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I wrote field service apps for Windows Mobile devices around 2006-2008. Windows Mobioe could do more, but it wasn’t more functional.
That man has an absolutely unmatched gift for it. It’s genuinely impressive.

https://onehundredpages.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/dont-make-f...
That is true, I guess I was thinking more of a "stole $10 from the kitchen drawer to buy candy" kind of child, not a "impersonated dad, and wired entire life savings to russia" kind of child.
There are plenty of cables that are cheap and support everything that's actually in a USB standard. They only go up to 1 meter, though. Even thunderbolt 3 isn't too expensive over short cables. They don't need to be expensive.

At the other end of the spectrum, there don't seem to be any cables that support both thunderbolt 3 and USB 3 at 2 meters, no matter how much you're willing to spend.
How are the Thunderbolt cables wired? Do they have more than the 10 USB3 wires or is it just a higher standard of cable?

Isn't USB4 = the next Thunderbolt standard?
‘Toxic Stew’ Stirred Up by Disasters Poses Long-Term Danger, New Findings Show
> they gave the kid their credit card

These systems are set up so you really don’t have much choice, though. My son will come to me and say, “Dad, I have some money from Grandma, can I use it to buy willywhacker 2 for my iPod?” I’ll say, “sure” - then he’ll hand me the $5 he got from Grandma and I’ll type my credit card number into wherever the game expects it to be and try to check the “don’t remember this card for future use” check box (if it’s there and if the game actually honors it). My kids are really good about asking before they make purchases, but a lot of these apps are designed to trick you - that’s how they make profits.
A friend's brother from India chose to study CS in Canada over the US due to the hostile political climate. He said, while he got into US schools and probably wouldn't have had any problem the idea that something could change a year or two down the line was a looming specter he'd rather just avoid.
I'd be stunned if Apple told store employees much of anything that's not public, since anything juicy told to store employees would be guaranteed to leak nearly instantly via social media.
The market equilibrium price may be the most efficient, but efficiency doesn't care about morals and ethics and "shoulds".

Human beings should be treated humanely, ascribed intrinsic value, and moral considerations should be applied to interactions with them. Neither economics nor physics cares about human rights, but systems can be built to accommodate other value systems than the defaults that stem from raw theory.

Maybe wages set above equilibrium will result in consumers losing out. That's inefficient, but not necessarily immoral. I strongly believe that utility functions are not evenly distributed. Giving Jeff Bezos $1B and 100k workers $10,000 each is not as good as an outcome where Jeff gets $500M and workers get $15,000 each; it's not even as good as Jeff getting $400M and workers still getting $15,000 each.
The mystery might not even be completely solved then, have you confirmed that it's not performing some unwanted compression to get your data over a lower-bandwidth cable?

Maybe a good indication would be to check your CPU usage before and after using 5Gb/s and 10Gb/s cables. Even then it's not a great indication, many modern processors have dedicated modules on the CPU for video compression/decompression (given how large the use case is, it makes sense).

And then you have other factors that may prevent you getting full speed:

* Connection between the cable and the device on both sides (oxidization, scratches, etc)

* Manufacturing flaws or damage during delivery/use in the cable (un-shielded areas, breakages in the cable, imperfections in metals, etc)

* Temperature - if you're pulling 20W through this cable it's not entirely impossible you might start noticing some heat, especially if it wasn't designed to take the power draw (increased heat due to power pull = greater resistance = worse signal)

My pointy is, as we turn up the requirements of these cables, just making sure they deliver on their promises will become more difficult. Most people won't have an oscilloscope that can even measure these cables anymore and just the act of putting the oscilloscope on the lines increases capacitance and changes how the signal looks.

A while back I had issues with two Ethernet cables (CAT 7 I think), both straight out of the packet, one performed at half speed and the other at full. I was tearing my hair out for a while before I realized why the network was bottle necked.
What I've noticed about all of these thermally based systems - this one, the earlier (and DIY capable) one made of fishing line, and heck, even shape memory alloys - they all seem to have relatively slow cycling rates for either the entire cycle, or one half of it.

