skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When the apocalypse started my daughter got my "burnerbook", a Fedora-based cheap low-end x86 laptop without a fan or hard disk.

I miss the absolutely silent (albeit slow) computing it afforded me.
No. We have some idea of what works and what doesn't based on the effects as different countries rolled out different policies in different orders, see [0] for a recent example. But specifically for schools, there just aren't enough data points. Instead they have to be clumped together with closing universities, since almost every country closed all forms of education at the same time.

[0] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.28.20116129v...
> Sure, but more would buy at lower prices.

Well, sure, that's just the law of demand. If Apple's goal was simply to ship the most products as possible in the short term, they would sell them for a penny until they ran out of money.
Your Q reminded me of Frank Lloyd Wright's Pope-Leighey House. The client, Pope, had challenged the famous architect, who to date had built mansions for the super wealthy, to design an affordable house for the everyday American:

"Dear Mr. Wright, There are certain things a man wants during life, and of life. Material things and things of the spirit. The writer has one fervent wish that includes both. It is a house created by you."

Wright delivered. It's a beautiful and simple design, initially estimated to cost $5,000 but ended up costing $7,000 (1941) dollars.

https://franklloydwright.org/site/pope-leighey-house/
You are right. They are renting dumb fiber interconnects between their PoPs, their datacenters and to various IXs and then they are asking their customers to rent dumb fiber interconnects from their offices and datacenters to connect with nearest Cloudflare PoPs and then use their proprietary services within that network, usually to reach eyeball networks (the end user ISPs).
In this way, they slowly become the largest customer of transit ISPs and become the largest content providers for eyeball-ISPs. Once they get into this dominating position, they can pretty much command those ISPs on price and terms.
I’ve always loved seeing Phil Schiller’s presentations on stage in keynotes for several years, though in the last few years he stepped back and Apple started putting many more people (than before) on stage to present in the keynotes.

A few of his words or lines on stage have been fodder for people to argue on (“courage” when removing the headphone jack from iPhones) or make fun of (“can’t innovate my ass” when introducing the trash can Mac Pro that later went without any updates or news for years). But he was a natural and a master at presentations, IMO.

If one didn’t know about him and watched his presentation, they’d find it hard to believe that a “marketing” person could talk so well about tech.

Craig Federighi is another great presenter who brings in humor along with some puns involving tech terms (not all his jokes may land well, but you gotta give him credit for many that do).

In this mix, I don’t see Greg Joswiak in the same league. He may be a good senior VP of marketing, but a great story teller and presenter he’s not. Sorry, Greg, if you’re reading this. Those others have set standards that are difficult to beat.

I wish Phil well, and hope that he’s able to contribute to Apple for many more years to come.
The grandparent's comement is the exact same growth lead hype-cycle rhetoric that was said for Snapchat, Vine, Periscope, Yik-Yak and Shots. The hype is from ByteDance's VCs.

When they get their massive exit, the hype will deflate and the users will grow out of TikTok and find another rockstar social network. Rinse and repeat.
Most grain elevators have incredibly large quantities of dust (basically flour) lying around, it's just unavoidable when you're moving that much grain around.

If it's too dry, there's a risk of static/friction/electrical ignition.

If it gets wet, you can have anaerobic bacteria build up heat in a compartment that, when exposed to oxygen, ignites.

Grew up on a farm, have a fair bit of experience messing around with grain bins. Our local elevator had a fire due to the former condition, and our neighbor's barn burned down due to the latter.
I'm not so sure about Turkey taking any long term damage. All they need to do is elect a new leader who will ask for forgiveness. The Russians don't care at all, the US see more than enough military value in Turkey to not care, and the EU does not believe in punishment as a deterrence ergo they will quickly switch back to business as usual as well and help by pumping in money. What remains? A successful territorial expansion, an economic boom with others footing the bill in the end. I'm sure they can imagine worse outcomes.
Oh, and they were kind enough to take off my screen protector. You know, take it and not give it back. "Steal" it if you will.
I'm working with dotnet rather than Python, and worked with Entity Framework's automated migrations for years. I say "worked with", but all too often it was "battled with" - just as you mention, there were just too many corner-cases for anything other than the simplest of databases.

