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Glass containers were far more common when I was growing up. Manufacturers and retailers prefer plastic because it's cheaper to ship and has less breakage. At the consumer end of things, glass is a minor danger but I remember when sidewalks and parking lots used to frequently have glass shards. Nearby grassy areas ended up with them too. And if you dropped a glass jar at home, it was a challenge to find every little bit of glass that flew off across the floor.

Plastic has done away with many of the problems that glass containers created, though it has a ton of issues of its own.
Her talk on "How infrastructure works" was eye-opening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK6BRwwhgbo

I'm having a hard time translating her points regarding how infrastructure serves and cares for the basic human physical needs (e.g water, clean air etc) and how it can serve social needs like child care or elder care.
But at the same time, after the US promoted a state coup

Except there was no "coup", but unfortunately you've been led to believe that there was one.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41689807, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40481317

Russia somehow is not entitled to have their security concerns

And Russia's "security concerns" had nothing to do with current conflict. That's the language of the bully, and you're eating it up.

That, and the other word salad you've been dropping here ("American encroachment", "subversion via NGOs") suggests you've been reading from some highly propagandized sources.
> Security researchers need to be able to verify, with a high degree of confidence, that our privacy and security guarantees for Private Cloud Compute match our public promises.

How is this possible if the software runs on Apple hardware? Do the security researchers get access to the VLSI designs?
>If family doctors’ compensation is going to be the lowest of all physicians’, they at least want to rein in their hours and responsibilities. And they want to be able to take a vacation.

The article is relevant, but it is a case of "you get what you pay for".
Can’t remember where I saw the interview but that was a conscious choice given the long battery life and fast charging.
I love this. I watched The Bear (a show about an aspiring chef) and I’ve been struggling to find the words about how I related that to my own workplace ambitions. I think this post is a good start.

Not to ruin anyhing: It seems the characters in the show know there’s something out there besides verbal abuse for achieving performance but struggle to find the balance between high standards and safety.
I made the mistake of getting a 27" iMac in 2014. The 5k display is still great by today's standards but the internals are obsolete.
Especially egregious when you consider older iMacs could be used as external displays - https://support.apple.com/en-gb/105126
€200 for 128GB as an aftermarket upgrade, or €200 upcharge for 128GB from a system OEM?
It is valid for insurance to give you a discount if you get your yearly checkup. They can even calculate how much discount you should get for this.
This is great. I hadn't heard of JAX but it is the sort of project that I was envisioning for solving this problem. Thanks!
my mental health lol
That's true, I guess on some routes their prices aren't too bad. I vaguely recall it being more.

But yeah, it is pretty ridiculous. Like you said, pay the same price as the plane ticket, if not more, for the privilege of getting to wait in rundown station buildings and the excitement of knowing nobody is there to help you if your bus breaks down or just doesn't show. Honestly, I have to imagine that one of the only things propping up Greyhound on routes like those is the fact that you can ride it without ID.
All of it is opt-in and even requires joining a waiting list.
Note: The 24” iMac is never going to be the platform of choice for HackerNews readers.
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I generally dislike middle-management as much as the next IC, but I think these types of arguments tend to ignore latent or low-probability risks.

You see this all the time in discussions about quality or safety metrics. By definition, if those teams are doing a good job you won't see many quality or safety issues, which leads people to believe they are doing "FUCK ALL" and provide little benefit. Only in hindsight, after a low-probability but high risk event happens, does getting rid of them seem like a bad idea.
Sounds like you are already using a magic ISP (rural USA here).
raindrop looks nice, and could fix one of the regressions in wayland if it works on more than one compositor; I suppose I should try that at some point.
Satya Nadella asked for 50% cut in his incentive payout over security failures
No. It's mostly on device, and the not on-device stuff uses incredibly clever computer science to run code in an auditable, non trackable way on cloud hardware. It's called "Private Cloud Compute" https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/
More lawfare. Anything one side does to forward their cause isn’t examined. But they have all the time in the world to spend taxpayer resources on their political enemies. No one is being protected by this DA’s actions; it’s about their political ambitions.
They specifically minted coins with a cross on the back to make it easier to split into halves and quarters.
Particles in orbit do accelerate. They accelerate continuously, from our perspective, as they go around the orbit. But seen from the perspective of GR, that orbit is really just a straight line through a curved spacetime. It might be easier to visualize though if you think of it as the bottom of a valley. The walls of the valley rise away from the floor as you get closer to the planet you are orbiting, or further away. You can’t climb those walls without energy, so if you have no energy will you stay in the valley forever.

