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Servers aren't really Apple's thing, so it hasn't been much of an issue, but isn't this something Intel CPUs have supported for almost two decades?
> unless it's open source and the servers decentralized, you are always trusting SOMEONE

Specifically, open-source and self-hostable. Open source doesn't save you if people can't run their own servers, because you never know whether what's in the public repo is the exact same thing that's running on the cloud servers.
That's definitely a big question. I asked a pretty open ended question about how he thinks the internet (and filter bubbles in specific) might have changed some of his thoughts in manufacturing consent as the main media went from TV / newspapers (broadcast) to internet (personalized). He said that basically the big companies own it all anyway.
While advertizers are abusing some mechanism, isn't the underlying issue that browsers allow that to happen?

When following a link that did claim to go somwhere, but then does not, add a warning page?

Then feed those cases to some cetral database to blame the worst offenders for bad publicity.

Getting the big ad networks to behave won't solve the problem only reduce it. Only local mechanisms can avoid it.
he didn't support that cause. he radically supported free speech.

if someone has him discuss the paradox of (in)tolerance I'd appreciate links or pointers

ps: I come from a country with limits ob the freedom of speech and I defend those limits. I'm just saying Chomsky in contrast held freedom of speech as an absolute, even for anger and hate inciting lies.
I don't think so. Signal regularly stops committing code to the public repos (https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server) when they're working on some kind of big reveal (cryptocurrency integration and such), but the server code is out there for you to run yourself.

Signal has the added benefit that it doesn't need to read what's in the messages you send. It needs some very basic routing information and the rest can be encrypted end to end. With AI stuff, the contents need to be decrypted in the cloud, so the end-to-end protections don't apply.
What I have noticed is that very often the problem with these "fun" jobs isn't that there is limited demand for them on the employer's side, rather the problem is that the profession of a game tester requires game developers. Some of the jobs are more popular than others. If you need two testers for every software developer working on a game and game testing is far more popular than game development, then game testing becomes a sweatshop activity because there aren't enough game developers to absorb all the people willing to become game testers.
This sounds like every newcomers to the stage except for big players like Apple.
Adobe overhauls terms of service to say it won't train AI on customers' work
You get considerably more ML FLOPS per dollar in a 4090 than any mac. It seems like the base M2 MAX is at roughly the same price point. It does grant you more RAM.

Quadro and Tesla cards might be a different story. I would still like to see concrete FLOPS/$ numbers.
I'm betting on South America. Climate, economic and political plays to be made here. The west has been priming South America for this for a while imo.
All of the windows visible on screen. For my use case, I was taking a screenshot of my app (for automated testing), so I ended up taking a full desktop screenshot and cropping it to the window.
Thanks!

But yeah, pretty much as I thought here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40643094
Yep, it is the same in Berlin. There are local roasteries such as The Barn who make amazing coffee drinks from lightly roasted beans. The coffee has almost a fruity taste, it is so good.

I just got back from the US and had Starbucks a few times. The coffee was almost an exact opposite from that. Bitter, bland and burnt. Luckily we visited Seattle that has some good coffee culture still left, but I really don't get the popularity of Starbucks.
Bet it depends on the country.

In the USA, you won't be able to ask about sex, but you can probably ask about tank man.
“If” being the key word. From everything I’ve read, they aren’t doing what he is fear mongering about. It seems like they’ve gone to great lengths to not do it.
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Yeah, it’s just another artificial limitation to get people to buy a newer laptop. They hit the devs where it hurts
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Where does what you said rebut my point?
Chomsky wrote that "The 'slaughter' by the Khmer Rouge is a Moss-New York Times creation."

I'm unsure as to how that would be anything but genocide denial.
> IMHO "every day" is far too frequent, and this ADHD-ish attitude is one of the reasons why the quality of average software has gone down the drain. Developers need to step back, think more deeply, and not worry about being pressured into "shipping code" that barely works.

I agree with you partially because I’ve seen this Rush-Driven Development you describe, but with proper gates in place (hooks, Pull Request checks, culture, etc.), this worry mostly disappears in mature teams.

I’ve worked on teams where there aren’t Code Reviews if you’ve successfully deployed without errors last 3 times. Like, the system has this information stored, so if you’re trusted and the change is not marked as critical, it will deploy automatically after passing all previous automated checks/tests. It works wonders, believe me, and you can still apply other policies, like error budgets and stuff.

