skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple has moved from being an incredibly innovative company under Steve Jobs to a much more corporate, mature company that relies more on incremental growth. They don’t really have any incentive to change because of their success, and this fundamental pattern happens to every company (see GE’s history after Edison). Apple simply isn’t the company it was before, and that’s a natural part of capitalism.

Other Apples are emerging all the time, and will continue to emerge
Investors Spent Millions on 'Evolved Apes' NFTs. Then They Got Scammed
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They're pretty much seem the same to me

Same with Snowden. The person who needs to answer the question is 10 levels above him

She is showing us "evil stuff happened"

The question we're asking is "Did evil stuff happen on purpose, and who directed it"

Both Snowden and Her can't honestly answer than question (Snowden wasn't really an official employee IIRC)

My issue is her portrayal not by herself but mostly by the media like she can prove the latter
Generally speaking, if it works with Postgres, it works with Timescale. Hasura even has documentation on how to use TimescaleDB with Hasura [1].

That said, I'd be curious to hear about other folks experiences.

Disclaimer: I work at Timescale.

[1] https://hasura.io/blog/using-timescaledb-with-hasura-graphql...
Big corporations lobby big government to get big subsidies.

I'm for small, local government and small business. And to get all the corporate money out of politics.

But the trend is always to go big, if the law allows. It seems to be very difficult to reverse that trend.
It's worse, right? Other than second-hand smoke, tobacco for the most part hurts just that person. The same can't be said for social media.
> I would have a much higher opinion of Steve Jobs if he'd have kept Apple manufacturing in the USA instead of helping gut the Bay Area's electronics manufacturing industry by outsourcing to Foxconn and others.

He did. Apple's manufacturing wasn't outsourced until well after Jobs left the company in 1985: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/15/business/apple-california...

Meanwhile at NeXT, Steve Jobs built a massive automated factory in Fremont: https://www.cultofmac.com/617676/a-brief-history-of-steve-jo...

None of these efforts worked out, which is probably one reason he didn't reverse Apple's trend of outsourcing after he returned in 1997. Tim Cook took charge of Apple's operations in 1998.
I am aware of the Fed solution. I can tell you it’s DOA and by design.
Many Israelis have received a booster shot. Comparing “double vaccinated” population there would need to take into account and adjust for the reasons why that segment of the population did not receive a booster. Otherwise you aren’t comparing like for like.

Using a country that had not given out boosters, like the USA or UK until recently, you’d get a better idea of the efficacy of the vaccine against Delta infections.

Moreover even in Israel the daily cases among double vaccinated are less than those among the unvaccinated. Look at the chart here https://www.ft.com/content/a1b2fd70-71b5-4e91-be0b-553b0e1e2... The line for “Two dose” cases per 100k among over 60 year olds is below unvaccinated since august 15 and continually remains less.

90%? No, that’s too high, but for instance data from public health England is saying the vaccines have around 15-45% efficacy (or 40-80% if doses 8+ weeks apart) against covid-19 infection after 25+ weeks, not 0%. https://mobile.twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1437890711139995...
I've had this for years with DarkSky - who Apple bought and now the default weather app in iOS is based on.

When it first came out I can remember being at a friends baseball game - it was sunny but I got an alert that rain was going to start in 10 minutes. So I went and got an umbrella from the car. Got some snide comments - until 8 minutes later when it started pouring down rain!

It's not perfect, but it is spooky at how many times it is spot on with rain within the next hour. The more systems offering this kind of service the better since it is very useful!
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The National Institutes of Health [Wednesday, August 7, 2013] announced in Nature that it has reached an understanding with the family of the late Henrietta Lacks to allow biomedical researchers controlled access to the whole genome data of cells derived from her tumor, commonly known as HeLa cells. These cells have already been used extensively in scientific research and have helped make possible some of the most important medical advances of the past 60 years. These include the development of modern vaccines, cancer treatments, in vitro fertilization techniques, and many others. HeLa cells are the most widely used human cell lines in existence today. Access to the whole genome data of these cells will be a valuable reference tool for researchers using HeLa cells in their research.

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-lacks-fami...
Except that one of them occurred at the time & place of the major transition of power and actively stormed a congressional session resulting in deaths in a core federal government building. But sure... other than that "not all that different".
Then you can double down on the taxes you levy against them if they begin harming more people, no? The idea is the cost of doing bad business will eventually be too much to make it worth doing that sort of bad business. Same idea with carbon taxes where the costs scale to damage and incentivize shifting to good behavior rather than doubling down on bad behavior. And even with cigarette companies doubling down, far fewer people smoke today and die of lung cancer than 50 years ago, so this stuff works on the whole.
They're really not breaking any laws.

They might be doing some things which are questionable ethically. But stopping that would require new laws. And that's very hard because you can't really make a case to target FB in particular (and not also a bunch of other harmful media). But other harmful media (eg Fox "news") is protected by the 1st amendment. And likely so is Facebook for that matter.

