skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple innovates in marketing and pushing lock-in that holds back the actual progress.
> simply refine the innovations

This was always apples thing.

I mean even if we go back to the apple watch. Was it a new innovation? No, not at all. Other companies had produced similar products years before, just non did put enough mony into it to refine it to the degree Apple did.

Same goes for their ARM chips. They didn't invent them nor did they invent the idea of fast ARM chips. But they took and refined them over many product generations to now yield excellent results.

Same for ARM laptops.

Same for a lot of their software innovations.

Same for there camera.

Through it should be noted that for them to be able to refine thinks to that degree often some technological innovations are mixed in in-between.

But that's fine, constant refinement is often more use-full then complete new innovations without refinement.

Sadly sometimes the focus on what gets refined in which ways is pretty questionable.

In turn refinements you can't sell as innovation get neglected.

Also the developer is forced to work with Apple using apple tools so that is often neglected, too. Their is little insensitive for Apple to spend more money on things like that when this will not bring more Users or Developers to Apple.

Which is short sighted IMHO given how much money Apple has.
The downside of “doing what lots of other people are doing” during a pandemic is that when the pandemic ends, which may be a few months from now if a vaccine is effective, you’ll have placed yourself at a huge disadvantage when the same forces invert. I say this as someone who lived in NYC way back during 9/11 and thought the city would never recover. It absolutely did, almost immediately, and I felt very silly for the next decade or so.
Just to clarify, those precompiled caches are (currently) not of binaries. At the very least, LLVM still needs to generate code after loading, and often everything up to inference still needs to be run as well.

Julia 1.6 involved a lot of work reducing invalidations, where old methods are invalidated by new definitions and thus forced to recompile. This has the obvious benefit of reducing the total amount of compilation needed, but the secondary benefit of making compiling to binaries more profitable; it's less likely that work will be wasted when someone loads another package.
Org mode also has a great spreadsheet system[0], making it easy to work with plaintext tables! I used Org mode in a school assignment to generate a gnuplot graph from an Org data table (which also had calculated data using formulas). This all would happen all in Org at compile time, since Org lets you evaluate code snippets[1] as well. The final result is that the table, the graph and the syntax-highlighted gnuplot code would all be put in the LaTeX document, and updating the code or data would take effect immediately when recompiling the document.

There's also other cool things like a habit tracker[2] that can also show you an interactive mode where you can see your progress.

[0] https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-spreadsheet-intro...

[1] https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/intro.html

[2] https://orgmode.org/manual/Tracking-your-habits.html
Yeah that coupled with the fact that I have a MacBook but a PC desktop, drawings things in sketch on my MacBook is just not as fast and easy as on my desktop using figma.
> About that plot. Don't take it too seriously

Considering that they stockpiled semiautomatic weapons in preparation for the plot, seems like it should be taken very seriously, even if their rationale (punishing the governor for closing gyms) was silly.
Are you going to lend him $500,000 to start this business? After all, banks and investors want to make sure they invest in the right people. Wouldn't want to throw your money away at a "risky investment".

Also where are their initial customers going to come from? If you don't attend the right schools or network with the right people from early on in life, why would people go out of their way to attach themselves socially to someone who is unproven?

Yes, just start a business...if only it were that easy!
Haha, I was going to write the same. Writing iRules for F5 BigIp has made me hate Tcl, but honestly I'm not sure the real culprit isn't BigIp's terrible, clunky UI.

I don't know why they chose such a brittle, error prone language for writing something where making a mistake can have dire consequences.

(I see someone else mentioned Tcl is used for Nuclear Power Plant simulators? Ouch!)
Anyone who works at Apple care to vote for or against this as a model for other companies to follow?
But applications tend to feel the need to use XML config files because of the limitations of Java.
Well, I'm beyond the point of retracting the comment, but thanks for correcting that. I guess a few well deserved downvotes won't kill me.
I don't know how common this is, but I was raised to see intimate touch as reserved exclusively for family and sexual/romantic partners. There's a pretty big mental block when it comes to touch, and I think that's made my life materially worse. Do others experience that? I grew up in New England for context.

