skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, it's not how innovation is measured; self-evidently, something that hasn't changed much in decades is not innovative (anymore).

But it is how success is measured. The closer to ideal a product is, the less it needs to change. Think Coke, Excel, bicycles, SQL, etc. After an initial "Cambrian explosion" in each field, the product was stabilized and perfected.
I think I know why: in the USA we require growth in housing and the stock market to keep things together, to keep the system running.

Our government is worried about competition in tech, not investment in our equity markets. One is viewed as harmful, the other we depend on.

I am disappointed by this entire affair. I like to see each country have its own culture and uniqueness, but I would like the world economic and tech engines to function well for everyone. Even playing field.
TDP is just a number these days. You're not getting 4 more cores for free, you're getting a cap put on your all-core power consumption at a lower clock rate. More cores, lower all-core boost clocks (the advertised clocks are single-core boost).

Even then, both AMD and Intel CPUs will pull significantly above their rated TDP when boosting. It's not quite a base-clock measurement (eg 9900K is more like 4.3-4.4 when 95W-limited) but it's definitely not a boost power measurement either.

Again, pretty much just a marketing number these days.
If only Mr Tesla got the investment and we wouldn’t have to see these things.

https://teslaresearch.jimdo.com/wardenclyffe-lab-1901-1906/c...
What is the Your Phone app?
Duo Free used to have a restriction of one device, but it seems for U2F they now require one of their paid plans: https://duo.com/product/trusted-users/two-factor-authenticat...
It's not really opaque as much as it is application-specific. But then how do you fix that? If you give applications the ability to tag things then one mail program uses a tag called "unread mail" and another uses a tag called "message read" with the opposite value and another uses a tag called "mail flags" with a bitmask where one of the bits is whether the message has been read or not etc. Smells like Windows registry.

Either you somehow enforce a high degree of uniformity, which implies a pretty serious lack of flexibility, or everybody gets to make their own decisions and then everybody makes different ones. And the second one seems better as long as the individualized thing they're doing is sufficiently well documented.
> This seems to be very much change for the sake of it.

It seems like exploration more than change. You seem to dislike the ideas without providing much substance other than reiterating the cliche "if it ain't broke don't fix it." It's unfortunate this is the top comment as this type of feedback doesn't provide much for the author or anyone else. Is there something specific you dislike other than change itself?
By "all-new" it means that this is a major rewrite, not that there has never been any support for Windows. I might just switch back to iCloud--I am about to get a Mac mini and it would greatly increase convenience with my iPhone, but I still need a decent client for my Windows laptop.

It must be using a brand-new API, because I just installed v1903 and I still had to install an update to be able to install it.
I wouldn’t be taking any advice from IETF, it’s one of the slowest moving organizations I’ve ever seen.
Firefox: the ongoing compromise and crapification of what started as a a very sensible and obvious idea - make a web browser that serves users rather than corporations and advertisers!
That’s a HUGE strategic advantage they’d be giving up.

This just lets you access your files. As others have said you could already do it via the web.
A few years back I did a penetration test for a hospital, in which a mainframe was in scope (I have some mainframe training from Y2K / tech bubble era, so I almost know what I'm doing in that camp). Because medical students were also working on that mainframe, ample anonymized records were lying around for their studies.

All things said, in my final report were several examples of said anonymized records paired with the actual patient real-life info, obscured only enough that they could verify the result without my report contributing to the problem.

What stood out was how vocal and even cynical they were when I brought up what I had found initially. That is, until I finished the testing and report, complete with a batch script that would automate what I had done manually.

So, I commend these UK adults for recognizing the risks. Everything might be safe as described, but a policy of transparency might help alleviate the trust issue. Allow the public, or at least an expert not connected to the success of the system to know exactly what information is in the records being shared, because sometimes 2 or more disparate data sets can be combined to tell a much bigger story.
Hey, I wrote that docs page.

