skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can blame a lack of metaphysical sophistication for this and a lack of self-awareness around how "intelligence" is being projected or read into things.

One obvious feature of intelligence is that it can abstract from particulars. We form and reason about universal concepts. I know the concept of "squarishness" which means something definite without being some specific square (of which there is an infinite number). I can imagine a square, but those are always particular squares, whereas the concept is universal. But material things are only ever particular. Can you show me a material thing that is "squarishness"? No. Computers are physical objects, right? So how can the universal "squarishness" exist in a physical object without being a particular square?

Even here we often fool our selves when we fails to recognize that computer programs, like the text in a book, need humans to grant them their identity and make sense of them because their meaning and identity are assigned by the observer and not intrinsic to them like mind-independent things. A "Square" class, defined as record with two fields corresponding to width and length, is not the concept of a square. Instances of that class are not squares. Even "class" and "instance" are mental models which do not exist "out there" like real entities or phenomena. What we call computers just have affordances that allow us to configure them to correspond and cooperate with the models in our minds. But strictly speaking, computers don't really have an objective reality and neither does the computation within them. The machine is real in the sense that we have arranged a bunch of stuff to be a certain causal ensemble, but this causal ensemble is not objectively a computer nor is it computing. Rather, we are using it to compute. But if you erased all human beings from the planet, and left a bunch of computers running, objectively, they would only be arrays of things with magnetic and electrical components changing physical state. You need someone to interpret what computers do to make them useful. Just like three beads on an abacus doesn't mean "3" and pushing a bead toward those three doesn't mean "adding 1". You need a person to assign those meanings to it. Computers don't magically break free of that reality.
Exactly, these are major themes in the books I posted. Darwin’s Doubt deals specifically with the Cambrian Explosion and the explosion of information over a short time span that it represented. It digs deep into the search space of protein folds and epigenetic information and whether known evolutionary processes can be responsible for the original emergence of the simplest forms of life, or if there are even simpler forms of life possible that lived before the Cambrian Explosion.
Banksy pop-up store spotted on OpenSea (?)
It's not just a word, it's a name. Names have a single correct pronunciation, they're not supposed to be translated.
Silly idea. If you fix caps height it's impossible to create a font that is say deliberately small caps, or has a consciously flamboyant F
My first serious tech startup had me working 18 hour days, 7 days a week. The pain in my wrists became unbearable. I knew people who had surgery for this and it didn’t go so well. I was going to avoid this at all cost.

I took a couple of weeks off to design and build a custom ergonomic desk.

Within a week or two all pain was gone. I could work almost as long as I wanted to and be comfortable.

I also stopped using mice and moved to a thumb-operated trackball.

Look for ergonomic desks and chairs.
I suppose it's a personal preference but after nearly two decades of using OSX I find Windows unusable and clunky.

Linux desktop is still a tinkertoy.
It takes a huge amount of time and money to go to the insane lengths of Apple-ism that the company is known for.

I would venture to say that 80% of that doesn't translate to an increase in revenue. How many people bought a 2019 Mac Pro because of the speaker inside of it?

They're slowly but steadily trimming this "waste". The products are becoming merely "great", but no longer insanely so. The age of Sane Apple, perhaps.

Apple seems to be significantly more focused on building revenue (especially from services) than on building the most insanely great things that can possibly exist (with revenue as a side effect).

Another example is the fact that they introduced an end-to-end encrypted messaging system that
rapidly became a widespread standard... then backdoored it for the FBI (via the non-end-to-end-encrypted iCloud Backup). That isn't so much an indicator of Apple's new values... except that the KB article about what is and isn't e2e encrypted in iCloud is designed to deliberately confuse and mislead people into thinking the situation is better than it is. That's very un-Apple, if you ask me.

Apple used to be "the computer for the rest of us", the pirate-flag-flyers. Now they primarily make Facebook/Candy Crush client hardware.

This comment is obviously a massive oversimplification, and I want to write properly on it in detail and at length soon.
I am sure they do better for paid apps, somehow the introduction of in-app purchase created many "free" apps. I had one would link you to a webpage to make payment on third party platform. The free trial was $1 and the other choice is yearly subscription of $800 or something. I am sure they violated appstore policy using third party payment system, but reporting the app was not easy because it is a "free" app.
They have actually been in this area for quite a while. My first real dev job was at HDS after they acquired Archivas back in 2007. We built off the Archivas foundation to deliver petabyte-scale object storage for big enterprise/govt, kind of like selling S3 in a box for companies to put in their datacenter. HDS made the hardware and software.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/archivas
Have you coded on larger code bases not written by you? Usually most of the time you read code instead of writing it. Sure you can add new code that adds smart pointers, but you still have to understand the exant code, at least to some degree.
It's almost as if, top-notch attention-to-detail doesn't scale automatically. Your company going from $4B->$40B->$400B->$2T is going to evolve culturally speaking, and it seems the effort to instill quality over the bottom $line is simply not possibly unless you choose to "leave money on the table".

