skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. Look at Google (Yahoo, Altavista, Lycos), look at Messenger (AIM, ICQ), look at GMail (Hotmail, Yahoo Mail), look at Facebook (Myspace), etc...

You absolutely CAN steal a userbase if the quality of your product is sufficiently better than the existing alternative. The problem with Mixer is that the only real advantage they had was latency, and that's not a big enough reason to draw people to the platform.

Facebook's current problem is that they want to use their existing network and one of the primary features of a gaming platform is anonymity. 99% of the streamers on twitch can't be identified by anything but their usernames, and that's the way they like it. Facebook is antithetical to that experience.
I liked it as soon as I saw the Accent Colors — feels like Appearance Manager in Mac OS 8 all over again :)
> Users can upload files and begin seeding to earn small, incremental, amounts of money from anyone that downloads from them.

How do you know that the user uploading the file actually owns the rights to distribute the file? Wouldn't this just incentivize those with the infrastructure (e.g., money/bandwidth) to take over the market and suddenly get paid for sharing others' content?

The idea of "let's combine a distributed filesharing system with a distributed currency" is completely sound, and one that I've worked on in the past. But this is a totally backwards way of approaching the problem. You have no way of actually paying the content creators, just the content hosts. It's just more of the same, and at least with Spotify I get some neat analytical tools. But this just seems like it's designed to help the people who run topsites, not the people who actually make the content and NEED the money.

Thumbs down until you figure out the problem of rights management through your protocol.
FAST, the Future Attribute Screening Technology, was a federal precrime research effort from the Department of Homeland Security which sought to pick criminals out at public locations based on biometrics. [0] FAST was tested in secret on the USA population in an unknown location. [1]

PredPol is a precrime system written by a mathematician (an assistant professor of math and CS) which recommends where police officers ought to patrol. [2] PredPol was deployed in Santa Cruz and Los Angeles, CA.

This is not fiction.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20100603031047/http://www.dhs.go...

[1] https://www.nature.com/news/2011/110527/full/news.2011.323.h...

[2] http://math.scu.edu/~gmohler/predpol.html
Take a look at my response[1] from a couple of weeks ago to a similar question on HN.

The tl;dr is to use Plasma Desktop, take advantage of its ability to create keyboard shortcuts for everything, and use Plasmoids to create a global menu and dock.

I didn't mention it in the post, but KDE Connect[2] works on most desktop environments and integrates with tablets, phones and other computers, and it's great.

There's sandbox info in the parent post[3], if you need a sandboxd replacement, too.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23473207

[2] https://kdeconnect.kde.org/

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23471667
Low-end iPads and AppleTVs where either frequency or power consumption isn't as important, respectively.
> it's incredibly easy to bypass the stuff that makes a difference using the terminal.

Try running dtrace without having to configure a bunch of settings and restarting your Mac. Then you have to change the settings back and restart again to go back to the way it was.

It's a pain in the hole, and for basically no reason.
Next step: breatharian?
Interesting, especially the data around teens.

I would have expected a big rise around 18-22 because a lot of college / University and other interest group activity is there, and there are more varied friend groups and family to keep up with.

The 4th survey for 13-17 year olds with 50% is somewhat surprising for me though.
> By hand

Not using automation isn’t “badass”, it’s a sign of a deeply screwed up engineering culture. It’s on par with forcing software developers to program exclusively in machine code.

Luckily, Apple uses the standard EDA tools pretty extensively so I don’t really think this applies to them. I also agree that Apple hardware engineers are generally extremely good.
New Apple Developer Documentation
Going from Intel to ARM is potentially a breaking change, so if you're going to rev the 'major' version number there's probably no better time.
>> You'll soon learn that you don't actually need to plug anything into your device. Apple knows best.

A wireless solution is long-awaited.
> I want Facebook, and I want it for free with personalized ads. Same with Gmail, Yelp, Reddit, Google Maps, Instagram, Youtube, and a bunch of other web services.

