skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In our own work—being computer scientists ourselves—we’ve been frequently humbled by our social and behavioral science collaborators. " this part rings truer than any other phrase in the whole thing.
When there is a gold rush, sell picks and shovels, it seems.
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It's a real book.
Sure, fearing overvaluation (i.e. too high price-to-earnings ratio) of stock markets, people will switch to an asset where the "earnings" part is zero by design. Sorry, but I would rather place my bets on real estate or dividend stocks (reasonably P/E'd stocks to be more precise).
I've heard it said that the greatest minds of our generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. However, I feel like the greatest minds of our generation are spent trying to figure out how to enable people to build Linux software on OSX. Whether it is:

* a convoluted process involving Vagrant, Docker, or both, because you depend on one or more pieces of software that don't run at all on OSX, including Docker itself.

* slogging through bugs specific to services running on OSX because they really only support Linux well, such as Cassandra or Kafka, or even MySQL.

* Getting shells scripts that work reliably on both OSX and Linux, especially as the tools used to do so break backwards compatibility, either by Apple itself or by 3rd party tools like HomeBrew.

* Getting a consistent development environment at all on OSX. Doing so seems to be much easier on a Linux distribution than on OSX.

And that's not even talking about general issues like:

* incredibly flaky bluetooth drivers, often requiring a full restart to fix, if not having to reset some weird hardware bit.

* My laptop randomly not waking up properly from sleep and requiring a restart.

* My laptop randomly beach-balling more often than I ever saw BSoDs on windows.

* OSX seeming to just run really slowly compared to Linux whenever it is stressed in any meaningful way.

* My laptop's wifi not working with random wifi endpoints, such as at the airport or hotel. Whether it's router software bugs or OSX bugs, I am always able to connect just fine on my windows laptop.

* Having to deal with OSX's incredibly outdated userland and its BSD-specific userland. Yes, there are workarounds, but they are generally a pain to figure out and have not been standardized in our environment in any way.

* For a few months my OSX terminal was SEG-faulting about twice a week. I learned to be very grateful for screen/tmux during that time. At some point Apple seemed to fix it, at least.

At $lastjob we were actually developing a Linux service that relied heavily on Linux APIs because it was essentially creating full-on Linux containers like Docker. Before I joined, the previous developers, all big apple fans, were actually going through the tremendous effort of trying to make the service at least build and run on OSX, even if it no-oped most of the things it did.

When I joined, one of my first acts was to completely remove OSX support for this service, and I promise you that life got way easier ever since. Our development processes got simpler. Our build system got simpler. And most of all, our source code got simpler and easier to read.

Granted, most of us aren't developing software that directly calls into Linux APIs, but even then I think you'll find huge productivity wins if you just use a Linux laptop or desktop, assuming everything else is equal.
geekbench scores look impressive because they are very very short bursts to prevent power/thermal throttling on iphones, iphones are able to scale up/down preformance wise very quickly, x86 CPUs less so, so what is really being tested is how fast can a cpu jump from idle to full speed.

Geekbench is not at all a reliable benchmark that tells you anything about real preformance.

Its a total farce to suggest that a CPU with a power budget that is 10x to 20x larger, on a modern process, with modern archtecture is somehow just as fast or slower.
Seconded. 2560x1440 on a 27" panel is only 109 pixels per inch. I use a ThinkPad with that same resolution on a 14" display, with a 24" 4K UHD next to it in portrait mode.

Both displays are around 200 pixels per inch, plus or minus. It's great not having to see the pixels, so much more pleasant and easy on the eyes.

Also the combination of a portrait display with the landscape display is really nice. I can read an entire PDF page without scrolling.
As usual, a lot of the innovation you probably take for granted happens through side channels, user-favouring features that would never appear unless they can be "unauthorized" add-ons. Like ad blocking. I understand that some people value convenience above all else, but maybe you never experienced the bad old days when everything was locked down. It's good that Apple still has competition and others are conscious of what might happen.
The stock market is not "the economy". Ultimately AMZN's price will be reconciled with it's earnings. It's possible that future earnings will be affected by higher shipping costs, but if the USPS is being too generous (I have no idea) then everyone except AMZN is a winner if a better deal is negotiated.
Does he accept bitcoin?
You've staked out a reasonable position here. But the Hoteliers' cartel doesn't share your position. In public they're careful to say things such as they only want the Hotel Fire Safety Act to be applied evenly, but in practice they're all too happy to push laws and regs design to kill all short term rentals by enforcing maximal regs on them. Take Tennessee, for example, where sympathetic authorities have declared that all short term rentals must be equipped with fire sprinklers [https://www.memphisdailynews.com/news/2015/jan/3/cities-acro...]. There's likely a lot more of this nonsense to come.
Shouldn't the patents be expired by then?
> Is there a better example?

No one is perfect, but I think Reddit is better.

