skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am still surprised that Apple is pouring resources into the Mac. Nowadays, smartphones and tablets are the main computer for 90% of people.

All those apps used by people on smatphones and tablets get developed on a Mac.

You should also compare sales trends vs point in time stats to get a better picture, as Mac sales got a significant boost with the introduction of the M1 chip.
That's done for security reasons though right? I thought browsers isolated http cookies from client side cookies.
Using VCs as an accountability partner is interesting. He should have taken investments from not already rich supporters, to feel even more motivated not to let them down.
In a local context they're great, but it seems like Zooko only applies to global DNSlike systems.
Depends on what you measure.

Hypothetically - a diesel BMW m3 may cost the same as a Camaro with a V8 engine, but what's the point of talking what engines they have... if you are purchasing these items for other reasons.
I really like this since it's an MPE instrument in a really good price point.
But if apple's tracking is not sold to third parties, is secure, and people trust apple from a security standpoint, is it actually bad for individual privacy?
This is comparing apples and basketballs. The lurid arguments against the CRA were in fact from conservatives, but the parties weren't polarized the way they are now.

Before civil rights legislation, the Republicans were the party of capitalism, industry, protectionism, and to an extent urbanism; in the early 20th century they were defined mostly in terms of opposition to progressivism (antitrust, workers rights, regulation) and the New Deal. Democrats were the party of farmers, states rights, and (see previously) progressivism and the New Deal. You can look at this as a "conservative/liberal" split, but it's a different one than we have now.

It was only after the CRA that the process was set in motion to polarize the parties perfectly by conservative/liberal ideology (in the sense we use those terms today). And that process didn't even really finish until around the 1980 election; for example if you look at '70s Republican party platforms, for instance, they're still playing footsie with being pro-choice.

So it just doesn't mean much to rebut someone saying "conservatives opposed the CRA" with "no, the Democrats did". There were essentially 4 parties at the time: the liberal/conservative wings of both parties.
In the companies I've seen that are funded by the founder directly, the founder winds up with an unhealthy (actually, toxic) personalization of the company. It quite literally belongs to him, and he treats the employees accordingly.
I’ve personally managed several contractors (infra devs) recently who have definitely been running multiple gigs. It’s blindingly obvious because they interview well, start out delivering to expectations, but then performance drops off a cliff, with a whole library of excuses. They don’t last long.

I suspect the knack to maintaining multiple jobs successfully is picking the ones with very inexperienced or indifferent management.
Losing your email isn't DigitalOcean's fault and the fact that they are actively working on getting you access back should prevent you from naming and shaming them.
This! I am frustrated at how often devs will not accept that simple things become incredibly complicated at scale. That favorite coding technique? That container you wrote? Those tests you added? All good, but until you've tested them at scale, don't assert that everyone should use them. This dynamic is true in the other direction too: that techniques often taken for granted simply are not feasible in highly resource-constrained environments. With rare exception, the best we can say with accuracy is that "I find X works well enough in the typical situations I code for."
$30B is still A LOT in absolute terms
>got more and more absurd identifications of "possible brown recluse" as you went down.

"If the spider has brown fur but weighs about sixty pounds, has a wagging tail and is licking you with its tongue, you might actually have discovered a labradoodle..."
> Their derivatives unit, FTX US Derivatives, does have some of the licenses of a commodity exchange.

This is because their derivatives unit was acquired, previously LedgerX, which I've used happily for 2 years. They're professionals, and not sketchy. It's really unfortunate that the antics and sketchiness of the parent might affect the perfectly legitimate and rule-following child company, and all of their customers like myself.

Wondering if I should close my positions, sigh.

edit: Wow, what a deceptive clickbait title! Should read "FDIC tells FTX US to delete a tweet".
Meh. Apple has near infinite resources, it can do whatever it wants.

The rest of industry has moved on to Electron and keeps bucking, trying to get react native or some other cross platform thing to work well enough on mobile.

Apple itself uses webviews for complex UI in their desktop Music app. Are there any non-trivial apps Apple has created from scratch in the past decade using its own libraries and frameworks? No, right? Why should anyone expect the libraries they themselves don't need or use to be any good?
There’s such a diversity of systems it’s easier to pull data out of the SCADA system and build genetic analytics normally. That’s the approach that’s happened in many industries anyway from what I’m seeing.
My complaint about netflix UI/UX aren't technical in nature, I agree with you their player is the best out there, hands down.

The issue is the business polices surrounding it. The UI itself is user-hostile.
I'd love a mathematical explanation because my intuition also says it cannot be more secure.
Carmack gave his opinions about AGI on a recent Lex Fridman interview. He has some good ideas.
Stack ranking sucks because it's extremely difficult to evaluate performance in IT other than broad company wide goals. Determining which developer had the greatest impact is a fools game. Determining which sysadmin was responsible for five 9s of uptime, on and on. Too many people are good at gaming any metrics you set up.

