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I highly respect your contributions to HN and your moderation work. Your post is thoughtful and well written.

It has been incredibly frustrating to witness multiple social networks fall victim to cult-like political ideologies over the years. Seeing that happen once again on HN is especially disheartening. Consider what has happened to Reddit over time—it used to be full of diverse perspectives, but now it has become a toxic, radical-left cult. The same dynamic appears to be unfolding here, and from what I can tell, it is worsening.

I realize I need to do better and avoid resorting to low-effort posts. I agree with what you've said, and I'm glad you're fighting the good fight.

It may be best for me to move on and find somewhere else to lurk—a place that has not yet fallen victim to this scourge.
I’ve had this occasionally but luckily it hasn’t persistently.

Also annoyingly, I don’t consistently get messages on my Mac. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t, with no way of knowing what I’m missing without looking at my phone.
am I the only one who read this headline and thought it was a random three-word identifier?
As far as I can tell, it's failing in the first conditional because it considers the type of `aOrB` to be `B` (rather than `A | B`) even before testing, based on it being initialized to B and then never assigned anything else. So when you apply the type guard, the resulting type of `aOrB` becomes, effectively, `A & B` (intersection), which of course doesn't have member `a`.

It would make more sense for TS to treat the body of the if-statement as unreachable and give a warning based on that, but I guess they figured that this kind of thing - doing a type guard on a value that is already known to be of a different type - is a very narrow corner case that isn't worth improving diagnostics for.

I'm more curious about why "smuggling" it through an array makes it work. In that case, the type of `aOrB2` remains `A | B` in the conditional, so everything is working as you expected, but I don't see the fundamental difference between this case and the previous one...
They become a lot better when you install Linux.
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In my case 33% extra on top for 3 years coverage. Or approx a YT premium subscription.

Got the entire thing replaced in that time due to issues plus lots of micro fixes. Pays off when you get a lemon!

Having someone come to you is huge. Sending a laptop back for 6 weeks because of default warranty is a PITA and you need to source another laptop and then get it set up. As well as backup data, delete, restore etc.

For an apples to Apples comparison you should add AppleCare, since the accidental damage cover is in the price I mentioned.
The root of the problem are the use cases. Why is there a poor understanding - poor requirements, poor documentation, etc?
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Exactly. China has held this position for a long time. Chip plant manufacturing is a recent development. China will eventually catch up with their own manufacturing in a decade or so. They don't care about the immediate short-term - they think in decades.
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Where does the link you posted say anything about a bug?

I’ll grant I might just be mole-eyesing it, it’s been a long day.
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Rationalism, which you seem to be an ardent supporter of, is a strain of philosophy. We all have some epistemological system we live by, so discrediting philosophy on its whole is not an option.
What? The only 'great' Windows since 7 is LTSC.
You are so fixated on costs that literally do not matter to an organization that can fill an in office job at the rate they want to pay.
> You can't have competing companies on rails.

Just to be a pedant, you can. However, the coordination problems are so immense that it is just a totally stupid thing to do.

So yes, rail should be a public service.
They’re right, but let’s not pretend this started a few weeks ago.
it works with flutter. we many active flutter developers in our discord too that will flame us if we introduce any bugs for them. its good because then we can fix this asap.

same is true for intellij and kotlin/java support
That’s crap. Organizations reflect the individuals within them. An organization can have a value if the actual people there uphold it. If an organization is hollow then the people within it are hollow.

If a corporation is greedy then the people within it are greedy.
Just cook the toast from the flames of the battery.
What's ironic is how people often point to plot points in many franchises (Star Wars, GoT, etc) as being derivative of Dune... Yet Dune itself is fairly derivative of other works
> At this point, the directive may have caused more e-waste and environmental damage from part failures than the damage the original leaded soldier would have caused.

The problem is where the e-waste ends up - some ditch or desert in Africa. From there it ends up leeching in the environment due to corrosion or, worse, as widespread aerosols when the people there burn the waste to get to the copper.
We have a good set of feature requests from app store that would make catching issues like this infinitely easy.

1. Revamp TestFlight - 10k users is very little when user base is 100m+ users.
2. Improve phased roll out capabilities
3. Introduce a/b testing at release level to test old/new binaries at binary level (vs at feature, which is also a must have).

These 3 can catch 99% of release bound issues, no problem.
They're one of the only pieces of technology that I think often (not always) improve the appearance of a landscape.

