skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It generally has been a net negative over a sufficiently long time horizon in the tech industry. Intel is slowly being eaten alive from all directions but is currently so dominant in their markets (from a business standpoint) that it's difficult for many to imagine a world where they aren't the leader, at least from a revenue/profitability standpoint.
No paywall: https://outline.com/cefvKr
> Just drink juice?

Far too sweet to be a suitable wine replacement
Java is actually incredibly well written for large scale multicore systems.

Java's garbage collector, although the source of many performance headaches, is in fact very sophisticated and "does the right thing" for most OOP-style code. Yes, it takes some understanding and tuning (and yes, there are multiple garbage collectors you're supposed to test out as you tune your software...) but that's the sort of thing that's available.

In C/C++ world: you can't just swap out versions of "malloc" or "new" as easily (ie: without recompiling everything, to tune / test your code on different systems). Restarting your JVM with slightly different garbage collector settings over-and-over again is absolutely a thing in the Java world to help tune your applications to the machines they run on.

---------

Java's high performance concurrency libraries are very well written as well. And there are some real speed demons (Azul) out there.

Its really a different world and model than the C/C++ world.
How does that work in practice? Say the personnel in question leave the company.
Most fresh squeezed orange juice has a higher alcohol content than 0.5%
Not so much different from SML though.
Near the end of the 1970s, DEC PDP-11 customers were reaching the limit of what the PDP-11 architecture could support: PDP-11 is a 16-bit architecture: the first generation could address a whopping 56kb of memory (the top 8kb of the memory map was for I/O). Over time, extensions were added to extends that out to 18 bit addressing, and finally 22 bit, for a total of 4Mb. But programs could still only directly address 16-bit chunks at a time, and would have to twiddle the memory management hardware to access other chunks.

VAX was the "Virtual Address eXtension" to PDP-11, which was released right around 1979/1980, was a 32-bit architecture, and additional processor instructions. VAX ended up being a much different beast, but you could still see that it was extended from the PDP-11 platform. DEC made a lot of tooling to make the transition from PDP-11 to VAX as smooth as possible for developers- they provided compilers that were source-compatible, etc., for FORTRAN, COBOL, C, BASIC, etc.
It's still pretty rare, but as the space goes mainstream I expect the frequency of such attacks to increase.
> If there was someone with the vision to truly drag this OS forward they would be aiming to rewrite at least a handful of these tools to modern tech consistently each release.

The thing people miss, and that I have been unfortunately privy to, are the incredibly number of large companies that customize these older dialogs.

They add controls, remove controls, override anything and everything.

This is why something that seems simple ("scrap it and start over") does not fully solve the problem. You have thousands of customers who rely on that old dialog.

The only choice would be to run them side-by-side for a long time and warn these customers that stuff is being deprecated. If they don't move forward in a certain period of time, they can not use the newest OS.
I had a 3-LCD projector go wrong in two different ways. Thankfully it was easy to fix, but this information was deeply buried in a forum for home theatre enthusiasts. The manufacturer would tell customers to buy a new one.

(Are the panels out of alignment? There’s a secret service menu to fix it easily! Do you have discoloration creeping in at the top & bottom? Remove the cover and just push down on the little plastic thing next to the lamp!)
> This only matters if people are otherwise willing to fork over cash for what is currently ad supported.

People were paying for Windows when it wasn't ad supported. People are still paying for Windows now that it is ad supported. Its completely clear that the only thing that matters is whether software businesses want to betray user trust or not - users don't really have much of a say in the matter. They do everything right, but user growth slows down, business growth needs to continue, so they try to extract extra value from each user instead of trying to add extra value that users happily pay more for.
Trucker. Yes. People have to eat and poop, they need their ... everything. Literally, everything.
It reflects radiant heat, that is, the form of heat that is sent by the sun rays. There is no radiant heat indoors, only convective (the form of heat that is transferred through matter). So it would not cool you inside, no.
Do the "tech transfer" step too.

Our privatized system of engineering is such garbage.
IMAP API – headless email client to access email accounts via REST
Among other things, the MacBook batteries are larger than the iPad batteries. Power consumption of the screen other components will obviously be different, but I would imagine that the MacBook Pro having a battery ~2x as large as that of the smaller iPad Pro would make a big difference.
I think you need more numbers than that. At least 1, pi, and e. Definitely don’t need any numbers bigger than 4.
”The study particularly wants to find examples of where a patent has been denied in the US but accepted in other jurisdictions, which will be a key area for European electronics companies. […] The study is looking at patent prosecution strategy and portfolio management as well as research and development, employment, procurement and marketing. It is also interested in the impact on the ability to obtain financing from investors or financial institutions and investment strategy as well as the impact on product development, innovation and competition.”

