skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you're saying isn't really far of from the truth (except economic hardship is real). My grandmother's wish for a man she would marry (after my grandfather passed away) was a man who can make a horse dance (we're Cuban), and she eventually did marry again. Today everybody wants everything to be perfect. No wonder, people are bombarded with perfect A, B and C at all times.
As said in some other comments, TikTok does not use a "follow" model, new content is algorithmically recommended to you. Therefore there is no problem with the content creators you're following burning out or your follow list getting stale. For example my highschool friends are no longer that active on facebook, and in 2020 I'm no longer asking random people to add me to FB, therefore facebook is now kind of dead to me. My youtube follows like Ryan Higa etc are burned out, hence youtube is less useful for me. That'll never happen with TikTok because my follows list is irrelevant. I see pretty much only fresh faces with content I'm interested in.
Is your workflow OSX specific ? I switched to MBP and OSX 2 years ago for iOS development but OSX has been getting slower and slower with each update. And I'm running a 15" i9 with 32gb ram and Vega 20 - I see noticeable UI lag on my 5k monitor with native lightweight apps (eg resizing telegram/WhatsApp), Chrome is getting slower and Firefox is no champ either.

I recently booted to win 10 bootcamp for some game and was shocked at how much smoother the experience was. Need to do some benchmarking but just running VS code and docker felt noticeably faster on win 10 - same machine - and Macs have terrible windows drivers
I wish I had read the last to sentences first;

"How can we scale our teams to deliver on more and more ambitious goals while retaining their autonomous nature? I will offer some opinions on this in the next post."

So the whole meat of the article I expected is nowhere to be found.
Seconded. I deeply resent the overall tone of this article, framing childbirth and family planning as if every couple kept a damn Excel spreadsheet and talked casually about "biological clocks".

Economists!

The author briefly points out that children born today might live to see the 22nd Century, but clearly hasn't spent much time actually envisioning that century, using humanity's apparent trajectory as a basis.

I will need to know as a concerned, prospective parent, to which post-cataclysmic vassal should my hypothetical child indenture themselves to, if they wish to maximize their chances of living through the Age of Thirst?

What schools in my area can teach my child the skills necessary to deescalate an armed conflict with a band of Sand Slayers laying siege to a former Amazon distribution center?

And in all seriousness, what can I pass down to them that would make up for the fact that I've dragged them into a world set on fire and wasted by unchecked greed?

And did you notice that this article didn't mention adoption whatsoever? That there are already kids in need of a family, whose parents apparently never drafted the Excel spreadsheet, and are suffering through this grim period along with us, whether we're here for them or not? I guess that information doesn't fit into their dated narrative, worrying over their youngsters' biological clocks, seeing a countdown timer on their own contribution to a gene pool instead of wishing the best for their society.
Mexican here: the state provides free/cheap daycare for working mom's children starting at ~12 weeks old.
From 0 to 100M Readers
I really hope they just extend the password to 8 upper letters (200 billion combinations) or 10 digits.

If they go for a longer and alphanumeric password as it seems they are doing, I am gonna dread having to enter that manually whenever joining a meeting, all because an hypothetically attacker might join in. Might as well switch back to webex for usability.
Cheers. It's a good thing to be wary of. Poor use of active learning will end up biasing the data according to the model it's trained on – so that data won't be the best X samples to train on a different model. Most of this issue comes from bad active learning selection methods. If you have well calibrated uncertainty estimates and sample for diversity and representiveness too, it's far less of a concern.
Namespaces and Scope in Python
Will it really be better at other places? The company I work for consistently makes the top 10 in ComputerWorld's best places to work in IT list.

I did some very basic Android apps before. If I stick with the current job long enough then I should get better at Python and AWS.
"ARM very recently started allowing licensees to add custom instructions, but only for Cortex-M (embedded)."

They've reserved a block for that in the encoding space. Quite exciting! And it makes a lot of sense in embedded world.
Volcanoes seem like most likely culprit. Although, I wonder if there was evidence of reduced geomagnetism which increased cosmic ray cloud nucleation via the Svensmark Effect. See:

Winter monsoons became stronger during geomagnetic reversal
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190703121407.h...
ARMv8-A supports page sizes of 4k, 16k, and 64k. The specification permits implementations to choose which of these page sizes to implement. See the register ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1.
> This once again confirms that Zoom just doesn't care about having a secure platform at all.

I disagree. I think it shows that Zoom (at the time this was created) lacked the skill necessary to create a secure platform. But their prompt reaction and subsequent focus on security has given me hope.
Eh... strikes me more as the Democrats shifted the Overton window far left. Twitter's only bias is in favor of dollars.
Soviet bureaucracy wanted to transform itself into capitalist oligarchs by seizing and privatizing the state enterprises instead of creating an open, democratic and scientific economic planning system. Trotsky was right.
Seems like, relative to its own system, YouTube has a decent grasp of where I lie on the political axis. (pretty close to the center)
Sure, great.

