skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But we only know it does because of physics, and without knowing there isn't a risk of banks floating away, people would be afraid of building banks. And, of course, mechanics generally are what enable the analysis of large static loads.

Same issue with how studying life expectancy and mortality allows you to quantify the risk of death, injury and disease, thus enabling life insurance and health insurance.

The problem with the claim "this is all physics" is that, yes, Newton wrote down the original formulas for mechanics, but those had to be translated into all the engineering practices to be useful. Most of the economic value comes from engingeers who have mastered nth-order derivations of the original equations.
Which is the same thing.
Followed by Azure Teams for Office 365.

The messenger naming example is also apropos because each successive generation of bad naming is also a generation of product that is measurably worse in some way. It goes to demonstrate the durability of software canaries!
I can't help but notice that the rise of designers and UX coincided with the end of being able to tell which things on the screen are clickable and, having clicked them, whether I actually clocked them and, having done that, whether my device is loading anything.

Maybe it's a coincidence, idunno. But Windows got this right like 25 years ago, and somehow it's gone away in spite of us now having "UX designers".
It's closer to 800 million, and "major" doesn't mean "majority".
> E.g. make special API/syscall to unlock restricted APIs, Windows checks the signing status of the executable making the call and only grants permissions if it is signed by MS.

This is how iOS works, FYI.
Followed by the Apple TV SE+
The released mac didn't work for me, but the webassembly webGL version is excellent - https://michelemorrone.eu/glchaosp/webGL.html
One thing to note (not that it necessarily clears things up all that much):

In the March 2019 Apple TV+ announcement event, Apple renamed the non-4K Apple TV hardware from "Apple TV" to "Apple TV HD".

So the hardware options are now "Apple TV HD" and "Apple TV 4K".
No idea, but the complaint sounds like hairolysis. :-p
I never found it confusing, but I also remember the hell of PCL’s so .Net Standard was a breath of sanity.
For sure, although whereas the Websphere-ing of the product line seemed like a plausible effort at consistent branding, Watson feels more like a cynical measure to appear relevant, but nobody's buying it.

On the "active" bandwagon, I forgot to mention Active Directory, which is kind of funny given that I spent the better part of a decade specializing in development and projects largely oriented around AD and ADFS, and which is maybe the only Active-branded thing still going strong.
Thank you for your work and research! We need an open design, formally-verifiable operating system that leverages what was learned in creating the research / toy operating systems to build an "industrial strength" operating system. A SPARK OS would be very nice indeed.
Assuming proper (non-UEFI!) BIOS support, it should.

Evidence: HP's instructions for installing Windows XP from retail media on (ca. 2012) Zx20 workstations

http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c03366531

list "(USB) Floppy Diskette Drive" as one of the hardware requirements.

As for storage, the Z820, at least, includes an XP-compatible LSI 6Gbps SAS controller onboard in addition to SATA, so performance with SAS and/or SATA drives shouldn't be an issue.

High core count, dual-socket Z820s are readily available on the used market for <$1,000, and seem like they'd make excellent high-end XP boxes (and even better Windows 10/Linux boxes; I'm running both under ESXi with GPU passthrough on mine; licensing issues aside, current [10.14 and 10.15] OS X versions also work, including GPU passthrough, at least in the case of the NVIDIA Quadro K2000 and Apple-supplied drivers).

More generally, XP-compatible 6Gbps SAS PCIe RAID cards and HBAs are readily available on eBay for peanuts, so that'd probably be the way to go if you want the best disk performance under XP with (relatively) modern hardware.
2021: Apple TV+ Pro
I'm doing something similar, but using type-graphql + apollo server + graphql-code-generator + mikro-orm (v3).

I just define my model classes. Graphql resolvers look like regular rest endpoints. Everything else is generated from there and I even get compile errors for my apollo client queries too.

I really love the typesafety of it all!
while (sweaty) { say('Developers'); }
SwiftTV is next. Or am I the only one who thinks it was stupid that Apple started overloading the name of a programming language.
Well, technically it is discrimination, but not racism. I.e. you can still hire a Japanese developer, and with a Chinese regime change you might be able to hire Chinese developers. However, federal law prohibits discrimination based on national origin. This is a touchy subject, but maybe this no longer makes sense? As burfrog pointed out, a Chinese employee living in America isn't free from Chinese control; the gov't will do bad things to his family if he gets a request for, say, information or access and doesn't comply. I'm hesitant to endorse allowing discrimination by national origin, but on the other hand, it doesn't make sense to allow the Chinese access to any kind of important data.
Hydrolysis is chemical breakdown via reaction with water. This is electrolysis. But it's a popsci article, so they put that in the subtitle. "Splitting" makes sense to people who don't use terms like hydrolysis and electrolysis frequently.
Yes, if your goal is to raise sociopaths, that sounds optimal.

