skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Wait, this is a startup that doesn’t have a strong product vision from day 1 and isn’t aggressively iterating to find product market fit?

You don't see "strong product vision" and "iterating to find product market fit" as contradictory?
I was really rooting for Edge back before they switched to Chromium. Now it's just worse Chrome. I do use it as my default PDF viewer though as I don't know of any other free tool for linux that lets you annotate PDFs. (there's Master PDF but it's a bit overkill when I just want some multicolored highlighters.)
I nominate PulseAudio Volume Control 4.0 for the worst volume control that I have come across.

Unfortunately I have to use it almost daily.
Published Oct 12, 2020
I feel like this will someday be exhibit A for a presentation on "Correlation is not causation".

I am blaming sucrose being added to literally everything.
Reasoning with Language Models and Knowledge Graphs for Question Answering
I had a writing professor who encouraged us to write more and do workshops with him often. Go figure he had his linkedin publicly available so I snooped around. Not only had he not made much mainstream success as a writer in hollywood, but he doubled down for a PhD to get out of it and has been a professor ever since. Although, probably a lot less cooler than Hank Moody from Californication.
I dislike working with RDBs but this seems like will take a lot of the pain out of it.
Fur for the mammals, feathers for the avian and dinosaur ancestors, which there are featherless birds.
Even before Obama. Bush, definitely. Same for the Clintons. I think maybe Eisenhower was our last American president.
Not if you're under 60 and not obese
Not even a year.

All I’ve heard is that the mini LED screens for the next (M1X) MacBooks haven’t been available in volume/to spec quite yet.

I’m really not thinking there’s any real delay of concern here yet. Not enough to write the above article and speculate somewhat needlessly.
You could almost call this a case of cancel culture run amok.
One of the most memorable and interesting things I've ever seen on HN was an AMA from the creator of the Co-dfns parallel APL compiler. Here is co-dfns [0] and the AMA by the creator [1]. The video may give you some insight and at the very least may be extremely interesting to hear the APL code explained (jump to around 13:30 for the beginning of the explanation behind the structure + what the compiler is doing). He explains it very well - it's quite easy to follow along.

[0] https://github.com/Co-dfns/Co-dfns

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcUWTa16Jc0
There is no real argument, essentially the article says well, "it depends" and basically we have no idea, but, given a few assumptions, is it reasonable that other universes would have denizens that conceive of circles and calculate the same value of Pi? and they postulate that if that also had a notion of flat space (not that the universe comports to that) then they too probably would come up with the same value of Pi
Over the last 10 years "... Simulator 20XX" games have intentionally (notoriously?) had odd (or even downright maddening) control schemes.
Its not about compensation. The companies themselves have less skin in the game. Did they lower their internal standards because they now have less to lose?

edit: It doesn't matter if the vaccine manufacturers lowered their standards. It is the perception that they may have.
NetBSD/Desktop: Scalable Workstation system [pdf]
do you run X windows in this setup? Any issues with getting all the drivers working for trackpad, sound, wifi, etc? That's what has me hesitating to bother trying linux as my host OS on a 2015 MBP
Or you can use nextdns and have DNS protection on any network you’re on.

They have a paid option that gives you a higher query quota.
You mean my electricity has been backdoored? Now that's paranoia on a different level, how does that work
Absolutely love this. I don’t know much but my spidey senses tell me this is the next big thing.

One issue though with pricing: most teams I know are less than 20 people. I work in product with two tech teams. Outside of that I don’t really care who’s in the office. I wonder if most people will just create their own accounts for their own teams even though you might have 100s of people across the same enterprise using your product. Just a thought.

Keep up the good work! Really intuitive UI and took me seconds to set myself up.
Cool, I didn't know that. Does the USB-lightning cable work for plugging in things like M+K and video out?
Because what usually happens is the connection is just forgotten from the NAT table. Both sides still see it as connected but the middle box will no longer forward any packets.
The safe harbor provisions mean the service provider has the obligation to remove the content upon receipt of a notice, genuine or not. The law was designed with the assumption that the courts are the proper forum to resolve issues like this - unfortunately legislators were not thinking of social media when the DMCA was written.
Right, and despite Apple assuring us that it vets each app and developer via its App Store, 500 million copies of the malware were distributed via the App Store to users' devices.

