skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No? They still put stuff down there. Just not critical stuff (e.g. establishing-shot location text, which instead tends to get displayed centered or center-left in modern visual design, since nobody ever sets their captions to the middle.)
It seems to me that the reverse is more likely at the scale of most people on HN: people emotionally invested in a brand use disposable income to buy shares of the brand (or, the reverse).
So they could try to kamikaze AMD with the execs parachuting to some 3rd competitor at the last second?
It's already confusing enough before using another ambiguous unit.

1 us fl oz = 0.96076 * uk fl oz
Apple's original human interface designer says that

Apple has "razor-sharp focus on a user many of us often fail to even consider: The potential user, the buyer", ignoring the needs of people who already paid their money.

https://asktog.com/atc/the-third-user/
I'll be sure to let you know how it goes. I have a few self-play experiments that I'm trying out once I get the testing setup finished.

Do you know if there is a discord channel for all of us AlphaZero nerds that I'm missing? If not, we should make one. It'd be great to bounce ideas off each other.
I think the idea is that the way we are wired it’s a pretty natural thing that happens when we are exposed to depictions of other people (real or fictional). One thing I read also suggested that the content we get from media figures is very conducive to this kind of bonding because they often share very intimate facts about themselves, they establish reciprocal relationships with their audience where the audience likes/subscribes, buys merch, etc.

Might be kind of like dopamine and variable reward cycles where technology is able to hijack a response that came to into existence in a very different environment.

So far most of what I’ve read indicates that parasocial relationships are viewed as benign or positive by mental health specialists because they can genuinely supply some of the social needs people have and contribute to positive personal resiliency, stuff like that.

Very interesting and weird and probably only more relevant as time goes on.
I think you're just mistaking Twitch for a recent unicorn. Twitch grew completely organically from Justin.TV in the mid-late 00's and the demands for hosting something like Justin.TV we're far lower than they are for Twitch now.

Just to put it in context, game streaming was picking up steam on Justin.TV before Instagram even launched. The juggernaut that Twitch is now was just inevitable.
He probably hastened the beginning of the Civil War and therefore saved many lives due to ending slavery earlier. It's hard to evaluate the morality of something that had such a large effect. How many slaves would have died if they had been enslaved just a few more years? (And how many of those died anyway because being free wasn't easy either? Hard to say...)
I was regularly in my last round of interviews, and I'm a man. Shrug.
All they really did was make it harder to thoughtlessly do. If you can't cope with the procedure needed to make changes to the write-protected folders, maybe whatever it is you wanted to write there isn't actually that important.
Executive order stopping certain work visas
This relevant MR https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/26692 is scheduled (not guarateed) for 13.2 (July 22, 2020). Also see this issue https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/22506
They are probably trying to normalize them a bit so when you install iOS apps on your desktop they blend in.
The Model T Ford car, its construction, operation and repair (1916)
Choice does not necessitate an up-front decision to be made by the user. It simply means, at some point, I can choose an alternative. Safari fuckin’ sucks and I am forced to use it to have access to certain features on iOS - like webcam - which is bullshit.
Don't expect typical web developers to care for 1-2% blind users when they've often ignored browsers with 5% or higher market share... Most don't understand that a one-time effort to get the last few % in revenue is worth it.
Users must unionize for their data access, otherwise the price goes to zero
I'm genuinely curious: why do you want to create new directories at the root level? Is this something you're just used to doing and it breaks your customary way of working? Is it a "general principle" thing (which I suspect is a lot of the objection the HN crowd really has at the root, no pun intended)? I've been using OS X-based Macs since 2002 and used Linux and FreeBSD for a decade before that, and I don't recall ever having an actual need to create a root-level directory.
Apple has pushed XPC architecture for plug-ins for several years and has announced that these plug-ins will work in Rosetta for a Native host app. Audio Units will work as well.
Sia, MaidSafe, Storj, Filecoin, a number of networks either out or on the way for this kind of storage, theirs another one too but I can't remember the name of it for the life of me and I was a node a year or 2 ago for them lol.
I read it as a reminder that yes, that should be obvious, should be 'bread and butter', not an ancient outdated forgotten practice.
Stockton Has Both the Longest and Shortest Commutes in the U.S.
> (You will notice that people like Google and Cloudflare skillfully respond with only one record with a 5 minute TTL. That is so the behavior of the browser is well defined, but it also eats their entire year of 99.999% uptime with one bad reply. Your systems had better be very reliable if DNS issues can eat a year's worth of error budget.)