I've noticed Apple does best PR wise when they do the latter, but it's hard for me to find examples of them doing that recently.
I bought this video game, and when I tried to find it using windows search, not only could windows search not find the video game, it literally gave me ads to purchase the video game again.

(I wholeheartedly agree that Windows has been getting better in many respects, but the hostility of that experience felt really stark to me. Quit using Ubuntu for the same reason.)
Hitachi 7200rpm and 5400rpm drives were known to be very realiable, by sometimes a factor of 2x in MTBF-like metrics.
Why so many are arguing that biological sex doesn't exist (2019)
Not sure about EVs, but replacing single dead cells is common on hybrid vehicles. It's pretty common for them to be series'd up as well.
so i should use a dumpster fire of an OS because the flames are a few feet lower than they were 15 years ago?
I'm still not quite seeing the argument. Your country could also be bombed out of existence in order to seize or destroy its hashing power. I really don't see how bitcoin being "backed by math" saves you there.
Why? Because some misguided designer thought it looked cool (after all, if you are a UX designer, it's your job to suggest sommething different, saying "the app looks and works great as it is, let's not change anything" doesn't quite cut it), and nobody else involved cared enough to challenge this decision?
That's a bit distressing, actually. "Veritas" is Harvard's motto, and perhaps they were influenced by that. But perhaps better known is Project Veritas:

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

To quote Wikipedia's description:

The group produces deceptively edited videos of its undercover operations, which use secret recordings to allege misconduct and corruption in mainstream media organizations and progressive groups. Project Veritas uses entrapment to generate bad publicity for its targets, and has propagated disinformation and conspiracy theories in its videos and operations.
I can't speak for Bitcoin's price, but the network's value is a global distributed ledger of transactions (debt) that has proven to be fault tolerant over many years. I think the store of value stuff is a bit of a bubble, and it relies on hodlers keeping the price up over time
One of the points is that the act of collecting the numbers and making decisions based on them can change the underlying behavior. The numbers can be perfectly correct (how many cases does the IT department get? How long does it take on average to resolve the issue?). The goal can be correct (we want to get issues resolved faster). But as soon as you try to manage people based on those perfectly valid numbers, but things often happen.
Chrome's developer tools have live preview, and they apparently accomplish this at the VM level by blacklisting a set of impure bytecodes when running the code in a separate evaluation context. If one of the bytecodes is found then it throws an exception.

I kind of wish LuaJIT had something like that.
It allows SAAS companies to sell the cashflow from subscriptions at the total yearly value of those subscriptions (discounted to account for things like credit risk and the time value of money). So if you have 10 subscribers at $100 a month and $0 in the bank, you can promise to give a counterparty the $1000 month in return for say, $11000 (no idea what the actual number would look like).
Fingerprinting. That's what I do for Pirsch (https://pirsch.io/) and I think they do it in a similar manner. You can check out our source code here: https://github.com/pirsch-analytics/pirsch/blob/master/finge... or take a look at the Plausible repo.
That honestly sounds very atypical. I've been at Google 9 years and never experienced the scenario you describe. You should probably have reached outside of your team for assistance or flagged a manager.

Yes, there have been times when code review wasn't super useful, but on the whole I never experienced the kind of dysfunction you're talking about and merging reviews without external review is a pretty big no-no.
Nice, thanks! Looks like you are working on growing mind share for the foreseeable future and layering in enterprise-specific features to close big deals. Do you foresee a sales team for this? Or do you think independent devs will self-serve their way into larger orgs?

Approaches one and two make sense to me. I'm a bit lost on approach three though.
In what way are they "crazy talented" if they dont author the lyrics or the music? Is it meant cynically to describe the situation where the performer is just packaging for someone else's talant?
I think it's more related to how people listen to music. I would be curious if there are numbers, but just based off of talking with friends, most people listen to playlists that are either self created or curated by Apple/Spotify.

Personally, I have always been an album listener; just go start to finish. Occasionally I'll throw on a playlist I made or something curated by the streaming service I am using, but it's rare for me.
Just an update, but I added a screenshot and a demo. I will try to add more soon!
FWIW YouTube Music does a good job showing album art (which I appreciate)
That's what the "Album Artist" field is for.
I agree. I'm sorely tempted to introduce Dhall or CUE at work, but it might be a bit of leap for colleagues.
I think I never saw such a garbage comment here. Feeling honoured it happened in a thread I made..
Could it have to do with licensing costs?
Static album cover art is more nebulous in the streaming age. What's interesting is the different approaches users and musical groups have taken to accompanying video on platforms like YouTube. There is not yet a de facto standard to replace the static square image of yesteryear, but there are a lot of interesting one-offs.
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Never said their wasn't. But there can be no doubt that both the equipment and the knowhow is vastly more easy to access today than it was then.
> If someone senior at Samsung said to their vendor "good Bluetooth or you lose the Samsung account", that would provoke some, um, intense conversations at the vendor between sales and engineering.

