skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a big Apple fan. I've bought some of their laptops after the transition to Intel, but slowly switched away when macOS became less of a priority.

That said, I think Apple is sitting on top of another blockbuster, similar to the iPhone in terms of impact, if they know how to play it well. I'm referring to the Apple Watch equipped with a non-invasive glucose sensor.

I realize that they have a bit of a regulatory battle to fight before releasing it. But the potential is immense. It will change how people eat, not just diabetics. It's pretty well established science now that if we reduce the area under the glucose curve (read minimize glucose spikes), we will age more slowly and we will reduce metabolic disease enormously.
Not marketing, just a bunch of different core ideas, immutable/concurrent first. It was a lot more attractive than yet another CL port.
I typically use `[Win] + [S]`, which feels more natural to me. Easy way is to disable default Cortana search bound to `Win+S` by a registry hack [1] or just use AutoHotkey [2].

[1]: https://superuser.com/a/707293

[2]: https://www.autohotkey.com/
Yes, xfstests exists. I've used it myself and it's actually pretty good for a suite that doesn't include error injection. But part of today's story is that xfstests wasn't being updated to cover the last several features that were added to XFS. The result is exactly the kind of brittleness that is characteristic of poorly tested software. Something else changed, and previously latent bugs started popping out of the rotten woodwork.
It’s on Amazon if you want to watch it: https://www.amazon.com/Triumph-of-the-Nerds/dp/B01N0KK5JQ
Differential Privacy: Leaders, Trends, and Future Innovations
I cannot speak for the parent, but I have some ideas on the matter. if one takes art to mean a narrow group of things with a narrative (specifically film, tv, novels, and radio and news stories, thus specifically excluding things like tshirts and the obama hope poster) then you can start finding examples of works designed to produce shock and contrast them with earlier works intended to invoke beauty. Star Wars is a silly, but relevant, example. the creators of the last jedi specifically wanted to "subvert audience expectations", which sounds likes "shock" to me. Whereas the first original 70s star wars just wanted to tell a good, entertaining story.

To be clear, I don't buy any of the misogynistic criticisms of the last star wars film. but I did think it was a poor story.

my instincts say that such a change in "art" matters, but I don't really have good evidence to show how it does. much less that the arrow of causality points the way I think it does.
There are some UI issues from what I noticed:

At small breakpoints, the UI (especially the "try it now" button) can overlap some text. Sizing also seems off.

Another issue I noticed is the play button itself, the entire circle area is clickable, however only the play/pause icon can actually be clicked.

There are also numerous accessibility issues. If you're going to advertise this as something to improve accessibility, it might be good to actually concentrate on that for your landing page.

I do hope the UI can be improved, as the product looks solid.
I love this simple solution.
It's only restricting foreign investments from certain countries like China that don't play by the rules. It's like banning someone from your store because they steal stuff.

The "free market" isn't anarchy, it's essentially a bunch of bilateral trade agreements
> It had the guts of the current model including touch id

IIRC iPhone SE does not have the second generation Touch ID sensor that iPhone 6s does.
I don’t think any of them had body armour. The weight would have been mainly ammo, food and batteries. But it was over soft marshy ground.
Definition of "innovative":

Characterized by the creation of new ideas or things

Popularity isn't innovation by its definition. These two issues are orthogonal.

>> "It is like Windows ... but it made a hundred or a thousand times more people to experience computers."

Right, but that's completely irrelevant and not innovation.
"Depression is a first world problem, generally."

Do you have a source for this? Thank you.

"It is very hard to find an unselfish person who is depressed, unsure about what to do or unhappy in general."