Any particular reason it got submitted here?
Google has Inactive Account Manager[1], which lets you specify a user who can get access to your account after a specified time of inactivity has been determined. It also lets you specify if you want the account deleted after so much time.

I set it up a few years ago and get periodic reminders saying that it's setup. Lastpass offers something similar.

[1]: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3036546?hl=en
Theorems for Free (1989) [pdf]
This is such a great comment. I don't know why you are getting downvoted or at least its grey. You said it, I was thinking it, but too afraid to ask / felt stupid for not knowing. But all of the responses to this question are examples of $20,000-$30,000 not the $42,000 that you specifically reference. And there are people here claiming to be professionals saying that they indeed DO NOT use $42,000 highly specialized displays or even $20,000. Good point and BS meter.
I'm more than happy to jump on a Slack/Electron hate train, but if that's what you consider the lowest bar for software, I think you've lived a somewhat sheltered life. :P
It turns out that Hidden Order is hard to google because of a spy thriller by the same name, so here's an Amazon link to the econ book:

https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Order-Economics-Everyday-Life/...
The weird thing is that Google did the same, somehow calling a "HDMI over Wifi" plug after their browser (huh?). I'll never understand these organizations.
The 2700X price cut occurred in the context of Intel releasing a 6C12T processor for $350 that kept up with AMD's $500 processor. i.e. very close in multithreaded performance and easily beating it in single-thread.

That's not going to happen this time around. Intel doesn't really have a response to 16C consumer processors. Best thing they can do is release the 10C chip they're working on... probably at $500 again. And they will be behind the 12C version that AMD has at $500 already.

The only similarly aggressive move that Intel could even make would be to drop 10C to the $350 segment (perhaps with Hyperthreading disabled), which would be a massive blow to their margins.
Thanks for the answer. I had not heard of the cake pattern, will check it out.
I'm curious about the upgrade path for folks who have been using the existing iCloud for Windows. Is the Microsoft Store version somehow different than the version Apple offers on their site? What's involved with moving to the newer version?
Would that still work after having worked in such an organisation for years, if the question is always phrased that way, or is it just an uncommon way of phrasing that works only so long as people are not yet thoroughly used to it?
For anyone that uses vim key bindings or a Dvorak keyboard, they've already priced that into changing their settings, and decided it does not matter.
Could you list a few books and main criticisms? Like do the critics claim Diamond is mistaken about the need for plants and animals that can be profitably domesticated, and how few there are? Or that infections diseases played a key role in the success of Western imperialism?
Now that sounds more like a "Oh that would be cool" type wishlist than actually useful mission.

There are probably dozens of more suitable pieces of "space memorabilia" that could be used for such tests. And if there isn't you can easily put there a realistic mock-up of whatever you want to rescue. Look at Musk's flying Tesla for example. There's nothing that makes Snoopy uniquely qualified for it.

But there's only one Hubble. The single greatest tool for space exploration we ever had at our disposal. And one that had already cost $5bn by the time it needed the fix.

The 2 cases don't feel to similar at all, short of them being both in space.
Deepfake of Mark Zuckerberg Tests Facebook’s Fake Video Policies
Underpinning the book I referenced, the author Ian Morris put together a very detailed attempt to quantify the overall level of civilization [1].

Certainly after the Fall of Rome, the West declined precipitously. I've been reading a bit about that period in Europe recently and the extent of the decline is really quite staggering. It's uneven to be sure as areas of the Middle East, for example, didn't really fall as far.

In any case, China was arguably more advanced than Europe for a significant period and certainly didn't trail significantly until the industrial revolution in the West. (And the industrial revolution(s) pretty much swamped everything that came before.)

ADDED: The book is pretty light on the why behind the West's relative success but there's some speculation, as I recall, around centralized government and general conservatism caused China to miss out.

[1] http://pzacad.pitzer.edu/~lyamane/ianmorris.pdf
You're being downvoted heavily (not surprising for a site with a strong US/Western audience), but here's what I think:

China is emerging geopolitical rival (balance) to the US (and the West in general).

