skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This illustrates how this whole generation labeling concept is a divisive and self-serving media construct.
LOL I used Norsk ADA on Sintran back in the day
One of my unmentioned red flags is a company with significant funding, no monetization plan and caring only about growth.

That's 100% personal taste, as I'd rather work for a "calm company".
The point as I understand/was taught it in school is that the time it would take you to pop out enough* e.g. paracetamol to do really serious lasting harm (vs. 'just' being quite sick or needing stomach pumped) gives a sort of 'cool-down' or re-evaluation period, or requires significant planning, whereas a bottle can be downed impulsively.

(* and that if you're taking them as you go, you'll probably be physically incapable/less inclined to continue far enough after a certain point)
How hard could it be to synthesize that with deepfakes?
I think what's interesting is the tone of the paper, and how people react to it differently.

It has occured to me in written Chinese, sentiments often get easily "embedded" in words v.s. in English. (i.e. perhaps a feature of logographic languages?) English expressions on the other hand are easier to stay "neutral".

When I first read the paper I actually found the articulation to have a "neutral" tone to it. But after knowing that it is afflicted with Bannon and realising that the paper implies of all scientists & researchers in the world, only those backed by an anti-CCP advocacy organization, are willing to do serious research to expose the cover-up (assuming there is one!), the words in the article now gives off an odd vibe. It is now a partisan piece.
I tend to agree, but its always amazing to me how much that seems to matter to viewers on twitch. The entire streamer business model centers around people paying to have someone say their name.
My new rule after my last job search is that I don't interview if I don't know enough about the interview process to be more than 50% certain I'll come off OK in it. Not that I'll get the job, but more than 50% certain I'll at least look alright.

The FAANGs practically (sometimes, actually) give you a study guide, at least. Lots of smaller places act like knowing anything more than the names and titles of the people you'll be talking to would be cheating or something. I'm not gonna burn half a day or more just to bomb a question about graph traversal I haven't brushed up on lately, and I'm not gonna study everything unless I'm shooting for FAANG. Tell me what to expect, a few days out, with decent detail, or I'm not interviewing. I don't need to know exact questions but "first thing in the morning we'll ask you to do something with very basic data structures, like one of [short list of possibilities], and it will be on a whiteboard".

Then if you tell me the day is packed with 6+ hours of whiteboard problems I know not to bother, because I'll definitely be tired AF and bombing them after hour 3 no matter how much I study, because I'm not built to literally perform in front of people for hours on end. It saves us both some time.
I don't assume Feeney has a negative opinion of Gates, everything he has said publicly has been supportive of Gates.

Given Gates central role in driving for global pandemic vaccines, I wonder what Feeney thinks of that huge global and very public project. The Ft Gates oped link above is from today, I just read it before opening HN and seeing the Forbes Feeney post.
Yes, and this was ignored for quite a while at least at the mainstream level.

I've read not too long ago that a tumor is actually mostly an outer layer of active cells, the inner is made up of dead tumors probably serving as nutrient (<= very blurry on this). yet another part of that strange anti-life living form named cancer.
Spotify's big advantage is Spotify Connect.
Apple Music and Deezer (better interface) work as streaming devices, while Spotify is basically a server + controller.
The best feature I liked was real time data being shown on TV/Phone that was synced to the watch so you don't have to look at two screens, just one. Music was a nice bonus.
How do they define "PC" that theirs is the "world's first"? If I remember correctly people have used RISC-V systems for desktop stuff before.
The team at Amazon improved people's lives, not Jeff Bezos all by himself. Why couldn't there be thousands more millionaires that helped build Amazon rather than one mega billionaire?
Oh that's a factor I hadn't considered. Yeah, you're probably right that that's part of it too!
> Windows drivers are starting to work better now that Microsoft adopted the Linux model of centralizing them.

No. Intel ships WHQL Certified broken WiFi drivers via Windows Update. It took me three weeks to try all available versions, settings etc to troubleshoot. At last, I've roll backed the driver to earliest version and pinned it there. Now the wireless card is working as intended.

Device is an HP Spectre X2 convertible tablet so everything is a package.

Edit: Use kinder words.
I wonder how Fitbit plays into this all. Can they even realistically compete against the behemoth that Apple is at this point?
Honestly, if you're paying $1,000/month for something you're probably just not in the market for something that costs $30/month. I think Peloton will be fine.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/27/apples-iphone-12-production-...
Motion Twin is the classic example in the games space
http://motion-twin.com/en/

They shipped Dead Cells, which is rated as "Overwhelmingly Positive" "96% of 50,435 reviews" on steam.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/588650/Dead_Cells/

The HaXe programming language originally came out of Motion Twin, although Nicolas Cannasse has since left to do his own thing.
Peloton stock is up 5% at the moment.

