skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my view, if you’re hacking for espionage purposes as a nation who defends classical liberalism, then I’d argue your actions are justified. I do not understand why sources involved with this (or related stories) would talk to reporters.

Despite our flaws, there’s a difference in Russia or China hacking and the US. To suggest otherwise is advocating moral relativism in my opinion.

I do, however, support a pardon for Snowden and Assange.
> If Apple design -- hardware and software -- declined during Ive's rein that, to me, is evidence that Ive is not preternaturally talented.

Sometimes it takes working with specific types of people to bring out someone's talent in the best way. I think Steve Jobs did that for Jony Ive in a unique way - it brought out the best in his work.
Show HN: Share files from the terminal or browser
True, I'm not saying we should do it since not everybody would follow and it would just cause more pain. But if everybody would then I think it would work better than the current approach.

I still indent my code (obviously) and follow language style guides because if I everybody did what they thought was best every code base would be a complete mess.
Isn't the underlying problem sufficient and predictable pay to authors, artists, and other creators?

Seems to me DRM addresses this exceedingly poorly.
I will: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20280920 (Apple buys autonomous driving company Drive.ai)

There are enough news to support such rumors than there are news to discredit them.

But of course, there are stories like AirPower too.
Consumers caring wasn’t what killed it. If Apple hadn’t taxed every FireWire port, it might well have succeeded.
try hundreds... or at least, he was worth ~130m in 2013.
"Ceci n'est pas une pipe."
In the times I've engaged with the rpm.org project, I've heard of ideas being floated about making the spec format better and even making a better package archive format.

But there's nothing concrete proposed by anyone for the rpm developers (or indeed anyone else) to consider for implementation.

We're probably at the point now where it's a good idea to start looking at it, but what should be done?
I expected the Beijing government would (a) continuously improve its image in Hong Kong, and (b) monitor HK public opinion to ensure they don't push its agenda to the point where it would risk instability.

How in the world did they mess up so badly? It looks like a completely unforced error: prior to the extradition proposal, there was no social unrest, and barely any political activism. The time was on the Beijing side.

It seems that someone is terrible at their job. If I was Xi, I would fire Carrie Lam, and appoint someone more capable in her place. Someone who can understand and relate to the public, who can earn the respect of the population, who recognizes the long term interests of Beijing and yet knows how to trade them off against the need for stability.

I know it's easy to criticize, but I think it's reasonable to have high expectations from HK Chief Executive. And it's very sad to watch a great city threatened by the leader's incompetence.
It's the oldest region, which means:

* It's the largest region (ever had an unexpected scaling bug?).

* It has more legacy stuff lying around. For example, old regions have EC2 Classic, while new regions are VPC only.

* There are more customers there. More whales, more use cases.

Most AWS teams explicitly try not to deploy to us-east-1 first, but because us-east-1 is so different on so many dimensions, it is more likely to have issues that dont manifest elsewhere.

(Source: An AWS Engineer)
Is it possible that what you're seeing in this data is less about inaccuracy and more about how comfortably out people are?

It says the estimates skew greater for younger people and women responding. Well are younger people and women more likely to know which of their friends are LGBT, because of a host of societal reasons that tend to influence men or older folks to wall off their feelings and communicate less about such things?

I'm just saying, having lived in more than a dozen locations in five states and a Canadian province for the past several decades, the 4.5% number feels low to me (as in, impossibly so).
Reminded me of a 12 year old paper on file carving by Marziale, Richard and Roussev[0].

[0] https://www.dfrws.org/sites/default/files/session-files/pres...
Maybe Ive is an exceptionally talented designer but a poor senior executive. Steve kept Ive in check in a way Cook didn't appear to have done. Maybe its equally a failing of Cook.

