skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked at Apple in the past. I pride myself on having never told a soul what I really did there, as anyone who does know was informed through proper channels.

Perhaps if I had worked at some other company and saw highly unethical/illegal shit going on, I might consider whistleblowing, but I would never leak for the sake of leaking, even if it would cause a lot of hype or news commentary. It just seems sociopathic to do so.

Same goes for this memo. And if the leaker is reading this comment right now, then I ask, rhetorically, if you don’t feel comfortable with your employer’s preference for secrecy, then why are you working there?
>are people who truly care about teaching the public how to do a lot of their own repairs

Rossmann makes money off of his businesses that repair computer products, Apple or otherwise. He stands to gain a lot based on the popularity of his channel whether he's telling people the truth or not. He's not in it to help people, he's in it to drum up business. If he helps people along the way, then that's great.

Case in point - he made a whole video about how shitty the new MacBooks are and claimed that plugging a USB device into the USB-C port disabled WiFi. He pushed that point and tweeted about it and posted it everywhere. When it was discovered that it wasn't the computer but the cheap $5 USB-C to USB-A converter that he was using that was unshielded (which is required by the USB spec), he never issued a retraction or an apology. All he wanted was to get in on the fervor surrounding the newly released laptops. He doesn't give 2 shits about whether or not he's teaching people factual information. What really sucks about it, much like the whole "Right to Repair" movement, is that it takes away substantially from the issues and points he brings up that are completely valid.
No, I'm feeling safer because employers are able to look it up and thus make better decisions. It has nothing to do with me looking up random strangers.
It's also not really a simple fact. When you live in a safe, stable environment where you are taught empathy, that everyone should treat everyone else fairly, and that nurtures a healthy skepticism, horrors so extreme are hard to wrap your head around. How could people treat other people, other living, breathing, bleeding humans, with such callous disregard?

How to educate about hate, how it develops and how it manifests is hugely complicated and always encounters political friction. Americans have our own genocides[1], cultural erasure[2], history of violent bondage[2] and modern[4] internment[5] policies[6] that we also fail to educate about on a wide scale. It's not surprising that so many have slipped through the cracks wrt the Holocaust.

1. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h1567.html

2. http://www.gwichinsteeringcommittee.org/the-forced-assimilat...

3. https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/lynching-memorial-montgom...

4. https://eji.org/mass-incarceration

5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_America...

6. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/06/18/immigr...
its seem all the AR headsets have this "Small view range" problem. .... Hololens , Magic Leaps, .... Anyone know the view range of the meta 2?
I agree with Apple going after someone for the counterfeits, I don't agree that it makes sense that they go after the retailer. Unless he is knowingly making fraudulent claims that he is using authentic Apple hardware, in which case it seems entirely appropriate to send him a cease-and-desist demanding that he disclose he is using knock-offs.

If the parts are branded fraudulently with apple logos and such, they should go after the supplier for that.
Yeah, I didn't look particularly critically at it, but this is where I got the figure from: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/qa/vaccineeffect.htm
What are you talking about Apple and Microsoft already control those gateways, and for good reason. It’s trivial to write a mail client thAt just so happens to steal you passwords if it’s running while you browse. The balance now is if they abuse their role you have a billion dollar lawsuit and can leverage that against them.
Using ridge regression (mentioned in TFA) would prefer a (1/3,1/3,1/3) average of those predictors (or a better combination, depending on their respective noises).

Using lasso (also mentioned in TFA) would prefer to pick the best of the three and drop the others.

Using elastic net would be a combination of both.

Note, though, that any method other than simple regression has tuning parameters -- depending on those, you could still end with result equivalent to plain least squares.
Just from my anecdotal experience of using the HoloLens, (but not the ML1) the FOV problem these devices have is more tied to the display size than the unobstructed view of the real world. You brain will compensate for the obstructed view and you will forget about it pretty quickly. A larger FOV is obviously better, but it isn't a deal breaking flaw. The display being limited to an even smaller area will be something your brain will never get used to. You will have to be looking directly at a virtual object to see it. As soon as you slightly turn away the virtual object will disappear and immediately break any immersion.
Very interesting experiment. I was wondering if you had tried a sapphire or diamond crystal target for the stream. The surfaces that you used look smooth, could it be that as the surface is erroded by the stream it gets rougher and this roughness impededs the effect? Could the beam be intense enough to marr diamond or even sapphire?
For anyone in the Northern District of California at least, that's a pretty awful use case, for the reasons I mention above. You open yourself up to being culpable for the strongest hypothetical against you (versus just dealing with the magnitude of the worst thing that you actually did).
Ask HN: What do you wish you had taught/done for your children at an early age?
Hi, new dad here - 3 days old. I've been thinking about the best ways to developer my new-born. What are some best practices you wish you had started with your child when they were young? Brain development skills, character development, daily routines, etc.
> I hear this over and over but where's the evidence that this is true on a significant scale?

