skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is the format of Amazon PR/FAQs. They are written "from the future" usually including a made-up release date.
> What the administrator that sets up that record wants is "send to whichever one of these seems healthy

In the rrDNS, remove the A record of the hosts that fails tests, or that has a load that's too high

> Maybe you want to try them all in parallel and pick the first to respond (at the TCP connection level).

Something a geoIP at your DNS can do, certainly not as good as doing that in the client, but it should be decent enough.

> Your systems had better be very reliable if DNS issues can eat a year's worth of error budget

Or, if you aren't google or cloudflare, use a 30 to 60s TTL in rrDNS, with health checks to selectively remove IP that fail, on pools splitting your servers by region with geoIP - this way, if 1/10 of your east coast servers fail, nobody from APAC will be impacted, and only 1/10th of your US east users, and only for the TTL (I'm abstracting ISP that cache for too long, but you already mitigate a lot of the problem there)

I can see how it would be easier to handle that in the browser, but you may already be able to do that with some JS to estimate the latency, then store the result in a cookie that causes a reload to www.eastcoast.yoursite.com if the user sticks to www.yoursite.com or after returning home goes to www.apac.yoursite.com while new measurement say "not optimal" and update the cookie
My money is on a new iMac Pro.
Thinking about it as an immigrant, just the same way as the H1B: why punt on it if it is this variable? And why even depend of this? The entire problem is that immigration isn't working as it is supposed to. If even this can be gamed, what's the point?
cross compiles? Or emulates x86-64?
At the last WWDC, Apple mentioned that of all of the so called "creative professionals" on the Mac, software developers were the largest group. I don't know how large the percentage is exactly, but its clearly significant.
Just make it customizable. There is no one size fits all.
It's entirely possible the display was only running at 4K instead of the full, native resolution.
You don’t have to guess these numbers, Facebook publishes them in their quarterly and annual reports. IIRC, users in North America generate around $85 a year. Other geos are now where close, with Europe a distant second.
Yep, I agree. Hacker News is a very conservative place (in terms of technology and UI changes). I think in general Apple does a phenomenal job at UI design.

That said, the user experience of Mac OS still has plenty of low hanging fruit:

- Window management and app switching could be much better. The "app switching system" I liked the most was in Gnome 2 / MATE - I could just quickly move the cursor to the bottom task bar and scroll. It was so effortless, fast and easy.

- When I download an app (.dmg) and click it, it shows up as a new disk. WTF?

- The file manager could be made much better. Again, MATE had (probably still has) the best file manager I've ever used in terms of UX.
I can't speak for the commentor that you're replying to, but I also found the whole "only $5,000" point to be a hard to identify with. I've personally never had $5,000 at one time in my entire life, let alone $5,000 to spend on a short video. For me (and quite a few people that I know) that would literally be life changing money, so it's difficult to grasp.

I don't personally think the commentor was "making a show" with his question. In fact, if expressing opinions on this topic counts as "status seeking", wouldn't your defense of this business model count as the exact same thing you're decrying?

By my understanding of what you've just said, (paraphrasing here) "I can't imagine spending money on this" seeks to establish a status, but "I do not have a problem with people spending money on this" does not seek to establish a status. The way I read it, if "status-seeking" is at issue, the main difference is between the status you attempt to seek vs the status you perceive the other person to be seeking, not an indictment of the practice as a whole.

Edit: typo
Could you give https://github.com/dabreegster/abstreet/suites/828409393/art... a shot? If that URL disappears or you don't want to re-download the whole .zip, just the fixed binary is https://www.dropbox.com/s/j2hh8xrugtsxslc/game.exe?dl=0
The smallest half-adder is just a double fistful of atoms — about a million times smaller than the proposed 2nm GAA logic. The doubling rate is going to slow down, so we’re talking ~20 generations of at least 3+ years, or more. Who the hell knows what things will look like in the year 2100.
> We are specifically a 527 that supports/opposes more than one Federal candidate, is not a segregated fund or party committee, is not a Lobbyist/Registrant PAC, and is not a Leadership PAC. (On FEC form 1 this is box (f) under section 5)

For more context on this, the FEC instructions for filling out Form 1 contains a bit more information on the different types of 527s: https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/fecfrm1i...

