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Yes the tone deafness in these comments is astonishing. I can absolutely see why women/minorities are unwilling to put up with that to work in technology. My hope is that more people begin to see that this isn’t ok and that the culture changes, and I am glad that you pointed this out specifically.
Just for once, for one time in my life, I'd like to come to an HN article about Apple and not have the first few hundred comments be "sigh time to buy a Thinkpad. Let's all argue our favourite version of Linux". Just once.
I feel like that is saying that "high-speed cameras would never have been developed if we hadn't needed them in surveillance planes to plan for bombing runs". Seems like a lack of creativity in coming up with alternate, "better" use-cases that would still create a demand for the same technology. High speed cameras are useful for, say, factory automation and crash-testing. High-performance network switches could be used in robotic tele-surgery and protein-folding supercomputers.
Now that's some CS I wasn't even aware of! Although, I'm confused why those process clocking topics are considered specific to distributed systems and not computation in general.
Of all the things presented, I'm most excited by App Clips. Between Sign-In with Apple, Apple Pay, and this, I think it's going to take real world digital commerce to another level.
That part about having to do the visa-stamping outside the US does not make sense to me.
How do you explain the iPhone SE then?

Why not got the same road with an MacBook SE? I even think this will be the first product out the pipeline.

MacPro buyers usually don't want to be beta testers and will probably be the last to transition out once horsepower is clearly there with mesurable gains.
This is a day one purchase for me. I am so stoked.
But, but, the irony!
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I really enjoyed it. First keynote in a few years I’ve watched all the way through.

I liked the production, too.
Well plenty of options exist:

[1] Brave Browser - A browser that monetises your attention in Basic Attention Tokens... personally I think this is a weird solution and has many problems

[2] Steemit - A community which allows you to pay/earn by contributing... also a weird idea, prone to abuse and bad motivations

[3] Metamask - A browser extension which integrates crypto currency into your browsing experience. Allows you to pay a website small payments... this is probably the closest solution to your problem, but I find it a bit cumbersome and confusing to use.

The reality is that it's just not a popular problem that people need solved. Content creators don't really care about a 10c donation, they'd rather optimise for the 10$ donations.

Also, the micro-payments are almost equivalent to just showing ads on the site, but I guess everyone disables those now...

[1] https://brave.com/brave-rewards/

[2] https://steemit.com/

[3] https://metamask.io/
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One thing that didn’t make it in the blog post was that a strategically soldered wire shortened the JTAG chain to only include the 2 Intel chips
and bypass the AHA chips.

The power to the AHA chips gets cut off at some point, breaking the JTAG chain, but the FPGAs stay active.

So by bypassing, you keep the chain alive.
*Edit: Let My People Go Surfing is the name of the book.

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> Macs usually have large screens, and are driven by a pixel perfect input mechanism

Good thing nothing about that is changing. macOS apps continue to be macOS apps.

> Also, the icons seem to be completely stripped off colors, so I'm not sure where the reintroduction of colors is coming from

Sidebar icons in macOS Catalina and a few releases prior don't have any colours. At all. Those got stripped out a long time ago, maybe as far back as Yosemite but don't quote me.

Now, sidebar icons can inherit an app's accent colour with edge cases designated by the developer or use the system-wide accent colour if the user has selected one.
Thanks, it's ok, no ads, but it has coins and lootboxes and daily rewards, so still far from ideal. I understand developers gotta eat but it's still frustrating.
>are there any bad reasons for wanting such?

-to signal virtue for PR purposes
-to expand hiring pools and thus drive down wages
-to get more sexual partners
-to create leverage points for internal politics (e.g. opportunities to accuse political opponents of sexism)

Perhaps you were actually asking about bad outcomes, not reasons:

-women are rationally perceived as less competent after they were given preference during hiring
-women who would have been happier in another field are encouraged into tech where they are less happy than they would have been in medicine, or law, or marketing, or at home
-women who aren't up to the task are admitted; the mismatch sets them up for failure where they could have succeeded and had better personal outcomes in another job

Both my above lists are offhand samples.
I'll second your opinion about raising children outside the West, but from Russia - due to relatively great childcare options (a hold over from the Soviet days, when women were tasked en masse to rebuild the country after the massive casualties of soldiers in WWII [1], and the infrastructure to support that had to be rolled out reliably and systematically), it seems to me that my own peers in Russia are less conflicted about children, and less fixated on this psychoanalytic conviction that every single thing one does will potentially create trauma for a lifetime. When visiting my family, I noticed most adults were married and with children by the early twenties - but they didn't put their life on hold! They continued their degrees (men and women both) and careers, children in hand. Someone told me the equivalent of "it's just children, what's the big deal?" when I asked about it. Note this was after the reversal of the decrease in fertility trend of the early 2000s. [2]

I came away with the impression that my Russian colleagues are mostly correct. We have been working and fighting for survival for eons - the entirety of human history! And it is only in the last couple of hundred years that we developed this idea that a child is precious and fragile, and a parent must be nothing short of perfect lest they raise a monster.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties_of_the...
2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Russia
The death rate absolutely does respond more quickly than a month, and in a time series with this distribution the tail of the data is not the most important factor.

