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Materialize is based on differential dataflow, that is based on timelly dataflow. The abstraction works like magic: distributed computation, ordering, consistency, storage, recalculation, invalidations... All those hard to since problems are handled naturally by the computing paradigm.
Maybe the product is similar, but not the principles behind
> LXD just feels like Ubuntu to LXC’s Debian.

A bit of a funny thing to say, given that effectively the same group of developers work on LXD and LXC -- and most are employed by Canonical. LXD was never meant to replace LXC, it solves its own set of problems.

I personally like using LXD because it reduces the need for me to write my own scripts to do trivial container management (and it can manage images and containers on a ZFS pool by itself), but if you're more comfortable with LXC then you do you. But I disagree that LXC is significantly more "low level" than LXD -- it just requires more manual work and the configuration format is more transparent about the container setup, but you ultimately have the same capabilities in LXD.
Poor scrum. It gets so maligned. If you have a high functioning, well gelled team with well developed communication habits and rituals, you don't need scrum. But, guess what, those are few and far between, and scrum is an excellent starting point.

Whenever I see a complaint it's usually because someone involved has violated some part of scrum. It's run by the developers. They set what they're planning to work on. No one else should be talking in scrum meetings, and certainly not making decisions based on scrum meetings. It's totally fair to evict everyone else.

Take the hard problems thing. You can tackle hard problems. Saying, "I'm going to try working out this prototype idea and do a literature review of this topic" is perfectly reasonable as a plan for a week or two.
Apple hasn’t shipped a 32 bit Mac since 2006. How long was Apple suppose to keep support for 32 bit software? Should they also have kept support for PPC software? 68K software?
She did say: “I didn’t want to be taking ad revenue from legitimate advertisers, so I only briefly activated advertisements from the partners to see what surfaced and to take a few screenshots.”
Buy a machine not from Apple.
I've tried it recently and still find it true. Death by a million paper cuts.
Methinks you don't grok how Apple uses the term ”Pro”
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Why do you think Apple cares about the “geek”?
I've recently had some time to go through a spate of "home improvement" (needless tinkering) tech projects.

Replacing alexa and ok google devices with open source ones was on the list. This looks great for the music - though I was mainly stuck for good voice control.
> the Church-Turing thesis means there are an infinite number of ways to implement any given thing

That's true (or else there are 0 ways), but it's not what the Church–Turing thesis says.
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Is that a problem in practice though?

Updating libraries or the base image that one's code depends on always has the risk of breaking from API changes or regressions, and in a container, at least it's easy to reproduce the issue.
A lot of the ML techniques we're putting to use today came out of papers from the 80s. These techniques weren't practical to do much beyond toy examples, but they were proven to work. Now, we're able to use those very techniques to teach a machine to identify cat videos with 75% accuracy using unsupervised learning! [0]

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[0]: https://www.wired.com/2012/06/google-x-neural-network/
You can change the order of share items.

When you are in the “...” screen, tap on “edit” at the top right.

This is what OP complained about is not possible on Android out of the box.
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Be careful what you wish for ... businesses aren't there for your benefit, they are there for theirs.

And this assumes that everyone can work equally well remote or don't have advantages to working at an office.

Personally the "Water cooler" moments give me plenty of original ideas and have resulted in new product ideas and explorations.
Apple has never catered to “cost conscience” computers. Even back in the early 80s the 8 bit Apple //e’s were more expensive than competitors. T
> I'd love to see examples of what WebAssembly makes possible that wouldn't exist without it.

I've been playing with WebAssembly lately and the moment where it clicked for me how powerful it was was building an in-browser crossword filler (https://crossword.paulbutler.org/). I didn't write a JS version for comparison, but a lot of the speed I got out of it was from doing zero memory allocation during the backtracking process. No matter how good JS optimization gets, that sort of control is out of the question.

I also think being able to target the browser from something other than JS is a big win. 4-5 years is a long time for JS, but not a long time for language tooling; I feel like we're just getting started here.
Making your own game engine requires experience as well. If you've already used other engines, you'll have some idea of the "shape" that a UI library or texture loading system should take.
As annoying as that sounds for a home address, imagine it being a business address. It would cost that business a lot of money.
One important weakness of zkSnarks is that it requires a trusted setup, for example [1]. A new alternative is called zk-STARK [2], which doesn't require the trusted setup, and is post-quantum secure. However, it significantly increases the size of the proof (around ~50KB). In general, hash-based post-quantum algorithms require bigger size and it would be interesting to watch the progress made in this regard.

[1]https://filecoin.io/blog/participate-in-our-trusted-setup-ce...

[2] https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/046.pdf
Can't help to remind: each such cell would need proper ventilation.