A few years back I switched to plain SQL based migrations (using a lightweight library called DbUp to execute them) - I couldn't be happier with it!

What better tool to express database changes with than SQL? I also like the transparency it brings you - the files are right there for you to read. And I'm a stickler for formatting and convention, so it's great being able to write SQL files that include comments and use my preferred formatting.
lol. How about a 1.5 mbit per sec DSL line?
Do you mean whitelist?
Unfortunately plastic surgery cannot usually fix things like asymmetry. Surgery is really very primitive and people like to overestimate its power. It rarely ever makes a person more attractive in reality.
Sweden has far and away the highest death rate of the Nordics, over 11 times that of Norway. I really don't think the data supports your point. https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
I mostly agree with the author, but this is almost heresy these days. I tried to start a conversation recently about incremental DOM frameworks in a JS group, and immediately got like 6-7 comments, all negative.
Is there a way we (regular humans) can turn small-print-abuse against these companies?

For example, could some of us:

1. Create a website or piece of software that we expect will be used by some employee of Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, etc., from their employer's computers.

2. Include Terms of Service and/or clickwrap terms that tilted in our favor. E.g., enter a binding covenant to never perform telemetry of any kind, with clearly defined penalties. And the user also releases us from any obligations we have to them via previous agreements, such as the right to forced arbitration, or their pick of legal jurisdiction for lawsuits, or us covering their legal costs.

3. Once there's sufficient evidence that someone at one of these companies has accepted these terms, and violated them, drag them through the courts. Crowdsource our legal fees to prevent them from avoiding discovery, or settling out of court, or converting to class action and buying off the class's attorneys with an ineffective remedy.

I see several acceptable outcomes of this:

(a) A competent court establishes legal precedent that shrink-wrap licenses, and/or onerous EULAs / ToSs are unenforceable. And/or

(b) We get some measure of justice by causing major financial damage to the companies and individuals who abused our trust in the first place, and perhaps some court-ordered consent degrees that will hobble those companies for decades. Or, worst case:

(c) Those companies' lawyers wise up to the risk of their employees accepting such license terms. As a result, those companies become very risk-averse to letting their employees install software or visit unvetted websites. Which makes those companies less productive, and less capable of retaining technical talent that doesn't want to live under such restrictions. Thus planting the seeds of their death by a more agile competitor.

EDIT: `s/two/several` because I can't count.
I don't expect them to, but I don't not expect them to, if that makes sense -- it feels like an "all bets are off" kind of thing to me. The industrial design of the iMac is likely to finally change when it goes ARM, and it doesn't strike me as impossible that they'll make it slightly more open, or at least not make it worse.

On the one hand, Apple loves to eliminate options and lock things down, both for quasi-defensible reasons like simplifying product lines and for less defensible ones like increasing profit margins (and making everything obsessively thinner, like they're in the grip of some industrial design anorexia). On the other, their most recent hardware design changes have often shown response to customer complaints (e.g., replacing the butterfly keyboard with an improved iteration of the "Magic" keyboard) -- and, if they really intended to lock down the Mac like iOS, the move to ARM and the sweeping UX changes in macOS Big Sur would almost certainly have been when that happened. The fact that it hadn't happened makes me considerably more skeptical it's going to. (I'm also more skeptical now that iOS will ever be allowed to blossom into a full general-purpose OS, but that's a different topic.)

As an aside, I'm not sure whether adding the T2 chip would make it more complicated to use a third-party SSD. It's my understanding they function as the SSD controller and do some kind of wonky things, but I am not taking the time to look that up and could be completely wrong. :)
I re-implemented a quasi-polynomial algorithm. Experimentally, it shows exponential behaviour. Back-of-the-envelope calculation shows this behaviour can continue until the input size is >>10^21 before the asymptotic bound asserts itself.
(For comparison, input size 30 is unfeasible)
> One research was comparing Omotype with Dyslexie, the other with Open Dyslexic.

