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> it seems noteworthy that your frustration is with a feature designed to make it possible to drag draggable things around without losing them if your finger leaves the trackpad for an instant.

I agree with your point that "unfamiliar" is not "better" or "worse". But I will observe that much engineering, and much pushing of new mental models on users, has gone into working around the unwillingness to have mouse buttons.

With no mouse buttons: "double-tap-and-drag, release, possible delay on release for possible finger repositioning"

With mouse buttons: "click, drag, release"

Both models can work, but I marvel at the proposition of preferring the former.
It is active and it works remarkable well as an editor.
My guess is that in part chargers have data wires for the reasons you fear because there are people with the political capital, money, technical expertise, and motivation to shape consumer facing technologies to the interests of nation states. These people are dedicated professionals and to not achieve the simple things you fear would be grossly unprofessional.

But data cables in USB chargers also provide conveniences to ordinary people (which other comments mention). TANSTAAFL
Sure. You wouldn't want a webserver to crash if someone sends a malformed request.

I'd have to think long and hard about each individual case of running in degraded mode though. Sometimes that's appropriate: an OS kernel should keep going if someone unplugs a keyboard. Other times it's not: it may be better for a database to fail than to return the wrong set of rows because of a storage error.
The most thorough explanation of what is going on here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-J6gW_w_Hs

old, but the speaker is credited as an author of most recent papers on the subject
While true, classic cars are "simple" in that all of their parts can be replaced and remade in people's home garages with commercially available tools like lathes.

I've an '81 VW van in my driveway that begs to differ. It's got a bad idle stabilizer. The vehicle won't start unless that electronic idle stabilizer is bypassed. It runs fine in the bypass state, and good thing, because NOS parts ran out a few years ago. There might be efforts to create a clone (haven't checked thesamba.com in a while). I'm sure a clone is doable by someone that paid more attention in electronics class than I did, but no one is going to pop one out on their garage lathe.

And that's just the electronics. It has mechanical fuel injection (fuck you, Bosch), but good luck making injectors in your home workshop. I'll not start on suspension parts whose manufacturing require a far larger hydraulic press than anyone is likely to have in their garage.
A neat analogy but aren't those 1s actually distinct from each other in your religion?
The way the industry developed is this:

First, in the early to mid 1980s, cheap PCs were all 8088/8086 machines (we called the XT class hardware). That was the baseline even when you could buy faster because it was so expensive.

Then, from the mid-1980s, 80286 PCs came along (called AT-class kit). DOS couldn't really do anything much more on a 286 than it could on an 8086, so 286s were just used as faster XT-class boxes.

There were 3 OSes that could use the 286: Digital Research's Concurrent DOS, SCO Xenix, and IBM/MS OS/2 1.x.

Xenix was a hit.

The others not so much.

Then came the 386DX.

Via UMBs and improved DOS memory management, 386s could do way more in plain old DOS. There were memory managers like QEMM386 and 386Max.

(Now FOSS: https://github.com/sudleyplace/386MAX )

For power users they could multitask. There was a brief flowering of multitasking DOS extensions and replacements: Concurrent DOS 386, DESQview, DESQview/X, PC-MOS 386, TSX-32, and others. Most aimed at multiuser stuff because 386DX kit was expensive.

(PC-MOS is FOSS now. https://github.com/roelandjansen/pcmos386v501 )

This drove the market towards the 386. It could do more, even just for DOS and DOS users.

I made a good living optimising the memory management of DOS PCs.

Once it was established, the much cheaper 386SX came along and made 386 PCs cheap. The tech and the software and the skills were already there.

But OS/2 1.x couldn't do any of it. It could barely run DOS at all. If you were a DOS user OS/2 gave you nothing worth having.

NT was a hit by aiming at the PCs of the near future. That's what OS/2 should have been targeted at as well.

