skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does absolutely increase risk, which everyone in the industry recognizes - people talk about things like minimizing separation events as a tool for reducing risk. When you're stuck doing risky stuff like this, you can compensate pretty easily by throwing an enormous testing budget at the thing, which is a big part of the ballooning cost of JWST.
> was a questionable business choice

She probably saw backstage videos from ads shooting by "real" brands and wanted to do something similar. So it was not a question of expenses and profits.
The timeline is interesting in itself: This story was posted 4 hours ago on Twitter, 3 hours ago on HN.

The cofounder picked it up 3h ago. DO responded and apologized from the official account 2 hours ago, claiming it was fixed, and is actively responding to people tweeting at them, doing damage control, since about 1 hour, promising a public postmortem.

While it's sad that a social media escalation was needed (and it confirms that getting attention on social media is the only effective way to resolve hard issues like this), the response after that was quite fast. Let's see how well and how quickly they deliver on the postmortem.
Brought back memories. I think it might be a little Stockholm syndrome but there was just something about the pressure of getting a release out when you know it only happens once every few years. Bug triage definitely improved my persuasion technique.

Now its just "meh, we'll fix it in next months release".
Apple’s CPU execute the ARM ISA. But they are not ARM IP designs. They are instead custom built in-house.
I am a software developer and yes software is eating the world. One of the side effects of software eating the world is out of control software.

* Autobans in facebook
* Cheated instacart drivers
* $10000 stolen from thousands of bank accounts (and returned hopefully) on Etsy
* Tesla cars literally killing people (it now feels like it's once a month right?)

Now the software that runs software is running amok.

The interesting thing about software is that it runs very quickly and it acts as a giant lever that affects the entire world.

You can think of it like a giant airport suddenly being installed in your back yard and just start having planes take off, changing your $300k investment into a $120k valued house overnight. That's how quickly software is changing the real world.

I know there is at least one HN browser writing a book on it. But I would love to see more books on how the internet, and software, is messing our world up.
And it has only gotten worse and worse. I still resort to Foobar2k on Linux under Wine, because it seems to be one of the only apps that has it all.
US system computes hell out of statistics for ranking and validation of quality. Other countries, including India or China, has no such things. There, universities/institutes are "ranked" by sort of public perception and media image. It is not uncommon in these countries to buy PhD degrees by simply contracting ghost writers and/or publish in to shady for-fee publications. Government mandates have typically evolved in these countries for a reason.
That 4A doesn't mean the same thing at the border as it does on the streets of Chicago is not in dispute.
Foobar 2000 is probably the closest to an honest successor of WinAMP's queue support. It's visually boring, but gets the job done well and is configurable and extendable to other needs. Has all sorts of power user options for shuffle modes, play queue management, and play list management.

(For instance, the ability in a shuffle to right click a song for it to play next in the queue, and then have it return to the shuffle. Or to shuffle entire albums, playing the albums in track order but shuffling which album is next.)
I recall reading some news recently about studies of the microbiome in immigrants that suggest it can be a relatively quick shift. e.g. see: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/11/how-immig...
I tend to agree. It’s also bit weird having separate apps in iOS for podcasts and music, but having the same app in MacOS.
> Does it matter where the burden lies

> the burden of proof is, practically, often on the person who needs to make a decision

You're contradicting a logical principle that is strong enough to be put in actual law.

It's the difference between being right and pretending or hoping you're right. Or hoping that the other guy is wrong.

> The premise of the entire article seems to rely on what might be a fallacy.

Just doesn't have the same righteous ring to it :).
The stuff they do themselves is terrible; they need third parties and they need a thriving market place to develop talent and competency.
That money is also out of circulation, so not contributing to inflation. The government will print (or create through interest rate adjustments) the same amount as it pursues an interest rate target.
Since HN likes technical analogies: why do you use a RDBMS instead of flat files?

People don't care about how the files are stored, and they shouldn't need to. We've seen this in everything from music catalogs to file sharing to productivity software. We want content organized logically with metadata, tags, folders, lists and search that's completely removed from the physical location. Let the computers do what they're good at while the software lets you consume it the way you want.
That's why I am not going to visit the US. It is essentially becoming another dystopian police state. Shame because there is so many great places to see there, but there is also plenty of other countries that are no paranoid controlling freaks. I can only vote with my wallet.
Hm, I wonder if I'll still be able to sync music and podcasts to my iPod.

