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Most legally blind people have partial sight and only need some assistance from the software to enjoy the same games their sighted friends enjoy.
The parent mentioned not what alphabet does, but where it gets (most) of its revenue from. Google is making phones, but not really making a lot of money from them. So the question is, what is the future of alphabet?
In one of her books, Atwood describes a community which allowed people to be in a "fallow" state for as long as they needed it, taking care of their basic needs, being supportive of them, but otherwise allowing them to ruminate and do nothing as much as they wished.

I think depression is an evolutionary response to situations which demand too much of us. It sends us into a state where we must take an extended rest to recharge and rebuild ourselves internally: physically, mentally, emotionally.

I think not allowing for this is a huge shortcoming of our society, which considers continuous and stable productivity not only the norm, but a requirement.
Never forget that the lesser of two evils is still evil.
Thank you for sharing this story. It's easy to think the well-educated/professional/R&D/STEM-academia fields are devoid of danger - they are for the most part - but survival and safety is not a solved problem in many niches of these domains.

I walk through a high-tech, massive industrial factory most days I go into the office. I find it harder to remember to look for wires and forklifts than I did when I was in roles closer to the danger. It's clearly a "natural" risk-analysis response, but risk doesn't go to zero, nor should the individual ever completely export their risk management to confidence in systems, processes, and organizations.

The key-cards and clean rooms and smart people can lead us to forget these things.
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Boomers are 1945 to 1965, X is 1965 - 1980.
Exactly... most technical folk have no idea the kind of deep expertise MSFT has in selling software. Its why they are catching up to AWS. Its why they killed slack within a year. MSFT and Salesforce have the best biz ops and sales people to sell software and that itself is a huge overlooked moat that would probably take a decade to fully disrupt.
Facebook's new name ridiculed by Hebrew speakers
Looks well enough supported, looking at the DT files in Linux.
Both your allegations are entirely false.

Assange literally contacted the state department warning them that an ex employee who was angry was going to release the files without redacting names and the state department ignored that warning. This phone call was released last year but didn't get reported by the corporate media.

Your Russian intelligence allegations has absolutely zero proof behind it and simply a political Twitter talking point.
That's making the assumption that they are not going to identify you using your ip + some heuristics
pg has a whole article about the word.

"Ugly and imaginative solutions have something in common: they both break the rules. And there is a gradual continuum between rule breaking that's merely ugly (using duct tape to attach something to your bike) and rule breaking that is brilliantly imaginative (discarding Euclidean space)."
XXH3 has issues too. There are certain inputs, independent of the seed, on which it collides much more often than it should.

On the other hand a hash like UMash guarantees low collisions on any input: https://engineering.backtrace.io/2020-08-24-umash-fast-enoug...
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Infuse is fantastic!
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How is Apple Silicon a big bet? The company is so big, what could go wrong with them making their own chips? Would it really tank the company if one day it turns out it is better to buy chips from external companies again?
> I may have some useful hardware sitting around here at the house. Some of it may be 20 years old. How can I tell whether any of it will be useful to this project?

NetBSD developer hat on

It will likely be very useful, martin would particularly like CardBus and PCMCIA hardware, though he's kind of overwhelmed by requests right now.

If you can find some way to get the chipset identifier (maybe check dmesg, usbdevs/pcidevs if your operating system provides such a command), that's the useful information that he needs.
This "assumption" is called Manhattan, where in fact 1.6 million people live in apartments, no more than a few blocks from a train that comes every few minutes. The economic conditions to reproduce this model are in several other places. The only reason it's not happening is our decision to ban it.
>> We make the world’s best touch computer on an iPad.

Except that iOS is still a joke when it comes to real productivity applications. Apple could easily offer a more advanced iPadOS but right now they just offer an iPad with so much potential running an OS that's meant for smartphones.
They will create some sort of gamification. That's something engaging if it's well done and then, on top of it, their monetization.
The only way big tech gets checked is that they piss off the wrong lawmaker. Not by us signing a petition.

Lately they've been playing with fire by taking a political stance, and I think that ultimately is what's going to reign them in somewhat.

^ Not specific to FB, but any of big tech/social.
Downvoted but if it was a smaller startup trying to do something related to hardware they would be shorted to hell & back + would be the running joke of the year. "X is trying to sell secure VR headsets but they can't even work a security pass on their own building" and so on. See thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28750894
Crossover is commercial wine and works decently enough.

The real issue is the combination of lacking native 32-bit support, restricted metal API, translation layer overhead, and Rosetta all taking a piece of the performance pie.
Or maybe Apple is just waiting for game streaming to become the norm.
Atlassian! Don’t miss Atlassian.

It went up from $120 to $180 during Covid. Wait, $230, no, 320, today $483!

