skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Because society is sexist against women, society should be sexist against women."
If you were debt free with 1 million USD in cash and mutual funds would you choose to live in a major city? So many major cities worldwide have high levels of pollution which has a deletirious effect on both physical health and mental performance. You trade that off against having access to the things big cities offer (services, entertainment, etc). It might seem worth the tradeoff if you are single and don't want to own anything. But making that choice for wife and kid seems tough.
It was not disallowed too
Large Hadron Collider: 10 years of pushing the frontiers of physics
IIRC it's per architecture. So there will be a separate slice for ARMv6, ARMv7, ARMv7s, ARMv8, etc.
It is more likely that they would fix this in a 12.0.1 that will be available shortly than to change the 12 release as all new iPhones come preloaded with 12.
I saw a Samsung ad today, boasting that the battery lasts all day... I was mildly disgusted that's where we're at. There are seriously devices that don't last the day?
The Chinese system has evolved since Deng created his state enterprises and there are many markets in China now that have a significant degree of freedom. But not all, and they all started out as regulated hierarchical distribution systems due to 2 million people being slaughtered by Red Guards on top of 20 years of rigorous communism. Deng cracked the chicken/egg issue of development by showing that it is possible to construct the chicken from edicts and then make it pass it's eggs around.

(I like metaphor)
This makes no sense to me. There is only one kind of light and it has just so many parameters: basically, the distribution of intensities along the spectrum. If reflected and emitted light have the same intensities there is no physical way to distinguish them.
I am aware that app thinning is not as effective, but to my knowledge it does the same thing: strip out unneeded architectures from the binary and remove unused assets. I'm sure you have more to share, so I'm all ears on what the differences are.
https://perldoc.perl.org/perlsub.html#Lvalue-subroutines
Just to clarify the situation:

fulafel’s comment (parent^4 of this comment) is incorrect. iOS does not automatically reboot when Safari or WebProcess crashes, and Safari is not generally treated as a ‘privileged component’ overall – to the contrary, last I checked it had a tighter sandbox than most apps.

As people have noted, Safari does have special privileges to run a JIT, which is otherwise restricted. This is not because running a JIT can compromise the security of the system as a whole, but simply because having a JIT in your process makes it easier to exploit that process, making it best to avoid except where absolutely necessary.

By the way, I haven’t looked into this crash myself, but my guess is that it’s an unexploitable out-of-memory situation. This would still involve some sort of bug in the kernel, since it shouldn’t be possible for a process to take down the whole system (especially not ‘by accident’). But in general it’s relatively common to have bugs where you can make a more privileged piece of code run out of memory, and most of the time there’s no way to turn them into code execution. Of course, “most of the time” != always, and there’s no way to know for sure without tracking down the root cause :)
VB.Net has little to do with Basic or Visual Basic - it’s really just an alternative syntax for C#.
> traditional softer rubber(?)

FWIW audio cables in consumer stores were pretty much always PVC, though, as you like many other people discovered, there are quality plastics and cheap plastics. The former will last quite a number of years before turning hard and brittle, the latter won't, smells badly and probably gives you cancer for free, too.

Speaker, microphone and guitar cables for studio / stage use often have rubber sheathing (~neoprene), though many are just higher quality PVC.

> The newer cables also tend to lack protective stiffeners at the ends for protection against damaging the wires if the cables is pulled at a right angle to the connector.

Using the tiniest of ferrules seems to be a conscious design choice, though incorrect material and manufacture are commonly seen as well. In any case, a bad design that's poorly manufactured is not going to work.

As usual, non-consumer products don't have the problem, at all.

> The problem is race-to-the-bottom we're seeing everywhere as businesses try to squeeze every last cent out their products.

While that's certainly true, the ali/bangood-mentality also has to do with it. "Oh look, I can get $thisThing for 2.5 $ delivered from China, which normally costs 10 $". A compounding problem is of course, that the 10 $ store item is the same as the 2.5 $ Ali item, so you actually need to turn to the proper online store to get the quality matching price point.
I think there's still lots of room for hobbyist farms. New techniques like permaculture farming is making it easier.

