skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think demand would stay low if other sites started doing the same thing.

Companies basically have to advertise, and they'll buy time with whatever outlet serves the eyes they want to reach. Ford Motors isn't gonna let MyPillow.com take over ESPN.com on Super Bowl day just because they don't like the advertising provider, method, or architecture.
Schizophrenia and Bipolar Illness in the Relatives of University Scientists
In the case of New Zealand from the mid-70's to the early 80's, CNG (compressed natural gas) was subsidised by the government and there was a very large uptake. My dad had it installed in his Toyota Hiace van and Ford Falcons. This was during the oil shortages era.

When oil became cheap again, the government stopped the subsidies and it was back to petrol. The tanks and the pumps at the services stations were ripped out and sold to the Indians, Eastern Europeans and the Chinese.
Whether or not it's political bias depends on what's in the TOS and who gets to define "bullying", "inciting violence", and "hate speech".

I can definitely think of ways any of those could be defined by Trumpists. Suffice to say those definitions are likely to differ substantially from those that a typical Pride attendee might offer.
That exists. It's made by Dell or Toshiba or Lenovo.
I would note that we do have something analogous to the mainframe in the regular PC-server world: the virtualization-host control-plane server cluster. Taken as a unit, a vSphere controller requires just as much hand-holding and just as many techno-priests as a z/OS deployment.

Really, it's not the technology that's unique with a mainframe, that gives it the properties it has; rather, it's the scale, the multitenancy, and the SLA of the use-cases that the technology is being put to. In other situations where those same things are true (such as the hypervisor control-planes of big public clouds, or tier-1 network switches, or telecom equipment) you see the same kind of top-down operational planning form around them.
I really love the way they explain tax bracket. It's very easy to understand.

"
Let’s say my total income was $50,000 in 2018. This means my income would be portioned out into the following tax brackets:

You must pay 10% on income up to $9,525:

$9,525 x .10 tax rate = $952.50 owed in 10% tax bracket

You must pay 12% on income between $9,526, and $38,700:

$38,700 - $9,526 = $29,174 of income in the 12% bracket
$29,174 x .12 tax rate = $3,500.88 owed in 12% bracket

You must pay 22% on income between $38,701 and $82,500:

$50K (my income) - $38,701 = $11,299 of income in the 22% bracket
$11,299 x .22 tax rate = $2,485.78 owed in 22% bracket

Add taxes owed from all brackets together:

$952.60 + $3,500.88 + $2,485.78 = $6,939.26 in total taxes owed
"
I disagree with the assumption that there will always be a way to fingerprint with it, and I reject the notion that we should just give up the arms race.

If what you assert is true then JavaScript needs to die. Now.
> That’s not sufficient. You need to be able to also identify what districting maps are fair enough.

Actually no. The court only needs to find that partisan gerrymandering is unconstitutional, and then leave it up to the states and lower courts to figure out which kinds of map drawing is constitutional.

It's already not legal to have districts that don't represent the same number of people. E.g.
> Over time, public interest and how it’s defined on Twitter may change as we observe different types of behavior.

In other words, so-called public interest doesn't exist, it's just an excuse used by Titter to shape opinions and censor political opponents.

Unlike around last election, this time Twitter will lose influence and users.
> LPG vehicles incur costs similar to other alt-fuel vehicles without enjoying

Not universally true. In Italy, where regular gas prices are stellar, LPG is a relatively common thing. Not common enough, but the infrastructure is "there" (although not as capillary as regular gas) and it's advertised as a consumer option.
Certainly suspension, steering and auxiliaries are the things that break, but every year (or 15,000km, or whatever your manufacturer recommends) you need to replace the engine oil and filter. Less frequently you need transmission fluids, coolant, air intake filter, brake pads and other consumables. On diesels you also need to refill the emissions compensation tank (the one VW cheated with), replace particulate filters. Heavily used vehicles need these replaced more often.

