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You haven't asked _me_ a question yet.

I direct your attention to the username portion of the comment headers.

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* What is your function here? -- I live, I laugh, I read.

* What are you trying to accomplish? -- Very little at this point in my life although I do nudge along various renewable projects and do some track upkeep on a 1,000 km long walking trail, herd a few sheep, etc.

* Has someone appointed you to this "position" you feel you have here? -- There's one official moderator here, a community of regular users, and various users with extra (and lesser) powers passed out by the mod.

* Maybe best to just let people be, and mind your own business. -- I've pointed out you're headed into a ditch with the badgering of someone else <shrug> .. call that a PSA, do with it as you will.
If they're training LLMs on books found on park benches, we don't have a problem. That's obviously not what we're talking about though.
If my teenage friends had been faceless alien monsters with no humanity whatsoever, it would have been pretty similar I guess. My friends were mostly just stoners and kids who liked to drink a little too much.
The Intercept accidentally exposed a whistleblower by publishing a document in the past that was watermarked, and now only prints excerpts.
I think the practical answer is the interpretation of the law is up to each admin’s NLRB. I do recall cases under the Biden administration where similar employee communications were protected.
I think I agree with you - definitely about the cop-out part. It's kind of the wrong question; it's not "how do you measure productivity?" but you have some hypothesis, "what do you optimize?" If you're right, it might help you win (maybe you win or lose regardless) and you get credit. If you keep experimenting, you might get better or worse, adjust and repeat.

I'm sick of these (implicitly) absolute measurement questions. I pretty much refuse to look at anything other than the delta.
> Why doesn't OP merely champion competition, instead of encouraging regulation of what software others can write, what hardware others can ship?

This is false dichotomy. Why not both?

We need individual consumer rights, and we also need healthy market competition.
There's a difference between being able to buy something dangerous and being forced to do so
This idea may just have needed better technology. We should try these things again.

There's a bunch of stuff that didn't really work that well 30 years ago that we use today
> so I don't know where the pressure for secure enclaves really comes from.

The pressure comes from shareholders. User control means users can use their device in a way that benefits them, e.g. blocking invasive tracking. This benefit provides zero or negative shareholder value.
express != explain.
So, I'm white and I live in Hong Kong. Gwei Lo (or some variation) is a slur for white people in China that I think basically means "foreign devil" or something to that effect. There's a popular brand of craft beer sold here that is literally named "gwei lo" and you know what? I don't care. Nobody cares. It really doesn't matter. I don't feel the need to campaign for the beer company to change their name.

Even your username is a ~Yiddish~ (edit: Hebrew, thank you, ars) word Jewish people use for non-Jewish people (sometimes derogatory, maybe). There's no end to this rabbit hole.

Judge people by their intentions behind what they say, not some etymological trivia.
Have you encountered anyone on the receiving end who is actually a) aware of this and b) bothered by it?

Because that would seem an important thing to ascertain.
This, or even sell "dev units" with the bootloader unlocked so that you explicitly have to accept the risk before purchasing the device.

The problem though is that rooting by itself is not that useful when a lot of apps use remote attestation to deny you service if you're rooted.

We don't just need root access, we need undetectable root access.
> 20 years ago you could run your email domain on a machine in your basement and it would work. You could send out email and it would be received, and the incoming spam volume was manageable.

I'm still doing that today, works fine. Incoming spam is much reduced these days though, it was worse 20 years ago.
I think we need to adjust society so fewer people feel they have nothing to lose than in the status quo.
Dumb TVs are still sold, they just cost more. Same will probably be true for the low volume, no-stolen-data (or no-apple-tax) unlockable phones, too
Click in the area that says 'type here for keyboard controls'.

Press z several times to start

w, a, s, d to move, e to use, space to shoot. z is enter
Related: Amazon kicked out Oracle from the company.

Somewhere along the same timeline, the operational recommendation for teams was to not use relational databases.

https://www.theregister.com/2019/10/16/amazon_ditches_oracle...
Simulacra - "Something that replaces reality with its representation"

[0] https://www.cla.purdue.edu/academic/english/theory/postmoder...
It'll just mean that China is behind this, which means the tariffs are actually benign and justified response, not kickstarting a trade war. It'll be the truth, some new kind of Truth (Social.)

I don't want to sound apocalyptic, but I think the media and political narratives of the mainstream lost all reality checks in the past few decades (not for the first time - historically, it happens ever-so-often), which means that there's no point trying to reconcile them with facts mentally. It's tiring and pointless - politicians, commentators, and the public allowed their Overton windows to slide way too far from the reasonable. It'll pass - meanwhile, we can only hope the effects won't be as pronounced as if ImageMagick finally broke for good.
I'm not sure I understand your point. Managing dependencies is easy in node. It seems to be harder in Python. What priority is being supported here?
I disagree. The usage has detached from the historical context of the original (mis)quote, and there’s no good reason for it to be eternally enslaved by it. This is also reflected in entries like [0] and [1]. Indeed, the Wiktionary entry notes that it may “be used ironically, in negative view” of the Hundred Flower Campaign, which in turn means that by default that context isn’t implied, and instead as a proverb it merely has the meaning described above in the entry.

