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It's basically a UI/UX problem.

Apple rolls out features like the loud sound reduction feature that only work if you're in a non-OFF state.

Exactly how it should work really depends on the expectations of the average user. If they turn on loud sound reduction, for example, are they just going to be confused when nothing happens? How many people really understand how to toggle between the 3+ states and that additional processing might only apply to a subset of them?

And airpod state is already confusing: You have Off | Active cancellation | Transparency | Adaptive. My parents who have used airpods for years didn't even know about the airpods menu that shows you these states. They understood pinch-and-hold to change state but didn't know the third state was the OFF state. It just kinda sounds like a crappier unwanted state.

The TFA trade-off might have been the most sensible decision given these complexities. Replace OFF with one of the other states as the default and then give more techy users a switch to add OFF back into the possible states.

Granted, TFA points out there's a bug with this impl.
I will say I really love the outcome of a Nix development environment. Especially with nix-direnv having a reproducible build environment by doing git clone on any machine is amazing. NixOS has also saved my ass a couple times doing kernel updates on an old laptop, rollbacks are nice. Having consistent commands "nix build"/"nix run" is great. It's a universal build system that works across different technology stacks. Pain to setup, but bliss when it's working.

The bad part is the impenetrable errors and obscure configuration. Although, with the rise of LLMs I find it's not as bad. Getting a non-trivial flake.nix setup is much easier now. Could never remember the override system before, but can manage with Chat GPT haha.
This is my favorite "how does HN deal with power" comment so far.

I wonder if this comes from an education system that tended to focus on everything as a system of rules, discoveries and constructions.

He can have his cake and eat it too in as much as he controls US gov things Comcast(or other media) needs. Unless some other rich and powerful bastard has the ability to hurt him. Its not about things being fair anymore, theres not enough people who believe in such things to matter.
That would absolutely happen if China invaded Taiwan and the US stood by twiddling its fingers.

Remember, Sweden and Finland were staunchly against NATO membership until Russia invaded Ukraine.
The counter argument is that Google doesn't maintain any of those services beyond the bare minimum for customer facing interactions, and exchanges between their services are even more poorly supported if they even exist at all.

Remember Google Sheets (already the Tonka Toys of spreadsheets) adding named tables to Sheets?

You can't use them in any of the AppsScript APIs. You have to fall back to manual searching for strings and index arithmetic.

Google Drive still barely supports anything like moving an entire folder to another folder.

They have failed at least a half dozen times now to deliver a functional chat/VOIP app after they already had one in Google Talk.

They regularly sunset products that actually have devoted and zealous user bases for indiscernible reasons.

Android is just chugging along doing nothing interesting and still carrying the same baggage it did before. It's a painful platform to develop for and the Jetpack Compose/Kotlin shift hasn't ameliorated much of that at all.

Their search offering is now worse than Bing, worse than Kagi, and worse than some of the LLM based tools that use their index. It's increasingly common that you can't even find a single link that you know an entire verbatim sentence from via Google search for inexplicable reasons. Exact keyword or phrase searches no longer work. You can't require a keyword in results.

I don't trust Google to deliver a single functional software product at this point, let alone a compelling integration of many different ones developed in different siloes.

About the only thing going for them is how many people still have Gmail accounts from that initial invite only and generous limits campaign... 20 years ago?

Google is not a healthy company. I don't invest in them anymore, and barring some major change I probably won't again. It's a dying blue chip which is a terrible position to have your money in.

P.S. oh, and Gemini is awful by comparison in both price and quality to competitors. It isn't saving them. It's just a "me too".

P.P.S. I'm personally just waiting for their next "game changing" announcement bound to fail to get in at the top floor on shorting what stock I have. It's one of those cases where finance has rose coloured glasses based on brand name that anyone who's used Google products for years would be thoroughly disabused of.
The exit nodes are outside of China though, no? So the web content doesn't look like from "deep China".
This is a very clever idea. Cudos.

I'm not 100% a fan of the google doc format, but whatever.
I'm really happy with Matrix chat. But it's more of a protocol than a sole implementation. The good people at Element are pretty neat too.
The Yalu River separates China and North Korea. General MacArthur sent US troops across the Yalu, which is what caused the Chinese to enter the Korean War, and led to most of the US casualties. Truman fired MacArthur for disobeying his order to stay on the Korean side of the Yalu. That was before the Chinese had nuclear weapons. The Korean peninsula has been under an armistice and not at peace for 70 years in large part because MacArthur invaded China in I would characterize as a Cabinet war mentality. Go to the MacArthur museum in Norfolk, Virginia. MacArthur was from an extraordinarily wealthy family and clearly saw himself as an aristocrat with warrant to act unilaterally while deployed far afield.