Exactly! I don't know why it's so hard for people to realize that there are people that 100% ok with the offerings from these companies and would rather not have legislation interfere with such transactions
It doesn't apply to transfers since the visa has already been issued.
It depends. For example I have my set of duties written in a table (a fairy long one). I added a column with the "Can be done remotely?" heading and marked the respective entries (most of them - the exceptions were things like meetings and business trips). The same can be done with all employees: the ones who have tasks that don't absolutely require their presence should be able to work remotely during a pandemic.

Besides, by now it should be clear who is efficiently working remotely and who isn't. If there are problems, this should be a signal to reexamine the situation of a given employee. Everything should be based on clear metrics known to everybody. Riskng other people's (or, more likely, their relatives') lives for a wrong purpose is plain silly.
> This is not fiction.

No the book and movie are fiction, I mean. You can't learn anything from them. They're made up. Inside someone's head. There's zero data points in them.

I'm sure you can learn something from studying the history of the two projects you mentioned!

But not from a story someone made up and that some people acted out on a film set. That's not data. Don't base you philosophy on something that didn't actually happen.
Small nit: quality and bitrate aren't directly comparable. E.g. codec and decoders choice can make a huge difference. E.g. A lower bitrate av1 stream can be higher visual quality than higher bitrate x264 stream.

Where this matters is that sometimes consumers will automatically assume bitrate=quality (especially in audio), and then claim one audio service has better quality than other just because they use a higher bitrate.
Not to mention that Apple setting a standard of throttling at 100c and not giving the machines adequate cooling affects performance in a non-trivial fashion.
The imperialism that has transpired in Latin America and Africa is different from that in Asia, so the consequences have been different. Some areas of difference include: the degree of plunder and destruction; how the occupying country treats the colonies; the degree of future exclusion in global trade; which dominant powers it finds among its allies.

If we don't consider a country's history of being exploited and oppressed, then we are in danger of creating an ignorant and bigoted explanation for the differences in outcomes.
I was wondering where that that went and thought it was a bug or something.
Cool :) I am using openGApps but I think it does not have this flexibility I will switch over to microg :)
Really neat, webgl has surprised me at how slow its been adopted.
I don't know how much clearer things can be. The Mac remains a Mac. It can run software from outside the App Store. That applies to Apple Silicon. This was specifically called out in the SOTU stream.
20 years from now:

Introducing macOS 9000000.13.0 Pro Platinum.

Now with a more emphatic, less mercurial, less violent, and less passive-aggressive AI because each device contains 47% more genetically-engineered neurons. Each device is guaranteed to be personally-imprinted and infatuated with only you and do everything you need it to do.

At what point do version numbers become meaningless? Why not just rolling releases with a major number and a patch number? Or if the goal is to make it seem like fewer releases are happening, why not 4 components?
HashiCorp Nomad 0.12 Beta
But somehow, their budget always increases...
> This is about running new software on an old machine.

New software will be cross-compiled with both instruction sets:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_binary
Maybe. It's interesting that Sony removed FB integration from their OS for the PS4.
The rumours are that they're doubling the number of high-performance cores for the laptop chips (so 8 high performance cores and 4 low-power cores). That + better cooling ought to boost the multi-core performance quite significantly.
Smith-Waterman seems like it's begging for better algorithms on the CPU side as well. In my experience, these papers often involve disparate amounts of ingenuity and/or "risk tolerance" (i.e. do something that works pragmatically for the inputs you have) on the h/w vs the s/w side.

The analogous thing for regex would be, say, extract a literal factor that probably won't appear in the input and suppress the regex execution if that nice even occurs - but only do it on the h/w implementation. Voila, 1000x speedup - on the "nice" input at least.