They also have this table explaining the contribution limits that apply to each, our form of 527 is called out in a footnote to the table: https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/candidate...

> I guess my question is, if you're raising money not-for-a-campaign but on issues, how are you then going to use that money for explicit advocacy for a candidate's election, where limits actually kick in.

https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/taking-re...
Finite Fields
Yes, at the 1:46:10 mark. Tim Cook says they have some Intel based Macs in the pipeline.
> The only way this nonsense will change is when more people who do have other options take them.

Since getting them to do that is literally the purpose of the nonsense currently being executed, and which has been executed against immigrant and nobimmigrant aliens for the last several years, I think you are mistaken. It's not like that's been at all a secret.
People that disagree are usually the loudest when it comes to any issue. Those that agree probably just upvote and move on.
After reading the article I thought the same thing. People who hate cilantro tend to absolutely hate even the thought of it.
Normally, yes; but sometimes the change required to help one group doesn't hinder anyone else, and also is very hard to automatically derive the "accessible" version of the UX in a way that doesn't cause more harm than help (by e.g. accidentally pushing critical buttons out of visibility into a slide menu; or breaking a menu onto two lines such that there's less viewport left than originally designed for at minimum height.)

In such cases, it makes a lot of sense to just give the change to everybody, so that you can design the UX once, with the change in place.

See also: modern TV shows and films that make sure to not put anything important where closed-captions would appear—they're designing once, assuming captioning.
Exactly.

The answer is nothing. If it isn't already, TSMC will eventually pass the cost onto Apple.
Also you could store a seed for the eye, or one for each even
Double criminality! If you are having to launder your micropayment income, you probably should start to question your morals...
Right, but an iPad is already an example of what they can do when they control both.
Explains why I never use Apple Pay...
>It seems like people think that because they're taking design cues from iOS they intend to lock it down like iOS and they're transferring that fear into dislike of the new UI itself.

This has been the fear for the last 10 or so years, maybe longer. It hasn't strictly happened yet. Maybe someday, but this definitely isn't it.
The MBR isn't racist, nor your Master's Degree or your master bedroom.

Keep your "woke" attitude outside of IT please
Armory (YC W17) ’S Tribal Handbook
Two observations regarding the former title bar:

* Putting the title (folder name) before the controls introduces a fundamental instability, much like OS X did with the menu bar by placing the named app menu before any other menus. Also, the amount of available space for displaying a longer title/file name seems limited.

* It seems, the proxy icon is gone. I can't see which element could bear the functionality in place. The title is already editable, making it dragable as well might be too much. Is this the beginning of the end of the drag-and-drop paradigm? (Notably, it doesn't suit touch interfaces well. Many aspects of these changes seem to prepare "touchability".)
Yes it's Electron.
You may be thinking of Core Animation usage, which is really good to see. As I understand it this is also a prerequisite for WebRender.

The bug in question: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1429522

A blog post breakdown: https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2019/10/22/dramatically-red...

This does make a difference, but macOS is in many respects a "death by a thousand cuts" platform due to the UI/UX bar being fairly high. It notably clips in many areas where Chrome and Safari simply don't, which leads to a jarring experience. Scrolling and resizing is still not smooth, even after tweaking it behind the scenes - although to be fair, the post above calls out that they're aware they can make this smoother with CA.

