skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is interesting! I am looking forward to the open source release. Some of the projects built with V also appear to be quite nice. The author has put a lot of effort into this it seems.
Chinese city offers US$1,500 reward to help snare foreign religious leaders
Fortunately there are really extensive online resources you can consult for details! For example the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergovernmental_Panel_on_Cli...
People have memories too you know. Why should someone’s close associates be the only ones with insight into a person’s true character? People can change a lot in 10 years, so whatever criticism is levied against them may no longer be applicable. But people also tend to get better at hiding their real thoughts, especially if they are now a public figure, and don’t always change in consistent or even good ways over time.
Some books have words and ideas from many hundreds of years ago. Newspapers as well. Statements in court are written down as well.
Automatically generate async/await code from sync code with Roslyn
Welcome to Boulder Ruby
A PureView phone with no dedicated two-stage camera button? I thought these folks were former Nokia engineers!
I'm not sure how much sense it makes to compare the present-day share price to the price right before a crash. Almost by definition the pre-crash price is a pretend number, that's why it "corrects" downwards.
I am sorry to say but that’s what happens when you don’t have a proper product management org. Unbelievable in a large company like Apple but they do not have a Head of Product / CPO and are basically still a Sales and Marketing company with attached Engineering departments.

There has been something very very wrong with products not getting out the door at Apple over the last few years. How does it take years to update a MacPro, a MacMini, an iPhone SE, Airpower never made it out the door, Airpods delayed by half a year, the iPhone - it’s biggest seller is on a 3year refreshment cycle now instead of 2 years, other peripherals like Airport Wifi cancelled and please let’s not even get started about software which was either cancelled (Aperture) or is being outpaced due to slow release cycles.
Apple needs to get a ship / get out the door mentality again!
> The FCC rules for wireless charging devices like AirPower are quite strict, and limit exposure to 20 cm (8 in) above the device to 50 mW/cm^2.

I'm surprised they waited till the end to do the testing. When I used to work on hardware products at smaller companies, some preliminary tests are done on early designs to make sure we have a comfortable margin. A company like Apple should have dedicated in-house facilities to do this earlier.
The last 10% is usually the actual 90%.

Claims like C++ translation is definitely one of those 90% things that may look easy to some people until you actually try to do it.
Literally every major company does this. Tesla announces their cars years ahead of production. Thousands of products are announced at the CES - cameras, phones, laptops, etc.

Things go wrong sometimes after announcing a product.

> that could be fraud

No, it is certainly not.
If a human can mess it up, they will mess it up.

(Modification of Murphy's Law.)
I have both a 2016 and 2017 one. I did not notice any difference in keyboard quality and they both failed after about a year. Keys either stopped picking up input, or would repeat. On one my space bar repeated a lot and just felt wrong.

I won’t be touching the 2018 one until I see reports of people that have had them for over a year. It sounds like based on the new WSJ reporting, the 2018 has problems too though.
I don't understand why people delete their past Facebook posts. considering it's highly unlikely they are actually deleted in the backend (and not just flagged)
They already do, in the sense that you'll need beefier/more machines to do the same job.

Of course, using Python means you have a lot of low-hanging fruit to pick. We have a Python service where we moved ONE ~60 line recursive function to Go and overall CPU consumption dropped to 15-20% of what it used to be.
Sounds like they are getting tripped up in a lie. In one of the linked articles on techcrunch FB legal says;
" we made a number of changes to protect our executives’ communications. These included limiting the retention period for Mark’s messages"

Retention policies are quite common in lots of companies. If I had to guess his posts were treated in the same way, but given it's FB of course there's an unnecessary lie weaved in, because well it's FB
I built Pony [0], an email platform that delivers once a day, to see if it is possible for a platform that doesn't manipulate user psychology to succeed.

In the UI I eschew every traditional user manipulation technique I could think of: there are no notifications, there are no unread message counts. There even isn’t read/unread message state. It's launching now, so finally I get to find out: can a platform that doesn't vie for attention, that lets users create their own unguided, unprompted experience succeed?

[0]: https://www.pony.gg
Yeah I've had problems with previous chargers but my Pixel Stand works great every time. The design makes it very easy to get it in the right spot and keeps it there.
Definitely one possibility of many! That's why it's so hard to guess which one or two aspects really tanked it.
10 hours later and its 8.74%
It's also weird for this same person to hold immense power over social and political life across the globe, but yeah kinda weird.
Yeah, but books were always intentional works of art in which a lot of thought goes into them. Newspapers would at best record public interviews or press conferences but even then they would often paraphrase. Admit it, casual speech recorded for posterity is a weird feature of modern life.
I’ll add to all the examples in this thread that the Rust (also partly of ML descent) compiler was written in OCaml until it became self hosting.

I’ll also +1 the comments about ReasonML which is very promising.

