skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also, on what planet did anyone have a Magsafe cord over 2m? It was fixed to the adapter. The 2m usb-c cable is removable, add it with the 1m power cable and it is a further reach than any prior Mac laptop adapter I've had, though I suppose third party ones exist.

The power brick had a 2m detachable line-voltage cable, and fixed 2m low voltage cable. 2 + 2 = 4. I can sit 4m from the wall and charge using only the power adapter that came with the computer.

I'm also confused why you seem to think that Apple couldn't engineer a low voltage cable with connectors at both ends. Wouldn't that solve the cable fraying issue mentioned in your other post?

I see many people making the same argument as you: that USB-C is better because the cable is detachable from the power brick. Can you help me understand why you believe that Apple needed to move to USB-C to on the computer end in order to make a cable removable at the power supply end?

Apple could have easily had the best of both worlds: Put a USB-C plug on the cable and USB-C receptacle on the power brick. Then put both USB-C and magsafe receptacles on the computer. The USB-C -> magsafe cable could either be included with the computer or sold as an optional extra.
Maybe because our whole way of life and industrial food production is adapted to the current conditions?
This is why I always advocate for people to look into a BARF diet for their dogs, but too many people are squeamish about it. Some of the most powerful and healthy dogs I’ve seen all eat BARF.

Some seem to go to great lengths to watch what they eat for their own bodies, but never their dogs.
Raspberry Pi used to steal data from NASA lab
You find things on both sites because they both have marketplace vendors who list on both sites.
> Why? The market is dumb (in a technical sense). The state is constantly monitoring and adjusting.

The market is relatively 'dumb', but its decisions are based on human expectation and applied peacefully through voluntary transactions. The state is relatively 'dumb' too, but it's also evil most of the time, and its decisions use violence to be committed.

Also, when the market is wrong, some people may lose money (specially those that were the most wrong), but the system corrects itself. When the state is wrong, the error accumulates because the system can't self-correct.

>It’s like saying you trust a car with a brick on the accelerator over a self drive Tesla.

The market is much like a machine learning algorithm. I say the market is the Tesla AI and the state is a drunk driver.
Eh, surprisingly enough if you give people power they accept lower compensation. Even a well paid person leaves their job if there is an ineffective structure at implementing change at a reasonable basis.
We're in a tricky spot with our async code because we need to interop with both Android JNI, Objective C threads, and some diagnostics code that uses tokio/websockets. For the first pass there was a lot of "let's get this working with a modern executor and make it perfect later".

When we get some spare bandwidth we'll definitely see if we can get some extra productivity out of using &self. So much of our existing futures code is either self-less or uses some macro code to generate glue to allow us to use Arc-typed self - this is to allow a bunch of async core code to interop with these async platform drivers.

Been on a crash course getting better at architecting Rust programs for nine months. Luckily the Rust ecosystem and toolchain is getting even more amazing each time around so we can justify some work to refactor and try new approaches.
Not saying it wasn't useful for you, but I've literally never once used my SD Card reader. Having the option for putting it in would be nice for customers like you, but I'm happy it's not there for my laptop.
I’m pretty sure the top row of check boxes doesn’t appear until you scroll back up.
Hallelujah and such! Now I just have to wait for Debian to update to that ESR... D:
We took some time to learn the history of dry dog food and what modern companies have been doing, and recently switched our dog over to a wet food that gets shipped to our house every 2 weeks. It's been a great move, she loves it. And we feel better about giving her less processed food.
I don't even know why anyone would need that many cables. I've had to plug in a USB drive into my Macbook literally once in six months, and for that, I got a $5 C-A adapter that's half the size of my thumb.

I used to think that Apple dropping CD drives in the original Air was a dealbreaker, but we all know how that CDs are largely redundant. The same way, we might realize in a few years that USB-A is redundant
No, that one is about reimplementing an api
This is remarkably long on time-series statistics ungrounded in underlying causes. Take with a heap of salt.
> know lots of people who just want to hang out at a Barnes and Noble and read/explore.