Mainstream US media is great at amplifying US govt propaganda and publishing hit pieces on US rivals (see media portrayals of Soviet Union during the Cold war as an example: https://www.e-ir.info/2013/10/26/the-role-of-the-media-durin... ) or of Japan during the 80s (see https://spice.fsi.stanford.edu/docs/japan_in_the_us_press_bi...).

The same is happening against China now and there is an effort to shame anyone with contacts with China.
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I enjoy dragging my windows around, resizing them and arranging them in arbitrarily complex ways. I don’t like being constrained to work in a way that someone else came up with. I even like the act of dragging windows and such, I’ll even do it when I’m thinking as something to play with and it makes me feel more connected to my work.
Good point. Other notable companies are Sony, they still have CMOS sensor factories in Japan and will try to keep most of the “secret sauce” in the country, and Samsung who also has founderies in Korea if I’m not mistaken.

Even them will source some of the parts from elsewhere, hut at least they still have advanced manufaturing knowledge. I guess they would be faster to move if they needed to cut ties with China.
Moving Android Studio and Android Emulator to 64-Bit Versions
Ah, I guess I'm the stupid one here.
WithoutABox vs. FilmFreeway: How AMZN used patents to dominate indie film distro
I said "time and pre-shared key". The public key doesn't enter into it.
Lobster and shrimp were considered garbage, bottom-feeding poverty food at one time.
Let fashion and marketing work their magic.
Presumably, emoji commands will become a thing in an era when soft keyboards are the norm for personal computing devices and emoji input will therefore be easy.

More likely, such commands will take the form of a changing panel of custom ideographs. Think fast-food POS terminals.
Seems like this would happen when many people ask the same question and you don't have an answer so you post the best response you can.
A few more details that I've managed to suss out. The Data volume is mounted on /System/Volumes/Data. Currently, there are 21 firm links into it. They are enumerated in /usr/share/firmlinks (included below).

/AppleInternal Device/AppleInternal
/Applications Device/Applications
/Library Device/Library
/System/Library/Caches Device/System/Library/Caches
/System/Library/Assets Device/System/Library/Assets
/System/Library/PreinstalledAssets Device/System/Library/PreinstalledAssets
/System/Library/AssetsV2 Device/System/Library/AssetsV2
/System/Library/PreinstalledAssetsV2 Device/System/Library/PreinstalledAssetsV2
/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Library Device/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Library
/System/Library/Speech Device/System/Library/Speech
/Users Users
/Volumes Device/Volumes
/cores Device/cores
/home Device/home
/mnt Device/mnt
/opt Device/opt
/private Device/private
/sw Device/sw
/usr/local Device/usr/local
/usr/libexec/cups Device/usr/libexec/cups
/usr/share/snmp Device/usr/share/snmp
Just posting this as a follow-up. This is a 2018 article, but what surprised me is (at least according to the article) how Amazon used the threat of patent litigation to defend their market position with WithoutABox.

It really leaves a bad taste in my mouth and does a fine job of illustrating how patents can stifle innovation and create monopolies.
End-to-end encryption is all well and good but until the app stores provide verifiable builds I think promoting messaging apps such as Riot as "Secure decentralised chat/VoIP" is unprovable and therefore somewhat misleading.
No, the anger is born from an expectation (namely, that prosumers can get the low-end pro model) that well predates the whole life-style brand marketing (iPod 2001, iPhone 2007).

I believe this is also incorrect. Apple has consistently had a lifestyle brand marketing tactic when Jobs was at the helm. The clone years were a different animal, for sure, but pre and post Apple was most definitely marketed as a lifestyle brand and "experience". The difference is that it worked better the second time, with the addition of the iPod, iPhone and iPad.

