skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are multiple issues and it's hard to point them out because everyone talks about what they see from their own point of view.

1) There are certainly power-hungry ego-inflated people killing off questions as duplicates when they aren't duplicate, or labeling things too easily as opinion-based etc. This is often a problem with community efforts, like Wikis and other places where people act like they own the place.

2) On the other hand, you have genuinely low-effort questions that are just pure lazy. Being a novice is normal, everyone started there. But doing at least a minimum of research is expected. Seriously go to the front page and browse the questions from <5 minutes ago. Most is very low effort with no context, just some code from the middle of some software and an error message without saying what they are even trying to achieve. It's not in any shape of form a question that should enter a long term question bank.

3) On the third hand, you have the power grab at StackOverflow by business-minded, MBA type suits, who care more about branding, marketing, and legal CYA than about programming. The project is no longer community driven. They seem to forget that SO's value is derived mostly from the unpaid labor of volunteers and working with the community should be a priority. And this is also a great lesson for all the contributors that sinking enormous amounts of time into a private company's proprietary product, it may not be worth it. At least Wikipedia is guaranteed free and open source and truly community owned. Maybe something similar needs to be created in place of SO.
Millenia is the proper magnitude I believe.
It seems pretty cool!
I mean, they're not wrong, but I've handled that stupidity by making sure my next requirements included "Do not have sexual intercourse with your coworkers" and "Be a professional software engineer"

Edit: It's kinda like the story of the guy on the ship who was forced to write accurate logs and wrote "The captain was not drunk today"
At least when I used Android (quite a while ago), a lot of widgets were implemented poorly and led to impeded performance and rapid battery depletion, as well as confusing or cluttered interfaces because there was no consistency among the various implementations. Traditionally, Apple has simply not provided features that end up with downsides like this. Although iOS is less customizable, I tend to find that I actually prefer this restriction because I don't waste my time being bothered by things I could fix if only I could get the settings right. So I hope the new iOS Widgets strike the right balance of customizable, but not too customizable, and with a uniform implementation that prevents the Android problems I mentioned.
Ha, well, hello.

Feeling the elevated heart rate while being tired and not able to take a nap indeed sucks. I get why people just start drinking 3-5 cups a day.
Maybe market share isn't the right way to frame it. Much of the success of gaming platform's is built on goodwill. Due to their botched attempts with bans, community guidelines, harassment, toxicity etc. Twitch could certainly use some positive press these days. IMO it would be seen as a great PR move to welcome these newly platform-less streamers will open arms. Facebook is already offered people who move from Mixer to FB Gaming and stay for 90 days somewhere in the range of $2.5K

Will most of them probably move to Twitch anyway? Yes. Will Twitch be losing money in the short-term by giving away value here? Probably. But in the long-term having these ex-Mixer folks happy and feeling welcomed will have positive impact on their fans, communities, and gaming as a whole. Not to mention the revenue potential these folks could bring.
The problem is, Apple have chosen consumers above professionals.

It's been fairly obvious that this was their plan. Now it's been categorically confirmed.
I wonder what sort of involvement ARM server vendors could be offering during this period. I don't expect Apple 'needs' anything from them, but there might be some Docker work they could be jumping on.
Which menus generally have color as an element in Mac OS today that don't in the new Mac OS? Serious question—I can't find one.
The non Pro iPhones, non Pro iPads, Apple TVs, HomePods, maybe the Mac Minis if external GPUs are pushed as an alternative to integrated GPUs.
There's probably a place for streaming sites that cater to very very specific content. NSFW is the obvious one, but I imagine you could try to serve one narrow nice extremely well, like auto racing, speed runners, live coders, baking, whatever. Become known to that community and offer features that mainstream streaming sites don't want to provide because it doesn't make sense for everybody.
I think that if the rules were changed in the way that the administration has been describing (for several years now), then most people would think them to be good changes.

The problem is that the actual immediate actions don't reflect the message and cause chaos and uncertainty in lives of people whose futures depend on these work permits (ex: recent international student grads whose OPTs are expiring)
Intel already has its own Gnu/Linux distribution called Clear Linux[1].

They have their own silicon (obs) and their own NUC hardware.

I’d love to see that all come together into a really polished platform.

Linux shines when the hardware had good, open source drivers available.

1. https://clearlinux.org/
France, too. Lots of the democratic ideas are from France. E.g. The Social Contract by Rousseau.
Even judging by that first screenshot, you can see that white text with very smooth shadow on a semi-transparent menubar is not at all pleasant or readable. For all the talk about "human interface" you'd think they would at least get the whole black-text-on-white-background principle.
macOS Big Sur will be macOS 11.0
I don't think it's an issue like that. You can run windows without secure boot[1], and the windows boot loader can be chain loaded from whatever apple is using if they are not using a standard eufi firmware for whatever reason.