I agree some of the other Appearance Driven Development practices sound mostly useless to some, but the reality is that such practices, in my experience, are what made code development explode (in a good way) everywhere. Most people are somewhat social, virtual or in person, so they like to have some notoriety.
We are in a barely hidden war with authoritarians. Days ago putin promised support to mexico if it would attack the us. Due process comes in de hague and Nuremberg.
Author here - you are absolutely correct. Damn, during the last proof-reading one function got lost. Will fix it ASAP
He's not wrong that, given that you want to do this, this is the best way. The alternative would be to not do it at all (though an opt-out would have been good).
So we should create an approved vector for child abuse? “Just fix humans” isn’t a good enough response.
I would've thought the same until Microsoft started hiding tank man results in Bing. I'm not so sure if companies will start training different models for every oppressive regime.
> The admin process differs between companies. Usually if you can verify you are a different person living at a different address, than IT support might remove the flagged signature with proof of sale. I wouldn't count on the admins mercy though, as cheats will often set up shilling-circles or cloud-instances to try to get around bans.

I'm glad we agree that this is unreliable and therefore not a defense of the approach.

> The probability one will experience problems before a legitimate purchase return window period expires is very low.

Okay, so I buy a card I can actually afford on eBay, put it in my machine, buy a game, and get my account permabanned. What refund am I asking for that makes this okay?

> Have a wonderful day, and maybe try a card game like MTG. =3

This reads as condescending. If you don't mean it that way, then you should consider a different way to try and be friendly lest it undermine your argument. If you do mean it that way, please stop being rude.
It's a super high end VR180 camera. Neat.

But are we going to see better true 360° 3d cameras than the Insta360 Titan?
Insurgencies have been squashed in recent past (without resorting to nuclear weapons). Search for the end of Tamil tigers in Sri Lanka, Russia crushing Islamists in Chechnya, China crushing Islamists in Xinxiang (or however it's spelled), China crushing the Tibetan insurgency, and currently, Israel almost crushing Hamas.
Whatever it is, it's doing proper investigative journalism in the sense of “News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.”

https://hntrbrk.com/
Why does this work? How simple is it to follow the sms protocol, I thought there were spam filters in place on the phones to prevent receiving any traffic from towers which are not registered to a well known network provider (or what have you).
imo most of the software play is going to be an infra play where the max of value is being provided/captured by the big tech

there will def be some opportunities for mid-tier software(not necessarily saas) companies where they end up leveraging either some niche distribution or some neat packaging.

another ray of hope is - distribution takes time, there is a long cycle of adoption for any new tech. currently we are in "the chasm" and some of us(us being software builders) will end up benefitting from a long adoption curves. but i have my doubts if it's a vc backed thing as it will be a slow cycle.
I was at the most recent CCC conference and there was a discussion on "Spotting tech fictions as replacement for social and political change". What I heard was the same line of thinking I had heard since the COP21 Paris Climate Conference 10 years ago.

The solution is to push the green agenda through activism and pressuring politicians/corporations to enact sweeping motions. During this talk, they discussed pushing people to take the bus in place of getting an EV with a series of methods to penalize owning a vehicle.

Its funny how given yesterday's results the talk that happened in the last days of Dec (so just 6 months ago) is now looking obsolete but I saw this over the last 10 years as the promised commitments of COP21 fell by the wayside anyway. I used to joke about how conservatives in the US lived in a bubble. Now I am seeing techies like the OP are also in a bubble.
Those cybersecurity experts are using GrapheneOS and certainly not an iPhone where they can't even check if all is going well...
Just slinging, Chomsky only supported freedom of speech.
Will the tech oligarchs be the first against the wall when the revolution comes?
> - {google, yahoo, bing, duckduckgo, ecosia}

Even as an Apple fanboy, this is my least favorite part of the ecosystem. It’s so blatantly anticompetitive and obvious that this is a list of search engines that pay Apple money. (Actually, it’s just Google + 4 re-skinned Bing engines).

This needs to be customizable to include any website with a ?q= parameter, like Firefox does with custom search engines.

It should honestly be an anti-trust issue that this is not possible now.
Sad news. I do not agree with him on everything, but I found his work and arguments he made a good counterbalance to those who are followers of Edward Bernays and his "The Engineering of Consent".
> Imagine a portable 3D printer you could hold in the palm of your hand.

> The prototype chip has no moving parts

> The beam projects up into a liquid resin

Translated: Imagine a portable 3D printer with a small chip, a wat of liquid resin, a wash bath and a curing booth, you could drag around on wheels. But please only think about the chip in your palm.

> When powered by an off-chip laser, the antennas emit a steerable beam of visible light into the well of photocurable resin.

Oh, right, it also needs a laser.

> The researchers use electrical signals to nonmechanically steer the light beam, causing the resin to solidify wherever the beam strikes it.

That's so cool. It's almost like an LCD used in today's printers?

> Instead, the researchers used liquid crystal to fashion compact modulators they integrate onto the chip. [---] The researchers actively tune the modulators using an electric field, which reorients the liquid crystal molecules in a certain direction.

Right. So they reinvented reflective LCDs?

