skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"All tech, including wearable tech, used to be expected to last at least 10 years."

I think you have odd perspective here, because you're talking about tech lasting for a decade, but you're also explicitly omitting anything with a computer in it ("run an operating system").

"A 35 year old Commodore 64 is every bit as fun as it was when it first came out, and every bit as capable, but a piece of tech that's only 3.5 years old probably has a blinking jewel in the palm of its hand."

The hypothetical 35-year-old Commodore, however, can't do most of the things I ask my 3 year old laptop to do. Durability wasn't the issue; the rapidly increasing capability of newer and more capable computing platforms was.

We're at a point now where Moore's Law & related phenomena seem to have slowed a bit. Ten or fifteen years ago I always upgraded my laptop every 3 years. Now I can go longer, and typically only upgrade when there's a compelling reason (higher RAM ceiling, e.g., or external factors like the economics of extended service plans). Phones are the same; in the earlier years of the cell phone era, I got a new phone nearly every year because that meant smaller and more powerful and therefore more useful. In the Smartphone era, two years became the norm, and nowadays it's routine to see folks with 3 or even 4 year old phones.

The tl;dr is that there's no conspiracy or malignant intent here; it's just that shit gets better, and so the upgrade makes sense for most people. I mean, maybe you can get a 35-year-old Commodore running as a novelty, but I sure wouldn't want to try to do my job with one.
I see it as spreading the conversation to more people than are around the table. Plenty of conversation appears to be happening too. But that could be a cultural thing.
Are you ready to entrust your cyber security to AI?
It has to do with universal commodification. Check out Michael Walzer and 'Spheres of Justice.' He makes the case for a kind of 'complex equality' where power in one sphere doesn't bleed into another. Thus having a lot of money would allow you to buy fancy paintings and a nice car and typical commodities but when it comes to something like healthcare, we'd be better off if money couldn't be used to buy a better version of it. The easiest thing to make the case to be a separate sphere is education. Should a wealthy parent really be able to opt-out of public education and pay for a better one? Perhaps all of society would benefit if we put everyone 'on the same side' so to speak and the rich and poor alike had to advocate for improvements to the same universal system.
Apple has direct support for OpenCL. Why would you want to use a Metal wrapper instead?
We've gotten to a point where Europeans seem to be looking for anything to give them some minority culture status.

Just take pride in who and what you are and where you came from.
I mentioned there are exceptions to that and explicitly mentioned it is a law of averages rather than an absolute rule...which is basically your comment.
If you think that the problem that we have with inequality is that some people have jets and hot couples you are missing the point of the parent's post.

I couldn't care less that Mr.Rich have a jet, I care that Mr.Rich decide to mess with the political process in order to get more jets. I care that in the more advances societies of the world in the most rich period of history, there are people that struggle to get necessary health-care or a roof over their heads (probably because Mr.Rich is messing with the political process).

>>"Should the group, who by and large, has contributed more to the society not have proportionally more say?"

Of course they should. It's only that, probably, we have different views about who that group is.
There are any number of ways to approximate the soundwaves generated by particular instruments that work better than this.

There are also any number of ways to make cool new sounds, even using old tech. (My current favourite is Aparillo by SugarBytes, which uses FM but sounds absolutely amazing.)

This Google project seems to be a technology demonstrator made by people who seem curiously unaware of the domain they're trying to work in.

There is a lot of competition in this space and this project is doing nothing remotely new, including the ML element.

All of which might be forgivable if the sound was unbelievably awesome... but it isn't.
The title is a totally unreleated to the article as a whole. Really felt like a waste of my time to click on it.

Is there really so much value to wasting our time?
Where Warren Buffet would have landed if he was born in Afghanistan?

I have thought about this question a lot recently without any satisfaction.
Simple Drywall Repair for Beginners
It's okay to spoil something when the information might keep people from dying.
Research suggests that intelligence (which is difficult to define) is not better than being born into wealth.

Exhibit 1:

"intelligence is a powerful predictor of success but, on the whole, not an overwhelmingly better predictor than parental
SES or grades."

https://www.gwern.net/docs/iq/2007-strenze.pdf

Exhibit 2:

You can also look at measures of class mobility, which suggest that the rich are staying rich, and the poor poor, more so than they have in recent history.
Reason number 7 that the toy companies moved away from it
You can combine sine waves in an infinite number of ways, so I think it's safe to assume there are plenty of sounds nobody has ever heard before.

