skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consuming software cost producers zero, practically. You do have overhead from 'how does this work with docker', of course. However, don't get offended at the 'useless software eaters'. The greatest consumer beneficiaries are driving their populations out of poverty, like China and India. China is the #1 software 'cost externalizer'. Developing nations are the #1 relative gainers (proportionally) from consuming open-source. All this means lower infant mortality, less unemployed women, and longer life expectancies. Let them eat. The US, the largest and wealthiest, is the #1 open-source contributor. However, in absolute terms, we (USA) are the greatest beneficiaries of open-source software. Just look at how high of a valuation our tech companies still fetch and how we have most of the top corporations. Yet still, the millions of Indian persons getting online every year and other gains has a greater relative impact than a 3% growth in our real GDP.

Also the addition of new programmers from developing nations is going to drive development costs down. And with the intro of ML code recommenders and distributed platforms, dev costs will fall in half every few years in that not so distant future. Software is incredibly expensive to develop at the moment. See tech hubs real estate and housing costs. The global trends that affected middle America is going to enter Silicon Valley like a tornado.

Yet you make a could point that from an accounting standpoint, costs are not clearly accrued by the companies that contribute their workers time to their open-source dependencies. There is some inefficiencies in determining which contributor pull requests get accepted; corporate sponsorshing projects and hiring contributors is a payment, in some cases, to have a higher probability of getting code merged. The largest contributors of the most valuable projects, like the Linux kernal, are large stakeholders that are dependent on the project. And most successful projects I've seen have competition from developers seeking to add stuff that helps their company projects better interoperate with the dependency. So the accounting is not very accurate.

However, all open-source developer contributions will soon be weighed by others so that those not so high up on the project food chain can be directly compensated. This is getting worked on, now. Every one who contributes value will be rewarded.
Norway refuses to drill for oil in Arctic, ‘industry surprised and disappointed’
If I'm not mistaken they mentioned Quadro cards being used in the Mac Pro by one of the early testers. If this is true, it would likely mean the return of native latest-generation nVidia drivers.
Correct, that's just the max draw it can handle. Most configurations will probably draw no more than ~500-600w.
Lots of engineers are suggesting that SwiftUI, plus other declarative frameworks, might be "the future" of app development. However, I can't help but feel that this paradigm would work best when your app is a fairly basic CRUD thing. If you're working with highly interactive interfaces, complex animations, or dense, layered documents (DAWs, video editors), it seems that you would need explicit state and imperative code at the center of it all, and that a declarative approach would require hacks and workarounds at every turn. In my humble opinion, some of the most interesting, ground-breaking, and creative software has these properties; whereas this reactive stuff seems tailored to bog-standard utility software.

However: I've never used React or any of its derivatives, so this is mostly inference. Is this take accurate or not? In theory, could you scale SwiftUI to build something like Logic, Blender, or Photoshop (for example)?

Also, have any declarative UI frameworks been released that feature a "platform" layer, where you get to define how your declarative code actually turns into UI, widgets, and behaviors? It seems that SwiftUI relies on (encoded) assumptions of what an ideal UIKit or AppKit app is supposed to look and feel like, and it would be really powerful if we could mess with this foundation or even swap it out entirely.

(It's very possible I'm mixing up reactive/declarative/reactive-UI concepts since I'm not too familiar with the territory.)
The 2006 Mac Pro Cheese Grater model was $2,499. $3,124 adjusted for inflation. Earlier G models were even cheaper.
"A request to launch your app in the background to execute a processing task that can take minutes to complete."

Compared to the previous limit of 15 seconds, it's a pretty substantial change.

It seems you need to request it appropriate permissions though, so it's probably going to work similarly to how Background Fetch worked. If your app is used very seldom, your script might be running less frequent then you request.
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If it was just one thing or the other, perhaps he wouldn't have been so critical of it. People are going to understand if you require a few paths to be changed or some files to be downloaded manually into specific relative locations. The ask is only that somebody should be able to use the code without doing their own novel research, and be able to verify it's doing what it is claimed to be doing. If this means your download links need to point to the right location, the code has to run in a location other than /home/hellokitty/ml, and that it needs to meet standards of readability—well, good, that's what the scientific process is about.
> (And why on Earth does iOS allow me to split a portrait mode vertically, creating two thin strips that are seemingly useless for any work?)