> In the end, the group used their prototype to 3D print arbitrary two-dimensional shapes within seconds.

3D print arbitrary 2D shapes? So worse than current printers?

If there was something interesting done with this research, this article did a very poor job of showing it.
Bamboo is excellent, they can make it look like other types of wood, it’s pretty affordable, and it’s environmentally friendly.

Another option is cork.
Who am I to believe? UKAD, who fought like hell to deny her defence before accepting it based on her work, or random internet commenter who can’t even be arsed to read the article before commenting?

It’s a real tough choice.
And (basically) nobody running linux is individually verifying the source code of every little piece of software that goes into it (maybe Linus is), so you're still trusting someone.
I didn't see the presentation but judging by your description, this is achievable using in-context learning.
Replacing the first tier of customer support for sure. Every time I see support bots mentioned, some ex-support employees bring up that 90% of those customer support questions are really dumb. The more people you can funnel to your knowledge base, the better.

On a more depressing note, translations. Translators are really hurting from LLM translations. They must focus on certified translations that must be done by a sworn translator.

Many websites got wrecked by Google's reaction to the rise of AI-generated content. The internet got funnelled to a very small number of sites controlled by 16 companies. A lot of independent websites got practically killed.
how certain are you actually that you are not an android? :)
Great and helpful comment.
I explicitly use different Apple IDs on each device because I don’t want to accidentally opt into features like mirroring my messages across them.
It's a little difficult to experience the joy of the system's front panel debugging facilities that way :-)
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Thanks. I have his Hidden Order book and also Per Bak's How Nature Works. Any others you would recommend by these or other authors?
Do I care? No

Does my manager? No, but what if they leave and I have a new manager right before performance reviews? I’d hope they don’t care about it, but I assume they’ll see it. May as well make it look nice.

Does the random recruiter looking at your resume care?

At some point in your career you might be able to afford to not care about this. Most people don’t have that luxury.
From playing games that get that distance wrong, it doesn't give me a headache or anything, it just makes the whole world feel bigger or smaller than reality. Really frustrating in games that try to replicate a real feeling. In a driving sim, for example, it can make you feel like you're driving a toy car rather than a full sized one, or that you're a kid in the seat of your parents car. Obviously not a feeling you want to invoke unintentionally, but perhaps there's ways in software to adjust?
thank you, I am a noob.
This sound like an amazing addition. Would this mean I could run a linux distro on an ipad which has M3 chip?
I don't think I said that.

We're talking about the history of the conflict which I think is important. The Israeli disengagement from Gaza in 2005 is part of how we got here so I think it's important for people following the conflict to know the details and not just respond emotionally to the terrible images of war- which I agree are disturbing.
Vanishingly close to no effect at all. It's hard to have an effect on something you could throw planets at without harm.
I hope Benn Jordan makes a video on this subject (no sarcasm, he would do an excellent job of it).
Free TV is still here: it's called "YouTube". Watch it on FireFox with uBO or a smartTV app like SmartTube and you'll never see an ad.
The M2 is a chip designed to be in a laptop (and it is quite powerful given its low power consumption). Presumedly they have a different chip or at least completely different configuration (RAM, network, etc.) in their data centers.
The iPhone Is Now an AI Trojan Horse
What are you talking about? Its not like the iPad shuts off as soon as year 9 rolls around. The iPad still runs and can be used for many more years.
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I think it’s pretty fair. This example isn’t about Apple but about Microsoft, but we’ve had a decade long period where Microsoft has easily been the best IT-business partner for enterprise organisations. I’ve never been much of a fan of Microsoft personally, but it’s hard to deny just how good they are at building relationships with enterprise. I can’t think of any other tech company that knows enterprise the way Microsoft does, but I think you get the point… anyway they too are beginning to “snoop” around.

Every teams meeting we have is now transcribed by AI, and while it’s something we want, it’s also a lot of data in the hands of a company where we don’t fully know what happens with it. Maybe they keep it safe and only really share it with the NSA or whichever American sneaky agency listens in on our traffic. Which isn’t particularly tin-foil-hat. We’ve semi-recently had a spy scandal where it somewhat unrelated (this wasn’t the scandal) was revealed that our own government basically lets the US snoop on every internet exit node our country has. It is what it is when you’re basically a form of vassal state to the Us. Anyway, with the increased AI monitoring tools build directly into Microsoft products, we’re now handing over more data than ever.

To get the point, we’re currently seeing some debate on whether Chromebooks and Google education/workspaces should be allowed in schools. Which is a good debate. Or at least it would be if the alternative wasn’t Microsoft… Because does it really matter if it’s Google or Microsoft that invades your privacy?

