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It's not ok to turn this thread into yet another argument about immigration. The trouble is that the larger, heated controversies take over everything else if you let them—they are like black holes that suck everything that comes by into their gravitational fields. Unless we want a site that is only about generic flamewar topics—which we don't—the only solution is to avoid the black holes. Then we can discuss the much smaller and more specific topics that are more likely to gratify intellectual curiosity.

That doesn't mean immigration isn't important—it's obviously much more important than most topics on the site, which is part of why we have to moderate it this way.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
it isn’t fair to: Expect Apple’s Butterfly keyboard to be perfect in the first iteration (2016 models were the first ones to get them).

We're not talking the first iteration of the concept of a keyboard on the first iteration of the concept of a laptop. This is nobody's first iteration. This is the final iteration of an essential component of an ultra-high-end product. You can expect them to be perfect, you should expect them to be perfect, and if they are not perfect you should expect them to fix them - quickly, and once.
Battery swelling on my XPS 15 is so bad that it completely detached the touchpad and made the keys at the center of the keyboard very hard to press

Getting customer support is damn near impossible for 2 reasons. 1. The serial number of my XPS comes up as Precision Tower in their systems 2. I moved continents since purchase and I'd have to transfer the ownership to myself here in NA, except turns out the owner, in Dell's database, is still the Amazon reseller I bought it from 3years ago

Terrible terrible experience with Dell. Switched to a Pixelbook which I love and handles my Sublime-based environment well enough
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Wow, what a poignant paywall.
This article does such a horrible job of reporting on suicide. http://reportingonsuicide.org/
>$75 bespoke ice cubes

Yep, this place needs to die before it summons Slaanesh.
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There's a saying in news media: If it bleeds, it leads.

The news media loves a hero and loves even more to tear the hero down. The former sells to fans, but the latter sells to everyone.

It would be bias if they were somehow going above and beyond, but look around. The most successful companies in the world receive immaculate coverage when they so much as blink too loudly.
We do not yet have the ability to share the same set of contracts across multiple machines, but it is on the roadmap. This would include using the same set of contracts on desktop and mobile devices, which will open up some intriguing use-cases.
Where are you? Here in the Midwest, I have seen a handful of personal Macbooks (mostly sales guys, who also can be seen with Surfaces/iPads) but all the engineers have Thinkpads, Latitudes, or ZBooks.
Yes, this is a very effective technique.
Not sure what meaww.com is, but Daily Mail is the original source and is not generally considered to be reliable, for what it's worth.
GPS-disciplined oscillators are based around full GPS receivers that decode the GPS signals and compute time from them in the usual way, then use that to steer the local oscillator. I think the better ones have a fixed-position mode which makes use of the fact the ground station doesn't move to get slightly more accurate timing, but otherwise they're basically the same as any other GPS receiver.
Can you really compost cardboard? I thought it contained toxic chemicals.
1836 called and they want their wildcat banking back.
Today I installed the latest version of bfg and was shocked and disappointed to find an political message printed out to my console each time I ran the tool. Looking through closed issues and pull requests, it isn't easy to see that I'm not the only one that is irked by this change. I wanted to bring attention to this because I feel that politics has no place in open source software like this. Sure it the creator has the right to put this into his software, but maybe if enough people voice distaste or dis-satisfaction, he will remove the message.
:)

I always try to just stick to the original headline title, for what it’s worth.
I tried the 2015 model for 1 year and ended up selling it. The CPU and GPU ran too hot and the fans were audible too often. Also impossible to use on my lap.

Since I don't need much mobility these days I bought an iMac 5k and it was a great decision. Best Mac I've ever owned. When I need to move I have an old 2014 13'' MBP lying around.
For sure? Not sure that HLS is bound to AAC (though that’s the standard) as it’s just the container format. Could be transmitted MP3 10s chunks split and added metadata encoded by the distributor. Either way if you’re right about the JIT and buffering it would be trivial to stitch some ad markers in at that point.

But I’m sure independents/lower-volume shows at the very least operate like you’ve said. Makes sense.
Similar view: If there is no RSS feed then it's not a podcast.
I didn't include the followup statement from the SpaceX press release : "Titanium has been used safely over many decades and on many spacecraft from all around the world."

The implication being that there's just no way SpaceX could have suspected this problem because structural titanium use in a spacecraft would inform decisions regarding its use in contact with corrosive propellant.

Obviously, this was written by a PR person, not engineering management, but it plays to an image of SpaceX being a company to handwave past the hard-earned lessons of decades of "Old Aerospace" companies. They should be more careful in releasing these kinds of statements.
> That’s leaving aside the fact that the whole point of this clause was to limit the power of slave states, and it would’ve been better for purposes of this clause to not count slaves as people at all, to further reduce the power of the south.

