skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hello. I wrote it, and the article cites a lot of data that came from objective data sources including studies by companies like Microsoft, IBM, and universities to make the points about the limitations of bug reduction.

As for the ROI analysis, the article clearly states that the objective data was too noisy to use, clearly explains why, clearly states which data is subjective, and provides readers with guidance on how to interpret the subjective data.

There's nothing dishonest about it. It is not "science", and does not claim to be, though it does cite some real science. It is an anecdotal opinion piece, though that opinion is well informed and supported by some "real science".

It should be interpreted as an anecdotal opinion, not a formal research study -- as with any small data sampling. You can't draw definitive, objective conclusions from it.

Some people have had overwhelmingly positive results with TypeScript. We need a lot more people to share their experiences before we can start to say anything objective about it. Please don't discourage them from sharing their opinions, no matter which side of the ROI spectrum they favor.
I'm genuinely curious: what exactly is so hard about installing and system administering one's own servers inhouse that so many people would put up with these complications?
I see what you're saying, but given that developers have to have an Apple computer to develop for iOS and macOS, the computer lineup does rather underpin everything else.
There is a nice overview/demo, though unfortunately the quality of the video isn't great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeYEais1eT4&feature=youtu.be
But there is no great lagging indicator of products in development apart from this reorg on autonomous systems. What about the glasses? Tablet interfaces have obviously peaked, yet there is no stronger ecosystem to support an AR product than what continues to mature around iOS.

Apple has a ton of cash and the best HW/SW/Design on the planet. The company is not done making new things.
I hate (read: love) to be pedantic, but all scripting languages already have this feature built-in, and thanks to modern VMs and JIT compilers and the like, performance is much less of an issue.

It would be interesting to see e.g. a Go executable format that ships with the source, build tools and documentation that would compile to the current platform on demand. Should be doable in a Docker image at least.
Yes, it's a myth in the sense that you would need to wear the glasses several orders of magnitude longer and/or consistently for there to be any negative effects. Some people seem to think that even looking through the glasses will unleash demons into the healthy eye.

Modern research does point in the direction of the eye remodelling itself based on what kind of input you give it on a longer scale, though. This includes the amount of light seen during the day and whether it is able to focus rays or not. There are indications these play a role in the development of myopia.
You already cannot get anything usefull out from minified JavaScript.
That's the point, they already were feature complete back when they were less bloated. VS2017 offers very little over VS6.0 or VB6, I think they're min requirements were 128MB of RAM, it was a lot more responsive too. Similar for eclipse.

Developer productivity hasn't improved since, even gone backwards in some ways.
No, it is not just American viewpoint. Kid here at 12 have independence, but they are expected not to create fires as part of play. Definitely not with vodka. I would expect the teacher going around to explain them risks and tell them to stop.

Kids independence must go hand in hand with knowing when the real harm can happen and responsibility to avoid such situation.
Which product lines are conflicting, and is that conflict a really big deal or just a minor one? Apple has always been self-cannabilizing, see iPod v iPod Mini v iPod nano. The company is much much larger than all these fond remembrances of golden days, which means product lines are going to grow a bit to hit different market segments which each have millions of customers.

Is this about iPad v MacBooks?
PEAR server is down
This is a good setup, too. My brother is using something like this and is quite happy with it.
Although they aren't shutting down, I was thinking that even if they did, Apple can just wait for the dust to settle and buy one of the existing/growing players once the technology is proven out (they definitely have the cash to do it).

Spending a lot of money and trying to catch up to Waymo/Zoox/Cruise etc is also kinda hard, even for Apple, because of all of the pieces of the stack they need to work on and access to a very competitive/small talent pool.
Total "eye for an eye"-thing going on there, yeah.
I've restated it twice now, I'm confused as to why I'm being misread.

Unicorn _and_ 5 big companies.

A portfolio of Facebook _and_ LinkedIn, Tumblr, Snapchat, Box, Nest
would trump both.
there are 2 problems i see with the swatting issue.

1] obvious, but the mentality of self elevated importance, and attachment of personal loss with a game [combatsimulator] that primes a person into an aggressive mentality.

2] there is no carrot and stick for LEO's. There is qualified immunity from prosecution, ideally this prevents a cop or other responder from being sued for adverse results, of acting "whithin legal authority" and "as a reasonable person"

The end result is No Consequences fro screwing up under the veil of legal authority and reasonable actions. This veil has been stretched so thin that it is starting to breakdown, as there are now LEO and other responders actually doing some prison time, vs 15 years ago when police were heavily militarized and 911 was fresh in our heads; when any degree of force was legitimate to intercept domestic threats.
The Atlantic has a reputation for thoughtful, prescient journalism -- often with a focus on technology, but more often its surprising intersections with the world at large. I think it's frequently regarded as artsy and literary, like a New Yorker with pictures, which is odd considering its most famous essay, "As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush (1942), is widely credited with laying the foundations of the Information Age.
Anything baking up your old school Apple is doomed rant?

