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> Unless you mean "gravity is important to make planets, and planets are where we have observed life"

I did.
That’s right but it still sucks when the mouse dies and you can’t do anything till you’ve charged it a bit.
This discussion got me thinking about OS/2 so I did some Googling and came across this page:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/half-...

From that page:

Unfortunately, OS/2 had a crucial flaw in its design: a Synchronous Input Queue (SIQ). What this meant was that all messages to the GUI window server went through a single tollbooth. If any OS/2 native GUI app ever stopped servicing its window messages, the entire GUI would get stuck and the system froze.

In 1996, IBM released OS/2 Warp 4, which included a revamped Workplace Shell, bundled Java and development tools, and a long-awaited fix for the Synchronous Input Queue. It wasn’t nearly enough. Sales of OS/2 dwindled while sales of Windows 95 continued to rise.

Windows 95 was a smash success, breaking all previous records for sales of operating systems.

So to clarify it was OS/2 Warp 4 that finally delivered on the promise of Windows Better than Windows, but unfortunately it just came too late.
If that's true Apple has a very low opinion of their average customer.
Kind of like the omission of arrow keys from the original Mac keyboard was intentional to force people to use the mouse at all.
If one chooses to be extremely cynical, this is exactly the story Apple would want to tell shareholders in the wake of Ive's departure: Everything is fine, Ive was already detached from the company's recent successes, Eurasia has always been at war with Eastasia. Nothing to be worried about.

Dialing that back a few notches, I genuinely hope that Ive's departure means Apple is considering a new approach for the design of their products. Years of product releases with crummy butterfly keyboards, nixed headphone jacks and missing magSafe have left me with no desire to purchase my next laptop from Apple. Maybe once the current pipeline drains we can look forward to Mac laptops that gain useful features and don't fall apart in months.

Maybe. I'm not holding my breath.
> A bacterium can't feel anything but did I mention single-celled organisms? No, I mentioned organelles.

Given that mitochondria are almost certainly descended from captured bacteria, that's an odd quibble.
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Jony Ive power move to force his aesthetic. Very form over function.
I love this project, and I dream of participating in it in my building that is wired for Optimum and Optimum only. It would be a great way to break out of that monopoly.

But I do wonder, how will the rollout of 5G affect projects like this? It's a non-profit so I'll always favor it as a community project, but once Verizon comes knocking with a home 5G router capable of fantastic speeds it'll tempt many, I'm sure.
Yes, so many congresspeople never cared about gay rights till their son came out. Your comment is sad but true.
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I also think 'poorly attached' to healthcare. Which is in part a system failure. Healthcare in the US tends to fail the single point of responsibility principal.

If you want tasks accomplished coherently then someone has to be in charge and have authority. In US healthcare we've decided that person is the 'patient' despite their lack of knowledge, skill, training and authority.

FA's experience is the direct result of that.
It's interesting that a lot of the frustrations being expressed online over the past few years about Apple's product design choices (Macbook Pros losing their developer focus, iPhones getting more ridiculous with their designs, etc) are linked directly to what this article claims -- that Ive has been pretty absent since 2016, and it's not just the lack of a strong product leader at Apple, but also a rudderless design team that has led to these issues.

Whether any of that will improve now remains to be seen.
The article says that this firmware enables ASPM.

I’m much more familiar with x86 hardware, but missing PCIe ASPM is a big deal. Some chipsets can’t properly idle themselves if any PCIe link is non-idle.
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I should say that Germany was a leader in manufacturing quality, not so much quantity, although I believe they did comparatively well there considering that they were facing down the gargantuan industrialized economies of the US, UK, and USSR.

