skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can buy cheap cables with USB-C on one end, and USB-A, USB-B, Display Port, mini-DP/Thunderbolt, HDMI, Lightning, mini/micro-USB, etc. on the other end. No need to change devices, just get new cables. There are even tiny little adapters that fit on the end of your existing cables; you’ll hardly notice them.
Often is not the same as usually.
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And almost infinitely easier to stop. All we need to do is ban a relatively small number of insecticides and insect populations will rebound in a very small number of years.
I am curious when you thought FB created positive values
Let's not forget: "Think of the children!"
Perhaps, but the gardens have been here a while, probably since before the law you mentioned.
> You should use a data lake for analytic purposes, not for collaboration between operational systems. When operational systems collaborate they should do this through services designed for the purpose, such as RESTful HTTP calls, or asynchronous messaging. The lake is too complex to trawl for operational communication. It may be that analysis of the lake can lead to new operational communication routes, but these should be built directly rather than through the lake.

Source: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/DataLake.html
So you're saying I could brute force scan IPs for vulnerabilities and won't have to worry about being denied access by e.g. my ISP, CloudFlare, AWS, etc?
They got rid of Magsafe and the rest of the useful ports and added USB-C not because of the warm and fuzzy feeling it gives nerds, but because it streamlines factory production and makes the laptop thinner.

Except for the “make things thinner part”, there was the same complaint about the original iMac when they got rid of all of their ports and went USB all the way. The Macs before then had serial, ADB, and SCSI - and of course the floppy.
I can confirm the same happens with Mars products (Whiskas, Pedigree, Royal Canin, etc). They have impressive facilities for that kind of testing.

Disclosure: worked at Mars a few years ago.
As I had to Google it - apparently BARF is "Biologically Appropriate Raw Food".

I have to say I get the concept. Dogs just didn't evolve to eat the weird hard little grain-based pellets that a lot of people feed to them. Then again, humans didn't evolve to eat a modern Western diet either. Considering the number of fat and unhealthy dogs I see is starting to rival the number of fat and unhealthy people, perhaps that tells us something.
It makes them an effective because Walmart will lower prices to put other stores out of business.
Hmm. I wonder if Putin believes the Heartland Theory? It would explain why he's so against the nations of eastern Europe joining NATO.
For personal data leaking out, the rise of various far right movements comes to mind. Once a party takes total control and wants to get rid of dissidents, these data troves are even more valuable than census data was to the Nazis.

Separately, I worry about smart devices that could be used to cause electrical fires, leaks, etc at scale. Triggering many devices in a target area to do some activity that sparks even small fires allows you a decent chance of creating large fires fairly easily without a single troop hitting the ground or firing a single bullet. With the impact we saw from the Camp Fire, the government's current... issues... Etc., that's terrifying.
> Asking people not to have children is ridiculous.

Why?

> I can't believe it's even entertained.

Why?

> I meant it in both ways.

As I implied above, the second situation is utter lunacy. This seems to be nothing more than concern trolling about the perils of underpopulation.
Clover is a good idea but it also needs to be cut or ate eventually. Worth a try though.

When I mow my lawn I avoid mowing my small but growing natural clover patches.

When I do mow, all the clippings become mulch for my veggies, or mixed with leaves to compost.
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I’m excited to see how this works out in practice. The nice thing about linking lifetimes to lexical scope is that it’s easier to see the lexical structure of a program than to reason about its control flow. But if people have an intuition for the control flow that tends to match reality, this could be fine.
Can not even middle click to open a link. It breaks everything about usability.
The problem is how fast they wear and fail. Especially if you're not dainty on the keyboard.

Also, they lose their clickiness rapidly.

It would be a great keyboard if you got a new one every month. But I expect mine to last the full life of the laptop just like my 2015 Air did.
If someone can do systems programming with FreePascal/Delphi, Modula-3, .NET Native, D, Swift, Ada,...

They will be almost at home with Rust.

The biggest hurdle is dealing with the borrow checker when writing GUI code (hello Rc<RefCell<T>>), but for other kind of applications it is quite ok.

Also it speaks a lot that Ada, C++, Swift are adopting the same ideas regarding the borrow checker, even if implementation has some constraints given backwards compatibility.
Did the FDA account for sales volumes? Their release only mentions frequency of reports. It would be natural for more popular brands to show up more: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-issu...
Is a rapist or predator lurking in your neighbourhood? Now we have a drone watching him 24/7! Also it's watching you and your children to make sure everyone is safe. Coming to an Amazon delivery near you!
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You realise that there are many different numbers between seven billion and zero, right?
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I'm surprised that Apple is mentioned only once in this article...
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcrip...
> "Why do you attribute fraying and/or blackening of the cable to the connector at the end?"

