skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine you were selling a house. The absolute upper limit on the delay would be how long it takes for you to come down on the price if there are no buyers (a month at most). If there were other sellers who may have already waited for a while, the delay will be even shorter. Houses are less liquid than stocks so the delay is relevant to some people, but it's much faster than the timescale over which housing shortages play out.
A github repo full of binaries? What is this?
Their design had many overlapping coils which dynamically could be activated. This design would allow you to place the multiple devices on the mat in any orientation.
Server side rendering means the server converts a template into a fully formed html page by pulling layouts and partials together, adding JS/css assets, interpolating dynamic sections with data from the database. The response to the browser is html ready to parse and display.

Client side means the layouts, templates, partials, components are on the client and are stitched together their. The server only send data and the client app handles interpolation and generating the html.
It really depends on what you're doing. On a desktop/laptop/workstation 1 partition is fine. On servers, all the data is not necessarily on the same disk. It's common to have the OS itself running on local disks and have everything else mounted on some non-local storage like a Storage Area Network, Network Attached Storage, NFS shares, etc.
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Could you explain how charging without cables, via induction, is not wireless? I can't click that link at work (uncategorized by proxy).
I think vacuum. Like those wall-climbing robots.
Yes, recommenders take content you've interacted with and map it to other content that they see links to (people who hit Like on video X also hit Like on these other videos).

But what I'd point out is that I see YouTube respecting _all_ the content I see, rather than just the most recent one or just right-wing content, as some commenters here are alleging. For example my feed usually includes videos from Vox as well as Fox on politics, alongside video game reviews, alongside a NASA stream, alongside woodworking, and so on.
> Also, let's face it, Russia hardly projects power.

Um, what?
Wireless chargers are cheaply available from many other manufacturers (much cheaper than Airpower was going to be). Selling on the basis of wireless charging is not slimy or underhanded.
This is (partially) why the major platforms have published their design decisions, and why we have open source libraries to leverage.

I agree generally, scrappy businesses should prioritize shipping (and validation, market fit, etc.) above almost all else at the start. But even if you're leveraging existing patterns and design elements, there's really no reason /not/ to spend a fraction of a fraction of your time to understand the differences between a checkbox and a radio button; especially when such fundamentals are already laid out for you online and your team can easily leverage them both in design comps and code.

Quality design doesn't require infinite budgets or unlimited time for research. A little effort to understand the work goes a long way!

It's the same thing with programming: copy+pasting something from SO might get you 75+% of the way to success, but relying solely on that approach without understanding the code also means you'll inevitably run into issues with things like memory management, technical debt by locking into approaches, etc. in your product sooner than later.

(fwiw I've also started several businesses myself, created my own products independently, and consulted with many startups; I haven't solely functioned in the deep pockets of silicon valley, if that's what my original comment came across as.)
A more well known term would be 'systems administrators'. The layoff is affecting sysadmins and similarly scoped job functions. While I've never heard the term 'tech administrators' at Intel, the term 'system' has a more specific meaning[1](EG. CPU system design), which is likely why the more common title wasn't used.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_engineering
Kinja posted a deal on a dual powered mat for $35 yesterday. Crazy to think that Apple couldnt crack this to reach some level of product that consumers would find attractive.
Voyager is also powered by big balls of plutonium.
I keep this on my bookmarks: [1] (that I fished from this other blog post [2]).

Not sure if any actual search tools other than Scalyr use that specific implementation, but it makes for an interesting read anyway if you are into substring search algorithms (the algo described improves on Boyer-Moore).

1: http://volnitsky.com/project/str_search/

2: https://www.scalyr.com/blog/searching-1tb-sec-systems-engine...
If anyone affected by this happens to be well-versed in Kubernetes/SRE, please shoot me an email!
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In terms of career progression, how to become a functional/process manager as IC and general experience.
The article mentions (rumored) issues with 3D/overlapping coils that I imagine were needed to allow for multiple device placement anywhere on the mat.

>> Specifically, I’ve heard that they ran too hot because the 3D charging coils in close proximity to one another required very, very cautious power management.
They can't do this! There are dozens of us! Dozens!
The problems with AirPower (likely multiple charging coils) are much different than the problems with uBeam (trying to circumvent the laws of physics).
Holy cow that's awesome.
Makes me wonder if they couldn't get around any patents as wireless charging isn't a new innovation.
Guess the WSJ got their reporting wrong. They said it was in production.
I feel like I'm living in a bizzare-o-world here or something with this whole wireless charging thing.

I had wireless charging in my Nexus 5 almost 6 years ago. Even back then, I bought a cheap wireless charger off of amazon for like $20, and thought it was a relatively interesting novelty. 6 years is an absolute eternity in tech, but for some reason this is being touted as some new innovative tech.

