skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keep in mind, the Leaf came out 1-2 years before the Model S, and and less that 1/2 the price. It uses totally different style of batteries. Probably all cost cutting. But yeah, cooling would be nice. They did some redesign for 2015, but it is still air cooled.
I wish developers started to care about the users again instead of looking for the ways to make a life easier for themselves.
I’ve never saw enjoyable cross-platform app and I doubt I ever will, by definition.
As a layperson, this is so confusing. On one hand, we have Higgs Bosons "giving" particles mass, presumably in a nondeterministic quantum manner, on the other hand we have relativity theory that says mass "warps" space-time itself. What is the relation between the two theories?!
The author talks about leverage an OS provides to the vendor: iOS for Apple (and its App Store) and Windows for Microsoft. It is only logical that when your leverage fades, you should find an alternative means for growth.

Microsoft has been betting on the cloud for some time now. Part of that strategy is shifting enterprise from premise to Azure. In parallel investing in developers. VS Code, .NET Core and now GitHub are good examples of those investments.

What I haven't seen are non-enterprise developers, even hobbyists, using Azure as their cloud. When I talk to fellow devs, they have experience with AWS not Azure. My impression is that the Linux/CLI environment is much more familiar that Azure cloud portal with buttons à la Windows. Less black box. Curious to know if my impression is right.
It wasn't making any assumptions, because it was a joke. It was clearly a fantasy, not to be taken seriously, and not representative of actual opinions or facts, but instead poking fun at and satirizing such stereotypes. That's why you're getting so many down votes. If someone satirizes a stereotype as being silly or ridiculous, it doesn't make sense to then accuse them of holding or promoting that stereotype.
Yes, but GraalVM is still a VM with all that implies. An emulation of a computer system to execute code in a platform independent environment, where another security-wise benefit is the walled garden nature. I think that all this done in 40 MB is pretty fascinating!! It depends on how you look at it?

If you want the lowered resources, go ahead and code in C or why not Free Pascal, with an underestimated pretty mature and stable API on a multitude of platform targets. There are plenty of active projects with rich libraries. But there are also several disadvantages from not running on a VM.

I think that these days, what you look for sometimes makes sense but in my opinion mostly just if you are into operating systems, embedded systems, hardware drivers, and so on. I don't think the added effort is worth it otherwise except for maybe personal pet projects. :)
> if the software is not distributed/shared/used by others, then it might as well not exist

Even if it is used by the author/modifier in private? "others" != "everyone".

In your example, Wix could have kept the usage of GPL code internal to their organization and not have to publicly release anything. If they allowed others (i.e., outside their organization) to use the derived work, they'd have to provide the same users with the source code. Of course, in their case, they allowed the public to use the derived work, so anyone who used their service should be given the source.

> Also in my first comment, when I said "work" I was talking about the source code, not the software

I don't see how this changes anything.

Also, note that the GPL uses "work" to refer to the software (and to other forms of copyrightable works, as applicable) in both source material form as well as the compiled and linked forms.

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Judging from your views expressed here regarding the GPL, I strongly suggest you talk to a copyright lawyer, or at least read what copyright lawyers say the GPL and/or copyleft is: https://copyleft.org/guide/
You might as well have asked who among us won the lottery.

I've been struggling with this for years now; after 4 boring jobs I finally gave up even the expectation that what I'll be asked to do will be even remotely interesting (or socially useful). The chance of landing an interesting job is absolutely minuscule - the market rewards whatever it rewards at the moment, and that's where jobs flock. These days, one of the bigger thing the market rewards is writing a web-based CRUD that's 99% chrome, 1% of actual functionality. Extra points if you can get some user data to sell to adtech industry.

(My own criteria for "interesting" these days are a bit different. I'm not looking for "interesting technical problems", as in advanced CS stuff, but "interesting outcomes" - pushing the humanity forward, or alleviating a social problem for some group of people. I find it hard to even find companies that apparently work on something like that, and even then it seems they have to do lots of boring work as well.)

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EDIT: Then again there's this topic that has been casting shadow on my happiness for a long time, that I finally seem to be able to define. Maybe our civilization has finally crushed my soul, and I noticed it just now. But it feels to me that the revealed goal of our market-driven world is to abstract everything away with money. The end-game is that as an individual, your responsibility in the society is to pick a skill - whatever skill - that makes you money, and then to use money to solve everything else with your life. It doesn't matter what you do, there is only one meaningful meta-skill - making money fall out of the system, into your bank account.

Maybe I'm just realizing something obvious that parents should have taught me when I was a kid. I don't know. Maybe it was wrong of me to seek meaning in the things one does? Maybe that approach is no longer supported by our civilization?
There are times when I really like the thoughtful analysis on Stratechery and there are other times when I think it's a complete pile of detached-from-reality horsesh!t. Today is of the 2nd kind.