It might take several seconds to contract or relax; or it's fast contracting, but slow to relax. Much of it I think has to do with the thermal mass of the fibers/material, and how it takes longer to relax because the heat is being dissipated slower. Perhaps this could be mitigated using an active cooling system, but that also adds more complexity and takes up more space.

Hopefully these issues can be overcome in time, as such muscles and fibers are simpler, relatively cheaper, and more compact than many other actuators.
> USB-C cables are supposed to be universal

I may be wrong here, but from what I understand this doesn't seem to be the case (DP, Thunderbolt, etc. are all "optional"). It would also mean that all cables would be limited to 50cm.
> Nobody else is complaining that the devices don't do everything.

Tons of regular consumers think that USB-C is a protocol and frequently complain that things they think should work together don’t, because they’re actually radically different ports electrically that happen to be shaped the same.

Gaming forums are rife with elaborate conspiracy theories behind why Nintendo won’t “just” release an eGPU Dock for the Switch, which it “obviously” “must” support because it’s USB-C and eGPUs have “supported” USB-C for years.

And now, Nintendo has announced a Switch Lite with no TV out (presumably they removed the DisplayPort crossbar IC that does alternate mode muxing with the USB 3.0 signal, to reduce manufacturing costs). But Joe Average Consumer is up in arms, this “must be them sabotaging it in software”, because “video out is a required part of the USB-C standard, this wouldn’t even save them any money, USB-C always physically supports video out”.

The average consumer in no way understands that USB-C is just a connector shape that a bunch of different incompatible things use. They think that, like almost all previous ports, the shape indicates a common protocol that is shared by things that have that shape. And they are absolutely complaining about a lack of what they perceive should be compatibility.
The only reason I can think of for posting to Medium is revenue sharing, and I am not interested in pursuing a career as a creator at this time. Putting up content people MIGHT find via SEO tactics, only to have people driven away via a pay wall, seems self defeating.

I suppose you can always post to Medium you and somewhere else, unless that is a violation of Medium's terms of service. Then your basically turning yourself into someone who spams everywhere, not just Medium.

So I guess Medium is for creators and spammers. Am I missing something?
I try to use and like DDG, but the results just aren't as good. For example, it seems to be completely unaware of Docker Hub. Like, pages from that entire subdomain never show up. I can search "Docker hub" and it doesn't even show up.
Let me see if I can remember my (unsubmitted) entry for that:

"He was a dork, and Stormy Knight suddenly shot the ring right out of his fingers, because she was tired of dorks, especially the kind of dork who automatically assumed that she'd marry him, even though he was a dork and she was the kind of girl who could shoot the ring out of a man's hand, hitting nothing but the ring and maybe a few miscellaneous bits of fingertip."

(Playing with the "It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly a shot rang out" trope...)
I (and a number of people I know) have a CalDigit TS3+ and it's worked extremely well for me: https://www.caldigit.com/ts3-plus

I can't speak to what else is on the market, but there's not more I'd want from this.
An interesting tidbit for non-Mandarin Chinese speakers. The sea turtle doesn’t refer to analogy of grown sea turtles returning to their home when young, but it’s a homonym to 海歸 (same sounds as sea turtle 海龜), that roughly means “return from sea (ie. abroad)”.
"The market" is not intelligent, moral, or nice to people. "The market" decided that slaves are a pretty efficient way of farming. You can hate the game not the player, but the player is still responsible at some point.
A former colleague of mine worked at Time Magazine in the late 1990s, before and after the AOL Time Warner merger.

He said, “when AOL got rid of our Snapple, we knew it was all over.” (And for context, the salary/job stability for someone at Time Magazine in 2000 is very different than in 2019. As in, the pay was very good and there was job stability.)