Then gradually, incrementally, Windows 3 took over because it worked on XTs and ATs but on 386s it gave you DOS multitasking and copy-and-paste between DOS apps. It gave you the good stuff you got from DESQview. AND you got new apps.

OS/2 1.x was gradual developing. It got a GUI after 1 version. It got a decent GUI next. Then it got smaller and faster.

NT was incremental too.

3.1 worked but was huge. 3.5 got VFAT and was smaller and faster with better networking. 3.51 got smaller and faster and stabler and started ditching the OS/2 legacy stuff.

The point being, OS/2 1.0 should have gone up against DESQview and Concurrent DOS as a DOS multitasker for rich power users, then OS/2 1.1 against Windows 2, then OS/2 1.3 would have taken the place of Windows 3.
I'm an atheist and no fan of any church (or, y'know, sexual abuse) but I don't love this line of discussion because it's a real case of whataboutism.

The Cathlolic church's actions w.r.t. sexual abuse are certainly worth talking about. Their views on euthanasia (which I disagree with) are too. I don't know that they can be meaningfully discussed simultaneously within the same discussion.
Counterpoint: safety can be a market differentiator. Volvo had seatbelts as standards before regulators mandated them. To this day, and leans heavily into safety. I can confidently say Volvo cares more about safety than Vinfast.
Not to digress off-topic but as a long-time SCOTUS watcher and reader of opinions and dissents, I think it's worth highlighting that "the spirit of the law" and "for the good of the people" are highly subjective things on which reasonable people often disagree. Those broad concepts have in earlier eras been cited by supreme court justices to extend or limit laws instead of strictly interpreting what's written, including supporting slavery, denying civil rights and blocking women voting.

SCOTUS was created to interpret the wording of the laws the legislative branch passes and to ensure those laws do not violate the rights of citizens as written in the constitution. Changing the purpose of the court to include concepts like justices choosing what is in "the spirit of the law" or "for the good of the people" as opposed to what the people's elected representatives actually wrote and voted for is a slippery slope. It might sound good but only if the majority of justices will always make subjective judgements you agree with. Those of us who disagree with some justices' opinions should want to hard limit SCOTUS to strict interpretation of laws as written and not including their personal beliefs on what might be "for the good of the people."
Pretty sure he lived in Anatolia or the Roman empire. There was no 'Turkey' to live in around the late third century.
If the podcasts spin it well enough, they'll have a large leeway
> I just think we must have completely different working experiences.

Likely! I've generally worked in smaller orgs (including as part of a much larger org, as with my current employer) and there is less access to dedicated resources.

> Even when no BI team is dedicated, there's usually someone that's wearing that hat.

100%. Unfortunately, this has commonly be me from my personal experience.

> In that way, identifying it and raising concern can be 'my job' but when investigating it, it could be a team effort.

Totally agreed.

For some additional context, I've spent my working career on data systems so I likely feel a much stronger affinity to this type of self-serve analysis than your average bear.
I tend to agree. Pat seemed to be trying to take a middle ground approach: split the company in two, but not really giving up hope that Intel would regain x86 leadership and that somehow things were still going to be OK on that front. The reality is that even if Intel retakes x86 leadership, x86 isn't what it once was and is unlikely to command the premium it once did except in niche legacy applications. If you give up hope for a return to the glory days, there's some radical restructuring left to do which includes cutting most of the middle, and some vertical layers, out of Intel.
The idea is that this can be extended naturally to may situations. Warranty claims, insurance claims...

If you just add a fine with a threshold it is actually much harder to pick the right fine amount. This way it has some sort of degree of scaling naturally. A small delay is less costly to you than a long delay rather than being all-or-nothing.

I agree that for simple things like unsubscribing a button can be mandated, but for other causes of calls to customer support it isn't that simple.
"Exceeding safety standards can easily be a negative. Their cars will be more expensive than similar ones."

That's exactly my point.
I was hoping there would be a study that the cooperation leads to more accurate results from LLM, but this is purely focused on the sociology side.