It's also worth point out that Germany suffered from a severe lack of resources, particularly oil and rubber (although everyone in WWII was short on rubber). While they did have synthetic fuel and rubber plants that they made excellent use of (part of the reason for German superiority in the chemical industry was their need for it), these synthetic routes are not really sustainable for a massive war effort, and Germany ran out of their stockpiled reserves by 1942. Case Blue, the second offensive in the USSR, had obtaining the Baku oil fields as its main objective.
Yes, that's exactly what I'm suggesting. Who actually thinks the Cold War IS a war?
I've used a magic mouse for over 3 years, and I've never ran into a situation where I couldn't use it because it was charging. When I see the battery is low, I plug it in during my next bathroom break, and then fully charge it over night.
28C is the standard AC temperature in Japan, started in 2005 with the Cool Biz campaign to save energy. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Biz_campaign
I don't know if Apple is still the biggest company on earth, but they're pretty big in tech. They are also a notoriously design focused company and their main designer is leaving after 20 years. The story feeds in to people's fascination with the company, which has an added aura of being part of the original Silicon Valley boom.
The lack of involvement is generally a problem in companies. Not only with reorganizations but also with things like remodeling of the workplace. Instead of getting feedback from the people who eventually have to sit in that space management usually closes itself off and doesn’t explain the reasons. Once it’s done you will see a self congratulatory email how great things will be.
Similarly, Google+ userIDs were assigned as 21-character numeric strings, beginning with '10' or '11', but otherwise appearing to be randomly assigened.

A full listing was available through the site's robots.txt sitemaps file, or rather, a listing to the listing of 50,000 user profile sitemap files, with about 44k profiles per file. This worked out to 25 GB of profile listings alone.

Rather than download the full set (though I eventually did), I picked an arbitrary file from near the middle of the listing, and ran some spot checks on the profiles, which seemed to be reasonably randomly distributed by age, location, and other characteristics. With as few as 100 profile page downloads, it was clearly evident that active posting to G+ was limited to about 8-11% ofall profiles. The full 50k profile sample, and a third party's independent (and more robustly randomised) 500k profile sample eventually showed this to be 9.7%.

(And yes, if I was being more rigorous I could have done much more testing or work, but I was mostly addressing personal curiosity and an online disagreement with someone.)

An interesting proof of the power of random sampling.

Larger samples do allow for clearer views of rare phenomena -- such as dialing in on the fraction of 1% of G+ users highly active on the site. Or when I later looked at Communities characteristics, the properties of the very largest (about 50 > 1 million members) of the 8 million total. In that case, I eventually got access (also via a third-party) to a comprehensive summary dataset.

The userID hashing also made approaches such as exhaustively searching the ID space for user pages nonviable. The search space was trillions pf times larger than the target space.
The new Mac Pro was the first glimmer of hope. Now I read that they are releasing updated mbp 13 without touchbar. If they start offering full powered full port mbp 13 without touchbar my optimisim will be back.
Same thoughts here. Apple lost it 4-5 years ago, Jobs was never replaced and the old magic just died, but slowly.
Ive alone cant handle ship, as is evident.
Here we are.
Dyalog will sell you a keyboard to go with their APL: https://www.dyalog.com/uploads/images/Business/products/dk_r...

∪ - dyadic downshoe is union ( https://tryapl.org/?a=%27ab%27%20%27cde%27%20%27fg%27%20%u22... )

proper-subset isn't builtin; this might do it, but there are probably neater ways

'ab' 'cde' 'fg' {((≢⊆⍺)>≢⊆⍵)∧(≢⊆⍵)=+/⍺∊⊆⍵} 'cde' 'ab'

"If the count of items of the left vector is greater than the count of the right vector (right side is smaller, it is proper), and the count of the right vector is equal to the number of elements in the right vector which are in the left vector (i.e. all of them are found, it is a subset)". https://tryapl.org/?a=%27ab%27%20%27cde%27%20%27fg%27%20%7B%...

Not sure it needs "for-all" because functions work on all elements by default. It can have for: loops, but they aren't math-like.
That’s not the point. It looks completely ridiculous coming from a world-renowned designer and company (or anyone, really). It might be excusable if it were a case of “form over function“, but it’s not even that. It’s Apple going to great lengths to avoid putting the charging port in the most obvious place possible, lest someone try to use it as a wired mouse.