Always found the irony of this fascinating. Similarly, women and non-landowners were each counted as a "full person" for the purposes of the census, despite the fact that they couldn't vote, which means that states with higher amounts of income/landowning inequality or a statistically significant female gender disparities would put more voting power in the hand of rich white dudes.

One could imagine some horrific historical dystopia where corrupt rich polygamists are bringing in more women and poor people into their state to gain more power in the House.
It's not worth wasting energy. Why care if they all agree to do "X, Y and Z" bad ideas unless you have a bunch of equity in the company?

If you're a programmer actually building the thing - I say adapt whatever they tell you to do so it makes more sense. I often change things to make it more palatable, then when they ask me why it doesn't work exactly as originally designed I explain how I figured out the original version was a bad idea while working on it.

They hired me because I know my field and what works best. If they can't trust me to implement things how I see fit, then why should I trust them to make good leadership decisions?
RMS agrees to explain something for a site called "opensource.com". What a time.
> So the problem will apparently never be fixed, at least until an Apple employee happens to want to visit a friend who lives in the Enclave at Prestonwood and realizes they can't get there.

Or you can report the issue yourself in-app?
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Agree but I believe this can be formulated better

> when one party is much more likely to be injured or killed than the other.

the focal point to me is: "When one party's mistake are much more likely to endanger people (both others and themselves)"
Where my intention is to focus on how the car is the dangerous element of the equation rather that on how the pedestrian is the one at risk. I personally find it a more solid building block.
The hard bit is coming back down.
> Ask Google, which is actively encouraging people to write web sites that only work on Chrome.

Do you have an example of this claim? I'd be interested to see Google saying anything of the sort.
Someone should tell them about adversarial networks. Fighting each other... helps.
No mention of Stanton Friedman, how sad.
I don't know what you mean by "this kind" of surveillance. What was reported was they were going to give the Chinese government the ability to remove links from their index. Any business in China has to operate in accordance with the local law. Yes, thats probably incompatible with the morality of some people, but doesn't sound like some crazy surveillance scheme to me. Also, as an aside, nobody (especially in the west) seems to be willing to take a personal hit on this. Have the people who oppose this stopped buying stuff from China? Buying Chinese made goods is just sending more cash to the Chinese government. Has Google stopped manufacturing their phones in China? Has Apple or anyone else? Its all fake concern and useless posturing for PR as far as I am concerned.
coming from someone who is not a fan of Siacoin from when I last used it in 2017, I think you miss the point

what I like and want is encrypted distributed data that I can store and retrieve quickly and cheaply

I also like an economic model that aligns the hosts to maintain the data, and how the proliferation of that economic model lets me invest in its growth from merely being a passive non-productive speculator, and finally I would like a clear easy to understand ROI from being a productive host: can I subsidize the cost of my hardware that I'm already interested in having.

any cryptocurrency can do that, but how the software uses the cryptocurrency is a key factor, and unfortunately we can like an idea and team but get forced to accept an economic model that has flaws

so for me, it is easy for me to understand why teams want to promise the sky against S3, and it really isn't that relevant to using this securely. like, you might be able to subsidize all of your hardware and provide a service without worrying about if the SIA comparison is accurate because its really not relevant.

but finally, it turns out that unmonetized and non-cryptocurrency based decentralized cloud storage networks are good enough! so I stick with IPFS.

hope that was useful to someone.
Well there's this whole thing about fighting terrorism and money laundering, and individual rights and small government, etc. In this context it's odd for the government to be picking winners. We are also the leaders in crypto. Many US citizens are involved in crypto. It's almost as if the government had a stake in GM and so started making rules against Ford under the guise of public safety. Doesn't it seem like this should have zero effect on policy decision? If not, shouldn't the rest of the world then also be looking out for their own interests and make sure that the dollar reserve status is undermined? The latter isn't beneficial to the US, so framing it that way seems like a bit of a slip.
The downside to making this visible in-game is people will then iterate their cheating tools until the game doesn't detect them.
iOS-simulator-GIF: A bash script to record iOS Simulator GIFs
Hi HN! I created a simple bash script to record iOS Simulator gifs for macOS. That's something we're using quite a lot in my current project and I took the chance to try and learn a bit more of bash programming. Let me know what you think

https://github.com/fjcaetano/ios-simulator-gif
They had stores??
The spinning camera was probably Lidar.
https://github.com/fjcaetano/ios-simulator-gif

Clickable link ^
As I write this, I'm using a ThinkPad T480s while I get the leaking battery on my 2015 MacBook Pro replaced. The ThinkPad is a nice machine with a great keyboard. A lot cheaper than the MBPs too with comparable specs. I loaded the Windows Subsystem for Linux onto it this morning and then downloaded Debian Stretch from the Microsoft Store. This all took one command line command to enable WSL and then two clicks to download and install Debian (other distros are also available). So far it seems pretty nice. Not the same as running iTerm and Tmux on my MBP but this will do in a pinch.

