skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience not 1 person in 50 of people who "aren't computer people" will retain that information regardless of how much time you spend. I once worked with a guy who would come to me for everything from excel stuff to "help I can't find this email in my gmail account". I tried to stress to him that I had my own work to do (write code) but he whined that it would take me just a minute and it might take him 15 or more! This had been going on at least 5 times a day for months and so finally I angrily asked him what I couldn't do faster than him out of his tasks and why shouldn't I just do his job and get his paycheck too. The requests slowed down after that. Being the one technical person available is almost always a shit experience.
CS isn't irrelevant if there are multiple devices on the bus, we havent seen a schematic.
Very true. I once installed a printer driver in a friend's company. I got blamed for missing files by several employees during the following weeks.
Ah, the good old days of bluejacking. Fun. Even if the person would not read the message, you'd hear his mobile ring. That was enough.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluejacking
It reminds me nothing more than the time Domino's fixed potholes. Obviously Musk's actions here are far more impactful than Domino's (which was really just a stunt), but there's something dystopic about companies providing the services that the government can't/won't do.
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I wish this was how things worked. Snuggies are a good example.
I'm not sure how people can't see that futures (as in Java's CompletableFuture) is much superior to golang's approach exactly due to the reasons you mention.

You can also have the actor approach (e.g. Akka) to set priorities, have monitoring hierarchies, and introspection.
In all these breaches I wonder if the data ends up public. Might serve good to sciences.
This article apparantly shows that fatality rates of Tesla are worse than of other luxury car makers: https://medium.com/@MidwesternHedgi/teslas-driver-fatality-r...

I am pro Tesla but I don't get why they don't compare apples to apples. As if Tesla doesn't know this? And if they know then don't try to screw the comparision in your favor so that you seem better then you actually are.
Perhaps because the subset of all possible deals that "seem" not entirely random to human eyes is immense.
Reverse Osmosis systems will remove lead.
> I do not understand the mindset of not wanting to help other people.

You, sir, have not been the victim of help vampires.

> A lot of people struggle to find answers specifically because of this lack of community around using Excel as a tool

I am unaware of this lack of information. Perhaps I am not doing the really, really, really exotic stuff but every question I have ever had on Excel has been answerable via Google.
Right. Wouldn't the inside sources also know if Apple/Amazon were somehow gagged? If you're going to leak the whole story, why not leak that part too?
A language claiming to be designed to solve the concurrency issue needs to have a better story than what golang offers.
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Fill out this survey, while I surreptitiously inject this GPS tracker under your skin, and you can have a candy bar.

Don't mind you noting down I stopped by, or these product posters you have up, but I'd rather not have that embedded tracker, thanks.

Don't track you? Already jabbed you, LOL...

And so the law stepped in.
The only extant Android phone with superior camera hardware is probably the Huawei P20 Pro which has insane low light performance for a smartphone and makes up for middling software with a large bump in image sensor hardware. The Pixel 2's software is good enough to subjectively push it ahead of all iPhones until the recent XS/XR where I think Smart HDR and an increase to an equal sensor size has just about tied with it.
This. It's important to note that human society's major driver isn't freedom or self-actualization or any other variant of Maslow's heirarchy. The thing that drives every one of these decisions (from "let's stay in one place and grow crops" to "let's have a person spend their entire life attaching a single bolt to every single member of an infinite line of widgets" to "Let's pay a human to put things in boxes and dock his pay if he takes a break") is maximizing viable reproduction and minimizing the energy to do so.
Since I work in technology, people would sometimes ask for my help fixing a computer, to whom I would clarify: no, no, no, I'm a Software Engineer -- I'm the person responsible for breaking the computers.
Ultimately most of these game studios are working for Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Google, Apple and Valve.

More pressure should be put on those mega-corporations to reduce the commissions they charge developers who release games on their platforms - currently 30%.

The consoles are not supercomputers anymore like the PS3, they mostly use off the shelf (AMD) hardware and x86 architecture. Soon they will just stream the game directly to a thin client which will only handle time-sensitive calculations like input and collision. On PC this 30% commission is even less justifiable since the platform is open and there is no hardware for Valve to get involved with.

Cutting this commission would immediately put money into the hands of games studios and improve conditions for workers, whilst still leaving the platform holders ridiculously profitable. Its a shame no one has been first to move on this - Microsoft with Xbox would seem a good candidate given their desperation to attract devs to the platform and away from PS4/Sony.

