skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually saw an Aztek in person for the first time in a while recently. One thing I noticed is that it looks less weird compared to when it first came out (a lot of cars share a vaguely similar shape to it now), but no less ugly. Apparently the desgin was both ahead of its time, and bad.
Collaborative AR
A couple months ago I got an email saying my Model 3 was ready to be configured. Chose all the base options and saved the order. When I came back the next day the page said I was still on the waiting list as if nothing had been configured... still have my reservation but think a 35k Model 3 may never actually exist.
I'm not sure we even need something that elaborate honestly. I was imagining just a straight up RSS reader.

It doesn't seem like we need to invent anything new here, just make a version of RSS that can natively serve rich multimedia content and be gated behind a subscription.
The future of social media feels a lot like the past
Aren't most of the games on MacOS running on OpenGL?
This is going to kill all the older titles that are not maintained anymore. Terrible move just to push Metal down people throats. As if MacOS gaming wasn't dead enough.
Texhnolyze here we come.
It is correct, in that one can (and some do) offer a dual license, iff one is the sole author or has the consent of all contributors.

Such projects won't merge a patch without the correct paperwork. It can be done, and is.
This thread seems similar to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17231593, which was closed an hour ago as “dupe”.

Main discussion seems to be at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17231442.
Easy example: A Hot Dog / Not Hotdog app

More complex applications: apps that do clever audio processing, smart image filters, making some sort of intelligent predictions or recommendations based on a users behavior, communications, preferences, etc.
Oh god, just what the world's food distribution problems need.
So, after looking at the graph, which has a series of peaks with factory shutdowns to increase production between them, you're boldly predicting that the most recent shutdown is going to lower peak production? Gotcha.

To put this another way, they hit 70% of the goal mid-quarter, and the results of the latest shutdown are not yet known. In the previous quarter, they were at 40% of the goal mid-quarter.

I don't know why I bother to comment on this since people appear to really differ about what the graph means.
Does Venture Capital Help You Become a Better Entrepreneur?
If you're programming in Rust, you can just use `gfx-rs`'s HAL[1]. This is designed to be a Vulkan-like API that works on top of Vulkan, Metal, D3D12, or OpenGL.

If you aren't in Rust, just use Vulkan. There are high-performance wrappers for it in various stages of development, such as MoltenVK[2] for macOS and iOS, and VulkanOnD3D12[3] for UWP. Non-UWP Windows, Linux, and Android should support Vulkan natively through their GPU drivers.

[1]: https://github.com/gfx-rs/gfx

[2]: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK

[3]: https://github.com/Chabloom/VulkanOnD3D12
This is a weird thing to say. It's simply not true.

Search PlugShare for CHAdeMO chargers. There are a lot.
Ugggggh. As if graphics support on macOS weren't middling enough already. It's like they're trying to become as irrelevant as possible in that area.

I could understand if they were deprecating it in favor of Vulkan. That would be in-line with Apple's history of aggressively pushing forward new standards. But by no means do they have the clout to coerce developers into their own bespoke graphics API that doesn't work anywhere else. All they'll accomplish is further killing off the already-small presence they have in the gaming space.
"Also, r.i.p. my old macbook air 2011 :-/"

macOS performance was already getting so poor on 2010/2011 MacBook Airs, so I think this is the right move. I recently downgraded my old 2GB 2010 MacBook Air back to 10.11 El Capitan and it runs much, much better than it did on High Sierra.
Intuition vs. Rationality: Where One Stops the Other Starts
> I don't understand what compelled the author to write this but GitLab CE really is open-source.

To counter all the comments throughout today claiming that GitLab is the bastion of Open Source. There's nothing wrong with GitLab or their "open core" business model, but a lot of posters today surrounding the GitHub acquisition have been misstating GitLab's OSS credentials.

GitLab did nothing wrong. But facts somethings need to be restated.
Arc, a dialect of Lisp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language)#His...