Maybe also lighthouses. Sometimes.
Exactly. I think there's an entire political party that capitalizes on suffering, offering to jump in and rescue the poor victims. Like racketeering: create the problem and sell you the solution "if you just vote for us, we'll fix the devastating problems caused by $BADGUYS". but an absence of problems means you lose your voter base.
Exactly. Benchmarks != evals.

Task specific evals are how you determine if an AI system works. Expanding your evals as you test, find new issues, and change techniques is the only way to ensure each change doesn’t regress a bunch of your past work. If you don’t build up evals, you end up stuck on some 3 year old model with mid performance, unable to update because of the risk. Without evals, your assessments are just “vibes”.

Random plug but it seems relevant here: I launched an eval toolkit earlier today. It includes synthetic eval data gen, automated evals, great UI so everyone on the team improve quality (QA, PM, not just data scientists), adversarial red-teaming, and human preference correlations. https://docs.getkiln.ai/docs/evaluations
Remember TV Guide? About 20 years back, Macrovision spun off the print magazine but kept the name, logo, and digital-media assets; these changed hands a few more times and are currently a subsidiary of Fandom. Meanwhile the print magazine is currently published by a separate entity, TV Guide Magazine LLC, which licenses the name and logo from the Fandom digital-media company.
More likely someone involved in the decision to close down free weather data has an economic interest in a company selling the same data, or some other interest that stands to make money knowing about the weather forecast before the plebes do.
Lol, they used to mine coal under that very mountain (until it was outsourced). It's not like we have some insular life. The region is economically depressed. People would rather have jobs while destroying the environment than not have jobs while destroying the environment and recreational value simultaneously.
There was plenty of housing before the Thatcherite "right to buy". Pretending it was socialist politics that broke it is moronic.
If you think of the Iraq or Afghanistan wars, maybe not during the initial attack but once there were troops on the ground they would likely be vulnerable.
I can't repro this on macOS 15.3.1 with an Apple Studio Display. What display are you using? It's likely something related to color space translation.

Edit: Repro-ed using the additional steps you mentioned below. As someone who handles external bug reports and writes them, it's so often the case that there are additional steps or a specific start state required, which both prevents reproducing the bug and narrows the affected user base.
Broccoli, now fortified with PFAS. Now that’s a marketing strategy!
Omni Group, Panic, and Cultured Code produced and still maintain great software. But I also feel that Mac software stopped sparking joy around the mid 2010s.
As one of those people ... it's not so much that everything is (still) Thatcher's fault. Had she not won in 1979, doubtless the UK would be facing a different mix of problems, some the same, some different. But Thatcher set the ball in motion on the tracks it has been on more or less since her first win, and it is those tracks that are the fundamental source of many of the problems in the UK (not all of them, but the biggest ones).
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This was a surprising and confusing reply. It feels almost, but not quite entirely, disconnected from what I wrote.

What I did: Pointed out a few bits of technology that have had a positive impact on my life.

What I did not do: At no point did I mention TikTok. Or motor oil. I also did not make any kind of larger statements like, "all technology is good" or "most technology is good" or even express an optimistic view about technology in general. In fact I kind of share your overarching pessimism regarding technology. However, I must again point out that my post ventured into no such territory.

Here's what I think happened.

You skimmed my post. Quickly, and you skipped most of the words and didn't really understand anything. This is probably why you're talking about "motor oil" when I mentioned air filters. This happened not because you are stupid but because you scanned it quickly perhaps while your mind was on something else. The smattering of words that did register with you looked like some kind of glib techno-optimism in the face of a burning world, and you became irritated enough to write that utter non-sequitir.

But anyway, yeah. I probably agree with ya on the overall state of things.
Tempting fate here but I don’t see any reason why my cheapo spring loaded toaster won’t give me another 10 years of life. There’s nothing to go wrong if used correctly.

Back when I was a kid in the 80s toasters would break because we shoved in hacked up pieces of bread or bagels where the food touched the elements and caught fire. And knives were poked inside to extract burnt remains from the heating elements.

I was shocked to see there are toasters with motorized lifting mechanisms. Is there any practical reason why this is better than a spring?
> Turns out Thatcherism only works as long as the state still has assets to sell off.