It would be interesting to see what the expected limits are for fair comparisons in extremely hardware-acceleration friendly cases. I don't think GPUs, for example, run 15,000x faster than pure CPU based graphics rendering, but am not sure.
> How do you know that the user uploading the file actually owns the rights to distribute the file?

While I appreciate that BitTorrent files are technically used to distribute some "legitimate" things, even in those cases the people you are talking to are part of a swarm: like, the premise is that you are paying someone to have helped you get more of a file you are downloading that everyone has agreed shall cost nothing (whether or not it actually does), not that you are compensating them for the file itself (which would have value above and beyond the bandwidth and cpu costs).
Wonder how much code is shared between Mac OS and iOS, they can't be putting that much effort into Mac OS when it sells 10x less devices than iOS unless it's mostly shared.
Hollywood actress Rebel Wilson flaunts her slimmed down
DarkSky makes it to Apple’s native weather apps
Including me. Will those same developers buy a machine that is completely locked down? I will not.
> P.S. I love how "old-tech" HN is, but for the love of god, give us a decent way to "reply with quote".

You have to copy and paste, but that's not too hard, even on mobile.

The main thing is to not use code formatting, and not break up a quoted sentence or paragraph into multiple lines.

Instead, do it the way I quoted your comment above, like this:

> *Entire quoted paragraph.*

That will render nicely on all devices regardless of the length of the paragraph. If you quote multiple paragraphs, add a blank line between each paragraph so they don't run together.
So what you're saying is kind of the opposite of a marginal cost.

If they are recouping their costs, it's a capital expense, and works differently than a marginal cost. AWS's networking was extremely expensive to _build_ but it's not marginally more expensive to _operate_ for each new customer. Servers are relatively cheap to purchase, but as you add customers the cost increases with them.

If they're selling cheap instances are a marginal loss, that would be very surprising and go against everything I know about the costs of building out datacenters and networks.
I would imagine that a lot of bugs will be squashed (albeit with new ones surely created) in the process of tweaking literally the entire codebase to run well on a new platform.
> Why did they not mention this anywhere but the terms of service?

It's also mentioned on the website: https://developer.apple.com/programs/universal/

> As part of the program, you’ll have limited access to a Developer Transition Kit (DTK), which will be shipped to you, for developing and testing your Universal apps. The DTK is owned by Apple and must be returned.
I started a company 8 years ago. I went through startup literature. I tried to follow the advices. We got our product going for 2 years. But we couldn't make it big. We eventually transitioned to contracting work. We were basically working for a bigger company. Except we had the freedom to work from home. We're about to fold during this pandemic. I'm happy with the choices I made.

My take away lesson is most of the startup advices are molding us into stereotypes. You have to come up with a business model and projection. You have to have more than 1 founder. Silicon Valley is where you want to be. We have to do xyz to raise funding. These advices distract us from building products and selling to customers. They also create unhealthy relationships.

I think corporate structures and funding industries have baked-in inequalities. They are optimized for pattern matching. They discriminate against a lot of things: company size, gender, race, etc. When you follow company building advices, you are trying to retrofit into these structures. Stereotypes and discriminations come with them. You'll be disappointed and unhappy.

For my next projects, I don't seek out for advices. I build stuff, find users, find customers. The only advice filter is: help me find customers.
> but the whole thing just feels so cheap and degrading

What do you propose as an alternative?

These are mostly people who aren't getting work anymore. What dignified career do you imagine for them, when there are a million younger, cheaper entertainers to take their place?

It would be great if they all had college degrees and the ability to be hired in a stable white-collar job, but that's rarely an option after a life in entertainment.
> FWIW when Twitch started as justin.tv it was much, much poorer quality than 8000k.

Yup, to expand on that I had a chance to chat with someone at Justin.tv and they said a thirty second ad pays a lot more than the cost of serving video for an hour. iirc this was around 2009 or 2010?

Also, iirc even through 2014, my friends who played League of Legends (lol) used to watch stream on VLC instead of directly on the website on Twitch. The consensus was for lol, 720p60 was preferable to 1080p30.

