skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use a couple of commands regularly. "Navigate <destination>", "Play <song>". But the thing is, 4 years ago when Google Assistant launched the hotword was unreliable, the query understanding was very limited, and the set of available actions was also very limited. Today the hotword is unreliable, the query understanding is very limited, and the set of available actions is also very limited.

I couldn't name a single thing that has improved my usage of Google Assistant since launch. In fact, Assistant isn't any better for my usage than the previous thing, Google Voice Search, available years before. Whatever all the people working on these assistants are doing, it isn't the right thing.
I think my point was, your experiences aren't universal. Yet you're still basing your determination upon yours.

Take what you will from mine, but even aside from my two bad experiences, I can't imagine how one gets precisely what they want, via online. I like to tap my melons, touch my tomatoes, and why does this sound like a porno now? :P

Anyhow. I think you get my point, my view. I've got yours, eg, you don't care about a personal pick.

So the real question is, how many really, really prefer to pick precisely what they want?

Obviously for a box of corn flakes, it probably matters little.
I agree that better security practices are advisable, but you're victim-blaming.

Twitter wasn't 'asking for it', and neither were the individuals who lost bitcoins; the 'hackers' intentionally perpetrated deceptions, misrepresentations, and fraud against both Twitter and the general public. If you compare what these three did to a white-collar crime, the dollar amount was small, but the behavior was egregious.
I hate Spotify. So much.
I don't see this mentioned. Either I'm a weirdo or other just don't admit it. I jack it, then shower.
Anyone know if they've finally added thumbnails aka "icon view" to the file picker?
> You're being deceptive here. Apple App Store and Google Play Store are what we are talking about.

I'm using your own words - you said 'pocket computers'.

And you can load your own applications onto Android, can't you? So use that!
That would probably also cut expenses. And if they got into a severe product shortage they could also turn off a lot of marketing.
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Thank you for this. I am so tired of this exchange:

A: OOP isn't so bad, actually.
B: But what about all these terrible messes?
A: Oh, that's not a problem with OOP,
they're just doing it wrong.

I'm sorry, but when 80% of the industry (and 100% of new grads) are "just doing it wrong", it isn't helpful to no-true-scotsman the critics.

The only way I see out of this endless game of semantics is for someone to canonize the tightrope of practices which are "OOP done right", and then give it a different name.
Also explains how 'Westerners' have been living so long for centuries, especially before the 1960s.
And doesn't one of them allow your own apps? So why don't you use that one if that's what you prefer?
I actually think it’s a good play, the same way buying Minecraft was a good idea.

You’re talking about a company that made Halo and Minecraft the face of its consumer gaming brand, calls their AI assistant “Cortana”, and their internal windows builds “redstone”.

Tiktok doesn’t make sense if you think of Microsoft as “not a social media company”, but it’s a part of a push to engage the GenZ audience that started with the Minecraft acquisition.

I’m old enough to remember reading jokes on slashdot on wintel, but for the younger GenZ audience, that’s not what Microsoft is known for. The brand value isn’t in the enterprise stuff HN looks at, but in their consumer facing side.

Does microsoft execute well on their consumer side? Results seems mixed, with Xbox doing ok and Mixer crashing and burning. We’ll see how this plays out.
Yet Apple created the iPhone not to create a moat around music player sales but to kill as product line and create a more profitable one.

Apple also didn’t introduce the iPad as a moat around their computer business. The iPad and the Mac are both successful product lines.

How long can Google keep playing defense? Apple,Microsoft and Amazon have created new lines of business in the past two decades.
If Apple decided to implement the Push Notification API for Mobile Safari, it would be very beneficial to the users of my forum websites. Now I’m forced to build an app, while my forums users are all happy with the website as it is. They just want push notifications and I’m convinced Apple is holding that back on purpose. I bet there are internal emails about that issue as well.
I don't claim that Spotify is end-all-be-all of music marketing. It's one of the tools, that is part of the arsenal. It feels that middle of the spectrum - above "we have a facebook page" and below "corporate label promotion material".

>is this slightly better for musicians than music piracy

They're a music streaming and recommendation service company, not a "we kill piracy" company. Maybe they should get into more promotional business... but they're not in that business.

I would argue that Spotify is "(insert more successful band in the genre here) is looking for a warm up act for their gig in your town".

If you're in a very middle of the pack mass appeal genre - you're definitely screwed on Spotify, or anywhere, without a breakout act(corporate contract/viral video)
Operation Bloodstone
agreed on all of this - Slack is really tough to build a community on top of! Kurt’s quote in that post is very true; the moderation/role stuff in Discord makes it super appealing for building any sort of large community.

i’ve been working on a new discord server for people building mailing lists[1] and newsletters and built out an opt-in software channel section where people can opt into #mailchimp, #convertkit, etc. channels without any sort of moderation/admin input needed. it’s a really nifty “self-serve” thing that i’m pretty sure i wouldn’t have been able to pull off with slack.

fully expecting “discord communities-as-product” to be a big thing over the next few years as they’ve built a great platform to do that sort of thing.

