skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow! These images are perfect for a coffee table book. The thin film interference colors are amazing!
It means they're hosed.

Urbit is on about the same level as the next Zoë Quinn game in terms of hype-to-actual-value-delivered ratio.
True, I still feel Boston Dynamics has lot of potential in future, But google just sold it.. I dont know why they dont want to have a loss making division with high revenue possibility in the future.
Why Apple wants to do that?

I mean, if use a tapped Intel chip can keep FBI and NSA away from their door step, they probably more than happy do to that.

Because at the end of the day, most people will only blame Intel, not them.
Every time I read something about Urbit I am reminded of the Lewis Padgett short sci-fi story, "Mimsy Were The Borogroves" [0], [1] describing children discovering alien future toys, and subsequently via use of those toys learning to manipulate reality in incomprehensible ways.

I still have not been able to figure out if there's actually something that amazing about Urbit, or if behind the obfuscated terminology there's nothing, and I am reluctant to commit to the time required to find out for myself. It doesn't help that people who spend time in that land seem to all forget how to speak about it except in the terms of Urbit, unable to translate it for laypeople. I suppose that's true about any highly technical subject though.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimsy_Were_the_Borogoves

[1]: https://books.google.com/books?id=yPVbDv5DqkoC&lpg=PA181&dq=...
Works great in Ireland. Although tbh 95% of my search is not for local stuff.
make sure you open in the full safari and not the in-app web view
The reality is that the average majority consumer would be so annoyed by such things that they would be ineffective. And at best most likely become trained just to hit YES.

Even as a technical user, my reaction to windows privilege escalation is pretty much just to smash yes.

Like all good things, there is a balance... and there will always be people keen to be more attuned to whats happening.
It's not just a matter of the space on disk to hold 32-bit libraries. They must also be loaded into memory if there are 32-bit processes running. This degrades performance system-wide, not just for the abandonware apps.
What isn't mentioned is the tooling. The Scala compiler and sbt are atrocious. If you move to Scala you'd better get the most massive machine you can find and be prepared to deal with the monstrosity that is sbt.
Wow, things got shady at booking.com since I last visited the site last year.
I think the functionality makes a lot of sense. But it sure would have been nice to indicate what’s going on in the UI somehow. Maybe not reuse the familiar icons to indicate a new thing? Or, totally crazy idea, labels!
This is the same thing that happens in Android by default.
Haven't heard about MINIX since the Linus and Tanenbaum debate!
turtles all the way down...
As a developer I want to opt out of app reviews too.

Sorry, I couldn't resist.
It just takes one troll leader to single you out for harassment. Usually they attack famous people but not always.
It's almost as if there's some mysterious third factor at play, above and beyond giving your customers what they want, and above making a profit.

What could it be? This mysterious additional factor.. What could make the US company with the biggest CPU market share in the world possibly want to put an omnipresent overlord control chip onboard every processor it ships? It's almost like there's some kind of outside force at play, but that's a crazy idea. There's No Simple Answer here, for sure.

What indeed, such a mystery! It's a mystery, I tells ya!
thats almost a worldwide exception
But one issue is that the quantity might not be a sellable SKU. Quite often in Blue Apron, I'll get a tiny amount of say, smoked paprika. A grocery store would sell that in a container containing many servings probably costing $5-$10.
Oh, great, your article gives me useful information and a fresh perspective on the subject.
http://uspstrackingmap.com/
If you like this article, the rest of Oleg's stuff on this style of embedded DSLs is also worth reading: http://okmij.org/ftp/tagless-final/index.html

One particularly cool (and surprising, to me at least) trick is defining interpreters that carry out composable optimization passes on a DSL without needing an intermediate representation: http://okmij.org/ftp/tagless-final/course/optimizations.html
This is a bad take. If your threat model has you concerned about people who follow you around and exploit your Wi-Fi firmware, you probably shouldn't ever have Wi-Fi on -- or maybe you shouldn't be using a smartphone.

For everyone else, the new behavior allows users to disconnect from bad Wi-Fi in Control Center while improving their battery life in case they forget to turn Wi-Fi back on.
...that expired upon death and could not be passed to heirs.
Oh, great, your article gives me useful information and a fresh perspective on the subject.
https://wingsio202.wordpress.com
I always feel like this contractor vs larger employee situation is weighted for early and late game.

As a contractor style, at the start it seems fun there are potential rewards, etc.. but you need to manage yourself a lot more, and there is less of a safety net or any kind of belonging.

As an employee style you are more of a robot at the start and have to submit to the company as it were, but later on you are looked after much better and there are teams within the company that can focus on efficiency and making life better, etc.

As someone who has a fairly split career in doing both I can fully understand the merits of both but I worry about the long term trajectory of the majority of people becoming independent as it were.
Why though? Is your connection that bad? I wouldn't want to use 100GB of precious SSD storage for something I can get instantly in the browser
Samsung already tried to have their own app market. It was terrible and failed. Other companies like RIM tried paying developers to port to their platform. It didn't make any difference.
Trevor. Thanks.
I appreciate some of these, but some I'm not sure I do for all of them. Just because they released something before everyone else doesn't mean there was real brilliance behind it --- do people really care that squeezing the phone is a new medium for interacting with it? (Maybe it's too early to tell for this one, but I have my doubts.)

First LTE phone: I'm not sure I see why this is "innovation" on its own; the LTE specs were known for years before LTE networks rolled out, and I don't think HTC made the low-level components that made it possible anyway (e.g., the filters). Not that it didn't require some new work, but I'm not sure the R&D dept. had to work hard on this one.

Low-MP camera: why is this important and/or innovative?

BoomSound: Is this really innovation? It didn't create much of a trend in the smartphone market, and it used off-the-shelf parts.

I don't know much about the 3d display unfortunately.

I should have been clearer with my comment though, and asked what they have done that have been impactful and clearly required a huge amount of expertise, i.e., things Google might be interested in.

As an example of something that might fit the sort of work I am thinking about is this: https://atap.google.com/soli/
I thought it meant that Google et al are all trying to solve the "pizza in San Francisco" problem (i.e. trying to find local businesses) and not trying to solve the problems that people are actually turning to maps for, because "pizza in San Francisco" is an obviously-monetizable problem.
He does mention that, yeah:

> The smaller the focal length of the external lens and bigger - of built-in camera's optics, the greater magnification is achieved, but less depth of field is obtained. Compact camera, with a sensor of small physical size, have an advantage over DSLRs in the depth of field and mobility, allowing you to take pictures quickly and easily change the location and shooting angle. But small sensor have much higher noise level.