Firefox on macOS also still has issues with hardware acceleration. Comparing the following URL across browsers I can achieve 60fps, no drops, on Safari. Firefox on my Mac averages 45fps.

https://webglsamples.org/aquarium/aquarium.html

I love Firefox (and the associated lineage) - I really do. I've kept it installed since the Mozilla Suite days. I still check every damn release to see if I could switch back. I'm sad every time I find I can't.
These charts point out a lot of issues, most real problems, in my opinion. It's far less clear that this is the result of "systemic racism", though. The idea that "poverty begets poverty" could explain a lot of it more simply.

Also, I am very dubious about survey questions. Asking someone how they feel about the police is going to draw a lot of noise and crosscutting motivations. It would be far more useful to know what they do in a situation where they need a policeman.
Video chat and elderly relatives was a pain point in my life for a few years. I spent quite a lot of time finding a solution (spoiler: it's FaceTime and 4G iPads).

Things I tried:

- Initially, I tried Skype on a Windows laptop (around 2011). This was a nightmare for everyone. There were too many points of failure (wifi would disconnect and require a support phone call, Windows would update and require a phonecall to log back in, Skype would require an update and trigger a support call, etc).

- Around 2013, I tried an Android tablet with the Skype App over wifi. This was just as bad as a laptop (the app was also pretty unstable.

- I switched to Google Hangouts. The UI was an issue and was also unstable.

- In 2014/2015, I gifted an old Macbook Air. I set this up with Facetime and also Skype. My relatives preferred Skype initially (since they had experience with the app), but I showed them how to make and answer FaceTime calls over a Christmas weekend and they picked it up in less than an hour. The MacBook setup was great, but it died in 2016.

- In 2016, I gifted them an iPad with 4G. We continued communicating with FaceTime (and iMessage). This has been flawless for the past 4 years. I update the iPad each year over Christmas. I've only had one support call to install Snapchat (so my grandparents can keep in contact with a great-grandchild).

If the iPad dies anytime soon, I would consider Facebook Portal as an alternative.
I interpreted your parent as pure sarcasm. The US government did throw hundreds of billions of USD at state and local police, anti-terrorism, and surveillance (including fusion centers for each state). They have no excuse for screwing up the security of their intelligence exchange (except we have come to live with low expectations for government organizations).
> This is true, but not necessarily the role of SO to solve. This seems more like a mentoring service.

SO, I agree, is not a mentoring service. The format of SO is a poor way to pick up foundational knowledge. It's ~usually~ awesome if you know exactly what you need and are able search for it. Or if needed, formulate a precise question. (to be fair, that is often NOT enough to avoid smackdown votes, VTC, dupe marking, and dismissive put-downs).

That said, it happens many times, that people end up having to do unfamiliar tasks in their work, and they might need to just get something done without having much directly relatable experience in the task. RTFM is not a realistic option as the F-ing Manuals's would typically be hundreds of pages of dense material. Often a push in the right direction and a little orientation is enormously helpful.

And, by the way, many people really do enjoy helping out individuals-- they take joy in helping someone out even if the help they provide doesn't take the form of "a canonical answer" (god, I hate that pretentious word, "canonical"). It doesn't detract from the quality of the site to loosen up on the strictness of the rules.
Minor nit: billionth of a meter, not of a millimeter.
This and other responses show where this service shines: as a gift to others. It's only sad if there's deception for money.
They do, along with several other competing products.
Trump bans all new H1Bs for 2020
I think it was Maciej Cegłowski, founder of https://pinboard.in, who related the following story:

- He had a competitor who couldn't make the product work given revenues < costs

- He ended up buying the competitor

- Because his infrastructure costs were much lower (I believe due to NOT using AWS whereas the competitor did) he was able to make money on the cash flow from the competitor because he ran his business more efficiently.

This story struck me because it was a vivid reminder that two companies, in the same industry and with the same product can have VASTLY different operating models when it comes to people, costs, infrastructure etc.

I 100% believe you are correct in that pattern matching plays a role. That being said, it's important to add that there are "a thousand right ways and a million wrong ways." Just because one of the 1000 is the hot ticket doesn't mean it's the only way.
Oh, pretentious snark is fun. I can do it too.

