skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I mean the government insists on only allowing rich people to invest and prevent poor people from doing the same, so the claim that his mentality is what's concentrating wealth while the government's own policies get away scot free is rather silly.
While reading this, I found that "Computer Professionals" are often exempt from Minimum Wage and Minimum Hours/Overtime Pay, because of 29 usc 213(a)(17). (104th congress, HR 3448)

https://www.congress.gov/bill/104th-congress/house-bill/3448...

Fortunately, this bill (in it's current state) does not reference that exemption, and only exempts executives, school employees including teachers, and outside salesmen.
AirPods/White iPhone 4 were both heavily supply-constrained; it wasn't an announcement then never shipping the product.
"good decisions to be involved"

You can also make good decisions with your money, and bad ones. Those can pay off, or not.
A venerable Berghaus Dart 40 pack. it's a 40 litre bushwalking day pack -- largely just one big compartment with adjustable waist and shoulder straps and a U shaped aluminium bar in it to give some structure.

I cycle commute or walk with it 5-7 days a week and it is large enough for single person grocery trips.

It is not particularly trendy but has already lasted 20 years, probably with use at least once per week for the last 15 years.

I have been thinking about replacing it with another locally made high quality bushwalking pack, if I can find pack with a simple design made with durable components.
> Normally this isn’t a problem because you can boot a Solaris installation CD or network image and clear the root password in the /etc/shadow file. BUT....I have no SCSI CD-ROM that I can plug into the external SCSI port on the SPARCbook

That brought back a memory. I was working at a place in the 90s that got one of those SPARCbooks that we were setting up for a customer, but we didn't have a SCSI CD-ROM drive to install with. I actually went to my previous employer (a Sun workstation support team in the computer center of a university) who kindly let us use one of theirs on site.
I wonder if it really did go into production, only to be cancelled after Apple executives decided they weren't content with the current iteration after all.
No. It’s EXTREMELY rare for Apple to announce something with more than about a week of lead time unless it’s likely to be leaked by a 3rd party (iPhone and FCC, media companies and Apple News/TV).
Serverless Is a State of Mind
The vulnerable code database is a db for vulnerabilities and their source code
Nomad makes a very very nice nightstand charger that will do all that for you.

https://hellonomad.com/products/base-station-apple-watch

I don't have this version, but I have their other base station that charges up to 4 devices at once: 2 wirelessly, and 2 via cables. I'm extremely happy with it.

https://hellonomad.com/collections/power/products/base-stati...
Thanks for the pointers. I may just ignore the sunk cost of the $79 Apple Watch stand and go for the Nomad Qi Apple Watch dock. Pricey, but that's some nice looking kit for some thing I'll have to look at on my nighstand every night.
When you have a lot of money, you can do something great with it. Like reinvent the rocket industry. Or rid the world of polio. Or buy up land and create nature conservancies. Or buy a bunch of WW2 wrecks, restore them to flying condition, and make a wonderful museum for them.
I would first evaluate how much work would be involved with making their design pixel perfect. There are some platforms where making certain things pixel perfect is extremely difficult (Sharepoint customization for example).

I would also give my customer feedback on whether the UI helps them achieve their goals. Sometimes people zero in on a visual design that has poor usability, and all you're doing is taking them further down a bad road.
>But not on purpose.

You could argue that after three models with butterfly keyboards, it's pretty purposeful. It's not like no one pointed it out to them.
I saw a report on twitter with serial numbers showing build dates of September and November, along with old copyright dates on the boxes on the new AirPods. Combine that with the "Hey Siri" being shown in "Gather Round" video in September, I bet they were hoping to ship the AirPods before the holidays, but were holding out hope that Airpower would work.

https://twitter.com/rouven81/status/1110980080170340352
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/09/12/apple-hey-siri-support-...
The Pareto Principle is a bitch. There's no way to remove inequality without trampling on the rights of the few lucky people.

|If money flows to those who own things more easily/readily than those who do things

The vast majority of people with a lot of money are doing things. They are not idle, and it is not through idleness they wound up in their position. At least in the US.

This is doubly true for their money. It's not in a big swimming pool for them to paddle around in Scrooge McDuck style. Well, at least, most of it isn't.
The point wasn't wireless charging. They've supported Qi charging for a while. The point was wirelessly charging several devices simultaneously with no need to consider the orientation the devices being charged. That's what turns out to be so hard to deliver well that they're giving up. And no, nobody else is doing it either. Yet.
"Right now a Mars colony would be plain suicide. "

If the plan is to have a self-sustaining colony, then yes. But if supply flights are guarantied, I don't see the problem.

You can grow food in space. We do. We just can't have a enclosed system yet and are probably quite far away from it.