Though I suppose these are both ”language” related — just not strictly the OCaml language.
Apple is not the only company that announces products. Go to CES and you'll find hundreds of products. I am sure some of them never make it to production.

Apple isn't the only one. While I agree that announcing a product and not delivering is a bad thing - shit happens, especially here where the engineering team busted balls for months to correct and issue and they couldn't resolve it.

Sometimes, it is safety or regulatory failure. There are many reasons why a product can't make it to the market.
I have lived in Vancouver since the early 80s. Vancouver has always been extremely expensive. The prices have only gone up since the 80s. Our house went from $250,000 which was 50% more expensive than our Toronto house to $1.4M when we sold in 2010.

So unless you are talking geologic timelines, Vancouver sustained unreasonably high housing costs for 3 decades or more (it continues to be high) with no significant pullback and no discernible industry like Silicon Valley.

In the 1980s they blamed Hong Kong immigrants. More recently they blamed the Mainland Chinese. Now is it foreign investment? There has always been a bogeyman in the minds of Vancouverites but they have always been wrong. Regardless what the reasons, the costs have always been hard for regular Vancouverites to afford and yet the prices kept going up for decades.
That’s a a when, not an if. The Illinois Supreme Court ruled unanimously that state pensions are sancrosanct. Illinois and Chicago will go bankrupt and absent changes to the state constitution state pensions will not be touched during the process.

> Chicago’s land tax and how the city survives being such a fiscal mess

> But wait, isn’t Chicago a fiscal mess? How about the state of Illinois? It remains the case that living in Chicago is still remarkably affordable, and many of the neighborhoods have wonderful food, buildings, and offer a relatively safe (not always) and walkable environment. You may even hope to find a parking spot.

> I would put it this way: there are many ways to impose a Georgist land tax, fiscal insolvency being one of them. Very wealthy people and institutions know that if they relocate to Chicago, they will be required to ante up for the final bill. And so they stay away. For a city of its size and import, Chicago just doesn’t have that many billionaires, nor do I think a rational billionaire should consider moving there.

> In other words, there is a pending wealth tax. Either directly or indirectly, this will place fiscal burdens on Chicago land, the immobile factor. And this keeps down rents in Chicago now.

> Overall, I do not recommend this fiscal course of action, and Chicago may well become a worse city due to eventual insolvency at the local and state levels. Still, if you are wondering how it is that Chicago is so affordable — and wonderful — right now, this is part of the answer.

> I also should note that not every neighborhood in Chicago benefits from this equilibrium, as in some parts gentrification is difficult to come by.

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/02/ch...
Didn't MySpace recently and "mistakenly" delete years of music uploads shortly before the EU's Article 13/17 passed? Which has the potential to cause quite a few expensive problems for them.

A lot of accidental data spoliation happening in social media these days.

(I'm being facetious.)
no, it really is that ridiculous.
I'm quite sure they didn't "wait until the end" to do the testing. First, this article is iFixit's speculation. Second, they probably did something similar to what iFixit envisioned: they did test early and knew it didn't pass muster, but thought they could eventually engineer themselves a fix, until they finally just hit a brick wall (aka physics) and found it wasn't an issue they could overcome.
I don’t believe Apple even ever officially admitted the membrane design in the 2018 model was to keep dust out and improve reliability. Pretty sure the official reason was noise reduction.
“You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.”
Homer Simpson
Shorter version of this article with much less of the personal history: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/science/dinosaurs-extinct....
Somewhere I remember reading that the Tor Project refers to it now just as "Tor Browser" (the bundle part got dropped).

If you look at their website https://www.torproject.org they refer to it as "Tor Browser".
When compared to plugging into a grounded AC wall socket or even a standard USB port, I find positioning an iphone on a wireless charger far easier.
Worth noting that this 'feature' on messenger is now available to all users although it is limited to 10 minutes and not years ago.
Classic case of unit tests running on production and backups simultaneously. Real shame.
Thanks! I have indeed :)
http://folk.uio.no/galeng/research.html

Scroll down for a link to the movie.
It doesn't matter, they're gone. He doesn't care if you don't believe why and how you think you've BUSTED! him. He's a zillionaire, it's not going to happen.
So my phone is charged by a cable. It plugs into the wall on one side and then plugs into my phone on the other. This system works great - I plug my phone in when I go to bed and unplug it when I wake up. The cable is long enough to plug into my phone even if I want to use it in bed. It's easy, cheap and failproof.

What is the draw of wireless charging? What is it that I'm missing? Did anyone ask for this?
More money in software.
We will see once you release the source code, but for now maybe tone down the language on your site and in your comments. Of course your code is going to compile faster if you don’t support any platforms or optimizations. If you’re really serious about building a programming language I suggest porting V to llvm IR so you can focus on the parts you’re obviously more interested in.
Thanks.

