skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple is now able to remotely brick any of their devices (something they couldn't do in 2006), so there's a chance they'll be less likely to offer an incentive to return the devices.
> Per Fitz's Law, touch-friendly is mouse friendly.

That's only true to an extent. It stops being true when the low-density UI re-design forces the user to take more actions to accomplish the same task. If I have to dig through a deeper menu structure, or flip back an forth between pages instead of having the information all on-screen at once, that change is touch-friendly but hostile to desktop and many laptop users.
'Total disaster': Phantom billions plunge Wirecard into chaos
I'm not saying there's no reason to turn off javascript, or that there aren't professions where that's a good default. But it's absolutely not the norm.
Apple gave us literally no numbers on performance, or how this is going to alter pro apps. Hmmm...
He has all the f u money he needs, no day job, genuine curiosity, there is no need to doubt it. His intellectual curiosity is so refreshing when almost everybody reads books to signal something.
They're building a software, not a service. They can't control what their users do with their software, in the same way that Microsoft can't control if you use Word to re-publish Harry Potter under your name.

Evaluate them by the software they build, not by how potentially some people will use it.
The article doesn't seem to consider non-conventional launch strategies. With things like Project Orion, mid-air launches (by either balloon or plane), and space elevators all being theoretically possible, it seems unlikely that any given civilization would never be able achieve spaceflight, given enough time.
Orrrrrr they realize it's just another way to entertain people and make them happy. If they didn't want to entertain, they probably wouldn't have chosen that career in the first place, now there are "micro-gigs" they can take too to get an extra level of personal-ness.
I won't know until I actually use it, but based on looks alone I think it's the cleanest and most cohesive Mac UI since the peak Aqua era (OS X 10.4-10.6).
PR/FAQ might be the only thing I’d love to borrow from Amazon process wise
>See: how they suspended H-1B premium processing for a while some time back, also claiming that it was in service of "overhauling" the H-1B system.

Except this time they didn't say they suspended H1B to "overhaul" the system, and that by the time it is over, we will get a new system. They just said they have longer-term reforms in that area in their plans.

Which makes perfect sense in my eyes, because swapping to an H1B system similar to what Canada has is a massive change. I don't see it happening on a scale that is shorter than 5 years from start to finish.
Agreed. There's a lot of 'magic' that goes into running a quality recursive resolver, least of which is eDNS0 and EDNS Client Subnet - which intentionally returns different answers based on the requester's source IP -- in most cases for the most-optimal CDN location to be returned.

Test with:

dig @ns1.google.com www.google.es +subnet=193.8.172.75/24

dig @ns1.google.com www.google.es +subnet=157.88.0.0/16

Note how you get different IPs returned.
Welp, this is confirmation that I haven't been keeping up on everything going on; when I learn about my most desired feature on my company's software from a Hacker News post :S
Will adobe products still work?
Exotic fruits have been interesting to me in a while, and I hope to get my hands on some in my own country. For others interested, there's a channel which is all about exotic fruits and foods in general (including Thai ones), and his videos are always extremely informative and conscious[0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChsbD6Clp-ZPqKwXJR3V7DQ
I'd pay for a well engineered macOS 11 theme for GNOME. Perhaps when GTK4 is out end of this year with support for blurred transparency shaders. Though I got to say Adwaita improved a lot recently.
I guess I don't understand as it has been already proven in the marketplace that Shroud and Ninja can't attract new viewers so why would anyone overpay for their services? The only streamer that I could imagine that could drag viewers away from Twitch would be DrDisrespect but he recently signed a multi-year deal with Twitch.
I think your analysis is dead on, the only thing I'm surprised by is that Facebook has some sort of FB Gaming streaming platform. I don't really use Facebook, but I watch a fair number of twitch streamers and let's plays and whatnot on YouTube and I've never once heard anyone mention FB Gaming.
Verdigris
I'm just anticipating the ideological implications there: once again conflating reasonable goventment solutions with radical socialism.

Obviously authoritarianism is bad, especially when it does not care for economic realities, but does that really mean anything for western democracies?
I think the quote is from the keynote itself. Here's the timestamp: https://youtu.be/GEZhD3J89ZE?t=4250.
Firstly I think you are actually wrong in your assertion. Businesses have been at the forefront of computational techniques for accounting, inventory and customer tracking for hundreds of years.

More importantly though, less technological tracking of customers in the past totally does not matter at all.

What matters is if your competitors have access to these tools. This is a reality of modern business so unless a data law perfectly eliminates this possible data capture for all businesses, any business that does capture that data will have huge advantages over competitors.
In a globalized world influenced by a US hyperpower for 60+ years, countries, especially small ones, are allowed to thrive with the beneficence or indifference of powerful countries. Taiwan, S.Korea, Japan all become rich and industrialized via protectionist authoritarians governments supported by US interests and protection umbrella. Opposite for US sanction countries. A lot of EU would not have recovered into wealthy countries postwar without similar US support.