There's not really a "stack", it doesn't even use a database (everything is stored in files).
Well, at least MoltenVK is completely open source now (Apache 2 license). https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK

So yes, Vulkan is kind of the universal graphics API now.
All web publishers supported by ad revenue would immediately block Safari.
Can't help but think this is on purpose. Elon straight up said they can't sell mostly base models right now and survive, they need premium configs to stay afloat.
Multi-modal robotic delivery in Berkeley
Could not seem to find any mention of where the model is being trained...I would assume locally, but again, can't seem to find a mention of recommended hardware for this.
Self hosting typically lowers service availability, rather than increases it. For example, how many availability zones are you putting it in?
Can we please replace "Machine Learning" by "Pattern Matching", as this is all it is ...
Humble Bundle pocket primer programming books
Do proponents of Free Software, on the whole, assert that the concept of intellectual property should not exist?
Sun Life Financial Acquires Maxwell Health
Bidding farewell to Google Code (2015)
Are there really many comparables? I can’t really think of many scenarios where a normal consumer pays a four figure deposit on something which doesn’t have a release date.
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> demo quality level in 2 weeks

Getting pixels on the screen and shipping something to end users are to very, very different things, 90/10 rule and all that.

Vulkan also has the benefit of multiple platforms supporting it so you're not doing all that work for a minority(which is what OSX is in the graphics space) platform.
I don't mean this to sound in any way cruel or judgemental, but a very large proportion of the population have very limited literacy skills. Emoji are useful for all users who are writing short, personal messages that might be ambiguous in tone. They are extremely useful for people who would otherwise struggle to express or understand tone and emotion using the written word.

In the last National Assessment of Adult Literacy, 43% of Americans were assessed as having "basic or below basic" literacy. They can extract basic factual information from short, straightforward texts, but little more than that.

Here are a couple of example questions from that test.

Only 33% of Americans could describe what is expressed in the following poem:

"The pedigree of honey
Does not concern the Bee -
A clover, any time, to him
Is Aristocracy"

Either a literal or thematic description of the poem constitutes an acceptable answer.

Read the text at the link below. After reading this text, only 16% of Americans could describe the purpose of the Se Habla Español expo.

https://nces.ed.gov/NAAL/sample_imgtxtequiv.asp?Imageid=164

Acceptable answers include any statement such as the following: "to enable people to better serve and sell to the Hispanic community", "to improve marketing strategies to the Hispanic community" and "to enable people to establish contacts to serve the Hispanic community".

Did you get the right answer? 84% of Americans didn't. Bear that in mind when you're writing documentation or dialog boxes.

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/writing-for-lower-literacy-...
Hi, we'd like to use your reputation to sell our product. Here's a bunch of money.
But someone that acts only in their own interests is not trustable. You give trust to people as they demonstrate that they are concerned about your interests. Thus far, I've seen zero evidence that Microsoft has genuine concern for anyone else's interests. And they've had a history of acting against other's interest in a stifling and illegal way. I don't trust them.
Which sounds more impressive on a resume though?
Japan may be first country to have self-driving cars
Ok, I'll concede that it is a hard ask and I was not aware of the name "app timer" I thought it was under parental controls. I can with a straight face defend the aligned incentives. :)
> Unfortunately, given the high hardware requirements

Maybe I am missing something obvious here, but why is that a reason for a closed ecosystem?
Had they not made those decisions, would they've managed to attract developers, pay bills and keep their lights on?

Do the founders wanted billions or a big impact on the world?

Today, they've sold their customers to an evil tech empire.
I think this is key.

A lot of people got completely trumped on the supposedly low-price of 35k$. This is where the magical Charisma of Musk played so well.

