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> But if I had to choose between Google and Apple for my privacy I would go with Apple (without much illusions).

See - I'm right there with you about not having much dog in this fight (I don't buy Apple hardware, and I mostly left google about 3 years ago) but I come out on the other side of the coin.

I'd much rather own a device made by folks I know I can't trust. Google is worse, but mostly honest about being worse.

Apple is a snake in the grass, though. I don't know what the fuck they're trying to do, but they sure have a good marketing team. To me, that's unpredictable and scary, even if the current state of their ecosystem is marginally more private.
"Are you or are you not a professional ?"
> There's something unique about Apple that draws in the detractors

I think you've almost figured it out. Apple and the Super Bowl both have something in common: really obnoxious fans.
Introducing  Optimum: The Optimization Toolkit for Transformers at Scale
I'm convinced that if you want a job, you don't have to be the person that its only being interviewed, you must sell your self as the programmer that they need, if you cant convince them that you are the one for the job, you should try to understand what are yours strengths or just to find people that have the same values as you.
The other big difference is that the typical AAA title isn't made on a budget of < $200,000 anymore.
Sure, and rewriting everything is easy and a piece of cake too
I thought this was going to be about online convex optimization lol
What information could they possibly be collecting?
You can question it all you want. You can't file a trademark for something that is already trademarked. EOS
Their still having two connectors is even more annoying than I thought it would be. We have lots of iDevices from several generations and even brand new ones—but only some of them, though, significantly, all the iPhones—are still shipping with lightning, years after they should have gone to USB-C. Given how long we're able to keep these things around and in use, that means we'll be dealing with stupid lightning cables and two different kinds of dongle through at least 2026, even if they switch all their new devices to USB-C today. That, in addition to the irritation & expense of USB-C itself.
It honestly looks like any other android tablet out there now ... even the cheap ones.

Ugh. Oh yeah but it's All-Screen™ now, so my eyes may be wrong.
>hyperinflation comes from out of control money printing by government.

Hyperinflation comes from the fact that governments are unable to service external debt. That's enough to explain the Weimar Republic, Zimbabwe and Venezuela.

Here is the three step plan to hyperinflation. Destroy the local economy. Incur external debt to cover the shortfall. Everyone exchanges their worthless currency for the currency that was used to import products.

Germany was destroyed in the war. Venezuela was hit with huge sanctions on their primary industry. Zimbabwe destroyed its agricultural economy by taking land away from farmers.
The point is showing that the heritability of skin tone and height are about the same is meaningless when talking about skin tone differences among races.

Literally, news articles are written and go viral about "black couple has white baby", whereas there has never been an article "Two 6'3" people have an adult child who is only 5'5""

If you had a series of 100,000 parents+genetic children paraded in front of you, do you think it would be more common to see two parents who are both rather taller or both rather shorter than their child, or would it be more common to see two parents who are appear to be of one race, but their child appears to be of a different race?

If your answer isn't "I'd expect those things to happen at about the same rate", then you should question what exactly the sources are saying for the person who posted about the heritability of height vs skin tone.

The feeling I get is that many people really, really don't want race to be real. Because it if it isn't real, then you can't say there are differences among the races. So, they will argue against common sense and try to say things like height is just as heritable as skin tone as a rebuttal to the fact that pretty much always, two white parents don't give birth to black babies, and two black parents don't give birth to white babies.

I see the same kind of mental logic at play with LGBT-supporters, where there is a strong insistence that being gay is genetic, and not a choice. That way, you can't chalk it up to lifestyle choices that you can just change. Personally, I don't really see why it matters whether being gay is genetic or a choice, because there is literally nothing wrong with being gay, whether you are born that way or whether you "just" choose to be that way.
The generation-specific costs (cartridges) and margins (physical retailer cuts, boxes, licensing fees) would have also been corrected for inflation.

A bit of research shows an approximate $7 for developer cut of each sale at the 1988 figures. Given the approximate inflation adjustment, that becomes $18.20. Given that cartridge, physical retailers, and boxes are mostly gone, and even even with the deep licensing fees of the platforms today (30%), a $50 game will make the developer almost twice as much revenue as it did in 1988.
I mean you could get Osha to start banning foods or do whatever with the jurisdiction they have now. Tax sugar out of existence. Then government subsidize all healthier foods. I mean the amount of money we spent no Covid we could have done all this....

But wait are you saying people should be able to make their on decisions? Obesity effects only a single person. Nope obesity is transmissible. I've seen too many couples where 1 is skinny and the other is obese or overweight. They both become overweight.
Did we read the same article? The author addresses the labor movements and points out that they weren't very concerned with improving safety, sometimes worked against it and cites sources along the way.
Not sure if you are sarcastic or not. Assuming you are not, we can choose not to use the printer, even if we end up defaulting on our debt. And by "we", I mean our representatives in the Congress. The two parties might not agree to raise the debt ceiling this month, and voila, we have US Government default. It might not happen this month or next one, but we have this thing once every few years, so one day it might actually happen. In fact, the US Government did default in the past [1].

