skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe the future of the iPad is in the exact opposite direction - as a computer for the majority of needs of people for whom Personal Computers and the desktop metaphor never worked. A Pareto machine that covers 80% of functionality with 20% of the complexity.

Beefing it up towards something that is capable of serving as a development environment, as quite a few people wish for here, is fundamentally incompatible with that. Wanting a touch Mac is of course well and fine and understandable - but the iPad cannot become that without killing what makes it special in the first place.

Maybe there is a way to expose more power through iOS' user interface without adding noticeable complexity - but if there is, Apple has not found it yet. A good chunk of enhancements have either made things more complex — the "just stuff another button into the share sheet" school of thought seems prevalent — or led to features that are wholly invisible and undiscoverable.

Multitasking is a prime example: I end up using my girlfriends iPad Pro about once a week, and for the past year I have not managed to internalize how to reliably manage split screen modes and the like.
My dad will be so sad when he hears this.
> If you can brew your own beer or grow your own cannabis, you probably have learnt a thing or two about caution

The idea that selling drugs is something special misses and should remain illegal seems to only partially consider the implications of what that means.

One side of safety concerns is consumption safety. An at home production facility is of lower quality, exemplified by many more cases of methanol poisoning during the US Prohibition era [0]. Another is production safety, cooking methamphetamines is real chemistry —- I would much prefer to have a factory doing that rather than my residential neighbours. Finally, we have access, growing plants indoors is non-trivial and processing them into something resembling a finished product also so. Given this, I’m convinced that limiting illegality to trafficking doesn’t stop the war on drugs, because it has always been about trafficking — the hard part is moving the product and selling it to people. If the “do as you want” resolves to making trafficking legal, then it seems the drugs are simply legal.

[0] https://gardenandgun.com/articles/will-drinking-moonshine-ma... (The actual source is apparently a book the writer references)
Thank you for killing all my productivity.
The Promise of MRNA Vaccines
Both sides have considerable power.

Keep in mind that the Chinese benefited from a US policy designed to help due to US interest in sidelining the USSR.

That help is gradually being replaced with the hostility reserved before for the USSR.

So, while China may have power to attract people* the US can do a lot more to limit/sideline China.

*doubtful though as people will need to live under a dictatorship.

This is ignoring what damage a bad/incompetent leader can do to China, one like Stalin since Xi is essentially removing all checks and limits of power.
There's an undercurrent of corporatism that powers the status quo. It's not that all drugs are evil, it's that the _wrong_ drugs are evil. The ones you can make on your own have an air of illegitimacy about them, while those that are manufactured and administered by professionals are "ok".

If there were a real war on drugs, pharma companies would be the nuclear superpowers.
>Cities are safe,

This may be up for discussion, and the unsafest places usually happen to be parts of large cities.

>Mid/small size cities (1-3 million)

Really? Where are you from, that those cities are considered small/mid size?
Money Could Motivate Some People to Get a Covid-19 Vaccine, Survey Shows
Say I register a domain with Namecheap. Namecheap will ask me who I want to resolve the domain (or offer to do it themselves).

I go and look up the details for DigitalOcean or Amazon or whatever and I put them in, but I either don't tell the hosting provider I've done this, or I later delete the domain in DO/AWS, someone else can come along and tell DigitalOcean that they own it (AWS as well, though it's harder since they have a bigger pool of name servers).

Once DigitalOcean believes that the new user owns it they allow them to edit the DNS records. The attacker can then point the domain at whatever server they like and "takeover" the domain.

The original owner can get it back by changing the details in their registrar. But in the mean time a bunch of traffic might have been intercepted by the attacker (all kinds of bad).

NB: this was the case in 2016 when the article was written, I have not checked if it is still the case.
(Speaking for tryptamines as I’m not to sure about the others). It might require periodic doses until you actually resolve your trauma, which more often than not takes a lot of uncomfortable digging. It’s typical to spend at least a couple of weeks at an ayahuasca retreat, drinking several times throughout the stay. In my experience, unless you’re somewhat lucky, won’t have that life changing experience on your first session.
Yup, I know I will never hit 500 or whatever karma it is to be able to downvote, because most of my comments go against what HN has become.

It used to be a place I came for the discussions but more and more often it's just downvotes to oblivion for stepping out of the echo chamber.

So often I see correct information dead and flagged for again no reason I can see but the echo chamber.

Many of the old commenters I used to enjoy perspective from (whether or not it was against mine) are no longer here or post very sparingly.

I know dang comes in every time to say thats not true, every year someone complains the site has jumped the shark, but just because people come back to the site doesn't mean it hasn't gotten objectively worse.

What they forget is that it only takes one of those people to be right.