Thatcherism works as long as there are still people receiving state assistance, since their assistance can be reduced even further.
Alternative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m4YLrSBOv0
A 0.1% reduction on annual taxes would be great and dissuade most who just need a quick dollar
While Brett Devereaux is excellent, he’s sharing a surface level, black and white definition suited to a blog post aimed at laymen, the kind that want to read about the siege of Gondor. Biddle’s Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle is a much more in depth treatment of the topic that is hardly that prescriptive.

Edit: if you are so inclined, Commanding Military Power: Organizing for Victory and Defeat on the Battlefield by Ryan Grauer, The Art of Maneuver: Maneuver Warfare Theory and Airland Battle by Robert Leonhard, and Combined Arms Warfare in the Twentieth Century by Jonathan House would provide a more rounded view of the academic debate. The latter is particularly relevant because it looks at Russia’s tactics in Chechnya.
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Only idiots think immigration is uncontrolled. Practically all immigration is from government granted visas.
Author here.

To clarify — is your concern that the only scaling options I listed are proprietary services?

If so, I completely agree. This article was inspired by a tool we're building internally, based on the same architecture. We knew this was the right approach, but we refuse to rely on proprietary databases, so we built our own in-house.

We’re planning to open-source it soon.
Back then also, as there's a subducting tectonic plate boundary running through there - the Weber Line is somewhat similar to the shape of that boundary in that area.

The ocean reaches depths of 7000m in trenches between the Sahul and Sunda shelves, and, at least during the last glacial maximum, 21K years ago, the sea level was only 140m shallower.
FYI I'm more than twice the age and Roman history has been cool for my entire life. I was actually a history major in school as well.
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As someone who makes video games in C++ I’m going to have to disrespectfully disagree.

But I will admit that SteamDeck is great. It’s deeply ironic that the best API for Linux gaming is Win32.
Something there doesn't add up. Mojave came out in late 2018. It's simply not the case there is any 2017 Apple hardware it doesn't support. Indeed, laptop support goes back to anything made in 2012 or newer.
Not so much. (This response seems to repeat, please refrain from ignoring details in such bold claim.) MP extension types are opaque and applications can do nothing about them. CBOR tags are extensions to the existing data model and can be processed to some extent---for example unknown tags don't prevent implementations from inspecting their contents. And I don't think MP had any sort of registry for extension types, they are more like "reserved for future expansion" instead of "less used but still spec-worthy types to be defined with a reasonable proposal".
Which distro do you use? I've run a mac and Linux laptop and the Linux setup keeps sending me back to Mac.
Alrighty. Well, I've got an i7-8850H @ 2.60GHz. I know it's at least a few years old.
But that horse doesn't sound reliable.

TSMC never pays tariffs anyways, whomever did the importing does so companies like Apple, GM, Tesla, etc.

An announced deal really should be worthless politically, we've all seen Foxconn or Apple announce big investments during Trump's first presidency for them to just walk it back later.
I use Quo Vadis Habana blank notebooks with (mostly) Lamy fountain pens and Sailor inks. They have Clairefontaine paper that just works wonderfully -- it both dries quickly and doesn't bleed through. If you haven't tried them, you're in for a treat; enjoy!

(I believe Quo Vadis to be a Canadian company that mostly makes planners and such, and their notebooks are getting harder to find. Even the good folks at Goulet Pens have given up trying to keep them in stock. When I come across some, I stock up.)
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Some of those stats look a bit shaky. Npu on the Mac has less tops. The ram is lower clocked and I doubt the gpu one too frankly.

Not that it matters - it’s not the base config or performance where things fall apart for Apple but rather adding reasonable amounts of ram and storage. Straight from reasonable to extortion pricing thanks to lock in
Thanks. I listened to the examples and the pieces sound pretty convincing (ignoring the synthetic character of the instruments). Is what I hear directly generated from the DNN output, or was there some "manual" selection and tweaking of the music? The approaches based on symbolic musical information which I have seen so far sounded quite unnaturaly in constrast with passages no human composer would create like this. But this system generates pieces with a structure, harmony and progression that in times can hardly be distinguished from a human composer (with some exceptions). What is the deciding ingredient? I will now read the paper as well.
Actually, it would be very interesting to use this approach to generate improvised piano music in the style of Keith Jarrett. I had already considered using an AI to translate his various live concerts into midi and then use that to train a DNN. With the approach shown here, this maybe could work.
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Under AB-1333, deadly force would no longer be legally justified:
• in defense of a habitation or property
• if the victim could have safely retreated, but only if outside their residence
• if excessive force is used, beyond what was deemed necessary for defense

(https://www.veeto.app/bill/1980230)

So while it does have implications for when self-defense is justified, and does introduce ambiguous language which could make it more difficult for victims to claim self defense, it does not criminalize self-defense, per se.
The two tables are intended to be part of the same "chat" partition (ie SQLite database). You can join them with a native SQLite query. Seems I should make this more clear.

