skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In our line of work, at least, some menial work can be scripted away. That, and some yak-shaving, could alleviate boredom ;)
Worse performance is definitely not from lacking data. They have more than enough data to make the kind of dense samples needed for ML; remember that ML is about sampling and fitting a generalization to some population, not collecting all the data from every person and overfitting to it.

It's more likely lacking infrastructure, which OP alluded to. ML requires infrastructure that companies like FB/Amazon/Google naturally possess. Apple is playing catch-up.

Other comment also mentioned that Google et al anonymize data, and have options to opt-out of data collection. We don't have evidence that they are necessarily worse at privacy than Apple (they could be, we just can't know for sure unless you work there and happen to know exactly how it all goes down).

Apple has data on you too. They're just worse at making use of it (and you can argue less incentivized but I don't know -- getting people to use apple-only products is a pretty strong incentive to make things work well, and Siri/Apple Maps don't work that well).
A German chain for electric goods (Saturn) switched to a global queue recently (the first person in the queue gets called to the next available register). I find it a much better customer experience.
I use nvm currently. Can I ask how this compares to nvm, perhaps issues with nvm that it tackles? Is it performance? :o
That is simply not true. Children do not need adult supervision 24/7, and from age 10 and up they are more than capable to be out and about for hours without parents checking in on them. Well, they are if they've been allowed some independence anyway.
> In 18th-century, "trade companies" (V.O.C., British East India Company, etc.) are strong enough to own a country.

Also, effectively, in the twentieth century, post-antitrust. Hence, why we have the term “banana republic”.
Just one example: GoDaddy bought the HostEurope group for €1.6B [1]. They own one of the largest domain-registers (and cloud providers) in the DACH region called Domainfactory. They reside on df.eu

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_Europe_Group
"Condé Nast is considering charging advertisers a premium for access to those subscribers, said Chris Mitchell, chief business officer for Condé Nast’s culture division, which includes the New Yorker, Wired and Vanity Fair."

This one is interesting. So they will charge fees from subscribers and they will sell their data to advertisers anyway. For me one of the advantages of paying for something in the Internet is that my privacy is not violated and I will not have to see ads.
> eu-hostile populist parties are on the rise everywhere in Europe

Populist parties are on the rise, and many of them have made anti-EU noises in the past. However, with Brexit, they've got very quiet about leaving the EU.

If Brexit does go ahead, I expect it will be sufficiently unpleasant that no-one else will want to leave.
"vast, overwhelming majority of people"

You gonna back that up?
Do things that don't scale. Make 100 people love you. Go out of your way to delight your users. The best ideas won't sound like they're stealing.

Granted this didn't become a billion dollar company but this guy intuitively did a lot of what YC preaches.
> Yes it is, but you aren't going to solve it without rolling back women's rights.

Reducing required household market labor for basic living, perhaps. But, even to the extent that is true, just because in the past that was done by constraining women's choices doesn't mean that it can only be done with gendered constraints.
Exactly the one I was missing. Also distracting Internet sites (which is separate from distracting work environment), but they wouldn't be as much of a problem if the work wasn't so boring.
My nitpick would be the example Cisco router:

> As an example, Cisco ASR 9922 routers have a maximum capacity of 160 terabits per second. Assuming full 1,500 byte packets (12,000 bits), that's 13,333,333,333 packets per second in a single 19 inch rack!

The ASR 9922 is 20 slots of 3.2Tbps per slot. That's a 64Tbps chassis so that's 5,333,333,333 packets per second in a single 19 inch rack. Cisco's 160Tbps number is their hypothetical multi-chasis setup. Which is fun to market but non-sensical to build/purchase.
It seems like even when we have enormous wealth as a whole, we've decided that it's an aberration to be free of enormous obligations when starting life. I doubt it was any sort of evil machination, but it sure has been handy for already pretty-well-off people.

