skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Manufacturers are a lot more interested in manufacturability and reliability than repairability. The result is things that are relatively cheaper and less likely to break than in the past.

Another interesting aspect in electronics is that things like memory can run faster if you solder it down -- connectors eat into your signal margin.

Just imagine the chaos if the technique that Apple and everyone else uses to marry the SOC and RAM is outlawed because it's less repairable than the way it used to be done?

I'm a fan of repairability, and low prices, high reliability, and high performance. It's not a one-dimensional problem.
Yeah, that might be better, good point.
Performance can be approximately measured by instructions-per-clock * clock-rate.

But the GHz number on a chip only tells you its clock rate. So if you focus on this, you're missing a crucial aspect of performance (the instructions-per-clock part).

Chip designers can try to increase the clock rate to some insane number, but when they do that, it makes each clock cycle very short, leaving very little time to do productive work.

At any rate, within a particular architecture it's potentially meaningful to look at clock rate. You can expect a 2GHz Pentium 4 to be faster than a 1.5 GHz Pentium 4. It won't be a whole 25% faster, because, for instance, if the processor is waiting for data from RAM, it doesn't matter how fast its clock is ticking, the RAM chips are going to take the same amount of time to get the data that the CPU is waiting for.

But when you talk about completely different designs, e.g., Intel versus AMD, Intel versus Apple, etc., clock speed becomes really and truly meaningless. See for instance the "Comparing" section of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_rate
Apparently still fighting as of December 2017: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-5186489/You...
That's clearly not the point, and a lousy suggestion.

Why would I want to "dispose of" perfectly functioning hardware which has no fault except for reaching an artificial expiry date imposed by its maker?

The best way to help the environment is to build things that last, keeping them alive for as long as possible if people choose to do that.

Apple says NO, they don't give a stuff. "Buy a new ipad because you'll be supporting Apple, and we make millions of the things, there's unlimited Earth resources allowing us to do that."
I think the Dutch people posting here know whether or not they reach across their body and open their driver-side door with their right hand. So I believe them when they say the article is wrong.
For a couple of years the ARRL has had some turmoil and toxic politics at the BOD level. BP has a list of candidates he supports in the upcoming BOD elections.
Well, this isn’t exactly true. You can repair your own phones, you just need the right tools. China is well known for this. Repair shops that have the right tools (vacuum heating chambers, etc) are able to take apart and repair phones.
The society which represents U.S. amateur radio operators voted to have their board be much less transparent and members were not told about this. There is now a campaign to elect board members who are running on a transparency platform.
Do you have a copy of unsupported software hidden in a sub folder anywhere on your local drives?

Client of mine had an old copy of the Novell client installer (it was never installed on this machine) sitting in a folder named C:\Old_Computer\ . Last year's fall update kept aborting with an unclear error dialog. The install log only gave a vague suggestion that the issues was unsupported software and DID NOT reveal the full path to the offending file, just the title of the software.

Windows desperately needs a shibboleet option, so power users can stop fighting it.
In my personal experience though, ending these sorts of outside contracts with a half-truth in the vein of "the organization has decided to make a change" isn't remotely unusual. It's entirely possible that PC Mag decided to prune their outside contributors to a core group and perhaps change their relationship somewhat with the remaining ones.

Is it disingenuous, especially with someone who has been working for you in some form for a very long time? Sure. But I've seen a number of online pubs that go through changes with their outside contributors and communication is mostly pretty poor.
Please define mainstream media. Are you using it in the right-wing sense of “media that isn’t our personal hagiographers”?

> Mainstream media was shedding eyes

News has been “shedding” paid subscribers. Shedding eyes? Citation needed.

> and under scrutiny

By who?
Well the attitude was that they are now "proud" of there updates and the new features they give away, so they want to shove that into the users face on starting up.

With a little creativity, one can redecorate routine maintenance into a parade of glorious futurism. And of course that parade needs to be the first you experience on the computers return to conciousness.