There probably won't be an impact on PTON until Apple starts selling stationary cycles.
last I saw iPhones are supposed to be announced in October. This was apple watch and iPad (and services) only.
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This service it is a good start But definitely need to be complemented with ML vision technologies to detect bad postures and correct people movements during the workout for sure.
My understanding of "guilds" is the notion of people coalescing around projects based on needs and interest vs a top down hierarchy. Like Valve vs Amazon, etc.

At a prior employer (~1000 person company) we used the word "guild" for a cross organizational team that are tackling a short term, low-medium value problem - with the notion you go back to your existing team when you're done. Or you handle 2x load while the guild work is necessary. These are similar to "tiger teams", but those are generally top down endeavors vs guilds are bottom up.

Zappos tried this out a few years ago, so did some other well known tech co. though the name is escaping me right now. It seems to be called Holacracy and there's this webpage about it: https://www.holacracy.org/
Also, the Apple TV(+) UI is super confusing. I don't use my AppleTV+ sub
They don't look very edgy and have more of cartoon feel.
It's not chaining of comparisons, but rather a multi-valued expression - note the comma.
And I'm sure there's a trust fund for his benefit somewhere, just in case.
And pair it with Face ID to unlock a phone
True, but it still means the current status is: Several countries that reached prominent economic positions with protectionist policies, and zero countries that reached such positions without them.

Now perhaps those countries would have succeeded even more without protectionism. Do you go with something proven to work for your country, or experiment with an alternative with a worse track record?
You are severely underestimating the necessary level of manufacturing "culture", logistics and processes that were lost when we outsourced manufacturing.

For many things, including probably making N95 masks, we can no longer just decide to make them now without reconstructing that entire logistical tail, all the myriad of small manufacturers, and train people with specialized know-how and the years of experience that only exist in the presence of a vibrant and active manufacturing ecosystem.
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Don't you think is coming? Baby steps. First they'll launch and polish the trainings and sort the experience, then they add shit tons of tech there.

Think on the Nike's kinect game. Or Wii Fit, but 10 years later with a whole ecosystem behind it.

One of the most exciting services in a long time
I'm a Zig donor and I disagree. I'm happy that my donations are funding development instead of lawsuits.
Since privacy is a key differentiator for them (huge financial incentives to actually deliver and not just pay lip service), and there are significant penalties waiting for them if they are lying about protecting privacy (as well as plenty of people who would love to call them out on it), Apple is probably the most trustworthy of any organization if you care about privacy. Also you can keep your data local with Apple hardware - it's encrypted and only available to your hardware - obviously a lot of the functionality they profiled today doesn't work if you take that stance, but it is an option.
Well, Google owns Fitbit now, so it's two behemoths going at each other.

Plus you now have Amazon coming into the market with their Halo Fitness bands.
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This quote by Patrick stood out to me-

“Our target audience is the people making things on the web...And ultimately, there are no websites that are not built by developers.”
Fitbit went broke, didn't it?
Some people just want a heartrate and sleep monitor that lasts 5ish days.

For them, there's a Fitbit.
The rumor is October
The native trees in CA are types that need forest fires for the next generation of seeds to grow. Obviously there are many different trees with different ways to breeding, but we would lose biodiversity if CA followed your plan.

What CA needs to proper forest management, which means different things to different parts of the state. Often parts of that mean regular prescribed burns (which courts have historically stopped - lesson learned: shoot smokey the bear...)
I love the approach of Porsche AG who is allowing a engineering company (Singer - no relation to sewing machines) to make their own bespoke 911 for those customers who want a classic looking Porsche with a air cooled flat 6 that delivers nearly 500 HP.

They even got the original engine designer and Williams to design a brand new engine.

Sure it is limited but rather affordable at 500K as long as you can supply a 1989-94 donor 911 Coupe/Targa chassis.
Deadweight loss is a real thing.
OMG! I try not to put much stock in what Taylor Lorenz writes. She's a reporter for the STYLE section and she seems to spend plenty of time obsessing about what so and so said on some TikTok drop.

It's well and good to dream about being unelitist, but the all of the consumers want the best possible product. Since they're going to choose the best, this choosiness flows downhill to the companies which must reward the best developers.

If Taylor and her TikTok gang want to be total okay with average products, well, we can get by with average coders.
Apple's watch hardware advantage is a massive multi-billion dollar investment.

Eventually there will be inexpensive equivalents, but those will lag behind by 5+ years. The hobbyist/ Open/ Free market for smartphone and smaller devices is always going to lag way behind because there is no money to finance this kind of device.