Swift is a huge and thankless work totally invisible to the userbase and heavily targeted to improve development on Mac/iOS.

You just can’t brush it off to fit your narrative.
My opinion as well, the side remark as oriented towards those that always complain about WPF, Silverlight, UWP and Xamarin XAML being a bit different, when they actually share the same underlying concepts anyway.
The $739 starting price is really nice... I was tempted to pick one up just for fun, but then I saw upgrading to 8gb of RAM is another $300.
Using small pockets of idle time
That is unless those newer co's are overvalued in the market. I imagine Apple would love to buy Netflix for 10-20bb but at 140bb that's a hard sell.

Driverless is such a foundational tech it makes sense to have lots of efforts pursuing it.
yes, scrum works

and so does every other methodology

and yes, it's b/c of scrum.

and yes, it's in spite of scrum.

and yes, it's a full on scam/fad, just like every other methodology.

my best guess on where things currently stand is that:
1) most shops use it
2) most shops use it very loosely, at best
3) most shops know to publicly despise waterfall but know that scrum and the rest are just watered-down waterfall and any shop doing near-actual scrum would kill to have a 'waterfall' dev model again -- that is, a realistic dev plan without requirements that change on the hour
4) until one of the new pseudo-methodologies (like design thinking) replaces it, Scrum/Agile will continue to reign supreme (b/c it ultimately exists b/c it is very management-friendly -- it's useful for controlling employees -- not for any other reason like 'productivity', etc.)
If you're bringing in 3x your cost, you're getting ripped off and need to start raking those numbers back in.
> The criticism of the MVP approach has led to several new approaches, e.g. the Minimum Viable Experiment MVE[19] or the Minimum Awesome Product MAP[20].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_product#Critici...
Your last line really revealed you. Didn't it ?

You can't differentiate between some twitter trolls doxing, to a major party platform working overtime to de-legitimize the first black President hand in hand with the biggest news channel in America. Are you this naive ? And the fact that our current President was the lead cheerleader of this effort. Should I point out the hundreds and thousands of stories that conservative media and politicians commented about Michelle Obama's looks. Should I point out about the massive systemic effort that conservative states create to disenfranchise minority voters ? Trump and MAGA is this whole movement in steroids. It is part of an overall effort to turn back the clock of progress in America. And you think that is 1/10th of some new story that people will forget in 2 weeks. Are you kidding me ?
USCIS doesn't care about EEOC. And you try fighting your case from abroad. Impossible. No one is going to do it.
Twenty some years ago a religious nutter in the Israeli Knesset suggested the same thing. And female MK proposed a more reasonable bill to place the curfew on men instead.
I've worked more than 24 hours in a day thanks to the wonders of travelling west
Some physicists aren’t excited about building a bigger particle collider
Features and Limitations of Progressive Web Apps on iOS and Android
China just blocked its last major foreign search engine
"Dependency managers can often provide statistics about usage"

Using module usage statistics as a proxy for trust is not always a good idea.

For example, I confirmed with the security team of npm that they do not audit module download statistics, i.e. no detection of gaming the system through multiple downloads from a given IP.

It's quite possible for a module to have 10,000 weekly downloads, all generated by a cron curl script run by the module's author.

I wouldn't be surprised if this was the case for not a few modules on npm, especially to develop trust for later exploits.
Well, you picked the other company that is most known for an extremely fun relatively affordable car: the S2000 :)

I feel like neither Mazda nor Honda are appropriate here, anyway.
Seems pretty absurd that the government is requiring buildings to have more stalls for women than men. Shouldn't companies have the freedom to decide what ratio is required for their building? Or at least to make the ratio equal? I mean the easiest solution would be to just make it all unisex, maybe with a separate area for urinals or something, but I don't see that happening any time soon.

And I'm not sure why they jumped to sexism as a cause of the issue - as they pointed out later in the article, men and women have fundamentally different bathroom needs, and take different amounts of time.
I have years of commercial experience in both JavaScript and TypeScript as a developers and yes TypeScript adds a lot of complexity over JavaScript.

I've worked for at least one company that had 100% unit AND integration test coverage of every line of code across all projects. It took about 3 days for an engineer to rename a single property in one of the API endpoints because of the time it took to get all the tests passing again. Most of them were useless and added no value to the project.
I got two and several problems (spread evenly between both):

bt didn't work with wifi, changed the wifi card, but still troubles

weird display dimming when reading white on black and no official patch (can link you an unofficial one)

coil whine

speaker blown (don't eq them)

battery bloated (replaced for free even out of warranty)

hard to get to sleep

very short screws, can get lost if you don't use lock tight after opening it once
If you're resting most of your argument / feeling on whether Apple is shipping latest gen hardware you might want to examine that more closely. This is a very common misconception and a bit of googling will tell you either a) they are shipping latest gen, or b) the differences between latest and prior gen are negligible.
You are continuing to make assertions without references.

