skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What's the downside?

It didn't come from the Apple gods. The same ones who made two attempts to rewrite an OS with preemption and protected memory support before punting and buying one instead. Clearly they know best about how to structure an OS.
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> They've been "elite" tech people since before they were in the job force.

By what standard? What does that life look like? It seems so foreign to me. It seems like a lot of HN is comprised of this sort of folk or people who know them.

I don't work in the Bay Area, I work in Phoenix. I imagine it's a different world out there: instead of saving 90% of my income and living in a van, I own a home and save 75%. Instead of talking to people who work at Apple and went to MIT, I talk to people who were self-taught, or attended some other institution I'm not familiar with.

Even the people that I do know who went off to work at Amazon, Apple, or Google aren't even that great of engineers. In fact, they're probably worse engineers than the ones I know at Fortune 500s which aren't even tech companies.

I've seen people who had 25+ years of experience lose a job position to someone who didn't know what `setInterval` was.

To me, an "elite" tech person would be someone who wrote software that people actually cared about and had a strong amount of domain knowledge in a particular area, or prototyped hardware and sold a product that people bought. Even then, these people are flawed just like everyone else. Not too long ago, the author of Redis posted an article about shortcomings of Lua here on HN, and a deep inspection of his post simply yielded the finding that he wrote a Lua binding with a glaring exploit in it, and his entire article revolved around trying to justify his own flaws.

To me having parents that have money doesn't make you elite; it's just something to think is rather nice and want to work toward as well.

It seems to me that there exists a demographic of people in tech that seem impressive to others, but haven't actually contributed anything significant or tangible to the industry. They probably exist in senior positions of companies that I've never heard of that serve a niche that I'm not a part of. I don't know, but they aren't "elite" to me.

Kids, do and make things people care about. School doesn't matter at all. Learning matters. Spending a small fortune to maybe associate with people who will get you a job is trying to play the lottery, but with a far more expensive ticket.

When you're denied a job at a startup after receiving multiple degrees ask yourself if it was worth it. It takes 30 minutes to invalidate 4-8 years of your hard work. People want people who can do the job.
If you are after winning arguments with nitpicking, then congratulations, you won.
But clearly he meant serious industrial production in space. That means producing things more complex than simple parts from a 3D printer.
(which is still awesome, but just not serious industrial manufacturing which is the topic here)
Hacker News is misspelled in the projects section in your resume. thanks
I and a few others in my workplace are Clojure beginners. It's really not hard to pick up once you suck it up and stop bitching about parentheses. I don't think the language owners are terribly concerned about picking up beginners though, for all it seems they may actually like Clojure's reputation as belonging to Serious Programmers.

My biggest beef is actually with all the lisp true believers who wax on about their moment of clarity when all the pieces fit together and they realized that the universe is written in lisp. So far for me, it's just code.
Why are you not even considering Flutter? Flutter has all the needed Firebase libraries and AFAIK better performance than RN (no bridge)
Thank you for clarifying.

I now understand your statement meant something like "Netflix content has a narrower ideological range than the ideological range of the whole population"

I recognise why you think this is an important claim here, but I don't think it is a useful comparison - no content provider can provide for the complete diversity of 7 billion people: it's not a fair comparison. A content provider can only make decisions within the resources that they have.

Meanwhile, I was saying "Netflix content has a broader ideological range [than equivalent TV networks and content providers]".

By picking those two shows, I was identifying that Netflix does not exclude people who were previously satisfied with that narrower range of content.
No, that's why I put it in quotes. They will often keep in incessant contact and try to escalate matters within the department or school. This is still somewhat rare, but happens often enough to complain about.
The A series is just custom ARM. It's really nothing groundbreaking. They created ARM chips to power phones and tablets. The possibility of moving full computers to ARM was just a bonus, not some genius plan.
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Don't forget the full (not i) Mac Pro, which they've committed to updating.
And of course it's obligatory to point out that these companies did not actually have access to any "special" data, they merely had the same, normal access that hundreds of thousands of app developers had at the time, and which required them to convince a Facebook user to allow access to their account. These companies were merely allowed to keep the older, slightly wider access, for a little while longer than you and me.
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If that bothers you, maybe the internet is not for you... :P

Anyways, seeing people communicate and expressing themselves in different ways is pretty cool to me.
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You're getting downvoted, but this is reality and it's a poor reflection on HN to see your comment shunned.
> What’s the worst that could happen?