Sadly, I think the era of free/ open(ish) hardware is coming to a close.
I think this is the case for most other fitness tracking purpose-built devices. I'm only not mentioning other brands because I'm not familiar with them, but from my personal experience with Garmin watches, all data is recorded according to the ANT FIT protocol and available as browsable files on the watch. You don't have to consent to uploading data to the cloud and broader analytics are opt-in rather than opt-out.
They were already up on the day. They dropped 5% at the announcement and then quickly gained half of that back. Still I would expect a bigger longer term drop in their business with Apple now as a more direct competitor.
I meant data that has references to other parts of itself, not connection as in internet.
AI ethics groups are repeating one of society’s classic mistakes
Have you tried building it yourself?
It is worth it just for the amount of Youtube I watch. May be other people are OK with the ads, but I am not. I bought the youtube premium subscription 4-5 years ago (even before it was a bundle) and am not disappointed.

I still have other subscriptions too (spotify, hbo, etc). I dont see them as competing with each other.
Yes. Consider mosquito nets (<10$) to protect against malaria vs. training a guide dog (~50k).
Chuck Feeney sounds like a great guy (I don't know anything about how his empire treated its employees), but I'd really rather the government take and distribute those billions.
iPad Air 2020
RIP local fitness instructors.

Already battered by the pandemic, a lot of them have been successfully transitioning to an online only business model. This will make it harder.
But most of those are targeted to the IT side of things, aren't they?

I don't recall having seen much targeting end users.
Touch ID would get me to look at buying a new phone. I'd much prefer Touch ID over Face ID, personally.
I had the displeasure of using AT&T's website today and even before I read your comment, I was thinking that AT&T must have a dysfunctional "development by checklists-for-PMs" culture. The site seems like UX appropriate for an SPA, but whenever taking an action, you get redirected 4 or 5 times before landing on the page you intend...only to have some of the elements "lazy" loaded, where "lazy" means "never actually materializes."

And when working through their two-factor-auth process, I kept getting redirected to a version that wouldn't accept my one-time-password because the javascript on the page wouldn't load for some reason. The trick was to switch from Chrome to Firefox.

I wish I didn't understand why it's possible for stuff to exist on big-company websites like AT&T.

Anyway, sounds like an absolute horrorshow for both PMs and devs alike.
I get the vibe from this article and the photos that this is another cool kids club, akin to something from their high school days. The signalling language and posturing is too obvious.

Nothing in here is about inclusivity. It's a power trip and a social status game on the internet.
comparison between the iPad Pro 11" (2nd model) and the iPad Air 11.9" 4th gen:

https://www.apple.com/ipad/compare/?device1=ipad-pro-11&devi...

the Pro comes with a better camera (ultra wide), more maximum storage (1TB vs 256GB), slightly higher resolution at same DPI and higher screen brigthness (600 nits vs 500 nits)
You can get a Series 4 w/cellular on ebay for $289. If you're buying one for your kids (with Family Setup) that's the best in-price.
evil-mode has been around for a long time, and I think there are plenty of people who use it. I do not, though I've been tempted often because my primary job role is sysadmin and I used vim before I used emacs. At this point I'm more comfortable with emacs keybindings, and the nightmare is switching between the two.

Most often I just use TRAMP now for remote editing, instead of trying to switch between vim and emacs throughout the day or installing emacs on all of my servers.

At the same time, that's another reason I haven't yet tried evil-mode: it's such a massive change to the defaults that I worry I wouldn't be able to use a vanilla install of emacs successfully. But I guess I would be able to use vim instead. I probably overthink these things.
Well, it depends on your utility function, but judging by Zuckerberg's experience with the Foundation for Newark's Future vs. mosquito netting in Africa, I think that ratio is not out of the realm of possibility.
The point of Touch ID is not having to use Face ID, which is a huge inconvenience in a time of world-wide mask wearing.
>If you let billionaires make the choices then sure you get some like Feeney/Gates/Buffett but you get Koch brothers.

You just disagree with the things the Kochs choose to fund. You could have easily said Murdoch instead (or Bloomberg if you wanted to pick someone who's hate crosses party lines).

Were the government funding the causes these billionaires fund the causes would still be controversial. We just wouldn't have a single person to have the lion's share of the blame.
Technically, probably not too difficult.

Business-wise, it would be a disaster. As soon as it was discovered (or disclosed) that the trainer saying, “Good hustle, Janet!” is an AI robot, Janet is not going to react the same way.
On it's own this service isn't that compelling. As part of the new Apple One bundle - it's actually not that much of a reach as I already am subscribed to a few of the traditional Apple offerings - adding this wouldn't be much of a stretch at all.

Which will be the real problem for Peloton and the other dedicated fitness offerings out there. Bundles are powerful, even if they sometimes are on the wrong side of the sunk cost fallacy.
> The term "core" had a concrete meaning before Nvidia defined it to mean number of FMA units

It was AMD/ATI who started doing it. Nvidia followed, and they didn't really have a choice if they wanted to avoid an "AMD has 320 shader cores yet Nvidia only has 16" marketing nightmare.

> Now, as I wrote above, they have changed it AGAIN: they are now double-counting each "core" because it has some (limited) superscalar capability.

