skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an interesting point. There are many CVP-levels who either rarely use their own product or only use parts that might be relevant for marketing demo. The result is that lot of other parts that is actually used by customers goes unimproved for years on. You can tell how good the leader of a product is by exploring its parts outside of marketing demos.
Apple are developing self driving tech so maybe he won't be allowed to work with TSLA.
> we went with short-ish sessions

They're not 'short-ish', they're shorter than... every actual 'session' I have with the site.

They're so short that I've been checking cookies and wondering what I'm blocking that's breaking it until I saw other comments here.

There doesn't seem much utility to me in having the website session expire before the screen locks - apart from anything else the computer quite likely has B2 keys or the consumer app installed if it had the website logged in.

Perhaps there's some other threat I'm missing?
I've been wondering when EMALS catapults get converted to ultracapacitors. The current energy storage system on the Ford class carriers is a motor/generator/flywheel setup, and it's a reliability headache. The catapult itself is just a linear induction motor.
Yes!

I'm typing on my 2015 MBP right now! It's not as good as a blue-switch or Alps mechanical keyboard, but it's pretty damn good!

Just looking around though, I can see that the majority of external-keyboard users here in the office are using 2016-and-later 4th gen MBPs. The keyboard is just bad enough to mandate rather than encourage external keyboard use.
Jony Ive always seemed to looked at product design like he was trying to establish an emotional relationship, not a business partnership.
Moments where you'd find yourself with a laptop but without a charger are far harder to imagine for me

A while ago I left my charger at work and the next day was working remotely.

I used a phone charger, but had to power the thing off for lunch because only then it charged at the maximum rate of 8%/h.

Plugged in I was actually losing charge faster because the laptop though it was connected to a 60W unit, not a 10W one.
> yes! I dont think many of these other "outraged" commentators have been sucker-punched or tripped hard at a Black Flag show !!

I did ask which songs/bands you were thinking of that promote violence. You haven't answered so far.
What does hacking into Yandex give us other than a reason for Russia to do the same?
> They are aware of the legal risk of outright blocking users from accessing services

What does this mean? Any sources about these legal risks?
Those aren't unthinking bots, those are my caretakers in my old age.
Hard to please but influential.

Among that group are sysadmins, webmasters and people who get called by friend or family members for anything tech-related.

If they do things right, like they did when IE was dominant, these guys will definitely give back.
It takes less time to lock my front door than to configure a VPN, but burglarizing an unlocked house still is and should be illegal.
The EV gets to just run everything backwards when you step on the brakes. This won't stop you, but it'll make a huge difference to the remaining force needed to stop you, so it massively reduces wear on brakes and (which is why they did it) increases the effective range of the vehicle. And since they aren't worn out, the brakes need maintenance far less often. Driven gently the brakes on a EV might last its useful lifetime.

You can't do this with ICE, if you put diesel fumes in a compression chamber and pump the cylinders up and down, it doesn't turn back into diesel fuel, combustion isn't symmetric, so you need to actually have brakes.
Yeah, government needs to remove the protections from youtube and the like. They are trying to have their cake and eat it too. They are not like telcos.
I’m sure it’s just the age I’ve hit, but I have been overwhelmingly nostalgic for those days lately. The internet was FUN, while still being ridiculously useful and efficient. The information of the entire planet was at our fingertips and available instantly (well, at ~2Kb/s).

The web was minimal and slick and information-dense. Content owned the day, whether it was super-active IRC channels or news groups or websites with a 728x90 banner at the top and the rest was content (most of which fit “above the fold”!).

Now.. holy shit the web is a mess.
I doubt it's due to the EV's regenerative braking; if anything, that's a more complex system with more things that can go wrong.

The answer is probably easier: a Prius is 3300 lbs and a Dodge Ram is 6600 lbs and carries much, much more if working. Those truck brakes are going to be thrashed much harder.
>how awful it is to not have an HDMI port.

