skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember that this was on the heels of NeXTs failure as a hardware company and then their failure to capture any real market as a software company. At the time Jobs was probably thinking that it would be quick infusion income to get a major supplier like Dell to license OPENSTEP/Mac OS X or whatever it was at the time, even if he had longer term visions of getting back to hardware (in the consumer space this time, not higher ed/corporate as was the NeXT strategy).
Me neither... I only got here by submitting the article (8 hours late!).

The comments are great.

This article should not be flagged.
I disagree on everything you said about scala, except your point about JVM :) but obviously I am biased. WRT to JVM, pure FP recursion (beyond simple tail call elimination) relies on trampolining which is a whole other can of worms. Stacksafe but with heavy performance penalties.
Apple does not inflict unreplaceable batteries, or lack of headphone jack, or no power brick withe their phone, or no headphones with phones, or fragile glass backs. They made their choice and the other companies followed along.

I wish they hadn't done some of those choices myself, looking at you glass back.

But Apple did not coerce Samsung to follow along, and I doubt that they made economies of scale issues for the rest of the phone market given their <20% market share.

Samsung makes plenty of ads to take pot shots at Apple for these changes, and then a few months later they themselves follow suit.

I just don't think enough people care about those features to vote with their wallet.
> Users would need an order of magnitude superior alternative

Is there currently any alternative? All the alternatives I'm aware of ATM are Twitter clones; i.e., meant to be public microblogs, rather than restricted audience microblogs.

Recommend me a good alternative and I'll see if I can get some of my network to join it. (And don't say "Mastodon" unless they've added a FB-like mode where you can restrict your posts to a specific set of people.)
Interesting. I didn't realize it was that bad at absorption.
Maybe referring to dropping Windows from the original Xbox:

https://www.shacknews.com/article/95635/how-the-original-xbo...
Depending on your DHCP and DNS servers, they might already have this built in. dnsmasq will maintain DNS entries for the DHCP leases it hands out, and can also add AAAA records if it sees a SLAAC message for a MAC address it gave a DHCP lease to. BIND’s servers (dhcpd, named, kea) can be set up so that for each DHCP lease assigned, a DDNS update is sent.
LOL. That's never that easy.

"A Group is Its Own Worst Enemy" (PDF): https://www.gwern.net/docs/technology/2005-shirky-agroupisit...
Plastic comes mostly from natural gas, doesn't it? The "oil" there is just a generalization, as I understand it is on the GGP.

Anyway, the production of any of those is almost completely inelastic.
It's less crossing than 2x at the extremes
That's why I like Google Cloud naming. Compute Engine, Cloud SQL, Cloud Build, Kubernetes, ...
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For my own perspective, I am Canadian and that article is absolutely correct that the term is considered "racially charged" here.

It's also correct that "Inuit" doesn't encompass all Indigenous peoples of the Arctic... but it doesn't have to? I don't see why you need such a term. If you want to talk about the Yupik people, use that term. If you want an all-encompassing term, use "Indigenous peoples".

Even if, for whatever reason, you need a term that includes these ethnic groups, but excludes other indigenous peoples, then why does it have to be "Eskimo"?

As a white person, I'm an outsider to the situation so I'm going to take my guidance from Inuit groups themselves, and they object to the term. There's nothing complex about saying that it's a bad idea to call a people by a term that they themselves consider offensive.
I am not that familiar with the history of railroads, but I will speculate:

- take the railroad as far west as possible, then a stagecoach (expensive, slow, uncomfortable). The land route was created after the Gold Rush: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Trail

- ship to Panama, cross by land in Panama, ship from Panama to California (cheaper, slower, risk of disease like malaria)

- ship around South America. Yep, all the way to Antarctica, through Magellan Strait. (even cheaper, even slower, risks from travelling by the sea). This route seems crazy if you look at the map. However, for goods, it was very much in use before Panama Channel was built. Sea is so much easier than land.

