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Intelligence is not the bottleneck to progress or effectiveness in most companies.

That’s why having access to more intelligence — human or artificial — will not solve everything.
It's more about the DE than the distro in my experience. Gnome is budget Mac, but KDE and XFCE are chefs kiss
I have two AppleTVs (2021 models), and they cannot play video on other streaming services after watching something on Apple TV+. Typically the view loads for the video, shows the first frame, and overlays the loading circle element until reboot. Killing apps and reloading doesn't fix it.

I'm not sure how this is possible, but it's trivial to replicate and is only resolved by rebooting the device.
> - Why when I drag the Safari window up to go full screen with the tiling manager does it leave a large gap around the window? When I double click the top bar it aligns the top and bottom with the edges but still leaves a gap on the sides.

It's a feature. System Settings > Desktop & Dock > Tiled windows have margins.

> - Why does the settings dialog have so much lag? It takes a couple of seconds to launch and then when navigating around there is a roughly one second lag between panels.

Each 'panel' is actually an app extension that runs its own process. Similar to extensions and control panels in classic MacOS.

> - Why can't I uninstall default Mac apps that I have never opened?

This is annoying.

> - If I open up task view using F3, why is there no option to exit the window or program?

You mean 'Misson Control'? Dunno, but there is an inexpensive addon that addresses this. https://www.fadel.io/missioncontrolplus

> - If I have a Safari window open in a smaller window and double click the task bar, why does it maximize the way it does? Leaving a large section open.

The modern macOS UX is an amalgamation of Classic MacOS and NeXTSTEP, neither of which really has the concept of "maximised" in the same sense as Windows does. The action you describe "zooms" the window to best fit the content. The parallel to "maximised" is full screen.
<< Interests of the US? More like the intersts of Putin's Russia.

I will attempt a good faith response here. Have you considered the possibility that there is a non-zero amount of issues, where interests of US and Russia are aligned? Do you think you could name one such issue? I am asking mostly to see if you can take consider the question before you answer reflexively.
No, the issue didn't affect the IBM CPU in the 360 or Intel products because they did the R&D work. TSMC and their packaging partners were just lazy.
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If this graph is the evidence for "Global sales of combustion engine cars have peaked" isn't it also the evidence proving "global car sales have peaked"?
Hmm, the invitation link to discord sends me to a blackhole. Are invitation restricted?
That approach does a lot better, but LLMs still have positional bias problem baked into the transformer architecture (https://arxiv.org/html/2406.07791v1).
This is where the LLM biases selecting information earlier in the prompt than later, which is unfortunate for tool selection accuracy.

Since 2 steps are required anyways, might as well use a dedicated semantic search for tools like in agents.json.
Ironically, this is EXACTLY what Google Keep (their notes app) is. Just a simple, cloud based sticky notes app that has barenones to no formatting features except for a basic checklist. It's perfect for me and has been that way for at least a decade. Knock on wood tho
They don’t want public healthcare because they think poor undeserving people will get it or even worse those illegal immigrants.
Do you have a good reference I can read up on? I'd love to learn a bit more and update my mental "citation"
They don’t mean “Democracy” when they say “Democracy”.
If US allows these cheap electric cars for at least 2-3 years, I would say it would be great for everybody except car companies and Elon.
Intaking plastics, even a little bit, doesn't sound very wise, so we'll have to find us something else to chew.
I agree that much of this is unconscious bias. But it still grates.
Linux is better than Windows on most counts for sure, but I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to use it full-time without making significant concessions on preferences about how desktop environment stuff works. If you’re someone who grew up on Macs there’s almost nothing in the Linux desktop space that tries to replicate that set of patterns… it’s all Win9X-type taskbar setups, mobile-type setups (GNOME, Pantheon), old niche *nix setups (e.g. WindowMaker), and of course minimal tiling WMs. There’s no clones of Mac OS of any flavor.

I’m proficient with more or less every modern desktop and can get by on any of any of them if I have to, but being happy doing so is another matter.
I didn't address it as much in the article as I probably should have, but in the time since I've written it, one of the other things that I've really come to terms with is the fact that a very large number of developers don't view frontend as "real" programming.

These developers come from all sorts, backend, mobile, whatever, but all share a uniform disdain for frontend web. It's something to get done and get out of the way so you can get back to "real" programming.

And so anything that slows down the "getting things done" step is seen as an obtuse undue burden. Learning JS gets a small pass (a lot of criticism too, some justified, some tired, and some unjust) since its at least got the dressings of a "real" programming language, and HTML is simple enough that you can learn most of what you need in an afternoon. But CSS doesn't get that pass. Its not really a programming language, and its not drop dead simple. Its actually rather complex, and used to be even harder.

