skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple are usually careful not to announce new hardware until it's just about ready to ship (with the occasional exception coughAirPowercough), but in this case (assuming the report is correct) I suspect they'll be making an exception. Four months between announcing Apple Silicon and the first hardware hitting retail seems far too short for developers to properly prepare. So I'm guessing that this will be an announcement well in advance of hardware shipping, maybe early next year, to give developers a clear target to aim for (both a hardware target and a calendar target).
I work at a startup, we are 6 engineers, 2 of us are back-end engineers. I use PostgreSQL everyday. We tried using an ORM, and creating our own ORM, but it wasn't worth it for us. When you are dealing with medium-large databases, you're going to want to use indexes, to do custom queries with joins etc and it's just not worth it trying to use ORMs.
I would assume that the bad quality of Catalina and iOS 13 when they were released had to do with the restructuring of the development teams and the general code changes in preparation of the move to Apple Silicon. While iOS was based on a fork of macOS, those code bases had drifted apart for a while. It seems that Apple remerged the common parts for Big Sur. There is hope, that Big Sur doesn't start as bad as Catalina. So I wouldn't see why the MacBook wouldn't fufil the needs of a customer or developer.
Agreed, TBH the reporting on this has been awful, just parroting what Trump has said without challenging or explaining under what authorization he has to ban the app. I was hoping for more info in these comments but didn't really find it.

I know that the US does have the legal framework to deem the app a security threat based on its foreign ownership. Grindr, the gay hookup app, essentially had a forced sale from its Chinese owners [1].

However, if TikTok is sold to MS, and all user data is held in the US, I don't see any rationale that gives the government the power to ban the app, and MS certainly has the resources to challenge any attempted ban in the courts.

1. https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/6/21168079/grindr-sold-chine...
Xi unveils full-scale coverage of China's Beidou Navigation Satellite System
Koch

>Family's political network is planning to engage in nearly 200 federal and state races in 2020.

Why not take all of that and put it toward green or fusion research?
Hacker news was written in Arc, which, AFAIK, explicitly has no object-oriented features.
I would like to see the economics of this. There is a saving in not having to have 5g towers but if everyone in a small village has to spend $$$ on their own satellite dishes then the economics aren't going to make rural high speed internet via satellite so good.

Plus the uplink/downlink kit will be beyond mass consumer gear so the economies of scale won't be great.

Anyone seen the uplink kit for the SpaceX or British efforts?
I knew it would be a video from that channel, haha. I discovered it recently and it's a treasure trove of fascinating, "How It's Made"-on-crack technology videos. Link for the lazy: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy0tKL1T7wFoYcxCe0xjN6Q
Hahaha! You caught me. Didn't even notice that slip :-)
> Do you have any evidence for that? I doubt it.

Last few decades are pretty much entirely made of evidence for that - private owners will, given insufficient barriers preventing it - move their manufacturing to the places with low labor costs. It's why almost everything you or I own has a label on it that says "made in China", and not "made in the USA".

> That seems like a decision for customers to make? If customers prefer cheaper products, who are we to judge?

Naively, yes. In pratcite, this is equivalent to letting a 3 year old choose whether they'll get chocolate or broccoli for dinner. Customers almost universally prefer cheaper products above almost anything else - including economy, environment, and their own safety. Which is why a good chunk of business-related laws in every country exists solely to remove options from which customers can choose.
I wonder how long people are going to be ok with these projects when one of them comes from China or Russia. Or even Germany...
Ugh. Source material counts. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/?s=national+review
that makes me so mad, not just for 17 year olds, but everyone subject to the whims of the criminal justice system.

for this young man, it should be 1 charge, maybe 1-2 weeks in jail (to deomonstrate the seriousness of the offense, not so much for retribution), and then a whole bunch of community service as restitution and rehabilitation.

we destroy lives gone astray rather than nudge them back onto the happier path(s). mischievousness like this is rarely an expression of malice, but more likely curiosity, rebelliousness, perhaps boredom, etc. the punishment should reflect that.
I got associate and then professional a couple months later. I studied for neither beyond maybe an hour of looking at what the question formats looked like.