I wonder if anyone looked at solving concrete problems with interacting LLMs. I.e. you ask a question about a problem, one LLM answers, the other critiques it etc etc.
New jargon lets you avoid overloading existing terms and it adds specificity.

When someone says design token, you know they're talking about this. They don't have to say "variables" or "constants" + extra explanation that narrows the reference to the TFA concept every time they want to refer to the concept.

We do this so often in programming that you take it for granted. You're using dozens of words that weren't used 10 years ago.

Hydration is a good example of one of those words in the webdev space.
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I have an Asus RT-AC1200, released in 2019 that hasn't had a firmware update since 2021/05 which is the reason why I bought the TP-Link. I do see Asus has a Nov 2024 firmware for that RT-AC68U on their site.

As far as my TP-Link router, I think I remember it being stuck on a 2022/09 firmware until at least 2023/09, and I wound up flashing it with OpenWRT earlier this year.
It’s weird that it doesn’t just say “it’s a calendar”
Includes up to 2,000 completions and 50 chat requests per month.
The odd rounded-inside-bracket-things that show on these product listings are kind of funny. I wonder if future archaeologists will track them like pottery shards, haha.
> There would be no need for that term if that's what free market meant.

I'm not following here: are you suggesting that given any two different words, it is impossible for them to refer to the same thing or mean the same thing?
Sorry, I don't get this:

> Mean age at death was about 68 for taxi drivers and 64 for ambulance drivers

Can someone explain it?

Huh? In which country, years?
Maybe people havent voted this way consciously.

There really aren't any hard problems anymore. Nothing really requires you to chew on it, deeply look into it, or attempt to truly understand it. Got a question? Go to wikipedia, or reddit, or whatever and get 1/4 of the actual knowledge. Enough to satisfy you. Have a problem? There's an app for that. Can't get something done? Probably some cheaply made tool to handle it.

Suppose you want to actually dig deep into something. Good luck, the body of knowledge is so large a PhD is really just table stakes. This leaves the true "innovators" to an ever-dwindling pool of people who can simultaneously afford and succeed in such a program. If you add entrepreneurship to "innovators" we see the same thing. Most "hard" problems people will pay money for are solved and the pool of these problems gets smaller every day. So what do you do? Start a business that caters to decadence.

Without any hard problems requiring solutions, and most "human" problems being solved, and most higher-level thinking permanently roadblocked by 1000 years of science, then we necessarily go to decadence. It's the same cycle most societies go through right until they collapse.
Discussion (60 points, 1 day ago, 45 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42442107
nobody would ever use this argument for the design of C. It’s good for C to stay lean and simple while communities using C (please let’s not with this imaginary monolithic “The Community”) are free to try things and offer competing solutions that others are free to ignore.

kitchen sink languages are bad. Justifying them with “well the community is bad, so we need the bad thing to be mainlined” is maybe worse
congrats on the launch! i was amazed by replicache when i first time saw it

excited to build something with this!
We have come full circle. Kids these days forget that the official application framework for iPhone OS in 2007 was a bunch of HTML/CSS/images that mimicked iPhone OS UI as a web application (basically poor man's PWA).

The jailbreak community reverse-engineered iPhone headers and developed an unofficial toolchain based on llvm-gcc right away to build iPhone applications and they had an app store which still lives as Cydia (saurik et al) before Steve believed in that. Apple only threw the towel half a year later with an official beta SDK after the product-market-fit was so strong that they had no choice.

Now we recreate the whole OS in browser.
>this can’t happen unless, as you say, the engineers on the ground view it as a goal by itself.

Obviously it can. Cars are engineered to satisfy specific test, which are well known in advance. You can always engineer cars to satisfy them.

Crash tests aren't everything though and I mention sample size because issues might only reveal themselves after a prolonged period in a few cars. E.g. a defect on a very important component, which only occurs after some years in a few circumstances is an obvious safety issue which Lucids could not have proven themselves against.