I am not sure what "foreign power" this quote refers to though. Panama? Chile? Maybe you could also go through Mexico?
the hardest part here is horizontal scaling. OpenAI handrolled its own MPI+SSH stack (https://openai.com/blog/scaling-kubernetes-to-7500-nodes/)

I wonder what is the state of art for horizontal scaling here ...preferably on kubernetes.

Pytorch is tricky to integrate (using TorchElastic). You could use Dask or Ray Distributed. Tensorflow has its own mechanism that doesnt play nice with Kubernetes.

How are others doing it ?
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Why didn’t auto-braking stop these crashes?
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> Thiel bought his shares at $0.001/share in the same round where the company was valued at $0.20/share.

The strike price and the "fair market value" are often different so there's nothing exceptional or even unique there. Odds are, half the people reading this thread have had the same situation in their careers. The difference is that this company (Paypal) ended up working so those shares became valuable.

If you or I did it, we'd pay the strike price, it'd be reported to the IRS at the FMV, and we'd pay the tax on the difference. In this case, it would be some percent (22? 25?) of 1.7M*(0.20-0.001) or ~$338k.

Of course, from there you get into the "unrealized gains" battle that screws over people with illiquid shares.
yeah, stress can do terrible things to your body, affect nervous system function, cognitive impairment, major stomach issues, affect the heart and its function, and on and on..
Jesus, any plans to donate your body to science at some point to study the effects of such high consumption?
In the south-eastern US, it's totally normal to order an "orange Coke" (which Coca-Cola either does not make or does not call "Coke" at a minimum).
Stackoverflow has help me many times

With real useful answers. As late as today.
I also received this email. Can you tell me what they asked you to update? in my case it was: fundraising and if I already constituted a company. The email is signed by Tommy. Who wrote to you?
I don't see an identifiable reaction, though perhaps some statistics can pull one out. The reaction from a sugary drink is consistent and dramatic.
Meh, I'd say you could be a pro at the IM level. Plenty of IMs do lessons and stuff.

But yeah 2100 lichess is not even close to pro.
Yes, around that time it was possible to build OPENSTEP apps in either Java or Obj-C.
> Former ÖVP general-secretary Andreas Hanger lashed out at corruption prosecutors on Tuesday, arguing the agency has been harboring “leftist cells” and is working to support the ÖVP’s political opponents. His accusations were widely picked up by Austrian media, also because he subsequently failed to answer journalists’ questions on why he believed the supposedly anti-ÖVP prosecutor had the Social Democratic mayor of Salzburg jailed in 2019.

I can answer that question - because of "[the Salzburg Mayor's] part in a wider scandal in which local officials lost 340 million euros of public money in risky stock and debt trades" [1].

I'm confused why the journalists would even ask Andreas that. Even if the prosecutor were anti-ÖVP, as alleged, that does not mean he would overlook every non-ÖVP crime. But I'm sure the journalists knew that.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-austria-salzburg-scandal-...
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you mean automating through the api.
Do you consume other caffeinated beverages like coffee or tea?
Well how do you differentiate critical versus non-critical needs? Canada has universal healthcare but they ration care by restricting supply, which results in long wait times for certain treatments. If a patient needs a hip replacement and is in severe pain is that critical or non-critical?

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/podcast/2018/o...
Initialisms.
> It would break the industry to demand that they must allow alternative app stores on their consoles, as those third party app stores would be parasitizing the work the console developer did designing, manufacturing, developing the OS and services, etc and subsidising the devices.

This is a weird objection. It's like saying that if you ban robocalls, it will break the robocalling industry. Well, yeah, that's the point. That business model is abusive.

It doesn't cause game consoles to not exist, they would just work differently. You would pay the actual cost for the hardware and less for games.

