skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's literally jocks vs nerds from high school. The jocks in the executive teams resent nerds and want to keep them down the totem pole.

Well, and nerds not caring about visual status like an office if they get paid.
Like I said in another comment, is not about the revenue per se, but it's undeniable that the more popular iOS is the less Apple cares about the Mac.
Saw this in person at the Tyrell museum. Pretty cool.
The key differentiator is x86 vs PPC and 1 TB/s bus.
It certainly fits the startup style concept where you expect the product to take off or eventually "pulled" out from the company by customers. Customers in those situations don't jump on board for a bazillion features (that actually sounds like a headache) rather it is probably just for the core of whatever the product is. If they're not interested in that... bazillion side features won't get them either.

I was working on a ancillary product connected to my employer's main product a while ago. It was barely done, missing a lot of features but they wanted to ship it. I was all "ok but .."..... and the folks who wanted it ate it up. No complaints about all the missing tidbits I was thinking of, not a peep. As far as adoption went, it didn't matter. I probably could have spent a month or more longer on that stuff, but it wasn't what was important to get started.
You're right about everything except high dpi handling.

Also can't beat Apple on trackpad and screen quality.
Thailand is a different country in a significantly different timezone. That has real administrative and logistics implications. I wouldn’t expect a company to pay me the same in that scenario.

> Some companies will do it simply to keep you because they're already familiar with you, know how you work, and have trust built. But it won't be the norm.

I’ve negotiated into a new company a bay salary and I had never worked with any of them before. The interview was a little extended to talk about remote work background but that was about it.

The problem is most remote employees fold on salary negotiation when the company lowballs them because they don’t know any better. If they company is actively hiring bay area salaries, they enough to offer you the same as remote.

Remember, good tech companies can’t even find enough good employees in the bay. They are realistically just as happy to have a remote employee that’s as good as a local even if it’s for the same price.

You’ll see this standard change pretty quickly once companies realize how many other techs are now remote friendly.
People who are precious about security never obtain apps that aren't generally approved and vetted by professionals anyway. Forcing this deciscion onto everybody is just going to push the people who want a free and open platform into places you dont want them. The benefits of openness don't go away just because apple said so.
Indeed. Of course more people are better off historically than cavemen, but that's not an indication that poverty is decreasing.
Programming languages count as technology, right?

I'm really excited for what Julia is doing - making a really nice ecosystem of modern, dynamic, high performance code.
Neuralink - reduce friction of verbal commutation
True but I think another important factor is that by avoiding the missing parts, you might realise they're not really missing after all. What once seemed essential actually isn't.
It’s been rare, but this has definitely been a problem: “Why do I need an ENV var, the path is always /app?” And then not supporting symlinks... ugh.
The compact car thing is interesting. It seems like business travelers still rent compact cars or medium sized sedans 90% of the time in my experience.
I think we all know that his chances of a fair trial are close to zero.
My only explanation is that the Windows 10 search rewrite metadata was outsourced to a team that didn't actually know how Windows works.

It seems like they stripped all metadata, including visual names of items themselves, and instead substituted random words.

The result is like playing a text-based adventure game without a list of the verbs the game supports.

Per memory, 7 and even 98 had a perfectly reasonable and accurate search.
Our issue with Google stems in the sense that they have very hazy delineation between their consumer and enterprise products. This kind of behavior is acceptable in a personal product, and appears to be where this policy was applied in this case.