Open offices circulate air in broad strokes of huge air ducts on the ceiling. This is not going to easily map to a grid of smaller cells where horizontal streams are impossible. This of course can be addressed, but it seriously more expensive than just plastic walls.

If you don't solve the ventilation, the workers will suffer from high CO₂ and overheating, lowering productivity and morale.

If you don't separate the cells enough to block the air flow between them (that is, leave them as cubicles), then the whole point of separation as an infection-resisting measure is lost.
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Well, if it wasn’t what the consumer wants, then why are consumers still buying their products at a premium? Maybe it’s just not what a few outspoken geeks want.
You need better VM software then.

A properly configured VM has near native performance nowadays.
Thanks for the vote of confidence! One thing: We're not marketing it in the OLAP space. Our existing users very much are building new applications.

Initially we went for the metaphor of "what if you could keep complex SQL queries (e.g. 6-way joins and complex aggregations, the kinds of queries that today are essentially impossible outside a data warehouse) incrementally updated in your application within milliseconds? What would you build?

We're moving away from that metaphor because it seems it's more confusing than helpfuL. Tips always appreciated!
What limitations does Javascript result in after initial FAST results as you say? All of the web is running on JS. It’s not without its faults but I resent the analogy.
Not sure who "most people" are but the circumstances of all immigrants have only 1 thing in common. Their original citizenship is not the USA. If others have a perceived stereotype, then they should check that at the door.

It really can't get any more black and white than that. The fact of the matter is, in an atmosphere of reduced enrollment by foreign students, we would have less chances of an Elon Musk type person.

Whilst before 2016 it was growing, since 2016 enrollment by international students in universities has been declined. I'm sure you know Musk came to the US for college. Trump administration of course blames "higher costs"...funny given the global economic boom, everyone has more money and the survey says about 50% of Chinese and Indians cites the political climate "would prevent them from applying to a U.S. business school."

https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2019/11/18...
No/low code platforms such as bubble.io
It is identical, and if I considered my phone to be primarily a research platform I'd be really upset. I got really upset with YouTube mucking around curating what videos they allow on their platform because I want to choose my own videos.

But ultimately I own an iPhone because I need a GPS map, SIM card and web browser on the go. Apple doesn't exercise any creative control over those things. Apart from that they explicitly sell a highly curated platform. I expect them to make decisions I don't agree with; that is what curators do. That is the service they sell so I'm not going to complain.

If someone used that walled garden approach on my PC I'd be furious. On my phone, I give them hundreds of dollars for the privilege. If I were going to get upset about freedom and phones, which is reasonable, I have a loooong list of problems before I get to Apple's security model - starting with government interception of messages and moving down to having my name attached to my SIM card. Apple's activities don't really rate, and they have better incentives than Google.

PS. I'm not arguing against phones being scary. Look at the COVID tracking apps that some companies and governments are bringing out that might become mandatory one day. Or the way the US is known to use phone GPS to target drone strikes. Phones are terrifying. Apple's curating/censorship/what have you really doesn't rate on my threat model when dealing with a phone.
I see nothing in that article other than random tidbits about his life.
Can this be used to make faster corona virus tests ? If so maybe this is the time to Manhattan project this technology.
Actually, I do agree with you with some of those observations. Apple's been trying to fix their terrible T2 issue and I suspect some of the problems lately have been them trying to prevent the T2 reboot crash, while ruining other parts of the experience in the process as a necessary compromise. It may get worse (or better) as they move to all-Arm architecture.

I also am sick of the touch bar now - after 2 years living with it. I have to press it twice to actually pause my media, because it's an LCD screen and it has to auto turn off to prevent burn-in. That's a regression from the old hard media button in the Fn row which was both instant and far easier to press. At least we got 'Esc' back.

But man, their trackpad...nothing beats it. Still.
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No, it doesn't. I run three sites on a $5 1GB VM and its rare to see over half the memory in use (aside from cache).
> Curious how they phase synchronize so many light emitters but the full paper looks like $$

I sent a request on their researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339277200_Chip-scal...

There's only a single light emitter, a fiber laser that feeds the device. That's split in treelike fashion. At each branching part, there's an optical resonator that ensures light is fed evenly to each branch. Each branch has its own phase delay, which requires a bit of software tuning to account for variations.
In "Mind Illuminated" it is suggested to start with 15 minutes and add 5 after each week. This book has been recommended here several times before, helped at least one person that meditated for years to advance further. Written by a neuroscientist that teaches meditation for decades.
US military has already been working on this for ~ a decade.
There was a contract out of Redstone Arsenal where they writing "story spinners" to scrape and re-word war-time propaganda.
Any chance to get MTS running?