The overall cost would plausibly be less because there is no need for any of this lock-in business anymore. Instead of buying a "PlayStation" for $300 you buy a copy of PlayStationOS for $50 and install it as a secondary OS on your Xbox or PC. Then a console costs more but you need a third as many of them, meanwhile all the games are cheaper because they're not paying a huge cut to a gatekeeper.
Also increase the contribution limits to the hard maximum including employer contributions (e.g. $64.5k/yr) or eliminate them entirely then just cap the maximum post-tax value of your total tax advantaged accounts and require payouts above the caps.

The maximum value cap should be indexed to your age (and inflation), such that the maximum allowed is enough that if left alone can support a very well funded retirement anywhere in the country with very high probability.
It is likely as mythical as the claim that Inuits have more hand hundred words for snow.
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Yeah, I haven't deleted my account, but I don't log in anymore (and blocked all FB-related domains on my Pi-Hole). I still keep in touch with a lot of people, but it's definitely challenging. I've just totally lost contact with TONS of people, ones who I'd love to keep talking with here and there. I accept the "loss" and do what I can to regain contact with people. Drag them kicking & screaming to stuff like Signal, Matrix, Mastodon, etc. Honestly I focus even harder on these alternatives because I think they are more important than ever.
One possibility is that a Facebook account becomes something that most people have but they seldom use, like a LinkedIn account.

The news feed could get less interesting, resulting in fewer visits.
That's just Apple marketing though. Since day 1 their messaging would have you believe that "computing" is the domain of fusty old number crunchers, while Apple products are somehow beyond all that.

I appreciate Android more and more because from a design standpoint, it had "desktop" features on day 1. File explorers apps, or being able to choose which app to open a file with. Connect it to a PC and it becomes a USB storage device.

Yet somehow Apple, which required the god-awful iTunes software to do anything sync-related, won the MP3 player battle.
How do you feel about false positives?
If only their tech stack was at the same level.

No joke. Sometimes I appreciate the way Azure has chosen to differentiate itself in terms of developer experience.

Then there are times using it when I want to walk into an ocean.

Interestingly, those times seem to be anytime I have to deal with Application Insights or LogAnalytics. Azure, if anyone working on those two products are reading this, y’all need to go read up on this thing called ‘correlation’ because the Azure native logging and APM is…

whistles

boy.

It’s something. I just love waiting 5-15 minutes just to see a log line, if I even see it at all with how routinely problematic and unstable their logging infrastructure is[1]

[1] https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-monitor-status/...

(We’re already looking to get away from LA though)
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This is a silly objection in my opinion - clients demand unreasonable things all the time. Its up to you to write a reasonable SLA that protects yourself.

Dont get me wrong, i wish npm audit was better. But unreasonable people will be unreasonable regardless of the tools they have access to.
"Moreover, in human studies it has been found that alcohol consumption produces an increase in the ethanol elimination rate, specially at high concentrations, which is when the action of MEOS take place.37 This is important since it leads to a greater plasma concentration of acetaldehyde as well as an increase in toxic metabolites which may cause liver damage."

Ah, this is the thing I was mentioning earlier, but my other source didn't say that it increased the elimination rate.
All of that was just them dusting off the 1991 playbook from the first Gulf War. That was the first time an ongoing war was mass marketed in the "modern" way, I think (you could argue successful war propaganda has been happening for centuries through other media).

I even remember this thing at the Scholastic Book Fair that was basically a book-magazine thing and contained a large fold out map and a list of all the int'l military divisions that would be participating in Operation Desert Storm; essentially armchair generalship marketed to kids.
VAIO were a solid computers (at least my memory of them).

I would have killed to have Vista on my VAIO. I had Windows ME on it! Despite that fact, it still sits among my most beloved computers that I have owned. It was also the first that I had purchased new whereas all the previous ones were hand-me-downs.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
The 401ks will still enjoy better legal protections in states that don't absolutely protect IRAs.
> Top 0.1%ile of 8,000,000,000 is 8 Million.

"All of humanity" a silly denominator.