Maintaining a large inventory of books is a financial burden for bookshops. For that reason, most massive bookshops in North America and Western Europe have slashed their book inventory heavily compared to the 1990s. In the place of books, they prefer to sell trendy things like vinyl records, Kikkerland products, teas, etc.. However, while a customer can spend a few minutes looking at what’s available, this kind of inventory does not offer many opportunities for “exploring”.

Also, even if customers would not order from B&N online, they might still order a book they see at B&N from Amazon, perhaps even while they are inside the B&N. Smartphones allowing customers to browse in your store and then order a desired item for cheaper from your competitor, were not yet a thing back in the 1990s when B&N was in its heyday.
Well, I don't know about 'racism' but assuming that the behavior was accurately reported, it is prejudice, and fairly blatant discrimination. I don't think people should get to be immune to criticism simply because of their race or any such characteristics, that just doesn't seem right to me.
Because the fines are not arbitrary, but progressively larger after each offense :)
A number of people have created magsafe adapters for USB-C but it's never really taken off.
Sadly, I can't delete my entry. :-(
Come on, who doesn't want an interface that takes 5 times as long to use, misunderstands what you want most of the time, and trades clicking for typing and autocorrect fails? It's great!
The big difference, though, is that most people have no use for this usage of “they” because most people don’t deal with non-binary people on a regular basis, if ever.
I believe it was as well. It was considered to be copyright infringement, but the judge allowed fair use for the purpose that Google used it for. Which means, that it would be copyright infringement to do something similar, but you might be able to use the fair use defence if someone sued you. This means, however, that it will almost certainly go to court and you will have to retain a lawyer. So unless you have lots of money (and are willing to risk it), you shouldn't do something similar to what Google did.
If I could upgrade the SSD for about the same, I'd probably just keep using this until it died. Alas, upgrading that is a bit of a faff.
I, and I'm sure many others was unaware that the FDA had anything to do with pet food - pleasantly supprised and does make sense.
You control the AC from the knobs just below the touch screen, you switch the stations by rotating the button on the stick behind the steering wheel and you adjust the volume from the same stick. You change the audio source from the same stick, switch songs from the same stick using the same buttons.

The phone connection is better taken care before start driving if you’re doing it for the first time but after that it instantly connects when you get inside the car with your phone.
To be sure, I wasn't saying it was impossible to survive well on just plants (though it's certainly a bit more challenging and risky). It's just that naive comparisons of food efficiency don't tell the whole story. You need a lot of trace vitamins which you can only obtain by 1) taking a lot of a low-density source and concentrating it (like cooking an entire bag of spinach into a souffle to get iron), or 2) eating something which has done the concentrating for you, usually over a period of time. Either way, living off plants is considerably less efficient than "meat vs wheat" would suggest.

"Plenty of fish" is a problematic addition to the diet you describe - that's meat, plain and simple, with all of the bioefficiency loss and ecosystem disruption that entails. It's just less visible because it's underwater.
I'm surprised to read no one seems to know what to do about this.
There's a simple thing you can do and that is buying organic produce. Sure, it still uses some pesticides but not all and a lot less (at least in Europe, not sure about the US).
That's exactly why companies still don't understand that you get very crappy code by using cheap outsourcing companies. If they were better developers, they would just work at a company with better compensation. In this situation you only getting people who don't have any choice.
The project is sponsored by Mozilla so I guess the best way to support it is to use Firefox...
I see many people complain about Apple products recently, but very few actually moving away to alternatives. It seems many are caught in the comfort zone of that walled garden, not to say locked in. This is why I started avoiding Apple products many years ago. Watching things evolve "from the outside" now I find it sad and funny at the same time.
I have the 2017 MacBook Pro. It did take a while to get use to the keyboard. Now I find other keyboards are mushy by comparison. On the touchbar, never really thought much about it. Seems to work okay for me. I'm amused by some of the folks that just seem to hate the later MacBook Pro's. Their hatred seems misplaced and over-wrought.
Future being stabilized to me is confusing. You still need `tokio` or a runtime to spawn them into an executor in order to do anything with them, right?