Electric motors will need their bearings replacing eventually, but they have no transmission fluids, no circulating oil picking up combustion products, and regenerative braking removes a huge amount of wear on brake pads.

I have a plug-in hybrid (EV infrastructure isn't great where I live) and after 2500km the brakes still stick like new. They've barely been used.
I remember the time when storage providers were fighting for the title of who had the most capacity. I think xoom.com started offering 1GB at some point and that was unthinkable. Good times.
“Local variable type inference” is a bit unwieldy of a term.

Your conclusion is the same as mine. Use them when appropriate. When is appropriate? We need some data on that.
Meh, as long as their servers aren't in those countries, they can't do anything except censor the website. And most countries with long copyright terms don't censor websites.
This book DRM thing also means that the online courses at my local college are more expensive than the normal ones. Because they use copy protected materials that self destruct at the end of the semester, there is no way to avoid paying full price by borrowing, buying used, reselling or stealing.
They could have done both. Microsoft managed to put a MagSafe charger port and a USB-C PD charger port, on their ~$399 Surface Go.

Apple's laptops are 3x to 5x that price. There's no reason why Apple couldn't have just done both MagSafe and USB-C.
Regarding the "insert a CD and install software" statement, as someone who hasn't worked on this sort of environment I've always wondered - I have multiple test machines running Windows and Linux. I can push software to a canary installation on an identical server to production. Yes, I can do so indiscriminately, but by the time I push canary to production it's had a certain level of testing.

I knew a mainframe engineer and he certainly didn't have multiple spare mainframes laying around to play with. There might have been some form of partitioned install they called "test" but by the time people bureaucracy gets involved noone is "playing with it" and ergo, there's a lot less actual experts involved.

Bonus question: Was there never a firmware bug that would take down an entire mainframe? A certain server line was advertised with "mainframe like redundancy" on Windows, yet that's exactly my experience.
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Is the UI super unusable, or does it have some flaws?
That’s cool, I wouldn’t mind that either because there’s nothing killer about the Touch Bar. It’s not useless either though. I use zoom daily, and the ability to just tap mute on the Touch Bar is pretty nice. Not can’t live without it nice like Touch ID, but not negligible either. There are a number of little features like that in apps that make the Touch Bar a net positive for me.
Listen to this recent podcast interview w/ its founder & ceo https://lnns.co/V8Z-SfuvqbB

The founder raised $750k initially. Spent 20% buying superhuman.com and $45k hiring a design agency to turn wireframes into high fidelity mock. Very bold 2nd time founder
IMO this is a ridiculous complaint.

First, if "var" was such a huge problem then language like python would be totally unusable! The entire language doesn't have explicit static type definitions.

LHS type inference is a tool. Like literally anything else you can write code that makes things less maintainable using this tool. The languages that support LHS type inference all have style suggestions that you use it when the type is either not especially relevant or is clear from the expression RHS. People don't complain about type names when they are useful. People complain about type names when they are extraneous noise. That is when LHS type inference is useful.
I don't think that's an issue.

Few, if any of Apple's competitors are willing to invest in the high manufacturing costs it takes to produce something like a Macbook Pro, or a 2019 Mac Pro. Apple isn't one to cut corners, unlike a lot of its competitors.

Any Ive design produced by a competitor is unlikely be at the level of anything Apple produces.
>B) If we don't build it, someone else will. And we don't want this tech to fall into our enemy's hands first, do we? Best defense is a good offense.

I'm not actually clear on what's incorrect about this logic -- unless there's some kind of agreement across all superpowers not to research this subject, or the subject itself is not actually beneficial to research.. why would you assume that none of your potential adversaries are researching it?

And once you recognize that they might research it, and that if they did research it, and you didn't, they might switch from potential adversary to actual adversary (as they now believe themselves to have the upper hand), the only moral and ethical thing to do ... is to research it yourself!

Perhaps the more moral and ethical thing is to give away the technology once you have it, so that you yourself won't have the chance to be aggressor ... but otherwise, I'm not sure how you can justify not researching it (war, and the potential for it, exists regardless of whether you want it to)
The way the article names no-one from the hospital, you'd think it's the brick building itself that's suing the poor.