[1] https://www.theglobalist.com/a-brief-history-of-u-s-defaults...
Productivity Apps for the Game Boy
Sure, but at least they're being money grubbing than having hidden political agendas. I think Facebook could be much more evil if it decided to forego advertising profit.

Think literally selling elections to foreign governments as a business model, but in the open.
A ransomware attack is as if your building burned down. If you have not practiced what you will do in case of a fire or flood, you will be offline for weeks.

Reading things like "Ransomware attacks are now pervasive" makes me think very few organizations have practiced what to to do despite it being "pervasive."

It isn't easy and it isn't enjoyable. Simply rehearsing restoring a system from a disk failure is stressful and often enough the user finds backup won't restore properly. But you don't know where the pain points are until you rehearse in a controlled environment.
The hardware is great, but the software ecosystem is hamstrung by the 30% commissions for apps.
How does getting a vaccine affect a young healthy person negatively?

It is immoral for the same reason as refusing to help others survive at zero cost to you.
What is a company that doesn't do obnoxious overhyping?
I'm sorry I've misread.
And sometimes the scammers will buy legit, aged accounts, or take them over, so just because an account has been in good standing for years, with what looks like real human interactions with support, isn't enough of a signal to know that a scam isn't taking place from that account.
Does anyone really believe that medical logistics is the most common or most impactful use of "race"?
They would need to develop something like the minuteman missiles but on mobile launchers to be able to retaliate with success.
A quick google search actually reveals Apple has 53% of the market in the U.S. [1]

Also, to even compare that Android phones are 'cheaper' is rather bold, there's Samsung flip phones selling for $2000.

[1] https://www.counterpointresearch.com/us-market-smartphone-sh...
Surprised to see the growth of Ruby in recent years despite Rails gradual decline. Interested if anyone can shed light on what might be going on here.
I've definitely met people, not even fat people, who deny it. They either think they just don't burn many calories because their body is a "different type" or that their body absorbs more calories.

I guess it doesn't deny the physic principle of thermodynamics, but they deny using thermodynamics is a reliable way to predict if you're gonna gain or lose fat.
> An absurdly large proportion

But this is _because_ the system has failed them. For example, I have a lower quality of life than my father despite going to university and being a senior engineer in some huge companies - just because the cost of housing has increased astronomically and we now have to pay back student loans too.

He had a house, family and car at 25. I'm over 30 and can't afford even a car (mainly due to the lack of parking and high fuel prices make it not worthwhile). And I know lots of people who far worse off than I am, those who have been able to progress mostly inherited property from their family.

When people see that working hard gets them nowhere, and those who inherit wealth and prestige are far better off, they lose faith in the system and support radical change.
It's down to personal preference, but my wife went from an iPhone 8 to 12 (A11 to A14) and it was a night and day difference in speed.
100% and the CEO blamed his own lack of work ethic, it's been mistranslated over the years, but this was not due to any real "study".

Do not attribute 32 hour work week to not being successful, it was incredible and allowed for a ton of creative work to come to life.
I was going to ask the same question, its so unusual but never heard it before
None of these studies suggest that getting a vaccine increases your risk. It can only decrease it.
> The switch to plastics has saved lots of money and environmental pollution in logistics

Ah, but this is debatable!

https://www.wri.org/insights/planes-trains-and-big-automobil...

"Trains move 32% of goods in the United States, but generate only 6% of freight-related greenhouse gas emissions. Meanwhile trucks account for 40% of American freight transport and 60% of freight-related emissions."

From the beginning of the industrial period, we relied on rail and boat for logistics, and buggies for last mile deliveries, until the advent of affordable, mass produced vehicles, and the interstate system, this didn't change much. Our reliance on plastics combined with airplanes and trucks for logistics results in much greater pollution in my view.

Granted, coal was the primary fuel source for steamboats and steam engines, but sail still was common until iron boats became widespread, and still more economical for cross-sea transportation.

All this to say, as an amateur historian, in my view, this all comes to a precipice between the late 1950s and early 1960s, with the completion of the interstate highway system in the US, and DuPoint proliferating plastics in 1960s.
There's a section of this article which computes an average hourly wage of ~$40/hr as the expected return on an angel portfolio of $500k which takes 2,500 hours to assemble and earns a return of 20%. This seems to be missing the point that the 20% estimate is an annual return, and not a one-time deal, once this portfolio is assembled. Theoretically it goes on for an indefinite time as the overall portfolio increases in value.