Much of the geographic constraints stopped mattering when a unipolar country controls all trade routes and dictates winners and losers. Of course competent local governance determines whether beneficence could translate into long term wealth, and a host of cultural factors determine if interests with benefactors can align long enough for such wealth production systems to emerge, but whether that wealth equitably distributed is another question.
This announcement means anyone who planned on beginning work under an H1B soon after perhaps months of job seeking and waiting for H1B approvals is suddenly shit out of luck. Anyone about to be granted a green card after years on the wait list is shit out of luck. Another HN'ers comment about their sisters Irish boyfriend who now can't move and leaves their family living in different continents is already one example of all the life plans this kind of change disrupts.

They have been making these sorts of life changing policy decisions at the drop of the hat for years now - no notice, no coherent long term plan whatsoever, only a year old tweet from Trump promising reforms. Even if you have spent 5 or 10 years in the country studying, working, paying taxes, building friends & family in the US, you have no more stability or value to the government than a fresh immigrant.

The constant instability of your entire life as an immigrant is not worth putting up with. Might as well go somewhere else - in most places you get points based immigration and a STABLE visa & path to citizenship that won't fall out from under you.
Google employees demand the company end police contracts
It's funny how the Visa suspension will probably backfire and normalize outsourcing. Broad actions like this one have a ton of unintended consequences.
Only ~20,000 O-1 visas were issued in 2019, compared to 190,000 H1B visas.

The reason for this is because the O-1 visa is significantly harder to qualify for. The same people who would expect would be in the running for an O-1 (master's and postdoctoral students) apply for an H1B, in large part because the bar for the O-1 is just that high.
I think the question is whether this is actually true. Just like we don't believe the numbers from China, is there reason to believe the numbers from Vietnam?

I have a hard time believing zero deaths, no matter how well they did. Even Taiwan had deaths, not many, but they had deaths. And they did an exceptional job.
It's continued development afterwards in different forms. Project TIMBER WIND was a pebble-bed reactor upper stage for SDI boost phase intercepts. The reactor wouldn't be spun up until after the missile had cleared the atmosphere, so there's no fallout to worry about.
I know it's frustrating, but similarly I enforce my diet selectively. It's their prerogative, right?
Trump to suspend certain foreign worker visas despite tech, business group oppos
EU (and Canada and Australia) can capitalize by

1. Actively poaching US employers to quickly setup shop in EU

2. Give visas to tech workers

Outcome? More business activity in the EU, more tech industry and instant boosting of GDP coming out of covid.
Like other people here, I think it's technologically interesting. Also, like many others, I don't see any great practical use-cases for this right now.

However, "if you build it they will come". I'm excited to see what will the creative minds of the internet do with this technology once it exists.
Apple said they’ve produced 2 billion A-series SoCs in ten years. Would Intel turn down a slice of that very large pie if offered?
I gave a [talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chYd5I-5oyc) to a Rust meetup with lots of gory details, if it's interesting
Market share growth? Twitch could offer them nothing and they will all end up back on the platform anyway. I'm sure they will get deals cut, but it won't be anything remotely close to what they got from Mixer. Other streamers have filled their voids and then some.
I worked for a woman cofounder. It's incredible the things some VCs told her, including trying to get the other founder to drop her from the deal explicitly because of her gender.

Make no mistake about it, the ugly goes way deeper than just a bad comment here or there. Thankfully the trend is toward better.
Much like 8-hour workdays, weekends, or parental leave, I'm excited for us to discuss reforming parts of how the world works to make things better for everyone.
Death lags new case by as much as a month (due to time from infection to death). So we won't really know if there is an increase an death due to the new cases for a number of weeks after we see a rise in cases.
That's not what "phenotypic" means. Phenotypic environment includes any "cultural amplification" or similar factors. Almost all genetic competitions are subject to some sort of king effect, e.g. hypergamy and concomitant GMV in non-monogamous species. We still consider the results of these effects to be phenotypic.
I respect and agree with your rant. CTO and Co-Founder of DNSFilter here.

When we get a complaint that our recursive servers are returning an 'old IP' as if we did something wrong... I start by explaining that they likely didn't properly lower their TTL prior to making a change.