There's also demand for locally produced organic food by health & environment conscious folks.
This was ultimately just a transfer of wealth between two parties. There wasn't much of a loss for society as a whole (besides maybe to Aas's creditors and the clearing house but they can handle this risk)...
Yes, infinity fabric has limitations.
Threadripper suffers in memory intensive workloads because only half of the CCXs have a dedicated memory controller thus some cores need to talk to another CCX to access memory.
On EPYC each CCX has its own memory controller so it's less of an issue.
Ask HN: Experiences with BMC Software?
We are being pitched BMC Software stack for our private cloud, and I wanted to know the HN hivemind opinion about their products and experience when working with them as a company. To me it looks like vendor lock-in for the ages, but I might be biased. I am not the decision maker myself, but my opinion will carry some weight in the discussion. Please advise?
Not sure if the question is against rules, if so, delete it ofc.
Ended up attaching my dongle to my headphones with a Velcro cable tie after forgetting it one too many times (I need to take it on and off all the time to connect it to my Mac, as it doesn’t have a Lightning port - the fact that that situation exists feels like an omen that Apple aren’t quite firing on all cylinders). It sucks and looks stupid but it kind of solves the problem.

I wish they’d not removed the port, it’s a real pain and I’m not willing to go wireless until there’s a way to do it with zero latency. I’ll be really disappointed if the new iPad removes the headphone socket as it’s pretty essential for music making on the go.
It's leveraged. The gain or loss is a multiple of the difference, not necessarily linked to the initial sum.

He was probably betting a few millions on what appeared to be a relatively safe trade, then a rare succession of events lead to a 1:100 ratio in the other way.
> "Commodities are commodities because there is such a huge demand for them."

True. However, that doesn't mean, per the article, they are profitable. And if they are unprofitable, doesn't that mean supply is greater than demand?

Growing an unprofitable commodity and then saying "I'm not making money" doesn't make sense. Even if there oversight (e.g., Uncle Sam) and you trust that oversight (which we know is inconsistent) I would think it makes sense, if you want to be legitimately profitable, you'd try to mitigate the risks.

Farmers are being paid to grow food that gets destroyed. The masses are eating so much cheap food they're becoming ill more often and/or dying younger. The status quo doesn't feel sustainable.
For the secondary rays for reflection, refraction and shadows.

At one ray per pixel, you can only do the primary ray and find which triangle it hits. The exact same thing can be done with rasterization much faster and with equal results.
It doesn't hurt that those lucky 10 also work hard. Or may be 9 of them do. Lucky wouldn't appear on your door.

Also, you gave the impression that the other 90 are losers because they work hard. Life is not an extreme. They may not become as rich, but they aren't poor either, and they maybe lucky in other metrics. They aren't loser.
Point being we, the users, are the mechanical turks, carrying out Google's experiments.
It's more complex than that. Switching warps thrashes your caches. There is definitely a cost associated with it.
They mean very likely from the trader's perspective.
> They only bear fruit in nearly pristine, undisturbed forest

.. and various backyards or just along the road even in larger cities. Some consider them a nuisance[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_nut#Hazards
> What's the damn problem? The rest of us get a better, thinner phone.

If you bothered to look at the specs, you'd have noticed this not to be true.
> the fact that the system is actively working to transfer this money elsewhere?

A one-guy example vs. "the system" - which overall clearly works towards concentrating wealth, not towards distributing it. https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2014/11/06/f...
Or do you really see "the system" (especially when left alone) work towards spreading wealth away from the rich? Even just away from the concrete person who are rich right now, to new people, even if the overall distribution remained the same. As far as I know not even the second option is happening, being rich seems to be very much "genetic" (in quotes, of course), to different degrees in different countries but even in the best of cases a clear trend.