But pointing at unethical behaviour and pretending you're outraged is very in vogue. Doubly so in big tech.
Not hard to guess, just take a look at Reddit.
To expand on why this made me think of the Google outage:

It was a global backbone isolation, caused by configuration changes (as they all are...). It was detected fairly early on, but recovery was difficult because internal tools / debugging workflows were also impacted, and even after the problem was identified, it still took time to back out the change.

"But wait, a global backbone isolation? Google wasn't totally down," you might say. That's because Google has two (primary) backbones (B2 and B4), and only B4 was isolated, so traffic spilled over onto B2 (which has much less capacity), causing heavy congestion.
Cybersecurity Interview with Troy Hunt
As the saying goes there are two hard problems in computing: naming things, cache invalidation, and buffer overflows.

Most of these systems are about naming things and cache invalidation.
> I think Apple would be an even more interesting company if he were still around

There is no way Jobs would have been at the helm of Apple, even if he was still alive.

He'd have been canceled, matter of fact he'd have been one of the first people to get canceled given that he'd be occupying a spot wanted by basically everybody, plus he had made so many enemies....and finally let's not dabble around it: guy had so many personal flaws and his personal relationships are a mine field.

He'd have been #metoo'd or singled out for abusive behavior towards subordinates or some other thing.

He was the one guy who could be taken down by basically every strain of SJW. They'd have had the time of their lives dragging him in so many battlefields of the culture wars, and he'd have lost on all of them.

From a legacy standpoint death was the best thing for Steve Jobs, much like his idol John Lennon. Death freezes the public perception and stops people from digging dirt.
The scientist teaching AI to police human speech
Physical things exist, the fact that they are attributed to certain humans as property is a social construct.
Not everyone has the same moral compass. It isn’t even clear that the whistleblower herself was guided by concern for society: she first went to the SEC with these complaints. That’s a weird place to go with concerns about social media’s impact on society. I wonder why? Perhaps…just maybe…it was because the SEC will give her 10-30% of any fines levied against Facebook, leading to a potential windfall of $1 billion or more to her personally.

It takes truly egregious behavior for society to agree that new laws must be passed to outlaw it. The current state of social media says much more about human behavior than Facebook’s behavior. Everyone here would also almost certainly reject the kinds of laws that would be required to make Facebook/IG a healthier place. They would likely involve serious privacy violations, just for starters. So given that legislation in this area has almost no chance of passing, it is unclear what the point of this is, other than a huge payday for the whistleblower.
https://vt100.net/docs/vt3xx-gp/chapter14.html#T14-1

Am I reading this incorrectly? It seems I was wrong, it supports 8-bit color, not 6-bit color. But that's still terrible, and every Sixel implementation I've ever used has spit out dithered images. The only terminal that is able to display full color images for me is iTerm, using the iTerm escape sequences, which are different escape sequences from sixel. So again, please help out with fixing this for me if you know how. Because so far you have not adequately explained what is going on here, or corrected any misconceptions, or helped to fix anything that is wrong with these terminals. And even the various libsixel examples seems to show dithering: https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel

If I'm confused then you could be in a great position to help me out, so please explain what apparently myself and the libsixel authors are both doing wrong. Then maybe at some point in the future I could help you out and return the favor.

And there are also other problems with the iterm escape sequences that I suspect will prevent you from correctly implementing them in tmux (see here: https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/issues/3898). So all paths point towards needing to make some new protocol for this. You may be in the best position to do that too.

>Intel macs can run Windows natively. You've also got your pick of emulators, from parallels to vmware, if you roll that way.

I'm not going to dual boot Windows or use a VM just to use a terminal emulator for a couple minutes, sorry. If you could just explain what that terminal does that's special so that it could be implemented in other terminals, or show a video, that would help.

>What you've written makes about as much sense as saying a drawing program should stop trying to support BMP format since it will have to be replaced down the line by JPG or PNG. gimp, paint and others support many formats. Nobody is complaining. People just click on open. They don't care about the underlying formats.

If GIMP was attempting to pressure other projects to output BMP files then yes, that would be a problem. I suspect other projects wouldn't go for that just because they asked.
'Won't find' vs 'may rarely find'.

How about we just assess each individual without going in with any prejudice based on their age?
Big enough for Google to release their own product soon — https://tables.area120.google.com/about
They probably didn't put that in their 10-K though.
That isn't the Android version that most people get to use.
>As an example, Apple extracts value from its customers who sign up for Netflix on its platform.

