tylerchr

Yes, or at least that’s the reason Jobs gave in the original Jan 2007 keynote:

We’re going to be shipping these in June. We’re announcing it today because with products like this we’ve got to go ahead and get FCC approval which takes a few months, and we thought it would be better if we introduced this rather than ask the FCC to introduce it for us. So here we are.

Yeah, exactly. It seems like you understand just fine.

You claimed that “literally no one” has a different review workflow than yours. I do, and my experience is that clear commits make reviews both faster and deeper, which is very helpful specifically in a high-pressure, deadline driven environment where being slow and wrong is costly. You’re of course free to disagree and work differently.

You might be surprised. Yours sounds like the attitude of someone who has not had the luxury of reviewing well-constructed commits. PRs with intentional commits permit both faster and deeper reviews—but alas, not everyone is so respectful of their reviewers’ time and energy.

My wife took one look at this and said “It’s not Wordle if it’s all binary—it’s Digitle.”

I grew up about 3 minutes away from a big hardware store, doing projects all the time. This contributed to a very wrongheaded idea about how long projects take.

When I moved into my current house it was suddenly a 40 minute trip. For the first couple years I couldn’t get anything done on Saturdays because I’d never needed to optimize away trips to the store before.

You’ve just introduced me to a good poem. Thanks!

Super impressive. Can’t agree more with the author that GPS is a stunningly clever engineering achievement.

For those interested in the story of the development of GPS, I found “GPS Declassified” by Richard Easton to be an engaging retelling.

I wrote a thing for this back when you could download the whole hash database as a single torrent, but I haven’t checked it since they moved over to the PwnedPasswordsDownloader system. This doesn’t use any probabilistic data structures though, it just packs the database into the smallest binary file I could come up with.

https://github.com/tylerchr/pwnedpass

I don’t know that much about materials science. Why is a “titanium hemisphere bonded to a carbon fiber cylinder” “such a fundamentally compromised design” in this application?

I imagine maybe carbon fiber would be better in tension (e.g. airframes) than in compression (this), perhaps. Or do carbon fiber and titanium not get along somehow?

(EDIT: Had tension and compression backwards.)

Why would shipping a good GPU be a prerequisite to shipping a quantum processor?

Always neat to discover that multiple high-quality tools you discovered separately are all written by the same person. I use both bat and hyperfine regularly and had no idea. Now, knowing to look up the author, I've learned about insect and hexyl too!

Fabrice Bellard, klauspost, and bradfitz are three prior examples of this that spring to mind. I'm sure there are plenty more I haven't noticed yet.

Sincerely, thanks to the people who make contributions like this.

pv is invaluable but my issue with it is it’s only useful if you think to include it before you run the command. Usually the thought doesn’t occur to me until I have some runaway cp or dd and I want to be reassured that it’s going to be done soon. For that case that this looks super interesting.

Heh, that gives “2.49 US dollars,” before the expected 907.18 grams.

Have you read a lot of biology papers? Are they all about operating microscopes?

Really? I think it’s in there:

Amazon seems invincible. … If [Toys R Us] couldn’t compete with Amazon, how could B&N hope to do any better?

Daunt started giving more power to the stores,”

for example by

ask[ing] employees in the outlets to take every book off the shelf, and re-evaluate whether it should stay.

I suppose I drew from this that those local employees were producing a better atmosphere for book-browsers than publishers’ marketing budgets had, and took that as evidence of this “discovery” strategy. Does that strike you as a stretch?

The “get books” wording may have been more confusing than clever. For my part, I hoped to convey that I (maybe you too?) go to B&N to browse books even when I’m not looking for anything in particular, not that I go for things other than books.

I think your comment actually highlights the key insight.

For a long time, the fact that the bookstore was the _only_ place to “get books” occluded the fact that it was the _best_ place to explore and appreciate books. Amazon stripped away the veneer by showing that, actually, bookstores weren’t so ideal for “getting books” after all (book not carried, book not in stock, can’t find the right shelf, etc). Daunt is therefore succeeding by refocusing on “loving books,” as you put it, rather than on transacting books.

You might “get books” at a bookstore, but that’s probably not why you went there in the first place.