I'm somewhat fortunate that if I get particularly lonely or touch deprived, I can hop on grindr/scruff/hornet and resolve that situation pretty quickly in most cases. I hear the situation for single heterosexual men is significantly worse, but I'd like to hear others thoughts. Are there outlets for straight lonely people in need of touch?

Gay dating apps have a reputation for being very sex focused, but many of the profiles I see are specifically seeking out touch/cuddling as a primary or even exclusive goal.
How to figure out what you don’t know
Type in the exact number of machines to proceed
Although this is fact is probably correct, and is mildly interesting, it has no relevance here because $11.1 billion is certainly a hell of a lot more than youtube-dl has to fight them in court.
If it’s an account that’s not tied to anything important, sure; But if it’s tied to a bank account, credit card, utility bill etc, it’s often not as easy to “just make a new account”. You’ll likely need to fax a copy of your id to a fraud department who’ll take their time.

A friend of mine has been unable to convince a credit agency to reset their password as they are out of the country and cannot fulfill the requested authentication task. Wouldn’t be a problem in normal times, as they are back and forth every other month. Except it’s been 7 months since corona disrupted that. They can’t just “sign up for a new account” as it tied to their identity.

I’ve never had this problem myself either. But it’s a real problem.
That's pretty original. Then I hit this:

> The video memory is SRAM, not RAM. The SRAM on the MDA card can be used by MIOS as general-purpose memory for creating a Stack Segment (SS) and Extra Segment (ES). Using SRAM avoids the complexity and resource requirements of servicing an interrupt for memory refresh.

That's not just original its wonderfully nuts.

Reminds me of a trick in use around that time, the CGA (and EGA) adapters and the Mono/text adapters used different resource regions and you could have one of each in a system. Then the RAM on one or the other could be used by software, with possibly useful diagnostic display side effects; while the other display was used for the normal display purposes.

That was not a common trick, that guy was also soldering together 1MB RAM pack for Commodore 64's in that time frame too.
Countries with the most Facebook users in 2020
Looks like they more just took a list of places. They have a courtyard by Marriott on the list as well.

And it’s alphabetical
> it certainly seems as if Apple is actually organized to simply refine the innovations of its past

This takes innovation, too. Just because a product isn't a wholly new, virgin thing doesn't mean it isn't innovative.

The A-series chips aren't products themselves, for example, but they're certainly innovations. Apple is now the best mobile processor house in the world, and it isn't particularly close - who saw that coming?
> and (barely usable) SMS

What's the issue with SMS in the US? At least in Australia, SMS is no hindrance to messaging between Android and iOS apart from the colour of the bubbles.
I live at the other end of the state outside of Lexington TN and would gladly suffer Comcast and AT&T rather than TDS and their glitchy DSL service.
Made me curious. And I searched. Found this one. Yikes !

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/decaying-weapo...
I can only speak to downtown, and it has been more sedate but I haven't felt less safe. I don't eat indoors so the recent weather change has meant more time at home. My favorite thing about Detroit winter, the skating rink, is going up right now (probably the only thing I'll do outside till spring 2021) But, downtown isn't the same as the other neighborhoods, I don't think I'll be going farther than a mile from home for a while
Starfleet Ships Use SQL
Let’s talk about text over symbols and readability.

Return the maximum value of the array “numbers”. The languages are listed in descending order of text > symbol.

Clojure:

(apply max numbers)

JavaScript:

Math.max(...numbers);

APL (I couldn't find how to apply this to an arbitrary array):

⌈/ 4 3 2 7 5 1 3

Here’s a guess:

⌈ numbers

The most aymbol-focused is the least readable to me, and Clojure is the only one that returned good results from a Google search to figure out what was going on. Both “JavaScript ...” and “APL ⌈” gave me irrelevant results.

