skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've worked (as an IT/desktop support person) with some of our animation artists, and I found ProRender was a very promising project which immediately failed for us with no real hope of recovery.

The issue that we had was that a lot of functionality that works in Cycles didn't work in ProRender, which would have required our artists to rework potentially large parts of their 3D scenes, and to also use different techniques to accomplish certain affects in the future (meaning many tutorials or examples might no longer match up).

I'm not sure what the specifics are, since I didn't really understand how 3D scenes are made, but basically something like some texture effects or something (??) weren't available in ProRender, and so those effects would have to be removed or redone. Unless they've changed something since then (added support for whatever it is), I think this will still be the same issue.
You wouldn't happen to know the guy/gal that implemented the automatic preview when hovering over a selection, would you? Curious as to how they felt about it, and how much that really affected retention (it bugs the everloving shit out of me, I try to use my old smart tv with an outdated version as it lacks this "feature").
New iPhone should be announced on September. Let's see what's going on.
Did being responsible for a feature so important to the growth of Netflix result in a reward or promotion outside of your expected compensation?

And as a father with 3 young children, you don't know how much I appreciate what you built. Not having to click next between episodes of "word party" for my toddlers is sanity saving.

Also to the people without kids who will be judging this comment, you may not realize that many children's programs are not always 30 minutes long. Episodes of Peppa Pig can be ~ 8 minutes. And on iTunes you cannot make a playlist or autoplay episodes, making Peppa Pig during car rides on the iPad an experience akin to visiting Hell.
They already do, with their prosumer lines. Mommy bloggers, for example, have a surprising amount to say about how to get the most out of a Nikon D3300 or similar; I actually got some useful tips from them back when I was just starting out with my first D5300.

Granted, the camera makers haven't gone to the extent of just building a smartphone into a DSLR so you can post to Instagram with two taps, or whatever. IMO that's because they know where their strengths lie, and also understand that such a hybrid device would need a few generations to evolve into really solid usability - generations which it would not receive, because the same market at which it'd be aimed would consider the v1.0 difficulties a deal breaker for exactly the ease-of-use reasons you're arguing it would be a good idea for the camera makers to do this in the first place.
>they're harming the competitor's reputation by exposing a legitimate flaw in the competitor's product, I don't think that causes societal harm, no.

Well it’s not necessarily that simple. Exposing a flaw without adequate time to develop a fix could cause net societal harm. This is especially true if it’s a bug that would have been discovered and fixed internally without any public disclosure.
How many times did steve jobs disrupt the industry?
When I realized I had started to bald (yaaaay genetics) I had a bit of a personal identity crisis, but I didn't really try to hide my stress about it. My coworkers joked that I hadn't accepted it yet, and they were right.

I don't like that it happened this early, so I'm fighting to delay it for a bit, but I'm sure my baldness will catch up to me eventually. It's fine really. My grandfather rocked the look and his appearance will always remind me of the strength he carried. When my time comes, and what little vanity I still have fades, I'm happy to carry on that legacy.
Multiple factors I can think of, I'm sure there's more

* Competing brands with better hardware quality (Pixel's camera vs iPhone)
* Competing brands with less opinionated design choices (headphone jacks, expandable storage, et all)
* Highly specialized supply chains prevent flexibility in part choices/manufacturers (ex: designing custom screws for iMac chassis, rather than using off-the-shelf parts)
* Unnecessary complexity in designs (The HDMI/lightning adapter is actually a computer that essentially runs a program in RAM)
* Trade wars cooling relationships with everything from shippers
* Walled garden of iMessage preventing soft user migration
Yeah, but I can do that without buying a laptop from Google.
That comes with its own problems. You could end up spending 3 hours tracking a bug you thought you had fixed two weeks ago, only to find out that some other service is pinned to a commit three weeks ago.
In Superdeterminism each time a particle has to collapse, instead of rolling a dice it looks into a secret table of hidden variables that was calculated at the beginning of the universe. The table was calculated carefully so the apparent random choices follow all the laws of quantum mechanics, and the results are equivalent to what you would expect if any of the other interpretations where correct.

To calculate this secret table you must simulate all the interactions and path in the universe until it ends, because you must know which particles will be entangled, which result will have the "random" generator in the experiments, ...

So the universe is only a movie that follows the random choices made at the beginning of the universe. But the choices are not arbitrary, they have the correct values so when the events really happen they follow the laws of physics. For example, the random choices at the beginning of the universe make it look that you can't transmit information faster than light.

Physics study the laws of the real universe, but we can redefine Physics as the study of the laws that study the random number generator. Both real-Physics and initial-rng-Physics follow special relativity. Bot agree about QM. Both agree about the Bell inequality.