There is a lot more to life and happiness than getting another promotion or raise. There are also a lot of good people that get recognized for their goodness and rewarded for it.
Byrne’s argument isn’t that YC is a better HBS, it’s that it’s a better Harvard. You need a Bachelor’s and normally at least two years work experience to get into HBS, but not Harvard or YC. They both work primarily on selection, not treatment although there is a real treatment effect. And YC both pays you money to go there and has an explicit right to some of the products of your future success whereas Harvard doesn’t have any rights to anything but tuition fees though they get plenty of donations from alumni.
Yes, yes it is. I've worked on such software, in fact. Dosage calculators can, obviously, only work with the inputs they're given. Even when prompted to verify and re-verify data entry for critical things, most of the actual users are blanked out on auto pilot.

I've been involved in countless conversations with program/hospital system administration types (at _the_ largest hospital systems in the US) about all of the ways we might try to mitigate against these types of issues. These admin folks are clever, too, they know how to work _our_ reporting systems through sales and product people to CYA, as it were. We typically walk into these meetings under the guise of "training issues," but it's anything but... This software we're talking about is form fields, if we're being honest about this stuff, and the real issue is overworked and underpaid staff. If you say that, though, you're on the hook for potentially losing these massive contracts.

It's all very corporate, on every side, is the problem, as others are alluding.
Well, I believe the way it is commonly done in some places is that the openings are staggered so they can run the buses three times. So whether the sun is up depends on which grade you are in.
> “I thought it was essentially game over for Apple,”
> Silverberg told me, recalling his thoughts about
> Windows 95 at the time. “I didn’t see how they
> could compete.”
>
> Fortunately for us, he couldn’t have been more wrong.

I guess the author assumes the reader understands that Apple did, in fact, nearly go out of business before...

> Two years later, Steve Jobs was back at the helm
> and the rest, as they say, is history!

Without Steve Jobs and an entirely new OS, it’s hard to see how Apple would have carried on building computers past 2000 or so.
I think one of the reasons should be that Gitlab does not have many enterprise customers in China and Russia. Native Chinese or Russian speakers are not needed for Support.
Microsoft's email services are still a naming mess. Live, Outlook and Hotmail all seem to be interconnected, and I don't really know what differentiates them anymore.
The thing that really struck me about sci-fi from the other side of the iron curtain was the fundamentally different look it took at communication with extraterrestrial intelligences. Lem, and the Strugatsky brothers (probably the best known off of the top of people's heads from that side of the world, thanks to Tarkovsky) both wrote extremely well-received books about how it's likely that this sort of communication would be impossible.
There are scam products - "laundry disks" or "laundry balls" - which take advantage of the fact that clothes still get pretty clean without using any powder. You use the thing (which costs $50+), don't use powder, and it something something magnets something something ions and wow your laundry gets clean!
It doesn’t matter. As long as a security clearance isn’t required, discriminating based on notational origin is a big no no from an ethical perspective, even if it was legal.

I hope we learned our lesson during WW2.
How do I convince someone to join my startup?
Every potential partner I want to join my startup has a lot going on in their lives. I have to really convince them to quit their own ventures to join mine.

The problem is that I do not want to convince someone too much, they should be interested in working with me and this product without requiring a ton of convincing. I'm afraid to convince someone to do something they don't really want to do. I think it's a higher risk of having the wrong partner than having none.

But as every potential co-founder has a lot going on, they would need a certain amount of convincing to join me.

How do you deal with this?
What is very simple is just creating a law stating that you may only use exactly the data needed for the purpose of providing the service and any extra data must be requested from the user with the easy ability to decline. Now rather than years of cat and mouse where advertisers always have the upper hand, the advertisers suffer massive fines for misuse.
How about abolishing time zones entirely and using universal time for everything?
You Can Now Install Ubuntu Touch on Oneplus3 and Sony XperiaX with the Installer
Interesting how we use "more environmentally friendly" now instead of "less environmentally hostile". Language skewed towards marketability.
> We are giving up our last rights and freedoms for “experiences,” for the questionable comfort of “natural interaction.”

This assumes intuitive UX forces you to use a product a certain way. There's no reason this has to be true. Good products can be used intuitively and can grant their users programmer-like powers.

