skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really hope not.

Most startups use Macs for a reason. Super powerful, durable, resale value, unix derived, just works.

Thinkpads with Ubuntu work too but the only place I know of that does Thinkpads with ANY linux is Red Hat.
Does everybody use MMS, or do you regularly use MMS? Because your complaint about messaging apps sounds like the usual Linux user stuff. Most people will just use whatever app is more common (which according to this is Messenger)

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/7RQwoJ8z83Zi65NDMvmHKVU0Wx...
"Using GANs to create textures for already drawn fantastical creatures" would be a more accurate title. It's impressive, but not nearly as impressive as the title would suggest.
Creating a microscopic black hole is not completely out of our reach. https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.1803 discusses this topic a bit. If the assumptions there are not wrong, and climate change doesn't get us first, creating small black holes might be become possible an a couple of generations.
> 3) If you're struggling to abstract reusable higher-level classes/components, the problem might actually be with inconsistent and non-modular design, not CSS tooling. If every page or section is a "unique work of art" then you may have poor UX/design.

I can't agree with this more. It is almost punishing in how it enforces consistency. You really have to try to move outside the consistent default it has set and if you find yourself having to do that, it should be setting off alarm bells.

I do think it has to be used with a component system though. It provides the context that people miss when you don't have nominal class names anymore. It even encourages something close to styled components I find you have very small components that do one thing.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333051226_Compariso... This recently came out and I thought it was a good read on the topic.
>The current most common strain is theoretically the most genetically fit strain.

Why? Has it had a ton of time to evolve?
I get the same issue. I know I'm not even close to a decent artist, but come on, why are my legs transparent:

https://imgur.com/a/kb0gWI2
That comment can pretty much be applied to any successful startup in the early days.
Anbox sounds good, I wish there was a version for Windows.
> The problem with TAI is that you cannot convert a future time to UTC if it is farther than 6 months or so in the future [...]

Centimeter's argument is that such time should not be converted to TAI in advance, much like the local time for the future point (since the local time zone offset may change). All points on this also apply to the local time, e.g. it's already true that non-updatable embedded systems can't reliably do the local time calculation.
I also had this exact thought.
It didn't happen to credit card companies in 60 years. They still charge merchants 2,9%. It's like a giant duopoly and fixed pricing. But in a real market, ofc you would be right. Maybe congress should look at VISA, Mastercard, AMEX instead.
Harley Davidson faces legal action from Indian Dealers
As Harley Davidson exits India dealers are alleging foul play. They say they the sudden exit of the Iconic US Brand has left them looking at bankruptcy. This is the story one dealer. Harley is yet to respond to the specific allegations.
just a manifesto no product? some soft launch this is, whatever product(s) lies at the end of the tunnel seems bogus but it's a nicely worded pitch
1500 after tax if there's potential for future growth that can be accelerated by quitting said day job.
We already had thin clients approaches 15 years ago and most setups I have seen were quite a failure.

Never going to use a Mac, since I think it degrades developers freedom (and that of users too, but that is subjective).

I am surprised that Microsoft actually tries to emulate Apple instead of serving an alternative. Windows is still a mess in my opinion.

I do deploy stuff to the cloud because I don't like administrative tasks and don't need to pay the invoices.

But yes, an uniform environment has advantages for administration, no doubt about it. But the price is too high to switch to Apple land.

If they had a critical mass, you can be sure you loose a lot of freedom to execute stuff to your liking. You cannot even reset do a factory reset of a damn iPad without cloud access. I think it is insane that some developers disregard these "features". That is missed in this cost analysis of course.
I'd pay for good Linux MDM right now.. please!
The company i am at uses ubuntu for most dev machines for >10 years and this has worked well. I made the switch to a mac a few months ago and am mostly happier tho.
I mean, I work in robotics. And while algorithmic improvements are certainly needed, I think we could manage to use way more processing power too. Think of the Tesla self driving system - a beefier processing system is a big reason its even possible. And on their backend? Gobs of video data crunched in what must be a huge dataset. I think there’s plenty of room to throw more power at the problem and make traction. At least in robotics.
What a strange article!

"Every computer on an enterprise network needs a set of basic services. In particular, power and internet must be available."

Power? In the sense of [Nm/s]?

And the graphics! Why is the Mac-Square larger than the PC square in the second graph? Why does the "Hardware and essential software" square not contain references to hardware or software, but concepts like "encryption" or "deployment"?

I have a really hard time understanding the point of that article.
Why is computer science hard?
The biggest for me is actual tear-free rendering. All the different hacks in Xorg have never worked completely.

The other one that people value a lot is HiDPI scaling done "well". Mixed fractional scaling in Xorg doesn't really work and it's finally possible to do it. Although there I actually think it's still a half step and Wayland made the wrong choice in how to implement it. It should have been done client side for more performance and less fuzzyness. There's a chance that will also be fixed in the future.