As I was dropping my laptop off at an authorized repair shop, I went and typed on last year's MacBook they had on display and was reminded why I may never buy another MBP -- the butterfly keyboard. There's hardly any keyboard travel at all so it was like typing on concrete. If I wasn't looking at the screen, I'd never be sure if my key presses registered or not. If Apple doesn't bring back the scissors keyboard I may never buy another Mac. Ever. Between the butterfly keyboard, that stupid touchbar, and the lack of a physical escape key, Apple has ruined the MBP line for (non-Apple) web developers like myself.
Can you explain more about the rewrite from Lisp?
It’s also interesting that the NYT is the only online news site to almost always have at least one article on the front page of HN.
There's an interesting argument to be made that by embracing the cheating market wholesale, it divides the cheating community into separate units. Those that are happy to exploit games publicly and share code, versus those that would prefer to hide and benefit from it financially or otherwise.

In that sense, encouraging people to come forward with hacking tools means that you'll have a stronger awareness of how they're used. Then if you were to leave the less destructive methods of hacking alone, you could design your detection methods to explicitly examine those avenues of exploitation and maintain a clean separation of people who use outside tools and those who do not.

It's an attempt to combat the constant arms race of hacking by deflating it a bit.
They all have SLAs, but the "tier" at which a problem happens dramatically affects how the SLA pays out, or if it pays out.

For example, within the AWS Compute SLA you linked:

> Unavailable is defined as: For Amazon EC2 (other than Single EC2 Instances), Amazon ECS, or Amazon Fargate, when all of your running instances or running tasks, as applicable, deployed in two or more AZs in the same AWS region (or, if there is only one AZ in the AWS region, that AZ and an AZ in another AWS region) concurrently have no external connectivity.

Get this: Single EC2 instances have an SLA of 90%. Seriously. Its in that article.

In other words; AZ outages rarely see pay out, because you "didn't architect your cloud correctly". And we've been told some nicer variation of this when asking for a reimbursement a few years back. You do have to ask, you know. They could literally automate this process, but they don't. Whatever.

Let's also be clear about the language here: There's no "pay out" at all. What happens is, you get the amazing privilege of not being forced to pay them for a product that didn't work.

That ties directly back to the article; they pay out based on their architecture and SLAs, which are not your architecture and SLAs, unless you perfectly match your architecture to their architecture, which will have gaps, and then you're bought in so hard that you could never leave if you needed to.
> “I think there is a misconception about [COBOL]. A misunderstanding about it as far as it being old. Usually in technology we think because it is old it is irrelevant,” he said. “But it’s still the fastest processing language out there.”

I thought this comment was born from naivety or bias, but after reading up on it a little further, it appears that it's true or close to true for many cases.
the repo has 5,000 stars, this deserves 5,000 upvotes
Apple uses a variety of providers in addition to TomTom, which they list here: https://gspe21-ssl.ls.apple.com/html/attribution.html
What?

38 frames * 8 (or however many possible characters there are.
>It's like adding unit tests AFTER you've written everything. Just don't do it.

Funny you say this, because that's exactly what I do :)

I don't start unit tests on a new project/library until I flesh out most of the major components as I'm sure I'd be rewriting things multiple times as I'm iterating in the beginning. My guess is this method isn't uncommon....
My understanding is that part of COBOL's longevity stems from its particular handling of fixed-point math being a specified requirement of various financial contracts. Odd to see this write-up not mention fixed-point math, actually.
Off topic, but: I purchased three refurb 6TB HGST He HDDs in Jan. from a reputable shop. All three failed last month. I was so happy that the shop completely refunded all of them because the warranty is generally very limited on refurb HDDs. Normal RMA is 5yr on this specific model.

There's no way refurb drives are cost effective for these environments.
In a perfect world, where all users are smart, sure.

But we're living in a world where there are still people running unpatched Windows XP boxes still vulnerable to MS08-067.

If it weren't for Windows automatically installing updates, I imagine at least half of home users would still be vulnerable to Eternal Blue.
As a DBA who works with both MySQL and Postgres, I strongly prefer managing recent versions of MySQL for large SaaS systems.

Postgres has significant issues with vacuum and index write amplification, as noted in the Uber blog post a few years ago - nothing has changed.

Additionally, there is no clear compliance story regarding schema configuration, grants and restricting COPY with Postgres, while those are no-brainers with MySQL.

If you're an AWS user, then MySQL has more advanced managed options as of 2019.

In summary, Postgres is fine if you don't have paying users yet - any database would do fine.

But there's a reason Google and Facebook have stayed with MySQL, and that's because it is manageable at scale whereas Postgres simply isn't.

