skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also have a 2015 MBP at work, though newer hires have the ones with the new keyboard and touch bar, and while I primarily work at my desk with a keyboard plugged in (the basic apple keyboard, no numpad), I certainly go to meetings and work in other rooms that require me to use the onboard keyboard all the time, as do my colleagues.
Simple, we only allow autonomous vehicles to have 40 inch tires, a winch, front and rear lockers, and giant battery. Good to go through Rubicon!

But seriously this is a pretty dangerous situation, especially in the snowy mountains. I remember reading an article about a Tesla engineer getting stuck on a trail in the Sierra's and his Jeep eventually being buried in 10+ ft of snow.

Edit: Found the article

https://jalopnik.com/a-tesla-engineers-jeep-ended-up-under-1...
> I'm probably the smartest guy in Romania

[citation needed]
It's at least a little political. After all politics is really mostly about allocating resources. All of your issues here are solvable with money. Most cities have the money to make that change, but due to politics choose not to.

I guarantee you when we really start feeling the effects of climate change and the politics on this turns, cities will be adopting electric bus fleets seemingly overnight.
You have some good points here, but please don't post in the flamewar style to Hacker News. We're trying for something a bit better than internet default discussion, and flamewars point the other way.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Insect parts in general aren't harmful. In fact insects are commonly eaten in many cultures.
You're right, I was American-centric. It's a land littered with gas stations and finding other fuels can be extremely challenging.
No Drips, No Drops: A City of 10M Is Running Out of Water
Video- Kings 1
True, but not the scale of a current human lifetime. Mostly because humans are not good with change (which is ironic because humans change everything around them).

At the same time, at some point if all 'jobs' are no longer needed that would either mean humanity no longer exists or that scarcity no longer exists. In all other cases we'd still have some weird mix of what we have today and what we may have in the future.
Is this a result of the keyboard fiasco?
Firefox matters because they're dedicated to an open web, but Firefox is usable by the general public because web developers are forced to support multiple engines if they want to work on iOS. These are two different things and both are important.

(Note: I've been running Gecko based browsers almost since the beginning. I guess in those days it was probably easier to use a browser that isn't perfectly supported, but I'd probably do it again if it came to it. But I can recommend Firefox to whoever I want, since it works on every site except Linked In. I couldn't do that if it only worked well on one in two or three or four sites.)
So don't trust Amazon because fake reviews, don't trust Apple reviews cause users are dumb and confuse adapter issues with third-party devices issues, I think you just don't trust reviews regardless.
AOL had this a very long time ago, but I think it only worked with other AOL accounts.
It’s a dance. You complain about every hack, every interference in elections and claim moral superiority while doing the exact same hoping no one finds out but when they do always shoot the messenger instead of defending yourself. Thanks WikiLeaks for showing the world
Which routes in Lausanne had that? I never noticed any dual use buses when I lived there. It isn’t surprising, Seattle used to have dual engine buses in the 80s/90s that were diesel until they went into the downtown bus tunnel. They got rid of that when they brought the train in, and I guess the buses were cleaner by then as well.
It clearly states in the article that this is in response to China.
Western Intellectual Tradition
> For me this was really a "figure out once" and remember forever.

When you drive a car rarely, you don't really remember what all the frackin icons mean. Besides, that's why phonetic written languages were invented - so you don't have to memorize 10,000 pictures. Just 26 of them.

Phonetic writing really is a great invention. It's better than pictographic languages. Good luck looking up a pictograph on google.

What's next? Back to using Roman numerals?
How about peoples pockets? Its hyperbole, but not a huge reach.
Oh? I thought Apple Music was encumbered with DRM in their M4P format. I'm not super familiar with their service though. Maybe I'm wrong..

Edit: Looks like the M4P format was mainly on older songs pre2009. Though I see forum threads with people saying that they have to re-pay Apple w/ itunes match to get the drm-free version.
Well, mileage may vary and all that but my keyboard has a 0% failure rate so far. Knocks on wood.
> I am glad Ive is gone.

He might be gone, but, after 30 years with Apple, helping the company rake in billions and billions of dollars in sales, he is set for life and can pretty much do whatever he wants. His next venture might impact you down the line.
> Since reCAPTCHA v3 scripts must be loaded on every page of a site, you must send Google your browsing history and detailed data about how you interact with sites in order to access basic services on the internet, such as paying your bills, or accessing healthcare services.

From a technical pov, how does one access a user's browsing history from client-side javascript. Isn't that something the browser should protect? or do you mean more that since the reCAPTCHA gets loaded on each page, Google can track what that IP is visiting by where reCAPTCHA gets loaded?
Project Gutenberg self-censored themselves to all German users in protest of the lawsuit.
Which links specifically are broken?
Railguns would completely surpass missiles for StS warfare

Yes, but my thought is that it's possible that in the future, no one is going to care about surface warships shooting each other. My full prediction is: Either 1) Naval Railguns also wind up being killer AA weapons and there aren't any game changers in submarine warfare or 2) Railguns are going to be the equivalent of WWII naval cannon.

