skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let’s Compare the CLIs from AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform
What I dream of is a health monitor watch that's built from open hardware and gives me complete control over and ownership of my data. I don't trust any profit-driven company, even Apple, with such private information.

EDIT: thanks to obenn, who pointed me towards [1]. Still in development, but looks promising.

[1] https://www.pine64.org/pinetime/
Also Willammette Valley. I was excited to look up this morning, and be able to both tell where the sun was, and see the outline of clouds through the smoke. Its been a week now.

Still horrible outside, but definitely improved.
So found out an interesting fact the other day. I was reading the book Moonwalking with Einstein and when reviewing ancient memory practices I found out something that I was never told before.

It turns out that the idea of separating words didn't appear until about the 9th century in Europe, which mean you had to read out loud in order to understand what text was saying. In fact for a long time being able to read silently was considered an almost magical ability. I find it fascinating how many things we just take for granted that really are big breakthroughs.
Huge fan of Chuck. “Who wants to be the richest person in the graveyard?” Is a question I often ask myself. Chuck has lived that philosophy. I moved to the bay last year and I hoe to one day meet him!
>And with the added bonus that the negative effects of they got to be billionaires don't cause more problems

Sorry, I’m not able to parse this sentence. Could you please rephrase?
Ditto. While the rest of the world messes with all the problems the alternatives have, I'm just gonna drop in moment, solve the problem at hand with a few lines of code and be done with it. Date/time handling in JS is a solved problem and the solution is called moment.js.
The #1 platform in schools is Google.

Google doesn't provide support either.

Or to be specific, there is a support email with obnoxious, egoistic minimum wage drones who make Comcast look great. There are all sorts of broken self-serve automated systems too. Empowered employees capable of understanding what they're talking about? They do their best to shield them from customers.

Google stuff mostly works. When it doesn't, you're mostly SOL. It's like that even if you pay for the fancy enterprise stuff.

Microsoft has support. They're also nowhere close to being the #1 platform in schools. Apple has support. Ditto.
No, in your example that's a necessary free because you'll exhaust the system memory eventually otherwise
I would say the best place where everyone could donate time effectively would be a mentorship program like the Boys and Girls club. Having a positive role model, even just hanging around doing "boring" stuff, makes a huge difference at a young age [0]. One day I'll psyche myself up to actually being a mentor.

[0] https://youth.gov/youth-topics/mentoring/benefits-mentoring-...
Valve uses a holacracy. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/valve/Valve_NewEmployee...
Many consumers benefit from a good product they enjoy using, regardless of ownership of the stack behind it

The fact they own their full stack, has resulted in some of the most anti consumer parts of the business. Allowing monopolization on repairs / part pricing etc
I purchased an Echelon cycling bike and was about to get the Peleton digital service for $13/month.. but Fitness+ for $10 might take that over now.
Apple will release iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 on September 16th
So inspiring.

It’s sad when all these billionaires and multi-millionaire athletes are afraid to risk a few million dollars by commenting on human rights abuses (concentration camps in China e.g.). You can’t take it with you! Use your wealth for good...
Is HT/SMT on CPU any different?
Agree FP is great as you exposed for a large category of tasks. Agree it is not suitable for some fields, and hence, not a panacea.

FP offers a better syntax for most of the programs I write, hence it makes the initial effort easier. Especially "compiler like" or "interpreter like" programs more often than not just fall into a pit of success.

But still - my original point remains. I am unable to design a program beforehand. The iteration is just faster with FP.

On one point I disagree:
" In both OOP and procedural programming your designs can never have this level of flexibility due in to modules being tied together by shared mutable state."

There is nothing that stops one from writing most OO or procedural programs using immutable style. In fact, this style makes those programs better as well. Just try it. Never mutate an object. Each method, if they must mutate something, then let them return a new object instead.

This style is not applicable everywhere, and due to lack of garbage collected immutable datastructures in the C++ basic library, for example, the area where immutable style can be used is smaller than in a FP language.

