skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's one of the vilest crimes anyone can engage in.

You realize that you yourself are in all probability the descendant of many people who engaged in what you call "one of the vilest crimes"? But we don't even have to go back in time to see how your argument is intellectually phony. The current age of consent in Nigeria is 11 years old. The age of consent in the Philippines is 12 years old. Are you saying that people in Nigeria and Philippines are the most vilest criminals of all? I for one am for our older age of consent(although I think it ludicrous when we arrest 18 year olds for having a relationship with 17 year olds), but I'm not going to lie and say there is anything morally wrong with a lower age of consent. If an asteroid hits earth tomorrow and wipes out 80% of the population, you better believe that suddenly no one will bat an eye that the age of consent becomes 13.

I'm not defending Epstein—I have no idea the details, other than that a great injustice was committed by his "suicide" (murder or assisted suicide, the suicide without a qualifier is laughable) because that meant we may never hear the true story of what went down. I didn't know MLK either. I'm not comparing them. I'm saying that being accused of something or even having a criminal record is not a reason to not associate with someone, without using your own mind and thinking for yourself, as many of the greatest moral heroes in history are people with criminal records. I would have loved to hear Epstein's side of the story. But instead, some people ended or helped end his life (a gross failure of the U.S. Goverment), and so we won't hear it.

Now, perhaps the details of Epstein are horrible and involve violence etc--in that case, yes perhaps someone should have stayed away if they deemed the crimes were true. Maybe I should look up the details more before I comment, I dunno. I just am giving my take to say, slow down with the pitchforks.
Perhaps these apps were already well beyond supported?

Some of them are more than beyond supported. They're completely useless and unnecessary.

There are programs on there for connecting to PCMCIA modems and Palm Pilots.

That said, there is one item on that list that affects me, but I know that I've been avoiding a $299 upgrade for years, so it's not completely unexpected.
The Lesson I Learned from Steve Jobs by Mark Benioff
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-lesson-i-learned-from-steve-jobs-11570795206?mod=rsswn

Steve helped me understand that no great innovation in business ever happens in a vacuum. They’re all built on the backs of hundreds of smaller breakthroughs and insights—which can come from literally anywhere.

A company seeking to achieve true scale needs to seek innovation beyond its own four walls and tap into the entire universe of knowledge and creativity out there.
Michael Crichton observed this and called it the Gell-Mann amnesia effect. I think he said publicly that the name was to ride on the coat tails of Gell-Mann's public success:

>>> “Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
Ransomware Gang's Victim Cracks Their Server, Releases All Their Decryption Keys
Amazon changed this because many recent lawsuits have used the fact there's no direct buyer seller relationship to argue Amazon should be liable for defective products instead of the seller.
Earth Archive
Here's a link to check the Civil Aviation Daily Occurrence Reports:

https://wwwapps.tc.gc.ca/Saf-Sec-Sur/2/CADORS-SCREAQ/rs.aspx...

Just don't choose the default of today, today's not over yet!

Here's 123 from yesterday:
https://wwwapps.tc.gc.ca/Saf-Sec-Sur/2/cadors-screaq/rd.aspx...

It includes a lot because it includes anything that goes in/over Canadian controlled airspace, including a lot of ocean.
Well, when the software doesn’t support all of the new features of the platform, I definitely care. I hate that even today four years after it was introduced, there are still video apps on iOS that don’t support PIP on the iPad and apps that don’t support split view.
At what point should they drop support?
How much has it cost MSFT? They have a trillion dollar market cap, so I would say that’s not a particularly relevant question.
Russian north is either industrial (mining, oil and gas), commercial (sea ports) or military and have enough money for people to spend some part of their life there. Norilsk is not the only city on the far north, though probably one of the most notable ones along with Mirny (huge diamond mine).
I knew where to look :)
I guess only if the VR is AI based
It’s been 10 years since Apple released a 64 bit OS and the last 32 bit x86 based Mac.
When all party officials are required to use this app, and all their data is kept 100% public all the time, then maybe it might be a good time to talk about anyone else using it.

Not until then.
One form of obstructionism that has been used by Peskin is to require a new or expanded type of permit and then decline to fund the permitting agency, so it doesn't have the resources to issue any permits.
Can't you stop notifications from displaying on specific apps in iphone?

I've been able to do that for a couple years on my sony phone.
Just to hazard a guess...

"Intel officials believe that ARM Macs could come as soon as 2020": https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/02/21/intel-officials-b...
> This is not true of ... almost any open source project.

