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Didn't Apple kick off the whole WebGPU standardization process? I can't see why they would do that if they weren't interested in shipping it. Since Microsoft is moving to Chromium, I imagine they'll just leverage that implementation rather than doing anything with EdgeHTML.

Agree on WebGL2, it seems unlikely that they'll want to commit to supporting it forever with WebGPU on the horizon. Plus Edge will probably not add support until switching to Chromium, so WebGL2 will probably never have a chance to be supported by all browsers until WebGPU is taking off anyway.
Actually, anyone can use a Cloud TPU v2 (one of the accelerators mentioned in the blog post) for free via Colab: https://colab.research.google.com/notebooks/tpu.ipynb

Several other TPU-enabled Colabs are linked from the TFRC website:
https://www.tensorflow.org/tfrc/
That’s not a thing. It doesn’t require explicit opt outs all of the time in shareholder meetings where they explain all of the unethical things they decided not to do to make money.
Giving away everything for free is a way to solve piracy. For some definition of solve.
Google already operates in multiple countries with histories of and ongoing human rights violations. What has triggered such a reaction from you about expansion into China vs their operation in say Saudi Arabia which was ongoing while you were at Google?
> Then Japan has almost zero natural resources and nearly had a shot at taking over the world...

Did they? Or was that just something American businessmen liked to scare each other with in a post-war era?
On Microservices
>Most devices are USB, they work and charge over the connector just fine.

There are USB-C Charge Cable, that does no Data ( To save cost )

>On laptops, connecting displays work as well. They will either use TB or negotiate for HDMI/DP which is also fine.

That is assuming the cable could do TB, which is also not true.

Once you get USB-C to everywhere to everyday normal users, they expect it to plug in and work.
These are not edge cases.

- In a forest fire or in a storm visibility is low, so you wouldn’t be able to drive at speeds over 112mph anyway (see any footage of people driving through forest fires).

- A tsunami’s speed doesn’t exceed 20-30 mph on land

- a pyroclastic flow moves at 100kmh (62 mph)

In any case these edge cases do not outweigh the lives (potentially) saved by capping a car’s speed.
My colleagues do that and having apps has some advantages (at least on Windows, no idea about MacOS or linux): You can put in your startup and not forget to start it when you log in and you can minimize it to the tray.
I think when you say users become "greedy" it's that they don't truly understand the depth of the problem they want to solve. It's not that they are in a true definition sense of "greedy", but ignorant about the cost vs benefit analysis. If if was explained to them it would take 20,000 man hours to solve their issue, and then it would put them out of a job, most of them would clam up.
If you don't exist in a society with preposterously gross amounts of wealth inequality in the modern age your children won't need to roll the genetic lottery of luck to be your kids to live a life without suffering and misery.

People only value the capacity to transfer wealth inter-generationally to such a degree so long as its required to guarantee your children don't live a life of endless toil for meager subsistence wages.
Alternative title: The average length of time an ancient civilization had to last in order to be noticed by us is 336 years.
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who can philosophize better about wealth than the people that became successful and wealthy? The other kind of social media philosophers is the Socialist type that were never successful but blame the system and everything else
That's an interesting idea though, like basically "Spotify as a record label." They could sign & develop talent, maybe develop a distinctive in-house style, have a whole Brill Building type thing going on.
Is the actual problem JIRA or the configuration?

IMHO JIRA is more of an platform you use to build your own process. And I believe it is the process that sucks most if the time.
Perhaps civilizations are born, live and die. With luck, they pass on their memes and genes to the next one.
I am not too narrow minded so I see war as a not good thing and a as a not bad thing.
I don't like seeing anything in this world as a good or a bad thing.

War is something that comes to us by default. Its in our nature, as its in every animals nature for survival. Its not something pushed to us by dictators and what not.

Also I don't agree with your sentence of removing poems, legends and whatever from the internet. Let each person decide for himself whats to be filtered in his head or not. The internet should be free, accessible and non filtered.
Is it so far fetched to draw a parallel with the “let the free (job) market signal Amazon when their benefits policies are uncompetitive” expresses in the parent post?

Just as in Keyens criticism to laissez faire, eventually Amazon might accomodate, but the lives and careers of several individuals will be crushed in the meantime.

It also depends on how much pressure will non-unionized workers manage to exercise. And what about the other women with less premium jobs?
Ben Thompson's been talking about this a lot recently. The tldr is this is a big reason why Spotifys been making a big push into podcasts, because its hard to impossible for them to make money because of how the value chain works I music.
Google’s vs. Facebook trunk-based development
> Too many rich, old, soft people who now have settled and moneyed lives, and don't want to make the same sacrifices ....Too happy with their 2nd homes and retirement plans.