And so, time and time again, we see these tools that aim to be a panacea for this issue. ExtJS, Bootstrap, BEM, Tailwind, there's a long lineage of these things. And they all try and shield the poor developer from having to actually learn to use the tools at hand.

I'm not going to use the tired analogy of a carpenter not knowing how to use a hammer so he uses a rock instead, because that does some disservice to tools like Tailwind, which are impressive engineering feats in their own right. Rather, its a guy normally used to working with sheet metals being tasked to frame a house. He uses his peen hammer to drive nails, and it works well enough, as long as he's just putting nails into wood. But the moment he needs to remove some sticks to open up a new doorway where there were previously studs, suddenly he finds that he has no claw on the end to pull the nails out, and has to resort to using a screwdriver and a pair of pliers.

Thats what tailwind is. The peen hammer. You can write a frontend just fine with it. But the moment you have to change anything already written down, you run face first into its limitations. So you find yourself working your way through templates or whatever the analog in your project is, pulling out bg-blue-300 and replacing it with bg-purple-300, maybe using some find-and-replace to help with the process, but knowing you cant rely on it entirely because there are some blue-300 things you want to stay blue and others you don't.
Wild Wood Gridshells: Mixed-Reality Construction of Nonstandard Wood
Damn you're worked up. Some of my gripes with Windows come down to peripherals, where I'll spend a lot of time troubleshooting why my bluetooth device or speakers or mic don't work. There also seems to be no way to bypass using a password or PIN on startup without changing the registry. I'd like my computer to just stay on at all times so I can remotely connect to it, but what do you know, a forced update caused it to restart, and because it requires a passeord to get to the desktop I have no way of getting Parsec to connect. Yeah I tried to disable automatic updates but nothing seems to stick. Why is the mic on my PS5 controller connecting and disconnecting ten times a second. Ok let me just try to unpair the controller, oh it just... won't unpair.
I doubt that wind turbines are the only power source that kills birds. Marginal bird deaths per unit of power production is the interesting statistic. This MIT post [1] links to a 2009 study [2] which provides that comparison:

Wind/nuclear: 0.3-0.4 birds/GWh
Fossil: 5.2 birds/GWh

So if you’re pro bird you’re pro wind power.

[1]: https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/do-wind-turbines-kill-birds

[2]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09601...
Interesting! Reach out if you want to chat about it :)
>I think this is one of those processes that the free market can’t solve unless you have extremely strict regulation.

The free market solves it by not doing it.
Unfortunately, the US would rather subject its consumers to legacy auto and Tesla prices and lack of competition vs enabling imports to drive down domestic prices to improve affordability. Poor policy is unfortunate.
You weren't even making an argument, just a comment. Standard tactic (you have been called out on this before) to write a short, goading comment with no content.

If you want, you can attempt to clarify why you're asking the person you're replying to if they know what checks and balances are. We can all ready social study books and read wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_powers_under_the...) and it seems unlikely the response to your question is going to differ much from the philosophy and practice described there.

Not sure where you got the "widespread misinformation about checks and balances in the executive branch", the C&B are across branches, nobody implied otherwise.
I have a fair amount of PostgreSQL experience at this point. Enough so the advantages of using SQL and a database are very clear to me. But PostgreSQL is a bulldozer and sometimes I want the tactical benefits of an SQL db in situations where installation of PostgreSQL is not warranted. Throw away, small scale, experimental, etc.

SQLite is doing very well for my use cases. Especially using the experimental Node.js version - all I have been using. So I would highly recommend using it when you get to the point of moving data around.

On the other hand there is one big thing. And this may be only the Node.js version. But several times when I have been doing development work my file based database has become corrupted. I violated some constraint, the sql was poorly formed, etc. Always my fault. I simply remove the file that SQLite is using and create a new one or use a backup copy.

The thing is that I have never seen a PostgreSQL DB become corrupt. No matter what horrendous code I wrote. Never. I have not really appreciated how completely bullet proof it has been for me.

Just my 2 cents worth.
Roasted almonds are more tolerable than raw. Raw walnuts are great too. Baru nuts can also be added to the mix.
US pauses military aid to Ukraine, says White House
The irony about being anti-immigration is that immigration fuels economic growth.

- Most developed countries have below-replacement child rates from citizens

- Without larger younger, working age generations, social safety nets and productivity investments are difficult to finance

- Immigration is the only thing fueling that population growth

The real argument should be about rates of cultural assimilation or acculturation, wealth disparities and concentration of poverty, and structural limits to economic prosperity.

