skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We complain because we want Apple to return to the quality it had. I know all about Windows and Linux, I get to help my wife out with her HP/MS problems all the time and I use Linux professionally every day.

I'm loyal to Apple because the alternatives are so terrible.

I guess the real question is, why are Windows people so loyal? I kind of get Linux loyalty and that would be my second choice.
Wow this is excellent, it looks like we were inspired by the same problem and had very similar solutions. I should've known a tool like this existed somewhere, I just didn't look hard enough :). Either way I'm pretty happy with the output of node-txr even if I could've used wormhole without needing to build it.
Speaking of phones, they often are purposely rendered obsolete by preventing them to install OS upgrades or migrating them to other more open OSes long before they break for other reasons. While this is a laudable initiative, sadly it won't be much effective against phones planned obsolescence.
Opening hardware specs would be a true giant step against this. Not holding my breath though.
I’ll make sure to file a feedback if I run into it again, and if you’d like I’d be more than happy to email the number to you as well if you’d like to CC yourself on it or push it to the right people. Thanks for your help!
The metric is number of different things you do as an organisation, or number of bored staff.

You could probably keep things simple for longer if you issue everyone with a new fidget spinner monthly. A lot of what I see is just people who can’t resist fiddling with stuff that works until it doesn’t.
> Facial recognition at 95% can be very useful in helping to find people, initiate investigations.

'95%' isn't meaningful, do you mean a 5% false positive rate, or 5% false negative rate?

A false positive rate as high as 5% would wrongly flag thousands of people.
"Extremely limited" is fair. They were just one line formulas so pretty useless most of the time. Of course you also had sub-routines via GOSUB (which was defined in the very first BASIC specification in the 60s) but those didn't support parameters passing and GOSUB is only slightly less ugly than GOTO. Sadly "Commodore BASIC" didn't support multi-line user defined functions like BBC BASIC:

REM Squaring a number using FN
A=4
B=FN_Square(A)
PRINT A;" squared is ";B
END

DEF FN_Square(Num)
=Num^2

(Source: http://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcwin/tutorial/chapter17.html)

I'll grant you that even with BBC BASIC the syntax isn't pretty with the = token taking the place of a RETURN statement. BASIC definitely had its quirks.

I think Applesoft BASIC (also a Microsoft BASIC) supported multi-line FN blocks. Can't find anything conclusive online to confirm this though - perhaps someone on here remembers?
This causes such a problem with governance though: Instead of voting for (or contributing to) ideas/policies directly, you have to translate your preference into a selection/ranking of the people who sound like they might support the ideas that you would like to see in your democracy. Sounds like a pretty crappy codec for that kind of signal tbh.
I made a card game (www.intrapreneurs-game.com) to teach innovation to the corporate crowd (I teach MBA classes part time and do speaking engagements here and there). Building the mechanics of the rules and the game content was fun and I tried to balance actual gaming entertainment with actual learning and even built a companion app with supporting material for every concept in the game.
Then you didn't reach the part where it says

'Observation is among the most important human skills computers can augment. Things that are difficult or impossible for humans to observe can be brought within human cognitive capacity by various computational processes. Gathered information can be visualized, slight changes and pattern deviances emphasized, slow processes sped up, forecasts calculated. In Bill Mollison's words, "Information is the critical potential resource. It becomes a resource only when obtained and acted upon."'
Modern dishwashers don't need prerinsing and aren't tested with prerinsing, you're just using it wrong.
x86 might be a platform with few vendors. ARM isn't even a platform. Most SoCs are meant to run a single OS and that's about it. Not exactly what I'd call a platform because platforms let their users build on top of them. That includes running whatever OS you want to run on that processor.

What you might be worried about is a duopoly which has nothing to do with whether something is a software platform or not. For example Microsoft has a monopoly on Windows. That doesn't stop Windows from being a platform for which you can write arbitrary software. Apple has a monopoly on iOS but it's not possible for users to write their own software, they have to join a developer program that can always exclude them. This is what one would call a closed platform. ARM is closer to the iOS model than to Windows.
Nice ! Did you contribute back your improvements to wego ?
> Care to comment about the debugbear benchmarks? Why is the supposed undue overhead as per SpeeDOMeter not showing up in there?

I'm not familiar with what you mean by debugbear benchmarks. If you mean the content linked here: https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1273263792785326085

Then my explanation would be that these measurements measure different things than Speedometer. CPU time is a power metric, First Contentful Paint is a page load speed metric, memory is a memory metric, none of these are web app responsiveness measurements. All of these data points can be true at the same time!

Personally, I would expect any content blocker that does a lot of blocking to speed up page load, reduce memory use, and save power, because less stuff loads and less stuff gets processed. That any ad blocker would reduce Speedometer score is kind of a surprise to me, but if it's real, I believe it.