Navies will be important, but what people will care about is 1) the ability to interdict shipping, 2) the ability to prevent amphibious landings, and 3) the ability to project power. It's possible that technology will get to a point where ships fighting ships with guns is irrelevant to all three. One possibility is that navies will develop swarms of autonomous AI minisub drones which can deny the sea to surface ships. Autonomous flying drones could also yield such a change.

So let's say there is some game-changing development like the ones mentioned above, such that surface ships within a certain range of the enemy are no longer viable in combat. What will happen to the big railgun equipped ships? They will be relegated to shore bombardment, but only once air superiority has been established, and all other opponents have been neutralized: Just like their WWII forebears.

(If railguns can become killer AA weapons, then my prediction 1) applies. I'm not certain this will come to pass, however.)
I recently upgraded from an iPhone 6 to an iPhone XR. I love the new phone, however I still miss the size of the 6. I was able to hold and operate the phone in one hand. Using two hands for the XR is a pain in the ass, but using one hand feels like I could drop it at any moment.

I think one factor that caused this phenomenon is the lack of innovative growth in the mobile device industry. Phone companies need to sell more units... however there are no industry-shaking improvements to be made. Therefore they default to upgrading the most obvious ones, namely screen size/resolution and camera quality. Therefore our phones get bigger for the sake of advancement.
Because it costs practically nothing. If the cost is zero and the expected value is greater than zero, then no matter how little value it has it's still rational to collect it.

The problem is that the individual bears a very small risk of something very bad happening: "consider the hypothetical case of a gay blogger in Moscow who opens a LiveJournal account in 2004, to keep a private diary. In 2007 LiveJournal is sold to a Russian company, and a few years later—to everyone's surpise—homophobia is elevated to state ideology. Now that blogger has to live with a dark pit of fear in his stomach."

https://idlewords.com/talks/haunted_by_data.htm

The individual of course gets no benefit from the small chance the company can monetize on this data trove. So even though chances are they aren't harmed at all by this data collection, arguably the expected value of the benefit/harm to the individual is negative (harmful). But that doesn't change the data collector's calculation, of course. That's why government regulation is necessary.
Ok, cars. How do you know the electric wires for the defroster are on or off? I can't see electric fields. You can wait 10 minutes and see if it defrosts I suppose. I don't see that as an improvement on phonetic writing.
> I wonder who will be the next one to do that and to me this is exciting

A recently Art school graduate that can connect with those damn millennials and Generation Z kids.
Oh. Ok, I'll have to look into that. New project to look into for the summer =)
Taxes. Since 1980, they have lowered taxes to ridiculous extremes. Deregulation of businesses. Doing everything to give large businesses, CEOs and large shareholders free reign, while undermining the middle class. Income of the middle class has been pretty much stagnant since about 1980, while incomes of the top 1% has gone through the roof since then. Wealth inequality has gone way up.

I recently read that in 1970, Republicans still supported Basic Income.
FT link has a paywall and the archive link someone else posted is dead.
Valve to Continue Steam Gaming on Ubuntu Linux
You seem surprised.

It's such a regular occurrence that it does not make news anymore.

Much higher amounts make the news now:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/16/why-does-it-...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/jennifer-huculak-ki...
Almost sounds like a sci-fi thing. A species that has evolved to experience physiological disgust at the idea of doing insecure things.
TLDR: Promotional article for Superhuman (email client) written by its investor.
Use the money to buy the book again.
> which is a very real concern.

It isn't. Innovation in video coding is driven by the need to achieve the same image quality in fewer bits for easier and cheaper distribution. All video platforms, providers, and users have a stake in achieving that improvement.

Video coding is not finished yet. There's still more to do and there will be an AV2 eventually.
There's a light that turns on?
Please don't take HN threads further into political flamewar. It's the opposite of what we want here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I doubt it. Thirty years at a company is a long time, especially if Ives worked under a strict contract. He probably wanted to be his own boss.
Bloody hell, that's amazing. I had no idea.
Unfortunately, I don't actually have access to NVidia hardware anymore -- but I would be happy to accept a PR from someone who can get this to run!
Samsung is infamous for messing up android. Apparently Android apps break on Samsung cause they mess with libraries in the OS. Idk why Google lets them get away with that.
> if your browsing history can juice CTR prediction then I’ve never seen it

That's great. So if my browsing history is useless then you won't mind not trying to snoop on it.
Is this information biased by app? Are people more likely to strap a smaller phone to their arm? I’d be curious to know if this device distribution is similar for different apps.
As another hypothetical... if it were impossible to pirate Windows, would it be nearly as popular around the world? 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.

