skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree that there is a lot of hype around data as an asset/product, I think the author's being a little glib about its value. Clearly, in the current moment, targeted advertising is a huge trend, and I'm a little curious at which point the author thinks this will settle down. In the past few years all of the major tech giants have rode a wave of "data is power" to the top of the market, while companies who have struggled to do so effectively have fallen comparatively short. Targeted advertising has been shown in many studies to be more effective than traditional marketing and as a practice it necessitates the collection of large amounts of personal data.

And sure, there are costs to leaking personal data and then getting sued, but a lot of companies anonymize their data as a practice AND can't really be held accountable to consumers AND even if you do get sued, it's likely not enough to put a company like Google or Facebook anywhere close to going out of business.

It's reasonable to suggest that there will be some kind of government intervention into specific practices surrounding data acquisition, but I think a full overhaul or ban on personal data collection is unlikely: the moneyed interests simply value this data too much to allow for (American) politicians to disrupt its influence on their stock portfolios. Couple this with Congress's inability to act on numerous problems it faces and the fact that most current Congressmen and women (and their constituents) really don't consider this a top-tier issue and you've got a whole lot of reason for things not to change course. For data to become a real "toxic asset" there needs to be a dramatic sea change - it's not as much of an inevitability as the author suggests.
Don't forget Rob Attorri! He wasn't an engineer, but he was there from day one (cofounded with Chris)!
Years ago, I was assigned to clean up an office building that had recently been vacated by a government cybersecurity contractor. While throwing away all the trash that had been left behind I discovered a binder that had at least a hundred pages of print outs from mapquest with the location of the panera bread on each circled in pen.
I guess from a business point of view it makes sense, but I really get frustrated when I find an open source project that's completely unbuildable on Windows.

Maybe the developer in question would have been better using a manually created VM or WSL?
I don't really get that you can run X windows to work on your end server and you can set up local tools to work direct MySqlWorkBench for example.
I added some comments for you above.
I apologize for being an ignorant for so many years but... who is the OpenBSD target audience? In which areas it is the most popular OS? I worked with Windows, GNU/Linux and macOS (OSX) but never tried OpenBSD.
Don’t forget, “We’re sorry,” “We’ll do better,” and my personal favorite, “Trust us!”

I’d prefer crippling fines.
but the question would be:

will apple up the battery requirements for their own cpu/gpu, or would they simply drop battery while striving for a thinner laptop?

this from someone who's been buying/using Macs for a long time - I'd love to see some very fast arm competition, but is that what it'd really turn out to be?
> Linux distros are by far the best environment for a computer scientists - made by developers, for developers - but there's no major vendor that sells machines with Linux pre-installed and supported, and getting Linux installed on the newest Surface or Dell toy is often a challenge that gets many frustrated.

Is there any reason why something like the various Dell machines preloaded with Ubuntu or RHEL wouldn't count?
> Could you be more concrete about how you would like other fields to contribute?

In the world of fair machine learning, "What are the right criteria for fairness under [set of circumstances]?" is usually not easily answerable, and I don't think we'll find satisfactory answers without more involvement from non-CS researchers -- both people in economics, law, and the humanities who are sort of generally concerned with fairness in society, and people who know a lot about specific domains where systems are being deployed. This in particular seems like an issue of "machine behavior" as described in the article.

With regards to transparency/explainability of models, there's a problem of making sure the "explanation" is actually useful and intuitive to the user, where psychologists (and HCI people who are already in CS depts) may have a lot to contribute.

In both cases there is a little ad hoc communication and there ought to be more.

> I don't really agree. You don't need to know how electricity works to study its societal effects, and the societal change from electricity-augmented manufacturing is a completely different problem to the health and safety regulation of indoor sockets.

I think electricity is not the best analogy, because it has a really subtle theory that few people understand, but we're so familiar with its use that many of its interesting properties are too obvious to see. It's also not at all autonomous -- it is often fruitful to think of a specific machine learning system as an agent, whereas this doesn't make much sense for electricity. Most importantly, I think it's just broader and more general than machine learning (trivially so!).

> The same is true for AI. You don't need to know what backpropagation is to work on the long-term ramifications of automated warfare, and that in turn is a largely irrelevant discussion for someone figuring out whether a company's hiring algorithms are racially biased.

The commonality here is you care about understanding or predicting the empirical behavior of machine learning systems interacting with the real world, especially with humans. ("Long-term ramifications of automated warfare" might not qualify, but I think medium-term ramifications certainly could.)