There are fewer than 30 million software engineers in the world [1], so at 0.1% we're talking about 30,000 people worldwide. That's... not a lot of people. At all. There are waaaaaay more than 30K "we'll pay anything for the best" SWE positions in the world.

> Most woke, liberal graduates were protected from competition from other countries due to their location advantage.

On the contrary, I think those "liberal graduates" understand the US SWE labor market better than you do.

Tech is one of the least protected occupations in the United States. Driving up the supply of tech talent has been an explicit goal of the United States' immigration policy for 30+ years. Unlike medicine or engineering, there's no licensing barriers. And outsourcing has been an option for decades.

A lot of the labor market disruption you're predicting already happened. Stuff that could be effectively outsourced to IIT grads was outsourced over a decade ago. At this point, I'd bet good money that over the last 10 years or so automation (aka cloud and devops) was responsible for more IT layoffs than outsourcing.

> Ironically these woke employees are demanding remote work, displaying their usual cluelessness about unintended consequences.

I thought this would happen as well, but data seems to suggest exactly the opposite.

Also, while we're on the topic, outsourcing and skimping on engineering compensation obviously works -- just look at how IBM has taken over the tech industry while domestic firms like the FAANGs have languished ;-)

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[1] https://www.daxx.com/blog/development-trends/number-software...
That is still very likely to result in a worse experience for iPhone users for all the reasons I listed. I don’t think Apple’s concern is whether they can use their UI to shift blame to its customers when they sideload software that makes them unhappy—they just want their customers to be happy.
Wouldn't that kind of confirm my point though? In this theoretical universe where Apple is going bankrupt because there's no iPhone, but they do have a decent operating system they're wholly dedicated to (in addition to Sun's previous interest in the system before), might have made it attractive to an executive at Sun.

I'm not saying it would have worked out any better for Sun, just that they were one of the bigger players in the tech world in the late 90's/early 2000's, and I could see trying to break into the desktop space seeming valuable to them at the time.
> exponential antibody decay

Antibodies are part of the adaptive immune system but are only produced when the body thinks there is an active infection. To simply greatly long term immunity is maintained via memory B cells because constantly producing antibodies to every disease encountered is untenable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_B_cell

> grand total of 1 protein

That’s not how these vaccines work. A vaccination covers a huge range of mutations in that spike protein as the immune system memorizes multiple targets. Again simplifying it’s like memorizing 4 of your ten fingerprints, lose a finger and you still match the other 3. The protein target is chosen because it is part of the mechanism of infection, without that a simple COVID variant can’t infect you. Of course given enough time it could evolve around this issue but we are not talking about a single mutation.
Same, I bought a bike from RadPower as well, since they are based in Canada where I am it only took 2 days to arrive. Their new RadCity Plus [1] looks good, a clear progression in design from the previous RadCity [2].

I found out you can buy https://eggrider.com/ and modify the computer controller settings (ie, increase the speed by overriding the governor). But otherwise I find the bike was more than fast enough.

[1] https://radpowerbikes.ca/products/radcity-plus-electric-comm...

[2] https://radpowerbikes.ca/products/radcity-electric-commuter-...
Humor is notoriously subjective and also dependent on mood.

The Goes Wrong Show is reliably funny for me; the premise is that a small-town serious theater troop has lucked into a time slot on a BBC channel, and they do their earnest utmost to do theatre well. But -- it all goes wrong. There's a stage version and two (UK) seasons of the show.

Whose Line Is It Anyway? typically manages a few howlingly good bits in any given show.

Key and Peele did five seasons and I get something hilarious out of basically every show, but I also think they fall flat several times per show.

