skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it's actually 128GB per disk (BDXL), I only know of Chinese companies announcements of 500GB optical disks last year[1], not sure if they are already deployed to some enterprise partners, it's entirely possible. Their more theoretical research goes far beyond that. [2]

There are archival storage machines similar to tape drive robots for archival storage in the Chinese market where you have hundreds of such disks in a single unit and 1PB+ per rack.

[1] https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/dU8QdK8w8f5qziWP0UYQuw
[2] https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/23/optical_disc_breakthr...
I would buy one but only if I am guaranteed to be able to compile the source code somewhat easily and flash it to the device. Anyone knows if they have made any promises around that?
This is gold, and hilarious. I get why someone would "spy" on rippling for money, but my god, don't use a phone. And why would you even need to be on prem to do this kind of spying? There are so many better ways.
Idiocracy cometh
I think it's likely that many people do make that connection.

There has been a surge of antipathy towards the U.S. in Canada and Europe; owing to Trump's threats with respect to trade wars, annexation of Canada and Greenland, and undermining NATO and the ability of Europe to defend itself.
I'm not sure I follow? Every company does what is in their own financial interest. Even b-corps and non-profits have to keep an eye on their balance sheets.
Building Agentic Flows with LangGraph and Model Context Protocol
Firefox is also frequently criticized for not implementing certain APIs because of security concerns. There was a post on this site just the other day about their lack of support for WebUSB for exactly this reason

It's not unique to Apple. And we should take security seriously. To people who are technically literate and think they can navigate security risks it's not a big deal but people's entire lives are frequently turned upside down by scams and security loopholes
There's nothing new here. From AirDrop to AirPods, Apple's MO is to lock you into their ecosystem and be as belligerent as possible toward any non-Apple gizmo. Couple that with social and network effects, and you have a perfect formula for monopolizing a market without continuously improving the tech.
> The single most important thing facing humanity right now is carbon in the atmosphere

Preventing nuclear war is still higher.
I wouldn't cut anything. They "just work", it's just that they don't follow a conventional structure. I don't want them to follow familiar patterns.

Yeah, you guessed it: two of my favorite animated movies!
Discussion on Show HN (190 points, 21 hours ago, 50 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43392521
The issue is, suppose you want a phone with A, B, C, D and E.

In a competitive market, there are a hundred phone OEMs providing every combination of those things for various prices with various trade offs etc.

In a duopoly, there is one company providing A, another providing B and C, and nobody providing D or E. If you chose the company providing B and C, but you still want A, D and E, what are you supposed to do? Reward the company providing even less of what you want?

What you need is more competition.
power != energy

It changes overall power usage. That's the point.

Energy usage does not change, but car energy usage is smaller fraction of total energy usage in the electric grid and manageable.
World in which I've paired my two devices?

Doesn't the boundary get broken asking messages be read to me into a BT audio device?
Yes! Exactly this. Many years ago I got this epiphany that “it’s just another kind of interface”. Specifically to me as a system.

In this day and age I’m not even convinced anymore that I’m not actually just some kind of an elaborate fine-tuning layer running in a cluster somewhere, but that’s a whole another discussion!
So glad I had read the 2nd agreement by Don Miguel Ruiz lol.
The more interesting Apple trademark case was "iPhone", which was in active use by Cisco for their VoIP desk phones.
Be careful what you wish for! Apple doesn't let you modify apps to remove tracking the way you can on Android.
Not crazy at all in consumer electronics, that's margin on the parts only. R&D, admin, software, etc. costs need to be recovered from that money.
I wish the author hadn't used the word Charisma in the title. He doesn't actually describe or define charisma in the text. I suppose this is a primary element of a successful (click attracting) blog post: to provoke discussion by what you leave out.

My takeaway is to ignore the title and per the text, be able to work with other engineers (play well with others). That means speaking their language and being able to relate to others, both with technical precision as warranted, and with human/emotive understanding. To remember that it's not about you, it's about the team/org. To keep in mind principles such as "assume good intent". etc.

