skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe some, there are also people who cheer for the capacity of humanity to figure out solutions that can benefits humanity. I view the perspective you describe as people externalizing their own insecurity. I do not view it as a critic towards people who have an excess of stored potential energy, but merely a signal that they haven't made peace with their own internal feelings about themselves. They need love, acceptance. They are on their own journey, everyone has the capacity to grow. Let's help everyone.
I disagree. I like all the privacy protections that Safari gives me as a user. And the safari team seems thoughtful (like the other browser teams) in how they consider features to implement. In fact, I'd like MORE competition in the space, and not having one privacy-addicted company dominating the browser market.

Even as a web developer, I haven't encountered enough issues with Safari to warrant that view and what it would mean (fewer privacy protections for web users). In fact, I stopped using Chrome years ago because it used to destroy my battery life. And Safari always felt more snappy and more "native."
Well the many employees at Amazon (and also FAANG) don't have a choice and have to keep up with the high cost of living (HCOL) standards and extreme competition of jobs from those willing to work for less. This is even before mentioning the potential for Amazon investing in robotics (to replace workers).

Additionally there are some on work visas which if at the event of a layoff, they have to find work within months otherwise they have to move back. Amazon is the last one to consider given the amount of employees there (1.5M) which screams the following:

1. Hire advanced roboticists into Amazon.

2. Build and train the robots against the employees in the customer support and warehouses areas.

3. Gradually replace them and do a soft-layoff.

They won't be going after programmers for now, but Amazon will try to find a way to do more with less, given the staggering amount of employees there which is a red flag and motivates them to automate many jobs with robots to reduce costs.
heard similar things about challenges getting a lot of near-shoring tech (chip fabs, etc) set up in MX
Have you updated to Xcode 16?
Are blockchain startups still a thing?
It’s not as if the hardware features on the 16 Pro are groundbreaking — a slightly nicer camera, a slightly nicer display, a slightly nicer battery life, and a $600 upgrade fee. No, thank you, the software features are what make-or-break the upgrade.
It's actually very practical and useful. A common problem is absent players (their characters are busy trying to run their domain). Another common problem is too much money among the adventurers: easily fixed with costs of construction, required finery, and a constantly deficit-running domain. Sometimes it helps if one of the player has some form of authority over the others - set the adventure in or near their domain.
I’ve seen all the sides of remote work now.

The only people that are offended by Musk’s comment are the being he was talking about.

“You can pretend to work somewhere else”

Remote work is awesome for some people. But if you don’t admit that a great number of people are scamming it - then your opinion is just as invalid as their obviously defensive position.
I seriously doubt it. It’s heavily secured with capabilities of their custom hardware.
> Is this an American corporate thing?

It's a "Our company has sufficiently-complex software that we sell to customers that pay us enough money to justify calling in one or more programmers outside of regular business hours to help handle problems that one or more of those customers considers Very Serious that our (IME often very, very knowledgeable) support staff can't figure out." thing.
K340A: The Brain Computer of Chernobyl Duga Radar [video]
A good point, but many people on these subreddits are apparently surrounded by "friends" and family like this who are happy to tell them how disappointed they are that they're "cheating" at losing weight.
There's no where that is oversaturated with renewables 24/7 and these kind of workloads aren't scaling up and down to just use renewable excess so it's a moot question. Except in the very peak of solar generation when there's a grid excess every watt spent on BTC or any other PoW chain is wasted. They're all speculative toys.
> they presume that the author of the book is the authority of the game, whereas the presumption made by Gygax et al. was that the Dungeon Master was overflowing with ideas, and needed only some reference points to pin them down.

Original D&D may have been more or less that way, but anyone who read the AD&D 1st Edition Dungeon Master's Guide will see the opposite: a profusion of detail laid out by Gygax himself, with strong implications all over the place that this was The Correct Way to run a D&D (or at least Advanced D&D) campaign.

