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Why do you think what people do is a better indication of what they want as oppose to what they say they want?
For example, some addict wants to quit, but continue to abuse.

I think a lot of modern tech is designed to make us addicts. So it's pretty apt example. And of course, using the market as the only indication of what people want is creating incentives that optimize for addiction.
I do the same. In fact, when replying to very important emails I compose the response in a new compose email window and finally paste it back into the reply.
> Does anybody really like privacy invasion and advertising? This is baked into everything they do.

Besides they betrayed us and the quality has been declining since a decade ago and it is becoming clear to me that it probably isn't because they don't want to fix it but because they aren't able to anymore (at least not without a massive shift in priorities.)

Maybe the reason for shuttering Google+ and Reader wasn't strategic decisions but rather just that they realized they didn't hsve the competence to maintain it?
It sounds like you've already decided to go. In my opinion, you shouldn't be convinced to stay, you should have your own reasons on staying. For me, it's my chosen family.
It seems their reasoning is explained partly in the FAQ at tho bottom:

We provided several written, on-the-record statements to The Times. We have no control over whether and how The Times uses those statements (in whole or in part) in the story. Given this, we decided to make our email to employees and FAQ publicly available to provide additional facts and context.
.NET 5 was released Nov 10th: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-net-5-0/
> unless universal online identities existed, which could and should include anonymous identifiers by design

Yes but no. Anonymized identifiers can be deanonymized. They should utilize zero-knowledge proofs in such a way that they can prove "yes, I have an identity verified by entity X (and Y and Z) (based on passport/phone number/...)", without disclosing any of those details.

It could, optionally, yield an identifier unique to each requester and unlinkable to others unless an explicit proof of the link is provided. Though if this is included, there has to be some mechanism to avoid huge ad networks sharing the same "requester entity".

This is a solved problem. All that's left is politics, implementation and alignment.
I think MAGA will replace FAANG as the stock market favorite
Absolutely. Our body works with lots of gradients, that’s what I know. I once talked to a human movement specialist, and he told me you could study the nervous system all your life and still not know everything. Same for a lot of other systems in your body.
The M1 is a new process node, so yields will probably be horrible, at least for now. If I remember correctly, that's also why there is a 3090 shortage. Plus Apple has some billions to recoup. So it'll surely take a while before the M1 MacBooks become profitable.
First link says 100k euros per month supports 20 core engineers. That means 60k euros per engineer per annum, which is a decent salary in Europe.
If you are looking for an alternative to Fusion 360, I can recommend OnShape. They also offer a free for makers style account where all your models are public and non-commercial. It is professional CAD and works great, parametric and all. It should be quite similar to Fusion. I use it for 3D printing.
I'm am shocked how bad Apple is at this. They used to harp on it. It was in their Interface Guidelines in the 80s. Now every time they do a major OS update I get greeted by a bunch of setup screens like to enable Siri or iCloud etc and clicking on Ok or Cancel there is often no response for 2-5 seconds. No idea if I did it correctly or anything. I expect that from bad ATMs or Gas Pumps but not from Apple.
Why bother with v7 if this is active ?
Pretty much. And if you don't promote a woman you're sexist. This is where tech has gone.
And put your HFTS at the mercy of windows updates?

Joking aside, C# has only become a solid contender after the fairly recent performance improvements and better Linux support. I could be wrong but I doubt a lot of these systems are built on Windows.
Imho your argument grossly underestimates Microsoft. Microsoft completely reinvented itself into an open source software company, rewrote .Net to run on *Nix and hosts a cloud offering that was competitive enough to win the Jedi contract.

I could go on and I will...

Microsoft is an ML company, a cloud company, a professional services company, an AR company, a public _and_ private enterprise company. Microsoft has VSCode, AD, Office, they _own_ NPM, GitHub and LinkedIn...

If you really think IBM and Microsoft are an apples to apples comparison take a look at IBMs cloud and saas offerings, then look at Microsoft’s.

Google comparatively has Golang, Gsuite (you’ll lose access to it if you post to many emojis to YouTube though), a cell phone offering that exists to harvest your personal data, and a graveyard of end of lifed services burning customer goodwill. GCP is so bad at the cloud their bid wasn’t even competitive in the Jedi bids. At the end of the day Google is an Ads company. It can’t even compare to Microsoft, which is why its future is in question. Google is the only FAANG stock I wouldn’t want to hold long term.
PIUMA: Programmable Integrated Unified Memory Architecture
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If any country nuked another without a direct attack that couldn't be repelled through non-nuclear means as provocation it would be economic suicide - no country on Earth would continue to trade with them. They would have to pay crippling reparations. Sanctions would be put in place within hours. That alone is enough to stop any country using nuclear weapons in anger. The deterrent aspect of "mutually assured destruction" isn't really necessary any more.
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PG fsyncs on every commit. By default.