We should be seeing increased deaths from this in places that have reopened weeks ago.

The problem is, we accelerated deaths drastically due to insane public policies like housing the sick in close quarters with the elderly. In engineering, overengineering like this wastes time. In public health, it kills people.

My expectation is that we'll see an increase in infection rate, a decrease in new deaths per day, and we'll have spikes associated with pockets of the elderly who were previously not impacted being exposed.
> Sure, so give me a number

42? I'm genuinely not sure what number you're asking for.

> Eventually somebody[1] has to make a high-level decision on which strategy to pursue.

Yes, of course, but that decision making doesn't require a quantitative model assigning value to life (or not). You can make a lot of very well-informed decisions without ever thinking about that particular aspect of optimization theory with any particularly high level of detail. "Aggressively avoid protracted exponential growth" doesn't require knowing anything about the value of life relative to other things.

Mathematical modeling can be useful for responding to covid-19. However, mathematical modeling for this question is not useful, because your answer gets plugged into yet another model where there's too much uncertainty for your answer to the have any quantitatively justifiable impact on decision making.

To give a toy example, spending a bunch of time figuring out the value of $c$ in $f(x) = x^n + c$ is a waste of time if you don't know much about the value of $n$.
Two geography degrees meant I saw a lot of ESRI. In fact I won a national award and was flown out by them to meet Jack in San Diego. Everyone at ESRI I interacted with were all wonderful people. But their software is just brutally corporate and slow to respond to market changes.

FOSS GIS software is pretty good but suffers from the usual lack of budget. Nevertheless, I’ve been able to push robotics + GIS packages for QGIS with ease. Reaching out to my ESRI contacts about “where’s your indoor and outdoor robotics suite offerings” received a response of only crickets.

As for Google Maps. The biggest tell is that there’s almost no geospatial capability in the software. They don’t want you to analyze and understand. They just want you to consume “where is X”. It’s a standard Google vector for ads approach.

I’m going to rant for a long time if I don’t stop here so I’ll leave it at: stop teaching so damn much ESRI and start teaching way more programming. The biggest regret of my education was that I was mostly taught how to use Geospatial tools rather than how to make my own.
Its almost 20 years ago, so i might have swapped the front door and the window. I do know for sure he becomes a killing machine if you hide in the closet instead of running away as he directs you.
Crazy. It appears, then we should be accelerating the alternate power productions plans, and get off of fossil fuel earlier then planned.
I'm not going to comment on the actual article, which IMO is a frank stream-of-consciousness blog rather than an analysis.

But here are 2 things to keep in mind:

1) Founders, and some engineers, join a startup for the vision or adventure.

But most other staff, especially salespersons and executives, are there for reliable cash. Not "on-the-come" or "we'll see where this goes."

I've interviewed salesmen for a startup, and the first question they ask is, "What's the base salary?" And it better be risk-free and close to $100k in SF, regardless of the commission. Or they'll just think, "Time to call my buddy at FAANG or Oracle" and walk out.

2) If you haven't had a child, then you don't know what the dramatic physical, mental and social impacts are. The author described mostly the physical side of having a child, but not the other 2 factors. Post-partum depression can have long-lasting effects far beyond the act of giving birth - my partner behaved literally like a stranger for 18 months. What you see on TV is definitely not reality.
Ah, The Castle has been a favorite of mine since I was in high school despite it being unfinished. The shorter works are something I only started to enjoy about ten years ago. I have really enjoyed rediscovering the magic of Kafka through his shorter works so I’m really interested in these!

I’m also a big “streaming Kafka” fan, so this post was win-win for me
Algonuts: A network containing the ‘visual DNA’ of Peanuts
The lifetime of lung damage myth is absolutely one of the most ridiculous pieces of modern folklore about covid.

Please point to the incidence of these cripplingly disabled healthy young people?

We have no reason to assume reinfection is possible prior to functional mutation. Functional mutation is likely, but at a much slower rate than the flu. However, what we know from other novel viruses is that mortality rate will usually trend down over time in successive, functionally different mutations.

Stop fearmongering.
Within that statement is an ideological assumption that the only way to provide services to people is through a for profit venture. We worship market based solutions except we have things like taxes to build public infrastructure without a profit motive.
I think parent poster is referring to Arrival: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2543164/
Fortunately, macOS isn't being made to look like a big iPhone. Nothing in macOS is optimised for touch — all touch targets remain roughly the same size as they've always been with some things being a little bigger, but only for improving visual clarity, not for being easier to touch.