I don't think that's generally the case, in part because of the very nature of open source. And certainly, for example, I can easily compile over 30-year-old TeX and run 30-year-old Emacs code.
On desktop, if you hover over the "bullshit", it shows you what word was replaced. May not work on mobile, I guess.
That reminds me of a character from Discworld called Vetinari who is a trained assassin (which is established as a legal guild in Ankh-Morpork, a quite respectable profession for the upper-class) that failed his stealth examination due to 'not attending'. :D

(I might be missing details, it's been a while since I read Night Watch.)
Virtual world users like them.

I put on virtual pyrotechnics shows in various grids and and get paid or tipped in either the grid's own digital currency or in Gloebits. Gloebits are better since they can be spent on various different grids and by all my accounts. I also take paypal.

https://gloebit.com/about-gloebit/
> I have a 32-bit application I use regularly to interface with old hardware

And the relevance of this use case is something that "using a laptop in a coffee shop" Apple users seem to be completely and utterly oblivious to.

Yet that hardware often has a useful life far longer than the computer plugged into it, or the software that runs on that computer. On top of that, there may not even be a suitable/comparable "modern and supported" replacement for that hardware.
What happened to this "Internet 2" btw?

It was a faster, academic mostly, side-internet, which was a big thing in the early 00s... Haven't heard about it for ages...
Do you have a view on the Trinamic drivers? Are they important to have?
I agree with all the points made above, however, very few of those would have value if the person arguing against you resorts to just calling you names, yelling, or defaulting to "nazi", "racist", "white male" etc...
I should also mention - there is quite a bit of discussion on 't Hooft's work on StackOverflow, including heavy participation by 't Hooft himself. I don't have any pointers handy, but they should be fairly easy to discover with a minimal amount of searching.
It would actually be a great feature to also convert the word "bullshit" into a random keyword from the dictionary. This way you can run it twice and then generate brand new summary of the service.
Probably a good 1/4 of these apps are either obsolete, or no one should really be running them, anyway. The only thing that stuck out to me was 1Password.
In the context of many other cited statements and testimony, the warning had no basis in fact, and was aimed principally at chilling the market for DRDOS.
Nothing destroys your trust in journalism like an piece on a subject in which you're an expert.
Associating a charitable donation with a transaction is all about exploiting opportunities for price discrimination.

The fundamental problem of selling things was always that you had to set one price, unless it was a big-ticket thing that people haggle over. With one price, it's too high for some people, so you lose the potential profit from selling to them at a lower price, and some people buy, but would pay more, so you lose the extra profit from charging them the maximum it is worth to them.

Being willing to donate during a transaction is a valuable hint that you would pay more if you had to.

I've been avoiding Amazon for a while, but I wanted a product recently that was only on Amazon, and as I clicked through the shipping options, and refused Amazon Prime for the nth time, they jacked up the price by like $5. So I abandoned the order. But I guess their techniques work at scale.

My hope is that somehow, their algorithms to discriminate in pricing cause them to self-destruct eventually. In the meantime, I think this is a major part of the dynamic making people feel, and be, poorer - during the past decade there has just been a revolution in eliminating consumer surplus and converting it into producer surplus, and that's where all the corporate growth/wealth is coming from.
A few years down the road we'll all be living without electricity in war-torn hellscape thanks to the "AI" launching nuclear EMPs everywhere.
Not having to worry about yet another security vulnerability caused by 10 year old code does impact me. It’s also nice to have other Apple products that MS could never produce because they worshipped at the alter of backwards compatibility.

Running outdated code on a bloated operating system doesn’t benefit me.
I think I agree.

Here are a couple of more, from someone who has worked for years in a number of languages:

- few limitations means you can easily make a serious mess, which means you are more dependent on good programmers to avoid the mess.

- lack of typing information isn't "free solo" hard but it certainly makes life a lot less pleasant.
And it is wilfully delusional to respond as though anybody says "straight white maleness is a guaranteed ticket to an easy life" or that it is in any way a valid interpretation of what I said.
I too make a lot of errors. In my case they are mostly due to small hands that have to travel quite a bit from the home row to hit special keys, and end up getting “lost”. The move to Colemak didn’t particularly help my error rate while programming; however, it did help the general case. Typing long blocks of text is now an absolute pleasure, my hands hardly move at all.

If Apple give me the option, I think my next MBP will get a Colemak layout. My external keyboard got a “hacked” version - it’s actually pretty sad that the mechanical-keyboard scene does not really support anything but qwerty.
Very interesting. I signed up for the beta.