I really have no stake in which ad blocker is best or more efficient. I just wanted to clarify what Speedometer does, and why it's a relevant measurement.
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Current iPads just don’t have the hardware support to make this possible. Hence why the DTK won’t support all the features mentioned in the keynote. (It’s using the iPad chip.)
No, it’s more of the fact that almost everyone compared to Apple is doing worse but apple gets all the bashing.
Now what I'd love is a list of play-by-email games.
> Maybe you bought a not so good model?

Rinse quality is lower in modern washing machines in order to meet water economy standards - even if you buy an £800 Miele and turn on all the 'extra rinse' options.

I know this because I have a relative with sensitive skin, who resorts to rinsing things by hand after taking them out of the washing machine - and doing such a rinse visibly dirties the water. Feel free to test this yourself.

This has happened across the entire market - so much so that 'Which Reports' (UK consumer reports equivalent) have lowered their standard for 'five star rinse quality' as nothing on the market could meet it.
An interview with Paul Mockapetris, the creator of the DNS
My family become dysfunctional, dreams up to death shattered, all the sacrifice for nothing. Several last years was living in horror.

Each day I strive not to become a zombie. It is easy to live in fantasies, dreams, movies, there is no exit there.

My way out is to resolve inner conflict by singing. Start from some truth - we cry when hurt, sometime can stop it, sometimes not. But there is a need. So find some really private place - forest, bathroom - and try to allow that voice. One note would be enough. It will sound awful. Do not be hard on yourself. It is mismatch between reality and expectations that hurts. No need to push it harder. Thoughts stream through mind, all the lies and unjustice, I try to not interfere. Finally there is a match between thoughts and reality - pain and support. Hours later it sounds like lullaby and I can finally see beautiful forest around.

It is hard to describe, previous attempt https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23269320
That’s a pretty insane expectation given that their physical office presumably don’t require working at midnight. (Good luck getting that one past European regulators)
> 4 million colours

That would be 22 bit, which seems quite unlikely. Perhaps you're thinking of 4096 (= 2^12 = (16)^3)? It seems only 256 of them could be shown at once and only 240 could be modified [1][2][3]? If those are correct then it is more limited than VGA, which could show 256 colours chosen from 262144 (= 2^18 = (64)^3). Some Archimedes resolutions were more like low-end SVGA though [1].

[1] https://lowendmac.com/2018/acorn-archimedes-computers/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_depth

Edit:

[3] Original brochures! http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/docs/Acorn/Brochu... and http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/docs/Acorn/Brochu...
When apple device stops being supported, it’s just not getting any more updates. It’s not going to get bricked, you can keep using the phone until foreseeable future.

Also, the general consumer does not care if you can flash a rom from xda. They care about the official updates.
Yep okay, so I guess that's not inline by my definition (since it overlays the text). I have definitely seen webpages that change the size of the containing box to add in the confirmation message and buttons.

I guess it's an between case I didn't consider - it's maybe not modal with respect to the whole app, but it seems to be modal with respect to that one comment (you can ignore it and do something else with the rest of the program, but with that comment, you can't even read it).
I think what OP is saying is that physics experiments are guided by theory, in the sense that their goal is to prove or disprove this or that theoretical claim. It's not to fish for interesting correlations in a set of observations collected at random.

I don't know physics enough to give a sensible example, but in physics, as generally in science, a theory is first formed to explain a set of observations, then the theory is tested against new observations and either discarded, if the new observations do not agree with the theory, or accepted otherwise (where "accepted" doesn't necessarily mean that all debate will cease and everyone will agree the theory is true). So, in short, the point of the LHC is to test the predictions of some theory (I think what it's testing is the standard model but not sure) and its size is a function of how easy or hard it is to test such preditions, not an attempt to "look harder" just in case something comes up. And if "something completely new" does come up, then the cycle starts all over again- with a new theory and new experiments to test its predictions. Just "discovering something completely new", i.e. making a new observation, doesn't really tell us anything until we have an explanation for it, in the form of a scientific theory that can be tested.

In machine learning we do not have any theory to guide our experiments so the done thing is to try things and see what works. So just because LHC and GPT-3 are both "large", doesn't mean they have the same goals- or that the goal of the LHC is just to be large, because large is better.

To clarify "will it work if we scale it?" is not much of a scientific claim. Because it doesn't tell us anything new. We've known that it's possible to improve performance by spending more computing resources for a long time now. If I run bubblesort on a supercomputer for a month and tell people that I have sorted a list of integers larger than anyone has ever done before- will people fall over their chairs in amazement? Of course not. Not in any other field of computer science (except perhaps high performance computing) is scaling resources an acceptable way to claim progress. That it is in machine learning is a result of the fact that we have no guiding theory to drive our experiments. So people just try things to see what works.

