skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's more to do with the demand for talent. The people with their sights on mega success need talented tech people to bring those ideas to reality. Problem is their ain't enough of those people to go around, so as a result salaries are high - but long hours and overtime are expected. As part of the process of convincing people to do that managers try to play to our egos and say we'll e successful and rich of we do.

At a previous job, a developer for a logistics firm, we got reviewed on the amount of overtime that we gave to the company. I refused to do overtime unless it was to fix a problem of my own making. My manager told me that was a very unprofessional attitude. My response was to say that I spent seven years at University getting my BSc and MSc. I lived on ramen and cheap Tennents lager. Why should I give away those hard acquired skills for free? "To be successful!!" my manager said. I told him I was successful. I earned a decent salary and was able to provide for my family and put savings aside... what more did I need?

Later the MD of that company would give a speech at the summer party saying that if you put in less than 10 hours a week overtime then you didn't value success and didn't care for your family.
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> the hardware you use to listen to the music is worth more than the music itself

Which still isn't a useful comparison.

One is an outright purchase, and the other a subscription service.
Space weather events can have measurable effects on electrical things that are supposedly grounded.

The 1989 coronal mass ejection caused lots of problems with radios, which is probably one of the better known side effects of a solar storm. But it also took out power grids because utilities got a phantom current that just showed up out of nowhere on their long cables. This current can also cause problems for other long metal things buried in the ground like oil pipelines.

IIRC a similar event in the 19th century electrocuted a bunch of telegraph operators. They unplugged the power as a safety measure, but the Earth's magnetic field generated so much current in the telegraph cables that they still worked.
The key is in what you said -- recognizing that it's impossible to know everything. This is true for me, you, and everyone else.

What this means is that it makes no sense to feel guilty or ashamed about it, since it's not only an inescapable situation, it's the same situation that literally everyone is in.

What should cause shame and embarrassment is acting like (or believing that) you know something when you don't!

I'm a big believer in two things related to this:

1) Kettering's Principle of Intelligent Ignorance. The most important thing to know is what the limit of your knowledge is. We are all ignorant of more things that we have knowledge about, after all, and knowing what you're ignorant of helps keep you out of traps and enhances your credibility.

In other words, intelligent people recognize their ignorance. Unintelligent people are blind to their ignorance.

2) Discovering that you're wrong about something is a moment to be celebrated, not ashamed of. Being corrected means that I've just become a little less stupid. That's a great thing! As a corollary, acknowledging to others that you've been wrong enhances your credibility to others. It does not reduce it.

Professionally, the important thing is that you have a overview-level knowledge of most things, and an in-depth knowledge of the things that are important to your position (and positions that you're aiming to achieve). That's a much lighter lift than trying to be competent in everything.
> That means almost all iPhone users are still either using wired earphones or none at all.

Lol, or they're using other Bluetooth headphones?
Price discrimination. What you charge a startup is going to be different than what your charge McDonalds.
Interesting. I looked this up and there's a Wikipedia page listing the earliest written accounts [0]. Looks like joint earliest are Egyptian hieroglyphs in the tomb of Seth-Peribsen [1] and ancient Sumerian tablets [2]-[3]. It seems like a lot of early writing was also concerned with religion although a lot of the slightly later writing did cover economic and administrative records.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_first_wri...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth-Peribsen

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_of_Shuruppak

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kesh_temple_hymn
eh... Information theory wise, at best you can say you've compressed the knowledge to the action to the steps required to construct the geometry. But you've still encoded it on some level. So there is an information-theoretical limit that is still worth thinking about. I think they kind of miss the boat on their discussion of Shannon. You've encoded the structure, and the actual behavior then arises from actually running the network. I think they got a little confused to be honest.

And indeed, what people will find is exactly as you say: The DNA encodes how to grow the network such that it will respond with the evolutionary advantageous instinct.

I don't know if I'd quite say that no one is looking into that. Obviously we know that there are NN that use deep networks. But also we can see that we can increase the computation power by removing nodes and edges that don't contribute to the correct answer. In evolution, this is a literal cost savings in that you need to feed less neurons.
I think their complaint isn't about the story not being factual but about the fact that Alex Jones is an insane person/outrage feeder who shouldn't be quoted as a source. Instead, they could have quoted, well, the source you give. It's much more credible, after all.
You act like the fashion is not tech. Their stuff looks good because of engineering all the way down. Looking good is a feature.

I disagree with the idea that it's marketing. Apple does very little marketing these days. Apple products are a memetic virus.
It's not about the speed, it's about the 'is it secure.'
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Manifold, a model-agnostic visual tool that surfaces the differences in distributions of features (i.e., the measurable properties of the phenomena being observed).