At the very least, booting windows is a relatively low effort problem to solve compared to everything else that has to happen to move a whole ecosystem to a new architecture. We can conclude its a low priority for Apple, if it's something they still want to support at all.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufactur...
Good point. We've narrowed the scope in the title above. Thanks!
If you're interested in this kind of planning problems, check out the NeurIPS Flatland challenge, in which we try to optimize traffic on railway networks, in association with the Swiss and German railway companies!

https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/neurips-2020-flatland-cha...

(disclaimer: I'm an organizer)
> What's left for Intel?

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste..., about 80% to 90% of the desktop and laptop computer market (counting the share of Windows + Linux devices in these categories). Intel won't starve.
Nah, I used to be on a plant-based diet -- have done quite a bit of research. This is _not_ well known in the community, but sure, a few under-researched people in the group might say that has to do with it.
I am – right now even – but I agree it's become impractical.

This announcement is the final nail in the coffin I suppose. I hope some company will come out with great quality, well-designed, minimal laptops. That run Linux perfectly.
And current visa holders that aren't in the US right now have a problem. Saw some reports on Twitter from some seeing early reports and trying to make it, but being denied boarding on flights to the US.
Apple doesn't have the lineup for that. The CPU in the Mac Pro isn't the same silicon as the CPU in the Mini. It has more cores, bigger caches, more memory channels. It's not just the same chip binned differently.

In theory they could offer the Mini with eighteen different CPU options, but that's not really their style.
I was under the impression that a lot of startups are run by single people with time to burn "toiling upward in the night"

I recently read "Masters of Doom" because someone here recommended it, and both id software and ion storm were mainly run by single people working hellish 80-120 hour weeks. Technically John Romero had kids, but... early on in his startup he divorced in order to free up more time for making games.
Apple locks down MacOS more and more with each major release. Some of it seems well justified but the totality of it is concerning to me. Being able to defeat some of it in the console doesn’t change what is an increasingly abusive relationship. I feel like we’re rapidly approaching a point where Apple enforces the same strict control over MacOS that they do over the iOS App Store and they’re softening people up towards that in baby steps with each incremental restriction they implement.

Maybe I’m just paranoid, but I personally decided to stop buying their computers because of it.
That's good for their sysadmins and softwar engineers. They love to raise anxiety levels and create ambiguity interpeters (people who start believing there is meaning in people and objects around them) in NYC. Yes, this is a real thing... Don't ask for details, the short story is someone discovered they could exploit people with genes for paranoid schizophrenia to make them anxious and afraid to the point they look for meaning in things around them.
I had maybe one or two kernel panics since OS 10.1 more than 15 years ago, even with hackintoshes or water damaged MacBooks, so that would be a real shame if that’s due to Catalina and it’s not a hardware problem.
I am not really talking about load balancing the DNS traffic, I'm talking about interpreting the response of the DNS query. (The reliability at the network level seems to be handled by moving everything to DNS-over-HTTPS or something, and is a debate for another day.)

For example, consider the case where you resolve ycombinator.com. You get:

ycombinator.com. 59 IN A 13.225.214.21
ycombinator.com. 59 IN A 13.225.214.51
ycombinator.com. 59 IN A 13.225.214.81
ycombinator.com. 59 IN A 13.225.214.73

Which of those hosts should I open a TCP connection to to begin speaking TLS/ALPN/HTTP2? The standard doesn't say. I would like a standard that says what to do. (The more interesting case is, say I pick 13.225.214.21 at random. It doesn't respond. What do I do now? Tell the user ycombinator.com is down? Try another one? All of this could be defined by a standard ;)
Meanwhile, Intel can't seem to fix the issue with i915 causing GPU hangs. I guess Linux desktop users, while not exactly a massive market share, will move to AMD.
It looks like Minecraft is already using Metal. LWJGL makes use of other low level APIs by means of BGFX, since version 3.1.0 (per release notes) and Metal is one of the current targets.

Looking at a running 1.15 Minecraft instance I see it is using lwjgl 3.2.1 and there a link to "net.java.openjdk.cmd/com.apple.metal", when I do an lsof.

Any further insight would be appreciated.
Yeah, sure, but at least on my Macbook Pro 16, Thunderbolt/USB-C monitors both instantly make the area near the touch bar hot enough so as to be uncomfortable to the touch.

If you're sharing a screen via video conference, you can easily hit 90c, with the CPU throttling hard the whole time.
Actually, I found your blog article when I was reading about AlphaZero and I found it useful!
> FTL protocol, a streaming protocol based on UDP which had sub 1 second delay times, far far superior to what Twitch is capable of.