To some degree, it's about how you group things. If you believe a guitar and a banjo are similar enough to qualify as the "same" sound – then no, there's probably not too much left to discover. But if small subtleties in timbre are fair game, then there's basically a limitless supply of new sounds.
if that becomes the law, whoever wants to profit from user content can accomodate that particular piece better. The big ones will be stuck trying to accomodate the entire laws on massive databases for all use cases.
Bi-lateral electrocoagulation of the adrenal medulla
GraphQL abuse: Bypass account level permissions through parameter smuggling
I have my dad's Rolex. It's 40 years old. Works fine.

But it also ONLY tells the time and the date, and the date will be wrong if you don't stay on top of it because it doesn't know which months have 31 days and which are shorter.

It's super cool, though, that this object still works just as well as when it was new in 1978.

But I stopped wearing it (and my other mechanicals) all the time precisely because of their limited featureset vs. a good and attractive smartwatch.
It might be only tangentially related to your point, but there are Slack API-based clients for [emacs][1] and [weechat][2].

So screen-reader usability is still a thing. The fact it's not using a proper standard open protocol is a problem.

[1]: https://github.com/yuya373/emacs-slack

[2]: https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack
I agree with you generally, but the Series 0 is borderline unusable for third party apps. I had one and returned it. It honestly should probably not even have allowed third party apps given how painfully slow it was. I also suspect that most folks who still use one don't even use third party apps. Support for it should be dropped, but now that the watch is at a decent level of performance, support timelines should increase.
Styles have been best practice in Word too for decades. And in current versions the styles portion is like half of the default "home" ribbon, with big buttons and fancy live previews and all, so you can't really argue that they would be especially hidden in the UI.

Still, it is true that your average Word user still typically produces fairly horrible documents. Why is that?

I suspect that large part comes from that they have been thrown in front of Word with very little guidance or training, because "everyone knows how to use Word", and they then just struggle on, occasionally googling and finding equally bad hints that they are unable to recognize as such because they don't know the fundamentals. Despite of its appreances Word is actually fairly complex (probably too much so for its own good) software.

Another big part, especially in corporate environment, is that "templates" that people are supposed to use are almost universally horrible. Either the concrete template files are bad, or the users are given some other document and told to make theirs look the same, which typically won't end well due aforementioned reasons.

Sure, Word also has true issues in this area too, but lot of the problems are cultural, and of course there is a feedback thing going on also that bad practices fester more bad practices and sort of also suppresses MS from radically improvong the situation.
I think it's actually rather impressive that a plastic moulding process only leaves 10x100um flakes of plastic.
Researchers Who Found AMD CPU Flaws Explain Chaotic Disclosure
Title should point out this is the antitrust regulator, not tax or securities regulators.
https://www.facebook.com/gymatic/
This worries me as I have a Win 10 computer in a house that runs off a mifi Hotspot. If windows blows through my monthly bandwidth with and unwanted undate, I'm gonna be very annoyed.
It needs EVIL for us vim users.
Thanks, that doesn't appear to have an API though. In any case, I think Wikidata is kept relatively up-to-date, and I'd warmly recommend people to use and contribute to that :)
I'm interested in comparing your perspective with the people in favor of ethnicity-based political states.

I imagine they want a future where their genes carry on while you are interested in "knowledge that lasts"

You could say they are gene-centric and you are meme-centric?

Of two futures, which would you prefer?

1. Where your descendants/relatives are alive but have little in common with your values (eg compare bronze age to now)

2. You have no genetic descendants/relatives but whatever exists (robots, aliens, planet of the apes) shares your value system.
Depressing... Or hilarious?
Yes, you can store music on the watch and thereby go for a run without taking your phone.
Not providing a new WatchOS update doesn’t mean the watch stops working.

Non Smart Watches stop getting updates the moment they are manufactured. Apple Watches getting updates for 3 years, is good enough.

I’m saying this as someone who uses Watch Series 0 everyday.

Any more updates to this old watch and it’ll only get slower.

From a developer perspective also, there’s no point supporting such an old device when it wasn’t built for anything more than the current functionality.

For the price of a Rolex or an Omega, you can ‘probably’ buy a new Apple Watch every 3 years, for the rest of your life. It’s a personal choice.
Suggestions like this makes me feel very comfortable in voting on a EU-negative political party. In am in general EU-positive, but they have too much say in random things like this.

The EU should not be able to dictate things like this.
Although I agree with you on the principles, I regard this as the constitutional equivalent of refactoring: it’s a part of the system that smells fishy and was written on punched cards, but it works and there are always more important problems to solve.