I don't think Twitch got where it got because of technical prowess. If I had to guess, it was just lucky being first. It would be interesting to hear stories from the people at YouTube. Why did it take them so long to add live streaming?
>Now TSMC and all Intel competitors straight up started lying through their teeth.

The new nm numbers simply try to extrapolate transistor density using an old numbering scheme that everyone is familiar with.
They're violating the intent of the rules of the H1-B, but it's not clear that they're violating the actual rules. If you're a software company who:

* builds a bad work culture

* hires all candidates who pass the coding interview

* sets interview standards that require more than just local applicants to reach your staffing needs

it can easily be true both that you've never rejected a qualified US citizen and that you're deliberately seeking to hire H1-Bs.
Go back and watch previous intros. :) Fun bit of Apple history.
Are we going back to skeuomorphic, please god yes! I've been so saturated of flatness, it's boring!
I remember the transition from iOS 6 to 7. It definitely initially looked modern but I still sometimes have difficulty distinguishing between a label and a button.
Just to add to the discussion -- 'whats happening in the background' -- more specifically is your operating system's stub resolver.

So when you ask for www.amazon.com it ends up making multiple DNS lookups, as www.amazon.com is a CNAME record.

Nothing about this CNAME lookup gets passed back up the stack to your application; you just get that end-result: the IP address.

host www.amazon.com
www.amazon.com is an alias for tp.47cf2c8c9-frontier.amazon.com.
tp.47cf2c8c9-frontier.amazon.com is an alias for www.amazon.com.edgekey.net.
www.amazon.com.edgekey.net is an alias for e15316.e22.akamaiedge.net.
e15316.e22.akamaiedge.net has address 23.204.68.114
Might be the stake in the heart of the tech industry.. It will create a shortage of local labor, and if you can’t fill the demand here, there’s really no choice but to use teleworkers from other countries. Once that becomes normal practice nobody will want to spend the money for local labor.
Apple will let you emulate old apps and run iOS apps on ARM Macs
I was stuck with Google Music for a while until I ran a Jellyfin instance along with some Subsonic fork. I just VPN in and use the Android client or DSub when I want to listen to music, or use the web interface from my computer. This was another choice that I don't regret.
Canon makes every production OLED printer in the world.
Companies have been asserting their political will quite aggressively for decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_lobbying_in_the_Uni...
Toe-May-Toe, Toe-Mah-Toe. Some site that does tear downs (not iFixit) tore open one of their chips, once, and defecated masonry. They said the chip design was obviously hand-designed, and stood head and shoulders above other ARM architectures.

They have done OK.

Sorry if I offended you. None was meant. I’ll edit that out.
I don't think they're supposed to ask about that - I believe that kind of question can be legally actionable.

You're probably correct that employers assume these things won't be an issue for men - though I did read a paper (sorry no cite) that found employers are unusually punitive toward the relatively small number men who scale back for child care. It's the flip side of the assumption they won't be taking time off - when they do, employers treat it as a misrepresentation of intent.
Linus Tech Tips recently published a video where they did all kinds of cooling hacks to a Macbook Air, including milling out the CPU heat sink, adding thermal pads to dissipate heat into the chassis (instead of insulating the chassis from the heat), and using a water block to cool the chassis with ice water.

They got pretty dramatic results from the first few options, but it topped out at the thermal pads and nothing else made any difference at all. Their conclusion was that the way the system was built, there was an upper limit on the power the system could consistently provide to the CPU, and no amount of cooling would make any difference after that point.

The obvious conclusion for me was that Apple made decisions based on battery life and worked backwards from there, choosing a chip that fell within the desired range, designing a cooling system that was good enough for that ballpark, and providing just enough power to the CPU/GPU package to hit the upper end of the range.
wow! this is really detailed.
> Intel tried to compete in mobile for a long time and failed even with a better manufacturing process.

