skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uh, you can definitely implement a standard CRUD app with one of the serverless platforms. You can even throw an entire expressjs application into a lambda function with minimal modification if you want.
Learning to fly in the USA costs about $10k to $15k. Then about $200 per hour for actually flying the aircraft ( fuel, hire, insurance, airport fees ) so about $600 for that return trip.

I guess the maths might work for very frequent trips or if he could take a passenger who would split the costs.
this site format makes me feel like I wasted lots of money on my computer monitor, because 30% of it is taken up by enormous banners on the top and bottom of the screen...
>> Backend devs suddenly become full-stack devs

this is the reason we moved in the other direction, in my limited experience, people would should really backend devs doing frontend work because you framework/ arch is full stack and requires it, has been terrible
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> "Interestingly, this is the same system-on-a-chip used in the 6th generation Amazon Fire HD; maybe Amazon had a few extra laying around?"

A little-known fact about the echo smart speakers is that they run a minimally modified version of FireOS at their core. In fact, many references to the Fire tablet lineup can be seen around the echo firmware. Using the same SoC makes sense in this regard as it allows for a more unified build process by enabling kernel/driver/firmware blob reuse.
Schools have fixed costs and marginal costs, just like everything else. Fixed costs consist of capital, like buildings. Marginal costs are like teaching time and books. Increasing your capital is usually relatively slow, e.g. buildings take a while to build and land takes a while to sell.
I'm deeply confused why the person writing this thinks speakers are a technology that even can be "disrupted", let alone all the stuff he does that is for all intents and purposes just reading tea leaves^H^H^H^H^Hspeaker casings.

Sure, the manufacturing is interesting, and there is some truth to the smart aspect of the sonos being kind of "bolted on", but the attempt to read an entire companies outset from the manufacturing processes they use is just stupid.

As much as software likes to go on about "disrupting" this and "reimagining" that, manufacturing, particularly large volume manufacturing is extraordinarily staid, and different companies have in-house experience with different processes. Switching processes just because something is new and shiny is just not done, because the retooling costs are enormous, and you may not have the in-house familiarity with the new processes.

Really, what it sounds like to me is that the engineers at Sonos are far better at designing things for production. They didn't need to use fancy new tools, or design extremely exotic moldings. When it comes to cranking out a product, the LESS fancy new processes you use, the better in almost every case. It means the processes you're using are more predictable, you have more vendors you can use (because they're more broadly available), and you're likely to maybe have a old guy or two in house who's use process XXX for 40 years, and can tell you in excruciating detail every single little thing you have to worry about before you even start production.

Basically, this is a single decent point (sonos is a speaker company adding smart shit, and amazon is a internet-of-shit/retail giant adding speakers), buried in a whole lot of hyperbole and bullshit.
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At the expense of losing details in the blacks? I have some monitors where gamm adjustments only will take me so far.
Say you're not profitable, and raise money on the expectation that you can eventually lower costs and only then become profitable. If you then find out you can't lower costs (i.e. you can't automate something you could, and keep having to rely on more costly labor), then you eventually collapse.
Win32 is kind of legacy.

UWP is what was WinRT on Windows 8, they have just been improving it all these years.

Of course they have access to full DirectX 11 and 12.

All new APIs are UWP based, and with they learned with the Desktop Bridge for Win32, they changed their strategy and are now merging UWP and Wi32 into a single container/store model.

Some of the talks related with it were done at MSBUILD 2018, check MSIX, .NET Core 3.0 roadmap, XAML Islands, XAML Direct.

If they don't change direction, in a couple of Windows releases they will be merged, with UWP continuously taking over Win32, like Win32 did before to Win16.

As for Apple, I can quickly refer to Object Pascal, Quickdraw 3D, JavaBridge, Quickdraw Java APIs, A/UX, Dylan, Newton, MCL, Hypercard....
I don’t think it matters that the Echo Plus is technically more advanced and that Amazon owns more of the stack.

If the Sonos One looks better, is heavier, and costs more, then Sonos might be able to sell the product further up-and-to-the-right on the Veblen good chart.

Maybe.

I’m not convinced going public for these one trick ponies does anything other than let the early investors cash out.

I’m just a layperson when it comes to these matters, but wouldn’t Sonos have been acquired if their product-market fit was believed to be worth something?
I was being sarcastic, but also not taking into account currency conversion rates (and possibly the availability of stuff in your country)

Regardless of that, if all you're doing is General Business™ then surely all you need to do is grab an all-in-one box, shove as much 3rd party ram in it as will fit & then nab a couple of monitors and an unbranded mechanical keyboard off amazon.

I did a lot of work on a £700(~$900) Optiplex with 16gb of ram and that was more than capable of running ubuntu on 3 monitors while being small enough to fit into a handbag
It's totally valid to define AI this way.