I don't think CS researchers are trained or particularly interested in empirical studies of human behavior, the stock market, etc., nor should they be, so somebody else will have to help. That somebody had better know enough about CS to be able to collaborate with actual CS researchers, though, or the results are going to be poor.
>So, this explains the creepy video I saw over the weekend, of numerous news stations reciting the same canned speech, verbatim.

Local news stations receive packages and content with scripts pre-written from national networks and other sources all the time. It's not a conspiracy, and it shouldn't cast doubt on the truthfulness of a story.

Television news is a scripted medium, and most stations don't have the time or talent to write a completely unique script for every newscast from scratch.
Is there anything stopping you using a separate sshd to run on a different port? Or using one from homebrew instead of Apple's bundled one?
If they get credit for the Arab Spring, they should get credit for this, too. This is not solving a problem, this is a part of understanding how the world is changing and what is contributing to it.

If we don't identify and understand what is going on, we won't have an informed response.
I like this differentiation. Early on in the 3d printer craze I would often say "A lot of people are building 3D printers but only a few people are engineering them." which was much the same argument. When you "engineer" a thing you do so understanding the constraints and design it to reliably within those constraints. When you just build something, as soon as it works once you're done.
IIRC Windows games already sucked on Mac hardware, even booting natively.
I find setting up the toolchain for Javascript projects to be an exercise in torture, toil and tears, so it's not quite as simple as all that.

Meanwhile I can get to a running Spring Boot app in quite literally seconds.

The difference is that I know something about Spring Boot and much less about Node. That says nothing about either of them.
AMP is not about preloading in the first place. It's about the fast CDN. Let's compare any NYT article in the AMP and standard HTML formats: https://www.webpagetest.org/video/view.php?id=180402_16d7083... - AMP loads much much faster.
This isn't how I see it at all.

In my view, there's a price that correctly prices in all information that's knowable. Note that each individual may have his own version of this price, which is why buying and selling takes place. "Market efficiency" just means if I think it's worth 5 and you think it's worth 10, and we're participating equally in the market, the price will be 7.5. It does not mean one of us is necessarily not right and the other not wrong. If the market price is 7, but I have better information that makes be believe it's worth 10, I'm right, the market is wrong. Efficiency just means everything is aggregated properly and all opinions are priced in.

In the long term, we all know stocks are driven by both macro and company fundamentals, stuff like GDP growth, earnings, margins, revenue, free cash, etc. But there's also a short-term view that drives prices day-to-day. I think Peter Lynch was right, that short-term movements are more like a "voting machine" driven by news, hype, perception, and a lot of other things. While short-term pricing is unpredictable, I don't think it can properly be called "random" in the sense of a coin toss, or dice roll. It may be hard to predict, but it does feel that there's a definite cause and effect to things. In the case of Tesla, you may not know that they were going to release news of a crash, but it's a pretty safe bet that once that news is released, it's going to depress prices. It's not hard to see why, market participants are human, they do things for reasons, though those reasons may not be well-informed, predictable, or otherwise rational.

What's interesting is how these two views--the short and long-term ones--equilibriate/converge over time. Empirically, I've observed it's usually some sort of "event", whether an earnings release, or a news item, or a job report, that causes this equilibriation process to kick off. All of a sudden, some good or bad news item breaks, and the market "overreacts" (positively or negatively). I find this really interesting.
OS as a gatekeeper is still present in a lot of corporate stuff. You'd be amazed the number of people who are still running IE because of one reporting package or what not.

That said there is no reason in 2020 they couldn't dual boot to MS's Windows ARM which is already shipping supports 32 bit x86 apps and should be polished enough to do legacy to the limited degree most users need.

I have to say this isn't how I expected Intel to go down. It is basically microcomputers killing minicomputers all over again (which was before my time, TBH).
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It seems that my post was pretty much ignored - unfortunately. I also asked the same question on r/learnprogramming. There are two recommendations: Safari Books and Pluralsight subscriptions. I used to have Safari subscriptions for few years so maybe I will give Pluralsight a try. However I am not sure yet.
Preaching to the converted I know, but: A laptop that's in the shops today is going to be hardly faster than one from two years ago. In the 90s it would have been but the pace has slowed down a lot since then.

Possibly a good candidate for just doing a reformat?
I don't know about a SPARC T7, but I do run OpenBSD on my Sun Fire T2000 (UltraSPARC T1) and have been impressed with its LDOM support.
I don't mean to overly shill for "In Search of Excellence". (And yeah, I remember when it came out.)

