skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, don't get me started on men's shirts which are all cut for an enormous belly and billowing sleeves. God help you if you're not either really skinny or really fat.

I've found so many great shirts that I'm in between sizes on. And most men's shirts are so bland and boring. Men's fashion sucks.
I've seen this one. The video in the link above has the name "The horrible truth about Apple's repeated engineering failures." Rossmann's dislike of Apple comes through, but he gives verifiable facts and, in my opinion, makes a really convincing case that Apple engineers hardware with poor reliability, falling short of matching industry quality and engineering standards (while, of course, charging more.)

As for my own thoughts on how they do this, they really create a premium look and feel, which sells products. Less visible aspects take time to come to light, and you have the opportunity to put some spin on it and obfuscate numbers. Obviously, it works amazingly well in practice.

When people say "you can't judge a book by its cover", I think having an ugly cover with good insides comes to mind first (perhaps because books have much more meat than the cover.) On the flip-side, you can have a great cover on bad insides.

In that video, Rossmann details some substandard first-party Apple refurbishing for issues, and how they time and place recalls, extended warranties, etc. for minimum impact to Apple at consumer expense. The facts, without Apple spin, laid out plainly, really show a manipulative, anti-consumer company with a completely contrary facade, in my opinion.
i wonder if smaller screen variants will ever be on the radar. i'm on a bootloader-unlocked, rooted, lineageos sony z5 compact (4.6" 720p display) that you'd have to pry from my cold dead hands. but i would love to buy a small hackable, privacy-first phone with open hardware instead.

i imagine pcb layout becomes a much harder and more expensive problem at small sizes, not to mention most people wouldn't touch "only" a 720p display in 2019, even at a 4.6" display size (unfort), even if you told them it adds 30% battery life.
If you are a Canadian citizen who ever used a credit/debit card at a cannabis dispensary (or if you even just invested or worked for a Canadian dispensary), you are now permanently barred from entering the United States. A cashless society is a totalitarian society.
neither google nor stanford has the authority to unilaterally declare a limit to research

> Google, OpenAI, Facebook, Uber, or Microsoft.

none of these are academic institutions and none of them have authority to define a limit to research
https://www.luftdaten.info has developed such a device for crowd-sourced measuring.
The purpose of adding to an alcoholic beverage isn’t to increase caloric content, it is solely to make it more palatable. Restaurants don’t salt their steaks to preserve them, they do it to improve the flavor.
A year after iPhone X went on sale, they admit to a problem? And 1 more year before their performance throttling kills the usability if this model

What if they delayed admission to reduce repair costs, and minimize brand damage? I don't trust them to be transparent, I hope regulators are watching this pattern.
i had one compelling use case for my 1st gen ipad pro with pencil when i got it - notetaking/doodling (in meetings, as a scratchpad, sketching out ideas, etc.) so that i could finally leave paper behind. i was especially excited about the real-time OCR they touted. (the smart keyboard sucks though - the connection is error prone, it's oddly angled, and it doesn't feel sturdy)

it handles this use case satisfactorily but i can't say i'm totally delighted. the OCR is limited and the 1st gen pencil and notes app left a lot of little use cases aside. i still revert to paper occasionally (unfortunately) because it's faster, intuitive, and practically failsafe.

i'm glad i have the pro w/ pencil, but just barely. if you don't have a current compelling use case, wait until they fix the multi-tasking at least. that will likely happen in the next release or two.
Leveled Compaction in Apache Cassandra (2011)
Implementation is key here. If a new method can be introduced which offers the same benefits of cash while being digital, open-source and on open hardware, I don't see a huge problem.

Alas, such a solution would probably be extremely hard to create and therefore never will be.
This article is just fear-mongering and speculation. No facts are given to support the title, and the proposed solutions to the problem (which is never established) are vague to the point of meaninglessness.

Skip the read.
WebUsb is pretty cool https://github.com/WICG/webusb
But I think it's fair to say that Apple is the first one to sell mainstream high volume machines like that and use their reputation to make it standard making it both much easier for others to follow without backlash or even forced to follow in search for ever slimmer device.
I don't know if this'll get me to shop in the women's section the next time I need something (because that's when I go shopping for clothes: out of _need_), BUT:

I do think women have fare more variety and selection at their hands when going shopping. I wish we had all these options as men too.
Last night, I stopped at an ATM on downtown Mountain View, to get some cash.

I have my debit card loaded in Apple Pay, for the sole purpose of making my ATM visit faster.

The ATM told me that my virtual card wasn’t acceptable to use to pull out cash; it advised me to use a debit card from my virtual wallet.

Except, that’s what I was using.

It was 8:30 PM, and I didn’t expect any prompt support from the bank. So, I used my physical debit card.