So you have a standard trait from the language officially, that is useless without a third party library?
i.e. weak credentials on computer allow for remote takeover and subsequent internal network mobility.
No, you use ssh-agent.
When I realized it, it was too late to delete the post :-(
Now might be a good time to open-source it, even if it doesn't "feel ready" yet. There may be developers who would install it today, as zip bombs are on their mind, and upgrade it in the near term, but would otherwise forget about zip vulns entirely as they go about their days.
I have an outstanding complaint about illegal collection of biometric information and they have proved less than helpful also. The ICO doesn't really function, it never did enforce the data protection act before and so far there appears to be little change with GDPR.

Justice is not just about the law as written but also whether it can be enforced, the GDPR is not enforced in any meaningful way in the UK and companies know that.
Rust 1.36 Brings Offline Support in Cargo, Stable Alloc Crate
Which authority? I observed other languages like Kotlin, Scala, Rust, D, C#, Java, C++ and saw what they have in terms of program design and features.
What alarms me even more is that the insect apocalypse is MORE urgent than climate change.
The lack of magsafe innovation really pisses me off.

Make a friggen magsafe USB port. Period.
FWIW, I think new words are easier in this case. This new usage of “they” is really confusing when you come across it. Typical usage of first person “they” implies a degree of unfamiliarity with the person in question. So using “they” for someone who is known causes you to question your reading comprehension.
While good recognition in the flaws of the keyboard mechanics, this still doesn't fix:
- no esc key (ok fine, ctrl-[)
- oversized trackpad where palms in resting position actuate it
- the "fat" keys with little to no gaps
- the weird oversized and awkward arrow keys

Seriously, just go back to 2015 keyboard/trackpad.
I'm still nursing along my 2011 MBP. It's my work truck. Everything in it has been replaced or upgraded, but it still works well. The point is that it was possible to upgrade it myself. I won't buy another Apple product unless it has that feature.

Oh, and no dongles necessary.
So uh, what is supposed to keep the Chinese dude from paying $100 to start a LLC in the US to sell through?

What exactly am I missing here?
thank god, the butterfly keyboard sucks.
Because your average HN reader understands that "unbiased journalism" is an oxymoron. Water is wet, and pointing that out brings absolutely nothing of value to the discussion.
> The 2-meters-at-most charging cables are a downgrade which will mean shorter battery life due to lesser plugging in.

You must be referring to the fact that the extension cable is no longer bundled with USB-C MacBooks like it was with Magsafe MacBooks. To me that's extremely minor. I almost used my extension cable. And the new wall charger that lets you just unplug the USB-C cable and replace it with your own is a big plus for portability because it means you can use whatever USB-C length cable you want for charging. Plus the USB-C standard means I can buy a very lightweight and relatively cheap PowerPort Atom PD 1 charger for my MBP that I keep in my backpack so I always have a charger with me even when I'm not home or at the office. In other words, way better battery life.
If you’re implying 99.99% of users of Firefox are leftists, you’ll have to prove it.
> the continuous fraction for pi is irregular

True, but there are regular generalized continuous fractions for pi [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Brouncker,_2nd_Viscoun...
That's so typical of airline booking websites!
>>Through the magic of principles? Life should not be about getting ahead, but about doing what's right.

What if our value system equates "right" with "things that help me get ahead"?
West coast experience does not match the rest of the country. Outside the largest cities and wealthy suburbs, you’d be hard pressed. Especially on an average salary.
A STEM Ph.D from India here. The subject I most liked in school was grammar. I can tell you why grammar, prosody and poetry are as beautiful (more so, imho) as STEM. But in a third world country with limited opportunities, and for the most part shitty universities (outside a few good engineering and medical schools), had I followed my "passion" as so many ignoramuses on youtube profess, instead of the more sensible STEM option, I would now be nowhere in terms of an assured livelihood.