Of course the world is more complicated than ideological arguments about individual sales. https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2017/09/21/europ...

I'd argue it's exceptionally rare that a digital good be so unique as to be a "buy legitimately or have nothing" item and any DRM designed to treat software like that does more harm to sales through difficulty to purchase or use than it saves.
You're overestimating how important shifting is once you're already in motion. Sure, you won't be in the optimal gear, but I've seen people drive for surprisingly long amounts of time in the wrong gear because their hand was occupied doing something else (phone, eating, drinking, what have you). Additionally, you can keep your phone in your hand while moving the shifter.
If it's not a password my code should see, I would rather it not be entered into even my client side code. That makes it potentially accessible should I have a bug, eg XSS.
You might enjoy the positive messages purveyed by bands like Operation Ivy.

Edit: Freeze Up and Artificial Life are two tracks from the late 80s containing very prescient and IMO insightful commentary re: man, society, and technology that many on HN could probably appreciate.

It was really hard to resist just spamming the lyrics here but hopefully my description will resonate enough that some readers will check it out. They have something to say and get right to the point. It’s the complete opposite of vacuous.
If i am not mistaken, author hires folks. So there is that.
It is sincere. If you are working with structured documents, then accessing only an arbitrary line of the file in a performant way (especially if the documents are large) is a useful task. I see it also has facilities for handling CSVs, where its unlikely the user wants individual lines but may in fact want "columns."
I find a v3 block to be unlikely for the same reason v2 isn't in easylist - too much friction for the list users. Websites will likely break completely when performing actions if they don't receive any sort of verify token from the browser. It would probably be best to have a list for recaptcha v3 as a built-in optional filter so that users know they've enabled it and know why websites might be breaking.
Surely with prices going that high the students could pool their resources to buy one copy and have it professionally scanned? It's only $1 per 100 pages.
That sounds like a very bad type inference implementation. Local type inference should fail fast.
The self-definition comment is a reference to the common LISP exercise of writing a "meta-circular evaluator"[1] - that is, writing a LISP interpreter in LISP. This is famously done[3] in "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs", which is a very popular textbook and MIT course which uses LISP as a teaching language[2]. This can be found for example, in lecture 7 of the SICP lecture series on Youtube[4].

Dijkstra's comment on this is quite acerbic, isn't it? Here is the full quote for easy reference:

> [LISP's] promotion of the idea that a programming language
should be able to formulate its own interpreter (which then
could be used as the language’s definition) has caused a lot
of confusion because the incestuous idea of self-definition
was fundamentally flawed.

I agree to the extent that the exercise of writing a LISP interpreter in LISP is indeed often a very confusing exercise for beginner, partly because writing any interpreter (or compiler) is fairly arcane for a beginner, and partly because keeping track of which parts are in implementation and which parts are in the target language can be made more difficult; also because it's easy to "cheat" and rely on outside language in inappropriate ways. I would recommend using a language you already know well and implementing a moderately simple language as a first exercise to a student. But on the whole the exercise of writing an interpreter in its own language - or alternatively writing a self-hosting compiler[5] - is rewarding and does teach you a great deal about how programs work.

I also can't agree the so-called "incestuous idea of self-definition" is "fundamentally flawed:" it is in fact fairly interesting and related to important meta-mathematical concepts like Godel numbering[6], reductions[7], and the Church-Turing thesis[8]. Writing a meta-circular evaluator seems like a reasonably concrete way to start building intuition towards these important ideas. Perhaps Dijkstra has in mind such problems as Curry's Paradox[9] or Russel's Paradox[10], both of which are paradoxes arising from self-reference? In my view a meta-circular evaluator is much closer in spirit to Godel numbering (which is valid and useful) than these paradoxes.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-circular_evaluator

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_o...

[3]: http://www.sicpdistilled.com/section/4.1/

[4]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m6hoOelZH8

[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting_(compilers)

[6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del_numbering

[7]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduction_(complexity)

[8]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%E2%80%93Turing_thesis

[9]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry%27s_paradox

[10]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_paradox
Creator of DeepNude, App That Undresses Photos of Women, Takes It Offline
Agree. Check out China where even beggars are using QR code payment methods (though possibly as a means by payment companies and 'others' to collect data on donators?) https://www.businesstoday.in/current/world/beggars-in-china-...
I started using a checklist when flying internationally. I got tired of forgetting the right plug adapter, for example, and paying $$$$ for a replacement at the airport store. Or having to find a store that sells cuff links.

I often bring two plug adapters, as there's always another guy at the conference who forgot his :-)
That analogy is loaded because classic cars appreciate. Ebooks don’t. Toyota can feel to take back my 03 4Runner for the original purchase price.
> I speculate he's leaving Apple to design the Apple car.