> it also does not explain momentum, because when that particle accelerate it exchanges momentum with another particle - it does not give momentum to the "geodesic".

No one has said that it should. The geodesic is merely the straight path that the particle must follow when it _isn’t_ exchanging momentum with other particles.

> And explain please what information is not captured by saying "Gravity is a force that acts on energy". What nuance is lost by saying that?

You can’t explain time dilation that way, or length contraction.
Actually, incorrect. On some scenarios, you’d need up to 4 CAMM2 slots to do what Apple does. This is due to CAMM2 maxing out at 128 bit busses; but M3 Max chips are currently at 512. Needless to say, battery life most affected.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40287592
Accelerometers aren't magic. They don't read out True Acceleration from the process memory of the Matrix. There's a physical process inovlved, and that process cannot tell the rocket is accelerating when that acceleration is cancelled out.

Standing on the ground, the accelerometer should show zero because gravity is cancelled out by the floor being solid. If latter can be a force, why not the former?
Mmm, in an era where monitors no longer need large bezels, apple sure decided to keep the neck fat on the iMac which to me makes it quite ugly.
Show HN: Discord's Data Services to prevent hot partitions by request coalescing
I built Discord's data services in Go!

A distributed data access layer (gRPC) implementing request coalescing and hash-based routing to reduce database (Cassandra) load and prevent hot partitions.
I've been hacking on a super simple on-call rotation manager. Been fun to learn Hotwire/Stimulus. https://majorpager.com
The iMacs very much aren't their main seller. A couple of key demographics use it though:

* Families with a shared computer in a common room. Super simple to setup, no fiddling, low price. In the video Apple showcased this use case. My parents have an M3 imac and it works great. They had their last iMac for ten years.

* Businesses buy these for reception areas and customers see the Apple logo on the back. Easy solution for a business with no IT department, great marketing for Apple.

Apple will probably always sell an iMac option as long as businesses buy and display them.
The problem with the micropayments model is that we almost never see it. I don't see $3.99 as a micropayment.
I don't see the point in them anymore, too. 24" screen size is not interesting and I can't get more displays that do look like the first one. Will always look strangely mixed in environments.

edit: ok, others pointed out possible use cases. was thinking about the reception one, too.
That seems high. Family of 4 and I pay $447, employer pays $1,342 (so total $1,789).

My plan is Anthem Silver Preferred Blue PPO 4000/10%/7250 w/HSA - in other words $4000/person deductible (or 8k for whole family).

This is through Gusto, company is in New Hampshire.
Why does the Magic Mouse still exist, though? If you have an iMac with the Magic Mouse, you own the only Apple device without the complete suite of multitouch gestures. It's weird that they still make the Magic Touchpad a paid option when it seems like a core part of the offering.
What's with the green iMac picture? https://www.apple.com/newsroom/images/2024/10/apple-introduc...

It only shows two USB-C ports while further down the marketing material talks about "all four USB-C ports". EDIT: the low-end 8-core model for $1300 only has two ports.

It also has what looks like a rear-facing camera in the stand cutout. What is that for? EDIT: It's the magnetic power connector. I did not expect that to be round.

Supposedly there's a gigabit Ethernet port somewhere too. Not shown in any of the pictures on the site that I can find.
Most Mac users seldom upgrade. I read here and myself often use a MacBook for 7+ years. Given screen tech changes alone, I think it makes a lot of sense.