I think Telltale is just classic bad management. Not much different from other industries. I think the industry can make for a good career - find a small-ish studio with a string of successful releases and low overhead (no crappy legacy engine to maintain, cheap location).
Former.
Not GP, but there are three big downgraded use cases:

- Apple Pay ("double-tap the side and look at the phone, then set it on the terminal" is not remotely as fluid as "rest your thumb on the fingerprint reader and touch the phone to the terminal")

- Unlock the phone while it is laying flat on a table/desk in front of you so you can read a notification without picking the phone up and drawing attention that you are doing this.

- Remove the phone from your pocket and press in on the home button with a registered finger so it is fully unlocked and 100% ready to go by the time you can see it in your field of vision.

Overall, however, I am much more bullish on the long term value of Face ID and the phone knowing whether you are paying attention to it or not that I have accepted these downgrades. There are also several upgraded experiences.
Sorry I still don’t understand that - if you have a delay caused by GC before you can respond the next request then this adds time to the request which is waiting during that delay which increases response time.
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I'm not sure where you're reading the Apple denial you're referring to, but this is *incredibly clear, detailed, and leaves no room to wiggle:

"Apple has never found malicious chips, “hardware manipulations” or vulnerabilities purposely planted in any server. Apple never had any contact with the FBI or any other agency about such an incident. We are not aware of any investigation by the FBI, nor are our contacts in law enforcement."

Also:

"If there were ever such an event as Bloomberg News has claimed, we would be forthcoming about it and we would work closely with law enforcement."

And:

"No one from Apple ever reached out to the FBI about anything like this, and we have never heard from the FBI about an investigation of this kind — much less tried to restrict it."

If you read those as not material, then I'm at a loss as to what exactly would convince you.
Oh my god what an idea.

Ill take a serious look. Theoretically, this could be a huge boon for all the small businesses I work with.

I spreadsheet on my own for fun to solve physics problems and do video games calculations. I will take my free trial for sure.
It will become a pure sport, like riding horses :)
I'm still not sold on this idea. I ask why help John/Jan Doe Net Shopper protect their data? If Net Shopper X is that concerned about said issue a little research and implementation a Net Shopper X can privately and securely shop. However my constituents feel it's our obligation to use our skills and knowledge to help Net Shopper X because they are to stupid to do it themselves. Like a Shepard needs to protect the sheep from the wolves. So at this time its still just conversions rather then actions in my circle.
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Probably because as the 8th place, they will take more favorable terms to Waymo.

Only history will tell if this is a mistake or it is like negotiating the iPhone on AT&T first.
> I had a reply written for that poster, but decided against posting, but yeah, look up the USS Cole. The ship was ruined, people killed. Not talking about some military exercise, but about reality.

I think the GGP had that covered:

>>> At most the former can hope to land a good sucker punch before the latter knows they're even fighting.

The USS Cole attack was the sucker punch. Now that the US Navy knows they're fighting, they reprogrammed their robot guns to attack speedboats:

https://www.navy.mil/navydata/fact_display.asp?cid=2100&tid=...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izP3liVmfCE
Considering how many farmers vote Republican I'm almost surprised this issue is not raised more often in red states.
Probably to find an alternate route.
I cannot imagine being so enmeshed in the world of targeted advertising that I would care about this analogy.
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> As for pervasive NULLs, isn't that more the fault of schema design?

I think NULL defaults are widely regarded as a bad thing by now. You should have to declare what's nullable, not declare what's not null.

> There are a lot of things wrong with SQL. Little things like the fact that INSERT and UPDATE have different syntax for no good reason.

Moreover, SELECT should be at the end not the beginning. Query comprehensions and LINQ did this right.

And yes, the implementation inconsistencies are seriously irritating as well.

> Google Cloud Datastore, for instance - it can scale marvellously, but only because it imposes considerable constraints on its queries. Can't we do the same thing with an SQL subset?

If you extend Map-Reduce with a Merge phase, then you can implement the relational algebra with joins [1]. That scales pretty well.

http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs295-11/mapreducemerge.pdf
You know who's awesome at Excel? Martin Shkreli. You know, the Wall Street asshole who's in jail now? A while back, someone told me "hey, dude, there are these videos on YouTube where Martin Shkreli uses Excel, and they're fucking magic. It's like the first time you watched someone who's really good at Vim. "

It's true: [0]. Say what you will about that little heartless douchebag, he's fucking awesome at using Excel.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFSf5YhYQbw
I'm saying there is a reason to favor a CPU with avx512.
The reason may not apply to you / your work flow.