Disagree wholeheartedly. I bought a USB-C to Video adapter from Amazon that has DVI, VGA, HDMI, and mDP and it only takes up one space on my MacBook and the only time I ever need to use it is when I'm presenting so I can just keep it in my laptop bag. That also means that I don't have to worry about what tech is being used at the place I'm presenting because I have all the options covered as opposed to just having 1 port or multiple ports on my machine.

At my desk, I have a USB-C hub that's connected to both monitors, storage, power, and my keyboard/mouse and it's also 1 cable and 1 slot on the MacBook. I can hook either up to whatever port on whatever side I want to. The flexibility is way more worthwhile than a dedicated HDMI port to me.
Read about "the paradox of tolerance" and maybe you will understand what im talking about a bit better.

What parts of fascism are acceptable to society? The intolerance of other groups? The claimed superiority over others? The militarization of civilians and their forced involvement into the military and war? The forced labor of captured civilians to feed the war machine? They literally believe democracy is obsolete and that the government should be run under a single party via totalitarian rule. That is there literal stated goal. They cheer on political violence and imperialism as a goal to 'rejuvenating' their state.

They literally want to dismantle democracy and put us under dictatorial rule.
Do you think they don’t?
It's not a prerequisite for accessing the website, it's just a prerequisite for skipping the captcha puzzle.
Protestant Christianity is the same. It doesn't preach living apart from the world.

Not entirely sure about Catholics. Orthodox have always struck me as living apart to some extent but I may be wrong and would be interested in hearing from a follower of Orthodoxy.
As an hypothetical.. If it were impossible to pirate Windows, would all of those users switch to BSD or some other free OSs? If even a single person goes out and buys Windows, then there is a definite argument that piracy resulted in the loss of at-least one sale.
If you remember the original iMac, they did the same thing with USB-A.

Everybody was concerned that the iMac's only I/O port was USB (when others had serial, parallel, and maybe SCSI/USB as an afterthought), and it was completely incompatible with legacy peripherals. For many years USB accessories were considered specialty items for the Mac market.

It kinda sucked at first... but it's not clear if USB would have even caught on if Apple didn't do that. In the long term, Apple clearly made the right move.

At the very least, this isn't outside of Apple's usual playbook.
I don't think you have thought it through. Those work using a blacklist only. First, you can't force people to run DRM on their system. Even if you could, the ML based generator will always generate some new and random that foils the DRM. You will basically need to force people to run an ML model on their system which serves as an intelligent dyanmic DRM, and thia dictatorial idea is acceptable nowhere.
I was stretching back in my memory about this stuff so had to read up again, the term they use is a "plasma armature" or "hybrid armature". I haven't been able to find out what this one uses in a quick search around.
If he took away MagSafe I couldn't be happier he's gone. I still think it's a bold move by Apple if it was voluntary, they have so much to lose if their new design deviates from the old significantly even if it doesn't they're unlikely to gain much as it's probably near impossible to find a Steve Job replacement when it comes to design.
Disclosure: im an engine mechanic for a small chain of diesel truck repair shops in the midwest. ive also done fleet maintenance for a city bus fleet.

The reasons electric buses arent seen more often are many, and they arent political at all.

- Tooling. Fleets generally maintain all the tooling necessary for specific make model and design of a vehicle. if that fleet gets large enough, they get a seat at the manufacturers table to help steer development and ensure a sustainable product that doesnt increase rider cost or decrease economy/comfort. Battery fleets would mean having to outfit shops with new training for high voltage, arc/flash suits, hot-sticks and other tools. Youre likely going to need to hire a few electricians to train and oversee people as well.

- lifecycle maintenance. As a fleet mechanic I know down to the day, minute, and hour when my motors are clapped out and when everything needs to be replaced. Diesel engines can run for several million miles if well maintained, but the lifecycle on a fleet electric vehicle is quite a bit more limited. A Cushman or Toyota fork lift for example is often entirely electric and sees a similar duty cycle (high tork, long service, low speed.) Replacement batteries are provided from a third party every year or two. Fleet operators in most US cities havent the slightest idea what the real-world operations lifecycle is for an electric bus. Its likely going to be pretty poor if youre operating these busses in places like Wisconsin winters or Arizona summers.