Saturday Night Live has had good years and bad; they've always had a problem with knowing when to stop a sketch, but they're still worth watching, if not worth staying up for. There's a lot of survivorship bias with SNL: you can see the best bits of 45 years, and compared with that, how's this week's show going to rate?
The voting system might not be perfect. And no top answer is not always the good one. But the good answer is most often there.
The ph sits in a different place. Try adding a dash of lemon or lime juice.
I don't think there is a single answer to "why the US built railroads", but both the railroads and the Eisenhower's Interstate Highway System certainly had something to do with the military needs.
OPENSTEP was running on x86 even before the merger. The work would have been mostly to make it look and feel more like what Mac OS users were familiar with, and adding the ability to run "Classic" Mac OS applications.
What a great article to put the Covid hysteria in perspective. It's also been claimed that fear was the driving force behind putting patients on sedation and ventilation, because staff didn't want Covid patients coughing or breathing on them. The outcomes for these patients were not good is my understanding.

Either way, I think we can look back at this and realize how crazy and stupid this is, but also that we have to progressed any at all. Still lots of equally insane things going on.
Tangential - the skip list example seems different from how I learned them in data structures. Wouldn't a better skip list have "down pointers" at each node so you don't have to retrace your work at each layer?
> I wonder how much more popular Unix would be nowadays had this gone through.

Half a phone convo:

Hi, this is Steve Jobs. If you engage in licensing with Apple, I will port my Unix-based OS to your brand of generic PC hardware.

What? Yes, I sorta know I can already do that without you licensing anything from me.

Why am I talking to you? Good question, you see ...

Yes, I know about Linux.

But anyway, so how about it?
> Apple is the primary reason we have unreplaceable batteries, for example.

This is a goofy fantasy. Apple, which is a minority player in this market, is forcing everyone else to make battery replacements difficult?

No it's not. That's false, and doesn't pass the laugh test. Can we engage with the truth, instead? Is that too difficult?

There are no "economies of scale" here. Phone batteries aren't a standardized part; every iPhone has a customized battery that fits into the odd-shaped space Apple is able to create in the design. Your economies of scale argument is therefore total nonsense.
As someone that just finished an ebook[0] and went through making it a reality[1], I welcome the effort to make this step effortless. I don't think anyone really nailed this up until now. If you succeed, it could be huge!

That said, I miss any kind of examples on the site. Let me see a finished ebook, let me try the editor. And because I am a technical writer, I have to ask. Will you support technical books? How will you handle code snippets, highlighting, or line comments?

[0] https://deploymentfromscratch.com/

[1] https://nts.strzibny.name/ruby-for-ebook-publishing/
50/50 shot that you aren't aware of the adverse effects it is having.
You can always ask for a glass of water specifically. Any place with a soda fountain can give you cold, filtered tap water.
I admire you for saying that you genuinely enjoy/extract value from seeing "so-and-so from high school just had a baby, or whatever" on Facebook. I'm on the side of the others in that I don't feel like I lost anything from deleting my FB account (except I can't remember birthdays anymore). But it's interesting to hear you say you do.

This particular thread reminded me of another recent thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28603650 - an app to help you form deeper relationships. Do you need it? Do we need it? Do these things really help?

It's funny - maybe the perfect compromise is exactly what you described. You sometimes want mostly mindless FB updates from people you "know" and otherwise converse with your core friends and family through in-person interactions and other more engaging medium.
I don't think Google drops then, just prohibits updates. Apps usually keep working but no guarantee for complex apps that depend on changing APIs (like the DnD change with Android 5 or so).
> My hunch is that the monumental amount of work to make virtualized GPU support and zero-copy hardware accelerated graphics work from WSL2 to the desktop (a technology called "VAIL", which hasn't shipped yet) is in order to support Android apps on Windows, and that's always been the goal of this team and a series of high profile projects.

Unfortunately, Google's anticompetitive moves with SafetyNet will ensure that many Android apps will only run on Google-blessed hardware and software platforms.

WSL 1 & 2 are amazingly innovative platforms, as is WINE. Microsoft has undoubtedly created untold value for developers and their shareholders with WSL. The anticompetitive limitations implemented in SafetyNet, however, serve to stifle such innovation, and prevent many Android apps from running on other platforms.
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