But just keep in mind, when most people talk about AI, they're knowingly talking of something much more limited. So you're going to constantly have communication failures with people who are defining AI differently than you.

(Many people nowadays use the term AGI [Artificial General Intelligence] to mean what you think of as AI, btw).
If you are producing physical goods then becoming more popular just means that the stores that sell your product run out of stock faster. Then you scale up production.

With an internet based service, if you allow new people to sign up at any time and you become popular and you are not able to scale then you will not be able to service all of your users quickly enough. The people that you have pretending to be AI will be a bottleneck that makes it difficult to scale because you won’t be able to find more people suitable for that job and train them for it quickly enough. Then the business collapses.
Hit the mark there
> there was never such a thing

Not exactly the same thing, but onions have a special place in the law:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Futures_Act
I’ve been involved in many interviews in my jobs, and we haven’t thrown an Software Engineer application out because they don’t have a bachelors.

Many of my friends and I don’t have a bachelors, and we haven’t noticed this issue. I have been asked if I have a degree, and I am honest about it and tell my story.

While not everyone agrees, I think it matters more what you’ve done on your own and on the job than what degree you’ve got.
What happens though if you give a avian or a tribe of sign language fluent apes.. a way to write things down permanently..
If you're offering a service, then yes, you have to do that.
Who is restricting you now that did not in college? Your spouse? Or maybe you grew up and can now restrict yourself? Or did you go to prison and now understand breaking some laws are not worth it?
Fronting is a very common approach to win government contracts so I can’t see why it won't be used here as well.
Is that opinion? Do you have any research to show that people find them harder to use than modern UI?
Your comment would be better without the name calling.

My thought was: interesting teardown but where’s the support argument. Scroll, scroll, scroll, ah! Three points at the end, Ben reckons Amazon will win because:

1. OEM & retailer

2. More of the stack

3. Diversification

But, you don’t have to win to be successful.
Ray is, like YARN, a resource manager - but it's lightweight and fast. Kind of like Erlang is for a lightweight process model, Ray can start tens of thousands of containers with much lower latency than YARN or Mesos or Kubernetes.
It has found a niche in distributed Reinforcement Learning (deep RL), and is establishing a beach-head there. Now it faces the chasm....
I own Sonos One. Love it when the wifi connectivity between my cellphone/laptop and my Sonos don’t die. Iisten Spotify and some radio podcasts. The sound quality is great, especially the bass is pretty good. I wish there’s a bluetooth option which would offer better connectivity quality in short range.
So I guess the alternative would be to tunnel TLS inside TLS. So they can set up fake CAs to intercept the outer TLS, but not the inner TLS, satisfying both bank regulators and actual security. Until regulators catch on and we have to go around in circles again ...
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Sure that wouldn't be very difficult. I think i'd be obliged to have a dark theme for the new macOS' dark mode anyway.
WPF was presented and touted as the future of the Windows GUI (and beyond.)

It was barely dogfooded at all by Microsoft themselves and the future we got instead was the bland, inferior “Metro” experience.
Thanks! You're too kind :)
I have a throwaway account on reddit that I sometimes log in to, and it surprises me just how much worst the new reddit design is. It's so incredibly slow and seems to make my browser struggle.

Old reddit is silky smooth. I really don't get it
What name calling?

The thing is, all those points are true, but they have zero to do with the hardware design.

If the guy want's to make those points, make those points. Don't pretend to extract them from the hardware with some sort of bizarre hardware phrenology.
Seagate launches low-cost, consumer-grade BarraCuda SSD
Classic-Start – a Classic Shell fork
> In the US you work towards retirement—that’s the goal. That’s the endgame.

To further your point, I think this is more a utilitarian societal lie (like cheaters get caught etc.) than anything.

The age of retirement is set to get non efficient people out of the market, and as people get fitter and fitter it gets pushed ahead (right now it is raised (or is discussed to be?) 65 in a number of countries for instance).

Doing everything one dreams to do during retirement is lunacy, chances are this time is spent in an hospice or retirement isn’t even reached.
I sit next to Per at work. :-)

Blocks of primary rays tend to be about 16x16 by default, though this is tunable. MIP maps do greatly help with textures for incoherent rays. But we are also able to use the same trick for geometry; secondary rays may use coarser tesselations than primary rays. Per wrote about this some time ago, but it's something we still leverage. [0]

The number of bounces we do is fairly flexible. [1] We actually default to an upper limit of 10 total rays per path, with an initial limit of 1 diffuse bounce and 2 specular bounces. Depending on the geometry that's hit these initial limits may get extended until the total hits the upper limit. There are cases where the higher limits make a noticeable difference to the look.