It was at the point where the cable meets the connector that the fraying problem occurred. I suspect that because of the nature of MagSafe, many people tended to pull on the cable to remove it rather than actually grip the connector, which contributed to the problem.

But the real flaw with MagSafe (other than it being proprietary) was that the cable was permanently attached to the power brick. At least with USB-C, if the cable fails, you can just replace the cable - not the entire power supply!
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As a dumb workaround to just read the article, opening the print preview dialog makes it scrollable with the keyboard. Though, Ctrl-P seems to be intercepted to... search? sigh.
> These days the real wealth comes from brainpower, but you can't capture that wealth by pointing a gun at someone.

You should rethink your assumptions. Yes, a lot of the new wealth is created by technology, but ask any oil company if they would give up their oil fields, or to mining companies, agro companies, etc. In the US the biggest example is the Koch family that made a fortune by controlling land and natural resources -- the same theme repeating itself over undeveloped countries.
I also have a good friend who is a vet who laughs at people spending 5x as much on hippie dog food brands that either don’t do anything good or make things worse. He has had 4 dogs all live past 15 and only fed them the cheapest big brand name pet foods.
No problem. I don't see a problem with exclusionary platforms as long as they aren't using their extreme dominance in multiple areas to maintain a monopoly. I guess what I am looking for is a cap on wealth and power.
Reading this it strikes me again that hiring managers (men & women) have to get out of the way of women with children or women that are reentering the workforce. Personally, I always hire women on my teams and I have been doing it before the latest movements. I do it for many reasons but two reasons always seem to play out true.

First, women in general have a different way of thinking about and viewing problems, this different view forces better, more complete thought patterns from the team. This means we will wind up with a more well thought out solution in the end and we will have considered more sides of the problem. Also, women make up a large percentage of the population, so when designing systems it makes sense to pay attention to how they might process a UX differently and take that into consideration.

Second, women bring a stabilizing quality to teams, especially predominately male engineering teams.
Their sheer presence and different viewpoints removes some of the ego and bravado from positions and generally the teams find the result faster because we spend less time playing who's the silver back today.

To be fair, I have noticed that today's younger male population IMO is a lot better by not being as ego driven and they do seem to get team play better in many ways than prior generations. Although there are always exceptions, I do think that younger men today are better at being inclusive of women and really anyone that has traditionally been excluded for their views, beliefs, preferences or biology.

Last soap box item from me. One other thing about hiring women who are mothers I have learned. They are masters at organization in general, and they get chaos and how to tame it. I can take a good mother that has no degree and she is generally better at leading a group of people than a recent MBA grad. Of course there are no absolutes, but it is a pretty solid general rule.
more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_the_Unite...
> I don't want a sexy svelte fragile expensive luxury status symbol. I want a rugged capital good that will reliably allow me to work for the next half-decade.

Then why are you looking at Apple products at all? You're looking for a ThinkPad or an EliteBook. Fragile expensive luxury status symbols are exactly what Apple makes and always has ever since Jobs. Now they're just more blatant about it.
1. See sibling posters. The plastic sheathing would split, and eventually splay. Electrical tape was the solution many used.

2. North America?

3. Burnt, i.e. the cable would turn brown at the edges connecting to the power supply or the Magsafe adapter.

I'm glad your power supply still works. This situation is sort of like the new MBP Keyboard: I've never had a problem with it, but many have. With the older power supplies, I've gone through at least three replacements over 10 years of MagSafe, not counting the new ones I received with new laptops. Much less expensive and time consuming than the keyboard so not as big a deal.

My point is that the Magsafe power adapters weren't this shining beacon of perfect design. They had flaws in practice, and USB-C has so far corrected those flaws (and introduced its own tradeoffs).
Agreed. The content of the article is fantastic, but I encountered this usability issue too. Home/End didn't work either.
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This is someone who has an axe to grind against Indians and found "evidence" to support his views. Such posts can be written about any ethnic group: Irish in police and fireman, jews in banking, italians in construction, landscaping companies etc. on and on...This is an embittered, disgruntled person's rant. Hope s/he feels better after this.
Both Krushchev and Kennedy had gone through World War II. They had seen what war is. It wasn't just stuff in a history book to them. That's why Krushchev could write such a letter, and why Kennedy could understand it as more than just an academic statement.
Do you still hang onto that old VCR because DVD players won't play your tapes and it'd be a waste to throw that VCR away?

