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Keychain Access has not been "fine". It's had multiple unaddressed data loss bugs. For example, Keychain lost all passwords from all Keychains after the Catalina update[1] and this wasn't fixed in the next 3 Catalina minor updates. Multiple users reported the issue to Apple and the response was crickets. Even if you restored the passwords, it helpfully deleted them all again. I switched to 1Password and declared Keychain Access a lost cause. I don't think I'll be giving them a second chance here.

[1] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250722178
>> The live Dogecoin price today is $0.138449 USD with a 24-hour trading volume of $1,121,946,302 USD. We update our DOGE to USD price in real-time. Dogecoin is down 5.38% in the last 24 hours. The current CoinMarketCap ranking is #8, with a live market cap of

Those are joke numbers? It might have started as a joke but money is money.
artists, desginers, editors, copywriters, voice actors, customer support folks were all facing a much bigger threat a long time ago.

Photoshop "ai", design templates, and outsourcing destroyed most of them a long time ago.
The Espressif chips are available as cheap modules, and frequently used as such.

People generally refer to the module, not the isolated chip. The modules are effectively like a chip that you solder to the board.
I have this same issue. I've got to unpause the app multiple times, and wait for upwards of 15 to 30 seconds before the app actually unpauses.
Thanks for the benchmarks! :)

Indeed, 14GB seems really high for a 400MB Parquet file, that's a 35x multiple on the base file size.

Of course, the data is compressed on disk, but even the uncompressed data isn't that large so I believe indeed that quite a lot of optimisations are still possible.
It's easy (and legally advised) to have a waiver mentioning all the risks, while also totally downplaying them in your sales pitch and live communications that go on before such a thing gets signed.
Even if a super-Sturgeon's-Law holds at a 10000:1 crap:quality ratio, there's still overwhelmingly so much stuff out there, produced over so many generations of talented writers, artists, musicians and directors, that you'd have to be unreasonably picky not to be able to fill a whole lifetime of consumption with enjoyable content. It's only our predilection for novelty that keeps the content mills going, and I wonder how long that can last against the ever-growing accumulation of culture.
I honestly can’t tell if this is satire
I'm thinking a lot about this in the context of what's going on in the US where we're seeing a human rights regression of sorts in many aspects (reproductive rights, free speech, role of law enforcement, etc) unlike in most (all?) other developed nations where the trend is the other way.

Human rights are only considered human rights because lots of people believe in them. It's not a universal rule of nature, societies are free to depart from them if they choose to do so. Who are we to force our worldview on a group of people that as a majority has chosen to live life in a different way?!

Personally I'm just lucky to be able to choose where I live so that my world views somewhat matches the values of the people around me. Not everyone is that lucky though. Especially marginalized people.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40627070.
Glad someone said it. Hamas is not a terrorist because they terrorize. Hamas is a terrorist because they are a threat to western govt and world order. Similarly south africa post apartheid was a threat to western world order.
> Talk about the worst rebrand ever.

I don't think they could have chosen a more generic name than the world's default variable.
The difference is the Gammelost isn't actually a thing in Norway. I grew up there and never saw it. Whereas Brunost is staple food eaten every day by a large part of the population.
If by videofile you mean professional, then sure, but if you mean chasing quality that exceeds human perception limits, then no, if anything, the lenses are likely a compromise in order to get them so close together.

iPhone video is impressive, but even moderately successful YouTube channels upgrade once they start making money. Some even use big cinema style cameras like red 8k cameras.
> I'm confused at why Americans, with the culture of valuing individual freedoms over all, aren't concerned with the hypothetical consequences these powers provide.

I don't think this is as much of a "gotcha" it seems to be. People have all kinds of theoretical beliefs that they routinely violate in practice. It's just part of being human.

The way things like this are supposed to work in the real messy human world is that we encode these "freedoms"/rights into a constitution. We then have a judicial branch that protects these rights, irrespective of individual human inconsistency/hypocrisy. For border searches we have the relevant rights in the US constitution already. The problem is that the judicial branch has incorrectly ruled that protections like the 4th amendment don't apply at the border.
It's impossible to use any technology if you don't trust anyone.

Any piece of technology MAY have a backdoor or secondary function you don't know of and can't find out without breaking said device.
Success itself is certainly not shameful, but there are shameful ways of attaining success.
Painfully out of touch
Why? I'd love to see a fully-local LLM for text generation, proofreading etc.

Nobody forces you to use it, and I have much higher trust in Mozilla to not do a sneaky switcheroo to a cloud-based model or something similar than I have in the other browser vendors.
That's a super interesting read about Google Pay / Android Pay / Pay.

Thanks for sharing.

Seems like you have a portion of the world where your phone number is your identity. And other portions of the world where you're email is it.
When the packaging rubs off against the food, particulates from the packaging mix into the food.
Extra-partnership paternity has risen greatly since no-fault divorce was legalised. In the West. In Japan, not so much.