Sadly we'll never win this battle; so at some point in the future we'll need to join the likes of google in providing a page to force cache expiration of domains at customers request :/

https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/cache
In his defense, there are some crimes (like smoking weed) that everyone commits, but that only get prosecuted in places the police decide to patrol.
FWIW, 3s latency wasn't a thing at all before amazon, and well into the acquisition
SoftBank executives set to lose profit from Wirecard trade
And later, Project Timberwind / TIMBER WIND

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Timberwind
> They are predicting 15% frequency gain (at the same complexity and power)

My intuition is that 50% might be overoptimistic. But going from iPad to Laptop thermal constraints, you'd expect a big increase in frequency just from clocking the thing higher, no?
Microsoft has done so much to improve their reputation. I think this is a risk and a mistake.
Apple's history is mostly using older designs for the lower end devices. They are completely different chips, not just a lower frequency version of the same part.
Cycling directions on Apple Maps has me more excited than it probably should. I like a LOT of what they’ve done to improve Maps since they entered the space and this was sorely missing for me
I had a new computer pre installed with Catalina
> It doesn’t matter if a lot of small family-owned businesses fail.

Tell that to the families involved.
Except that they'd have no idea how to get started and even if they did move, nobody else would follow, just like what just happened. Twitch is the Netflix of streaming. Doesn't matter who else does what, people will watch Twitch + <other_streaming_company>
Hello neighbor!
macOS Big Sur has an iconography problem
That wasn't my argument. What I posted is still available for you to read.
For a second i thought I was looking at a Windows 10 mail app screenshot...

https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...
I agree, any change will be frowned upon. It just annoys me that I feel like they're drawing the completely wrong conclusions.

Apple was the company that dropped the headphone jack from their phone, shipped a laptop with only USB-C ports etc... they don't shy away from making big controversial decisions if they feel like it's good for them.

If Apple was going to do this to MacOS, they'd have already done it. They wouldn't be spending years tip toeing towards it like people seem to think.

Instead, they've rolled back some really unpopular changes like the crappy keyboard in their laptop, they just shipped a new Mac Pro that is clearly designed for professionals. This chip transition will result in Apple's laptops having better battery life, specs and heating than any other laptops available on the market. It won't even be close.

Additionally, they're actively trying to bring a huge swath of developers who currently only develop for their mobile devices into developing for the Mac. If they were trying to turn Macs into something for college students to watch Netflix on they wouldn't be doing any of this.

It's insane to me that people can see a UI refresh as a sign of doom while ignoring that Apple has actually been investing in the platform quite a bit more than they were a few years ago.
>I really don't think they're going to put out touch screen Macs.

Why not? I think its a distinct possibility.
On a recent trip to Bangkok it was often hard to tell whether one was approaching an actual open sewer or just a durian stall.

Sad I missed the fruit market though, I bet they have a massive variety of banana cultivars. I tried a couple I'd never had before when over there.
Faster cpus become more power-efficient cpus because they can race to sleep. So you really do want to pay more for that cpu, but not for the compute performance but for the battery life.

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/race-to-sleep
This is interesting, thanks! Is there anything else you can tell me about the results of your experiments with small networks? I am really interested in this.

For example: did you notice than increasing or decreasing network size required significant changes in other hyperparameters? Are small networks learning faster at the beginning of training before they start to plateau?
> It's implied that renewals fall under "the order does not apply to those already in the United States", but is frankly not direct or transparent enough to give comfort for those who have to leave the country temporarily to process their visa renewals.

It specifically does not apply those in the US on the date of the proclamation or with a valid nonimmigrant visa or nonvisa entry document. So, no, there is no ambiguity on the face on this point. (That is, it expressly only applies to those outside the US on the date it becomes effective, who don't have a visa, and don't have a nonvisa travel document.)
> an accurate map of where the users are with respect to where the advertisers are

Not just advertisers - accurate location context information can (on it's own or in combination with other data) de-"anonymise" location data[1]. Any new sources of data that Facebook can correlate with their existing hoard of data increases the precision of their model of everyone's pattern-of-life.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/locat...
The article likely meant they did a custom implementation of the architecture, not that they didn’t use automation during the design process. At least that’s what I’d assume without reading it (I’d be interested to read if you have link). It’s basically the difference between optimizing your application by rewriting the performance critical parts (good idea) and never using a compiler (bad idea).

Also, I don’t think what you wrote is offensive in any way - no need to edit unless you feel compelled to.
Don't they already have Bitbucket?
Please replace this article with the official order: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation...
She’s also one of the best founders I’ve ever worked with. Her talks at yc are my favorite — incredibly honest, personal, and insightful.
Webdriver is for more than just testing! Very cool demonstration.

My biggest headache was in getting the right selectors for the various form fields - some services have shifting IDs and classes (ugh xpath)
Is there a risk of undercover agents and CIs being outed? If so, does that potentially endangers lives?
Yeah it was done so they could pull the switcheroo later and reveal that everything seen so far was on an ARM Mac
Ask HN: How to get POPCNT into the next RISC-V base or “C” set?
RISC-V is important, but its bit-manipulation capabilities are woefully weak. The proposed Bitmanip ("B") extension is very powerful, but large, so even if ultimately ratified it might never be supported in lower-cost implementations.