I see. I missed that.

> OmoType is free for personal use.

By “freely licensed” I was referring to free as in freedom.

On that note, where can I download OmoType? I see I can download software that uses OmoType, but I can’t seem to find where to download the font itself.
Again with the “national security” argument. Yes, it’s immoral, just like PRISM and COINTELPRO and mass domestic surveillance and GITMO and the Patriot Act and the racism at the TSA and secret police and censorship are all immoral despite protecting “national security.”

“National security” is not a valid blanket excuse to implement draconian policies.
I didn't have much to go on, but I was able to narrow it down to 87 motherboards for you. Give me some more info on your RAM clock or desired CPU clock and I can help a little more.

https://pcpartpicker.com/products/motherboard/#s=33&D=137438...

Here's a spreadsheet from Tom's Hardware for AM4 mobos which may be just what you need:

https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/x570-x470-x370-b550-...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wmsTYK9Z3-jUX5LGRoFn...
By having the compiler generate the equivalent of [&args...], where args are names of arguments in the parent function's header.
If you haven't seen it already, the Farm Hall transcripts provide a fascinating insight into the failure of the Nazi nuclear effort: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1992/08/13/the-farm-hall-tr...
A bit of both, it's sort of like moving from CEO to Chairman of the Board of a company. Still influential, but less involved in day-to-day operations.
I think the article did a really good job highlighting the power of combining a worship-level deference towards algorithm and an incredibly deep pocket. In the West, if you are an upstart, you don't have the latter - who can spend $1B on paid install in a year while seeing uninspiring retention? - and if you are big, then you cannot afford the former given the immense scrutiny from the public and the press.

Another interesting factor is that ByteDance has unfettered access to both the Chinese and the Western markets. This makes it attractive to investors who wants to bet on an upstart who can fallback to its mature Chinese business.

I personally think TikTok is still unproven outside of China if you look beyond the hype. But I also agree the big US companies are sleeping at the wheel. But if you are printing money like FB, why not?
Wonderful computer. How much you wanna bet that in < 5 years they drop support forcing almost everyone that purchased one to throw it out and get a new one?
I have a 2019 Macbook Pro now. The only reason I bought it was a friend really needed a computer any computer, and I gave her my 2014 Macbook Air. I bought the pro because it's a bit nicer for mobile development & running VMs.
Last time I tried to make a new google account, I could not without a phone number. My original account created many years ago does not have 2FA because of the phone number requirement.
I'd say quatenions are a nicer way to represent rotations, but 4x4 matrix can describe any projective transformation in 3d.
The Sabrent Rocket 1TB, a reasonable, fast $130 SSD, has an endurance rating of 1665 TBW. To have hit that rating, you'd have to have written 760 GB to it every day over those six years. At 5%, that's still 38 GB a day, every day.

If you were spending more to get better endurance, you could have just bought the 2TB version, which would have guaranteed 1422 GB/day.

(NB: SSDs suffer write amplification, so if you actually need 1.4TB of writes per day you should choose an enterprise drive instead.)

Endurance isn't a problem with SSDs for consumers, at all. Even QLC, which has significantly worse endurance than TLC, has plenty.
it's gonna be slow and expensive.
"Bicycle for the brain". Now that's one of hell of a metaphor.
What is the origin of Covid-19? Last thing what I heard is that it is not wet market. Then Chinese blamed American soliders?! I think Wuhan Institute of Virology is the source but they will never admit the virus broke out of the institute.
Yes, I did mean dimension squashing in either direction - left or right.
I agree it is. I still build all my desktop PC's for myself. I've been doing it for over 20 years, and will do so in the future. Back in the day you could really upgrade Mac's. I had a PowerMac 7500 in which I had upgraded the CPU, storage, memory and Video Cards, even the older MacPro's you could do this. I think you can upgrade the CPU's on the newer Mac Pro's although, it's a decent amount of work to do so.
to you and parent, what's your experience running games in a VM? i prefer to run linux, but there are a few games that are windows only that i'd like to play.

which VM software are you using? can you recommend any resources?
>Have you worked with the “professional” level IT crowd? Alpha bro sausage fest and foot fungus eaters.

