skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they're going to use a password manager then the password manager will tell them. Your system can't determine if the user signed up with Google or is using an electronic id card either.
Why is this article attributing the San Francisco font design to Ive?
Google seems to be casting a very wide net. In the case of the SMS Backup+ app which is open source and doesn't operate servers, it does sound like Google is essentially telling people not to store their personal data. (It's an open source app that downloads/uploads things from your phone.)
Nice shout-out. Truly, the world owes railroad magnate Andrew Carnegie a huge debt.

My own hometown (only 15,000 people) had a Carnegie library.
Who do you think pirates textbooks?

Chances are, your friend would have made dimes per book while the publisher pulled $180 a pop from broke indebted students trapped in a captive market. Textbooks have gotten so costly because students are just the publisher's delivery device for the huge amounts of federal loan money awarded every year.
> I still don't trust the FAA at all. They've been sourcing out their own work to Boeing since the 787 Dreamliner

I don't think the main issue is outsourcing the engineering work out.

The bigger thing is they were outsourcing their management and reporting to Boeing as well. That meant rather than independent overview, Boeing managers were able to pressure shortcuts and cost cutting and could threaten engineers jobs who didn't toe the line.
A new kind of thinner lighter design firm?
The printing press has nothing inherently to do with worldwide instantaneous coordinated global same-day information sharing. A better analogy here would have been the telegraph, as that would at least serve as evidence on its own a rudimentary connection to whatever pithy point you’re trying to make with this reply. Unfortunately, your chosen example does not connect the dots so readily. Please clarify?
This way of thinking just isn’t aging well. HTML is the view part of the web, and it turns out users want more application-like behavior and developers want to build applications and not websites. Caveat, this is still only true for some applications. Static HTML is still fine for certain applications. Just never the ones I work on.

It started with AJAX and now we’ve converged on single page apps, which are effectively native clients where the target platform is the browser. There is simply a real demand for rich client UX and you can’t get that with pure HTML. Which is no surprise because it wasn’t designed for that. It was designed for sharing textual documents, as the article proclaims. But is that an accurate model of an application? I don’t think it is. The web has evolved to support more than just hyperlinked documents. Good or bad, that’s why people want.
Well are younger people and women more likely to know which of their friends are LGBT

Studies about various social things plus first-hand experience lead me to say "probably."
Ouch. And classy
> If Apple design -- hardware and software -- declined during Ive's rein that, to me, is evidence that Ive is not preternaturally talented.

It's possible to be preternaturally talented and still either (a) make mistakes, especially balancing priorities (say, thinness vs utility) (b) get into situations that are beyond the range where talent is a guarantee of success.
A good companion video: When you lose weight, where does it go?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOSCs-yLwno
Does anyone know of a public / edu mainframe “service” where I can shell into and explore ?
> One day, the wafer (the thing that the server chip is produced with and is extremely valuable, multi billions in the case of a server chip) went missing.

I assume you mean the mask set...
There are suggestions of starting with lots of other non-open source platforms here, but no mention of Signal. That's downright odd. WhatsApp is a fork of Signal. Why on earth wouldn't you just use Signal as your base? After all Signal open sources everything.

That aside, it's a bit of a mystery why anyone would choose a proprietary app whose owner could be in cahoots with anybody and you would never know over an open source app, given the entire point of the exercise to ensure your communications private. Facebook is even talking about monetising WhatsApp chats, and governments are talking about forcing Facebook to store the chats so they can be retrieved with a suitable warrant. Yet people still choose use these apps for private communications. Such is the power of the marketing dollar, I guess.
The reason for that is NBA fans were not specifically and generally excluded from various societal institutions. The level of public show is an effort not just to recognize inclusion but normalize it. Any attempted change in societal behavior takes concerted effort. For NBA fans (and numerous other small groups) -- there is no change needed.
It was both
Geez, from these responses you'd think Jony Ive nearly killed Apple or something. There's a lot of inevitable criticism about Apple, whether it's Macbook Pro and its lack of ports or the iPhone and it's lack of headphone jack. One aspect that I've noticed about this criticism is that it always presumes to be absolutely, undoubtedly correct. That there can't and isn't another perspective. Apple sucks. Clearly. Obviously.

For instance, take the Macbook Pro. There's two ways of viewing it. The first view is that it sucks. There's no USB A ports to plug in flash drives. There's no SD card reader. The lack of function keys is inexcusable, terrible, whatever. The second view is that it's incredible. The laptop is thin and absolutely beautiful. You can palm it in one hand with ease. When you hold it, you feel its lightness and lithe.

The main difference between these points of view is that the first perspective has prerequisites. The people who hold this view are those who use flash drives, or those who need SD card readers, or those who use function keys. Take note, this is far from the general population. I know I don't need a lot of these features on a daily basis and I'm not unusual. On the other hand, the second point of view is one of aesthetics. And as much as some may claim the contrary, we all value aesthetics to a degree. Even if some may vocalize to the contrary, deep down everybody likes pretty, shiny stuff.

