skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, on the power side of the equation, I have come to understand why they chose to go the direction they did.

With the previous generation of MagSafe/MagSafe II power supplies, if the cable gets frayed, you have to replace the entire power supply. If the MagSafe connector gets hosed, you have to replace the entire power supply. Basically, if anything goes wrong beyond the AC input side, you have to replace the whole power supply. I ended up buying a whole bunch of these things over the years, so I am particularly sensitive to the amount of money I've spent.

With the USB-C power supplies, if something goes wrong with the cable, you just get a new cable. If something goes wrong with the connector on the cable, you just get a new cable. The only time you need to replace the entire power supply itself is if something goes wrong internally, or if something goes wrong with the USB-C connector on the power supply. And since cables are engineered to break before cable connectors, that is much less likely.

Don't get me wrong, the MagSafe connector has saved my machine on several occasions. But I understand why they want to be able to cheaply and easily replace just the cable part, because that's the part that is most likely to have hardware failures.

I do wish they had figured out some way to have a standardized cable interface on the power supply itself, and a MagSafe-like connector on the other end. That would have been the best of both worlds. But failing that, I think I will grudgingly take the second-best solution, which is to have a standard USB-C connector on both ends.

Now, this whole concept of mixing USB-C, USB-C Power Delivery, and Thunderbolt 3, that's a whole 'nother Gordian Knot that I really wish they had not created.
> The USB-C to HDMI is the worst adapter I've ever seen.

FWIW, you're far better off getting a native cable with a USB-C end like [1] or [2] rather than using a dongle.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Cable-Matters-USB-C-Supporting-Black/...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Cable-Matters-DisplayPort-USB-C-Suppo...
Speaking from ignorance, I would expect that official research would encompass military grade material science, to which amateurs don't have access realistically.
Outlook has added a lot of "smart" features to its inbox sorting and management. I'll just say "so far so good" but clearly there's something in the air in the space.
Would be nice if the link was changed to http://theoldnet.com/ which shows the home page and works without Javascript. Otherwise you get the impression that this site is just a proxy for archive.org. The home page is much more informative.
Brexit: From One Empire to Another
You can gain internet points on a social website…
It's hard to believe that one could hide a mental health disorder for long. I have had relationships with two girls with anxiety and its effects are easy to see. One had a nervous breakdown driving on the highway, eventually beginning SSRIs after the relationship ended, and the other needed to take medication daily to function normally. The second had started taking meds only briefly before we began dating and so it was a constant battle(? not really the right word) for her to discover that she could do things while on the medication that she was previously too afraid to do before, such as socializing in large groups and other things like that.
> the US being the only blue water navy after WW2

The UK projected and fought a conventional blue-water naval war in the 80s.
I accept the blame here for sloppy thinking/writing; I should've expressed my initial statement more narrowly, instead of tightening it throughout the discussion.

As you correctly observe, the statement "people wouldn't buy what they need without advertising" is obviously wrong. What I was getting at was manufactured demand, and my belief that it's a significant part of non-immediate-need purchases.
It seems to disagree because it's a very old article about what Brave "will" do.

And removing tracking from ads is a massive improvement on the status quo.
That's why we were given the Air and 13" Pro.
Two tactics effectively limit the spread of science denialism
And who the heck is upvoting this strange advertisement for an undefined product to the frontpage of my go-to NO-BS news aggregator site?
Most of the time it feels great already (sometimes it freezes for a few moments), but does someone know how/if it is possible to add Progressive Web Apps to the desktop with this Firefox for Android Preview?
>Electric buses are good, of course, but a well-designed and highly utilized bus network, even with the dirtiest diesel engines, is going to get you serious wins over GHG/CO2/VOC emissions from automobiles if you can replace those trips.

The long-term plan is to electrify both the buses and the cars, and also the trucks, and to do that in a reasonable amount of time, you need to work from now on at all of them at once.

What's your long-term plan?

And by the way, most of these cities already have a big diesel network. But let me ask again, what is your long-term plan?
Thanks for sharing! This was a comprehensive perspective of current practices.
The parent didn't say it was unworking, they said it was unpopular, which it definitely is.
Netflix has written about their internal platform as well[1].

Has anyone come across other articles similar to these? I haven't been able to find many outside of these two.

1 - https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/engineering-to-improve-m...
Defrost, on, fuel, etc. have had pretty standard icons for quite a while though? And they don't require knowing English either.
I "discovered" dribble a little while ago, but I've just realized I think I have been completely unaware of what it really is. I found and use it for helping select color combos.