This is the next sentence after your quote[1]:

> This opened the door for the malware to be inserted into high profile apps used on iOS devices.

> Even two months after the initial reports, security firm FireEye reported that hundreds of enterprises were still using infected apps and that XcodeGhost remained "a persistent security risk". The firm also identified a new variant of the malware and dubbed it XcodeGhost S; among the apps that were infected were the popular messaging app WeChat and a Netease app Music 163.

From the same article:

> Removing malicious apps from the App Store

> On September 18, 2015 Apple admitted the existence of the malware and began asking all developers with compromised apps to compile their apps with a clean version of Xcode before submitting them for review again.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XcodeGhost
Slide into the DMs when that happens
I think they were paid about $1.3 million. To me, the amount is surprisingly low given how much money Ghosn has, and the risk and effort involved.

Also I find it strange that the names of these 2 guys were known to everyone in the world immediately after Ghosn escaped.
> I disagree, if you're able to understand and do a projection, forecast, risk analysis, sunk cost analysis you can easily get finance on your side.

The mystery to me is why IT departments run by a CFO are notoriously bad at IT. It seems like Finance will take cutting costs over increased revenue every day of the week; I don't know if they just hate taking on risk, or are just hoping someone will convince the board to hire a CIO and relieve them of the duties, but the end result is rarely pretty.
> What does Google provide. We know they are fingerpringing on a mass scale. There is zero transparency.

Interesting. I work at Google ads and I am not aware of fingerprinting on a mass scale. AFAIK, all the tracking is done with cookies. Not a lawyer and purely my opinion but IIUC, DoubleClick acquisition made it practically impossible to do fingerprinting since Google is not allowed to join first party and third party cookies and fingerprinting imposes significant risks to violate that condition.
Usabl – Usability Testing for APIs
Are you building an API that you're not sure if people actually know how to use? I'm working on a startup to help you get videos of real developers interacting with your API. Looking for an alpha customer, but feedback on the idea or positioning is also welcome.
Hard to make a standard living selling things. Unless you’re talking about selling services, but then you’re again trading your time for money
There are definitely times when I think about just running linux in a VM and using that as my primary dev environment. I did that before when I was briefly forced to use a PC laptop for a couple of months, and it worked great.

Also homebrew has so many drawbacks that I'm increasingly planning on boycotting it fully.
He doesn't want a whole new chip.

The M1 was hailed as an entry level chip, and merely the start of greater things to come. If that were true, logic would hold that they would have a higher end version of the existing M1 chip available by now.

It's not a different model architecture.
> You can generally exit at any time and immediately transition into lucrative careers in, for example, tech and finance.

I work in both and routinely interview PhDs in physics. I would not say that the transition is immediate nor easy, as the quote implies. Both tech and finance have specific knowledge, e.g., programming skills and understanding of the markets, and most PhD graduates have to pick those up on their own. Having a degree from one of the Ivies will facilitate the screening round, but past that point it hardly counts.
We’ve pumped a lot of nitrogen into the biosphere. I wonder how much that’s increased the total biomass.
Don't you just love and hate game theory?
Sounds like they paid you a masters program tuition… granted back then that probably wasn’t a lot, but they were paying more than just your teaching salary.
If that were the case Safari wouldn't perform much better than Chrome on certain benchmarks on Apple ARM based devices. But I think "optimization" is more making commonly used instructions really fast (such as uncontended atomics) and providing custom instruction extensions to accelerate common use cases in hardware (for example, I believe there is an undocumented branch prediction hint capability, whereas afaik for x86 you can only tell your compiler to order branches according to compile-time hints).
People may find this book helpful:

Deskbound: Standing Up to a Sitting World

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31683999

Skipping over some of the rha-rha zeal there's some helpful ideas in making standing less static and more sustainable.
It always amazes me that so many "freedom" states heavily police individual behaviour more than I have experienced in the Bay Area, which doesn't have that rhetoric.