And man, Apple (and therefore Ive) makes pretty, shiny stuff like no other. What I respect about Ive is just how relentless he is in his pursuit of beauty. Beauty in aesthetics, but also beauty in sensation. What stuns me is how no other computer company has figured this out. I have a ThinkPad on my desktop and it's just so goddamn ugly. It's made of this cheap plastic that feels light, yet the laptop is heavier than my Macbook Pro. The lid is too heavy, so you have to hold the bottom portion down to open the laptop. There are two unnecessary logos that are too small to be easily read from afar and too ugly to be worthwhile. The laptop just feels bad. Granted, a ThinkPad is a bit of a strawman. Microsoft's own products are probably a better comparison. To an extent, they're quite nice, pretty beautiful even. Yet they still don't have this relentlessness towards beauty that Apple has. Their products still feel like compromises. And in compromising the products have become more attractive to group A or population B. But they have lost their raw magnetism, the beauty that attracts all. Whether or not this alienation of the small groups is worth the attraction of the larger population is a separate debate, but I respect Apple and Ive's decision to stay on one side.

Speaking of, it's rather fascinating seeing how Apple can make a product feel "new" for so many different iterations. I've thought that a particular iteration was the pinnacle of this product, that nothing else would look cooler or newer or more...well futuristic. Only to be totally proven wrong by the next iteration.
"Especially if the death rat had grown by 50 percent in less than a decade."

Holy crap. There's a 'death rat'? And it is growing that fast?
You could probably do a jet engine, with the fuel and oxidizer sources switched. The aircraft would have oxidizer tanks, not fuel tanks.
He missed the point

That depends on how the certification worked. If it was an internal compliance officer or someone that had to sign off, then you're right. But it also sounds like it might just have been that Company X has to hand over some documents, in which case no specific individual is accountable for certifying accuracy.
Yeah, totally. It's our customer's data, who is also Google's customer. Obviously since Fastmail allows our customers to synchronise email and calendars with Google, we're dealing with this right now - and kind of annoyed that our customers got emailed when we were already following Google's reauthentication process. Fun times.
Presidential Debates and Social Media, or Neil Postman Was Right
tldr;The subject says it all!
Once again: you’re arguing against something that I’m not saying. In fact, you’re making my point: the changes you want to make affect other people. That’s why they disagree with you.

The “YIMBY movement” starts with a terrible, condescending name that implicitly mocks the other side. It’s as if the GOP changed it’s name to the “anti-libtard party”.

Why should the people with the money and power listen to you when you position yourselves only as opposition to a cartoon version of what they believe?

Also: every city in the world restricts what you can do with property you own. You can’t build a radioactive waste site in your backyard, or a pork rendering plant in your garage. Get over it.
Game of thrones was such a good example of how out of date DRM can get.

It was quite literally getting released months after it's release in the US in the early seasons, and only on pay TV.

With the way everyone is connected online, it was ludicrous to think people were going to wait months to watch each episode and not get it spoiled for them and/or not be able to discuss it on worldwide forums.
Yes, this similarity between a suffix that eventually came to characterize the feminine gender and the male genitive was present since Proto-Indo-European. Some hypothesize a connection. Similarly, the feminine and the neuter plural in languages that still have the neuter plural usually have the same form, since the neuter plural and the feminine both evolved from a collectivizing suffix (transform a noun for sth. to a group for sth.).
I don't think that's a very accurate description of the situation. There's no specific law against insider trading. Insider trading restrictions arose out of case law rather than legislation. Enforcement of the law changes as judicial interpretations changes, but judges don't get lobbied. The strictest that insider trading law has ever been was 2009-2013.

Prior to 2009 insider trading cases were generally clear cut situations like an accountant telling a trader about an upcoming merger in exchange for a bribe. Then Preet Bharara started pursing insider trading cases very aggressively, punishing people for being downstream of insider information, even when they didn't know the original source, and no one was bribed.

Starting in 2014 judges started pushing back on this broad interpretation of insider trading rules. Recently a 2013 guilty plea for insider trading was vacated because the behavior he admitted to is no longer considered against the law. Again, this isn't because of lobbying, but because judges have decided that the correct view of insider trading is the one that existed prior to 2009, not the broader one that Preet Bahrara pushed for. Even the laxer standard for insider trading that judges have returned to make the US stricter than most countries in enforcing insider trading.