- Again, Tooling. If you told me I was in charge of a fleet of electric buses id probably quit. Youre talking about 50-60 busses for a small city, so youll need a set of substations dedicated for high speed charging. youll need your own PPD (Physical Plant maintenance) to handle generators during power outages, cooling during summer, and general repair. Your existing diesel fleet just requires a fuel dump and an apprentice mechanic. Youre also going to need to understand how to dispose of something that can, if punctured, explode into flames. Most oil recyclers in fleet operations pay you for the oil you give them and grant a discount on the new stuff. Ive never seen a fleet battery contractor for forklifts that has ever done more than pickup, drop off, and fees.
This is exactly why I'm 100% for the USB-C switch. I have 1 dongle that handles every video type to USB-C - VGA, DVI, HDMI, and even mDP. There's no reason for all 4 of those ports to be built into the computer on the off chance that I need one of them.
> More than understand an inscrutable icon. Besides, anyone can look up Fuel in a dictionary. How do you look up an icon?

This makes sense. But I think that's why the unicode consortium adds common gestures/symbols/icons so actively. The icon-recognizing problem you address here is not impossible to fix with some app combining scanner and translator.
The boldest move at the moment would be "We believe that thinness for the sake of it, is dead as a trend, today we are announcing a new direction that will see us build beautiful products that are nonetheless expandable, repairable, green"
Yep! I think it’s a fantastic machine that looks great. Same with the screen.
If that were possible, it should have already happened.

The bus just isn't going to take people point-to-point. It will go to a hub, and then people will change buses, and then another bus will go out. Point-to-point service is personal transportation. Shared transportation fundamentally can't be optimized to individual needs.

So the buses drive longer distances, and they have to drive even when empty.

BTW, bus usage can seem better than it really is. You are likely to go on the popular parts of the routes, so you see the buses being fuller than they usually are.
aesthetically, i think you meant, as ascetically means something very different.
Ask HN: How do I get into electronics from scratch?
I'm a very enthusiastic hacker, and have built software for ages. It gives me immense enjoyment to the point my day job feels like a relaxing hobby.

For a while I've wanted to get into electronics. I've used a PIC programmer in the past, and have hacked around with a few electronics kits here and there (built a radio, some Christmas tree lights etc). I've got a good grasp of the mathematics involved too (probably a bit rusty currently, though)

I want to improve my ability to make custom electronic gadgets. Happy to start with something simple to build my understanding, and I'm prepared to put in the work. If feasible, I want to eventually become as comfortable with electronics as I am with software. I'm just not sure what's the best way to go about it.

So HN, how do you suggest I proceed? Which tools/books/info really helped you become more confident when working with electronics?

Thank you very much in advance :)
Why not set your editor to not indent, and use git diff -w to ignore whitespace differences? Change your habits rather than try to change the world.

Most programmers would find unindented code hard to read.
While you make good point I think I actually do pretty well on the falshoods with the scheme laid out in the grandparent comment. The cases I violate are:

- I assume everyone has at least one name (not strictly true, but close enough to true for people using the internet)

- I assume every name can be mapped to unicode (I don't even know how I would fix that assumption)

- I assume all names fit in some fixed length (I give more space than the British passport and more than I can display in most situations)

- Even though I don't assume that people have a first name or that people have a last name I assume everyone has at least one of the two

I find all of these assumptions reasonable, and your scheme of "Display Name" and "Legal Name" shares most of these assumptions, or would share them in any reasonable implementation (You can't allow names that use gigabytes of space, so there will be some length limit, and most implementations will use unicode).

Of course using a name after decomposing it isn't easy. I will concede that asking the user is easier and more reliable, but it does come with drawbacks as well.
Over 1500 words and I'm not sure what it does to actually improve email. This reminds me of marketing copy for marketing apps for marketers that, when you get down to it, don't do much.
Nah I don't buy that (oooh econ pun!). There are basic human needs: food, water, shelter, medicine, socialization. Goods and services that fulfill those needs have intrinsic worth (to humans). When those goods and services are valued primarily in a given currency (i.e. GBP, USD, EUR), that currency gains worth rooted in the intrinsic worth of those goods and services.