The children aren't better off.
It happens so often for me, I just assumed it was a key feature of how Screen Time worked e.g. 1-click to unpause isn't really a deterrent, but what if unpausing took a random number of clicks to unpause - now that's a deterrent to not unpause.
> I don't disagree with any of that. But you didn't deal with the "why is there an active land war in Eastern Europe?" question; which is what Chomsky was picking at to get to the NATO expansion point.

Fair enough. To answer that, I’d say the actual trigger wasn’t NATO but the EU, and Ukraine wanting to join it and move out of Russia’s sphere of influence. This was coupled to a wave of new leadership who wanted a more western and central European alignment. That’s what the Maidan was all about, when Yanukovych unilaterally refused to sign the European Union–Ukraine Association Agreement and brutally cracked down on the resulting protests.

That desire for closer ties with western and central Europe played out economically too, with the Ukrainian tech sector in particular being promoted as an outsourcing hub for European companies and holding conferences like Devoxx.

Russia invaded because it knew it either subjugated Ukraine now, while it was still relatively weak but growing fast, or it lost the opportunity altogether. And in Russian strategic thought the idea of not being able to control Ukraine, which they see as an integral part of Russia, is anathema.

> The reason the US often doesn't bother with a might-makes-right response is because it isn't effective, not because they're purposefully holding themselves back from useful options. It is more effective to have the rule based order where, famously, the US makes the rules and gives the orders.

On some level, sure, but as China’s rise has shown the rules based order does not prevent competitors from rising up and eventually eclipsing US power. While the rules based order allows the US to use economic coercion, it also allows China to do the same.

A might-makes-right approach can be effective, but it can also lead to world wars which are immensely destructive and which the US wants to avoid.

It’s not just the US though, the EU is similarly in favour of substituting diplomacy and trade for military power.
Pololu's stencils leave much to be desired. They do work but I feel like https://www.oshstencils.com/ makes a higher quality stencil instead at similar prices.

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Note that BGA chips mostly come pre-soldered / solder balls. You also design PCBs so that there is a "well" for the balls to melt into and settle into place, and molten-solder has a significant amount of surface tension, so you can magically watch the solder "pull" your designs into place. Of course, the OP is likely talking about QFN not BGA, but... just in case people are worried about BGAs its not terrible... (its just impossible to inspect a BGA XRays).

The surface-tension can be harmful in the case of tombstoning (ex: a resistor or capacitor with two leads, especially a "sideways" low-inductance capacitor, will get "pulled up" by one side, lifting off the 2nd pad).

If you have a solder-plate + hot-gun, you can "feel" the surface tension by just grabbing a toothpick and pushing on these components as they're still hot. You'll find the pressure to be far higher than you expect.
I'm taking aim at the Google bros who try to raise these arguments to muddy the waters into a sort of false equivalence between Apple and Google.

If you're already using a dumb phone and eschewing modern software services, then I'm not really talking to you. Roll on brother/sister, you are living your ideals.

> How do you distinguish between a company who 'has built protecting privacy into their core value proposition' and one who just says they've done so?

The business incentives. Apple's brand and market valuation to some extent depends on being the secure and privacy oriented company you and your family can trust. While Google's valuation and profit depends almost entirely on exploiting as much of your personal data as they possibly can get away with. The business models speaks for themselves.

Does this guarantee privacy and security? Does Apple have a perfect track record here? No of course not, but again if these are my two smartphone choices it seems fairly clear to me.
It's almost as if people consider all possible upsides and downsides, and try to make a good trade-off for that specific situation, instead of adhering to a simplistic black/white thinking...
> Suburbs are usually [...] would just be bizarre.

Usually, yes, but I know of settlements "out in the middle of nowhere" that are nothing but rows of houses. No businesses, schools, or anything of that sort found within the immediate community. One needs to drive through the vast corn fields to another town to access such amenities. It doesn't seem that bizarre.

> (and within a few minutes of stores)

For those at the nearest edge, no doubt. Those at the furthest edge could be quite a distance away. Although, even in a small suburb, often you find the craziest road systems. It might take a half an hour just to drive to a store only a mile away.
Just to add the terms: a "grid following" matches the grid's voltage/frequency, so it only works when connected to the grid. A "grid forming" system can set its voltage/frequency independently and can only work off-grid

It sounds like mauvehaus is talking about a hybrid system that has both grid following and grid forming capabilities: switching to grid-forming as it disconnects. But that means that you can't power your neighbors.
When they are not passive the government will freeze their bank accounts and generally make life impossible without due process already.
From what I've read about Botswana is way ahead on many matters compared to most of Europe (e.g. gender equality).
That's not what I think of.