Because developers can then present the iPhone interface.

> It's frustrating beyond belief knowing that this device could be so much more useful with that tiny basic functionality that has existed in GUIs for decades

Other systems have differently-designed interfaces designed for different kinds of interaction.

If the iPad interface allowed tiling apps top-and-bottom, the iPhone interface wouldn't be usable because the aspect ratio would be wrong and the iPad interface wouldn't be usable because navigation chrome would take up just about all the screen.

I could only see this working if Apple had developers using their iPhone landscape interface on that view, but so many iPhone apps don't have a landscape interface so barely any iPad apps would inherit this.
The connectome. Your identity is encoded in the neural network of your brain, which is preserved in vitrification. I don’t know why this is controversial.
> Because of things like CUDA, there are whole domains people can only use Win/Linux for.

Pretty tiny domains, though.
Competition is not anti-competitive.

Excluding other third party sign on options would be problematic if Apple were abusing a dominant position among smartphone makers, which is not the case by any objective measure.
Upgrade and repairability
Expanding PL horizons is not a goal for this project. The goal for this specific usercode layer(of which there are four: WASM bytecode, the I/O memory map, the lower level operating system language, and the higher level interpreted language) is to achieve a mix of sustainability and familiarity. A language defined by a book explaining its implementation, while also being in the "looks-like-an-Algol" ballpark, falls very close to that mark.

If you want a Lisp, it's possible, just rewrite the OS layer.
That is really sad. I just learned about HTTP about 3 months ago when I had to do my first web project so I printed out a random breakdown article on HTTP and what a beautiful design. Sure I know people think it’s far from perfect or whatever. I get that. But I loved reading that article.

As it turns out, I am learning C right now partially because I wanted to add a feature to VLC and got really curious after reading the source code and trying to assess how hard that would be.
I don't know that he is being mistreated. I am saying that the possibility that he is being railroaded needs to be taken seriously [1]. That's all.

And yes, I'm aware that his actions helped the current administration, and it therefore doesn't make sense that they would railroad him. But this would not be the first time that this administration threw a former ally under the bus.

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/charging-julia...
What? This has nothing to do with bugs in the code that would've affected the original author's ability to run the original experiments described in the paper. The user I replied to is talking about things like hard-coded data paths and wanting to be able to run the code at the press of a button on any platform. The expectation for this level of cross-platform compatibility is difficult to achieve for engineering firms with millions to invest in making it work properly. He's mad that individual machine learning researchers don't always do a great job of making it happen for their cutting-edge research which was a difficult enough engineering task to get running on their machine.
> Facebook, Google Search and Chrome, the most discussed products in current antitrust discussions all have viable quality alternatives.

What is a quality alternative to Facebook? Diaspora was DOA, Mastodon is a cesspit, Twitter is nothing like Facebook, and G+ is long-dead.
I’ve noticed general nonfiction books tend to be way longer than they need to be. I’m not the first to make this observation, and won’t be the last. Most (including from often recommended authors, like Cal Newport[1]) have a single core idea stretched to fill a book. If you can find a talk by the author on the topic, it will be a better use of your time.

But on to some practical tips. Every person is different and without knowing you personally some of these might miss the mark, but I’ll give them as they apply to me; hopefully some will be useful to you.

You will forget most of what you read, including entire books you enjoyed and left an impression on you, but the core ideas will stay. A good nonfiction book has the potential to update your mental model of the world. That stays with you even after you forget all the individual arguments that provoked the change. In sum, don’t fret about “engaging deeply” and making annotations you will never read. Consume the book. If you found it has potential to be relevant in your life, make a note of it and come back to it at a later point in life. You might find some of the ideas that were novel to you when you first read it now feel like common sense and are part of your personality. That book has done its job. You may tag it again for future reconsumption, or discard it.

Keep a digital copy of the book in your phone while you listen to the audiobook. If there is an idea you really want to save for later, pause the audiobook and search the written version for a string of three or four words you just heard. An exact short phrase is typically enough to find the right spot. Annotate it there.

Listen at over 1x speed. The exact speed will depend on both your practice and the book. I get distracted by other thoughts both when I read and when I listen, but when I listen I can tell the software to make it more challenging. The trick is to set the audiobook playback speed slow enough that you can still comprehend it, but fast enough that it takes effort to do so. That will leave no space for stray thoughts, increasing the attention you give the content.