And even abstract financial instruments like mortgages, REITs, bonds, CDSs, CDs, shares of commodities, etc. are based on these fundamental things. Bonds are based on currencies--which are only worth anything if they're the primary denomination of goods/services with intrinsic worth. REITs, mortgages, etc. represent shelter. Commodities represent food, water, and medicine.

BTC represents... nothing? Energy loss? Honestly there's no analog. Snake oil is still oil, selling someone air--they still get air. And sure, you can still argue "well camgunz, even if it's literally nothing, if people want it, they'll put a price on it". But... isn't that really just super bad, like collapse of the civilization bad if it ever gets to scale? We really shouldn't be convincing people to turn their money into absolutely nothing. That seems very obviously not a good idea.
Keeping with the car metaphor: your mileage may vary I guess. I'm getting great mileage out of my MBP, with none of those issues you mention, so I guess the sports car edition is fine with me. That's why I'd love to see a proper survey on this, because I never hear these complaints from people I meet, only online.
I think he was nervous about touching any of the hardware in the machine.
Personally, I think focus should be on battery life improvement, app management UX, privacy (for example, to this day I can't turn off ALL notifications) etc. I would take 20% thicker iPhone for 20% better battery life and headphone jack any day. Cosmetic changes and thinness-for-thinness sake are worthless.
Just Smart Referer alone is a likely culprit. Masking or having no referer is a prime attribute for low-level bots.
On my cables the material starts to crumble and crack. Something about that particular type of rubber. But maybe it depends on the market or where it is manufactured. I seem to remember some lasting longer than others, I think it didin't happen on the 2014 model, but did on my original 2011 charger and on the replacement I had to buy (within the first year). But the 2016 usb-c cable doesn't really have this issue I think. Maybe it's the climate, warmer summers?
“Immigrants contributing greatly is not an established fact”

Funny thing to say about a country made up of immigrants...

Let me guess, you’re not from nyc. You should visit Ellis island sometime.

It IS the US immigration that has made it what it is now. I always love this part of a speech by Lincoln.

“But when they look through that old Declaration of Independence they find that those old men say that ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,’ and then they feel that that moral sentiment taught in that day evidences their relation to those men, that it is the father of all moral principle in them, and that they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh, of the men who wrote that Declaration, and so they are.“
That sounds like a plan for a better world, a world where all people reach fulfillment and die in peace. Im curious, do people convert to your religion often? Are Sikh an inclusive religion?
As a reader, faced with:

Dictionary<string, KeyValuePair<int, string>> contrivedExample = new Dictionary<string, KeyValuePair<int, string>>();

And

DictionaryOfStringsWithKeyValuePairs contrivedExample = new DictionaryOfStringsWithKeyValuePairs();

And

var contrivedExample = new Dictionary<string, KeyValuePair<int, string>>();

I'd definitely prefer the latter.

--
Edit: rephrased to be less presumptuous
The meta analysis you link doesn't seem to quite agree with the way you're framing it. Quoting some of the relevant paragraphs:

> The likelihood and magnitude of adverse labor market effects for natives from immigration
are substantially weaker than often perceived. Within the large empirical literature looking
at the effects of immigration on native employment and wages, most studies find only minor
displacement effects even after very large immigrant flows. On the other hand, some more
recent studies have found larger effects, and many studies note that the negative effects are
concentrated on certain parts of the native population. The parts of the population most
typically affected are the less-educated natives or the earlier immigrant cohorts -- that is, those
who are the closest substitutes to the new immigrant flow currently experienced by Europe.