[1]: https://www.mailinglisthackers.com/chat
What would they actually sell?
On IBM's architecture around the world, see chapter 3 in The Interface: IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945 -- 1976 by John Harwood. The book is about how architects and designers Eliot Noyes, Edgar Kaufmann Jr., Paul Rand, Charles and Ray Eames, Eero Saarinen and many others gave IBM products a consistent look that expressed the corporate philosophy, from buildings and exhibits through computers and typewriters to publications and letterhead. The book is online at:

https://muse.jhu.edu/book/24792

The IBM building in downtown Seattle was built in 1963. Designed by Minoru Yamasaki, who also designed the Pacific Science Center for the Seattle World's Fair in 1962 and the original World Trade Center towers in New York City. During the 1960s, IBM had a working System/360 machine room behind the glass windows facing the plaza, where the computer and its operators could be seen by shoppers and passers by.

https://unicoprop.com/properties/ibm-building/
It's not super-common but it's nothing out of the ordinary either. Many restaurants in Southern Europe, including France, serve dishes such as pig feet, pig snout or pig head.
What brand and dosage do you take?
Could you please dig it up? I'm not sure hot to find it based on what you posted and would love to watch it.
Is this the manager seen on the video[3] who was accused of racist behavior? I wonder if they still work at Microsoft, I also wonder who put these people in charge.

I don't believe Mixer was shut down because of bad management though, if the people in charge weren't getting results, then Microsoft would have just replace them.
At the point of $10-30T market cap you probably own, even if not literally, but figuratively, whatever regulators there are.
The entire economy is not disintegrating. There's a temporary pause in spending as a result of external forces. This is much different from the economy actually disintegrating, like we saw in 2008. Then, the actual financial mechanisms that the economy needs to function were blowing up. There were factories that had paying customers trying to place orders, but they couldn't fill the orders because short-term credit was frozen.

We're in a bad situation right now, but the economy itself is functioning, it's just running a lot cooler than usual.
not too long ago you were considered a sell out musician if you actually made money out of licensing deals and the like.

to my memory, the mantra was that money corrupts the art.
WHY IN HELL they have so much actual cash piling up

If nothing else, it can keep paying their all of their employees, not just the work-from-home IT crowd, during a pandemic shutdown.
> The thing that is bizarre for me and I agree with the parent's sentiment, is how disconnected the valuation is from the real-world impact and objective _usefulness_ of ARM versus Tiktok.

Also how easily the technology behind Tiktok can be duplicated compared to ARM.

Anyway, it's probably all about the network effect and brand value.
Is anyone familiar with the "RA show" that's purportedly being disappeared? I haven't found anything that I believe to the the subject of this article in my searching thus far.
> For example, you paint it as if Nvidia is the only company Apple has had problems with, yet Apple has parted ways with Intel, IBM (Power PCs), and many other companies in the past.

But for entirely different reasons. Apple switched from PowerPC to Intel because the PowerPC processors IBM was offering weren't competitive. They switched from Intel for some combination of the same reason (Intel's performance advantage has eroded) and to bring production in-house, not because Intel was quarrelsome to do business with.

Meanwhile Apple refused to do business with nVidia even at a time when they had the unambiguously most performant GPUs.
Most people are naive about how applications will coerce them into doing things against their best interest when given the ability, such as a request while installing, requesting access to parts of the system that reveal PII. Most people do not have the knowledge to evaluate how these things play out. Apple via the app store at least does some work to mitigate this and when they do fail, are able to fix it.
The episodes surrounding Norman Finkelstein in the late 2000s seems to have drawn the line for Israel - insofar as outside critique seem to be less sanctum, but internal publications are can still critique the government. One prominent example of this is the events relating to the film "Jenin, Jenin" by Mohammed Bakri where the Supreme Court of Israel overturned a ban even while calling the film propaganda.

I don't have a specific example, but my expectation would be that this holds the same in many countries including the United States. The worry, of course, for all of us is that in times of stress citizens are much more vulnerable. Citizens can be compelled to act against or be silenced from expressing their opinions. The hope, in some cases, is that foreign correspondents are less susceptible to this. On the other hand, I suppose the counter-point to relying on foreign correspondents is that they can be coerced by their own country.

Maybe we can only trust that which both our peers and enemies agree on, though I suppose Oceania and Eurasia could both agree that they have always been at war with each other and we are none the wiser.
How do you think the world of plenty came about in the first place? A hell of a lot of growth and work to provide for the demands of broad consumer bases instead of the whims of some head honcho who wanted pointless setpiece folly castles or grand monuments.
Or: would they go back to Oslo and tell Arafat not to be a putz, if they could?

