, it also begs the question why do we accept this?
Ask HN: Excellent Go SDKs?
Hi folks - do you use any Golang SDKs you absolutely love?
We considered it but it felt too magical to make any CSS variable under `:root` automatically drive the existence of utility classes. Putting things under a custom at-rule like `@theme` makes that opt-in, because we know anything you put there is actually intended to drive your utility classes.
It's not Apple's platform. It's mine. My device, my platform. I allow Apple to install software on my device, but it's my device. I own it, full stop.

This whole idea that a company can sell you a product but still retain exclusive ownership and decision making over that thing that they sold you needs to die. It's such an abusive relationship and deeply anti-user.
> Wonder if that would show the folder icon or think it is an asm file.

Oh, I'm sure it'd work fine, but I wanted "Documents" just because it looked nice.

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I get LFNs now! Let's use them!

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> Think NT still has a flag where you can get that behavior for older applications if you need it.

I am _fairly_ sure it's still there and on by default. Before Windows did tab-completion (badly), I used PROGRA~1 and so on as shorter-to-type versions. It was handy. I didn't have to think at all for those examples: they're burned into my muscle memory.

C:\PROGRA~1

MICROS~1

DOCUME~1

etc...