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> Chromebooks are not GNU/Linux, rather a browser running on top of a POSIX kernel that happens to be Linux kernel

That happens to be build using gcc, glibc and wayland. If you enable "developer mode" you get access to a subset of coreutils like "cp". You also get "chromebrew" which allows you to install the rest.

I think it's fair to say it's GNU/Linux stripped back to the bare essentials, with a custom desktop and a few GUI apps added. And the ability to add a fair chunk of the stripped stuff back. https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-library/guide...

> could be Zirkon or a BSD tomorrow if Google felt so inclined, with the ability to run GNU/Linux workloads inside of a VM.

Yes, well Windows could also be a Zirkon or a BSD tomorrow, with the ability to run Windows workloads inside of a VM.
I did not get any stock in reddit when I worked there. I worked there between when they were first acquired and when they were spun back out. The guys I hired got f-u money and I couldn't be happier for them, they deserve it for how hard they worked and how long they waited!
That's why Sam Altman has said he is in favor of an UBI. But that money would have to be collected from the AI company which owns the AI that does all the work. So only people from the country where this company pays taxes would receive this UBI. So US Americans in case of OpenAI.
In the UK, places without natural gas almost all use oil for heating instead.

A small chunk of buildings built in the 60's use electricity because we thought that would be cheap in a post-nuclear world. We were wrong.
At an early startup, your execution has a meaningful impact on the outcome. This isn’t true for craps. It may be for poker, though.
I thought they have a monopoly on ejection seats, but I've found at least 1 other manufacturer: https://www.collinsaerospace.com/what-we-do/industries/milit...

Martin Baker's website is a bit wild, you can join their "tie club", but to do so you need to have ejected using their seat: https://martin-baker.com/tie-club/

And they list the ejections they know of https://martin-baker.com/ejection-notices/ , but the records are a bit jumbled, the latest entries include ejections in the past that they've discovered, and they don't all have dates, even "Someone successfully ejected today". Today when, man?!
You're thinking of the fusion plant. ;D This one's fission.
Does the cost of a natural gas electricity factor in externalities associated with responsibly recycling plant?
First of all, traditional (tracing) GCs require more expensive runtimes and consume much more memory. ARCs are also much more predictable in their behavior and pave the way for greater compile time optimizations. ARC is key in providing Swift its ability to maintain its low memory footprint compared to, say, Java.

Second, yes, ARC is a GC method. But when the language says "no garbage collector", they just mean no traditional (tracing) GC runtime because, for better or worse, tracing GC is what people think of when they hear "garbage collector".
You can implement the same syntax for a renderer on other platforms but all of SwiftUI is closed source. So the diffing engine etc… all would need to be re-created from the ground up.

SwiftUI, like react uses some language constructs to make it look really fancy but in reality it's really simple nested data structs.

The real hard part is what the "DOM" provides for React and likewise what UIKit/iOS is doing with those data structs.
Wonder if they'd be useful for flying fpv drones. Do any drones provide spatial video feed? Would it be useful at all?
thanks all for the pointers: they led me to an explanation from Feynman, which I'd not found before. And hadn’t seen in high school.

https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_31.html
The 'inverted pyramid' - in some ways, its value is emphasised by how we consume media these days. In others (dark patterns, attention economy), it's deliberately ignored.
Sounds like that was a mistake.
I think Apple might have to enforce the ToS on their own apps, if they want to levy them on competition, with such a law.

But that's me thinking common law thoughts, not sure whst Japan's legal system is like.

(There are alot lf things like this, such as when you are a distributor selling to more than your own stores.)
> "Paramilitary organizations have very close ties with the far-right politicians here."

Does that make it more likely those paramilitary organizations are on the left, or on the right?
Pure evidence of malevolence on Apple's part. Though people have fuzzy feelings about Nestle, so it shouldn't be surprising that a company people have fuzzy feelings about can be downright nasty.
The title made me think of a real settlement on a real island. Nonetheless very interesting.
Reads like arrogance and poor trade craft, not a desire to get caught.

He could have thought that the organization was too corrupt and incompetent to track the attack. He might have been unaware of law enforcement investigation procedures, or jurisdiction risks.

It would be common for script kids to lack sophistication in forensics, legal risk analysis, and not really understand the magnitude of their crime.

Assuming there is no evidence that he was getting paid by a third party to do this, I think his defense could have argued he was a naive and immature prankster that didn't think they were doing real damage, not a hardened criminal intentionally causing damage for profit.

He only got 2 years. Seems light, for nearly a million dollars in damages, right?

A 2-year vacation with free food and housing and criminal advocacy, and then try again maybe with more professional approaches? The birth of a real pro!