Now, it does so happen that most orgs are dysfunctional so being successful at that more "human" / relatability part does mean being successfully dysfunctional. Sadly. Author does live in his utopian world and the blog is titled as such.
> would you say you satisfy the author's intent of demonstrating this skill?

I think I'm pretty likable in large part because I have a lot of social anxiety which leads to high agreeability.

I don't think I'm particularly charismatic.

> i would actually argue that your definition of charismatic tends towards manipulative. i don't think that's what you really meant.

It is, in fact. Charisma operates at a level separate from morality. Charisma is a gun. It's what you do with it that determines the ethical stance.

Certainly, there are many charismatic people that use that tool simply to manipulate others for their own personal benefit. At the extreme you get populist demagogues.

But there are also charismatic people who use that gift to bring others together to accomplish goals that benefit everyone. Good charismatic people can make you into a better version of yourself.
Yup, and meanwhile the performance has dropped dramatically. I had 4 Roku's in the house. I've replaced all of them at this point. They're pure trash.

I replaced 2 of them with Apple TV's, 1 ONN 4k and 1 unbranded Android based media streamer.

My biggest problem with Apple TV for the longest time was the horrible remotes. The card thin, touch sensitive remote is the worst product Apple has ever made. The new remote is a huge step up, especially if you turn off the dpad touch feature.

Roku is dead to me.
> It’s very difficult to enable other iOS apps to work with Pebble. Basically iOS does not have the concept of ‘interprocess communication’(IPC) like on Android.

Actually, let me make this worse. iOS has plenty of IPC, you're just not allowed to define your own IPC protocols. IPC is solely for your app to talk to Apple's code, not for apps to talk to each other.
The thing is that Windows does not show the .lnk Ending, same for .pif (which can just be a normal MZ Windows EXE), even if all other endings are shown. So your bill.pdf.lnk is shown as bill.pdf, while bill.pdf is also shown as bill.pdf.

(This may have changed with new versions of Windows 11, I'm stopped working in this area a few years back)
The post you're replying to meant that it boosts Apple Watch sales because they hobble the functionality of competitors. I think your statement is simply saying that any competitor is insecure. I'd be surprised if that were a widely held view.
It's like, when put into question, they start to cry and can't even articulate a proper response addressing the arguments presented to them - then gang up and downvote.

I thought of a name for these people:

"Prostrating Putative Oligobros" (PPOs)

(...or "presumptive", "wannabe"?)
Note that I said seamless AND secure. Having preferential treatment for a limited set of well known hardware makes the experience seamless. I like the secure and easy hand-off between apple devices. I wouldn't want to give up the security to make it work.
Just hire an SRE. If you want to piss off your team and incur more costs than the annual salary of one decent SRE... ask your team to do on-call rotations.

In this day and age if you're a properly capitalized startup you should have the budget for one decent SRE hire. They often times double as a technical writer and are great at preventing knowledge silos in teams / members of a small team since they have to sort of know everything to be an effective SRE.

Best process improvement I ever made for my teams.
slang for charisma, no?
There's a biiiiiiiiiig asterisk on all tape storage, about temperature and humidity. It's not like paper that you can leave in an attic for a century and still find readable.

People restoring old tapes right now have to do all sorts of exotic things with solvents to remove the mildew and baking the tapes to make the emulsion not immediately fall off the substrate, etc. I have to imagine that at today's density, any such treatment would be much worse for the data.

So those tapes are only as immortal as their HVAC. One hot humid summer in the wrong kind of warehouse may be it.
I tested the form generator

https://products.aspose.ai/pdf/form-generator

which generates LaTex from headings, paragraphs and other document controls. And it also generates formulas from descriptions. I copied some text from my article and got a fully functional LaTex with formulas:

Fundamental Theorem of Calculus

The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus links differentiation and integration. It consists of two parts:

If f of x is continuous on the interval [a, b] and F of x is its antiderivative, then:

integral from a to b of f of x with respect to x equals F of b minus F of a.