> the heart of the game, which exists overwhelmingly at the table

I agree with this, and I think Gygax probably would have said the same if asked, but at least as far as AD&D is concerned, I think what Gygax meant by "at the table" was "at the table as long as things are run the way I think they should be run".

And of course no discussion of D&D and Gygax would be complete without the classic XKCD requiem:

https://xkcd.com/393/
The empty brackets in the submission's title should probably contain '1962'.

The clip seems to be part of documentary The Living Machine ( https://collection.onf.ca/film/the-living-machine ).

(Indeed, another copy of the clip is titled "The Living Machine", at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJeVVmwFwS8 )

Interesting: Roman Kroitor, the director of the documentary, is a founder of IMAX... And the origin of some features of Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey; and the author of a groundbreaking recording of a live performance from the Rolling Stones... See https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/04/roman-kroitor-changed...
You’re missing the point. It’s not useless as a feature in a vacuum. It seems useless on a device that needs to be charged every night to be used during the day. I’m extremely skeptical of the folks saying they only need to charge for 20 minutes to get by for 24 hours when the specs say other wise and friends that have Apple Watches say otherwise as well.
Reading this thread is bumming me out because it's made me realized my company USED TO have a good fusion between 'waterfall' and 'agile'. The requirements development phase, development, and testing phases were all very flexible and had feedback mechanisms as we gradually figured out The Right Way to get the thing to work.

Systems, software, and testing all worked in close concert so that software developers could find problems or gaps in requirements, as could testers. And of course there was a strong feedback loop between software & test. Meetings were weekly and people reached out to each other as needed outside of that. A daily standup was usually a sign that something was wrong.

In recent years we've moved to cargo-cult capital-A Agile, so we've basically traded our flexible process for a LOT more meeting overhead and pretty much a negative gain in efficiency. We spend significant portions of meetings talking about process which was never a problem in the past.

All because we didn't fit some predefined one-size-fits-all framework... sad!

(and of course the REALLY dumb thing, is that we're still often tied to a delivery schedule of 1 or 2 builds a year, with customer selloff testing - so the external process we fit into is still 'waterfall-y')

e; I guess one thing I neglected to mention here is schedule. We usually never had issues with schedule, our timelines were generous enough that even if we underestimated the complexity of something we could still make the delivery date. (admittedly there would sometimes be crunch periods in the last few weeks before delivery)
I think at a time Vampire: The Masquerade was the most popular title in Brazil, but D&D eventually won.

Tormenta and Old Dragon are pretty popular as well.
>> The friends I have that work there that love it are absolute workaholics.

This is a very important distinction.

At some age, you're going to have the money and whatever else you want and suddenly ask yourself why you're working so hard when you already have everything you need to be happy. This hit me a few years after I turned 35 and started asking myself was it worth it to have a really nice mountain bike, live in a state that has some of the best trails and the best I can do is get out six times a year because why? Because I'm putting in 50-60 hours at an office for a company that will cut me loose whenever they feel like it.

I realized if I didn't start focusing on my own happiness and stopped using all my energy to prove what an awesome developer I was, it was going to end up very lonely and very unhappy. I was also leery of burning out again like I did a few years earlier and had covered it up from my bosses and co-workers.

I feel like its a crossroads everybody arrives at in different times in their lives. For me, at 35, I felt like I had wasted so many years burning the candle at both ends and for what? Nothing that was going to make my life better. Even a few years after making several changes, I still look back with regret it took so long to see what I was doing to myself.
Yes, it's was pretty flippant. I didn't expect a series analysis.
It's almost certainly not b. There has been enough published research showing WFH to be somewhere between a significant productivity boost to a modest decrease that such data would be a significant outlier.

More likely the policy is being pushed for some combination of:

- Increased attrition

- Intangibles that management believes in

- Expected modest productivity gains they think are worth the downsides

- Reducing worker leverage
That’s a pretty cynical view. In essence, what you’re saying is “all the things you care about are not things I care about and/or actually despise.”