Take Google Search, for example. It's easy to use; you can largely speak to it like you would to a human -- type "what time is giants game tonight" and you'll get the answer you're looking for. But you can also use operators and other power features to perform specific and precise searches. So good UX merely gives less savvy users a leg up; it doesn't force a mediocre experience on power users.
What made you want to make that transition from front-end software engineering into the UX role?
Getting out of iOS development and back into web dev was the best career decision I ever made. I feel like I escaped an abusive relationship. So much of what's wrong with computing and tech right now stems directly or indirectly from the culture at Apple.
> I operate DNS for hundreds of thousands of domains. I've tried to reassemble browsing history from DNS logs

Why? :)
I thought it was just me :/
Hotmail is the spammy one.

Live is the one for gaming.

Outlook is the business one.
The next obvious step is to block any employees married to a Russian or Chinese person.
> Msn messenger, live messenger, Skype, Skype for business, Teams... I assume the next iteration will be named Azure Teams.

We have a similar issue in education. First it was MSDN-AA, then DreamSpark, then briefly Microsoft Imagine. Now it's called Microsoft Azure Dev Tools for Teaching.
Yeah here's the thing - if you get a better offer... Leave. If you operate otherwise you're a fool.
“The network is the computer” is truer today than it’s ever been though.
The US really, really, really needs tax simplification.

The number of rules and their complexity are simply stupifying. It's horrible.
Yes, and didn’t they also just have a fairly abrupt about-face in terms of doing business with ethically-questionable customers?

MSFT just recently won a 10B cloud deal from the DoD, perhaps the purse is still open there?
2022: Apple TV#
From what I recall, this practice goes back to the original 68k Apple Mac.

The prehistory is that developers for the Apple ][ had access to third party documentation, and made extensive use of unofficial system variables and entry points. The result was that it became impossible for Apple to update their own system without breaking popular apps and getting blamed for doing so. It turned Apple ][ technology into a dead end.

The Mac was intended to be a much more tightly controlled developer environment. And it came out at a time when there was still a lot of debate over the right way to develop a computing platform.

IBM had a different approach, which was to make things more open like the Apple ][, and they paid the price for it. For instance, a lot of the weird limitations of the IBM PC were caused by developers bit-banging hardware registers and video memory rather than going through "official" BIOS calls that were less efficient.

I don't personally know the right answer, but this is just the history as I recall it. At the time I preferred the IBM approach, because I could do some friendly bit banging and get stuff done, but my programs were mostly for a severely limited audience and lifespan. Today I try to do things in a way that insulates me from knowing anything about the platform that I'm using.
I remember the dot in dot-com ads. I was thinking of starting a blog titled: "I put the dot in dotnet"
Spying is happening between all nations and the leaked cables showed this.

Why those two countries specifically? In Russia you can get imprisoned for a variety of political/strategic reasons if you refuse to cooperate. China implemented there own internet for spying.

When you visit these countries you are advised to buy new devices and throw them out on return to avoid backdoors.

General Powell misleading the UN and TV networks was based on having chemical weapons. Nuclear weapons is the fear with Iran. It was believed because the UN weapon inspector Hans Blix was being railroaded with fake traffic jams and other tactics preventing him from investigating. After he pulled out and Sadam had a history of using these types of weapons on his own people, it made the claim easier to accept without more proof.
Steve Jobs is rolling in his grave right now.

Tim Cook needs to be replaced.
what applications on iPads and phones are you talking about, specifically?
I also learned a lot and some of the employees made great points.

I’m wondering, can the US government legally issue a National Security Letter to an individual employee that forces them to comply and spy for them?

If they can, does this also mean the employee has no legal recourse since NSLs must be kept secret?
Maybe someone at Apple got the Sony WH-1000XM3 Noise Cancelling Headphones instead of the MDR-ZX110NC Noise Cancelling Headphones for Christmas, and this is some kind of a backlash into over-simplification.
There are automatic differentiation libraries for many languages, including C++.

The result is generally only piecewise differentiable because, e.g. you obviously cannot differentiate across the hard branch of an if-statement.

Usually for optimization you want reverse-mode differentiation, where you learn how the function output-- some optimization objective-- depends on the input variables. The automatic differentiation libraries records all the operations you perform on the input variables and then composes them using the chain rule, working backwards.

For some kinds of codebases it's actually pretty natural... e.g. I've taken a big body of C digital signal processing code and in a couple hours gotten gradients for it just by replacing all the floating point variables with special differentiable types from an AD library. These libraries also include collections of standard math lib functions which it knows the derivative for.

For the purpose of optimization the fact that your program isn't differentiable everywhere isn't necessarily a problem. You can use gradient free methods for searches across those boundaries, and gradient methods to refine your results within them.

If you're optimizing over problems that have thousands of input variables having derivatives is critical to making machine optimization tractable-- unless your search space is particularly trivial and can be well approximated by the simple differentiable models that gradient free local optimization tools use internally.