In any case, I'm a little confused about who meant to say what and whom I should be responding to since it was the OP who wrote

> Wealthy individuals are a flaw of capitalism and the system will always keep trying to get rid of them.

Edit: just to poke some fun at The Economist whose link I posted, here is another one from the same paper with a contradicting headline: https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2017/06/29/why-the-...

EDIT^2: Before anyone else mentions it, I find discussions such as these silly: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/is-increasing-income-in...
To me this is a discussion about how wet water really is. With tens of millions uninsured, articles like this: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/01/un-extreme-pov... -- I think discussions like the linked one are like discussing if there really is more or less water coming through the leak in the roof (or the ship's hull). Overall, over longer periods, the problem does not seem to be going away one bit. Whether it gets half a percentage point worse or better depending on the measurement period and the measures chosen, so what. The main point remains.
Can they? As always I think this idea is overestimating the power of passionate users (usually computer geeks thinking they're influential).

They surely didn't lead any large swaths out of Microsoft and into Linux, for example...
'DC Universe' subscription service leaves beta, costs $8 a month
4% draw down on a stock index fund will likely pay 80k anually adjusted for inflation indefinitely.

At least, this is based on historic stock data However, I was taught in undergrad econ, that this 4% return above inflation is considered the risk premium, over what a CD would get you. So there is a real risk of losing everything. Which means hedging is a good idea, some of the money to buy a reasonable house, some %age of rest in bond fund, and quarterly rebalancing can go a long way to preserve a lot of wealth in a black swan event.
This is a ridiculous hypothetical to begin with, fear over stuff like this is how we end up with nonsense farm policy.
I've stopped accepting iOS/OSX seriously after those iCloud celebs leaks and especially after 'empty string' root prompt bug. How anyone can still trust this black box concept.
This is very much the case to a large extent, I think certain communities such as the Amish are able to maintain their farming practices because they share resources and build up labor sharing through mutual aid. They also tend to be somewhat culturally insulated and also hesitant to become dependent upon outside technology which helps them maintain the incentives to work together. But they also adopt cerain technologies on a community by community basis for instance cell phones (for business use) and small solar panel setups are common. Farming isn't really an option for a lot of rural people outside of a network like this because they don't own much land and so they just have to travel farther if they want to get a pay check.
And Chrome was based (and later forked off) on Webkit, after Apple had already done the hard work (and KHTML laid the groundwork).
Well, that's the point -- he couldn't. He was also trading from a personal account it seems. Seems a bit odd they would allow that.
He's now apparently inspiring pro-segregation arguments in Saudi Arabia: https://twitter.com/iyad_elbaghdadi/status/10053027139854008...

His followers have absorbed some pretty terrible ideas from him. This was a comment about the recent decriminalization of homosexuality in India: https://i.imgur.com/W80VytS.png
I've got AirPods and I'm sold. I'm not going back to wired headphones.

Apple has got proximity-based pairing nailed so well, it's easier than plugging a jack in. I can connect to other iPhones as easily as mine. Macs logged in to my iCloud don't need pairing at all. It works like it should, not like a typical Bluetooth crap.

The charging case is more convenient to carry than a bundle of wires. And of course I can walk around, zip my jacket, etc. without minding the wire.

It's more expensive, proprietary, it doesn't work well for some people. But I can definitely see why having AirPods Apple thought wired headphones are the next floppy drive.
Well, yeah. If you are memory bandwidth-constrained it's a bad idea to go off-chip.

But for ray-tracing, what does it really matter? We are already assuming that you will wait a full memory fetch cycle to get the next node's child AABBs and child indices. The warps will do their intersection test on the data they just read and fire off the next read. Each thread's hot context should fit in under a cache line, since it's basically just a single ray to keep track of.
>> longest-running war in history

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conflicts_by_duratio...
But it has preserved a lot of the simplicity of the basic language.