So with Superdeterminism we solve the problem of QM in the real word, because everything we is already determined. Now the problem is how the RNG at the beginning of the universe work to simulate QM and all the other effects. Let's call the study of the RNG Physics. Now the problem is as hard as before Superdeterminism.
>The controversial so-called “ghost protocol” has been fiercely opposed by companies, civil society organizations and some security experts – but intelligence and law enforcement agencies continue to lobby for it.

Even if it it was possible I think the bigger question is do we want to live in a society where any and all conversations can be ease-dropped on? I get the point that they want it for investigations, but its been proven over and over that if there is a way it will be abused.

Would intelligence and LE also be ok with that same rules applying to them?
This is really good advice. I'd say it generalizes to learning most engineering challenges:
Pick a problem you're interested in and solve it from top to bottom, tweaking all components as you move forward.
There's plenty of non ML software engineering to be done. Anecdotally a large proportion of interns want an "ML project", but only a small percentage of teams looking for interns are offering one.

Too many people going into ML could skew the supply/demand into making it a worse job option (more work, less pay), like game programming or academia.
That computer is older than him but he maintains it. I don't know, in a world where dev fads arise and die by years it's a little inspiration to see someone who maintains a multi-decade running system.
The Russians can't force project for shit. They struggle with Syria and that's practically their next door neighbor. Their surface fleet in particular is abysmal and has been since... basically forever.

Rather than actually shooting at each other, America and Russia seem to compete to sell weapon systems to other countries, or to prevent the other from doing so. Two competing but symbiotic MICs whose mere existence serves to justify the existence of the other, creating an opportunity for profit across the board.

It's better than a war though.
Does there have to be something else? What are the implications of a company growing forever? In 500 years are there going to be only 3 companies because they acquired everything and nothing else makes products?
Maybe they can get some ideas from this short:

https://youtu.be/VYxo-uymPUY
I don't understand what you are trying to ask? The level of Neanderthal genes in east Asia is higher than in Europe.
That can still be better, e.g. when part of the problem are tools that work on a per-repo level and fall over/get slow if the repo gets to large.
Oh interesting, we generally don't go to WasteCon due to how focused it is on public sector since we have a better product fit with independent haulers (we do have several municipalities using our software though). Maybe we should be going though - always good to expand our horizons. Feel free to shoot me an email at: my first name at edisoncode.com
I think that huge investment is going to pay off several times over for whichever company is willing to make it. Canon and Nikon each share almost 50% of this market because their offerings aren't much different from one another. A DSLR that has the same functionalities, software magic and ease of use as a phone would be a game-changing product. Right now phone cameras are so far ahead technologically but permanently held back by physical form-factor. The only thing preventing camera companies from matching them is making massive investments in their software divisions.

The user base would be everyone who buys <$1000 crop sensor cameras, which is already significant. This includes parents taking photos of their kids playing sports from across the field, (un)official school photographers, Instagram boyfriends, all non-pro photographers who need separate telephoto lenses. Improving ease of use would expand this market greatly since the main barrier to entry is learning how to use a DSLR.
> Dealing with the challenge faced by increasingly effective encryption

They weren't able to spy in bulk when communication was primarily offline, and they won't when it's primarily encrypted.

Don't let them frame the brief, anomalous period when they could listen in on everyone, as 'normal'.
In some sense perhaps but part of it probably is the maintenance of the physical computers.
We have the usual HR, legal, compliance etc. But product teams exercise enormous autonomy, arguably to a fault. A few years back an R&D mechanism was introduced of pushing triaged security issues directly into team backlogs. Something close to a riot broke out.

R&D leadership otherwise pretty much don't interfere. Their main business is explaining our strategy, keeping the lights on and teams connected and adjusting allocations between different product and component teams.
My issue with the second statement, about knowing the exact state of the universe at any given reference time is that by definition the information within that state would require the entire space of the universe to store with sufficient detail to make an accurate prediction of future states. (One might also assume it would require a real universe's worth of processing power to compute a new state as well.)

I believe it's impossible to completely isolate any segment of that universe (E.G. to make it smaller and thus predictable within the capability bounds of a larger universe) without literally removing it from that universe. That no matter what every part of an existing universe interacts with every other part, even if very, very, indirectly.

