skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is good for Apple, I found that I was not impressed or excited about his work after Steve Jobs wasn't there to help him refine his instincts any longer.

Everything he did after that just seemed ... uninspired.
> Jony's got to be tired of designing with the Apple aesthetic after all this time

In many ways, I'd argue that vice-versa is just as true. My understanding is that thin-at-all-costs is largely an Ive directive.
Reggie Watts disorients you in the most entertaining way
non-chromium browsers only matter if the owner in question actually has any incentive to give users more control. Apple exercises even tighter control over their software than Google.

Firefox matters not because it's "not chromium" but because it's firefox, a non-profit dedicated to an open web.
Actually a bandwidth limited secondary Internet that would work on low band media like ham, LoRa etc. Will be a thing one day, like 8-bit games are resurrected every new platform or forms factor.
DMT Found in Mammalian Brains(paraphrased)
No, beyond the initial propellant. The projectile accelerates constantly (hand waving here) so it's a constant force on the origin (relative mass should make this a wash), whereas the projectile enjoys exponential velocity.

Two minutes is pretty short, I'm actually blown away. If only we could all charge our electric vehicles that quickly.
Digital Voices, TTS History
Didn't Leibniz also say something about our brains/consciousness encompass a special type of Monad?
I suspect he had a hand in several recent Apple "successes" like extra thin keyboards that break easily, $999 monitor stands and not to forget, the cables that come apart easily.

While his work was definitely important at Apple, I think he might have lost the needed balance when SJ left
Titan is a really intriguing place, and I'm glad that NASA will be returning. Too bad it won't be for another 15 years
Genuine question: Who cares? I love design, and I love the engineering Apple has done, but, I've got to believe that Apple keep their aesthetic without keeping the same exact people. I think I would count this as a win for Apple - an opportunity to change the guard and give permission for some new designers to give a critical eye to the products they make. I would love to see them take maybe 1 or 2 steps back from minimalism.
Fun Fact: ever wonder why they all share the same last names ?

for instance - male last names are always "SINGH" and female last names are always "KAUR"...

because their faith is hoping to create an egalitarian society..where SINGH means king/lion and KAUR means princess/queen...i don't know how well that is working out for the whole community?... but i actually do think that is a noble quest..

Source: http://investorfieldguide.com/savneet/ (for those interested--fintech podcast listen from 01:09:40)
Good guys, bad guys, and explosions as far as the eye can see.
Jony Ive, Inc?
Or they do a gravity turn to round off the corner, largely in the same manner as that one math problem you probably did in school that involved finding the fastest path that includes running on the beach for some distance, then swimming at slower speed to a point in the water.

Also, different rocket designs have different efficiencies at different outside pressures due to overexpansion or underexpansion of the exhaust plume. Kicking a rocket out of the atmosphere--or at least up to a lower pressure altitude--with a big gun first stage changes the requirements a bit for the second stage rocket engine. It's slightly more efficient.

But the biggest advantage is that you aren't ever accelerating the fuel for the first stage along with the rest of the vehicle. The disadvantage is that you need a very long track if you don't want to reduce vehicle occupants to thin red paste with excessive acceleration. Also, you can evacuate the gun barrel and put one or more plasma windows at the end, so your initial acceleration doesn't have so much atmospheric drag.
You could rule a punkin chunkin contest with that if you could find a way not to pie :)
Jony Ive to start his own design firm
>O site a que pretende aceder encontra-se bloqueado na sequência do cumprimento de ordem judicial ou administrativa.

(The website you want to reach is blocked due to the execution of a judicial or administrative order).

Ah the World Wide Web, less world-wide every day. I guess now if you don't use a VPN you're a second class netizen in many places.
I got through the Brothers Karamazov on my fifth attempt. I finally realized that my resistance was due to the fact that I saw so many of my own worst faults in the portrayal of papa Karamazov. But it was worth it!
They don't need to maintain physical contact. You can have an air gap, as long as the circuit shorts through the projectile.

The rails still wear down.
Removal of remote screen control in Slack Calls
There's an article on the announcement last year: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/04/intel-microsoft-to-u...
Promotion is a need, and a very important need for ideas to spread. We all know that the concept of "if you build it they will come" doesn't work". Google's adaptation for this was to make advertising relevant... which is actually a considerable improvement over historical media models...