Obviously, if someone has more resources than almost everyone else, they can try more things and hope to luck out on more interesting results. That's the reason why it's always Google, OpenAI, Uber, Facebook etc. that are in the news for "new machine learning results". They got more stuff to throw at more walls and more eyes to see what sticks.
"Now it’s back to competing on performance, and its ability to succeed will likely depend on how well Apple has matched its surrounding silicon hardware accelerators to the needs of developers and consumers. "

One thing the author seems to have missed is that what sets Apple apart from most ARM based SoC developers is that Apple has an archicture license. They don't use the cores provided by ARM. They implement the ISA by themselves. And they are really good at it. Look at the A12 chips for example.

The ARM A-7x cores are quite powerful. But we can be sure Apple will take full advantage of the higher TDP and incease performance in the cores beyond what ARM provides in their cores.

Also, expect more CPU cores/device than what Intel provides.

The thing about the cores is alo true. Tighter integration with coprocessors for AI/ML, Crypto (and improved ability to shut the down, increase/decrease clock speed etc) will also be a boost compared to x86, where it is either done in SW of using an internal or external GPU.
Oh that sounds good. I guess I always find it difficult to read a piece that starts with things that go strongly against my convictions, I realize that this is problem for humanity and does not help in getting wiser. I should have read the rest of it.
What exactly is missing from an iPad that would allow this to happen?
I see you didn't get the word hidden and say what economies are openly and loudly announcing. No offence. Can you explain the last claim, as I'm the one who in this case is included into the most people.
I'm also going to admit something, I didn't actually grasp that the far right was a real political view in the US. I see the people waving Confederate flags in the news and I always assumed they were just racist looneys. I've had some discussions here tonight that have made me realise America has a significant minority that actually holds those beliefs.

Where it affects my arguments is that I always believed the far left existed but never really believed the far right existed. I think it's warped my view of US politics to middle Right vs far left, which isn't a far comparison.
Your comment reminds me of HP9845 Basic. After using it everything else felt brain dead. Not just other versions of basic either.

https://www.hp9845.net/9845/software/basic/
A DNA Mix-Up Involving a Washing Machine Kept a Man in Jail for 3 Years
Apple promised features to help users with disabilities. It failed them
The Dev machines come with 16Gb of RAM, iPads have nothing if that sort so probably it won't be more than a fun weekend project.

On iPhone and iPad, apps are terminated when the memory is scarce so all the apps are build to expect that to happen.

What I would expect to happen is Mac OS constantly complaining that you are out of memory and you need to choose one of the following apps to terminate.

Sure, a lot of swap can be used but this would degrade the performance significantly IMHO.
The hope is that it's a change away from an untrustworthy provider, toward a trusted provider. Not sure if it counts as being a fundamental change, but it seems worth doing.
My guess was because you use "clay" to make things? Seems pretty weak.
I just upgraded my wifi card from my MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012). And I love it. Wifi AC and unlock with Apple Watch worked out of the box. Also the upgrade process is easy to do and you have a reason to finally clean the inside of your mac.
I used to work somewhere where you could work wherever you wanted to, but we had an office. Most people rolled in and out several days per week - you solved for it by creating habits and systems.

The single most important thing is that everyone has the option. You don't really need to sell the office to make it work, but that everyone from the CEO to even (perhaps surprisingly, the front of house team) has the same freedom to work from wherever suits.
Strictly speaking, shouldn't it be possible to bodge ansible to send and execute a static python interpreter to bootstrap a host? I've been bitten by "oh no, that Python's too old" or similar several times now. The idea of bootstrapping from only having a `sh` on the far end seems like it ought to be a thing, but (for instance) mitogen only goes part-way.

There was a pen-test tool designed on these lines once called Mosquito Lisp, which as far as I can see evolved into something called WaspVM: https://github.com/swdunlop/WaspVM I have no idea if it's in use, alive, or even working these days.

Is anyone working on this side of the problem and I've missed it?
A law abiding citizen might comply at the advise of their lawyer. My point is, E2E will at least ensure that warrants are used and not warrantless tactics, which seems to be an ever growing issue.
I want a tool like this for any website, that intelligently extracts just the useful part as plain text. Reader view and so forth just don't work that well. Are there any tools around like this?
Your suggestions sound reasonable, but didn't work for various reasons.

There was just one UI, so we couldn't rotate.

Automated UI tests were too brittle so we had do use testers for the scripts.
Well for many programs there isn't really any separate designer, particularly for line of business apps. That was really where I was coming from - the person who designs the app is simply someone who was trained in coding.