And that’s OK - you don’t have to work at Amazon! But the implication is that the OP has the “wool over their eyes,” so to speak, and I think that’s unfair. They’re allowed to love their job and find it impactful, even if you don’t. :)

It’s possible I misread this somehow, so if that’s the case, apologies in advance.
There's also the "a lot" part that's problematic. It's not easy to find time to bike enough that it makes a difference.
It's not just weight loss that Ozempic and the other GLP-1 drugs encourage. They also help people stop drinking to excess, and help lower pangs for other harmful drugs like heroin.

I believe that these attributes are so promising, that the idea of government subsidized Ozempic just seems like great domestic policy to me. I believe that whichever politician pitches this idea first will get a ton of support from the public and the press.
I hope they will fix some bugs as well. The top one on my personal list would be fixing broken exfat support https://superuser.com/questions/321161/disable-automatic-fsc...

Or maybe Bluetooth automatically switching to "reduced audio quality" (I know, I know, it's a feature, not a bug...)

Or wait, the kernel panic I get every once in a while would be nice: panic(cpu 1 caller 0xfffffe00318c8a1c): DCP PANIC - ASSERT!AppleDCPDPTXPowerController.cpp:538 No device added after powering on the rails. HPD=0 - dcpav(27)

I haven't had a system that felt so unreliable since Windows 98. :D
> 130 G$/yr (0.5% of the _entire_ GDP) on dialysis

Why is dialysis a reasonable endpoint for comparison? How do you know that market functions properly and that prices reflect actual costs of providing service?

> to net out negative in utilitarian terms.

Life long attachments to drugs are universally negative. You only have to ask, "what happens when the supply chain is disrupted?" If you've never been anywhere where alcohol was suddenly hard to get you might not understand how hidden and pernicious these problems can be.
Intel aims to turn foundry business into subsidiary to allow for outside funding
I take 3mg of Rybelsus, the pill form of Ozempic, every day for diabetes. This is about half the recommended dosage, but the major side effect for me has been gastric distress...on the full 7mg daily dose I was frequently nauseous, to the point where it rendered me unable to work some days. 3mg is supposedly the dosage you start out with for a month before moving up to 7mg, but 3mg has relieved most of my stomach distress, kept my daily blood sugar numbers down, and probably helped with weight loss (I'm down 15 pounds since February, a steady reduction that started a good 3 or 4 months before starting Rybelsus). The weight loss is a bonus for me; I'm in it for the diabetes benefits. When I was on the full dose, I often felt full. The half dose has the same effect, just not as much.

Fortunately my insurance covers most of the cost; at $25 a month, it's over 2.5x higher than any of my other prescriptions, but well within my budget. We'll see how long that lasts, especially since I plan to retire at the end of 2025 and go onto Medicare.
How does CLIP compare to YOLO[1]? I haven't looked into image classification/object recognition for a while, but I remember that YOLO was quite good was working on realtime video too.

[1]: https://pjreddie.com/darknet/yolo/
The FTC decision has already been halted by a Texas court nationwide. It's probably going to make it's way to the Supreme Court eventually, but given the courts recent rulings I suspect the FTC rule won't survive.

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2024/09/05/ftc-noncompete-ru...
So you’re telling me a 20 minute charge is going to get you through 24 hours with a workout every day? That just seems unlikely to me based on everything I’ve read.
I’d love to be able to use that at work but since I’m still on an Intel Mac (waiting for upgrade cycle) I’m SOL.
The cost problem will decline over time, as patents run out. The underlying drug is old.

The food industry is worried.[1] "One big concern for the industry is the importance of so-called “super consumers”, who drive an outsized share of spend. For instance, consider this recent estimate: 9% of adults drive 34% of candy consumption. Assume that one-third of those adults successfully adopt Ozempic or another GLP-1, and that’s a roughly 10% hit to category sales."

The snack industry needs "whales".