Disclosure: I own shares. I’ve paid them less than $30. I knew Atlassian was excellently managed, but I didn’t imagine it would climb this high. I’m surprised it always goes silent next to GAFAM.
You win some you lose some. It's perfectly possible that any Microsoft phone product would have been doomed, whether it was executed under Nadella, Gates, or anyone else.

Ballmer did start Azure though, which is basically carrying Microsoft today. Their Surface product was also released under Ballmer's direction.
This is the point where someone says that per capita isn't the right way to look at it because the atmosphere doesn't care about our arbitrary lines on the map.

They will be correct that the atmosphere does not care about such lines, but that is why per capita is a much better measurement than per country.

Suppose the total emissions the would can handle is T and there are C countries, and so the if you go by country fair share for each country is T/C. Suppose country X is having trouble staying under that. X can address that with a split into two countries, X1 and X2, carefully constructed so that half of what X emitted comes from each. Now each country's share is T/(C+1), and the X1 and X2 together have a limit of 2T/(C+1).

The ratio of what X1 and X2 together are allowed to what X was allowed is 2C/(C+1). Current C is ~200, giving a ratio of 1.99. If X had split into X1, X2, and X3 they would each get T/(C+2), for a combined 3T/(C+2) and a ratio of 3C/(C+2) which presently is around 2.97.

Split your high emission country into several smaller countries with the high emissions distributed approximately evenly between them, tie the countries together with trade agreements and various reciprocity treaties (kind of like the EU) and with no change in actual emissions you go from being over your quota for global emissions to being under.

Of course everyone else can do this also. Every time someone does it the per country quota for everyone else goes down slightly. As high emitters environmentally gerrymander their way under quota, that will eventually cause some countries that were under quota to be over, pressuring them to also split.

In the limit, you end up with something equivalent to per capita.
That is indeed one of my thesis. But how does it not apply to Google? They run datacenters too.
umash (https://github.com/backtrace-labs/umash) has a similar structure PH block structure (and similar universality guarantees), but was designed for decent bit mixing (enough to satisfy smhasher, unlike CLHASH, which needs an additional finalizer) with a lower fixed time cost: 22 cycles for a one-byte hash on a 2.5 GHz Xeon 8175M.

I'm not sure how one would use that linear regression. What kind of hardware offers 675 GB/s of memory bandwidth? 140 bytes/cycle is easily more than twice the L2 read bandwidth offered by any COTS chip I'm aware of. There are also warm up effects past the fixed cost of setup and finalizers that slow down hashing for short input. For what range of input sizes (and hot/cold cache state) would you say the regression is a useful model?
It depends. Is it a list of ought to or does have?
From my experience military equipment is not designed to be efficient in terms of cost. I am pretty sure their designs can’t be used for commercially viable power.

They are also operated in super secure environments like submarines and aircraft carriers. Harder to secure a large number of commercial plants all over the country. Even accidents are much more forgiving out on the ocean vs on land.
Currently, my thinking is:

* Facebook is an awful company that is damaging for our democracy and communities in a lot of ways. There are some positive aspects to their services, though.

* I don't think they have quite the staying power of a Microsoft, which is deeply embedded in business.

* I am not against various government actions that would harm or curtail their business, but I want to see them discussed in a reasoned, thoughtful way, rather than just 'FACEBOOK BAD, HURT THEM!'.
> The dorms that I used had all sorts of unpleasant features

Just because you had a poor dorm experience doesn't mean a brand new dorm built in 2021 needs to replicate that experience.
Why compare DuckDB to Parquet when you can use DuckDB and Parquet [1] :)

[1] https://duckdb.org/2021/06/25/querying-parquet.html
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Right. I didn't say we hire 100 developers to code the project 100x faster.

I said let's build 100 parallel rocket pads with 100 parallel rockets.

It will indeed launch rockets 100x faster.

The term you are looking for is embarrassingly parallel.
It used to be the case the only browser that does have some decent Dark Mode extension is Safari.

Now you have Darker News and HNDark. Both are free on App Store.

I am using them both at the same time to get "Gray" Mode instead of "Dark".

But yes I really wish we have official Dark Mode on HN.
He moved the company away from a Windows-centric strategy to focus on platform-agnostic cloud and subscriptions.

Some examples:

He ditched Windows Phone in favor of Android.

Microsoft had built amazing Office apps for iOS but Ballmer refused to allow their release. Nadella green lit them immediately.

He deemphasized Windows releases. Windows 10 was supposed to be the "last" version (no idea what happened after that tbh).

Everything Microsoft has released in the last few years has been cross-platform and cross-browser. This seems obvious now but would have been unthinkable a decade ago.

He doubled/tripled down on Azure.