Years ago I was disappointed in the selfishness of HN. Seemed like the people trying to get rich took over. Then it was everyone wanting to be a founder. Dark patterns and growth hacking weren't seen as fraud but as necessary startup skills.

I still come here, but only until something better comes along, the bar for which gets lowered the worse HN becomes.

The privilege stinks so bad now I have to hold my nose, it's 10x since Covid
Canonical Publishes LTS Docker Image Portfolio on Docker Hub
Open systems are important to distribute knowledge and ideas to future generations without enslaving them to certain ecosystems and it would especially enable developing markets where access to education is more difficult.

Still, you are correct, it is possible to have safe and healthy working conditions without a problem. I just think there is no conflict if we try to achieve both.
Not clear. Look at https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wallah#Etymology_2

wallah is arabic slang for "by god"

voila is french for "look there", meaning "just look at that"

They are totally different semantically interjections originally, yet one fits almost everywhere the other does, and if Wiktionary is to be believed, in Danish one is a spelling for the other.
I think this is the 10nm process you are talking about here.

That's had a bunch of issues and is only now producing their premium mobile CPUs.

The 7nm issues aren't great but if it weren't for the 10nm disaster they aren't really more than normal slippage at this point. If it keeps slipping then they have problems.
Gabarnmung is mankinds oldest stone work, and is still in use after 44,000 years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabarnmung

Seriously, if you think Stone Henge is worthy of note, you must surely understand Gabarnmungs' immense value .. some would make the claim, which I would support, that it is mankinds oldest school, still in operation.
Real-time style transfer in Unity using deep neural networks
That's 10nm. The 7nm process was never scheduled to be ready yet.
It’s spelt wrong, but light doesn’t need eyes to peek. It’s a metaphor.

Using a metaphor is not bad writing. Also, why does it matter? If you know what he’s saying, why complain?
I work at a FAAG-adjacent and the single most valuable thing for me personally is being able to hang out in the Slack channel where all the old timers idle. If I need context on something and nobody on my team knows, 9 times out of 10 I can ask there and someone will at least point me in the right direction.
And if you define "god" to mean "whatever gives your life meaning" then of course God gives your life meaning. But it's a completely meaningless statement.
What is your objective?

There is no right answer, having a think about what your objective is, and what you want to achieve - may help making the decision easier; or at least provide a guiding light.
There are 1590 TLDs last time I checked. Just pick a domain in one of them and stick with it.
> as an entertainment[0]

A lot of more recent music is also political. For "classical" music, see Shostakovich's interactions with Stalin.

In America, Nina Simone's "Strange Fruit" and "Fight the Power" by Public Enemy spring to mind, but I'm sure there are countless examples.
> This friend refused to interview people who had graduated from our department or pass along resumes. Instead they started hiring other people from non-engineering departments that they thought they could train to program. This guy is now a C-level and still refuses to hire people that graduated from our department.

I'm not doubting your story for an instant, but this is incredibly strange behaviour and not something I'd consider normal.

Companies I've worked at love hiring referrals because you generally get higher quality and skip all the hassle of dealing with external agencies, dozens or hundreds of applicants, etc. Something like half my team is made up of people I've worked with at other companies in the past - I was overjoyed when they applied for jobs with us - and I still keep a mental rolodex of people I was at university with 20 years ago who I'd be happy to work with.

Cambridge is a bit of an odd place, in that plenty of companies have a bias for Cambridge graduates. That's fine as far as it goes, but I'm generally happy to hear from anyone with a CS background from any university, and am absolutely open to other STEM graduates who demonstrate that they can do the work.
There are other jobs on other stacks out there.
> They were probably amazing (and much simpler) tools back in the day, but the world has moved and we're somewhat constrained by what's familiar.

Exactly my feelings about Phabricator. GitLab simply runs circles around it if you consider the issue tracking, CI etc. as part of the problem.
I once drove from London to Frome, passing Stone Henge on the way - if I'd known how easily accessible it was from the A303, I would've stopped to pay a visit. It is surprisingly easy to pass.
I've been over this dilemma multiple times.

For me, what would matter is the status of the name, and not the domain. You say it's quite popular and most extensions are taken - why use it then? It will diminish your chances for standing out and having a memorable brand.

If your name is unique, is a good fit, specific for your space, not trademarked etc., then great! But in that case you are fine with any extension. getting "getbrandname.com" instead of "brandname.app" won't make or break your project.

If your name doest not fit the above criteria, pick a different one. Go wild, go bold. I suggest the book 'hello my name is awesome' (bad title, but on-point, actionable content) if you go ahead.
Does anyone know whether this issue was fixed by Digital ocean after 4 years ? or you can still add anyone else's Domain name in your account in digital ocean, even after so much outrage back then ?
Really? Do you mean you’ll eventually get 4 matching NS or just overlap 1?