Sounds like they might think it’s _too hard_ to get patents in the US?
Basically all of unicode, using latex commands to autocomplete because wtf remembers that \mathcal{P} is U+1D4AB

https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/unicode-input/
You seem to be missing the fundmental problem here

Sure not all prices are infinitely elastic, but if Labor costs out strip the ability to prices to absorb them that do not mean the business simply magically makes them go away, no that business goes bankrupt and wages go to $0.

Owners / Investors demand a return on investment, if the market average is 8%, and business x is only returning 4% why would an investor continue to keep their capital there?

Worse still if inflation is 3% and the business is only returning 2% the investor is LOSING MONEY by keeping their capital in the business, better to cut their losses and move on

This mythical position where by businesses just "absorb the cost" because the prices are not elastic is pure fantasy
Maybe Ocean Spray, but not fresh pressed. We have to cut our juice with water because it's so tart.
That seems like the kind of situation credit card chargebacks are made for, as their process of discerning cheating is nonsensical. Not that doing so would have helped you get the magic piece of paper, but perhaps you could have assuaged the client with a piece of paper from a different company.
Just seems like the normal career ladder bullshit to me.

https://blog.usejournal.com/break-the-ceiling-with-fidji-sim...
Apple used to be ok but you're pretty much stuck with OSX in their newer machines which is a pretty mediocre OS for development.
This is exactly it.

It's not scalable, and it's way too open to professor bias.

Except for in some niche seminar classes, it's a non-starter.
Patents don't kill innovation but they do next to nothing to promote it.

Only a very small percentage of patents are ever successfully licensed to anyone. Around 3% recoup the cost of filing the patent. Half of all patents expire prematurely when the owner declines to pay the required maintenance fees.
> * proctoring software can be installed before an exam and uninstalled afterwards. It doesn’t need to stay on your pc/browser, and its activation is very obvious. I have no info about permanent security issues caused by such software.

I wouldn't trust a computer that had spyware installed on it without a full system wipe.
CoPilot and IP as it exists are incompatible. They cannot coexist and still make sense. If all it takes to get around licensing is piping it through ML, that sets a legal precedent that basically legitimizes the practice of "math washing", which is basically dodging personal accountability because the machine did it, not me.

Further, Copilot enabled exactly the opposite of what good software engineering is about. We should understand the underlying consequences of the code we write. This includes libraries, dependency graphs, licensing incurred obligations, etc.

Also, Microsoft quite literally bought the most popular version control as a service company, then leveraged it to create a Machine Learned code generation framework.

They didn't ask for opt in. They didn't do due diligence, they didn't let anyone know ahead of time. They didn't ask anyone, they just did it.

You may look at my last paragraph and think, "Yeah, so what? Welcome to innovation, move fast and break things!"

You may not have noticed if you only pay attention to the tech world, but you live with a bunch of other non-tech people who have to regularly follow way more rules than tech companies have been held accountable for, and a lot of them are realizing that the relative competitiveness of tech is probably coming from their ability to skirt regulations put in place for good reasons.

While yes, sometimes society turns a blind eye and selectively enforces laws/regulations, etc..., It is generally done most frequently when socio-political agents are confident that harsh, resource-intensive enforcement really wouldn't produce as much realistic value in terms of applying that effort. The last decade has seen a lot of non-tech folks starting to become more aware of the reality of how tech isn't out or intending to act responsibly. They're out to make money, and position temselves into centralized positions of power and exaggerated influence.

Copilot is one more example of tech people being so concerned with whether they could, that once again, no one sat down and wondered if they should.

That is why people are angry.
Hopefully a new Riddick.
My understanding is that musicals have the exact problem of being way too commerical and basically adaptations of already, mediocre, work. The difference is that the indie scene is even smaller due to the relative costs of creating musicals.
> Sometimes this then results in art, but usually not.

In other words, nothing much comes from it.
Second vaccine dose may reduce cellular immunity in Covid recovered individuals
For those who read the comments first / only: The article is really short with no fluff or filler.
I had to know so I googled it. Paradise Lost, John Milton. The original quote is "Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell;
And in the lowest deep a lower deep,
Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide,
To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven."
Non alcoholic Guinness (or maybe its like <0.5%) is excellent and is definitely approaching the real thing. I think people respond well when it's not puritanical and provides a viable alternative.
I imagine it's a good "in" to learn about their social life, which can lead to secrets being divulged. If you know where and how often they play sports, it's probably not terribly hard to arrange for your colleague to bump into them at the golf course (or wherever) and try to strike up a friendship. It's not as if the spy agencies had cellphone GPS logs to track these guys, so the human element was important.