If the US sent its own troops to invade China today, do you think we be here to talk about it tomorrow? That would be no Cabinet war.
My kids don't have smartphones until they're 17. I keep them busy with maths, programming, robotics and other things they like. It seems to work. But now my older son is 17 and he hangs out with his friends on Discord all the time, sometimes it's even affecting his health (sleep) and his schoolwork. But it's less the effect of social media and more the effect of his age.

However, I don't know how it will be in later years, whether he will be able to develop a healthy habit of using devices or not, and I'm a bit worried.
> Your DNA isn't being modified, that isn't how they work.

I know, but per your second point, arguing the semantics against willful ignorance doesn't work.

I simply opt to point out that there was and is an old-school vaccine because the focus on the mRNA side of things baffles me.
> "I don't drink because I don't want to and I'm comfortable with that choice, but it's okay if you want to do something different"

That was basically my high-horse libertarian mindset in high school when I saw other kids using cannabis-- I straight-up said to at least one, "I'm not going to do that, but I don't mind if you do." I thought I was being socially liberal and polite.

Spoiler alert, everyone else "wanted to do something different" and no longer cared about me after I respectfully removed myself from "the cool stuff" without condemning it. Today, I'm much more vocally negative towards cannabis users.
No - although that was something I picked up when writing for the executive class who didn't want to read my 10 page long technical memos.
It's definitely different (and worse) today, but even back then I felt like it was robbing everyone of their childhoods. Kids spent an enormous amount of time there, they were on phones in school or in social settings, and the "bathroom wall" gossip thing was big.
Yes, Replicated for example: https://www.replicated.com/blog/app-manager-with-rqlite

It's still in active use by them. https://www.textgroove.com/ is another company that uses it, though I know less about their use case.
Ok, we've made the estimates rise in the title above. Thanks!
Maybe that's the Q* we've been hearing rumors about
This specific target being discussed was 5% of all headcount, not just new hires.

You shouldn't think of all firing as a "mistaken hire". Sometimes you hire someone, and they work effectively for years, and then they kind of "check out" and don't do much work any more. It can be a good decision to hire someone, and then later a good decision to fire them.

It's also not a cost-cutting measure per se. Typically when you fire someone you get to replace the headcount with another hire or internal transfer. The point of firing people is to get rid of low performers and replace them with high performers.
I welcome your suggestions and volunteer efforts if want to help us make it better!
>It was whether or not GP would say yes, or say no and get fired so someone else can do it

you can rationalize anything with this kind of logic
So topping Everest is now becoming a pay-to-win title.
So far, I've found AI to be a great force multiplier in green field, small projects. In a huge corporate codebase, it has the power of advanced refactoring (which doesn't touch more than a handful files at a time) and a CSS wizard.
While you aren't wrong per se, I fail to see the fault in aggressively disincentivizing the act of searching for an outlet to stick a fork in.
Couldn't you do the same with giving an LLM access to your shell and a cron command?
It really sounded to me like some grim project where you store your data by destroying houses!
It's not done by Aphyr himself, but someone ran Jepsen-like testing a couple of years back.

https://github.com/wildarch/jepsen.rqlite/blob/main/doc/blog...
Interesting. Yes, I assume that's possible although I'm not sure how you handle the background- I guess you find an empty frame, and subtract that from every image with a plane.

One of the advantages of working with image data is that movies are really just 3d data and as long as all the movies you work with are the same size, if you have enough ram, or use dask, you could basically do this in a couple lines of numpy.
The actual title of the article is: "Why are tech people suddenly so into homeschooling?" which is not exactly the same as "becoming fashionable". Why not use the original title?
Love this. Building a website this way really teaches you why we started having all the complexities in web frameworks today.
For certain simple websites like this one, the tradeoffs are worth it. I rebuilt our company website this way too. (Sescollc.com)
Things are different this time around. The political norms are gone. He will use the power of the federal government to retaliate against whomever he wants to. He has Congress and the Supreme Court. No one will stop him. It’s why Zuckerberg, Bezos, etc. have bent the knee.
That is true. Not every single cent will be passed on, but there will be inflationary effects regardless.
National attitudes have a remarkable ability to shift in response to neighbors getting invaded, as we learned a couple of years ago.
It has been for a while now.
Installing packages from different channels is still far easier than on any other distro. Try getting a Debian 10 package to work on Debian 13. You can't. GUI programs are hard because how GUIs work on Linux. You cannot make them easily pure, they always rely on the booted system through drivers and a bunch of impure things all over the place.