This chapter in the Google SRE book explains how our load balancing DNS works:

https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/load-balanc...

Source: my team runs this service
Fair 'nuff. I used improper superlatives.

There was another article that I read, back then, by a more "reputable" site, maybe an IEEE pub. Can't remember. it was a ways back.
If science ultimately kills us all due to climate change or nuclear war or global pandemic or alerting hostile aliens to our presence or (other-crazy-thing-of-nonzero-measure) then I claim that science will not have been good for humanity as a whole. The verdict is unknowable. We comically forgot to run a scientific experiment on the matter.
I expect that MacOS 11.2 will be iPadOS.
Just Me and Myself, Thinking about Each Other and Fighting Coronavirus
I never heard of Facebook Gaming. Is it a serious competitor to Twitch?
Cory Doctorow talked about these worries quite eloquently back in his 2011 keynote to the Chaos Computer Congress, titled "The Coming War on General Purpose Computation".

https://boingboing.net/2011/12/27/the-coming-war-on-general-...
> When I download an app (.dmg) and click it, it shows up as a new disk. WTF?

So download (or provide for download) a .pkg instead of a, you know, Apple Disk Image file
Web3 is basically distributed internet to my knowledge, things like hosting on IPFS etc
In Virginia we have pawpaw fruit that taste like custard, but must be eaten soon after picking since they bruise very easily and don’t store or ship well.
> port 852

Typo, meant 853.
Rust isn't behind on ARM, except for SIMD intrinsics on stable, which are not things most languages (e.g. Java, Go) have at all for any architecture.
> As someone who has worked with many many H1-B workers in the past decade, I can tell you that H1-B workers are hired not because they are "low cost" but because they are willing to put in long hours and are very agreeable to tough working conditions.

Pointing out the obvious here: Long hours = low cost
I kind of agree with some of your points (I wouldn’t pay for this service and if someone paid so I’d get a message I’d find it hard to be appreciative) but I also feel it depends on penetration. After a while this deviance from the norm becomes normalized and accepted and it becomes like paying someone to prepare coffee for you. It doesn’t feel icky.
Yes, thank you. I hope to never see anyone I respect on that site.
Perhaps a "digital bill of rights"?

> Earlier in his campaign, Yang said that data should be classified as property, and users should have certain rights over how their data is collected and used by tech companies. Yang offers more insight on what these rights would look like in Thursday’s proposal, and he pledges to pass a “Digital Bill of Rights, ensuring ownership of data, control over how it’s used, and compensation for its use” if he is elected president.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/14/20964834/andrew-yang-dig...

And for a balance of opinion, a counter-argument on why this might be bad:

> Or let's take the central element of yang's proposal, establishing data as a property right and allowing individuals to be compensated for the use of that data if it is used by a big tech company like Google or Facebook when selling to advertisers. This again is a bit of a problem as tech expert Gigi sohn said on this show recently.

> Gigi makes a pretty convincing case there that actual ownership of your data could have a lot of problems, while the core underlying concern is more about data privacy. why not just tackle that instead?

https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/470719-saagar-enjeti-yangs...
Food Etsy
Study sheds light on a classic visual illusion: simultaneous brightness contrast
What would they contribute from that?
So what is your response when it's coming from someone that did live in a bad neighborhood,like me? I grew up on the south side of Chicago, around the Back of the Yards area which was particularly bad in the 90s. I've been robbed at gun point and had to live avoiding alleys, avoid wearing certain colors of clothing, have had to grow up seeing dried blood on my walks to elementary school, etc. And I still say ACAB and support defunding the police.