I remember exploring MTS back in the day, UBC was running it on some kind of machine in the mid-1970s.
string_view, span and ranges are not conductive to safety, quite the opposite.
Shorter: We can easily end the shutdown if we just take steps requiring coordinated national effort that we're clearly not capable of.
> making your existing backed-up apps useless, if you still had them.

This isn't true. You can still install existing IPAs you have saved in the past by syncing it with Finder. You can also just AirDrop an IPA to your iOS device to install it.

> Now, the only way to keep your software on your iPhone indefinitely is to never delete it, and never reformat your phone.

You can still back up IPA installers by downloading them with Apple Configurator 2. https://ios.gadgethacks.com/how-to/download-ipa-files-for-io...
How would you know this?

I'm genuinely curious how you are seeing Nextdoor activity outside of your own Nextdoor neighborhood, given that How Nextdoor limits participants by neighborhood and verifies addresses before you can even read postings. I can't even find an option to see other neighborhoods. As my mom was dying and I was helping to find resources and later sell her stuff, the only way I could get access was to register with her address and then wait for the coded postcard.
Not sure if this counts, but I look forward to seeing the future of meat alternatives - impossiblefoods.com, beyondmeat.com, eatnuggs.com, etc.
Especially now. Ive been using HN for years and before covid I could see all the posts from the day before in 20 mins. Now it will take 2-3 hours. Everyone is sharing.
> They even built a new computer and a new OS to take advantage of memristors

I could be wrong but I think I remember reading somewhere they ran into patent infringement issues that they couldn't get around or something like that.
Yes, but would a typical user know or care if the app they downloaded from a web site was sandboxed and would otherwise have been approved by the App Store if it was submitted there? And if not, how could someone like John Gruber make that claim of safety on anything other than iPhone and iPad? Taking the Zoom example on a parent thread above, look at what happens when you’re installing a Zoom client on the Mac without the strict enforcements of the iOS App Store: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22736608
This seems, to me, to be something else. Google Music consistently avoids playing the most popular version of a song. It's always a cover by no one, or a different song by no one with the same title. I've started to think it's a royalty thing.
Apple can be bad at doing what they claim to be doing and also be doing the wrong things. The nice way this works is that Apple curates a bunch of software they think is safe, and I can run whatever I want on my device. The worst of both worlds is that I can't run what I want, but sometimes malicious things get through Apple's checks.
As with all questions constitutional law, it is not possible to make such a broad statement [1].

We are going to end up with some really weird law if we leave all of this up to the supreme court. At this point the dynamic is: congress gives the IC whatever it asks for, and sometimes the supreme court walks them back a little.

We need to get congress to regulate this stuff... pronto.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/22/us/politics/supreme-court...
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Which, as a regular user, I don't understand when I see it.

Hell, I am a dev, and I still did not know that will let me create one quickly.
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Humans don’t need LiDAR to recognize billboards
I use autopilot every day. It stops for stoplights and stop signs now.
I'm kinda sad for you - I've been using and advocating zerotier for a while (it's amazing and indispensable)...but in my circles the word 'wireguard' has got people excited, which (anecdotally) is benefitting tailscale and generating more hype around them than zerotier ever got. Hopefully a rising tide will lift all ships and you find a way to capitalise on it :)

(I prefer device-based zerotier-style access rather than login-based tailscale-style so that does sway me to zerotier...but I have to admit tailscale looks more polished, e.g. the screenshot of seeing other devices on the network. I get it's not a fundamental feature! But I can't help but appreciate it)
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It's a shame that the consultants took scrum and destroyed it. Here is the truth about scrum. Scrum is a radical framework to get rid of management and therefore micromanagement. Scrum is meant to empower creators by destroying all obstacles that get in the way of creating great work together. Here is a great source to start. http://scrumbook.org/
Everyone making ML ASICs would disagree.
It is certainly less secure, than just calling the API of those cloud providers directly from the site backend.
> Try searching for “dog” and you’ll see all of the photos you’ve taken of dogs!

Photos also can differentiate between breeds of dogs
I don't believe you get notifications for PWAs on iOS - nor can you use service workers..
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We're a nanopore sequencing shop. Couldn't agree with you more that nanopore generally is the future, not just for sequencing. Can't wait for ONT's solid state nanopore flow cells - you may get flowcells that go 2/3 times as long then.

But then for most things .. the problem is the prep, not just because the whole portability thing goes for a toss. Yay, great the sequencer is the size of a USB drive, but the rest of the lab isn't :/

More worryingly the biggest and most stubborn cost is now the prep, not the sequencing.

As you correctly pointed out - need to find a way around amplification - then both of these problems above go away if you can do direct PCR free sequencing.