If F of x is defined as an integral function:

F of x equals integral from a to x of f of t with respect to t,

then F of x is differentiable, and its derivative is the original function:

d by dx of F of x equals f of x.

Taylor Series Expansion

A function f of x can be expressed as an infinite Taylor series around x equals a:

summation from n equals zero to infinity of (nth derivative of f at a) divided by (n factorial) times (x minus a) to the power of n.

For example, the Taylor series expansion of e to the power of x at x equals zero is:

summation from n equals zero to infinity of (x to the power of n) divided by (n factorial), which expands as 1 plus x plus (x squared divided by 2 factorial) plus (x cubed divided by 3 factorial) and so on.

Complex Line Integrals

In complex analysis, contour integrals play a crucial role. The contour integral of a function f of z along a curve C is given by:

closed contour integral along C of f of z with respect to z.

A key result is Cauchy's Integral Formula:

f of a equals (1 divided by 2 pi i) times the closed contour integral along C of (f of z divided by (z minus a)) with respect to z,

which holds if f of z is analytic inside and on C, and a is within C.
Britain is not in the EU.
This watch might be enough reason to jump back to Android.

It’s too bad third party watches are second class citizens in iOS.
> If your business is important enough to have on-call, then you should have dedicated employees covering night shifts and nothing else, effectively limiting it to someone's office hours, effectively removing on-call.

Easy to say when you envision it as someone's office hours and not your office hours. If my employer gave me a choice between a normal shift plus oncall or a night shift with no oncall, I'd pick the on-call in a heartbeat.
I completely get the point, and it's a shame. Apple is bad because it doesn't clearly announce this kind of limitation for third-party hardware and software before selling their phones. And I don't think Pebble or Garmin will either. Why not just limit your market to a platform that fits well? That would be the fairest solution for a customer.
From my experience, this is what gets you up to the third interview with the CEO/manager, but never the job :/.
Enterprise Anything - everything is logged and searchable in any company that has an IT dept.
this can be done, and it’s suspect when someone’s done it to build a following and it’s not clear if they own the tweets.

I tail the firehose sometimes , filtering for post dates that don’t contain 2025. Bottom line this has been happening since day one and backdated/imported posts were about 1/16th or so of the overall post volume in any random sampling I’ve taken. It’s a lot.

But the few I spot checked , all checked out. The people importing their posts were all mentioning their new bluesky on LinkedIn or Twitter . I haven’t caught a spammer yet. It’s something I look at when I am extremely bored.
LOL IPO market is dead for observable future.
That is contradictory:

"End users really don't need to know about it... a lot of stuff it can do isn't available yet in the traditional GIMP UI"

So why "don't they need to know about it?" And regardless, putting a meaningless label on it is a user-hostile blunder. This blunder is not all that uncommon either. Affinity did it by burying a bunch of stuff under a menu item called "Studio." Not as bad as "GEGL", but still meaningless.
we want to move in this direction:
- offer subscriptions for merchants and earn percentages on sales by implementing a direct checkout (but the fact that lumigo forms a partnership with brand X is not an indicator that the algorithm will be calibrated to suggest that product first..we want to maintain the absence of bias of any kind)
- sell some advertising space only around the search results that will not affect the user experience in any way or at most the related products suggested after a search
- create pro subscriptions for much more advanced features on products search
- offer a small part of our functionality via API to implement some aspects of this technology outside our ecosystem as well

and these are just some of the ideas we have in mind, but they make it clear that if I search for X the algorithm will return exactly X without any influence whether today, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow...
It doesn't have to be the worst possible implementation to be less desirable than the walled garden for me. I get so much spam in whatsapp, groupMe, telegram, and from sms. Some of it is even from legitimate contacts but then they signed up for something or did something and it sends one of those stupid "join me on {thing}" messages. The only place I don't get spam is imessage
Google is making a huge mistake. They are clearly getting scammed, the price is up to $32B from $23B less than a year ago.