Doesn't sound so bad honestly. He'll be 41 when he gets out, and ready to strike again! Maybe he'll get a big brain, and go straight into security consultancy, a la Mitnick! Either way, the kid just made his boldest career move! Wishing him all the best of luck!
NBA already offers the ability to watch games via VR. It’s a 180 degree camera set up court side.

> it would be entirely non-immersive because moving your upper body

Not sure what you mean by this?

Even so, it’s not about perfect immersion. It’s about having the best view of the game sitting from home.
Also referenced in a comment the other day on "Physicists Puzzle over Emergence of Electron Aggregates" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40524238#40547258
Agreed. custom models could be a hit or a miss.
> is there an android terminal? I'm only familiar with debugging mobile devices over adb and it's restricted.

> I'm aware of android terminal apps, but they typically connect to a remote terminal via SSH.

You certainly can run a local terminal (I think I've seen it baked in as part of developer options, but also as an extra app), though if you don't have root it is somewhat restricted in what you can actually do.

> Does android boot into a terminal like a typical linux device? I thought it booted into fastboot

I think you're slightly misunderstanding how boot works on both Android and Desktop Linux. The kernel is perfectly happy to run whatever you want on such displays as are available. Android tends to boot from firmware (which also implements fastboot) to a bootloader to the kernel and the kernel brings up the system with SurfaceFlinger (the Android display manager) owning the screen. On desktop linux there's more diversity; you can have the kernel initially hand your screen to the old in-kernel virtual terminal, the newer KMS implementation of a terminal ( https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KMSCON ), or to Xorg or a Wayland compositor (in that case, optionally using plymouth or the like to replace even the earliest text messages). (Actually, full disclosure: I'm only about 70% sure I've got that sequence right. The point is that even desktop linux is perfectly capable of booting only in graphical mode; booting to a text terminal is available but optional.)
> "Supercapacitors are not perfect. Existing iterations discharge power quickly, and are not ideal for steady output, which would be needed to power a house throughout the day."

Could someone kindly explain to me how this works?

For example, if you had an empty lithium battery which can store X amount of power, and a fully charged supercapacitor which holds 10X, can you charge the lithium battery to full and leave 9X in the supercapacitor?

If no, why not and how do you (both safely and usefully) get energy out of a supercapacitor? Or if yes, could a relatively small battery between the SC and a house act as a buffer to stop it mattering that the SC discharges "too quickly and unsteadily"?
I think it was in the 80's, I got a little pine tree from McDonald's. Must have been a promotion or part of a Happy Meal, I honestly don't recall. I planted it in my parents yard, where it is still growing today (and its huge).

We had a live Christmas tree another year that is still growing in the yard too.

Save your money from over-priced clocks, plant a tree yourself and enjoy it for a long time.
I mean, Gemini is just wrong here.

Yeah, sure cell densities vary (fat vs muscle) but pretty much any cell sample you're going to gather is going to be near the same density as the surrounding water environment. Again, there is a lot of variation though. The end result is that the density of a cell is near enough the density of water, it's not 100x more dense. I mean, iron is only ~8x more dense than water.
Why not though (for safety-critical code)? How can it be safe with `unsafe`?
I found that there are about 180 people (according to the FAQ: https://www.savechandra.org/faq) working on the project. Anyone know the breakdown of those roles? Like there are:

5 Operators who are responsible for the day-to-day pointing of the instrument, monitoring systems for health, etc. Some redundancy here so that people can take vacations, not be on-call all the time, etc.
3 Astrophysics post-docs who decide which proposals are worth spending telescope time on. (Need an odd number to break ties)
1 Orbit mechanics specialist (to make sure it stays aloft, etc)
2 Systems engineers who have a good "big-picture" idea of how the satellite works
2 X-ray instrument subject matter experts
2 programmers for firmware updates of the systems on the satellite
2 programmers for programming systems on the ground
2 I.T. support
1 data analyst
1 electrical engineer for electrical issues debugging on the satellite, etc.
1 RF/EE for the ground based and comms stuff
1 mechanical engineer for mechanical issues debugging on the satellite, etc.
2 more astrophysics Ph.D's for helping answer technical questions about the instrument from the principle investigator for each proposal accepted for telescope time.
4 managers

Or what does the day to day operations look like for this type of instrument? Must be more than tell the telescope where to point, and then feeding the stream of bits to the various universities to interpret the data.
Perhaps they would hire two executives.
For a horse, that's not so unpleasant in itself - their legs are able to 'lock' in place. Some horses will voluntarily choose to be on their feet for that amount of time anyway (not that I've watched any individual for long enough to personally vouch for this!) and are able to sleep standing up too. This is common to all equids, these Przewalski's horses included. Being stuck in a shipping container with no view for 30 hours though, that's another thing entirely...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stay_apparatus
At this point I think we can agree that the article is poorly written because we don't even unambiguously understand what actually happened.
Same here, it’s simple and reliable.
Big tech isn't able to do certain innovations. It's not that intermediate wins don't matter, but that innovative capabilities don't come out fully formed with a business model. And I don't know of any big techs that effectively do business model and tech innovations at the same time.