And you can't use it in those cases naturally where you actually need to mutate existing storage. But, say, an array of 10 elements? Immutable! Most strings smaller than n * 1000 chars? Immutable! Etc.
Apple introduces eighth-generation iPad with a jump in performance
I was hoping for completely independent Watch setup, but this is an interesting compromise. Lets parents that are wary of getting full blown smartphones for their children, but still lets them be connected.
> especially when they add the paper on top that needs to be peeled off before I can push the pill through the foil

Oh this drives me _nuts_. I ended up keeping a small Leatherman knife in the bathroom to slice through the paper/foil in the middle of the pack and peel the covering to each side.
Apple does not announce any new iPhone
I think their point is similar to the one from this article: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3p3CYauiX8oLjmwRF/purchase-f...

Basically if you make a high tier engineer's salary, you could do more utilitarian good by hiring several people to work at a food bank on the weekends. Roadside trash pickup is an example of a problem in need of a systemic solution, so if you can reduce litter in the first place, or build a machine that cleans everything, you might be doing more good that way, even though it doesn't look or feel as "noble".

But others have pointed out that it is useful to donate your time if you are giving your skills, and not just effort.
Is this a good example of the fundamental attribution error? Given the equally-plausible explanations that the link worked-when-submitted, or that OP submitted a 404 page which was up-voted on title alone, why would we assume OP submitted a 404 page for Karma?
That point about cost effectiveness is what always leaves a bitter taste in my mouth when donating. I didn't realize people put lists of recommendations together, that's nice to see.

But how would you go about verifying any stated claims?
> Life is about balance; extremes are rarely useful - especially long term.

Well, you shouldn't commit genocide, but to say you shouldn't kill just a few dozen people? I mean, why be a zealot about this whole murder thing?

The right choice is rarely exactly in the middle. Life isn't about balance. Life is about doing what's best, and sometimes that's in the middle, but more often than not, it's at one extreme or the other.
I wonder if they will put this Touch ID side button into the iPhone 12. That would be an impressive covid-era feature.
Or just Libre would be fine. I personally like L/OSS software, but that makes an unfortunate acronym.
What do you mean? In Acrobat Form (acroform) fields? In Acrobat Pro DC (in Windows, but assume Mac is the same), go into Prepare Form mode, select the field (or control select for multiple text fields), right click Properties, go to Appearance tab (Text section), and the either select Font Size: Auto (for autofit) or the point size you want.
> the PNW doesn't have air conditioning as standard in most of the apartments

That's because it wasn't necessary until the last 10 years or so. 90 degree days were uncommon and night temps would dip low enough to cool most places in the evening through the next morning.
That and the fact that such charity systems are demonstrably less efficient than welfare. It seems that many of people just want to ignore that evidence though and continue to scaremonger.
Entry level setup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXGKdk6apRo
> These guys are hiring "top talent" only as a defensive measure, so that upstart competitors don't get them. It's not expected for "top talent" to actually contribute to something useful.

Citation needed
Well, the official press release is titled "SiFive To Introduce New RISC-V Processor Architecture and RISC-V PC at Linley Fall Virtual Processor Conference", so that does suggest some sort of PC-like product.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200914005108/en/SiF...
AMD and Intel don't actually own it all, certainly not from a software perspective. That's the difference here. The upshot of this article is that Nvidia basically wants to "CUDAify" the entire datacenter software stack. Intel and AMD absolutely do not have that kind of lock-in. You don't need to use their proprietary language to write programs that run on their systems.
> a system that allows $8 billion in wealth to accumulate enough to be controlled by one person has already failed

I think you have little appreciation of how wealth is created.

Jeff Bezos became the wealthiest person in the world neither by stealing or exploiting , but rather by improving peoples lives. Amazon was able to organize systems, take advantage of technological developments and put capital to work to improve the lives of hundreds of millions of consumers.
Spreading dangerous misinformation is not helpful, and you are trying to convince them of something- namely that this air pollution is no big deal.