At some point we have to upgrade if we want to stay current. This is the same with any technology, not just USB-C.
Well, IMO it depends on what you get used to. After typing for one day on my mechanical keyboard, even the Thinkpad feels like typing on cardboard. Conversely, using the mechanical keyboard, after spending a few days on my laptop, feels like an old typewriter. I can say that I enjoyed my 2016 Macbook keyboard after getting used to it and I was even faster than on the old macbook. Also, another example, the 2014 model had shorter travel and crisper feeling than the 2011 model. I guess, after a while you get used to something and it feels ok. Until it breaks that is.
I assume ppl write these descriptions with at least some point.
I often hear employers complain about tons of unqualified candidates, same as recruiters send me tons of mismatching listings. So I'm thinking maybe if we both consider job description meaningful, we could somewhat avoid this
Also ensures the worst bands on average will be found there.
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The police kills more people in the USA then all terrorists combined (about 1000/year).
This may all be true, but I feel like the solution is somewhere in building on the brands strength (as a 3rd place) instead of trying to be bad Amazon.
I bet a future iPhone will. And you'll note the "most" in my comment.
Absent of the major brands like Hill’s and Purina?
It is a useful habit before making an assertion to google and see if there are statistics to be had.

War deaths are down globally, not just in Europe. The middle easy in a recent exception, as they had an uptick starting in the 2010s.

https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace
Sure, but it is hard to make a decision without knowing educational background. That level of blinding is not really feasible. Unfortunately many Bay Area recruitments happen based on IIT/Tsinghua snobbery, not the caste system as others mention. Many Westerners do not know about this. For the most part, this does not affect quality since they are the top Asian schools, and their graduates are very competent.

There's a different level of nepotism promoted by insecure Indian managers - this is to attract a bevy of cheap and deliberately chosen incompetent engineers who are reliant on the manager for their sustenance and continuing immigration status. This is where the trope of the incompetent Indian s/w engineer comes from. A good example can be seen in the behaviour of Sunny Balwani from Theranos - you can read about it in "Bad Blood".
Shower thought: We are all descendants of people who were good at killing.

Have there ever been subsequent generations that were removed from any violent conflict, in any other time in human history?
Note: You can do this in Apple's Photos.app and the analysis is done 100% locally on your computer.
About 15 years ago during my studies I dreamt of a tablet device with pen input and hand writing recognition for advanced maths. I was writing a lot during my physics lectures but almost no plain text. I would still like to have such a device, but also with a CAS integrated with the handwriting recognition. This would take the pain out of typing stuff into a CAS using obscure syntax.
I think both problems will be solved with <less oil>. Population (of any species) is a function of available energy. Every since we humans learned to supplement our food supply using fossilised energy stores our numbers have skyrocketed. Take that energy away (hello Peak Oil) and our numbers will, inevitable fall.

If we had unlimited free energy, we'd certainly still have too many people, not to mention cooking the biosphere with the waste heat from fusion processes.
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This app was released recently:

https://pock.dev/

It puts the dock in your touchbar. It's the first time in the 9 months I've had this laptop where I've actually gone "ok, this is useful" and I am actually using it. I now have the dock auto hide and I mostly use the touch bar to open apps.

That said, I'd still prefer they ditched the touchbar in favor of function keys. I'd be happy if they shrunk the ridiculous size of the touchpad a bit, and put a row of function keys in between the touchpad and keyboard as well.
I have always wanted to design and build my own house from scratch. Now I know there is no way I would ever consider doing this in CA.

Why?

When we decided to go solar we opted to build a 13 kW array mounted on a custom designed pergola built in the backyard. We didn’t want it on the roof and we needed more shade.

The project was going to cost in the range of $50K to $75K. I did all the engineering and construction. By the time we were done the project cost us $125K.

I’ll spare you the details on the six months of agony the regulators put us through. They turned a super simple project into the worst nightmare I have ever experienced.

They have all the power. There is nothing —zero— you can do about it. And you better hold a smile any time you deal with them or they will deliver vindictive rulings from which you might never escape. CA needs a reset button. This is a mess. And it will get worse before it gets better.
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The new one is also much more useful, because it charges any arbitrary USB device: smartphones, tablets, visitors’ PC laptops, miscellaneous small gadgets, ...

Also, if the USB-C cord frays or breaks, it is replaceable.