If your goal is only promotions inside of big tech then definitely throw most innovative ideas out the window. But if you're interested in innovation, then big tech either needs to get a lot more entrepreneurial or less big.
Also storyline type demo sucks. A simple video that I can rewind will be preferred.
Hello, I'm Demi from https://colonist.io team.

I love this.
It feels like what Bananagram did to scrabble.

Scrabble -> Waiting turns

Bananagram -> Everyone plays at the same time

The difference in fun is 10x.

We will use your app to see how it plays out. We might just end up implementing it :)
That was a class of software I have never even heard of, but could be it. Thanks!
One early part of your post is about being productive.

Much of the rest is about creating nostalgia and reliving a past trip through these.

Is there a paradox, or contradiction, in these themes?
Replace it with ? Toshiba software?
Swift on Zephyr! I wonder if you can attach a debugger to it? https://github.com/apple/swift-embedded-examples/tree/main/n...
My glib take to every CRM like this: If you don't ship with a programming layer you're DOA. Salesforce thrives off of Apex and friends. You _need_ to let people program your CRMs if you want to go after SFDC. Or, more specifically, you need to _host_ people's programs so they don't have operational questions.

Salesforce gets the ubiquity the same way that Wordpress does: randos can copy some code fragments off of a website and stick it into a file/textbox, and get new functionality.

So... Twenty, hire one person whose job it is to layer AWS Lambda over your system :)
>Over 100 successful ejections per year? That's wild! That sounds like an awful lot of hull losses.

I remember calculating a few years ago that more than 10% of the ejector seats sold by Martin-Baker have been used to eject.

Military aircraft operations, even in peacetime, are much more dangerous than the vast majority of civilian fixed-wing flight (except airshows/racing and maybe cropdusting). I don't know how much of that difference is the flight profile being inherently more dangerous (closer to terrain), and how much is it being harder on the aircraft.
Baseload power is still very much relevant. People will not tolerate power outages when it's cloudy. Yes, storage has advanced, but it's nowhere near the capacity that's needed. If it were, we wouldn't even be having this discussion. It's far from the capacity of existing nuclear power supplies, right now - much less what is needed.
No, I definitely wouldn't have invested so much in Google. However, I'm not sure how much to attribute to it being a default choice, versus the differences between an inside versus an outside view.

It's easier to be comfortable investing long-term in something you know well. While there's a lot I'll never know about Google, I think I understand the company somewhat better than others. For example, I can discount a lot of news articles as being written by people who don't really understand the culture. If I hadn't worked there, I might worry more.

That's less and less true, though, as much has changed since I left. And for investment purposes, maybe that bias only seemed to be helpful, versus an outside view?
>If you look at a state like Colorado, the energy usage is vastly different than Florida or Texas with lots of heat and humidity.

Electricity usage yes. Energy usage no. Household energy usage is lower in the warmer states, and higher in colder states. I would expect that CO household energy consumption would be higher than FL or TX.
Honestly, I don't know what's happening there. My only other guess is that the wheel you're downloading is so big that it somehow busts `pip`'s cache, meaning that you end up always re-downloading it. But I'm not sure there's even a cache limit like that.

It sounds like this might be a bug, either in `pip` or in the caching middleware it uses. You should consider filing a bug upstream with your observed behavior.

Edit: 2.5GB is coincidentally just over the maximum i32 value, so it's possible this is even something silly like a `seek(3)` or other file offset overflowing and resulting in a bad cache.

Edit 2: `pip` is using `CacheControl`, which I maintain. I suspect what's happening is that `CacheControl`'s underlying use of `msgpack` is failing above stores of `2^32 - 1` bytes in individual binary objects, since that's the `msgpack` limit.

https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack/blob/master/spec.md

I'll try and fix that, if that's what it actually is.
Yet again privatized profits socialized losses
Notwithstanding the gross non-disparagement stuff, they've already had 3 tender offers, so not sure what you're waiting for.
Our current users are CISO's security ops team, threat intel team, blue team, fraud strategy or fraud intel team. Hope that helps!
Swift has had first-class C interop for a long time.

It is only C++ interop that is more experimental/in-progress.
I was going to post much the same regarding SQL <> Excel. Once underlying data sources are cleaned, wrangled, and access-controlled, it's amazing how far VLOOKUP and Pivots will get you.

I've also found that giving non-technical users the opportunity to self-serve when more than one data source is involved always leads to offline mashups of data and the question - "Hey data team, why doesn't 'your' data match 'mine'", always with the assumption that 'theirs' is the correct one!
I always think about how Catan was this huge boost to board games, and then most games post-Catan are like "there is no trading."