My experience of traffic jams is that they are normally caused by density of traffic. There are a lot of simulations out there that show how small variance in high density traffic acts like a wave that propagates backwards. You even see it on escalators on the tube here in London, where people are supposed to walk on the left but often get stuck in a standing state at busy rush hour times.

http://www.traffic-simulation.de/ring.html is a good one - push up the density and see how the wave propagates backwards. It's not merging that causes the problem, it's density.

Of course standstill traffic that stops everything for minutes at a time is usually something else. But that isn't an everyday jam. And everyday jams do make a meaningful difference in transit time. They even affect me on my motorcycle especially as roads get narrower to accommodate bicycle lanes. I do however still get through and it's a rare day that there is any kind of event or interesting artifact at the front of the jam.
I suppose they're getting downvoted because "why are you working on X when Y has problems" is kind of a silly argument. The problems with the butterfly keyboard design are almost certainly not a result of all the keyswitch engineers having been foolishly reassigned to work in the automotive group.
Yeah, there are definitely issues determining what the essential government costs are, so let’s assume that system is in place and works well.

I agree about the underfunding and overfunding point. However, I can imagine a community like HN would maybe dump more money into research and tech related things, and would be happy doing it. There will be niche funding groups for various sexy and unsexy organizations, and the nice thing is, people will be happier to “give” the government some of their income, rather than watch it get wasted in a black box.

It’s definitely difficult to minimize rich having too much financial power in this system, but it could possibly use a system analogous to the bicameral legislature where big states are limited in power by every state getting the same number of senators.
There are many successful examples. One famous example is the google AdWords team (https://www.alexanderjsingleton.com/google-adwords-the-art-o...). Considering that AdWords became success after implementing scrum, you can say "it works".

From my personal experience, Scrum does work but it requires a team that is competent already. A team of incompetent people will perform poorly in any scenario.
Another option, assuming core Apple processes don't need more funding: they could pay out that cash as dividends, and let the market think about the future (getting the money to companies who's core actually is about automotive AI, if investors actually think so).
Commenter thinks Apple putting engineers on their autonomous car project will somehow make Intel's engineers move faster. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I kinda feel cars are core to Apple. Essentially they are a screen company if you think about it. Their job is to own all your screens and make a quality experience across them, both the bonus of upselling services to said screens. A car dash is the last (others?) of the more used screens they haven't covered yet. So probably a market they dont want to miss out on, especially as it ties in with other areas so well like music, maps and in the future apps.
I think ulfw’s argument about product line focus makes sense, but the parent was implying Apple can’t make laptops, whereas compared to most manufacturers their products are incredible (but still imperfect).
That OO concept is pretty much Simula specific, Lisp languages got influenced by the work done in LOOP and Flavours which lead to the design of CLOS, the origin of multi-methods idea.

Building on top of your remark, Julia's approach is more "call the visible implementation of this function that better matches the types of all given parameters".

And these are only two possible ways of doing OOP, there are a few other ways of approaching the ideas of writing extensible modular code with polyphormism.
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People fail to appreciate the fundamental differences between functional and divisional orgs and how that constrains Apple.

At Microsoft, the head of Xbox marketing reports to the head of Xbox and the head of Azure marketing reports to the head of Azure.

At Apple, there is no divisions, every Apple marketer is responsible for the success of every Apple product and reports to the head of Apple marketing. But the only way this is possible is if every single Apple employee is able to hold every single Apple product line in their head at the same time.

This is an enormous constraint but it's also foundational to Apple mythos because it allowed them to kill the iPod. Divisional orgs have an enormously hard time with disruptive innovation because it upends the power structures of those with the most power. At Apple, there wasn't any person with the title "Head of iPod" whose job would have been in danger if the iPhone overtook the iPod. This was the reason Apple and pretty much only Apple have ever aggressively obsoleted their very best selling product and emerged even stronger out the other side.

You can argue the merits of functional vs divisional all day long and many have but none of those arguments will gain any traction inside of Apple. Apple will remain functional until the day it dies because functional is what allowed Apple to kill the iPod.
> It never was a country on its own until 1992

That's beside the point. Right now, there's a growing nationalist sentiment growing in Ukraine. If you go to Ukraine and shout this historical fact in the streets of, say, Kiyv, you might just encounter a group of people who violently disagree with the "underlying idea" (which you won't express, but they'll perceive) that Ukraine is Russia's bitch.