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/let_a_thousand_flowers_bloom#...

[1] https://playjustsaying.com/idiom/let-a-thousand-flowers-bloo...
The hardware may be there, but not necessarily the drivers.
How hard is it to get those hacks working for the higher resolutions on the 64mb video card (1.5ghz version)? Is the extra 32mb video ram noticeable in games, or does it not even matter in OS9?
Trusted computing is a technical concept. People use Bitcoin because it’s provably secure against clearly outlined threats, not because they trust some vendor. Apple and a certain group of fans want to present iOS as a trusted computing platform for certain use cases, but it’s not.

Anyway, I see you’re just trolling here, so there’s no point talking to you.
I decline to join your hyperstitious slur cascade [1].

Your point is well taken: the idea of a cargo cult as described by Feynman never happened quite that way, and likely came from a work of fiction.

But that doesn't take away from the idea of a mechanically correct reproduction of a system that lacks the essential elements.

And I don't see that idea as being colonial or hateful; it's just an idea that relates to two cultures that are not understood by one another.

So thank you for the important point of correction; I learned something from your essay. But I will still understand the term when I hear it, and I will not censor others from using it, or correct them if they choose to do so.

The richness of language is a cultural value, just like tolerance. In this case, I think we can have both.

1. https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/give-up-seventy-percent-of-...
IP laws falsely equate work with value, once again stuck in the gilded cage of coorelation and causation.
I think General Magic might've been onto something. From what I've seen, BOB looked so childish that it was likely insulting to adult users. General Magic had a crisper UI (partly because of the b/w nature of the devices) that felt more like the iconography of a late-80s copy machine.
I have an incredibly productive staff developer. Not only does he work a lot, he also produces, and it's very high quality.
He also does a relatively poor job of upskilling his teammates, and is a little rough when mentoring. This is not intentional (i.e. he's not a jerk).

Overall I don't know if, in the context of a staff developer, he's vastly more productive than say, another dev I have who produces less but levels-up his team better than almost anybody I've ever seen.
Has anyone gotten this to work on an actual PC? It runs way too fast, even on an original XT (I'm guessing the keyboard controller isn't the same as js-dos).
Hey, at least some Googlers got to present chat app #1 - #527 in their promotion packages. I really appreciate that as a customer.
Maybe it's an existential comment about the fleeting existence of life.
Speaking just for me, because I know everyone's different, I had the same thought. I hardly ever called her, if ever, and vice versa. I started calling her maybe every 2-3 weeks just to say hey.

Sometimes she chats, other times she says she's good, we tell each other to have a nice day and that's that, it only lasts seconds.

But for some reason, to me, those short calls have felt far better than a like or a comment on FB or whatever. They feel more meaningful and I definitely feel more connected to her these days than I had for years.

YMMV. /shrug
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LLaVA-Miniis an efficient LMM for image/video understanding using 1 vision token, offering:
(1)fast response (40ms per image), (2)less VRAM usage (support 3-hour video understanding on 24GB GPU).

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.03895
Code & Demo: https://github.com/ictnlp/LLaVA-Mini
important to understand substance over form.
Yeah, this is just a fundamental misunderstanding of how bootloader unlocking works. The people repeating this argument seem to think that their bootloader will unlock if they look at their phone wrong, when in reality the bootloader unlock process can be made such that the user must consent. If some malware can bypass that, then it could bypass your bootloader in the first place.
Even if that is true, though, I don’t see how it’s that different to any other human activity. In business you have to persuade investors and customers too. Constantly. More so than in academia.

I feel like people are needlessly bitter about all of this stuff. Life isn’t fair; no one ever said it was. And why does anyone expect that you’d be able to get research funding without having to form relationships and make some effort to sway influential people in your direction? Yes, it’s not ‘pure research’, but it’s still part of life. I don’t see how it could be any other way… unless we get AGI as promised and then we’re free to sit on our backsides all day and become philosophers with infinite funding.
you don't need to rely on gut feeling and risk bias. You can stop looking for the "productivity metric" and instead bet on <some> measure, then track the change over time. It's the only thing that's ever worked for me.
This is a very popular HN opinion; but not a very popular real world opinion.

The average customer wants a device that works consistently, every day, that is easy to use, with a collection of 3rd party apps who won’t steal their life savings.