In your view, these are people that don't wish to integrate themselves, and in my view, these are people that never had much of a chance to begin with. The public schools I went to were so underfunded, and I am lucky that I took a different path than the one of least resistance. A lot of the people I grew up with that joined gangs were abused as kids, had learning disabilities, grew up with violence, didn't have a proper learning environment, didn't have after-school programs to go to when they wanted to avoid violence and abuse at home, etc. I'd rather take money from police departments and funnel it to actually giving those kids a chance.
I enjoy both coffee and tea. When out it's much easier to get good coffee.

For a while, I quit caffeine and sought out the best decaf beans I could find in the city and it was well worth it. I still enjoy them whenever I pick some up. I don't always want/need the caffeine but do enjoy the flavour and routine.

Made me wonder, who's the coffee lover? The one who doesn't change it or the one who consumes it even without the active ingredient?
You aren't making anything clear, just straw man arguments. Apple switches architecture when it suits them, you think they switched from powerpc to intel was for differentation? Nope, it was cost and performance aka value.
An apology for the snark, just remembered a comment a professor(anthropologist) made that so much of the German culture was shaped by the monarchical and authoritarian regimes, just highly hierarchical and regulated to death, that ruled over it. Not comparing to the US and not American just curious how cultural differences play out. Think both US and Germany still have it decently good compared to what you will see in other countries (just plain terrible).

Now, these 2, I won't say one's situation is better than the other but it is curious that both models of public education have their origin in Prussia/Germany and seem to be keeping the original 19th Century purposes of reducing social unrest.

I do see it is more difficult to keep a good level of education in the vast extension of the US with the current system. Seems it is in need of an overhaul but way deeper than AP courses. Like how would AP courses benefit a rural schoolkid other than maybe getting access to work in a city? Could we think there is any education for him to be a good farmer? (as 1 example, not sure if it is practical) Ideally, moonshot, he would be able to choose whichever path suited him best, whether more education or moving, etc...
Anything you save on rent you're spending on income tax. I love living here but for Silicon Valley types who only care about money it's a terrible choice.
Nearing my 1 year cliff and have an offer elsewhere – when to give notice?
I have been working at a bay area startup for 11 months now. I have another job lined up and I plan on leaving my startup.

I have heard some bad things about the CEO wanting people gone immediately once they say they are going to leave the company. Ideally, I would like to give 2-4 weeks of notice and have my last day be shortly after I hit my 1 year cliff.

However, I am afraid that if I give notice before my cliff date they might fire me and screw me out of my equity stake just before I vest.

Has anyone run into this situation or have advice? Are there any CA/Federal laws I should know about?
>But it should be a last resort not the go to response.

Private companies have been slinging political / social issues messaging all over social media in the past few weeks. COVID and the decisions made around it are political / social issues, right?

So in the name of not having things be one sided i.e. they get political when it suits their brand, I really feel like the right counterbalance is employee activism via organizing & leaking online.

A company that is proclaiming about lives mattering one week and then pressuring their staff to return to close-quartered open-offices the next week deserves to have their dirty laundry hung high for all to see.
We don’t know that they would do it in equal distributions, and it stands to reason that more people would take worse risks if they had less to lose.
/r/wallstreetbets loves Cameo
True, I guess as any news forum grows, you're going to have marketing trolls. I'm just kinda disappointed that it never gets down-voted or called out in the comments.