I typically hate counterfactuals with a passion, but at some point pragmatism becomes worth considering.

Not that I'm in their context and capable of making that call, mind you.
> And that was the reason countries and laws exists.

I disagree I don't think the reason why have countries and laws is so that you can force someone else to support your product when they don't want to.
How much of that falls to user experience though? We're not constrained by physical media, but aren't we by Spotify design?

I almost exclusively browse my library by album, but Spotify generally pushes me towards tracks. The release radar, for example, offers no way to filter to full album releases.

I hope artists aren't pressured into releasing tracks one off purely due to design decisions vs artistic choice. Software can easily cater to both.
The article clearly focuses size due to the use of libraries.

As for pointer size, personally I agree -- most processes can get by just fine with their own 32bit address space, so I'm not sure why we need to double the working-set size of all pointer-based data-structures.
The best job I ever had was life guarding a pool barely anybody used. 70% of the time it was empty and I just browsed my phone. It paid $9.25/hr. Some of the other lifeguards were in their 60s or 30s and as a college student, at first I was judging them a little that they were doing such a menial job in their prime earning years.

Then I realized that if they were happy with their current standard of living their life probably had no work related stress whatsoever and they kinda had it figured out. Now I make over 10x more and am constantly stressed out and anxious taking my work home with me everywhere, and I envy those people quite a bit.
During a severe supply shortage they would sell nothing but they would also have lower expenses so the loss would be manageable.
I’ve never used Cortana and tried in vain to remove it, what exactly is it supposed to be used for?
> this same group here has been heavily against these ideas because they are socialist.

This is a caricature. It's not much different than saying people are for free college because they're lazy and don't want to work for a living.

> I have a feeling that US prefers a "dog eat dog world" because everyone here thinks they will be the ones doing the eating and caring for the underdog is a sign of weakness/waste of resources.

I have a feeling the reason you think this way is because you haven't made a serious effort to empathize with the people who disagree with you.
Lynda.com was rebranded as "LinkedIn Learning" and is still around. My employer has access for all employees and I've taken a few good courses on there.
Could the mites you mention be Louse Flies which are common Swifts? I used to live in apartment with many Swifts nesting under roof and a lot of these small unkillable critters (could survive being stepped on) crawled through cracks in the walls. They are not charming.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippoboscidae
I can think of a few ways to spend 200 billion very quickly to be honest. I think this is one of the smarter things that Apple does.

Imagine if they started engaging in pointless acquisitions in the idea that this cash should be put to use. You'd have another Nokia, another Sun..
None of those mention Glucosamine. And they seem to be sour grapes articles, not sure why. One of the “myths” they dispel is “bone broth tastes good”.

It does raise some good thoughts on why it’s not a super food.
Hrm. No. At least for Deutsche Bank Privatkunden it is real-time. I guess it has to be for the others too, because how else can you ensure not going into debt? Incoming money could take a while, but no longer than a full workday either.
So you are suggesting users in China apply for a developer license and build their own build of Signal and Protonmail apps? Really?

And how would said users receive push notifications for their apps from Signal?

UPD: oh boy, and I forgot to mention that such users would also have to buy Macs - you can't build a 'stupid app' for iOS without XCode, which runs only on Macs that support the latest version of macOS.
Nvidia has a very different model for what they're trying to get out of their drivers. They spent something like 5x more on the number of driver developers than AMD, then would send engineers to work with AAA game studios to "optimize their games" for Nvidia. Good so far. But then these optimizations went so far as fixing (in the driver) broken game code. Like apparently it was so bad that games were being shipped without issuing BeginScene/EndScene on DirectX.

Hence AMDs push for Mantle then Vulkan. The console like API is the carrot to get people to use an API that has an verification layer so that third parties can easily say "wow what a broken game" rather "wow this new game runs on Nvidia and not AMD, what broken AMD drivers".

Nvidia open sourcing their drivers completely destroys a large chunk of their competitive advantage and is so intertwined with all the IP of the games they have hacks for that I'd be surprised if they ever would want to open source them, or even could if they wanted to.

More docs would be nice though.
You know how everyone jokes that we expect consumers to have 6 months of savings for emergencies, but big corporations start begging for bailout within days of the epidemic?

With $260bil revenue and $55bil net income, Apple’s monthly expenses are around $17bil. That means they need $102bil cash on hand for emergencies.

As someone else mentioned, they’ve experiences near bankruptcy before. Maybe they never wanna be there again.
That might be the fix, remove the 7 day limit and also lock it as a setting with dire warnings.
One of the senior engineers once said to me that "Bazel is like a sewer: you get back what you put in."