Similar to the soda story — it’s not that the employees can’t afford it themselves, it’s what it represents about not just the changing culture at the company, but of the financial realities.

I once worked at a place where they suddenly started to decrease the snack budget (but didn’t say anything —- we just got fewer snacks and in fewer quantities each week). In hindsight, it was an indicator of some of the financial issues happening at the company. Ironically, after some layoffs (followed by the voluntary exodus of ~20% of the company), the snacks came back full blast as an attempt to raise morale, but by then it was too late.
Welcome to HN.

A quick Google search on "Chinese grad student restrictions" yielded an article [1] from December 2018 with the headline "US Considers New Restrictions on Chinese Students". The source is the US government's own news outlet, Voice of America.

[1] https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/trump-administration-c...
I'm criticizing the approach. Government is the only entity more powerful than amazon. You want change ? Imo more effective to do it through government compared with advocating boycott.
Boeing ditches 737 Max name on new Ryanair plane
Slightly unrelated but there is something weirdly consistent about how Amazon treats their workers and people who have to work with them. I remember just exhibiting an AWS conference was the most time-intensive grueling event I've ever worked in the tech industry.

Obviously not as hard as a factory-working job, but they hold the only event in the industry that has you working from 7 am to 7 pm w/ no break if you want to exhibit.
Hmm... And so? Hardly the first. [0] Although, I admit, I wouldn't have thought that Tanzania would be so advanced in that era.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_metallurgy
One could argue that throwing horseshoes would have gotten the same following as spelling bees would have if it were at least as good/cool ;-)
Femtotech! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femtotechnology
ECommerce Automations Growth-Focused Stores Need to Be Running
Amazon botched something with the first version of their Spectre/Meltdown fix.
Why? That's akin to saying a mechanical engineer isn't worth their salt unless they know how to design and implement software. They're two different specialties that do different things. To be a good mechanical engineer you absolutely don't need to be good at making or even have tried to have make software.
I agree that the 737-MAX wasn't a good example.

My limited understanding in a broader sense (as opposed to the specific 737-MAX case) is there is still considerable debate on who should have ultimate control (human or software) of the aircraft when making critical decisions. I remember reading an article a while back that made it seem like Boeing and Airbus were on different sides of this spectrum in basic design philosophy, but I don't know how true that is.
I used to work with Unity and Blender professionally.
Not sure what this guy is talking about.
In an office, I was seated, looking around at what I saw only as the heads and bodies of the people all around me.
I don't think a mobile app developer would be too difficult to explain to someone from the 80s: they already understood the concept of computer programmers and software, and "everyone has a pocket computer" existed for decades in science fiction by that time.

A better analogy would be explaining something like social media consultants (or for that matter, social media influencers). Hell, _I_ still don't understand the user behavior underpinning the social media economy, and I've lived in it for a decade.
Note that you don't have to defunctionalize to be serializable or perform other manipulations. Tagless final style extensible-interpreter techniques allows direct-style programs to be serialized and manipulated.
Hypothetically would you rather have:

1. Someone making $100k who is able to bring in and distribute $3m in donations per year

2. Someone making $300k who is able to bring in and distribute $5m in donations per year

There's real value to having someone who knows what they're doing in the top position, and that won't always be the person willing to take a pay cut.
Just because you work for a charity doesn't mean your work is itself charity. If you're collecting money to buy food for people, you still pay for the food, you're not demanding that the growers and packagers of that food simply give it away. Thus they still work to produce the food, and still make the market rate for that work. There's no reason anyone working at any organization should work for less than market rate.
Other people pointed out the chainstays are missing, although most people are missing out why they are important. Hint: the name tells it all!

Without them, the back "triangle" of the bike would flex, causing the distance where the chainstay would be to shorten, resulting in the chain popping off the gears, or at least causing it to skip a bunch. The chainstay causes the chain to ... stay.
That's super interesting. May I ask what domain you're working in, where this sort of problem arises?
> It bothers me that people are constantly demonizing Amazon for their labor practices rather than demonizing the market conditions that have led to Amazon warehouses being a place people are willing to work.