I honestly thought when apple was announcing "wireless charging" that they meant something like your entire house would be a charger while you inside of it.

Basically: no wifi, less space than a nomad. Lame. Seriously though, wireless charging even being mentioned in the marketing as though it matters seems on par with a laptop advertising that it also has WiFi. No kidding it should have wireless charging; it's 2019!
Tech Administrator sounds like some type of government job
45 minute commute in Silicon Valley is considered normal. You'd be expected to show up everyday.
When will they fix the PgDown/PgUp button with sites that have those annoying high-z-index menu and sharing bars?
It’s wireless but not touchless. Some (many?) people conflate “wireless” and “over-the-air” charging.

You can do OTA charging but that’s a tesla coil and not very safe.
Well, except the bait-and-switch would also cause outrage.
It's probably a huge coincidence that https://isairpoweroutyet.com/ launched a week ago.

(Probably.)
My iPhone 8 works on a regular fast-charging Qi pad, I'd hope that the Airpods are the same way.
Considering this hasn't received an update in two months, it seems unsafe to install and download it. There have been many fixed security issues in Firefox just in the past few weeks.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/
No, now that's an abuse of logic and intention. We're talking about symbolic pictograms here, not laws. Just as you can depict emoticons by using humans, robots, colorful blobs or martians, you can depict pistols as toys, futuristic laser blowers, steampunk machinery or wild west revolvers. It's a symbol and you're free to show it any way you want.
>> It should not go unnoted here that Finch was unarmed and on his own doorstep when police killed him

> The officer may well have been reacting to the scream or to the way Finch was moving.

Why is that important?
This is a good thing. There were three competing wireless charging schemes. They got together and agreed on Qi as the charging mat standard.[1] Then Apple had to go off in their own incompatible direction. This delayed charging mat deployment in hotels and such. With Apple's scheme out of the picture, everybody can go with Qi.

[1] https://www.wirelesspowerconsortium.com/
The reason for creating SWAT was police getting shot while investigating gang/drug houses. Basically, they were meant to be used in exceptional circumstances against groups of criminals who were expected to fight back with violence when the police arrived.

But once you have a SWAT department (which is expensive), people feel compelled to use them to justify their existence. It's questionable to me that these sorts of tactics were necessary for a reported domestic violence incident, but I'm sure there are cases in history where someone shot at/killed the cops after killing a family member.
There is so so much good stuff in this article. A++ content. Incidentally, my hunch is that one way to build trust with clients is to write articles like this. I can tell you know what you are doing if you can write something like this.

> I’d estimate over half of freelancers disappear before delivering their projects. Good for you: Finish your projects and you’re already in the 51st percentile of freelancers.

This matches my gut as well and I've been somewhat shocked at how many clients compliment me on answering my email in a timely manner! Clients seem to understand almost any mistake you can make if you are upfront about it and work with them to solve the problem and don't disappear. Though, I definitely agree on being very very careful about code that charges money (or sends email for that manner).
Yes. The concept behind AirPower was multi-device charging on a single mat.
From what I have been seeing from an industry that is ancillary to warehouse robotics needs (LIDAR sensor apparatus for UAVs and drone purposes), high resolution/high-performance small LIDAR are coming down a lot in cost now. And there are a number of new small machine vision startups selling LIDAR units for these sorts of purposes.
Oh man, I remember seeing one of these (or something really similar) when I went with my dad to work as a kid. When he told me that it cost more than $19,000, I flatout didn't believe him. To a nine-year-old me, there was not an appreciable difference between $19,000 and $1,000,000,000 , and I could not fully understand how anyone would pay that much for anything.
Not a freelancer, but I've worked remotely...

> It gets pretty dang lonely sometimes, particularly if you’re working remotely. I don’t care if you’re an introvert or extrovert, it’ll affect you either way.

I'm an introvert. I was lonely. It does affect you.

> But for maximum productivity, your routine should involve getting dressed, brushing your teeth, and treating it like a “real job”.

I had to do this. If I wasn't wearing street shoes, I wasn't "at work."
> To be clear, I don't think YouTube has a RW political agenda, but perhaps it has an economic interest in pushing people to the fringes (maybe people at the extremes click more ads or something).

I think it's simpler than what you're suggesting. They want to make money, and the indirect way they do that is to get people to watch more videos. If most people who watch Jordan Peterson tend to also watch extreme right wing content, and you watch his video, then you will get recommended right wing content, because they think that's what you will want to watch.

I work for Google but not on Youtube, opinions are my own.
> The challenge is that, at least in the US, these platform have sought to secure themselves the "public space" status through Section 230 immunity under an economic difficulty argument.