Internally, he ended inter-division silos and forced teams to cooperate. Lots of old school execs were booted because they refused to give up control of their "kingdom". Engineering teams were also encouraged to use Linux and other non-MSFT tools and to open source their products. Culturally it was big to have an engineer at the helm again rather than a pure business type.
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Of course he is going to belittle another company's achievement but Microsoft had zero chance in the mobile game in the first place and they knew it

Saying the windows phone was half assed is being generous
When they rolled it all back, did the person come back to life? Did his wife suddenly have a husband again? Did his children get their father back?
> Conversely, other people are annoyed with "selfish" people forcing what could otherwise be a productive in-person meeting to now need to include one person dialed in over zoom, perhaps without a video feed.

That's actually a good point. Conference speakerphones are garbage, so once one needed person is remote, everyone has to dial in. The experience is really only workable if everyone is using a headset.

> in-office folks are mad that they are being forced to use clunky online tools strictly to accommodate their remote-only peers.

This isn't just a side effect of WFH, offshoring/distributed teams force it too. Even before the pandemic, most of my co-located team's meetings were online, since we almost always had to accommodate someone who was based at another site.

To go a little off-topic, there are a lot of good arguments against open office plans, but weirdly the one that seemed hardest for advocates to shrug off was the difficulty of having a bunch of co-located people joining the same call, and having to deal with echo. I think that's because it challenged the assumption that work happened mainly in a very particular co-located way (e.g. like a bunch of people sitting at consoles in a mission control center).
More infos:

> Fight for the Future and dozens of other human rights organizations from around the world have launched HowToStopFacebook.org, a coalition campaign demanding the US finally enact a Federal data privacy law “strong enough to kill Facebook’s surveillance capitalist business model.” No, we won’t be changing the name of the site

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2021-10-29-with-meta-...
It's not the hardest thing to see how people would all make the assumption that he said it during the announcement

"One more thing" was a famous Jobs quote for major announcements, and the iPhone had possibly the most famous tech announcement ever, let alone of Jobs'. There was also a famous line where he says "these aren't 3 products, this is one device," which also has the word "one" in it.
IIRC that only applies to Qt Widgets apps which is a decreasing number of apps. The XCB native painting flag doesn't work with Qt Quick and actually seems to break those apps which use it, because Qt Quick is rendered with GL. Someone correct me if I've got the details wrong here but for me that flag is pretty broken, it falls into the category of "legacy compatibility only" just like everything else in X11...
I think there are a couple of new blockchains that attempt to provide a verifiable smart contract language.
But keep Homeland Security?
Meta shares jump on name-change news, but it's a Canadian materials company
> rotating an image a little, lets say tilt, can vastly increase or decrease your algorithm's performance

Wouldn't be the first time evolution used the trick. The eyes, in mammals at least, constantly wiggle even when fixed on an object. If the eyes stop moving entirely your field of vision fades out after some seconds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccade
I understand that there's a public Slack group for server-side Swift. I do not know the invite URL, but you may be able to find it in a search?
> Looking at the top 5% most rainy hours of the year in Dublin, usage rates dropped to 81% of the average. In Seville and Valencia, those numbers were 79% and 74%. In Chicago, though, it was down to 47%. In Melbourne it was 46%, and in Vancouver usage was as low as 22% of the average.

> Again, you’d be forgiven for thinking this can all be explained by acclimatisation. Folks in Dublin, say, are used to miserable weather, so it makes sense they’d be happier to ride in it. But according to Dr Bean and co, it’s more complicated than that.

> Seville and Valencia are both rather dry, and yet rain in those cities doesn’t make that much of a difference to cyclist numbers. Why? Well, as the researchers speculate: “The difference could be that Seville and Valencia have large [bike share] systems and safe cycling infrastructure whereas Melbourne only had a small system not useful for commuters.”

> It might be that good, safe cycling infrastructure is enough to encourage people to ride even if the weather is bad. But when bike share infrastructure is bad (e.g. like it was in Melbourne), and the weather is bad, that’s a recipe for lower cyclist numbers.

I think this is just a matter of variance masked by their use of relative (vs absolute) units. I'll bet Chicago had storm/flood/tornado warnings on many of those days. Is the weather in Dublin, Seville, and Valencia as extreme as Chicago, Vancouver, & Melbourne?
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"Have you seen what a "rich error struct union" looks like in zig?"

No, and I'm not arguing that zig hasn't done well. I do argue that Go has not; you're only non-weird choice is to fetter code with miles of "if err ==/!=" gymnastics.

Traces are frequently very useful; precise traces have saved me a lot of pain in life. Lack of traces precludes nothing for me, but I have enjoyed the benefit of them enough times to acknowledge their great value.
You described the differences of these companies. But not how that would lead you to invest in one and not in another.