If your number crunching is just neural networks on your GPU, then the CPU doesn't matter.

But there's probably a lot of overlap between the folks who train neural networks, and those who may do linear algebra, MCMC, or traditional stats that are much better suited to the CPU. That is, conditioning on person A being someone who trains NNs, there is a higher probability that they're someone who would be interested in CPU intensive tasks that benefit from vectorization.
If that isn't you, don't factor it into your decision.

I do most of my number crunching on the CPU, so my choice is clear. The reviews of avx512 are generally poor (disable it so you don't get thermal throttling!), while the Threadrippers receive a lot of praise.
But within it's own niche (linear algebra, many iterative algorithms), the widest vectors are king.
I'm not commenting on the story the OP was sharing here. I'm commenting on the first broad observation they made. They implied that the main issue with Apple locking out repairs on their devices was that Apple themselves could not service all potential necessary repairs because they did not have the scale to do so.

But I say there's a problem way before we get to whether or not Apple can meet the demand for repairs worldwide. I don't like companies that intentionally attempt to prevent people from repairing, hacking or modifying things.

I don't like the term "Right to Repair" because it sounds kind of silly. But I recognize that the industrial revolution, the electronics boom, the invention of the personal computer, desktop software boom and the rise internet were all driven in part by people who tore other people's stuff apart, hacked it, modified it and reinvented it.

Art gets so much credit in terms of being an uplifting passtime but we massively overlook the joy of learning how things work, changing them and sharing them. Anyone who stands in the way of that has lost the love of that. They've lost their passion and I don't really want to pay for their products.
I was an Android fanatic - I had the very first device, the HTC G1, and about 10 other devices since then.

Eventually I got the Google Nexus 5, an Android flagship. Its updates ceased about a year after I bought it.

I gave up and got an iPhone 6S. Still getting updates to this day, despite being a 3 year old device. The constant software updates and support that Apple offers is clearly superior to what is provided with Android - even when you buy the 'official' Google phone.
Airtable can be mistaken for "just a pretty spreadsheet" at first glance, but it has nice column constraints, user access control, and (my favorite part) Trello-like comment history for each row.
So you're saying every third-party music app has the ability to be run with "Hey Siri, play [song] on [spotify/tidal/etc]?" and Spotify is blatantly lying? Because on their support forum they straight up say this can't be done.
Also a great tip! Thanks!
iPhone 5C was never top of the line though. When it came out it was already last years tech.
Then people, because they have the right to know, pass legislation forcing deaf people to identify themselves in public. People refuse to have normal conversations with the deaf because they can't speak to them in confidence. Everyone is much worse off as a result.

The societal reaction to Google Glass was overwhelmingly negative, because it turns out that people don't want to be knowingly recorded all the time. Throw in some people that are easy to "other" and you have a pretty ugly situation on your hands.

Cochlear implants and hearing aids are available, and do work for people; throwing networking into the mix sounds really unnecessary, in the same way that a smart fridge talking to the internet does.
Just use airtable, its like microsoft access but easier to use and pickup. Or just use google forms + google spreadsheets
> It's not moving/compacting because it doesn't need to - it doesn't have fragmentation issues.

It's not about fragmentation. It's about allocation throughput.

> Bump allocation is efficient and fast in single threaded programs but almost all Go applications are multi threaded and it would require locks there. Go is using thread local caches for allocation, that's why there is no point in using bump allocation.

No production bump allocator takes locks!

> This was mentioned many times by the Go team.

Yes, and my view is that they're coming to incorrect conclusions.

> Golang have value types (which Java do not have atm, but Valhalla is coming) and allocate on the stack based on escape analysis (which gets better with time).

1. .NET has value types, and in that runtime the generational hypothesis certainly holds and therefore .NET has a generational garbage collector.

2. Java HotSpot has escape analysis too (and the generational hypothesis still holds). It's primarily for SROA and related optimizations, though, not for allocation performance. That's because, unlike Go, HotSpot allocation is already fast.

> This means that adding generational GC would not benefit Go as much as you think.

I have yet to see any evidence that bump allocation in the nursery would not help Go.

> Go GC main focus is very low latency, not throughput and handling huge heaps with a lot of generations is not so easy with HotSpot.

And for most applications, balancing throughput and latency is more desirable than trading tons of throughput for low latency.

> In many cases you need to tune GC in Java because of that.