Cheers
can't agree more, to the point i ask if the new job mandates mac,if yes i will end the process right away.

even windows is better due to wsl.
There's more than 2 sides to the fence. Desktop Linux is actually awesome, even better if you are even remotely technical.
Thanks for the info. For those of us not familiar with it, what were the main motivations for building Fuchsia instead of just using Linux?
Win10/Win11 with O&O Shutup are perfectly fine.

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
Of JavaScript AOT compilation performance (2021)
It's unfortunate that this isn't a default option. The only viewer I've seen that happens to be able to do this is Gnome's Document Viewer.
I think a major part of the problem is Apple's attitude towards bug reports: they basically DO NOT WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU. Which means that rare bugs go unnoticed and get swept under the rug.

I know that it's difficult to triage and process bug reports at scale, but I guess that's where some of those hundreds of billions of dollars could be put to good use.
Businesses like predictability and if there is change, steady predictable change. Across the board tariffs on our closest trading partners and allies results in recessions and depressions. It doesn't take a genius, it just takes a bunch of yes men and a cult leader.
It never really got released so nobody is depending on it, so why would google abandon it yet?
they don't. The Ayn Rand thing is a bad call. This is the work of chaos worshippers of a circus clown.
Next up: Atlanta Fed ordered to not publish forecasts.
I think their findings are applicable to lots of languages where the fastest known implementation is JIT based.

Not all “JIT dominant” languages rely on ICs as part of the JIT’s performance story, but enough of them do that it’s worth studying.

And JS happens to be the language where ICs have been taken the furthest, in terms of just how many different ways have been investigated and how many person years went into tuning them. So in some sense they’re picking the hardest fight. I think that’s a good thing.
If you care only about serverless, databases like PlanetScale, CockroachDB Cloud, and DynamoDB work well.

The biggest strength of using SQLite here is that it provides the benefits of a familiar SQL environment with the scaling benefits of Cassandra/DynamoDB.
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My experience is that PCBWay and similar usually offer better quality than doing it yourself. They get their costs down by automating everything they can. They're usually competitive at initial samples than many of the big houses too for essentially the same reason.
I agree, but my M1 MacBook work laptop is by far the fastest dev machine I've ever laid hands on. It struggles a bit from the UX standpoint, two things:

1. I have the same desktop layout every time, from left to right: slack desktop app, a two column wide emacs window, a 90col wide terminal. I also have two chrome windows--1 which is the same width as the slack window and overlays it, and another the same width as the emacs window which overlays that one. The problem is every single time I wake my laptop from sleep the terminal window has shrunk to fewer columns and I have to drag it back to full width.

2. Sometimes the external monitor support bugs out. I don't know if that's my hub ("pluggable" something or other) or the OS or both.

Then of course there's all the warts of homebrew, and the fact that it's not easy to build some software..

However, the performance of the Apple silicon is nothing short of astonishing. I'm curious about the AMD chips that ship in the new Framework as I look towards an upgrade to my personal laptop, but it's basically between that and a new M4 Max Macbook. Never thought I'd see the day.. will probably wait a year or so before deciding but it's interesting that Apple is even a contender.
State tax is definitely not 8% for many, many states.
Rule of Acquisition #34. War is good for business.
The bid focuses on sovereignty of user data, but that was never the true concern about TikTok.

The concern around TikTok is control of the recommendation engine and its ability to influence politics. TikTok likely has more influence than all of traditional media combined, and it seems unlikely that Trump will allow it to be controlled by someone who also watched Reddit turn into a left-wing echo chamber.
interoperable*
Unrelated but I cannot imagine anyone on this site still using Chrome. It's an advertising tool and with the change to remove Ublock and enforce DRM every more aggressively, it has so little to offer. I only use it for casting. Hard to see why anyone would use it for anything else at all.