I basically go to https://dribbble.com/colors/E94F2E with a color I'm pondering about, and just find pleasing combos, click through to their palette. Very cool. I was thinking it would be nice to have a vscode plugin color picker based on this. It's certainly help me make nicer looking things.
Arrival processes are often characterized using Poisson distributions

Service processes are often characterized using exponential distributions

Some wikipedia rabbit holes to dive down:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queueing_theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kendall%27s_notation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_network
Well then it's kindof a worthless endorsement, isn't it...?
Those aren’t extensions that an average user would install.
The other thing astonishing about 9/11 was how quiet it was. The ambient white noise of aircraft was non-existent, and it is considerable in any major urban area.
It says so in the article:

> And that’s why I am excited to announce that Andreessen Horowitz is leading the Series B financing in Superhuman.
I'm curious how, with presumably exactly 1 large capex asset, changes are actually tested or even developed.
in some places and situations the loser pays the cost of the other part's attorneys.
Why can't we use a Gmail extension to do something similar?
> "Most all of what NASA does or has ever done has directly benefited the Department of Defense."

People often overstate this. For instance, when pointing out that the Mercury and Gemini programs used ICBM boosters, people sometimes insinuate that NASA was in fact developing those rockets for the military and all the manned spaceflight stuff was just a nice cover story to make the rockets seem benign. In fact, the rockets were already in military use by the time NASA got their hands on them. Those IBCMs were not created using NASA as a PR cover-story. They were weapons from day one which were later repurposed for civilian use.

Another big example is the Saturn V. Unlike it's predecessors, it was never an ICBM. NASA designed that one from the ground up for lifting people. Of course there are more military applications for rockets than implementing ICBMs. Satellites have obvious military applications, so any sort of space launch technology will have military applications and anybody who advances the state of the art for launching satellites will be, in that sense, contributing to the advance of military technology.
I am far less knowledgeble on the subject than you I think, but the FAA just not having resources should end in them not accepting any new missions and keeping a backlog of pending investigations for the next centuries.

The reason it doesn’t work like that is because of pressure on them to keep up wih the requests, and keep the businesses running. That pressure can’t be just their professional guilt, there is I think enough ways the industry affects them so they can’t just refuse to lower standards or accept to delegate part of their work.

That pressure, is what I call bribes. Be it preferencial treatment, exchange of favors, or straight up money going to decision makers to make sure the FAA doesn’t hurt plane makers.
Like as a standalone product or integrated into conferencing systems? Because there are plenty of solutions made by audio companies with more institutional knowledge and time invested than Google.
> I don't think mozilla is as privacy oriented as HN would make you think.

> * They pushed ad/extension for a TV show to everyone

I assume you're talking about the "mr robot" thing here as well. One can accuse it of being many things, but it wasn't a privacy violation, as no data was sent (or planned to be sent) to anybody, either to Mozilla or any third-party. (It was silly, an abuse of studies, a source of worry for those who monitor their list of add-ons for suspicious items, and a strategic error.)
It seems like something like this could be best of both worlds: a magsafe power cable + USB-C connection:

https://www.amazon.com/Magnetic-Adapter-Connector-Quick-Char...
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Fastmail and Protonmail also don't commodify your data, and they're a lot cheaper than Superhuman.
The move is great on Ive's side, but on the customer side I thing Apple will start to do the right compromise, and then the wrong ones. Apple should start to promote others designers, this job is like a dream (huge company, almost unlimited budget, and you can price the articles high).
Is Brazil a developing country? It's more middle income isn't it?
How much content is uploaded to the internet per second?
I have never heard of nor noticed the chin difference of iPhones before. I don't see how the loss of attention to detail at that expense would materially impact Apple, except maybe for the better.
I don't get it. Did he do it this way for the fun of it? Surely the computer has to be able to read and then write the rom to other output than the display.
Apple used to be known for their amazing designs. That was when Steve was running the company. Since his death Apple has been in a free fall in the design space. Most of the comments here seem to be about their awful hardware design. Yes, the thin macbook is not very usable, and the Homepod which is shaped like an amorphous blob is uglier than any Bose speaker. But what about their software? Their UI design is super unusable too. (See some specific examples here https://uxcritique.tumblr.com/ ) Flat design is a usability disaster; see studies from Nielsen Norman group and others https://www.nngroup.com/articles/flat-design-long-exposure/

I am glad Ive is gone. Maybe Apple can now recover.
A few links from that, there's https://theintercept.com/2018/01/03/my-life-as-a-new-york-ti..., with this even more damning quote by the Pulitzer-prize winner and ex-New York Times journalist James Risen:

"My stories raising questions about the administration’s claims of a link between Iraq and Al Qaeda were being cut, buried, or held out of the paper altogether."
When Amazon switched Canadian kindle customers to a Canadian site, all the magazines they had purchased, and not yet read "stopped working." No refund.
"Type inference is pushed by many tools and languages, but there is little evidence that it is beneficial. I argue that it may hinder comprehension and increase cognitive load."