What it also has is a potentially fatal weakness: no platform with user-based leverage.

Sorry, what? Windows still has > 90% market share on desktop. If that isn't "user-based leverage" I don't know what is.

This, by the way, is precisely why Microsoft is the best possible acquirer for GitHub, a company that, having raised $350 million in venture capital, was not going to make it as an independent entity.

Seriously? GitHub could have easily gone out for more VC. They could have IPOed. "Not going to make it as an independent entity" is so far detached from reality, what was he thinking when writing that?
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I'm not sure about "Software Engineering", but "Programming" to me sounds like making a computer run something to your liking, which would include configuring it.
Is this Apple's version of "developers developers developers"
Pony 0.22.4 has been released
Amazon knows I just bought a fridge. How many fridges per month do they think I need? I keep receiving fridge ads and even on their own website, when logged in, they show me fridge offers.
It is referred to as an 'alignment mark', the print on it being in reverse because the instruments used to check said alignment might have an odd number of mirrors which would cause the image to be non-reversed. I'd say the purpose of the strip to be to align the stage either in relation to the other stages or to the launching platform.
It just means that we need the correspondence principle to find useful quantum mechanical models. Without that, you're just talking about algebras acting on Hilbert spaces.
> Google Authenticator => Authy (it reimplements google auth)

It doesn't reimplement Google Auth. Both are just different implementations of RFC 6238.
This is fantastic!
Standard level as crackpottery goes but visuals are great, he took it to the whole new level, beats all the other html or LaTeX ones. That pdf took a while to format.
I'd disagree. I can think of multiple feature that only OSes can improve upon, not apps.

One is, creating a common platform for apps to share data, live data, with one another. By live data, I mean editing a spreadsheet in Excel, and seeing it change a chart in Photoshop, instantaneously. Not after saving the file. Not after hitting a refresh button somewhere.

I know, this has been possible for decades, but there are no apps taking advantage of it, mainly because these things need a common platform with well-defined standards.

This is something that OSes are best positioned to implement, but none do.
But money source is still the same one.
LOL
Ditto.
But.
Being memorable for ridiculous antics doesn't quite translate into winning hearts and minds.
Youtube is responsible for ~10% of Google's revenue, according to analysts.
Every cell in your body includes gigabytes worth of source code for the entire organism. Maybe this kind of redundancy isn’t such a bad idea? The industry has tried shared library schemes many many times and it always turns out to be a mess.
Keep in mind that Windows as a platform is fading away. The Web with SaaS and is taking a lot of that. Even if they keep 90% of the desktop market, revenues are migrating to cloud and apps. MS doesn't want to end up with just an OS running a browser to access other things.
How about doing some academic work?

With the explosion of NGsequencing there's no shortage of data or data-magician positions, and there's many challenges with social impact
> I am thinking about blogging about this

I'd probably read it.
Safari has a button that opens the OS share dialog.

To be fair it never made any sense digging around a webpage for a like/tweet button to share something anyway.
I agree with much of what you've written. I think the main difference between our views is in who has the onus of proof to make a change in policy. You seem to be skeptical and want Tesla to prove that Autopilot is safer; whereas I see Autopilot's design intuitively as a safety improvement, and would want data to the contrary to withhold it from the market.

While we don't have a statistically significant data set to pine over, I do think we have evidence that "a driver who [falls asleep at the wheel or texts and drives] will fare better with Autopilot than without it." I use Autopilot on my way to and from work each day. It's pretty typical for AP to handle a ten minute stretch with no input from me. For any given minute of driving, there is a very high probability that I haven't given any input to the car. It follows then, that for any given minute on Autopilot during that stretch, I'd probably be fine if I were not paying attention. This stands in contrast to the alternative: if I gave no input to the car for an arbitrary minute without Autopilot, there is virtually no chance that I wouldn't cause an accident. This is where my intuition derives from.

> The main difference between AP and other safety measures is that, based on Tesla's defenses so far, there is literally no situation in which AP should be assigned blame, because it's ultimately the driver's responsibility. Whereas when an airbag fails to deploy, or just randomly blows up in a driver's face, there can be agreement that the airbag "failed".

I understand why this sounds like passing the buck, but I think this is the right policy (for the driving public's sake). People need to be responsible for how they use any L1 or L2 system, period. Again, I would liken it to Automatic Emergency Braking. There is no situation where a failure of AEB to brake would render a driver not responsible for an accident. The system adds a layer of protection, but it does not make any guarantees. I suppose if AEB or Autopilot acted in such a way that it overrode driver input -- say AEB braked hard on the highway and ignored the gas pedal input -- then you could blame AEB. And I'd say the same for Autopilot -- if it e.g. veered toward an object and overpowered a human trying to avoid it, I would blame AP for that. But as far as failures of logic, I think the driver owns that entirely until L3 systems are available.