How about Cloudflare? I always assumed no one gets the same combo of NS and they actively monitor / remove domains that don’t point to the expected NS.
the jvm names the optimization exactly like he said
I think this makes a lot of sense. Slack blows, and so does Salesforce. Synergies abound.
Ontology, Graphs and Turtles
I agree mostly with your theory of iPad, but I believe it is Apple Product Marketing’s job to lay that out very clearly, if not explicitly, but they have not in my opinion. The messaging about “Pro” iPads makes the platform aspire to replace your Mac, but in practice I see iPad as a field computer for environments where a Mac is simply inappropriate.
I just want to point out in good faith that you probably meant "not promoting black people" instead of "not promoting people because they are black". It's probably just an oversight on your part, but it is an important one. In my books at least, not promoting someone, because of the color of their skin is racism.
> The article primarily talks about the compressed timeline, not the fact its mRNA. I maintain the timeline is a one-off.

I feel that you're splitting hairs here. The article mentions both in adjacent paragraphs.

And the fact that the vaccine was developed faster was also not a one-off, this is a feature of mRNA vaccines. Future vaccines can be manufactured with the same blueprint by just swapping out the mRNA sequence.
On Glaciers, balls of dust and moss known as 'glacier mice' make a home (2012)
Wow. That's tax payer money at work?
It is obvious that large cities exist for a reason. But it is also obvious that some people can cope with their limitations much better than others. Think of young, able, independent, wealthy adults vs. families, for instance. Families in general do much better in smaller communities, because they offer more space and less traffic (up to a point, though because schools etc. should preferably be in walking distance).

That being said, cities might offer communities thag provide for special needs whereas towns and villages tend to be more streamlined. Living with kids is such a streamlined thing.
I think so. Last time I used it I remember thinking it seemed a bit lax.
For me, my criticism of the iPad and MacBook is now I have roughly the same hardware twice for different purposes.

My iPad Pro (12.9in) does iPad stuff great, and my 13 inch MacBook Air does MacBook stuff great.

But they both have roughly the same processor, power and form factor (once a keyboard is added). The only meaningful differences are that the iPad can undock from the keyboard, the iPad supports Pencil and the OS is different.

OSX running on iPad with the same processor as the Air would actually be great, considering the magic keyboard is so good.

If I could instantly change between OS's I wouldn't need to lug around both devices. Better still, if the OS could be designed to support both modes in an integrated way, it would knock everything else out of the water even more.
Some of you have never had to install Flash in your browser and it shows. (Not you-you, proposal author-you.)

Flash was one technology that handled content, presentation and logic.
Yes, no government control is exactly the point of no legalization.

Violence and gangs and ridiculous prices are a symptom of criminalization. If in order to produce and consume you face several years prison, gangsters happen. If nobody cares if you produce, your neighbor might start producing, he might have a surplus and accept some cheese in exchange.
Probably because they don't care with stay current: the PS4 isn't going to change much after initial development, so why should the base OS? Similarly now that the PS5 has shipped, I doubt there will be much OS development there.

If FreeBSD (or Linux) weren't around, then they'd simply purchase/license an embedded OS (QNX?) and use that.
GiveCampus (YC S15) Is Hiring remote Sr engineers passionate about education
Agreed. That's who introduced me to this (awesome) scene.

Try out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8oIeL_OPc8
Oddly enough I addressed this in my motion graphics lecture today. It was in relation to this information visualization issue:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-time_nuclear_waste_warn...

More material here:

https://www.damninteresting.com/this-place-is-not-a-place-of...

This type of problem (warning future generations about the dangers of radioactivity) is a brilliant limit-test for the general problems of information visualization.

The radioactive warning trefoil has an ignoble history of being unequal to the task.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident

Hence its semi-recent update (ISO 21482).

https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/new-symbol-launched-war...
Ceramic Review: Masterclass with John Jelfs
Java got popular for HFT before .NET core. c# was just generally slower at the time. It would likely be the preferred choice at this point. Though Rust is really perfect for this kind of thing.
The one tool everyone missed was marketing with being able to call yourself an ex-googler being the biggest tool in the toolbox. Let me share the other side of the diaspora (I dislike this term). Tons of former X, pick your popular Silicon Valley company, employees with little else to sell other than that they worked foe x company. The vain CEO hires them hoping that they’ll sprinkle some magic fairy dust on their dysfunctional company. Never mind that the reason it’s disfunction is because the CEO hired his buddy from high school with a degree in poly sci to run things and is having an affair with the head of hr. Our intrepid developer constantly mumbles “we’ll at x we used to do whatever.” Afraid that the CEO will realize that the fairy dust is just a combination of cool aid and glitter starts throwing people under the bus and the knives come out.
Focus on 'western world' might be a mistake?