That's about as useful a statement as "Thoughts and prayers."

To change the labor market you go after the parties you can affect. Amazon is one. There are many others on the demand side. Retaining the workforce would be a much lower % return for the investment.
I was wondering that too; Sintel, Big Buck Bunny, and Operation Barbershop all have pretty-decent animation, so it's clearly capable of doing some good stuff.
to put some data here:
https://www.iie.org/Research-and-Insights/Open-Doors/Data/In...
in 2017/2018 year, there are 363K students from China studying in USA.

https://www.uscis.gov/news/news-releases/uscis-reaches-fy-20...
2018 H1b visa total quota is 85K in total for all students from all countries.

while usually <20% of H1B visa goes to people from China.
https://www.vox.com/2017/4/13/15281170/china-india-tech-h1b-...
so, each year, it's probably around 10K to 15K students from China can get H1B visa, compared to a total of 300K students in China, that basically means about 90% students will have to go back.

it's more about fast growing number of students from China, also working in US requires H1B visa.
This seems like a nice use case for virtual credit cards with a very strict limit (just create one with $5).
> The popular dust complaints aside, a brand new machine has immediate problems for someone whose palms tend to touch the newly enlarged Force Touch trackpad during typing

This has not been my experience. The errant contact dismissal in my 2017 MBP is so good that I never notice that my hands casually drape across swathes of touchpad geography.
I don't disagree with that. Honestly I'm mostly desktop these days. I'm saving up a bit for a UHK, then will stick a Magic Trackpad 2 in the middle of it.
should be linked to another BPF book by David Calavera and Lorenzo Fontana discussed recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20412395
Since both linkedin and github are owned by microsoft it seems kind of pointless for them to compete.
Jekyll + a remote git server can do this via post receive hooks. iirc GitHub pages functions this way (where the electron app is atom + markdown preview).
Yep, I've seen it before, its part of "short timers syndrome".

Frankly I've built some tools with weird thing (a lolcode CGI was the oddest) but when you're doing something orthogonal to what your team is working on its counterproductive for everyone. The team or project manager should have a chat with that person. If they don't fix the problem, you should probably find a new gig or ask for a transfer.
Wouldn’t they all say “$10,000+” in that case? Are there really any games out there that stop you before you make a purchase saying “You already spent $100 this month. Please don’t give us any more of your money!”
They knew _that_ there was a problem, but not necessarily what the problem really was, or how it should be (programmatically) solved. Sounds similar. The answer bubbles up from the subconscious ('system 1' as some put it).
> Early aviators had some serious guts.

Here, here!

On this note, I must recommend Fate is the Hunter by Ernest K. Gann. It's a terrifying and honest account of his experiences in the early days of commercial aviation (Gann's narrative starts in the '30s).

Wikipedia citation,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fate_Is_the_Hunter
That's not really accurate. Docked bikeshare systems in US major cities use real pneumatic tires. Citibike in NYC, whatever Ford Bike in SF is called now, Capital Bikeshare in DC, and more.

It's just some of the cheap dockless purveyors that use non-pneumatic tires, and these companies have been dropping like flies. The docked bikeshares by contrast are still (slowly) expanding with their superior, but admittedly more expensive, bicycles.
Not true! Active thunderbolt 3 cables often only support thunderbolt 3.
> Recumbent is horrible to ride in traffic (you are below the height of most traffic)

Depends on the recumbent. Mine (an Azub Six) isn't - I commute through London on it every day. And cities are (slowly) getting better at keeping traffic out of the way.

> and the handling is atrocious.

How so? You have to take a different line through corners, but you turn later (front wheel is further back) so it's if anything easier to go through the kind of right-angle turns that are expected in cities.

> Yes they are maybe more efficient but they are not pleasant to ride.