I think it’s biggest value is that it offers a bridge for business users who’s only programming experience is some VBA to a more sane and modern language.
Attorneys drafting derivative contracts need boundary conditions so this doesn't happen. The boundary conditions would also signal to those who rely on them to get protection if a boundary is hit. Zero and infinity are simply ignored.
Apple has taken full responsibility for this by acting as the seller of a product. If I sell you a washing machine and it breaks for whatever reason under statutory warranty, I am responsible. No hiding behind “yeah but the producer wants to make more money off you so it’s not really my fault.”

You take responsibility for what you sell in B2C. If you’re not happy, take it up with your suppliers. Or the law. Or Santa Claus for all I care.

This is a vital part of our market rules. Otherwise people would never stop pointing fingers.

(I want to add: it’s also true morally. Even if this is not strictly legally their responsibility, moral responsibility is assumed all the same. This is why we blame apple; they can’t have their cake and eat it too. There was this cartoon of a villain who copied the power of every hero he met. When he met Superman it all seemed lost; surely noone could defeat him now? In the world’s hour of truth, the Batman approaches with kryptonite, and he buckles. “He could not copy our strengths without copying our weaknesses.” So it is with Apple and Hollywood.)
I’m not really familiar with the DACs in past iphones, but I’d be really surprised if you had any “hi-fi” options available via the 3.5mm jack.
>>> If you were debt free with 1 million USD in cash and mutual funds would you choose to live in a major city?

Like everyone else, I don't get to choose.

Do you realize that people have roots, family, friends? Do you realize that border and immigration control is a thing? It's disingenuous to consider changing city as a trivial option.

When someone has $1M, it's because he is in a location that made it possible in the first place.
Yup, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17998173 for an example.
"almost zero" is exaggerating. When humans worry about basic needs like food and shelter this makes them notably unhappy. In many countries even a basic full-time job might not alleviate poverty enough to take you up to this line where your basic needs are met and the Hedonic treadmill kicks in.

And in the Industrialised North lots of people actually live _below_ zero, with consumer debt at unprecedented levels.
DO NOT CLICK THE LINK!

Never imagined I'd read those words at HN. How times have changed. Be sensible people.
I don't care about SpaceX. It doesn't benefit me at all in any way. In fact, some of my tax money probably subsidizes those spaceships so that big telecom companies can launch their satellites into space more cheaply and juice more profits out of my current ADSL contract; which won't get cheaper.

I appreciate Bill Gate's charity work but I understand that it also doesn't benefit me personally - It probably costs me as well. Lifting people out of poverty means that they will be able to get an education to compete against me in the job marketplace in the future and will lower my wage. I can cope with that on a moral basis, but I'm pretty sure that Bill Gate's donations cost me more (in terms of how it affects my humble net worth) than it costs Bill Gates himself (in terms of how it affects his net worth).
How DeepMind's biggest AI project is fixing bad Android batteries
>the first three would be multi billion dollar companies outside of Google

Gmail got popular because it's free (and had large space for a free client). If it wasn't to be outside of Google, it would make an insignificant amount of money through ads, or started to charge (in which case users would flee).

Ditto for Chrome. There are 4-5 free browsers, nobody would use a browser that's not free (a required for it to be a multi-billion dollar company). At best they'd sell their search bar default setting, like FF does, which is less than a billion IIRC.
Yes, civil disobedience.

And yes, it didn't really work for music. Instead of absurdly expensive CDs, we have inexpensive streaming services that provide no actual files. And log and sell usage data.
What is home?
Free markets make efficient allocations in the sense that resources are allocated to what is in demand and competition forces players to increase their own efficiency.