I agree with your sentiment. I hope that in the next generation, India will become economically prosperous and following the subject of your interest will become a viable way to lead your life. Until then, the grind working on a subject that's a distant second choice cannot be avoided. I feel sorry for the kids.
Better link, with links to more specific studies and updates (including the June 2019 update): https://www.fda.gov/animal-veterinary/news-events/fda-invest...

I guess it is good that they are being transparent with the data, but it is largely useless at this point as it isn't normalized at all and is in a way self-reported. You obviously can't conclude that chicken is bad and goat is good, but you can't really conclude anything else either. One potential mechanism is the taurine levels but the set of DCM cases contain low, normal, and high levels of taurine at similar rates. I think they are doing a reasonably good job, though. There are a number of controlled (though small sample size) studies ongoing.
https://mailchi.mp/539e5a2de22c/enrollment-open-for-pre-reco...
You have to leave the avenue for porn.

Pornhub has good enough porn, can find something for most any niche.

Soon you’ll find though, if you’re really into this or that, individual studios that cater to your niche create videos with high production value that are all around better than what you dig up on pornhub.

There are marketplaces for small studios like clips4sale.com (nsfw).

Also aggregators for specific niches / topics, etc.

Maybe anti-YouTube people can look to porn for the way out?
And then everyone crucifies Boeing for their user interface bugs...
I just do log analysis, usually manually but on and off using some tool like awstats, goaccess, etc.
With Fortis, in Belgium, the government bought back the bad loans and handed the remaining of the whole bank to BNP Paribas for 1€...

There have been some kind of "understanding" betweens the finance minister of that time and a big belgian investor having stakes in BNP Paribas.

Yseterday the same minister was elected President of the european Council.
> The power brick had a 2m detachable line-voltage cable, and fixed 2m low voltage cable. 2 + 2 = 4. I can sit 4m from the wall and charge using only the power adapter that came with the computer.

You can use the very detachable line-voltage cable on your Apple's 60W (or was it 80?) USB-C charger too. The cable is removable at the power supply end.
> I know a h1b guy whose company got bought out and they fired all the H1B's, the guy sent out like 300 resumes before finally getting 1 interview.

Yeah that's by design. Companies like the ones I've worked/contracted for want the H1B visa holders is because it's incredibly risky/etc. for them to find work if they're laid off, fired, need to find another position, etc. I think the max time they even get to search is 6 months (I've also heard 3!) - would need to fact check this.

Simply put - the organic parts of the US job market literally just don't work for H1Bs. It's wrong, and I hate how they pay these guys approx. 60% (less if outsourced!) of what I make only to require more hours from them.

If you're a citizen/greenie then the US job market magically works for you hah. It's as simple as that.
Mass Surveillance in the United States
Wait, so Walmart is about to give up on a 3-year-old strategic bet because they're losing to a competitor that had a 20 year head start[1]? This seems like classic short-term thinking in an ossified organization.

That said, credit to them for identifying an area of strength (grocery delivery) and leaning into it hard.

[1]: Amazon was founded in 1994, Jet.com founded in 2014.

EDIT: Also wow, this article needs an editor. Is the CEO's last name McMillon (5) or McMillion (2)?
This assumes that Magsafe laptops will never fall off the table, even if pulled at less than ideal angles, and USB-C laptops will always fall off the table, even if pulled at the perfect angle for unplugging.
> Moving back to older USB ports really would make no sense. They're obsolete.

I sure wish I could join you in the year 2030 where USB-C is everywhere, but unfortunately I’m stuck here in 2019 and USB-A is still the de-facto standard on just about everything.