Even asking a regular customer, "Hey, what happened to Ivan? I haven't seen him around. Is he still in the area?" while they're shopping for sports equipment could be a conversation that provides valuable information about someone's whereabouts.
One more way things get stolen. Someone quickly implements the key idea in your document and plays dumb about the plagiarization. To be "fair", the project might get split into 2 parts or be completely handed over to the one who "executed".
I have somewhat mixed feelings about the Alamo Drafthouse type of experience. On the rare occasions I go to a movie theater it's because I want the big immersive experience. If I want food and beer while I watch a film I can do that at home.
Thats fine. For independent developers there is not much use of it. For enterprise types Oracle would reach folks who pay for licenses instead of hordes of JIRA slaves.
Combining transferrability and making patent dirt-cheap to acquire means that most patents will end up with companies that won't put it in productive use (most recent example, see Lecun's account for convnet patent: https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1412549942229487620). The hoarding behavior is killing innovation.

Two ways to solve this: 1). limit transferrability, for example: patents can only be owned by natural persons and cannot be transferred to other persons or legal entities; 2). making it very expensive to keep the patents.
Being John Malkovich had a budget of $13 million in 1999 - I'm guessing that's mid-range.
Sixteen years ago, I had the idea for headlights aimed by GPS and started to make some prototypes. Then I read a patent that was basically "a plurality of inputs + processor -> headlight aiming" that covered everything imaginable. I knew the patent wouldn't hold up in court, but I wouldn't have the money to fight it.

More recently, I've been working on a self-driving wheelchair. It's a fairly obvious straight line from self-driving car to self-driving wheelchair, but someone's gone out and patented it. I still don't have the money to fight it.
are those subtle marketing materials produced for apple, or can't apple estimate how long a battery life will be without seeing it in the indicator first.
And then there would be other actual Constitutional issues to deal with, too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_attainder#Constitution...
I second the price question.

I might not be the target customer in this case. But I'm not sure how a professionally designed interior is a good option for saving money. I'm cheap, so my first choice is looking for quality used furniture off of places like craigslist. I've gotten some pieces I'm happy with.

But the issue with furnishing an empty apartment that way is that it takes longer to find pieces, especially if you want it to match. My assumption is prices would be more than retail at a minimum. I'm also not usually comfortable with in-store financing offers. They usually aren't a good deal. But your terms could be good, debt seems to be cheap right now.

This does definitely sound like something I would be interested in though if my place was empty and I was happy with pricing.
For most people who just want basic spreadsheet, web browsing, photo managing, email, word processing, or other similar purposes where a graphics card makes no difference, yes.

We are long past the times where the average person needs to even think about laptop specs other than whether or not it has a sufficient size SSD, the battery life is long, and it does not get hot.
Yeah, the question "do they kill innovation?" is too simplistic.

They exist for a valid reason and they also have negative side effects.

The current implementation has a lot of systemic problems. The ones you mention, patent trolling and length of patents might be tuned in order to optimize innovation.

I worry about our political system's ability to perform this tuning operation though. Political discourse seems incapable of tackling complex issues like this where there is no good/evil dichotomy, simply a productive balance to be found.
To be fair spacex’s reusable rockets is revolutionary
i think if you have to ask.... it's likely happening
I feel like the easier solution is to contain the seating so the noise doesn’t leave the viewers booth. Instead of just a bunch of empty chairs in an auditorium. Then people can be inconsiderate all they want.
The main person that was really pushing it has recently left Microsoft.

He has been the best PM for F# so far.

Naturally everyone is free to change careers and all the best to him.

Now F# needs another PM with the same passion.
It's not surprising that "normal users" don't think about this but what I've found extremely surprising is that otherwise fairly skilled programmers don't even think about it.
Now that I have Uber, WTF do I need alchohol-free beer for?
Regarding the closing lines, focusing so specifically on stock buybacks is looking in the wrong place. Intel's goal was to give the money to the shareholders. Currently the most tax advantaged way to do that is with stock buybacks. If you pass some law that prevents buybacks they will just give the money to the shareholders in the next most tax advantaged way.

The only hope seems to be as they've done, hire on a CEO more concerned with innovtion than stock price. At least I hope this is what they've done.
innovators ship
>This copilot circus reminds me of when a restaurant I used to go to went to shit in ~2015 because the owner thought giving iPads to customers meant they could cut payroll by 20%.

What went wrong? At some fast food places the ordering machines definitely displaced some of the cashiers. I'm surprised customers wouldn't go for tablets if it meant they didn't have to pay the 15% tip.
My furnace has an 80,000 BTU burner (equivalent to 23,000 watts), and a 1/2 horsepower blower, which would use around 600W.

So the blower uses less than 3% of the energy used by the burner. Some of the waste heat from the blower motor probably helps heat the home, so in reality it's probably less than that.