The person who starts life off in massive debt, or who knows they'll be homeless if they don't somehow come up with a pile of hundred-dollar-bills every month, or (as is often the case) both, is somebody who:

* doesn't write for leisure

* doesn't organize politically

* doesn't innovate except on things they get paid to research

* and (perhaps most importantly) doesn't start a competing company.

These are on average, of course. A few people will still manage to do those things (especially if they come from wealth) but on the whole such activity is reduced. God help you if you have a kid and want to, say, run for office. How do you plan to pay for childcare?

Meanwhile, they are a person who will work on the things incumbent holders of power (owners of large businesses) want them to work on, for the sake of enriching 1) those owners, 2) landlords, 3) People who bought houses decades ago.

The system of entirely manufactured housing shortages and crushing student debt is pretty handy for keeping your population doing just what you want it to do.

I think a lot of people would actually be better off starting life with nothing and living somewhere cheap rather than starting with -$50,000+ and a huge rent bill every month. After all, we have the internet. But too many people don't discover this until it's too late, and they are shackled with a lifetime of obligations.

I was lucky to graduate without student debt largely thanks to my parents. My wife was not. I have been far, far more free in my choices in life, including the choice to live somewhere cheap, than her.
Machine learning is literally a numbers game. The bigger and higher quality your data set, the better your models. So, it's contradictory that a company like Apple assuming they've taken a "privacy first" stance, can also simultaneously claim to be a competent player in this machine learning arena.

The other thing is, it's really tiring to see "Apple is a privacy first company" narrative on HN. Because, nobody knows exactly what Apple is doing behind the scenes with your data. There's literally no way to know what Apple is upto other than trusting their marketing material that claims to be privacy centric.

For all you know, they could still be doing stuff what other companies are doing secretly and nobody can prove nor disprove that. Next, iOS is closed source. Without access to source code, this privacy narrative is nothing more than just a marketing gimmick. We're a tech crowd and we should definitely take it a step ahead, investigate and then conclude, rather than blindly believing marketing posters that Apple puts out.

Once your data moves to a private cloud like iCloud, there's no way to guarantee anyone's privacy or safety for that matter other than blindly trusting the vendor. Don't believe me? Ask Jennifer Lawrence.
As my childhood was in last soviet days and early post-soviet times all the parents were working. There weren't moms looking after kids after school. But there there were always elder neighbors that were already pensioners that were always observing yard in case of children were getting too wild. They knew all the kids of the building and were running out another unknown kids from other blocks (especially if they seemed to be aggressive). If some "own" child was misbehaving too much they were reporting to parents. So IMO this thing had also an effect of involving lone elders into community.
Besides the connections the software doesn’t work between those two out of the box. My mom bought 2k MacBook Pro from the Apple store and a 1100 Iphone xs and we got home and plugged it in to back up her saved backup and iTunes wouldn’t let us. I can’t recall the exact problem but the solution was downloading the latest software for both devices. Several hours later it was working but out of the box? So disappointing.
That is imprecise to the point of being unreasonable.

In your example help isn't given to all black people, only to the poor ones.

If you consider help given to poor black people vs. help given to poor white people, it becomes proportional.
I think you missed that plant-based fertilization exists. How do you think the nitrogen, sulfur and phosphor got into the animals in the first place?

Manure is used because it is readily available due to current livestock production, not because it's the only way to fertilize soil.
I'm a fan. Other examples:
https://www.sbs.com.au/food/recipes
https://www.bbc.com/food/recipes
With a light sprinkling of meat propaganda: https://www.trueaussiebeefandlamb.com/recipes/
> Of late, Apple CEO Tim Cook has touted his company's initiatives in health as the key to its future growth. "I believe, if you zoom out into the future, and you look back, and you ask the question, "What was Apple's greatest contribution to mankind?" it will be about health,"

Make sense, they'd rather concentrate on health. There's an obvious inroad there with wearables.
https://cn.bing.com/ IS WORKING. Testing from Shanghai without VPN.

bing.com is not working.
(Brit) Traditionally: 'food mixers' and 'blenders'. Food mixers (aka food processor) have connotations of a multi-purpose device with lots of different attachments, blender is more a discrete function. Since Jamie Oliver, the latter is used to 'blitz' or 'whizz' food.