A huge part of the value of the Bitmanip extension would be provided by a single, minimal but fast POPCNT instruction. (NSA demanded POPCNT in its Atlas, Stretch, CDC, and Cray machines for good reasons.)

How does one go about getting POPCNT into the next release of the base or "C" compressed instruction set? Is there any possibility of getting it into "C" set but not the base set? Of Bitmanip claiming any part of the "C" instruction code space?
> If they have a number or publications as you say, they may be eligible to apply for O-1 visa.

This is only if you have a research-based job. If you graduate with a PhD and get a job on the software engineering ladder, you're SOL.
Might be good for laptops with a touchpad though. I don't know the sales split, but I assume Apple sells many more laptops than desktops.
> Graviton2 compensates by just throwing 64 cores at the problem, but that's not going to do anything for your Electron-based text editor that struggles to use 2 CPU cores in the first place. Or for a typical webpage, which struggles to use more than a single CPU core.

More cores will help your typical developer who's running 8+ apps at once, along with several browser tabs that are all running in separate processes.
I have six apps on my Android homescreen: browser, mail, sms, clock, notes and maps. That's all I always use every week. I definitely need my TOTP app, Duo for work, the calculator and of course camera and phone apps, but I don't use any of them frequently enough to want them on the homescreen.
> Hacker News is full of people who think XFCE is the height of desktop experience. This is fundamentally different than apple’s core fan base who seem to like any change just for the sake of change.

that statement seems perhaps too harsh to both HN crowd and Apple's core fan base, I spend more time on HN than I care to admit and I can assure you that I do not like XFCE desktop experience at all, my desktop is running Debian 10 with Cinnamon on it, but UX is not something that I'd ever list as one of top 5 features of this setup. Similarly I've been using Apple laptops for about 14 years now and do consider myself a part of "core fan base", for the record I hate the butterfly keyboard, despise touchbar with a passion, and am utterly disgusted by the decision to remove MagSafe chargers.

To quote great Dr Tobias Funke - there are dozens of us.
Comments like this often appear to be the exact sort of status-seeking they claim to hate. "I don't even own a TV," etc.

I really don't think the logical leap between "people like [person]" to "people think it's cute to pay a couple hundred bucks to get a unique message for someone from them."

And then if you want to get into "but some people spend thousands..." - then we're still just criticizing the extremes of the market, and not so much the concept. Like making a show of freaking out about the fact that some people pay $LOTS for a bottle of alcohol, vs the person who claims they can't understand why others would enjoy alcohol in the first place.
As I posted somewhere else, this is THE time for EU to jumpstart their tech industry.

It's a simple process:

- Actively court American companies to set up shop in EU

- The global market is filled with tech workers who would otherwise be sucked in by the US. Give them visas.

This is a great boost to GDP and bounce back from covid recession. Canada has capitalized on this for the past 4 years and the wages in Canada have only gone up and up.

EU can have the pie too while the US shoots itself in the foot.
You are stating in step #2 that the Pi4 cannot output 4k at 60Hz. Could you please insert a footnote that it actually can?

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/hdmi...
Apple's new "app tracking transparency" requirements for the App Store
One large file could be CPU bound, many small files (which is partly why you zip/jar things up) is disk bound.
Its still puzzling to me why facebook wanted it. I have used mappilary a bit and it is not an alternative to google street view. The images tend to be shit quality at odd angles and with window reflections in the way and are not 360 degrees like googles are. The only purpose of mappilary in my view is for open street map mapping since the images are usually good enough to read points of interest on the side of roads so you can add them to OSM which street view does not allow.
Trump extends limits on some work visas through 2020
I am mostly upset about the low contrast. I hope that gets improved before release.

And sad about the change in sheets and alerts... I’ll probably get over that.
Great until there is no more OS support for computers running your computers instruction set. Rosetta does not help with that.
Apple switched the name from "OS X" to "macOS" with 10.12 (Sierra). "OS X" has been over for a while now.
It’s a new 16” that I set up new.
> how many women do you think there are in the world?

If you had any interest in having an intelligent discussion on the gender ratio in IT you would have asked relevant questions such as "why are entry-level IT jobs seeing a gender ratio of 20-to-1", or "why are women deciding not to work in IT".

But no.
Taleb isn't targeting well-educated laymen when he talks of IYIs. He's speaking of intellectuals who are divorced from reality. As he puts it, "No skin in the game", e.g. economists, journalists, forecasters, career academics, social "scientists", etc.