All over this thread? All over the web?

https://www.google.com/search?q=amazon+fake+products

https://www.google.com/search?q=amazon+counterfeit
Title could use a touch up. On mobile chrome at least, I'm not seeing the "=" in the title.
> Japanese youth, like young people the world over, drink less and have less sex than previous cohorts of their age. They are far less likely to be sexually active than their American counterparts. Around 40% of unmarried Japanese are still virgins at the age of 34.

Wow. I had no idea about that, the statistics seem shocking.
> they are making it very difficult for anyone to use, for example, non-Apple-branded cloud storage

Which is why they added support for arbitrary file providers to integrate with iOS 11's Files app, and why they announced that iWork will support collaborating through Box last month?
https://twitter.com/KevinBuist/status/980947107489165314
"creamier" means almost always that this product has nothing to do with fermentation and work of microbial cultures, but was made thick by adding milk powder, gelatin and sugar substitutes. The opposite of healthy, not to mention the sh*ty taste.
One thing that should be mentioned though is in the case of polynomials e.g. y ~ x + x^2, there will be a lot of multicollinearity between these terms, but that multicollinearity is OK...just be sure to center your variables.
I don't care about personal purposes. I want employers to be able to look up their prospective employees.
> No one is doing component-level repairs any more.

Not entirely accurate, its just a highly skilled bit of work that you have to work to find people that can do it. This guy does it:
https://www.rossmanngroup.com

Watch his youtube channel here and you can learn how to do it yourself:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl2mFZoRqjw_ELax4Yisf6w

That said, in general you're right. Component level repair on multi layer pcb's with BGA or reflow soldering is... not all that economical in the amount of labor and skill and equipment involved.
>manufacturer stopped producing repair manuals for devices customers have paid for

Why is a manufacturer in any way obligated to provide this information for customers (and for free, no less)? Apple is not stopping him from taking apart these devices and figuring out how to repair them but I don't see why they should shoulder any obligation to provide that information to people that refuse to become an authorized repair center (which is exactly what that authorization and certification gets them).

>Someone has a broken device, they shouldn't be allowed to try and repair it themselves

This is not at all the point of contention nor in any way what Apple is doing here. Stop spreading FUD.
I certainly expect my mechanic to tell me he’s going to install non stock/genuine parts beforehand if some happen to need replacement. "Hey, your brake discs/tranny/whatevs is dead, let me swap that for some (possibly non spec-compliant) third-party part! You'll save xx bucks! (and hopefully it won't break down in YY000km at the most critical moment, nor fuck up the whole thing because they're not properly balanced or whatever! but shhhh I'd rather not tell you that)"
I did think immediately of Edward Snowden. I could imagine it applying to him - he quickly went to high global significance by standing for something he may not believe in (though it seems like it & is still important), but satisfies his want to do something right. It does not make him less credible to me, but rather more because it presents him in a very non-selfish light.

People have been trying much harder and more successfully to discredit Snowden using other arguments.

The characterisation actually makes me more hopeful for the future of whistle blowing.
at least, you won't have to pretend it's all about making the world a better place :)
(Or will you, anyway? Not sure)
Hiring and the market for lemons (2016)
The "clean" solution would be a legal requirement that people buying used iPhones should have the knowledge that it contains unoriginal parts.
Which doesn't provide extra information for you, as you probably don't go around subscribing to spam mailing lists.

But all right, '+site' is more well known, so it does definitely work better.
QZSS has been in test phase since 2010, and has had a full constellation of 4 satellites since last year.
> Leakers do not simply lose their jobs at Apple. In some cases, they face jail time and massive fines for network intrusion and theft of trade secrets both classified as federal crimes. In 2017, Apple caught 29 leakers. 12 of those were arrested.

This is an email they sent to employees? It sure doesn't sound fun to work there.
The ego argument doesn’t make me skeptical of the leakers, why would it. It sounds like a plausible explanation. What is a better explanation that accounts for the tremendous downside?
Yes.
For several reasons:
The most important of which is, that we are not always online. Be it because we simply choose not to be, because we want our goddamn peace for once, or that we're actually in a place or situation with no internet connection. Sure, some webapps work offline as well, but it won't be the majority, exactly because an always-online state is assumed.

And even though performance is usually not an issue, battery life is. And most browsers introduce more levels of abstraction than are necessary for the application at hand.
Presumably, the "tinfoil hat users" would just elect to buy a different board without those features grafted on

It's an open design. So those additions would be an OEM decision
Not all leaks are unauthorized. Organizations often want to put information or misinformation out without taking responsibility for it. The media has paper and airtime to fill, and may or may not be picky about its sources. It is not unusual for an organization to do authorized leaks and try to chase down unauthorized leakers.