You have made the erroneous assumption that I cannot articulate the insights, and further the erroneous conflation between "cannot" and "will not".
Prediction: repeat business will be low and service will have a reverse viral effect where the more people have used it, the less special it will seem. Fad will die out in a year.
Video Chat Free Video Chat
> How will this work?

It will devastate US institutes of higher education if it is maintained over the long term, and merely cause massive damage over the short term. Which is part of the plan, no doubt; the political faction executing it isn't exactly know for it's fondness for the academy.
Seems like this could be a big hit to indie developers and applications that function off of an ad supported model, as CPMs for users that opt out of tracking is a fraction of their tracked counterparts.

Looks like Apple wants to guide more developers to a paid/subscription model as there is no direct financial incentive for them to have ad-supported products on their platform.
Seeing these discoveries happening so close to home makes me wonder how the rate of speciation compares to the rate of discovery.
Interesting - could you share a link to the video?
The way you say "thank you" as a human is by saying "thank you"-- preferably with an interesting explanation or side-bar.
A Google for Components
Hacker News is being hacked by marketing trolls
I've been browsing this site on average, a couple of times a day for 5 or 6 years. Suffice to say, it's not what it used to be. I have absolutely no hard data no back this up but my intuition tells me there are a many users in the tech space that are here for marketing purposes.

For example, I've noticed at least 3 times a multi-million/multi-billion dollar sass companies releasing new features or new pricing getting 400+ upvotes. Then most of the comments gushing about how great the product is.

Most comments I see is shallow and opinionated as opposed to rational/technical discussion that made Hacker News what it was.

It's possible that it's just my perception has changed not Hacker News. So I have to ask: Has anyone else noticed this or am I going cuckoo?
Why We Keep Telling the Myth of a Renaissance Golden Age and Bad Middle Ages
Another cool thing about DNS - you only need the IP of a single root server to be able to get the nameservers, IPs and everything else to resolve any name in any TLD. The hierarchical nature of DNS is very neat to see in action. I built a toy DNS checker tool[0] while I was learning about it to get a more visual overview, and it ended up being one of my tools I still use every few days to verify a domain is properly delegated if I suspect it has issues.

[0] https://r-1.ch/r1dns/ (and yes it has a lot of bugs, don't break it :)).
For some reason the CC is out of sync, it's couple minutes earlier https://youtu.be/GEZhD3J89ZE?t=4122
Thank you for this insight. I definitely see the value in someone a several years ahead of me - I sought this in college as well. I see your advice is tailored to a larger firm - what about when I'm the sole "developer" in a small team. How can I reach out externally?
Looks like a great list. Installed a lot of them seamlessly through Arch. Now the hard part will be remembering they exist :-)
Agree with you completely. I don’t understand why it’s so hard to come up with a Canadian or UK like points based system.
No paywall: https://archive.is/AO6w9
Apologies for misusing the term "immigration" to refer to the broader topic, but in any case H-1B is a dual-intent visa and is still the primary work-related route on the way to applying for a green card.
I've noticed something. No one ever blows me away with something they've done in Python or PHP or C# or JavaScript. Whenever I see someone solve some problem in a way that is just obviously better than I could ever do they are almost always doing it in a Lisp, or APL, or Haskell, or some other language that is out of the mainstream for most programmers.

Those kind of languages are harder to learn, and probably for most things you can still do them just fine in the more mainstream languages without much trouble. And so it is easy to not bother to learn them.

If you are still doing this 40 years from now, though, I bet you'll look back and see that there were enough of those times where those other languages could have really made things easier for you that you will wish you had taken the time.

I think there is an implicit assumption we make about programming: we aren't going to be doing it long term. We'll be code monkeys for a few years, then move on to management, or ownership, or take our IPO money and go pursue some non-programming passion and leave the cranking out code to someone else. We don’t learn the harder but more powerful stuff because we don’t expect to be programming long enough for that to pay off.
Who owns the IP of these Cameos? If the client, I predict it'll be only a short-lived bubble.