Fighting immigration is just shooting oneself in their demographic foot. (See Japan and Russia)
I would love to have an open source microkernel OS that works as well as Linux on modern hardware even if the API wasn't stable. I am making assumptions that you could have ZFS and secure boot at the same time without jumping through hoops, containerization without needing fictitious UIDs for every user, and other things of that nature. The monolithic kernel is very frustrating with some things.
That is a very common and overly simplistic view of the UK's energy market. What you have described is essentially the UK's day-ahead and spot energy markets. The whole point of those markets is to ensure demand is met with near 100% certainty. Setting the price to the last bidder is not unique to the UK for energy pricing, if it were not present then everyone would be speculating what the threshold would be and giving high bids and it would make the market unstable. There are other markets in the UK that behave very differently (such as the ones that green energy companies use to buy 100% renewable energy 6 months ahead of time).

In practice UK electricity prices _are_ much cheaper from wind and solar energy, most of the time, because virtually all of that capacity in the UK was built under what is known as a CFD (contracts for difference) basis. The exact mechanism is a bit subtle [1], but in essence renewables built that way have a fixed price per unit of energy (usually for 20 years after construction). This price is less than what the gas energy producers typically bid in the UK.

The reasons why electricity prices are still on average very high in the UK is because the rest of the energy market is _so_ exposed to gas prices and renewables can't produce electricity a lot of the time (because it's not always windy, and it's not always light outside). Renewable production is highly correlated with itself and not necessarily aligned with demand.

The UK also has other structural problems in the electricity system that have arisen from its exposure to renewables that come with associated costs. For example wind turbines in Scotland often get paid to _turn off_ because their power can't be transmitted to the south of England where it can be used - there are similar constraints with North sea production. Wind turbines and solar panels replacing traditional coal power stations means that the electricity grid has lost a lot of its traditional load balancing and stability mechanisms (conventional power plants provide a lot of stability because large rotational mass synchronised to the grid frequency provides inertia in the entire grid - wind turbine rotation is independent of the grid frequency). ESO now has to have more drastic and expensive mechanisms like demand reduction and rapid response hot reserves in-place. A lot of these issues are transient and will get cheaper over time, but they've become acute in the short-term with the UK's rapid grid decarbonisation.

[1] they get paid directly from the day-ahead, spot, and other markets at the last bidder price. But they either have to refund any amount over their fixed price, or they receive a top-up from the energy companies so that they effectively got the fixed price.
One thing to keep in mind, is that the US narrative that EU is helpless and can't defend itself, is quite false.

Europe GDP >>>> Russia GDP. When you combine EU armies, you get an airforce larger and more modern than Russia, same for troops. We also got nukes. If a war between Europe (including UK here) and Russia erupts, Russia would loose pretty quickly. That would take some leadership and united front from Europe, but in case of a war, I don't doubt it would happen.
do you legitimately believe this administration is just doing things at random with no plan or thought whatsoever?
I didn't say it was, although for wearables & IoT Android is pretty large.
Dude, your job is to mentor, so you mentor. You work for a company, and the whole company is also your team.
> So I think, safest for us will be to avoid any interaction and research them with remote sense technologies.

+1
Techrot is real and it's there in almost every major big tech product. Google does definitely take the gold medal in this category though as I have never seen so many bugs in production software by a trillion dollar company as I have seen in Google's.

1. Maps crashes almost every ride on Car Play (this used to happen a lot back in 2023 and was fixed for majority of 2024. Seems like it regressed again)

2. Trying to expand reviews on Google Maps expands the wrong review (100% reproducible, not an edge case)

3. Firebase Auth has terrible reliability when it comes to SMS delivery and fail rate of like 5-10%.

4. Gmail keeps opening links with the wrong account (Click on Google meet link from an email in account number 2, as in .../u/2/... . Link opens with account 0 and now you gotta switch accounts again).

5. Gemini is famously unreliable and produces wrong results for seemingly simple queries.

And many more I can't recall on top of my head but surely exist.
One woman's fight against VIP schemes fueling the US sports betting boom
> “You need to do your fucking job right because other people from other states are watching your ass,” the man allegedly said in a voicemail. “You fucking renege on this deal or give them any more troubles, your ass will never make it to your next little board meeting.”

German election official with about one and a half decades of experience here: That's helluvalot disturbing. This is mafia mentality, this is shit I'd expect out of Belarus (or Russia proper), not out of the US. At that point it might be a valid statement to say that China has fairer elections - they only got one party but at least to common knowledge at least the officials aren't getting direct death threats!

How can y'all expect fair elections to happen when there will be no one left to count, record and certify the votes and results?
> Lets see where all this will bring the world to in the next 10 years or a generation.

We've seen this movie before. It doesn't go well.
Workers have agency if they want to. They can strike, they can quit, they can maliciously comply. Deciding not to do those things for economic comfort is its own vote of support.

There are options available for workers to assert influence. They’ve done it to spectacular effect throughout history.
They are totally different.