But I agree, that I think it makes much sense to do more ground- and moonwork first.
Revenue loss from not releasing a faulty product is infinitely better than the customer trust lost from releasing something faulty.
Can we all just agree there are places in which computers do not belong? Or if they do, they ought to be minimized. Implanted devices, nuclear plants, etc.
The primary user if these laptops was the U. S. military and they saw combat on the battlefield. Garrett D'Amore, father of the illumos project, used to work on the drivers for this laptop at Tadpole.
"Freedom" in terms of software doesn't mean privacy, but freedom to run, modify, and redistribute software: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
If there is no specific intent to kill, that's as wrong in 2019 as any other year. OTOH, it does seem to be the kind of act with extreme disregard to the risk to human life that, where death does result, the “depraved indifference” subtype of murder exists to address.

You are right about the lack of specific intent. In 2019, it should be considered common knowledge that doing this sort of thing creates the potential for loss of life. I would be just fine with 'the “depraved indifference” subtype of murder.'
So they’ll cancel AirPower but they won’t revert their laptop keyboard? Come on guys my 2014 MPB can’t last forever!
> no one wants

Can't tell you what this phrase does to me. It's so prevalent in tech and gaming discussions and it'd be tough for me to think of a more holier-than-thou thing to say. There are people in the world who are different then you!

That being said, I didn't really understand the streaming service either, and I do agree that their priorities have seemed all over the place lately. I only learned of the upcoming AirPower product about 6 months ago, and having kept my ear lightly to the ground, I've heard all kinds of mixed things about it. I'm honestly not surprised it didn't work out - once I heard the main issue was heat, I knew there were going to be serious issues.

Even if it made it to shelves, anything that inherently generates heat, but one that also accepts variable devices, is just asking for trouble. I'm also not an electrical engineer, so maybe it's misguided.
> So that’s what you need to know about money, right? If that is your primary measure of success or value in life, then good luck with that, because it will never feel good.

This has the sound of a subject matter expert speaking with authority. And it makes me feel like my adult life so far has been a waste
I ordered Airpods with wireless charging without even considering if/when Airpower would ship (when they announced it, I thought about the engineering challenges, considered what I know about electronics, and figure they would need a miracle to pull it off).

I have other (single-device, of course) charging pads and they work great, so it isn't a big deal.
Super schizophrenic. Since KitKat there has been back-and-forth movement wrt external storage. One of few advantages of Android phones was their extensibility by SD card (i.e. buying a basic model and adding a cheap 64/128GB card instead of paying extra $100-300 for the same in internal storage); if that won't be possible any longer, iPhone would sound much better to previous users.

Limited extensibility - a way to turn most smartphones into landfill in 2 years... No "Green Deal" would be possible; moreover how far would security paranoia go? Would we need another processor that would verify main processor's operations and detect anomalies as well?
Haha when I read it a distant bell chimed somehere in my head and your remark makes me think: "Yes, indeed."
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From what I can tell, tech or technical administrator is a term used by people who are not familiar with IT geek speak. There are some valid uses of the term, but AFAICT it is not part of the geek speak lexicon.

See this for example
https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q="Technical+Adminstrator"&from=...
or
https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=%22Tech+Adminstrator%22&l=
Sorry, just saw your reply. I suspect you are overestimating the work. I just added some Rack middleware to handle request logging. Then plugged into the Rails model callbacks to record the CRUD events into a different Kinesis stream. And we're a 3 dev shop and I did this on my own over a few weeks part-time.

As far as retention goes, I just dump to it to S3 for permanent storage. Kinesis Firehose makes that dead simple. I also push each event into AWS hosted Elastic Search and I could theoretically purge older data, but for our volume of data, I'll likely retain it there for years.

Edit: Also, I generate UUID in the Rack middleware and set a Thread Local Storage variable that I can pull out in the CRUD logging so that I can always see what Rack request caused the CRUD model event.
They're not ripping me off if I want to give them money. macOS works and not only gets the job done, but gets out of the way.
>> NoHTTP: Block http traffic and/or redirect it to https (Excellent replacement for the unrecommended https-everywhere)

Why isnt the EFF's HTTPS Everywhere recommended? (And why is this addon, tagged "experimental", with <100 users opted for?)
I bought a pair today. I mostly bought them for the incremental speed bump and supposed longer battery time. Otherwise I would have just bought a wireless charging case to go with my series 1 pair.
Yep, developers are a tiny tiny tiny minuscule percentage of Apple's revenue.

Apple's move towards services makes perfect sense. Apple now has a grip from the silicon to the end service. The entire stack. That's with the new move towards service starting in 2016 with Apple Music. That's a way to grow for a giant behemoth that Apple is.