[1] https://foodinstitute.com/focus/analysis-ozempic-likely-to-i...
Then I guess you know better than all the hundreds of lawyers actively working out the issues on both Apple and EU sides..
There is so much money to be made with these drugs that if there were any negative effects with Ozempic, the money needed to keep them out of the news would look like pocket change in comparison. That's why I try not to be an early adopter for drugs.

I am currently doing an old fashioned diet to get my body weight down and reduce my blood pressure (which actually has normalized already).
It seems to require changes to the server.

I was hoping for a proxy-based solution that would verify the source and time for any server.
What's been happening with people who have moved away? My wife just got mandated to go back for her company but many people moved too far to commute in. They give them an exception. Seems like this motivates people to lie about their location or situation to get an easy pass.
I love the fat nano. I was said when its battery died. I love my iPhone Mini (besides iOS being a bit too dumbed down still). Apple should make more hardware for niches.
'perfected' is an interesting word choice.

I'd be more inclined to use 'iterated'.
> Between this and the 2nd order decrease in renal disease from the reduction in diabetes and high blood pressure, Ozempic would have to end up having some truly awful long term effects to net out negative in utilitarian terms.

On a population level, you're absolutely correct. But as an individual, I want to know what I'm getting into for long term effects. I might personally find them objectionable. So I'll wait and see.
I made that exact move two years ago and I've gotta say, I actually miss the Madison tech scene.

Seattle is basically a great place to work for a satellite office of one of the tech behemoths, but the actual hacker / enthusiast scene seems to have pretty much dried out. Seattle's Linux user's group died in 2020 and never came back, as an example.

Madison had much better makerspaces and more of them, despite being a much smaller city. Madison was also small enough that you ended up connected to a lot of really smart people coming out of the university's CS / biomedical departments which seemed to sustain a pretty vibrant med-tech startup ecosystem.

Edit to add: If anyone in Seattle does have meetup groups they enjoy, I'd love to hear about it! Hardware, electrical or software; I'd be up for any of them.
Only 5 days? Why not 996 working?
> not easy to find time to bike enough

Are children and teens being prescribed this drug? Have you ever lived in the suburbs?
> Python code used by Excel runs on the Microsoft Cloud with enterprise-level security as a compliant Microsoft 365 connected experience, just like OneDrive. The Python code runs in its own hypervisor isolated container using Azure Container Instances and secure, source-built packages from Anaconda through a secure software supply chain. Python in Excel keeps your data private by preventing the Python code from knowing who you are, and opening workbooks from the internet in further isolation within their own separate containers. Data from your workbooks can only be sent via the built-in xl() Python function, and the output of the Python code can only be returned as the result of the =PY() Excel function. The containers stay online as long as the workbook is open or until a timeout occurs. Your data does not persist in the Microsoft Cloud.

This is disappointing. A much easier way to 'keep your data private' would be to run it locally. Surely a bundled Python interpreter run inside a sandbox that prevents network access would be just as secure, and cheaper for Microsoft since they don't have to run any Azure resources to support it.
helps to read actual article
I wouldn't be surprised if they're struggling full-stop. Doing anything with "apple-level" polish and reliability on current-gen LLMs is a challenge. It looks great in demos and maybe even 95% of real-world use cases, but the remaining 5% tends to be embarrassing.

And it's not just a case of "the last 5% takes 95% of the work", it's more like "the last 5% is an open research problem".
I recently discovered Paisa, which is basically a nice UI over ledger-cli. Import is very convenient. You upload csv (or similar), see the preview, then write a script which converts each row into ledger text format. There is linting and everything. When you like the result, just save the script so you can import again anytime. It also supports downloading commodity prices if you use it to track stocks and similar.

Charts are not generic enough for my taste so I'm exporting data elsewhere, but for data entry it is great.
IIRC D&D was so directly based on Tolkien that they used the terms "halfling", "goblin", and "magic user" to avoid a fight with the Tolkien Estate over the terms "hobbit", "orc", and "wizard". This article thus makes little sense to me: how many half-elf magic users do you see popping up in medieval history?
Some people take drugs and don't work out. Some people work out and don't take drugs. Some people take drugs TO work out. Some people work out THEN take drugs. Some people work out to AVOID taking drugs.