I'm not sure how many reporters have done jail time to protect their sources, but I'm sure that more than a few have been threatened with it.
There's a huge advantage in your competitors not knowing what your focus is, particularly if you're working on something out of left fields.

The more you can hide from them, the more of a head start you can have over them.
Oooh story time: in Korea, the most famous brand of yogurt is named "Bulgaris" and its TV ads depict gorgeous valleys with medieval monasteries, where people make yogurt the old-fashioned way, and live happily ever after. Thanks to these ads, Koreans think all Bulgarians drink yogurt every day and live up to a hundred years. Or something like that.

And then another yogurt company decided to market a new brand of yogurt... by naming it... (drum roll please...) "Bulgaria"!

Of course the first company sued the second company. And then the Bulgarian embassy weighed in, supporting the second company, because it turned out that the first company was using yogurt-making germs imported from Germany!

And then the court decided for the first company, essentially declaring that the nation of Bulgaria, sadly, does not own the name "Bulgaria" (or "Bulgaris", or Bulga-whatever) in Korean trademark system. (But don't quote me on that. IANAL.) The whole affair was very entertaining.
Awesome post, full of links to references and raw data.
Great job, Stephanie Mencimer!
> Considering Apple intentionally slows older phones with firmware updates post new phone release

Source, please?
Are you buying GOOD brand names? BIFL stuff? I could name a ton of brand name items I've bought off Amazon that were just bad that I replaced multiple times. A big problem with that is not seeing it in person to see what comes with it, etc.

Example, I've owned just about every brand of electric shaver and hated something about nearly all of them. I finally dropped the $70 on a Wahl that has a third of the features but it's a beast. Couldn't even tell you how many kitchen appliances I have bought and thought were awful. Or bathroom mats, towels, patio mats, etc.

Personally I think a lot of consumer products just suck and Amazon is pretty much the equivalent of Walmart now when it comes to filtering through cheap crap. Products are half-assed most of the time and companies spend more money on marketing than making a good product (or the best they can for the price). Or they focus on one really big feature and skimp out on the rest.

I'm trying to buy a lot LESS but very high quality stuff nowadays.

I've had to stop using Amazon as my "buy-all" place. Almost felt like I was being gaslit by 5 star reviewers of shitty towels/etc when I finally discovered Frontage products and went "wow, lux Hotel quality towels DO exist." I don't want to use Amazon for cheap Walmart quality junk, I want it for its fast shipping and options.

edit: Frontgate not Frontage.. they make killer towels, I'm a changed man
I appreciate you trying to discredit me instead of the argument I was making but the article has been modified since its posting. The original had a claim where the guy said he was using original, authorized Apple parts:

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20160327050030/http://www.pckomp...
> The $300+ I had to pay to repair a phone because of a problem in their design leaves me extremely doubtful of this.

What problem in their design are you referring to?
> The part about the book's author being sacked by the guy he's critiquing is never mentioned.

Every bit of coverage I've heard about Comey--both from the last 24 hours about the book, and for the last year--has mentioned Comey being fired every time.
By the same arguments their world fact book may be incredible.
Operators in mathematics are overloaded in a very similar way to operators in computer science (in languages that permit overloading).

I think the author hints toward a good point: there is no use arguing over the meaning of "=" in a general sense, because the meaning is contextual.

I think this whole discussion is merely indicative of inexperience on the part of computer scientists attempting to navigate mathematics.
Why does that have any affect on my point? The article has been changed since it was originally posted. The original article had the guy claiming he was using genuine Apple parts which was stated right on the company's website (they've changed it since the case went to court):

https://web.archive.org/web/20160327050030/http://www.pckomp...
this isn't brutalist, this is pretentious.

the materials don't show through. the websites are ridiculously pretentious.

roughness & exposed structures are likely to be problems in function.

visible thought processes - logorrhea is the other term for that. or brainstorming. Neither should be put up for public view.

the websites the article castigates are identical in style, but not bad, per se. they exemplify a certain aesthetic, and a cookie cutter way of design that is driven by, I think, the north European minimalism trends of the 1960s via Rams and Ives at Apple.

if you want to go for a bad influence that is useful, I suggest pondering LaTeX. Textfiles. http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ . Hacker News. Possibly even the NYT or the WaPo.

design that is aimed at information transmission: not ads, not branding, not razz ma tazz to tickle the eye and neglect knowledge & understanding.

