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smugmaon Show HN: I built an interactive cloth solver for Apple Vision Pro

My wife and I saw a Segway in Golden Gate Park yesterday, and I made a similar comment about it.

smugmaon Companies with return-to-office mandates face losing their most valuable workers

In the federal government, there are many ranks up to E15. In other industries, you need to move to management to make a decent living.

In large law firms, you’ve got a ~10 year path to partner or you usually move on.

Medicine is more extreme than tech. A few years after you complete your medical training, you’re a doctor with experience and you can just do that for the next 30-40 years.

Jiro dreams of sushi comes to mind.

smugmaon Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago

Paramount+ coming out with a two part documentary June 11 based on a book with the same name, How Music Got Free:

https://www.paramountpressexpress.com/paramount-plus/shows/h...

smugmaon Sotomayor writes 9-0 opinion supporting NRA in First Amendment case [pdf]

The ruling and comments make it seem like a pretty clear cut case.

How did the appeals court get it so wrong? Allegedly these are some of our best judicial minds that get elevated to the appeals courts, right?

smugmaon Nvidia is about to pass Apple in market cap

Profits even closer: 15b vs 24b

Nvidia has higher margins so it first need that much growth to become the world’s most profitable company.

smugmaon Companies with return-to-office mandates face losing their most valuable workers

In large tech companies, you might reach a terminal rank (ic5-6) before you’re 40. Total comp might be 400-500k, which is great but you’ve still got 10-20 years to retirement (Bay Area and Tahoe homes are expensive and if you enjoy your job you might not want to retire at 50).

So there may not be another promotion, and that’s freeing. You can focus on professional development free of concerns for looking good but grow in ways of interest to you.

smugmaon The Nonprofit Industrial Complex and the Corruption of the American City

Is this because of our high cost of housing, increased social support infrastructure for the homeless, or the temperate climate?

Yes.

smugmaon Writing a Unix clone in about a month

NachOS was developed at Berkeley and maintained at UW. Both are top-ranked CS programs. Undergraduates are expected to add features to the core OS e.g. virtual memory, not build it from scratch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Another_Completely_Heurist...

https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~tom/nachos/

smugmaon Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice

Exception: Parody is covered under the first amendment.

smugmaon Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice

She also won big against Disney. They backed down even though it appeared the contract was on their side. Iger apologized.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58757748.amp

smugmaon I'm Bearish OpenAI

I couldn’t read any more once I got to:

“Chipotle, an $87B company that makes food that you can easily make in your house“

I’ve made carnitas; it takes about six hours.

smugmaon LLM-generated code must not be committed without prior written approval by core

The story of the Therac25 is an important one. I first read it in college and re-read it every 5-10 years.

That said, I don’t think it’s a strong rebuttal to the arguments here. Context matters. Earlier poster mentioned they’d use it for a React front end but not a backend deletion.

Knowing the tool and the appropriateness of the tool in context is one of the lessons to be learned from the Therac 25 tragedy.

smugmaon Notes on Japan

I have a couple of Japanese friends who live in the US but goes back to Japan regularly (1-2 times a year).

They love Japan and have kept their Japanese citizenship, but all the rules and expectations were overbearing, so for them there are a lot of pros and cons to the two countries. And they call out that for foreigners, they get to see many of the pros but fewer of the cons.

smugmaon GPT-4o

One of the demos has the voice respond to everything sarcastically. If it can sound sarcastic it’s not a stretch to believe it can “hear” sarcasm.

smugmaon Google gave investors a $70B buyback,and laid off 12,000 people

I often hear and also tell people “take vacation when you want, we will work around it. Don’t work on vacation.” That’s the bare minimum, no gold star for that. But also “working the weekends should be the exception, not the norm.”

This seems normal at most FANGs/big companies. People also have a lot of choice around when to come in, leave, and have a hybrid in office policy. Where are the lies?

smugmaon Ask HN: Seeking ideas for preschool/school projects

Gobblet is a great game, ages 4- seems right. My 9 and 11 year olds still play occasionally.

Hive v Onitama, is Hive better for older kids or just more complex?

smugmaon Apple Joins the SeL4 Foundation

Amazon one-ups Apple in this regard.

smugmaon Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark'

What about the video makes you think it was CG?

smugmaon Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark'

I’ve seen a few comments about this. Is there any English page that documents this in more detail? I find it really interesting.

smugmaon Who Wants to Be a Thousandaire? (2011)

https://youtu.be/jgYYOUC10aM?si=rxaTsdV3kGpQM-SR

Hadn’t seen it, it’s well-executed.

smugmaon Unique volumes of Brothers Grimm fairy tales discovered in Poland

This is an excellent podcast for children (and adults!). It used to be season 1 was available on podcast platforms, seasons 2-4 required a subscription, which I’ve gotten both through Apple and Pinna (different years).

smugmaon My 25-year engineering career retrospective

From the article

* Enforce strict boundaries between work and personal life.

* Learn to decline tasks that could put these boundaries at risk.

smugmaon The darker side of being a doctor (2017)

A Physician’s Assistant (PA) is exactly that.

smugmaon Amazon ditches 'just walk out' checkouts at its grocery stores

Uniqlo (in Japan and at least in SF) has a cool checkout method.

You drop your clothes into a big bin (I’ve always done it one piece at a time, didn’t think to do all at once) and it adds up all your items. I’ve used this maybe 8 times, 100% accurate so far.

Not sure how it works but I guessed RFID and quick Google appears to confirm:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/uniqlos-parent-company-bets-big...

smugmaon Apple Turns to Longtime Steve Jobs Disciple to Defend Its 'Walled Garden'

https://archive.is/TX53x

smugmaon After Appalachian hospitals merged, their ERs became much slower

A few years ago my wife had a very high fever (105°). I took her to urgent care and they determined she was too sick snd needed to go to the ER. So we shrugged and went to the ER,’where she had to wait for 3 hours before she was given some more Advil and a cold compress (and tested for a few other things).

smugmaon U.S. Sues Apple, Alleges Tech Giant Exploits Illegal Monopoly

https://archive.is/OKal7

smugmaon Shave and a Haircut

… two bits!

smugmaon Apple Orders 'Neuromancer' Series

The Avatar creators got so frustrated with Netflix they left a year or two ago.

I think Apple gives a lot more free rein to its creators. For the Dr. Dre biopic they let it be made and then shelved it.

Another notable exception was they allegedly wouldn’t let Jon Stewart talk about China.

smugmaon BYD launches $15,000 EV

I bought a 2002 Corolla in 2011, gave it to a relative in 2019, who recently sold it for more than half what I paid 12 years prior.

Not 500k km but past 300k ie your point is spot on