Maybe if more users had the right to down-vote, there wouldn't be this problem.
Wait until your cliff date passes, don't gamble if you don't have to.
If there are complex numbers and quaternions, why are there no trinions?
Wow. Huh. Thanks for the explanation. I know a bit of the complications of American laws, especially when it comes to state jurisdictions, though i realize there's much I don't understand, I figured things like that were already federal though. I appreciate you taking the time to explain and take my comment seriously, I understand how it could have come off wrong.
I don't think you understand. Without H1B and J there is no way for US to hire any talent into US. No world-class engineer can work in any US company, no world-class researcher can be hired to any US university. This is will long lasting effects on US economy for years to come.
Seems more likely that you have two groups here: one that needed to be very politically aware to get there, and one that didn't.

So yeah, the one that had to fight political fights to even end up in the industry are going to be better, on average, than the ones who got welcomed in.

If there was a concerted effort to keep men out of software you would notice that the men still in software were very aware of the political/power dynamics around them real quick. Because the rest would be somewhere else.
Graduating in a Pandemic
> Throughout macOS 11, windows adopt visual touches that recall iOS interfaces.

Is this an OS or a wine-tasting?

> use an increased corner radius

What was wrong with lower radius? Were Apple designers too ignorant to try larger radious in the past?

> Within an alert, most content is center aligned.

center-aligned paragraph text? It's 90s HTML throwback!
Really depends how you measure the value of data. Rich people being served ads is more valuable, but the targeting algorithms probably churn on all the data at large. I imagine given Yang's history he'd argue for the latter and cut a flat fee to everyone like they do in Alaska for oil.
Fujitsu announced they would be building a Kei2 based on ARM, soon after their Kei was #1 around 5 years ago.

ARM was a British company until it was bought by SoftBank a couple of years ago.
We should compare the lives lost in this failed attack to the lives that were lost in the continuing practice of slavery. Yes it was illegal and disruptive, but the status quo, while legal and banal, resulted in the death of slaves at a much higher rate. And, of course compared to the civil war, the toll was miniscule.
The leak is still too new and too large for a very detailed analysis, but BleepingComputer has an article[1] on it.

[1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/blueleaks-dat...
Reminds me of the Citybound game in (slow :( ) development by basically one guy and also written in Rust:

https://aeplay.org/citybound

He demoed his actor system with 100 000 cars in the middle of this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr9GTTST_Dk

Maybe you guys should team up :) (if not already...)
A true peer-to-peer internet
> Maybe a less deadly version of the virus is propagating now.

High probability that selection has already begun. It seems the strain that primarily hit New York City acts slightly differently than the one from Wuhan, and Chicago has a mix of them and others:

https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/chicago-has-uniq...
I don't think HN is the best place for this question; definitely not when it's phrased like that.

Yes, it's sometimes frustrating that there isn't a way to do an "I told you so" or "notice that your judgment was poor". (For example, in a COVID-19 thread here back in February or so, I predicted that the pandemic would have minor impacts on the U.S., but other people in that thread who might have been skeptical of that prediction have no useful way to follow up to correct me or point out that I got it wrong.)

But even if that's potentially a flaw with the way HN discussions go, your question is phrased in a flamebaity way and is very unlikely to lead to a constructive discussion.
How Non-Engineers can work with Engineers
Oh. I've seen that.
The security torx bits are much weaker, I've actually snapped quite a few of them which has never happened to me with any other type.
Similarly, there's a fruit that is supposedly found all over the midwest but that I can never find in Chicago: the "paw paw".

Apparently they don't travel or keep well, so supermarkets almost never stock them.
Draftbit (YC W18) Is Hiring Senior Engineers – Reason, GraphQL, React Native
DoD ‘Agile’ Software Development Still Too Slow: GAO
Oh! I always thought the TTL was the delay in "propagating" the DNS change, not an expiration time for lookups. Learn something new everyday... Good thing that's not my day job.
The fact that you need public exposure to find a donor is the problem, not the solution. Going to social media doesn't guarantee that you'll be able to find a donor. Worse, you could be targeted by online scammers and trolls, which is the last thing you want in a difficult situation.
Seems like most people cargo cult companies together or even keep big companies running by cargo culting. Getting praised if they are successful but it''s maybe not on purpose they got successful.
I use selenium similarly to drive a similarly awful interface known as costpoint. I would DEARLY love to know how to use the browser developer tools to figure out what is actually happening under the hood of websites without having to read every single Javascript module. The network tab shows you what is sent and received but it's not easy to figure out how those messages are created and parsed. It would be nice to learn how to debug and step through some of that.