Really? That is at least not what I saw happens in the US, most of the old people could be impoverished by unexpected disease. What you described isn't like 5% of the whole population really...
You mean like a tracking pixel? The issue here is that all requests to the ad domain can be blocked by the ad blocker.
while I was putting aside at work 25% of a very good salary most of my peers with higher salaries spent it all on luxury until huge layoffs came. No luck involved there
The icon being pjw's face naturally :) http://spinroot.com/pico/pjw.html
Some languages deal with this better than others through structural sharing, which reduces overhead significantly. The performance hit is usually unnoticeable in those languages and only becomes a problem in very specific cases ie. processing large strings, appending items to long lists, etc... some of those will cause you to rethink the way you do certain things (that is part of the FP journey).

In languages like JS or Ruby though, you might need to compromise. Generally I start with the immutable approach and refactor if performance becomes an issue.
On Monorepos
Internet Archive: Zip Is Broken, Except It’s Not, Except It Is
Also during the war, they put up a pretty good fight for it all things considered.
That's the company that removed strain relievers from all their cabling with the very intention of making them break easier.

What did you people expect?
not vilified, just avoided it, as with regular struggle that makes your existence more scary but more dense and your spirit less complacent
HN has had a bit of an infatuation with NYTimes ever since they started running a negative article about Facebook at least once a day.
The route only has this much traffic because Facebook has a data center nearby.

Paying massive capex to support one customer puts you in a bad negotiating position.
Part of it isn't even "wealth" as much as it is "higher cost levels". There's no simple policy answer to this, but increasing marginal tax rates are meant to be a proxy for the diminishing marginal utility of money. In states with a higher price level, citizens are getting taxed at higher rates than their level of wealth would otherwise imply, just due to the inefficiency of the policy.

It's the equivalent of failing to adjust for inflation, just spatially instead of across time. As I said though, there's no easy fix that let's you define cost levels in a principled way and adjust for them, so this isn't quite bad policy as much as an unfortunate imperfection in it.
There are many examples of Apple never admitting design issues!

Beside what they are doing with their reputation and customers loyalty, I’m wondering how is it going to affect their engineering culture within the company itself.

They are very biased with their strategies in everything and they hardly change them. Same situation Microsoft was in some years ago.
JIRA and VSTS (Azure DevOps?) have wildly different workflows.

To me, the Azure DevOps way of doing this doesn't work in any logical sense, I can't find the simplest thing in the mess of an UX they have.
Still waiting for Apple to make anything anywhere as good as the Pismo was. I've had hardware issues of one kind or another with every single laptop from them since then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_G3#PowerBook_(FireWi...
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I have owned 3 Macbooks so far. And all 3 have had one of the speakers break. Am I just that unlucky?

Oh and yeah, what a diarrhea of a keyboard in the 2016 edition.
The GDPR's super complicated, but I'm pretty sure its Right of Erasure, and specifically Article 7(3), which gives data subjects the right to withdraw consent at any time and the clause “it shall be as easy to withdraw consent as to give it" trumps any ridiculous "irrevocable" license to distribute your content in any form forever.

Also importantly, the GDPR requires that a controller not make a service conditional upon consent. Hacker News is likely not in compliance unless they make such data processing optional and require anyone interested to explicitly opt in.

But, then again, I'm not a lawyer, and even if I were, actual lawyers don't seen to know what the hell the GDPR actually requires either.
Ugh - I have one that also has a left failed speaker, which had previously crackled before giving out. A quick search on Reddit will find similar reports. Apple refuses to acknowledge the issue entirely.
I bought the first touchbar MacBook Pro. Promptly returned it and bought the last high end non-touchbar pro. Best decision I ever made. This thing works just like it should. I don’t expect anything more from it. Yet Apple keeps thinking I do.
And in real business we spend up to millions in external legal advice to audit and enhance our compliance officers work. I am amazed that in this sector even the advisors don't seem to have M&A experience. This is basic vetting, or... a calculated risk with the expected outcome.
People bitch and moan about how unfair everything is and while it is unfair the wealth the poorest individual has in the united states is light years ahead of what kings had in the middle ages.

According to all observations the most likely end to modern civilization is over exploitation and over usage of natural resources.

The amount of resources available and the amount we use point to a trend that has one conclusion.

The irony is that even with the knowledge of our impending doom we are still unable to see it despite the obviousness of it. The original poster makes a chancy prediction on how wealth inequality will take us to our ends while all trendlines and data point to the real way our civilization will end.

One day there will not be enough oil in the world for you to drive to work or fly to another state.