PM2.5 pollution, even at levels far lower than being seen now, is associated with literally hundreds of negative outcomes- lower IQ, worse test scores in standardized tests, more depression, worse ADHD, more asthma, more cancers (of both the lungs and other body parts), emphysema, as well as a whole host of issues related to full-body inflammation (ranging from auto-immune disorders to digestive problems).
> I'm very surprised to see most of the comments here in favor of the "landlord tech" described.

I think it's not too surprising, this sort of post always seems to bring HN's resident landlords out to argue in favour of whatever happens to benefit them financially, and gives them more control over their tenants' lives.

It's a bit like how any topic here relating to social justice attracts hordes of far-righteous types peppering the comments with comically bad takes, before flagging the submission off the front page.
It also depends on how much you trust the electorate. Recent developments around the world have shaken my faith a bit.
why stop there? I think even as high as 50% is fine given that most people here are in tech.
Apple iPad Air (A14 Bionic)
New Apple Watch Series 6 has blood oxygen sensor and bright new colors
The owners have change a lot. In todays world more entrepreneurs don't supply their capital. They supply the ideas, organization, innovation, risk, and maybe a small bit of saving but they from bezos to elon none really supply the capital.

So a lot of things may be keep workers from trying but it isn't capital.

The workers doesn't get more of a business for the same reason you don't get a better grade cause you peer got a better grade. The workers didn't supply more labor, but the owner supplied more ideas, better organization, and better intuition. None of bezo's automation ideas has anything to do with workers.
This estimate has 6 billion Arm chips shipped in Q4 2019: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1131983/arm-based-chip-u...

The hyperscale/cloud datacenter market is single-digit millions of CPUs shipped per year. So if the whole cloud went to Arm tomorrow it would be less than 1% of total Arm chip shipments.

My point is that unless there's a way to extract higher $ per chip in the datacenter then actually it doesn't make a difference for Arm.

Edit: By datacenter market I'm really referring to AWS/GCP/Azure... the rest of the market ain't going en-masse to Arm anytime soon.
Around half of Nvidia's revenue now comes from data centers. I assume a massive chunk of those computers use Linux, so looks like they did do something about it.
It's a great line and one that I would expect Jensen to take - and it's almost certainly true - to an extent.

I'd expect Nvidia to keep the Arm ecosystem alive, but only where they don't see an opportunity to take control. So they keep Radeon off Exynos (and incidentally why couldn't they do that anyway?) by offering GeForce. But elsewhere they can deny Arm IP to other firms where they have a competitive SoC.

Take one example. So Nvidia / Arm invest heavily in data center focused designs - are they really going to offer this IP to Ampere / Amazon on equal terms when compared to an Nvidia CPU? As Ben says 'color me skeptical'.

Essentially they will have a full overview of the Arm ecosystem - will lots of confidential information - and pick and choose where they drive out competitors whilst farming license fees from the rest.
If Apple did this for home workouts I would subscribe to Fitness+ in a heartbeat. I currently practice yoga at home, and the worst part is I don't have an instructor to correct my form.
While I'm certainly annoyed that this is a blatant ripoff of so many services out there already - more than anything, it just looks like a real snoozefest of a product. Beyond that, where does the App Store insanity stop? Is Apple going to pull a Fortnite and kick exercise apps off next for "duplicating core Apple products"?
But that's standard, no?

The only organizations that publish equity research are investment banks (which rarely publish negative articles since they want to be part of potential future M&A activity), and hedge funds.

This type of research takes significant time and effort, and almost no one else does this except short selling hedge funds.
By that logic, If you have faith in the due diligence of your fellow man, why would a rational person assume there is a relationship between software forks with no claim to that effect?
PRs are welcome. Especially from skilled compiler developers.
Human Feedback Improves OpenAI Model Summarizations
I enjoy this, the problem is often that key people don't actually want to change, or the core issue is somehow intractable.
> they've never used a different definition

The term "core" had a concrete meaning before Nvidia defined it to mean number of FMA units, and it's obviously no accident: they get to claim they have 32x more cores than would be the case by common definition. They are the odd one out; should Intel and AMD start multiplying their number of cores by the SIMD width? You would accept that as a "core"?