Who cares, everything's a drug anyways.

If there was a wetware interface to your brain that you could deploy code into and you wrote a patch for your own obesity, given that we're on HN in the first place, you'd likely think it was cool.

Deploying the instructions via organic chemistry? Lame! Dismiss it!

The whole thing just reminds me of Mr. Mandelbaum on Seinfeld having "worked out with Charles Atlas in the 50's" -- times change!
Yeah, I think it's the compatibility with 'business language' for collaboration.

Most white-collar workers know how to use Excel to a really basic level of proficiency. Not many people know how to parse Python code.

It's also just a lot easier to work quickly in Excel. I dual boot Linux and Windows on my laptop so that I can have Windows keyboard shortcuts in Excel. If I need to do some lightweight financial modeling or analysis, it's dramatically faster (10x or more) for me to build a spreadsheet than write some Python/R code from scratch.
Whoa, you're right. How did you know? The developer notes only seem to talk about API changes
Them featuring my game in a front page article was a big moment for me(and helped it become a viral hit). Best of luck guys.
Raycast has window management and it has been amazing. Very easy to move windows between displays and different configurations of window size and placement.
Things that haven't changed: mafia-like 30% cut of app developers' income. No access to privileged APIs for NFC or JITs.
You forgot

c). They don't feel strongly about WFH vs remote, but getting a bunch of employees to quit is a great way to reduce headcount and then fill any necessary positions from the pool of endless candidates likely to work for less. Normally this is a poor move because they would lose employees who are already onboarded, and hiring is typically more expensive, but Amazon has always been more than happy to let go of experienced employees as part of their sacrifices to the pip gods. Normally this would also be a bad idea because the employees you lose would be the employees who are in highest demand, so likely their best employees. But with 50 candidates waiting in the wings for every rockstar they lose, they figure they'll likely be able to pull more diamonds out of the rough, and even with hiring and onboarding, their long-term expenditure will be less than if they hadn't triggered an exodus.
You seriously can't disable Private Cloud Compute or Apple Intelligence on iOS??
>of course, that isn't to say these things aren't useful - to have a methadone/suboxone dependency is way preferable to heroin addiction.

Heroin will cause you to be sick.

Suboxone will make you go into a blind rage so manic you will never find yourself without it.

For those who actually "need" Suboxone, it is a magnitude easier to taper off of than the reasons for needing it - unfortunately a medical system with perverted incentives shrowd how (read: trivially, comfortably) easy it is to start and taper off of Suboxone, even from literally incredulous depths of synthetic opiate addiction - sometimes without even as much as a single iota of withdrawal.

It is literally easier to start and taper with Suboxone without Big Pharma - with no paper work inhibiting your and jeopardizing your future in perpetuity, as a nice perk.

Recreational suboxone use makes fentanyl look like a child's game.

Methadone, however well-intentioned, or altruistic in its creators' motives, is a resignment to the inevitable life-long dependency. Chemical handcuffs.
This is such an Apple brainwash, like how many apps in background you think has everyone else, my linuxbox has almost none, the rest is just non-linux from third party, unless you only install apps from Apple and like having a subpar experience, everything you install is just from third party on which they have no control on. And killing apps doesn't mean anything for AI, it doesn't run anything useful on 8GB, doesn't run anything useful on 8GB, no matter if you kill all the processes. I wish I could just have a conversation where people doesn't cyborgically repeats Apple's marketing bullshit and turn on the human brain
They did to tvOS. I’m not sure about macOS but it would be nice.
Is it the BSD jq from 1995? 


Jk, thanks for the info! It's nice to know it's available on the system by default when writing scripts for my team.
Any company that tells me I have to be in office 5 days a week is a company I am never bringing home a laptop for. If the place burns down because it isn't adequately staffed outside of normal working hours, so be it.
Of course this is what I meant, and I'll update the original post. Thanks