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That's a legit argument against Android, but the exact opposite holds for Windows. You can run Windows 10 on 10 years old hardware, 15 if you push it and I'm not exaggerating. I'm typing this on my 10 years old desktop PC running Windows 10 as we speak, and it's very smooth. I'd have been very pissed off if three years ago Microsoft decided to not support my PC because "7 years is long enough". Yes I hate forced reboots, but that's beside the point here.
This announcement aligns well with Graviton. I can see people building and deploying ARM64 from start to finish, and running it in Amazon’s economical graviton fleet.
The wording + the way the article is layed out may blur the information.

I think the source is a little bit clearer.

https://www.mobilewalla.com/about/press/new-report-reveals-d...
Seems like an overreaction but some dogs behave very aggressively around cattle and other animals due to instinct. Its entirely possible that the dog was not responsive to commands, and was going after the cattle in a serious way. A 4 month old husky is not a tiny puppy. There's more to this story than meets the eye. I highly doubt the neighbor shot the dog without trying anything else first.
>With SAAS you can just write the whole thing off as a service. They get you to the same place, but SAAS does it with significantly less fuss.

Isn't this made up for by SaaS being cheaper (at least initially) than permanent licenses? eg. office 365 personal (SaaS) is $70/year, but office 2019 (perpetual) is $250 one time. I'm not sure what the "fuss" is.
When does understanding a problem not help with solving that problem?

"A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically." -Buckminster Fuller

Anyone with any programming experience knows this.
> For the entrepreneurs out there: Everything doesn't have to be social. Sometimes you can build a business around great, curated content and it can be beautiful.

Examples? I can't actually think of a curated content business that has no social features. Social is textual gold. People love interacting with other people.

Certainly not an information content business. Perhaps curated physical products.
I haven't tried this, but you could try the Ruffle browser extension. I think it's designed as a drop in replacement for the flash player.

https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/wiki/Using-Ruffle#browse...
For what it's worth, Windows 10 since 1809 has supported prompt-before-download for Windows Update, and corrected many of the other annoying "do as I want, not as I say," issues from previous releases.
Look, I get it, Docker has its downsides and it wasn’t meant for local development.

But it just works (most of the times). I can worry about getting shit done, instead of messing around with web servers, interpreters and package managers (it’s fun the first couple of times, but then I want to get to the code).

The problem is that Docker on Mac sucks, because it’s basically a VM running Linux, and it eats up most of my 8 gigs of RAM (yeah I know, 2020).

Maybe, what Apple really needs is something like WSL2.
I'm not a huge fan of microsoft, but I think this is a huge mistake. I've been into the local MS store here in seattle (uvillage) on occasion to quickly grab hardware or software from time to time. While it is clearly a sad apple follow it always makes me feel a little better about MS as a company. It does something to humanize them. So yeah, do they make a ton of money for them? Of course not. Are they great for the brand, I'd argue yes.
A good example is moving the camera: lets say you have a camera set to follow a particular character (in some fancy way), but you only update it in FixedUpdate(). If your framerate is faster than the physics update, FixedUpdate() will not be called every frame, and your camera will get a visible stutter (it will essentially be "temporally aliased" with the physics updates). Therefore, camera movement updates should always go in Update(). This kind of reasoning applies for many "game logic" things.

There's a flip-side to that though: if the stuff in the world are physics objects (especially if it's your main character), and they only update in FixedUpdate(), then even if the camera moves smoothly, the objects will stutter. Hence, you need to do some kind of interpolation or something of them as well in FixedUpdate().

The point is: this stuff is really, really hard to get right. There is no simple right answer.
This is the quote: "All samples came out to be negative for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 genomes with the exception of March 12, 2019, in which both IP2 and IP4 target assays were positive. This striking finding indicates circulation of the virus in Barcelona long before the report of any COVID-19 case worldwide.".

And no discussion of the obvious possibility that they screwed up the testing, any discussion of whether they could repeat the test on another part of the sample or on the 2019 April-August samples they didn't test, or any sort of attempt at a Bayesian probability analysis.

Pretty ridiculous and shameful, I'd say.
Electron is already compatible with ARM, as Microsoft added support in 2019 to allow targetting ARM64 devices like the Surface Pro X.
That would not be sufficient even with a mouse: sometimes, I start moving my mouse and then click on the result that has already moved before I even started moving the mouse, but the whole interaction takes less than one second so I don't have the time to react to the update.

Graying out the results while the new one are coming can also be annoying: if the result that I am looking for is here and the new results are slow to come, I would be frustrated to be unable to click on it.

The whole situation is annoying but I don't know of a good solution and therefore I can't blame people who don't get this right.
And you don't even have to leave hacker news for comments like that. It's all very tiring.
The only thing I use on a semi regular basis that requires Flash is flight school lessons from King Schools. It's probably the only time I use Chrome.