Nothing about macOS is being made touch-friendly. Nothing about macOS is being made into an iPhone.

If anything, this release makes it easier for iPad apps to become non-touch-friendly by making it easier to bring iPad apps to Catalyst without having to do complete restylings to match other macOS apps.

That's the benefit of consistent design language. iPad apps become better macOS apps, not the other way around.

The Mac is still a Mac. Desktops are desktops. Laptops are laptops. Separately, in iPad land, tablets are tablets. Nothing about the new design language changes that.
I don’t mind the stoplight. I do mind Apple repurposing the god damned zoom button for fullscreen, requiring I hold option every time or having to install third party tools for what should be at worst a freaking plist change.
I don't think gzip can use multiple cores, but there is a parallel implementation of gzip called pigz (race condition pun?) [1] which uses a clever trick [2] not to reduce compression efficiency:

> The input blocks, while compressed independently, have the last 32K of the previous block loaded as a preset dictionary to preserve the compression effectiveness of deflating in a single thread

[1] https://zlib.net/pigz/

[2] https://zlib.net/pigz/pigz.pdf
What's the state of using cloud Windows images vs. local for this sort of testing?
Some of the built-in stuff is quite good, but there's a whole lot missing. For me, it would be the sample players (Kontakt, Play, SINE, ARIA, and whatever Spitfire's sample player is called), Pianoteq, spatialization, reverbs, some of the outlandish plugins, iZotope's stuff, a PSP equalizer, and a few synths. I know other people use a wider range of plugins, and they depend on them in their workflow. They are quite likely to bail to Cubase on Windows if their plugins don't get ported.
Sometimes teeth (molar) grinding is a sign of apnea. I don't know if that is this case but something to maybe look into.
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That's so cool. Has anyone made a JSON-parsing chip, because I could see that being useful in today's servers.
It seemed one of my favorite features – the draggable document icon next to the window title – was removed, but it appears on hover. Phew.
Thank you for this perspective, I've never thought of it but it makes a lot of sense
https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Round_Rects_Are_...
You'd throw your watch in the river because someone used a few buzzwords?

Apple harps on every year about how their Apple Watch is the most personal device they sell. Personal. Intimate. Love. Magical.

Yet, we still buy the things because we find our own sense of value in it.

Clearly, we don't pay much attention to buzzwords in the marketing. I don't know why you'd start now with some random comment on HN.
They bought Trello even they have Jira
I'm pretty sure we'll eventually understand that our universe has no beginning and no end, it's a perpetual motion machine.

As well we'll understand that time is not the fourth dimension per se but the constraint that keeps everything happening in the 'now'
For all the flak that the GtkHeaderBar control got - at least a button looks like a button in the standard Adwaita theme.
Maybe it should be some kind of lottery instead?

Everyone who logs on gets a ticket. It follows some type of grading scale. Bigger revenue generators earns more tickets. Only individuals are allowed to win, no businesses.

Maybe Facebook’s goal can be to give away $1 Billion dollars a year, divided into $1 Million jackpots. Thus, 1,000 people a year can win it. Over 10 years, and you possibly have 10,000 winners.

And maybe you have to meet a certain income or wealth criteria to win the jackpot? Otherwise, you only win a smaller jackpot. You don’t really want all the big influencers and wealthy to take all the money.

$5/year is irrelevant. But $1 Million, this might be more interesting. And force the IRS to tax-exempt the winnings. The goal is to transfer wealth to the less-privileged, to help rectify the inequality of the capitalistic system.
There are designs to couple the dropping of one thing to the lifting of another, like an elevator (though not necessarily at the same time). This makes delivering payloads to Earth necessary for your launch system. They might as well be valuable payloads.

Look up "rotating skyhooks" for one such scheme.
Reminds me of a recent LTT video where Linus suspected that the reason Apple was severely under utilising Intel CPUs on their Macs by having poor thermals could be because they wanted to release their own silicon for future Macs and have them compare favourably against previous Intel based Macs.
The EUV machines are made in the US.
"Consistent design language" doesn't mean "behave exactly the same".

That's exactly what Catalyst is for — to take iPad apps and make them good macOS citizens. Is that not exactly what you want?

A consistent design language makes it easier for iPadOS apps to come to macOS via Catalyst without having to be almost completely restyled whilst also preserving everything makes the Mac a Mac.

