skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Didn't see anyone mention this, but one of the main reasons for making macOS look more like iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, and watchOS is because at some point we will be able to run apps written for the other systems natively in macOS. Seems like an obvious move, why is everyone so surprised? It just means less duplicated interface code for multiplatform products.
To you, maybe.

But for someone preparing their entire life to start a job, everything is up in the air now. They're not so privileged.
it's easy to resign iphone models every year. it's not as easy to increase chip performance every year. there's a lot of R&D involved, i think in the long run it'll be better but Apple will have to devote more resources into it. you can't just wish for specs. the manufacturers actually get the hard job of trying to make it.
I can select Safari as default in Gmail?
Visualization of Base64 Encoding
It feels very cluttered these days.
I really wish I could disable features on a group/project basis and have those things just disappear from the interface. Ideally by a simple list of toggles.

Mostly I only use the Git, CI, Readme rendering, Docker registry and that's about it. Everything else just gets in the way and makes the interface harder to navigate.
As I understand it, very far. The materials science isn't there, we have yet to conceive of a material that would be able to carry it's own weight let alone move a useful load.
Again, I don't buy the "meet in the middle" approach or the "both sides are at fault" theory. Only one side has a populist leader who's platform was to foment racism and pledged to destroy Obamacare, and basically no one is reigning him in. If anything, people are volunteering for their chance to be thrown under the bus. It's very hard to meet in the middle with the current situation. There is serious moral concern if meeting in the middle means "a moderate amount of racism is acceptable", and when reaching an olive branch on policies results in no cooperation and instead pledges of destruction down the road.

However even with Democrats, there are a lot of people who think Bernie was unfairly treated, and that Biden is in bed with corporations, while establishment democrats think you should vote "blue no matter who", and that Bernie supporters were loons. Again, hard to come to a middle ground even within each party.
"Hey dev, you don't like that new keyboard pushed by your director/VP? Here's your termination notice!"

"We love our developers and pride ourselves on individual expression and transparent feedback."

-- Corporation 101
I post this curious to hear criticisms. As someone that ticked the ILI number and also tested negative for antibodies recently, really hard to know what to make of all of this.

My understanding is that I should be able to trust a negative test for antibodies. Such that I have to think there was a higher than normal ILI season. Such that, at face value, I can't trust this paper. Right?
It's built on Salesforce. They serve mostly mid-size regional banks. It's honestly super cheap for what it is -- its no wonder they're gaining as much traction as they are.
Relevant: https://tinyseed.com/latest/measuring-the-depth-of-the-softw...

(Disclosure: yes I wrote it)
Adios. XPS-15 is the ultimate winner.
i wonder how coffee compares to tea in that sense.
Vancouver != Canada. Toronto salaries are much better at the big name US-based companies.
I was lucky enough to hear Tracy speak recently. Her persona oozed so much of what I wish I could be. Successful, confident.

There's always tougher, more human sides that we don't like to share because it allows us to be taken down. Like revealing the weak points of our fortress to the enemy. I can only guess what that feels like as a woman in the industry. I 100% loved this post.

Thanks Tracy for writing this! Count me as one of your fans and whatever you do next, motherhood, investing, founding, watching your children grow - I'm rooting for you.
Reflections on being a trans founder: Nobody cares. Prepare to be misgendered a fair amount. Know that you will have to go to bat for your employees which may limit your options when it comes to going to bat for yourself. Thank you for coming to my ted talk.
Have you tried Virtualbox in whatever OS you're using to run a Windows VM?

I believe MS provides premade free virtualbox images for IE testing purposes too.
Actually, I meant it as a small team or solo. Most of my mentor relationships starts with someone saying a clever thing on Facebook/Twitter/HN, a radio show, a random community, someone who wrote a book I learned a lot from, a tech talk somewhere.

It's similar to dating. Everyone prefers to be passive and matched to someone, or just bump into someone serendipitously. But it's easier to just muster the courage to talk to the next person on your mind. And they usually get flattered when asked for help as well, as long as it's not Bill Gates or anyone too far above your level.