Furthermore, how is this

(if a
true-cond
false-cond)

harder to read than this, aside from familiarity?

if (a) {
trueCond
} else {
falseCond
}

In the latter case, the if/else requires a special syntactical structure. And since it cannot be used as an expression, the common desire to conditionally assign a result spawned the ternary operator: a whole separate syntax that only applies when you want to assign a result to something. In lisps, you just use “if” wherever you need a binary conditional.
Only if your company adjusts your income. Mine wouldn’t if I chose to move.
> It would be nice if everyone had control of their own personal health record but so far no one has really figured out a viable business model.

I think if you couch health outcomes in terms of viable business model, you lost from the get-go. A personal health record is a utility function, it doesn't need a business model to justify it: it's not done for-profit, its done for the social utility.
I got a little excited when I read this, and then realized I was conflating Michigan with Wyoming. I'll try to explain why briefly:

It has been brought up in passing in my friend circles that an influx of lefty techies into wyoming could feasibly tip the election scales. Because it's so dang small, the blue-red delta is around 128k people [1]. In the scope of things, drop in the bucket.

Assuming that any significantly sized business will attract infrastructure to match, you'd really only need a couple apple-sized entities (cupertino: ~15,000 employees, ~60k pop total [2][3]) to make that happen. Assuming that there would be some amount of 'bleed' (suburbs et al) you might not even need that.

Mind you, I'm not suggesting this as a serious course of action, but it does make for some entertaining showerthought fodder.

[1] https://sos.wyo.gov/Elections/Docs/VRStats/2020/20OctVR_stat...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Park
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupertino,_California
You mean for an owner or mortgage holder?

Or you got underwater and tied up with life wherever you went to?

A little bit of column A a little bit of column B?
You can claim anything, too. GitHub only checks if the Takedown is valid in format with necessary information provided.
I don't get any difference, though I do always get warned about this (I qualify for a free flu jab every year because part of my immune system had cancer when was I was younger)

This year I actually had a moment as I was preparing for bed that night when I went "Oh shit what's this?" because I felt a bump that hadn't been there before on one arm. It was the tiny sticking plaster the nurse applied after the injection to cover the site. That was the first time since leaving the clinic I'd even remembered I got a jab that day. I peeled it off, put it in the waste and went to bed.

A lot of the things that happen are psychosomatic, so those would happen even if it was saline (or, I suppose they might not happen if you believe it was just saline even if it was really the active vaccine) but there are effects above this baseline in some people some of the time.
You are correct. The solution presented is not a BeyondCorp but rather an SSO implementation that adds authentication to the internal application.

For BeyondCorp, it essentially:

* Must be Layer 7 protocol, access privilege aware (achieved by an identity-aware access proxy).

* Promotes authorization as opposed to authentication only.

* Should be able to enforce security policies (time, location, context, 2fa).

* Must be aware of the security state of the user device.

Shameless plug: Check out our zero trust service access project TRASA (https://github.com/seknox/trasa). It's free and opensource and addresses many of the requirements outlined by BeyondCorp.
Here's the website with the program. The actual article is behind a paywall.

https://movetomichigan.org
Really? I've done comparisons with my GR3 and my iPhone and even when browsing thumbnails it gets pretty obvious which is which quality wise. When I start looking at the photos on my desktop or iPad it becomes even more evident. It might be the kit lens your using or your taking pictures in bright sunlight only, which at that point the camera doesn't matter that much anymore.
Local roofer said these can be up to $100k!
2017 Tracking LGBTQ Grantmaking by U.S. Foundation [pdf]
The colour of the bubbles is a brilliant marketing play. People put peer pressure [1] on each other to “upgrade” their bubbles from the ugly green to the cool blue by buying an iPhone.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/15/18624681/apple-imessage-a...
You never know if SMS actually arrived. Sure, it probably did. But sometimes, it didn’t. And you won’t know.
> only "alternatives" are Facebook and (barely usable) SMS.