> the question for overall safety is: does AP result in a net increase of accidents because drivers are too over-confident?

This is a good question, and I hope Tesla releases its data as promised so we can put it to rest. My own experience is that Autopilot makes it much easier for me to pay attention to my surroundings because I don't get fatigued and I'm less stressed than when I'm driving manually. I recognize that my experiences could be atypical, but having seen hundreds of similar sentiments on TMC over the years (and very few counters), it would take data to convince me otherwise.
I wouldn't trust Microsoft for privacy today.

I think the "best" option for now would be an Android phone without Google services. And as a developer you don't have to play to put your app in the F-Droid repository (you may want to donate though).

In 2019, the Librem 5 will probably be a good (expensive?) option too.
I love to see the creative re-purposing of existing technology - isn't that what hacking is, for the most part? - and the only negative thing I have to say is to chide myself for not having thought of it.
I have yet to find an admin theme which uses proper legible fonts.
You can avoid much of these issues by browsing in incognito or private mode when purchasing or looking to purchase or something. You can make your life a lot easier using firefox containers + container addons that automatically switch to isolated site-specific containers when browsing ebay or amazon or even facebook. Otherwise you're just inviting all kinds of cookies and tracking without making even hard for them
Since there was no criminal misconduct, everyone realized their mistakes, admitted them, and changed things to prevent further mistakes. I'm not sure you could ask for more from humans.

So ya, I'll give him a pass on this one. It's not a blanket statement that visionaries should be able to harass people. That's not the argument I'm making.
>If a kid doesn't want to do it,

How can this even be an argument.

>and the person assigning it doesn't care if they do it

They do obviously since you have negative feedback from the teachers about undone homework. Also as a parent shouldn't you care if they do it ?

>I don't think it's okay to disrespect teachers

Then why can she be obnoxious in class, complain about it at home and still nothing happens ?

Do you meet regularily with the teachers ? Or communicate with them about how you wished they would enforce punitions ? Or at the very least tell them how you learned about how your child is doing X (why do you even learn it from her, isn't there supposed to be feedback every trimester or such ?) which sucks, is unappropriate and which you've discussed with her, etc...
gitlab.com is normally slightly slower (not slow enough to be hard-to-use), but this exodus from GitHub is really something else.
I admit that - given my life situation - I'm biased towards jobs that at least have a chance of also letting me put bread on the table ;).

That said, I'm also having hard time separating academic work that helps things from that which just adds to the noise - grant-chasing, paper-generating studies. Any advice on that?
Does MS not actually want it or is it your thinking?
Einstein’s ‘Imaginary Elevator’ Thought Experiment Proven Right Again
ugh so take up a seat+ with crap I don't need? yeah great.

Please stay out of Hong Kong.
Looks up to the OEM.

“Requirement 10: OPTIONAL. An OEM may implement the ability for a physically present user to turn off Secure Boot either with access to the PKpriv or with Physical Presence through the firmware setup.“

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/br...

EDIT: It looks like these two come with windows locked in S mode. I don’t know if that impacts the bootloader, but the stock OS is limited to windows store apps I think.
> For example, I'm interested in the transition between trial-and-error seat of the pants engineering and mathematically based engineering.

It is difficult to know how best to document this kind of thing, the people who know about it probably don't want to write books or create their own websites.

My grandfather was responsible for part of the engineering side of the early British radar equipment, Wikipedia only really describes the scientific experiments that led up to it. I have plenty of stuff that I could add that he told me when teaching me electronics when I was a kid, but I would expect it to get deleted if I can't point at an external source.
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That's the basis of socialism vs capitalism.
How does the device come out when you need it to?
any idea about profitability ?
I suspect that's because those are the only things that are easy to model. People buy them:
a) based on personal taste
b) in volume

I just bought a ladder on amazon, what information does that tell them? Since it's the only tool I've bought from them it doesn't tell them much. They now know that I might be willing to buy more tools from them in the future but doesn't help in targeting which kind or how often. Me being a ladder buyer is a very weak signal that I will buy any particular item from them.

If on the other hand, I've bought 15 Aubrey Maturin books from them over the last few months, it doesn't take the most sophisticated model to determine that I probably want to buy number 16 next. Or that I might like to read the Horatio Hornblower books.
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It could have the word 'bad' somewhere in the middle.
That's a different story, but cutting off selectively just one party only reminds me of Orwell's "some are more equal".
Fuck that. Microsoft is worse then Google when it comes to privacy. At least when you opt out to Google's tracking, it doesn't magically opt back in after an update. Microsoft is a toxic company that simply has a good PR team on social media. I wish we had the Ubuntu phone instead.
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That is one of the main reasons why there are so many open source projects; many developers are bored in their day jobs and want to scratch their interesting problem itch in their free time.