Speaking of Bill Gates, there's a bit of anecdote from the Bill Gates documentary. At one point he met with Buffett and Buffett just kept asking questions like, "Why couldn't IBM beat Microsoft?" Bill was waiting for someone to ask him a question like that but nobody ever did. That's how mentor relationships are formed.
How do you know the founder is an immigrant?

Edit: Founder is from South Africa, didn't see that in my initial search.
Can someone explain to me why this is important? Not trolling, I'm serious.
TSMC and Samsung are based in Taiwan and South Korea, both strong allies of the US. There was a recent FT article on how the real risk is actually their proximity to China and the potential of China taking military action against factories in Taiwan. TSMC is eyeing a factory in Arizona, so there is that, and honestly, Intel isn't that far behind.
Great read on the possible rationale - Summarising

#1 It Hurts Google - erodes googles dominance vis a vis commercial access to geospatial data + a viable reason to collect valuable location data on end users.

#2 It Complements Their Augmented Reality Business

#3 It Supports Facebook’s Place Data Generally
"what if street level imagery and supplementary data like reviews were built directly into Facebook’s products or at least resided somewhere on a Facebook property that could be linked out to? That at least would keep users in their scrupulously measured web of control."

I would flesh out one related/adjacent point.

~Google's mission statement: "Our company mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."

~Facebooks Mission Statement: "give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together"

I'm not so naive as to suggest these ideals aren't deeply infiltrated/influenced by commercial imperatives but it is possible to see the way some of their behavior wraps around the stated principles. Google's credo of organizing information aligns with building out immense location data - and effectively mapping the world (and subsequently commercializing it). Whereas with facebook what I have noticed is - given their size and scale; they can follow their users (and subsequently envelope/"empower" user efforts to create community) ...if need via acquisition. In the digital world this has mean't buying the likes of instagram and whatsapp to ensure that community-building happens under the nexus of Facebook's control. If you accept that facebook believes in being where it's users are; understanding/being more proximate to users and how they traverse the real-world is invaluable - you are now more able to map out a digital proxy that is informed by person's experience of the real world. By creating a more informed digital proxy you embed a user more deeply in your ecosystem.
Good news, ASPX is alive and well in the United States governments many state backends 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
>BSA, The Software Alliance, whose members include Microsoft and Slack, strongly urged the administration to “refrain from restricting employment of highly-skilled foreign professionals”, adding that “these restrictions will negatively impact the US economy” and decrease job opportunities for Americans.

I really don't think tech companies are opposing this because they deeply care about the job opportunities of Americans and the US economy. They just don't want to lose the cheap labor. Perhaps they could put more focus on teaching and training Americans. It's not as if Americans don't have the same potential to do a job simply by being born here.
That's an interesting app, thank you.
> This is risky for consumers.

EXACTLY.

If you are a photographer, a developer, a graphics designer, a musician, a teacher, or whatever, and you are looking at buying a new Mac, what is going to get you to buy the new Apple Silicon powered Mac which is almost certain to impact your workflow in some way? If you are making purchase decisions for classrooms, what makes you buy 200 Macs with a new, unknown architecture?

The first generation of Macs on Apple silicon absolutely needs to have a significantly better price/ performance point versus the current generation or they won't sell to anything more than the most loyal fans. If the new Macs come out and pricing is not good, I could seriously see a sort-of anti-Osborne effect where people gravitate towards Intel based Macs (or away from Macs entirely) to avoid the risk of moving to new architecture.

If anything, I expect margins on the first couple generations of Macs to go DOWN as margins on the first couple generations on all Apple products are lower (also public record).
This is not enough for a Pro consumer. There are a wide range of development-related softwares/tools that are not compatible with ARM. And they do not usually come with huge user base. So there will not be any ARM port.

They are free to try it on Macbook or Air. But MBPs? They are simply giving the market to Windows.
I guess this is the end of bootcamp?