I’m a bit sad about the loss of the magnetic connector, but overall I much prefer the new chargers.

I still wish someone would get around to putting 2–3 USB-C ports in a power strip which were capable of charging laptops though.
If there is a220 backlog why is there still FUD about assembling them in Mobile?
For health concerns about 5G to be just "Russian disinformation" then Putin would have had to secretly corrupt respected scientific journals like Nature, The Lancet, Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine etc. for decades.

Why? Because Putin would at least need to fake the collective 2000+ publications on biological hazards from RF from the 240+ international scientists & medical doctors who have launched appeals against 5G.
See: http://www.5gappeal.eu and https://www.5gspaceappeal.org

(btw: throwaway10928's profile is as old as its above post (1 hr.) so apparently created for the sole purpose of misleading HN readers).
I disagree. I love the Magsafe adapter on my mid-2013 Macbook Air.

> And if the cable gets torn, I can just plug in another.

Personally, I am less concerned with the cable than I am for the power socket on the laptop, which if damaged could require replacing the whole motherboard.
This. It's not only "open Notepad and save this text file, then open it in the browser".

Leave the complexity of learning what Python is, the 2 vs 3 issue, 32/64 bit versions, appending locations to your path, CLI, etc., for when the user is ready to start with dynamic web pages.
I couldn't stop being curious, so I just ripped the blu-ray for "Big Fish", which was 28.9GB raw. After running `ffmpeg -i big_fish.mkv -c:v copy -c:a flac new_big_fish.mkv`, the resulting video was 25.5GB...indicating to me that FLAC compression is worth it, since there's no loss in quality.

FLAC is also just really well-supported pretty much everywhere nowadays, so it's kind of worth it to me regardless.
Yeah, I didn't mean to put Purina specifically on a pedestal as the only company doing it (originally I had this long list and then went ugh they'll probably know what I mean if I just put one).

Just that these "your pet is a wild animal!" emotional insecurity brands slap an AAFCO tag on and call it a day or haven't been around for long enough to have any meaningful data.

Like...animals in the wild don't live very long, yo! Maybe pretending that your Boston Terrier is the king of the jungle isn't so good for him.
Don't think you understood my meaning. Trade community and tech are all good things and can coexist with self sustaining communities
The findings in this article seem to contradict findings from other reputable sources, e.g.:

* https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace#the-share-of-battle...

* https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace#war-and-peace-after...

* https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace#counting-world-conf...

* https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2013/08/ourworldindata_pe...

Also:

* https://stevenpinker.com/files/pinker/files/has_the_decline_...
The old MagSafe stuff you could only (legitimately) buy from Apple. The USB-C stuff you can buy from anyone, and there are some decent quality cables and power supplies available that don't require you to pay the Apple tax.
China would conquer the developed country Taiwan in a second if Taiwan wasnt heavily armed and didn't have significant "allies" like the us. It would not be doing it to take over their wealth of course, it would be to cement their power.
Surprised nobody commented on this before:

> A final plea

> It's time to put an end to Facebook. Working there is not ethically neutral: every day that you go into work, you are doing something wrong. If you have a Facebook account, delete it. If you work at Facebook, quit.

> And let us not forget that the National Security Agency must be destroyed.

Personally I do agree. By the way, I got to meet the author (David Fifield) in person. An extremely bright mind!
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But at the same time you can't really admonish someone for not doing something you won't do either.
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Well, I'll take the Audi. And according to someone who was bragging about how great Tesla does it (with all their software updates I will not insist that my experience several years ago is indicative of today's UX) claimed that you need to switch to the right screen, select correct user profile, and press a button from there. And even if it is, in today's software revision, a top-level UI element that's always present, it's still located on the bloody center screen that you can reach only after you've squeezed yourself into the seat.

Seriously, I am not really going to take seriously any claims from anyone who says that a touchscreen in a moving vehicle is a good idea. This is an idea that is absolutely ridiculous on its face.
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> shell out $90 every two years

More like $15 if you don't mind 3rd party adapters...

> I would probably enjoy having dedicated Step In/Step Over/Step Out buttons when debugging

This is the main drawback of current MacBooks, difficult to debug with them.

> A reasonably spec'd MBP is now pushing $3k

Yeah, on the other hand 13" now has a quadcore i7 that is faster than 4790k. 16GB RAM limit is too low (32GB chips are available) and SSDs are way overpriced. Latest butterfly keyboard is much better than the previous variants; touchbar is the only thing that really kills it for serious developers.