I also didn't get the article's meaning of 'mixer' until I actually opened it. I was wondering about cement mixers.
> I'm not so sure why many are so eager to lament a shrinking rural population.

I'm not from the States, but I guess this is fairly universal:

Country-side living has it's benefits: The pace is usually lower, there's less pollution and things are delightfully silent. Personally I have no intention of ever moving into a densely populated area again.

Apart from that, there's a lot of local culture and customs that is slowly being lost as young people move away from rural areas and into population centres dominated by international pop-culture. There's also the problem with people in urban areas losing their touch with the outside world, living in a small bubble with no idea about how things work outside. This will, in the long run, result in a lot of knowledge being lost.
I think it's mostly being used by European institutions, but there are notable exceptions like http://leave.eu a pro-Brexit campaign which would lose its domain (the irony).
DLS – The digital logic simulator game
Yes. Unfortunately.
Didn't mean to say that Python is better but its just a preference I have.
I see a fair number of them - mostly by mid-sized European manufacturing companies. The rationale seems to be "Where's sprockets.at? Who knows? (Austria btw) sprockets.eu? Probably in the EU." Usually there's a local country domain as well, with one of them being canonical.
I had written a quick visual demo using the Python mode of Processing language. Perhaps someone here can build upon it.

https://gitlab.com/nileshtrivedi/queue_simulation
The much simpler explanation is they're both caused by carbohydrates and especially sugar.
If remote work became ubiquitous, wouldn’t this be less of an issue? Or would employers just factor in location?
The reasons may not necessarily be directly attributable to trade tensions, as there appears to be a debt-induced slowdown in China at the moment. Another article from ft.com to support this: "China industrial profits decline for first time in 3 years" (https://www.ft.com/content/e1d2b1c4-099a-11e9-9fe8-acdb36967...) (non-paywall: https://outline.com/qZdpNr)
I'm surprised you don't see that recommendation often. It's a very cheap, versatile cooking oil. I wouldn't say it's anyone's favourite, but it's effectively the default?
There is no reason to avoid fat.

Here is one instance of an easily accessible peer-reviewed-science-based list of the current knowledge on dietary fat: https://www.foundmyfitness.com/news/t/fat

It does not show that oils or fat are something to blanket avoid.
Because the people who become software developers do that because at first it required a lot of focus and creativity.

When they've done it for a while and have to implement the 34th variation of essentially the same thing, those are the same people whose mind wanders.

When I did menial, boring work, my mind could wander enough to play blindfold chess with my colleagues without making illegal moves, and I'd still be productive. But when my mind wanders now, I already have a browser open and Reddit is a few touches away, and you can't browse Reddit at the same time as writing code.

That's the other thing, there is a whole industry trying to grab our attention and keep it, and it's present in the same web browser that I use all the time during development.
That looks rather suspicious. Unsourced, hush-hush secret, share before the Illuminati delete this!
The existence of the Autonomous Car Unit was also a management problem.

The unstated truth in the "mythical man month" is that you can't rescue a project by throwing people at it if the project is out of control because of poor management.

Stellar management can do almost anything.

Mediocre management bumbles around creating failures.
What a great example of someone so quick to hear themselves talk that they don't even realise it's a joke.
Wrong. Quality fats are not only essential but also good for you for example: olive oils, Avocado oils.

Avoid (cheap) vegetable oils such as sunflower and rapeseed oils and the derived products with hydrogenated oils, such as margarines.
I am using Linux a ton (actually on clusters of boxes) and have a boatload of tools and languages (including low level C and in the past, assembly).

