skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> USB-C data blockers don't seem to exist.

They do -- I carry one one of my employees made in our lab. Search for "usb-c condom" or "usb-c data blocker" and you will find several offered for sale.
But while ganging or docking is nice, you don't really need it to get most of the benefits; low-friction transfers by eliminating the huge parking lots that you half to walk from at the interface of small personal last-mile (or last-few-miles) transport with larger long-distance transport gets you much of the way to the kind of network you seem to want, and only really takes autonomous on-demand vehicles and integrated payment and reservation systems, not ganging/docking. You've got some buffering at transfer points still, but much less friction than in the status quo.
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I totally understand that. I should have clarified that I meant in US markets. Cause the iPhone prices also increased in the United States IIRC.
Reminds me of a lot of hedge fund guys and VCs. If you already have billions why not invest your own money instead of dealing with other investors?
This one drains in 12 seconds, but only contains 150ml due to the reduction of the inner diameter at the bottom.

The average flow rate is 12.5 ml/sec vs 2.2 ml/sec before, so it's 5.6x better!
How does https stop this? I understand many websites will redirect before loading a link to clear the referrer data which is a good thing since the referrer header has been abused far too much.

I imagine originally its intent was for website owners to see what other websites linked to them but now it gets used to track the users
I'm not terribly surprised. It's easy to forget that mailboxes are actually databases, and at the scale of GB databases, you're going to start stealing ideas from the database community on how to manage databases rather than relying on the filesystem to act as a database for you.

Thunderbird itself does a nastily poor job of scaling to massive folders, since it assumes that it can do UI-thread-synchronous operations like "get a list of every message in the database." (And fixing it is hard... as I have way too much experience with).
I have to agree. The fact that people have had devices destroyed by badly designed cables and chargers is proof enough. I keep my laptops for years after the manufacturers have stopped selling replacement parts. With older Dells at least this means buying replacement batteries and AC adapters on Ebay, and they're usually China-made generics not Dell originals. I have never had a problem with this mess of different products together; pumping five amps into one of my data ports knowing people have fried motherboards doing that scares me.
It's some kind of lock-in but it's not "vendor lock-in".
I was with you up to "dire straits". That seems too alarmist to me.
Thanks for your feedback. It's these kind of bs mistakes that cost me honest visits

I punished the responsible tool and only 1 field shows on mobile now. Tyvm
Mmm I should have clarified my comment. I understand that, but in this case the prices also increased in the US.
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What happened is Blender followed a linear development trajectory, constantly adding new features and fixing bugs at a reasonable pace. GIMP, on the other hand, adds a handful of features once every year and a half.

Marketing was also a factor. Years ago, Blender was similar to how OpenShot is now --- pretty much unknown to the general public, but it shows up in blog posts a lot, and those who use it think it has potential. As time went on and it became more featureful, the news about Blender changed from "This promising project is working on making a modeling suite..." to "This software can replace 3DS Max right now and it's completely free". GIMP's publicity has only gotten worse over the years as it suffers from perceived bit rot and an inability to add requested features over the course of a decade.
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Fantastic.

Just one thing: it would be great if NASA dropped imperial units as main units in such articles.
> Not really, if you tax cars at ~100% on registration

Your facts are correct, but that makes it no less interesting or incredible.

> I'm sure of the US govt increased the federal tax credit for EVs from $7.5k to $40-60k, you'd see similar adoption in the US too.

Okay. And if such an event happened, you'd not think it incredible?
i think you missed news arbor Xi being elected if you think China is liberalizing, it was until Xitler was elected, then all went down the drain and China it's becoming more NoKo 2.0
What happened was the interface was insanely improved from the unnavigable mess of the early 2000's, sculpting was added, and a host of other features brought Blender to parity with its non-free brethren.
I'd be OK with see breaking changes if it's clearly explained and if it's a path to a much better technical foundation for the future for Scratch. As mentioned in a different comment - Scratch has the leading market position and incredible but wasted potential IMO.
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This is close to how Bayesian optimization usually works, except you can sample many functions from the GP at once and apply different "acquisition functions" instead of just looking for the maximum. Classic examples are "Expected Improvement" (which point is expected to beat the current best point by the most) or "Probability of Improvement" (which point has the best odds of beating the current best point). You then sample and repeat.

I gave a high level talk that walks through this here [0]. A deeper dive into acquisition functions can be found here [1] and here [2].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6UcAdH54RE&list=PLbSwfqjMfj...

[1]: https://sigopt.com/blog/expected-improvement-vs-knowledge-gr...

[2]: https://sigopt.com/blog/clustering-applied-to-acquisition-fu...

(edit: fixed a typo)
I'm not sure how you can "cargo cult" not casually adopting some random piece of technology. The Pacific cargo cults transformed incidental interactions with modernity into religious venerations; aboriginal islanders got free supplies from visiting GIs, believed the experience to have been supernatural, and built wooden airplane replicas as idols in hopes of summoning those benefits anew. The comparison to JWT is pretty clear: people add these coconut phones to their applications in hopes of gaining some ineffable "cryptographic security". Meanwhile: the cryptography engineers look on in baffled wonderment.