I figured that it was a better use of time to study only if I failed, and then re-take, since there’s no punishment for failure other than cost.

I barely passed professional, but I passed. Associate felt easy for me.

I have about 2-3 years experience working just about 100% within AWS for my job. I would think that both exams would be way harder and require study without so much practical experience.

Maybe an AWS certification could help you if you lack experience in your resume and want to land a cloud engineering role.

Also, if you’re paying yourself, as of a few months ago it seems like Amazon gives you a 50% discount code for your next exam every time you take an exam. In other words, only the first exam is full price. I couldn’t guarantee that this offer sticks around or anything.
There’s something ironic about a site hosting intentionally tiny snippets of code that’s crashed / sluggish under the social media hug of death...

BUT - the few that I’ve managed to see are super cool, so when it comes back to life it’s worth checking out!
Just get the Zoujirushi or Cuckoo described here and you can’t go wrong. Both have a good amount of settings and are excellent at making rice:

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/the-best-rice-coo...
>> People will receive UBI, but then other things, like rent, food, etc. will all just magically get more expensive.

Of course they will, but that's missing the point. The point is that the newly printed money will no longer enter the economy through corporations (corporate debt) but through people and this will change the fundamental dynamics of the entire system. It's about changing the flow of newly printed money and how it enters our economy. So instead of corporations trying to extract money from the government and banks and using their control over people as a bargaining chip as they do today, they will have to focus on actually delivering value to people and keeping them satisfied.

Employees will not be disposable bargaining chips for corporations to get something from the government or from banks, people will be the focus of all economic activities because that's where the money is going to be coming from.

Consider that in 20 years, there will be x times more money in circulation in the economy that there is today. Right now, all that money has to pass through the hands of banks and corporations first this makes people dependent on banks and corporations; this is an unhealthy and unjust dynamic because it's people who are creating economic value, not banks or corporations. Why is the government assuming that banks and corporations are the most efficient way to distribute new fiat money into the economy? Aren't people inherently better at figuring out what they need?

Look where corporations got us, people are effectively being told what they need through targeted advertising.
Go offers this out of the box via the sync.Once function. Do other languages? Kind of surprised python doesn’t as this sort of pattern is common in applications dealing with concurrency
I find this exceptionally odd, after their somewhat abrupt shutdown of Mixer.
Totally agree, I had a Dell XPS 15 touchscreen laptop, and while I found Windows too unproductive to replace my MacBook Pro for development work, going back to the dumb non-touch screen made the Mac frustrating.

I would use the mouse/pad/keyboard 90% or maybe 95% of the time — but the inability to just tap the button or pinch-zoom or whatever the other 5% of the time... it's just stupid.

All 5-year-olds perceive screens that you can't directly interact with to be broken... and they're right.
Useless, but being used. A divining rod in the hands of people deciding the big steps in your life.
To be fair, it was also partly government (or government-leader) sponsored, so not really the sort of situation where the government keeping tabs on the "media" might have helped.
I think the fear is that doing a charge back would have repercussions worse than the loss of that order if you continually do business with Amazon.
>> amid rising Chinese labour costs, a U.S.-China trade war and the blow from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Do companies think about the military situation over there?
Going on twelve years here. One thing I can't make is Japanese pancakes though. If anybody knows what kind of pots are best for those, I'm interested.
> Did the author write this article too early?

Charitably: yes

Realistically: the narrative bias pulls pretty hard
Well, yes, I recently worked on the video receiver component for Stadia on Chromecast. So I know a little about these things.
I've tried to look for resources around doing any real local development with an ipad pro (a device that's already using apple silicon) and the best advice I've found is basically hacks to get a VM running in digital ocean to do your 'compute'.