I think of the buckets of scraps you would feed a pig. The stuff the humans don't want to eat and would just as well put in the garbage bin.
(I've dabbled in mobile games)

Yes. Americans are THE most valuable customer base, y'all use insane amounts of money on mobile crap.
Please don't perpetuate religious flamewars on HN. It's the last thing we need here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40648381 also, because you broke the site guidelines badly downthread.
The origin story of the Windows 3D Pipes screen saver
When I lived in Germany in 2009 paying for gym memberships or rent was all done with instant transfers.
This. Bad AI output is indistinguishable from bad human output. It's literally the same exact shit.
A fast and robust quantum random number generator
Not only would you be putting your own health at risk, but that of any family members and/or pets too.

I think his point is that the FDA finds that there is no evidence to support this claim. What evidence do you have that this claim is true?
Google tests blocking side-loaded Android apps with risky permissions
I don't know where this falls on the "storing in the cloud" policy, but if you haven't seen it I really enjoyed KeePassXC's ssh agent to keep SSH keys off disk: https://keepassxc.org/docs/KeePassXC_UserGuide#_ssh_agent_in...
Great work! Can you share more about the native apps? I’m looking for something native, lean and quick – similar to apple notes.
For many years now, the FDA has been actively working against the public interest. They won't do anything until a court forces them to act. It's not just about being proactive; the data is already out there to show harm.
Plus 30 seconds to 2 minutes of Patreon segment, depending on whether they're reciting the list of newest/bestest patrons, and then 30 seconds of outro in the end, creating a frame for YouTube to stuff recommended videos of the creator in.
Yeah, me as well, though I like Tawain and it is very scenic.
RP2040 is QFN, not BGA.

QFN is doable at home, though more difficult than TQFP leads or larger SOIC-chips. Still, far too many components are QFN today so its a good skill to pickup.

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The techninque is:

1. Reflow soldering brings the _whole_ board to soldering temperatures, and then relies upon surface-tension to pull all the devices into proper place.

2. Solder paste is applies ahead of time. You can cleanup solder paste with a toothpick before you bring the board up to temperature. Solder paste tends to go bad pretty quickly however. When doing prototypes, opt for the more expensive low-melt solder paste to minimize potential heat damage.

3. Prefer to use a stencil to apply solder paste. But its more than doable to be sloppy with a syringe and then rely upon the solder mask + surface tension to magically cleanup things during reflow temperatures.

4. Use a hot-air gun to fix any issues. The #1 issue you'll have is tombstoning, QFNs or TQFP chips are usually pretty good about settling into place. For TQFP issues (ex: bridging), you'll need solder-wick + soldering iron. EDIT: And flux: lots of flux helps. Also, flux goes bad, so throw away Flux all the time and keep buying new batches.

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BGA is also doable at home btw, thanks to the above principles. But its even harder than QFN. The real issue of BGAs is that you're looking at 4-layer minimum, maybe 6, 8, or 10-layer designs. There's also substantial grounding and other advanced PCB concepts you need before you can layout a BGA-capable PCB.

Its not so much the physical activity of soldering that's hard or difficult for BGAs. Its all the theory you need to study to breakout BGAs + minimize inductance + deal with impedance matching and trace-length matching.
Xitting.

Pronounce it however you prefer.
https://www.amazon.com/Really-Like-Slop-Elephant-Piggie/dp/1...

Irrelevant, but also fantastic.
Xweet
Govern me harder! I need every purchase I make to be snooping on me! Think of the children!
"You want us to pay you, so our users create content for your platform?"

What do you even say to that as twitter sales rep?
US Weighs More Limits on China's Access to Chips Needed for AI
I copy your code below, because it's so terse and marvellous and I don't want to deprive anyone who assumes otherwise and doesn't click on your link:

: >BRACES 1 CELLS BRACES +! BRACES @ ! ;
: BRACES> BRACES @ @ -1 CELLS BRACES +! ;
: { DEPTH >BRACES ;
: } DEPTH BRACES> 1+ <> ABORT"unbalanced" ;

And the example "backwards lisp" expressions you give as test cases:

{ 1 2 + } .
{ 5 { 1 2 + } * }
See my other reply. In any case, that you can refer to these as ‘aggressive imperialist power plays’ shows you’re both not to be taken seriously and are not willing to engage in a good faith and informed discussion.
quite interesting framing. A couple things have changed since 2011

- SIMD (at least intel's AVX512) does have usable gather/scatter, so "Single instruction, multiple addresses" is no longer a flexibility win for SIMT vs SIMD

- likewise for pervasive masking support and "Single instruction, multiple flow paths"

In general, I think of SIMD as more flexible than SIMT, not less, in line with this other post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40625579. SIMT requires staying more towards the "embarrassingly" parallel end of the spectrum, SIMD can be applied in cases where understanding the opportunity for parallelism is very non-trivial.
Ironically, Apple just announced P2P payments.

