skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is well known in academia and exist outside of Media Lab as well. For example, I asked a professor (not associated with the Media Lab) about using hype to get grants. He said: "It's just like the stock market right, money goes here, it goes there, it's all story telling. I have to tell stories too because if I don't, then other people will tell this story and get the money. But I think I can use it better than other people." This is a very "well-respected" Ivy League professor in applied machine learning.

As for the Media Lab, they're really selling the image of technological progress. And Corporate entities find value in this exact image because they're just reselling it to their shareholders, many of whom are dumb money. But the image is required to attract idealistic and clueless grad students who'll sacrifice their lives and sanity to make demos. I know several people who graduated from the Media Lab with masters/doctorates, and they are all of this exact mold: taken captive by pipe dreams and their own delusions of what this stuff could do, while their advisors are churning through students and packaging new narratives.
Thank goodness it's still around! Yet once again, no way of knowing that feature is there without being told.
(My email is in my profile)
I'm trying to offload them, as they're taking up far too much room in my garage.
Sale. Email in profile.
I find a window a very effective way to monitor the weather.
Yeah, but why is it better form (I am coming from Java where it shouldn't make any difference)?
I use an old Android smartphone as a replacement wifi antenna for the notebook I use plugged to my 65 inch TV. It's my main workstation, and is a very good machine, but for some reason there's a short circuit on the motherboard and the wifi antenna does not work. This same old phone is also used as a security camera so I can see my pets remotely when I'm traveling. I use the app Alfred to do that, and it works very well.
There are launchers for Android, but they don't work perfectly.

For me, the only icons I would need is "Call", "Answer" and "Silent". Of course, that begs the question, why not use a "feature phone", but their UIs are muddled and overdesigned these days too.
The Epstein connections are deeply concerning.
But for me theirs is 10 times better as I don't have to install it anywhere and then maintain it myself.
"If you look at the announcements for Microsoft products that compete with their own ecosystem, one thing you'll very rarely see is any acknowledgement of the OSS projects they displace."

I can see why you would be upset but what obligation does Microsoft have to do that? One reason CIOs will go with Microsoft solutions lock-stock-and-barrel is that it's there's one account rep, one consolidated bill, one "throat to choke" if there's a support need. The alternative would be to deepen your partnership to the point that something like Octopus becomes a de facto Microsoft product (complete with bundled support when you go with .NET/Azure/etc). Either that or go out of your way to show why DevOps managers never get fired for choosing Octopus.

No, it's not "fair" but Microsoft isn't the only company doing this and it would be unfair to suggest they are doing this out of malice.
> Do you know why the cheese grater is the shape that it is?

I do not.

Personality is an interesting topic. I love Hackney or the area around Wapping; there's certainly a personality around Muswell Hill and Highgate; the Barbican is brilliant and unique, etc. But the Liverpool Street Station area? Nah.

Not that for example Budapest has a face everywhere: it has a decent amount of socialist blocks that you can find anywhere in the former Eastern Block, and a lot of generic housing areas, but the inner circle is quite heavily regulated, especially on the height of buildings.

As for regulations: regulations on what looks are allowed. The question mark for the walkie-talkie was because it's a collector mirror, and whoever designed it should have realized that it's dangerous.
> Ever see anyone at a coffee shop using a Surface Pro in tablet mode? I haven’t. That’s because the second you sit down to complete tasks for more than a minute or two you’ll want a keyboard at least if not a mouse, too.

Precisely because they are sitting on table. Have you seen those same users in their couch or bed?
Full experience presumes you buy into the platform and get used to it, drop all the alien stuff and alien ideas from other platforms, especially all the exclusive lock-iny ones that you listed.
Think of all the damage caused by excel. We replaced one set of avoidable catastrophes for another. But this time there’s no shame.
The author speculates this as well in the article:

> Maybe this strategy is similar to how the Nigerian scammers work: put some obvious errors in the text, anybody that misses those is probably well worth the time invested and those that cancel early would have cancelled anyway, an optimization strategy.
Do any of the distributions depend on these binaries in the first place? It sounds like a non-issue to me. Don't all popular distros build all their packages from source anyway where possible?
Sure, getting apps into multitasking mode is hard, but have you tried to get an app _out_ of multitasking? Especially a “Slide Over” window? Just when you think you've banished it, you open the host app again and the slide over app revivifies. It's maddening. Every time I accidentally get an app into this mode I have to search the support docs for the magic sequence to make the window finally go away. I love my iPad, but a couple aspects are unambiguously terrible UX.
Not OP, My hypothesis.

In 2014 Apple Announced they had around 80M Active Mac Users.

In 2017 They had over 90M Active Mac Users.

In 2018 They Reached 100M Active Mac Users.