I say this not as particular slight against Lucid, but because safety is more than satisfying tests. Often safety is where you are doing things which aren't tested at all.

>The only other company that has done this, to my knowledge, is Volvo.

Looking at the Euro NCAP is the VW ID.7 Tourer is also getting pretty decent marks.
I dont get why people prefer the app more, it is so much friction to unlock my phone (wait for unlock), open an app (wait for it to load), and then press the record button. I'm very excited for hardware devices like this. Lets see if they can actually make it useful.
https://github.com/Surfer-Org/Protocol/blob/main/desktop/REA...
> or can it process them with some amount of parallelism

I guess someone with two boxes handy could set them up next to each other and run two copies of this test to see if their reaction time holds up or if it lengthens?

EDIT: mine suffers greatly on dual wield: 225 -> 320 ms

see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42453704
It seems like what's being tested here is maybe just the programmed detail level of the various models' outputs.

Claude has a comically detailed output in the 10th "generation" (page 11), where Gemini's corresponding output is more abstract and vague with no numbers. When you combine this with a genetic algorithm that only takes the best "strategies" and semi-randomly tweaks them, it seems unsurprising to get the results shown where a more detailed output converges to a more successful function than an ambiguous one, which meanders. What I don't really know is whether this shows any kind of internal characteristic of the model that indicates a more cooperative "attitude" in outputs, or even that one model is somehow "better" than the others.
I suppose that hasn't been explored in the legal system currently. Most electric cars would be considered a zero emission vehicle. If you bolted a generator to an electric car that'd change its emissions. One could argue this defeats the original emissions target, but that sounds like a stretch.

Overall if the car has some sort of devices that limits, mitigates, or eliminates emissions then any modification to it can be considered a defeat device
>(2) Determine if the treatment is medically necessary.

>You are not hiring insurance companies to do the second part but they do it any way in order to increase their profits. They should be removed from this role via legislation.

Okay, but in any system, even the beloved European ones, someone does this -- they can't just spend bottomless money on everyone, but draw a line based on the relative costs and benefits. US insurers are just unusually random, kafkaesque, and inconsistent about how they do it.

There is never one platonically optimal "medically necessary" treatment; everything's a tradeoff, and the calculation will always depend on considerations other than "maximize this patient's health/lifespan as a much as physically possible".
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Most people do not have a surplus of devices. They might only have a single phone which carries their life. A phone which at any moment could be lost, stolen, or destroyed.

A password safe, I can trivially backup however I wish. The cloud, a USB I keep at mom’s house, print it out, whatever (in fact, I do maintain encrypted offsite backups in a couple of locations).
grep/recoll. Fast even on ancient machines.
pty neat! Excited to see how you can leverage apple compute too
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This is where I've landed. If my job as a senior engineer is truly automatable, then there isn't much I can do about it other than pull up a lawnchair.
It's not too different, as the concept was heavily influenced by localization libraries.

That said they're not always constants. A design token can mutate based on device, light/dark/high-contrast mode, viewport size, user preference, locale, brand, product, theme, etc. This mutation can apply at runtime or at build time depending on the use-case.
super cool! excited to see how you can leverage external compute, while maintaining the privacy
I've been using Vultr for many years without issue. Currently I have a $5 VPS that has been running for nearly two years straight without any downtime.
” nothing I personally dislike more than apps that don't use the platform's native UI”

I’m not sure if this is universally applicable dogma. Games generally apply their own UI regardless of platform.

Web apps generally do as well.

I do realize there is space for apps with least surprise per platform, but it’s not obvious to me if an app benefits from platform standard UI any quantifiable way.
I was forced to use Apple laptops (M1, M2) for work the past years and I really don't understand what people find so great about mac touchpads compared to the one of at least average laptop with Linux.