Imagine shouting about the Armenian genocide in Instanbul, or about the extermination and oppression of Native Americans in a major city in Texas.

Maybe not exactly, but you get the idea.

> My ancestors never immigrated from a country called Ukraine even though they were Ukrainian (or back then often called Ruthenian)

That kind of Ruthenian? [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Galicia%E2%80%93Vol...]

Or that kind of Ruthenian? [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruthenians_and_Ukrainians_in_C...]

Your ancestry might as well be "Polish with a mix of Lithuanian", 'cause who knows at this stage, no? Did you take a DNA test?
Are there any good reads about matchmaking in video games? Which is basically the same queueing theory
Sorry, I just meant Try Guys. I should have put a [...] in place of Tasty. Here's the Try Guys' video "Why We Started Our Own Company": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyhAz4-l0Wg

Videos about leaving BuzzFeed are a bit of a meme, mostly complaining about long work hours to churn out low-quality content.
Yes. Incidentally Connect used to be a placebo for us enterprise lot. This has been going on for a long time.

And I get told regularly by people who only use the Microsoft ecosystem that’s it is me who is the problem as well!? These people are just assuming the status quo is being punched in the dick all day.
Russian company has been flying customers to the edge of space for years
Well, it really really looks like Waymo has something decent. TBD because they are damn secretive and there is probably ten years or more before the tech is perfect, but I think there’s opportunity to start taxi services in good weather in the coming years.
One feature that faders have is clear visual and haptic feedback - a thing that is not as clear with knobs. For rotary controls not only are the markings smaller if they exist at all but you have to deal with angles instead of distances, for which we know from studies of pie charts for example, our brains are not well equipped for. Then there is the problem that for haptics you need a marking on the circumfence which you can't see in every position, so you need another marker on top - I,ve rarely seen this design. I assume a blind person could use a fader easily but not necessarily a knob.

Where all of this becomes relevant is when we consider digital controllers. If we accept knobs without any visual and physical markings at all we gain an important feature - we can save and recall pot positions. Visual feedback can be regained with a display or a ring of LEDs around the knob or both. With a physical fader all of this is hard to achieve. You need motorized faders, which exist, but are expensive and have a bunch of disadvantages.
Friendica 2019.01 released – friendica
Do you not think if an intelligent person looked at things objectively they would come to hate our frogein policy, 1% controlled government, and wealth inequality which is result of capitalism that has gone haywire?

Budget of NASA is Tiny percentage of what we spend on WAR every year. Destroy elected governments, setup puppets, veto UN's majority decisions... Use automonus drones, use vaccination camps to recruit spies, kill doctors in war zone... It keeps going. List of atrocities grow every year sadly.

How do you feel when you learn there is a billionaire who has not paid any tax in years or corporations owe billions in taxes.

What about Verizon hijacking fcc?
I think it’s best to leave cannibalisation out of this discussion.

Seriously, an unfortunate homonym (is it really a homonym? Kinda).
It’s true. I watched a panel discussion from maybe three years ago and those who were closest to the research, even those who were actively working on the technology, estimated 2022-2025 for a general debut and longer for the difficult cases. We may see large pilots sooner but the timing given by the experts seems properly prescient compared to all the excited people who thought we’d have the tech widely this year.
Peter Cooper could, and should, make that mailing list.

https://cooperpress.com
I nominate Acura as the nameplate with the least fun to drive cars.
Not a single thing I wrote was inaccurate. From his elevating cases of immigrant crime, to his complete disregard for NFL players peaceful protests, to his calling other countries "shithole", to his pardon of Joe Arpaio, we know who he is and who his supporters are. He is the most dangerous thing to democracy and spread of democratic values in this world and must be handily defeated.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/15/opinion/leonh...
Alibaba co-founder offers innovation tips in Hong Kong
> Yes it is, but you aren't going to solve it without rolling back women's rights.

We live in 2019 -- who says it's the women that need to stay at home? I'd happily swap with my wife and stay home while she was working, but I seriously doubt she'd let me. :D

Other than that, you're right. We need people working less (on average), and we need to start building actual communities instead of online social networks.
I don't think Apple has advancements in machine learning tech as much as its competitors. For example, take a look at how primitive Siri is. It struggles a lot in comparison to its competitors even for some basic commands.

Or, take a look at Apple Music's recommendation system in comparison to Spotify's discover weekly.

Now, take a look at Amazon and Google. They both have their own cloud infrastructure (which ironically Apple uses) with machine learning built right into it. Both have state of the art image recognition systems (proprietary) for various applications (Eg. Google Image search, Amazon shopping, etc.)

I am not saying Apple can't do it, I just think they're lagging behind and this move totally makes sense.