I'd imagine businesses and organizations where software and tech isn't their primary investment would take some time to move away from Flash, especially if they have a business that depends on Flash still working. It's probably similar to the scenario where there's some vital app that requires computers to stay on Mac OS X Snow Leopard / Mojave / Windows 32-bit.
Easy, because when one does consulting for Fortune 500 across the globe, it is expected that we code whenever we are while traveling to the next customer meeting on site.

And even when not traveling, we are expected to move across the building and join other teams for collaborative work.
Homestar Runner has been youtubing its old Flash content, but something is lost because the content was interactive. Hope they work something out with Ruffle or similar to archive the old site as is. The kids of today deserve to play Bronco Trolleys, Stinkoman, and Trogdor.
Can't you just run old browser versions with Flash in a VM somewhere? (Or a dedicated system.)
Does it mean the US should get a military police?

Such an organization is called "gendarmerie" and it is seen in many countries like France, Italy, Spain, Argentina,... usually alongside the civilian police force.
Tangentially, it seems like calling people LARPers has very rapidly become a universally-used cliche. Has anyone else noticed that? I've seen it used for months, sparingly, but in the last couple of weeks it's everywhere (I've seen it literally three times this morning, on different fora about vastly different topics).
Better yet, why not have the best of both worlds?

I know most devs are hesitant to try anything that's "always online", but remote development apps have really gotten better recently. VSCode with the Remote extension makes doing development on a VPS a breeze, and unless you have a really bad internet connection, you probably won't even notice it's remote. And then you also get the benefits of the VPS having a faster internet connection (faster package downloads, etc), most likely better specs than your laptop for only $10-15/mo, more resiliency, and better security. It also completely solves the whole "my laptop is ARM but my servers are x86" problem that keeps getting talked about.
They showed Docker for Mac built for ARM during the keynote, and mentioned that they have been working with Docker for when macOS 11 ships, so I doubt that's going to be the case.
Its a berthing simulator
I believe that ranking shows based on statistics but the real X-factor in Police vs everything that ranks above them is "other people" or your sense of control of the situation.

Think about why many people are fine with driving but fear flying, despite flying being significantly statistically safer. The difference is that when you're driving, you feel in control.

The same is true of all the professions listed as more dangerous than police here. If you're following your training and the safety protocols that go with it, safety isn't a huge concern with any of them.

For police, they respond to 911 calls and serve arrest warrants. A huge part of their job is getting called to potentially dangerous scenes with people who may or may not be armed, may be violent, may fire at them, may ambush them, etc.

This is a recent national story from my hometown that illustrates it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/24/us/south-carolina-police-...

I can't imagine being more fearful about logging than worrying that something like this would be on the other end of one of the dozens of 911 calls I'm asked to respond to each day.
> Mobilewalla does not collect the data itself, but rather buys it from a variety of sources, including advertisers, data brokers, and internet service providers.

So we can mobilise to use this data for profiling protestors, but not to help tackle a pandemic which is spreading concurrently?
Those people goofing around on the computers are future customers.
As opposed to public listening? This whole feature is named after a Freudian slip.
By throwaway I mean music that is extremely popular for a short moment in time (measured in months or weeks) and then becomes irrelevant as the next hit single comes out. I don't mean throwaway in terms of musical preference or taste.
> The concern is that under x86 emulation instead of hypervisor, the performance hit could be significant.

You are not going to be able to run an x86 hypervisor/VM on Apple Silicon Macs. This is very clearly laid out by Apple: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple_silicon/abou...
I assume you mean forced reboots for updates? Linux is definitely leading here, my MacBook needs a reboot fairly frequently for updates, I'd almost guess at more often than my win10 machines. That said, one reboot a month isn't an outrageous ask I don't think.
Uhh, have you seen the CHAZ/CHOP?

Edit: 38 people shot in half a day in NYC: https://www.pix11.com/news/local-news/24-people-shot-in-18-i...
Copying my reply to someone else as I think is applies here too:

That's a legit argument against Android, but the exact opposite holds for Windows. You can run Windows 10 on 10 years old hardware, 15 if you push it and I'm not exaggerating. I'm typing this on my 10 years old desktop PC running Windows 10 as we speak, and it's very smooth. I'd have been very pissed off if three years ago Microsoft decided to not support my PC because "7 years is long enough". Yes I hate forced reboots, but that's beside the point here.

As another commenter pointed out, 7 years old mid to high-end hardware will typically give you a fine experience on Windows 10, as long as you have an SSD.
I havent' checked but does Private Listening mode do that? Or is that just for other users not to see what you're listening to ?
Same here. Youtube Music is the replacement and it seems to have the same content and the same bugs, just a different design (which I personally find a bit less intuitive but I might be biased) and a new name. You can even upload your own music to YouTube Music now the same way it was possible with Google Music before. It's just Google making a new product to replace a previous one again instead of fixing/improving what they already have...
I don't know if it's a summer thing, but same here.