That and sticking the Apple Pencil into the iPad’s Lightning port are two of the most baffling design decisions to come out of Apple in recent memory. Well, I take that back, I completely understand why they did the Apple Pencil that way. It’s because doing it the right way would require redesigning the iPad, so ehhh, just stick it in the Lightning port. Another brilliant design by Ive and company!
It's archaic for general-purpose computing except for a small subset of tasks which nothing can rival it at.
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Sigh, Tim Cook is the Steve Ballmer of Apple. Just pay him out before is too late and put another creative in his place.

To lose a person of this caliber indicates a total lack of vision and trust in the executive leadership at Apple.
> You're worthwhile

let me stop you right there buddy
Why would IBM undermine its own cloud like that though?
Except that the N+1 economy is now bigger with +1 demand for johns labor; thus it is actually increasing. Further, there is a +1 supply for production and export making the economy more competitive and productive overall.

Economists used to believe that many things were zero sum, (ie if England allows French cheese imports it will be at the expense of British cheese producers. Yet often allowing imports and increased trade leaves both France and England richer as consumers in both places value the additional selection and the competition lowers prices or foreign items can charge a premium for their novelty). Immigration is similar; it’s not zero sum.

Blaming this on a cynical political motive to create a voting block is contrary to the history of commerce and global trade and also contrary to your own analysis. It seems to me that the party most opposed to immigration is also the party that had been driving inequality by 1. Promoting globalization while also decimating the social safety net that would ease the transition, 2. Shifting to regressive taxation on sales while drastically lowering taxes on capital and its accumulation i.e. inheritance taxes. 3. Destroying any bargaining power for workers and employees and resisting minimum wage increases. I could go on and on.
I’m not sure you can really even say it’s a case of form over function. It looks silly, not cool or elegant.
Interesting, I didn't know that and I stand corrected.
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I think Apple’s problem will be that Jobs usually had a very good feeling which radical change will get accepted and which won’t. The current Apple will probably listen to customer feedback but I doubt they will be able to release game changers like iPod or iPhone.
I'm betting on n. Where n stands for us not fully understanding how causality works yet, or a lot about what the hell is going on in general. I'm also rooting for something interesting emerging unexpectedly from Umbral Moonshine, because who can't help but love the Monster Group? https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-chase-moonshin...
Veritasium has a good episode on the LIGO engineering challenges.

https://youtu.be/iphcyNWFD10
Also RiotX (full rewrite of Riot Android) is hopefully landing soon, so that should improve the mobile experience a lot for people who want a full client.
VHF may be desirable because it penetrates objects and buildings well, has dozens of km of range, and typically propagates line-of-sight instead of groundwave or skywave.

But the VHF band is nearly full [1] of existing allocations for public and commercial interest, like FM radio (87.5 - 108 MHz), air navigation (108 - 137 MHz), Marine VHF (156 - 174 MHz), with broadcast television channels slotting on either side on a variety of frequencies. Here's a US allocation chart too [2]. The 144 - 146 MHz interval in question is reserved for amateur radio throughout the world, being one of the very few remaining slots in this band that has the same exact purpose around the globe. This universality makes it valuable, both for amateur radio, but presumably coveted by commercial interests as well.

If they can achieve a reallocation, the frequencies' existing users will be kicked out, giving them a nice and empty slot in the VHF band. Currently, operating on this band requires a license, and if it's reallocated, presumably not many licensed operators would infringe on the band in protest, as they could lose their license and be prosecuted for unauthorized transmissions.