But you have answered your own question: if you want to work on an interesting problem full time and get paid for it, one of the best ways is to start a SaaS on something you like.
I work at a boring company but I manage to get interesting projects to work on. I left CRUD behind about 5 years ago and I couldn't go back now. I just don't find most business logic problems interesting enough.

The transition for me came when I started a new job and my first project was to fix a slow batch job. Then I managed to get a second performance improvement project and soon I was the performance guy focusing entirely on performance projects. I really loved it.

Then through side projects targeted at problems I saw at the company, I built valuable tools using new open source tech and I got made tech lead of a new platforms team, solely focused on resolving technical problems and improving the system. Since then I have been an R+D engineer and now starting as a big data developer at the same company.

I am no genius, failed my interviews to get into big tech companies. I am a pretty big fish in a pretty small pond, I am known as one of the best technical guys in the company, which opens many doors and gives me a lot of freedom to move about inside the company and get some of the most interesting technically focused projects.
You just broke my HTTP status 0.
For me it was opt-in (all trackers were unchecked when I opened it) from both of my computers.

It is also not illegal to require visitors to clarify to which data processing they consent to (GDPR only says that if you require consent for processing that is not necessary to provide the service, then that does not count as consent for GDPR purposes).
Huh. Cliffs are real.

I want an index that invests in the 11th, 21st, 51st, 101st, 501st, and 1001st largest companies, betting that they are probably undervalued for falling just outside some arbitrary range.

(Or that random mergers might give them all spontaneous bumps.)
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This is actually very, very sane. I've been a professional developer for 25 years, and in the old days we used to -- or, rather, had to -- make use of a lot of crazy hacks to get what we wanted, in terms of performance and RAM footprint, from slow, RAM-limited machines. This resulted both in brittle code (which wasn't so bad because the programs had to be small) and in increased development time. These days, you can increase the performance of your code by writing well-optimized code, using a better compiler (but there's a limit to that), getting more CPUs (but there's a limit to that, too, due terms of hardware support, programming style and Amdahl's law) and getting more RAM. By far the most expensive option is writing hand-optimized code, and the cheapest, least limited resource (except for special cases of constrained environments) is RAM. Every MB of RAM spent on making your code faster while still keeping development costs low is a MB well-spent. Of course, nothing here should be taken to the extreme.
Was feature parity really in Microsoft's hands? One of the main features people want is app availability after all.

I think Windows needs to run Android apps like Chrome OS does. Then they will eventually be able to run on phones once again.
ECC please...
You're right in the specific case of Amazon and that product type: their advertising should definitely be more intelligent in that case.
Problem? That's by design.
> To be fair, most games today are built using Unity3D, Unreal Engine etc

What's the "etc"? Are there any other engines in that set?
> Sorry, what? Windows still has > 90% market share on desktop. If that isn't "user-based leverage" I don't know what is.

At first I thought the same way, but then I started wondering if those users are really meaningful users. Isn't most of the new developer products are either mobile apps or SaaS solutions, leaving aside monsters like adobe? If so, does it really matters that so many users are using windows if they consume apps mainly with their (probably, chrome) browser?
I did toy with that a bit but don’t remember it making any difference. I might try it again though. From memory though it might work better to move he switch to a hash which should allow it to compile down to a jump table which would be faster.
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If you think in a full flying hose, yes, but there is not need to this. Most of the hose weight could rest in the floor under wheels with a flying head part only for the 90% of the time. Most fire at homes mean some flat area (at least for a while) with maybe some stairs and the weight of the hose would rest in the soil. The weight would be also much lower than a heavy firefigther, so the risk of soil collapsing is also reduced and that would simplify the problem. The robot could be send as scout to clear the area and find risks before humans arrive.

The problem of the full firetruck can be solved if you use a special companion truck exclusively for having a fully mounted robotic hose for special cases (no need to put clothes, axes, hoses, etc in the same truck). All you need is to paid a driver and maybe a second worker to remotely manage the robot so would be cheaper (after you pay the, probably, expensive robot) than adding a second team of fireworkers.
Asus replaced the touchpad on its new ZenBook Pro with a 5.5-inch touchscreen
It doesn't have to be this way as is demonstrated in Guile.
I increased contrast, removed the nonsense drop shadows, decreased the global font size. https://i.imgur.com/r8CegSS.png
Still far from perfect, but just wanted to see how easily I could recover this unfortunately nonfunctional design.