The same thing could be said for Qualcomm's failure to support it's SOCs for more than a couple of years. Device makers could force their hand.
Maybe it went through US-East-1?
which Linux desktop are you saying is a tinkertoy?
Am I misremembering, or did Reed Hastings not say something similar last year?
That's not self-contradictory, it's just proof that products which claim to use "AI" can't possibly work. Quite consistent with what's observed in practice.
welp, back to square one then.
But 53M is not much for a decade of business at that scale. For the size of some of these VC investments they could just put it into the market and get similar returns, I'd think?
Another example of Microsoft's close past relationship with the DoD yielding new contracts.
What would a principled reason for association look like beyond mere convention? Language is used by different groups to mean different things. Machine learning, logic, control, robotics, linguistics, and cognitive science were publishing in artificial intelligence venues decades ago. Now AI seems to just mean DL/RL.
Back in 2017 I wrote an article about the "backed by fighter jets and nukes" point because it seemed by far the most intuitive way to reason about it.

https://medium.com/@simon.sarris/the-guns-of-bitcoin-1f77930...
Both em and px units are meant to have an absolute size (in, let's say, millimeters or real pixels of the screen). This makes both units completely different from percentages and quite similar to each other; the rather arbitrary and unimportant cases in which they are scaled differently don't have a serious impact.
On the other hand, I've wasted more than enough time to debug layouts in which using both units made sizes inconsistent; I tend to use px only for ease of arithmetic.

The important and interesting point in the article is that what should be sized (regardless of the units!) are line height and "cap height" (x-height + ascenders) instead of x-height + ascenders and descenders + arbitrary empty space. It isn't a very convincing argument: depending on the font and text, the apparent height of a line could be represented more faithfully by x-height or by accounting for descenders (and swashes), and specifying different sizes for different fonts isn't particularly difficult.
the article is discussing an SE. The author specifically complains that it's not big enough. And anyway, that's not a good reason to waste so much space. Maybe it can be argued that it makes the overall UI of ios appear neater and more uniform, but i'm not going to state that case.
> I absolutely do think it should be an investment

I think this is treated differently in different cultures. In Germany, while there is a real-estate as investment market, many people don't (expect to) move much during their lifetime. They buy their home ('Eigenheim') essentially for life (sans the tail end in a nursing home). Still many put a lot of time and money into those houses they don't expect to sell. It's a quality-of-life thing (and some bragging rights). You can (and some do) spend easily a fortune on a kitchen alone. You even find more than one kind of light switch there.

So I'm not quite convinced that real-estate as investment is necessary to drive housing quality.
Again, you have no argument against his actual record being one of privilege and favoritism.
Completely agree! The best product does always win. The founder did not focus on making the product better but jumped from marketing to design, to raising money, to expanding the team. The product did not keep getting better and they lost.

1. If you are in a competitive VC-funded space, it’s foolish to compete without raising money. Don't bring a knife to a gun fight.

Again, not true. You win if your product is better. Think outside the box, and make something that no one else has made and users will love it and you will win. I'm not saying that is easy to do. Just that's what wins.
Maybe this is my fault for not moving to Apple Music, but the iOS Music app, subjectively, is total crap ever since iOS 9.

The app no longer cleanly and easily divides music into Songs/Artists/Albums/Playlists as top-level tabs, instead shunting them into menu items within one such tab. The older apps (pre-iOS 7?) even let the user customize which top-level tabs they wanted to see (e.g. Composer).

Again, I bet a lot of this pain would go away if I started using Apple Music, but I'm bothered by a loss in UX.
It is because of this exact tagging issue that I never let iTunes 'manage' my library. They'd take files in perfectly labeled folders and move everything into something resembling the structure of their database.
Maybe album cover art is just less meaningful in the year 2021. I couldn't care less what the album art looks like when listening to music on Spotify or YouTube.

What I do care about is a current "About" tab in Spotify, a WikiPedia page, or maybe a well-maintained webpage for/by the artist.

Not meant to be an indictment of visual art of this type, just suggesting that perhaps the "vector" needs to shift elsewhere.