I can go buy magic mushrooms here, but in so-called Freedomland you can't even eat what you want. Whacky.

I moved to Texas for a short while and hoo boy, Austin is nice, but the peeps in Texas really love to tell the government to tread on them. You can't even get weed brownies here. Talk about big government.
it not just facilitates it, but it magnifies it allowing it to grow faster than corrections can be made. and that's the real danger.
You would be a sociopath’s dream colleague, let me tell you :)
Thank you! Mobile Safari is the browser that breaks more often, will have to take a look again!
Top soil takes a long time to form. I imagine most of the water would go into the aquifer.
> Moving for better opportunities is just about the most American thing a person can do

Says who? The median American lives 18 miles away from their mom.
Being working on big data for a few years and I'm glad that Excel is mostly a place to paste some data for debugging. But I'm sure it's still useful for people who can leverage power pivot and all those tools for medium size data. I used xlwings occasionally some years ago and it was not a pleasant experience back then. I heard it improved a lot these years though.
The connections are what enable you to create that in the first place. He’s not going to create it in his bedroom by himself and by virtue of that, have contracts land in his lap. There are lots of great things people could do, but they never get the opportunity to do them.
I think Excel online with Office Script https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/scripts/overview... is awesome. Combine it with OneDrive & Power Automate & you can share & automate many boring stuff.
stupid teams chat doesn't even have a 'reply with quote' but yeah, it's got lots of edgy emoticons and gifs.... stupid.
> I really wish I had picked creative fields to study but that thought goes for a long pause, every time, the moment I think about the definite hardships I would have had to face and almost definite failure (statistically).

This reminds me of this web comic that explains that exact situation[0]. Also here are a few others[1][2]. It really is a "grass is always greener" scenario. I personally love music (know guitar, wanna learn piano), making pottery, and drawing (if I could honestly devote the time to it). The reason I don't do them "professionally" is because there is very little money in it and it's extraordinarily difficult to make a career out of them unless you have been playing since you were very young and everything is muscle memory. I was not that fortunate. Regardless, I do them for fun now. I work my office job during the day to support those things during the night. Hopefully one day I can phase my day job out for those :)

[0]https://i0.wp.com/warandpeas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/...

[1]https://i0.wp.com/warandpeas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/...

[2]https://i2.wp.com/warandpeas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/...
I agree - when trying to watch something next to a sleeping partner even 1 step above muted is too loud. Annoying. I often watch Netflix muted and read subtitles because of this. I guess I need headphones.

But I do really think a volume one half of the current lowest would be useful for me.
Yes that's true but parent specified that the count was excluding the X versions.
You've made my day haha
Not really, ideally you'd want to start with what feels good to do and learn to maintain that then slowly push it until you increase your activity and intensity. If you train hard all at once up front, it'll be harder to build the habit and learn to sustain it.
Great account, and if there were one takeaway, chestnut trees are more interesting than I imagined
Learn to write an 8 bit emulator
It's fine - pretty easy to import data into a DataFrame and do whatever you want. The API seems relatively simple - you can marshal data into a DataFrame and vice versa.

Take it for a spin if you have any interesting spreadsheets in need of some love!
> Also, top school names only matter when starting your career

Yes, and then it determines the next phase, and then the next....

I'm sure there are some mediocre (strictly career wise, not academically) people who graduate from Styvescent and Columbia and go to work at no-name mid-tier companies (I've met one personally). But these people are still orders of magnitude better off than people like me, who are destined for failure and disappointment. If you ever looked at my resume you'd agree.
I'm curious: What are you considering as a top CS school? At the one I went to, virtually no incoming student was a first author. Granted, this was a while ago, but it was still the case about 10 years ago.