Having to confront the cognitive dissonance that their youth was spent chasing numbers that have little to no bearing on their present or future.
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I mean, you just described the surface. Apple has been making god awful decisions for the past 5 years or so.

MS is beating apple at their own game.

The iPad pro is a great example of how out of touch apple is.
I used that argument back in 4th grade to my parents: “Math is harder for me since there have been more advancements since you were kids”.

I can only speak for electrical engineering, but the basics have not changed in 100 years. Crack open a text book from 100 years ago and you’ll find the same control theory, circuit analysis, electromagnetics, etc. The difference may be vacuum tubes vs. transistors, but the analysis is them same. Many things are a lot easier to do now with computers, and I’ll wager a student of 100 years ago had better analytical skills.

It’s not just grade inflation either, but degree inflation. The PhD is the new MS, etc down the line.
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This is the correct answer, I think. The people who made the mortgages were no longer the people that owned the mortgages. The banks didn't even hold on to them, they sold them in tranches to investors. So no one in the actual industry had any incentive to do anything other than close mortgages.

People could get no down-payment mortgages, could get mortgages with bad credit, could get mortgages on houses they couldn't afford, because all the mortgage originators just fudged the paperwork. No one wanted to find a reason to not provide the mortgage.

Everyone being able to buy a house heated the market up, and as people got used to the market going up and up, it was seen as a good investment, and more people bought more expensive houses they couldn't afford, and mortgage originators did more shady things to make it happen.

A lot of these mortgages were adjustable rates that started at a really low rate, and in 3 years could shoot up to a much higher rate. An optimistic consumer wouldn't worry much about that. But when the time came, some people couldn't pay the crazy increase in their mortgage. The foreclosures coming onto the market depressed the market.

So the bubble finally popped, and someone owned a house that they bought for $750,000 with no money down, an adjustable mortgage for the whole $750,000 that started at 4% and in three years shot up to 8%, and when that happened the house could only be sold for $450,000. So they just stopped paying the mortgage and walked away. The foreclosures further depressed prices, created a very nasty cycle.

I worked in land records at the time, and the standards for the mortgage originators were just horrible. Not bothering to record mortgages in the correct town, not bothering to do a lot of things.

There are a few movies that are really interesting that described what happened, real life thrillers IMO. "Margin Call" is awesome, "The Big Short" explains what happened really well and is pretty funny at times, and "Too Big to Fail" is from the regulators point of view. It's kind of awkward but still really interesting.
> Imagine a friend saying "I'll be there in 5 minutes" and showing up 2 hours later. Just maddening.

Sounds like L.A.!
For those that have used both Flutter and RN (or NativeScript), which did you end up preferring? What would you use for your next project?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17440824
can someone explain what this has to do with a decentralised currency such as Bitcoin? The title is almost clickbait. Also the part that says block.one ICO raised money without telling the investors is flat out wrong. Almost as if these articles have a hidden agenda or total lack of understanding the tech.
This is why I mentioned nonlinear thinking.

If you imagine a multivariate nonlinear function (I don't believe there exists a definitive function, this is just a framework to help us reason more rigorously) representing the performance of a hire, there will be ranges where the function is insensitive to the x (e.g. say GPAs between 1.0-2.0). If you discount x entirely, you're throwing out the baby with the bath water because the signal might be meaningful in other ranges.
I agree that it seems like an over-reaction. But on an account with intense usage, a single credit card on file, no backup, and a fraud warning it does seem very suspicious.

AFAIK, Google Cloud credit card payments are processed through Google Pay, which supports multiple credit cards, debit cards, bank accounts, etc.

Ideally, in this case the company shouldn't be using the CFOs credit card, but entered into a payments agreement with Google, receiving POs, invoices and so on, including a credit line.