It will let you delay commits — if you ask it to — so it may batch multiple commits together on a single fsync, but it will NOT report to you that it has saved data durably when it hasn't. Because this is a safe operation, PG will let you do this easily: even on a per-session or per-transaction basis.

Similarly, you can ASK it to commit eagerly without waiting for fsync, again on a per-session or per-transaction basis. But it will never turn on by default, and the documentation of this option clearly calls out the risk: "an operating system or database crash might result in some recent allegedly-committed transactions being lost"

Or more too: you can ask it to turn off fsync (and all other kinds of sync) entirely and risk total database inconsistency — say, because you are running it on a filesystem that guarantees consistency, like ZFS — but it strongly recommends against it just on the off-chance that some over-eager user carelessly turns it off. Because this is generally not a safe thing to do, PG will NOT let you do this easily: you MUST change the server config on disk and restart the cluster.

I don't know about MySQL, but I'd be greatly surprised if they did anything like what MongoDB used to do. There's a reason MongoDB got that reputation, in a world where MySQL — and its surprising data-eating behaviours — already were popular.
I don’t know about Mozilla or Fedora, but have you ever interviewed with Wikimedia? It’s a circus of insanity. The most bizarre corporate culture ever; and the most psychotic receuiter i’ve ever come across. Whatever they choose, I choose the opposite.
NewPipe hasn't worked for a couple of weeks btw. We're relying on the awesome developers to work around YouTube obfuscation every time.
While once a one-trick pony, Google is doing well with new non-Ad revenues: GCP, Waymo and Nest. While none of them are #1 today, its not dying either.
Search on GitHub is very bad IMO.

The recent semantic references stuff they've added is helping, but that only seems to be available in certain language/setups and doesn't work cross repo. Google's xref system allowed you to browse essentially the whole Google codebase - it was amazing. Third party code was indexes too, I remember my team used code search to track down a bug in NGINX once.

Githubs normal search feature is bad. I can't even quote stuff for exact matches. I usually end up using bigquery for GitHub wide searches [1] or just pull down the repo and grep locally.

[1]: https://www.google.com/amp/s/cloudblog.withgoogle.com/produc...
They don't help your customers, but they help you recover the lost revenue. The penalties we have in our SLA result in our company doing things they really don't want to pay.
Large? It uses 1.5GB of RAM on average. Common Windows VM uses 6GB if you want it to be able to run a common application on it.
It's totally possible to install old versions of Chromium without them auto-updating. It's how you bisect to find when something broke

I suspect it doesn't go back to version 3 though

https://www.chromium.org/developers/bisect-builds-py
Am I understanding correctly that those firms really really care about latency & have unlimited money & chose C++/JAVA with a standard off-the-shelve compiler + an OS and/or JVM??

If you'd really really care about latency and have the resources, wouldn't it be more effective to just go bare metal? Bare metal as in: no OS (talk to the hardware registers directly from code), possibly a custom compiler, use all the relevant instructions that your CPU offers you.
Or at the very least mess with the compiler to optimize it more to the specific make/model of the CPU/hardware that it will run on?

What are the considerations in those companies for or against this?
I am suspicious of this article as it seems to conflate hardware with OS. Is it Windows laptops that are screwed, or Intel laptops, or x86 laptops?

Seems like a poorly structured argument to me. What about Linux laptops? Are they screwed too?

yawn
These two strings will be equal after normalization and validation of UTF-8.
okay have some of these fixes in progress. Thanks again for taking the time to look at my code! Very appreciative
The string functions in your system are almost certainly less buggy than anything you’re going to write.
yes, well you cannot compare players from different times. In his time Pele was the best player in the World. In 1958, he was 17 and was the first black player in the Brazilian national team. There was some heat because of that. He went there and destroyed the prejudice and the adversaries. In the 1970, he wasn't playing anymore, but he did a comeback, getting in shape and winning the World Cup in Mexico with an outstanding performance. Was Maradona the best of his time? I don't agree. He was the best in his prime time, but it was no longer than 4-6 years. In the 80s, 90s we had definitely other players which were as good as him or better (depending on the time period): Socrates, Zico, Lothar Matthaus, Michel Platini, Hugo Sanchez,Ruud Gullit, its a long list. In the 90s even longer.
Is this by any chance related to Spatial Audio? The technology and API Apple exposed with iOS 14 in AirPods.
Goog has search, Gmail, YT and Play store, GCP. All massive assets. Not all of them require ads. YT has a ad free version for subscription. The escape pods are there. I would pay $2 a month for my gmail. If pushed (I would be annoyed). But it looks like as of today digital ads is still a good business
My 10 years old son asked me a few days ago "Dad, is there any way I can get rid of these ads I keep seeing all the time on YouTube?".