So what happens is the manager throws up his hands and evaluates you based on intangibles; how nice you are to him. How many people complain/praise you. How much friction people assign to working with you. All vague and all completely orthogonal to your true performance and value to an organization.

As contributors figure this out (usually around year 5 or earlier unless they're socially clueless), they learn how to game this as well. "Managing up." Promoting themselves whenever possible, deflecting blame, avoiding risky projects that could tarnish a reputation, and for those with a Machiavellian mindset, sabotage coworkers.

And while some managers might be able to detect this behavior, most in my experience don't. Most enjoy the flattery, and since they're usually not technical, or not versed in current technology, defer to whomever sounds the most authoritative.
"const" historically means "compile-time constant".

A "mutable" variable is contrasted to an "immutable" variable, not to a "constant".

You may not like the name "variable" for something that cannot be changed within a given scope, but it's still something that can take multiple values during the execution of a program.
Articles and analyses like these are incredibly dumb, to the point of being worse than having nothing at all to say. The x-axis on the graph shown in the article goes to the year 2100, 78 years into the future. This would be like making predictions about the year 2022 back in the 1940's.

Back in the 1960's and 70's, books like the "Population Bomb" predicted unstoppable population growth leading to widespread famine and death by the 1980's. In fact, the opposite happened. Birth rates declined worldwide and food production went up. Ironically, this result in junk articles like this one now making silly predictions in the opposite direction. Turns out predicting the future is really really hard, if not impossible.

To have any meaningful idea of what the population or country (or the world) is going to look like even 30 years from now one would have to know what all or most of the following things are going to be three decades from now:

- Cultural attitudes on religion, birth control, abortion, and family size
- Frequency and severity of future pandemics

- Frequency and severity of large-scale natural disasters

- Frequency and severity of wars and terrorist attacks

- Changes in fertility due to age and environmental factors

- Immigration policy

- Medical advances or lack thereof

- Changes in personal behaviors at a population level (smoking, drinking, drug use, exercise, etc)

Try predicting even one of those things with any sort of accuracy - you can't. This doesn't even get into the idea of "Unknown Unknowns" that could affect population size in the future. The fact that people get paid to produce these types of garbage analyses is a joke.
>I can assure you 95% of comments in the past 5 to 6 years on HN front page with Ads were all religiously Anti-Ads.

HN is full of Facebook and Google engineers so I doubt that's accurate.
Is that a different Jim Keller?
"AGI"?
I thought he just said on the Lex Fridman show he was down to one day a week, working on AGI?
Yeah. I'm not 100% even sure what is this "GitHub" part of, but I'd be thankful anyone is helping me in any way to recover my account.
Has there been an AGI kickstarter before? Like, the supporters gets access to the models developed etc.
Consensus compatibility is nice, but Bitcoin has a unique problem: those old signatures own coins. Phasing out a signature algorithm means confiscating the coins in question, as the rightful owner will no longer be able to spend them anymore. Leaving them open would just let private actors break wallets to confiscate the coins themselves, with the added bonus that burnt or lost coins could be recovered, effectively increasing the supply of coins on the market. And Bitcoin has a lot of early-adopter money supply locked up behind dead hard drives - it would crash the market.

Other systems that use ECDSA don't have this problem because they rely on CAs and central authorities. For things like, say, the TLS PKI; if you miss the flag date to change ciphers you aren't forever locked out of your domain. Your site just goes down until you bother to upgrade your servers and rotate keys.

Is there any known/stated policy as to how to handle phasing out a signature algorithm in Bitcoin?
You actually helped me.

I’ve just changed its category from Productivity to Personalization. Thank you! It indeed will help clean the mess out from unnecessary misconceptions. I don’t know if I shall clarify its useful parts as you said: I don’t want someone to say there’s a keyboard that makes your life easier with its layout and some handy features without mentioning the visualizations.
I will certainly consider checking out customization YouTubers though.
Thank you so much :D

I thought it’s bad people dontypay attention. But omg, talking with a couple of tech guys here sort of leveraged my potential discoverability in like 3 days! lol
Thanks so much! I figured out there are YouTubers that are doing just that when trying to think how to explain myself to you.
tytytyty!!!!!!!!! :D
I don't think so. All custom channel urls like that link back to a YouTube channel, not a video. If you get a big enough channel, are you able to choose whatever namespace you want and whatever it links to?

Edit: see https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2657968?hl=en
>You called alcohol a "vice". Definition of vice from Merriam-Webster

the phrase "every man has his vice" is supposed to be interpreted as every man is corrupt and wicked?
I bought a couple of used lack's as I was planning on mixing eurorack with other equipment. I ended up keeping the lack's, but instead putting 16u free-standing racks on the top of each one - ended up working perfectly: 1u power supply, with 5 3u enclosures for eurorack on each.

ended up working out much better than my plan.
I would submit that C++ has enough inertia (as a language and as an ecosystem) that changing the language itself would be difficult.