My 10-plus-year-old iPod is rock solid technology, hardware and software, just keeps on working. At this point it feels like some retro SF alternate vision of the future we could have had, with simple easy to use things that never broke.
> Do I really need to bring up the “No Wireless. Less Space than a Nomad. Lame.” Meme and how geeks didn’t get the iPod?

People love to bring this up... but that product (pretty much) did fail, in no small part because it had less space than a Nomad. The iPod wasn't successful until a couple revisions later and after the introduction of iTunes (which led to an end-to-end rethink of how you loaded music on these devices). No matter how hard Apple-acolytes want it to be true, if I come out with a bad product, and then later come out with a good product, it doesn't make the bad product retroactively awesome.
I disagree that writing is undervalued. I think that writing is highly valuable and highly rewarded...but that the path to overcome challenges with writing is bafflingly mysterious. Does anyone know of a therapist who has experience helping people overcome writing anxiety?

I genuinely don’t know how to find one. Therapist-shopping is baffling.

I ask this as a software engineer who can produce pretty solid writing if given enough time but for whom doing so prompts thoughts of severe self harm. I was pushed to resign from my last job as a result of handing in a nearly-blank self-evaluation during my company’s performance review process, so I’m willing to spend... I guess up to $8k, (maybe more? Anything’s better than suicide to be honest. I love life in general and suppose it would be rational to spend half my income to eliminate the risk of it) On getting this finally solved after 2 decades of occasional agony.
I would expect an “A*” to do research. It seems like it’s a generic article about becoming an adult, but the author assumes it only happens to a subset of young adults. It might be an attempt to blame the education system for the feeling of inadequacy, but part of being an adult is taking responsibility for your actions and feelings. No one can make you do or feel something you don’t want to.
The power dissipation problem of current chips (performance is almost always power/thermal limited) is correlated with 2D structures

Graphene thermal pads have really phenomenal lateral thermal conductivity. 3D computer chips could be constructed of alternating silicon and thermal graphene layers, perhaps conducting to a central core, which could be made of copper or could even contain water or a heat pipe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpphKzmDiJM
> the compiler seems to need java.

Looks like it's written in Scala, which is in the realm of ML and quite nice for compilers.

Maybe they could compile w/Scala Native to get rid of the Java dependency? I am not up to speed w/the status of Scala Native or if this project has JVM-specific dependencies though - just a thought :)
What does this men for getting data onto and off iDevices from non-Apple equipment like Windows PCs? Apple has always stubbornly refused to support standardised formats and transfer protocols for a lot of widely useful data types, and if you didn't want to trust your data to iCloud then the PC iTunes application was one of the few other officially supported ways to move things onto or off your mobile devices. It would be great if their push to make their devices stronger candidates to replace general purpose PCs included improvements here, because iTunes on Windows is pretty bad, but it would be a concern if this actually heralds a move further in the other direction.
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I don't know, it seems simple enough to me. I have a server on DO hosting some toy-level projects, and IIRC it took me 15-30 min to set up a daily Cron job to dump the DB, tar it, and send it to S3, with a minimum-privilege account created for the purpose, so that any hacker that got in couldn't corrupt the backups. I'm not a CLI or Linux automation whiz, others could probably do it faster.
If we trust the device manufacturer to only sign genuinely recorded videos, couldn't we also trust them to sign the videos with a correct timestamp?
The solution to all of this buying and selling of information is simpler than we all think. We will be creating a credit reporting type agency but for data privacy. This will tell us who pulled your information as a credit reporting agency does when you sign up for a Credit Card. Now to what extent does it disclose what what captured we as citizens will have to stand up and fight for that.
For one thing, even if this was a good idea, you would still need a tool to covert the meta information from the ID3 tags that come with your music from amazon, iTunes Store, or wherever into a myriad of hard links.

Further, it's hard to imagine how the hard link system could ever be as flexible as even an average music library program, where you can trivially find songs released between 1990 and 1995, with at least one play count, and then have them sorted by beats per minute.

Music libraries act as relational databases, which are a far more powerful data modeling tool than the file system.
In comments she said that has never bought any followers.
That response is ice cold. Reminds me of suspension emails Amazon sends out to their FBA sellers.
On Android I have a 7 icon dock (3 are folders of each <=4 apps) and swipe up for an alphabetical list.

The alphabetical list is my main criterion, I don't think anything beats it. The dock is just a handy shortcut to a few common things, but even the coach tracking app I use every working morning and most of those afternoons isn't in there (that's much more frequently than I use some that are) and it's fine.