That depression and unhappiness are more difficult to spot in people who are selfless does not necessarily mean that those people are significantly happier and less depressed - it could only mean that they care more about how others perceive them and may, therefore, be more likely to hide their true affect.
I've been using https://www.tinycert.org/ for years which basically lets you create your own certificate authority and issue certs (which obviously aren't trusted by everyone but can be trusted by you/your team). It's ideal for generating SSL certs for ephemeral apps e.g. review apps on Heroku since it can all be done using an API
> Alternately, if the pointer is into static memory and not something allocated on the heap

There's really no need to box a 12-bytes array in the first place.
> the only difference between the Macbook "escape" and the Macbook Air is that the MBA has TouchID and the classic shape

MacBook Air has newer processors.
No, or at least not any stable such point, because the solar wind is not constant. Plus it is orders of magnitude less powerful than the sun's gravity. It's only usable (in theory) for navigation because any ship is already in orbit around the sun and doesn't need to "cancel out" gravity in the sense that wings provide lift to an airplane or a rocket achieves orbit from the ground, but rather it needs to be able to gently and continuously nudge itself into higher or lower orbits.
Agree - but it's a shame, fundamentally what ever the reason this is really, really egregious behaviour
Can Text-to-Speech help students with reading disabilities?
I agree totally. But this is partly Apple's bind: a phone like you're describing appeals to rich Westerners with multiple primary devices and that's just too small a market for them now. Their pressing corporate need is to make a device that will help them grow in China, maximising their take from the billions who don't have multiple devices.

In the olden days, when Apple was much smaller, they were ironically freer to just make the best device possible because success would be meaningful in very small markets. The OG iPod saved them despite selling relatively tiny numbers. Nowadays, markets that used to matter significantly to Apple -- education, media, creatives -- are allowed to wither and die because they are a blip on the bottom line.

I don't see what could change that, though. They now prioritise growth/financials/share price over pure products in a very calculating way, but what corporation doesn't? You need an exceptional mandate to do otherwise, and only the Bezos's and Jobs's of the world get those.

So the pity is that as a result we'll continue to see Apple pushing hard into services and (probably) media, because that's where it can smell growth. That might keep the numbers up, but I suspect it's going to transform what Apple is even further away from the "make great products" company we knew into ... something else. (Probably something less great, given their track record with services, tbh.)
> and that's a good thing for a company that obsesses on providing top end user experience

Do they actually do that though? Feels like BOM reduction exercises like removing the short power cable from their $3000 laptops and headphone dongles from their $1000 phone, laptops still shipping with painfully low space that triggers space warnings on their OS after you add just a few files to them (complete nightmare if you work at a company that cheaps out on laptops).

Feels like the user experience is actually secondary to maximizing ASP and minimizing BOM.
Final year of residency — schedule as senior resident in the house overnight:
Day 1 (weekday): Report for duty at 3 pm, take over from the day team with night call team. Try to send everyone on day team home by 5 pm. Cover hospital and all services for Code Blues; emergency intubations; difficult catheterizations/IVs; patients who arrived late and required pre-op history & physical before next day's surgery; anesthesia for deliveries in OB; anesthesia for cases ongoing from day plus emergencies from ER and in-house. Done at 7 am the next day (Day 2). So 16 hours. No sleep as a rule.
Day 2: Off (home to sleep during day to make up for missed night; to bed that night as usual.
Day 3: Report for work at 7 am; light duties such as pre-op workups of ambulatory patients; start IVs/arterial lines in pre-op area; Code Blue coverage of hospital and all services.
Off at 3 p.m.
Day 4: Repeat Day 1. This schedule applied for six months.
Note: If Day 1 fell on Saturday or Sunday or a holiday, report to work at 7 am (rather than 3 pm), otherwise identical to weekday. Off at 7 am the next day, so 24 hour shift. Sometimes a nap or two.
The Chinese have never needed controlling access to benefit from access to the IP. That's the primary point of the disagreement with the Chinese over IP, enforcement more than legislation.
Nonsense. The US is restricting trade. Frankly, I'd like to see WTO step in here.
I've filed bugs for some of the mentioned copy_file_range() issues more than two years ago:

- https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135461

- https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135451

No response...
The USMC Small Wars Manual - has some fascinating info on how pre mechanisation troops used hoses mules oxen ect.

https://archive.org/details/UsmcSmallWarsManual1940Reprinted...
The most incredible educational experience of my life was this course I did at Columbia University while in High School on game programming. At the end of the course we made our own game with OpenGL, but for the first week or so we'd have basically math classes in the morning on he physics of lighting, and then in the afternoon we'd implement the things we did in C. It was where I was introduced to lots of math concepts, including vector math that I would not see in school for another year or so.

