skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think 68K and PowerPC were both clearly much more of a dead end when they were abandoned than Intel is today.

Also, I don't recall stories of Macs being able to dual boot AmigaOS, and there was nothing like virtualization in those days. There were emulators, I guess. All of those other platforms were less common than Windows is today.

And there was never any threat that they would enforce sandboxing and code signing like a lot of people speculate for ARM Macs.

It really does sound like the ARM Macs are going to be less capable. It would be nice if that turns out incorrect but it's sure the way it looks.
The way they are doing it doesn't actually comply with the law either, so the CYA aspect of it doesn't work as designed. Adding a popup doesn't do anything as far as the GDPR is concerned unless the popup allows you to decline tracking just as easily as it is to accept it (no pre-ticked boxes or anything).

I believe the problem here is wrong advice leftover from the previous "cookie law" (which I agree is completely stupid) being repeated endlessly (either honestly or maliciously from the adtech/spyware industry to try and make the GDPR look more annoying to the users). I sometimes even see this wrong "advice" here on HN on GDPR-related threads.
I think it comes down to swift being a way slower performance language on the compiler side because of some bad early design decisions their compiler engineers will grumble about on twitter occasionally and xcode struggling with that fact. And apple underfunding their developer tools team that creates all of this.
Facebook account that copies Trump's posts gets flagged for inciting violence
Thank you for this well written non-inflammatory response, I really appreciate it. I can see your point, but I guess we just have a different idea 'how high' sensitivity should be.

Obviously you don't name something in programming 'pimp' / 'bitch', or even more extreme I suppose: 'white_guard' / 'n_____', that's obviously childish, unwarranted, and just for the sake of provocation. Like I've said though I think of 'master/slave' as perfectly fine descriptions regarding their function and I have always thought of them as racially neutral terms, and if you want to change long-standing naming convention there should be a case for it. And I just think it isn't there.

By the way: For the very first time in my life, a few days ago, have I ever thought of 'whitelist'/'blacklist' in terms of skin color.

white vs black, bright vs dark, , "shining bright light" vs "tempted by darkness", etc, it was almost a Eureka moment: "How can people think of skin color there?"

That makes me think that people are spurted into activism, blindly 'looking for problems', and once you start looking it's easy to see it everywhere. We are pattern seeking animals - if I believe in conspiracy theories, I will over evaluate whatever confirms my beliefs - and I honestly think the same happens in cases of people who take social justice too far (thinking of 'master/slave' as inappropriate naming conventions in programming after decades of use) ; (and I hope it's unnecessary to add: I am not denying the reality of racism ; just trying to doubt the usefulness and legitimacy of taking the sensitivity into far off areas and to a degree that is unwarranted)

I guess I am just emotionally detached from this as can be, as someone who doesn't follow daily news, and is not an American. It's weird for me to accept:

'why can't I use master/slave anymore?'

'because a black man was murdered by police in a country across the Atlantic, and now they are looking to prune any mention of slavery from everywhere they can find it'

'what?'

You can't clean up the language to a point of where 'no one' is offended. Master/Slave seems like such a low level of 'potential for controversy' to me, that I am really worried about 'if that one isn't acceptable after decades of use anymore, what next'
Interleaving multiple commands/stdout and stderr as well.
An argument could be made that cookie banners might somehow be normalizing tracking cookies too.

Through enough repetition the act of opening a new website and immediately clicking away the cookie popup becomes so automatic that people don't bother to read the disclosure, think about whether XYZ site should be tracking them, whether they want to consent or not, etc.

I myself am guilty of just clicking the damn thing without really thinking, and then I realize in horror that I opted-in by accident.
This is exactly the problem with "censorship". It merely hides reality. Why is transparency not better in most situations?
Easy way to root out assholes when hiring: rename master to main. They’ll show themselves the door

I’m gonna write a whole blog post about this
Doesn't seem to load in Firefox on my mobile.
Look at olive harvesting machines.