Other than these it's a bunch of small things that are more technical than user-visible. Security is much improved for example. Some performance gains can be had from avoiding copying buffers. Etc.
I also live in Sweden, and all pictures I send to my parents or grandparents are over MMS (the rest are on Facebook messenger or telegram). It is simply the most convenient way if you only have someone's phone number. Might be a cultural thing? I'm absolutely certain my usage of MMS is very common here.
Yeah 1000 bucks pm for 15 servers... should be quite decently specced
Apple settles with states for $113M over iPhone battery throttling
I really like the author's explanation at https://adamwathan.me/css-utility-classes-and-separation-of-... - key points for me are:

The question is not "semantic" or not. The question is whether your HTML depends on your CSS, or the other way round - and that depends on what you're doing.

Halfway down, it feels like we've somehow managed to recreate the OOP inheritance vs composition debate in our stylesheets (with @extend as an example of inheritance).

To me it depends on what you're actually writing - if you're making a reusable component for other people, say a custom DateTimePicker, then it's much more important to be able to restyle the thing Zen Garden-style, than if you're running the front page of your own organisation and want things to look exactly like your house style.
I note a plethora of mundane products from all the bigs players. Doing popular things better should always be a viable plan, IMO.
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Socialism doesn't give you jobs to choose from, it assigns you a job. That you are supposed to do for the common good, no personal gains allowed.
I understand the analogy. You are asserting that it's a pot, but that's just an opinion. Anyway the analogy just doesn't work. Why can't I get out of the Apple ecosystem if it gets too hot, what's stopping me?
Truly a man of culture.
https://github.com/google-research/dex-lang

Another interesting language in this vein is Dex. The authors are creators of Jax and Pytorch, and they have a lot of interesting ideas.
The biggest difference it's made to me has been in my ability to identify when people are being driven by their heuristics (thinking fast) and making flawed or suboptimal arguments or decisions.

Once you know some of the thinking fast systems, what they're designed for and what triggers them into action then it becomes quite easy to spot them in action! Unfortunately I've not found it easy to spot them introspectively.
This was pretty cool from Cloudera
https://dzone.com/articles/large-scale-health-data-analytics...
How (NASA) Mission Control's Big Displays Worked
What's wrong with "love it or leave it"? That's choice and responsibility.

Jobs are created by people. If you think jobs should be different, create such jobs. Why should anybody else be obliged to do it for you?
I would not consider working for a company where my only OS for work would be Ubuntu. For me that would raise massive red flags that the company is a cheapskate (speaking from experience...)
T-Mobile's network chief pours cool, but not cold, water on O-RAN
Noise is more complex than that. Big slow fan is silent. Some electronic components might emit sounds without any moving parts.
Three clicks to get to the actual "privacy policy", i'll save you the time and tell you what they collect:

You - name, phone number, work email, mailing address, birthday, "other personal info", data about you from data brokers

Your devices - IP, browser, OS, mobile carrier, device info, cookies, any data collected by third party SDKs they use

Location - yours, what other users are near you

Friends - contacts on your device, info from your friends they submit as a result of emails the company sends on your behalf, contacts from direct access to your Google accounts

Gmail - your email

Edit to add: You must create an account to view or request deletion of your data under CCPA
The US is irrelevant for European defense though. They're no longer a reliable partner and nobody seriously believes we can rely on them if anything does happen. So we're down to France and Germany, and I'm not sure Germany's military is particularly competent. The way I see it, Russia is far more efficient at defense spending than most of the EU countries, so they're a legitimate threat even if they "only" match France in spending.
> they will actually run the numbers

Are we assuming that after more than 10 years of App Store, Apple didn't run the numbers and/or is taking a bad deal ignoring its bottomline for some reason?
> change in the angular momentum carried by oceans and atmosphere

...and some liquid (or at least semi-liquid) stuff beneath the crust?
Loosely I agree with commenters remarking that the Cold War is over. (Though not the disrespect for the Russian capability. That is a country that still knows how to fight a war.)

But if not for Russia, why does Europe need a military? To get strategic independence from the US? In that case, where is the money? Why the howling about Trump wanting to reduce the US contribution?

And how is the command going to work?

These are rhetorical questions. I think Merkel is insincere, and playing to a domestic audience.
"The proposed settlement with the states (PDF) doesn't kick any money to consumers. The $113 million will instead be divided among the participating offices to support their consumer protection divisions and recoup the cost of litigation. Additionally, the settlement mostly requires Apple to be more transparent about its behavior, providing "clear and conspicuous information" to consumers about device performance management and battery health."