Politicians aren't considered insiders in the traditional view of insider trading. Trading on Congressional information, which you alluded to, was legal until 2012, when it was banned not coincidentally while insider trading law was expanding in other ways.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sac-insidertrading-lee/u-...
Identity in the Decentralized Web
This graceful degradation doesn’t make sense in the application world. I know that’s not what the web was initially designed for, but this is what the web has evolved into. It’s now an application platform just as much as a document platform.
Processors are more important than ballpoint pens.
‘Stepping inside’ biological data [video]
Unrelated but I'm really glad to see someone use duckduckgo in the wild
When we are fortunate enough later to be enrolled in China's "reducation" camp, where muslims are "enticed" to eat pork and drink beer, indians are "enticed" to eat beef, and christians are "enticed" to study xi jing pingism, and all of us are "encouraged" to donate a liver or kidney, and work to produce products for alibaba, we'll know who to thank for all of that.
look for Android phones with a screen under 4.5" containing a Qualcomm 825 CPU or better.

As a happy user of mid- to low-end phones, I don't need anything in the 800 range. Decent 600s works for me. However, I'd love to have a site that allowed searching and comparisons based on maximum screen size. 'Nothing smaller than X' seems to be a near universally available filter, but good luck with 'Nothing larger than X.'

And I don't know if this is common or special to Huawei but my 5.2" Honor 8 also has a nice "drag across the home button bar" that shrinks the screen down to the bottom left or right in a roughly 4" screen size area. Very convenient for one hand use.
Check my join date, I have less than 500 points. If I was just like “foo is evil” every time foo came up up I’d have like 10^3 more.
The strategy summarized as "introduce a foreign technology to the market, absorb it, and then innovate to make China a leader" is doubtlessly true, and I am for re-leveling the economic playing field (so-called) between the US and China as much as the next person, but this article over-sells and under-informs in a few ways.

For starters, there is a throwaway graph (in that it is not directly addressed in the article) of the Top500 over time. As Patrick Kennedy at STH has rightly complained on over recent years [0], there is a rising issue with taking the lower-to-mid ranks of Top500 to mean anything at all. A lot of the systems are actually web hosting platforms, being temporarily leveraged to run an HPC benchmark for marketing purposes. Most recently he called out two Chinese companies (Lenovo and Sugon) as among the largest offenders.

My other nitpick is more core to the article: it is not as if no one in China knew anything about x86 chip design before talking to AMD. Though I will admit I am underinformed on the NatSec legalities, to my knowledge there has a similar x86 license-and-joint-venture structure between Zhaoxin and VIA for many years.

The article goes on to say:

>Chinese versions of AMD chips already have been rolling off production lines.

Which brings up some ominous analogues to displacement of other American products by Chinese manufacturing. That may be inaccurate imagery, though, as it isn't clear which manufacturer's fabs are being used for the Dhyana chips. I am no industry insider but from what I can tell Hygon is fabless (as is Huawei's HiSilicon, for that matter) and I could not find any clear information as to who is actually manufacturing the chips [1]. Does anyone here know?

I'll keep my uninformed speculation to myself, but knowing whose fabs and whose process technology actually led to working Hygon designs being realized in silicon is an important detail to fully tell this tale.

Now I have no doubt China is working to catch up in this area as well, but it seems that the entire fabrication ecosystem (including companies like ASML, not just Taiwanese and American fabs) represent technology gaps equal to x86 chip design. It takes many actors to put on this play, and laying it all at AMD's feet, or using phrasing like "gave away the keys to the kingdom" feels like a solid overstatement.

[0] https://www.servethehome.com/top500-june-2019-our-new-system...

[1] https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/hygon
There are a lot of sources of sloppiness here, though.

The question is sloppy relative to the definitions. They asked "Just your best guess, what percent of Americans today would you say are gay or lesbian?", but the measuring stick is what portion of people identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender. I would be a little surprised if people use exactly the same framework to decide if someone else is gay as they use to decide if they want to personally identify as gay.

There's no I-have-no-clue choice.

If you assume some fraction of all respondents are just guessing, and they know they're guessing based on a 100% scale, it would make some sense for the results to skew towards a choice given 75% of the scale.

Young people give estimates that are significantly higher, but a cursory search (not sure about the veracity) suggests that LGBT self-reports also sort very strongly by age (https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/visualization/lgbt-st...). As far as I can tell, the survey Gallup is using (on identification) doesn't provide an age breakout. I don't want to be too hyperbolic, but the change in the acceptability of identifying as LGBT over the last 70 years is pretty profound, and it seems at least plausible from the data that much of the difference in age groups (and, for that matter, partisan affiliation) could disappear if controlled for different identification rates among people's actual peer groups.

If so, the headline is more like, "Most Americans assume everyone in America is a bit more like their peers than they are."