Not a huge fan of this. I'm hoping you it's not like the ARM ecosystem with Windows where things are heavily nerfed (Surface Pro X) to the point where you can't do anything that resembles proper development.

Proper MacOS, full full system access, ability to run docker and run golang builds, node runtime, python etc natively and locally on the device are a must. Native terminal app (obviously) is a must with the option of running something like iTerm2 etc. I had a chromebook before with crostini and that was a shitty experience for a fanless dev machine. I hope apple can do it right.

side nitpick: i don't align with the apple haters out there who wanna pick at things like the use of the word 'silicon' by apple.
So this is well outside my area of expertise; but that seems weird. I want AMD to shepherd the ecosystem to a point where I can run PyTorch with some support from a graphics card. Supporting some graphics cards and not others doesn't sound very promising.

It is amazing to watch how much of a struggle AMD is having with getting PyTorch to work with ROCm. It makes me appreciate what a good job Nvidia must have done with CUDA.
Point the submitted link to repo (it pointing to readme)
Been cooking rice in a microwave for years now. Jasmine, Thai or Himalayan. Use any rice. Seems to cone out pretty well every single time.
Blue Origin's timelines are actually realistic, so I wouldn't be surprised to see New Glenn (closer in payload to Falcon Heavy than Falcon 9) actually launch next year.
TikTok: China's ByteDance agrees to divest US operations after Trump threat
I don't quite get why people think that pot rice on the stove is somehow difficult. Measure your rice and water, and set up a timer. That's it.

We've been cooking rice for millennia in this way, a rice cooker is just plastic waste in the end.
Music generally lacks innovation for the same reason why phones and men's clothing lack innovation. Most of the easy low-effort ways to be appealingly different have been discovered already. Music's creativity has been spurred by a series of technological innovations, the invention of the electric guitar, then the invention of synths, multitrack recording, drum machines, then computers with sampling, loops and DSP. It's been artistically transformed by blues, country, jazz, rock and roll, urban, dance and rap. Each one had its own series of innovations driven by creativity (doo-wop? math rock? new jack swing?) but the genres have settled into their mature phases. Probably some entirely new genre needs to come along and shake things up, but that's hard. Until then we'll continue to get the artistic equivalent of a new coat of paint every few years.
I bought a 2019 Mbp 15 and found it too heavy to bring around. After struggle I bought a 2018 new stock macbook 12. It is really great. I am using the Mac mini arm version and it is good so far. May get a arm macbook 12 ...
Instagram is about me. It's about how beautiful I am, how much my kids love me, how popular I am, how influential I am. Facebook is about my political beliefs. LinkedIn is about how hardworking and clever I am. Twitter is about my thoughts.

TikTok is about you, the audience. The people posting in TikTok are creators. It doesn't matter if my post is not funny or clumsy or taken with a bad camera. It doesn't matter that I'm ugly. It's about me participating with you. You can interact with my video side by side.

There's a lot of dance stuff but the dancing is just the easy entry. There's cooking videos, science experiments, confessions, inspirational videos, camera tips, art, pranks, and so on.

Their best competitor is YouTube, which does well, but feels a little elitist and doesn't have the little microinteractions. TikTok has mastered 30 second stories. The other social media had recognized that people want brief stories (and even call the feature stories) but they haven't really capitalized on it.
We must do something -> this is something -> We must do this
Most rice cookers are designed for East Asian rice and do middling with basmati. Some higher end models do have settings for it that work quite well though.
Why does that make him an ass? It's his project, he can do whatever he likes with it.
I like poneys.
Censorship of Twitter
I'm not too sure what others models will do it, but this is the one I have and they call it "Yumami": https://www.yumasia.co.uk/bamboo-induction-heating-ceramic-r...

I originally went for it because there honestly aren't that many options in the UK, and this was the only Induction Heating model on the market here when I bought it, as most of the Japanese brands aren't CE marked I think?