The original propublica article doesn't let (some of) the responsible hide behind the corporate facade:

"In 2017, Methodist paid its president and CEO, Dr. Michael Ugwueke, $1.6 million in total compensation. That same year, Gary Shorb, the hospital’s CEO from 2001 to 2016, earned more than $1.2 million for serving as Ugwueke’s adviser."
Sounds like an issue worth filing, then!
Thin laptops are so cool from design standpoint. Though I wish they still kept all the necessary ports to support ecosystem outside Apple. Coming to Ive - I appreciated him for the cool Unibody design of MBPs. They beat all other competition - just by looks & sturdiness.
> in the past five years (and more) Apple has set the standard for what laptops should be.

Setting the standard for laptops implies that other manufacturers are racing to keep pace with their changes. Fortunately (in my opinion), there has not been a giant uptick in other laptop manufacturers removing standard keyboard keys, making devices thin to the point of fragility, and requiring a myriad of dongles to perform many basic tasks.
There have been enough divergences between Webkit and Blink that I wouldn't consider them the same engine anymore, just like I wouldn't consider WebKit and KHTML/KJS to be the same.
Yes, I find the thinner the device the easier it is to pack. I should say overall volume. If I can travel for 1-2 days with a simple backpack, that is best case scenario. I keep trying to go 100% iPad Pro but its not quite there yet. I have taken plenty of day trips with just my macbook pro, no case or sleeve.
Lol I hope you are joking... They are making their customers scared to share their product with people?
I'm I reading this right? A person who sells an app called "Pedometer" (which tracks your steps) sees iPhones that fit easily in your pocket as the most common size for people who buy the App? If so I'd guess people who measure their steps correlates strongly with people who don't like to carry extra carry bags.
And Firefox has much higher brand recognition than Mozilla.
AI-powered robotic arm aims to pack boxes more efficiently
>Air

Weak specs and small screen.

>13" pro

Weaker specs and smaller screen than 15" Pro.

I, for one, like my light and thin 15" Pro, though I understand not everyone will feel this way.
Superhuman founder & ceo is doing quite a few podcast interviews recently https://lnns.co/65uTMm9nytW
I switched to Android from iOS about 18 months ago and badly miss the iOS UX. iOS is flawed, but less flawed than the competition.

I don't feel that OsX is the leader in the desktop space anymore.
There are a lot of things that wouldn't exist if they weren't grandfathered in.

I think (relatively) inexpensive private planes wouldn't exist without grandfathered componements like say lycoming engines.

And it's been said many times cars that people can drive wouldn't exist if they were invented today.

And then there are guns.
That "well-designed and highly utilized bus network" is the hard part. I've never seen it.

Around here the buses run pretty empty. Sometimes they are literally empty. They take longer routes than cars, with each passenger going a longer distance because the bus route is not what they really want. It would be far better if the passengers had cars.
They moved due to overcrowding:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Library_of_Washington....
Abortionists incite violence. In fact, they commit violence and murder. Let's start banning them? :-)
I think that's the proper analog for a mainframe in the Linux space - a cluster. A mainframe is, ultimately, a very tightly coupled cluster of specialized nodes, some coupled so tightly they can share memory, some less coupled that deal with IO.

And, I think, this is where we can learn the most from mainfrfames - they have been where we are for a long time now and solved some of our problems in vastly different ways.
Get a USB-C Lightning cable. One brick, two cables, and you can charge the iPhone on the other devices. Yes it’d be better if the iPhone was USB-C too but that basically has been my strategy: get a set of USB-C to A/B/Mini/Micro/Micro3/HDMI/Lightning cables (not that I lug all of them around, they’re merely plugged into my accessories). There exist USB-C magnet thingies too.
Google Maps managed to find me an apartment building in Bangkok which vaguely resembled the airline office it was supposed to be sending me to, just in time for a very nice guy to exit and offer me a lift to where it actually was, over a mile away :)
> This looks like a RNG