If his way of "trying to feel better about it" was to critically analyze and summarize 30 (or maybe 100) years of published research on the subject, then he's a hero in my mind. I'd choose to take that over your 100 bucks any day of the week.

Of the news sources I frequent, HN is the only one where I bother with the comments. In fact, I often find myself reading the discussion here _before_ the article.

It’s not perfect (we are people, in the end) but this community is refreshingly mature, insightful, and respectful. Thanks, all.

The terrain renderer is really impressive. Have you written anything that goes into detail on how you created it? I would find that fascinating.

Also, do you mean that you are _automatically_ rectifying photos against your 3D terrain model to determine the direction and angle they were taken from? Or do they come with additional information that is useful in simplifying that task?

Thanks, this was interesting. I exploited this glitch with wild abandon as a kid. Fun to know how it worked.

I'm not so sure. Emissions don't harm everyone instantly; they affect people disproportionately and only impact everyone over time as the effects accumulate. Sure, maybe bad performance only affects the customer initially, but can't you help but wonder what the cumulative opportunity cost of bad performance on civilization has been?

The predominant perception among nontechnical people is that computers are fundamentally unreliable and slow. It doesn't seem unreasonable to think that might be holding up the rate of innovation.

I wish my employer’s “security” processes were running on efficiency cores. Looks like maybe I can make that happen!

We've had a free tier since we launched ten years ago (in 2020).

I’m not a Fly.io customer (although more and more I am thinking I should be), but I eagerly read every new blog post because I’m so entertained by their tone. These people are clearly having fun at work.

To quote the relevant section:

“ODoH sends DNS queries through the first internet relay, so the DNS server cannot identify the user issuing a query. Each query itself is padded and encrypted using Hybrid Public Key Encryption (HPKE) to help ensure that the first internet relay cannot tell the domain name a user is looking up.”

Apple is the “first internet relay” and they seem to explicitly state that they don’t see the DNS queries themselves.

Interesting, I’d have said TV shows have an advantage in this metric. (How many top shows have less than two hours worth of episodes?) On the surface I think the charts show this, as only the most popular English movies are over ~15M hours but virtually all of the TV shows are.

Either way, since TV and Films aren’t listed together I’m not sure either one is “penalized” really.

We have the same guarantee about that today as we did a month ago before this was announced. Apple writes the software that runs their devices, so they’ll always have the option to ship something like that.

Apple could have quietly implemented CSAM scanning server-side, and left the door open to it being quietly exploited in who knows what way. But they didn’t: instead they put a whole bunch of infrastructure in place that all but guarantees that they’ll be immediately caught (and publicly excoriated) if they try to use this CSAM mechanism for anything other than CSAM. (See the PDF that GP linked for technical details on why.)

Of course, they could still do it with some other mechanism. But in that case none of these CSAM changes are at all relevant to the concern, as that risk is unchanged from a month ago.

I see the value of this, but I find the wisdom of it to be highly questionable for anything but the highest-level TLDs.

For example, it enumerates the domains of many US state school districts:

  k12.pr.us
  // k12.ri.us  Removed at request of Kim Cournoyer <netsupport@staff.ri.net>
  k12.sc.us
  // k12.sd.us  Bug 934131 - Removed at request of James Booze <James.Booze@k12.sd.us>
  k12.tn.us
  k12.tx.us
  k12.ut.us
  k12.vi.us
  k12.vt.us
  k12.va.us
  k12.wa.us
  k12.wi.us
  // k12.wv.us  Bug 947705 - Removed at request of Verne Britton <verne@wvnet.edu>
  k12.wy.us

  // k12.hi.us  Bug 614565 - Hawaii has a state-wide DOE login

Best thing I’ve read today, and the first time I’d seen it too. Thanks!

Did you get this framework from somewhere you can refer me to? It’s facially intriguing and I’d like to see it more fully explored.

I naively expected this to be some kind of story about how Notepad++ secretly embeds the V8 JS engine for some obscure feature, and what the consequences were.

It’s not. Rather, it’s release notes for a new version (“v8”) that mention a new dark mode theme.

(Maybe the title should match the original casing of “v8” instead of “V8”?)