It’ll require some kind of emulation now to run x86/AMD64 instructions on this architecture if I correctly understand the changes happening.

I’m saddened about that. I liked being able to boot my MacBook pro into Windows for games.
I would be willing to pay a nominal fee to get faster, more reliable torrents. I already pay for a torrent caching service to get better download speeds.
How do you know that removing criminals away does not reduce crime?
If you haven't read him, this spectacular failure is the central theme of many of Stanislaw Lem's works. Worth a read if you like sci-fi.
I'm sure those are not insurmountable obstacles. For example,

> First, the vast majority of signals aren't networked, they're on simple timers.

Doesn't matter. Even doing the ones that are networked would be a big improvement.

> And you can't just put them on the internet for hopefully obvious reasons.

But you can put every neighboring building on the internet with their security cameras? It's not like you need hires or high frame rates to detect large moving blobs, count them, and estimate their speed & distance.

The problem is, the city has no incentive to do this, as the cost falls on other people.
A $billion+ fintech unicorn nobody has ever heard of. This just reminds me that opportunities abound, especially to focus on particular workflows that are sometimes buried in the b2b world...
RPA (Robotic Process Automation) is a big category of tools that can be summarised as ‘automating boring stuff’. You often see it used for repetitive data entry, e.g.

1. Load excel sheet from X:\...

2. Login to Y

3. For each row navigate to ... then enter data

4. Submit, if there’s a validation error add it to and excel workbook

5. Email exception report to ...
PDF !!!= SVG
The Mac has always had kludgey ways to run software that seemed out of place on the platform (from Classic, to Java apps that never quite got UI right, to full-blown Windows-desktop-in-a-window, to other UI libraries that have quirks compared to AppKit). I do hate any iOS leaking into macOS but I am at least hopeful that they can smooth it out over time.
I wonder if Apple had anything to do with TSMC's announcement of a fab in the US?
Michel Foucault in Death Valley
Since it sounds like your objective in CS is primarily career oriented (i.e. 'to make myself more employable'), Lisp probably won't offer you something you or the majority of your future employers are likely to value. You will occasionally come across an employer who will be looking for exposure to less mainstream languages/concepts where their absence will be a negative, but that's going to be a minority in the job market if that's your focus.
Yeah. Eliminate middle management and just have the C-levels do all the hiring, work assignments, perfomance reviews, pay raises... you know, all that worthless stuff that middle managers do.
Well, my first feedback is that the home page takes an astonishing 2 minutes 15 seconds to load, and when it does generates console errors from a blocked script (matamo.js) every few seconds. I'd look into that.
Hi, yes, I really like Prolog for providing the programming paradigm that is not normally available in a more conventional programming language: I can specify the facts and relations between them, and Prolog will search for a solution for me. That being said, I don't see this functionality to be particularly useful in the context of web programming. Do you have in mind good examples where Prolog will be obviously more powerful and useful than, for example, Ruby, Lisp, and Lua (which can represent HTML elements idiomatically as nested arrays (or classes), s-expressions, and tables, respectively)? Where do I win from using Prolog? (I think that the animal identification game in the linked page, while obviously neat, does not really look like a common web-programming task to me.)
Is it? So any two people speaking directly and exclusively to each other are 'intimate'?

I'm with the others in that Cameo seems like a fine platform for debasing and exploiting b-listers and past-their-primes. It's the 2020 version of game show or infomercial cameos.

There will always be a market's worth of people with enough vanity to think that the kind of service Cameo provides is morally sound. They are probably the same folks that keep the National Enquirer and Daily Mail afloat.

Let's not kid ourselves with fancy imagery about how good it makes someone feel or how beautiful it is that it satiates someone's desires. "I'm just building what people want" is the classic amoralist's cop-out.
AFAIK the AMD distinction is currently that APUs (mobile or desktop) don't use chiplets.