Apple is increasingly joining this trend. Only recently it was revealed that new Apple devices have some sort of radio build into them, even though it’s not on their tech sheets. Or in other words, Apple has now joined the trend of devices that can form their own internet by being near other Apple devices. Similar to how Samsung and most car manufacturers have operated for years now.

And again if sort of leads to… does it really matter if it’s Google or Apple that intrudes on your privacy? To some degree it does, of course, I’d personally rather have Microsoft or Apple spy on me, but I would frankly prefer if no one spied on me.
Yes, it does.

Should we keep arguing like on school playground?
The 'Dead Internet Theory'
They could put fisheye lenses on it and get close 180°.
Tech people make fun of tacky stuff like this, but it's a big driver for regular people to upgrade quickly.
> How can cheats exist in a server authoritative game engine architecture

I don't follow. How does the game being server-authoritative stop clients from running software that automatically aims at people's heads?
> You always want to rollback

This phrase highlights the confusion. If you learned SQL before Go, you want to rollback only on error.

Every time I write `defer tx.Rollback()`, I cringe and have to remind myself that yes, it's actually ok to call a method called `Rollback` after succesfully writing data.
Slightly more detail on The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/10/two_arrested_in_uk_ov...

Sounds like they were using a Stingray-esque device, as the police do.
Ultimately that leads to Popper's Paradox of Tolerance.[1] Do you defend the absolute freedoms of those whose goal is to destroy that freedom, along with you and many others with it? If yes, how do you stop them from accomplishing their goals? If no, where do you draw the line? (To be clear, I consider these critical but ultimately rhetorical questions with no obvious good answers.)

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
That's up to the virtualization solution you're using.
What has Lisp semantics and a stack with "call by push value" and whatnot is any one of the stack-based virtual machines used for compiling Lisp over the past 60 years.
Actually I first thought this person was joking in their blog post. As you already mentioned almost every piece of advice in there is related to how to look good in others eyes.

I would not dare interpreting too much into it but I do not think this is how you achieve satisfaction in your job. In fact I get anxious just thinking about me sitting there and being "oh my, I have not committed in an hour, people must be thinking I'm slacking".

On another note I also think much more goes into what makes a good commit than frequency. It's a topic that has already been widely discussed a lot and will continue to be discussed in the future.

Edit: I suppose this sentiment may also be one of the reasons why I'm increasingly reluctant to work with Gitlab. Their UI changes multiple times per year and I have yet to encounter a UI change that I would actually call an improvement. I value some level of stability in software that is being used by all our developers throughout the day. But someone seems to think their customers need to "see things changing" or they will stop paying for licences.
>bombing Japan aside, the pacific war devolved into something a bit grotesque. The American soldiers marched towards Japan carrying around the skulls of the Japanese as trophies.

If you think that was grotesquely terrible, I really recommend a thorough reading of what the Japanese themselves did during their imperial conquests, WWII and their increasingly bloody, desperate retreats in the face of American power! You'll be breathtakingly surprised by what barbarity can look like outside what the Nazis did.

There was of course a major element of racism in the hatred American soldiers had for Japanese soldiers, but it was only part of it. The Japanese did themselves zero favors in their conduct toward.... pretty much everyone, and were barbaric even in their handling of captured or wounded enemies (not to even mention how they behaved towards conquered civilian populations, which in their own form of nearly nazi-like racial disdain, they often looked upon as little better than animals). All the racism aside, the Americans also had an enormous multitude of good reasons for hating them so much.. The Empire even treated its own soldiers viciously and inhumanely in just about every way, which certainly didn't help those soldiers' attitudes towards all others..
Apple and Google aren't institutions. They're for-profit corporations with a long track records of behaving like amoral artificial minds that they are. In this sense, corporations are beasts - society can benefit from putting them to work, but they will also occasionally maul someone because that's what they do.
Then you are missing out on all the cool additions that Apple introduced today. Things that are really tailored for the iPad.
Just to be clear, you don't need to convince me - I've been preferring BSDs for my own infrastructure since the 90s. But I'm mindful that the discussion can quickly become polarised and winds up with negative framing or binary assumptions, which isn't helpful for others asking the same question.
South America has been promising for decades but it just keeps not fulfilling the expectations. I don't fully understand why, but I think it's not very business friendly (mostly controlled by left wing populists).
Kinda misunderstands algebraic notation: You are by no means required to use the minimal unambiguous notation. In fact, the canonical form is something like "Ng1-f3". "Nf3" is a context-dependent abbreviation of that.

Dig up an old chess book if you don't believe me. You'll find books that only use the long form.
Given how popular it is, I have to assume that Americans simply like coffee that way.
For a practical example: running WSL in Windows in macOS.
That's a good point. Though I feel there's a significant difference between defenfing comms from external and intermediary parties as opposed to forcing the behavior of the parties one chooses to interact with.