skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The new A12 processor comes very close in the same benchmarks to the best desktop processors, not mobile specific or phone centric benchmarks. I don't know why you persist in your non factual and biased comments.

"What is quite astonishing, is just how close Apple’s A11 and A12 are to current desktop CPUs. I haven’t had the opportunity to run things in a more comparable manner, but taking our server editor, Johan De Gelas’ recent figures from earlier this summer, we see that the A12 outperforms a moderately-clocked Skylake CPU in single-threaded performance. Of course there’s compiler considerations and various frequency concerns to take into account, but still we’re now talking about very small margins until Apple’s mobile SoCs outperform the fastest desktop CPUs in terms of ST performance. It will be interesting to get more accurate figures on this topic later on in the coming months."

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13392/the-iphone-xs-xs-max-re...
iOS has "Request Desktop Site" as an option in Safari. Is view as desktop something other than that?
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> There are plenty of GC languages which are still relatively-high performance and can thus be used for technically-challenging, "system"-like tasks

Unfortunately, they frequently lack the other attribute which makes C and C++ such pervasive solutions, namely portability.

Having "theoretical portability" (for example JVM bytecode) is not much use if your target hardware or operating system cannot support a JVM without you having to first port the JVM yourself.
I'd say smartphones and tablets already do 90% of what people want as far as tuning out of the real world goes.

VR misses the mark on a bunch of real life scenarios: selfies, device sharing vs different body sizes, multitasking (e.g. cooking while watching youtube).
Not sure how effective that is, considering lots of iLOs give you the possibility to mount a boot cd over network, so you skip the whole grub.
What on earth has a generational gc and can't handle a little bullet spam?
The guy you replied to is correct. The difference between how the market values companies and how the market values a cryptocurrency is irrelevant. Market capitalisation is independent of this distinction. Also, companies are acquired above market cap to entice shareholders to give up the desired proportion of the company to the buyer.
It's not uncivil, in fact it's the opposite - offering to simplify for someone who's having trouble communicating is normal and good.

I can't help it if you have weird notions about not being born in an English speaking country being undesirable or bad.

>I didn't write my comment to be mean, or anything other than frank.

Same, though the parent seems to think anyone who is frank and direct is uncivil. I'm glad the reply helped :)

>I shoot add it is definitely unwise to go ahead and run for office using your personal cell phone Facebook accounts as a starting basis.

My concern is that we're going down a path where we're going to redefine what is fair game in an undesirable way.
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There's a significant gulf between "I'll take care of it" and "figure it out yourself". I'm not really disagreeing with anything here, to be clear. But I think there's a place for useful instruction too.
This highlights the dangers of KPIs in general.

Sure, a good doctor goes through more claims than a bad doctor... but if you take away the ultimately outcome goal of helping patients, you can go through a lot more a lot faster. "My goal is to close tickets... anything I can do to reject a claim gets me to a closed ticket and gets me a bonus."

Multi-dimensional KPIs can help, but any time you have a raw number metric you'll need to sanity check on them. When dealing with customers, including customer satisfaction scores is a no-brainer. A lot of companies, Amazon comes to mind, have a "how's my driving" link in their email signatures.
Just use a large stainless steel pan
I have had unlimitee private repos on GitHub for over three years (job perm) and have made use of them twice ever. One for my vimwiki and the other was created and then touched.

Hopefully others will be like me and simply opt to not use it.
I have several surface computers. While they do have their issues, the "BSOD" he showed was not one of them. I've never had a BSOD on them.
I got to try the VOID Star Wars attraction shown in the video (although it might have been set up in a smaller space than the Disneyland installation).

It was a short, scripted, minimally interactive experience. The hand and prop tracking were pretty glitchy and somewhat immersion-breaking. The equipment was heavy and ridiculously cumbersome (even compared to current consumer VR headsets). I'm sure the cost/work of setting up a system like that is basically prohibitive too.

I don't think it's a great reference point for predicting the VR market in the next 5 years or so, as the cost comes down and more polished and inexpensive mass-market systems come out (like the Oculus Quest) that are cordless with good tracking.

Millions of people spend huge amounts of time playing games on tiny rectangles they hold in their hands. I think it's overly skeptical to assume they won't want holodecks, if the cost is $400 and the HW/SW isn't terrible.

I expect it'll at least be an increasingly less-niche gaming platform as not-terrible standalone devices come out (I tried a tennis game that was pretty fun, I'm not a gamer but I could see myself playing some VR games if it was a way to get real exercise).

The current non-gaming uses like corporate/sports/military training probably will grow too as the quality and ergonomics improve.