Definitely easier than fruit, but we've made so much progress.
They probably literally brought in hedge fund people to be their CFO. And it's not hard to hire McKinsey to make a slide deck backing up your strategy to acquire a company for whatever reason.

Interestingly, actual hedge funds tend to not like companies that act like hedge funds. They want companies that are focused on one area since they think they're better at diversifying their portfolios than the management at these portfolio companies. They'd rather have fine grained control over what markets/products/industries/regions they have exposure to, and you cant do that with these messy conglomerates. That's why fiscal discipline being imposed at Google looked like separating business units and providing insights into the individual business units of the company, so even if investors in alphabet can't control what alphabet diversifies into, they can at least understand and evaluate it.
Thanks. This should be turned on by default.
I wish member nations were more proactive in fining people over this, because I'd then happily report every system like that.

On a related note, has anyone ever seen the corresponding consent popup that would let me opt back out of tracking cookies? I haven't. Which strikes me as weird, since consent was supposed to be as easily to rescind as it is to grant it.
Your analytical thinking misses the human element. To give an example: Steve Jobs didn't have humility, nor did he shy away from hyperbole. You would have had the same response to his words, but look at what he - literally, in the physical world - achieved. Human motivation - no matter how deluded - is not actually something not to dismiss. It has effects on others, which translates to action. The inputs are not all machines. At least not yet.
What AI exactly I interface in netflix? Movie recommendations based on some predefined classifications? Search engine? those problems were solved by google 20 years ago.

All the recommendation and ad engines are not that smart, far from it, and the smart stuff they do is just by tracking you and looking at what you do, this is not AI, just classic cold war spying.

Those siri and alexa are taking commands as if you are programming a device, you just say it rather than write it but the dynamic is the same, they can't process anything even slightly deviating out of their "programming" language. Both sound recognition and all those self driving stuff is more about advanced signal processing rather than some AI and as such are limited and will never be anything even remotely close to the way humans perceive things.

They promised deviation from the classic machine "thinking" but rather a foray into the human mind by machine. So far it is a failure, machines keep doing what machines are good at and nothing more.
Including 64-bit support until Catalina was effectively the same as Rosetta: support for deprecated tech. A Rosetta for 64-bit is just kicking the can.
Why would I? I got a job at Amazon (AWS Consulting) paying the same amount as a software engineer and it is a remote position that allows me to live in a relatively low cost of living area.

I did nothing special to prepare to work for Amazon. I just did my job, gained experience, and made sure I could answer soft skill questions based on the “Leadership Principles”.

I wasn’t even thinking about working at Amazon pre-Covid before my company had across the board pay cuts. My company made the announcement, the next day a recruiter from Amazon emailed me and I thought “Why Not?” They asked me to put in an application. I did it and a month and a half later I had an offer.

I definitely didn’t spend months “grinding leetCode” like the fresh college grads over at r/cscareerquestions.
I'm for ecosystems but not for closed ones.

Slack already has an ecosystem with their plugins and integration with other apps [1]: if they were to build documents as well, then they would be competing with documents app that are already integrated with Slack (see [2]).

I also wouldn't think it'd be a good documents app. Most companies don't have the resources or focus to build two _good_ products. As a counterpoint to Amazon, look at Dropbox and their Paper app. And then look at their stock price: the engineering resources put into Paper would've better been spent improving their core product.

[1] https://slack.com/apps

[2] https://slack.com/apps/search?q=notes
Maybe it's because everyone talks/chats every day with "virtual assistants" at banks and every other organization, and never ever finds them useful. Their main purpose is to frustrate you enough so you give up trying to connect to a real person.
That is an example of thread messaging - not hot-swapping. Had myvar been local to the thread it wouldn't have worked.
sorry for assuming & the curt reply.