I’ve owned an iMac before very happily. I just don’t own one now because they stopped making 27” versions.
Honestly, this was the biggest thing that pushed me from Android to iOS.

I don't trust Google to be (a) incentivized (because ad revenue) or (b) organizationally-capable (because product fiefdoms) to ship privacy arch to that level in Android.

And if I'm going to adopt LLMs on mobile as part of my workflow, I want very strong guarantees about where that data is ending up.
I've got one of the LG Ultrafine 5K monitors paired with a modern M1 Max macbook and it's a nice combination.

Expensive, but I adore the pixel density considering I spend all day staring at text :)

I'd be seriously tempted by an iMac if it had M4 Pro + a 27" 5K display. I just don't feel it's likely as they'll probably see it as cannibalising Mac Studio + Studio Display sales.
The wick is wound in such a way so that as more of it is exposed, it curls over and burns up, thus stopping it from getting too long.
The point is that, unlike velocity, acceleration is absolute in GR.

If we're both moving towards each other at constant speed, it's perfectly equivalent to say that I'm moving towards you and you are stationary, or to say that I'm stationary and you're moving towards me, or that we're both moving towards each other relative to some outside observer.

The same isn't true with acceleration. If we're in the same scenario and I start a rocket thruster, then I'm experiencing acceleration and you're not. Our relative velocity towards each other is increasing, but it would be wrong to say that I'm stationary and you're accelerating towards me.

So, if you fall from a plane, your relative speed towards the Earth's surface is increasing. But it's not you who is experiencing acceleration, it is the Earth, and the difference is measurable in principle.

This is similari concept to how when something is moving in a circle, it experiences an acceleration towards the center of the circle, but this is often experienced as a "centrifugal force".
Not exactly. It wouldn't help if you moved your JavaScript to Python or Ruby or PHP... and anyway it's not really feasible from an FFI perspective to move it to anything other than Rust or C/C++ or maybe Zig. There's no good reason to pick C/C++ over Rust in most of these cases...

So "Rust" means "Not JavaScript, and also a bunch of other constraints that mean that Rust is pretty much the only sensible choice."
And I expect it to behave like one drive, where it’s impossibly difficult to remove, it reappears all the time, and if you manage to kill it then a simple misclick somewhere will revive it.
Today's release only supports English (US) and you appear to be in the UK. English (UK) support is slated for the end of this year.
As someone who mucks around with running LLMs and other large models on my computer the 32GB maximum RAM is a show-stopper for me. I'm on a M2 with 64GB at the moment and I'm already regretting not going for 96 or even 128.

I want to be able to run a large model AND other apps at the same time.
Try setting your language to US English. Might not be the issue, but only US English devices get it at the moment.
I agree, I think that paying based on usage encourages people to use less, use only if they are sure that it's valuable to them. With a subscription you feel the need to use more, just to not waste the money spent on the subscription. Using more is making a habit, and allows to see more sides of a product, which can encourage you to use it even more and pay for the next period of the subscription.

I'm sure that if I was paying per song, I wouldn't be letting Spotify play random things with no end, or use it when I don't really have to, and then I wouldn't start to see the convenience it brings and that I don't mind paying that subscription. And now, after years of using it, I really wouldn't like to end that subscription, because I got so used to it.
I believe the current thinking is to consider the effect on inflammation and bad cholesterol.

If your doctor says your number one priority should be to lower inflammation or lower bad cholesterol, you should consider lowering the amount of red meat.

The issue is that of course we need protein. Older people who tend to lose muscle mass and are at risk of falling should actually increase protein intake and weight resistance exercises. If their stomach tolerates fish legumes nuts, wonderful. If they tolerate red meat better, then they should eat red meat. Like every thing else in life, there are trade offs and nothing is completely healthy or unhealthy.
Seems not: https://github.com/pqrs-org/Karabiner-Elements/issues/2968
> Leaves me wondering how many of these Apple actually sell

I think we can check since they're public. Looks like 5-8 million per quarter [0]. Approx 10% of their computer sales [1].