At any rate, at the end we built our own raytracer, and say a text file with vertices that was given to us produce an image on the screen from 100% code that we'd written ourselves. It was one of the most empowering, deep intellectual experiences I've ever had.
I keep a list of all the resources that have inspired and helped me here: https://github.com/charlax/engineering-management

It starts with a few high-level book recommendations, and blog articles for more specific topics.

My favorite book, which has not been listed in this thread, is: Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders. David Marquet, who used to command a nuclear submarine, explains how he achieved high levels of motivation and output thanks to empowering his team.
A couple of months ago voted for IPv4 by paying $1/month for every IPv4 IP address on my new server.

128 IP addresses total.
That is well over $1k/year voting power.

The reason for that purchase is that IPv4 addresses represent internet reputation while crawling websites.

I am not interested in getting IPv6 at all.

How much did you pay for IPv6?
It happens to a majority of companies when they grow.
Product innovation seizes to exist as market share grows ('don't mess things up! don't be too risky!') and Sales takes ownership.
> I'm referring to the Apple Watch equipped with a non-invasive glucose sensor.

As someone who has dated someone that is diabetic and now works with someone who is diabetic--someone who likes to sit at the cutting edge of technology and is even using hacked equipment to improve his experience--I don't think we have that technology yet.
Microservices and NoSQL: A Great Match
I understand differential equations ;-)

That page describes Maxwell's equations and the Lorentz force law. That a naive approach cannot work can be seen by considering the following example. Take one charge initially at rest with huge mass, and another light charge orbiting around it. According to Lorentz law it will orbit in a circle for the right initial conditions. However, then according to Maxwell's equations it will radiate electromagnetic waves, violating energy conservation. The field of the accelerated charge will affect the charge itself, but this is not easy to take into account, because that field is infinite at the location of the charge.
A lot of the weight is armor and ammo, 2 things directly keeping soldiers alive. How is that interfering with the goal?
It’s an iPhone 6. You’ll notice that Apple will market it that way, instead of by its model number.
I run a hypervisor OS and all of my work is done in contextual VMs, which each run their own instance of Firefox.
Ask HN: Anybody still into ES5 + traditional Javascript dev workflow? Why?
Client Javascript development has drastically changed in the last 5-7 years. ES6+ Standards, module bundlers, Managing dependencies with NPM, Typescript & such modern elements in the toolchain is becoming the de-facto.

Are there any companies, projects/products, indie devs out there still sticking to plain old JS development without the modern tools?

Are there any reasons to not switch to the modern workflow?
>Something to consider - is hitting the child caring for them or venting frustration?

A very important consideration. A parent who smacks out of frustration or malice will do harm. Yet a neglectful parent who never smacks a child will do more harm than an engaged parent who does.
They can file for unemployment benefits. The concept of a furlough isn’t even unique to government the only unique part is the cause.
As per the Jacobis "Maximum power transfer Law" input impedance should be equal to output impedence. So impedance matching is required.
What you’re saying doesn’t make any sense to me. Tim Cook isn’t from a Sales/Marketing background whilst many of the VPs at Apple are from Product backgrounds. Also the company is one of the most product centric companies around.

Also under Tim Cook’s reign Apple has dominated the wearables market with a product that everybody dismissed in the beginning.
Ask HN: Unusual ergonomic desk/chair arrangements that work?
I, like many others, have long struggled to find a desk and chair arrangement that works. Expensive, top-of-the-line desks don't cut it for me, as they all still result in back, neck, and elbow pain (even with the best ergonomic hygiene). Nor do things like standing desks or treadmills do the trick.