[0] https://graphics.pixar.com/library/RayTracingCars/paper.pdf, section 5.3

[1] https://rmanwiki.pixar.com/display/REN/Trace+Depth
Glad to hear it! I'm undecided re open source, two reasons: I wouldn't mind trying to sell it and take a chance at the 'indie developer' dream, and also managing a community project i think is beyond me.
> Not to mention that after not touching any code for a whole year I'd be questioning your ability to be doing technical hires in the first place.

Let's not get carried away. Programming isn't easy, but are you really saying that after 1 year not coding, you can't do technical work? 1 year is maternity/paternity leave in some countries, do you really think that people coming back from maternity/paternity leave can't code any more?
There has been so much fiddling with long term interest rates via QE (qualitative easing) that I am not sure how much you can look to the yield curve these days to predict anything.
I used to own a ton of Sonos speakers and absolutely loved them. But the software was just too damn buggy. Ended up giving them away right around the time WiFi support rolled out and the speakers refused to stay connected.

I’m hoping for the best for them. Their customer support was absolutely top notch. Talked on the phone with an engineer from Europe on Christmas Eve trying to solve a weird bug in the Mac app.
I'm perplexed why the trains don't run all through the night for a journey of that duration. How does someone get to Beijing for a morning meeting?
I know, the issue there is that if you deploy a parachute at over about Mach 0.4~0.5, you will either rip the airframe apart or reduce survival chances of large vertebrae due to the massive acceleration. The solution there would be going into a stall, as that usually serves to provide the drag needed to slow down to safe parachute speeds, but not so much that the airframe can't be reasonably build strong enough to not suffer damage that matters if one considers the plane scrap metal once it lands with the parachute.

This is just too slow to get the main benefit of air travel, which is being able to go at barely subsonic speeds without handling being a massive headache. Of course you will have worse handling at barely subsonic speeds, due to any large deflection going transsonic and having the potential to result in loss of control. But that can easily be handled electronically, especially if the plane is at least somewhat aerodynamically stable, i.e. won't require constant corrections to not go into stall (like some modern fighter jets do).
Those children aren't being systematically murdered with the full support of the government tho.

I'm pro-choice I'm just saying its not fair to compare abortion to child deaths in general.
USCIS policy change threatens non-citizens with deportation if they lose status
People use the brightness they use. They may have Reasons.

It’s not anyone’s job as a web designer to insist they're wrong.
It's apparently too late to edit this comment, so I must annotate: O_LARGEFILE isn't part of POSIX, it's an extension, my error there entirely.
People knew there was no way out, so work style was different though (keeping work/life balance was not a phylosophical question).

Granted people working in mines for instance just had a shitty life all around.
I would say that regulatory capture is the natural outcome of a Republic, due to the fact that the representatives can be persuaded to act against their constituents wills.

A Direct Democracy is now technologically viable, and having people regularly participate in voting on small topics keeps people accountable and also allows more nuanced views where somebody doesn't have to, eg. be anti single-payer-healthcare AND be anti illegal-immigrant at the same time. This reduces deadlocks and we don't get stupid compromise bills with pork spending being passed so that each team gets something they are happy about.
And most of the value added is in the software. The hardware is just an active speaker with the equivalent of a raspberry pi attached. Not new tech.

I owned a set a Sonos speakers for about 5 years now and I am in the market for a better replacement. The software has become unusable, the speakers keep depairing, not managing to read the network drive (and shockingly only support SMB1). But all the alternatives have moved into stasi-style “a mic behind every radiator”. I feel slightly out of choice. I just want the music not the spying.
British geologist Herbert Henry Thomas’ seminal study on Stonehenge was wrong
Acquired by who? It's a luxury niche brand. Acquisition by one of the giants they integrate with (Apple, Amazon, Spotify, etc) would inevitably result in vendor lock-in (Apple buys them and now Amazon Music doesn't work anymore), which would be devastating to their reputation and customer sat. A "neutral" giant (LG?) could pick them up, but why? Who wants to diversify into luxury home stereo? That leaves major audio companies (Sennheiser? Bose?), but those are mostly already luxury brands, and cobranding ("Sonos by Sennheiser") could get complicated.