Let's take a fully functional emulator that works well on mac OS (https://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7361) and all 3 major platforms (https://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/basilisk_ii) and port it to JS using Emscripten, and then wrap that into an Electron app, and ship it again on mac OS.

Is this an exercise in how many layers of abstraction one can do things?
>not stepping outside of your house for 5 months is way overboard.

I'm not so sure. People are eating in restaurants with "outdoor" dining that consists of only one open wall out of four. They are going to pools, and gyms, and the beach, all without masks. This kind of thing isn't safe.
You're trying to evaluate a candidate's ability to accomplish something with finite resources. If you allow someone to put additional time into it, you're biasing the results towards the more desperate and less in-demand individual.
Which of the two companies who just posted record revenues and growth is "failing"?
Even early 00s is a bit early for "ubiquitous" in the US. I got a Treo in 2006 and, before that, I had cellphones but they were pretty much for emergency/backup. I'm not sure I ever texted on them.
But "perluette" or "esperluette" (both are valid) have existed in French for centuries. They were just uncommon words, and it's out of sheer ignorance that people use the English word instead.

For instance "dièse" is better known, so nobody would think of saying "sharp" or whatever other English word for the "#" sign.
For some reason, "arobase" seems relatively well known as the normal French name for the "@" sign.
> 9th April – Heard from the Zoom team that this was mitigated.

> 16th April – Heard they were working on updated bug bounty program.

> 15th June – Requested update on BB program. No reply.

> 8th July – Asked again if I could submit this for bounty. No reply.

> 29th July – Disclosure.

Prompt?

> Maximum password length of 10

Increased focus on security?
It's not just Apple. Look at the state of business app stores: appExchange (Salesforce), Slack, Jira plugin marketplace,and so on. They are all milking as much as thry can.
Minimum wage is $15/hr (teachers make more), daycare is open 8am-6pm. Law has 4-5 kids per teacher, so that's $1000-$1250/kid minimum, plus floating teachers (can't close a class if one teacher is sick), and there's rent and administrators. So the $2.5k/kid is reasonable given all of that - I doubt the school makes a lot of money.

To be fair, you can also get a nanny for about that (going rate is $20/hr or so) which works out with two kids.

Still though, my point is that high costs of child care in the city are a wedge that furthers the gap between rich and everyone else.
Immigration is fine, as long as we stop importing cheap products from China and bring factory jobs back.
> Twitter == "Democratic Party USA"

You mean to argue Twitter that revised it's rules specifically to justify not taking action for Donald Trump’s flagrant, serial violations of the then-current rules is an organ of the Democratic Party?

Yeah, no.

An opportunist that sticks it's thumb in the wind and leans where the political momentum appears to be at the moment while deliberately maximizing engagement by courting and accelerating controversy, sure. A party organ of the Democratic Party? Not even close.
It would have been so cool if the USSR had its own internet and shared it with China and China were still running it now because wouldn't it be great to stop hearing about how people think firewalling the entire Chinese IP space will keep hackers out. Also a parallel internet built on something other than TCP/IP would promote competition to see which internet design is technically superior. But realistically nobody wants two internets that are incompatible. We already have IPv6 which is incompatible with the rest of the internet and that's enough trouble as it is.
>The 32-year-old man has not been charged.

I wonder why. They say they've identified him. What's the hold up?
Thanks! It works through DNS — you point your domain’s nameservers to Songsling, then it manages all the other necessary records automatically behind the scenes. Basically it points the domain at the generated site. It’s still early, rough around the edges, but slowly getting there. The new audio engine that’s in the works is on a whole another level, focusing mostly on that at the moment.
I don't see what kind of regulation Steam needs. They are hardly the only storefront on the platforms they support, aren't the default one, have almost no exclusive content, and don't even take a cut if you sell Steam keys on other stores.

What is there to regulate? If you don't like their terms you can sell on a different store or distribute yourself, there's nothing stopping you like there is on a typical iPhone or Android device. And frankly their terms are pretty damned fair. For the longest time they took such a hands-off approach to their marketplace that people got angry about that instead!
Could you provide more details on this (Spanish sources are fine)? I'm living in Mexico and not aware of it.
I use a FF addon[0] that redirects YT links to Invidious

[0]https://github.com/metiis/invidious-redirect
Right, I know. But GP implied it was impossible, not just unlikely. Hence the confusion all around.
Assuming your numbers are accurate, 3% of users time is spent on non-top-10 apps.

There are 3.5 billion smartphone users. [0] Smartphone usage statistics suggest that an average person spends 2 hours and 51 minutes per day on their mobile device. [1] This works out to a cumulative total of 3.6 trillion hours of use per year. 3% of that time is 109 billion hours a year in non-top-10 apps.