I'd really like to try a system with good body/face/eye tracking. I think that is kind of the minimum for social applications with really huge appeal. It's hard to get an idea of if it's compelling or not (or how far away it is, what needs to be improved, etc) without trying it though.
I'd say it's equivalent, but not a fantastic option. I think all it does is send over a different user agent for a desktop browser. On responsive web sites, I just see the same thing with the feature on as with it off. On sites that redirect based on UA, I've seen it take me to the desktop page instead.
I think you're looking at it wrong. It'd be like asking why you need an iPhone/facetime/texting when your wife is right next to you.

Rather, think of the hundreds of people who AREN'T right next to you: out of town parents, friends, your wife when she's on vacation, etc.

It won't replace everything, but'd be nice to play a game with a friend on the opposite coast, collaborate on a project with a remote coworker, or have a conversation with a relative far away.
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I will say that isomorphic [1] JS apps are really fun to write because with well abstracted APIs, the back end and front end don't feel like a discrete API and a discrete front end, but one entity that communicates via asynchronous function calls. For instance, working with firebase functions just feels like working with a local async function. But that's really a minor benefit to the fair criticisms you give.

[1] Whoever came up with isomorphic really liked their fancy math terms. Personally I'd have chosen automorphic, as it's all contained inside JS.
Not necessarily, it may just prevent them from being bored. Though I’m prepared to think that’s less likely if the parents did the application.
Ethereum Classic hit by 51% attack, seeing double spends totalling $460,000
Yes. The free tier has the basic pull request functionality (called merge request). Some features (require approvals before PR merges from contributors, require approvers from certain groups) are limited to paid tiers on gitlab.com
It was incorporated as the UI engine for Ember for some versions already for now.

Nothing revolutionary, but a good UI lib
> For 2-3 hours, me and two other people sat cuddled on a couch, alternating in a pretty free flow way between speaking with each other, speaking about the show we were watching, and just watching the content passively

Let's ignore the fact you were watching the content passively and thus making your argument moot given we're talking about a technology designed to hold your complete attention.

The VR equivalent of that is simple: you keep doing that, but with a headset on. Now all of you are still within ears reach of each other and can continue to talk, but the audio for the simulation is shared among those in the room, and only the visuals are private and slightly different to compensate for your slightly different "physical" location in the 3D space, just like the real world.

Now you're flying over the top of the rings of Saturn listening to Brian Cox explain how they formed and using a controller (perhaps single handed and optional), to click on things and reach out into the 3D space and explore what's going on elsewhere... now you can flip down the private audio option on the headset and listen to Professor Cox give you a private tour of a moon around Saturn. You're free to return to the shared experience as and when you wish.

That technology probably could exist today, but it's certainly available yet. But given the article is talking about future implementations, well there you go.

And no one is saying it'll replace what you've described, just augment it.
Quoting the article "There is no need for performing any sort of kneading.", this is wrong, nearly every pizzaiolo (the person who makes pizza in a restaurant) will tell you that you need to kneed for at least 25 minutes, this is to reach what is called "punto pasta" and by kneading you will help the dough to form gluten structure that will give elasticity and will preserve the air inside.

A little tip, if you want to make Neapolitan pizza, and you don't have an oven that can reach 460 Celsius, you should add extra virgin olive oil, this will raise the amount of time in the oven before the pizza becomes biscottata (crunchy and hard), in a professional oven the Neapolitan pizza cooks for around 2 minutes, and if the oven is not in the right temperature and so you need to cook it more the pizza becomes crunchy.

I recommend watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq90lUQUCUo (it has English subs).
Well, this makes sense...
Browsers on iOS are crippled: no dev tools, no view as desktop, and no alternatives to Webkit.

The degree to which this is true is pretty egregious. It has been since the beginning. How is it that Apple can keep browsers on iOS this locked down, while there was some sort of anti-trust ruling against Microsoft favoring their own browser on Windows?
That is interesting.

I adore Neopolitan pizza and have always considered it better than anything else. However, judging by the ratio of "regular" pizza places vs Neopolitan pizzerias it would seem i'm in a minority.

I was never quite sure if the relative lacking number of Neopolitan pizzarias in the US is due to different taste preferences of the consumer, it simple hasn't caught on yet or it maybe more difficult/expensive and therefore prohibitive?
Shouldn’t any sale/transaction be considered “not final” (goods can’t be shipped, for example) until the official chain has progressed to a point where you can be sure the cost of producing a censored fork is higer than the transaction in question? That is: you buy something expensive then it might not ship for a month or two.

I guess you could buy a hundred gadgets at $100 each from a hundred places in one day and then produce a fork censoring your whole $10k shopping spree?
Discussion last week related to using an iPad Pro for development purposes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18820530
VR won't be in every home? I stopped reading right here. There is no future where VR is not a huge part of it.
Selfies were not a thint 10 years ago. As much as VR was not a thing.
But a vast majority of them being garbage does mean the vast majority of them are garbage
As I got older, I started gaming less (or not at all anymore), and after alot of Mac bashing (14 years ago), and tired of installing Windows 93 every few months for every family member, a huge Apple adaptor: just because I want to get things done, work, get paid for that, and spend my free time not messing around with Window’s flaws. That’s biased, I know, things probably improved by now, but every time I picked up a MS tablet or was given one, I still felt it was wacky.