This statement is false. If people are signing up for Netflix via Apple's platform then they're already customers of Apple's and, therefore, Netflix is not providing that value. Instead, Apple is only deriving additional value when customers sign-up through Apple's services for Netflix which is where Apple would collect that 15/30. Currently, you can't do that because Netflix doesn't want to play with those percentages so Apple derives no value from Netflix customers on their platform.
i use the Eagle one at the end of my routing flow:

first drop VCC and GND vias if you're using power planes, then route chunky power traces, route high-speed / differential pairs, finally autoroute everything else

on some boards, only 3-4 signals aren't power or something tight, but for LED Matrix boards with thousands of criss-crossing low-speed signals and other 'fun' projects with hundred of components (keyboards!), the autorouter is really the only way to go if you want to be done in a night or two
Because the 'ping' sound it makes as the coin hits the ground is much, much more satisfying than 'brrrrrr'
Smoking was happening in the 1800's. Lung Cancer rates didn't shoot up until the 1900's, it was rather rare. This is around the same time that tobacco companies figured out they could soak tobacco in ammonia. This allowed for inhalation into the lungs (e.g. it sucks to inflate a cigar deep into your lungs). It also made the cigarettes much more addicting, so people smoked way more and inhaled into the lungs. That's about when lung cancer stopped being so rare.

Yes, cig's cause cancer, but to say that it's because it burns tobacco is missing a big part of the story.
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I think Apple would be an even more interesting company if he were still around. Maybe not as big or as profitable, but certainly more interesting.

I agree. As a user of Apple products, I think Apple makes great products. And I don't believe Apple can't innovate because Jobs is gone (they basically set category standards in smartwatches, wireless earbuds, and ARM desktop computers since then).

But Apple was certainly more fun with Jobs. Many keynotes since Jobs have been cringeworthy, with the studied jokes, to slick presentations, etc. Jobs had natural showmanship and was confident enough in that to do present more spontaneously. Made the keynotes more fun.

Also I feel like product had larger design deltas. In the ten years since Jobs, Macs have mostly been aluminium/space grey (though they are definitely improving with the new iMacs), there was much more variety and evolution in the design the ten years before.

Plus, the NeXTcube was the probably most beautiful computer ever.
Also overestimates her abilities in a different direction. Becoming a media personality is hard, and takes an entirely different skillset. It just seems easy to people who have an axe to grind against the currently successful crop of personalities.
Really? You don’t have a problem with an app that causes 1% of teens that use it to develop suicidal thoughts? By the way, according to the leaked study these teens directly attributed their suicidal ideation to Instagram.
the total loss of DNS broke many of the internal tools we’d normally use to investigate and resolve outages like this.

this took time, because these facilities are designed with high levels of physical and system security in mind. They’re hard to get into, and once you’re inside, the hardware and routers are designed to be difficult to modify even when you have physical access to them.

Sounds like it was the perfect storm.
> Some people like it bold, some people like the color to be intensified instead when using `SGR 1` (which is responsible for making font intensified/bold).

Indeed, and the right solution is a config options, just as was done in Windows Terminal, since nobody is wrong: it's just a matter of preferences!

The right technical way of handling preferences is offering more choices to the users, with some sane default that will satisfy most users.

Personally, I love italics (I use vim and I want comments shown in italics, and I make an heavy use of bold+italics, cf https://github.com/csdvrx/indent-rainbow/blob/main/after/syn... ) but I would not want to force this option to people who don't want italics, for their own reasons that are none of my business (actually, if they reasons are good enough, it may cause me to change the default choices, but I would never remove the user freedom to make such choices in the first place)

IMHO that's the key difference between MacOS/iOS/Gnome/new school linux on one side (fewer freedoms) and Windows/KDE/old school Linux (more freedoms)
"Facebook Files" was the project name Wall Street Journal gave to their flagship reporting on this story. I haven't seen the files unfortunately.
Facebook has more rudimentary checks on truthiness than any of mainstream news organizations.
Steve would not have allowed the godawful tabs in the latest Safari. There are so many things wrong with them!
The non-standard part is stating what he will be doing with that time when you don't know. "refocusing on his personal life" is also, unfortunately and I am positive used without malice, kind of a loaded phrase. Without context I would always read that as "dealing with an unspecified personal tragedy" or the like.

Anyway, if your point is that it isn't something super crazy to say then you're right. It looks like it was a guess, and it was wrong, and it rubbed the author the wrong way for reasons they detail in TFA.
Apparently they had to bring in the angle grinder to get access to the server room.

https://twitter.com/cullend/status/1445156376934862848?t=P5u...
I don't think the focus on Nike has resulted in the whole industry being fixed.