And I say this as someone who is terribly excited Ive is leaving and hoping for more funcional products.
The number one issue that's slowly getting fixed is not knowing which text is clickable or just a label. Then there were slow animations, arguably bad icons and inconsistent font usage. That's what I remember at least, I hope my memory's not failing me.
I’m not sure if it carried over to hardware, but Macs and iOS have always punched above their weight in terms of money spent by people using them vs using other platforms. More money is made by apps sold on iOS than on Android, for example.
Maslow's heirarchy would have been achieved a while back for him. What's the extension of that?
I would guess hundreds of millions, if not way more. I'm sure his salary was reported as being $30m base + $25m stock per year back in 2011.

I said bizarrely because in these situations the media & general public seem to always think that people like this can't survive without work. The guy is undoubtedly incredibly passionate about design and almost certainly a workaholic. The grandparent is talking about him going on design the future of automobiles - maybe, maybe not. It felt like I was suggesting something against the grain, which was why I prefaced it with "bizarrely".
how awful it is to not have an HDMI port

Seriously not awful at all.

When I do presentations in my department's conference room, I just AirPlay to the AppleTV connected to the projector. It was a great solution because it allows anyone on the team to do presentations. All they have to do is mirror their screen and bring their mouse or trackpad into the conference room. It's been a godsend.

If I have to do presentations in other buildings on campus (about every other week), I bring my USB-C to HDMI dongle. It's super small, weighs nothing, and always works.

I've heard that there are some off-brand USB-C to HDMI adapters from Amazon that are flaky, but the Belkin one that the IT department got me is rock solid. I've used it probably 30 times so far.

I doubt anyone who really had to do presentations minds carrying around a tiny dongle, compared to all the other things they'll bring to a presentation.

if you're a semi-pro photographer, the lack of an SD card slot is terrible

The pro photographers in my company's Communications department all say they hate built-in SD card readers. They all use standalone units. I don't know why, though. I'll have to ask.

And of course almost all accessories are still USB-A.

That's the same moaning people did about parallel and serial ports.
No they didn't (lol)
I gotta eyeroll pretty hard when some internet expert points out the basic design mistakes in something.

None of those things were mistakes, they were choices made as a result of tradeoffs that people agonized over.

I think it makes perfect sense to me, Ive seems like he's got a big personality and a laser focus on a set of things he has a deep deep understanding of. Without Jobs maybe there was nobody to challenge Ive and thus the balance was pulled too far toward his vision and the greater picture has suffered.
You open the owner’s manual, look up the section for the relevant bit of dashboard or console in the table of contents, flip to that page, and read the description of the buttons, gauges, and other labeled elements.
4.5% self-report as LGBT. That's an important distinction to make, and I too would be surprised if it's accurate.
As I’ve mentioned I think elsewhere in the thread I left that business in no small part because it didn’t feel right to be in anymore. It was at a significant cost. I’m really lost on where in the thread I started to sound like a shill for business practices I (knowledgeably) don’t care for.
My understanding is that you could expect, very roughly, maybe a 50% performance hit using best of breed emulators translating from one ISA to an other ISA nowadays.
Or maybe a real spaceship, for which the new Apple HQ was the prototype?
Jony Ive on Design and the iMac Special Edition (1999) [video]
I think a big part of it is existing dev/team familiarity, and it’s a stongly-typed language that is also super fast and is first-class with gRPC. Our Go and .NET services interact really well, so the diversity has been a net positive, I think.
I like this:

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246366.html?Open
>As another hypothetical... if it were impossible to pirate Windows, would it be nearly as popular around the world?

Why Windows became popular will never have a single unarguable objective answer. It was probably a combination of factors, like anything else. The only fact we know is that Microsoft became one the most successful and richest companies, and it was because hundreds of millions of people paid Microsoft for their software, when credible alternatives existed and continue to exist.

>If even one person/business would have used something else that was free as a result of having never used Windows before then there is a definite argument piracy drives sales.