That said, I've clicked on every Apple-related link and made a point of mostly skimming through each of them. There was usually something valuable (by my standard), but yeah, a lot of it I really don't want clogging up my brain.
I really dislike activists using graphic analogies like rape and slavery. Not because I’m a snowflake, but because it’s alienating and distracting. “Oh so I’m a climate rapist?” I think PETA is often the worst for these tactics — hurting their own cause, one I share, as a vegan.

I think doctor’s advice to give up smoking is a better analogy. If doctors still smoke, themselves, it gives patients an emotional crutch to continue smoking. So a better patient advocate would not smoke.

At the same time, it shouldn’t be a requirement, just like a doctor can still drink and smoke if they really want to.
WSL2 basically is a VM running Linux :) There's actually Windows-native docker which runs Windows containers. But it's not very useful, because there are very few images compiled for Windows.

Docker is useful because of those thousands of companies publishing "official" images. You can't expect them to publish those images for every possible platform. They target Linux x64. May be they'll target Linux ARM, may be not.
Two reasons:

1. engineers are disproportionately represented in the early retirement community, so in a way any FIRE resource could be considered "for engineers". ...maybe? Do you buy that? No? Yeah I get it.

2. a couple of weeks back, an early retirement blog that had nothing to do with engineering landed on the front page having also advertised itself as "for engineers." It seemed like an ingenious marketing strategy so I decided to try it out. It didn't work out so well for this app, though. So it goes.
This idea is anti-economic. It has always ended in a very expensive mess by the unavoidable and huge collateral damages each time it was implemented
Seems dumb, facial recognition has a lot of potential. I love entering UK with facial recognition and passport to go straight through the border, no lines no talking.
Ask HN: Software is cheaper to build now
With software, I have had this theory for a while that there is somewhat of a law where what was built one year ago or 10 years ago is always cheaper to build today. So this is what helps continue to drive innovation. Have there been any studies on the price of building software always getting cheaper?

I suppose a big exception to this rule would be when there are major players in a particular niche. For example, it would be more expensive to build a competitor to Google now than in 2000. But it still follows that the code it's cheaper to write now because there are so many more tools available to the coder than before.
Uhh, what? Nowhere in this conversation did we say anything about controlling an officers paycheck you. Please stay on topic.
> The malware, Mr. Chien said, was deployed on common websites and even one news site. But it did not infect every computer used to go shopping or read about the day’s events. Instead, the code looked for a sign that the computer was part of a major corporate or government network. For example, many firms have their employees use a “virtual private network,” or V.P.N., a protected channel that allows workers sitting in their basements or attics to tunnel into their corporate computer systems as if they were at the office.

> “These attacks do not try to get into the V.P.N.,” Mr. Chien said. “They just use it to identify who the user works for.” Then the systems wait for the worker to go to a public or commercial website, and use that moment to infect their computer. Once the machine is reconnected to the corporate network, the code is deployed, in hopes of gaining access to corporate systems.

...ppl care to speculate on the tools, processes, methods being used?
Looks like the revenue shares are small percentage wise, although I guess many of them aren't high margin businesses either. Of course it also looks like some of the businesses are forecasting short term losses bigger than their current fundraising ask.
The study tested 36 samples, from what I can tell (N is well-obfuscated). About ten of those were from before the COVID outbreak.

The paper doesn’t talk about the false positive rate of the test they used, and doesn’t compute any sort of P value.

~ 3% is a reasonable false positive rate for a COVID test, so you’d expect 0.3 of those earlier samples to test positive.

I doubt it will survive peer review in its current form.

In fairness to the authors, the focus of the paper is testing sewage to track diseases. The most interesting result is that they stopped detecting COVID mid-pandemic due to heavy rainfall.

Edit: plugging into binomial distribution calculator says there’s over a 25% chance of getting one false positive in the pre-covid samples.
That is about Rosetta, not Apple Silicon.
A Man Behind the Iconic Apple Stores: Ron Johnson
You can't escape catastrophizing by staying on the news.yc domain, because there will be frothing 500-comment threads any time some UI get a design update.
Nothing is written.
I think the answer is that demand for development/developers is increasing and even now we are far from peak demand/digitalization.

Even with the huge financial incentives supply of developers is constrained by the mental capacity/desire to do the often time consuming and tedious task of learning the development skills.
Giving up liberty for convenience sounds really dumb.
yep, if this were reproducible, we wouldn't be reading about it in a blog.
Yeah, the thing is that most of us don’t have the patience of figuring out how Nix works , write derivations and stuff.