Something similar happens on Surface updates.
While macbook is top notch hardware and MacOs is the best *nix os out there, this is the last straw. I will not being giving anymore money to apple with its anti-consumer business practices.

Can some one recommend a good cloud MacOs vm solution for ios development? Or better yet, a rock solid hackintosh build that won't go to shit every update? I don't mind paying good money for a good product but this is ridiculous.
I just joined ARRL 10 minutes ago. New ham, or more accurately, lapsed for 44 years and ham again since July.

I fear I may be too late for a vote at this time, but can't find where I would cast it on arrl.net in any case. Any advice?
They aren’t targeting people like you and me. They’re targeting the next generation who won’t grow up with repairable things, and China is their target market right now with several hundred more million people than the West.

India manufacturers will be the next to look for, unless Apple changed gears.
Semi automation and software testing
I read The Trial, and I am an avid reader of literary fiction. I understand that the trial was published posthumously, and against Kafka's wishes. These facts track, for me, because I feel The Trial was unfinished, unpolished, and most of the time, not very good.

The whole time Joseph K. expounds his innocence, but still acts a total jerk to everybody he can, and at every opportunity. Being a jerk isn't exactly a crime, but its never clear what level of law the novel is operating on, and so its wholly reasonable to suspect K. is completely guilty, which changes the whole narrative (and for the worse)

The first chapter is wonderful and all that good "Kafkaesque" material people harp on about. Then the meeting with the priest where Kafka essentially provides a dialogue and commentary on one of his own short stories; enlightening, and entertaining. But past that nothing jives right.

The knowledge of his hecka abusive father doesnt serve the novel either. From the real world information, it only takes a few small adjustments to make The Trial as an allegory for child abuse, and the rationalizations and bitter remorse associated with it into adulthood. Kafka, as a person, was treated terribly for little to no reason, by an authority he was subject to. Kafka assumes his innocence, and presumes the authority was wrong, until eventually his mind is beaten down enough and the abused believes that the abuse is deserved. Not to mention the natual tendancy to assume parents, even abusive ones, arent actually as bad as they seem (to a child, at least). Goven tvat reading, the mystery of interpreting The Trial dissapates, and a grim and more common than desired account remains.

I guess my frustration with The Trial is not the novel itself, or Kafka himself, but the circumstances of its publication (which, again, in its shambolic presentation, show), and of the "prediction of future bueraucracy" ascribed to it, both factors external to the author.

But on subject, kafka is sorta funny. In a dark and/or cynical way. But I find him more sad and pitiful, both his work anf the author himself.
I mean to be fair unlocking the bootloader pretty much destroys the security of the phone so if anything that message should be louder.
If the system had been called a "National Alert", since most other alerts are typically "Regional Alerts", then I suspect a lot of the sour taste and politics in this would neatly go away. Calling it a "Presidential Alert" suggests it's a direct line of communication with the President, when the system is clearly managed by an agency with the authority to issue these alerts.
This was very enlightening for me, thank you!
The still retain outside columnists. The PC Mag editor straight up lied.
+1 I'd love to see lobbying for symbol rate limits replaced with bandwith limits for digital but it's not even on their radar.
I specialize in AdTech, mostly building bidding algorithms for emerging clients after years of managing AdTech at larger companies. It's mostly secret sauce, no one really publishes that stuff. It would be bad PR and you don't want the competition to know what you are doing.
This reminds me of the backhanded remark "do you understand or should I draw a diagram?". If someone needs a diagram on these matters, that's sad.
I'm 100% behind banning WSJ and all other paywalled links, or at least having a highly visible (and preferablly filterable) flag, but it's a real stretch to call an archive.is link "copyright infringement" and make a moral judgement on it.