I don't understand HN sometimes. We live in a tiny bubble and complain without understanding business, market and investor perspectives.
Much less flat, though.
They are! In fact shellfish being filter feeders are often used to clean aquatic ecosystems and then maintain them. If done responsibly it’s a massive boon, and doin git responsibly is feasible and done at present. Farming shellfish is one of the few fish farm models that truly is better than the wild alternatives in terms of overall environmental impact.
It's difficult to convey context or background in these conversations, and they quickly become circular based on each participant's favourite default assumptions. For example, you're clearly excited about asynchronous, Promise-driven code patterns. I am preoccupied with developer happiness and ergonomics that come primarily as a result of opinionated defaults and a relatively stable ecosystem + build process. The simple truth is that if I needed results = async map -> crawl() in rb, I would call a service written in Go or Rust... but also, the number of times where I need to green-field a web crawler is dwarfed 250-1 by building the sexiest, snappiest CRUD UIs possible.

Meanwhile, there was once upon a time a perceived crisis of junior talent which led to the creation of the first code bootcamps, all of which were taught Rails, jQuery and Sass. I'm not trying to be shitty, classist or ageist in suggesting that the bootcamp phenomena suddenly started emitting a large number of blank-slate new devs that would understandably treat every exciting idea as the most incredible thing since <insert your fav noun>. After all, if you have few previous experiences, what can you compare against?

Previous generations of devs learned predominantly through either auto-didactic persistence or academic lectures; this new crop was suddenly predominantly learning from (and influencing) each other.

I recently read an excellent book called The Death of Truth, which technically has nothing to do with programming... except that in this conversation, it's totally about programming. If every coder's ideas are treated as equally valid truths even though there exists a massive gulf between their relative experiences, then we're confusing feelings with good engineering.
Actually, the time spent to setup correctly all the toolings is much more than the MVP itself.
The ratio is about 6/1.
Once setup, it took me about 1-2 weeks to complete a MVP.

Want new feature ?

- Add a graphql API (if not exists) and compile to Typescript typings.

- Develop and deploy a React Component for that feature.

- Install and add to the application.
I haven’t found a situation where wireless charging is superior to wired charging, especially for my iPhone w wireless charging. The only situation is if you’re out and about and don’t have your cable with you, and in that case the only public wireless charging I’ve ever come across is at a certain Starbucks places, but it wouldn’t make sense in that situation why your own wirelessly mat would help since you probably wouldn’t haul that everywhere with you.

If you wirelessly charge then you have to lay your phone flat on the charging surface, whereas if you use a cable you can hold it and use it normally near the outlet.
I obviously don't t know your use case, but the more I look into multi-core code, the less impressed with it I am. I think you're almost always better with a tight loop and a good persistence strategy. If the thing you're doing really benefits trivially from easy paralellism, I'd lean on gpus anyways...
What reform could the US pass that would escape the criticism that Republicans might in the future choose to repeal it?
There are plenty of communities that allow all persons to talk candidly online. However, these communities of all persons tend to be dominated by the majority voice while other voices get drowned out. These majorities don't usually consist of women and other groups.
Link for the impatient: https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-gnuplot/blob/8c3750a68ab6d1f...
But even if we take copyright year to be the same as the printing year, Apple would almost certainly have just made a new box if they'd known well in advance they were going to cancel AirPower. This still shows an unusual level of disorganization on their part, which is surprising enough that I'm willing to believe a sudden decision was made.

There's a good chance that we'll see this somewhat proven in that Apple will probably get that box discontinued within the next couple weeks.
FindFile, FindNextFile are an iterator pattern.

In C++, you have

auto iterator = container.begin();
while(iterator != container.end()){
++iterator;
}

In Java you have

Iterator<String> iterator = container.iterator();
while(iterator.hasNext()) {
iterator.next();
}

Similarly with FindFile you have (leaving off some parameters)

auto handle = FindFirstFile();
while(FindNextFile(handle)){}
CloseFile(handle);

Separating the creation of the iterator from advancing the iterator is a good thing.
I have a tendency to let frustration build up until I lose my temper. The issue is that I don't realize I'm doing it until I'm ready to explode. My last dog was so sensitive to that, that she could tell when I was starting to get angry before I would realize it. I would be sitting at my computer, struggling with something, and I'd feel her poke me in the leg with her nose, then I knew it was time to take a break. I think she could hear that i was typing 'harder' when I got angry, but it could have been any one of a lot of tiny signals. Point is, she was consistently aware of me getting angry before I was. I miss that dog...
> soon the competitor has a better product because they have all their own secrets plus yours

Then that helps the economy as a whole and is therefore a good thing.
We mostly work with consumer goods that'll easily fit in one hand so that hasn't been a big problem for us. In our new video for ProMat (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5i0dsQfPCY) </shamelessselfpromotion> you can see the sorts of things we pick. When people wander by our booth we encourage them to throw in their wallet or shoe or such to let the robot pick it. Not their briefcase.
Students turn to “essay mills” to help them cheat
20 years for man behind hoax call that led to fatal shooting
Privacy? What??!

