skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aren't they on the third iteration of those keyboards now, I wonder if the failure rate is still high.

I guess we will find out when the next revision of laptops comes out, if they really are unreliable then Apple will fix it as it is clearly doing them some reputational damage.
The chrome dev tools are right in there in vscode so you can take a look at what's executed. It's also hardly reverse engineering if the code is all there to look at, and even debuggable and modifyable at runtime. I fail to see any issues here.
I would be back in the Linux camp if I could find a combination of hardware and software that matches the MBP touchpad experience.
The seller does it for everyone. I didn’t request it to be underdeclared.
I can quote our user: "My team are consisting of remote resources, and scheduling a standup suitable to all timezones was a nightmare. And it always ending up as a regular meeting not a standup. Standuply had solved that."

So, for remote teams it can be a huge problem even though it doesn't seem like that.
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The UI in the Mac version has a Windows look and feel, which seems odd. I'm interested in why the developers chose this approach.
He did.

I contributed a few minor fixes and got an email from David asking for permission to re-license.
As far as I can tell, you "apply" for them and then get exclusive rights to it. Only one project gets it?

EDIT: https://github.com/arasatasaygin/openlogos
"One logo can be only given to one project. This project will have all exclusive rights of the logo."
Completely agree. Reliability has plummeted with almost every release since the retina MBP. Crashes are a regular thing and most of the physical "improvements" outside of compactness and weight have been unwanted. The touch bar in particular is just a dead appendage.

But my previous and extensive experiences with Linux and Windows ecosystems tell me that the grass is not greener, so I stay and put up with the problems.
I don't think we disagree, necessarily.

I don't have strong opinions about trade barriers, but I generally fall on the "no barriers" side.

That said, implementation matters. Badly implemented barrier reduction policies will be worse than well implemented barrier raising policies. Policies are like everything else, in this respect. We just get more list in the high falutin debate more often, when it comes to politics.

I'm arguing that if trade barriers are going up, tariffs are the better implementation.
Thanks for posting that. Great article. I was blown away at the open access Ford grants to visitors and media at its most advanced production facility. ("Most advanced" is my assumption given that this plant produces Ford's highest margin vehicles.)
Previous conversation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17312588
Specifically, the pre-built binaries that microsoft provides come with restrictive license agreements. The source code is still MIT.

There's presumably some difference between the Microsoft pre-builds and whatever you get from source. Apparently at the very least, the contents of product.json (https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/product.json...) defining names are different.
I'll admit to it being poorly worded. :)

So yes, I know that small, embedded systems exist, so let me be more concrete in my questions, some of which you started to answer:

* What languages are used on these systems?

* What RTOSs would be interesting to learn?

* What processors are typically used?

* What hardware should I get to start learning?

* What organizations and companies do a lot of small embedded systems?

I think I know the answer to _some_ of these, but I'm interested to hear what you think. And thanks for the answer!
Impacket – Collection of Python Classes for Working with Network Protocols
Thank Walkman. (Best username ever)
Apple did in fact license their OS in the 1990s. Did not work out very well, financially, for them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_clone#Licensed_Macin...
> They are not as nice though.

Ha! Apparently you haven't used Northern in the UK. Nice! (chuckle)

I don't think it's really about nicety, but about capacity.

A subway train can carry up to 1'000 passengers, depending on length and construction. You can have frequencies of a train every 90 seconds (example: line C in Prague, during rush hour). So you can transport up to 40'000 people per hour in each direction.

Buses, while certainly much better than private vehicles, can never match that capacity. Alas, they're much cheaper and certainly more flexible.
Counterpoints to the article:

> Some of the most compelling jobs to bring back to the US are the so-called “last screw” system integration operations.

Somewhat. The system integration operations are tedious and human-labor intensive. Those operations could still move to other cheaper labored countries such as Vietnam, India, etc. And if the operations can be automated, these operations will be reshored. The point of the tariffs exercise is to encourage manufacturing to move out of China and into other countries or reshored, to punish China for stealing IP and unfair business practices.