It's not like someone saved and reposted a sign-in only page, this is in the same vein as the Wayback Machine and Google Cache. The content was publicly available to the point that a well known bot was able to reach it.

edit: I looked at the history of the link and it has an older copy where more of the images work.

http://archive.is/4S2IG
It's mostly nonsense though. Itanium ended up being a bad bet for Intel and HP but both companies mostly just moved on with Xeon. Intel's worse bet was on x86 in mobile.
Democrats Unveil “Internet Bill of Rights”
Speeding up object creation (Perl6)
John C. Dvorak is a troll and the record holder of being wrong.

He is almost everything that's bad on "tech journalism" concentrated in one.

Specially regarding his brand of hate, Apple.

He mentioned that the "mouse" of the Macintosh was bad ("There is no evidence that people want to use these things."), he claimed that Apple was going to discontinue OS X and switch to Windows (according to his "sources"), he argued that Apple should cancel the iPhone even before the thing came out, etc. etc. etc. the thing only repeats after each Apple new product, and even claimed that the $1T company was dead because the iPhone 5 was going to flop (the iPhone 5 was Apple's biggest success until the date).

There is only one reason why companies hire him or fire him, he drives clicks and magazine purchases. He is the Alex Jones of tech.

Thing is that today, people can go to many other places to get their Apple hate validated, on top of that, he wrote a negative article about 5G, and the PC Magazine sponsors are waiting for that to sell more phones, so he had to go.
That maybe the case, but bad enough to get fired over? That’s not clear to me.

The way modern writing works, I would expect he got paid very little for writing this. You’re kind of asked to push out X many blog posts a day, there’s not a huge amount of time for research... or even re-reading/thinking over the implications of your work.
> 12 rounds/min

Wow! I get like 1/min on my single stage press.

Maybe it's time to upgrade.
This is exciting to hear. I look forward to hearing more.
I'm surprised this didn't get more upvotes. Sure, there's some blatant and repetitive self-promotion, but it could start some great threads of discussion. I guess HN has gotten so big that some important articles are falling through the cracks.
This sort of problem became more or less inevitable once people stopped paying for content.

With a traditional newspaper your readers are footing at least part of the bill for the articles, so you are beholden to them to keep them informed. At least in theory. These days however the only payment is coming from advertisers, so they are the only ones you need to keep happy.

This is the same problem that TV and Radio news has always had, and why they were considered inferior to newspapers for factual reporting. Of course there are a few outlets that are listener/viewer funded, and they tend to be more highly regarded than their counterparts. Outlets like the BBC, NPR, and PBS.

Theoretically cable news shouldn't have this problem since part of the cost comes from people's cable bills, but other forces have conspired to poison that well.
Not to bring up one of my favorite languages or anything, but I do think D got this completely right.

https://tour.dlang.org/tour/en/basics/alias-strings

> This means that a plain string is defined as an array of 8-bit Unicode code units. All array operations can be used on strings, but they will work on a code unit level, and not a character level. At the same time, standard library algorithms will interpret strings as sequences of code points, and there is also an option to treat them as sequence of graphemes by explicit usage of std.uni.byGrapheme.

And perhaps my favorite part (https://tour.dlang.org/tour/en/gems/unicode):

> According to the spec, it is an error to store non-Unicode data in the D string types; expect your program to fail in different ways if your string is encoded improperly.

I should note that what I really like about this approach is the total lack of ambiguity. There is no question about what belongs in a string, and if it's not UTF then you had better be using a byte or ubyte array or you are doing it wrong by definition.
If all tools he had access to behaved in the same way, he wouldn't be able to fix these "wrong" file names.
As long as customers are OK with ads, I agree there won't be massive pressure to develop alternatives. But if other factors were changed, the necessary level of "I hate ad platforms" pressure might be reduced. I can imagine a world with only 10% of people using the alternative platform, but still having it survive.