Soon a client would use a Cameo to humiliate and destroy the credibility of the performer. Word will get around the celebs and it'll be seen as a trash market.
" I am betting there is no significant difference in inherent potential talent "

I don't think it's talent, more so motivation, interest, cultural dissonance, choice - and of course all the 'bad stuff' like environments that are directly or indirectly not very conducive.

Most fields have some kind of gender asymmetry. Have a look here [1].

If one were to take some time to experience a handful of those fields, I bet the answers to why 'software' has asymmetry would be similar.

I guess I'm saying the issue may have specific roots in tech, but probably more or less rooted in more broad, cultural issues.

[1] https://careersmart.org.uk/occupations/equality/which-jobs-d...
Some UI changes make sense. You wouldn't want to run XFCE on a touch-capable device, whereas GNOME3 is perfect for that use case. But the macOS UX changes make no sense to me. And really, even OS X itself has always been quite confusing, compared to its more traditional alternatives. Now we're finally on Mac OS 11, but that hasn't changed either.
I am confused about the FAST part, it is faster than all the other implementation (some of them are in c++) or it is just julia implementation and you think it is fast? I am asking because if julia is faster than c++ for ml/dl I would prefer to use it for production use cases.
Employers are champing at the bit for liability to be waived during the pandemic.
That's an interesting point, I didn't think about that. Plus, the extra padding would make more sense then. Maybe they are planning on adding it.
Here's a pretty clear demo of different results around the world: https://wheresitup.com/demo/results/5ef1403cb8e31e3fb3298503
> The H-1B program is essentially the only way for most skilled immigrants to enter the US. Suspending the H-1B program is effectively a near-blanket ban on skilled immigration.

The H-1B is a nonimmigrant visa, and there has been a blanket ban on ALL (not just skilled) immigration since April 22, which the same order that added a handful of work-related nonimmigrant visas to the ban that we are discussing also extended at least to the end of the year.

So, no, it's not a “virtual” ban on “skilled” immigration, it's part of an actual ban on all immigration plus certain non-immigrant entry.
Cryptocurrency doesn’t look good when it is inevitably compared with the early days of the web. The internet got rapidly better each year, whereas crypto has been around for years without any real improvements, in usability, safety, or efficiency.
> RTX 3080 - 45b transistors (2020)

That's just... insane. That's five transistors for every person on the planet. In 700 mm2.
Cameo long term business is not that. They want to be the an agent/operator layer to monetize the fame of those “celebrities”.

Celebrities bring their distribution (followers) and Cameo gives them the toolS to monetize. They have teased upcoming features like merchandise which is not a surprise since many artists make a lot of money from merch nowadays.

If you think about it, it makes perfect sense. A random Instagram celebrity is probably not great at finding branded deals or creating a e-commerce to sell merchandise. They probably don’t have the skill time and/or talent.

Cameo is also likely a challenger to something like Patreon since they have created a transactional 1-1 model that can be easily converted or repurposed into a Patreon type of model.

Last but not least, Cameo is getting a massive influx of data about the value of influencers. They have the opportunity to help people monetize what Instagram or YouTube can’t currently monetize which are mentions or sponsored content.

This also makes them an interesting acquisition target just on the merits of the relationship that they are trying to build with those influencers.
Isn't Instruments based on dtrace?
Hey good idea! It's something I've been working on for the last two years. It sounds simple though doesn't it ;)

Keep an eye out on the hn home page I'll be posting my poc in the next month
All theory is made up until we have a practical example to compare against.

Using the logic you've already employed, one could conclude that the entire anthology of philosophical texts also have zero bearing on reality because "they're all made up".
Sure, but things can change?
Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Touchscreen Macs running iOS apps... At that point, what exactly is the difference between the product lines?