When it comes to the Enterprise deployments we provide to our employees, we are not willing to accept the risk that some files may disappear, without warning or chance to internally remediate, because a user decided to share it too widely or decided to share something against some arcane terms of service. We pay too much for this kind of invisible impact to our business. Its our role in this customer-provider relationship to remediate this. If we didn't remediate it in a timely manner, they would have every right to suspend service. but we've seen no evidence that we would even be provided this warning.
The largest customers probably have contractually obligated volumes that give the factory the ability to plan capital expenditures better and take less risk. I don’t know about the specifics of this industry, but it doesn’t seem ridiculous, in general. In my industry (speaker wire; closer to pure commodity than batteries), we charge our highest paying customers 2x what we pay the factory.
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Static analysis tools like PVS Studio are amazing. Software verification like CompCert where the compilation includes a certificate of correctness are farther away for C++ but will someday be usable for it.
When we were kids we used to canoe down the Red Deer river in the badlands area, with a fellow from my parent's canoe club who was a retired geologist. (I grew up in central Alberta and my parents were pretty serious canoers, they usually did faster moving whitewater but once in a while we'd do the Red Deer just for us kids) My sister and I would have our minds blown by him as he explained every rock to us. I doubt you could do what we did now, we'd climb all over the hoodoos and find fossils all over (mostly bison bones, but still the odd fossil.) We never took them home, and I believe anything of import was either given to the museum or he told them about it.

Lots of neat little caves, bones all over. Very awesome place. Especially when you're a dinosaur obsessed 8 year old.

There was one time we were going down the river and there was a cow on the bank stuck in the mud up almost up to its neck. I remember the adults going to find the rancher and a lot of fuss and the cow was eventually saved.
Ford's operating margin is ~8 percent it's not like they're making triple digit profit margins here. You are overreacting.
Get Things Done by Following the Compound Effect Principles
It's probably worse for them if customers cancel, because customers are unlikely to resubscribe to netflix having cancelled versus trying a competitor streaming service. Better psychologically to have an inactive account than to lose an account.

(Also netflix would have to report all those unsubscribes to shareholders, but this way no one cancels and they're framing it positively as consumer-friendly).

So if netflix incentives people to people keep their accounts, they remove the friction from what would otherwise be a high-friction resubscribe.

As long as netflix believes they can get people to come back for an occasional exclusive content hit-show, then they can reactivate the payments for a while.
I prefer chef locally, but that totally works!
Early days of EC2 were chock full of stories like this - Of kids / engineers running up their CC bill because they screwed up in some way they didn't anticipate and Amazon CS would bail them out.

I don't think this was a cynical marketing ploy designed from the top down either, it was a very natural thing for the company to be customer obsessed and trying to do right by them.
For anyone interested on how the ghosts AI works: https://youtu.be/ataGotQ7ir8 I doubt the AI actually recreated this.
Subvocal recognition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subvocal_recognition
Imagine how much more people would use voice input if they could do it silently.

Also neural interfaces like CTRL-labs was building before being acquired. Imagine if you could navigate and type at full speed while standing on the subway.

I think that rich, high fidelity inputs like those are going to be key to ambient computing really taking off.
How to guard against phishing scams amid the Covid-19 pandemic
Google still owns Android - an OS the majority of the world uses, and is required to ship with Chrome (among other programs) pre-installed if the OEM also wants access to the Google Play Store.
yes. i’ve done the same thing. they either have a hard time attracting new customers or have a hard time keeping track of who benefited from the trial
It would have been better if they don't collect the charges for a month if you haven't watched even a single thing on Netflix for that month.
Yep, they are great! Using them for my cloud version HTTP client - https://ihook.us
Only for a few months. After that it’s gone forever.
And if they do it would be wise not to trust them, because dropping support for advertised features with hardware-fused irreversible software updates is SOP at this point. FFS, they even dropped support for my 4K screen in an update and I wound up playing the back half of Horizon Zero Dawn in 1080p as a result.
The really sad thing is that Windows has multiple accessibility layers for every visual control (e.g. Active Accessibility).

So there is literally already a textual, and usually interpretable, path to any window.