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VHF_Usage.svg [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_Freque...
I live in Denver. I've lived here for almost 33 years. Very honestly, I haven't noticed anything very different. Sure, there's some pot shops, they pop up and then disappear. There's more weed-whiff than there used to be. After that, nothing. No extra crime. No less crime. This article over-dramatizes the whole thing, probably because of all the "Demon Weed"/"Reefer Madness" irrationality that's been "drug awareness" since the 1970s.
The Red Rising series has significant plot points in jupiter and beyond. Fantastic books.
Why would anyone select Windows on purpose
I think you’re confusing me with soulofmischief. In any case, I think I’ve clarified what I meant by my statement: organelles exist because gravity has caused heavy elements such as carbon and oxygen to be present in a dense enough concentration for life to occur.
It is definitely more useful at the moment while there’s no libra, because zonzero is greater than zero.

But it is much less useful than it could be. Just paying a small debt (like 20 pounds for a restaurant) to a friend who visited from another country is nightmarish now when your currency is run by Bank of England and your friend’s currency is run by eg FRS, in terms of both fee, time, and numbers of fields need to be filled in the forms. When you need to send these money to your parents in Moldova or Kenya, it’s 10 times more pain.

I could definitely use this currency.
The last time I installed sql server was on Linux
Right but I didn't say that. You said they wouldn't collude because they compete. If that were true, we wouldn't need the law part.
Any company would be right to have a "low" opinion of their average user. Have you seen how the average person uses their computer?
From a business point of view Ballmer did an excellent job. The company grew every year and was always one of the top tech companies. The same will probably happen to Apple (and Google) too. They magic touch goes away but they will be solid companies run by business people.
By the way, when I did a poll of how much time during the day people actually worked (including meetings), senior people worked the same amount as juniors: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17068804. Time spent working might be irrespective of seniority on average.
The level of comfort also heavily depends on the level of humidity, doesn't it? Seems pointless to compare temperatures only.

Would love to get all the complainers here to spend one month in winter where I live. We frequently have -35 to -45°C outside, and +30-35°C inside. How about a 70°C temperature difference?
There is a difference between free speech and character assassination, even in the US.
I came to the comments in the hope that someone had explained WTF this project is.

HN discourages “+1” comments, but I’m breaking the rule to chime in here.

Maybe a concrete example or a howto would help? Can I use some of these services? Why should I trust you? Any of these things would help.
Like 10 years ago, I thought it was great when we garnered a client which was one those "Microsoft only" type shops, because I like C#/NET. But the only justification for using it was really "IT made us do it". And I saw how the IT leadership in these places were older people perhaps maybe fighting older political battles. In any case its been many years since I've stumbled across a pure Microsoft shop. I think Azure means they know they lost, but also have legacy business to support.
I don't think that comparison is warranted. Tim Cook seems to be spearheading Apple's new strategic focus on services and privacy. I'd say that's a strong path forwards for the brand and business overall. He's not a product designer like Jobs, but he's not taking a MBA-style bean counter approach like Balmer.
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." -George Carlin
In an ideal world, this would be how hardware spoke, and C wouldn't have even had a choice. Alas, the past cannot learn the lessons of the present.
It's a hyperbole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole
I believe the point being made is that 5 years isn't really enough to call oneself senior, especially if 2 of those years is in a very narrow focus with little to no consideration for the larger picture required.
Wonder if we will get to see an IvePhone?
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To be fair, that only happens if you ignore the warnings that should show up days before and aren’t willing to wait a minute for it to charge.
Except that the data on the number of tanks, thier increased weight and number of wheels, pointed to a likely increase in the need for bearings. (And all the other wheeled non-tank things too.)
I had a Magic Mouse at work and I fought it for days at a time forgetting to charge it when I went home. Thinking about stuff like this is a waste of mental energy.
> Well, all I can ask is that you try to reread what I wrote

Well, you could explain how you think I misread "the cause remained personal rather than political". Or you could explain why you think that fighting to change the law isn't politics. Either of those would be a helpful start.