But I just happened to catch the bulk of an hour long interview with its author, Tom Peters, today.

https://the1a.org/shows/2018-04-02/excellence-explained

And the parent comment reminds me of what he had to say about MBWA -- Management By Wandering Around.

It doesn't exactly fit what it appears Musk is currently doing. But as for the experience gained and benefit of being down on the floor, on the front line. Well, Peters' enthusiasm and description of same, seemed on point, to me.

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

If there are problems, at least Musk is not sitting in his office, learning of them and trying to deal with them through layers of reports (both people and paper/electrons/photons).

P.S. As a possible counter-balance to this, I'll mention the complaints that have been reported about worker welfare on those same production lines. To the extent those are true, they would be in opposition to the practices Peters espouses.
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You always ought to build on the same hardware you deploy on - to be blunt having multiple developers messing around on n different macs is just madness!
There have been cuts in police since austerity was imposed in 2008.

In general the rule of law seems to be breaking down. One small thing thats noticeable; up until 5 years ago a green man at a crossing meant cars would be stopped.

Now, about every few times you go to cross a car will be driving across the crossing.
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I am aware of their architecture. How does it circumvent the bound?
I do not deny that those were both terrible, awful mistakes (and I'm upvoting you for correctly including them in this thread). I would note that they were both relating to what is (perhaps unfortunately, but them's the facts) a very minor product for Apple. And that they're both fixed. And that Apple's security overall is still unquestionably far superior to that of its competition. Ask anyone who has to administrate both Macs and PCs for a living (like me).

My comments above still stand.
What's your current stack?
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What type of machines do you run OpenBSD on, out of curiosity? Routers, workstations, web servers, embedded devices?
Actually, several of those editors were explorations of what programming would look like using just the mouse. The mouse isn't really the issue with programming performance, per se -- instead the problem is the constant context switching back and forth.

Several version focused on just the keyboard, but we found that most of the things we built using Eve were inherently visual, and as such needed to be tested and interacted with using the mouse. Since we can't eliminate that context shift, we tried doubling down on it.

As a die hard Emacs user, I was shocked by just how competitive the mouse could be in the smalltalk-esque environment we built.
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I agree, but this is a tad off topic, no?
for laptops, dell seems to love 16:9 aspect ratio, which makes them inappropriate for development. for workstations, every dell i've seen uses custom cases that prevent upgrading the motherboard with an OTS component
2 - docker works flawlessly on macos

4 - i cant think of a single application, outside of maybe xcode, a developer might need to sign into the app store for

6 - whatever reasons that youtuber might have for not using macbooks, i will never buy a non-mac notebook ever again. this 2013 13" mbp has been the best and most reliable computer I have ever had in 30 years and I bought it used!

7 - sure the apple brand is cool but i don't get your point? doesn't it mean that you care about the branding so much so that you won't use it? do you see where I'm going?
That could’ve easily been a really boring office lunch option binder, though. ;)
Facebook is in trouble because it sold political influence at a price that previously non-mainstream actors could afford. Data is incidental to that scandal. Equifax suffered no meaningful consequences for its breach.

I understand that the HN consensus desperately wants your statement to be true, but that doesn’t make it so.
I'm picturing one of the Pythons saying it emphatically while raising their eyebrows and nodding to the side a bit.
Those are valid points, but it's still shocking that Apple's own CPUs can outperform Intel laptop CPUs with far higher TDP.
That’s the same reason I include Solaris as a target in my automated build system. It’s arcane enough and independently developed enough to expose incorrect assumptions in C code.
Something isn't right with those results. Since the lowest average is above 20ms, can you share the results of a traceroute to 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 or any of the DNS servers in the list?

It looks like your results are skewed due to your local network. (On laggy WiFi perhaps?)
I've sat in several meetings where leadership folks are looking for a data warehouse strategy and plan. The topic of importance for data almost never came up. It was "store now no questions asked, mine value later". This was in line to other buzzword sentiments like "data is the new oil" (people believe it, seriously).
How brave of you to share your bigotry from a throwaway account?
Also, the persons most comfortable with a radically different publishing model like PR are apt to be young researchers, but they are the ones most in need of establishing a reputation by publishing in established, prestigious journals.
As a Mac user since 2004 for my daily driver and professional software engineering as well as light gaming and recreation... I really hope not. Being able to run Windows and Linux easily in both VMs and on metal are much too important to me.

Of course, I am already not buying another Mac until they give me a keyboard with a physical ESC and F-keys so maybe it doesn’t matter at this point.
I don’t know either, but I wouldn’t be surprised to discover Netflix thinks people with Apple laptops are likely to have an iPad or iPhone as well.