Companies are case studies of a problem, any single one is insufficient information for coming up with solutions.
That’s pretty interesting. Why can’t you do an AND gate just by putting two transistors in series between your input and output?
So we are at the hoarding toilet paper stage of the crisis? Everyone is ordering as much as they can, so effectively no one actually gets their order filled.
My use case may qualify; I have anywhere from 100 to 1,000+ open tabs across three different devices and four browser instances (three Firefoxes, one Chrome) at the peak. But judging from your website it looks like a full browser (presumably built out of Chromium) and not an extension that can be used in any browser, so, ugh.
I disagree - I think that it should be completely legal to sell cocaine drinks as long as you inform the customers that the drinks have cocaine in them and I think that is should be legal to use even the most psychologically manipulative marketing techniques imaginable. I would rather that it be the responsibility of consumers to avoid getting addicted than to use government power to ban things. Similarly, for example I think that it should be legal to sell skateboards even though people sometimes injure themselves while riding them.
There are several legal precedents that say otherwise. Regardless, when you give money to a charity with a restriction or designation and they accept the money but ignore your request that generally doesn't go over well.
"Mature company that relies more on incremental growth" is exactly the stage where they get overtaken and fade into obscurity. It won't happen tomorrow, but slowly there will be new kids on the block who will make their tech look dated and uncool. It seems impossible to even think about but you'd say the same about IBM a few decades ago.
The company strategy seems pretty self-explanatory from the documents that she released.
Where on earth (quite literally) do you live where you give your ID to cashiers in the grocery stores? Even in alcohol sales, these ID records are not kept. The clerks just look at the ID.
What you are seeing isn't speed but the iterations. If you see the source, I am drawing at certain location in the loop. Sometimes when swap happens, sometimes afterwards. More than speed you are seeing the steps.
For better and for worse, Jobs being so strongheaded about his own health and care was just another expression of precisely the same attributes that made him such an effective innovator: convinced his taste was right, he willed reality to bend to his perception of it. That works well on humans; it's (mostly) ineffective on disease.
> redefining terms and norms.

> AKA rhetoric and persuasive language.

I think you've just engaged in it. While norms and language are a little mushy, they're not meaningless. Human culture has long held traditions around basic mores that really don't change over time and culture. For example, most instances of homicide are bad and are codified as such.

Yes, there is some wiggle room for rhetoric, but words have durable meaning, and when people take the time to think critically about their usage, they can spot dishonesty, weasel wording, and hyperbole.

> something that looks an awful lot like a literally-against-the-law crime

> modern tech's business model is "being a gross, creepy stalker, at scale"

You're equivocating a sample of a person's internet behavior with an actual person. These are not the same thing. You're using that equivocation to draw your analogy of tracking and retargeting as being nearly indistinguishable from real world stalking, which is absolutely hyperbolic and disingenuous. People who are being stalked are in actual, mortal danger. It is incredibly difficult for them to terminate the observation and following of their real, physical person. They experience intense (and very rational) psychological and emotional distress as a result.

I'll again note that I haven't seen convincing evidence of the demonstrable, widespread, or significant harms resulting from tracking/retargeting. Instead your argument seems to rely almost entirely on a fundamentally flawed analogy.
FWIW you guys are losing me in your sales pitch here. I am looking for technical products and I interpret "serverless" as marketing garbage, not as "I dont have to worry about the server".

Call it managed DB as a service and you're more honest in your product offering. You're suffering marketing-speak in lieu of honesty for a technical product - bad plan, imo.
I'm sure Jobs knew about this. I'm sure he told Cook to milk the market cow wide and deep to ensure survival of Apple while maintaining a steady brand, in the event that somehow something real genuine emerges again from Apple and they're ready to fire with 200B of cash.
According to clang's C++20 status list, clang 13 adds `using enum`, more implicit moves and partial support for lambdas in unevaluated contexts.
That function exist by default in all major browser. In firefox it's called "reader view".

In chrome you have to
visit chrome://flags/#enable-reader-mode
then
Enable the option “Enable Reader Mode.”
Click the “Relaunch” button that appears at the bottom to relaunch Google Chrome.
Now you can visit any website or webpage with long readable text.
Click on the book icon on the right of the address bar to enable reader mode.
> Leftist political philosophy is authoritarian;

That's just not true, though. Leftist political authority is about overthrowing the dominant existing authority (formerly, feudalism, today capitalism), and replacing it with something where whatever authority remains derives more meaningfully from the people governed. Marxism-Leninism was a strategic philosophy about using as much authority as necessary to prevent counterrevolution; Lenin's writings specifically refer to the state "withering away" as it is no longer needed to defend the revolution. Of course, in practice, the need to defend the revolution never ended, which meant the state could never wither away, which is, I'm sure, how a lot of Soviet bureaucrats liked it. On the other hand, there was never any shortage of criticism of Lenin from the left, starting with Luxemburg (supportive but critical) and Makhno (actually fought the Red Army) to Trotsky (more critical than supportive, killed by Stalin's agents).

I'd also note, with regard to your example of "red flag laws", that actual leftists are much more supportive of gun rights than liberals. Look into the John Brown Gun Club or the Socialist Rifle Association if you're interested.