It makes perfect sense that they would be free to refuse to publish content they object to, even with 230 immunity, and the courts agree.[0]

> Do I lose Section 230 immunity if I edit the content?
Courts have held that Section 230 prevents you from being held liable even if you exercise the usual prerogative of publishers to edit the material you publish. You may also delete entire posts. However, you may still be held responsible for information you provide in commentary or through editing.

[0] https://www.eff.org/issues/bloggers/legal/liability/230
I don't even know why they bothered making the AirPower so complicated, especially for its first version.

Do people even care about device orientation or communication of charge levels? 90% of the purchase decision is based on just having an Apple branded power mat.
Do you understand that I just added one compile flag to debian official sources?
Interesting. I wonder what the high standard hang up was for apple then? It's an older technology (Qi), or I wonder if the hardware team was pulled off of new products to go back and fix the keyboards they are still having issues? Or maybe it was wasnt going to sell at a price point to bring in enough margin?
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Why does this thing need to be so thin you have to cancel it over heating issues!? It's the perfect shape and size to mount a heat sink on the bottom; no one's going to give up apple products forever because there's an extra centimeter of aluminum on the bottom of their phone charger
that wasn't my point. My point was that mechanical things can move for long periods of time, there's nothing crazy about that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Electric_Bell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Clock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmos_clock
It’s not weird at all.

AirPower is a feature that helps sell those AirPods amongst early adopters who would buy AirPods within the first couple of weeks.

If you want to kill AirPower, waiting a bit to grab those sales makes sense. You don’t have much to lose and revenue to gain.
Instead of reliable WiFi routers and induction chargers, Mac Pros and you know, laptop keyboards that you can actually type on…

We get a credit card, news and streaming service that no one wants or understands.

I really don’t get Apple's priorities recently. Which is a shame, since few companies step to the chalange of serving the expensive high quality tech stuff market.

And what happened to the company that wouldn’t pre announce stuff, under promise and over deliver? I just hope they don’t also cancel whatever it is they are doing with the Mac Pro.
What would I need to work?

Because humans want more than just basic human needs addressed?
Your mostly paying for land, not the building on the land. You can get away with crappy quality in the bay a lot longer than other places because of the climate, which is partly why everything is in such bad shape.
That's a really unfortunate service experience.

The two times I've had to send my laptop in, it was overnighted to Apple, fixed in a day, and overnighted back. The third time that I went to an Apple store, they did a same-day return and replace for a year-old Late 2016 MacBook Pro.
Should Apple stop announcing products before they're sure they can ship them?
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And cyclists call people in cars "cagers", and presume they're all out to kill the cyclist. The only difference in the dehumanization is that people in cars can more easily kill people not in cars.
Sure, I'm talking about this laptop specifically which has one HDD, and partitions it heavily.
The new AirPods can be charged on Qi chargers, that are available on Amazon for $10. No one bought wireless charging AirPods because of AirPower.
Not the apple watch. That was the draw of it.
Are there any official announcements about this? It seems odd for Apple’s leadership team to make statements about unreleased products to reporters like that without any other context.
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It'd be a slimier move to release a $200 charging pad that doesn't work well.
> I can't believe I have to say this, but it's different because political beliefs, whether they inspire one to shoot a bunch of people or just to vote for the "burn it all down" party can have a damaging influence over society as a whole.

Sorry but you can't claim politics as holy and protected while disregarding gaming, modded cars, and other topics, arguably more political than "politics" topics.
Many new restrictions apply to apps regardless of the target API level, so all you actually get is from beta 1 to final release, and that's assuming all the restrictions are already enforced in beta 1.
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When most people think "wireless", they probably associate it with things like wireless phones, wireless headphones, wireless speakers, etc. Things that can be carried around freely and their usability isn't restricted by not being connected to a wire.

Imagine if to use "wireless" headphones, you had to hold them within 1 cm of an induction loop that transmitted the audio, otherwise they just played static. I wouldn't really consider those to be wireless in the same sense as a set of AirPods.

At least that's the impression I got when I read "true wireless" in GP's comment.
If I had to guess, the counterweight area also contains a big bulky lithium ion or lipo battery pack. Perhaps if they've determined they need it to carry around a 35 kilogram battery pack, they're accomplishing two purposes by also putting the battery in the counterweight location.
From the article: “This is a very, very rare public mis-step for Apple.” Not a mis-step at all.
Its not true. Apple Watches dont use Qi charging so that was at least one hurdle.
Add an x-Lawful-Warrant parameter to provide a warrant. It can’t be read by anything but the best AI technology and is included in every HTTP request. No warrant, no response!
All the Apple devices that support wireless charging use Qi.
Normally I'd agree, but the fact that the AirPower mat is printed onto the back of the new AirPods case box does seem to be a pretty good indicator that this was a very sudden decision.