I answered that he could use Firefox instead of chrome (I've already configured Firefox on his laptop account with ublock origin).

He was reluctant at first to use Firefox rather than chrome but it seems getting rid of ads was a compelling enough advantage that he did use it eventually.
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You really think Intel is only 2 years behind TSMC?
Scripting is amazing but it's available in most pro apps and most pro 3d modeling apps. Max has had MaxScript since it shipped in like 1995. Maya is built on scripts, it's entire UI is 1500 or so scripts around its lower-level engine. Every thing you do in the UI emits the script command that you could have typed to do the operation. Even Photoshop has been scriptable via JavaScript since CS1 (~2003). And of course all the Microsoft Office products have had VBA since the 90s.

My only point is that scripting is not an unusual feature of Blender. It's a "if it didn't have it it would be 25 years behind the times" feature.
But here we're talking about C++: you don't write malloc, you use containers that encapsulate memory management - likely std::containers with pool allocators. And you put things on the stack. Code is as readable if not more than java - there isn't any "new," anywhere in sight
It's a bit like locking your bike. That doesn't work against targeted attacks, but the presumptive thief is more likely to choose another bike that has a smaller or no lock.

The arms race is bad for everyone, in both examples, but the underlying problem is a fundamental one of misaligned incentives.
If you’re using iCloud then that’s coming from keychain. That’s how you can reset the local password with your Apple ID.
UK government buys part of bankrupt Starlink competitor, OneWeb
A pause is still a pause though. One system I know of had a solution. Throw in a huge amount of RAM on the server and delay garbage collection until end of day.
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I don't want to start a flame war, but what are some of the programming languages that attract the first variety of people?
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I made a mobile progress bar tool that pings your phone when your code is e.g.

-Done

-80% done

-if the CPU for a given process drops below 10%

The CPU tool works for Mac OS installers and anything else. Works decently on Linux too. I call my tool SpookyLoop:
http://142.93.117.219:5000/

The article teases at the indeterminism of ops on different computers, and also the halting problem at the theoretical level. But an exact estimate isn’t a necessary experience. I contend that the ultimate UX is going for a walk and doing something else afc with some confidence that you’ll be ping’ed when it’s time to return. Beyond that, predicting time-to-complete becomes an opportunity to create trust in a brand. I’d much prefer a text message when the install is done than checking my TeamViewer every few minutes while on the go. If a software can provide that, I’d value that more than a data driven estimate that still might be wildly off
Ads are not so bad when they come at the right time in the right place. I mean, if I'm using Google maps and I ask for a restaurant, by all means. And there are more places where it is quite natural. But we all know that in 99% of cases it is not natural.
> Advertisers seem to be so focused on shoving ads in front of eyeballs that they’re forgetting why those eyeballs are there in the first place.

The thing is, you actually can combine both of those things. I've seen some youtubers do this quite well where an entire video is sponsored, but I still want to watch it because the essence of why I watch that particular youtuber is still there. I.e. it's not completely watered down.

One recent example of this done reasonably well that comes to mind is from Michael Reeves[0] and the entire video is a gigantic ad for an amazon show I have absolutely no interest in ever watching. But i still watched the entire video because it was still (mostly) a Michael Reeves video.

So imo ads can be done rather well, but you have to put in the effort and not slap a news site full of banners.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrrs9LGIfyQ
What should a new OS have?
Unless I’m missing your point, I disagree. Many Microsoft teams I’ve worked with use Azure Dev Ops or Github + whatever OSS tooling they need. They have all done solid testing, infra as code and CI/CD etc. The tooling is not at all antiquated.

It’s actually been pretty refreshing to be around.
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I use both Rhino and Blender and I for one am glad that both packages exist. Part of the problem (from my POV) w/ Blender is that it tries to do a bit of everything and understandably ends up coming up short on those other things it tries to do. Sure, it's somewhat convenient to have it bundled with a video editor, but besides some really basic functionality what purpose/segment does it really serve? Before the release of 2.80 it even shipped with a built in game engine which very few people ever really used so why devote valuable engineer resources for such a small niche user base? Why not focus on improving its core features rather than try to compete w/ specialized tools such as Solidworks or Catia when their core user base is not interested in modeling planes or rockets which can actually fly?
Gerrit is configurable and it is common to use it like Critique with blocking comments and LGTMs.

It's still a big step up from, say, GitHub PRs, and the UX has improved significantly.
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It's so cool to see these kinds of interactions happen. The size of the internet (and the world) is smaller than you might think! It puts a smile on my face :)
> Enter New Testament: Jesus Christ of Nazareth, comes not to abolish the law, but to fulfil it, such that every man (being) receives the FREE gift of salvation, and eternal life.