If the software you are using has race conditions in its build system then there is only so much you can do to fix that. You could for example run nothing in parallel with only one core but then everything would be painfully slow. Also the occasional network hickup breaks things. Lately also io_uring in combination with nodejs has been a great source for kernel bugs. You can only bang the software so much from the outside.

Nvidia is bad because Nvidia is bad but at least switching between different driver versions and variants is possible without leaving a trace of old things behind on your system like on literally any other distro.
Asimov's Laws of Robotics Need an Update for AI
To be honest what I really wanted is more like a programming API or config file than attempting to express complex pipelines and filters in a single command line.

As for what's unpythonic: don't care. My applications has code horrors that even Senior Fellows cannot unsee.
or just sell ISP the routers you made.
The "evacuation route" and crossbars guiding you through can be seen (at least last time I looked) in Umatilla, OR.

US Army chemical weapons depot...they are disposing of some nasty stuff there. If there is a leak they shut down certain roads apparently.
Parallels is testing x86 emulation on Apple Silicon Macs
That makes it worse as I have to budget enough money for the worst [best?] case life.
I feel like fluorine isn't allowed in a "chemical inert" statement ;) You can, after all, even make Argon react with it - HArF. Only Neon and Helium are so far in the "only reacts theoretically with fluorine"
New species of giant isopod named after Darth Vader
You can just use nix-ld to run anything that is somewhat closely resembled.
If changes to UI = loss of control, then you have zero control over anything and the word is meaningless.
A tour de force!!

json: 928.5 i/s

Oj::Parser:803.0 i/s - 1.16x slower

oj: 666.2 i/s - 1.39x slower

rapidjson: 584.9 i/s - 1.59x slower
'''
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38332364
That will likely soon stop working because steam-run is no longer a grab bag for literally every library out there.
That's an artifact of the prevalence of modernism at that time rather than an objective truth. The "vibe", as it were, was that things were getting better and better until the gaps of modernism sowed the seeds for its own destruction. Pointing them out led to the rise of post-modernism which felt like a fall, sure, but I'm not convinced it actually was any more than modernism was an actual rise.
I'm not talking about a bit perfect reproduction though, just being able to understand dependencies. Take for example a simple Dockerfile like

```
FROM python:latest
ADD .
RUN pip install foo
```

If I run this today, and I run this a year from now, I'm going to different versions of `python` and `foo` and there is no way (with just the Dockerfile) to know which version of `foo` and `python` were intended.

Nix on the other hand, forces me to use a git sha[^0] of my dependency; there is no concept of a mutable input. So to your point it's hard to 'upgrade' from version a -> b in a controlled fashion if you don't know what `a` even was.

[0]: or the sha256 of the depedency which yes, I understand that's not easy for humans to use.
nix-alien is an older, worse approach that is not that well maintained
Yes, it was how I got the idea. I needed cat boarding.
Kailh GM 8.0 (1) switches are supposed to be long-lasting. The switches in my Logitech mouse started to fail so I replaced them with the GM 8.0s - they are very clicky and still going strong.

If I was to order more, I'd go with softer switches - the GM 8.0 is a tad hard to click for games with repetitive clicking.

1: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3256804334576149.html

---

I destroyed my beloved Logitech trackball's PCB trying to desolder its switches, which had become unreliable, but for the mouse, saw someone on YouTube heat all three leads of the switch at once until they could lift it straight off the PCB - this was far easier than trying to clean the solder off each lead and made the process almost easy.
I've tried Nix on a couple of occasions, most recently about two months ago, and ended up coming to the conclusion that it's just not for me.

I can see the value in a completely declarative configuration for my OS.

But the hurdles to get something worthwhile out of that value prop are just too high with my (low) level of skill (in this area) coupled with the limited time I have to build new skills. There are other things I want to invest my time in, but I can totally see this being where someone wants to spend some of their time.

I've never found setting up a Linux distro the way I want it particularly hard and once in a while I like to just start from a blank slate to see what's new—so yeah, not for me.
pandoc for the win. I use to convert my md resume into doc/pdf whatever.
> 10 / 3 can = 3, depending on the expected levels of precision.