Windows failed to deliver this; the average customer never downloads an Exe from a newer publisher without terror. The average consumer is literally dozens of times more likely to trust a new smartphone app than a new desktop app.

We can also see this in the console market. Windows exists; old gaming PCs exist; the locked down console market will be with us forever because even Windows can’t deliver a simple experience that reliably works.
Energy for the many is more important than astronomy for the few. Hopefully in the future we have more robust energy production (this is a great example of why green energy proponents need to support nuclear – it has far fewer externalities like this) and then we can reclaim the area for astronomical use. That is my point. Nothing is actually destroyed, unlike with other types of pollution. Light pollution is literally the most reversible disruption I can think of. "Destroy" is definitely the wrong verb, unless your goal is for people to ignore you due to histrionics.
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This is great. I've been a game dev for about 30 years, much of which I've spent working with narrative design/writing teams. One thing I've learned to watch out for, especially among junior designers, is what the author labels the "Time Cave."

Narrative branching, done well, is fantastic—it gives the player agency and lets them make the story their own (as it were). But when you're creating the story graph, it's easy to get lost in it and lavish care on one path at the exclusion of the others. You can easily end up with one or two long, greatly-detailed paths, and (because dev time is finine, and you need to move on to writing other parts of the game) a pile of other paths that are shorter and less interesting. If the player takes one of the shorter ones, they end up missing out on all your coolest stuff. The tools I would design for the kinds of games I created specifically made it easy to create a main story trunk with side paths (that rejoined the trunk), and more difficult to branch/loop/etc.

Of course, that's not the only (or even the best) way to do narrative design—Disco Elysium is a masterwork because it did the branching, merching, loops, jumps, random checks, and so forth, so well!
It's a clickbait title.

If we were serious about biggest flops, we'd be talking about my beloved Lumia WP.
Car bombs, and moving car bombs have been around since the 1960s and before.
I don't disagree that nuclear propulsion has a long way to go before becoming safe enough for civilian use and might require extra security and regulation forever, but we need to do something other than dumping bunker fuel waste into the sea and atmosphere even coubting in several terrorist attacks and accidents it might still end up killing less people using nuclear. As you say going with hydrogen and by extension ammonia, which is probably the only viable way to fuel ships, will require unthinkable amounts of renewables which is mostly intermittent energy meaning hydrogen electrolysis plants will have to be ramped up and down as the wind blows or the sun shines. this makes the efficiency calculations even worse for an already super wasteful undertaking. i guess we could potentially use nuclear but why waste 80-90% of the energy created by converting and then using hydrogen ? My opinion is that we need to throw much more money at making nuclear fission safer.
Those restrictions aren't on your desktop, where you do have root. Why would they be on your phone if you had root on that?
False dichotomy. I want to talk to a human and learn about the product and have the money, though. I just don’t want to be forced to do that in order to learn a basic amount about what the product offers and how it works.
saying "MVP doesn't count" implies that you throw it away and then right "the perfect system" at some point. If you've ever had an MVP land you know that's not how it happens.
> Your beliefs about some theory about Apple claiming something about "provable trust" or whatever are really probably unfounded and don't even make any sense.

It's not something I made up, it's literally claimed by people in response to my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42667329 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42668767 Is this "provable trust" bullshit? Yes, we agree. Is the concept of provable trust bullshit? No, trusted computing is technically achievable, but it's not in Apple's case.
It's weird to me to think that you could beam hundreds to thousands of watts of some sort of energy at an American embassy and not be detected. That's what has always made it seem rather outlandish. My suspicion has always been some sort of burnout/anxiety as the actual explanation, but certainly there could be another possibility.
So they do joins in code rather than SQL? Wouldn't that risk hiding scaling problems?
Clearly you were never on the early internet. No one actually expected pics. It was a "fuck off you goddamn narcissistic DUMBASS"
I love pieces like this. They're great programmer sociology if such a field existed.
If there is a zero day in Xen, your attackers are probably also going to be having a very, very bad day.
Translation: Meta already needed to lay off some staff and they're using this as an opportunity to build AI hype
Why do people do this? That's not just wrong, or even laughably wrong, it's completely made up nonsense. FRED doesn't have PPP median income, but here's GDP per capita PPP. A little more than double what it was in 1970: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RGDPCHUSA625NUPN

(You can recover PPP median income if you like by pulling in the nominal GDP and median and multiplying by the fraction, but I'm too lazy to do it for you.)

You are wrong. You are VERY wrong. Your intuition about the state of the world has been colored by a bunch of vibes you've been fed that don't have any basis in fact. At all.
And consumers can have that. That doesn't mean I should be unable to unlock my phone and do whatever I want with it.
Original, too long, title: On Fertile Ground: How Racial Resentment Primes White Americans to Believe Fraud Accusations
if it's successful, it's because of sales. If it fails, engineering didn't build the right thing / was too slow - it really doesn't matter.
> People who have “leadership” skills are the ones that pay attention to their own leadership and are manage up more than anything else.