Technology is not our savior. The trendlines in tech are far too slow do make any meaningful difference. What you're actually observing with technology like the tesla is the trendline in hype.
yeah, great, but what about adjusting for inharmonicity in the overtones? (partially /s)

a good explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_fU6yVxDZs
This includes both free and paid tiers. I am not sure if there's a strong reason to celebrate. I would speculate that most of these users are in the free tier. Spotify's catalogue for India is severely limited with the feud they are having with WMG, which makes it—despite being the best music streaming app—quite an unattractive option.
Given it was a scandal that affected thousands, and the hospital later put it in writing, yes.

She did not want to mention it due to the publicity campaign around AIDS at the time, and the popular presumption I mentioned. To avoid questions like that I guess, whilst he was slowly dying.
That’s clearly 1 million which was waiting for this.

Let’s see how the numbers change from now on. That will be a lot more interesting.
A bigger problem imo is the $700 display replacement. I have a similar problem with my wife’s broken MacBook, where replacing the display costs almost as much as the computer itself.

The problem with the MacBook is that the display is bonded to the glass and the aluminum back so that you have to replace the entire top assembly to fix the display.

It’s even more depressing to know that the ribbon connecting the display is also soldered on.

Apple (and Ives in particular) talks a lot about recycling, sustainability, and product lifecycle, but that seems like complete bullshit once you actually open up or try to repair one of their products.
And you attribute this fact entirely - as in 100% - to the fall of Empires, and not the technological advancements that happened in parallel?

I find it strikingly hard to believe that democracy, which is what I assume you’re referring to, is the actual imperative that caused this. If we had managed to avoid WWI it’s really difficult to imagine that we’d still be using a horse drawn buggy and a typewriter.
Jio, the largest cell phone service in India, with about 280 million subscribers, recently acquired another streaming service called Saavn, and it is available for free for Jio customers (along with their Tivo-like TV streaming service and their movies).

P.S - I work for Jio.

P.S2 - Apple music also costs the same as spotify in India.

To reply to Zuron's comments: Even assuming Spotify experience is better, it is a question of pricing. Jio currently offers unlimited calls, text and 1.5GB of data per day (which includes all you can stream) for about the same price (USD 2.10 per month for the whole thing whereas Spotify charges USD 1.70 just for music streaming). I am trying to making a humble point that there are some incredible values to be obtained at this price point in India today.

@Ing33K - Yes that is me.
Nobody gives a shit about companies building products for China. People are upset about building censorship and logging tools that will be used to suppress free speech and kill/intern dissidents.

Supporting Chinese businesses by buying from them and being against selling suppression tools to the Chinese government are both sides of the same coin.

You’re conflating “made in China” with “made in America for suppressing the Chinese”. This is textbook propaganda to make the Chinese government and its citizens seem like a unified entity.

“Why would you buy a slice of Pizza in New York and simultaneously complain about the Belgians selling guns to the US government?”
I think JB originally added Z for zoom level for map tile zoom level, but (having done exactly this for some internal demos) you can totally abuse it for what you want and it works well. Tile38 is a really excellent geospatial database and a lovely codebase.

As for integrating GPU - look at Gorgonia's CU package by Xuanyi Chew that will give you ahead start from using CUDA from Go. Good luck.
nah they were dead in the water. Resource embargo was basically a death sentence. The Nuke was done to end it quickly.
> The correct medical diagnosis was Gay Related Immune Deficiency

The medical “GRID” diagnosis was wrong, while “HIV” was attacking gay men, it was also attacking straight people. They were being ignored because it was eliminating gay people. Hospital staff kicked gay people out as HIV diagnoses came in. My friends held their friends in their arms without medical care as they died because a government and medical association did nothing. If gay people had rights they would have been able to have more successful monogamous relationships. If they had government assistance they could have aided in stopping the spread. For 8 years the government did nothing. Clever trick to call it GRID, then once it blooms in straight populations change the official acronym. “Oh it happens in straight people too?!” Damn right.

> Of course anyone can get AIDS, but men who have sex with men have a much higher risk of contracting than any other group with the exception of IV drug users.

Male to male anal sex is a common and easy method for transmission, so is IV drug use. The greatest rate of new infection is African-American women. Why would you point out some groups and leave others out?

https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/group/racialethnic/africanamericans/...
I was more than happy to cancel my Apple Music Account as soon as I was able to install Spotify in India.
I primariy use an Android Device and use an iPhone as a bakup device. Apple mucic app on Android sucks.
That's not a bad number to start with! I have used Apple Music, Amazon Prime Music, Google Music, Saavn and Gaana etc. They all differ from one another in terms of collection. Now I am using Spotify in India -- though at this point in time it lacks a collection of regional music and playlists, it still has the better interface and options to use it across different devices compared to others. I guess once Spotify curates better regional music, it will have an edge over other services.
I am curious as to the reason for this objection.