Which means this is almost certainly a temporary closure. Google will almost certainly relaunch with a new name, branding, and UX that rides on the coattails of Apple's marketing efforts, but P2P will be coming back. If you're competing with Apple, you can't just not do a thing Apple is doing.
No, I don't. While you're free to ask, I don't think the question is useful. This happens with each major technological advancement. If you plan to stay in tech, you may want to get used to it and reduce your inputs to preserve your sanity. The floodgates are open, and the new technology is here whether one likes it or not.

However, I'm limiting my tech news and social media intake and using the technologies solely for real-world problems[1]. In the near future, the new ChatGPT voice conversations will be stunningly good, and conversations will soon become duplex, not simplex.

1. You get out of LLMs what you put into them. I'll stand on my soapbox and state that "prompt engineering" is critical to getting useful information out of LLMs. "Garbage in, garbage out" as they say. One should also have a healthy dose of "trust, but verify" with LLMs, as well as with any other technologies (Eg. don't follow your turn-by-turn instructions into a harbor, don't take a nap while your Tesla self-drives, etc.)
Breaking the site guidelines like this will get your account banned on HN, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are, or how badly someone else is behaving.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
Wait until you hear what chemicals your clothes are made of.
Our electoral system sucks, that's our main problem in my opinion. But there is a difference between, say, the Cons on one side and the NDP/Greens on the other.
Self-plug: play on https://FreeSolitaire.win — no ads until game over. You can install it, it’s a PWA (Progressive Web App).

It’s also available in the Microsoft Store: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/freesolitairewin/9p9s4fnp5...
It was converted using https://pwa2uwp.fragara.com/
> some designs for batteries that basically involve physical pumps to pump liquid anodes and cathodes around

Yeah in addition to flow batteries there are also grid scale thermal batteries, though these are targeted more towards long duration energy storage: run electricity through a large carbon block in a shipping container form factor to heat it up, then use infrared photovoltaics to convert back to electricity when desired.
We've banned this account for starting and perpetuating flamewars on HN and ignoring our requests to stop.

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It isn't always frightening. It only get scary when you try to move and cannot. Many people suffer "paralysis" that ends as soon as they try to move. Such people are awake but their body is in sleep mode, often snoring. I've experienced it myself when lying in bed wondering who is snoring beside me, only to discover I am alone in bed listening to myself snore.
BeReal is being acquired by mobile apps and games company Voodoo for €500M
I believe the company behind this shit down at the end of 2023
I think more people would get significant benefit from using sun block daily then obsessing over minutiae like this.
iCloud is great. I ended up switching to iCloud. I could contact a person when there is an issue, and there are some common senses in Apple to solve problems, solutions are more well thought from customer's point of view. Google reminds me the time when all softwares display error code on screen, and menus were designed by programmers.
Most of my dev team are Mac + Android users. The same is not true for data or product folks, who are mostly Mac + iPhone users.
One change I expect to see over the next few years in API documentation is a series of complicated examples. This isn't for people to review, but for coding assistants to use as to inform RAG or something similar.
I do think this is heavily overblown to get more research grants financed.
Its good except for license.
> generally make life impossible without due process

What do you mean by that?

> the government will freeze their bank accounts

Just putting this into context:

> Isabelle Jacques, assistant deputy minister of finance, told a committee of MPs that up to 210 bank accounts holding about $7.8 million were frozen under the financial measures contained in the Emergencies Act.

> She also said the fact that more than 200 bank accounts were frozen did not necessarily mean that more than 200 people lost access to their funds. Jacques said that individuals may have held more than one account affected by the measures.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/emergency-bank-measures-fin...
Heating and cooling would be massive. Another one is dishwashers (eh) but also laundry machines (washers and dryers/hot water heaters). Pushing those to random overnight spacing or preferably midday can help at least a bit.
The regular person will never get these terms right. Most people are not aware of this game of telephone they're unwillingly being part of. It will never ceases to annoy me. I still shudder at seeing "Troll" being misused.
Not if my company is paying for it. Which they will, because they have to. The price will be kept in check becauae it is a commodity. Anyone wanting enterprise business will have to include it (Microsoft 365).
> This is much more true of the “other side” than “Musk and like ilk”.

No, it's not. It's Musk and his ilk that hate media, hate reporters, hate when their dirty tricks are brought to light.

> The hate against Musk and X is primarily because a lot of people on one political side hate that they’re no longer steering public discourse.

This is PARTIALLY true but misleading. We're upset that he has decided that fascists, racists, and Nazis need to have their hateful views shared. As a society we've ben working on equality for decades, so this is a major step backwards.

> Also the current X does far less steering (in any direction) than the censorship heavy regime of the past.

This is also not true. Only hate speech was removed from Twitter. Now it's people Musk doesn't like.
Because it is a huge news that we may have the capacity in Europe to not be completely reliant on imports.