There is no pressure or need to buy Wiz.
> There are so few examples of good follow-ups to nostalgic media. The only other example I can think of is Blade Runner (1982) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017).

I know this is controversial, but I disliked Blade Runner 2049. It feels made by someone who just didn't get Blade Runner and was both copying it mechanically in parts, and improvising unfaithfully in others. (Coincidentally, I liked Arrival but the changes Villeneuve introduced to make it more "sentimental" ruined the reigned-in emotions in Ted Chiang's piece -- again it felt like he just didn't "get it").

I obsess about Blade Runner -- to me almost every scene is artwork, and the music is amazing. The plot? I mean, yes, there are plot holes aplenty, but I don't think this movie is truly about the plot, beyond the philosophical themes.

Blade Runner 2049 in contrast seems so cynical and shallow to me. It just didn't work.

PS: also, the insufferable Jared Leto. And the non-entity that is Luv. While Blade Runner has the best anti-hero ever in Roy Batty... and the best dying speech (vs Luv's "I'm the best!". Ugh).
These are some good tips. One thing I would add is to build habits, once you have a routine of working on the solo project it makes it easier to keep going on not quit.
I imagine an Alexa customer would have a net loss financially from the model execution costs if they just sent garbage all day. Doesn’t even need to be clever.
> moving a message over BLE to untrusted hardware and worse accepting them back into iMessage is a massive, massive change in the security boundary

Is it? My iPhone replicates messages to my mac from where a process can extract that data, it can capture the screen etc. I can use a mac today to set up a relay that would then send those messages to a smart watch if one would do that.
I’d be thrilled to have a black screen instead of ads. I suspect you assume that my motivation is to escape the interruption. To me, let me tell you—the interruption is a mild annoyance, while the ads themselves are an active assault.

Especially now that they’re individually and programmatically targeted to showcase and inflame the neuroses, health concerns, and predilections of each of the specific people in the room around the television.

Amazing how the HIV commercials only appear when individuals in risk groups are around. Those outed a friend once—luckily in a supportive environment.

And the random miscellaneous cancer drug ads come on when the friend who’s an older cancer survivor comes to visit. And the sports betting ads when friends facing gambling addiction are around. And if I hear one more ad hawking supplies for squealing tiny humans when new parents are around, so help me…
Somewhat tangentially related, yet several posters mention other apps in a similar category.

Is there a way to browse / search the app store from a desktop? Every link just seems to go to an advertisement splash page, and search for "stray" does not even return the linked app.

Found Lifestyle Apps [1] from StraySync's own "Lifestyle" category, yet only the top free apps to number 100 on desktop. Does not appear to show "PawBoost" or some of the other mentions.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/charts/iphone/lifestyle-apps/6012?...
I can derail the conversation just like you are trying to but I'm going to keep it short.

This guy isn't a normal innocent civilian, that's my point.
SKU binning doesn't take any fab time.

They do have too many SKUs though.
Core 2 Duo is an intel trademark

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/33910/i...
"Government funding" is generosity.
They're problems when they matter experimentally. If quantum computers are failing because their qubits keep getting measured, the companies building them will spend a lot of money to discover why, which will refine our definition of "measurement" at least in that context.
Hobbling is a weird way to say that they aren't privileging unknown hardware. Yes, they make their own peripherals work better together. This seems like the only way to do some of what they do, airpods are so good because they use a proprietary standard that is better than bluetooth, using the open standard would be worse.

My point is that it is good that they focus on making their own products work well together, it provides better value than being wide open and trying to work super well with everything. Windows tries to work well with any peripheral, and its a bad experience.
> Up until Pearl Harbor WW2 was just a little continental war where it wasn't clear which side should be annihilated.