Never set up a crucial service like you'd set up a consumer service.
> A big issue with Haiku is that there really isn’t a modern web browser available right now.

The web browsers available to Haiku are all based on a recent version of WebKit (As of now we have merged commits from upstream dating from 2018), the same engine in Safari and it also allowed QtWebKit-based apps to run, previously Otto browser and Qupzilla until they migrated to QtWebEngine (based on the Blink engine which we don't have yet). So to me, that seems to be modern for a web browser that has HTML5 and can also play YouTube videos.

Also, I have just replied to your comment on a recent 64 bit Haiku nightly in WebPositive.
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The iPhone 8 CPU is competitive with a Core i5
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I forget where I saw the story, but I once heard of a native tribe whose members made some money by making baskets to sell to tourists. The tourists would buy the baskets with the belief that this basket represented how the people of the tribe had lived thousands of years ago, the same pattern of living continuing over the whole time.

But the person who told the story talked to the basket makers, who were all trying to create new and distinct patterns of basket weaving, different and better than their teachers and their contemporaries.

The "same pattern of life" can be distinctly different, depending on the scale at which you look.
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I should clarify that we are not pinning the organization information in the certificate or relying on it; just the fact that it’s an EV certificate.
Or... could be that Ms. Nassauer didn't actually speak to Target spokesperson.

Especially considering no name is attached. Given it's the WSJ you'd think they'd insist on getting attribution.
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That's all true, but (and note: I didn't downvote you) the problem I have with email for code review is that finding all the comments made over time on one patch is... a chore. Mind you, for many years I did code review over email, so I'm used to it, and since I'm a TUI sort of person, it works very very well for me except for the chore that is finding and collating all comments.

This chore is very real, and very time consuming. Reviewers need to make sure that new versions of a patch are responsive to past [accepted] commentary. Authors need to find all commentary when updating patches in order to be responsive to it.

Not that code review tools from GitHub, GitLab, and others, are all that good. I've yet to find a code review tool that really works for me and the people I work with.

Whether you use email as a transport and/or interface, or something more weby, or whatever, at the end of the day, for me, the real win lies in code review and commentary management and UIs. Because I'm a TUI person, my approach would be to build a code/patch+commentary format, something like (designing on the fly here):

- foo.c
| /* This is code (or patch) */
? jane ^^^^^^^^^^^^
? jon The above is code, yes, but this is commentary!
| while (!review_done)
| ...;

or

- 0001-This-is-a.patch
| diff ...
...

Something more markdown-y would work too.

An XML version wouldn't be a bad idea, provided a) that the schema is trivial, b) that there are tools for converting between a simple text format (e.g., like the above), c) preferably things round-trip. Obviously, with XSLT/XPath, (b) should be feasible, especially if we heed (a). And (c) should be possible if the XML schema is kept simple enough (but see below).

What's nice about this is that as long as there is version information we can merge commentary from many emails into one document (per file/patch), which then could make automation of commentary collation possible.

This needs lots more thought, I grant that. For example: how to cut-down quoted text without losing the ability to trivially merge commentary? Also, it would be very tempting to add lots of metadata, which would drive one to XML. I'm not a huge fan of XML, mostly due to lack of TUI editors for it... but XML does have the advantage of XSLT/XPath.

It seems to me that this is a problem that can be solved reasonably well, and that this is a problem worth solving. If we can solve it in a way that works well with TUIs, it will also work well with email, so this should be of interest to you (I hope so as you seem to have the time and energy to work on this!).

Thoughts?
I know you are wrong because Geekbench scores are showing the A-series chips to be competitive with Intel chips already.
That's a fair point. The next question is "What do better options look like, and how do we get there?"

High interest-rate loans are one thing. Forcing payment for the company's lawyer is another. Broad-spectrum mailing of loan offers with (what looks like) no assessment of ability to pay is quite another still.[1]

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[1] Or even worse, selecting for people who they know can't pay immediately, so they can rack up the margins/fees. That would be one of the typical definitions of "predatory."