At the end of the day, it is closer to a 60k$ car than a 35k$ car (not even accounting for tax-money helping people to buy it cheaper). And if you really think about it, I cannot see how you can justify the model3 being worth 60k$ !

you got sold on a 35k$ car, and before you know it, you spend 60k$
I'm calling it now: This will be how EV adoption looks for the next five years. Partly the dealers won't cooperate, and partly the manufacturers won't be able/willing to produce enough vehicles (depending on the market in question). Multiple manufacturers have sold out the entire 2018 production, in some cases before deliveries have even started.
When the kids are small, where do you find an Uber with one or more suitable car seats?

It seems there's spotty availability in a few cities, but the standard from Uber is you get a single car seat appropriate for a child >12 months old.

Or do you supply your own, and then drag the seat(s) around with you at your destination?
One of the things they did with the Model 3 was to improve the efficiency of 120V charging, partly for that reason. Trivia: In Canada, the CEC since 2012 requires a NEMA 5-20 outlet for EV charging at a minimum, and with the Model 3 6-7 miles per hour with it is not uncommon.
I haven't come across the Pocket Primer book series before. Has anyone tried them?
CHAdeMO is typically 50kW or less, sometimes just 20kW.

They’re often unmaintained and left broken for long periods of time.

They’re often installed in single units, leaving you vulnerable to being screwed by another user or someone blocking the spot.

They’re usually installed in cities rather than along highways. Many important corridors don’t have enough CHAdeMO coverage for a long trip.
So MS is just going to pay engineer salaries to maintain a free tool used by FB?
GitHub owns and maintains Atom, and it's biggest competitor is VS Code.
C:\GITHUB> git clone https://github.com/my/repository
Cloning into repository...
remote: Counting objects: 57583, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (36/36), done.
..................
Resolving deltas: 100% (42949/42949), done.
Install Bing Toolbar? (Y/n):
This smiling-face-with-smiling-eyes is one of the few emoji that cause an automatic emotional response inside me. Another is https://emojipedia.org/loudly-crying-face/ (Apple rendition of both, particularly).

Text, and ASCII emoticons, just don't do that.

(and I'm guessing that after I see enough "we can save you money on your car insurance :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes: manipulative overuse by marketing "humans", emojis won't do it anymore either).

(Although, do you genuinely think a photo of a cat being cute is emotionally the same and just as effective as a description of a cat being cute?)
Maybe it’s a regional thing, but in this country I’d say at least half the cars on the road look more or less like the Bolt; non-descript hatchback. If anything, GM’s being safe there; by going with the less popular sedan format Tesla is taking more of a risk.
The most common pattern I've seen with cross-platform stuff is a small Objective-C wrapper over MacOS APIs, which then gets called like C functions from pure C++ code.
Show HN: Workflowy meets Zapier
> their JS engine

https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore

> their compiler

Microsoft makes half a dozen compilers, for as many languages:

https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn
https://github.com/fsharp/fsharp
https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell

The only one that I know of that is closed is C++.

> anything else of note

https://github.com/Microsoft/GVFS
https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/16/microsoft-joins-the-linux-...
What the fuck?! I don’t get it, why?! They want us to focus on Metal? I definitely need to but desktop now, plus I want CUDA! Ryzen 5 2600X with GTX1070 and I’m done.
Thank you for information.

So integrating tools and services means dependence.

Disclaimer: I don't have a strong reaction against this acquisition. I always felt that one day I will migrate somewhere, but I'm not in a hurry.
Most of the pre-Intel era systems are still functional. In contrast, since 2007 I burned through 4! MacBooks, 3 of them were Pro with failing Nvidia graphics. The G5 systems were the last very good engineered Apple computers at the time, although I do recall problems with them either. The liquid cooled quad G5 with corrosion disease... ah, what a time!
Especially those that compete with MS or their subsidiaries. But then again, Netflix uses AWS, so who knows?
I once worked for three months to get a used Power Mac G5 from a company. Totally glad I've done so
For SYSENTER: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/1710

Another example: https://www.pagetable.com/?p=27

This is just what is public.
Can it power tumors?