2nd question: Did you actually apply, or did you merely ask around and get discouraged? My experience is that most of the advice people give on this topic is wildly off. That includes advice from professors in top schools.

Finally, GPA mattered in my time, and I'm sure it still does. It's not at all sufficient, but a poor GPA would almost always kill your chances. I those days, beneath 3.5 would be a guaranteed reject, and around 3.5 would be a weak candidate.
Indeed, in your case the point is moot. Forwarding to yourself is fine because you generally trust yourself. In fact when I teach this subject at my company, I even mention that. Perhaps I'll edit the article to point that out, so thanks for your comment. As for the title, I do see what you're saying. It's definitely a purposefully broad statement that's designed to pique someone's curiosity. But, the article explains the context of the subject in full. Clickbait usually leaves the reader wondering why the subject says what it does.
Geez, does he not know long it takes just to fab a chip? Find a mistake, fix, retype, and start over.
> If we allow you adult choices, and you make choices that harm others

So we can go back to banning adultery and divorce?
i think the easiest way to win this price is to capture the exhaust gasses of coal power plants - this way you would have to process the least amount of input, as the stuff comes out in very concentrated form. Now the question would be where to take the electricity for the cleaning.
I'm running three right now, please.
"further research may be required".
I used nix on Ubuntu as my daily driver for nearly a year before installing Nixos. I also installed it on a server and multiple desktops before that. My main pain point with nix on Ubuntu was gui stuff didn't work. But as a build tool it worked amazingly well.

Using nix as an ad hoc package manager worked for non GUI stuff, though, but that wasn't all that interesting. Except it let me have the latest Python and haskell and so forth...
Those never have enough increments for me. I'm always on the quietest end of the slider, and when I want to go quieter I always end up accidentally muting the sound. I have to resort to dragging the slider with my finger - I don't know what I would do without that ability.
You might be right. Or not too much - at least for me, when I heard that story, this particular decision seemed odd - surely such obvious ways to save on expenses were considered before, so why they were rejected? In general, if something seems good on the surface it doesn't necessarily actually is - and in complex systems, like a town, some checklists - I'd expect - should be followed.

But I agree that we might lose track of why some decisions were made. Yes, we may want to revert old decisions, sometimes even have to. Just some responsibility, which comes with power.
Apple's effective tax rate is actually higher than many of its peers, and higher than the sector on average.

All multinationals need strong tax enforcement, but this isn't actually one where Apple is really any worse than others (and better than many).

https://finbox.com/NASDAQGS:AAPL/explorer/effect_tax_rate
I guess you mean same generation. Apple uses the word "series" to identify A Series, M Series etc.

By the way, yes, both A14 and M1 use Firestorm + Icestorm cores: so I guess that they are the same generation from a technical standpoint.
> How can I ask people who work for me to live here?

Are you kidding me?

How can you ask other people to fund this outreach for the benfit of your and your employees?

You are responsible for your being informed. Nobody prevents you or your family or workers from being vaccinated.

What has this world come to...
Iran pushes state-sanctioned dating app to promote marriage
I actually really like that feature - it works with any _strongly-worded_ “stop” command: Alexa detects user annoyance and swiftly stops whatever it’s doing with the minimum of back-and-forth.

The best part is that whereas with most commands, if Alexa has any doubt about what you said or you weren’t clear it always asks you to clarify or disambiguate, even various stop/pause/volume-down/mute commands - but when spoken with an angry tone or with an f-bomb or two then she defaults to stopping without question, even if she didn’t hear you clearly.
Amazingly, the mobile app version does!
At Lawn Love, we naively coupled our listening code directly to the Stripe webhook... but it worked flawlessly for years. I wasn't a big fan of the product changes necessitating us switching from the Transfer API for sending money to the complicated--and very confusing for the lawn pros--Connect product, but its webhooks also ran without issue from the moment we first implemented them. So thanks for making my life somewhat easier, Mr. Krausz.