I don't use/watch any of these platforms but I heard the delay is a feature of Twitch to prevent people from "screen peeking" players when they play online.
The locals are not captive workers and will do anti-business things like starting a family.
If I would die for my startup, surely my employees would too
That's probably true - although there are a LOT of iOS developers out there who can now essentially program for macOS because of catalyst.

Either way, software engineers build the applications that drive your platforms popularity, meaning developer adoption of a platform is incredibly important and thus they probably have a larger influence on Apples decision making than other demographics would with similar percentages.
Is her iWatch Bigger?
Some is turned off but some still has to be dealt with (variable instruction lengths for example).

Intel tried to compete in mobile for a long time and failed even with a better manufacturing process.
I like the idea of surveying the neighbors. We will try that next :)
I think the opposite. It's all about that authenticity now. Look - they're vlogging! They're just like me! Or whatever.
My bosses hiring interns and asking me to train them without offering additional compensation.
Rumors indicate all high-power cores.
> To top it all off, I felt I had to be a version of what I thought a good male CEO was, so that I wouldn’t be judged or treated differently. It would take me years before I realized how delusional I was. I became a better and happier leader by being honest in who I was.

So one of the main problems as female founder was to imitate men’s idealized CEO role?

Men also suffer trying to imitate idealized roles, but we do not have women’s specific problems which OP comments. I guess it would make a lot of sense that Tracy shows women how is the female CEO role that adapts better to her identity rather than wish for some sort of equality which will never happen just for claiming it.

Just a suggestion, but overall I enjoyed reading it as it is a good insight on some of the struggles female founders face which aren’t always obvious for men.
But you don't consider that maybe it's still a net positive that they were able to come to the US to get decent working experience for a number of years? At the same time, an unemployed American worker may now have a chance for the same job. How is this a bad thing?
You have a point. The website seems to be more recent than it claims.
>Not a lot is written about being a female founder and CEO.

Seems like it’s the only thing female founders ever talk about. I’ve seen articles on the topic from Sarah Blakely, Bethenny Frankel, Elizabeth Holmes, and Sheryl Sandburg. I’m not opposed to exploiting any advantage you have as a businessperson but it’s bold to open with a bald-faced lie.
You can always add artificial delay if that's what you want, but if you don't want to delay to interact with your audience/have them interact with the game, you want something that can do low-latency.
You shouldn’t have to wipe everything from a computer to have it usable, ever.

Thanks, I laughed a little at that.

People have been saying exactly that for as long as operating systems have been on disk. I was thinking just a few days ago that I must have installed OS/2 50 or 60 times in its day.

I can't calculate the number of weeks of my life I've wasted babysitting clean operating system installs.

You're right, it shouldn't happen. But we're decades away from that being the reality.
Does this apply to H1B ‘transfers’? I know that it’s not officially called a transfer so was wondering if that be counted as a new application and so will be rejected.
Id be interested to see the wattage per teraflop difference between the two.
I gave you a link. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23329646

Which part of it my assertions did you have trouble following? I'll quote it below in case you have trouble following the link, but I worry this might violate a repetition rule:

iOS having better privacy is a myth. iOS sends your location to Apple every time any the GPS is used, and you can't turn it off. You cannot install apps on your phone without telling Apple which apps they are, and if you want to develop your own apps for your device without having to reinstall weekly, you have to hand over payment information.

Stock Android devices from nearly any vendor do not suffer from these problems, and reputable vendors do even better (like in this case, where even voice transcription does not send data off device).
> my lock screen has a camera icon always visible. When you tap it, you get an isolated camera mode

Maybe they screwed this up on home-button iPhone models but got it right on the X and newer?

Here's my lock screen: https://i.imgur.com/tyOYZXW.png

I don't see anything resembling a camera icon that I could tap. I can swipe sideways to get to the limited-session camera, but only because I happen to know that shortcut exists.

It's not as if the 4" SE is too small to fit a camera button on the screen, but there isn't one. Unless I turned the button off and forgot about it, but I can't imagine Apple offering that sort of UI customization.
Even if TSMC slipped a year it would still be on par with Intel 5nm so Apple would still be better off
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It's terrible seeing my female coworkers blaming themselves for not getting promoted and internalizing it as "being too nice" or "being a pushover" when I know for a fact it's not true.
I am in south-ish (north palm beach) Florida and went to the beach the past few weekends. Fortunately it was nowhere near has busy as that picture. We haven't had much issue finding a spot with enough space to feel socially distanced.

We also went to Longhorn for dinner yesterday and they had everyone pretty spaced out (every other booth, no seating at center tables). All the restaurant employees were wearing masks. I'm not sure we were at more risk than getting takeout.