However, C++ is a huge language and if there's a way to enforce safety by using only a subset of the language + tooling to help you do that, your improvements could be adopted piecemeal by teams looking to level up their codebase a bit.

Many languages have a way to opt in to e.g. strict type checking on a per-file basis. It would be really cool to see these improvements implemented in such a way that existing codebases could gradually adopt them.
Ha. I'm on a team of 23. And our manager expects us to all have roughly identical skills so we're interchangeable. Retirement can't come soon enough.
I didn't know it was that high. I don't think it is trivial to completely change how one eats. In theory it is a simple solution, but in practice it is hard for people to accomplish.
Dane here. The default Danish keyboard is going to give you RSI/kill your hand 100%, because you need to type right alt+shift+7 to do an open squishing bracket. That requires you to turn your hand almost to its limits, and it is painful to do.

As a consequence everybody I know changes their layout to us english or something similar and then switch back when they need to type in danish for an email or a message.

I switched to programmer dvorak a long time ago, but I have no idea how well it works with vim.

Switching input options shouldn't be hard. On my work linux it is alt space (I think), on my personal mac I can either press fn or just hold down the key needed to select the special danish characters. So if I need to write to somebody that it is time to harvest the apples I can use hold down the a key to select æ and the o key to select ø (the message would then be "vi skal til at høste æblerne"), or switch over to a Danish keyboard and type the message directly.

But every OS since DOS has a simple shortcut to change your input language.
If you focus only on price discovery happening in a specific market center, sure.

However, because it’s 2022 and we have the internet and all I’m not sure it really makes sense to focus on specific market centers instead of the market as a whole.

Of course HFT makes this far more complicated so it’s difficult to come up with a clear answer in either direction.

The Clean sweep study (https://zero.sci-hub.ru/5176/a262ebfad2436662b8fb5d7362ff297...) seems to suggest that ISOs have a greater impact on prices and add more information to markets than “regular” orders.
He said he's down to one day a week on VR at Meta. The rest of his time is AI.
What did the 19th century Englishmen do more precisely? (You wrote "textiles, steel" as clarification but that's too brief for me :-))
Presonus Atom SQ or Novation FLkey mini if you use FL-Studio
Artificial General Intelligence.

Machines as smart and capable of thought as we are and eventually smarter.
haha, thats nice. I believe that's a backronym though.
Here's a spicy meatball for you: wifi lag spikes caused by placing an AirPlay button in the touchbar

https://mnpn.github.io/blog/airplay-network-disaster

Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31706283
Artificial General Intelligence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligenc...
This seems more reasonable, given that:

1. I can't see how you'd enumerate wifi networks without degrading network performance.

2. The user has specifically initiated a wifi-related action.

3. There's not generally any need to use that menu unless the network is already not working.
Hey thanks for the detailed reply that is very interesting. I think they are excellent reasons not to take a loan.
Trade embargoes happen somewhat regularly. It would be absurd to suggest that refusing to sell materials to a geopolitical adversary is remotely comparable to an invasion that kills over a couple thousand people.

Also, US relations with Japan soured pre-war in large part due to Japan’s expansion by force in the region. “Expansion in the region” here encompassing events including that known as “the rape of Nanjing.”

So, again, US isn’t bloodless, but an embargo against the perpetrators of atrocities in Asia is hardly comparable to Japan’s war of aggression launched against the US.
Literally the only correct answer in this thread is downvoted, of course.

Yes, the correct solution is to actually do the job you're paid to do. Offloading your job to a GPT-3 model sounds great in theory but the model knows nothing of the larger domain you're working in and will likely introduce significant technical debt.

Then, of course, you'll have to wrestle with the question of self-worth if you think $10/mo is "too much" to pay to literally replace your own contribution to humanity.
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> How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry

.. and how it didn't. Confessing I haven't actually read the book, but I've certainly read reviews & other articles about it.

Hippies did not build the Internet. Or the personal computer industry. They were around and some jumped on it early, but it's clickbait to say they built it. The TV series "Halt and Catch Fire" is actually a better picture of that era (Season One, at least).
No, it's pretty widely recognized that WireGuard is in a sense a repudiation of "agility". You can look at, for instance, the INRIA analysis/proof paper to see how a bunch of disinterested cryptographers describe it: "many new secure channel protocols eschew standardisation in favour of a lean design that uses only modern
cryptography and supports minimal cryptographic agility."

If you want to say "minimalist agility is good and you're just saying maximalist agility is bad", that's fine, we're just bickering about terms. But that's pretty obviously not what Schneier is talking about.
That issue is considered a feature by many. Don't send out broken web pages. If you don't build your pages using string concatenation you have already eliminated most problems (it's just like SQL, in that respect).