> I’ve examined the tariff lists (List 1 and List 2), and it taxes the import of basic components, tools and sub-assemblies, while giving fully assembled goods a free pass.

Trump just announced he is starting an additional $200 billion tariff on Chinese goods. That will definitely cover some fully assembled goods since the trade deficit is only around $330 billion, and there is already tariffs on $50 billion https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trump-escala...

> While stiff tariffs on the import of microchips drove investment in local chip companies, trade barriers meant the local companies didn’t have to be as competitive.

True in some ways. However, there will always be competition pressures and anti-monopoly pressures. It really depends on the shape of the market. And in technology, there are always the threat of obsolete/disruptive innovations to keep companies on their toes.

> New Tariffs Hurt Educators and Makers

If educators and makers really wanted cheap standalone components to play with, and there is a market, there will be a market sooner or later born in US for them. the $250 billion tariffs (and any subsequent ones) will make sure of that. If manufacturing can be reshored to China in 15 years, it can be reshored back to US in less time than that, with US economy booming 4% this quarter, massive capital inflow, and robotics technology growing.
We have an unambiguous term for that. It's FOSS.
If you click the "How it works" text, you get a dropdown answering some things like that. One of the answers is

> One logo can be only given to one project. This project will have all exclusive rights of the logo.

which should prevent your hypothetical situation from occurring.
I think the real problem is that Microsoft worked so hard to obscure the relationship between the two via the branding and naming. It feels slimy and damages trust. I'm a career JavaScript developer and I didn't know there was a separate, "truly open source" version.

For comparison, look at Chrome vs Chromium. Similar project structure, but the branding and project communication are much better. Everybody (who would care) is readily aware of both versions and the difference between the two, and the fact that Chrome isn't fully open-source.
This is very useful - Thanks!
I see your point, and it’s a very valid observation. But I think it’s different when the overwhelming majority of people want cars and want to live in the suburbs. Organizing public goods to serve the collective desires of the vast majority is different than socially engineering society by forcing them to abandon their preferred way of life because a powerful minority thinks it’s backwards and unenlightened.
> AI will streamline data entry procedures, track employees’ moods, and map the physical movements of hands and bodies to scientifically configure the most productive day for each employee.

I cannot think of many things more horrific. It's not AI that scares me, it's people. The nonchalance with which this sentence is woven into a buzzword-dominated article shocks me to the core.

People are truly horrific.
Tariffs do not go against all sound economic theories lol.
I'm currently trying [1] this but I don't know how to pick up more traction from designers. Perhaps I'm looking for someone who can both design (change an existing new design) and implement it at the same time, which may be too much? I don't know.

Good designers can make a project succeed. We need more in OSS.

[1] https://github.com/CachetHQ/Cachet/issues/3111
Amazon Hub lets you receive packages even when you’re not in your apartment
I remember bringing the manuals for Civ II, Black & White, and Morrowind to school. Oh man, I miss manuals
The figures don't show that, Mac sales are continuing to rise whilst the rest of the industry is in decline.

There are clearly some vocal critics here, that isn't real evidence though.
I recently switched the core pages of my website (a small search engine) to Go from PHP. Have not implemented any goroutines yet, just focused on a line-by-line port for now, and it was overall a fun experience. I would highly recommend Go. Only downside is the smaller (but growing) community of developers, so you might spend a little more time finding answers. Also I wish it didn't force you to comment out unused libraries or unused variables when you're trying to troubleshoot something. It should be allowed when running, but keep it restricted when building maybe?
Developer type on Windows.