> RAM can be trivially read even if full disk encryption is used

I wouldn't say "trivially", but yes, it can be. But if you're that paranoid, you can embed key parts of the motherboard in alumina-filled epoxy. Its thermal conductivity is good, and you can add fins and fans as needed. You can even embed trip wires in the epoxy, to trigger system shutdown if tampered with.
Yep, need source. www.levels.fyi and Glassdoor shows comparable compensation.
why do you care, new account?
I don’t understand why anyone would buy a house here, even if they have the money. There are so many problems with the Bay Area that won’t be fixed for another generation—-open crime, quality of life, wanton theft and vandalism, open meth and heroin use, property crime worse than anywhere else in the country—-and the quality of housing is crap! Traffic, poor public transportation (still better than other cities, but not amazing), and an incompetent government that seems to thumb its nose at the working class here.

Why not just buy five houses in the south of France or somewhere actually nice and liveable? I’m here for work and as soon as my nest egg is big enough, I’m getting out. Why buy a $2.5m condo and have to watch a homeless camp out your window? I just don’t really get it.
It would be a really great if some one helped Facebook undelete some of Zuck's old disappearing posts. Maybe put them on a server like archive.org where he can't touch them?
Huawei is more complex IMO. There’s the spy angle plus the control of global standards and new markets.
Mostly to make myself feel less tied to it. I have no illusion that it does anything more than remove a reference to them.
This is a click bait title by iFixit. It’s all speculation on their end.
Sounds like maybe I ought to pull the old 1020 out of my museum. One error in that article, though... it is possible to turn off the downsampling to 5MP.
They probably knew they were close to the legal limit and their engineers probably said on a hunch "we can stay beneath the limit and retain adequate power with the right mix of tricks" and then just ended up being wrong on that hunch by a little bit.

The laws of physics are very unforgiving.
>> You definitely don't need to form an LLC. I'm still a sole proprietor all this time and it's working out fine.

This is bad advice. It has worked out for you so far because, I'm willing to guess, you have not been put at risk for any sort of substantial liability.

Forming an LLC creates a separate legal entity which is itself responsible for its own debts and liabilities. It isn't expensive or difficult to form an LLC, and you don't need a lawyer to do it. For most US states, it's a short form and an online payment.

There are some important rules to follow to ensure that your LLC will be viewed by the courts as a separate entity from yourself in the event that some potential liability arises. Perhaps the most important rules is to separate the finances of the LLC from your own personal finances. It's easy to open a checking account for your LLC - someone at your bank can help you do it. When clients pay you, make sure the check is written to your LLC, not you. Pay yourself from the LLC account - don't use the LLC's debit card for personal purchases and expenses. The goal is to create a clear line of separation from yourself and the LLC so that if someone sues, liability stops at the LLC and does not extend to your personal assets.
Time = money. It probably wasn't worth it.

Even if it wasn't an accident, who really cares?
I would have to agree with you there - after flicking through Bostrom's latest "work in progress" thesis I came away thinking it was quite underwhelming.
Convenience. I keep one on my desk. Everytime I sit down, I place my phone down on my charger pad, because that's where it goes. The 1 less step of having to hunt for a cable and plug it in makes it second nature to have my phone always charging or fully charged. Similarly in cars that have wireless charging nowadays, there's a tray of some sort to put it in.

Rather than charging when I need to, wireless charging makes it convenient enough to be charging all the time. Unless you have a lifestyle where you're out and about, and you don't have chargers everywhere you are, it's a nice addition.

Also less stress on the physical port. My Nexus 7 2013 has a broken microUSB port that I can still wirelessly charge.
I have a Nexus 7 2013 whose USB jack no longer works (probably accumulated damage from bumps/drops/general stressors), but wireless charging still works fine.

(High-five ThatPlayer who posted at the same time)
How do you define "delete"?
Detailed information about compilation, optimisation, etc is available on the home page and in the docs.

If you need optimization, for now you have to emit C. Like the website says, in the future V will be able to emit optimized machine code.

V will be open sourced this June.
Isn't that the point of the comment you're replying to? A phenomenon originally dismissed as just being an extreme version of something that happens to everyone, turns out to be something that a neurological consult was eventually needed to identify, that required prescription medication and that could have been prevented by getting that medication sooner?
She has one of these and it works amazingly well. The reason the Apple Watch is interesting is because it offers this and fall detection.
If you're going to accuse someone of IP theft then please provide actual evidence.
People don't want someone they know to see retrospectively embarrassing old posts.