Bazel requires a lot of upfront effort but the power of (a programmatically accessible/modifiable) dependency graph and a common build/test system across all the languages is very hard to underestimate.
I don't know if you're necessarily arguing against data. Data is a funny thing and it can lie very easily. For example, the following statement is data-driven and technically true, but a complete lie at the same time:

"Newborn baby's have _on average_ one testicle"

I think you're right about it being opportunistic, at least that's what I've observed.
Depends on what you're comparing against. With the web, as much as I enjoyed those days, your take seems a bit rose-tinted. Generally, finding official binaries wasn't too bad. "This website looks official" was the bar. But that was a crazy low bar then, and even worse today. It's essentially "the domain looks correct and the design looks polished". For some of the more obscure binaries, I recall downloading from the "wrong" sites a handful of times. Rare, but it happened. When I watched my parents use a computer then, there was no check of what was legit, because why wouldn't it be legit?

Comparing against consoles like Nintendo, Sega, and Xbox back then, it was definitely an improvement. No NDAs, no exorbitant upfront costs for dev hardware, no massive take by your publisher. 30% was not much compared to all that, where it likely would have been the other way around (you get 30 [if that], "they" get 70). Today, it does feel steep, and could use another realignment, but "the good old days" weren't exactly that.
Agreed! As someone who has to use a bunch of different computers/devices throughout the day I have been looking for a way to do this with computers I'm not logged into. Right now I use pastebin, but I'm thinking of building a pastebin web app that will take the text, convert it to a QR code and then you scan the code to get the text into your phone's clipboard.
For your second point, there was a recent article about Corning's next generation Gorilla Glass Victus. Survives more drops and drops from higher distances. Corning is the supplier for the Apple for glass and so this could be improving in the next generation.

https://9to5mac.com/2020/07/23/corning-debuts-next-gen-goril...
This is what bugs me the most about the bitcoin pushers (like Max Keiser)... they completely ignore the fact that bitcoin is not anonymous, and why even though I was in on bitcoin in the earliest days, I abandoned it. My conclusion was that the government loves btc because it's so easily traceable. Another reason is that, like tor, it is vulnerable to %50 attacks. If the central banks wanted to take over btc they could, and I posit they may have already positioned themselves as such. (thats my almost a bitcoin millionaire story...)

The closest to an anonymous coin afaik is monero or zcash, but in general I think wasting electricity and cpu cycles on arbitrary math is a bad path to go down. If we could tie a coin to some productive math like protein folding or seti, etc, that still has the same attributes as cash (which btc does not) then we might have a true potential dollar replacement digital coin, but I digress.
GTK still misses:

1. Anything close to AdjustWindowRectEx() function. See: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/n...

2. MoveWindow(window,rect) where rect is window frame rectangle. Instead GTK has 6 other functions that do something close but no one of them do MoveWindow.

See: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58103333/set-frame-posit...

Windows has these functions, MacOS has their direct equivalents, but GTK does not have such, IMO basic, functionality.

Will we have anything like that in GTK4?
They're saying

> given that I want to use and pay for a piece of software, I would rather pay through Apple

and you're saying

> if you want to pay through Apple, then don't use and pay for the piece of software
Ppl steal Credit Cards not for the cash on the card, but for the credentials, which are used to register for services with a credit limit, and then the limit is spent. So a single credit card can be used on hundreds of services such as Amazon Cloud hosting ,Facebook ads, Google ads, etc. all without spending any money. The billing occurs only hfter the trial limit is spent. Google Ads will give a $400 credit limit on a new user.
> Microsoft is tweaking the software to better compliment apps like Outlook and Teams.

I wish MS didnt think shiny when thinking about these two apps. Outlook and Teams (at my workplace) log me out from laptop and mobile without warning and send me an SMS OTP I have to use within 5 minutes. They don't even have a resend OTP so I have to restart the apps and hope the SMS arrives on time. Outlook web is slow as molasses on Firefox and of course years behind Gmail.
FYI: Americans = Really poor people who will probably never get their job back.
Would a better comparison be a cruise ship? You pay thousands to board, and you literally can’t leave at will.

While you’re aboard you can only purchase food, drink and entertainment from the cruise company. I don’t think a cruise ship would ever allow competing companies to provide those services.

I’m personally a little mixed on the App Store. I don’t a have fundamental issue with the App Store model, and as an Apple customer I personally see it’s limitations as an advantage.

However I do agree that Apple using its App Store to harm competitors in other industries, like Spotify and Netflix, as very harmful. Although I don’t know how fix that without fundamentally changing the App Store, or banning Apple from competing with App Store services like Spotify and Netflix.
Microsoft buying ARM would be interesting.
Services revenue is something they appear to be pushing hard and it seems to do well financially.