I did not really notice a difference or when i noticed some it was in defavor of the Mac. Like precise selecting/drag and drop is marginally harder, you gave to put more force for the physical click, and I find the tap to click to be easier, more reactive, faster "click to effect" on my linux laptops.
My assumption is that they're hanging it all on this:

>"Even if a nuclear exchange is perhaps more survivable than many people think, I think the aftermath will be uglier than many people think as well" / "The fundamental wrenching that it would do to our way of life would be profound."

While I feel elaborating more would be helpful, it's probably not something that could be reasonably well covered in the scope of the article.
I am curious to the usage of those. Like, why that character instead of the more common square brackets? Why do these sellers commonly choose that symbol? To me it's often kind of a flag of potentially questionable quality, so I'd like to know why they do that.

If anyone has insight to share I'd love it.
I think, in a technical sense, you're right. But the difference between ancestor veneration (especially semi-legendary ancestor veneration) and veneration of a pantheon of lower-tier dieties is practically nonexistent. Its a distinction without difference.

Nobody hesitates to call Shintoism polytheistic, and its core practices, to an outsider, seem strikingly similar to how a Christian, especially a Roman Catholic, interacts with the saints.
I agree that the idea generalizes well.
Simply reconfigure the economy, while it would be nice, is always harder to implement.
Maybe that works. I have concerns about IP geolocation databases being able to pin me down to a particular state, but maybe.

But even assuming "good enough" IP geolocation exists: In order for this to be implemented both uniformly and nationally, we'd need a new constitutional amendment that would grant the federal government the ability to regulate how sales taxes work within states.

Because right now, we have this: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
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we got culture in AI before GTA VI
Supposedly they compensated for that. They have a "Limitations" section in which they discuss some potential pitfalls, including how most alzheimers deaths start after age 65.

I will say, it doesn't inspire confidence when Figure 2 of your paper has an enormous typo on it ("Aircarft [sic] Pilots").

I'm not really convinced personally, especially as stuff like Aircarft[sic] pilots seems to be significantly above the average occupation's risk factor. But they also tend to live significantly longer (78 ish?).

It seems to me that navigation is still a reasonable amount of a pilots workload -- just look at the effort to navigate the taxiways at a big airport for example.

A bigger factor in my view would be quality of care -- an airline pilot probably makes significantly more than a taxi driver, and is more likely to have good medical care, in which someone is more attentive to their situation.
The main place that I find notebooks useful is for when I want to hack away at some decently sized dataset and poke around at its details.

A lot of transformations can be very time consuming to run, and the ability to cache(for lack of a better word) the computation without having to write to disk, or utilize the python repl (which is very obnoxious to use for anything that extends past a single line of code) really speeds the process up.

An example would be: pull a large json from a server. Then break out a new code block to do all of your different manipulations on that json. Lets you prototype around with the object you pulled from the server without having to worry about, among other things
- Dealing with how slow reading it from server is
- writing it to disk and then reading it from disk to deal with how slow that is
- the latency of parsing the file on each run of your script
- the list goes on.

These arn't things that you want to worry about when your current questions are "what does the structure of this look like" and "what are some of the basic statistical properties of this data". Notebooks are like the python repl with the benefits of having a proper multi-line text input.

I've never even heard of people using notebooks for report generation, and honestly I'd agree that sounds like a complete nightmare.
Yeah, Kioxia (ex. Toshiba Memory). Pretty much the top source of large enterprise high-performance flash memory alongside Samsung. The Kioxia fabs received a (relatively-tiny) billion dollar subsidy to expand.

Their past policy in favour of Canon/Nikon would look like a different story if the US government had decided that one of C/N could have EUV tech instead of giving it to ASML/SVG.

Your point is generally pretty decent, though. It's a pity you're having so many responses that are so low-brow. Industrial policy isn't healthcare etc. and the performative outrage on this site is getting quite tiresome.
I lost my yubikey once. There are always ways to recover your accounts, and it's especially easy for ones you're already signed into on multiple devices.