Who will win? Lawyers.
Yes, like CSS, but it’s effectively a much smaller subset of CSS. Instead of the entire CSS specification being on the table though, it’s a drastically smaller set of “utility” classes (or properties, to follow the “but it’s css” logic)
It’s interesting to think about the constraints that bring about a level of self-narrative in games. Here you point out the graphics, and I think mostly textual games like the Football Manager series also evoke these feelings. But on the flip side I think a lot of modern open world games are a response to the very constrained paths and mazes of the some eras of first person shooter, giving players back the ability to follow their own story to an extent.

I think RPGs especially have paid a big price as fidelity has gone up. The move to voice acting lost us rich, broad textual interactions with every NPC, the waypoints-and-cutscenes that give us almost film-like narratives mean that role play is now largely limited to a small number of paths (good/evil or strong/stealthy). The complexity of these games has really gone down overall, and while they’re often wonderful storytelling experiences you’re right it’s far less _your_ story in many modern games.
This is pretty impressive stuff, I sort of wondered how the Mission Control displays worked, but I hadn’t thought it was this sophisticated.

There must have been some research and thought in UI design to lead to this itself, I’m assuming that this came from some military project.
Do you mean https://github.com/mapsme/omim? It seems like it's a mobile app. Or maybe you run it in anbox?
> Today, that is no longer the case.

My feeling is the opposite: There used to be an Apple hardware premium that was not (to me) justifiable at the time.

But as the software slowly declines, so does the premium - it feels to me like the M1 macs are priced with almost no premium anymore - there is nothing comparable right now (battery-life-wise, processors-speed-wise), but even with the Intel ones, a similarly specced base hardware is similarly priced (and the mac has much higher build quality than e.g. dell and hp in my experience).

The place where you still pay Apple premium is the upgrades (more memory, more disk). But overall, there's isn't much of a premium paid anymore when buying an Apple.
I think you are on to something about the impact being forced to use your imagination has. Quake 1 had amazing art direction and each chapter had its own feel because each of them was designed by a different dev following his own ideas.

I think perhaps the biggest reason why Doom 2016 and Doom Eternal don't feel "creepy" like the old games is because they are completely missing the point. The newer games are fun, beautiful, well designed games. However, instead of making a game that captures the essence of Doom its more like a Michael Bay version of Doom. Instead of desperately fighting never ending hordes of increasingly horrifying creatures from hell so you can get out in one piece and save the world, you're an unkillable demigod that's basically dunking on armies of demons for lulz. The whole way the story makes it seem like its a foregone conclusion that you've won. Its not a struggle, its just you punishing the hordes of hell that are powerless to stop you.

Aesthetically they nailed the look of the creatures although as you pointed out less can be more. The sound track is good but at some point the composer was consumed by his own pretentiousness (IMO Dusk's composer that replaced him produces far better "Doom" music). The combat is fun and if it wasn't a Doom game it would still be rightly lauded as one of the best shooters of the generation, but glory kills annihilate the flow of the game IMO and detract from any authentic feeling it may have had. Glory kills feel like shortened, dumbed-down quick time events that you're supposed to spam the entire time you play and quick time events always feel bad.

They are some of the best single player games I've played in years, but I was there with Id since the Commander Keen games and this does not feel like a Doom game to me.

I mean its literally a Doom game, but the franchise has clearly lost something and I feel like a lot of the people that preach about how authentically they captured the experience might be too young to have bothered to play it.

Doom II: Hell On Earth is IMO one of the top 5 games of all time. Quake 1 is also on the list. I hope some day we get proper remakes or spiritual successors that capture not just the aesthetic, but the feel and the point of the original games.

Dusk was a decently sized step in the right direction.
> they were too poor

Beware of value attribution and hindsight bias.

First, historic cuisines and diets evolved throughout history, and differed greatly depending by geographic location. Beware of generalizing particular historic contexts. You can't reliably extrapolate the dietary patterns of European serfs - as explained by their particular socio-economic context - and apply that the Mayan culture during the Classic period (same time frame 200-900 AD).

Second, the "they were too poor" argument only carries meaning in concrete socio-economic contexts. Even then, do note that the modern liberal conceptual framework of poor and rich didn't exist in earlier times. This even holds up today. It's tenuous claim to assume that, for instance, native cultures perceive themselves as "poor". If they do see themselves as "poor" today, that's always in reference to the dominant modern economic model based on western liberal enlightenment values and principles which has impacted their culture as an external factor.

> People used to walk. Not because it was nice and healthy but because they had no choice.

They didn't have a choice, but that doesn't say anything about how people perceived relying on muscle power across history, culture and geographical location.

Just 20 years ago, nobody considered the absence of social media and smartphones as a fundamental lacking in life. That's totally different today. For a short while, it was a choice, today, access to digital technology is a hard requirement in order to be able to participate in modern industrialized society. This is an example of how a feedback loop was created between availability and demand creating an artificial need. The same is true for most modern conveniences.