I imagine the technology exists in other rice cookers under different names, as I would think it's pretty rare for there to be anything truly unique in this market.

I do highly rate that model though. I've had it about 1.5 years and use it at least 4 times a week. There is a notable difference in taste between its "Yumami" and "Short-grain" settings. Not that the standard mode tastes bad; it's just that the Yumami setting does have something a bit different about it that I really like.
> neurons that wire together, fire together

i.e. Hebbian learning

Usually with a Hopfield network or something similar.

My personal take is that biologically plausible approaches are attempting to discover (and in lieu of understanding, harness) the algorithms (or mechanisms that cause emergent intelligence) of our brains.
Design in Quarantine
Americans Are Self-Censoring at Record Rates
Open internet is dead. It really sucks, I also had big dreams about it but it done for.

Twitter, FB, Alphabet excercise absolute control over censoring people they do not like(who are most likely wrong but that is not the point). Saw what happened with those docs video that Trump retweeted?

Open internet is long gone.
> The sample cover letter in the article is quite generic

Yes, the first paragraph in the cover letter is almost identical to the opening paragraphs of numerous spam emails. "You're building a great feedback organization product I think has great potential". Really? Well, ta very much; now tell us something we don't know.
Brown rice takes significantly longer to cook, so the rice cooker might not be programmed to do that.
In April 2016, North Korea started to block Twitter "in a move underscoring its concern with the spread of online information". Anyone trying to access it, such as foreign visitors, even with special permission from the North Korean government, is subject to punishment.
I have a router based on https://pcengines.ch/ and OpenWRT. It's great, I never have to restart it and it supports all sorts of good networking fun for me to work with.
> Proper MacOS, full full system access, ability to run docker and run golang builds, node runtime, python etc natively and locally on the device are a must.

You’ll get all of that, don’t worry.
Thank you! Unfortunately, I'm in the EU, where these are hard to find, and also they cost an absolutely preposterous amount of money for something that cooks rice, which is a little odd given that their claim to fame is how simple they are.

I think I'm going to start with a $20 one and see.
It's a roll of the dice though. Of those who attempt to do something first class and pin their hopes on it, how many can succeed? You can at least say that the Stoic path is a more reliable path to satisfaction.
> TikTok poses exactly the same risk as any other app on the App/Play stores.

No, it does not. See the research here [1]. TikTok is a data collection engine disguised as a social media tool.

[1] https://penetrum.com/research
Jeebus wept. Are there no penalties for submitting self-spamming links?
Rust evangelism task force.
Shipping an unmodified iOS apps for Mac is a really easy way for developers to validate market demand. If there's enough demand, they can invest in Mac-specific improvements and hopefully grow their market share. If not, at least the cost of discovery was low.
When I was younger and more stupid I was once asked to interview 20 people all in a single day to select half a dozen initial developers for a startup. This was my first task at a startup where I was supposedly to become CTO or something like that. I did it but I also learned, as you can imagine, it is pretty much stupid idea. This led me to resign from the position on the same day because I decided founders were not reasonable about making business (treating people as replaceable cogs).
Jeff. I think he would rather personally subsidize every New Glenn launch than letting Amazon launch their satellites with SpaceX.
I follow very similar steps. Two changes:

- I turn the heat off (but do not open the lid) at 15 minutes

- If I'm planning on making extra, sometimes I like to add some oil (usually coconut, sometimes olive or butter), which I find helps it keep better. Oil and rice added before water, to spread it evenly.
People are complex. If some piece of code is used to predict my employability based on my facial expressions, there's not much to add. It's already as bad as it gets: you can't say/write anything non vanilla in public because 10 years later some HR snooping app will analyze the sentiment on the post and outright reject you. And we all kind of blindly walking into this no questions asked.
Then let it die in maturity, going down providing value to its users to the last, and focusing on any needs its remaining users may still have. Way better than stabbing it's user base in the back, and still not attracting any new users. Because there's no feasible way Perl can just tweak a couple things and open up a new user base. It is what it is.