It wasn't in America but it was in the rest of the world, since European powers controlled such a large part of the world back then.
It's all related. Your effectiveness depends to some extent on the people who work with you (both up and down the org chart) and the problems you work on. Unless you work solo, charisma matters as much and maybe even more than other hard skills.
> they break a lot of great news with a tiny staff <…> I'll never pay for their work because I feel like they get a little user hostile sometimes

Y’all choose the weirdest hills to die on.
https://imgur.com/a/M194hRc shows the number of total and undeleted questions on StackOverflow.

The sharp trend at the end of 2022 after ChatGPT was released is hard to miss.
That's all well and good. Opting into that knowingly is a reasonable decision. Hopefully knowing you've opted into that you aren't then cursing Google when they don't support some functionality blocked by Apple, or when RCS is poorly supported, but instead recognizing this as a trade-off you made opting into the Apple closed garden.
It can work both ways though, I've had projects that I kept going far beyond what was sensible.
> One problem with git is that it's mutable, and real problems have arisen (some quite recently) because of that.

What are you referring to?

As far as I know, nothing about git is mutable in the hash-chain sense? If I sign the last commit to a Git repository, I can be assured that both the current state and history cannot be modified without invalidating my signature, no?

Of course one can rewrite history, but that will always change all hashes from the point history was modified onwards. The difference with blockchain is that the signature changes from "bri3d said this commit matched the current state of his history" to a distributed system that says "more than 50% of miners agree that this commit was the current state of history at the point this block was mined."

Are there other implementation issues with Git I'm not familiar with? The common practice of truncating a SHA to make a 'short commit' is of course highly vulnerable to all sorts of nonsense, but that's obvious any time a SHA is truncated.
The issue is that they don’t compete on equal footing, because they integrate whatever functionality they adapt with OS features and/or first-party apps in a way that third-party apps can’t. That’s anti-competitive and increases their moat.
> “why are you normal and easy to talk to, when every tech/computer guy at my business is an utter freak”

Well, some people certainly have a judgment problem of their own (not referring to parent commenter here).

> It’s a totally solvable problem — or, if you prefer, an attainable skill.

The resistance to developing this trait is also telling and belies a lack of objectivity: if it's a weak point for you, then even a modest amount of effort and attention can help a significant amount. If you're not interested in doing the work, that's totally fine, just work/pay/ask to figure out what the relevant 20% is that gets you 80% there. I suspect it will be somewhat different for everyone.

I feel like my charisma (feels like too strong a term for myself, but whatever) took a big leap once I became more comfortable with myself and learning to be okay with people not liking me. Still working on the last one but small increments help a lot. Once people perceive you don't need something from them without being stand-offish, they're often more open to you.
Same with Phone Link on Windows.
Yeah, I remember listening to this. So that settles it.
AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Reality
> My hypothesis is that I spent so much time compartmentalizing emotions like anxiety, grief, sorrow, and hurt in order to keep moving forward that I got too good at stuffing them in a box. The only way to avoid being overwhelmed by them was to sever my connection to all of my feelings, which meant I lost access to joy, humor, whimsy, and passion too.

You know, actually, I think this is what it is too. I had a terrible therapist for ~7 years that always tried to get me to avoid/mitigate uncomfortable emotions but I always felt it was making the issue worse. When I broke away from therapy in favor of things like meditation/philosophy, in some sessions, I felt ancient grief/pain bubbling up in ways that were overwhelming, but always felt way better afterwards. This isn't easy to do though and is taxing in itself. Some people need substances to do it, or hypnosis. I do think it's something to do with this though.
2 years time:

"My AI co-founder has just stitched me up on the cap table. Does anyone know a good AI lawyer that can sue them?"
Time to add AI mode to this :).
What kind of trouble does she have managing rcs conversations? It works fine for my partner on their iPhone.
I don't follow how a single SRE hire would be able to replace an entire team's oncall rotation.
> If Bezos had to choose between Amazon and WaPo, he'd choose Amazon.

And did.