Also, there is so much more that also needs to be refactored…
Perception of time varies a lot with age. When you are 10 years old, 2 years is enormous. When you are 40, it is yesterday.
> "don't spend money on stupid things" is more class signaling than financial advance.

If it weren’t for the sneering tone of the GP, the advice could have been meant as “don’t buy transient things that are beyond your means”
Yes, it is unfortunate that so many use computer-shaped devices but only a very small number actually do computing. The rise of point-and-click has done a really good job of hiding the possibilities from people. Eben Moglen likened point-and-click to a "caveman interface" where your only options are pointing and grunting, as opposed to using language to communicate your ideas. Only programmers do the latter but that is a shame.
I'm not sure your comment is really adding anything here. Are you?
Were you ever a kid? Toys are one of the things that you need right now even though you don't really need it right now.
Most humans who attempt to translate are not actually translators in the proper sense. Specifically, they are not fully competent in both the source and target language and usually have no formal training in translation. Translation is hard, but there are competent people out there who do it extremely well. Sadly, as an industry it's not taken as seriously as it should be, and most of the people who are actually doing translations do not have the appropriate skill set.
Would LaTex hyphenate “Mi- crosoft”. It struck me as particularly ugly.
> Is it possible to store music for offline playback on the Watch and pair it with your Airpods for listening on the go?

Yes, and not only that but you can also stream Apple Music over LTE as well.
Even when it comes to electronic music, most of the stunning new sounds we come across are achieved by hacking or tweaking simple systems : over use of compressor, overuse of LFO for dubstep basses, bitcrushing, use of half defective samplers producing slightly out of tune sound, prepared pianos...
Bruce Schneier put it best: "It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics." It's become very clear that we can't trust these people with our privacy - we need technological solutions that don't give them the option.
Are you able to say what lock you got? Would be interested in getting a decent one.
Commercial Common Lisps like LispWorks and Allegro have relatively good native GUI support.
Maybe for now, but it's looking increasingly possible that the EU won't be around or will be significantly diminished in the relatively near future. Salvini becoming PM in Italy would likely accelerate this a lot.
I will cede that there are non-hostile areas where Python 2 could run forever. The same sort of environments where FORTRAN have rumbled on forever. And I agree that there are other hostile environments where some organisations have completely the wrong priorities. Desktops and networks and traffic management rarely seem to be perfect.

But on Python, I think many people underappreciate the attack surface. Just because it's not a server doesn't mean you can't feed it a malformed JPEG, or funky bytestring that causes it to blow up and spawn shells. It's a similar problem to PHP in that python includes so many batteries, it's trivial for attackers to branch out.

And much of this frustration —which leads to the strength of language— is that we bump into clients and clients' developers who proudly announce they're running a stack 4 years out of date. It's stupid the number of times I've had to explain why this is a bad idea. I've even had to demonstrate deep hacks (with permission, and remuneration) to clients who think they're immune "because Linux" or whatever. Basically they didn't want to pay their technical debt until they can see a 12yo Ukrainian (not important) kid could destroy their whole company.
Pecking out the ASCII tokens and punctuation of mainstream languages isn't a 'high-level' experience either.

Syntax is way down the list of difficult things in the craft of programming, compared to properly understanding problem domains, internalising techniques for robustness, etc.
Good question! It's a State's Rights thing: the federal government doesn't have arbitrary control over the states. The federal government can only force the states to adopt regulation if it's for a constitutionally-defined reason. In this case, using the Treaty Clause
I’m still using my mid 2013 i7 13” air as my main dev driver. only thing that really holds me back is the 8gb ram. I’ve worked around that by grabbing a cheap i5 pc which I run my work vm on and ssh into it etc
Sensory-overload crap is not what the consumers of 2018 go for?
Waymo shows off what it’s like to ride in a truly driverless self-driving car
Lily Drone files for IPO
If you really don't know where to begin, poke around on amnesty.org, which has reports on various countries. You'll be able to get more information on any given story or situation by using google.
Microsoft Connect has been retired
> - Each agent begins with an identical amount of capital. -- nothing like the real world.

Not relevant. Part of the main point was that even in the case of equal opportunity/equal starting points, bad luck readily overcomes talent, good luck rewards even the less talented, and so talent isn't any kind of guarantee, contra many people's claims.

> - Every 6 months you have the possibility of doubling or halving your capital. -- nothing like the real world.

I don't think this is relevant either. You can pick any progression you want and it won't affect the final results. The point is to simulate regular opportunities of dramatically increasing one's wealth. So again, even when faced with equal opportunity, dramatic wealth inequality just due to luck seems inevitable.