At least they are transparent, i.e. unlike Facebook, Snapchat or Twitter they aren’t afraid to talk to journalists about their content filtering: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/19/reddit-and-the...
Something I don’t quite understand, coming from a scripting-language bqckground: why are you using your OS’s provided compiler toolchain (for anything other than building OS packages for distribution?) Is there no version manager for clang the way there is for e.g. Rust?
The problem is that Apple’s focus on this distracts from the software that defines the user experience. The MacOS ecosystem is both beautiful and deeply troubled.
Can you explain what you mean? I'm reading it that you think this is as low as it is going for the moment, but could easily be wrong.
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Probably correct. Apple could easily purchase AMD and also get the video card tech from ATI which they seem to favor on their desktop machines.
IIRC, their dual mandate is:

"Price stability": sounds like no inflation or deflation to me, but in fact they pursue some non-zero amount of inflation, usually 2-3%.

"Full employment": sounds like 0% unemployment to me, but in fact they target some non-zero value, around 5% I think.

Targeting equity prices or other asset prices is not officially within their mandates, but given their behavior at times (e.g. suddenly dropping dovish comments when the market drops), one might start to think this is a de facto or shadow mandate. :)

I think worrying about the price of the dollar is closely related to the level of inflation or uh "price stability" they are aiming for.
Another interpretation is that the crypto mania is evidence of huge unmet demand for the types of investment profile that are largely unavailable to non accredited investors. If regular investors had access to more (possibly less risky) such investments perhaps the demand for crypto investments wouldn't have been so great.
Patent troll who demanded $35k from Clicker Heroes is now accusing them of libel
The point being that AGI is at least 50 years and probably 200 years or more away.

It is such a distant threat and yet such a focus, and all the while we sit in our lovely apartments 40 minutes from nuclear incineration.
Except, like, all the games.
I turned a spare bedroom into a home gym with a treadmill and elliptical.

We just moved into our house a little over a year ago. I'll be adding adjustable dumbbells and a rower soknisg.

I also put my health above everything else - including my family and my job.

If I'm not healthy, I'm no good to my family.

I don't eat well balanced meals like I should, but I eat unhealthy foods in moderation or not at all.
The current A11 chip is faster single-core than the current MacBook Pro.

The Intel chip you mention isn't in any Apple machine at all. (Except maybe the iMac Pro? Is it even in that?) So you be real. I don't think you've actually looked at the benchmarks. You should do so. I think you'll be shocked at just how much overlap there is, just like I was.
Turbolinks for native app
This specific issue has nothing to do with Trump.

For at LEAST the last 20 years, I've heard of people complain about "Trade Deficits" and the perils of "Globalization". Sure, Trump is an anti-globalist. But so are a TON of other people. My statements are aimed at anti-globalists in general.

> And if you don't believe that's the case, I'll go spend a day in rural West Virginia with you and show you first hand.

Indeed. And I've spent a week in rural Washington (Spokane). The town was decimated after a lumber mill closing, and tons of people were on welfare. Trust me dude, I've seen it myself. HUGE stretches of areas where the ONLY revenue source are Native American casinos and/or military bases, with closed down factories overlooking hills. There were some successful farmland, but that's not enough to sustain the economy of the population.

Now explain to me how raising Aluminum / Steel prices is going to improve the position of towns like this? Explain to me why a trade war with China / Europe / Other countries helps at all?

China just increased tariffs on Pork, Wine, dried fruits and nuts: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/04/02/598870076/wh...

Good luck rust-belt / heartland. The trade war is coming. A good chunk of the rural folks have been wanting this for years. If Trump wasn't going to be elected last year, it'd only be a matter of time before some other "anti-globalist" came into power.

Unfortunately for the rural folks: they're the ones who depend most heavily on exports AND imports. Increase costs of steel and aluminum makes manufacturing more difficult. Sure, it helps the US Steel industry, but there are FAR more rural towns out there who rely upon cheap steel prices for the meager manufacturing that they already have. And obviously, if China stops buying Pork / Fruits / Wine / etc. etc. from American farmers, then those farmers are going to get hurt.

Its obviously lose/lose if you give it some thought. Alas, too many people are focused on the "Trade Deficit" to even care.
I created https://github.com/google/bloaty/issues/110 to track this. I'll try to find time to clean up the patch, but no promises. Lets continue the discussion in the GH issue.
Like, say, directing the Justice Department to launch antitrust proceedings against Amazon.

I'm not saying that the Justice Department would take the case to court (still less that they would win). But the stock market may care about such possibilities, because if they happened, Amazon's share price would take a hit - a bigger hit than it takes just from Trump whining about them.
Not if you want to do it better than the competition. We already have a zillion radio chips that all do about the same thing. If Apple (or any other company) wanted to be 'better', building a better design to do the thing in a better way (think efficiency, power, speed etc.) would give a unique advantage that cannot easily be copied by a competitor. Same goes for the RTOS (or lack thereof) that you need to run those. For some implementations, a softMAC vs. fullMAC makes sense.
The problem Apple had with Motorola was that Motorola couldn't get the chip yields they needed at high clock rates.

The problem Apple had with IBM was that IBM didn't care enough about power efficiency to make the chips viable in laptops. They also weren't that interested in fast iterations of incremental improvements.