I really like your timeline concept. I'd almost maybe double down on that, and move away from the graph model (where the geometric layout is not really grounded to an easily accessible mental model). I'm not sure what the ideal looks like, but my hunch is the timeline view might be at the center of it.
I'm a heavy YouTube consumer and this just seems like a headache with extra steps/complication, while shooting features like live streaming + chat in the head. Also it's a normal use case to view videos in your browser.
The solution for that would be to subscribe to specific repositories, similar to how Debian does it for example. Anyway, even if they just let people to manually download and install unsigned extensions the risk would only fall on the people who chose to do that. These that wish to do so could still continue and use google's walled garden.
ARM is the only architecture I've used so far. =)
My guess: The binary translation support they’re going to build into ARM Macs will exclusively support x64, including low-cost bridging between x64 application code and ARM64 library code.

Not to mention Apple never leaves deprecated runtimes around for more than a few years. Once 64-bit Carbon was canned the writing was on the wall.
As far as I know it still exists, it still provides a network for research institutions in the US.
> "Microsoft Surface sells are estimated to be 20% of Mac sales."

I'd say hardware sales like that are impressive, coming from a software company.

Apple's original core competency was creating hardware, with the software existing to drive hardware sales. (That there is a "hack" in "hackintosh" suggests that this should still be true today. They don't want you to buy their OS and run it on your own hardware, but they're fine with you buying their hardware and running your own OS on it.) Microsoft's core 'competency' has always been software. (I am of course abusing the term 'competency' in this case...)
> If we switch to 100% electric cars then the government will lose 10% of its tax income.

The government can tax whatever it wants, there is no reason why electric cars couldn’t generate the same tax receipts.
Definitiely much harder as a remote worker. Perhaps try a remote-first firm instead?
> Please help us bullshit our customers by contributing to the dictionary.

Epic
This is actually really useful. I just ran this as a sanity check on a long document I wrote, and it pointed out a bunch of lousy writing. Even better, it seems you can use it with the Hemingway App (http://www.hemingwayapp.com/) as you're writing...
Ask HN: How did your startup change after an exit?
Hi HN

I'm an engineering VP in a (maybe) unicorn looking seriously at an exit and the vibe has ... already changed.

Looking at the current climate, I am probably going to be able to pay off my mortgage and send my partner to grad school, but financial independence or FYM isn't on the cards. I like it here, and am not planning to move on yet.

I've been wondering where the stories about what happens (what goes wrong/right) after an exit, like an IPO.

What should I be looking out for after the exit? Any experiences from senior engineering staff? Or even good blog posts or books?

Thanks
Well, the good news is that you've completely misunderstood my comment. There's no histrionics, nor piety. I don't care what other people do for their kids (I said this elsewhere in the thread), and I can imagine that other people, especially people with disabilities, might find the magnets to a useful option. But for me, zippers are easy and work just fine. Therefore there's no need to take even a small risk to replace something that works just fine.

Another consideration is the flood of cheap counterfeits on Amazon (commingled at times), which means that you can't actually trust that the item you purchase is the genuine article (i.e., that it's as well-built as the descriptions say). So

I'm not sure what snowplow/helicopter parenting has to do with any of this, but I'm right there with you that people do too much of that.

If anyone out there decides not to have kids because I don't buy baby clothes with magnets, I think they care too much about what other people do (with their own babies).
> "I think we'll hit a tipping point where the tooling for Lisp without parens is good enough that the benefits of dropping them make dropping them a no-brainer."

Any such tooling tipping point would likely make the syntax of the underlying representation irrelevant. What to view the logic in tree notation? Or how about with the parens? Or the parens, but so faint you can't see them? Or collapsing aspects of the code you're not currently concerned with? What gets eventually transformed into the 1s and 0s executed by the machine, and its various representations along the way are really not the concern of the person writing at the top of that stack, at least not most of the time.

Personally I find the added vertical space by tree notation very distracting and that it breaks the scan of my reading. But that's my personal preference, and something that could be addressed with tooling. And that's the point: same thing can be said with the parens of lisp or other editing/IDE tooling.

I happen to like fine-tipped pens, while others enjoy the smoothness of thicker rollerballs. Is one better than another? Do the benefits of one make using it to the exclusion of others a no-brainer? Does my enjoyment of fine-tipped pens preclude others from developing new pen types or new writing implementations all together? Might my evangelism for fine-tipped pens turn people off from exploring the perfection that is the Uni-ball Signo UM-151 0.28mm (in blue-black ink, of course)?

To each their own. Find the medium that best helps you express your message. And that may not be the same for others. And that's okay.
it seems they have reinvented the wheel.
It was solved in 2003:
https://specfun.inria.fr/bostan/these/These.pdf
Doesn't matter, at some point there's a indirect function call and the compiler can try to guess the target, inline it and add an address check that, on failure falls back to the slow path.
Windows on mobile was a mess.

You couldn't just take any Windows app and run it. It had to be a specially designed UWP one of which there weren't many. And then there was different OSs depending on whether it was on ARM or not, running UWP exclusively or not. I am a developer and even I couldn't understand the rules.