There's a saying in sales: "people hate to be sold, but they love to buy"... which is akin to what you are saying here. Advertising isn't the problem... the problem is that the reasons why people are promoting aren't novel enough... (rent seeking... which creates noise)
Nitpick on 2 a): you can't turn water vapor into steam, water vapor is steam.
Part of the fault lies with the absolutely awful biking infrastructure in the US.

Bikers are told to share the road with vehicles even in places where it makes absolutely no sense and drivers are going at 2x-3x speed of the bike and there are no bike lane demarcations whatsoever.

Newsflash for you (if any politicians are reading this) - painting a small icon of a bike on the side of the road without any physical separation IS NOT a sufficient safety feature for a "bike lane".
Works pretty well for Steam. I bet most people here don't even know that they can't play their Steam games if they don't connect it to the internet every 30(?) days. Yet people boast about their massive Steam libraries. :)
NASA to Livestream South America Total Solar Eclipse
Google’s internal protest guide leaked
Germans already took conventional artillery to its limits:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerer_Gustav

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-3_cannon
Tax-exempt hospital sues thousands of poor people while making millions
> Is there a widespread lack of funding for bridges and roads infrastructure in the US?

Yes.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/more-50-000-american-br...

https://www.statista.com/chart/12737/thousands-of-american-b...

Generally towns and states rely on federal funding for a significant part of road and bridge maintenance. Generally, they've been falling behind. Most states have long lists of bridges that they know are not really safe to drive on any more.
https://m.medicalxpress.com/news/2019-06-mystical-psychedeli... : pop-sci version
Indeed, we don't typically resort to shooting bullets at bullets to defend incoming gunfire.
The design is atrocious and took seconds to load completely, even with adblockers.
I've been hoping this nostalgia trend will end. It's time to move forward. Instead of teaching kids about Shakespeare, we should be teaching about Super Mario for cultural history. Why should anyone care about poems or poetry? It was the entertainment of the early-print society, it has comparably little value today.
Some back of the envelope math:

Let's say the bus needs 50 miles of range, and it runs at 2 kWH per mile, so it needs a 100 kWH battery. Assuming 200Wh/kg density, the battery will be at minimum 500kg.
I'd say the nature of weapons tells a lot about the morality. A gas chamber designed to look like a shower is obviously only useful for murdering masses of helpless and unsuspecting people who are already under your control. I'd be willing to say that's always immoral, no matter the circumstances. A railgun is a weapon, but only really useful against ships and armored buildings or vehicles, and possibly aircraft and missiles. It's mainly for killing armed combatants in disputed areas, and can be used for good or evil. I don't see a moral problem with building them. Like any weapon, they can be used for good or evil, but some lend themselves to one or the other to an extent.
WPA?
*Jony
Jony Ive defines the Apple aesthetic and he has already changed it multiple times (bondi blue, white plastic, aluminum & glass) so he could change it again if he wants.
I'm sure it will be mentioned in the 40 page privacy and cookie policy that pops up on every website asking you to agree before continuing.
I wonder, did the submitter retype the title character by character except for his name? Or copy/paste it and then inject the typo afterward?
Technically CFR Title 47 part 97 are not federal laws but are instead FCC regulations. Consider talking to a lawyer about the difference.
A pedestrian staring at their phone is mostly risking injury to themselves, but also risking others for a poor driver that swerves to miss them and into others. A driver staring at their phone is mostly risking injury to others, especially pedestrians and bikers who they will severely injure or kill. They both suck, but one is making a far more selfish/basically evil choice.
> I will gladly donate

Everyone says. Nobody does.
Don't forget sci-hub, too.
Tor is slow if you're used to browse with a 50 MB internet connection speed.

My own connection doesn't go over 1.6MB download speed, and only if the weather is clear and I have the wind in the back.

You can now achieve a 500KB or more speed in most Tor connection, which is enough to have a confortable browsing experience, imo.

The real downside is the google captcha, which happens sometimes to even denie you to solve a captcha in the first place for web pages where there is no user input.
Why don't you carry a purse? They've been making "man purses" for a while now... and fanny packs are fashionable again.
His lieutenants are taking over, per the Apple news release. Alan Dye, for one, has been around for forever. The bigger question I have is if he’s taking (or will take) most of his team with him to his new company (where Apple will be a client).
Nothing in this post says Ive's new company will only work with Apple. Maybe he'll land Dell as a client..
NY Times Admits It Sends Stories to US Fed Gov for Approval Before Publication
I am also very curious! A Fire Upon the Deep, in my opinion, is one of the best books ever written. The idea of the "zones" really fascinates me, I wish Vinge did more with it.
Honestly, and I dislike admitting it, but paper books instill the same feeling as any other "collection" hobby for me. I take more pride in reading them knowing that my bookshelf is growing.
Ha! Walked by it when I was there, I thought the same thing.
I think you're being downvoted too much for this. It's a reasonable statement, and it's the premise of the licensing mechanisms libraries pay for with ebook subscriptions. Books have an average shelf life, you can compute the number of reads per copy and use that as a proxy for how much to charge a library to lend an ebook. (That's the premise anyways, there's plenty of politics to deal with too)
This is a little heavy on the advertorial.