"the wife test" is a common turn of phrase relying on/reinforcing the stereotype of women as non-technical and men as technical. it's not really clear in your original post that you are literally referring to your wife's opinion of the device vs simply invoking the sexist phrase to describe the device's user friendliness for non-hackers. i hope you can see how i took it the wrong way, though i still apologize for jumping to conclusions
For "manual" cleanup I'm using slightly extended universal "Sweep Stickies" bookmarklet [1], based on idea taken from "Kill Sticky" [0]. Removes generally all those banners and overlays obscuring content and eating viewport. (Userscript available [2], but I prefer good old bookmarklet way for this.)

It literally crawls all elements in page, tests their computed style and removes those with sticky position (and a bit more). Works quite well for me.

[0] https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/
[1] http://myfonj.github.io/utils/bookmarklets/sweep-stickies.ht...
[2] https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/370572-sweep-stickies
Given the current management, I wouldn’t discount politicking as motivation (to what end I have no clue).
I've noticed recently that if I flag too many things I start getting ones that I can't reject. It's just unrelenting implacable pressure; you can report or hide things forever, but it never gets you anywhere and you start suspecting some subtle retaliation in the algorithms.

I don't know about Facebook specifically, but every time I see something I don't like on Google News (on my phone), I tell it I never want to see that news source again, but then it started to give me news stories that collect a large number of sources together, without the ability to get rid of them all at once.

Trying to curate this stuff is like sculpting fog.
well failure to find WMDs did not stop a war in Iraq so lack of evidence is hardly an obstacle to people's self interest.
What do you do when Integromat shuts down?
Do you include companies within N degrees of Amazon? Netflix for example? If so, no. I could quit, but I wouldn’t.

Shopping? For the most part I have because of the pandemic. A lot of the stuff I ordered was pushed further and further out for shipping. So I found alternatives or started buying in brick and mortar stores.
This is ridiculous. Mac revenue was roughly $25 BILLION dollars in 2019. The idea that they don't care about it is simply wrong. Same with the idea that they don't care about marketshare.

Of course they care more about iDevices than the Mac. It brings in roughly 5x as much money as the Mac. But Apple can chew gum and walk at the same time.
That headline made me laugh. Then it made me depressed.
On routing: the best path in this sort of network changes something like every ten seconds or so. To make it work, you need to consider all the links that can delivery good enough SNR, so you're already factoring in rain for example. You've got many many possible paths, and you're considering the best route constantly, but you're only factoring links with acceptable quality into the computation. If you do this (and can solve the queue avoidance issues too), turns out jitter isn't such a big problem. As one path gets longer, it eventually gets longer than the next path, and you switch to the new path as close to that moment as you can. If you do this, you minimize step changes in latency. It only works if you've got enough satellites, but it looks like SpaceX will have.

If you can't eliminate all queuing delays, you can't factor all delays into your decision of when to change routes, and so you will get some jitter and hence reordering. If so, you need a reorder queue in the final receiving groundstation, so as to avoid confusing TCP. This removes jitter at the expense of adding some latency. How much latency depends on the queuing delays you're trying to smooth out, so it all really comes down to avoiding queues in the satellites.
Any solutions for mobile (iOS)? This problem is really painful on mobile devices where (in Safari) the popup takes up half the screen after the url+nav bars takes up a quarter leaving you with 25% of the screen to look at the actual content (with autoplaying ad videos every few paragraphs if you are lucky!) until you dismiss the popup.

Argh, makes me angry just thinking about it. The web is becoming increasingly painful to use through a UI browser.
Flatpaks use a git-like tree of hashes, which cant just be shoved into random places on your filesystem. It has an exports directory you can symlink or add to your path.
current proposal might, but generics provide far more value than the try function from the errors proposal. they won't just stop attempting to figure it out.
Catalyst has nothing to do with ARM Macs.
Judging by the many tests, their yolov5 is worse than yolov4, so they should call it yolov3.5
Not OP, but I completely agree with their statement that "it definitely significantly impacted the usability of the web."