As for the question of free will: I believe the biology is largely deterministic. For me, that leaves the main set of questions in the direction of all of the elements that might happen between, outside, or otherwise beyond our current understanding of how the universe works. I feel that if there is any actual freedom in free will that is where it comes from; otherwise it's just the RNG being too complex to understand completely masking the lack of actual choice.
i have two of the controllers. I definitely don't like them, either....
That iPhones were less than half their revenue, while still growing overall revenue, is a positive sign. Apple has done a good job of diversifying their revenue base over the last few years. It will be interesting to see how large wearables and services can become as revenue sources, I suspect they are still quite early in their growth.
I was just discussing with a friend last night the seeming absence of commentary on Gen X. Just about all the news on generational trends and observations tends to focus on boomers, millennials, or both, with little to no mention of Gen Xers. Even beyond the business aspects pointed out by HBR here, politics is in a weird place as well. Based on historical trends, Gen X should be dominating congressional positions right now, but instead Boomers are still leading most states and the presidential front-runners are mostly 70+.

As the article implies, there's an open question here - is Gen X less ambitious? Are they given fewer opportunities due to boomers? Are they just less talked about because their views depart less from the status quo? It's interesting and frustrating to try and get to the bottom of it.
> With that being said, stopping any thread/process is rare in high-performance circumstances.

While that's true from a performance perspective, it is not true from a reliability perspective - it's always possible that the thread holding a lock has faulted, was swapped out, or otherwise had a bug (e.g. in a library you called beyond your control) that caused it to stall. Also, if more than one lock is involved, a deadlock is possible as well (not all of which can be detected by an OS, and most OSes suck at detecting deadlocks if they even try).

> The OS will keep track of which threads are waiting on which locks, and restart the threads as resources become available.

But causes for a pause are not necessarily under your control or the OSes privilege; You can take a critical section, write to a local file .... and wait 20 seconds because the drive has gone to sleep, someone competing for the disk, swapping in/out, a recoverable disk error, or the fact that it is not actually local but rather virtualized SAN across the internet.

Also, someone might have paused a thread from the debug API for whatever reason (or kill -STOP on linux), which might be expected to only pause that thread -- but in a system that isn't lock free, that could pause anything and everything, in a non reproducible way.

> Lock-free data structures are exponentially more difficult to write

For sure. Personally, I find that they keep me on my toes "the right way", that is - they force me to consider what and where actually needs synchronization and can be contended (whereas a lock allows me to be lazy. which is sometimes good).

> The only problem is that it doesn't work in all cases or data-structures,

Yes. ABA problems are not solved by CAS, which is why I personally prefer LL/SC, but ... whatever, CAS is harder but still doable.

> So if you're going for absolute performance, you should write both implementations and measure.

Upon a quick review of history, my use of lock free structures and algorithms is dominated by reliability requirements ("nothing must unexpectedly pause the system" - mostly seqlocks), and only a few cases for performance - mostly shared lists and shared (often reference) counters.
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Webflow seems like a perfect acquisition for Microsoft to take on Adobe. I agree, it is the modern Dreamweaver.

Microsoft could, in one week, acquire Serif (Affinity), Black Magic (Davinci Resolve), Webflow, photopea.com, squarespace and have a day 1 full feature competitor to Adobe Creative Cloud. Microsoft Creator 365.

Im kind of shocked they have moved into the marketing cloud sector against Adobe, Salesforce and Oracle, but ignored creative tools while allowing companies like Serif to reinvent themselves overnight.
If they are equal and one of them does not contaminate the territory, how it's a worse option? :)
People generally don't care about LE reading what they say, so no. People used whatsapp before e2e and will keep using it after e2e.
A patch for a security flaw exposes the flaw to anyone with deep enough pockets to reverse engineer the patch.

Disclosing the flaw even if patched helps everyone, including you and me.
nobody wants those. AirPods are expensive, ugly earbuds that you have to recharge for some reason, and the watch is just a way for your phone to distract you more frequently.
Thinking about it, my imaginary friend period was right around the year when my mother would have been pregnant with my sister, so I imagine it was the combination of living in a place with few friends, and not getting the attention I'd come to expect from my parents.
> Offer regular news articles for free, and make premium editorials and analysis require a (reasonably priced) subscription

Why would they offer facts for free and charge for the opinions they are trying to use their reputation on facts to promote?
I wonder if she is this person - https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/two-more-wind...

The person in that link, SandboxEscaper, made similar comments. For a week or two she was releasing some stuff and then stopped. She would often make some odd comments in her posts.
I answered this in a post just above yours. You look at the X chromosome.
> Unusual, sure. Clumsy? not at all. It was extremely efficient and hyper-organized. The real problem was that it was different, and people just don't like change.

When it comes to user experience, blaming the user is the worst sword to fall on.
It would be hurtful because it would negatively impact your social relations since it's unusual to be so open and there are a number of legal sexual interests that many find distasteful or even revolting.
This guy seems to be under the impression that carriers can manueuver quickly enough to dodge and/or outrun submarines and/or the torpedoes they launch.