If you write C++ STL code or C# LINQ code or any other generics/template heavy code you probably will appreciate type inference as a huge improvement.
Wouldn't surprise me if something like that is what sealed the deal, but the criticism of Apple's design decisions has been building for some time now.
Code reviews and your company goal
> if the cable gets frayed, you have to replace the entire power supply

This is true for the existing design but it would have been easy to redesign the power supply to avoid it.

Just look at the other end: the wall-plug end has long been replaceable; it slides out so you can put on a different plug or a longer cable. This could be true on the MagSafe side as well -- then any Mac power supply could be used with any generation Mac, just by switching out the MagSafe/USB-C end.
All you are proposing really is that code be stored in a common format that editors can parse and display. Tabs and spacing literally are already exactly that - a common format that text editors can properly display.

Otherwise, it would require text editors to have knowledge of how to parse a specific language or serialization, which requires a lot of extra that most wouldn't support.
A large part of the propulsion of a modern turbofan jet plane is provided by so-called "bypass" air, air that flows around the core of the engine. If you can spin those turbine blades electrically you can get nearly as much thrust as the jet version.

The challenge is in finding out how to do this. You could do this with some other mechanism if you can come up with a way of storing lots of energy in a liquid or solid that isn't too heavy.

Some discussion here: https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/26910/could-an-...
"It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works." - Steve Jobs

I have loved most of Ive's designs, but it's clear to me that he needs a bouncer to keep him in check. RIP.
I do the same now with movies, as well as making sure I have unencumbered digital copies of any music I buy. I'm happy to pay for good content but damned if I'm going to buy it again every time the disc scratches (and besides, who even has a CD drive any more?)
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USB-C is infinitely better than Magsafe.

You can use any charger, use battery packs and any third party cable which means far more reliability and quality.
I've had received attacks from custom scripts to post spam in a blog that nobody read. I changed my custom robots tests a couple of times, and each time it took a few days for the bots to adapt. At the end I removed the comments section, so there was nothing to attack.
FireFox Focus also functions as an excellent ad blocker for iOS Safari.
working fine for me
I know, actually 27 years, so from age ~25 to 52. Pretty much his whole adult life.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jony_Ive
The current batch of laptops is too brittle, in my opinion. They should be able to function with a small amount of crumbs, liquid or other detritus.
Looks to me after Ive is "departing" the company, that Apple is gearing up for a more advanced supply and operations chain to start shipping more iterations of products.

Shifting production capacity to SE asia, competing in new markets for new business units and revenue sources, more skilled operations guys will bolster this effort.
I and many others that I'm aware of truly desire a mobile browser that has the feature to disable all mobile sites/web pages.
Most of the muzzle blast from a powder gun is from the hot gases that escape after the projectile, not the shockwave from the projectile itself. The rail gun has very little hot gas escape so the blast should be much diminished.
oh I have. Initially I used a bluetooth keyboard. Which is an acceptable solution.

Lack of dev tools in chrome and firefox is an issue though.

Also a better window manager would help a lot. Less animated transitions and more i3/fluxbox like functions.

Now I'm "dogfooding" in a sense so that I can hopefully get some input on how to create a better prototype.

I don't expect to be able to make an equivalent of an desktop IDE or whatever but rather to create experimental solutions to whatever problems that might appear.

First of all an autocomplete that works on the input and output of the terminal would be great. Say if you run ifconfig the output would be automatically added to autocomplete.

Key sizes ia a problem as well where it's easy to miss keys. So I'm toying with the idea of a dynamic keyboard (which has draw backs) with sizes in accordance with Fitt's law.
People share some IT-related checklists on GitHub already. It would be cool to see more checklists on non-IT subjects.
Yes. Not sure why this was posted here. a16z of course has plenty of good and HN-relevant content, but this doesn't look like it.
I use two USB-C to HDMI adapters every day and never had issues.

Maybe try a different manufacturer.
https://www.polygon.com/features/2018/10/3/17924770/assassin...

This provides a pretty good overview of what happened.

What was originally an idea for a next-gen, open-world Prince of Persia game became what is now the Assassins.

> ... I’m asking, “OK, so what’s next?” And I was told, “Let’s do a Prince of Persia, but for the next generation of consoles.”

> At first we thought that we could do a Prince of Persia open world. We did not [yet] have the concept of an assassin fighting in an open world

> since I’d just finished a game with a prince, I wanted a different character. I wanted the prince to have a different job than just being there waiting for mom and dad to die and take their place. So I wanted to have an action character — something that in his title, it was a job where you could actually see action right away.
Reminds me of the song by Lyte Funky Ones (LFO)

New kids on the block had a bunch of hits
Chinese food makes me sick
And I think it's fly
When girls stop by
For the summer
For the summer
> worst adapter I've ever seen

I can help with that:

https://www.apple.com/sg_smb_5200/shop/product/MB571Z/A/mini...