I consider both real and virtual cards to be conveniences, but they’re definitely not replacements.
> Swedish legislation makes it possible for retailers, restaurants and other companies to refuse to accept cash, for instance by putting up a sign at the entrance or by the till.

Yes. It started as a curiosity and now this signs are everywhere.

> By connecting a bank account in any bank with a mobile phone number, Swish has become a popular way to share a restaurant bill

Yes. And to gather money for a friend's birthday or anything else.

> Why Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia

I see the potential risks of this situation. But the article does not bother to bring an analysis of them.

One thing is already happening. The oldest part of the population have a hard time adapting to this situation. It's easier to take a bus and pay in cash than to have to buy an e-ticket in your phone.

I would prefer to see such analysis than this e-krona nonsense.
> Physical cash, in your possession, cannot be frozen or revoked unless those entities stop accepting government fiat currency.

Which is exactly what happened in Sweden, according to the article.
And that's why the ideal is a choice between cash and electronic currency.

Sweden made cash (practically) illegal so now everyone has one less choice.
You already live in a society where the food, water, and shelter you freely purchase has to be certified and authorized by faceless people you've never met and will never meet. Even your labor you are willing to give has to be certified at some level.

That's why you don't have to worry about salmonella in your chicken sandwich or a steel beam falling onto your head at work.

You're welcome.
* Kubernetes: https://kubernetes.io

* Hugo, a static site generator: https://gohugo.io

* Gogs, a git service: https://gogs.io

* Syncthing: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing

* CockroachDB, a scalable SQL database: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/
> On the MacBook Pro front I've had the sticking keys issue on the left command, C, B, G and 3 keys - so took it in finally after being tortured by this for months - 1 week later and I called them to see what was going on and they said that the whole top piece needed to be replaced, but when taking out the motherboard they have snapped the thing in two.

Is this on the 2018 MBP?
It has already been implemented (Bitcoin, Monero etc), and is improving gradually. The control freaks who would not like to tolerate it think they'll be able to tame it, but Bitcoin is like the Hydra - it gets stronger with every unsuccessful attack attempt. It's better for them to bury their heads in the sand and pretend it doesn't exist in order to not bring attention to it. When they eventually lift their heads out of the sand they'll find that the world has moved on without them.
There's an alternative to relying on the private sector, which is for cash to be replaced with credit notes. The Irish bank strikes of the early 70s is a nice case study of this happening [1].

I've recently been thinking about a potential solution to the reliance on private institutions in a cashless society. I guess the problem with a "mobile chequebook" or something of the sort is that you are always to some extent dependent on a private service (e.g. phone signal provider).

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_bank_strikes_(1966%E2%80...
I’d also highly recommend to share a link to your code now. You’re top on hn/ask, you’ll get quite some folks looking at it and maybe someone is interested in helping you out.
So are nukes free or a local artisanal craft? Because I'm pretty sure that they make billions for multinational conglomerates.
Yeah yeah, sorry for not being clear. I understand that they don't use docker and just make their api to quack like a docker.
You almost made me think that "Wag the Dog" is a Russian movie [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wag_the_Dog
Things like closing DBIs, transactions and cursors in the wrong order, for instance.
agreed. i just replaced the battery on my z1 compact, it's still fine.
It’s not about surprising the user or not.

Ultimately, Apple gets to decide what is allowed and what isn’t. If I make a handwarmer app that purposely runs the CPU at 100% I’m pretty sure Apple would reject that too, even though it would be useful for users.
Private entities can be regulated to the same effect on the matter of access.
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Logistics at Apple scale is underappreciated too.

I wouldn't be surprised if it's almost cheaper to stock/ship whole motherboard units than individual parts. And much easier to guarantee a tighter repair SLA.

Inventory tracking, storing, shipping, and training don't come free.

Especially if, as Apple, they can likely financially push back on their suppliers for some flaws.
Gogs has been succeeded by Gitea[0], as I understand things.

[0]: https://gitea.io/
It is difficult to get code reviews without working on a full-time job. I would suggest to read Pragmatic Programmer. It has some nice wisdom on how to write elegant code.
At this point in time I'm at much higher risk of my electronic money being stolen than my cash, and if someone steals my cash I know about it instantly.

They can't skim my cash, can't MITM my cash transactions, they can't accept payment and then not deliver (more fraud than theft, but still) because the cash and the object being purchased are both right there.