I'm not sure I follow your line of thought here. Piracy made windows popular, and so people bought Windows because... they didn't want to pirate it? That is a pretty convoluted argument.. ! :)
The importance of design at apple is completely irrefutable. All I am saying is that Apple should avoid more butterfly switch fiascos, and one way to do that is to put the designers on a level playing field.
Even putting aside from the inevitable "misuse", I even wonder about it's intended use. For example:

>Jetson can achieve over 95% accuracy under good conditions

What does this even mean? I can see enormous incentive to avoid false negatives. But I don't see as much incentive to avoid false positives.

For example, the incentives are even less than for drug testing for which there is some semblance of legal proceeding. And yet which are still flawed.

I'm sure it's better than bombing indiscriminately. But it'd be nice to be confident that it isn't going to increase wrongful assassinations due to over confidence.

Did the test you saw attempt to show a low false positive rate too?
>The article says the scientists estimate the CO2 reduction due to population decline as 7 to 10 ppm. Yet they claim this caused the Little Ice Age.

Did you read a different article to me? Both the UCL scientists and an unaffiliated scientist said there were also natural processes at play, but the reduction in CO2 had a large impact.
> Having a place where people tolerate your toxicity is not a legal right

That is true, and also it is not what I argue for.

> If people are addicted to being toxic, they will have to accept the consequences of others' reactions.

Obviously, my problem is that I do not trust this use of toxic.
What I see is contempt for Trump supporters and in general for less mainstream opinion. What I see are journalist that blur the line between what their job should be and explicit political activism with call to actions.

You know what it is that I consider toxic? Actually claiming that a whole section of a demographic is toxic, or too stupid, or just wants to see the world burn.

I have my experience with this, as an Italian I still cannot understand why people voted Berlusconi, yet even worse than another Berlosconi would be being trendy to think "we know better than them, their opinion is second class".
Apple is big enough to have 2 laptops. A thin-above-all, and a mix.
And for European users under GDPR, maybe the only legal tradeoff too.
No, spatial.

I remember roughly how far into a book, or chapter, passages are. Where on a page, or with relstion to other elements, how or where a line breaks (especially if that's awkward). Where the book itself lives within my collection. Where I was when first reading (or later re-reading) it. Etc., etc.

Spatial associations.

Consistent pagination is useful, but it's a small subset of the whole.
Yeah, it's a shame that Firefox is unusable on Macbooks.

Subconsciously I started using Chrome on my Desktop more regularly too, since the abhorrent state of Firefox on Macbooks trained me into using Chrome instead.

The Firefox developers don't seem to care about the state of Firefox, on macOS, to be honest.

For example - This is a bug report I made 7 months ago of an issue that would be quick to implement, yet make a noticeable difference in UI on macOS (move the Share menu to the File menu). Nobody has bothered to respond. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1512851
iOS had a ton of mistakes, not just trade offs. I understand that yeah, I didn’t figure them out myself, but just looking at the Nielsen Norman usability studies you could see there was a lot to be improved on (and they did, to their credit)
I don't know much about Protestants, despite having lived in England for a while. I live in Canada and regularly travel to the US, and still don't know about Protestantism deeply. The little bit I do, has generally led to a positive opinion, as it aligns somewhat more with what I'd believe in.
I have mental checklists I use all the time for routine tasks I could forget. I losealot fewer things. I get lost less frequently.

First getting up in the morning

Leave the house

Leaving the garage

Parking in the parking lot

Starting work in the morning

Leaving work

Parking in the garage

Arriving in gym locker room

Leaving gym locker room

Packing for a trip

Unpacking from a trip

The bugaboo is an interruption that could make you forget a step. Or forget to memorize something.
> If it were impossible to pirate Windows, would all the pirates switch to Linux or another Free OS? If the answer is No, then a non-zero number of people will go out and purchase Windows. From a sales standpoint, preventing piracy is definitely going to drive sales.

What your not counting is the number of people who would be happy to purchase it because it's more convenient but get the pirated version because it's superior, being unencumbered by DRM.