As others have noted, a ton of sites seem to have just thrown the necessary JS on their site without actually seeing if they needed to, or if they did, if they could make minor changes that would remove the need.

From a usability/user experience perspective, now users have these popups displaying on some number of sites that they visit, often developed with the assumption that they will be accepted by the user.

Based upon some of the experiences I've had, I would say a number of teams neglect to properly test their sites as a user that has not accepted/dismissed the pop-up/overlay.
This is fantastic, can't believe I've not used that setting before...
Amazon has part-ownership of Netflix? Didn't know that...
hyper://a8e9bd0f4df60ed5246a1b1f53d51a1feaeb1315266f769ac21 has been giving me a 500
I fit the same attributes. ADHD (with hyperactivity in this case) and can't really get anything done before 8pm usually. There isn't a force I've found that will actually wake me up and get me to start my day, and I naturally slip into a 4-6am bedtime to 3pm wake time. Lost my job recently in large part because of this (not the first time). I'm kind of lost atm for the nth time and probably burned out. Could you elaborate or your circumstances or whatever you care to? Any misc advice is always welcome as well.

Edit: Read the rest of your replies about caregivers
Knight vs. Snail
I hate that this resulted in a lot of people using JSON, which ought to be barely considered a data format.
> To decouple from PHP server, - need to switch to object storage service.... So, it's not hard.

If you are the developer of the app, that's true. If you're the ops guy to whom the app was lobbed over the wall to, it's not quite that simple without making code changes to the app. In the case of Wordpress also, it's been my experience that many of the "developers" are just marketing people and don't actually write code. These people are not equipped to remove state from the app either.
AdGuard on iOS works well for those (in addition to ads, social media and other trash).
Until GPT-3 can write something meaningful

What is "meaningful"? Honest question. Isn't meaning assigned by a reader? If I'm reading poetry generated by GPT-3 and I like it just as much as poetry written by a human poet, does it make it meaningful? What if I finetune GPT-3 (or the bigger next gen version) on every scientific paper ever written, and as a result it generates a novel idea that turns out to be valid and useful, should I care if it happened by accident, or without "understanding"? Can the knowledge encoded in the model parameters be interpreted as some form of understanding? If no, why not? What's missing exactly? What is different from how human scientists operate?
Slightly offtopic, what's the easiest way to scrub CO2 from air (e.g. in a house) without using up consumable materials? Some form of pressure swing absorption?
Haven't we already paid for the rural broadband access project a bunch of times, both at a state and local level?

If starlink does what it's supposed to, it should provide a pretty good experience that works best in rural areas precisely because of the sparseness of users that makes wiring each home expensive.

Certainly, giving the money and hoping it works as advertised isn't a good idea --- for all providers. For nationwide providers, these should be allocated whatever way, then the provider should post a bond and get their money and the grant money upon completion. If they don't complete it on time, the grant money and the bond roll down to the projects that were approved but didn't get funded because of the spending cap. Posting a bond for a hyper local provider might be problematic, but hyper local providers probably have a better track record of delivery, so they could have more generous pay as you go grant terms.
I still love flatpak, and much of what this article states is hostile and outdated. The "XDG portal" specification makes filesystem access less popular then before. Also, "fakepak"? Really?
Could you clarify that Amazon owns Netflix? Best I can find is Netflix using AWS.
Quantum does not use Servo. Servo is a research project, and _ideas_ from Servo get reimplemented into Firefox. As it stands, the main things that came from Servo are Stylo and WebRender. While they're two large things, there's still a _lot_ of Firefox that is old code. And a lot of things they still want to reintegrate.
True. Many online swapping communities also standardize around PayPal.

It seems like eBay is dominated nowadays by people drop-shipping products from Amazon etc. with a markup, though.
Fish is so cool. Thank you for building it.
This sort of thing literally brings out the starving aggressive animal in me. I get so frantic trying to download all I can!