Being a developer is not a synonym for UNIX like development.
No I understood your point. I just don't think it must be true, in the strong formulation you are using, that there must be a short list of people who can independently cause new code to run on a vehicle. I believe security and access can be set up such that no one person can accomplish that. It may be very difficult to set that up, but it seems worthwhile in this case.
Anyone able and willing (and brave enough) to explain like I’m five why Trump’s decisions could possibly be rational and helpful as opposed to just reactionary and impulsive, as they appear to be?
Hispanic refers to Spanish-influenced cultures, not all of South America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_America

I think that's why it's largely considered Latin America instead of Hispanic America.
Cybersecurity startup CrowdStrike raises $200M at $3B valuation
Manjaro Deepin: A clean minimal and powerful Linux distro
I don't think so, gambling is based on the risk/reward thrill, coupled with the fact that "if I just hit the big one, I can do other activity that I want to do, but can't afford". I don't feel like many people go into the casino like, "if I win it big at $5, I'm gonna go play 100 dollar a hand blackjack!"

Video games don't have that risk/reward in as nearly as a tangible sense. Though you could argue that games like EVE Online, where in game resources have a direct comparison to hard cash. Ie, you can grind up a capital ship in game, or you can theoretically purchase enough ISK (in game currency, about $11,000 USD in this case) to buy one outright.

Video games have less risk/reward, are focused internally, and have more greed and achievement. If I'm able to clear this raid, I'm able to get X, which will allow me to do Y in the same game, which will make it easier to attempt Z, etc. No one plans to play 5 dollar blackjack so they can play 100 dollar blackjack.
Sure, but the author of the ticket just said "free", hence the confusion.
The most dangerous thing here is that the public is increasingly getting the message and idea that Apple's mac hardware is decomposing.

They really need to make this a priority. I fear that the success of the iPhone is blinding them to the importance of the mac. And you can tell because they're kicking ass when it comes to iOS devices. They're so far ahead in certain areas, it's not even funny.

This is reminding me of the Steve Ballmer years at MS. The financials looked GREAT, even though the company completely stagnated when it came to technology (with some exceptions like the Developer Division).

Similarly, the Mac division's strong imbalance now of choosing form over function (the designers have taken over the asylum, removing ports, making keyboards thinner that nobody asked for), is going to continue hurting them until they change course drastically.

Hopefully we see it soon. Meanwhile, I am clinging on to my MacBook Pro from 2015, still the best MacBook Pro I've owned.
Heroin and alcohol addiction are physical addictions. They are a completely different matter.

Gambling addiction is them same as this, and there is basically no effective treatment available. Just like there won't be one for social media addiction or gaming addiction or reading addiction or sex addiction or masturbation addiction or...

I suggest reading up on how addiction treatment for gambling goes. The person still is a problem gambler at the end of treatment and it's considered successful.

The entire model for addiction for non-substance abuse addiction seems sketchy.
I was a network engineer for a University so.

-Used it to discover Cisco switch port number and switch names for ports

-Find rouge routers on the network people setup in their dorm rooms that would hand out their own ip address(DHCP) on our network
That's not true.
Mozilla did not want (even slightly) modified versions of Firefox or Thunderbird to be labelled as such.

The issue has been solved and, currently, Debian has renamed its package back to Firefox.

On top of it, this has probably nothing to do with this topic. (copyrights and branding being very different topics)
GPL supporters are all about freedom -- until someone advocates for the freedom to make a proprietary product on top of the open source base.
Mid-2012 MBP with SSD, retina, and 16gb here.

I've got an HDMI port, SD card reader, two USB ports, two thunderbolt ports, magsafe power, and a proper, reliable keyboard.

I despair at the current crop of mac hardware. If this machine dies on me before some decent mac hardware arrives, I'm not sure what i'll do - but it definitely won't involve buying a new macbook with the touchbar, stupid keyboards, and no ports.
> It's hard to prove these things, but they only peripherally imply the idea of 'ghost workers'.

https://jalopnik.com/ill-be-damned-feds-indict-new-york-city...

That doesn't prove all of the allegations from the earlier articles, for sure, but does confirm that the story wasn't made up from whole cloth.