Markets exist no matter what you do. Everything is a market.
I know of two in London - a monthly dinner run by a local startup CTO, and the CTO Craft circles which meet weekly and are more formal (there’s a loose syllabus and a more experienced leader who runs the groups). Ping me via http://douglassquirrel.com and I can put you in touch with both.
Tech companies want to sell you their cloud and tell you it's better than local storage, to tie you to their platform and for a ongoing revenue stream but this is where you notice the leaky abstraction.
Human action
On the other hand, it has been quite a while since I wanted to buy some specific music and couldn't find an option to buy it as audio files somewhere.
This is a possible idea for well-paid engineers. But many minimum wage people trying to get ahead appreciate the time and a half extra pay they get for working Sundays. Why would think we have a right to stop them from getting ahead by banning work on Sunday.
The act of tickling yourself is a two-way sensory exchange. You feel your fingers and your fingers feel you, whereas with a feather you don't have the latter.
I think that it's pretty obvious that products like chrome are not designed to make money. They are simply designed to enable control of the platform.
Not to be all "the market will sort things out", but in general if there is incentive to serve traffic there is at least a lot more potential to fix these things. If you lose potential revenue by congestion, you want to invest in more infrastructure to capture that revenue. Whether that is more base stations for LTE, wifi on public transport or something else. Today that is a cost that you have to recoup from the consumer.
>The question isn't "Should we keep wireless?".

The question was:

>Does anyone truly believe they removed the headphone jack for any reason other than to sell more dongles and more wireless headphones?

There are attributes to wireless beyond it being more expensive. Wireless isn't some gimmik to increase revenue. It genuinely is better in some ways and an acceptable complete replacement. If you're sold on wireless you don't need a headphone jack.
People didn't use Inbox for unique content over Gmail. Both always had just their mails.

It's the UI interactions (plus some metadata), and those are gone.
Where can I find dev contractor jobs?
I am working on my own idea at https://autenti.ca and I need to generate some income to keep working on it.

Most of the offers I found are for full-time jobs. It feels unethical to join a company just to leave it after a couple of months. So where do you find short-term contractor jobs?

My main skill is taking mockups/wireframes and making a working product out of it in a timely manner developing, testing, and deploying all front-end (react, redux, bootstrap) and back-end (aws: lambda, dynamo, ecs, emr, sqs, kinesis, and many more)

See my résumé and some recent projects at https://goo.gl/kDAiYP

Thank you all for your suggestions
> "Buy" doesn't mean "host it for me online forever".

Yes, it does!

That is precisely the problem. My grandmother was born in 1939. Apple tells her that she can "buy" her copy of the Andrews Sisters Greatest Hits, and after she "buys" it she can play it on her iPhone whenever she wants.

If Apple was truthful and said, "you can sort of rent a copy of this album, unless someone you never meet makes a decision you'll never hear about, and then it might disappear. Oh, and also, you're really rolling the dice if you travel to another country," then they wouldn't have gotten my grandmother's money.

Apple is taking advantage of misleading language, telling my grandmother she can "buy" this music, when for the first 70 years of her life "buy" meant "it's yours forever unless you decide to get rid of it".

When you "buy" your music from Apple, you don't choose where to download your single copy of it, make sure you have storage, and back it up to tape for safe-keeping. Apple explicitly tells you that you can "buy" your music and "it's stored in the cloud (ooohh aaaahh it's magic). Instantly available on all your devices."

Yes, I understand that this abuse is industry-wide. That doesn't make it right. If they had tried this shit 40 years ago they'd have been on the losing end of several lawsuits. Trying to tell my 80 year old grandmother, "Ackshually, you didn't buy this music, you bought a license to this music, and we decided to revoke it because reasons. Would you like to buy the 2018 remastered edition and hope that we don't decide to do this again?" should make them liable for bait-and-switch and truth-in-advertising lawsuits.

I didn't expect my argument to take this turn, but I think this is a good example for why 80 year olds vote for Trump. Our "greed is good" hyper-capitalist society has practically weaponized taking advantage of people. They don't really understand what's going on, but they do understand that they're getting screwed, and they're angry about it, so they follow the people on TV who seem to be as angry as they are.
https://i.imgur.com/SyPtJ7Q.png