I enjoyed trading as a kid in Monopoly and friends but boy does it kill a game
That might not be too big of an issue. There are papers that enable reusing data of different modality by filling blanks.
Currently you have to pay low skilled workers minimum wage only if you actually need the job done by some human. The law just says: either you don't employ a human at all, or you pay him at least minimum wage. This is compatible with mass unemployment. The alternative would be to force companies to hand paychecks to "employees" which don't do anything. Which seems like taxation+UBI by another name.
That makes sense, we're going through our annual renewal now. It's a great experience to harden and test systems.
These stats always get trotted out, but they're not an apples-to-apples comparison for a few reasons:

1) the fleet average is around 12 years old, when most EVs are new enough to still be covered by factory warranty.

2) incidents and risk in cars is coupled with driving patterns and trip length. There's no analysis to tell us whether or not it's the EVs themselves that are safer, or the way they're driven. This is also why the claim of incidents per billion miles needs further qualification. It assumes the driving profile matches the fleet driving profile, but that may not be the case due to charging requirements.

3) a lithium battery fire isn't the same as a gasoline car catching fire, and we shouldn't pretend that they are. Even taking it at face value that EVs catch fire less often, the metric for most people isn't "will my car catch fire?" but rather "will this kill me?". If an EV is actually five times less likely to catch fire, but you're six times more likely to die, that's a net loss in safety. And given the nature of some of the battery fire deaths that have occurred, alongside the -- until recently -- relative scarcity of EVs, I wouldn't fault someone for waiting to see how things shake out.

4) regardless of what stats collected by those in the industry say, you're still paying a higher premium to insure an EV. And I get that there are multiple factors that go into determining that, but I trust the people who's job it is to make money by evaluating risk more than I trust companies trying to sell me an EV.

The way I see it, any improvements to the safety of batteries when things go wrong is a good thing. Even if it's the case that batteries are already better, an improvement that eliminates the horror fires that stick in people's minds, even if those fires are incredibly rare, is a big gain in public perception.
Awesome article! Something slightly misleading though - the first image shows the intersection of a non-convex shape, but it isn't revealed until much later that the algorithm only works for convex shapes, not the type shown in the first image.
It’s a really common environmental red herring that came from oil companies promoting recycling so you’d feel less bad about plastic.
How do you mean? You can spin up threads using stock Java API or pthread on NDK. (If you intend to run them in the background your app will need an active foreground service to not get killed, though). As far as the "main thread", I don't think that's unusual for most user interface frameworks.
CloudRF: Radio frequency planning software for wireless operators and engineers
Very cool. Reminded me of this post about Sodium Vapour Lights used in old school special effects chroma keying.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39962615
Oh ok your comment just sounded like an AI summary. And yeah the main point was that nature can do things that technology cannot. When I say technologists need to be humble it’s because their inventions do not compare to nature’s inventions in many areas, especially microtechnology. When I hear someone like Sam Altman claim that chatGPT will achieve human level intelligence soon, I just find that to be laughable. It’s been well established that nature has accomplished something much more impressive with the human brain.
Now this is interesting.

For example - where did you get that I PIP'd over 20 people? Because I not only never said that, it never happened.

Of the dozen I did PIP, over half were handed to me in re-orgs, and had been persistent performance issues that the prior manager never addressed. Such is corporate life.

And all of those dozen I handled directly. There were a few in time that subordinates handled as they came up later, but I forgot to count those in the total. All I would do in those cases is ensure they were doing the right things - I wouldn't ever make the call, as it wasn't mine to make. They don't meaningfully impact the overall numbers though.

And there were a lot of non-PIP performance discussions too of course. For instance, I had a manager I took over that was burnt out and performing badly due to a really legally dangerous performance issue from someone MY boss had insisted be given a chance. I didn't PIP the manager, we talked about it and I helped him find a new team where he could get some new scenery, and my boss took over the performance problem.

Regardless, only 4 of the 12 ended up being fired. Which is what, 2% of the total number of folks? Even doubling that, over 10 years that is amazing. The rest improved performance wise. Several of them even thanked me. Bizarrely, the really difficult case I talked about was one of them.

Near as I can tell, no one had ever held him accountable for his actual performance, because he had previously kept succeeding at getting people to blow up at him.

Show me a place where that is a bad stat, and I'll show you a place that is lying through their teeth or delusional.

And hey, I got PIP'd once too. Personal issues that bled over into professional life. It sucks!

My manager was right on with what the issues were though, even if he didn't do most of the actual best practices. I ended up making some major life changes personal wise to deal with my issues as well as transferring to a different team as my managers style was not a good fit for me either, and had another 3+ years of productive time in my career there (and got promoted). We still chat from time to time.

Ciao!
Right... Windows development incentives are not aligned with "serving the user effectively" anymore, and haven't been for a long time, making Windows also quite painful at times.