XML parsers are not that bad when you disable custom entities, which browsers could easily do.
To add to this I didn't do a function-pointer jump table. A function pointer jump table was too slow and involved multiple look-ups. I took the opcode of the 6502 or Z80 instruction, shifted it, then added that value to the PC (program counter) register. The new value in the program counter was effectively the goto. All the assembly functions that handled each opcode were aligned on a multiple of powers of two value, 2048 bytes IIRC. Though it might have been 1024 bytes, this is over 25 years ago. The instruction immediately after the PC write set the the return address for the function about to be called, the return address write worked due to the pipelining in the MIPS CPU. The return address was the instruction immediately after the PC write. The opcode function executes, and then returns back to the write instruction, which then falls through to the no-op (opcode zero), which handled the gathering of the next opcode to be processed, any updates to the display and hardware, cleaned up the stack, and then looped to process the next opcode.
I haven’t used Shazam in at least 10 years, I know what music I am listening to because I am streaming it.
when I wrote about exit in open communities ("410 Gone - Infocide in Open Content Communities") 10 years ago, I included the _why case, and here his work is restored a decade later!

https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/spir/article/view/821...
I mean... managers want their ICs to do well and get promoted. It makes them look good, because they're growing their own team. Most healthier organizations work this way?
IIRC Medium was similarly funded with VC, and founders specifically decided not to fund it themselves and treated external capital as an accountability mechanism.
I would argue that if you're close enough to the point where you can accurately count the number of eyes, you've already made a terrible mistake.
At least you've learned a good lesson here.

If you want ownership of an account, you need ownership of the email you use. And do a hard separation between personal and work services.

Also, it sucks the hoops you're going through, but it's good they resist common social engineering tactics like they are. Good on them.

Maybe suck up to a sys admin to re-instate the email for a day if support goes nowhere.
yes, this is something most ppl get wrong.
Exactly. I haven’t upgraded my Macs since Mojave, for this and other reasons. I’ve grown increasingly disillusioned with the direction of the Mac under Tim Cook. What happened to the Macintosh emphasis on building software for creators that was easy to use? Last year I moved on to Windows 10 on a Surface Pro and a dual boot Windows 10 and FreeBSD with KDE on a Ryzen 9 workstation. I still have my 2013 MacBook Air and Mac Pro whenever I need a Mac, but my Surface Pro and Ryzen 9 workstation fit my needs.

With that said, this is an interim solution; I’m actually working on my own desktop environment as a long-term solution, since I’m disillusioned with what modern personal computing has become, devices and software that promote consumption over creation, and environments that encourage walled gardens and large moats instead of interoperable, interchangeable components. What I want is essentially the classic Mac interface with Smalltalk- or Lisp machine-style underpinnings; the power to mold my environment to my taste, but with user applications that abide by the 1990s-era Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines, when Apple had UI/UX heavyweights like Don Norman and Bruce Tognazzini influencing the Mac’s direction.
The focus on _power_, as opposed to _energy_, always annoyed me. When I'm using a notebook away from home, what matters to me is how long I can keep working.

Phoronix should have measured how long each notebook could run the benchmark suite sustained and scaled the benchmark results accordingly.

updated wording.
OOOOHHHH!!!!

https://youtu.be/9UAC2qkcrDY?t=66
They briefly considered the name "Doom technologies" before settling on Keen.
You don't want medical advice from reddit though. At least the university websites are trustworthy enough to decide if you need to see a doctor.

Maybe a no-filler health info website could be viable if it spread by word of mouth and not via Google. After a while it should become well-ranked on Google anyway, like Wikipedia or StackOverflow. Getting it to that point is a chicken-and-egg problem though.
Can anyone do long division other than children and those who pursue math academically? Seems impossible to imagine.
Sometimes I pause to think how we're held back by needing to make our shell scripts backwards compatible with Bash or POSIX, because that's what is installed by default. Shell scripting would be nicer if the shell could be less crufty. For example, get rid of all the footguns about expanding unquoted variables...
I'm getting a "404 No Found" on my mobile. Is this supposed to be META?

Edit: it's a genuine question, I have no idea what everyone else is seeing.
Not really, since people quite often don't own the copyright of code they upload to GH, by design almost.
Inappbrowser.com – see what JavaScript gets injected through an in-app browser
Artificial general intelligence (AGI) — in other words, systems that could successfully perform any intellectual task that a human can.

Not in my lifetime, not in this millennium. Possibly in the year 2,300.

Weird way to blow $20 million.
Well if company still failed it would be case of not already rich to poorer than before people who supported this endeavor.
Also, if they're not keeping old domain (thus being able to create any (new or old) email account), they're doing a really bad job at sysadmining.
Recent Carmack YouTube interview with him saying the code for AGI will be simple:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xLi83prR5fg