Good example is the backgrounds created by Cryo Chamber for their YT postings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbKDlzQgIwc
Sure, it does help. I think timeboxing the fundraise gives some FOMO to investors, if they know that you're meeting with a lot of other ones. There are many things to it. But the team does help for sure!
> it looks like there are provisions to give you exclusions on your foreign income,if you have any

The foreign income exclusion is not that high, especially if you are a mid career tech worker ($107,600 for 2020), and you will be double taxed on amounts above the exclusion. But at least you can skip California state taxes if you count as a nonresident.
Are you aware of any case studies for this kind of product? I'm very curious about it as a model
What kind of person signs up to be infected with the coronavirus on purpose?
Right I'm pointing out that being glad everyone is being forced back into the office against their will is being glad that other people's happiness is being sacrificed for your own. Which doesn't sound so great when you say it like that.
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That's just an unfounded blanket statement. There have been wild jumps in quality as well as incremental improvements and incremental deterioration in places.

Take, for example, iOS 7 which came out 7 years ago. On the one hand it brought some sorely needed modernity, on the other, it replaced a well-polished, albeit dated, style. However, on its own UI-wise it was really bad. Subsequent releases have had tremendous improvements to its many faults while introducing others, and I can't see how that could be called "a steady decline."
Eh, I see this more as a shift in consumer design patterns overall.

At the launch of the iphone, everything was skeumorphic. The cover flow clearly emulated flipping through a stack of records or CD books.

Now that people don't have physical media, the metaphor changes. The new design treats the cover art like an avatar on a forum or social media site -- a small thumbnail to identify the music.

Additionally, the original iPod/iPhone typically used internal storage in your Library. Under the Apple Music era of streaming, this may be a decision to shave a few % off of bandwidth costs by only pushing lower-resolution images. And then the choice being made to not upscale low-res to screen-width and incur blurriness.
Now your just asking to many questions.
Sadly, I think it's just that the world has moved on from albums as "coveted" goods that you treasure to just being commodities. With music streaming services, each album isn't as precious as the old days where you'd actually purchase a CD, a cassette, or a vinyl record. There's just so much music out there now, and so readily available. IMHO, as a result, how albums are presented is now just an afterthought.
I assume it means a time length for as long as the times have been immoral.... So perhaps it means since the dawn of mankind?
mac seems to unfortunately be on the path to selling iphones, ipads and chromebook type devices running ios. i really wish steve jobs had believed in modern medicine. if he had, i believe we’d have much better machines.
This is a symptom of their larger problem with maintaining and overreaching when it comes to metadata. I've had scenarios where an album of music I manually added to my library (as MP3s) has had its metadata mutilated to the point where the songs were spread across several incomplete albums (differing releases of the same album) each incomplete, including some songs becoming standalone tracks from compilation albums I had never heard of. They won't just _leave it alone_.
In the pearl harbor analogy the US would be Japan, believing a naval force could win.

>And that's the kind of reasoning that led to Ukraine being invaded by Russia.

Yes, the US will draw lines and do nothing. Just like with Ukraine.

PRC sailing a carrier fleet just outside US waters is absolutely acceptable. The US made it so by doing the exact same thing to everyone else. It's only a matter of time before they have the capability. The big difference is that the US might go to war over such a thing unlike anybody else.

Another superpower is needed to stop the aggression by the US. US navel fleets belong in US waters. US bases belongs only on US land. If it takes PRC to do this then I'll happily cheer them along.
Worse imo, the artist listing using photos of the band or artist as the image instead of a cover of an album - which makes it useless for visual scanning.
SAM is limited and I didn't care for it. I believe CDK is the way to go; I just haven't had much chance to play around with it yet. I suspect it doesn't solve the problem that extensions are lambdas, but it's a welcome development. I believe Terraform now has a CDK as well.
It's not only apple. Almost all of the big tech doing that these days, either out of concern about their manufacturing resources, or other motives.
Something I won't support, but can understand their motives behind.
But I am trying to understand how this part fits in the list.

"November 2019, Trump re-election campaign ad shot in Apple’s Mac Pro plant in Austin

Given the context and the headline, Apple working with authoritarian governments. Unless the author thinks the US is authoritarian.

I don't see any problems with any high tech executive supporting one politician or another, if the author is making the alleged Tim Cook's support for Trump the reason to include that in the list of incidents showing Apple working with authoritarian regimes.
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Spotify on the desktop is also guilty of this: the default cover art view is microscopic; clicking the "expand" button brings it up to a merely small view.
Microsoft wins $21B Army contract for augmented reality headsets
Cool site :D
but consider fixing some xss issues :(.
https://anon.sharehub.live/post/ckmxuf329008415mjcdmuwufu/as...
Her apology words have far more value than what she did in 2016.
That presumes technical people believe in AGI. I would think more ML researchers don't so just avoid the term "AI".
Replace "socialist" with "large company". The companies gather data, establish metrics, and manage to those numbers, and often bad things result. Ever been in a company where some internal support function goes to hell because its top manager's bonus depends on a metric, and they can improve that metric by refusing to support the users (find excuses to close IT support calls without fixing the issue, etc).