More seriously, though, nanotech or relatively small implantables/injectables powered by radio or induction could do a lot for medicine... If anyone could afford it.
> For instance, in some contexts the French and Spanish word “libre” works well, but people in India do not recognize it at all.
Does anyone know if Apple actually intends to remove OpenGL drivers at any point, and if so, when?
Asking your age isn't illegal by itself. ADEA makes it illegal to discriminate against workers age 40 and up based on age. Doesn't apply here.

In fact, employers can have legitimate reason to ask your age, such as background checks.
I mean it wouldnt be that big of a problem if they adopted Vulkan, but they are pushing Metal :-/
>The irony of Ballmer's "DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS!" is palpable.

Well guess what? They just bought exactly that.
Language-Policing AI Will Suggest a Polite Alternative to Online Hate Speech
Contributing has always been different for each project and I don't see any real benefit by using github regarding that topic.

Biggest hurdles normally are:
- big chunk, own branch, small chunks?
- Contract to sign?
- signed commits, unsigned commits?
- changelog file?
- patch via mail?
- extra review tool?
...

In the end it's always a git push. Github only makes it look more beautiful.
Turns out it was a good idea to base new stuff on this: https://github.com/bkaradzic/bgfx
Thank you. This nonsense has been everywhere and it makes me very confused. Why would smart people from MIT/Stanford work at Google if it makes less money than working at IBM in a random suburb?
If you already had an architecture with replaceable renderers, especially with DirectX 12 one already written, adding Vulkan one will be a matter of just a few weeks. If you hadn't, it will be much tougher.
Great ... just when I was going to use openCL .. :(
yep persuade 20 people to drop 2-3 years wages before tax. Easy right?
Where is Second Measure getting their data from? Is it statistically valid? They say they analyze "billions of anonymized purchases" which suggests some sort of credit card or bank account scraping.[1] Like the sort of thing those budget management apps do. But... given how small the Model 3 customer base is and how affluent they are, how likely are they to participate in such schemes?

Or are they buying wholesale aggregate data from credit card companies? Can they do that?

[1] https://www.quora.com/Where-does-Second-Measure-get-its-cust...
Great news for open source.

Perhaps now all the companies in the MS silo are going to learn how OSS is something that can be taken seriously.

I've worked in enterprise where using open source tends to be frowned upon. This was mostly due to the FUD from Microsoft.
sci-hub support title searches
Big companies are in it for the money
What if you run a recruitment web app that competes with LinkedIn?
OpenGL and OpenCL aren’t “robust” on macOS because Apple stopped updating their drivers after the version 4.2, which has been released circa 2011. Current version of the standard is 4.6, released July 2017.
Very much in line with Apple's way of doing things. God forbid they'd adopt some sort of open standard - even though they've hugely benefited from them.
> And the open question is what they learned in the process

They were the biggest corporate sponsors to open source and also Linux kernel in the past few years. They acquired github, the biggest place for open source devs to meet and contribute code, and promise to keep it independent. How open of a question is this really?
While this is startling, it seems pretty consistent with Apple's modus operandi in a lot of areas -- leap forward to where they think the industry is going and hope they're right. OpenGL is effectively being deprecated by its own developers in favor of Vulkan, which has an open source implementation for macOS and iOS, developed in part by Valve, built on top of Metal:

https://store.steampowered.com/news/37575/

If game developers -- and game engine developers -- targeting OpenGL now are in the process of moving to target Vulkan, and if MoltenVK ends up offering better performance on macOS than Apple's legendarily anemic OpenGL stack, isn't this likely to be better in the long run despite the short-term pain?
Nice marketing campaign here a couple years ago. https://developer.apple.com/opencl/

Make up your fucking minds. Developers aren't hamsters.