Of course, you could also attempt to directly program your derivatives-- it almost would certainly be much faster to evaluate than transcript based reverse mode AD. But it may be impossible to construct analytical derivatives that cover your whole problem domain, it's often unreasonable hard even when possible, and even if you have them keeping the functions in-sync is difficult and a source of devious bugs.
What? No mention of the Apple TV remote, the Apple TV Siri remote, the Apple TV remote app, or the iOS Apple TV remote app shortcut feature on iOS?

The physical Apple remotes are so terrible, I've stopped using Apple TV (all of them). The Apple remote app is better, but is useless for when you need to hit pause, as your phone has gone to sleep.
I don’t think making an executive decision is necessarily “bullying.” The nice thing about public comments and development is that you would see some non-hypothetical evidence of such action.

I don’t think it’s unnatural for an OSS product dev team to think this way. I don’t like that they implemented it, but I think it’s positive they rolled it back.

Firing a CEO for such a situation will result in worse software, I think. It won’t make the next CEO less likely to make a dumb mistake. But it will make them less likely to be public or to roll back changes. If the consequence of a fairly minor mistake (given GitLab’s history of super smart decisions in the past 10 years) is firing, then management will make sure nothing is ever considered a mistake again.
> it roughly doubled the current density at the anode without requiring any additional voltage

Do I understand correctly that the magnet just makes the anode behave like a bigger anode, and does not make the process more energy-efficient?
> .NET Core vs. .NET Standard was a wtf?

At least they named it core and standard so you know which mess you're referring to.

With Apple TV you have to make up your own qualifiers.

Apple's marketing team seems to failing at their jobs right now. They had iPhone had X/Xr/Xs/Xs Max at some point, and I never figure out which was which. The most recent 11/11 pro/11 pro max makes a lot more sense, but it sounds dated.
False. Teaching yourself to code is much better than a CS degree.
There are a lot of countries.
A pair of Australian bridges try to cure concrete cancer
So how about we force people to dig holes and then fill them up again, in order to get their UBI?

Giving people pointless bullshit jobs for its own sake sounds like insanity to me. Yes being able to live without working will pose a challenge to humanity, but it's a challenge we should face. The alternative is mandating that people do something even if it is really useless or impedes a more efficient system because we don't trust their ability to figure out how to live well on their own.
India has the highest proportion of arable land in the world. Lack of land isn't India's problem. We've long had the resources to house and feed our population, which, ironically, is the reason why we have so much population in the first place.
> Apple has no love nor concern for their developers anymore

Because Apple knows it doesn't need to attract developers to iOS. They will come no matter what because that's where the mobile market is.

On macOS it's different. There are very few macOS exclusive developers so most of the popular apps are either cross platform (Office, Photoshop, Sublime Text, Chrome, Firefox, Maya, Cubase, Cinema4D, Resolve, etc) or are from Apple. In both cases the Apple dev experience is irrelevant. There are plenty of boutique devs making small products exclusively for macOS (eg: Panic, Bjango, Bohemian) but these are a drop in the ocean. Apple knows this which is why it's making Catalyst to attract iOS devs to macOS. AFAIK the only big developer making macOS exclusive products is Apple itself.
>world nations

curious, whats world nations ? never heard of that term before.
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Is this why Firefox for Android will occasionally have non-dimissable media control notifications load on web sites which don't have audio? The amount of times I've had to force-close after opening a NY Times link is infuriating
I thought Hotmail and Live were dead, replaced by Outlook.com?
Why does it make sense for Gitlab to push back on a reasonable request from customers?
Yes, but you may not have a cavern to compress it into.
I do contour drawings in meetings to keep from falling asleep
The best is that you can buy the Apple TV in two sizes! 32 GB and 64 GB. Why you ask? Can the bigger one store more stuff? No, everything’s in the cloud! So what’s it for exactly? Who knows! But it’ll cost you an extra $20 and won’t even come in a different color like the “Pro” keyboards and mice. For a fun exercise go ask an Apple store employee this.
Farmers are virtually half the population and going against them is a guarantee that you'll never be elected again.
"Solved" by ending it after 9 releases, appropriately
Maybe up to a point, but really the TTL should be set for how long is acceptable for traffic to continue to flow to the old destination after a change. That's not necessarily correlated with time between changes: just because a service IP hasn't changed for two years doesn't mean I would want to wait a day for most traffic to move.

Of course, the reality is some traffic will continue to flow to the old destination for as long as you care to measure. There's plenty of absurdly broken DNS caching out there.
Why wait? Just tax it.

Why wouldn't be want to tax the destruction of something instead of work/labour/selling stuff?
It's as gibberish today as it's always been.
OK, what if you carefully place the balls in a regular pattern?