Also - aren't we past the 'false scarcity' thing these days?

If you're going to talk about it publicly, why can't I try it?

"Ooh, you can use it sooner if you know someone who is using it"

Sorry that I'm not already in your club, but I was excited to look at it, now, I'm a tiny bit miffed, but most importantly I may not remember to come back.

...

The author lamented 'decision making' 'getting back to someone' etc. which we can all empathize with.

The marketing collateral of Superhuman talks about 'speed' i.e. not having to wait 100ms for anything ...

I'm not sure how the two are deeply related. Yes, a refresh and speed will be great, but I personally don't think that's the issue.

It's a rather difficult thing for orgs to try to magically organize information, Google seems to be trying a few things and while novel and impressive, ultimately I think they are futile.

Anyhow, I'm stoked that people are trying to re-invent old things, excited to try it. I guess when my 'klout' score gets high enough?
neither the main nor noscript version seem to work from a text browser e.g. lynx.
edit: works with links browser for me. very cool!
You need about 1200km to reach LEO from the equator with max acceleration of about 3G.

I did the math once, and a track from the Galapagos Islands to the peak of Chimborazo on the continent in Ecuador would do it.
This is their series B; they have had multiple funding rounds already: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/superhuman#section-f...
I feel like this is a running joke at this point. I've been waiting on this since getting a mbp in 2003. I swear it has been under development the whole time. Or, at worse, blocked by rendering engine updates. People always seem hopeful the next major rendering update will make it usable.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789906

Bug opened seven years ago. It looks like the only real updates in the last year are a non-dev advocating for it.

Good to hear it's getting some attention behind the scenes. I'm a little sad the driving factor is probably just mobile. Given that it already seems to work in the mobile Firefox Preview, apparently using gecko, it gives me a little hope we may one day see this on the desktop.
This means we'll potentially have something other than Macs/iPhones designed by Ive. Nice!
What I was getting at was that while yes, publishers can show a cookie-free site, many of them stopped doing exactly that. This started happening around the time the cookie regulation was implemented.

Had the regulation at least forbade this behavior, we most likely wouldn't be in this situation.

However, thinking back, I guess it's fair to say that publishers might have implemented this blocking behavior if the governments would only have done a public awareness campaign. In this case, only a minimum set of regulations (ban force acceptance of cookies for static content) would suffice as well.
I haven’t forgiven this guy for the latest “thin at any cost” 4th gen MacBook Pro we’ve had since 2016. He ruined the best programer’s laptop on the market.

Maybe with him and his ego gone, they can fix the next generation and salvage the product line.
Sure. But my point was that the NYT is an example of a paid service that openly serves you a big pile of invasive ads, even if you're a paying subscriber.

Imagine if all the ads in the print edition were spying on and tracking your every move.
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In which world are we living?
Nor has anyone else claimed that... it would kind of defeat the purpose of forming a separate company, wouldn't it.

I can't think of a designer with more prestige in the world, so I'm sure they'll have their pick of clients.
i say good riddance. His over-influence on apple products and his obsession with thin-ness has resulted in products that look good but don't perform as well, for example, the mbp thermal issues plus the butterfly keyboards.
100% agree. I went into an Apple Store for the first time in a long while just a few weeks ago, and I couldn't believe how heavy the phones have gotten I have an iPhone 6 now and just don't see a good reason to upgrade. Even if I can't upgrade to iOS 13, I'll probably wait another year or two.
I love reading. I resisted ebooks until we had a baby at which point my reading time shrank to situations (bed w/the lights out, on the bus) where my Kindle is more convenient than a paper book. I buy/acquire ebooks that are the sort of thing I'd probably purchase, read, and then sell. For books I think (or know) I want to keep, I buy a paper copy, even if I've gotten an e-copy. I want my kids to have lots of book around, not _an extensive ebook library_. There's too much joy in happening across a new book at random on the shelf; Amazon recommendations can never recreate or supplant that.
"I've named my company 'I'. It's the thinnest and lightest name I've ever created"
Sorry I couldn't resist.
I thought of a better way to express this that might make sense to you.