You might not become a millionaire with your app being part of the 3%, but there's still real money there.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/330695/number-of-smartph...

[1] https://leftronic.com/smartphone-usage-statistics/
Apple has a history of pushing along after Steve left without any true vision until he returns. If anyone will return from the grave it's probably Steve. When he does he will probably VR Apple phones and we'll be in a new era.
Once you internalize the fact that this is an election year and that these congressional hearings are just meant to generate clips that will be replayed in your local senator's election ad ("Senator X ASKS the HARD questions!!"), it's much easier to watch them and be entertained.
Purchase:
Customer pays $10.
Apple keeps $3.
Developer gets $7

Refund should be:
Developer has $7 deducted from current owed "royalties"
Apple refunds $10 to the customer.

Is Apple actually taking $10 from the developer and giving it to the customer? That would be theft. The developer is not obligated to cover refunds beyond the profit/royalty they originally made on it.
Hacker News is for technical people. They know this is bullshit. Its not their algo that means anything. Its the data collection and sending it to China/Singapore that is the problem.
I couldn't say. But here's the bit of their terms of service (for USA) that mentions refunds:

> All Transactions are final. Content prices may change at any time. If technical problems prevent or unreasonably delay delivery of Content, your exclusive and sole remedy is either replacement of the Content or refund of the price paid, as determined by Apple. From time to time, Apple may refuse a refund request if we find evidence of fraud, refund abuse, or other manipulative behavior that entitles Apple to a corresponding counterclaim.

Which makes it sound like they aren't granting refunds at all for anything except failure to deliver the product.

And yet when I look at their actual refund request form it has options for "I did not mean to buy this, child bought without permission, I did not mean to subscribe, I did not mean to renew subscription, my purchase did not work as expected, in-app not received." So clearly not all purchases are final.

I don't think it's a good look for Apple to be issuing refunds at their sole discretion and then turning around and making someone else pay for it. You're just supposed to trust them that the magic fraud prevention box is doing its best?
So you're saying you spent 15-20 hours just in order to get interviews. Many, many folks would not have the time for that.
Like it or not, Google is a part of the Open Internet.

Example: AMP was created to protect the free flow of information which was being silo'd into apps. Consumers of news were abandoning the open (mobile) web due to the godawful performance and advertising issues. Google saw the existential threat of everything being locked down within Facebook and Reddit. Is this preferable?
It was seven years (and an MFA) between when I resumed writing fiction seriously in my late thirties until I had my first publication. Since then, I've managed to publish at least one short story a year. I've managed to crack the bottom of the top tier (or maybe the top of the middle tier) and gotten a personalized rejection from The New Yorker. I ignore those kids who write something as an undergrad that their English professor passes on to their agent and end up with their first publication in The Paris Review when they're 19. The key is to just keep going.
So, they do have an incentive to let the iTunes fraud continue. Seems like a couple times a year one of my families accounts is hacked, they spend $100s and we have to dispute. We get the money back but it's costly to the devs at 30%
Since the early days of Quicktime Apple have been quite good at keeping multitasking feeling more realtime on desktop systems.

So far as I can tell, Apple's advantage is a vertical integration one, enabling them to choose their own goalposts. Those seem to include "run Javascript as fast as possible", which involves using an Apple-tuned JIT compiler on an Apple-tuned ARM core.

I'm not sure whether they're directly responsible for the ARM Javascript instruction ( https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50966676/why-do-arm-chip... ), but you can be sure they're going to use it where appropriate. Combine a thousand similar bits of full stack corner shaving, and you get an advantage.

Jeff Atwood has Opinions about this, e.g. https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-tablet-turning-point/

The virus scanners tend to give standard PCs a massive disadvantage in percieved performance against locked-down tablets, too.
It’s a mess. In many ways, the App Store is nothing but trouble for developers.
Device tree is really a step backwards. People hate how complicated plug and play became, but device tree is x86 before hardware discovery became a thing.