Very, very surprising to me, one of the free books turns out to be directly related to my new job (like, my boss's PhD advisor wrote the book).
Ya, and it seems like about 20% of sites use cookielaw.org, so filtering out that domain is a good start.
This makes it sound like following the work of IETF is an idle task, and all required is to subscribe to a mailing list, but neglects to mention this inevitably means following endless overlapping and often redundant discussions on multiple mailing lists, that routinely span bi-annual periods. Nobody has time for that unless their job gives them a direct stake in protocol and architecture work. This describes probably much less than 1% of the people found on HN.

Meanwhile there are few mechanisms to popularize the results of standards groups aside from occasional sexed up vendor blog posts (for example, CloudFlare are great at these). I see no problem with this extra visibility, and find it quite perplexing that someone would have reason to complain about it.
It could be that the FCC has seen a lot of presentations on the difficulties in assuring low latency and how it has been tackled.

Or the technical people in the FCC understand the technical difficulties and can't let any player make claims without ensuring they back it up.

(Or the FCC has a strong well funded relationship with incumbent telecommunications carriers)
I don't care and I don't really see why anyone else does much either. It keeps websites free with no tangible downside. I resent Europe ruining the web with these consent banners. Websites are even forced to support "freeloaders" who don't consent which seems extra ridiculous to me.
CVPR 2020: Synthesizing High-Resolution Images with StyleGAN2
I think so too. In addition, they seem to have regenerative payloads on-board (otherwise I don't get how they get ~20Gbps/sat with a single Ka-band antenna), so they need to do full decoding + encoding on the satellite. Not sure how fast that can be done, but it will add some latency ms probably.
I mean, you can go a loooong way on Postgres. Things that probably are going to start causing issues:

- the story of replication

- ultra-high volume write contention

- high volume timeseries data streams

For #3 there, I was consulting on a project a few years ago where there was about 1 gigabyte of timeseries data in Postgres/RDS. Some ad hoc queries were really running into slowness - COTS RDS isn't great at speed. I want to say 1 billion rows, but that seems a off. Anyway, we were talking data sharding, etc. Didn't go anywhere, because the project was canceled, etc. But we could have done a nice job if we wanted to.

Point being, there are design limits on postgres, particularly regarding distributed systems. Which is fine. I just have this allergy to designing for scale on Very Small Project.

Also worth noting that the anti-monolith dogma plays out here, a few well built monoliths probably are better for a SQL database than "one bajillion microservices".
Given the cost of a Starlink ground terminal, I suspect many won’t be able to afford the service.
Is getting an bad sni key a terrible risk? What kind of data would it leak?
As others have offered, there is no "need" for anything in particular. It's a-okay if you do not care for it.

Plenty of people live rewarding lives without any explicit quest.

Plenty of people accidentally live in alignment with what is often understood to be the ground of Being, and in this alignment, avoid causing unnecessary suffering.

I'm just going to spitball, as this exercise feels useful for me to clarify my own thoughts:

One beautiful thing is that the truths pointed to by what is called enlightenment provide clues as to why the work of Godel, Turing, and Wittgenstein all seem to point to inherent limitations in conceptual frameworks.

One "benefit" is that it dissolves intractable epistemic problems.

It dissolves the problem of morality and ethics, without devolving to nihilism or depending on some particular ideological framework. It provides a basis for Being which goes beyond ideology.

Actions to take around questions of justice and equality become much more obvious (from a personal POV)

I offer this lightly: the questions raised by the possibility of enlightenment are at the foundation of all existence, and in a sense of sub-specie aeternitatis, it is of little use to understand facts about the World without a sound metaphysical basis.

Enlightenment reveals the ways in which one's beliefs are limiting. Through particular conceptual lenses, many things seem like unqualified goods. Yet, wisdom reveals that any such position is inherently limited.

The concepts of good and evil dissolve.

Compassion is awakened.

The enlightened one brings an end to the cycles of unconscious suffering in the world that they inadvertently cause through their mistaken beliefs.