> “Lokhandwala concealed his receipt of the bribe payments by having the contractors issue checks to shell bank accounts he controlled,” the DOJ said. “In exchange for the bribes, Lokhandwala promised to steer future work to the contractors and to expedite bureaucratic paperwork for their benefit. Lokhandwala threatened to bar the contractors from future projects if they did not continue to pay him.”
Amazon Prime is now available in Australia
I have an early 2013 MBP that I'm going to hang on to as long as I possibly can. It is truly a wonderful machine. I'm long out of warranty and just opted to pay $600 for repairs rather than upgrade. Really hope apple can turn things around before it finally kicks the bucket for good. Pretty amazing and sad how a company can take something so good and completely ruin it. To be fair it probably doesn't help that our culture is so obsessed with constant new-ness in tech, expecting huge advances every single year which puts pressure on companies to come up with shiny new features all the time. If it ain't broke...
Israel’s 166 cybersecurity startups, including 16 that raised more than $50M
I made the change and pushed it out - much better I think. Thank you.
Uber Neglected Simulation Testing on Self-Driving Cars, Insiders Say
Yeah I've always wondered why that has happened in Britain but not so much in the US in that people on different ends of the country can often sound not too dissimilar,
TVs already have this, it's referred to as motion smoothing and people hate it. TVs with high refresh rates create interpolated frames to smooth the video when the source material is at a lower frame rate. It works for some situations like sports, but in other situations it's very unpopular -like movies, but it's been a standard feature in many tvs for a long time.
This was true until drm-next-kmod and drm-stable-kmod ports appeared. Now you have very similar Linux and FreeBSD graphics experience.

Which are, respectively, based on 4.9 and 4.11 in ports. The AMD has made large strides since then. In those kernels, the amdgpu driver barely supported Southern/Sea Islands. These work extremely well with recent kernels (much smoother than the old radeon driver). Vega cards only support graphical output since 4.15.

Wayland is enabled by default since recently.

The FreeBSD website states that Wayland is not ready for general use. Wayland has been 'enabled' in many Linux distributions for years, but it took a long time to remove all the wrinkles.

I wonder: did you actually run a full GNOME desktop on Wayland on FreeBSD for a couple of months?

Linux - Vulnerabilities (2103) - FreeBSD - Vulnerabilities (368)

Linux is far more popular and most likely audited more as a result of that. So, it is not surprising that it has more CVEs. Also, the Linux kernel is a fair bit larger, supports more architecture, and more hardware, which means more surface.

About 7 times more on the Linux side, do not mix X11 into that :)

X11 is a permanent security vulnerability. Every application can read each other application's mouse events, key strokes, and do screen grabs.
I hate it. The only time I use it is to adjust volume or screen brightness, both things I used to be able to do with a single key press.
I am glad you liked it!!:)
I'd pay $500 to license MacOS to run perfectly on my XPS13. Instead I have to do it myself with hacks and stuff.
Are you guys Slack users yourselves? Could someone really understand how to build a slack bot business without using Slack themselves?
It already is MIT: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/6b8ea727a918c6d646e...
Australia fines Apple $6.6M over ‘Error 53’ iPhone and iPad bricking
I ended up buying a new 2017 15 inch MacBook Pro and it's really been not that bad. Yes, you have to use a USB-A to USB-C dongle here and there but at least for my daily use, it's not been terribly inconvenient. The machine is light and thin and I enjoy it immensely, although I'm a little scared about the keyboard (so far no problems). Touchbar?... meh. Neither like not dislike.

I don't know. I understand the new MacBooks are not perfect for everybody but for me it has been more than OK, and I love the huge trackpad. I feel like a lot of the criticism seems excessive or are complaints that could very well be applied to the sad state of the PC industry as a whole.
Besides, if we skip science, the tetris analogy seems way more accurate than chess.
This issue seems a bit confusing, so here's my best attempt at grokking it.

If you download VS Code from https://code.visualstudio.com/, you'll be presented with this license: https://code.visualstudio.com/License/, which reads more like a somewhat permissive license to proprietary software than it does as an open-source license.