On the whole my guess would be that we have the iPad Pro and MacBook Air using the same SoC, the MacBook Pro doing… something (it'll still need integrated graphics, but do they really sell enough to justify a new die? OTOH they do make a die specifically for the iPad Pro, and I'd guess it's lowest-selling iOS device v. highest-selling macOS device, and idk how numbers compare!), and the iMac (Pro)/Mac Pro using chiplets.
Exactly. Econ 101: outsourcing here we come.

Real world: nearshoring (Canada), and WFH outside the metro are at lower wages.
Show HN: Privacy and Environmental Disclosures for the Web
If anyone wants 40MB/s unlimited bandwidth servers, use Hetzner. $35/mo. Best purchase I’ve made in recent times.

To underscore: the bandwidth is completely free.
If you define early web as pre-1998, then you’re essentially talking about five guys who all had computer science backgrounds. Yes, they were good at their jobs, but it was never going to last. Increasing the number of web developers by 1000x by definition had to drag down their average skill level to the average skill level of the population at large.

Most definitions of the early web include the PHP Cambrian explosion because essentially all websites today got their start then and only a few horseshoe crabs sites (mostly the homepages for CS profs!) predating it survive. Gopher sites were also probably really easy to scrape too. ;-)
DVC 1.0 Released
> Meanwhile inflation would have made that G4 ~2700 today.

Which of the inputs going into making that device would have applied any inflationary pressure?

Most if not all the parts would have probably got cheaper over that time and wage pressure is always low only because of where these devices are made.
there are many good reasons for wanting more women developers, IMO. are there any bad reasons for wanting such?
this is not a flip comment. if it causes a laugh i dont see a problem with that but it is honestly not intended to denigrate anyone, but bring people into, well, software, which is probably the greatest thing in existence.

diversity is generally considered a good thing in evolution.
i dont know if that applies to concepts like the tech industry, but maybe it does.

i am not against anyone and think the universe of software is a big one with a ton of room.

software is not created in a vacuum, nor is any other art or form. i want us all doing it, not just a bunch of people like me in every way.
Genuine question: Have they removed any features that make it less functional? There seems to be this belief that if it looks closer to iOS or iPadOS, then its “dumber” since in the past those product lines have been less capable than the Mac.
It's a recycled idea from mary meeker. She appendixes immigrant founder lists to her internet report. It's very impressive and has some real societal implications (perhaps) for how we should address immigration policy.
An illegal British person is going to face far less scrutiny than an Indian migrant from Central America.
I’m speculating that they looked at the name and made that assumption, which would be all kinds of problematic on its own.
Managing background jobs with Cloud Tasks
P4800X is around 5K. And you probably want them in raid, so at least 10K.
For what it's worth H1Bs were being misused by indian tech companies who got the majority of them [1] because the salary requirements haden't been updated for decades [2]

That meant the ability to undercut american workers.

I don't think there is anything racist about that.

[1] https://www.economist.com/united-states/2017/02/09/h-1b-visa...

[2] https://alj.artrepreneur.com/h1b-visa-crackdown/#:~:text=Cur....
Is it? I don't think it is. Disregarding crazed celebrity stalkers (which, to be clear, do exist but they are outliers), no one is going to be gifted a 60-second video/audio clip from their favorite celebrity, and actually believe that the celebrity knows who they are. It's a cute gift from a loved one (parent/sibling/partner/close-friend) who is observant enough to know you like a particular celebrity.

To use your analogy, this is a 10-cm tall miniature model Cray X-MP supercomputer that has blinking LEDs thats powered by 2 AA batteries and sits on your desk that a parent/sibling/partner/close-friend got for you because it's your favorite supercomputer. It's a bit nerdy to have as a desk ornament and some may judge you unfairly on, but if I went off on a rant about how that's a stupid model, it probably can't do any math, and that you're insane for having it... that rant would reflect more poorly on me than on the owner of the model.