Come on, how is everyone in this chain so blind. It's literally in bold and the single largest block of content on the page:

NOTE:This is a sample implementation, the score returned here is not a reflection on your Google account or type of traffic. In production, refer to the distribution of scores shown in your admin interface and adjust your own threshold accordingly. Do not raise issues regarding the score you see here.
There are some cases, like closures, where the type is literally un-namable. You couldn’t write it even if you wanted to.
Agreed. I'm an enthusiast photographer and previously semi prod. The SD card slot is nice to have some times, but most of the time I use a dedicated card reader for CF, SD, and micro-SD cards.
I don't like that phrase, "tyranny of design". It implies design is just one side of a product. But design is everything. It is both form and function. A product that has great visual design is still a failure if the functional design is bad. A great designer is holistic and will be able to bring form and function into harmony..

While I don't have the inside scoop on how Jonathan Ive works, my impression is that he's good taste and excels at pushing the edge in materials and manufacturing processes -- he pioneered the aluminium unibody, for example -- and is probably a good leader. But he is not a great or original designer. Apple's recent history is littered with mistakes and poor design decisions, functional and aesthetic both, as well as a lot of unoriginal, boring visual design. There's obviously a lot of pressure at Apple, and they don't make anything easy for themselves, but that's not enough of an excuse to explain everything.

To me, the most audacious design decision in recent years was the iPhone X's removal of the home button in favour of a purely gesture-based UI combined with Face ID. That's great design that just worked.
> Does every voter have a right to a competitive election in their district, so that their vote matters at least potentially? Or does every voter have a right to their political party getting representation at least approximately equal to their share of the electorate? Those two both sound good, and they point in opposite directions.

No, they don't, unless you view sigle-member districts as mandatory; the fact that sigle-member districts (or, rather, any winner-take-all districts in states with more than a single seat) make essential elements of fairness incompatible reveals that such districts are problematic, sure.
It's fun when the terminology indicates some things used to be accomplished by reading decks of cards.
Seems like hydraulic hybrid for buses would be a much bigger win. 80% capture of braking instead of 20%.
I'm aware that I'm reaching a Cartago-delenda-est situation here, but since I see some mozilla devs here I must ask: Is there any news about the deal breaker bugs that are still keeping thousands of people from moving to firefox on OSX?

I'm referring to the bugs that cause extreme CPU usage and as a consequence extreme heating and battery usage, mainly on macbooks with retina screens set to "more space" resolution.

I work in a whole building full of developers where every single mac user has stopped using firefox due to this issue, yet there seems to be a deep disconnection between how prevalent the issue is and the priority it seems to be assigned.

I hope I'm not coming off as an ass here, I'm just sad that I've had to move away from firefox and to see all my coworkers also moving to chrome.
I'm not sure I'd put a lot of credibility in the reviews on apple.com. Especially for a device like a display adapter which is frequently connected to a finicky and/or cheap device like a projector or display.
I agree with you. I also loved the magsafe. My current laptop, not from Apple, uses a similar charger and I like it a lot. I very rarely have my laptop without my charger, plus it has an extra usb port on the power brick to charge my phone.
What I do when I want a book or movie is I buy it somewhere, then pirate my preferred format.
why did i just spend 5 min reading an ad
The 2016 4th generation MacBook Pro with its execrable butterfly keyboard is what I’m talking about. Thinness for thinness-sake - forget about typing efficiency, typing correctness, or repetitive stress injuries. Damnable thinness at any cost.
That’s their press release boilerplate. The same paragraph appears at the bottom of every press release, though it gets updated from time to time. They’ve been doing that since at least 2004.
I call this "form over function". Its an Ive Thing(tm).
Nothing from them suggested I should be scared. This feeling comes more from other referral based systems.
Sell?
A Pro device should be like a truck, not a sleek sports car.