I work at a network security company and a very small percentage fit your ignorant stereotype of them. Overall its the best group of people I have met in my entire life.

You run into way more "Alpha bro sausage fests" when you hang out with "normies".
Running badly is bad for the knees*.
Why did they change the whitelist blacklist thing. Isn't that a bit silly to be pedantic about?
> your average Javascript crapping baboon

Funny that describes some of my (almost ex) colleagues... :-)
Years of GPL enforcement don't show this to be the case.

In either case, the outcome is damages. If I've contributed 5 lines of code to an AGPL program, damages to me are peanuts. If Google makes a reasonable settlement offer, and I decline, I'm likely on the hook for Google's legal fees.
I have an extremely basic one on my Windows machine - https://pastebin.com/ZfUv6E2c

Bing, Facebook, Windows Web Search and some other sites don't work (unless you use DNS over https in Firefox, which ignores the host files.)

Go through r/pihole for the recommended ones.
Those people start with conclusions and only find "evidence" by accident and when it supports those conclusions.
One example, just so you know how much you are being ripped off... Yes, this is actually a trivial amount of time even if you do it once a decade.

Last time I checked buying 32 GB of ram for the imac was about $175, apple took $850 to upgrade from the base 8 GB to 32 GB...

Replacing them wouldn't take many minutes.

(Or - you could buy 64 GB for $350 (something apple didn't even offer, I guess the uint32 would overflow)).
CRTs did need a moment to stabilize the image, but they showed signs of life virtually instantly. At the least they'd make a little noise and had buttons with tactile feedback so you knew something was happening. Many screens today have capacitive touch buttons and have 5 seconds or more between a button 'press' and anything happening at all, leaving you to wonder if you even managed to successfully press the power button in the first place.
It only shows how high is their client inertia and how shielded they were from competition. A lot of companies where moving to Datadog was more expensive than continuing to pay for New Relic.
An iPhone is much deeper than a laptop lid. Perhaps they'll have to redesign the lid not to taper at the edge to provide more space for a better camera.
They have to abide by them, not enforce them (unless a court order makes them). There's no law against distributing operating systems that allow running of programs that break the law.
I did flag it. Maybe more people flagging it would help?

Plagiarism really does get my dander up.
Accuweather is also rather anti-open data, which is concerning. It's also been actively hostile towards the National Weather Service and increasingly becoming a media company rather than a weather agency.
Curious about the bugs in Catalina that made it useless for you. Have been on it since the public beta, and haven't really had anything that has made it impossible to do things I used to do. Care to elaborate? (Edit: I did on 10.15.13 have a bug where I couldn't access files and folders on the desktop, and had to repeatedly reboot. Downgraded to 10.15.12 and went to 10.15.14 when that came out and fixed it. Will admit that this was incredibly frustrating!)
That seems like a seriously perverse incentive if kicking people out and leaving the building vacant becomes more economically prudent in the long run
disclaimer: I run a business in Online Learning space where we provide a more traditional style LMS platform mostly to B2B.

At first, I thought you guys were building the actual virtual training tool but after checking out your landing page, it seems like the problem you are solving is to provide a simpler way for people to manage their entire Live trainings including user management, ecommerce/memberships, payments etc BUT the actual tool is 3rd party like daily.co, zoom etc, correct ?

I am asking because we get a lot of clients asking for similar stuff but they specifically are also interested in the tool itself which is a really hard technical challenge to solve. But what you guys are solving also has a huge need for sure, so great job launching this.