Torpedoes are not that much faster than
their targets. The Yu-6 is capable of
65 kts in attack mode, but the range figure
is for cruise mode, which doesn’t have an
associated speed. Even a 65 kt torpedo is
only about twice as fast as a carrier, and
the sound of the torpedo being fired is
enough to alert any ship with a live sonar
operator. This means that the target ship
is likely to be running away...

Not sure how credible that is.

My guess is that sinking a US carrier would be treated as justification for opening a bottle of tactical nuclear whoopass. If so, that probably constitutes more meaningful deterrence than sonar arrays, Aegis defenses, ASROCs, and so on.
Something I learned just in time to salvage my marriage: whenever you find yourself in a conflict between work and relationships, choose relationships. Getting a new job is a hell of a lot easier than making new friends or finding a new lover or spouse.
We know that someone with a good CS degree can do this because.. Ph.D students....
From TFA...

> Deceptive design played an enormous part in last week’s FTC settlement with Facebook, and Hawley’s bill would make it unlawful for tech companies to use dark patterns to manipulate users into opting into services. For example, “accept” and “decline” checkboxes would need to be the same font, format, and size to help users make better, more informed choices.

So don't use color. Make the two choices equally clear.

Example:

Would you like to enroll in our craptacular offer which is free for 90 days and then costs $9.95 per month thereafter?

Please check one of the following options:

[_] No. Please DO NOT add me to the list of people to be excluded from being automatically enrolled in our special craptacular offer.

[_] Yes. Please DO add me to the list of people ineligible to not be excluded from not being enrolled in our special craptacular offer.

If you do not select one of the options, then default will automatically be selected for you.

Thank you for enrolling in our craptacular special offer!
That's like saying "Why not both?" to eating healthy and putting your balls in a vice grip. Eating healthy in this analogy is the government making laws regarding actual problems that require government intervention, while the balls in vice grip in this analogy is a pointless law concerning something that doesn't require government intervention just because people have a moral panic over technology allegedly ruining society.
iPod

iPhone

no disk drive

UNIX-based OS goes mainstream

first mainstream OS with a GUI

iMac - making PC's 'friendly'

iTunes - made it cool to pay for music again

To name a few.
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Why would you link the NYTimes for a business article? They don't have a clue. These results are excellent (particularly wearables growth) and they guided Q3 revenues well ABOVE Sell side estimates. China decline rate improved dramatically to only -4% Y/Y.
Good chance it's actually just 6 to 7 syllables long. So, not just writing but compact speech too.
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Ok, so how do I just look up the langue, tools and play around with it? The website shows no examples of what the language actually is, what tooling actually exists etc.

I got accepted to the private alpha but I can't tell why I should actually use this.
Based on the scuttlebutt I've been hearing from Navy insiders, this is just the tip of the iceberg, and the entire organization is a mess right now.
Hey if you're ever sick of programming I've got a government job for you. Chief widget surveyor.
How many Instagrammers and YouTubers do you personally know? How many conversations have you had with them about their needs, preferences and workflow? Have you ever done a direct image quality comparison between an iPhone X and a mid-range DSLR?
This is how it did compared to expectations

EPS: $2.18 vs. $2.10 estimated by Refinitiv consensus estimates.

Revenue: $53.8 billion vs. $53.39B estimated by Refinitiv consensus estimates.

Q4 Revenue guidance: $61 billion to $64 billion versus $60.98 billion estimate by Refinitiv consensus estimates.

iPhone revenue: $25.99 billion vs. $26.31 billion estimated by FactSet.

Services revenue: $11.46 billion vs. $11.61 billion estimated by FactSet.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/30/apple-earnings-q3-2019.html
Something I always try with new (to me) languages: write a short script to

(1) load a .txt file containing space-delimited columns of data;

(2) fit a linear model in which one column is predicted by a linear combination of the others;

(3) plot the predicted values again the actual values using dots and overlay a y=x line

Tried this with Julia a short while ago and basically gave up, couldn’t figure out how to get something to plot. Has the Julia-verse changed? Is it easier now?

I can do this in MATLAB in basically 3 or 4 lines of code. Python, not much more than that.
... oh ... yeah, that's fucked.
Logically, one would disclose as soon as the value of disclosing is larger than the value of non-disclosing. I hope we can agree that after 5 years, the benefit users have due to non-disclosing is near-zero, because virtually nobody will still use the vulnerable version. At the same time, if after 5 years the security gap is still unknown to the public, the value for other security researchers will be very large. So, for mobile phone software vulnerabilities, it is definitely better to disclose after 5 years than not to disclose.

Given that before the patch the value of non-disclosing is certainly higher, and after five years the value of disclosing is certainly higher, there must be some point in time from where on disclosing is the right choice. Therefore, the only question is when to disclose, not if to disclose.
Here's an idea, how about spending time and effort on something that's an actual priority.