>

> 10 / 3 will never = 3.0.

You should read what they wrote again. They wrote with `≈`, which is a different operator than `=`.

What they wrote is correct.

.

> It is sad you still haven't learned this lesson after many decades.

>

> I hope I'm never on a bridge you build or plane built to the specs you write if you truly think 10 / 3 = 3.00000.

HN doesn't allow this sort of behavior.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42699977
"You do you" doesn't work at some point. The drinking kids will exclude the one kid who refuses, even if only passively (sober surrounded by drunk). It really matters who the peers are. Fortunately, there are always ways to find new peers.
This is just a terrific read. The following excerpt from the final chapter of his e-book is just as good:

There are indeed “echo chambers” on YouTube, but they are filled with an active and demanding audience. When the YouTuber uploads their video, whatever originality, creativity or meaning they intended to communicate is reduced to the public audience measures that the platform appends to the video. This quantification puts the video into immediate comparison with the YouTuber’s previous videos, and indeed with every video on the platform.

It requires incredible willpower to ignore the reverberations of the ever-present audience on social media, to maintain an independent artistic vision or coherent ideological position. And for YouTubers attempting to make a living, the vast and intense competition makes it impossible to do so. The audience can simply click away if the YouTuber displeases them. The pressure of having millions of bosses issuing conflicting demands can produce “Creator burnout” or worse.

My poetic aspiration is that whenever you read the words “YouTube Creator” you think instead of “Audience Creation.” Social media does not create powerful Influencers but rather powerless marionettes, dancing jerkily to quantified audience tugs.
Does anyone know of a moderately cheap gadget that I could strap onto my head at night which would detect REM/non-REM sleep and that would trigger short bits of audio that I had previously recorded? Is anybody out there doing anything like this which I could try to copy and see if this might work? Any references to anything related would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42699977
You make a good point about China. It’s still an ethnostate, and I don’t see how it can reconcile such a strong ethnic nationalist identity with its own demographic crisis and competition for labor from abroad.
It shouldn’t need to be said, and it probably won’t be. Even if it was said, most people probably wouldn’t get it.

I’m sure the libertarian’s are rejoicing right now. As is every VC.
> It’s also the same argument landlords are using to charge more to victims of the LA fires.

Not entirely the same. LA is currently missing homes and experiencing a surge. Of course the proper solution is to (re)build houses.
Yep, there was a big update mid last year. They didn't orpahn any players this time, and a lot of people hate the UX but that's pretty subjective and people fear change, so lets ignore that. What they did that's not subjective -

- Wreck some folks systems so that they can't add new devices or discover their existing ones.

- Force everything to go via their cloud servers, which adds round-trip latency and server-reliability problems to everything you try to do

The latter one there means that, for instance, if I try to use the app to change volume or skip a track then it might work, or it might take several seconds and then change the volume, or it might not do it at all. Maybe you press the button again ... Then after thirty seconds it might apply all the interactions and skip half an album or get deafeningly loud.

But also the app may just not load properly, with half the interface staying blank. It may claim to have started the music but nothing's actually happening. It may not load the state of the speaker so you can't see what's playing or control it. It might not list all the speakers. Early on after the release we also got lots of tracks that would fail half-way through and skip to the next one.

It's an absolute shitshow, and when people started to complain they were told the problems were clearly with their network setup and that they were at fault, even though everything had been fine before. They started saying things like "Oh starlink isn't really supported because of the latency it introduces", which was only a problem because of their decision to make the whole system terminally online.

So yeah, they screwed the pooch again.
People are incredible inquisitive and intelligent about finding ways around bans. Kids are this, intensified. They literally have nothing but time.
Who is "the CEO"? Is it all 52? So you have decided from the start to take the uncharitable take.
It seems like you have misread my comment and think I have a particular thing against any group of people.

That is simply not the intention of the comment, if you read correctly you will note that what I meant is that you need to take care of your own people, something that the United States ACCOMPLISHED from the fifties until before Reagan.

I am just not more native than an Indian or Italian person that just like me came a few decades ago. However to pretend there is no difference between me and someone whose family has been here for decades or centuries... that is dishonest.

Why do you call Xenophobia to prioritize giving good jobs to the local population ? It seems like your reading comprehension as well as your definition of Xenophobia is deeply, deeply flawed. We can have immigration that makes sense. Like what Canada used to have...

We should prioritize those that have been for decades in a country and those whose families have paid taxes for multiple generations, there is absolutely nothing xenophobic about that.
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