I'm deeply happy that I don't have to live a relatively short life working land, foraging or hunting game. But at the same time, I'm very much aware that's a hindsight bias and I'm very much aware that most modern conveniences aren't a prerequisite for the survival of humanity. As it stands, many of those modern conveniences have contributed to the existential threat which is Climate Change.
So the developer of a free app used by 100 people should pay the same fee for app store distribution as the developer of a $10 app used by 50m people all over the world?
iPhone 12 Pro Max has received the highest screen rating from DisplayMate
I'd personally also love a config flag (enabled by default, perhaps) that offers more explanation about what the commands actually do as you run them. In other words, "explain like I'm five" logging or "tutorial mode".
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That things that have nothing to do with US politics shouldn't be dragged into it. Words can have multiple meanings.

Instead of removing a word and all it's homonyms from discourse we should embrace polysemy. Master key, master record, music maestro, master git branch...
Doesn't seem to be very well suited to that particular task. ;)

eg: https://ded.ninja/gan-monster1.png
Was the scientific advice for lockdown flawed?
Totally agree. I also wanted to add:

> For decades, malware were able to run rampant on anyone's PC or laptop.

There are several other important reasons why restrictive app gardens exist like better and more simplified UX for everyone else who wasn't technical.
Counterpoint, would you buy a machine in 2020 to service as a developer laptop or desktop with 8 gb of ram and 512 gb of storage? Saying that the premiums are "just the upgrades" sort of ignores what those upgrades actually are and how much they cost.
The Path of Exile 3.12.5 patch is coming up
I hope this GPU brings some competing cloud GPU and driver/sw stack, the nvidia ecosystem could be better from an ops POV.
> Well Russia already annexed Crimea ..
Yet another show of either (willful) ignorance or (intentional) peddling of (Western) propaganda.

People may think whatever they want about what happened to Crimea and Eastern Ukraine, but to called that an annexation (or an invasion, as many have) is disingenuous as best.

It's no secret (in fact, it's on public record) that it was the USA who pumped copious amounts of money in getting a "favorable" group of very questionable "politicians" in power in Kiev. While presented as "spreading democracy and freedom", in the backdrop Western companies (with strong government ties) were making deals to take control of the natural resources in both Crimea and Eastern Ukraine.

Most importantly, those deals envisioned to take away the control (or even access) Russia (and the local population, for that matter) have/had over these resources. If anyone annexed anything, it was rather the USA than Russia. The key on all that is to observe which side was the one taking all the initiatives, and which side was basically just responding to what the other side did.

This fear mongering about Russian expansion simply doesn't match reality. If anyone has been expanding the last decade or so, it is NATO, not Russia. In reality, it probably should not surprise anyone. It's a well proven tactic to simply accuse your victims of being the one showing aggression, while in reality that is just resistance to your own (illegal) aggression. Just ask some of the older Poles. They still remember what Germany did.
Where do you get a mobile device that's not a walled garden? It's just that Google's is designed with a gate slightly ajar. Continuing with your pet analogy, it's as if you could only get a dog or a cat, and it only eats food made by one specific manufacturer. You can convince the cat to eat almost whatever you have, but the dog won't budge. Want a parrot or a hamster? Tough luck.

I wholeheartedly agree with the OP article. You made a device, then you sold it. You shouldn't get to control it after sale because you no longer own it. Plain and simple.

I don't care about manufacturer "supporting" something. I bought it, it's mine now, I'm on my own, and please don't get in my way of modifying the thing I bought because I have the right to do so.
I don't get it, a iOS app is only worth something inside an iOS device, i.e. there is no market whatsoever for it outside iOS.
Frankly it sounds like you would have nothing but complaints about any CSS framework.
I think it might take the form of artist augmentation rather than replacement. Think of it like a new sort of power tool. And it's true there are a lot of steps for triple-A engines, but most gamedevs (like myself, once) simply don't have any art assets, and need them greatly; a tool similar to MSPaint for models might enable the next Notch to emerge more easily.

On the other side of it, from the triple-A point of view, automating even one of the steps you mention will be a huge time saver. Artists tend to worry about machines replacing them, but I think it will only unlock more, better art. You'll be able to do so much. So there is a big financial incentive to get this right; the first one to capture the market will be in a strong position.
The A-10 (or equivalent) is highly effective against tanks

France has no A10s and S500 allows Russia to deny airspace to it anyway.
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Even so, the technological tools for surveillance and censorship are far more effective and widespread today than before. Surveillance might have meant tapping your phone, reading your mail or following you and all the manual labor and cost that entails a few decades ago. Today its conceivable to run a search across every email, call, message, photo, bank transaction, location signal etc a person has quickly and cheaply. The stakes are much higher when they are capable of so much more.