This feels a little bit like asking one set of people "How many Americans have ever cheated on a test?" and asking another set "Have you ever cheated on a test?" and then publishing an article about how "Americans Greatly Overestimate How Many Americans Have Cheated on a Test"
I don't mind gays or lesbians. I do wonder where all this stuff comes from if it's such a small part of the population though. The transexual population is even smaller. How exactly does a bill become a law in the context of some cause is now the next civil rights crusade? It's not like these people have big enough numbers to get their interests on the agenda as a genuine democratic interest group that a politician would care about strongly.
I don’t think the ad part is the biggest influencer in the lack of ability for a website to degrade into a less styled form. I think the bigger factor is that people are also designing applications that run in the browser, and those make less sense to let degrade since they rely on a rich UI with lots of styling and behavior.
Techniques involved in producing pens are unrelated to producing silicon chips. You can easily have one without the other, one is not a condition to have the other.

I guess you mean China didn't have the technological framework to produce hightech products. I am not sure I agree, but I don't have numbers to support any claim.
Though, this only really makes sense on a nuclear-powered ship. You've got to store your energy somehow, and I'm sure gunpowder is less energy-dense than diesel fuel, but from what I've read one of the big attractions of electric weapons is that you can replace all that chemical energy storage with far, far denser nuclear energy.
Pirated textbooks are better than the ebook even. I wonder how they are sourced, because they are clean proofs even with markings where the binding obscures the pages when printed as a textbook. Must be from someone with access to those raw files. Plus, they are PDFs, and not clunky slow ebook files of varying proprietary format and offline availability.

Textbook prices correlate with federal loan amounts. Publishers probably take the same % of that loan limit to price their books, so ironically the tools designed to help make education affordable are being exploited to make education unaffordable.
This baffled me as well. The US may not grant titles of nobility, but it has an awful lot of other titles that are given and used similarly; in my experience typically military ranks, or former political office titles.

Also, Ive's title may not have been awarded by the US, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be acknowledged in what is an official piece of communication from one of the worlds largest companies.

To be facetious, one could also say that it is a surprise to hear outrage at the use of 'Sir' given that everyone in the US seems to call everyone else 'sir' or 'ma'am' all the time.
Sounds weird to me too. I've been using FF as my main driver on mac, high sierra then Mojave and I never had this problem.
If anything it's google chrome helper that often becomes crazy eating my CPU cycles for just 4 tabs.
The govt, rightly so, doesn't interfere with every single private deal. While the US govt is wising up to the threat China poses to the West and is blocking IP xfer, it's a balance that needs to be struck.

The US doesn't have China's system of rigid state control, and that's a good thing.
People raised as rural peasants have a lot more stamina for doing hard agricultural labor than people raised in suburbs without a manual-labor background. Making this observation isn’t “racist”.

If immigration were blocked, just raising agricultural workers’ pay wouldn’t be enough to fill all of those jobs. But raising those jobs’ pay (e.g. by raising the federal minimum wage and enforcing it) would be a good idea anyway. Immigrant farm workers should still be paid fair wages.
The Muse (YC W12) Is Hiring a Senior Data Engineer
I agree that the decision to use the bomb wasn't purely (probably not even mostly) based on the desire to limit loss of American and Japanese life. I'm also not saying I necessarily agree with the decision, but an extended siege would surely have caused massive food shortages. By the end of the war Japanese daily rations were already barely above the minimum long term daily requirements, and by 1946 even with US aid, rations were at 65% of minimum daily requirements.

I don't know how many Japanese would have died because of a siege, but it seems likely that if the siege took an extended amount of time, it would be more than died during the bombings.

Additionally in the alternative scenario where the Soviets invade, you'd still likely have a higher death toll. And there is also the continuing deaths of Civilians and POWs in Japanese occupied Manchuria that would have continued until the Soviet invasion was successful.

I don't think I could order a nuclear attack or support a politician who did--but from a purely utilitarian perspective, it's not an easy decision.
I am on my 3rd iPhone SE and I have a 'new' one for when this one dies or becomes unrepairable.

I've been pretty vocal in my praise for it that my daughter choose it as her first phone despite the other options.
I think that prohibiting user authorization of data access is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. I approve of privacy, but at the end of the day, my data is my data, and part of data ownership is having the freedom to share my data with whomever I choose.
Precautionary principle

Read it. Understand it. Apply it.

The burden of proof is on you/FAANGs.
I started seeing the utility of checklists in the military where we have big books of checklists (battle books or tactical aides) carried in your pocket. The contain everything from how to put in a section in attack to how to call in a helicopter. They are really incredible and so useful under pressure.

It gave me the idea to great a free open source mobile app called Umbrella. It's a free, open source app with dozens of best practice lessons and checklists on digital and physical security. The idea being to help people at risk (travellers, journalists, aid workers, activists etc) have somewhere to turn to in an emergency. Everything from sending a secure mail to dealing with a kidnap. You can read more about it at https://www.secfirst.org or try the checklists for yourself
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/umbrella-security/id14537153... or
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.secfirst.u...
Unapologetically clear.