It's true the posts could be archived by Facebook or another entity. They could conceivably be republished widely by a bug or someone malicious. But at least this way they won't resurface in the normal course of business.
I don't think there's a single person on this planet for whom translating C++ would seem easy.
Have you checked the port for pocket lint? Believe it or not, that disables more ports than anything else.
I may be confused here, but the person you’re responding to is saying that Ben Shapiro does not advocate for a white ethno state. Are you saying that he does?
Yes, Boyer-Moore is ridiculously fast, but it's a string search algorithm, not a regular expression search algorithm. You can't use it for regexes. Is TFA still true when you're not searching for literal strings?
I don't play video games, but I might just call the PD and tell them not to SWAT me anyway - just to be safe.
I have worked with people with less personality.
> "When i look for things on my computer, i don't have a vague concept of an idea of a thing i'm looking for, i look for specific things for specific purposes."

What you're describing is that this sort of system excels at. By describing the properties of the specific file you're looking for, the tagging system can locate it very rapidly. Without a tagging system, knowing the file you're looking for is like knowing the bookshelf your book is on. If the book shelf is small, you can look at each book in sequence and find the one you're looking for. When your bookshelf is very long, it pays to reduce the set of files you're looking for.

>"Why would i need everything on my computer related to cats showing up if i'm looking for say, a cat sprite in a game i'm working on vs a picture of my cat or say a cat meme? I have no need for the other two things if i'm looking for one of those things."

If you have a single cat sprite, and search the intersection of 'cat' and 'sprite', then that single cat sprite would be returned to you.

Consider instead you have in mind a particular photograph of a cat and a dog, on a car. Perhaps you know you put that image in your cats directory, which has a thousand images because you're an avid fan of cats. To find that particular cat image, you'd need to search through a thousand images sequentially, unless you happen to remember the precise filename of that single image out of a thousand. Thumbnails will help, but that search is still going to take way longer than it should. If your collection of cat images is properly tagged, then you can instantly get a list of the intersection between cat, dog, and car. That list is going to be much shorter than 1000 images. It will take you seconds at most to glance through it and find the precise image you were looking for.

With terabyte harddrives being dirt cheap commodities, there is no real reason the average person couldn't or shouldn't have hundreds of thousands to millions of files at least. The reason most people don't is because with the organizational software currently available to them, (e.g. windows explorer) there is no feasible way for them to keep that many files organized. There is no good reason that should be the case.
I believe in a strong standard library too.

For example, V has a powerful graphics library that can be used for writing 2D/3D games and all kinds of hardware accelerated apps.

Volt for Linux uses it, so does the vid editor.
Pitchers Adulterating Baseballs
You'd have to intentionally position a phone to not work on the Samsung charger. Plus it tilts and looks a lot nicer than the apple version. People hated on the airpower because it is a crowded market with multiple mfgs already making superior ones.

Although why would the phone be dead in the morning anyways? Even on low battery it should still be on low battery in the morning.
> "harlet, wrench, slut"

LOL. Also, keep your nuts covered or you're screwed.
>Antifa are pretty explicitly ('by any means necessary', carrying baseball bats, beating people up) a violent group

Provably untrue. Stop it.
On first glance this looks great and solves a real problem. Not sure how I’ve missed this.

Is there much of a plug-in ecosystem for this to support various auth backends?

*edit grammar
There was a recent post about someone who damaged his hearing from dropping a toilet lid that didn't shatter.
>Our app is a wiretap that records all your audio, which we run through top data analysis programs for marketing, which we also incorporate as we track all your activity across the web.
>We also don't have the ability to put some messages back in a database.
Charging phone when you are off to bed is really very bad.

Lithium charging protection circuit could fail anytime due to one of the components in the circuit malfunctioning and your lithium battery inside the phone can catch fire.

Many houses have been burned down to ashes from lithium fire. Just YouTube for 'lithium fire' and you'll see how dangerous it can be.

I usually charge the phone in an empty place where lithium fire won't cause much damage.
Cables are subject to breaking (specifically the connectors) and given how hard it is for many phones to listen to music via headphones and charge at the same time, I can see the appeal. Also, jacks are only rated for a limited number of cycles (connects, disconnects) due to the fact that there is mechanical connection taking place.

In the future, I imagine wireless charging being built into key pieces of furniture (see Ikea's attempts) where you might like to charge your phone. At the makerspace I run, we are embedding wireless charging into our custom-built tables which, I have to say, is super nice just to drop your phone down and have it charge.
Start at a Small Consulting Company
Valve just surprise revealed its own VR headset called the Valve Index
Care to point me to your detailed information on your compiler and what your optimizations are?
That's exactly what I did.

* https://github.com/dngray/ghacks-user.js/tree/fx-desktop

* https://github.com/dngray/ghacks-user.js/tree/fx-android
Steve Jobs was their Head of Product :(.
What do you mean by "reusability"?

Also, how well does your sample match the US factory population? Is there data on robotization of factories by size, product type, etc?
Reminds me of the Long Now project 10,000 Year Clock[1].

If you just wanted a simple stable multi-millennia clock you could make a large water clock[2] with pitch[3].

[1] http://longnow.org/clock/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Clock

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_drop_experiment