Docker and Compose look pretty straightforward in comparison, at least for local development.
Everyone has their own comfort levels, and that's fine. However, dosdude1 and parrotgeek have been doing this for many years, so I think they're pretty trustworthy at this point.
The computer should be fine, I don't think it's "capitalism" it's just apple not giving a shit in it's race to get iPad apps on the desktop
a defector explained subversion very clearly back in the 1980s "after it is done, no one is sure what is true and there is nothing you can do to roll it back. The only defense you have against it comes from older institutions like religion."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgmg2VFX058
The Microsoft stores seemed to be a "ME TOO!" thing. I doubt MS ever opened a store in a mall that didn't have an apple store (or wasn't expected to have one).

Like I'm sure that's what the point was. Someone would go try some Macs out at the Apple store and walk past the Microsoft store on the way to their car. They'd go in, check out the goods (as a matter of comparison shopping), and possibly buy a PC instead.

In my experience though, post-iPhone, very few people go to Apple stores to buy computers. Sure, that's still probably a lot of people, but 99.99% of the people in the store seem to be there about an iPhone (half the time, an iphone that they broke and expect to be fixed under warranty lol).

MS was in the business of selling phones for a while. I wonder if their stores lost traffic because they don't do phones anymore.
Great point. And speaking from insider knowledge, I can tell you that there are consultants you can pay anywhere from a little bit up to thousands per month who will get you tested/placed on different editorial playlists. The more you can get on, and the longer you can stay on them (there is no guarantee of staying on, they only keep you on if you gain traction), the more success you will have.
On [0]: as far as I know, the U.S. armed forces instigated an internal review immediately after the events in the video. The review determined that the use of force was consistent with the prevailing rules of engagement, and so there wasn't any disciplinary action.
This article is basically undone by the existence of this headline:

"Trump authorizes sanctions against International Criminal Court officials"

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/11/politics/icc-executive-order/...

"The latest move comes months after the ICC authorized a probe into alleged war crimes committed in Afghanistan by US and Afghan forces as well as alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the Taliban. It also follows a push by the court's Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to investigate potential crimes committed by Israel against the Palestinians -- a prospect about which Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said they were "gravely concerned.""

...

"The ICC prosecutor Bensouda sought authorization in November 2017 to open an investigation into crimes connected to the conflict in Afghanistan. According to documents from the time, Bensouda's office determined that there was "a reasonable basis to believe" that members of the Afghan National Security Forces, the US armed forces and the CIA had committed "war crimes," including torture and rape. "
Packers were common in the 80's and 90's to save disk space. I mostly remember them from Amiga warez and demos.
Guy Who Reverse-Engineered TikTok Reveals the Scary Things He Learned
I mean, it's the same thing with startup advice.

"We did X, Y, Z. Oh and we also got lucky".

It's not that X, Y, Z is necessarily bad advice, just that obviously nobody really knows how to be successful with anything. The closest you get is to know things that improve/decrease your odds.
It seems so, my memory must be from using an older version.
It’s particularly applicable to startups that burn through a bunch of cash and then exit for a pittance.
I am yet to bother with Docker and unless a customer project requires it, I will keep staying away from it.

Still using VM images, and I bet 5 more years and everyone and their dog will be doing multi-scale lambda functions on cloud runtimes with complete disregard for the underlying OS.
He's doing this part time. A full-time music producer could easily make more/better music, especially if she is not touring. For perspective, an electronic artist I admire, Zhu, was once producing an entire song every single week. There is, however, no substitute for 'talent.'
Trump’s freeze on new visas could threaten US dominance in AI
WebAssign dropped Flash (at least for Chemistry) last year, including the fancy organic molecule input system. I haven’t seen Flash in any of the online courses I’ve taken since 2016 or so (and some of those sites are pretty archaic).
I've had to explain this aspect of Level 3 to so many people before, and in my experience few people get it. I think there's a bit more nuance to it though.

How far it has to predict something into the future is however long it takes for a person to safely take over - let's say 10 seconds. The thing is though, a Level 4 system also has to be able to predict things into the future in terms of erratic drivers and pedestrians - so the problem is surprisingly similar.

If you want to know what's really going on with self-driving, talk to the prediction teams at any of the companies. It's pure research, because how can you predict the future? And it's not a hypothetical problem, because pedestrians do weird shit and you need to predict if they're going to walk in front of you 5 seconds from now all the time (at least for urban driving). Humans do this instinctively - we slow down in uncertain situations and are constantly monitoring it for changes. When the robots try to do this, they slow down and then just stop because they can't really guess what's going to happen next. For computers, I'd argue it's roughly equivalent to solving hard AI.
I feel like they can't really be sure that they can push that kind of 'partsy' inventory. USB stuff sure, but GPUs, MBs, ram etc... bitsy and complicated.
They don't get the fine detailed data that is needed for contact tracing.