If I could learn the underlying api, I could write a tool that would never change. The ui changes much more frequently than the interface between client and server code. Besides, it would be much faster this way.
Rust's Huge Compilation Units
I looked up the numbers out of curiosity. The X1 Carbon has a i7-8650U processor which does about 26 GFlops. The Cray-1, the classic 1976 supercomputer did 130 MFlops. The Cray-1 weighed 5.5 tons, used 115 kW of power, and cost $8 million. The Cray-1 was used for nuclear weapon design, seismic analysis, high-energy physics, weather analysis and so forth. The X1 Carbon is roughly equivalent to 200 Crays and (according to the previous comment) displays animated emojis with some effort. I think there's something wrong with software.
> employees not getting on VPN for days at a time

Oh jeez, I hope this is not a metric I'm being counted by.

Not because I'm not working, but because I avoid the VPN as much as I possibly can. It's laggy, prone to hijacking my DNS traffic and attempting to send me to the corporate http proxies (which don't permit self-signed certs or local access... have other issues such as TLS injection and randomly terminating byte-streams).

I work my full complement.. actually even more so.

But most of my work can be done via slack/teams+outlook if it's interacting with the organisation, and those things are externally accessible.

For everything else: Excel/Word do not need a VPN and neither does my IDE- all my servers are in the cloud so... yeah, I'm almost never on the VPN.
Does anyone else fondly remember the time when JS was often used to reduce page size and increase loading speeds?

Here's an example from memory: https://web.archive.org/web/20030806180507/http://www.tweake...

As download speeds increased, this went out of fashion, only to be replaced by (often obnoxious) JS-based UI elements.
This was fact-checked and appears to be false.

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/06/trump-campaign-didnt-adver...
1 Facebook owns Oculus

2 Remember FarmVille or Plants vs Zombies?
To each their own. I found the keynote to be engaging and it was different from the usual same kind of presentation that we've had with Jobs for decades.
There's nothing worse than joining a meeting and hearing about "the plan" for the first time. "The plan" having been decided on over a lunch meeting between person-in-charge and the-guy who thought "the plan" is the best thing ever. Doesn't matter how bad "the plan" is - it's 10 times harder to walk back something like that.
I think this is a good point, however over time I believe less and less of option (2) will be used. Option (1) will become ubiquitous, and it is important it is done well. The researchers signing the letter should be exactly the ones helping improve the models used, as they obviously care enough to consider the inherent biases and societal effects.

Just because they choose to "opt out", it doesn't mean everyone else will. It leaves the task to a smaller pool of competent people (best case), or unscrupulous people out to make a quick buck or push an agenda (worst case).
I don't understand what you're inferring this from. To me it looks like the opposite is happening and dead space around elements is increasing (e.g. see the comparison of finder between 10.16 and 11.0).

Edit: It's also quite clear from the comparisons that the number of elements visible on-screen is decreasing because each element is getting larger and the padding between elements is increasing.

Edit2: Also, the idea that this UI is more accessible is contradicted by the removal of various visual elements that help separate and differentiate UI elements and the loss of contrast in the UI in general. Visual impairments are much more common than Parkinson's and none of these decisions help with that.
True, I looked it up and per quarter it was maybe $30 in the US per quarter per big ad-tech company. A digital VAT would be easier to reason about IMO, but this idea of handing money directly to people has some populist appeal I suspect.

Personally I much rather preferred his original plan to fund a UBI with consumption taxes, but I suppose the primary voters weren't bought into that plan.