They didn't fail because of performance, though, they failed because of app support & lack of a quality radio. The CPU performance & efficiency itself was otherwise fine. It wasn't always chart-topping good, but it wasn't bad either.
They were both significant British ports chosen for their favorable location, benefited from economic network of the greater Empire while being protected politically and militarily by structures far beyond their local ability. Part of it was also geopolitics of the time that dictated which colonies were better development prospects due to competing spheres to influence, i.e. why HK was chosen over Weihaiwei. Schrewd governance and intersecting geopolitical interests allowed them to maintain the inertia after decolonization.
> They can't afford anything "per user" or any significant number of users.

That was my point. In this thought exercise, we ought to separate the amount paid to users by country, because it will differ as much as a few orders of magnitude per country, just as the per user revenue most probably does. That is roughly the scale of GDP per capita per country between 1st world and 3rd world countries, which would be a good proxy for ad markets. I agree with rest of your argument, if per person revenue in the US was $150, would that be enough to make users care? It is unknown.

> If you think there's some huge untapped source of revenue here that might make the idea work, show it to me

I will concede that I am leveling an argument that entirely hinges on a hypothetical. But I don't think it is fantastical. The core of the problem is information asymmetry. These companies have huge amounts of high resolution data on us, but we don't have anything about the breakdown and how they operationalize that data. The argument that "if there was more ways to milk money out of it, we would have seen that in revenue" has several drawbacks in my opinion for several reasons.

a) The data doesn't have to be used in ways that translate to quarterly revenue but still great value to the company; this includes back channel uses (elections, famously brexit, that was won by data, and it is hard to put a revenue tag to its effects), it also includes expenditures such as acquisitions of competitors (famously instagram and whatsapp, I don't doubt for a second facebook made use of their data to assess the viability of these acquisitions), or temporarily unused data for game theoretic reasons ("I don't want to expose the fact that I can utilize racial data, health data, covert speech recognition data on my users as long as I can, but if market conditions/lobbying efforts are fruitful, I will translate that to revenue").

b) Even directly revenue increasing uses of data is subject to R&D and mining day in day out. So new combinations of existing data can be figured out, or new products might potentiate existing data to be more valuable without preceding revenue footprints. Think about self driving cars; how traffic operated has been public data, individual sensor technologies aren't that novel, but self-driving car is joining all this together in the hope of converting that data into revenue. When it does, it will be a phase shift that tremendously increases the value of that data, and we will have not been wiser to it if we only watched the revenue. I'm not suggesting FB is necessarily after such an exponential tech, but it is to keep in mind the potentiality stored with data is not readily observable, so “show me it can translate into revenue” criteria can be failed for a long while despite the fact that it eventually can.
"they had a hard time judging work estimates"

They had a hard time justifying their existence.
There's nothing wrong with it, I AGREE with you that we shouldn't ship 5 megs of some garbage framework with every blog post. The point I'm responding to is that it's somehow reasonable or common for "professionals" to run with JS off, and to not do so is "playing around". It's not. It's a very niche thing that very few people get an actual benefit from.
It's an election year move to split pro-labor-progressive Democrats and Democratic-leaners from neoliberal capitalist Democrats (and to force Biden to commit one way or the other, or to waffle indeterminately in the middle alienating both) while energizing right-wing xenophobes.
It's not clear if people outside the country with valid visas can re-enter. My spouse is on a H4 and is currently out of the country. We are worried that they might not be able to re-enter. Going through this after 18 years being in this country is extremely frustrating.
For what its worth, researchers have actually studied this specific case (r/fatpeoplehate) and concluded the exact opposite: http://comp.social.gatech.edu/papers/cscw18-chand-hate.pdf
It looks so much like Gnome that I was honestly surprised.

The new header bars and merged controls are almost exact matches... I wonder if they'll contribute anything back upstream
This also starts the eventual death of Hackintosh.