Grid of all app icons was designed at a time when 'apps' were newNd nobody had many.

I don't have many, I only recently got 'smartphone' again, but still more than I care to spread over a grid.

(The only annoyance is some daftly named apps, like 'Credit Card' instead of '<Provider> Credit' or something.)
Access to your data should never be denied. Ever. It was not DigitalOcean's data. If you are a hosting provider, you can't ever hold customer data hostage or deny them access to it in any way.
Figured this was going to happen when Paul died. Really too bad they didn't have another year or two.
The files managed by iTunes on MacOS are indeed on the file system, and indeed organized in directories by artist name and album name (from the tags).

I'm not sure what you mean.
Can you explain what you mean by "clinical significance"? Is it a case of "we're confident the treatment shrank the tumour by 10%, but the patient is still going to die in a week?"
Turn on feature you really don’t want? <later> <yes>

Combined with asking you constantly if you say no and never asking again if you say yes.

I hate that shit and it creates a negative feeling for me towards whatever product is doing it, if I’m aware you are trying to trick me why would I trust you.

It must work (for some set of work) though or they wouldn’t do it.
Write Ahead Logs would have been amazing - hate that AWS RDS does not support WAL - could have saved so much time for some of the applications we build.
1000% agree with you. As a DJ and a connoisseur of 24bit music iTunes is incredibly good at organization not to mention the third party support in dj software and applications. I cannot believe a better windows alternative will ever exist and honestly unless a team is backed with money probably won’t be.
Just have the playlist be a list of links to files?

A la M3u files.
You want to pay for a sponsored post to reach people who are not your followers.
Reasonable to have the shutdown part of the option, yes.

At the very least, they should also provide ALL, as in every last byte, of data, schemas, code, setup etc. to the defenestrated customers. As in: "sorry, we cannot restart your account, but you can download a full backup of your system as of it's last running configuration here: -location xyz-, and all previous backups are available here: -location pdq-".

Anything less is simply malicious destruction of a customer's property.

If you violate a lease and get evicted, they don't keep your furniture & equipment unless you abandon it.
> This seems to be a trend: a study finds correlation between X and Y in mice, no evidence that X is linked to Y in humans.

There are lots of regrettable trends.

The story posted is primarily about the results of experiments with 18 humans between the ages 7-16, over two years, and a section at the end describing some earlier studies involving mice.

The results of the human experiments are astonishingly positive.

I mention this just in case you breezed too rapidly over those large parts of the article.
Yes, that’s why the new Mac music app is supposedly built from iTunes code (probably the device support components) rather than the iOS Music app code.
Just because your impact on the world is not as huge or consequential as Facebook doesn’t give you free range to exploit user data as you please and protect you from legitimate criticism for doing so. That is classic “whataboutism”
Definitely. That’s why cockroach & yugabyte that speak Postgres but are black magic underneath are a great target. However, it’s not fully compatible quite yet https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues?q=is%3Aopen+...

Citus / timescale / pipelinedb are much easier and we already support timescale and pipelinedb well. Citus with native support for their distribution columns is going to happen soon too! These are packaged as Postgres extensions which is definitely first priority for us before moving to databases that speak Postgres and eventually to other databases as well. :)
Since 10.4, the Finder has had Smart Folders for this. (I believe Windows got a similar feature in Vista.) Apple even bragged that it worked "Just like iTunes" when they introduced it.

This geek doesn't understand why we need two nearly-identical systems. Once you make the more-general form, refactor the prototype to use it!

Normal people wouldn't need to "use the filesystem" any more than they do with iTunes now. Just make iTunes use these features internally so we don't have two incompatible sets of tools, and two separate sets of bugs.
I've never met anyone who admires Reid Hoffman.
That's the kind of response you only send when you're convinced the customer is actually nefarious and you don't care about losing them. I wonder if there is any missing backstory here or if it really is just a case of mistaken analysis.
> being arbitrarily cut-off from their hosting provider wasn't part of their threat model

Let's be fair: The threat model here is "lose access to our data".

This can happen in a number of ways, lost (or worse, leaked) password to the cloud provider, provider goes bankrupt, developer gets hacked, and a thousand other things.

Even if you trust your provider to have good uptime, there's really no excuse for not having any backups. Especially not if you're doing business with Fortune 500's.
I think organization is done through playlists and metadata, not file locations. So my point stands.
Perfectly structuring logs without parsing
Okay, I can see that argument, however I don't think it has much of an impact on price, certainly not to the point of "value follows difficulty".