Great article otherwise... by the way, minor nitpick here:

> Some angel investors lose 100% of their principle.

Should be "principal", although some might cynically argue that the typo makes this even more true!
Black Mirror frequently borrows from Apple's aesthetics and marketing style when presenting in-universe products and ads, so it's natural that an Apple keynote would remind one of Black Mirror.
Ask HN: What's the status of Canonical Ltd, the company behind Ubuntu?
I have been following (and a fan of) Ubuntu since its inception in 2004, and met Mark Shuttleworth a few times in the past.

I haven't heard much about Canonical Ltd, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, and I am wondering if there's any important news that I missed in the past several months.
I can sort of understand your poisiton if I squint hard enough... but what you're saying is that if apple came out as fully Anti-privacy and invasive like Google then you would be more okay with them than you are now.

That's weird.
US =/= World.
And I said 50$ to anything, i never called them cheap.
It does seem ass backwards.

Google scans your content for CSAM on their servers. And they scan your content for demographic and advertising data and god knows what else.

I do not see your logic here. It appears to be an ill-decided knee-jerk reaction.
You’ll likely see them in other products like lower end tablets or the Apple TV where lasering a core or two doesn’t matter.
Yeah this is similar to the "Dominoes taking off with new tech" articles where they cite growth and some changes.

Really though Dominoes changed their recipe a and it doesn't taste like garbage anymore and folks noticed.

I have had similar experiences with A&W franchises being inconsistent / dirty stores, etc.
> Does anyone else see Wozniak as the headliner and shrug?

I look at it and cringe. Would be much more credible without his name on it.
Matter (aether) is constant, it cannot be created or destroyed.
Mass is created in places where matter's (aether's) density gets slightly higher or lower than its baseline density.
Photons don't exist.
You're welcome.
Well, I was 75% correct, anyway.
A lot of modern software makes me feel stressed, confused and aggravated. When I open Youtube Music I never know what I'm going to get - sometimes Your Favourites is at the top, sometimes Mixed for You, sometimes something else. When I open Netflix it's almost always the case that I want to continue watching something, but will I find that in row 1 or row 4? How long will I need to scroll to find it?
Sad news. I remember finishing the HTML, CSS and PHP courses on there back in 2014. They really paid attention to details and made video-based learning less boring. It's a pretty stark contrast to Udemy, where I don't think I've ever finished a single course.

They had (at the time), really good teachers, and the forums were a great source of knowledge.
Surprisingly, many software engineers I know never used percentiles and keep using mean average. True story.
I feel like this title needs a less advertorial overhaul, at least for HN
iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max announced with high refresh rate 120Hz displays
You don't pay for these products though, which removes most of your options to seek monetary damages for <anything>. The same argument applies to nearly all [free] software - whether it's Chromium or curl.
1. Just generally, it's rather exploitive to require something unpaid that people do in their spare time in order for them to get a job.

2. Specifically with respect to race and gender, don't use something to guide hiring that you know skews one way. And don't excuse it by saying "but those other people had the freedom and opportunity". They did, but it still skews, and you still know it does. Don't use signals that are known to be biased.
What cultures are they not common in? I know you aren't talking about China, at least. Definitely not Japan, not most of East Asia. Probably not western Europe either, and it's pretty common in North America.
New Evidence for the Density Divide Hypothesis
The UDDSketch (default) implementation will allow rolling percentiles, though we still need a bit of work on our end to support it. There isn't a way to do this with TDigest however.
I empathize with her situation as I've been in similar situation at a Big 4 organization - An onshore manager (not my direct manager) from my team called me up at 2.30am (his afternoon time) during the first week of our engagement. I did not receive the call but fretted over whether he had an emergency at the Client site.

Turns out, that the next day, he mentioned he had simply called up at the unearthly hour to ask about details that I had already mailed him the previous evening. His lame excuse - 'Sorry dude, I don't read mails'

I'm not sure if I should feel proud or ashamed (or maybe both) that I was able to pull off 60-80 hour weeks and weekend work far too long for my corporate overlords without resorting to exotic stuff that the interviewee in this article used for staying up late/battling stress.

As long as people are enamored by such workplaces (including 24 year old past 'me'), not much will change - at least not soon.

Edit: Forgot to mention that the manager showed no remorse for a situation that was never an emergency. Guess I should simply be grateful that he didn't reprimand me for failing to be his 24 hour little helper/Verbal Email reader. :)

Regards,

~Burned out Corporate Slave
It was two separate products with separate origins. Macromedia had Shockwave and then they purchased Flash (which was called Splash then) and branded it Shockwave Flash.