So I think you are wrong.
If you've ever been on the bad side of banks you'll dread this a lot. I merely had my credit card stolen but getting a replacement was surprisingly time-consuming and I'm glad I could still eat and travel until then.
Adriving School of Motoring Wellingborough
I think you can plug a drive into an Airport over USB, though I'm not sure if this setup fully replicates TC functionality.
Bitcoin is neither anonymous nor untraceable. Replacing cash with bitcoin would be a nightmare.
(Warning: anecdata incoming)

I know a number of people who have used flavored vapes for nicotine replacement therapy and haven’t had a cigarette in years. But I’ve also met some young people who’ve never smoked who started vaping because it’s “cool” and are now quite addicted to nicotine.

Juuls in particular are quite accessible for a non smoker (no getting through the body’s natural reaction to inhaling an irritant combined with being very discreet).

I guess I’m saying “why can’t it be both?”
> Right now the biggest problem with using crypto as your day to day money is that you cannot trust the money that you put into crypto to stay at the same value over time

Isn’t that a problem you have with any currency?
My mother lost her mind recently. When I checked her youtube account, I found that it's full of these Russian hoaxes. She watched them extensively for last few years.
The article failed to give any real detail about what is being proposed. I suspect it would have to be something like Taler[1] where the buyer is anonymous but the seller is not. That allows the collection of sales taxes and allows the government some control over the currency.

[1] https://taler.net/en/index.html
Actually it applies to EU & EEA citizens as well as anyone inside a EU/EEA nation. Most places don't do any verification though. In theory though you could walk into a EU embassy & make the call from there.
I don't think the earths magnetic field is anywhere near strong enough to seriously effect a meteorites velocity.
Oh, and how about linking to the search interface?

For example, this thread has now fallen off the bottom of the top “Show HN” posts, and so now I can’t use Octal to come back and find it.
> Life is just better without cash.

Even if you believe that, allowing private for-profit businesses (banks, credit card companies) to skim a percentage off of every single monetary transaction to line the pockets of their shareholders is utterly grotesque. It amounts to a mandatory tax, except none of the tax is going to the benefit of the taxed.

At a minimum, a reasonable cashless society would require monetary transactions to be done at zero profit and with strong regulation requiring financial institutions to minimize the cost to the seller and buyer.
If you lose your wallet how do you pay for food with no wallet? This is a false line of argument.
Another false comparison. There's a big difference between implementing society-wide regulations and unpersoning individuals.
What is the proper balance between right to repair and anti counterfeiters?

I've personally repaired most of my Apple gear. And hope to continue.

I also understand the arms race Apple is facing with fraud, counterfeiters.

Tough problem.
lnd, btcd
The Servo team is very active.

Unfortunately, it's trying to hit a fast-moving target, and that's really hard. Which is the reason for which I believe nobody else is currently pursuing any new web engine.
Yeah, politically unrealistic is what I meant.
The debate to me seems to be about whether apple is within it's moral rights. The fact that legally they may be able to do whatever they want (modulo anti trust) seems pretty clear.
TSB Online Banking seems to be down again
Various errors during login, like "We are sorry. An error appears trying to load the resume of your account. Please try again." and if you get to your account page, I'm getting "Session could not be found in Context Manager."

Here's hoping there's a TSB techie looking at Hacker News!
They should move into other consumer goods. TVs, cars, home appliances, home automation

So many things out there that I think apples ux centric design could really improve.
I have a tech job that requires a lot of non face-to-face human interaction through slack, with people I never build relationships with. Still super lonely :D

Dating is also near impossible because I don't want to use social media.
Once an AI gets that good, good enough to reproduce even a junior developer, nobody can ever get paid to work again. Before that point, it’s still useful to know the basics of AI in the same way knowing about arrays or higher order functions is useful.
If you're ok to pay some money, try codementor.io. If you're stuck on some weird problem in a new language/framework that you're not able to google out of, you can hire some mentor there.
> I typically use hsl instead of hex codes because it is easier to understand and modify. You can quickly build up a palette by just modifying the lightness scale on each color by a constant percentage. (This is where I disagree with the author, all of design is just math)

Unfortunately, the “math” of color models like HSL is only very loosely related to the science of human color perception. It was a model developed by computer graphics researchers of the 1970s who were not very knowledgeable about 20th century color science and dealing with very limited hardware capabilities compared to today, roughly based on outdated ideas from the 17th–19th century... and frankly not very well designed even within those constraints. As a result, leaning too heavily on HSL (especially for novices) typically leads to garbage results. An experienced artist picking colors visually will do much better than someone largely relying on HSL numbers.

If you want to pick colors based on numbers, look up the Munsell color system (a big lookup table from the early 20th century; the “modern” version was developed by the leading American color scientists of the 1940s), CIELAB (from the 1970s, an inferior but based-on-a-simple-formula Munsell clone), or CIECAM or IPT models (more recent and more complicated formulas).
No mention about the privacy implications of having every transaction tracked? We're already at a point where pretty much every transaction is tracked and a cashless society makes being tracked a requirement to function in society. Is privacy even a topic of discussion with governments looking to go cashless?