You can arbitrarily decide what a "secured" transaction is by requiring a certain amount of prior blocks. There is no extra value in security beyond "secure for all intents and purposes".

I guess you could say higher difficulty equals fewer minimum prior blocks and therefore better performance for the system, but in practice the common minimum block requirement isn't going to fall below two and that's what many sites have been using even at far lower difficulty levels than today.
Cost Capping on Google Cloud Platform
There exists a handful of EngD problems out there. It’s to be treated as an applied PhD where the goal is to develop as a leader of industrial R&D.
On the other hand I know what an iPod is, only ever heard of a Nomad through the quoted quote

There was a winner
Exactly. There is something dearly missing between Masters to PhD. Many European PhDs are now 3 years while US PhD tends to be 5 year. It would have been great if PhD degree standardized to 5 years but was broken down into two separate degrees of 2+3 years.
Take Geekbench for what it's worth, but the absolute fastest of the old cheesegrater Mac Pro's (dual 6core X5675) are just 56% the speed of a A12X single-core, and only about 40% faster multi-core. The next iPad Pro's A13X will probably get close to evening the playing field on multi-core.

It's really only the memory capacity that the Mac Pro's have an undisputed advantage on (4-6GB vs up to 128GB). Memory bandwidth is way faster (33GB/s vs 19GB/s) on A12X owing to LPDDR4 vs DDR3.

The latest iPad Pros are beneficiaries of a decade of intense R&D from the most profitable product in the world (iPhone). Form-factor aside, the chips themselves are stupid fast.

http://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/13281048

https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/11468644
I agree that this is terrible, but what is your alternative? I can't come up with one.
OTOY - "Render the Metaverse" JULY 2015
Books or money?
If you plan for the "all of our cloud infrastructure has failed simultaneously and irreparably" scenario, you get a whole bunch of other disaster scenarios bundled in for free.
Having a social media account is a crime?
Yep that works. No images loading for some reason though. Probably using some fancy JS-powered image service. Which is very anti-web accessibility.

Blocking cookies is the better option if you want images.
8gb seems quite small in the grand scheme of things. Storage is fairly cheap nowadays. I'm sure there will be other concerns with scaling when you do hit the 1 billion mark.
I think the major issue there is process and management related. The account should have been reviewed by someone with the authority to activate it, and it definitely shouldn't have been flagged a second time. But looks like DO thought the user was malicious, and issues raised by malicious users don't get much information. The response was horrible though.
iTunes was already out when the iPod was announced.
Putting aside what has been mentioned elsewhere on the thread (m3u playlists, hardlinks) or similar technical solutions...

You really think the iTunes filesystem layout is what made iPod successful?

Not, say, the fact that it was solid hardware, good UI, etc., from a desirable brand?

The comment was saying, my read of it anyway, is they didn't appreciate that it would slurp up and rename the files you give it.
working in the bay area i've never met any software enginer like that, senior or otherwise.

What cities/type of companies to you find "senior" engineers who struggle with basic technical concepts?
What is known about his health? On one hand, I am not surprised it has deteriorated, having stayed in a single location indoors for years. On the other hand, the health concerns could be yet another delay tactic of which he has used many in the past. I don't know what to believe.
I work on cross platform design for a fortune 500. We keep our eye on this kind of thing.

In conversation, the consensus among my peers was that the separation between iOS and OSX is destined to be impermanent. Phones are becoming more complex, and more integral to our every routine. But more significantly, they're raising a new generation of digital natives that have different expectations about UI and its scale, density, information architecture, onboarding, collaboration, and storage, to name a few.

These mobile-first expectations are flavoring desktop software, and smoothing over the once rough edges of highly-compact power user software. Gmail's redesign, and most redesigns really, demonstrate this. Less information, displayed in a more opinionated way, with whitespace and garnish and a focus on golden-path big-brother-knows-best presentation over configuration and optimization for power users.

Desktop and mobile trends are slowly converging, and I think that when it comes, that convergence from apple risks being abrupt and unapologetic. They're like that – with flash, the headphone jack, and the touch bar. They wait a long time, but when they make a move, they really rip the bandaid.

I find this future to be sad and scary, for the most part. But I agree that the icon grid home screen abstraction feels more like a "because it's always been that way" thing than anything else. It's a holdover from the blackberry days. Given how far mobile apps have come in the mean time, the mobile phone's desktop/start menu is ready for some new abstractions.