That's mostly the gist of what you're saying, but I think it needs to change; a lot of embedded platforms are adopting device tree now and it's just making things more difficult.
Is it English-only or true NLP that would work with multiple languages? Congrats for the launch!
That's true about the hardware.
I have a background in physics (but not astrophysics) and to me MOND seems much more ad hoc than dark matter does. Dark matter posits that there is some kind of particle we have not observed directly that has a large effect on cosmological scales. We already believe that the standard model of particle physics is incomplete, so this is at least plausible. These particles are not in anyway "unobservable" in an absolute sense, they must at least interact via gravity in order to do what we need them to. They may even interact via the nuclear forces. They just don't interact via the electromagnetic force. We can make hypotheses about these particles, put constraints on their properties from observational data, use particle physics theory to come up with candidates, and do experiments to find them. They are not "unobservable", the are simply hard to observe and require advances in experimental technology. MOND on the other hand was discounted in the early days exactly because it was a fudge factor in Newton's second law. We saw some anomaly in galaxy rotation curves, MOND fixed it by adding a fudge factor to Newton, a theory which we already knew at the time to be incomplete! That is why most physicists preferred dark matter to MOND. Since then, other observational data has increased the evidence for the existence of dark matter (most famously the Bullet Cluster mentioned by others), making MOND that much more unpopular. There has been some work, like this RelMOND theory, that work to integrate the original MOND theory with general relativity. Critically, however, the way in which RelMOND is doing this is by positing the existence of an additional field that can act in the "clumpy" way required by observation. Basically, they have just reinvented dark matter. So I do not doubt this new theory fits the observation, but it does so by adding a new degree of freedom which plays the part of dark matter. This talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu7LDGhSi1A) is somewhat technical, but it goes in to some detail as to why we can't explain current observation by messing around with gravity.
> The newsfeed I was a bit less enthusiastic about, but hey it was convenient compared to visiting my friends' profile pages.

The newsfeed was copied/acquired from FriendFeed. Messages was Beluga. Instagram and WhatsApp got on FB bandwagon too. FB just had the cold hard cash laying there and just had to put it in front of these people. Cold hard cash and no morality when it comes to selling people personal data, but, in their defence, we put that data there in the first place, it's the fuzzy binding contract that's made when one joins Facebook—look at all these social tools for you to share and connect, for the mere price of letting us exploit you and your data and enrich us and our investors while doing that. It's a power structure, really.
Infrastructure as anemic Code.
I would be described as a "climate denier" by many people here, but my YouTube recommendations have zero overlap with the fictional recommendations. This is because I do not feel any need to prop up my opinions with endless wacky video propaganda.

Look, I'm sure there are plenty of people who get sucked into bubbles of YouTube nonsense, and sadly these recommendations may accurately represent the recommendations for typical users. But just deciding that someone is a "liberal" or a "conspiracy theorist" does not in fact mean that you can assume anything about what they are seeing on YouTube, which is what the title seems to claim. Please keep that in mind.
FAQ for the breach: https://support.ledger.com/hc/en-us/articles/360015559320

Caused by a misconfigured API key apparently
The "large" would have been called "medium" back in the States. I guess "small" would be "personal".
I can see a significant problem with adding proprietary instructions. Would be interested in more detail on ARM specifics if available. Thanks.
I'm so sorry. That must be incredibly discouraging and scary. How do you think you caught it?
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23981563
In situations where competition is not possible, we need to resort to regulation.
That depends on how quickly you think the storage problem can be solved. If it can be solved in 10 years then it makes little sense to build more nuclear (fission) capacity, because it will be obsolete by the time it is built.
What laws would be broken in this case?
In this case the economic conditions are a monopoly so competition is impossible. That's why regulations exist, they fix market failures.
I think it was Thiel in Zero to One, who said something like "Companies with monopolies love to talk about their competition", and then he goes on to use Google as a case study, ironically.

Historically, Google made themselves look small by casting themselves as an advertising company, instead of a web-search company. (they own a very small portion of overall advertising, compared to their portion of web search). By making advertisers their competitors, they look like the underdog.

Here, it seems like Google's position has evolved further: "hey, look at all of these other websites with search bars, they are our competition, and they're crushing us". I guess moving the goal-posts is a very effective strategy. :)
I thin theyve been big enough long enough to have a guy or two who could look at the functionality or even the codebase and say: ' hold on a minute,how on earth we are doing this'.
> is that most platforms have completely locked down people's ability to express themselves to comments and a tiny little profile picture next to it.

> to comments

Hope springs eternal for the freespeecher.
For non-games, screen refresh does not incur additional CPU usage, it only hits the video memory bandwidth. There may be a few things like scrolling that are limited to one action frame per display frame, but it's not common to tie code to vsync.
I am not a developer but I presume that Apple doesn't pay you every single time someone buys your app. So they would take the extra $30 out of your balance with them. Or, if there is no balance they will just put you into negative balance so that the next time you sell a $100 app you will only get $40 instead of $70.
The future of work is individualistic
Congratulations to those who have enjoyed AMD's stock price rise by 30x over the past few years. If you think its going to rise by another 30x, prepare to be disappointed. Another decade or more of massive growth is already priced in.
Let me add additional context - my controversial political opinions have never made it out of verbal conversations and into writing.

Better?
Something about conspiracy to defraud, maybe?
Oh I love spotting motte and bailey fallacies. Didn't intend that here. The comment I replied to only pointed at the sample size.
A positive aspect of Apple’s model is that it’s impossible for a malicious ad to trick an unsuspecting user into sideloading malware on their device.
According to the article, the lubricants in JP-7 are also additives.