[0]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/263444/sales-of-apple-ma...

[1]: https://www.cultofmac.com/news/macbooks-make-up-a-whopping-7...
These days 8 GB is absurdly low for a ~$1300 PC. Hopefully they might have finally realized that selling crippled products (just to force its users to pay the predatory price for memory upgrades) is hurting UX and their reputation.

I mean they claim:

> Compared to the most popular 24-inch all-in-one PC with the latest Intel Core 7 processor, the new iMac is up to 4.5x faster.1

But is that really true if your "ultrafast" Mac grinds to a halt when you have a couple of Electron apps and a browser open at the same time? Naturally users who bought the base model because they didn't really understood the implications would just conclude that macOS is slow and unstable compared to Windows?
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And the (perhaps unintentionally spooky) 1925 Edward Hopper painting House by the Railroad depicting one of these Gilded Age houses, which is said to have inspired the fictional houses in the Addams Family and in Psycho.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_by_the_Railroad
Some people love doing that but your idea doesn’t resonate with me personally - I prefer holding my pen and drawing or coloring on paper
I'd be interested in numbers on some of this. From my view, the upgradability is a bit of a red herring for most users. Computers are fast enough for most uses that it just doesn't matter.
There are many historians that would agree with this. Technology availability and adoption is definitely an input into the equation determining the types of social organization that are possible.

One accessible example is that Federal power in the US really took off post-Civil War. Part of this story is that the war had greatly expanded the size and power of the Federal government, as well as weakening the old slaveocracy, but another is that centralized control of a territory as vast as the US basically requires telegraphs and railroads. Even if there were a political appetite for centralization in 1810s America, it just wasn't possible except where existing lines of communication were already adequate (coastal cities and those on major navigable waterways or canals).
I believe you have influence over the syntax highlighting on GitHub of .mill files by informing it they're actually Scala, which would make reading those files much nicer IMHO: https://github.com/github-linguist/linguist/blob/v8.0.1/docs...

Or, I believe you can submit a PR to linguist to make it globally registered: https://github.com/github-linguist/linguist/blob/v8.0.1/CONT...
Most of Europe has a similar model to what you've described: some form of mandatory state-backed insurance combined with a mix of private and public healthcare providers. In many countries, however, the biggest hospitals in Europe are owned by the government.

Unfortunately the healthcare systems are in the process of collapsing across the UK and the majority of the continent too.

My pet theory is I don't think it's actually anything to do with the overall funding model. I think it's to do with our inability to adapt to an increasingly elderly population. People's kids here are scattered around the country, often many hours of travel away, living in small apartments, and can't easily look after their elderly relatives in a way that's much more common in East Asia. As a consequence, we are offload that responsibility onto the healthcare system, which treats them as patients with medical issues, when often they are just old people with broadly normal age-related disease. Our systems were never designed to be capable of handling millions of elderly people, and it's not an efficient way of providing the required care, so it's falling apart.
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What happens if the entire team gets churned in 4 years? Or is 4 years the lifespan of a single BU nowadays?

I don't see a way to mitigate this unless you care about these things from the onset, but I suppose if you're a monopoly you can just do anything you want because you have no competition.
The parallel test bundle convention
My M1 MacBook is currently sitting at 46GB usage. It's not heavily under load

(WebStorm, Rider, Android Studio, Chrome, Discord & Slack), not currently running an Android Emulator, LLM or Docker
I signed up for the iOS beta and haven't used any of the writing tools, but the AI summary of texts or emails has been really nice for glancing at the phone and getting a glance, especially for wall of text texters.
My typical mvn session after a month of not touching maven:

% mvn
[ERROR] No goals have been specified for this build.

Uh.
% mvn build
[ERROR] Unknown lifecycle phase "build".

Uh, nope, that wasn't it....

% mvn compile
BUILD SUCCESS

Now trying to run the app... Error: app jar not found.
Reading the README.md. Aha! So I need to install it!