I still try and pay with cash wherever possible, but many offline/physical stores often require a phone number or email address to complete a transaction, so privacy goes out of the window even when using cash.
This is super cool. The author is remarkably good at quickly explaining and conveying how all of this works.

I was initially surprised that they were able to get an actual error correcting code running in Python at 100 MB/s to 300 MB/s, but once I saw that it was just XOR all over the place, that made lots more sense.

I think it'd be really cool to see this author write a post explaining some of the more advanced codes such as Raptor codes.
ethereum

nats

traefik
Tilde is used in path names too much (~user), pipe is a logical OR. The best I've found is ^ (caret) which rarely shows up in real life.
If you did (dig into it yourself), you'd quickly find out that the urban myth about Zing somehow hurting latencies across the board is plain wrong. In fact, these days it tends to be percievably faster (in both latency and throughput) in about 70-80% of the workload we encounter. Certainly when compared to G1GC and CMS, and often even when compared to ParallelGC... E.g. it is typicaly >10% faster at things like Cassandra, Spark (TPC-DS), LMAX Disruptor workloads, etc. etc. etc.
They definitely inadvertently do, because they target marginal users. The weird thing is that ecigs are targeted by prohibitionists at all, because they completely lack everything that is notably bad for your health about cigarettes, and every smoker who switches to them significantly improves their outcomes.

I don't think that people who needed their nicotine with candy flavor to tolerate it are switching to smoking in the numbers that smokers are moving in the other direction.
If you're using Less, try http://strapless.io/ (my take on organizing colors in a project)
> Buried for nearly 50 decades, these now declassified documents

Damn... kudos to their archivist.
> HN and Reddit arent that different from other social media sites.

I guess it depends on what you are measuring them by. I'd argue they are quite different and did something similar to the previous commenter.

To me, FB and Instagram make you feel lonely because you see people you actually know interacting and doing things which may make you feel like you're being left out or have a worse life somehow.

With HN and Reddit, you get news or some form of entertainment but that's more similar to Netflix or YouTube than to FB for me personally. I don't mind being entertained; it doesn't make me lonely. In fact I actually go on YouTube or Netflix precisely when I want to be alone.
you're making a domain error when you conflate the forces of physical chemistry during first mitosis with higher level cognitive phenomenon of self-perception and identity. i hope you recognize that.

and you're entirely wrong about society being a fiction and therefore it not being real enough to matter. try telling black americans during the civil right era that society is just a fiction anyway and they just need to find meaning within themselves. it's a profane asymmetric insult for you to enjoy all the benefits of being recognized by the dominant fictions of society in the form of powerful institutions at every level of society, and then to deny that same recognition to people who are not you. meaning within fiction matters, "common delusion" matters, and it matters more and in more powerful ways than any individual can provide themselves.
And if you fold a dollar bill correctly, you can turn George Washington into a mushroom.

Coincidence? I think not.
Well USA has Trump, UK has Brexit, ... seems a pretty widespread phenomenon. Only difference is perhaps it is coming from the state machine vs people who are major authorities in the state machine?

We've certainly been lied to on major issues recently by our State machine in the UK too.

Lies are probably necessary at some times; but these don't seem to have been.
Serious q: one of the big arguments against untraceable transactions is organized crime. Yes they're very real.

But what if untraceable transactions were limited to small amounts and slow rates, such that you could personally provide for your family but not run an enterprise? (basically that's what physical cash attempts, and as long as the denominations are kept low, it sort of works)
totally appreciate his humility but also think he can take a little more credit.

i'd (briefly) considered creating a commercial linux company way back when, but didn't have the wherewithal or gumption to do so. a key ingredient is being able to get started, attract and accept help, and then have enough sense to give others room to work.
They're both under active development.
I see - it seems like you're saying something more nuanced than I initially thought. It seemed like you wanted to treat nicotine similarly to opioids, despite the abysmal, historic failure of opioid prohibition and all the death, disease, misery, and international crime that has directly been caused by it.

> If you research, you’ll see the opioid crisis was kicked off by doctors freely prescribing like it was candy.

I don't agree, nor do most serious drug policy researchers. Horrible problems with opioids have been waxing and waning for about 100 years in the United States, but were largely unknown prior to the Harrison Narcotics Act.

Your point is very sound that distributing highly concentrated forms of a drug in the midst of prohibition of more benign forms of that drug is likely to cause bad health outcomes. This is exactly what happened during alcohol prohibition, when consumption of beer dropped to nearly zero while consumption of whiskey soared.
Lately I read this interesting article on STM flash protection, incredibly clear, but also rich of low level details: https://www.usenix.org/conference/woot17/workshop-program/pr...