They did not. In Turing, there's one FP32 and one INT32 pipeline with dual issue, in Ampere, there's one FP32 and one (INT32+FP32) pipeline, allowing dual issue of 2 FP32 and INT32 is not being used.

That can only be done if there are 2 physical FP32 instances. There is no double counting.

If your point is that this second FP32 unit can't always be used at 100%, e.g. because the INT32 is used, then see my initial comment: it's the number of physical instances, nothing more, nothing less. It doesn't say anything about their occupancy. The same was obviously always the case for AMD as well, since they had a VLIW5 ISA when they introduced the term, and I'm pretty sure that those were not always fully occupied either.
I agree with you.

But...

Wow, people really dislike this. Is it just HN culture to not want something like this?

I get it, I carry a phone and it tells the cloud all my secrets, blah blah. But fitness is health and I would just rather not send any of that to the cloud. Is that so hard to get?
The most popular new programming languages (of the recent decade) are backed up by major corporations (Kotlin, Swift) or improve something (Elm, Julia) or both (Rust, TypeScript). So if you design a programming language attempt to improve something that will make your language stand out.
Is it possible to download the data from the watch without an iDevice?
I've never heard this number, but I find it really interesting. If you remember where you got this number, could you please share a link?
A comment yesterday in the other thread mentions that ARM currently sells their ARM CPU plus Mali GPU IP in a single package. Buying the IP together is much cheaper than buying just the CPU IP. This is why nearly every ARM CPU maker uses the Mali cores, and why PowerVR as a company is nearly dead.

Reading this comment from Huang, I read it as if Nvidia wants to sell this package, but with Geforce IP instead of Mali IP.
How long until these 'fitness instructors' are animated avatars and new fitness programs can be quickly created programmatically?

Following this perhaps programmatically created work outs can eventually be uniquely tailored to the individual workout needs.
Check out Mixpose https://mixpose.com/ . It's a livestream yoga app on iOS,Android and Web with 3+ live classes a day. Since it's live the instructor can correct your form when you have hard time doing it. Eventually we are going to turn on the AI pose tracking. Disclaimer: I am the co-founder so let me know if you have any question.
Is that true? I thought the acquisition failed because of the EU.
Now that all of the iPads are USB-C, will be interesting to see if they stick with Lightning for the next iPhone
Well you do it mostly to support content producers.
School 2.0
True, if you must have an indoor gathering these days you should have a few HEPA filters scattered around. Nothing is 100% stop transmission but every little bit helps.
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Unless they start adding a fair amount of quality content, some of which is must watch, on a more regular basis, I really can’t see continuing my 1 year trial at this point in time. There’s just nowhere near enough content to justify the cost, especially when I already have subs to Netflix, Amazon and Disney. Against each of those services, their offering is truly paltry for a similar price. Especially when you factor in everything you get with Amazon as well (free ebook a month, unlimited photo storage and of course free next day delivery).
At least the fragile part is in the cable, so you can replace it if it breaks. Lightning has the fragile part in the phone.
Um yes. There are way more folks in a position to give $1k than $1m.
https://youtu.be/UYFdNwXXcac?t=782

They mention it on the linked timestamp, but I recommend watching the whole video to understand what is there completely.
They will be able to sell this 30% cheaper than all competitor apps on app store.
I was just having this debate the other day on HN. Just because "saying someones name" is the most visible return someone gets for a Twitch subscription does not mean that is the primary or only motivating factor. People don't donate to NPR solely because they want a tote bag. Supporting and motivating creators is also a huge reason for donating even if it isn't a tangible return.
Are you suggesting that Feeney thinks less of it because it's public giving? I just get the impression that that's Feeney's style, not that he thinks other philanthropists need to act that way.
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Can anyone speak to how good the arcade is? My children play tons of different games on the ipad/iphone and most of them are junk, pay to win and still tons of ads. But im just not a sure about a subscription for games im not sure is going to keep their interest over time.
Anec-data: Turned down an $800k Principal ML Scientist job at a FANG. Interviewed with a director who couldn't answer what I would be doing / working on. Facebook is notorious for this, lots of friends get absolutely eye-watering salaries to sit around and provide 1% lifts on click-through-rates. Most fortunately leave after the 1-yr vest.
I'm starting to see a consensus that one of the biggest drawbacks to free trade is the loss of skills. It is great to get cheap steel from China and great for China to sell steel at a profit, but it sucks losing the engineering jobs. But what truly is awful is now there is hardly anyone who knows how to run a steel mill anymore in the US. The US might not always be friends with China, but the US will always need steel.
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A lot of people don't care about ethics and mortality in their work as long as they get paid and get to go home to a house/apartment at the end of the day.
Also very interesting. Please post more often, really appreciate being exposed to a different way of thinking about development tools.