Now, as I wrote above, they have changed it AGAIN: they are now double-counting each "core" because it has some (limited) superscalar capability.
> - How much to employees at Duty Free Shoppers (DFS) make?

I have similar thoughts when I hear about the philanthropy of the mega wealthy. Instead of a single person like Chuck Feeney or Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates amassing ungodly amounts of wealth and then later choosing how to distribute it, why couldn't the companies they built have made 1,000 or 10,000 or X other people relatively rich instead of one man mega rich?
Have you heard of Prioritized Grammar Enumeration?
Throwing someone in a cage for not following your admittedly not very effective "cultural marker" is evil. If you want to use public shaming to convince restaurants to use paper straws, fine, but please leave it at that.
Well I don't constantly need it, but there's certainly stretches of time where I want something for my ears to focus on, leaving the rest of my mind to focus on something else.

And selecting music I actually want to listen to is counterproductive - as is scrolling through playlists and youtube channels finding the "right thing" to put on and forget about.
Yea but you'll still have a cable. I'm sure you'll find some sort of USB device to plug it in to.
You clearly didn't read the paper very closely. The authors spend multiple pages looking at possible pathways for the observed genetic features to have emerged naturally, and provide arguments against each of these scenarios. You may contest their arguments as weak or insufficient, but it is dishonest to characterize this as "disregard for alternative explanations".

> completely delusional crackpot pseudo-research

I find that the more adjectives and adverbs you need to make a statement, the more desperate your argument has become.
#define ARRAY_SIZE(x) ((sizeof x) / sizeof *(x))

But ideally there would be a builtin to do this, since this gives nonsense results if you pass a pointer instead of an array.
Agree, but USB-C seems so fragile compared to Lightning.
A recruiter drops an interview on my calendar; I go where I’m told. Most likely the role has nothing to do with me or the people/projects I know firsthand. If I knew about the project I would tell you, but I don’t.
Corona Lab Origin debunked by a virologist
From Vincent Racaniello (TWiV (https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/) , Columbia University):

Vincent Racaniello, PhD | Higgins Professor
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Columbia University College of P&S, New York

So many people have asked me about this paper that I put together a quick response, below.

There are so many reasons why this 'report' is wrong. Beginning with the abstract: 'The natural origin theory, although widely accepted, lacks substantial support. The alternative theory that the virus may have come from a research laboratory is, however, strictly censored on peer-reviewed scientific journals'. In fact there is a great deal of experimental support, from multiple groups, on the natural origin of SARS-CoV-2. On the other hand, there is ZERO evidence for a laboratory origin.

The introduction also is full of inaccuracies. For example, 'the origin of SARS-CoV-2 is still the subject of much debate' is not true. The conclusions of the Nature Medicine article cited have not been challenged by other than charlatans such as the authors of this paper.

Here is their evidence:

1. A bat virus ZC45 is the backbone. It is 89% identical to SARS-CoV-2. In a genome of 30,000 bases that means it differs from SARS-CoV-2 by 3300 bases. No way is that the backbone of SARS-CoV-2.

2. The receptor binding motif of SARS-CoV-2 could not have been made from that of SARS-CoV. It is not what one would predict would give the highest affinity binding to ACE2. No one would have made this sequence in the laboratory because it would not have been the one to make.

3. The furin cleavage site has been found in other bat CoV, contrary to what the author says.

4. The presence of restriction cleavage sites in no way indicates manipulation; they just picked two that flank the RBD.

On top of it all I have never heard of this person or their institution.