Also curious as to why you chose daily.co as the default virtual tool ?
Acknowledging a cult’s dangers doesn’t legitimise its existence or tenets.
gets a little hot but I have the m7. Not too bad! Fanless is a big plus
It sounds like the purpose is the process. Of course you can pay people, but that is less satisfying.
It's cool he is becoming a woodworker now.
No I did not. Nor I believe that properly constructed test, with all explicit cultural references removed can be racist. Asians, straight from Korea or China, with some basic knowledge of English are able to reach normal or above normal results on IQ tests.
To be fair, it stops throttling when I hold it over the A/C unit. ;)

/s
I would be very hesitant to turn an ORM into a "smart" SQL generator. Depending on the type/distribution of data, there are sometimes very different paths to optimizing a query. The ORM as a "stupid" SQL generator (straightforward mapper) is a great way to allow for the flexibility to control how a query is generated.

The DB engine might be the place for those sort of improvements.
Apple SSDs have been historically leaps and bounds ahead of the competition. Apple started using SSDs driven by PCIe while consumers were all using SATA. Jacking up the price was justified.

Not anymore. Fast NVME drives are commonplace. Unless these drives are again significantly faster than the competition, which I doubt, that's just Apple doing their thing and not adjusting fast enough.
I can't wait to try this, thanks for sharing!
Nah I think it's good news that apple is continuing to release Intel-based devices. It means all of us with existing Intel macs will get support for years and years to come.
It is only armchair analysis. But my arm chair has better overall texture and victorian motives and comes with a tea table carrying a huge pile of salt.

If you take a look at GDP graphs of eastern europe, russia and the middle east, you will see that every GDP in the region rose dramatically over the period of a few years in the early 2000s. This increase in GDP in the region was not caused by turkey's investment in infrastructure, it was caused by foreign investors (mainly by the US and major players in Europe) trying to bolster their own economy by supporting emerging markets. And it worked. Turkey's istanbul stock market went from 20K to 70K points and foreign investors made a lot of money. There was a period where USD and EUR were on par with the YTL.

When the hot credit finished, Turkey started experiencing inflation again, because not enough of the money was spent on infrastructure.

It was partially spent on better healthcare and education, which won the popular vote for a second time. At this point, government was running on fumes, domestic debt went rampant.

Authoritarianism, nepotism, militarism, conservatism, religiosity, nationalism and xenophobia worked part of the way to support this sort of economy. Seeing success in its ways, and still having some popular support, the government parted ways with its next leader and changed the law to get its leader elected a third time.

At this point there were enough dissenting voices that the mayorship of istanbul was lost in an election. Government forced another election and lost again.

Where are we now? We are at a point where whoever wins, the whole population will lose. Not that different than the 90s, but at least we've got iphones and macbooks.
I'd take that bet. Apple is generally good about keeping old machines working.
yes it’s PR speak - does an “Apple Fellow” that manages a few products sound like a step up from Chief Marketing Officer to you?
>Qanon is going mainstream and that’s bad.

Is it? My completely uninformed impression was that it was dying.
On Apple laptops "SSDs" are also soldered PCIe flash memory chips or something like that, so maybe on this very thin desktop computer they will also be doing that.
Once again, I don't understand the Math Overflow poster's exact situation.

But roughly speaking, imagine you have two functions f(t) and g(t), which are described in completely different ways, and you want to prove that f(t) = g(t). If you try and fail, then you might instead aim for a proof that the difference between f and g is bounded, or that f(t) = O(g(t)) and vice versa, or that the limit of the ratio between f and g is 1, or something along these lines.

In many cases, such partial results are also of interest. In general, partial successes in math are considered to be successes.

But in some cases, partial results aren't really considered all that interesting -- or perhaps are known already or can be obtained very easily.
Who Does the Machine Learning and Data Science Work?
Wow I get downvoted to make room for "it's magic".
Research suggests racism could be a genetic trait
Phil Schiller, and the whole marketing group, are an underestimated part of Apple's success over the past 20 years. It's why there's no company like Apple in the tech industry.
ElectricityMap: Live CO2 emissions of electricity consumption