If you think Gruber is correct ("You’re either at Apple or you’re not" rings very true to me), Ive is done with Apple. The completion of Apple Park represents the culmination of his transition to architecture.
Hey underyx! Would you mind referring me as well? (Email in profile). I'd love to give Superhuman a try! Way too many emails, and always looking for more efficient & effective ways to communicate well with everyone. (Happy to return the favor in any way!) Thanks!
> leaving Apple to design the Apple car

Play that again in your head
This is actually one of my favorite things about Linux. I learned Unix back around 1989, using IBM AIX. The AT&T books (blue star-field covers) were mostly applicable (except for IBM specific items), and everything I learned then I'm still putting to good use today on modern Linux systems. Printing has improved somewhat, disk storage a bit more, and of course my favorite, the /proc file system. But all my shell, awk, sed, grep, sort, join, vi commands still work as expected. I even had something similar to gnu screen, called VTCS (virtual terminal control system), but I wasn't on the Internet at the time so I never released it. Would love to dig up the source code for that again though.
this is the time to appreciate uBlock Origin's advanced mode, since 3rd party JS is blacklisted by default https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Advanced-user-feature...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20298653
Modern human history is more than 50 years old. While I do appreciate that more modern examples of media might get children more interested in critical analysis, claiming that all of the "valuable" thoughts made by humans only started 50 years ago is incredibly narrow-minded.

Hamlet talks about the human condition and coming to terms with your own mortality. Where in Super Mario does that come up? Before or after world 4?
I’m guessing an inter library loan wasn’t possible?

What are you looking for? There’s a decent chance someone here lives near a copy.
The case against data versioning
I keep using Opera because of a few small affordances that any browser could implement (and some do, but only Opera does all of them). The main one is text-reflow on zoom. It seems so ridiculous that I have to either stare at microscopic text or pan back and forwards just to be able to read things. Surely actually reading the contents of pages is a primary feature of a browser?

The other one I just can't understand is why not implement pull-to-refresh? Surely that can't be hard?

I know this is just ranting, but it's weird to see browser makers completely re-inventing their products when small, basic things could be fixed in their current versions.
Ok, but could you please not post unsubstantive comments to HN? There's no information here, just name-calling.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What? Almost no one rents phones anymore. All smartphones device plans are simple purchase plans.

At least in the US. Maybe it’s different else where?

You’re not wrong that $1000 for a phone is crazy though. I’m still on my iPhone 7+.
I'd fix it by using words. Icons are a solution looking for a problem and causing problems.
Case C) also applies to the standard *nix toolset.

Learning `vi` in 1979 then using it for 40 years seems like a good return on investment.

Both would also be examples of survivorship bias.
I cannot imagine defending the move to 100% usb-c ports. An iphone out of the box cannot be connected to a new mac laptop. It's complete insanity. The rest of the world isn't there yet. Every single person I know who owns a usb-c mac laptop owns a $100 dongle that they carry everywhere with them.

For me being able to plug in USB type-A is a non-negotiable part of using a laptop still, 4 years after the move. Same with HDMI. I also regularly plug SD cards in.

It doesn't make the laptop thinner, it makes it bulkier because the adapter is a necessity.
That's a small part of it, but realistically most of it is that people legitimately do want big vehicles. It's a cultural thing; big is popular. Hell, a lot of pickup trucks aren't big enough for people, and they go ahead and lift them (which coincidentally makes them even more dangerous for pedestrians).

But yes, of course it's important to have the right regulations. CAFE regulations are pretty shitty as far as that goes. A much more sensible regulation would be to add a sales tax and annual registration tax inversely proportional to the fuel mileage of the vehicle, which plenty of European countries have done: https://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/transport/vehicles-taxation...

But the fact that some shitty regulations were passed with huge loopholes because of lobbyist efforts doesn't mean that better regulations can't (and don't) work.
> they discourage retreating from the world and ordinary secular life.

I'm not really an expect in this, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monasticism seems like it's about half the religions that encourage it and half that don't, and some seriously discourage it, like Judaism and Islam.
Similarly, works published in 1935 & 1941. For at least one, nearest copy is 1000km away.

They should be out of copyright by now. They are not.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20298653
Apple Music (the streaming service) has DRM IIRC. But iTunes used to sell DRM-laden music in the mid-2000s and about 10 years ago they stopped. You can download all of your iTunes songs as MP3s right now.
USB-C on one side of cable, magsafe on the other. Best of both worlds.
If you actually want to preserve something, it is valuable to have production of both digital and hard copies.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201616

No DRM for iTunes Store where you can buy music.

Apple Music a streaming service, and that is DRMed (I believe).
Well that's the problem then, not the icon...
Dead software is finished software.
Lots of EV cars have batteries that big.
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dist...