Having ports available when you need them, not running out of battery, having a keyboard optimised for comfort and accuracy, and having a screen that is visible in all lighting conditions are core requirements for a device that is there to enable you do work. Most changes to the MacBook Pro have been driven by aesthetics and minimalism.
> Is it O for On, or O for Off? I never remember.

Does it matter? You know it means either on or off, and you know whether it's already on or off... I haven't seen anyone struggle to figure out what happens given these two pieces of information?
That seems pretty hyperbolic, especially considering that Nielsen says flat designs are on the right track. To quote, "Early pseudo-3D GUIs and Steve-Jobs-esque skeuomorphism often produced heavy, clunky interfaces. Scaling back from those excesses is good for usability. But removing visual distinctions to produce fully flat designs with no signifiers can be an equally bad extreme. Flat 2.0 provides an opportunity for compromise — visual simplicity without sacrificing signifiers."

And that Tumblr blog appears equally hyperbolic. There are some clear UI/UX mistakes in there, but the blog is conveniently ignoring how visually noisy those pre-Yosmite GUI elements are in-context by providing oddly cropped screenshots to make a point.
I was young once, had a car, lived in the burbs and drove like a maniac—listening to your music in your private space/auto-cocoon. Couldn’t get where I was going fast enough.

Then I bought a motorcycle. Took the CHP approved two-day driving class. It made me a better driver. But I was still in a rush.

Now I live outside of NYC. No car. No motorcycle. I walk or take taxis. In the burbs, people drive just as you describe. No awareness of pedestrians. Most people don’t obey right of way. And 9 out of ten drivers drive in excess of the speed limit—even in residential.

It’s interesting to note. On the South Shore of Long Island there are more pedestrian deaths than where I live in the North Shore. The roads are much wider and laid out more on the grid on the South Shore. I guess it gives the careless driver the illusion of safer conditions for their recklessness.
It is interesting to me that we aren't seeing a larger uptick in utilities funding this kind of investment. The article does mention that in one of the pilots, it was indeed funded by the local utilities. My interest lies in why that isn't more wide spread. I can only imagine the massive amounts of revenue, if not also kick backs from various government subsidies, that a given utility would receive if EV buses see wide spread use.

That is not to say that there would not need to be investment in the utilities infrastructure, but it would pay out in spades over time. OTOH I can also see an argument to be made that the utilities may not want to see this happen everywhere, especially in highly populated areas and areas that see power supply issues in general.
If you're living in fear maybe you should stop being their customer.
I encourage you to write a review for OP if you haven’t already, but it’s been some time since I tested them and I won’t be able to clarify further.
By that logic we could have made every maker happy by selling a buggywhip with every automobile.
No user will understand that. They will call their IT admin and ask for the password. Or won't type the password and think you should find it somewhere else. Or think it's I secure because anyone can sign into their account without a password.
The NYT story also kinda sounds like an ad, actually. Like everything else I've read about Superhuman, it claims that it will somehow revolutionize email, but half the features mentioned in the article already exist in Gmail, and the others sound more like small improvements than something actually new.
Can you get it in 30 minutes from monoprice?
>But definitely we will see the "German family dies in death valley due to navigator failure" headline.

Not much different than today, then:
http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hun...
That's not "safe to say" at all – markets don't respond well to uncertainty, and SVP-level changes at a company like Apple = uncertainty.

If the company's market value was consistently $9b lower after someone left, then you might make that case.
Absolutely do not DIY the molds.
I have nothing but pure unadulterated love for my iPhone SE. I can’t imagine myself with a bigger phone and I’m just waiting for them to make a similar new model. Sometimes I wonder if they will though.

I feel the same way about pre Touch Bar MacBooks - not that I have anything against Touch Bar (I think it’s fine and should probably be a lot more hackable) but the new keyboard just causes me cramps and finger pain after very little time. The old keyboards were so so good. Tactile, clicky and solid.
I hope this is an indication that the Braun/Dieter Rams well spring has run dry.

I wonder, where does the design language of Apple go if they move away from their current aesthetic.