Alexander's concepts on architecture have much to commend themselves when considered for information transmission as well.
In response to some questions, comments, & corrections on mastodon, I have expanded the article. In particular, I added some context for people unfamiliar with Project Xanadu, embedded videos explaining and demonstrating ZigZag, and added footnotes explaining some mechanics and details that aren’t directly relevant to a breezy intro to the language but might be misunderstood by people unfamiliar with ZigZag in general.
They're pretty inseparable. If npm is great, and the community and default registry are terrible, I'm still not going to want to use the tool if I don't absolutely have to.
There is a Python library called TPOT that does this.

https://github.com/EpistasisLab/tpot
Most people's integrity doesn't have a statute of limitations on promises made and kept.
yeh, sure newheck
Are there any non-browser members as part of the editors or steering committee in the whatwg?

To me, this is giving browser makers even more power over HTML than they have otherwise.
https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/files/2015/02/...
brutalism as an architectural concept does not connote violence. le brutalisme comes from the word "raw" in french; "raw concrete", that is.
> Is the thought supposed to be "this argument was once used to support a bad thing. THEREFORE, this argument is invalid"? That can't be right.

No, the “fire in a crowded theater” thing isn't an argument, it's a claim about the law often used as a premise in other arguments.

The problem with that claim is that it's a claim about the application of Constitutional law and limits to free speech in a particular fact pattern that was dicta unsupported by prior case law offered as part of the explanation for a decision which has itself since been overturned as inappropriately limiting freedom of speech in a way directly contrary to the core purpose of the Constitutional protection.

That is:

* It was not a statement of the law grounded in valid authority,

* It wouldn't be valid authority on the law itself even if the decision it was articulated in was valid authority, and

* The case it was articulated in is, in fact, no longer valid authority.

Therefore, any argument which takes it as a premise stands on sand, as the premise is unsupported.
Can we start flagging this kind of garbage soon?...
The provenance shows what the argument can be and has been used to justify - censorship of thoughts deemed unacceptable by people in a position of power.
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> I mostly just meant you wouldn't be breaking laws technically to go around them via reverse engineering.

Considering that their terms of service explicitly prohibits this, I'd say that it's illegal. Will Apple go after you if you do it? Probably not.
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>Tearing out bloat and psychological manipulation is good, but it should have playlists, channels, and search filters.

I'll definitely consider it. I didn't expect it to get this response to be honest.

The target is more about cutting out the psychological rabbit hole, less about making it really light (although it would be a nice side effect)
That's true, too. Because Netflix is software/service-based, all of the new tech I hear about from Netflix (like Chaos Monkey) tends to be developer-oriented, not consumer-oriented.

That's kind of the nature of the business. Users want Netflix to be basically invisible -- they just want to watch their favorite show.
http://www.chinabusinessreview.com/understanding-chinas-stat...

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=2d04aa03-d8dc...
What can you do with Diaspora? It looks like you can post text and images, share it with people, and they can comment on it and like it.

What else? I mean, they've been building it for nearly 8 years now, so presumably there's a tonne more you can do with it?

I don't know if it's just hidden, but is there really still no events functionality?
Thanks for the recommendations. I will definitely work on these. :)
I still can’t use whatever SMS app that I want to. I still can’t replace Safari as the browser that opens links from apps. I can’t replace contacts or the phone dialer and I can’t open contact address links in anything but Apple Maps.

Heck, they don’t even let me organize my home screen the way that I want to.
It's easier to just change the plug on the other end of the power cables every release.
>Apple won't sell parts or provide manuals and it sues people who claim to be able to do such things on your behalf

This is objectively not true. Apple is not against selling parts or manuals. That's the entire point of an Apple Authorized Repair center. Anyone can get certified by Apple if they can demonstrate that the repairs are done to the level that Apple specifies. What the "Right to Repair" bills are asking for is that Apple provides the manuals for free. Why is that justifiable, fair, or right in any sense if doing so could (and materially would) harm their business?

As for the second claim, Apple has never, ever sued someone simply for repairing their devices as a third-party. They've only sued people who claimed to use genuine Apple parts that weren't or people who stole manuals and schematics that are reserved for authorized repair centers.
Leap Motion (which is not Magic Leap) recently showed a design with a much larger FOV, using so-called "bird bath" optics (which Meta 2 is also based on). It's not anything you'd want to actually wear in everyday life, but it should be an interesting platform for prototyping AR software. http://blog.leapmotion.com/northstar/
You're making a strawman argument. I'm not arguing "all whistleblowers are good people," I'm citing the definition of whisteblowing is "a person who informs on a person or organization engaged in an illicit activity."

Reporting a CEO embezzling is whistleblowing. Announcing apple is working on a new gizmo is not. Don't conflate them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_balance
Personally I'm waiting until GDPR comes into effect before requesting all the data LinkedIn has on me and information on any third parties they may have given my data to.

I'm mildly terrified by some of the suggestions they have made which could only come from linking third-party data sets.
ACIDity is an annoyingly missing feature in WordPress. For software that's used on something like 20% of all websites, it doesn't use the InnoDB MySQL table format by default, and therefore doesn't support MySQL transactions out of the box.