Programming books aren’t a good fit for audio, so they don’t tend to be produced as audiobooks, but there is still value in audiobooks with charts and graphs. Those tend to bundle a PDF with the required images and the narrator will tell you where to look. Even so you may not need to check, as what matters in a graph aren’t the lines, but the conclusions. If you trust the author’s honesty and competence, you may eschew looking at the pictures and accept their interpretation of the data.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_Newport
But even the most advanced technology can’t accomplish magic. It still exists in the real world and is subject to physical law, such as the laws of statistical mechanics and information loss.
Never trust rumours. Rumours are tinged with bias.

Rather, prefer to trust the horse's mouth and its history. Apple has always said they wouldn't merge macOS and iOS, but they have a history of bringing iOS frameworks to macOS for consistency (AVFoundation was a big one).

Rumours are the fodder of those who cannot be bothered to learn about something but want the air of clairvoyance to impress friends; they are the life blood of those kids at school whose uncle definitely works at Nintendo and he has definitely played Pokémon Rainbow but you'll never get to see it because his uncle said it's classified.
Read "CatBoost: unbiased boosting with categorical features". https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.09516
Putting two and two together, that means that apps offering Facebook/Google login will have to accept Apple's anonymized forwarded email addresses, like fc452bd5ea@privaterelay.appleid.com.
Oh fuck you. Every time I bring this up someone says I'm just being selfish and judgmental. No - I literally spend about 6-8 hours every week and huge amounts of my own money actually working with homeless people in a charitable capacity. They straight up refuse to change their situation a good 40% of the time when presented with opportunities to do so.
Indeed there's no reason those shouldn't be available on iPhone, so thankfully they are. The name is just marketing; if in doubt, just see what's new in iOS in general.
I'm really surprised they went with zsh rather than fish. I guess they want to preserve the ability for existing `source` scripts to work.
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The thing about Google Docs is that I haven't seen any changes or updates to get toward feature-parity since I was using it in high school a decade and a half ago. I assume it has been exiled to Google's island of misfit toys that they can't quite take out back and shoot just yet.
I think this might be because of the right wing of the Republican party that thinks that Google/Facebook etc are unfairly censoring their point of view. This action might be designed to cut them down to size.
Nvidia's web driver works for pre-Mojave macs
How is the Files app a great example? It's available on iOS already.
> A paid calculator app might be better designed than a free one.

A very bold claim - there are many paid-for calc apps that just use plain floating point math and don't attempt to mimic a proper calculator at all.

There are also free calc apps that DO put the work in to be a proper useful calculator.
Clove hitch on a bight is great for guylines too.
Oh, I wasn’t aware of that. Are you taking about the registration component only, or does this include the compulsory third party bodily insurance? I guess the two are wedded, so it’s sort of an academic distinction.
Anything that's crowdsourced and likely to be manipulated needs to have a plan for handling coordinated inauthentic activity. I imagine Steam's existing measures are designed more around preventing game developers from using fake positive reviews to promote their games rather than fake negative reviews as a form of censorship.
It's probably because the default bash is a very ancient version before FSF transitioned to GPLv3. That said, I've been using zsh for a long time and this is a great change.
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Probably Apple is hoping the entire Apple ecosystem not to be defined as "a market" in terms of antitrust laws. I am not sure if the Justice Department will agree with it though; we'll see.

If it's defined as a market, then Apple will be surely in trouble but enforcing Apple ID alone doesn't make much differences from the current situation as it always has been doing similar things for web browsers, music apps, app store itself etc. So it's pretty natural to enforce this policy for Apple; no additional risks but only benefits.
Article and photos of recently delivered Cover the size of a two car garage with kitchen and bathroom: https://www.curbed.com/2019/4/16/18311952/prefab-home-cover-...
I care more about freedom than performance here. Not feature complete is fine as long as it works for what I do, and that I can tweak it to do more.

Eventually, something that is not licensed from a western company (or which can't be protected by IP law) but that is fast enough for most uses will also become a $0.10 afterthought.