Steve's 2x2 matrix was obviated almost immediately upon his passing. The product teams at Apple may from time to time use it as a reference to bolster a point in their favor but those days have long since vanished. People are 'angry' because they want a desktop PC like experience within the Apple eco-system and they don't have anywhere to turn. Personally, I think it is unjustified, as there are more than enough product spans to fill that gap BEFORE the introduction of the Mac Pro. All of this silly 'anger' to me is just another iteration of people being upset at Apple because they didn't fulfill their personal 'peeve'. Honestly, if you don't like the stuff or it's not what you want, then use something else. If you CAN'T then I submit that you're a victim of the aforementioned lifestyle marketing.
Good move but unnecessary..They need to focus more on important matters,
Having the physical photos still didn't mean we saved the context and relevance surrounding those images.

I've got boxes of photos from my Mom and Dad and Grandparents. For the most part, they don't have dates or captions. If I don't recognize a face, it's just random imagery that are, for the most part, just noise to my generation. If we knew why something was relevant, that'd be a different story.

If you can record your voice and retell the story behind an image, that could be golden to the people in your life. I only captured a couple of these recordings (just using my cell phone to record), and they're wonderful to listen to.
why would a specialist care to bike-shed with generalists if no-one else in the firm understands their domain.. which is what they were hired for and want to do?

its not the disagreements you know you have - leadership takes care of those - its the one's people won't acknowledge that take you down .. and to spot those, you need to be quite a selective listener, no?
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KDE Plasma 5.16
The Uncanny Valley of AI
For anyone else wondering about WWDC19, all of these PDFs are accompanied by a video. I guess they were separate in-person workshops.
And that is the rub. On my macbook pro, which has what I consider to be a significantly better trackpad, I three-swipe without even thinking about it. but that comes from very tight hardware/software integration.
There is a lot going on, and it definitely feels more like an experiment than design informed by all the relevant human disciplines.

I am not sold on panels and snap in place. I would much prefer to see something like a zooming user interface. Mess is a necessary step to go from broad to clear thinking.

Also, trackpads are not necessarily ergonomic and may hurt your fingers in prolonged use, though the sub-menus designed for swiping are interesting. The gaze tracking is a really interesting idea, and I wonder if there are anything out there that pushes this idea. Anything that can improve ergonomics is good in my book, that's the most pressing pain point of modern user interfaces and hardware.
Not just a platform limitation; an intentional one. The API surface that Your Phone takes advantage of on Android, has no equivalent on iOS, because those particular APIs would essentially be used by 1. sync frameworks like Your Phone; 2. spyware; and nothing else. (That's what happens on Android!) And, in Apple's opinion, allowing #1 isn't really worth allowing #2.
this was back when you could fry a motherboard by connecting the PSU to it incorrectly.

In 2001? From what I remember, everything was using ATX power by the late 90s, which could only be connected in one direction. I thought the possibility of connecting power incorrectly was more of an XT/AT 80s/early 90s thing.

I could totally be misremembering though.

In any case, that does sound like a fun class. Kind of stuff I had to learn on my own. Speaking of connecting things incorrectly though: my ongoing issue was that every time I disconnected the ribbon cable to the floppy or hard drive, I would inevitably reattach it backwards, no matter how much I told myself to make a note of the correct direction.
VLF using 4 inch antenna
What happens if they get destroyed in the bus accident?

Or you go missing entirely (lost at sea)?
According to [1], it seems that about half of the third world is taking this issue a bit more seriously than North America.

I mean, I'm all for tariffs, visa quota reductions, and closed borders with countries that pollute, but that would require us to look in the mirror, first. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_lightweight_plast...

[2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/Co2_emis...
I find the Roman concepts of auctoritas, dignitas, and potestas to be quite helpful for understanding how allegedly flat organizations self organize. Please note that I’m not saying they apply directly, they don’t, but it helps to understand social status is multidimensional.
Are you meaning chromecast?
Navigation is working normally for me: middle click opens articles in a new tab, and I can right click and open an article in a new tab or a new window. I can also access articles by URL.