Apparently tying search into that made too much sense though, and so instead we get a reinvented (slightly square) wheel.
If YouTube charged these companies for their false claims, then we would see a very quick end to the BS flagging.
Honeycomb will hopefully (continue to) upend the "logs, metrics, and traces" world.

https://honeycomb.io/
+1 for Hasura. It's such a pleasure to use. Having a configurable backend with so much fine grained Authorization. It's just awesome. It literally cuts your project time in half.
I'm so eager to know how will people start to think of some bundled call phone plans such as a T-Mobile's family plan that I used for a couple of years. The Netflix subscription is offered "for free" with a "1? dollar value" but of course there is no refund if I don't watch it. Oh wait that's how mobile plan always worked.
It can be both - Android and Google Search both push consumers towards Drive, Docs, GMail, and as GP mentioned, Chrome.
This was legal in BASIC from the very first versions of the language:

IF a=1 THEN 200

and when they added ON..GOTO, they basically made these two mirrored syntactically. So you could do:

IF a=1 GOTO 200

ON a THEN 100,200,300

(I suspect it was simply treated as identical token?)
Doesn't cover Australian or New Zealand eels. The NZ longfinned eel (Anguilla dieffenbachii) is believed to spawn in the Tonga Trench: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonga_Trench
This could also be explained by poor engineering. It's basically an exception to the rule that might be overlooked.

Shouldn't be the case for a big company, but a smaller one- man startup could easily make this mistake and not be scummy.
yes. and earplugs. that being said the pressure differential sucks and you will also have issues if for example you’re a side sleeper
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax
> 1 TB/s bus

Is that the new marketing term for shared VRAM?
Big data and the Roman census approach (2014)
Credit cards only last a few years before theyre expired and replaced. I'd think only very few accounts are unwatched, after 24 months I'd think more than half of CCs would have expired anyway.
Check out TerraFX[1], created and maintained by Tanner Gooding, owner of System.Numerics in .NET Core. He uses another project he maintains called ClangSharp[2] to scan Windows SDK header files and generate blittable, marshalling-free C# bindings. There are many things in C header files that are not easily bound, such as macros; we do a lot of manual or partially-automated work to account for those.

TerraFX is greater than just Windows bindings[3] but it is certainly useful for even just that. I've contributed a lot of bindings recently for some low-level Windows headers. Contributions are welcome!

[1] https://github.com/terrafx/terrafx

[2] https://github.com/microsoft/clangsharp

[3] https://github.com/terrafx/terrafx.interop.windows
It's called lockdown for a reason. Apple was just the very first to implement centralized binary blacklisting, revocation. They call it notarization.

Problem is, that they did it unannounced. There must be really some weird stuff going on in those managers heads. How can they possibly think to go away with that?
Yep. macOS for what I mentioned :)

... but latency is still an issue regardless. It’s why there’s a premium to go bare metal with cloud providers.
NoREC: An effective and easy approach for finding optimization bugs in database [pdf]
You are right, for example, humans don't need anywhere near the amount of training data that AIs need.
Oxide Computer Company

https://oxide.computer/

“True rack-scale design, bringing cloud hyperscale innovations around density, efficiency, cost, reliability, manageability, and security to everyone running on-premises compute infrastructure.”

Corey Quinn interviewed the founders on his podcast "Screaming in the Cloud", where they explain the need for innovation in that space.

https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud...

Basically, on-premises hardware is years behind what companies like Facebook and Google have in-house, it may be time to close that gap.

They also have a podcast, "On The Metal", which is such a joy to listen to. Their last episode with Jonathan Blow was really a treat.

https://oxide.computer/podcast/

It's mostly anecdotes about programming for the hardware-software interface, if that's your thing ;).
Architecture 101: Vision, Properties and Skills
I’ve only ever heard “If you shave it, it grows back thicker” in the context of advising someone who wants the hair to be less visible, not more visible. It’s usually given as an argument for why women should pluck or wax rather than shave.
Gpu solved LOD won't save video games from the uncanny valley. In some cases it will make it worse. It makes for nice statues and static landscapes though.
FPGAs will go mainstream if software can automatically program them. Imagine some watchdog inspecting the CPU and figuring out what it needs hardware acceleration for, building that netlist or pulling it from a large library, and sending it to the FPGA and then routing work from the CPU over to the FPGA.
Who is this Gruber person you quote and why is he relevant here?
It's hard for me to read the article you linked and draw any conclusions whatsoever about his motives. The whole article is just a series of vague insinuations hoping the reader is stupid enough and lacking in enough critical thinking skills to see two apparently contradictory facts like "he liked attention but played a lot of video games" and from there jump to the conclusion that he's a villain.
> While good games are obviously already there, I'm more curious about work.