It's unquestionable that Microsoft's decision not to encourage developers to rewrite their apps (or at least offer a Carbon solution) really hurt them in the mobile space.
I /feel/ like this gist is largely on the money, and also uninteresting at the same time. All languages suck, and often suck in different ways for different users. We just have to pick the one that is working best at the time, and that we're best at working with.

I will say that I do like the act of writing a pro and con list for a language or tool though(which is why I read the linked doc), and I often push co-workers to do so when they're suggesting things. Sometimes it shakes a bad choice out just with the simple act of jotting down a 5-point list.

Unless, of course, there actually is an ideal language out there. In which case I retract my point ;)
Gates was massively successful in using philanthropy to burnish his image and somehow become seen as a role model for anything related to ethics. It’s like people forgot the whole antitrust/crushing an entire industry with shady practices thing.

Gates never acted ethically in business. Billions of dollars in donations don’t change the fact that his association with Epstein is perfectly in character for him.
Apple being able to move quickly definitely benefits consumers. The OP's specific example was Apple's ability to execute on the iPhone using current tech but without the restraints of supporting legacy development.
Yeah that looks like a lot of time, except we're looking at some hard evidence saying it wasn't, after all.

Apple helped push forward the state of the art on many things by dropping legacies (No floppy. No CD. No more serial, parallel, scsi, PS/2 ports), but on some it just hurt its own customers with excessive eagerness (USB-C and dongle hell. Headphone jacks, where the ideal timing would have been NEVER. And this very thread about 32bit support).

MacOS is not iOS. There aren't just signed apps coming from a store. They failed to account for that. And this is coming from the company which managed to make the 68K->PPC transition, and the PPC->x86 ones, mostly painless for its users. This is so disappointing, knowing what they're capable of.
Sure, but don't expect that devs are loyal to you and your ecosystem. Think different is dead!
Well Uber also has a nice market cap. Only on HN is market cap more important than silly things like profit.

But MS recent success has nothing to do with maintaining backwards compatibility. They had to purposefully move away from emphasizing Windows to be successful and move to the cloud, Office on other platforms, abandoning IE, give up the idea of ever selling Windows to end users when it isn’t bundled with the computer, building IE on top of Chrome, and by announcing an Android device.

Does that seem like Windows was a winning strategy?
Why does everyone need a 3d printer? Maybe this statement would sound as ludicrous looking back as asking why does everyone need a PC in the 1980s. However, I still don't understand why would a regular person need a 3d printer? Mass marketed goods are always cheaper due to economies of scale. And would you really want to put in the effort to make your own chair, etc?
I think your comment #2 is the most important one. Basically, people just get used to it. I think this way about a lot of cities that are basically awful when it comes to human habitation. For example, New Delhi. I visited New Delhi a couple of times for work and I couldn't imagine why anyone with means wouldn't get the hell out of there ASAP. Especially the area around Gurgaon reminded me of something out of Bladerunner. The pollution was just so ungodly indescribable I couldn't stand being outside for even a couple minutes. But a lot of my Indian colleagues stayed there by choice. They thought the pollution was bad, too, but they looked at it in more of a "pros vs cons" mindset, where I looked at it in a "not being able to see the sun at noon due to smog is a deal breaker for me" mindset.
Containers as a technology are nice, but it's easy to fall back into the same traps that make software non-reproducible using containers as well. You can precisely specify all your dependencies, but it often takes a lot of effort to make that happen.

I'm a fan of the approach Guix developers are taking for scientific computing, because it makes reproducible software simple enough for people to use without too many headaches: https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2019/10/towards-reproducible-jupy...
Yep - tried going to a hybrid solution but the thing is 80% of my utilization of a browser is working on my startup, with the additional 20% being "general surfing" (ie: reddit, HN, blogs etc.)

If my split was different I'd feel quite different about it... I just need Hangouts, Mapbox, YouTube, etc to work 100% of the time without headache. Also running two browsers was difficult because it's like "where's that darn tab!!!" half the time ha.

My solution to this crap is to eventually do something like a pihole setup upstream from the browser and call it a day.
MS's backwards compatibility is definitely great. It's probably also a big opportunity cost and a hindrance to them developing new things. Tradeoffs everywhere.
of course but no one venerates the cheaters (lance armstrong has fallen from grace)
> Also at the massive cost to the surrounding environment.

Assuming you didn't mean global warming here, there was never much of environment there humans could damage.
> Does no one remember the default Borg icon for MS stories on Slashdot?

Drcode remembers...
Apple’s Mac sales are minuscule though in the grand scheme of things and only a small part of their revenue.