Apple has a fairly stable Mac business, and ships 18 - 20 Million unit over the past few years. They are also very proud of their consistent ~50% of Mac sold are first time Mac user.

If no one was leaving the Mac ecosystem, you would have expected 9 to 10 million increase of active user per year. Except it didn't happen. The growth rate has slow down dramatically. They are gaining ~5M user per year.

There is also another stats Apple gives out, nearly All of the New Mac user were from China. And that is not surprising given the whole iOS ecosystem and games development requires Mac along with the rise of middle class. But this also tells you most of the New Mac User are from China.

This hypothesis doesn't takes into account how Apple measures its "Active Mac Users", but suggest Apple is losing millions of Active user outside China. And since US has the largest Mac user base, I would not be surprised if it lost ground to Windows was an observation from a US users perspective.
I wonder what can you do to stop a big company from devouring your share in the SaaS market. What strategies are there?

GitHub devour-ed a lot of tools built for it.

Google do it with their search cards, amp and many other micro things.

Apple does it with incredibly popular apps and integration.

Every big company in short do it and they all have big pockets to lose money on the software until competition is sucked out. Unlike hardware, where you will be pressed with anti-competitive charges [0] for above. It doesn't seem to happen with SaaS.

0] https://tech.co/news/eu-fine-qualcomm-2019-07
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It seems to me is that his main complaint is that the iPad fell short of what he dreamed it could do. But I think the problem there is in the dreaming, not the device.

I have a Samsung tablet, the Galaxy Tab S4. As a consumption device, it's great. I read books and newspapers; I watch videos and movies; I play the occasional game. It's great for that. I use my projector way less now, and don't have to struggle with the awkwardness of phones or laptops for those tasks.

Like Gruber, I thought it might do more, so I got it with the keyboard case, and thought about traveling with just that.
But I pretty quickly swapped that for a dumb case and just kept traveling with my laptop when I needed to do actual work. A real keyboard and a real trackpad are way more effective for productive work than anything that's going to snap on to a tablet. Conversely, when I'm just aiming to consume something, there's a lot of hardware and OS complexity I just don't need.

I think it's telling here that he doesn't say what sort of revolution he really expects out of the iPad. He doesn't talk about an audience or a use case the iPad could serve if there were specific changes. Instead it's just a grumble about an obscure feature and how his grandmother struggles with it. In my view, tablets have definitely lived up to their potential. It just took us a bit to figure out what that potential really was.
> damage this extensive cultural and historical tradition

Damaging tradition is one of the traditions. Think of the first emperor literally damaged the culture of the six kingdoms to unite China in 213 B.C.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_books_and_burying_o...
In the blog post you linked, a library for parallelism is used.
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There is that... but Microsoft screws up their advantage by constantly changing their product names (VSO? VSTS? Azure DevOps? Why don't we just use GitHub... and what is HockeyApp's new name?) to the point of confusing the very market they are trying to serve.
My feeling is that they’ve deliberately avoided gestures that are similar to Windows 8 tablet UI.
A lagrange point in space. On further thought l1 isnt stable. 3 and 4 are closer which isn't great but trash there would stay there.
You're welcome, and thank you for writing this article!
> The thing is they aren’t actually selling that data.

Says who, the company itself? Why install trackers if you're not going to use them?
Sunny Isles Beach, FL is one place (but as you say it's not on there)
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My laptop broke at the hinge; now I have two parts. I wanted to convert the screen into a touchscreen for a while now. Not sure what I am going to do with that, tho. Maybe hook it to a Raspi?
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I think this is good development.

Qt is legally obligated to license QT versions under GPL and LGPLv3. They can't change that and there is no need for them to do so. This means that Qt developers work for open source at the end.
It's good that open source developers take over maintaining open source versions from Qt. You can still make commercial apps without buying Qt license just as before.

At the same time Qt business model, customers and direction it takes the software have little to nothing to do with open source software. People visiting Qt site get confused because they assumed that Qt Company supports them and expected directions of how to do stuff with free licenses.
I think it's a compromise to try and avoid annoying both the US and China at the same time - not sure if it has worked though.
Yes, but then you get Candy Crush install by itself, and every day new KB updates, system updates that you cannot prevent like it's not your own system to chose, optimisation processes which start consuming CPU without you asking for it, clunky UI. I prefer to use a Mac just for the peace of mind.
From the article:

===

Partial content: the shell may execute half the script due to a network error.

Easily fixable by running in a function:

do_work() {
:
}

do_work

All of the cited examples already do this.

===

This is the one argument that I think the author gets wrong. Just because the projects he cited do this correctly doesn't mean that all `curl install.sh | sh` scripts will do this correctly. And this is the main fear that I have. I'm not all that concerned about people publishing malicious installation shell scripts. These things are normally public, so it would be easy for them to get caught. I am concerned about the scripts being either (a) altered in transit or (b) corrupted in transit (which is really the same thing).