Good games are most definitely not there. The consensus is that Alyx is really the only worthwhile VR title. Just about everything else is gimmicky and trite. VR still has a long way to go.
I just got an email saying that account was cancelled. For some reason I signed up for a second account, so I could get DVD service, received the DVD and never cancelled. Should probably return the disk... if I can find it.
Linux 5.8 Optionally Flush the L1d Cache on Context Switch to Increase Security
Card networks offer services to receive updated credit card numbers for mutual customers now and have for a bunch of years.

If your credit card expires, many subscription providers will get the updated details automatically.

Here’s an article with some details on the topic: https://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/card-updater-se...
Since Gitlab is listening: users sometimes attach files to issues on my project and then regret it. There doesn’t seem to be any way to permanently delete such an upload. Sometimes these files have passwords or their employers’ secrets. I asked for help in the forums but got no response. Help?
zk-S[NT]ARKs and related zero knowledge tech along with scalability improvements to Ethereum is poised to revolutionize financial tech. It will take decades to play out much like consumer PC and internet and we are still in very early stages.

But when it really picks up the impact will be as big as when Dutch invented modern finance in early 1600s.
I remember years ago, when 4:3 CRT monitors were still prevalent, opening up Word at work and turning on every optional menu plus the ridiculous paperclip assistant just to make this joke in a snarky email (before there were snarky Slack messages instead).

The resulting blank space left for actually typing something with every feature enabled: zero.
Uh mine. Duh.
I thought everyone knew that you waited at least a year on Apple hardware and software. I'm still on 10.14 and have no problems with it.

That said, I don't get the hate on number of ports. USB type-C is a godsend - single cable to my monitor which provides power and USB hub.

I'm probably also in the minority on this one- I just got a new 16" Macbook Pro work laptop, and I much prefer the keyboard on my 2018 15". The esc/touch ID now being buttons are great. The speakers are amazing.
Most people don't think his revelations warranted his treason. 7 years later, hardly any policy change has been implemented as a result of his leaks. Ideals aside,americans made a choice between freedom and security. He'll be tried for espionage no matter what. Impossible to grant him clemency without taking on the risk of similar leaks like his.
Did Atari BASIC use 1 for TRUE? Most BASICs used -1 (i.e. all bits 1), because this allowed the same operators to work for both bitwise and Boolean logic, in the absence of a dedicated Boolean data type.
Recommendation for one that doesn't slurp your data and has great autocomplete?
Usually when a corporation is involved, criminal enforcement goes out the window. That aside, it would be an issue for regulators if they were marketing to consumers, but the "spec" in this case is usually part of the vendor contract and isn't legally binding except between the original supplier and customer. Putting up a bunch of rebinned "automotive grade" battery cells on eBay doesn't count because for many items it is assumed by default that the customer is qualified to use the equipment and raw battery cells fall squarely into that category.
lol. open office existed before startups were ever a thing.

https://k2space.co.uk/knowledge/history-of-office-design/
As a business traveler, I only rented a compact car from Hertz and it was awful. I always go for medium sized now.
Eh. Worked for a big CDN. Using containers would have decimated profits. There IS overhead. At scale, you feel it.

But for dev? Yeah. Linux on Linux is less impactful if you’re building something simple like a blog.
How are you able to breath in with your other nostril? Only one nostril works to breathe at a time for me.
It's a complaint about a long form article.