A lot of gamechanging science emerged from cold war. Not only did USSR produce some science, western scientists did not have to jump through hoops all day to get funding - politicians knew falling behind was not an option
its on par with the jvm but still has to stop the world sometimes
The iPad was the gateway for me into the Apple community. I was never a fan of Mac Os. But when I got an iPad I was hooked. Which then had me upgrade to an iPad Pro and Macbook Pro 16". Leave the iPad as it is. Improve on it, yes. But we don't need it as another laptop.
And usa isn't particularly immigrant friendly to employment based immigration, specially for those from India.

Out of 500k green cards every year, only 15k are for eb1,2,3 employment based immigration, with country of birth based limitations on top!
> All I really want from the web is

You do know there are a few other people in this world, right?
I mean, you can have both. What you experience today could just be the default desktop. If you go to settings -> superradmode you’d be placed in osx and can then do your dev thing.
The link says “We are currently unable to remove the A line service alert from our website and app” because of the AWS outage, but doesn’t say or imply that AWS affected the actual train.
When you're changing NS-records you're actually updating the TLD, so at that point any other records should be considered moot, like the suggested TXT record. How do you imagine people migrate if the current name servers aren't responding any more?

Given the decentralized nature of DNS it's very simple to set things up before you change the nameservers, and this is widely considered to be the best practice. This also solves the "two accounts trying to claim a domain at the same time".

The way Amazon does it sure helps mitigate it. I'm just not sold on the idea that it's their responsibility to solve this. And I suspect they do this for other reasons as well, like spreading out across multiple TLDs.
But why would anyone want to develop on an iPad - on a sofa or anywhere? You will need a keyboard anyway, and by the time you've added that you may as well just get a MacBook Air and use the device emulation in Xcode instead of trying to run natively.

Sideloading will never happen - not because of money, but because it makes no sense to destroy the security model for 95% of users just because 5% of users want to run as root, or some nearly-but-not-quite approximation.
Just 6 years ago South Korea let 300 schoolchildren drown because they were paralyzed by fear of what their current dictator, lady president, might say if anyone showed a shred of initiative and independent decision making skills. Instead establishing a video link for high ranking government officials was more important than actual rescue mission.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-sinking-of-the-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_MV_Sewol
> real-time, safety-critical operations

Doesn't Java itself say it shouldn't be used for anything like this?
The way AWS does it seems like it would work if they removed hosted zones for domains where all 4 NS don’t match what you’re assigned.

That seems to be what Cloudflare does (I’m not positive though), but with 2 NS per account.
Yeah right, because that has worked so well in IT. Where people are enslaved into browsers on mass surveillance devices and "Clouds", made possible by F/OSS (Linux, KHTML). It all started by re-implementing POSIX; the moment F/OSS is starting to innovate (rarely enough), monopolization of knowledge sets in, followed by commercial and governmental extortion.

My advice would be to return to open standards not open implementations, to keep options going forward for future generations.
The pandemic has prompted questions about high-stakes exams
Build knowledge graphs with the Streamlit Agraph component
100 times this. And to add, if this dilemma already is so difficult, then maybe you should make someone else in charge of these decisions so you can focus on the tech.
"Well, C++ isn't gonna make your socket faster"
There's no reason why high density cities in the US could not have the same infrastructure as "South Korea"—which is also made of high and low density areas like America is.

This idea that some countries have better Internet infrastructure because they are "high density" is silly because the places where people live in the US also have the density to support the exact same infrastructure.

The farm land / country side of South Korea is just as low density as the rural areas of the US, and America's cities and suburbs are just as dense as South Korea's.
Would it hurt you to RTFA?
Article reads as if the iPad would be required to change somehow, to compete with the M1 Mac. But why? It's in a perfect spot for Apple now: CPU performance proven by association with the Mighty New Mac, a happy place for those who prefer a garden with higher walls.

Before the M1 Macs (or without them), extending the scope of the iPad would have made far more sense for Apple.
America, fuck yeah!
This is a beautiful film from someone who makes ceramics. He works in Gloucestershire in the UK. He speaks about the importance of simplicity, and knowing your materials, and building up skill over time.
> "America" could be taken as short-hand for "developed nations at the technological frontier".

Only in the USA. The rest of us aren't buying it at present. It's navel-gazing.

The USA frankly has some ground to cover to get back to the front rank in governance. The terrible outcome and deepening crisis from COVID-19 in the USA is stark evidence of that, and it can't be wished away by being loose with the facts. It is the legacy of wishful thinking over facts.
Personally, the notion that the Democratic party is controlled by a collection of Satan-worshipping paedophiles seems a little less plausible than that an election candidate worked with a foreign government against his opponents, but then I'm not American so what do I know?
Thread from a few days ago: [Frontpage: The Good, Bad and Ugly](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25135058)