The whole "stab our existing users in the back and chase a new user base" model has been bizarrely popular lately, but I'm not sure I've seen it work even once.

(I exaggerate a bit with "stab", but still...)
But everyone does NOT know how much data they hand over and how that's used to stifle competition, innovation, and has attributable impact to many of the other items you list - and that's what's being vetted right now. No one has issue with high revenue, that's the reward for winning. We're discussing HOW you win, and if that needs modification.

Most people I know are more than capable to read, learn, and form educated opinions on everything on your list as well as this topic.

We might be at a stalemate here since you won't be convincing me the discovery process into these issues isn't worth it, and I'm not sure I can convince you to not judge an entire nation by its lowest common denominator, be it extreme left or extreme right, which is what I'm drawing from your previous comment.
I’ve been developing SMS chatbots and using my T-Mobile phone for testing. They will also drop messages that contain URLs, although the rules for which TLDs are allowed are hard to reverse engineer, much less rationalize. Last I remember, .club URLs are blocked, .com is allowed, and bit.ly is allowed.
(Not OP but) I refuse to even consider Ubiquiti because of their GPL/linux shenanigans.
Putting Perl aside for a bit, I don’t quite understand the benefit of the Ember strategy you described. If I have existing code that uses Ember x-1 when x.0.0 and x.1.0 are released, what is my reason for scoping the upgrade with x.0.0 vs x.1.0? If I don’t want to implement the new features, couldn’t I still update to x.1.0 without using anything new calls?
"Like a skilled surfer, I wanted to learn to ride the high pressure waves that came with interviews."

Yeah, bro, that's not surfing. Good surfers respect the big waves. No coder is going to respect a bad interviewer. But I trudged on through the article and ran into this gem:

"There will be times when you’re stuck. And this could be caused by a number of reasons: you don’t have the requisite knowledge, incorrect assumptions, missing details, and so on.

"I used to think that at such times I was being judged by how fast I could come up with a solution. So I would be quiet, thinking, not communicating with the interviewer, just thinking.

"And this is where a lot of us get it wrong. I get it, you need some alone time to think. But sorry to burst your bubble, that alone time is not when you’re being interviewed by a person.

"Yes, your interviewer wants to see that you can come up with a solution, but one thing you must not forget is that they also want to see that you can collaborate with other team-mates to come up with a solution. While companies want rock-stars, they also want team-players.

"Since your interviewer is a friend, a buddy, a team member who’s on your side and means well for you (Refer to 4), talk to them while you're figuring it out."

Yeah, the interviewer is definitely your friend, and you have to work with them as a team in the interview. This advice is gold. If you do not feel that they are a friend, you can politely ask to end the interview for personal reasons. No use interviewing further, for the same reason you can end a date if you are no longer comfortable.
China isn't Communist though. They're a socialist leaning capitalist state with single party authoritarian rule participating in ethnic cleansing.

That's fascist.
From the scant details about the word "BELLY" triggering the blocks, it looks like some hypothesize it's a "Scunthorpe" type of programming bug:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
"Via Standard Interface" I don't think you can gloss over the differences between say DirectX and Metal that easily. Maybe you're arguing they should be gotten rid of, but I think that's rather pie in the sky.
Oh huh, thanks. Looks a bit pricy, though if you eat rice as regularly as you do I imagine it pays for itself quickly.
Crypto Reading
Because their power rests on fossil fuel revenue?
Satanically criminal, yet legal in the United States - USA #1? What a sad joke this "united" states is.
This article actually made me agree with Seth Rogan's take.
Or at least you can have 3 generic bullets and one that's more specific to a position/company.

To be honest, I probably haven't really written one for a long time. But that's because my jobs for the past 20 years or so have come through sending emails to people I knew well.
Wouldn't Alphabet be able to buy Arm. I think as long as it is separate from Google it should be fine. It would be the company starting with A in their portfolio.