I'm using Chromium. Has Techcrunch broken navigation for Firefox and Safari?

Incidentally, if you check out the new site with ScriptSafe, so Javascript is disabled, it looks quite elegant.
Give half the people guns and half the people knives. Now you have hierarchy. Repeat til convergence.
Disabling SIP, at least from Apple's POV does most of what you want. They've also implored people to be good UNIX citizens and make liberal use of /usr/local, which they explicitly give you - the user of the hardware - ownership of.
MS Teams: Uploading Custom Apps (App Studio and Sideloading)
If you disable JS then it's actually really nice. If that were the default then it would have been a great redesign.
The links are probably part of the PDF specification, but I guess will require support in every PDF reader in which you want to to use them.
This may be a good starting point:

https://80000hours.org/
I disagree that it’s totally hopeless but OTOH verifiable builds sounds like an awesome idea to increase security. Still, at the end of the day you always are trusting some entity or machines...
In the grand scheme of things, one should not weight only BYOD policies, but they are certainly a red herring, a sign of employers that don't give a damn.
I'd noticed it first when they put r/watchpeopledie under a review, then later banned it. I have no crystal ball to know what are they going to ban next, but I am sure you can find some subreddits that are now quarantined.

Maybe this list would help?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communiti...

Soon one won't be able to train NLP models on certain archetypes of speech if they continue banning everything deviating from preferred topics of their advertising/corporate sponsors :-(
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Biodegradable plastics are not more environmentally friendly than normal ones. Here's some more info about that.

https://vancouverisland.surfrider.org/compostable-plastics-1...
> Suddenly everything becomes easy and self organized.

Unfortunately not. A technocracy works great works great when choices are straight-forward, but one of the great responsibilities of leadership is taking decisions when things are anything but.

A good leader is not one who always knows the right answer, but one who knows how to figure out a good enough answer more often than not. And who does so under confusing circumstances, competing interests, and intense time pressure.
The New York Times Did Some Free PR for Google
I think the old BeOS supported what you are describing.
VMware acquires Heptio - Kris Nova quits.

VMware acquires Bitnami - Ara Pulido and Erica Brescia quit.

What's wrong with VMware?
I find it the other way around annoying, talking in absolutes when one is not sure.
Yeah this is basically what every American company does after extorting some town or state for preferential tax breaks
I honestly think there's a case for renaming Mozilla (the company) to Firefox (which is, I think, far better known). This has happened before to other companies (e.g. RIM and Panasonic come to mind) when the product name becomes better known than the manufacturer.
I don't think car sharing will go extinct either, but be careful with your analyses. Uber and Lyft are precariously balanced on a system of (substantial) low-income demand, high-income demand, and subsidy. If prices rise, low-income demand plummets, ending subsidies. High-income pricing could rise significantly higher than you might expect, at which point you no longer have "ride sharing" so much as you have private car services with app hailing instead of phone hailing, and, like NYC in the 1990s, so expensive that most people will only use it to get to the airport.
"The dollars printed to go overseas to buy oil and other stuff don't come back to cause inflation."
I think this part is wrong. When overseas oil companies get the dollars they are going to spend them, otherwise they wouldn't sell in the first place. If the economy worked the way you suggest I think we would see inflation from those dollars sent overseas for oil etc.
The "app" (aka iCloud Control Panel) was available at iCloud launch, that is alongside the web apps.
I'm selling water bottles at $100/gallon. Considering water is literally essential to life, how many can I get you?
Is there any particular reason you downloaded the app? I've found that news site apps are usually a garbage fire of silent user-hostile permissions and constant notifications. These usually don't happen on the websites themselves, as users click "no" as soon as the "Location" or "Notifications" dialog box opens.
More Scientists Now Think Geoengineering May Be Essential
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Oh no, it's not just you. I nearly gave up until I saw your comment