With the possible exception of my non-Retina iPad mini I’d rather watch Netflix on any of my mobile devices. It never even occurred to me to look for it on my laptop, because the form factor is so ridiculous for movie watching.
It was a hundred panera bread's from all over the East Coast. Something suspicious was going on...
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I don't think it's fair to think that tech companies are changing the world, but then try to put the changes themselves off-limits for discussion.
This was complicated by the fact that PPC was big endian and Intel is little endian. If software assumed byte order when twiddling bits, etc, you could not just recompile it.
BSD people, usually networking. And people who like security (though OpenBSD has detractors). It was used a lot as firewall for critical infrastructure a few years ago, perhaps still is.

Also, installation was quite fast if you knew what you were doing.
I use Masterminds' squirrel library to build up queries which cuts down on the amount of hand written SQL I need.
I think the point here is that if you are building a few binaries for a system that has severe storage constraints, shared libraries might be a way to reduce disk usage.

If the library is stable and installed system-wide, it shouldn't be much harder to copy binaries around, and it makes each of them smaller.

Of course, there is also the dual, busybox-way of embedding everything into a single binary. This should lead to even more gains, but moves complexity elsewhere: calling the binaries, making sure no symbols conflicts, more complex compilation chain, etc. Even better gains can be achieved if every tool is developed simultaneously, and is reusing utility functions from other parts of the project (which is actually what shared libraries do, to a lesser extent).
As it so happens, a lot of Spring team members are working on Project Riff, which is a FaaS system.
AMP stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages.
I have some tools I have customized from experience around the Malcolm Baldrige criteria (Linkage of Process, etc).

Ping me and I'll gladly share.
I work on container-tech and the absence of namespaces and cgroups in the macOS kernel is a continuous source of frustration for my team since you need to work through a VM abstraction for Macs.
The 8700k which the previous poster mentioned is a hex core with 12 Threads!
We don’t know how much Trump is actually worth. Even if he is worth a billion, that’s because he inherited an estate worth $100 million. It’s not exactly difficult to turn that into $1 billion (compared to, say, turning $10,000 into $100,000.)

His business acumen is questionable, as he has gone through four bankruptcies. One of those was a friggin casino. Do you know how hard is it to bankrupt a casino?

His negotiating himself out of personal debt amounted to threatening banks that he would declare bankruptcy unless they reduced or forgave his debt. As the saying goes, if you owe the bank $100,000 you have a problem, but if you owe them $100,000,000 they have a problem.

You must have forgotten about his first presidential bid 10 years ago. His MAGA slogan was trademarked in 2012. So his interest in politics isn’t new.

Lastly, I’m not sure how his marrying a “hot former model” has anything to do with... well, anything.
It's relatively easy to write a wrapper around your sqlx DB that logs queries before sending them to the underlying sqlx DB. I agree it would be nice to be built in, but then you're kind of locked into the logging interface(s) sqlx supports.
As your product shares its name with an open source product that was created in 1992, will you be renaming your product? Assumedly there are no barriers to going to your prior name, Flingo.
And we got downvoted to hell. Yeah, this was by "fans" alone.
VMWare's primary market is not Fusion.

VMWare's primary market is vSphere -- and you don't run vSphere on a MacBook.
To expand a bit: When you add frictions, you reduce the number of transactions that are profitable, and therefore reduce the number that happen. So total economic activity goes down.
> But from an outsider's perspective I can't help but notice that when you're this little company with no chance of making it, the press is very bulish about your company. As soon as you become large, they look up at you and can't wait to see you fall, overly negative.

This isn't just a press bias, but a seemingly-universal human bias.

[1] https://undark.org/article/why-we-root-for-the-underdog/
I saw the light when I read the plan 9 intro. And Rob Pike was right, The operating system still maters. In fact, I'd say it's more important than ever in the age of towering software stacks. We live in the distributed internet age but are hamstrung by 60's OS design.
Node-oracledb 2.2 with Batch Statement Execution (& more) released
You can try the AMP Desktop Extension, which uses this API: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/amp-browser-extens...
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Nicotine is considered a nootropic that increases cognitive ability. Perhaps the kids are using it to up regulate their brains?

Studies here:
https://www.selfhacked.com/blog/28-proven-health-benefits-ni...
This summary is a few years old but still relevant :

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4363846/#__ffn_...

Long before that publication, however, Wright SC (et al) published a paper still referenced today in toxicology textbooks entitled "Nicotine inhibition of apoptosis suggests a role in tumor production"
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