From the New Yorker!

If you don't like long form articles and you see it is the New Yorker, then don't read it.
No, which is why I think they can sell them so cheap. They're largely immune to the consequences so they don't have to invest in risk mitigation which tends to be expensive.
I used to visit the iGrill website every couple of days and stress test my product there during development.

I worked for Ai Squared on an app named Sitecues, which was a SaaS product that companies would add to their website to improve their accessibility for low vision users. We ran into a vast number of edge cases when trying to make our JavaScript library compatible with all of our customers' websites, many of whom had awful coding that we needed to handle gracefully (hacky CSS, old versions of Prototype JS that override Object.prototype, and far, far worse). One day I stumbled upon the iGrill website and found out that it exposed practically every problem that we had seen scattered across various other sites. It was so convenient that their website was so poorly coded that I could stress test our app on their site and if it worked, well, "ship it!"

Looks like their site has had a few updates since then, but those were good times.
Are you referring to the time the US air force built a cluster out of 2000 PS3s? Seems good.
World’s internet sees speeds 1M times faster than current broadband
>I’ve only ever heard “If you shave it, it grows back thicker” in the context of advising someone who wants the hair to be less visible, not more visible.

As did I -- where did you get the other view?

I've heard it given as an argument -- like in the popular Seinfeld episode -- that it will be more visible after you first shave and so you have to keep shaving.
What’s a dirty environment? One that a dev doesn’t clean up? Makes a mess like a filthy hoarder?
Why is my cursor invisible on this page?
> if smart thermostats received price signals (maybe we should precool this house...) that would alleviate the evening ramp-up issue.

Is there an existing model for retail intraday rates? Would intraday rates be desirable for all market participants?

"Add area for curtailment data?"
https://github.com/tmrowco/electricitymap-contrib/issues/236...
At the time when BASIC only had line numbers and GOTO, it was comparable to many other popular languages out there.

By 80s, when structured programming became the norm, BASIC became more structured as well, with loops and subprograms.
Trump’s Press Secretary Shows His Private Bank Account and Routing Numbers
Don't think the Hertz Foundation has much direct ties to the company (though not 100% sure), despite both being started by the same person.
Seconded that dipping a toe in to Rust has changed how I think about C++ and object ownership. Loose pointers and copy constructors now make me feel un-clean! Move ftw.

However I feel like most of the heavy lifting features came with C++11.
Span, optional, variant and string_view are nice additions to the toolkit but more as enhancements rather than the paradigm shift of C++11 (move, unique_ptr, lambdas et-al).
I believe it's a good step to take as a company. They have the resources to do so. They will be ahead of other companies in that regard. Also, if it becomes a law that companies should _not_ charge inactive customers, Netflix will be ready.
I love fluid apps!

One thing I've always wanted is a Chrome plugin to redirect links into a dedicated fluid application.
Someone I know bought an inexpensive Bluetooth thermometer controller with support for 6 probes, so you may be able to find what you want.
This is an excellent, albeit seemingly unintentional, critique of capitalism. In a nutshell, if it doesn't make money, it's probably not happening.
There is another interesting path for the hobbyist, based on the Terasic DE10-nano.
A group of retrocomputing enthusisasts has chosen this as their base to work upon: https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/wiki and it even got picked up by some gaming hardware magazine, earlier this year: https://hothardware.com/reviews/mister-diy-console-fpga

While i don't care so much about the systems they emulate, and the cores they offer, this seems like a nice place to get started because of the many examples one can learn from.

Also Intel themselves offer many tutorials for it, on github and elsewhere.

And it creates an 'ecosystem' of reasonably available hardware expansions, without the usual markup for that stuff, should one need, or want them.

Would i start today, i'd use this.
As it is, i've spent much more for similar stuff in the past.

I approve!
For some reason, I find this GIF really relaxing. I have it bookmarked and match my breathing to it every once in awhile https://i.imgur.com/Huou7Gh.gif