Now, I am also using Pharo to do things on Linux and it is easier and faster to get results out of it, especially when I need to fix a failure.

Pharo is not replacing the OS (even if it may feel like it).

One can deal with a running Pharo remotely (either via VNC directly into Pharo or with Pharo7, using Calypso remote connections).

I am with you on the symbolic aspect but still, having an image that one can inspect is great. I was not understanding its value when I started. Now, I do. And I also find it awesome to have a stacktrace saved to disk on a server so that I can reload it into my desktop box and see exactly where things went south, including variables, values etc. Try that with a core dump.

Now, to each its own and I have a personal little project I should actually deliver, namely being able to expose a fuse filesystem from a Pharo image, so that I can use vim and tmux and those things right from a server. There is no technical issue doing this, just damn code it.

The current Pharo is not an OS inside an OS. UnifiedFFI actually makes it easy to bind with C libraries (heck, I wrapped LibStrophe which is full of callbacks, callbacks that are actually written in Pharo, including full debugging on callbacks, see https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HTG3GB3xdwlje8wADZPj...) and the more Pharo evolves (been there since Pharo 2.0) the more it delivers on what I need.

With the new boostrapping, one can actually have images with just the bare minimum (no UI, no devtools) so that it can run.

Also there is lowcode, a way to do really fast stuff in Pharo (actually putting C types in there): https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01353884/document

What is also interesting for me in Pharo is that it actually stood the test of time. I am sick of new languages that pop up all the time, where one is relearning the basics with half baked libraries. Pharo core classes are solid, work well and after working in there for a while, it becomes second nature to do quite advanced stuff that one would not even dream to do in, say, Java.

Pharo is indeed a tool and in my toolbox, it is one the best ones so far. Coupled with Unix tools, it is a beast.

I not care if it is getting popular or not. What I care is that it works, that I can influence its course and change what is not pleasing me (try that with other toolchains).

And also that its community actually owns it, not a commercial organization like Oracle, Google, Microsoft...
In that regard, Pharo is pretty much aligned on Linux.

The Pharo community understands the limitations or warts of Pharo, because there are some. But the features are currently delivering a net positive.

And, a little thing that is quite important: I have fun creating and maintaining systems I have done in Pharo.

This really contrasts with other solutions where fighting with accidental complexity takes 50% of the time, if not more.

Anyway, to each its own. I can relate to being angry when engineering. Pharo is lowering the level on my WTF-o-meter, which is actually good.
Because it's built and bundled by a monopolistic company with an (at the time, maybe less now) institutional commitment to backwards compatibility forever. Winforms could have been the worst thing ever written and it would still be around and maintained. See WPF (not the worst but not much loved), that will live a long time, even with Microsoft seeming to back off on forever-backwards-compatability.
If you're a startup, this is bikeshedding on par with worrying about the heat death of the Universe.
Women want to be treated equally and fairly. Up until recent history, women were treated as second class citizens under many laws. Even today, women overwhelmingly face discrimination and harassment in all walks of life, moreso than men.

Nobody wants to work 80 hour weeks. Women's rights is about not having your gender be a basis of disqualification for anything. If a woman wants to work the same miserable demanding job a man works, she should have every right to. Her gender should not be a disqualifier for a job.

Your argument for why wouldn't a mother want to stay at home and be with her kids could just as easily be applied to any father.
Apple veteran who worked on Mac for 14 years will help Google ‘kill’ Android
In other words, easy pickings for anyone who wants to get hold of email domains with good domain rep in order to use them for spamming.
I expected it to be about Kitchen Aid. They have cult like following.
Yes I can fully agree with you. If a person is clearly struggling with attracting the opposite Sex, then it is certain that persinalised and tailored help will be more benificial, but in the case with this survice, I see like a luxoroise tool to pay yourself out of some of the more mundaine tasks in the current sexual market.
Am I the only one to whom "developer advocate" sounds like a career path that's a bit like "dermatologist"? ...in the sense that it's people who went to medical school but didn't quite cut it as REAL doctors?
> the page requests a wasm heap of 1.25 GB

Par for the course in the "modern Web"
There's a stray space in your link.

https://eurid.eu/en/register-a-eu-domain/brexit-notice/
The video has "drone rush" in the title, and the commenters echo the term without disagreement, so I think you're being idiosyncratic.
It's not even about the price. I have no problem tweaking my Linux desktop to use an international Dvorak layout (useful for those European languages with ä's and é's) and switching the caps and ctrl keys. Say what you want about Gnome 3, but this works just fine.