That said, I now have all Apple stuff, even though I’m not a Apple fanboy: I just want my stuff to work and spent my free time with my wife and kids.

This sums up that I have a Macbook Pro, Ipad Pro, and an iPhone. The Macbook Pro is imho, one of the worst products they ever made. Poor battery time, crappy keyboard, no escape key, the only nice thing about it is the screen.

My iPad Pro, on the other hand... is a work of art. An incredibly good battery time (btw, battery time is also not just living on the battery, but also: working on it without a electricity socket).

So it’s safe to assume that the Ipad’s are wayyy more energy friendly then the MBP’s.

What I don’t understand about Apple is that even though the iPad’s are great machines: we need people to build software for them. So, traditional PCs (where we can connect 2-3 monitors to, etc) are still essential. I think Cooke forgot about that. Jobs, nomatter what - still kept developers in mind.

I love my iPad, and am for regular browsing not using my overpriced MBP anymore. But to replace it? To get real work done? To have a “norton commander” like interface? I think it’s still along road to go to replace the traditional desktops. And btw, the Apple iMac’s are objectively good products, that’ll last a long time for a reasonable price.

It’s painful to see Lenovo releasing these frequent up-to-date great hardware laptops, and Apple, with all their billions in the bank, doing a minimalistic effort on even upgrading the Mac Mini, Mac Pro, etc.

Is it arrogance? Focus? Steve more awknoledging the coders, even in his own way?

Either way, with many Chinese developers introducing new hard and software features (foldable phones, wireless charging) and Apple always being late to the game (but then executing it well). I wonder what their strategy is there for the moment. I know no-one of my family is going to put +1000$ for a new phone.

To me, the biggest key Apple has is MacOS which is superior to any OS out there, in consistency and user-friendlyness for any end-user. Oh: and everything looks pretty and intuitive too. Even for my mom.

I hope they step up their game and make things more dev friendly, otherwise it’ll be a open game, and really soon.
Who says you can't do it with family? Just need a headset for everyone.
If I was still on Bitbucket, this would have been enough for me to switch back.

Since moving to Gitlab, I couldn't go back to having to run Jenkins for private projects after using Gitlab CI (with a self-hosted runner). Also even on the free tier, even for one-man projects, the issue tracker features are better than github.
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My experience is that your probably safe at 50ft and below. Which is actually the max cable lengths tested in this article. For single switch->switch runs in a non critical environment (say my house) I would personally push it as far as I could get away with rather than replacing a cable simply because it doesn't happen to be officially sanctioned.

What might have been more interesting is if they plugged those failing cables into a few switches to see if they actually were having problems anywhere. I'm betting they were probably mostly working fine. Although I have to wonder how many people are buying cat 6/6A for "future proofing" rather than actually running 10G on it.
I think it's become a meme, something many writers use without considering whether both affluence AND race are significant in a given situation. They often are and so I suspect some people use them together without thinking in situations when they're not.
VR introduces new experience. Don't you think that TV killed a bunch of cool stuff we used to do?

People here can't seem to imagine a future filled with stuff they don't do currently.
This "almost all journalism is trash" is just naively cynical.

I bet what you call "deliberate manipulation" I would describe as "telling a story."

There is often no such thing as "the truth"; two people who saw the same thing happen will often interpret and describe it very differently.

It's unavoidable, and if you see the world in black and white you're blind to most of the details.
> but you can essentially use it that way

"Essentially" is a nice word. You can use it for example as JavaScript is a programming language, essentially, yeah.

W3C DOM was defined initially in terms of Java interfaces.

Where we would be now if we were allowed to run Java bytecodes in browser directly from the very beginning?

<script type="binary/web-bytecode" src="myapp.class">

Today we might discuss -strip-dead-code option in your favorite compiler of XYZ language. Instead of fighting with would-be-linker npm.
I didn't start piano until I was about 13, which I gather is relatively late (my parents thought I wouldn't want to go, I was a naughty child; mainly because I was bullied, but that's a different story). The piano was an absolute lifeline for me as a teenager, for catharsis primarily.
You probably need to have that experience to understand it.
This isn't always a useful way to look at it. For a startup or small team especially, any time spent learning a new programming language is time spent not working on the core product. Yes, you might be better off in the long run using a more foreign programming language, but then again the business might not survive that long if you aren't actually building anything.

Also, it's easy to learn a language's syntax over a weekend, but it generally takes a lot longer to start being productive and writing idiomatic code in a new language, especially if you're also learning a new platform. That's time that you or your team may not have.
This one, for example:

https://archive.org/details/Engineering_Electronics_George_H...