I now declare MacOS to be deprecated, if that's how it's going to be.
I sold Apple stock to my my Power Mac G5 in 2003. Now it sits on the floor under my desk to remind me of how much it cost in 2003 Apple stock :-)
And didn't implement Vulkan either. Typical Apple.
Stop the clickbait
>All they'll accomplish is further killing off the already-small presence they have in the gaming space.

In the AAA game space you mean. Else, in the casual gaming space, iOS is perhaps the most popular platform -- and the new integration effort means all those games will be able to run on macOS as well soon.
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Assuming you want to know about American law, there are a couple classes on Coursera that might be helpful:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/american-law

https://www.coursera.org/learn/law-student
Got a caller on hold, says his name is The Future. He wants to talk to you about Metal Framework.
I understand why my iPhone needs access to my Facebook friends' info, in order to display it to me.

I don't understand why Apple Inc. needs access and permission to download and store my friends' data on Apple Inc. servers. That is what the NY Times reported, and Facebook has not directly denied it here.

Edit to be clear: I'm just using Apple as an example company.
Honestly, I hope not - over the years, TFS has turned from a turd into something good - Visual Studio Online, Microsoft's hosted version of TFS, really is a great product. It lets you use Git for source control and provides excellent backlog and CI/CD features - I don't often get evangelical about a product, but it really is a joy to use.
Sure, but this makes it a right pain in the arse to bring over apps from other platforms.
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I, for one, have cancelled my subscription and moved all private repositories off GitHub.
I hear you, but disagree on two counts:

1 - look at the people onboard the USDZ format (pixar, adobe, autodesk, epic, etc.). This is geared towards getting designers to bring in high quality 3d from the the first step of the pipeline.

2 - Just because apple uses the format doesn't mean they don't optimize it for display. I have no idea what happens behind the scenes, but if they could make PDF work well for a desktop, then I have faith in them. Look a this link [1] and the video [2] from a YEAR AGO. It seems to support my thoughts (via the Unreal Engine). The second paragraph is the key.

I understand your concerns, but I truly believe that in two years, you will look back on this and say, "yeah, they figured out how to get this to work well." Of course, I am wrong occasionally, too :)

[1] - https://www.cinemablend.com/games/1631230/why-two-disney-fil...

[2] - https://www.polygon.com/2017/3/1/14778602/epic-gdc-finding-d...
It is used for model training. But the model recognises the street names and numbers which it can use to exactly position businesses. One of the biggest issue with Apple POIs are that they are often in incorrect (and sometimes ridiculous) locations.

Apple already licenses its data from many providers e.g. Foursquare, Yelp but that only gets you so far. Google is much further ahead largely through their own technology.
I've been a WPEngine customer for 4-5 years.

This tone really extends all the way down to their customer service agents. I'm really impressed by them.
1Blocker allows it too.
Between this and the Apple Music player, it’s great to see Apple finally take baby steps into actual web services (beyond the app clones inside iCloud.com)
congrats, that's as cool as DirectX from a developer perspective.
>Requiring developers to use an API locked to a particular platform feels pretty hostile to me.

So like DirectX?
Any company who is small enough to not host their own code repo are of little interest to Microsoft.
Generally, yes. Certainly not all. The likes of SFML and SDL2 and libgdx have zero support for Metal, although SDL2 did recently add support for Vulkan.
FAANG, I've never seen this before! Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google?
I'd love to see some citations for these claims. Otherwise it just sounds like you have an agenda.
Good idea, but I’m guessing you’d have fever as a side effect ;)
They are saying “Yea it’s better for the environment but don’t fall in love with it too much we don’t want to start having to make tons of electric vehicles yet.”
Only the hedge funds/propshops/hft companies and some of the startups that have already exited like Cruise.

Nobody else does, that guy just has low standards and has been brainwashed into thinking the elites don't live significantly more fulfilling and secure lives than he does.
Let's trust a startup that accidentally blew up their database and lost all sorts of data, as opposed to Microsoft. At least the other complaints about the acquisition make sense.