From:
https://venturebeat.com/2020/01/07/uber-open-sources-manifol...
"use cached versions of pre-computed artifacts" This is really nice. I wonder if this also covers partial pre-computations, for example when the same subquery is reused across several pipelines.
https://ww.9to5mac.com/2019/11/27/apple-lists-the-cameras-an...

https://9to5mac.com/2020/01/05/ikea-smart-blinds-homekit-sir...

https://9to5mac.com/2020/01/07/eve-cam/

What exactly makes you think it's dead? Seems like it's being supported by a variety of 3rd parties, and new technologies are being integrated into the environment. Routers are coming with HomeKit support now too.
This sounds like the plot to a Dystopian tech movie. Something always in your ear... whispering.
> What difference does it make when the actual hardware is still flawed?

Pilots often know a great deal about the general design qualities of the planes they fly. Defective parts happen, parts wear down, sensors break, etc. When a sensor or mechanism breaks, pilots recognize the symptom and override the feature that uses the broken part.

737 MAX tries to bolt the big engine on the little plane (old design), with minimal changes. This plane may not be necessarily defective on its own, the MCAS was created to compensate. But it will activate incorrectly with a defective sensor. MCAS was designed not be overridable (or optionally so, if you shell out for it?). Why not put in an override? Because Southwest offered Boeing a financial incentive bonus if they provided 737 MAX with minimal/no new training requirement. If the plane has a new indicator light and a new switch to override a feature, you have to train pilots on how and when to do so. Instead, Boeing decided to "just" rely on MCAS.

> Boeing can convince AA and Southwest pilots to give them vote of confidence

Pilots have the most to lose, their trust should be valuable.
Not everyone is a rich American or European, many people live in what would be considered a poor country. They might have a core2duo if very lucky. The entitlement on this website is getting out of hand.
> C very much defines pointers as aliasing by default.

This is actually a huge issue for the CRuby JIT which generates C from the VM bytecode. Alias analysis on the generated C code, which is full of indirection, is basically useless and severely restricts the possible optimizations.
Given the flow of the argument in this subthread, it seemed at least somewhat relevant. You seem to be trying to dismiss the point, not by argument, not by evidence, but merely by being dismissive. That's not a very convincing approach.
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Airflow just cover authoring, monitoring and scheduling. I don't recall it covered caching, lineage nor resource allocation/reuse.
Spaceweather.com always has the most interesting news. The site is run by Dr. Tony Phillips, a science writer for NASA and high school teacher in Bishop, California.

His students launch balloons to the edge of space to conduct research and to carry up trinkets that they sell to fund their missions. If you scroll down on the linked page, you'll see one of the silk roses they sent up on a recent mission.

More details in a discussion from last year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20372021
The laser was invented in 1960, 55yrs after Einstein published his Nobel-winning paper on the photoelectric effect. So great, in some cases it takes even less time to get from correct fundamental theory to useful technology.

The is point is - finding the correct theory sets off a process of hacking and tinkering that results in useful new technologies at some future time, some of which may not have been foreseeable at the time the theory was discovered. But we have to invest in finding the correct theory, anticipating eventually useful things will come of it, some we can foresee and some we can't.
Not silly at all. Certainly there are some database clients that will access a system default CA trust store. ISTR the PostgreSQL JDBC client may have this behaviour, although perhaps depending on which Java runtime & packaging is in use. And there'll be others besides.

And behold, Amazon are themselves a globally trusted root CA! (Have a peek in /etc/ssl/certs, on must current 'nixen I would expect to see the four Amazon roots). So why not have the Amazon root sign the RDS CA certificate as an intermediate CA, so that clients who could trust an RDS-issued cert that way, will magically trust it?

I've met some of the RDS team and they are smart cookies. If you will agree to my use of cookies, then I can think of at least three good enough reasons (and just to be clear, this is speculation and extrapolation, not insider chapter and verse):

1. Changes in behaviour during another potentially disruptive change are the province of the unwise, the unwary, and the otherwise soon to be fired for cause.

2. Not all clients can use a default trust store; even different clients for the same database may differ. For example, the PostgreSQL C client (as used by the command-line tools and many language bindings) cannot access the system certificate store; the bundle must be configured explicitly. For one client to have a magic behaviour that others do not, in the realm of cryptography and trust, is going to make security admins and auditors very unhappy. Inconsistency is the enemy of policy, and policy makes the DevSecOps world go round.

3. Not all clients support a certificate chain, so the RDS team already has to maintain a bundle of the regional intermediates. Making the RDS CA an intermediate just adds more complication to that activity, more special cases to document, and more potential for confusion in client configurations.