It has been really great mentally to go to the beach and have dinner outside the house.

I am trying to keep our distance and not expose ourselves or others to anything unnecessary... we would have definitely left the beach and/or the restaurant if it was anything like the pictures you posted.

I guess my point is I feel like it's possible to go out and not be too risky. I don't think every area reopening is getting crazy.
It's rough. And confusing. And surprising. For a guy anyway...

I have no illusions that it isn't 99.9% worse for a female, but when I was the founder/exec at a startup in the 90s, and driving staff home after happy hours, I was shocked at how physically aggressive some of them were about "going for it" with me in the driver's seat of a car. Some even got glitter all over my family sedan (ewww!). Which I then had to explain to my wife (that didn't go very well a couple of times).

Sometimes people didn't have an appropriate upbringing and have twisted morals or decision-making apparatii. I have the utmost sympathy for women, because they are "at risk" and I am not, but it's a weird weird world out there.
It wastes a huge amount of time when most of the choices are bad.
We put this library together at https://team.video after struggling with "button explosion" in previous projects, where we ended up with an endless sea of subtly different button implementations.

Sometimes the differences were totally legitimate and justified for the use case, and other times it was easy to just not remember or realize that the permutation we wanted had already been painstakingly crafted elsewhere.

When we took a systematic approach to catalog how we were using buttons, we settled on that yes, we really do want a lot of options, depending on the scale of the interaction, how much emphasis we wanted to put on the choice, etc -- but not the infinite flexibility (and so low reusability) that comes with a free-for-all.

So this has really worked well for us after settling on this approach. How have others dealt with the trade-offs here?
The vague language also means current visa holders that are in the US can't visit family outside the country and re-enter. Not that this is a good time to travel, but there certainly can be extenuating circumstances.
Why is it that everyone wants to be manipulated.

"Shooting the messenger" may looks like it hurts the other guy more but I've seen it screw up entire reporting hierarchies. By the time things go off the rails nobody higher than a level 1 manager has any damn clue what really happened, although they think they do based on the misinformation they've been fed.
Of course not. This is why Apple didn’t allow it until now.
> amazing for Apple and its shareholers

This only makes sense if you know nothing about Apple's business.

You really think they're doing this to save $50 from ~5m Macs? You really think all this upheaval is for a mere $250m a year in savings? It'll cost them 10x that in pain alone to migrate to a new platform.

Come on now....$250m is nothing at Apple scale. Think bigger. Even if you hate Apple, think bigger about their nefariousness (if your view is that they have bad intentions - one I don't agree with).
> no non-paywalled sources, so I'm suspicious if you even read it

I have access to many paywalled articles.

> "Reconciling IQ Gains and Heritability" - this isn't actually a paper, it's just a section in some article.

Ah you're right, I meant to cite that section of the larger article, but the wider article is rather well cited.

> phenomena called cultural filtering

tl;dr: The idea is that culture magnifies any underlying genetics. The example given is two siblings/twins separated at birth, both are taller than average. As a result, they both end up playing basketball and being better than average as children, and as a result attend basketball camps. They both get good training and end up as college basketball players.

The question is to what extent culture serves to magnify any underlying differences. And whether different culture(s) can magnify these differences in different ways.
> i think it's wrong to lose that distinction with a metaphor that's too simplistic

I see your point but we are commenting on an article that is talking about "data dividends" :)
There are specific jobs, especially contracting with the Federal government, that you need to have staff eligible to work in the US.
Aha, this sounds like exactly what I was looking for!
> it's incredibly easy to bypass the stuff that makes a difference using the terminal

Not my experience. It took a couple weeks of noodling to get parts of my environment moved over, and some of my automation I just moved to a linux box because I got sick of it.

> we've somehow got to the point where people bash apple for actually taking privacy and security seriously

Wow.

On the planet I use a Mac on, the complaints are about a set of non-manageable, opaque and somewhat buggy security changes that arbitrarily changed semantics on big chunks of the filesystem and broke a bunch of things is hard to figure out ways.

Add in that there is no sensible mechanism for cleaning up any of these magic permissions paths, and I don't even know what permissions are active on the machine I'm typing on.

I've loved OS X for being a decent gui on a real Unix. It had a decent run, but my next laptop will be a Linux box.
Indeed. :-(

No one makes a computer that Just Works any more. It's a real problem.
Wont this move result in more software compatibility issues from developer side though? Like why would you buy the update if the developers don't want to move to the new platform or determine it's too big of a change now?
The accounting software my accountant requires me to use for my business is 32-bit. Luckily I have an old iMac in the closet I use as a media server and for the accounting software.
Is the iWatch of Yael Garten - Director of Siri Data Science & Engineering - bigger than the actual models?