No, it's actually people who can put together a technical plan and drive its execution with other engineers, or who can clarify complex problems esp. when there are conflicting opinions, or who can see problems before they become disasters and organize the right group of people to take care of it...

There are many examples of leadership, which have nothing to do with the sour view of managing-up or taking credit for others' work.
Why do babies die of cancer? Assume omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent God. Be thorough, try to preemptively address possible counterarguments to your answer.
My parents purchased a Samsung laptop in 2014. It came with an Intel 4th-generation (Haswell) i5 quad-core CPU and 8GB of DDR3 RAM. Although it’s over 10 years old now, it still faithfully meets my parents' needs. All they need was just upgrading the OS to Windows 10. Soon, support for Windows 10 will end, but since Windows 11 is such an unstable bloatware with random features, it seems we're going to upgrade it to Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC instead of Windows 11. This would have been unimaginable in the past. For example, using a 1994 laptop in 2004 would have been such a pain in the ass.
I contacted the Google through the BBB. Made the statement that lack of ability to install and configure a Kernel level firewall, edit the HOSTS file, and remove unwanted bloat-ware reduces the security of the product. Google agreed their actions do this and said they find the lack of security acceptable. Having a firewall like Little Snitch should be acceptable to know where the phone is communicate, with whom, and how to prevent it.

Re-imaging with a rooted image is not acceptable because this also reduces the device's security by prevent OTA updates!

Gated community is broken when the end user cannot improve the security of the device above and beyond the lack polices of Google and Apple. For instant there should be no reason my device ever communicates with organizations I do not support such as Facebook or X-Twitter. X-Twitter is often used as command and control service in plain site.

It is not just out-wards communicate to monitor but in-wards too. I've used Zone Alarm in the past at an international company to help find the infected servers and computers that where serving up viruses and other malware.

*I would argue that the "Gated Community" analogy is flawed. A real world gated community still allows for the home owner to improve the security. By installing cameras, security system, and guards. Apple & Google prevent such actions.
Agreed, that's a good solution. I can root my phone immediately when I buy it, or I can leave it locked if that's my choice. That's the best of both worlds.
Very cool. I'm especially happy to see that there is an Eclipse client[1]. One note though: I had to dig around a bit to find the info about the Eclipse client. It's not mentioned in the main readme, or in the list of IDE extensions in the docs. Not sure if that's an oversight or because it's not "ready for prime time" yet or what.

[1]: https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby/tree/3bd73a8c59a1c21312e812...
[citation needed real bad]
WWIII was ended when the US dropped the world's first beauracracy bomb on Brussels, followed by an assault of, also unprecedented at the time, regulatory-capture missiles.

It's not expected that the Brussels that existed prior to the war will ever be seen again. It is expected that it's populace will continue to decline for the foreseeable future.
> Amazon does a good job of training new hire on the 'Amazon way'. Amazon does 6 pagers, they do design docs. Amazon does SOA. Amazon does not use relational databases. Everything has an API. Because of the 'Amazon way' and the training they do new team members understand at least some of the context and expectations.

As a counterpoint, a huge part of Amazon's culture (or at least, AWS's) in my experience was the emphasis on operations and the fact that they didn't have any separation between SREs/on-call engineers from the people who implement their services, and at least for me as someone who had never been on-call before in any meaningful capacity (due to my previous job working on a libraries rather than services), the training for it was basically non-existent on the two teams I spent time on. The "training" I did receive essentially consisted of being put on the rotation once to shadow, where I was able to sort of see what the actual on-call person did but didn't really have any explanation for how to know how to do them other than being told to read the runbooks, which were not really written in a way that was easy to understand for me as someone who was so new to learning all of the internal AWS tooling and ops in general. The next time I came up on the rotation, I was expected to be able to manage on my own, which essentially meant that literally no matter what occurred, I ended up having to escalate because I wasn't knowledgeable enough to fix literally anything within a timeframe that would have been reasonable.
resist the oxymoron of agile zealot - the first rule is do what works for YOU
The problem is not the ability to unlock your phone.

The problem is that 90% of people unlocking their phones will either be for piracy (against the company’s interests), or against the customer's own interests (stalkerware, data extraction, sale of stolen devices).

There is a reason malware is over 50 times as prevalent on Android.
You'd think that sort of thing would come out of the Developer division, not MSR.
I have one, and love it. Sadly no place to display it so it sits in my closet looking lonely and sad. Maybe someday...
Yup a random guy taught me guitar online in 2006 even, painfully drawing tabs by hand.
Good to hear. In my country there are too many MLMers or insurance agents that agree to a date then come to sell you things
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