The nature of the market Sonos is working in means that whatever P/M fit they have is potentially compromised by being acquired. Weird, but that's luxury goods for ya.
Saying that we can't penalize the poacher because his boss may still be unpunished isn't going to convince me to go easy. Also the idea that poachers will somehow become even more violent against anti poachers doesn't hold much weight either. Poachers have never hesitated to use a gun.
This article also has some good graphics: https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2018/7/7/17541602/thai-cave...
You only get the trademark for your industry not a global reservation on the word.
If this is to be a simple listout of products and services that were superseded or discontinued because it made no sense to continue them (as opposed to breaking promises or replacing them with inferior counterparts), then on the MS side we have:

Active Desktop, Briefcase, CardSpace, Meeting Space, NetMeeting, Windows Sidebar, Desktop Gadgets and Windows SideShow (which displayed gadgets in a secondary screen on laptop lids etc., kinda cool at the time but I never saw an implementation in the wild), Office Assistant (Clippy in the File Explorer), Encarta and the rest of the edutainment product line (which were actually great and often used as a selling point for PCs at the time), XP themes, HTML thumbnails, the Comic Chat IRC client (my first gateway to social interaction on the internet), the SideWinder game controllers for PC (including the Dual Strike [0] which was way ahead of its time), MSN/Live Messenger, Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, Visual Basic, FoxPro and many others... :)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MShp4F4cUDE
> but the attempt to read an entire companies outset from the manufacturing processes they use is just stupid. (emphasis mine)

You make good points, and I generally agree, and upvoted your comment.
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Keycloak is a personal fave for this general space

https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak
I wonder if this applies to Asian women too? Or is it only for "underrepresented" women founders of color?
Yeah true, thanks for your taking the time to point that out.
https://www.rockit-internet.de/en/what-is-an-impressum/ ? Ah, the complicated boundary between "commercial" and "personal" ..
I guess the question is if it's easier to get capital from this fund or to get it from the old boys network.
I think why people support a minimum wage is complicated and varied. Great Britain did not pass a minimum wage until 1998. I don't it was full of favela like living conditions throughout the 20th century.
R O A S T E D

Lol, your point is so good that it hurts.
How scammers get away with fraud
Not all EU countries require that or have different rules around it (in germany only business-like websites require the imprint)
Germany: 'Decapitating' Freedom of the Press?
Nothing is truly free. You're paying for it in one way or another.
You only need to put an email address on your personal websites. If you choose to do business (which includes showing ads), you will need your full contact information on there.
And a lifeline. And artificial lighting. And regular air refills.
WPF has had a major release not a year ago and is actively updated alongside .net framework updates[1]. It is featured prominently in all visual studio products.

For that matter even winforms is still available.

The Metro UI evolved into windows 10 UWP, and practically everything that was in Metro UI can be transferred to UWP, down to the homescreen widgets.

Silverlight and DirectInput are still available, though they are deprecated they haven't been removed. Silverlight even had security updates released as late as a year ago [2]even though it has been deprecated since 2015

[1] - https://github.com/Microsoft/dotnet-framework-early-access/b...

[2] - https://www.microsoft.com/getsilverlight/locale/en-us/html/M...
> You can even throw an entire expressjs application into a lambda function

This is the first general misconception with serverless.

Serverless is not lambda . If you think serverless == lambda, it's like saying cloud == ec2 . You're missing the point of it.
Just read The Little Schemer - the best book on recursion.
Using IM-Visor to stop untrusted IME apps from stealing sensitive keystrokes
>Those children aren't being systematically murdered with the full support of the government tho.

Wars kill children.
Eh? Sort of like the NSA intercepting routers and flashing them?

Pretty hard to trust anyone at this point.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa...
Could you elaborate a little more? I'm very interested in Legal Tech, however, I noticed there are few useful applications actually on the market/being used.
Serveverless is not lambda. If you think so , you are mistaken , it's like saying Cloud == EC2 .
They may indeed have reasons, but in the substantial majority of cases they don’t, or their reasons are badly flawed, and they would do well to reduce their brightness.

I will continue to recommend that people reduce their brightness in almost all cases. That’s my job as a friendly person.

As a web developer, though, there is little scope for insisting that they’re wrong, which is why I say we have to take most people’s badly configured monitors into account.
The “skinny” is fortunate now, isn’t it? It makes it easier to guide them through tight passages.
But you are not paying the same amount of profit, likely.
large providers will drag their feet kicking and screaming because the prominent 'login with facebook / google' link are both selling point of their platform and monitoring opportunities for third party users.
I heard a good set of definitions.

Data science: observing trends in data

Machine learning: humans develop models that are fit to data to make predictions

AI: Computers make modeling decisions entirely autonomously. No human input. Dump data, get predictions.
It's cool that Amazon's product is more advanced, and that's interesting technically... but what does that have to do with the Sonos IPO?

Beats cost $18 to make.. cheap plastic.. nothing premium about them.. they even put a few pieces of metal in it so they feel sturdy.. People love(d?) them. Sold for $200/pair. Company sold for $3b.

The bill of materials isn't the sole determinate of success.
WPF was released in 2006, before the original iPhone. it has been actively developed and pushed for close to 10 years.

WPF was used in Visual Studio.