That is unless they were trying to make it look sudden, but I don't think we have good enough reason to be that cynical about it.
>It looks like it might be titanium?

it's a coated composite similar to carbon, but with specified radio properties. It looks like carbon fiber with a large weave before coating.

I dropped a panel almost exactly like the one in question that was scrap from mis-machining, and it nearly deafened me, it rings like a toilet lid; like a ceramic.

source : I had a small involvement with recent US planes.
Men, sounds like people spending 4 h on a bus. Well with a laptop, you can start you startup in a bus at least.
I did the very same thing, and asked about it on SO too! https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54658932/grep-v-f-of-emp...
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I briefly considered buying some when they were announced, with the idea of "hmm, AirPower must be coming out soon". Sucker for Apple products that I am, it would pair well with the iPhone XS and Watch I have, and they can all live on the AirPower mat.

And then I said, meh, I'll buy some when I see the announcement for AirPower, given the problems they've obviously had bringing to market. How many others are less skeptical than me, I do not know. But for the time being, I'm content to plug my stuff in if I still have to use separate mats for phone and headphones.
Some relevant detail that you learn only after having visited with lots of neurologists:

- The accepted explanation seems to be that our brains have a seizure threshold. The idea is to try to keep your brain below it, and to not cause it to become lowered.

- Many (most?) folks with epilepsy have "triggers" or activities or situations that increase the likelihood of seizures. You would think of them as lowering your seizure threshold.

Stress and sleep deprivation are common triggers. Stereotypically, flashing lights are a trigger for folks with photosensitive epilepsy though you should be aware photosensitive epilepsy is quite rare compared to the overall incidence of epilepsy.
POSIX seems like the kind of API that it shouldn't be necessary to "recover" portability from...
Product decisions like this one are the whole reason why people base their purchase decisions on the Apple brand.
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They already have the power to censor. There's no "giving" involved.

They don't do much because it costs money and they believe it's unprofitable. There's no noble "free speech" goal behind any of these companies, and you're deluding yourself if you think otherwise.
Bomb robots aren't unheard of. Sending a camera on wheels in to check out a situation you are unsure of doesn't sound terrible to me.

Or hell, this is a great use for a camera drone. While I'm sure there's some handwringing about tipping off the perps it really shouldn't be any worse than a whole bunch of guys swarming the yard and surrounding the house. One of those little racing drones with the good camera would seem to be perfect for checking out the house before you send guys crashing through every window and chucking flashbangs into rooms blind.
How about 100% of one set of crimes for the person who put people's lives in danger and also 100% for another crime that caused that person to lose their life?
Maybe one can just refuse to do the implicitly illegal behavior, before they make the illegal policy explicit and which then gets completely repealed.
On the other hand, announcing it now means that anyone who really would have changed their minds still can. Apple will almost certainly accept returns, even in countries which don't provide statutory rights to return unwanted goods within a certain time period. Announcing it a month from now, or later, would make such returns impossible.

It does seem like this is the very latest date such an announcement could have been made, though.
It is just apt-get source gnuplot/testing ; cat debian/rules | sed -e 's/--with-gd/--with-gd --with-bitmap-terminals' > debian-rules ; dpkg-buildpackage . (or something approximately like that)

But you are welcome to apt-get build-deb and do that by yourself if you don't trust my binaries or my memory :-)
I mean, it's abundantly clear where their priorities are right now...and that's Services. I suppose Services make more money and please the stockholders, but damn if it ain't disappointing to their user-base.
I think more accurately "Nobody" is a hyperbolic proxy for "me". Given the housing supply m the number of people who can afford to live here is demonstrably n which is >> m.
Actually the most common php workflow I've seen is: Edit php files directly in production, save, refresh. If you see a blank page (php syntax error, returs HTTP 500) start sweating and quickly check apache error.log.
Repeat until syntax error is fixed (and initial feature is implemented).

Or to rephrase an old proverb:

Real php developers do it on production only.
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The new AirPods boxes were printed in 2018: https://twitter.com/horwitz/status/1110977803183374341
Offshoring?
That's nothing for Apple. They have released $2000 laptops that don't work well.
Most people have no idea what the majority of seizures are like. I certainly didn't, but I wish I did. Most people (55%) unfortunately only go to the doctor after they have a grand mal, meanwhile they've likely been having partial seizures unknowingly for some period of time. Getting checked out early can halt or delay the process of epileptogenesis, which could hopefully result in no, or less severe seizures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epileptogenesis

Convulsive seizures are also very dangerous, and often result in bodily injury, hospitalization, status epilepticus (a long lasting seizure which may result in brain damage), or SUDEP (sudden unexpected death in epilepsy)

Researcher Jacqueline French regarding delays in epilepsy diagnosis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muPWaW-1Bqk