I think the larger problem with my vision is simply that its not in line with the visions of the various competitors I listed. Everyone believed they could create their own separate mobile fiefdom (Amazon's Android fork, Windows Phone, Tizen, etc).
The excruciating final hours of George Washington (2014)
Steep face rock climbing has the same problem. If you climb for days on a vertical cliff, there is really just one directs where all the waste has to go. Better watch out that it doesnt hit your rope or some climber below you.
He did say that topic having a real lack of studies was the main problem. 5G radiation is not the same as previous cellphone radiation which does have "XYZ studies dispute these health effects".

Sometimes presenting both sides of the argument would require making up an other side of the argument or propping it up because it doesn't exist or is bad. In that case presenting both sides of the argument would be sensationalizing.

I read this as him saying that the industry is trying to make unstudied radiation ubiquitous in our lives. The industry is not used to this pushback. The PR that results is bad.

Critical reading does not mean reacting to your first impression on the article. Especially when discussing whether the work of a man who's been covering tech since 1980 was censored over it.
> He is the Alex Jones of tech.

Ha! I hope he responds to that on No Agenda.
>> Man, if that's how professional vim users work, this piece of video will be the only proof I will ever need to prevent zealots from even wasting IDE users time to try vim.

I'm a zealot, and it's a waste of my time to try and convince someone to use vim. If someone is trying to sell you on using vim, remind them of the code they should be writing instead of flapping their lips at you. The "you gotta use vim!" folks are usually half-adept hacks. They don't quite understand it as fully as they feel they should, so instead they try to get good vibes by convincing you to make the same decisions they did.

disclaimer: 20-year vi/vim user - could care less whether anyone else uses it or not.
Are these C++-based browser improvements being made public? Is this a library?
Yes, first sentence: "Bloomberg L.P. provides financial software tools"
I've known about the president alerts as long as I've owned a cell phone and that it can't be disabled has never sat well with me and I've considered rooting just to remove it. I don't approve of unilaterally allowing some external entity to force execution of some procedure on my device without my consent.
> Do you have all the correct and required partitions? If you don't have the right partitions (OEM, EFI) of the right size, Windows Setup will again fail with cryptic errors, none of which say "your partitions are wrong".

Worth pointing out you don't have to be sharing the drive with another OS to get this situation. I had a system which I upgraded from 7 -> 8.1 -> 10. My linux install and bootloader are on a totally separate drive. This left the drive with:

* 100mb system reserved partition (unused, created by win 7 installer)

* 250gb C: partition

* 400mb system reserved partition (created by 8.1 or 10 update, actually used)

Then I used the Samsung tool to copy to my new ssd and ended up with a 100mb system reserved partition and a 1tb c: drive. But the 1709 update tried to unpack the >100mb update into the too small system reserved partition and failed in a loop
Does anyone know who this guy is, what he was doing, and why he was livestreaming it?
Yeah my bad. 95 definitely didn't have automatic updates. Had to come in the form of the 95 Plus! CD-ROM.

Maybe even 98 didn't have automatic updates, but I won't be surprised if 98SE already had this capability in some form.
Whatever the case, the independent voice
cannot exist in this corrupt milieu and
be truly independent.

Take notice, by now, the same is also true for HN comment threads. Party lines and happy thoughts only.
I got back into the hobby after letting my license expire years ago. SDR and GNU radio are what pulled me back in. I feel like it's a renaissance for amateur radio.
I have been running Windows since 3.11 and have never had any of the issues with Windows Update described in this thread since the XP days. Don't think these issues are common, just the vocal minority.
I think he's talking about telecomm equipment, not operators
Please let's not just surrender to "That's how modern writing works." I suppose it is at some publications, perhaps including pcmag.com. But there are plenty of thoughtful, researched articles and columns out there to read. That column has maybe a tweet's worth of content.
You know, someone's wrong on the Internet :-D

Also, George Hotz is a famous hacker, maybe not Carmack or Linus, but definitely somewhere on that scale. Even that video shows an interesting work.

Also, I used `zealot` in the sense of advertisement, not normal passion.
I honestly would be less ambitious and settle with more it-just-works Linux laptops that devs can trust and maybe mainstream users can learn too.