> - Chance of doubling capital is proportional to talent. -- nothing like the real world.

The claim that wealth is proportional to "talent" is widely believed. This paper puts it to the test and refutes it. That's one of the main points.

> In my experience people seem to move a little bit up or down from their baseline, but I have never personally seen a swing from rags to riches or the other way around.

I addressed this in the post you replied to: small swings up and down are probably wage-driven. This doesn't explain wealth disparity, because dramatic swings in wealth will largely not be wage-driven. These events thus aren't of interest.

> If they had begun by drawing parallels to the ways in which we see the real world and letting the model simulate it into the future it would be more compelling.

Not as easy as you think. We have no idea what factors are involved. That's why we study models, and see how closely the results match with reality. That then gives us insight into how some parts of reality might work.
I bought one in April of 2016, which I guess was S0 or S1.

In November, I upgraded to an S3. The differences that matter to me:

* It's MUCH faster.

* Battery life is substantially improved. If I forgot to charge my old one, it would run down during day 2. This one can go 2 days with no problem.

* It's actually waterproof.

* Cell connectivity is surprisingly useful.
Really slick. Kudos.
I'm not sure what to tell you, people who have built organizations that employee thousands of people have contributed more to society than average. If that needs further justification then I'm not even sure how to respond to that.

You're reading things into what I'm saying - if Elon Musk raises a campaign fundraiser for his favorite candidate, do I mind that? Do I mind him having more "power" in that people listen to his twitter account over joe schmo? Not at all. Is he colluding with other executives to fix automative prices and then pressuring his candidate to change regulations as a favor when they're elected? Yes. That makes me a "plutocracy supporter"?
My setup:

1) I have cmark installed

2) https://github.com/nathanl/.dotfiles/blob/master/bin/md_prev... is a script to render STDIN to HTML and slap the output into the middle of a template that has some basic CSS (https://github.com/nathanl/.dotfiles/blob/master/bin/md_prev...)

3) I write markdown in Vim and use keybindings to say "now output HTML from this buffer" - https://github.com/nathanl/.dotfiles/blob/ede8c98a7897ee07b7...

I like this mainly because it lets me use Vim, which for me is the most efficient tool for wrangling text. I also like avoiding WISYWIG programs that I previously fought with - eg, trying to get Word to understand which bullet points I wanted nested under which other ones was frustrating, but with markdown (and embedded HTML when necessary) I can be 100% explicit.

Sometimes I copy-paste the resulting HTML into Google Docs or elsewhere and do further tweaks, but most of the time it's enough for me as-is.
Nice while it's lasting, anyway.
I'm not sure the hardware/software analogy is useful. It's more like DNA is source code with a bunch of if statements that depend on the chemical environment the cell is in.
Which is why you need a formal political process! If everyone already agreed on everything then there wouldn't be much point
I don't think I'd ever hear a non white say they are disappointed with being 100% what they are, be they Asian, Black, etc. Maybe there are, I've never home across them, but a few whites have this tendency to wish for having "interesting" ancestry like sen. Warren.

It's something odd. As if they are somewhat uncomfortable on their own skin. Shame is the wrong word, but i can't find the right descriptor. On the other hand, i think this points to social pressures that make people feel that way about themselves.
Heh, I was observing this same effect a couple of weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16469184
NAND to Tetris[0] has similar goals, but is probably significantly different in terms of implementation that it's only helpful to explain the concepts.

[0]: http://nand2tetris.org/
How is the original headline, "A Cyberattack in Saudi Arabia Had a Deadly Goal. Experts Fear Another Try", clickbait?

According to the article, investigators believe the explosion would have killed people, and notes that fatalities are a common outcome of chemical plant explosions.

Most cyber attacks just inconvenience people, or cost a little bit of money. If they can kill, it is a tertiary or more remote effect.

That this one was trying to do something that had it succeeded would have very directly and immediately led to deaths is what makes it interesting to a wider audience.
Oh sure, there are plenty of people that are openly genuinely trying to overturn the vote.

But arguments that the referendum vote for the five words "Leave the European Union" obliges the Lords to reject a policy of prioritising British citizens' rights in the EU post-withdrawal as a negotiation objective could be used as a defining example of laundering policies omitted from the actually voted upon text. Parliamentary bodies imposing conditions on the negotiation process is entirely compatible with the referendum vote and the standard democratic decision making process in the UK, and representatives' votes on them should be determined by whether they think the conditions are reasonable, not by any attempt to infer additional meaning from the five words of the prevailing referendum option.