It's probably the first two of your guesses, or the pre-1964 reason mentioned in a sibling comment. (There's stuff newer than that on the IA too, which are likely to be there because of the reasons originally mentioned.)
How to request the desktop version of a website in mobile Safari...

Visit the affected site in Safari.

Tap and hold the Refresh button in the URL bar.

Tap Request Desktop Site.

The website will then reload as its desktop version.
Why? People go out of their way to not wear corrective glasses.. what would compel them to wear these regularly.
The repeated stretching/folding/waiting process develops the gluten like kneading does. You can tell that his gluten development is fine from the windowpane effect in first picture.
I doubt it. I don't see how more developer agency is a bad thing. If anything, more people will start using Github earlier on in their development cycle and Github will be the obvious platform of choice for when those projects are ready to go public. On the contrary, I think we'll probably see less trash and more quality projects on Github.

Besides, I wouldn't want to live in a world where people want to do X (private repos) but are forced to do Y (public repos) because X is not feasible. Now X is feasible and the landscape will more accurately reflect developer intentions.
Trump has certainly defamed many people in a civil manner as well. If you understand why there seem to be so few civil suits against Trump for defamation, you will be closer to understanding why there are so few criminal cases against him for the same.
AR is a business thing, VR will be in every home, taxis, airplanes, schools, you name it
There were some nice Firefox extensions that supported bookmarking and reloading tab trees. Bookmarking a tree would result in folders, so the whole structure was preserved.

Bookmarks can definitely work, but yeah, a flat list can't. I think a better approach would be something like a mind-map.
That's the point of the article. She realized grilling him about the behavior wasn't productive (and neither was punishment).
>But if you tried to sell some significant fraction of the outstanding coins then the sale price would plummet, and you'd never actually reach $5M total.

You can't focus on sellers and ignore buyers when discussing the valuation of something. If many people want to sell and few people want to buy the price will of course go down. But if many people want to buy and few people want to sell then the price will go up. This isn't a particularly interesting observation.

To put it another way: you are right that if everyone who held a portion of this asset tried to sell right now they would not cumulatively get $5 million, BUT ALSO, if someone wanted to buy all of this asset they would pay significantly more than $5 million. It goes both ways. Changing the balance of supply and demand necessarily changes value.

I do agree that naively using the price of a single trade can be misleading and prone to manipulation.
> You could be inside some virtual world watching events or playing together

And not being able to enjoy your friend/partner's reaction, facial expression, or simply what they're doing. That mutual participation is half the fun. No, looking at an avatar mimicking your partner's movements doesn't count.
This sentiment is very out of touch with the average household. Convenience is the ultimate vector which couch devices are judged.
I'm not seeing ETC listed on your website, why are you claiming this and then linking to ETH?
>Rust is pretty

>Of course, you might feel differently, but one of my biggest takeaways from all of this side-by-side code is that Rust is clear, expressive

As someone who doesn't use either of these languages, I couldn't disagree more. The Javascript was intuitive and immediately made sense, while the Rust code gave me a headache.
Might be a PADS (Post-Anime Depression Syndrome), but after rewatching Sword Art Online recently, I found myself thinking that a VR Chat is actually a good idea, and something I would very much enjoy. With an ability to easily enough create and modify stuff in the virtual world (preferably mostly from within world, and I mean creating and modifying interactive objects, and absolutely no "buy funny clothes for your avatar in the platform's store" bullshit), I could imagine running a collaborative ideation space in it; a kind of half-baked virtual hackerspace.

(I find this dream doubly alluring now that I found myself remote-working from a smaller town.)
When you're comparing the relative power of reflection within the language, absolutely not.
There is no such thing as "open objective news".

Not because there isn't enough honesty in journalism or whatever.

It's because even if you just published raw video footage, that would have to eventually be lossily disseminated by somebody in the form of a "story" before it reached 99.99+% of the world, and that lossy compression is going to be biased by worldview.
STEM club?
On you fwiw, I understand. Different environments can have different challenges. Right now, I'm working on enterprise/corporate style software that is deployed into government organizations, where the versioning between Agency A and Agency B may be at different deployments and wanting to bring both to the current version prior to the next election cycle. Currently using SQL project in VS, which I'm not a big fan of, as I think upgrading could be very challenging. Fortunately there's a long window between necessary releases, and other challenges with legal requirements get interesting.

On BBSing, on several BBS groups via FaceBook... I've been pretty hands off, would like to get a board up. I put bbs.io on freedns.afraid.org for dyndns support, and have BBS.land if I ever get around to doing anything with it. It's hard to find motivation after hours to work on stuff. Also been wanting to get my board back up.

Didn't realize you open-sourced tournament trivia. Was recently thinking of reaching out recently to try and get a bigger doormud instance running.