> Immigration is often viewed as a large fiscal burden for European public finances or as a
possible saviour if correctly harnessed. This has been palpable in the recent political atmospheres
of France, Italy, and Germany, for instance. Most empirical studies, however, estimate the fiscal impacts of immigration to be very small. There certainly exist large differences across migrant
groups in the costs and benefits they cause for a host country; the net impact depends heavily
on the migrants age, education, and duration of stay. On average, immigrants appear to have
a minor positive net fiscal effect for host countries. Of course, these benefits are not uniformly
distributed across the native population and sectors of the economy.

The gist being that overall the adverse effects immigration has on the market is much smaller than people perceive, that those most affected are either the prior generation of immigrants or those with less education and that the negative fiscal impacts are negligible at best, with immigrants generally contributing in a positive way.
> It’d be interesting to see the results of a survey on this I think ... I like the new keyboard

Gruber put it rather succinctly: "These keyboards are the biggest mistake in Apple’s history." https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/04/26/johnston-macboo...

There has certainly been more criticism than praise for the butterfly keyboard:

The New MacBook Keyboard is Ruining My Life https://theoutline.com/post/2402/the-new-macbook-keyboard-is...

Unreliable MacBook Pro Keyboards https://mjtsai.com/blog/2017/10/18/unreliable-macbook-pro-ke...

The 2018 MacBook Keyboards Have the Same Old Problems https://mjtsai.com/blog/2018/10/16/the-2018-macbook-keyboard...

Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall With the Macbook Pro Keyboard https://ifixit.org/blog/10229/macbook-pro-keyboard/

An ode to Apple’s awful MacBook keyboard https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/01/an-ode-to-apples-awful-mac...

Appl Still Hasn’t Fixd Its MacBook Kyboad Problm https://www.wsj.com/graphics/apple-still-hasnt-fixed-its-mac...

Apple owes everyone an apology and it should start with me, specifically https://theoutline.com/post/7315/apple-keyboards-still-suck-...

Nearly half of the third-gen Apple butterfly keyboards at Basecamp have failed https://www.techrepublic.com/article/nearly-half-of-the-thir...

Apple's MacBook Pro Keyboard Replacement Won't Fix Your Laptop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvsi2e3M5Ek

Why Is Tim Cook Hiding His Fix For The Embarrassing MacBook Problems https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2019/04/25/apple-mac...

Judge Rules Apple Must Answer for Failing to Disclose MacBook Keyboard Problems https://www.idropnews.com/news/judge-rules-apple-must-answer...

Apple's Butterfly Keyboard Continues to Plague MacBook Owners https://ifixit.org/blog/14776/apples-butterfly-keyboard-cont...

MacBook Pro Keyboard Failures: Why Apple's dust excuse is bullsh—! [Teardown + Explanations] https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/bjtyaw/macbook_pro_k...
I’ve run into this for simple tasks on a GPU, like merging sorted lists. The massive parallelism can’t make up for the transfer costs unless the operations performed are expensive enough. The “roofline” model is usually the perspective used for this kind of accelerator application.
No need for a VPN yet, thankfully it's just a DNS block.
Well we seem to be moving right back with OLED :)
It is rather bizarre to see some people feel entitled to content which isn't distributed as per their own personal wishes. A principled person would chose to take his/her business elsewhere and purchase a book on a platform whose ethics they agree with.

Not saying I'm some Mother Teresa type.. but I'm against online ads, and I don't run an ad-blocker. I simply don't visit sites which feature blaring in-your-face ads. I filter Google results to exclude domains which I will never visit because of their ad policy.
Preferences -> Social Media Blocking.

If you don't see them I could only guess that maybe you have an old version of the browser installed?
If you think their argument is compelling, why are you insulting them?

(This is a genuine question. Many of your comments have added to the discussion and I've upvoted them. But I've also downvoted many that haven't.)
I would recommend grabbing a Raspberry Pi and start tinkering with it.
If you want to learn about low level electronics, start by learning PCB design and design your own custom board.
That has become one of my favourite quotes - thanks for sharing. Reminds me of my grandad, who used to tell me "Study like a scholar. Play like a champion." before he dropped me at school!
The 'cards' statement is SAS remains one of my favorite ways to bring data into a program for exactly that reason.