The default GC in Java HotSpot has one main knob, just as Go does. Actually, the knob is better in Java, because "max pause time" is easier to understand than SetGCPercent.
Thanks! I didn't know about INDEX and MATCH, and VLOOKUP always bothered me.
Not OP but:

The "Try OneDrive!" And XBox Live shortcuts (and others maybe) in my start menu cannot be removed without using the command line.

Deleting users data after an update which they have no choice but to install (and not even a choice of when to install it) is, in fact, different than losing data after a user chooses to install an update. Shrugging and saying "they should've had a backup" is the epitome of entitled.

The only version of Windows 10 that performs correctly for a power user is the LTSB. Which is only officially available for large companies. You can actually control what the OS does, and when it does it (same as every other professional windows OS that I used).

And saying that having advertisements in the start menu out of the box isn't bad because a competitor has ads during installation... I don't know what to say. I guess, I thought I was allowed to want my OS to get better over time? Compared to previous versions, as well as competitors. There was quite a fuss about Xiaomi having ads in the settings app, pretty similar.
People who have trouble with pivot tables almost universally have not organized their data in a way that a pivot table can use. They have a vision in their head of how they want the chart to look, and they can't get it to fit because the interface doesn't allow it or their data isn't organized correctly.
I've concluded that Excel is never the best tool for any job whatsoever. I actually think it's incredibly harmful.
No, they are not required to provide materially false information in direct violation of SarbOx, the SEC, and several other federal agencies and statutes - not to mention the various EU laws surrounding such activity.

If they were under an NSL they would simply not comment on this at all. That would be pretty normal for Apple, so people would probably take it in stride.
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The problem with debugging formula code is that it's hidden in the default view, and you have to know which cells to click on to find each bit of code.

In simple spreadsheets, the proper cell to click on is obvious, because the formula only updates the one cell where the formula is. The problem comes with multi-cell functions like Excel's VLOOKUP or Google Sheets' QUERY, where a cell that looks like it contains literal text might contain the complex formula call, and then all of those around it might look like plain text, but they're also the call's results. Editing any of this wrecks the sheet.

Despite these dangers, I recently perpetrated such a thing in Google Sheets, because that's the only platform I could get to easily work across many sites, some of which have users that are often offline. The next step up from that would be to stand up a custom web app, and the project simply did not demand that amount of effort. The next-best idea was to keep passing around .xls files via email; barf.

That's the seductive nature of these one-off spreadsheet "apps": they're quick and easy to stand up, yet difficult to extend and debug by the time that they grow to the point where they would justify development time for a proper application. By then, they've also gained a big enough user base and feature set that rebuilding the app properly also means a big effort in all axes: development, testing, deployment, and retraining.
Something we're considering! There is already a great solution from Ketra (https://www.ketra.com) but it's very expensive.
If they haven't learned how to "Google" for the solution and help themselves by now, they are lazy and do not deserve help.
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I use PostgreSQL, which is a real database. I use DBeaver as the database manager. It allows me to enter data by typing it in. For reports, I query the data. It has autocomplete. No forms.

For presentation, I toss the data on Excel. Bold the headers. Change the number type (pct, $, etc) to the correct one.

I would say that it has made my life a lot easier. There is one repository where the data is held. If I mess up, I go back to the master tables. In Excel, I would usually start over. Joins are easy. Excel can do some things better. When it can, then I use it. It's not a one or the other. It's ok to use both.
> Instead there's a sticker on the side of the device with a password that got generated and assigned to it on the way out.

This has been a thing for a while for WLAN routers. But I still don't really trust those, for all I know these passwords could be seeded on something very predictable, like the devices serial number.
How are those two topics not intimately related? The question of how reliable Apple's employees are is only relevant to the extent that you believe Bloomberg's reporters were competent in sourcing the story.
One of my granted patents is essentially a mux. Our company did a quick and dirty integration of two ASICs (Northbridge and GPU) by internalizing the IO bus. Muxes were added so that the IO bus could be exposed to allow an external GPU.

As I recall, I initiated the patent for defensive purposes.

I have noticed many SOC/ASIC patents that boil down to a mux.
Brex seems like a slightly unfortunate name in the times of "Brexit", heh :\
> hard to measure accurately since most leaks are hard to pinpoint.

Pinpointing the source isn't necessary, though, only knowing that the leak occurred and the approximate number of people "in on it". Even limiting this to leaks to the media for information shared at company meetings (so the number of people is equal to the number of employees) could provide interesting data, assuming a large enough sample size (and that leaks are numerous enough).