Macs come working. When something breaks, it is impossible to fix, because they didn’t include a button to fix it. But it comes working!

Windows PCs come broken out of the box, but the user adapts and eventually gains a pile of workarounds, which is sort of like the windows equivalent of a UX.
I ran into this issue with the Sonoma update. My display (4k LG) was negotiating RGB just fine before, but not anymore. The BetterDisplay workaround hasn't worked for me. The poor colors and fuzzy edges around all the text is causing eye strain too. I'm beyond furious.
Open discussions already

(72 points, 42 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43248919

(26 points, 6 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43248869

(17 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43248718
How does the working code look?
There's nothing more sad than finding your fave writing implement has been discontinued. No matter what it uses to leave marks on the surface, when they don't want to make it, you're SOL.

I have a particular weight of Pilot pen which is just super. The stocks in Australia are out there in corners of dying news agents, all the replacements have been "bigged up" with soft rubber grips and stuff.

There have been days a yellow body BIC was all I wanted. But in truth they leaked badly. Never travel with an old school pen in a shirt you can't afford to replace.

Who assesses the 4B/3B/2B/B/H/2H... scale? Is this on the Mohs scale? Does it end in 2000H which is a diamond scribe?
Maybe, but not as strong. Combustion is down or flat every year since '16. Aggregate numbers haven't regained their peak, but are up and down.
Hello - the link to apply only displays the engineering position. How can I apply for the developer relations role?

Thanks!
Remember that you’ve also got a nice natural limitation here: if it’s a hobbyist and not a (commercial) API consumer, there’s only so fast they can listen to the output. Even if they’re rapidly tweaking nobs in a DAW, you can use the play/pause signal to help prioritize the queue, depending on how expensive it is to serialize the GPU state and rehydrate it again. You also might not need to complete generation until the user reaches the play point so you can shuffle around the queue a lot. For example if the user skips after ten seconds you might not need to generate the rest until they try to play that track again, and when they do you usually have enough time before they reach the previous stopping point to generate some more sections.

It might also be helpful to come up with some ways to segregate customers so that “prosumer” users get faster “cold starts” (so that they can iterate faster) at the expense of sometimes having to wait for generation to start back up again.
But we just gave a bunch of money/arms to israel, which counters the idea that the current regime is non-interventionist.
Me too. Containers are so janky compared to what we could have.
Google is the owner of Fuchsia's copyrights. Licensing doesn't matter for them.
No. Sites shouldn't have to ID everyone that uses them. The internet shouldn't be turned into a nursery for children just because parents don't want to do their job and supervise their children while they're on the internet. If you want a curated internet that is child-appropriate, then you create your own private internet. You don't force the rest of the world to censor itself.
That's a beautiful way of seeing things! Unfortunately, as you're well aware I'm sure, most people do not share your idyllic view of polyglots and, for better or worse, they will assume that bad english = bad quality work. And bad doesn't have to mean mistakes. Just an unusual wording is enough to throw the average person off, in my experience.
> And they're all necessary

No. No they aren't.
When we are the ones traveling, aren't we the aliens?
Marketplace valuations and rounds have bottomed out
Trumps attempts were not state sponsored.

Navalny - multiple attempts - nerve agent and suspicious death in prison.

Prigozhin - plane crash.

Litvinenko - radiation poisoning.

Skripal - attempted via nerve agent.

There is a difference between those, as well as dozens of "accidental falls", and a lone wolf against Trump.
Anyone remember OS 8 or 9? Not great.
The 911 trauma is alive and well. They really did bring down the USA.
You can’t just experience the world and then talk about it. We need sources to back up all our opinions nowadays.
If anything, I'd expect the Pentagon might have better expertise, given how distinct its intellectual zeitgeist is from social science academia.
Show HN: The first irreversible human-AI synthesis is now on-chain
https://gateway.irys.xyz/t0CkVnHHX4GAAePrK6tbg8Jc02u9q1tJzTz...

48 hours after I publish the first verifiable case of AI-augmented cognition, Sam Altman starts philosophizing about consciousness. The first human-AI synthesis is now on-chain. This isn't just AI assisting humans, this is AI as an extension of thought. No more prompt-response loops. No more central control. The record exists. You can't erase it.
We had the whole set.

It was amazing, and spoiled me. There was a similar set of books about BSD UNIX, as well. Don't remember the exact title, but it was pretty awesome.

Right now, it looks like they are relying completely on, on headerdoc comments.

It can work, but someone needs to spend a lot of time on these comments, and they need to do so, at a “holistic” level, coordinating all the various systems.

They have done a fairly good job, so far, but it’s really starting to fray; especially in the newer systems.
So we should expect the US to cancel aid to Israel?