The obvious question is: why? Why was it ever necessary, if God is omnipotent? Why was it so late, so that people living earlier had no chance? And so on.

The Gnostics, Marcions and so on came up with another interesting idea: there were two Gods, one from the Old Testament, and another from the New Testament. The former was the creator but wasn't really caring for his creation. The latter was the God of Love and he sent his son in order to save mankind - Jesus was a kind of ransom paid to the former. This theory has slightly more sense than the one presented in mainstream Christianity.
If you’re comparing hardware you’re probably right. Our big blob of neurons has a completely different mode of operation compared with the silicon circuits in the computers we know.

However, if you go higher up the ladder of abstraction the story changes I think. Thinking in terms on software design and architecture you can start using a similar vocabulary.

We can talk about systems and sub-systems, foreground and background jobs, interfaces and telemetry, sequential and parallel processing, latency, efficiency versus accuracy, overfitting, etc.

The underlying implementation might be completely different there are similarities and thinking about them can be useful.
A vs code extension could be nice, if you use vscode already to write latex.
Spaceflight does some weird things to astronauts’ bodies
It is 1:1, although depending on how you count donating shares with unrealized capital gains can be higher, since you get the full write off without experiencing the capital gains at all.

So if your IPO shares are founder’s shares an 83(b) election so effectively $0 cost basis, then donating $100k shares gets you a $100k tax write off without any capital gains.
Bear_Fucker, actually. I don't think # is even allowed in Reddit usernames.
Big batteries are getting bigger and smarter
> Apart from a few projects (Apache httpd, Hadoop, OpenOffice)

You must have missed that OpenOffice belongs to the dumping ground part of projects, not on the successful side. It's not well-maintained, most contribution went to LibreOffice for the last 10 years. (Although after 10 years of success, also LibreOffice might be facing hard times https://lwn.net/Articles/833233/ )
If all of these fabs rely on ASML machines, why does TSMC have its shit together while the other two do not?
I used to work at a market maker where they used FPGAs to beat HFTs. Of course it was a constant arms race, so I’m not sure what they would be using nowadays...
Is it self balancing or self defeating? Time will tell but the answer should already be obvious. Mining fees decrease over time and eventually disappear --- taking security with it.

It is not only possible but also likely that at some point, the majority of remaining miners will be controlled by one entity.
Logical consequence of privatized innovation? Combined with freely available open innovation, that open innovation will surely be used where the private entities see fit, while keeping their own innovation private. Interestingly enough Apple does contribute to FLOSS, it's not a strict one way street.

I think Linux will run on it at some point. Remember this Linus quote:

> It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(.

And yet we have quite a list going:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux-supported_comput...
Rails 6.1 adds values_at attribute method for Active Record
This was seriously flagged in this thread:
"You don't find it just a little dystopian that the biggest player in information exchange has begun to act like the arbiter of truth?"

What the hell is wrong with HN, flag and downvote instead of arguing. This place has become a worse place than 4chan and reddit combined in regards to discussion.

Im outta here! Dang fucking just ban me already! I am tired of being a gimp among a bunch of brain dead over privilged nerds who brigade and flag anyone who counters their bullshit beliefs.

You literally have to BEG people with the privilege of downvote to elaborate their viewpoints and counter argue instead of just clicking a button, like an ape recieving a treat. Dopamine addicted retards!

SNEED!
Yeah, approximately nobody thinks that the brain is literally a CPU.
Are you using meme language? If yes, be aware it makes your point harder to understand. I'm wondering if you've made a grammatical error, are not good at English, or something else.
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I am also interested about your opinion in the project. the application can be followed on the links below.

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According to Apples M1: Intel software runs FASTER on ARM than on Intel
Vanilla js is great and always refreshing (not in a browser kind of way lol) but the real question is for what do we actually need js at all? Maybe it's time for review and find ways to replace the most frequent essential js techniques (such as lazy loading and animated reveal menus) with declarative, bounded, secure, privacy-respecting, and energy-efficient mechanisms. Time seems right, too, as the "web stack" reaches maturity (as in, can't take any more features). Or actually, it might be too late with only Webkit-derived browsers left standing, in which case we could as well restart from scratch. While we're at it, we should maybe also give CSS the boot, replacing it with what we've learned in 13 years of responsive design. IMO, CSS is typically a big let-down, adding tons of untyped crap with massive cognitive issues and laughably overcomplicated, yet still incomplete layout mechanisms to otherwise reasonable markup, just so that we can pretend we're continuing to create HTML for casual academic publishing as conceived 30 years ago.