In any case, as I said, you get a problem if the person who designs the app is simply someone who was trained in coding, and you get a problem if they're simply someone who was trained in art.
I don't think it will get especially worse with the switch to their own silicon. It is not as if you could exchange the CPU in your current Mac either, with the possible exception of the Mac Pro. Same with the software. The pure fact that they demonstrated a Linux VM in the keynote shows, that they understand at least the requirements of the Mac users.
It’s interesting that the installer package for the beta is just made available with no authentication…
I've kind of lost count, but about 5 on hn, and 10 or so on upwork. I'm still working with 1 from hn, who is posting to the thread despite having very limited availability.

There were 3 people from upwork whose work quality was great, but are also severely overbooked (great work on the first project, then no reply for weeks)

The biggest problem for me is that qualified devs all seem to be overbooked.
ARM EL2.
These felt so futuristic at the time, anti-aliased fonts, nice smooth scrolling/dragging window dragging all while PCs were stuck on Windows 3.1.
I've always wondered why recipes have the ingredient list and quantity separate from the instructions. I often have to scroll up and down (even on a mostly-decent recipe site like all recipes.com) first to see what gets added next and then to see how much of it to add. Why not tell me it's one teaspoon of salt in the same place as you tell me to add the salt? Only advantage to separating them is to make the shopping list, but no reason one can't duplicate the quantities.
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I guess it also depends on the company and the style of the employees you work with - in my old organisation we made it work because it was embedded, but also everyone was just genuinely nice and not trying to score little political points here and there.

Even with over 500 employees, the lack of a career ladder as such meant there's little to gain by being the loudest in the room or trying to work the room. Perhaps that's also an ingredient - it might be easier to minimise others' egos when you're also in the room?
Timestamp counter have legitimate uses, the combination of resolution and access cost is unprecedented. I use them when I need timestamps for events which happen at 1MHz or more. On modern CPUs these counters even run at stable frequency, unaffected by scaling.
iOS doesn’t swap, FWIW. I think possibly because it’d wear out the flash and then they just rolled with the other benefits.
> I kind liked washing machines that properly heated to 90C

Your washing machine is likely defective. Nothing about the rules makes this particularly difficult and modern machines with good energy ratings can do it (though, mind you, you'll notice if you read the small print that the energy rating is pretty much just for the mode they expect people to use; the 90 degree mode will use quite a lot of power).

> vacuum cleaners that actually picked up dirt

Your vacuum cleaner is definitely defective. At best, the functional advantage provided by super-high-wattage machines over ~1kW ones was marginal and hard to measure, in many cases it was non-existent. Super-high wattage vacuum cleaners were primarily a marketing thing; 1600 is a better number than 1400 so people buy the 1600.

(Note that appliance manufacturers continue to do that where allowed; most washing machine manufacturers perform market segregation on 1200 vs 1400 vs 1600 rpm spin, for instance, even though once you go over a 1000 or so improvement is very marginal, and your machine will likely never actually reach the sticker rate anyway due to damage protection system)

> And these newer machines feature more plastic parts, are harder to repair and generally considered disposable

You're talking about two separate issues. Cheap shit washing machines existed both before and after the regulations. You can still get a washing machine with longevity similar to 70s/80s models (Miele in particular makes these) but it'll be expensive. As it was in the 80s; look at the inflation-adjusted costs.
> When was the last HN thread about a building named after someone undeserving? Or really any discussion about a routine honorific misapplied? Anything remotely similar?

Uhm? Some states even renamed Columbus Day. It is not simply "remotely similar", a national holiday is much more prominent than a building.
Did they try to sing along to the original notes? Perfect pitch needs to be practiced, but it should be immediately apparent when you sing out of tune if you're even slightly musically inclined.
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Why are wages low in this industry?
Yeah the A440 was not cheap. I didn't understand money as much as I do now back then. Equivalent inflation adjusted is about £6500 now (!). Which is why my parents had a heart attack when I just blew it instantly on that. Absolutely would not have bought it if I had some more clue. But to this day I have no regrets as it gave me an excellent foundation, understanding and career in computing.

But yes the things lasted a hell of a long time. Mine went until 1998 at which point it was replaced with a Pentium II box running Windows dual booting with Linux. Got 10 years out of that machine which is remarkable considering the progress and change in the 1990s.

I'm on a Mac mini at the moment with an iPad Pro as a secondary machine so the moment an ARM Mac comes out I'm back with an ARM desktop again. It's all a big circle. Perhaps ARX was going to be an early macOS X contender... who knows?
Actually, comparing exchangeable mechanical gears to a transistors on silicon die or pixels is a bit ridiculous.
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Just download this random zip file and voila, you can run Big Sur and possibly pwn your own computer!
The browser is not the place for configuring DNS settings.
Where did you get that from?

The tools, libraries, frameworks etc. we have now make it a lot easier to build something that would have earlier cost a fortune in custom development. If anything, it's getting cheaper to build projects now.
I liked that but sometimes it was a pain in the butt. Particularly if you'd forgotten to open the destination directory window already and the save thing was down 3 levels of menus.