Whoever is appointed as the US President has an impact on 'Rest of World'. So why shouldn't RoW have an input on the selection process?

Foreign companies buy ad space in the USA all the time to influence customer behaviour. An election isn't much different on principle.
Everything is everybody's responsibility.
One program is shutting down (according to who knows whom) but that doesn't mean that other programs are doing the exact same thing. NY Times is again acting as a limited hangout [0] for various spy agencies.

One of the things we learned from Congressional hearings (from James Clapper and others) and from whistleblowers like William Binney and Snowden is that these intelligence agencies change the meaning of words. Things like "collection" and "analysis" don't mean what you think they mean. When they say "we don't collect X" that just means they don't collect X under the program they're testifying about. If there are other programs, they won't tell you about those or will only testify in secret. Sometimes they outright lie about things too as we found out from Clapper's testimony.

Anyway, don't believe a word they say. This data is way too valuable to be abandoned. If not the NSA, someone else will be collecting it, analyzing it and disseminating it through some database within the IC.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_hangout
FilePond: A JavaScript library that can upload anything you throw at it
>Sometimes people are just wasting their energy on things that are only an issue by their standards and not by the standards of the people who are ultimately affected by the issue itself (in this case the Chinese people).

That’s not how morals work. Just because you’re not the victim of human rights abuse doesn’t mean you can’t try to prevent it.
off-topic:

Hey, I remember you from your username.
you were hiring for some fintech company. Were you hiring for JioMoney ?
AT&T doesn't have a monopoly on long-haul fiber. There are several providers FB could have purchased the capacity from. FB did a build vs. buy decision and build came out on top.

How big do you have to be to construct your own long-haul fiber network if long-haul fiber isn't one of your core businesses? FB, Google, Amazon, Microsoft big.
right but the choices of what crosses the line seem arbitrary and often people protest things that aren't nearly as bad as things they are complicit in. Its moreso to make themselves feel better and maybe out of boredom.
Mid-2015 rMBP is the peak, I believe.
That makes sense to me, I subscribe to the view that software "design patterns" are userland patches for things missing from the language or misuses thereof. The question is then whether the feature is missing enough (the pattern is common) that it makes sense to feed it back into built-in support or not.

I don't know how common the knowledge of nikomatsakis's pattern is though, and thus if crates could be automatically searched for it.
> We've come a long way since VRML [0] running in java applets!

I'd argue "yes" and "no" on this at the same time...

With VRML, it was designed so that - like HTML - anyone could easily create 3D objects and "worlds" using a simple markup syntax that was very similar to HTML (IIRC, both are subsets of SGML?).

It was easy to create something really quickly that could be interacted with.

These tools, while they simplify the creation part (somewhat), are more akin to today's "web site builder" systems vs raw HTML in an editor.

What you get out of them, though, isn't anything like HTML - if you are lucky, you'll get a standard file format or maybe JSON - but then what do you do with that? Furthermore, it isn't likely very human readable or editable.

WebGL - and libraries like three.js built on top - are all well and good, and allow for much easier access for 3D graphics work - but neither are anything like VRML.

There are some VRML-like tools out there - one that comes to mind is Google's A-Frame:

https://aframe.io/docs/0.9.0/introduction/

So some stuff like the old-school VRML is out there, and VRML had it's issues, which is part of why it didn't survive (the other part being that it was too early for the available PC hardware - unless you happened to own an SGI workstation at the time).

It's one of those pieces of "pioneering" technology that came too early for the tech - but gave us a glimpse of what might be possible in the future (much like the first "wave" of virtual reality hardware technology).
Thank you for letting me know! It has been fixed now (will be updated in a few minutes), and I also add twitter for the Book Insider site: https://twitter.com/Book__Insider
their open source projects (chrome etc) aren't in the mono repo and highly doubt dragonfly is
Saavn was always free. Jio is just offering its paid subscription free for the first 90 days.
To be fair, I do know a few (mid-size) companies who tend to replace the entire system, then send the faulty piece back to a centralized repair facility which repairs the boards, and then they're used to repair another faulty piece. Don't know whether the large companies do this though.
The academic model is bankrupt. No wonder a lot of people are dropping out because spending years, if not decades of low paying scholarships (at best) for the possibility of a good paying job later is just not a good proposition.

And then big companies require Masters/PhDs for people to go and do jobs when On The Job training would suffice? Yeah, does not sound good.
Actually it's not too bad. I was able to find most of my favorite Kannada and Telugu Songs.
Eventually Apple will make a disposable $3000 Mac and everyone will love it ...