On the other hand, if you want to use Vertica (derived from the Postgres code base) as a column-store database, then managing it is the same as Postgres.
The SLA is just a metric used to negotiate discounts/credits next time around.

When I was in ops, thinking the world was going to collapse and we were all going to get fired if a service went down, I didn't really get it. It's just a negotiating tactic. It's a cost of doing business.
I haven't put up a robots.txt in years, they are utterly pointless, IMHO. Even google doesn't honor them(nor did any of the others, like Alexa, for many years now). Read you web server logs, you'll see googlebot crawling pages it should not, if it were honoring your robots.txt.
At that price per GB, could you make money by setting up some Sia nodes?
That's what I think, too. We could see much better environmental gains long term from a real serious push to make things more repairable so that we don't have people buying new cars as often as now.

Obviously, the incentive structure isn't set up to make that make sense for auto manufacturers, of course. Look at a Tesla, it's even less repairable than a normal car!
I found some obscure music video that had like ~200 likes with no downvotes but it didn't lasted long... not idea if it's bots that downvote stuff or just weird people (hate the word "haters" but that's what I mean)
What's the point of submitting paywalled content?

Edit: This is an honest question, looking for an actual answer. Is the point just to comment on the headline?
I've never seen an issue with seemingly respectable sources making such strong conflicting claims on both sides. I've definitely seen multiple sources on here from people with seemingly more technical backgrounds than this author saying this is definitely something to worry about. I have no idea what to believe here.
>It really makes one wonder how they missed this one.

Well, people keep on buying the darn things even though they know what they're getting into.
Me too. Given the importance of the part and what would happen should it go out during operation do to cutting corners.
As done framework time some other.
Please make your substantive points without being snarky on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
http://archive.is/c7gjH
World Rally events?
How precise does the conspiracy theory have to be for you to consider it verifiable? I'm sure if you took a cursory glance at some more eccentric publications from the time, you'd find people saying things like "the CIA is experimenting with mind control technology," "military planes are spraying U.S. cities with toxic materials," and "the Department of Defense uses false flag attacks to manipulate public sentiment."
That is strange. I bought a strip of four (five?) CR2032 lithium coin cells and they arrived in the plastic envelope but the distribution center is close enough to Davenport FL that almost everything comes by way of their own courier, which I have to whinge about because even though $DAY_JOB is half the distance to Davenport than $HOME almost nothing is next day to $DAY_JOB but everything is next day to $HOME. I suppose only Jeff knows why.
The issue is freedom of information act requests where disclosing this information in mass outside of court cases.
Paywalled content can be a lot better than ad-supported content.
A small point on your portfolio:

Your portfolio should show products rather than projects. Not everything needs to be complete, but you should be able to show that it does something.

Ideally, your resume is linking straight to a live demo, and that page links back to the repository. Besides the fact that many devs will be too busy/lazy to read your source, everyone will be more impressed and interested in an actual thing they can play with.

If you wrote a library that doesn't do much by itself, at least give it a README and documentation, and publish it to a repository. I'd rather see a link to a package repository than a git repo. (And, of course, fill in the metadata so I can get back to your git repo.)

(And, really, if you set up a lambda in AWS running your library, your page can just have some input fields and a button to call the functions and show what your code does.)

The point of all this is to take the time to put in some extra polish that shows that you not only have ideas, but execute on them.
Unless you don't consider a lot of touchscreen Windows laptops as modern computers. Most touchscreen laptops with Windows/ChromeOS are 4:3 screens.
That's not true. If you get a month refund for a day down, you can still come out ahead. Even so, it's not reasonable to compare to perfection, you should compare to other options.
I'm not a fan of the passive-aggressivity of this. I'd rather somebody explicitely say "sorry Y, can you please let X finish?" and talk to Y one-to-one if it's a recurrent issue
It would have been pretty interesting if Apple had integrated with OSM instead of building their own solution. Kind of a pie in the sky concept, but I still would have liked to see it.
I have trouble understanding how pyramids would be good landing pads. They seem a little too pointy.
Do you guys think the world would be a better place if platform owners are not allowed to use their control over the platform to gain an advantage in adjacent industries? If this level of vertical integration is deemed monopolistic and illegal? Yes Netflix would have to divest its content business and Disney would have to divest its streaming business, Sony and MS would have to sell their game studios and end their third party exclusives. This way platforms can compete on their own merits as platforms only and content compete as content only. The consumer would win by choosing the best platform and the best content without being forced to bundle bad platform and good content or vice versa.

The situation ATM seems awful.
I am sure.

It would be an interesting case for the Supreme Court. Did you do something illegal by allowing SIA to store encrypted data on your hard-disk not knowing what it was?
The solution to this is obviously not to change your procedures and your service, but to change your product to make misconfigurations harder to apply and to provide the user with detailed manuals, instructions, warnings, confirmation buttons, etc.
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