Why don't Americans use Telegram?
Hard to say they're innovative when Samsung has produced folding phones before them. Similarly, bezelless display was just following Huawei and Samsung. In fact, many of their so called new and innovative features have appeared in android phones earlier, but Apple markets them better. Apple is efficient at money making. If I were to profile a company for innovation, I would profile Nintendo. They have consistently dared to create new types of gaming consoles. No generation is similar to the previous one.
Java is pretty much the only language I'd want to see low-level libraries written in. Go libraries can only be used from Go, Rust libraries can only be used from Rust, and any nontrivial C library contains an arbitrary code execution vulnerability when built with a newer compiler. Java is a lowest-common-denominator language but it's memory-safe, cross-platform (in a way that C# isn't really yet), and there's a decent range of languages that you can run on the JVM and use Java libraries from.
Most likely the missing "chat" features that people have become used to (reactions, read notifications, "currently typing", threads).
I use WhatsApp and Signal to communicate with people on an iPhone in the US all the time. How have I ever been restricted?

I do know that MMS is garbage, and that the mobile networks used to price gouge people for using MMS, and on top of that it doesn’t work many times, or at least it didn’t use to.
That’s another important point.
I mean, you can install apps with the appstore if you really want sandboxing and apps that can't work like applications, and an extra dependence on Microsoft.

I thought there was a way to mount a drive without a letter these days? But I've never run out of letters, so I can't say I paid much attention.

Windows 10 is clunky because of lack of attention to detail and a drastic reduction in testing without a reduction in scope, not so much because of backwards compatability. Windows Phone 7 lost Google because of no backwards compatability though (they had excellent CE apps, I'm told).
I worked at a big tech company for a few years. The moment I knew I was done with them was when the VP of our division said, during a quarterly all-hands "...and we're very hip too. We've hired quite a number of African Americans..."

People will be quick to remind you, both overtly and implicitly, that your skin color is a political tool.
I live in Southern Ontario and now I'm wondering if I should be more depressed.
In the pre-pandemic days when companies encouraging remote work were fewer and further between, it was very typical in my experience for them to pay market rate for your actual location - whatever location you met the qualifications for legal residence in.

I know of at least a few places that do/did sort of a globally averaged salary - their rates aren’t adjusted for location, but if you’re in a major North American city you might be disappointed. If you’re rural, or in less expensive parts of the world, their salaries were well above market.

Tax domicile is a real concern. The BigTech firms are smart enough to know and care where your actual legal residence is, and presumably they’re not going to let you pretend to be in SF to collect SF-adjusted wages while actually living in Michigan and collecting their legal benefits.
> He served one night of his sentence in the home of the Senate Sergeant-at-Arms

"Sir, this is my guest room, please don't break the window trying to escape or my wife will be the one deputized to recapture you."
Tell HN: What you need to know about LTV and CAC
Hi HN,

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This is only the second time I've been paid for something I wrote, but I'm happy to share what I learned so far, so feel free to ask me anything.

The book (called Growth Units) is on Amazon and Gumroad. Here's a discount link for the book if you'd like to check it out: https://gumroad.com/l/AKtmRM/Hn
Thanks, just added them to my read list. Looks like a fun read.
How can I get a monkey intelligence gene.
This is an interesting topic for discussion on it's own.

As an engineer, I get a lot of talanted engineer contact through work (remotely). I'm really happy to not have that in my personal life. I lived in SF for 6 months and couldn't wait to get away.
Honestly, same. I've been thinking about dipping to a coastal town somewhere with an English, French, or Spanish-speaking population.

GTA suburbs aren't bad but I love 10–20ºC and friendly people more.
original non-paywalled link https://movetomichigan.org/
Simply plug the numbers into Redfin or Zillow. This data is easily accessible.

> And if $400k is too much for a house, how do you make Seattle work?