Half the charm is lost without seeing the two DVI cables that plug in to it.
Someone on Twitter freaked out because one of the “core” features of Superhuman is basically a read receipt e.g. similar to marketing emails where they add a clear pixel to your email before sending.

I absolutely hate that stuff, but marketers do this all the time anyway. Definitely adds one more creep factor if you know the sender is using Superhuman and can tell if you have or haven’t opened their email.
Ok, we've changed the URL to that from https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-26/bat-killi... in a small gesture against information dearth.
Have you found a solution to piracy that doesn't involve DRM? What was its success rate? I'm sure the publishers would love to switch to a better system if it exists.
When I watched it I thought "This is pirate adventure music"
>That would be a useless site

looks like it is a demo of the API for people wanting to consume it.
knowing what the payload looks like is not useless at all in this case.
This is only really true for books published during a certain interval when high acid (wood pulp) paper was common. Before the late 1800s paper was typically made of other plant fibers ("rag"); by the mid-late 1900s de-acidified wood pulp paper was cheap enough to be common. Many books today still have a small remark in the front matter telling you that it was printed on low-acid paper and will last.

Pulp paper was much cheaper, which is how lurid mass-entertainment paperbacks came to (a) exist at all and (b) be called "pulp fiction".
I agree with most of the stuff you said, but where did you get the "no 32GB Macbook Pros" from? I haven't been following MBP that closely, but last year's MBPs had a 32GB option, and so do the newer 2019 models.
Like truck driving, there are many gaps and shortages in the U.S economy that are prime opportunities for immigrants to fill. Either because a majority in some way stigmatize the work, or the pay is too low, etc. It's sad to see that immigration has become a taboo in certain parts of the country, as not only do immigrants in general contribute greatly to the economy, but they also impact our culture in significant ways.

I expect more profiles like this to spring up in the next few years, as America continues to grow with a low "native" birth rate, immigration will fill the void.
Maybe for your personal monitors. A far more annoying problem is connecting to conference room projectors. My or still has conference rooms with nothing but VGA cables plugged in to the projector.
A 100% compliant JavaScript parser
I think the parent was referring to the automated system driving the car as the “driver”, not a human.
My only beef with usb-c is that there doesn't seem to exist a hub that offers multiple usb-c ports with via a single usb-c port. Until those are mainstream, I feel that usb-c is inferior to a/b.
The question in my mind is not are they losing 100% of him, it's if this an involuntary soft retirement from Apple for Ives.
Since he was the Chief Design Officer at Apple, responsible for all design, I imagine his role came with a lot of management overhead. I'd wager a guess that maybe he wanted to ditch the corporate overhead (and spend more time directly working on design), and as a bonus he'll get to take on a wider range of projects. Also possible that he wanted to go back to the UK and that his firm will be located there.
I think it's because most people don't understand the benefits of LPG fuel, and LPG vehicles incur costs similar to other alt-fuel vehicles without enjoying benefits.

Honda used to sell a natural gas civic and you could buy a home fill station, in the late 2000s it probably made a lot sense. But now, you'd be better off getting an electric vehicle and a home charger.

I think LPG is interesting, but if you're going to deal with speciality fuel/fueling, you can just get a hydrogen or battery electric vehicle and enjoy the benefits of an electrified powertrain. LPG powertrains retain the complexity and service costs of gas powertrains with pretty marginal benefits. Electrification has its own costs but unique advantages.
Figuring out the future of distributed data systems
So, if I understand all this correctly, Lisp originally had dynamic scope only (which was Dijkstra's criticism), and later came to rely mostly on lexical scoping?

And, would you also comment on Dijkstra's "self-definition" comment?
This short (4m) video surprised me (I always thought tree mass came from the soil).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KZb2_vcNTg
In a conceptual rather than literal sense, yes it's possible to do this in certain cases. In particular, if the per-account bits of the backups are encrypted with per-account keys, deleting an account's key makes that account's bits of the backups unrecoverable.
Fair enough, but those laptops are meant to be used tethered to a power source. Set top box chips are generally far more power hungry than their mobile counterparts, just like desktop chips vs laptop chips. The issue here is that I'm not sure there's much of a market for phones that don't work on battery for more than 15 minutes.

Then again, there's a market for water-cooling blocks for phones so I guess anything is possible.
> That's like observing that small cars don't do well with luxury buyers [...] because carmakers have chosen not to make small high-end cars.

sigh or they make it but don't bring it to the US. Why no Mercedes A Class hatchback for us!?
I get the feeling he sees more Windows servers and on-prem systems than the average HNer.
Everybody has a test environment. Some people are lucky and have an entirely separate production environment, too.
It's almost like it was labeled as a Preview for a reason.
It's not about waiting for them to be invented, but making them cheap enough to buy. And by cheap enough, I'm including labor.

As for the size of transit budgets, and how incompetent most American transit agencies are, that's another orthogonal issue.