In security, total transparency isn't effective. You want as much transparency as possible, but you need secrets for the system to work (usually passwords/certs/passphrases).

Now, there isn't a password/certs/passphrase in this context, so the secrecy is instead in the model.
What's the title? If you aren't logged in to Netflix, that link just shows an error.
Toronto Uber drivers join UFCW Canada, calling for fair pay, respect
The Mommy Blog Is Dead. Long Live the Mommy Blog
It isn't only that, with a powder charge you are pushing the projectile with an explosion. That explosion will also cause a disturbance on a ship, until you get to a pretty enormous size, you have to calculate that into your trajectories. With a railgun, you have a series of magnets pulling a projectile forward incrementally faster. It's a lot less energy wasted into the environment, meaning a lot less energy put back into the ship. These larger guns could be put on smaller ships and calculated with greater accuracy with greater ease due to less wasted energy put back into the ship and gun, I'm guessing.
I just have blockade installed and have ad blockimg acroos all my apps.

FF with add-ons run noticeable slower than brave.

https://blokada.org/index.html
Brave for example: https://brave.com/improved-ad-blocker-performance/
The Financial Times has an interview with him about this https://www.ft.com/content/0b20032e-98cf-11e9-8cfb-30c211dcd...
Most DRM is there to protect it during the initial sales window when demand and awareness of the product are at their highest.
Absolutely no evidence that there's any correlation between that and this news
This is why when I buy a DRM ebook, I also get the pirated copy and put it into my Calibre.

Buying a ebook is just for the payment.
See my other comment, the "+" button is useless is Firefox Preview, there's not a single use case where you need it. It was probably added for people who didn't notice that the address/search bar is already here, or with "muscle memory" of searching for a "+"

At the time you opened the tab menu, you're already in a new tab.
It should not be to hard to convert the html files to epub using pandoc with a script. Will check later if it is worth the effort. I would also prefer PDF to read it.
Couple of other sites that allow you to get your nostalgic internet fix:

https://www.versionmuseum.com/

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/
Modern terminology is "dynamic" vs "lexical" scope[1][2]. Lexical scope makes it very easy to reason about closures[3]. Dynamic scoping is slightly easier for language authors to implement. Terrible languages like ColdFusion[4] and MUMPS[5] use dynamic scoping, although lexical scoping constructs were bolted on later. LISP has both[6], at least it does now. Dynamic scope makes it possible to do certain kinds of code re-use not possible with lexical scope[7]; these are often called "macros" but what exactly is meant by this varies from language to language; in general, only an "unhygienic" macro requires dynamic scope to implement, while hygienic macros generally require a pre-processor but no access to dynamic scope[8]. Because dynamic scope leads to all kinds of unexpected side-effects, makes closures difficult to implement, and is only really useful for writing the worst and least useful kinds of macros, the programming language world has come down hard in favor of lexical scoping, which is now ubiquitous; almost every modern language you've heard of exclusively uses lexical scope.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope_(computer_science)

[2]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1047454/what-is-lexical-...

[3]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Clos...

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ColdFusion_Markup_Language

[5]: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS

[6]: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DynamicBindingVsLexicalBindi...

[7]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope_(computer_science)#Macro...

[8]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygienic_macro
I agree, I bet this is about designing non-computer products for him, but it looks like he'll still have some level of input on Apple products as an external consultant.
*Sir Jony
You don't have to release unfinished software.
Yes! I used to forget something every time I traveled. After reading Gawande's book in 2010 I started making a checklist. It took about five trips to converge on a stable list and these days travel is a breeze. Print out checklist. Do stuff on checklist, in sequence. Enjoy stress-free travel.
public worker in a position of authority

So it applies only to specific subsets of public roles (police, judge, etc).

It also applies to teachers, but I am not sure this was a good idea.

Switzerland has a similar law too https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/church-and-state_geneva-secular...
No, you'd need to introduce some temporary/changing irregularities in the heartbeat which sounds far less healthy.
Wow. That "BIG SIMPSONS-PAGE" brings back memories. It looks almost exactly like the first website I built on AOL's free web hosting (hometown). The nostalgia is hitting me hard.