Like many others, I now pattern my own APIs after Stripe's.
Shadow IT is fine for now. The execs will do their next Technology Transformation to get rid of shadow IT at the advise of highly paid consultants. It will be consultants draining your coffers not IT and I can guarantee you it will be more expensive than doing IT right in the first place.
RISC V is an option I guess
Honestly, this is a great natural experiment you can't run otherwise ethically. A populace have chosen this for themselves. That has so many advantages. What if MMR-2 and friends actually do ruin shit. My prior on this is low, but also I am willing to observe others sacrifice their kids to this to protect against the long tail event.

I'm pretty pro-vax but I'm also very pro-freedom, and I am particularly pro the freedom for other people to put themselves in risky situations when I can extract knowledge from it.

I think Tennesseans overall will probably react to requests to go pro-vax by doubling down, so it's probably best to do that. Makes the experiment stronger. And creates a viable population in case we all drop dead ten years from now, or it turns out vaccines reduce sperm count or some random shit like that.

To put it simply: "Some of you may die, but that's a sacrifice I am willing to make".
Fascinating. My own experience has been exactly the opposite. Every single Apple product I've ever bought has worked perfectly for their entire useful life. My own Apple graveyard is a stack of devices in perfect working condition. Whereas I'm looking at my pile of non-Apple devices and every single one of them had to be repaired, replaced or abandoned due to hardware failures. I've had to replace numerous Lenovo tablets and the last (expensive!) Dell laptop I bought started randomly crashing upon resume from sleep.

And don't get me started on the Microsoft Surface Book. My partner (who worked at Microsoft) chose this as their work laptop. Junk. Driver problems. DRIVER PROBLEMS on MICROSOFT'S own hardware, managed by MICROSOFT'S own IT department.
Apple announced a two year transition, the two years are not over yet so why should they be out by now?

A new MacBook Pro with M1X will come out this fall according to credible sources.
How well does it decompile itself? I've always considered that a great test, much like a self-compiling compiler is a notable milestone.

(I believe IDA has a check to stop you from doing this. Cracking that was one of the "rite of passage" exercises back in the day.)
Why doesn't anyone ever bother to mention that the M1 is a RISC CPU when discussing that it can do more IPS than x86?

There are 1024 possible Armv8 instructions [1] as opposed to 1,503 x86 instructions [2] and 3,684 x86-64 instructions [3]. There are things x86 and x86-64 can do in a single instruction that would take dozens of instructions to accomplish on Arm.

[1] https://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cyy/courses/assembly/10fall/lec...

[2] https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2016/08/25/how-many-x86-instru...

[3] https://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cyy/courses/assembly/10fall/lec...
Holy false equivalency Batman. Adultery and divorce don’t put you in the ICU or the morgue (caveat being crimes of passion).
They already did that, forming WHATWG.
> The M1 was hailed as an entry level chip

Hailed by whom? I doubt you'll find a single instance of Apple calling M1 an "entry level chip".

It looks like this is the blogosphere getting too high on their own supply, huh?
You guys are no fun.
Based on what? In the case of the car it's a multi-million dollar repo industry for similar events.

For Amazon I'd imagine it would've been a massive lawsuit for copyright violation.
If you're editing very high bitrate or high resolution video - or both. 16G is perfectly adequate for 1080p video around 30MB/s, which most people's video will be.
> What exactly is being pushed onerously upon these people that’s making them push back? Mask requirements in a pandemic? Taxes? Cancel culture? Seat belt laws? Gun buying restrictions? Brown neighbors? I’m not sure I follow.”

Something about this post bothers me. It starts off making an attempt to understand the other side but then the tone shifts and non-sequiturs enter. And I think it’s the “I’m not sure I follow”, said like it’s some punchline that seals the deal.

Do we want to explore the situation or do we want upvotes for taking cheap shots at a straw man?
It's probably because they had lower standards (in a good way!) If they're making 50k they're probably working in the industry as staff, while most starry-eyed students who get into Columbia are aiming to become big name directors or writers.