That's the opposite of my experience - upright bikes put so much weight on the wrists and, uh, taint, that they simply can't be pleasant for any length of time (particularly for those of us of an, ah, less athletic physique). A certain proportion of the population is able to sit comfortably on a traditional bike saddle, but many people aren't. As scooters and e-bikes open up more of an on-ramp into cycling for a wider demographic, I'd expect more and more people to find that saddles aren't working for them.

> Shimano's hub gears need regular maintenance where traditional derailleur setup will go on for thousands of miles with only basic maintenance. Maintenance on a derailleur system is typically cleaning (fairy liquid is fine) and using cheap lubrication that can be bought for a few pounds/dollars will suffice in most cases.

Ordinary consumers aren't up to even basic maintenance - cars went through the very same progression, in the '50s or '60s it was normal for a car to require basic maintenance by its owner. Low-maintenance hub gears will continue to get cheaper (an expensive model like the Rohloff already goes for thousands of kms without maintenance) and commuter bikes are increasingly switching. I'm sure that racing bikes for enthusiasts will use derailleurs for many years to come, but for commuters who just want to get to work the hub gears are already taking over.
Because the use of credit cards over debit cards is pretty much a uniquely american phenomenon.
This is an example of Parasite SEO. You get a site with high Authority site that you can put some content on (HN/Reddit/Medium/Steemit/GetJar). Then you send a lot (100k+) spammy backlinks and then rank for some difficult terms.

Google doesn't penalise big sites for spammy backlinks compared to a fresh domain, and also with the high authority, it will rank a lot quicker.

A good way to find example of Parasites is to search "Fortnite hack". I can see links from LinkedIn, Steam Workshop and a PDF hosted on a hacked (presumably) website for a roofing company.
> I thought I read in HN many times that commingled items can be supplied from any vendors supply and not the one a buyer chose.

Correct.

> What does it mean that they track it but don't ensure that proper items are delivered

It means Amazon can send an item originally supplied by any seller, but Amazon will know who the original seller was.

> and what's the advantage of amazon to commingle.

Reduced fulfillment cost by e.g. having the stock closer to the buyer and reducing the need to ship orders from multiple warehouses (due to orders containing various different products and/or different sellers), as they have more inventory of that product to distribute throughout their warehouses.

> Another thing is if Amazon actually fulfill one buyer's sell through another's supply how is this not a fraud by amazon and how they are not sued out of business even without any fake item issue?

Both sellers have agreed to commingling. When you buy from seller A but seller B has stock closer, sellers A and B will perform a trade (automatically) where A gets one item of B's stock and B gets one item of A's stock. And then the now A's item will be shipped to customer. So at the time of shipping it is A's item, as the customer ordered.
I'll agree that a person in a CEO position of say Goodwill deserves to be paid a lot of money given their position, running an organization takes money etc.

But I personally don't have much money. I would rather give my local church food to be distributed than money to organizations. It's not that the CEO doesn't deserve to be paid, it's that I don't want my money to go to him.
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Both observations are correct. There's no need for the "rather than" either/or the OP presented, though. We can protest both.
Ahh, I had the number wrong, thanks!
I accidentally touch keys on it all the time, undoing text I've written, switching tabs while I'm typing, pressing escape and losing something, etc. I can't think of anything positive I've gotten out of it to be honest.
Depends, are they just shifting donations from other non-profits doing work without paid overhead?
These sorts of organisations are less threatening than direct threats to family, which seem to have become the norm in forcing oversea Uighurs to go back.⁰ There isn’t really anything to stop this being applied to all Chinese. I don’t know any Mainland relatives, but if I were to receive a message from a Public Security Bureau threatening the livelihoods of several randomly chosen people I would still be a little shaken, regardless of how tenuous my connexion—and most Chinese are a little more dutiful in maintaining contact with relatives. This poses an unfortunate dilemma: if every Chinese person is a potential mole, what is a liberal democracy to do?

0. https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/ordered-050920171555...
Thanks. That's a great write up.