Each time your app opens and reads a file, the application on other side of ContentProvider can monitor user activity down to number of bytes read. Each time you open a directory, that action can be noted. If anything, that sounds like a privacy nightmare, and will undoubtedly be exploited.
Slow compilation speed is never a problem, I doubt anyone besides you cares about it. What is important is whether it generates fast code. Taking a long time to compile is fine if I get very fast code. I'm not going to be compiling code anywhere near as many times as I'm going to be running it.
It does seed the mental exploration of what a privacy cult would actually be and do.
Agreed. No one is talking about closing synagogues. Not sure why you brought that up.

And I wasn't suggesting you thought he rolled a dice when choosing his target. I'm asking what you mean by "operating alone": do you think it's happenstance that his deliberate choice of target, and his ideology, coincided with white nationalists'? That the lone Orlando Pulse nightclub shooter's ideology coincided with ISIS'?
Anyone can invest. At robinhood.com, you can even buy just one share of stock for no commission. I know a person who scrimps enough to be able to buy one share of stock per month.
> "Why you should love fossil fuels"

I did see a video from them showing the wide range of products that use fossil fuel as components. Was that the one you're referencing? I felt that video is a fair point to make, since many conveniences of modern life outside of the obvious (i.e. transportation) depend on fossil fuels. Most consumers will not want to give up those conveniences, and their demand for those products shapes our overall consumption of fossil fuels. That video was high-quality and respectful. As for the other video you are mentioning, I haven't seen it, but it seems like a single example picked to paint a narrative.

But I don't really want to argue about individual examples, and don't think that's a productive line of discussion. My larger point is that PragerU is not "extreme right wing" content - that's hyperbolic. If they are "extreme right wing", what word will you use for actual right-wing extremists (i.e. those calling for violence)? It feels like anything right of center-left is being compressed into one label of "extreme right wing".

> So? It's perfectly possible for you to be in a different testing bucket. Don't assume what you see is what everybody sees, and that they are just interpreting it differently than you do. I might as well say "nah, you only think you see videos from multiple ideologies".

OK, if everything is anecdotal, then we should put no stock in those from the left continually complaining about YouTube's recommendation algorithms. After all, no one has standing to do so per your logic.
VPN providers pull Russian servers as Putin's ban threatens to bite
File manager apps (those which cared) can still receive access via SAF API.

They actually had to do that to expose all possible storages on Android - including OTG mounted drives. Apps that didn't do that will be broken now, but they weren't doing the right thing either way.
No matter what Apple does, people will be pissed off at something.

Contrary to your point:

A. They announced the cancellation a week later, you still have time to return your AirPods 2.

B. If they had gone with substandard product, then you will still complain, why didn't Apple cancel this product a long time ago!? Why did they release this piece of shit? We will have #AirPowerGate storm on Twitter, armchair specialists would start analyzing and delivering nasty analysis about Apple, Louis Rossman would make a new angry video, etc... Jeez guys.

See, Apple is in a no-win situation here. No matter what they do, people complain obsessively without understanding and putting yourself in their shoes.
I find, anecdotally, that topics or subject trends come in waves of 2 or 3. Something will make front page of HN, and then a few days later someone else will capitalize on a proven "market of interest" and submit another article that also makes it's way up.

Could also be a paid PR campaign if you're the cynical type. 50/50
Show HN: Make language learning flash cards from YouTube video clips
Politics I don't like are dangerous and must be banned. Is that clear enough?
Perhaps this positive feedback loop is true - but I haven't seen evidence of it. In fact, what quantitative evidence I have seen seems to indicate the opposite: https://www.thepostmillennial.com/does-youtube-facilitate-ri...

Key findings:

* Centrist content links to liberal content at over twice the rate it links to conservative content.

* Proportionally more conservative content links to centrist or liberal content than either liberal or centrist content links to conservative content.

* Liberal content links to itself at the highest proportional rate.

Granted, who knows what portion of liberal or conservative content counts as extreme. But concerns over YouTube extremism almost always has to do with conservative extremism and the data does not suggest conservative content is being promoted by YouTube.
> But if supply flights are guarantied

Nothing in spaceflight is guaranteed, and Earth-Mars spaceflight is a lot less subject to guarantee than Earth-ISS spaceflight, which hasn't been trouble free.
If I am allowed join, too, then sure (I am the company owner).
Benchmarks are meaningless. I know from experience at looking at the generated assembler code and intel Fortran's SIMD code that it's faster. Take a look at the generated code and then we can discuss it, but not before.

I'm not going to beat myself in C when I calculate a 100 million by 100 million matrix in Fortran. ifort will generate SIMD code with CPU autodetection and use machine code seqencing best for that processor, plus in Fortran a matrix is a normal variable type like any other. I'm not beating that with C (and I really know C).

And just so you know, my information isn't old, I come from supercomputing.