But today, while laying fully back at the dentist's office, staring at the flat-screen television attached to the ceiling, I got to thinking. Maybe an unusual desk arrangement like this could work?

And so I'm wondering whether anyone has had any luck with a desk setup like this that doesn't resemble any of the standard solutions.

I vaguely recall someone wondering aloud here at HN, around the time of the world cup, whether anyone has ever used a race-car chair as their desk chair. That's another example of an unusual solution of which I'm interested.

How about it? Any luck with unusual desk and chair arrangements?
There appears to be very little substance in the linked-to article.

The specific clarification from the affidavit is "in a subset of children with an underlying mitochondrial dysfunction, vaccine induced fever and immune stimulation that exceeded metabolic energy reserves could ... cause regressive encephalopathy with features of autism spectrum disorder." See https://sharylattkisson.com/2019/01/06/dr-andrew-zimmermans-... .

The associated paper from 2006 is at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2536523/ (copy at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2536523/ ).

More specifically, the paper says:

> If such dysfunction is present at the time of infections and immunizations in young children, the added oxidative stresses from immune activation on cellular energy metabolism are likely to be especially critical for the central nervous system, which is highly dependent on mitochondrial function. Young children who have dysfunctional cellular energy metabolism therefore might be more prone to undergo autistic regression between 18 and 30 months of age if they also have infections or immunizations at the same time.

Since most children do not have mitochondrial dysfunction (the US rate is 1 in 4000 says Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_disease), and far more people have autism ("1–2 per 1,000 for autism and close to 6 per 1,000 for ASD" says https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology_of_autism), it cannot be cause of most cases of autism.

Furthermore, the paper makes a specific claim that can be verified. Has that been done over the last 12+ years?

Lastly, it's not like the US was the only country looking into this issue.
I dunno about this story. When I saw my son lick his hands the very first time, this was the convo:

- Are your hands tasty? No
- Are your hands dirty? No
- Are your hands dry? Yes!

Problem solved. Plus a quick visual inspection will usually confirm dry hands. It’s not like an insidious disease with no visible symptoms.
Clearly someone is buying these houses, otherwise the market would readjust for the oversupply and the prices would drop.

So if we have people that can't buy houses, but all houses that do get built get bought, the problem has to be that we are not building enough houses.
Incidentally, yesterday I came across a great scientific talk that I think checked all the boxes here, and then some. 100k views+, but deserves an even larger audience IMO, could clear up some of the confusion about climate (the facts parts):

Dan Britt - Orbits and Ice Ages: The History of Climate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yze1YAz_LYM

Obviously, I think this is a great talk since I find the topic interesting too. There is probably not much you can do if your audience is uninterested in the first place.
Out of interest, does learning linear algebra in this way give you a deeper sense of linear algebra? Do you think you think you are able to formulate other problems more effectively in terms of LA as a result?
Steve Jobs essentially described what was later coined "The Innovator's Dilemma"[1], but in a more general way.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma
TL;DR answer: because they're different things.

Using bamboo for building houses tends to result in using different building methods & architecture. Which can look amazing (see http://ibuku.com/). But I doubt it'd make sense to use bamboo to build my house in snowy Norway, rather than locally sourced lumber.
Funny story. I was listening to an interview with Chinese historian Carl Zha. According to Zha the CIA ran a breeding program for mules in the 1980s for use in Afghanistan to supply the mujahadeen. The breeding program was in Tennessee and used Tennessee mules. All the mules died after about a year because for whatever reason they couldn't deal with the conditions in Afghanistan. So the CIA went looking for a mule provider in the region and ended up sourcing mules from Uyghur tribesmen in western China. These mules didn't die. And thus began the CIA's relationship with the Uyghur.