It seems like there could be some happy medium where there was an install script that had a published signature (SHA1 and/or full cryptographically signed), and a tool that downloaded it, verified the signature, and then called a standard function: `my_install()` (or something).
A world with broadly-held would have civil wars fought with them.
Confused about one point, if he can build wildly downloaded games why doesn't he just do that legitimately? Or are those numbers somehow fake?
They could, but why? Microsoft already has a kernel. It works for them.

If they did pivot to Linux, they'd still need to support NT for a long time to come. They'd also need to write a win32 layer for Linux (WINE, as it is, wouldn't be enough) as well as compatibility shims for Windows drivers, etc. And after they'd done all this work, while still supporting the NT kernel, what have they gained? Little that can't be done already.

More likely is that they continue to port .NET and/or UWP so applications built with those technologies will be cross platform. This may eventually mean they no longer need Windows but could maintain a Microsoft branded Linux distro. But that wouldn't be "Windows" by any sensible definition of the term.
Thanks! Though they seem to be x430s rather than the X230s :/
> "Do I trust this developer AND do I trust that the website hasn't been compromised".

You also have to verify that the script is coming encrypted over TLS. It's not mandatory, and there's no warnings if its not. Sure, it's an easy check (barring redirects, which also occur), but how many people who are copy/pasting curl|sh scripts will think to do even that basic validation?
And, he’s wrong:

> I like my iPad very much, and use it almost every day. But if I could go back to the pre-split-screen, pre-drag-and-drop interface I would. Which is to say, now that iPadOS has its own name, I wish I could install the iPhone’s one-app-on-screen-at-a-time, no-drag-and-drop iOS on my iPad Pro. I’d do it in a heartbeat and be much happier for it.

Apple Multitasking Support page:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207582

Last section:

To turn Multitasking features on or off, go to Settings > Home Screen & Dock > Multitasking, then you can do the following:

- Allow Multiple Apps: Turn off if you don't want to use Slide Over or Split View.
Well through self-identification, we Europeans consider ourselves heirs of the ancient Greek culture. If this is really an old-dick contest, we can date it back to Mycenaean Greeks.

1. The Greek alphabet, a bit younger than Chinese characters (just 2900 years old, unless you want to claim the Phoenician alphabet, father of both the Greek and Latin one) is almost identical to modern Greek alphabet. Until recently, being literate in ancient Greek was seen as a mark of erudition and very common in the scientific community.

2. Around the time when Confucius was describing his system, Plato was writing "The Republic".

3. Dynastic rule a political invention? It is the natural system that emerges everywhere! There has been dynasties in Egypt for more than 5000 years!
Since this is a site that actually revolves around everything start-up, I feel the need to mention that there might indeed be a market for this.
The Optacon filled a nieche that currently nothing else does. A portable, relatively affordable generic tactile graphic display. While we have OCR these days, things like layout and handwriting are still a major issue. There are problems that are pretty much unsolved in practice, like OCR'ing math formulas and have them present in a readable tactile way, which the Optacon solved for those people motivated enough to deal with it.
A modern Optacon would still have the nice small camera, but likely also a "terminal mode" which could be used to explore the content of your computer screen, using the camera as a sort of mouse.
If you manage to design something that is reliable, and matches or surpasses the Optacon in practicability, you can expect to charge around $5k for it and it should be a success (as far as successes in the assistive technology market go).
I should probably mention that this has already been tried around 2000. The product was called VirTouch and was made by an israeli company which name I forgot. Unfortunately, they never really went into mass production, the company somehow went out of bussiness before the product went out of demo mode unfortunately. However, I still think this could be pulled off if done right.
Ok, that answers maybe half of the points listed.

What do you have in defence of the other half other than empty platitudes about "buy in", which is of course somehow different from the "lock in" Apple sheep do?
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The internal political wonkiness where the Guard makes their own policy and other departments don't want to play along is amusing.
Yeah, I mean, why would anyone else want stability in things they rely on?
The parallels to SV, VCs, and the startup ecosystem are striking.
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As long as you don't have something overly nasty like symmetric NAT everywhere, p2p is possible over UDP.
> Having these companies use less efficient alternatives would seem to be a net loss for society.

Maybe, if you only measure gain/loss for society in terms of money.

But if you care about leaving a habitable planet for the next generation, having oil and gas companies become pariahs that are expensive, so that people switch to carbon-friendly alternatives, would be a net gain for society.
As best as I can tell from a cursory look it originates from this research originally published in 2012:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

Via the book Think Like A Freak which I’d guess extrapolates from it. But it seems like one of those ideas that has gone from plausible explanation to fact in popular imagination.
The security model isn’t just about data harvesting, although it does attempt to contain that.