% mvn install
16:59:35,075 [INFO] Building <blahblahblah> [1/32]
...
16:59:38,483 [INFO] -------------------------------------------------------
16:59:38,483 [INFO] T E S T S
16:59:38,483 [INFO] -------------------------------------------------------
^C

// me searching on google how to not run tests

% mvn install -DskipTests=true
// now good...

Ok, let's run some tests. The FlakyTest broke again in CI. Let me run it locally:

% mvn test FlakyTest
17:02:19,481 [ERROR] Unknown lifecycle phase "FlakyTest".

Aaargh, ok, googling it again:
% mvn test -Dtest=FlakyTest
17:03:16,102 [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:3.3.0:test (default-test) on project blah blah: No tests matching pattern "FlakyTest" were executed! (Set -Dsurefire.failIfNoSpecifiedTests=false to ignore this error.)

The original idea behind maven is nice.
But the defaults are so bad, that the whole experience of convention over configuration has been ruined.

Cargo and go build systems took the original maven philosophy and implemented them right, with good UX.

Gradle, SBT and friends took a step back to the times before maven, and went fully the Ant way, doubling down on "configuration over convention". Where "configuration" is actually "programming in a DSL on top of another language on top of Java".
There's not a super easy way to do it but if you're willing to take it apart there's driver boards available on Aliexpress that convert 5k imacs into HDMI/DP monitors.
>The same thing happens at my own job, software. The bigger a company I'm at, the more of my job consists of filling out paperwork about the work I'm doing, rather than doing the actual work.

There's some irony here considering software has been promising for decades to help businesses scale information sharing.
Another angle that might help: Newton was correct when he said a particle with no forces on it would keep going in a straight line. He was just missing a dimension in his coordinate system. The geodesic is the straight line in spacetime. And mass distorts the spacetime metric (mostly time) in a nonlinear way, so when you project that straight line back into 3D space, it’s not linear, it’s a curve. An “acceleration” curve.
no worries. that's interesting, i figured that might happen sometimes - kind of a hidden free trial.
The 13-inch iPad Pro is a ~$1300 PC that Apple will gladly sell with 8 GB of RAM.
In line with the self-hosting idea, I'm working on an iOS app which can be used as a native app, or can serve itself as a webapp on your local network (so that you can also use it from your laptop). There is no cloud, your phone is the server, your data stays with you at all times.

I'm kind of surprised no one seems to have explored this idea before (happy to be shown examples proving otherwise!)
Many places have heavily regulated if not outright banned outdoor advertising. Businesses aren't quite as opposed to this as you might expect, since a lot of advertising is done to simply counterbalance the advertising their competitors are doing. If everybody is barred from it, everybody wins.
I’d much rather have had serviceable ram modules than sightly faster ram to the gpu I will never fully flex with macos software anyhow. Speaking as someone saddled with one of these computers.
Half of households are below the median. That’s where you’re going to find your farm workers.
I think that is less farfetched and something I would agree on. I can't really imagine fascism without industrialization.
> If the reading of an accelerometer does change in freefall, then what it is measuring isn't the acceleration, necessarily, but the difference in acceleration between components in the device.

This would come as a surprise to the designers. :)

No, the acceleration on an object in free fall is in fact zero. It may be surprising, and may require rewriting your intuitions to fully grok, but this is indeed what GR says.
> Besides, isn't the goal of weight loss to get healthier in general, anyway?

In my opinion, "get healthy" is more a moral judgement than it is an objective assessment. I've definitely seen fat women be shamed even while they're exercising as "not being healthy" or "glorifying being unhealthy" [yes, just for exercising in public, an objectively healthy behavior, except they're doing it while fat].
That's a nice quote. Evocative.

Is it possible to support the goal of vibrant, interconnected communities, to understand all their advantages, but still want to live at least a quarter-mile away from the nearest human?

Asking for a friend...
The base model iMac only has two Thunderbolt ports.