The way I see it, they all build out a different part of the technological landscape. And they all do it in a similar fashion. Since I expect the whole landscape to continue growing, I don't see one being a better investment then the other.
But the thing is Simmons Hall is practically a work of art. If you asked students if they wanted to live there or in this place pretty sure every single one would say Simmons.
I don’t think I understand. It’s woke because it is not organic?
I know what you mean, although I thought the disconnection ease was calibrated correctly. The good thing is the modern battery life means an accidental disconnection is less of a problem.
You're correct, but still, a suspiciously-accurate username for the quote-poster!
By that logic, we should not work to rehabilitate criminals. Will rehabilitation bring back the money stolen? The people killed?
I wonder how the DA could settle with the victim (we won’t keep the money if you promise not to sue) when the original civil forfeiture charge is technically against the money, not against the victim. I wonder if he has the right to continue legal action against the DA because he did not receive any benefit for relinquishing his legal rights. If a civil rights organization chose to pursue this and convinced a court that the DA would have to provide restitution, that may convince law-enforcement that there’s a cost to pursue civil forfeiture if it’s without basis.
I have a more flip idea.

Just tax (the hell out of) online advertising.

We can fund the government programs that we argue over, and restore some fiduciary balance and feedback loops to the insanity that has become "indulgence/escapism/narcism for free".
Sharing is a specific audience, and one that probably has more transportation alternatives than the people that own bikes. So they'll switch faster.

Also, rain in Sevilla and Valencia is not like rain in Dublin, in my experience. It's warmer there, and the rain is lighter; you can almost count on your clothes drying there. Cycling in cold rain with wind wearing wet clothes from the morning is about the worst condition I know. Then again, cyclists in Dublin probably have rain clothing.

Another point: hot weather tends to occur in summer, when people are on holidays.

So indeed, it's not conclusive.
> This particular dorm design also seems to allow for more privacy than a traditional dorm does.

Yes, having shared bedrooms was particularly bad for my sleep. Not sure it's a good trade for a window though.
Maybe, but it seems the issue here is the carve-out in the law that makes this possible.

Small police and sheriff’s departments do the same thing so it’s not just an issue of big government.
Well... Macs are very popular with front-end developers. They are powerful, portable, easy to use Unix machines. And front-end development, with all its crazy JS requirements, really demands a lot of compute power.

For backend developers it's a little different - it is handy to have an x86, considering a lot of your workloads will run on x86 servers (at least for the foreseeable future), and a Linux machine will match the server runtime more closely. You can emulate one, and the M1 is so powerful it can emulate an x86 faster than most x86's can be themselves, but it's more expensive. A better approach I've been using (works with Python) is to treat macOS as a Unix and don't look too closely to the OS running the program. There aren't many surprised down this road.

I've been working as a back-end developer primarily from Macs since 2016 and they are sweet machines - even the Intel ones. I also use a Linux laptop a lot and, quite frankly, if you match specs, your Dell will cost more than your Mac and be a lot uglier.
This has actually happened, too! I remember a big article about it on HN. Unfortunately I have no time to scrounge it up, but perhaps someone else remembers and can link to it.
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This is similar to the Incognito lawsuit. When you open an Incognito tab, there's clear and explicit text telling you exactly how it works and what it does/doesn't do, but now people are trying to sue because they can't read.

The export button explicitly says the backup is not encrypted by Whatsapp's E2E encryption. How is it Google's fault if users can't read basic warnings? Again, as GP asked, what more could they have done here?
I see it as a sensitivity to initial conditions. If anything, beginner cooks are more likely to overestimate this sensitivity (afraid to sub ingredients,

Your examples of bread or beer avoid this, but then consider whether brewing beer is a good, differentiating counter-example to organic chemistry. ;)
If there were no extradition treaties, then every murderer would just leave one country and go to the next, and live life.

So when a UK man murders some guy and jumps to the US, the US sends him back to the UK.

...

"Publishing leaked military secrets is not even illegal in the U.S. due to the first amendment right to a free press."

This is false.

...

"With the leaker found and prosecuted, convicted, and sentence served, the U.S. Department of Justice should congratulate itself on a job well-done "

Multiple people can commit crimes. In particular, the question is whether or not Assange was party to a crime.

Hence the trial.
It depends.

Querying CSV files is particularly painful over the network since we still have to read everything for a full scan.

With Parquet, you would at least only have to read the columns of group by keys and aggregate arguments.

Try it out and share your experiences with us!
Well, consider what a UK judge might think of that statement.
We improved performance of a batch process from two days to five minutes
I actually like the thinness and the portability. I've never had a problem with butterfly keyboard. Maybe people should just stop eating chips while touching their laptops? Also quite against the proprietary charging and HDMI port. Never ever have I used a memory card slot in my macbooks in 10+ years either to be honest.