The other less mentioned problem related to the above is also the need for parallelisation - some of those ultra low costs you read about can only be realised when you sufficiently multiplex your samples. For instance, its about 100 USD per reaction for ligation (last step of prep before the sequencing starts), you generally wait till you're sequencing atleast 12 samples in the same reaction so that you're paying <10$ per sample, not 100$ per sample, which is obviously insane.
> And they don't even do hosting.

I'm pretty sure that's their whole point of existence.
I wonder if mechanical turk is still cheap enough to have humans paraphrase and insert seo keywords.

In this new dystopia, generating content for the machines to read could be a decent job for a human.
Yeah, it's on my reading list :)
A friend of mine is working on coscout. It's in beta right now, but he showed me some pretty insane machine learning based insights for companies, investors and founders.

Things like

- When will this company raise the next round?
- What is the net worth of <literally anyone>?
- What is the probability that this investor will invest in you? (given your sector, founder age, pedigree, gender, market conditions, do you have an MVP or not etc.)
- A bunch of other complicated stuff I didn't really understand

Definitely worth keeping an eye on if you're into this kinda stuff: https://coscout.com/
Not saying it sells like hot cakes in Germany, but reclaimed for a while now:

https://www.caranddriver.com/chevrolet/ss
I think you're talking about an age old invention called a "Room" :)
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Thanks but the same thing was said about WASM and ASM.JS.

For 5 years we've been hearing about how great they are, except nobody is really using them.

So now, it's 'the next thing' that will make it great? Except that next thing isn't there, not agreed upon or implemented, we don't know so many things about it?

Like I say, this is textbook example of tech-hype for things probably not as valuable as they appear.

If (huge if) WASI were 'great, functional, widespread, smoothly integrated' - I do agree there's more potential. But that this will really happen is questionable, and that even if it does happen, it will be valuable, is questionable.
Sorry, but there's no typical immigrant story. The world is a diverse place and everyone has their own stories or experiences. What's pathetic is you don't realize or appreciate that. I'm sorry you have perceived stereotypes of immigrants.
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I've said for years now that I'm willing to take a $20,000 reduction in salary for an office with a door that closes.
Still spot on. I think this applies to software as well as physical products.
https://crowdmanager.qloth.app
The holy grail for cheap-ass networked audio is a surround-sound set constructed from random (or a set of) Bluetooth speakers and some sort of wireless receiver. I can't tell you how many people came into my old workplace expected that to be possible, and being disappointed that the only options were somewhat expensive demi-audiophile WiFi-based (read: hooked into an app that required an internet connection and sometimes iOS) solutions from Sonos/Bose/B&W/Klipsch that locked you into their platform. IIUC latency and bandwidth are an issue?

This is a cool step in the right direction though.
Siri on macOS freezes when I say “call dad” while works great on iOS.
Hi! I am the creator of the game, I'm happy to answer any questions.

The purpose of the game is to learn theoretical concepts by playing trivia nights with your data scientists friends.

Some of the questions were created and submitted by experienced data scientist such as:

Jesse Mostipak (@kierisi): Community Advocate at Kaggle.

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Wasm was not designed to be a hardware accelerated ISA. It was designed as an IL/bytecode target like JVM and .NET.

Even if it were, there is an extremely high bar to meet for actual new ISAs/cores. There is no chance for Wasm to compete with RISC-V, Arm or x86.
If you have money for luxuries, you have money to renovate.

After my neighbors moved out, they had the kitchen and bathrooms gutted and redone.

After the new buyers took over, they gutted it all again and threw out brand new appliances and cabinetry.
> In the enlightenment you could make discoveries about lightning with a kite and a key, in your free time when you weren't working as a publisher or founding America.

And yet those discoveries weren't made in the previous thousands of years during which people had been standing around in thunderstorms. The enlightenment represented a paradigm shift where a new innovation - the scientific method - was applied en masse for the first time and it led to revolutions in science, technology, and society. Whenever a paradigm shift happens, be it the practical steam engine or long range electricity transmission, you invariably have a lot of suddenly accessible low hanging fruit. The mid 20th century had a surprisingly large number of such paradigm shifting innovations such as solid state transistors, integrated circuits, jet engines, nuclear reactors, antibiotics, solar cells, the internet, lasers, credit cards, the list goes on. Entire new fields of science and sectors of industry popped up in a very short period of time.

We continue to innovate, but our innovations are mostly evolutionary and there have been comparatively few paradigm altering inventions in the past 30 years, especially when one considers how much larger the population of sufficiently educated and affluent individuals who could produce such innovations has become and how much easier it is for such innovations to be communicated. It is impressive how good we've gotten at picking higher fruit, but we should still be asking why we are struggling so hard to find low hanging fruit.
I'd be nice if this was documented somewhere :/