(If you know somebody that has that level of problems with a picture of a fridge, please get them help.)
I think H1B visas should be obliterated.
One of the justifications is that they bring in international talent to fill in "shortages" in America. However, according this article by the Harvard Business Review: https://hbr.org/2017/05/the-h-1b-visa-debate-explained

- There is mixed evidence that there are actually shortages in STEM
- People are graduating from STEM fields at a rather high rate than in the past, but only half of them end up utilizing their degree; in sectors such as IT, one reason being why graduates aren't entering the field is due to a lack of job openings
- Despite all the clamor about "shortages," some STEM fields pay embarrassingly low, and in fact pay STEM workers less than they have in the past
- There is no requirement that entities show proof of workforce shortage before hiring workers on H-1B visas
- Some workplaces have already had American workers train in their H1-B visa replacements and then were out of a job

Not in the article, but some of my own experiences having been in the STEM field
- Many internationals seeking to get hired in the US STEM force don't actually have the "everyday technology" that the US uses, such as in molecular biology labs; this means quite a lot goes into training H1-B visa holders. Couple that with poor English-speaking skills. I found myself having to explain to an H1-B visa holder what a "pen" was, or a "shelf." Granted, some H1-B visa holders underwent formal education in the US, obtaining PhDs and whatnot, so you'd imagine their English would be better, however...
- Many countries look down on the US. I have worked for many foreign employers in STEM, and have been insulted just for being an American, and their views of America are largely stereotyped (Americans love guns, they eat hamburgers and pizza and are fat, etc.)
- It changes the workplace culture; I've worked in a variety of STEM environments that had a lot of internationals, and more than once I was out-grouped for being an American. I have had opportunities closed off to me simply because my group's sense of belonging was rooted in being "non-American." This was detrimental to my aspirations in entering the STEM field as an American.

I don't believe there is a shortage in STEM. The fact that it's hard to even get a well-paying job in STEM, especially tenure positions in STEM, and that once you do land a STEM position you can face discrimination for being an American in AMERICA, H1B visas should be obsolete.

Get rid of the internationals. Focus on your American workforce and create incentives to enter STEM. Create a better system for learning math, and inspiring aspirations in science Create environments that will nurture American students instead of block their opportunities. Give Americans a chance to contribute to their economy instead of shoveling money down the pockets of people who don't even like America or Americans and would go back home if they could.
IIRC, according to James Bamford in "The Puzzle Palace", they were attacked - by the NSA.
The funny thing is that minorities who live in these "hellscapes" also promote the ACAB mantra. So what's wrong with them?
I put symlinks in the root directory for my commonly used paths. Or I did before Catalina. Yes it’s kind of a dumb thing but it also seems dumb and arbitrary that I’m no longer _allowed_ to.
SpaceX Starlink antennas spied at Starship factory for the first time ever
Or you could, you know, Google the person, rather than making assumptions based on their name.
Yes, it's easy to avoid 'mustard blight' if you know how to choose. Also, don't choose rock-hard fruits. The middle should give a little when gently squeezed (squeezing too hard would split open the peel).
We haven't had a major immigration reform since the 60s, which drives a lot of the weirdness.
Regardless of your perception of safety, being indoor without a mask for a long period of time is probably the highest risk factor you got yourself into. By a big margin.
Wouldn't datalog be more suitable than SQL in this case? And in case the DB you want to query offers SQL only, I imagine there are datalog-SQL bridges available somewhere.
Part of maintaining these systems of white supremacy involves firstly disbelieving that such paradigms exist, and then secondly putting the labor of "proof" on the marginalized communities and their allies.
I’m curious to know how they deal with many of Salesforce’s governor limits or if they have a plan to scale. Salesforce is not a platform you can scale your business on. Unless this is some sort of Managed Package you install?
I'm guessing the same. The co-founder/CEO went to Upper Iowa University. Could still be an immigrant, but seems unlikely.
Same here. This was such an inspirational read. Thank you for sharing this.
It is interesting to see how the prices have come down. While just the FPGA chip on this board was originally $1K, a new DE10 board is ~$130 with slightly more logic units at a higher clock, plus a dual core ARM A9, peripherals, etc.