> then imagine for a second that people are maybe not being as unreasonable as you assume

People who froth over someone not standing during an anthem instead of looking at why he chose to do that are being exactly as unreasonable as I assume. Or did you mean a different group of people?
If you don't want to read, it's about ICANN.
Why is it so warm inside?
Twenty-one cities in India will run out of groundwater by 2020
Most relevant paragraph:

> Plants, however, develop in a much more flexible and organic way. Because they can’t move, they have no choice but to adapt to the circumstances in which they find themselves. Rather than having a defined structure as an animal does, plants make it up as they go along.
I don’t know why it would be cynical to think that Apple has known about his departure for some time, at least in terms of a general timeframe. I’d be very shocked if he blindsided Apple.
It's also a long time since I looked at this, but I recall pretty clearly, that factoring is "easier" than DLP. "Easier" as in factoring is reducible [1] to the DLP.

I.e. if you could do DLP in polynomial time, then also factoring becomes polynomial (thanks to Shor's Algorithm [2]).

The reverse, however, is not currently known to be true AFAICS: having an oracle that computes the DLP does not help you to speed up factoring (at least not in a way that makes it polynomial).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduction_(complexity)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor%27s_algorithm

(EDIT: typo)
Sensationalist headline. This totally ignores the fact that not all of web traffic is transnational; a sizable percentage of it is—surprise surprise—for leisure, and in those cases there is no substitute for interacting with an interface directly.
Supernodes are connected by fiber so they can be any distance apart.

The two main areas we have connected are the Lower East Side and Chinatown in Manhattan (mixed income) and in Brooklyn our main hub is in a low-income housing association building, definitely not a "richer neighborhood". It is a priority of ours to get to the neighborhoods that need us the most.
So maybe there are still interns, they just have a fancier title now?
I’ve noticed that too. But the hard part is to not procrastinate meditation itself. It’s still a chicken and egg problem.
Your original proposition is "[gravity is] required for [...] chemical reactions in our organelles."

I am explicitly disagreeing that gravity is required for such reactions. Your own source doesn't back up that statement--it suggests that the microstructure (in addition to the more obvious structure of the intercellular matrix) of cells is influenced by gravity, which is itself a rather different statement. Influence is a very different thing from requirement.

Furthermore, I should point out that our experience that life can survive quite well outside of the normal gravitational field is itself sufficient disproof of your proposition. After all, our mitochondria don't go "Wait! There's no gravity! How am I supposed to Krebs cycle now?"
Pew's 2012 estimate, the most recent available, is 167 mean, 60 median, texts/day for teens. Fewer than 20% send more than 200 texts/day. Again, the likelihood that "many" exceed 700/day, let alone 700/hr, absent some bulk multicasting method, is unsupported by plausibility or data.

https://www.pewinternet.org/2012/03/19/what-teens-do-with-th...
Vienna in the summer is like a baking oven, the Austrians call it Hundstage (there is also a film by Ulrich Seidl called like that who has this heat as a topic).

A lot of the buildings are able to cool passively e.g. by keeping open a window to hallway and to the street which in old buildings results in a steady airflow.

Air condition only increases the cities temperature further so passive solutions are prefered.
> Dialing that back a few notches, I genuinely hope that Ive's departure means Apple is considering a new approach for the design of their products

I'm more worried that without a chief of design with a strong will and veto power, the next generation of designers will just cargo cult Ive and we'll get products with all the downsides and no upsides. If it's true he's has been absent maybe that's what we've already been seeing?
Part of the wave of level inflation; and if companies use titles instead of comp to hire folks who may consider title more valuable than comp (there are many). Consider: you’re a manager that desperately wants to hire a candidate but can’t match their other offers comp. one easy way to lure the candidate is with other things, including inflated titles. Naturally, you shouldn’t put any meaning into these titles. They tend to mean vastly diff things across organizations.
Having a specific vision for how your products will be used and designing them to be used that way doesn’t need to be portrayed as a low opinion of the customer.