When the G4 first game out, it was far, far ahead of x86. Apple offered it at 350, 400 and 450 MHz but shipped maybe a few hundred or a few thousand at 450 MHz and a few tens of thousands at 400 MHz. Those computers blew the Pentium out of the water. Intel eventually caught up and passed them purely on manufacturing ability.

Then the G5 came out, which was a beast of a processor. But it never came out for mobile, and IBM only upgraded the speed once or twice before Apple went for Intel.
So did this not happen during the Obama administrations because Obama didn't have verbal diarrhea?
Unfortunately for this hypothesis the current facebook nudity policy is full of intent checks and subjective criteria: https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards#nudity

"We also restrict some images of female breasts if they include the nipple, but our intent is to allow images that are shared for medical or health purposes. We also allow photos of women actively engaged in breastfeeding or showing breasts with post-mastectomy scarring. We also allow photographs of paintings, sculptures, and other art that depicts nude figures. Restrictions on the display of sexual activity also apply to digitally created content unless the content is posted for educational, humorous, or satirical purposes"
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Interesting observation. It has never occurred to me until I read your comment that something could be better after translation than in the original.
> The fleetwide maintenance is the issue, not stability.

From the medium to enterprise range, maintenance and stability issues are often one in the same. Breaking automated maintenance and/or deployment leads to instability.

Keep in mind I don't mean "kernel panic" levels of instability or even "programs crashing" levels of instability. The smallest of changes can cause a mountain of work in large environments. Simply changing the icon of an often used program can cause a deluge of tickets.

This level of stability and control is something that macOS doesn't even come close to recognizing.
Or.. they could save a couple of hundred million a year by moving off of GCE/AWS into their own infrastructure... ( they have an insane $500M commit for both of these cloud providers.. higher than the $400M that all of google spent on infra in 2012 )

It's amazing that at their scale, they are still mostly in GCE. They are easily an order of magnitude larger than netflix, and at least netflix is smart enough to have built their own CDN.
I am curious who/what administration is impressed by publications in predatory journals when listed on a researcher's CV.

P.S. Jeffrey Beall kept a list of predatory publishers but was shut down.

> In January 2017, Beall shut down his blog and removed all its content, citing pressure from his employer.[] Beall's supervisor wrote a response stating that he did not pressure Beall to discontinue his work, or threaten his employment; and had tried hard to support Beall's academic freedom.[]
Many charging circuits in larger systems like vehicles do allow setting a limit below the theoretical maximum charge to preserve the battery's health.
Options to do this exist in laptops, but mostly just on enterprisey, higher-end models, are not set by default and not very well known.
I’d argue that a very large part of the high valuation and low volatility (until February) of stocks was because of low rates and money printing. Once that goes away, the economy may or may not tank but you would expect stocks to be at least volatile, if not to drop mechanically.
Don't know what you did wrong, but you should be able to catch exceptions at their appropriate level and shut down gracefully.
Even browsers are doing a better job of loading multiple cores now and desktop machines often have more processes running in the background.
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It’s kind of funny to compare Linux vs. macOS if your experience of macOS primarily comes from using a Hackintosh. (No sleep/wake support for me! Unplugging my HDMI cable causes a hard-reboot! Etc.)

Which is to say: Linux is pretty good on Macs, whereas macOS is pretty broken (after weeks of intense debugging with other Hackintosh folks) on hardware that would run Linux just fine.
You go through some mental gymnastics to make it seem like #3 is only possible for open source.

Look - Apple or any other vendor isn't beholden to one CPU architecture. Such expectations breed monopolies - like Intel in PC CPUs.

None of your arguments prove that Apple is fucking over customers or developers. If anything, this opens up the market for newer, more nimble companies that'll fill the gaps left by slow moving, irrelevant apps/software.

Cheers
Assuming Spectrum is your ISP, wow. Just wow, that's impressive. On Spectrum's part I mean.
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Interesting. I should have written that was my experience. Anxiety isn't something I typically experience unless I've drank too much coffee or, when I was a regular smoker, needed a cigarette.

I take it you're a non-smoker now. I wonder how a vape would affect that.
Efficacy?? Lol
I guess time will tell.
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It happened under the Obama administration. In fact, Mr. Obama demonstrated how it could be a weapon for good.

Mr. Obama encouraged taxes to benefit solar-manufacturers and electric car companies. This caused those stocks to go up, and investments into green-energy to flourish. Sure, there were some failures (see Solyndra), but I think it was overall a net-benefit to the USA.

We're now manufacturing advanced Solar Panels that are better than a lot of other countries (although China is still manufacturing them cheaper...). And Tesla greatly benefited from the tax-break on electric cars.

That's the sort of thing a President is SUPPOSED to do: use his powers to lead the nation. Trump is using his powers to turn us against each other.
emulating x86 on ARM with any kind of real preformanceis additionally tricky because the x86 archetechure has very strong memory gaurentees (dosent matter if memory is aligned, dosent matter when in the instruction pipeline you access it, etc) that ARM isnt even close to matching.

Emulating that requires a massive performance hit, because you essentially have to check every single memory access to make sure its not doing something invalid on ARM.