On Windows.. I get a US only bare bone Dvorak layout and few ways to remap the caps/ctrl keys. Messing with the registry is at best annoying on my gaming (only) PC but impossible on a corporate locked down desktop. Then I'm lucky if the corporate package repo comes with AutoHotkey that can remap keys in a very hacky way.

A lot of Windows 98 still shines through in the basic usability suite even on the newest versions of Windows. Even the on-screen keyboard on a (Android) phone is more fun than the HID mess in Windows.
Nick Cave, specifically "No More Shall We Part". I've been listening to that specific album when I need to focus for ~12 years now and that is what works, not the actual choice of music.
The same can be said about make up, hi heels, botox, and other kind of plastic surgery. It is a service to assist in the cover up of a 'perceived' flaw. Can that also be called deception, regardless of how permanent the solution is ?
That's a good thing imho, at least if accompanied by something that gives you the more practical perspective on layers 4 and above as well (which is probably where many curricula fail).
Of course it's more interesting to do fun stuff with fancy JSON APIs or create a funky WiFi mesh, it's even likely to be more relevant to most people's future job since not that many people focus on networking. But it's a foundation that can be interesting and help many optimizations down the road, it simply is not academias primary and exclusive focus to prepare students for some job. Just like many people take other stuff from CS programs that you simply don't learn in a 3 month Python course, undertanding of networking protocols is something that _may_ help and give you an advantage for future problem solving. It might even be thought inspiring enough for you to focus on in the first place.
Great information about PWA! Here I have a question, is it good to invest in PWA when your web-page is already AMP?
You may be right, but, the more Brexit news I hear, and the more I read, the more I get the feeling that parts of Europe and the EC are making efforts to make an example of Britain.

It may be that the news is following a certain rhetoric, but, it seems clear that the likes of Merkel intend to do this, she's all but said as much.

My point here is that when one person is telling you they want to do harm, people will take to believing it when it's presented elsewhere.

My problem with news like this, is that I see people interpreting it as "look, EC is evil and trying to screw us, we really should leave". Really, I think we should see it as, "we're leaving the EU, they're afraid others will do the same and want to use us as a deterrent".
Interesting post. I feel for him using this tool. Had my own experience with team foundation server on premise. Although
a different tool, many of the problems seem quite similar.

A little rant:

To the cloud infrastructure of MS: I don't know if anyone uses it for anything serious and doesn't complain about severe performance issues not only related to builds, but everything. From administrative sites to hosted environments. I read a lot of excuses mainly saying I should adjust my expectations regarding speed for cloud solutions... Problem is that there are other providers that don't have these issues.

Seriously, you need only to use office 365 if you want to get an impression of bad performance. Because everything is slow.

This is from a location in Europe, but I really doubt there are significantly more performant locations.
London? That won't be Europe after Brexit. Seems to me like a lot of people will be in for a surprise.
Was about to post this. Budget brand eyewear stores like JINS and Zoff are everywhere, and they provide glasses at around $50-100, eye exam included. I've bought several glasses from JINS over the past decade or so and had no problems with any of them.

I wonder if the San Francisco JINS store is priced the same, or they try to make themselves look like a premium brand like how Uniqlo does?
Compiler Warnings
And somehow it's more snappy and responsive than some of the pages that are done in HTML today, amazing.
Sounds good, thanks for your insight
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