It’s nice to design a product to be forward-looking and adopting standards early when it’s foreseeable that they will soon become big. Like the Mac mini 2018, with its 4x USB-C and 2x USB-A. Got the future ports, but also the still-current ports. Awesome! But designing a product with USB-C only, for a future that is many years away, is pretty stupid, it just makes the product inferior and inconvenient in the here-and-now.
There's no mention of Walmart's recent acquisition in India[1] where they poured $16 billion to buy 77% stake in Flipkart. What's interesting is that there's no profit in sight for Flipkart (or Amazon.in for that matter). Which means they'll continue to bleed money. Especially as the Indian economy is showing signs of a major slowdown.
Maybe I'm the only one, but I have a very hard time grasping all the functionality/concepts offered by Rust.

I really like the safety guarantees offered at compile time, and really do think that we should move away from C-like languages if we ever want to control the tsunami of security flaws, but I can't stop wondering if Rust isn't (perhaps needlessly) complicating things and scaring off (non-C++) programmers.
Because if your gross margin is high enough, it's possible to invest to scale such that with greater fixed cost absorption that your net margins can improve from -1% to +2%. Many companies go through a phase of initial losses (negative net margins) when they first start up until they reach scale where the gross margins pull the net margins positive.

A competitor to Walmart would be in grave trouble (and shouldn't even try) if their gross margin was 1-3%.
The comment about ancestry was mainly intended for perspective.

For most of humanities time on earth, we didn't have the luxury to throw away perfectly fine food. We'd eat offal and insects and everything that came our way just to get by. People nowadays tend to forget that.

I quite enjoy snails, although usually with french-style herbal sauce. I also like eating insects, although (I mentioned that before) they are much to expensive.

And they'll have to get cheaper if we want to feed any significant number of people with healthy protein. Because, let's be clear about that, we're not going to do that with beef or mutton or pig. There's not enough land to go around for that, if we want to keep any semblance of an intact ecosystem. Anywhere on earth.

Feeding the whole planet with beef or mutton or pig would mean to strip down every last acre of forest and turn it into pasture or giant monocultures for feeding livestock. And that's not how ecosystems work.

All in all, I don't actually think that we see things that differently.

Have fun!

Edit: Ah, yes. The Revolution bit was a reference/joke with regards to "The Rich". ;)
Not to refer to people who are familiar. If it were actually used like this already, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
I'd like to see those performance metrics. Other than that, this is not true to the slightest, not just from what I observed, but from established performance people like Martin Thompson[1]. If you watch that talk, he mentions towards the end that they ported Aeron (originally Java) to C#, golang, and C++. The Java version was the fastest out of the box, but with some work, they were able to get the C# version to be faster. I suspect this mainly has to do with value types, which is being developed for the JVM as well.

What you're probably referring to is GC pauses. The golang GC is tuned for latency, at the expense of throughput. The JVM has several GCs, and is gaining several more like Shenandoah and ZGC, which allows you to select the GC that best fits your use case. You can tune for latency or throughput.

A lot of Java deployments these days are in the form of uber/shaded jars, which is basically one jar file that contains the entire app, and run with a single command, not much different than running a binary.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz-4co8IaI8
I’m not trying to defend Boeing and I also think the problem for 737max is a serious blow to boeing, but I suspect the only chance for massive cancellations of its orders is when ffa designates it as a new airworthiness type. Even that might depend on contract details. What also make the cancellations less likely, in my opinion is that its competitors, the A320neo has a backlog of more than 10 years at the current production rate. And the smaller a220, the former bombardier cseries, has a backlog of almost 400 planes. Besides, at 2019 France air show, IAG put an order of 200 737max in a letter of intent which is quite surprising and strange
> How do people see removing Magsafe as a downgrade?

Because it's so much easier to plug in. Get the plug close, and the magnet does the rest.

In contrast, with USB-C, you not only have to align it with the receptacle, you also have to apply considerable force. I've had my MBP fail to charge overnight because I mistakenly thought the USB-C cable was plugged in all the way.

USB-C cables also don't have the little LED to tell you that a) the computer is receiving juice (yellow or green); and b) whether the computer is fully charged (green). Just that feature alone would have save me from the not-charging situation I mentioned above.
Oof, yeah. That ridiculous anecdote throws the rest of the article under shadow.