So these are security reasons, although they're more from a policy and human factors and software inadequacy perspective than anything to do with, say, large prime numbers. It's quite possible the service team have more reasons besides; I would certainly agree to their use of cookies or indeed any baked product. For me, those reasons alone would suffice, and I am not surprised to see that the new RDS root is another standalone self-signed CA.
As a former mathematician, I totally disagree.

Logicomix has nearly no mathematical content. The most technical part is a quick description of Hilbert's Hotel, but I thought it was very shallow, since there was no explanation. It did not even try to define infinity, or suggest how to distinguish several kinds of infinity. And, at least in the French edition, the Barber Paradox is wrongly stated!

Logicomix is mostly about people, especially Russell, with the postulate that everyone that worked on the foundations of logic was insane. But if you scrutinize the story, many details are wrong (IIRC, the young years of Russel, Frege's aggressive bursts, the last years of Cantor, …). They bent the reality to obtain the cliché that most people expected: genius mathematicians are mad.
You mean DataClasses?
Wow this looks amazing! I didn’t know time could track all of those!
I know you are being facetious, however there are options which the market provide.

1) Other companies that are willing to sell you workstation and laptop computers that you can run other operating systems on such as one of the Linux variants, Windows, BSD etc. Nobody is forcing you to buy a computer from Apple.

2) There is a thriving second hand market of Apple machines just look at ebay, craigslist, gumtree etc.

If a new Apple machine isn't worth it to you, you are free to buy alternatives.

I am going to buy one of the newer Lenovo Thinkpads as I don't think the MacBook pro is worth it to replace my ageing Macbook Pro.
You're absolutely right.

In this case, it means that an append-only data store with a fixed retention time might be a perfectly reasonable way to store certain kinds of records. This means that an append-only data store is not guaranteed to run up against deletion requirements in all cases.

In my opinion, this is particularly salient and worth being aware of when the conversation centers around a financial company, data storage, GDPR, and deletion requirements. It is possibly not always likely to be as simple as "use append-only" or "append-only likely to be illegal".
Impossible to say without all the data, but I'd bet that this has more to do with low Stadia sales than performance issues (though the two are related). I also imagine that Stadia purchasers are different from console owners in ways that might lead to higher natural churn rates.
Game development has probably changed since you looked.

I don't know of anyone who is rewriting everything between releases and even new games at new companies are built on top of existing tech 99% of the time.

The market has also changed, the big money games are almost all games-as-a-service with multi-year lifespans. For better or worse there is a lot of 'fix bugs, add some features, charge people for upgrades'.

The schedules are definitely getting better as the (remaining) industry talent matures and games are less driven by putting something in a box and moving on to the next title. I'm not saying it is perfect (by any means, and some things are worse) but it is not the same industry as it was 10 years ago.
I know one in finance and one in arch viz. There are interviews of Bethesda artists looking for work on the side and quoting generous and lazy deadlines for the work. The customer is amazed they can do in two weeks what takes other people a month or more.

Games is not in a position of minimizing all risk. What industry is? If you want a safe job get into defense contracting. Go back to university and retrain like everybody else does.

It's baffling to see this attitude on Hackernews, famous for tech entrepreneurs who have more pivots in their career than a pirouetting ice skater.

Are comic books mainstream? They sold millions of copies, they are still a niche interest. Not until the Wii did games open up to a 'casual' market. With phones it's truly everywhere now.
"That Sony had the position an failed to use it to position new devices."

But Sony did use its previous products positioning to produce and market new ones. The arguably owned the "portable audio" market from their first transistor radio in 1955, through the Walkman brand dominance up until the first iPod.

They were no longer really able to compete after the key differentiator became software.
Relevant for those who think warrants adequately shield privacy: https://www.popehat.com/2014/07/15/warrants-bulwark-of-liber...
I don't know about other European countries, but in Netherland, it's a major cause for national alarm when a major pension fund is 10% short. This is something that happened after the mortgage crisis (because the money had been invested, and the stock market was way down), and there was a big discussion about whether people should pay extra, or pensions should be cut, or something else.

It's certainly not common, and rules were immediately changed to prevent this from happening again.

The employer doesn't have access to it unless it's the pension of the single owner of the company. In that case: it's your money, and you can fuck it up if you like. But allowing other people to fuck up your pension is considered to be a terrible idea.
I don't know if $700 qualifies as cheap, but the iiyama ProLite XB2779QQS-S1 (5K) seems to fit your description. I am quite happy with mine.
They should also be including previous years data - I’ve seen a lot of people who appear to think arson was invented this summer. And a mind blowing few who think it was invented by people desperate to keep the climate change hoax going :/
> Employers have also heavily utilized violence.