Your laptop remains a laptop. Your desktop remains a desktop. Ported apps respect the form factor, not force it to become a tablet.
It makes me wonder about the correlation between "the more of an asshole you are, the easier it is to rise in power" and "the more of an asshole you are, the more you treat everyone you can (especially those that aren't the same as you) poorly". I can't think of a single time I've seen someone treated poorly because of race or gender in my professional career (direct treatment; I recognize that systemic problems are both harder to see and potentially more dangerous). I'm also not high up on the power scale.
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This sounds incisive, but I'm not really smart enough to follow it. Certainly narrative as "story-telling" seems crucially important. And probably like many, it's hard for me to see a really satisfying story coming out of what we're going through. People screaming madly, people being senselessly maimed and killed. It seems more like tragic chaos.
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I used to work for a local government (municipality) as part of their GIS department and we were spending about 10-15 grand a year on licenses IIRC. This was for an ArcGIS server license and 3 “power users” (ArcInfo), 5 “editors” (ArcEdit) and 5 “viewers” (ArcView). We were pretty small compared to most orgs, basically 3-4 people in the department at any given time. I distinctly remember the ArcGIS server license being a very significant portion of that number, maybe even half of it.

Things may have changed since then (this was nearly a decade ago, before ArcGIS Pro licensing style was implemented), but probably not by much, you can probably extrapolate that ballpark and figure how much any actually decent sized org spends on Arc suite of products (a lot)
Interest! Could you put the genetic algorithm code on GitHub? Would love to learn from it :)
I believe there are multiple solutions from the various big tech companies. Most of them I would never trust, like Facebook's solution, but they all seem to fulfill what you're asking for.
getessayer.com to help GRE/TOEFL students study AWA essays.

t.me/wordsbyroots to help them improve their vocab
>This makes sense if the service is relatively unknown on small.

Or does it? The kid wouldn't know Lebron had no idea he existed until he got the cash and the script, and would not remember the day after. An adult should.

"We paid this guy to wish you a happy birthday". How awesome is that.
I'm sorry this happened and thank you for sharing. We really do need to encourage a speak up culture. The most disgusting part of what you posted to me was keeping quiet for the good of the team. I'm sorry, but I don't care about any stupid App or project enough to make that an acceptable option.
They should pay it out in stock
It's not the function parameter that has multiple representations, it's your app. The function takes one representation - let's say a numeric id. That doesn't help the client of your function, who could pass in a database id, a database record object, a json object, some sort of natural key, etc... all of which plausibly will match an untyped parameter named "thing". And your function may change its contract someday.
I wrote something about protocols https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23609991
unpopular opinion - durian is overrated, I don't get what's so special about it, even the smell is not really that big, people must have fancy noses if they think it's particularly smelly, some European cheeses are way more (unpleasantly) smellier

my favorite of exotic fruit is dragon fruit - looks nice, easy to consume with spoon, good flavor
dangit. I do this all the time. but if it catches on then it will become useless since it will be over-SEOed.
All of these things reduce costs for the company, no?
The lack of applause made all that enthusiasm sound really weird. A few times Craig sounded like he was going to pause for applause and then checked himself.
Hanson explicitly disagrees, to quote:

>Yet it is easy to show that we can both have more money and save more lives if we are more consistent about the price we pay for lives in the many different death-risk-versus-cost choices that we make.

He's not even saying you need an accurate value, he's saying you need a consistent value.
Tax applies to all companies with $1B + revenues?
Age Diversity in Your Workforce: Who Gets the Spotlight?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23608466.
It doesn't make sense to anyone but the U.S. government. It gives them the right to deny the renewal or re-entry for any reason and then say "too bad, you're in your home country, so our hands are washed of the situation."

You must renew your visa in your home country. There is a possibility of doing it in another country, such as Canada, but this is not usually recommended and has a higher probability of failing.

Mind you, these are people that already have visas. They are simply being renewed. The secondary effect of this is that it slows down processing of visas, which lowers how many are given out and increases the cost of the USCIS. Although I think this particular thing has existed for a while now, the Trump administration has made it a point to needlessly increase the processing time by making policies to delay the processing. This is a tactic that further slows down the USCIS, making it much more costly, just so that they can point out how costly and inefficient the USCIS is when it is their policies that make those things worse.

For example, if you make an application for an H-1B, extension, or renewal, it takes months to prepare the paperwork. Once submitted, the USCIS can send it back, requesting more information. This has become much more common under the Trump administration, because it basically adds a minimum three to six month delay to the process. It gets sent back to the applicant, one must extremely carefully understand the confusing request for more information, provide the information, and resubmit. The USCIS then starts the whole evaluation process back over again.
At a glance, quite a few of the celebrities on this site are also on Cameo.
I haven't had a McDonald's hamburger for many years. You are partly correct that it is because of my perception that it is trash. But when I walk by a McDonald's it doesn't smell like food to me anymore and smells more akin to garbage on a warm day.