While startup current is significant (for a very short time), starting the fan up in the morning and again in the evening after work doesn't add that much to the total power drain, or even cycling it on/off a few times an hour to maintain temperature. Starting wattage on that motor is around 1800W, but only lasts for a few seconds.
It's not "callous desire to exploit employees" to prefer not to hire candidates whose ego isn't so enormous they think interviews should consist of employers begging them, or indeed to prefer to hire the candidates that have enough motivation to take the job or at least basic social skill to be able to think of a reason it might be interesting or suited to them.

Candidates usually get the opportunity to ask the employer what's good about working for them at the end of the interview if the interviewer hasn't spent the entire interview emphasising it anyway, and also have the opportunity to say no if they're not impressed. If their answer was "we're the ones with cash, and you're the one who's short enough of cash to be interviewing here", I suspect quite a lot of candidates would pass....
That sounds good - you'll probably find that it's better than my bottom two. The Bravus is like 3/4 quite-good stout mixed with 1/4 Russian "kvass" if you've ever had that malt beverage.
Too easy from the technical side, too difficult/expensive from the legal side. Solo inventors and startups working on genuinely new and interesting technology do not have the funding to hire fancy law firms, while companies like Microsoft and IBM file a dozen patents a day (not an exaggeration). It's the exact opposite of how a patent process should work.
I'm eager to experiment with a material like this for the application of passive water harvesting in a high humidity environment.

Would you be able to recommend some materials that are perhaps sub-optimal for the task but trivial to assemble from commodity sources to produce this effect?
I can't speak for every industry but in the software industry, they are 100% counterproductive and harm innovation. It's good that many countries do not recognize software patents.
These are all features and should be accelerated. There shouldn't be a possibility to renew.
I also find the combination of Greek letters where they would be in mathematical notation without subscripts where they would be in the same notation has a bit of a uncanny valley effect.

I don’t think that Julia having the capacity to use this style is bad, but I don’t think these examples are “beautiful and concise”, more “baroque and tasteless”.
I also get the impression that that F# sits on top of its host VM better than Clojure, although I haven't used Clojure to any great degree. F#'s error messages are actually pretty good, and integrates with .NET so well, you really don't even need to know the existence of C# when using it.

I really wish .NET Core came earlier and would have enticed Clojure to stay as a .NET language.
It is shocking to me that anyone who has a conscience still works at facebook. Just a bunch of don't give af mercenaries or what?
Patents in theory or patents in practice?

The patent system has been gamified, and is now optimized for the corporatocracy.
That's more of an artifact of the font being badly designed though.

Math requires excellent fonts if you don't want your reader to want to murder you by attempting to decipher the difference between L, calligraphic L, script L, italic L...
I've lived through a few instances where software patents fostered innovation.

We had implemented a certain GUI without realizing that we had copied an existing one. It was completely accidental, the kind of thing that happens without really thinking about it. We received notification from our competitors that we had to change our approach because they had a patent for it.

We did. It set us back a whole month but at the end of the day, we ended up coming up with a solution which I think we superior in all the ways.

So the software patent worked here: it forced us to not be lazy and come up with an innovative approach instead of copying an existing one.
That blog is just one developer's opinion, not an official statement. Although I will say I share the opinion, Glade messes up my ui files and I can't recommend using it if you want to use any newer widgets. It has always had those problems, but now with GTK4 it's no longer really worth it to try to work around them.

Also, Glade is not really even used by GNOME designers that much, what they do is make mockups in some other tool (usually Inkscape) and then have the developers implement it. I don't know about other GTK based desktops, though I think some Elementary developers are working on this: https://github.com/akiraux/Akira
> For example, apartments in my building are roughly the same price whether furnished or unfurnished.

I would question that statement. :) That doesn't seem to make a lot of sense economically. The only two reasons that come to mind why this may be true are a) the furniture in the furnished apartments is super cheap or b) the furnished apartments are located subpar in one way or another. But I may be wrong.
If I had more money, I'd definitely do this.

Or at least work with an interior designer to get a sense for what I'd like.
If you are not interested in modern cars, why are you even commenting on them?, is there any value added by this comment?

There weren't any fully electric cars for sale before Tesla.

They've only started to appear recently as other car companies see the writing on the wall and they don't want to become obsolete. Just looking at Tesla's market cap vs the rest shows you where the market is going.

Tesla is still far ahead. Just look into buying an electric car and compare.
I don't say this to be self-righteous - everyone has their own choices and decisions to make - but yes, in my software career I most certainly did not take projects that I felt were morally or ethically questionably. For me that meant refusing projects that I believed would physically harm people, cause economic or social hardship, or had any inkling of fraud.

I've since changed careers and I absolutely believe what I'm doing today is a net-positive for individuals and society, and in fact I'd say that it presents an opportunity to uphold and improve a societal ethical standard.