I'm not vouching for the authenticity of this story, but it is a good story none the less.
OAuth Like a BOSS
Kirkegaard's existentialism was religious in nature, in contrast to the later atheist existentialism of Sartre. So it's quite possible that from Kirkegaard's perspective, it could be possible to regret things after your death (or maybe it's just a joke - I haven't read Either/Or, so I'm not sure how far along toward his religious phase he was when he wrote it)
I don't know about short shelf life. I just pulled boxes of CDs out of my attic last weekend. 95% were purchased before 1995 with probably 25% being from the 1980's.

They've been in my attic for the past 10 years experiencing extreme temperatures that would have destroyed vinyl (probably 130 degrees in the summer and freezing during the winter). So far every CD I've played has played perfectly.

> a complex and brittle laser reader

It's a very low tech thing at this point. The player I used the day I brought the disks down was $9 at Target and it worked just fine.

> the physical experience of owning and playing them was never anywhere near as pleasant as vinyl

I don't think it's that far off, especially when you factor in some of the audio advantages that the CD format has.

Vinyl is more fun though, no question about it. The format you are proposing would be even less fun. CDs have problems, but they are still (for now) the dominant format, by a factor of around 6x.
Nordic city looks to community engagement to support environmental strategy
While Tim Cook is no Marketing or Sales Person, he is definitely a number person. All the % growth, YoY, revenue etc.

One of the reason why Steve never initiated Stock buy back and were sitting on big pile of cash were simple, he could bet on products that might or might not make money. ( He was never really sure ) They will have enough resources to weather the storm. He knew technology moves so fast that one single misstep will means 2 - 3 years behind.

As bad as Apple might seems today ( they aren't bad... we just thought it could be better ), it is still far better than it was in the 90s.
As if that is always possible. You would need to build a big enclosure padded out with cotton wool. Many dangers in the real world, you can maybe stop the kid touching an oven, but you won't be always there to stop him/her from dangerous situations.
"Innovative" is a great example of an aircraft-carrier-clearance word. The way this word is used in e.g. startup context, popularity can absolutely be innovative - after all, if Lisps were not popular, and now one suddenly is, it's a new thing therefore innovative (send funding rounds this way please).

Honestly, I think the word "innovation" needs to be tabooed from the discussion to get meaningful questions and answers.
Here in Norway we have two mobile networks (Telenor and Netcom). Telenor is the old state company like BT, that used to be called Televerket. They also own most of the physical lines like in the UK. Netcom is the only privately started company that acquired a license in the 90s.

When Telenor were privatised the license required them to sell capacity at cost to other operators. The same license requirements hold for mobile towers so all the small operators can piggyback on their infrastructure at cost. The result is that we have over 50 operators competing on services and add-ons while having approximately the same base network quality.

This is largely the case for ISPs too and it works great I think.
Bamboo isn't going to replace lumber for most permanent uses, but it sure is handy when you need to put something together in a pinch.

I was once trekking in northern Thailand with some Akha hill tribe guides. When it was time for dinner, they cut down a large bamboo and within minutes fashioned essentially a complete dinner service out of it:

* A framework for their overnight hut/lean-to

* A pot for boiling rice

* A frame to hold the pot over an open fire

* Bowls for serving and eating

Crappy pics:

http://www.patokallio.name/photo/travel/Thailand/ChiangDao/C...

http://www.patokallio.name/photo/travel/Thailand/ChiangDao/C...

http://www.patokallio.name/photo/travel/Thailand/ChiangDao/F...

(...and obviously the darker pieces of bamboo were reused from previous camps.)
Well, your question is ambiguous. No wonder the child is giving you a weird answer. The proper question is: “Where is it hurting?”
It's not Mozilla's fault that there are people out there who never bother to learn their computer well enough to understand what the "Downloads" folder is. It's a ubiquitous archetype found in every OS both desktop and mobile.

What's the point in setting standards if you don't use them?
Content maybe, but the edgy weird fonts on garish colors at bizarre angles with varying backgrounds made the print edition unreadable.