I've written many, many times on HN about problems with JWT and I'm by no means the foremost critic of the standards. Here's a starting point:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14292223

I don't know anyone competent who believes the JWT/JOSE specs to be "tiny"; for instance, they incorporate X.509.

Here's a piece we wrote last year that goes into the tradeoffs between different inter-service auth mechanisms (including Macaroons), and discusses the various attributes you might, in the abstract, get from them:

https://latacora.micro.blog/2018/06/12/a-childs-garden.html

The problems JWT attempts to solve are harder to solve outside the inter-service auth context.

You are, respectfully, totally off base.
What does this mean for developers buying laptops or workstations in the next year - is amd or raptor looking like a better choice, or is Intel still looking good even after the hit?

I'm reading that workstations might not need to worry for the most part for example, unless a package gets compromised or some browser exploit makes it through
I'm not sure anybody here cares, assuming we're not actively in favor of this.
I'll always prefer Snap because it has so many features that allow teaching best practice, but Scratch sets the benchmark so I'm pleased to see its evolution continue — and hopefully some of it will make its way into Snap and other Scratch clones.
Another real user here, I loved talon. I just started using the community repository which gives you a lot of functionality. I'm currently finding that code snippets plus talon is the optimal combination for people who cannot type.
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When making this statement, it would be helpful to add the "in comparison to" part. People who can't see the benefit of containers may actually live in a world where they have standardised repeatable build environments without containers (it is possible after all).

For me containers are convenient for the task of specifying the repeatable build environments. It is also useful for caching those build environments and distributing the cached artefacts in a versioned way.

To be honest, if you are working with only 1 or 2 build environments, I don't actually find it particularly more convenient that setting up something without containers. Often I find it even wasteful because you usually select fairly large base images (hundreds of megs) even when you only need a few things. You can build a really streamlined image, but it's a fair amount of work.

However, if I have to coordinate many "microservices" that are talking together via TCP/IP and implemented in several different versions of several different technologies, it's a life saver. Normally I try to avoid this circumstance for reasons I wish were obvious to others. But of course we know that it is not obvious to others and so I appreciate being able to use containers ;-)
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How much of this is Google's increased revenue sharing from search on iPhone?

From looking at a few news articles, looks like revenue sharing increased from:
$1B ('14) -> $3B ('17) -> $9B ('18) -> $12B ('19)

Example article: http://fortune.com/2018/09/29/google-apple-safari-search-eng...

Looking at the increase in Apple's services revenue ($8.5B, Q1 '18 -> $10.8B Q1 '19 -> $2.3B YoY increase) vs. increase in service revenue due to Google sharing ($9B - $3B = $6B / 4 quarters = $1.5B), we get that approximately 65% of Apple's incremental services revenue is due to increased revenue sharing from Google. IMO, this doesn't seem like a long term sustainable source of revenue growth for Apple.
Yep. There's a reason that the GIMP project also spawned one of the most widely-used graphical abstraction layers in desktop computing history.
Probably won't be disclosed if they're in 'stealth' mode
I would also love to see a two-way version of this.

Bluetooth and wifi are way too finicky for local "data dump"-style communication, whereas every Android/iOS phone has a front camera and a screen.

P2P applications like Secure Scuttlebutt etc. could really use a reliable local exchange without the wireless headaches.
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There's so much conceptual / factual confusion in this post I just don't know where to start. Agree to disagree I guess.
> Can it be fixed by not buying crappy cables?

Unfortunately that isn't enough yet, as there is no "universal" cable, and may never be. You can have an excellent cable that nonetheless fails for what you plugged it into, or (potentially worse) falls back to something that kind of works (e.g. a slow data transfer through a port that supports PCI-e).

The biggest botch the committee made was not mandating connector labeling. I'd have gone with colors, but not everyone can see them. If the cable had resistor-style stripes to indicate what it supported, and if the ports on the host devices did likewise we'd be in much better shape. Even some licensed logos would have helped though the connectors are so tiny.

Then again the names the USB committee has come up with in the past (high speed, SuperSpeed, 3.0, 3.1 etc) have uniformly been confusing rather than elucidating.

In my case I agree: I have had nothing but success with Type C, and it has simplified my life (except for the lack of high power chargers). But I had to learn more than most people would or should have to in order to get there.
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I'm in the same boat, I like my headphone jack. And honestly the phone is fast enough.

But I'd like a better camera so I took a look:

The other thing that isn't helping apple is the went from a simple system to understand iphone 6, 7 8 (s for the bigger models (edit: whoops I meant plus.). To so iPhone Xr, X, Xs.. I can't tell it the iPhone 8 is the end of the line for the numbered iPhones with a front button. Basically I'll have to do some research.