Shockwave was somewhat similar to Flash, but it was developed for the "multimedia" CD-ROM's, which meant the files was generally too big for online. Flash was much more compact which is why it won out.
MIT Project with New Powerful Magnet Brings Major Advance Toward Fusion Energy
The worst part is that adding ECC support should only increase the price of RAM by about 13%, which given that the RAM modules are about $50-$100 on most builds works out to $7-$13 to the total cost of the machine. Every machine should come with ECC. It's such cheap insurance. But because the chip manufacturers have to make more money by artificially segmenting the market almost nobody runs ECC on home machines.
>Shouldn't this read "which prevents inflation"?

As I mentioned above, hyperinflation happens when everyone abandons the currency and uses something else. Bitcoin is not immune to that just because it has a fixed supply. There are lots of fixed supply cryptocurrencies that went to 0.
The U.S. funded an exercise back in, iirc, the 60s of getting a few physics grad students to design a fission bomb using only open-source info. (That's far less resources than modern Japan could give it.) They succeeded at coming up with a viable implosion design.
Microsoft launching tech resilience curriculum to foster a more inclusive future
It's a new media subsystem userspace API, not just a new driver, and the API will be stable from the get go, instead of languishing in the staging area, like the H.264 one.
> In some respects, "Say No to Drugs" seems out of date when some very advanced democracies have already legalised some drugs or are close to it.

I think there's a certain nuance there. Drugs (which ones?) can (should?) be legal - or at least their consumption decriminalized. We've made good progress already and yet much more is to be made.

But all this is not saying that drugs should be pushed hand over fist down people's throat and that billions should be spent on studying the ways people can be more encouraged to become drug users.

And this is what Facebook et al are doing. They are spending untold resources on devising the most efficient ways of making people addicted and ensuring that no other way exist of satisfying the cravings. They create echo chambers and push specifically topics that get the most response out of people.

And this is completely legal (currently). Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok etc... are allowed to be cool, hip, desirable and consumed in ways that the tobacco industry couldn't imagine in their wildest dreams during their heydays.

These companies can tap into the deepest secrets and desires of vast swathes of people in ways that is unprecedented.

I feel that the vices of the old world, like drugs, are chickenshit compared to the power that the new vices can wield over their captives.
Are you talking about 1 year of data post infection or post vaccination?
The differences between blue, yellow, and green are pretty minor compared to radio or gamma radiation.

No, I don't know what the point of this comment is. But I'm not sure I understand the point of the parent comment either.
This looks quite nice! I really liked the dark mode, it’s quite pleasant to read on my phone.
Then I think we're in agreement? "Connecting via social apps has a non-0 probability of giving (to whom? at least one person?) positive mental health benefits".
Talent comes and goes. If other companies can hire away talent, Intel can hire them back too. If you pay enough, people will come. Intel currently seem quite willing to pay.
iPhone 13 Pro
I'm not there yet in terms of personal resources, but what you're saying resonates with me. Like, I threw $5k at shares in a renewable energy co-op and felt good about it, even though I have no idea if that money is ever coming back.
Yes, whatever other issues people have with vaccines or especially the politics around them, vaccines do reduce the chance of serious disease. They seem to be less effective than resistance gained through infection, but do protect against delta.
I'm not hugely opposed to price increases: these things happen. But the reality is you'll just get both. Now that it's determined that players will accept ads, microtransactions, gacha, etc., why not raise prices and also get those revenue streams. FIFA costing $70 will not stop the all-encompassing focus on Ultimate Team. (For perpective, just the Ultimate Team modes in their sports games supply about a third of EA's total revenue.)

It's like when people say "if you're not paying for a service, then you're the product" to describe when user data is sold, when in actuality many services you do pay for happily sell your data all over the place.
Apple has kind of disappointed me with the software situation on iPads. I have an iPad Pro that I use as a laptop, but the reality is that the processing power available is underused. It has a 120Hz screen, but websites can't render to the canvas at 120Hz. There is no CAD software (which is nice when you design something and head to your makerspace to actually manufacture it -- I just print plans out on paper, but it's annoying if you need to change something while you're working). There is no software development software. (iSH is neat, but TestFlight-only, and probably something Apple doesn't like. I assume it will be removed from my device at any moment.) I can kind of download pictures from my digital camera and edit them, but the experience isn't great.

I think Apple's problem here is that they don't want to cannibalize OS X sales with tablets, and they don't want to cannibalize App Store revenue by letting people type in code to solve their problems.

Anyway, I've been relatively happy with the crippled mobile device model for a while, but it doesn't seem sustainable. I'm waiting for someone, anyone, to produce a 5nm ARM chip that anyone can buy, and then just having a Linux laptop like a normal person. As it stands, nobody other than Apple seems to be able to produce a decent mobile chip. This is very bad for the field of computing in general.