Currently the only one that fits that bill is Dell XPS13 and that comes with just one flavor (Ubuntu). Most laptops will have random driver issues or another.
The flip side of point 3, and probably the better way to go about things in most cases, is to accept the fact that other people have autonomy and just let them do whatever the hell they're gonna do in most cases. If you have family members who eat too much or smoke or gamble or drink a lot, it would be ridiculous to cut them out of your life over it. Just get over the fact that they're not running their lives in the perfect, ideal way that you would and love them anyway. But if someone is in one of the the deepest, darkest pits of fucked-upedness that you've seen in your entire life, well....

Point 1 is stated a bit too strongly, which I tried to temper a bit by jokingly contradicting it. I think a lot of interpersonal stuff is best handled with Postel's Law: be conservative with what you emit and liberal with what you accept. There is a time and a place to offer advice to people, just as there is a time and a place to offer rebuke, shame, or a punch to the face, but these are terrible default modes of interaction, and I think apo likely shares my personal flaw of defaulting to advice far too often.

By all means, especially if you're dealing with someone in a deep, dark pit of fucked-upedness and you seriously want to help guide them to salvation, give them advice. But do so very deliberately. The stereotypical example of this is an "intervention", and I'm not sure how effective that particular modality is, but the basic idea of treating it as a very serious move that must be done as carefully as possible, with plenty of forethought and love and good faith, seems like the right approach. And if they never make a good faith attempt to change things in response to that, well...at that point, it circles back to point 3, and if you follow through on point 3, you're definitely not enabling them anymore. Although even then, there's still a chance they'll break into the house and steal the TV.
Some additional information about PERKI: http://web.archive.org/web/20060401172542/http://www.geociti...

(also, "HFR till end of the world confirmed" is amazing. Must add that sort of thing to a software project sometime)
As I read it he's saying "the safety of millimeter waves needs more research" which isn't unreasonable. wifi doesn't use millimeter waves - the safety of wifi's frequency range is very well researched and has been for a long time.
I've got a British driving license and an American driving license. The British driving license was hard work. The American driving license involved little more than proving I could make the car go forwards and that I had a pulse.

There's really a 40% failure rate? That's insane given how easy it is to pass the test.
> user space video card drivers

On macOS, video card drivers are userspace, in fact, every driver (kext) is userspace
This is also a great piece - it’s how I found the article myself.
> The size of the pie for adblocking users is zero

You're changing the argument. You claimed that you were more generous than the ad networks and that publishers should choose you over the ad networks. Let me refresh your memory. "We pay publishers far more than the sub-40% they get on a good day from programmatic advertising." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18157795

That they would otherwise get zero from users of your browser is how your scam works. That's the whole point. Nobody disputes that.

> Now if you complain that it's still not enough, you are being inconsistent vs. your agreement that users have the right to block, which results in zero.

Nope. Users have the right to block. That doesn't mean that it's ethical for some middleman to step in to collect ransom from the publishers.
Yes, though the article spends most of the time on "big government intrusions", "ideological individualism", and "should bullets be banned or one day be in short supply".

The additional practical perspective is helpful.
Iran/Contra got the CIA into a lot of hot water with Congress. They had some pretty stringent restrictions put in place as a result.

https://www.csmonitor.com/1987/1113/aintel.html
I'm sure the people at Gab would disagree with this assessment.
It also amazes me, they didn't need much effort, just a mechanism like docker does and it will be fine.
Native ads should be clearly labeled and disclosed, as with any other ads. This isn’t controversial and is what all serious journalism organizations are already doing.

I don’t buy that the format is inherently any more dangerous than anything else. All ads need to be respectful of the reader regardless of form.
Focus app even contains a iOS Content Blocker which you can enable in Safari. Now you have Safari with adblocker.
I'm intrigued by this, are these standard codified and documented anywhere? Would love to know more about Excel best practices.