As a firefox or chrome user for instance I could pay for netflix, but the will only deliver the 720p version, why would I pay for a worse product?
Ok, changed from http://theoldnet.com/browser/. Not sure I understand the difference.
That is for their enterprise "Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection" endpoint security product which scans live memory for any hidden malware not writing to disk. Which would otherwise be consuming far more CPU than the typical default windows security software. Which is why they needed GPU in the first place. But it's an interesting solution none-the-less.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/windows/micros...
How does freedos handle newer hardware? I remember giving up on my super DOS boot disc about a decade+ ago when it wouldn't boot anymore. If memory serves it was around the end of IDE drives, but I could be wrong. Maybe it had to do with EFI.
If you look at pride month and the level of marketing and news associated with it, one would estimate that the gay population is huge. Nearly every major corporation on linkedin has a rainbow logo, my uber the other day showed their ride path as a rainbow. The level of influence that LGBTQ currently has in the American mind share far outsizes their population, even now I am worried my account will be banned for mentioning this.

I have actually had many people from different walks of life mention this in the last month, people are taking note.
"I think he'll come back" - Apple employee. There's more Apple employees commenting on this post on Blind https://www.teamblind.com/article/Apple-says-goodbye-to-Jony...
Let's consider Jony's performance on software design first. This is what some prominent people have said about iOS 7: The Verge wrote in their review: "iOS 7 isn't harder to use, just less obvious. That's a momentous change: iOS used to be so obvious." In iOS 7 basic usability features such as making buttons look like buttons are now stuffed under Accessibility options. About this, Tumblr co-founder Marco Arment wrote: "If iOS 8 can’t remove any of these options, it's a design failure." (And iOS 8 didn't.) Michael Heilemann, Interface Director at Squarespace wrote, "when I look at [iOS 7 beta] I see anti-patterns and basic mistakes that should have been caught on the whiteboard before anyone even began thinking about coding it." And famed blogger John Gruber said this about iOS 7: "my guess is that [Steve Jobs] would not have supported this direction."

And what about Jony's other responsibility, industrial design? The iPod, iPhone, iPad, MacBook Air and other Apple products are all amazingly well designed and breathtakingly beautiful. But these products weren't designed by Jony Ive all by himself. He designed them under Steve Jobs's guidance and direction. Steve was the tastemaker. Apple's post-Steve products are nowhere near as well-designed.

Consider iPhone 5c, for example. The colors are horrid, and when you add those Crocs-like cases it looks more like a Fisher-Price toy than like a device an executive would want to be seen holding. Then they released some ads for the 5c, and I kid you not, one of the ads had sounds of bleating farm animals. (It was titled "Every color has a story", published on tumblr.) That the 5c didn't do well in the market shouldn't surprise anyone.
Likewise in C++. And, in those cases, you really don't want to, and you know why you don't want to.

But type inference in Rust and in Haskell can get pretty wacky, with the type determined by code half a page away. The built-in limits in C++ seem well-advised; anyway it is very rare to hear anyone asking for more, or complaining about code over-depending on it.

It is very common, in C++, to drop in a modifier, like `auto* p = f()` for both clarity and insurance. Usually that is just the right amount of type information.
Considering all that I’ve had done, it might be hard to tamper him down. He might (wild speculation incoming) have thought of himself as equal to Steve and maybe he didn’t take it well to keep reporting to someone else. I mean he still speaks of Steve with a slightly absurd level of reverence.
You can build with rpmbuild without making SRPMS (pass -bb instead of -ba), but in my experience, most CI/CD systems do not provide clean, arbitrarily reproducible environments.

That said, rpmbuild has grown features over the years to make it more compatible with that model.

My experience with RPMs, Debian packages, and various other formats has led me to prefer some of the rigidity and explicitness of rpmspec over the sprawl of automagic that is a debian/ tree, and other similar things. But if you want to do weird things to build packages, nothing stops you from doing that and using a trivial spec file as the intermediate to pass instructions to rpmbuild to wrap it up.