If I’m going to have to spend this much to make Kalamazoo work I’m going to be seriously second guessing why I moved there in the first place. If I lose my remote job at the startup I worked at and suddenly am looking at making 60k a year as a windows Sysadmin at western Michigan university or Pfizer (if I’m lucky!) that house isn’t going to seem very cheap- even if my house is only 200k a year. In fact it’s going to start to seem really fucking expensive once you consider the tax implications.

And yes there are cheaper neighborhoods to live in Kalamazoo. They don’t really inspire you much to want to stay there- that is unless you like guns and meth.

I can afford more than 400k in Kalamazoo but that’s not the point. The point is that if I’m going to chose to spend every waking hour living somewhere; I’m going to choose a place that doesnt make me miserable.
That's why he pointed out that it is marketing.

Because people believe you need to have iMessage.
Is that a common thing? IME they do always arrive unless the recipient has a habit of leaving their phone turned off for weeks.
This is bullshit because (a) there are many VC funds now explicitly earmarked for minority founders and run by minority partners, and (b) an enormous number of successful startups are started by first generation immigrants who didn't go to fancy schools here.
For me there are two basic reasons: 1) everyone I know is on iMessage, 2) iMessage does everything I require of a messaging app.
Honest question and not trying to be hostile, why should I prefer telegram? What am I missing?
Yeah I think that makes sense, and that's how I learned... The s-expressions let you concentrate on the meaning without getting bogged down in details.

And then parsing has some nice algorithms, but it's full of details ... I actually find the parsing part harder in many respects. At least it's more code to write, and test.
This gave me a solid chuckle, thanks for that.
I'm using SM-2 at the moment, although I do plan on modifying it as I learn more about what works and what doesn't.

The main thing I do differently, however, is I attempt to predict your retention score instead of having you self-report it. Unlike Anki where you choose how well you were able to recall the answer (essentially a score from 1 to 5), I use a combination of your CORRECT/INCORRECT signal as well as how quickly you reveal the answer to determine a recall score.

From my own testing, it works reasonably well, although there's room for improvement over time.
If we are going to compare cities

Mumbai == LA (Film Industries)
Delhi == NY (Not much to support this but the Rude people stereotype)
PBS Newshour reported on the same thing in SF: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/how-uber-and-lyft-might...
Source? I've never see an Apple advertisement that would lead me to believe I can't use WhatsApp or Signal or any other messaging application.
And technology that some people were suspicious of in the past. If I recall correctly, Socrates was not strongly in favor of writing. He thought its use would weaken the memory. And there is some evidence people in cultures without writing have much better memories. So no technology is without it downsides.
Nobody really does that.
most sites these days are single page apps. Unless cheerio and phantomjs work well with those (have not tried), I don't see any other option. Benefit of a browser is that it does multi-processing much better than you do. I only need to add some custom code to block non-js requests to improve performance a bit.

Like if you do ad-hoc web scrapping then it's fine to spend time looking for the most efficient way, but if your web scrapping framework is part of a data pipeline that scrapes all sort of website then a browser is the most development time-saving route.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but it’s not just marketing: in the US, the green bubbles are sold by your carrier to marketing firms, while blue bubbles are opaque to your carrier.
AI counts 1.8B trees in Sahara Desert
I grew up in MI. I doubt the 15k would go very far. You should instead move to Michigan for the beautiful lakes and rivers, and the low cost of living (which is often much higher on the aforementioned lakes - especially the tourist towns in western MI). As with any place, the most desirable locations, i.e. Ann Arbor, are more expensive.

It's also a place where most of the investment, whether corporate, private, or civic is in suburban areas, so at least for people of means, suburban life is very comfortable.

A few cities have made comebacks (Detroit to an extent, Grand Rapids) but it's still marginal compared to the wealth of the suburbs. Rural and post-industrial areas can be very bleak.

But for anyone imagining it as an escape: it is as complex a place as any other place in the US today.