It is also about prevention of malware and exploits. Apple can’t control the attack surface of of 3rd party apps, but it can contain the damage caused if they are exploited.

Those major creative apps are gigantic attack surfaces.

Beyond plugins - what is this ‘devastating impact’ sandboxing has had?
I’m surprised that John Gruber hasn’t just turned off split screen for his mom:

Settings > General > Multitasking and Dock > Allow Multiple Apps (Off)

> But if I could go back to the pre-split-screen, pre-drag-and-drop interface I would.

I think you can, check your settings.
My website is: https://luord.com

Really need to write a new post, I just can't think of what about.
Then you're just moving the point of failure to the VPN.
Lots of rules:

https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/the-122-leadenhall-cheesegr...
Is growth required for success?

I expect the iPad, lacking any new revolutionary functionality, to reach a steady state of (new customer + replacement rate) sales that is some percentage of its peak, pre-saturation sales. If replacement rate is every 4-5 years, this may be below 30% of peak.

This won't mean it isn't successful, just recognizing that existing users don't need to upgrade every year.
> Alan Kay was actually fairly impressed with it when it came out.

I think you are misremembering. Every interview I can find points to Alan Kay being disappointed in the iPad. See this, for example:
https://techland.time.com/2013/04/02/an-interview-with-compu...
This is why using Gaussian models to predict something that's fundamentally fat-tailed (e.g. IQ vs. many forms of societal achievemnt) is doomed to failure.
We invaded Afghanistan only a few months after the Taliban made opium illegal to produce (due to some religious reasoning)...very suspicious when you look at our history of peddling opioids as a nation.
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The Chinese solution executed those who used drugs as well as those who sold. Emotionally it is a lot easier to blame the seller, but eliminating consumers is probably even more effective if you "have a certain moral flexibility."
The people that comment on those threads are probably by definition the ones in the highest salary brackets.

I'm fairly certain you meant your comment in jest, but figured it was worth pointing out.
I'm using opencv with facial detection running in the browser as JavaScript. The technology is here and isn't going away.

Realistically, smartphones are tracking everyone all the time and provide rich datasets. Camera, microphone, and GPS. If you turn off location services your phone still connects to cell towers, WiFi access points, and Bluetooth beacons, as you drive or walk around throughout your day.
It drops back to the system keyboard sometimes - in my case, that difference was too jarring to make a non-stock keyboard practical to use at all.
It’s actually 35+ years, Windows 1.0 was released in 1985, and I don’t doubt that some (much) older DOS code still exists in one form or the other in their repo.

The other problem is open sourcing the Windows code would be also involve open sourcing its crazy huge build system and tooling — it’s not a simple makefile — which is probably another level of impractical.
Volume mounting host directories breaks the isolation and is a security risk. Data containers are more explicit about what happens in containers stays in containers.

(I'm not saying data containers are super for everything, just that volume mounts from host are a lot worse)
So basically, add a table and a tablet becomes silly. That isn’t a good look for that device category. Who doesn’t have a table?

Now imagine how many of those people wouldn’t just use their phone while sitting on the couch or bed instead. Why should I use a tablet over my 6 inch phone screen? Why use a tablet instead of my TV?

The only two devices most people would need to own are a laptop and a phone. The tablet is an awkward third device that generally isn’t needed, or it’s a “cheapest possible laptop“ replacement for people who don’t need a lot of computing ability (emails, web browsing). Buying a Surface Pro instead of a proper laptop is itself a compromise.
I'm guessing the main advantage is that you can then use your Docker registry to distribute data sets.

I remain skeptical that that's a good way to do this sort of thing, but it's certainly a way that would work.
I promised someone to pick this one apart. Pity about the flags though.
No, render is global in this example. If you need to only render the component wrapping the useState, you have to track the caller (See https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/packages/react...)
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When you said regenerate I thought you were doing some prices on the existing cells, rather than just replacing them. Thanks for your reply.
It's ok to take the convicted pedophile's money. Just don't put his name on any buildings! That would cross the line.
Apologies. I should have tested the ftp server. I did find another source and. I tested the WWWLineMode_x.xx.tar.Z and they worked for me. https://www.w3.org/2016/11/ftp-shutdown/info.html
> Distro package managers are one good solution

Distro package managers allow execution of custom scripts at every point of the installation. If you're getting packages from outside the distro repos, you're at risk. Sometimes you're at risk even when you get the packages from the distro repos :-)
Thanks. 2nd day playing with it and I guess now I'm hooked up on Julia.
What's it matter to the UK government if private citizens get spied on by China.
Some interesting stuff i there. A lot reject I would let slide. Some approved I would never...