They made a page to help, but when comparing phones, price is an important factor to compare...

https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/
The inherent factor is collision, which is what forms most objects like this.
At SigOpt (YC W15, disclaimer: I'm a founder) we use GPs among other Bayesian and global optimization techniques for black box parameter optimization.

In our blog we go over GP intuition [0], likelihoods [1], different kernels [2] (we also have some papers on this [3]), and acquisition functions for applying GPs to optimization [4].

In this talk [5] I go over the fundamentals on how you can apply GPs to this problem as well.

[0]: https://sigopt.com/blog/intuition-behind-gaussian-processes/

[1]: https://sigopt.com/blog/likelihood-for-gaussian-processes/

[2]: https://sigopt.com/blog/covariance-kernels-for-avoiding-boun...

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[4]: https://sigopt.com/blog/expected-improvement-vs-knowledge-gr...

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> There needs to be some central or regional oversight body to ensure standards are being met

You mean something like your local, county, or state governments and their agencies?
I once interviewed with a company in NC that only employed blind people (to manufacture reading glasses, of all things!). NC has a provision for sub-minimum wage payments for those with disabilities [0]. This is to encourage employers to hire those with disabilities and give them at least some form of a wage. Per the interviewing process, it really seemed to help a lot of disabled people have a life. Their jobs got them out of the house/care facility, interacting with other people, and gave them a purpose in life(however mundane). Though I declined the job, it was an incredible company and view into the day to day lives of disabled citizens and their struggles. More states should consider such provisions to see if they may work for their people.

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Downside protection.

Plus if you control enough $$$ you can start controlling the market.
Airpods were arguably the best mobile innovation in the last few years but the tech media and commentariat were too busy griping about the headphone jack to really notice. So the spread has been steady instead of like the iPad where everyone got one the first couple years.
Yes - I think that will become a bigger trend among apps that have hit mass scale, which are probably the exact apps that make up the bulk of those fees.
One transition option I was still missing: a tunnel with parity transformation, like stepping through a mirror where you would end up as your mirror self.
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The Adobe Flash issue is actually the main thing that Scratch 3.0 solved - it's now all Javascript.

Your example project should be relatively simple in Scratch. Certainly many users have done similar things. Perhaps you're trying to do it in ways that work in common programming languages while it requires using different idioms in Scratch?
Or

> Why spend $1,449 on an XS Max?

Period.

This is the cost of what an entry level macbook was...
I guess that depends on your definition of sucking. Between AirPods, random $10 BT speakers, my car, and a pair of Bose QC's, my phone (X) works well with BT, but I may not be a discerning audiophile.
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The problem is that even paying $4000 for a seminar doesn't ensure that you're getting the right information. Even if the speaker at the seminar tells you exactly what he did did, that doesn't mean that his method is still the best or that it will work for you.

So yeah, filtering for your situation is the hard part, but you can't rely on someone else to do that filtering unless you're paying him to do it specifically for your situation.
I replaced an iPhone 6 or 6s with a 7. I also find $1,000 just obscene for a phone. I'm a person could have afforded the OLED versions and chose not to.
I've gotten the impression that Mozilla people haven't liked Thunderbird or Firefox for a very long time, and would rather be Mozilla Web Services or something.
To me it's the blatant regard and respect for intellectual property rights, as if they were some God-blessed rights.

And this on a forum called "_hacker_ news". What happened to "Information wants to be free"?

We're not talking about stealing some artist's latest album or pirating some fresh program. This is unmonetizable core CS lore 40 years old.

Anything after 20 years or so should get into the public domain.
Not ahead of Chinese automakers. And Tesla is paying for the privilege of that foothold. Meanwhile, Toyota is firing up battery supply in Thailand. Not to mention that Panasonic and Chinese suppliers are the real source of Tesla batteries.
> Restorative justice is an approach to justice in which the response to a crime is to organize a mediation between the victim and the offender

This wouldn't work so well for the large proportion of prisoners who only committed victimless crimes.

On second thoughts, maybe it would work even better for those prisoners.
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One thing that makes me hesitant on changing my phone is Google Authenticator. I still have some services using that instead of Authy. I got my secret codes but it will be a hassle to use them when the time comes...
Seems like the main point is that you'll still need to add additional tooling (search, local cloning, build, etc) to handle scaling, something you can do just as well with polyrepos. Conversely, for polyrepos, you can add tooling to fix issues with dependency management and multi-project changes/reviews. However, the author figures that monorepos engourage bad code culture and points out that Git is hard to build a monorepo on.

To me this message seems a bit shallow, of course we can build tooling to hide the fact that we have a polyrepo. Given well enough built tooling and consistent enough polyrepo structure (all using same VCS, all being linked from common tooling, following common coding standards and using the same build tooling, etc.) the distinction from having a monorepo is more of an implementation detail.

Given the choice between a consistent monorepo where everyone is running everything at HEAD and a polyrepo where each project have their own rules and there's no tooling to make a multi-project atomic change, I'd go for the former.

Given the choice between identical working environments but different underlying implementations I would go for whatever the tools team think is easier to maintain.