The mips24k is remarkable in that you can comfortably run a linux kernel with a lot of userland utilities and even text mode software -- just what we used to run on Linux computers many years ago!
Interesting. Another project with similar goals I came across recently is https://www.stampstampede.org/faq/ which was started by Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's fame. They use a stamp (like the Where's George project) and keep legal notes in circulation.
You're completely missing the safety factor.

On European highways passing always occurs on the left, this means nobody should be ever passing you on your right.

When you have an emergency like a tire blowout, on a European highway you can safely merge right towards the shoulder with urgency and confidence nobody is coming up fast from behind and overtaking you on that side.

In the United States, you cannot make that assumption, people are overtaking on both sides at any time, it's basically chaos.
Privatized child cages for the explicit reason of brutalizing those applying for asylum are normal right of center governance? Calling an investigation which found numerous cases of foreign involvement a coup?

I think you might be suffering from severe change blindness.
Therefore, anyone offering Facebook/Google login will also have to accept Apple's anonymized forwarded email addresses, like fc452bd5ea@privaterelay.appleid.com.
Rumors are spread by those who test the waters, usually.
> Bribes are also tax-exempt

It's not a terrible idea.

I heard that post-war Germany had a massive corruption problem so they made bribing legal (but not bribe taking) and bribes tax-exempt. So everyone declared their bribes on their tax returns, the bribees were discouraged (or prosecuted) and the problem was solved. But this only works if you pursue the bribe takers.
Why would they use fish? Fish is nice and all, but zsh is a much more mainstream shell.
You'd use the new Files app the same way you'd use the current Files app … USB disks aren't the only way to use it.

Seriously, am I being gaslighted here? The Files app is already available on iOS 12, I think it was introduced in 11, and it's definitely on iPhones.

Everybody talking about it like a hypothetical iPad-only app is seriously confusing me.
>if only for the fact that I get an OS with working copy/paste in all applications

That's such an oddly specific reason to require MacOS. Can you say more? I can't say I've ever had a problem with copy/paste in Linux, in any application.

If this issue were serious enough to me to consider doubling my computer's price tag, I'd at least first look at Hackintoshing, which tends to be pretty solid these days when you can pick out specific hardware in advance.
"It's fine when I do it!"
Guess they had to go somewhere as Apple's unwillingness to have GPLv3 code effectively killed off bash updates.

Slightly disappointed, but guess they had to go somewhere and zsh is going to be well supported going forward
Depends a lot on where they're working. I know more than one person that had 15+ years experience that was making around 100k/year, then moved to a FAANG and hit > 500k total compensation in just a 2-3 years.
Update to the above, since it's too late to edit: It looks like Apple is in fact forcing you to support this sign in method, if you also support Google/FB/etc.: https://9to5mac.com/2019/06/03/sign-in-with-apple-requiremen...
Yes it's common that a lot of "little details" are left out. Yes it does make things harder. No it's not a big enough problem that you need to be disheartened. You could even see it as an opportunity to raise the bar and stand out positively.
> pick their fruit, clean their toilets, cook and serve their food, take care of their children, pick up their garbage

Already doing most of this, so... if I start picking my fruit (and vegetables) and learn to drive a garbage truck, what do I get in return?
> Well, this is try two. Think people will still try to claim it’s a viable model over ads after this one?

Is Nebula shooting for organic growth, or did they take VC money like Vidme did?

If Nebula took VC money, they are as equally doomed.
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From my perspective, it's the article calling your work bullshit: if the author thought it was interesting on its own merits, they wouldn't have to lead with the age of the creator.

I would bet that OP was once themselves the recipient of similar "breathless gushing" when they were young, and lost a lot of the wind in their sails when formerly impressive achievements became simply expected. Better not to depend on that kind of validation, it stops early and never comes back.

And worse, someday you might read articles like this and feel discouraged, because it seems nobody will care that you just discovered how much fun you can have with Markov chains in your 30s.
Where did they mention this?
As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, Gmail no longer shows ads related to email content, or uses email content at all for advertising purposes. Yes, the deal changes, but in this case it got better since 2006.
We only store the OS and apps, so anytime the storage is full it's usually cause someone hasn't emptied their downloads folder or they're incorrectly caching the the OS drive.
It's really annoying to have to learn new language when zsh is so similar to bash.
That might be true, but those articles are using a restaurant employees advocacy group as their only source. And beyond that one person's conjecture, there isn't much evidence that it's actually true.