According to Wikipedia (not definitive I know) anti-union violence ended in the 1950s. Justifying current day violence with cites to events 70 years ago is absurd.
It'll be interesting to see whether C++ continues its decline. I've tried to love it since the early days, but every new version introduces another 100+ pages of stuff to know. The language truly no longer fits in my head.

"You are not expected to understand this.", indeed.
> Equipping 10,000 soldiers with any sort of kit will be a major undertaking.

Difficulty of that kit is the real question.

Slingers would need 20 lead bullets, one of the lowest melting point substances in the world. If lead were unavailable, slingers would make due with stone, or even clay bullets.

In contrast, equipping 20 arrows to 10,000 archers would be an incredibly more complicated undertaking. You need arrowheads, those arrowheads need to fit shafts. Even without fletching, building an arrowhead design that fits different width sticks of wood is an incredibly complicated undertaking. Especially if you only have access to tools from ancient-times.

To accurately launch the arrow, you must consistently make the same arrow (or extremely similar arrows). That's just how it works. Its far easier to make 20x lead bullets (or 20x clay bullets, or 20x stone bullets) that are all consistent... than it is to make 20x arrows that are all consistent.

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It was a real innovation to standardize stick sizes, standardize goose feathers, and standardize arrowheads to equip the British Longbowman. There's a reason why that strategy only really took place in the Medieval period, the ancient world didn't have the tools or inventions needed to support mass-archer strategies.
And yet it's still way cooler than the Pebble. Funny how that works.
This really gets me:

I was given pretty much no feedback

This is exactly what happened to me a few years back. I was so eager for that review since we had all our KPIs recorded and I knew I had a perfect record, and all I heard was something along the lines "I have nothing bad to say". In that review, my manager said my results would warrant at least an A, and a promotion would probably be on the way. Probably.

A few weeks later I received a letter with my C rating, and I left the company a few months later.
They're basically 3M Command Strips. They even have a pull tab. Calling it glue is being totally disingenuous.
In the same way that every electronic product is really bad for the environment and humanity.
This talk discusses duplication of patented and/or restricted key blanks such as Medeco M3 and Abloy Protec2. These blanks are patented to prevent surreptitious duplication by third-party key blank companies, with extremely restrictive contracts required for locksmiths to become authorized dealers to further thwart duplication attempts by unauthorized parties.

The speakers discovered several vulnerabilities, including one for Medeco M3 that allows for specific areas of material to be milled off of the blank to create an "all-section" key blank that is valid in any M3 lock's keyway. (The M3 has myriad keyways, including keyways that are site-exclusive.)

It appears that this talk did not get much (if any) media attention. As someone that regularly follows physical security research, this is one of the most groundbreaking talks I have seen recently.
> The answer is monopoly pricing vs competition. Apple is the only iOS manufacturer, just like they were the only MacOS Manufacturer (excepting the brief period of Mac clones)

I don’t disagree with this, but it only matters at all because iOS (and access to its user interface, Safari, lock in on iMessages) is a distinct value add. BlackBerry also had a monopoly on their OS as did Palm as did Nokia. None of them exist anymore.
> Apple does very little marketing these days.

Apple does a significant amount of marketing, and I'd argue that they've been steadily ramping it up recently. It's just that they're usually a lot better at staying out of your face about it.
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Brand new TVs have a tiny bezel on three or sometimes four sides, but it's still a bezel.

I dunno about Sony, but the Sharp and Philips models I could find had thin bezels too. When you tile displays, you have two bezels touching, so the black line is at least twice as wide.

Zero bezel on 4 sides also seems to be noteworthy, because it removes some ways in which one could 'cheat'. For example the new iPhone. From what I understand the bezel on the sides and top could be zero instead of just really really narrow, but the bottom edge has the display electronics attached. To keep from having a big bezel at the bottom of the phone they folded the screen over, so the electronics sit behind the display instead of below. I'm not sure that allows true edge-to-edge display, so Samsung would have had to do some other trick instead of feeding signal in from the edges.

A wall display that can be tiled on three edges still allows for quite a big bigger displays (especially in situations where long linear ones are good, like balconies or the barriers in MLS fields), but not quite like this one.
Except for all the times they don't.

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

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/20...

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/2tsg3e/e...
Don't folks usually track churn amongst cohorts anyways? Churn rate without any associated facts is almost completely meaningless, as you suggest, other than to elicit concern.
> I guess they are bluetooth headphones, but what are the specs, do they work with non-apple hardware/software?

To most buyers, they don't need to search for anything. It's an Apple product that works with their other Apple products because of course it does.