If you, instead, clone the git repo at https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode, you'll find that the repo is under an MIT license (https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/LICENSE.txt)

Hence the title: It feels off (I can see why people would call it "deceptive") that code.visualstudio.com offers something for download that is described as Open Source but is not licensed under a standard Open Source license, and it's definitely bewildering that they would do that while simultaneously making the source code available under the MIT license.
Discussion of the actual article this piece addresses from 4 days ago (over 300 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17312588
The Mid 2015 MBP is decent, it still has an SD card slot, USB3, MagSafe and two TB ports, as well as a real keyboard.
Maybe I’m in my own bubble but do you really think the following contract is so complex that you need to hire auditors?:

OP_IF
<Alice’s pubkey> OP_Checksig
OP_ELSE
“3 months” OP_CSV OP_DROP
<Heir’s pubkey> OP_Checksig
OP_ENDIF

Would you say that you need expensive programmers to audit/create an escrow contract on Bitcoin? Multisig contracts are simple, battletested and deployed in the blockchain.
Apple did to that long ago with MacOS 7. It didn't work so well, since they undercut sales of their own hardware. Jobs killed the licensing when he returned to the company.

Today, OS X is good enough that is still gets people to buy their outdated hardware. They'd be crazy to license it and give up that lockin. It's not a good situation, but we're not going to see OS X licensed to other manufacturers anytime soon.
> is an alpha game that's supposed to be cutting edge in a few years time when it releases.

It's not really a good idea to design for future hardware and assume that future GPUs are going to be able to handle X% more polygons/samples/etc. than what we have now. Just look at the original Crysis. It's still not easy to get solid high frame rates on a decade-old game since it was designed with the assumption that CPUs would continue to evolve on the axis of fast, single threaded performance. Instead parallelism happened.

A good game engine should scale smoothly from mid-range hardware upwards, and be designed so that it can be modified to take advantage of advances in hardware when they become available, not before.
I don't agree with this. I think Apple is right in that the real value comes from top to bottom integration.

For example, when they can ensure that there's a certain set of bluetooth and wireless chipsets, they can test against those, and have features tied to them. But that becomes increasingly difficult as you diversify hardware.
Japan has slightly lower average trade weighted tariffs than the US.

Japan has nearly 200% higher agriculture tariffs than the US.
Dependency radii of packages in CentOS are horrible. Your minimal installs are hovering above 1GB. Debian are better at 400MB or so. Alpine is great, in that you can get this down to well under 100MB.

This has been a long standing complaint of mine[1], and an argument I've had with many proponents of "software must come packaged only from the provider of the distro" people.

Physical and logical footprint is a real thing. Ridiculous secondary/tertiary dependencies are a waste of that precious resource, and an unneeded/unwanted installation of useless bits.

[1] http://scalability.org/2018/04/distribution-package-dependen...
The flip side is that they’re on the same roads as cars, which means exposed to the same congestion. And to the degree they get some people out of cars, they get other people into them.
I'm on a mid-2012 with a failing battery, some keys don't work unless - shall we say - you push them with conviction, and just a few weeks ago it had a bit of a tumble and the LCD panel is now cracked. I'm debating whether I should buy a 2015 15", or wait for October to see if anything shows up in the next refresh. -_-
I concur. Buying my MacBook with touch bar add-on was a decision I regret every day. And every day I miss the old function keys.

In addition, Apple replaced my keyboard (all of sudden, the 'b' key ceased working) and managed to damage the Touch ID part of the bar, replacing which led to replacing the entire logic board. The keyboard has been so bad that I'm expecting it to go again soon, and next time, it won't be in warranty.

Apple, please sort it out. You're still ahead of the pack if you can (a) fix the quality/bugs, and (b) stop making bad and very experimental design decisions.
for me it sounds more like legal ass covering than close sourcing vscode, so nobody can sue them for collecting telemetry or autoupdating, etc