It is a complete reach and adds nothing beyond what has already been suggested. There is nothing new here! Similar arguments were made and debunked months ago.
Apple TV+ doesn't have even a fraction of the shows available on Netflix. Most of their original content is, imo, quite good but there's not nearly enough of it yet
Apple TV doesn't really have the kind of catalog that netflix does, but a lot of their unique shows are excellent. The Morning Show and For All Mankind in particular were fantastic.
The book about his life is quite good. "The billionaire who wasn't".
I agree that they are being bred. Just like the Tea Party was not a collection of frustrated people tired of the system, like it was painted, but rather a party propped up by wealthy right wing interests.
I just think that a platform like FB or Twitter makes it absurdly easy to do it.
He is strongly opposed to end-to-end encryption, for one example.
This what you get when you elect corrupt politicians and foster an uneducated population. Poor management and climate change deniers. As the US is one of the largest polluters of the world, larger than but close to China, there is a lot debt owed to other nations. That debt tho is not repayable because the damage is beyond repair. Thanks ‘murica for destroying the planet along with china and other failed states.
That's academic theory, not reality. The actual behaviors and background of the tenants is what makes the difference, and people who have higher income tend to pay their bills.

Also vacancy management is an entirely different problem than quality of tenants and how they treat the property. Turnover of good quality tenants is much better than bad quality tenants who stay trashing the place for years.
The mental clarity comes from adrenaline. When you fast your body slowly uses up its glycogen store and releases adrenaline to compensate. Presumably it does so in order to keep you active / motivated enough to go look for food to refill your glycogen stores. It is this adrenaline that gives you the mental clarity and causes you to have trouble sleeping when on a fast: fasting is essentially natural adderall.

On top of this, once you use up all your glycogen, your body enters a period of autophagy which causes disfunctioning cells and protein fragments to become broken down and reused. This causes your body to function more efficiently, including your brain.
is there no new iPhone then?
91% of plastic isn't recycled (2018)
> So your $1,000 donation can do as much good as $1 million, if given well.

Umm, no
Even if Apple is directly aligning their profits with the protection of your private data?
Three things:

1) If I buy a table, I can, in fact, modify it, resell it, and understand it. I can understand the world around me.

2) If I buy a book, it doesn't come with an EULA which makes me promise my firstborn to a trillion-dollar company. I had patents which expired, and copyrights with fair use provisions. There was a legislative balance.

3) Until a few decades ago, cars and electronics did come with service manuals which, for radios and TVs, contained the full circuit schematic.

The sorts of rights Stallman is talking about are ones which software is new in taking away.

I'd like them back.
Apple One
If not Apple, it would have been someone else to come for Peleton's lunch. We bought a rowing machine this summer, and it comes with a "free" year of the iFit service. Pretty much the same as Peleton's offering: live workouts, a library of pre-recorded workouts, both indoor and outdoor. It additionally has workouts that don't involve the rowing machine. For $300-400/year for a family membership that includes 5 people, I might have renewed when the free year is up, depending on how much use we got out of it.

But not now. Apple's offering is going to have to really suck to not offer a good value at $79/year. Known names like Peleton might come out okay (as in survive, not flourish), but less-known companies are sure going to hurt.
S5 has worse battery life due to always-on display. Presumably if you toggle that, your battery life is much better.
I trust Apple... enough, to use their Health app, but I don't like the watch. An Apple Watch, without the screen and apps, which can store data and just sync with your phone next time their in range of each other would be nice.

If you don't where a watch, and don't carry your phone with you everywhere, there doesn't seem to be any good fitness tracker, which also integrate with Apples Health app.
I always loved Penn Jillette's (one half of Penn and Teller) character . The 90s sysadmin vibe is on point especially with the random earing in only one ear.
Agreed. magit is one of the best pieces of software that I've encountered. Well-deserving of the "porcelain" moniker. Very intuitive, and you can always fall back to CLI if you need to.
So there wasn't a new iPhone announcement today?? I only saw bits and pieces of the announcement but it seems no one is talking about this.
There is also this interesting stackexchange answer which compares different types of parsers https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/338888/37266...