The format is not perfect, but I haven't seen anyone make any proposals recently about how to improve it on the rpm-ecosystem mailing list, the rpm-maint mailing list, the rpm project on GitHub, or at any of the developer conferences where rpm developers show up.

You seem to have a ton of knowledge and opinions, why not engage with the project?
How can we be certain the "actual" U.S. Gay population is 4.5% of the population? We know not everyone who is LGBT is out or identifies on these surveys.

Sure, there's undeniably a large cap between ~20% and 4.5%. But it's kind of meaningless to say what the absolute difference is, if we can't be certain how many remain closeted.
“Hi Drew/Glenda
It is with great pleasure to see the project at this stage. We have yet once again proved the sceptics, nay sayers and persmists wrong. From a plain field to a sight commanding building that yields hope to drags of our society and the future itself. Despite of the hindrances we have encountered along the way, I am humbled, awed and jubilant to have been a part of such a gesture. In this money fueled life style I would also been delighted to have made myself a fortune in building such a building that is going to make a difference in many people's lives but the greatest fortune of all is the joy I find in knowing that these hands have built such a meaningful building. The project may have come to its end but the memory will linger in my heart forever. This hasn't only equipped me with skills but changed the way I view life. It is this reason that I would love the organisers to allow us to keep the tools we have used in building the hope and the future of our society so that we can continue putting bread on our tables and helping those in need of our assistance. My humble thanks to all those who selflessly opened their check books and offered with their hard earned cash to the project, and not forgetting those who could not offer funding but took it upon themselves and used their precious time to personally give a hand in this project. This project is a full proof that humanity/Ubuntu still exists.
Regards
Michael Dyasi”
Designing is strategy engineering is detail. Engineering sits one level below design in the decision chain. It's the same reason the CTO is C-suite and the VP of Engineering isn't.
Citation needed. It seems very clear from the history of copyright law that the whole thing is just a money grab.
For me textbooks are best consumed as a pdf. I don't kill my back, I don't kill my wallet, and I can ctrl-f through the entire book and annotate as needed. I throw it on a flashdrive on my keys and I can pass it around to classmates.

Any other kind of book and I'm reaching for print. It's much more satisfying to bang out 50 pages in a novel and see the bookmark move deeper into the book than to scroll scroll scroll through an ebook.
So your comments should be at the top. You’re knowledgeable on the subject and even if we disagree that should be upweighted in a perfect world.
very little of the code in a 100k LoC project is gonna use types like Maps and ints

Why do you think that? Map is a super common Java type, which is what the example with the most Map in it is written in. Hard to see where 'complex inheritance chains' come into it, as well.
Gas is a pretty obvious one, because both fuel pumps and gas cans are relatively commonplace.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fuel+icon&t=h_&iax=images&ia=image...

It can be fairly simple, I think.
The media skews everything. Almost every TV show has a homosexual character, a black computer programmer, and an ass-kicking female martial arts expert. Hollywood has to parade its ideals, after all.

And to some extent, it's showing you how urban sophisticates view their own world, amplifying the same skew.

I remember some really old poll from a NYC high school (decades ago) in which the students estimated the Jewish population of the US at 50 percent, and the black population of the US at 50 percent. Because that was very close to the surrounding neighborhood's actual demographics. Even math like to stay local.
You did read the ToS? It can be cancelled any time for any reason, and you'll never find out why.
Steve thought of it as The Beatles model - the team should bring out the best in everyone around them. Look at how many people pushed back on him and made great things happen - the iTunes on Windows. The App Store on iOS. Etc etc
San Francisco has electric trolley buses.

https://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/muni/munis-electric-tro...
Alas, if you have enough money the government won’t look twice. However, mess with the money buying government officials and you WILL go to jail.
> the 4.5% number feels low to me (as in, impossibly so).

I think it's contextual to location. A lot of LGBT people move to cities for acceptance. If you live in a big city, you're more liking to know relatively more LGBT people than if you lived in a rural or suburban area.