skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experience has been similar. I upgraded from the 2014 MBP (which is a glorious machine) to 2018. The day I got it, I realized it had issues with the keyboard (several keys repeating). Took it back to the store, got a new device. The issue wasn't as widely acknowledged back then. When I complained to the store that I was experiencing the same issue again, the gave me yet another device, same issue. Went back to the store and they got annoyed at me. They complained that none of their other customers reported this issue.

They accused me of installing apps that were causing this issue although I had nothing of that sort installed. I am a web developer and like to think that I know computers well enough to not install sketchy apps. I had installed all the same apps that were in my 2014 MBP so when I confronted the store, they just gave me a random reason and sent me away. I got so fed up trying to convince these people that there was an issue. I ended up buying a Magic Keyboard and using that instead.

Mind you, all this happened in India where Apple doesn't have a direct retail experience. 3rd party retailers have zero training procedures in place. Their staff isn't nearly as knowledgeable as their US counterparts about the products they are selling. This whole keyboard fiasco has been my worst Apple experience.
I'm sure there are people out there that are impervious to feedback and believe they have all the answser.

I've also seen countless of young engineers starting to welcome managers' feedback and "showing" their will to improve. Then, gradually,noticing their management incompetence (technical and/or managerial) and start "saying" stuff to avoid confrontation.

Self reexamination and accepting feeback is great to improve but what if the feedback is just plain wrong or contradictory ?

A lot a "sayers" in your team can be a red flag for your management skills.
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It's also funny, though, how selectively we remember things.

Only a few years ago Mac multi-monitor support was horrific. You couldn't straddle two screens with a window. And heaven help you if you were dealing with full screen, your second monitor was effectively disabled.
They're barely even hiding the fact anymore they want to provoke Iran so they can invade and change regimes.
Hövding is exciting because it's a new approach rather than an iteration on old helmet designs.

They claim you still have a 90% risk of head injury with a traditional helmet at 25km/h, but only a 2% risk with Hövding:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yOAkMZpbww

That's a pretty significant improvement if true.

The only reason I don't currently own one is that they say it's not as ergonomic for those using road/drop bar bikes. Presumably this is due to the weight of the air canister and battery in the pod that sits behind your neck, since the riding position is less upright.

If any road bike users wear Hövding, I'd be interested to hear about your experience.
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I can read email at home, at work, on my phone, on my tablet, on any other device that I can access.

My hard disk crashes? No problem, everything is in the "cloud". My computer crashes? I buy a new one and am up and running in no time without installing too much.
45 headers in two weeks were enough. Holy Jesus! Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I probably won't heal but maybe I'll protect from damage.
I had no idea that existed. That would've been interesting. It'd be fun to see something like that in the future.
Every few months, Google's Android team writes a new blog post patting themselves on the back about how good Android security is thanks to Play Protect and that you almost don't need security patches because Play Protect is that good.

And every time I call bullshit on that, but sadly it happens on Android fan forums, so few take it seriously, and instead prefer to cheer on for Google.

Play Protect is nothing but an antivirus, and as such it's as good/useless as all the other antiviruses. In other words, it won't catch the vast majority of new malware (because obviously malware creators would first test their malware against Play Protect before launching it into the wild, and release it only if it bypasses the antivirus). It's only really good (if that) at preventing other users from getting infected with malware it already knows about.
Had the same with my work MBP. Started about 6 weeks into using it, went to the Apple Store and got told it would take at least 14 days. Asked them for an exchange device so I could keep working and they almost laughed at me.
My guess is they installed an MITM tool which uses fake certificates to decrypt Https.

Not much data in or out of Google is plain http anymore.
You are weighing the tentative results of one study equally against many others saying helmets reduce injury.

The study is also weird in that in the course of being passed by 2500 vehicles, he was struck twice. That is an astronomical accident rate that leads me to think his test was abnormal in some way.
Alibaba's Jack Ma says 12-hour work week could be the norm
He shows wind energy has horrifically low energy density. He also shows the immense infrastructure required for one wind turbine.

A comparison with nuclear is left as an exercise for the viewer. Perhaps it is made explicit in the full video.
Can someone explain why this is the issue causing so much resistance? I know China's a totalitarian dystopia, but intra-country extradition seems like a perfectly reasonable thing even if there are "two systems" within that country.
I remember having had problems with exFAT on linux. Did it not work at all, or did you have to use user repos to get exFAT working?
i have to ask what exactly draws you to them specifically? im not familiar with their OS but i assume its just a debian based linux. the systems themselves dont look particularly impressive if you ask me, the casing looks chunky and a bit dated on most of them (they remind me of the sort of thing Acer were knocking out about 5 years ago)

i may be biased as ive had a preference for them for some time but id argue youd get a much better experience spending that money on a thinkpad, you get the best keyboard available on any laptop, solid build quality and a very good warranty program
The amount of missed lunches, late lunches, and lunches eaten in the meeting suggests otherwise.

I think at best we had a break for lunch. At worst it was "just few more minutes and then we'll be free for lunch"
Being well-versed in the products they sell is the role the shopkeeper used to have.
>When did thing go so horribly wrong?

When every company and their dog decided their content needs an app. Instead of using the nicely standardized thing called http and web browsers.

That moved us from http straight to corporate technical fiefdoms with no control.
True, but it'd at least help to verify what sort of helmet would best protect pros and semi-pros. I'm sure there are plenty of keen amateur cyclists who often ride in similar conditions.

And, on the other hand, cyclists who are casual enough to crash very differently to the pros probably wouldn't be looking up in-depth analyses of bike crashes when choosing a helmet either. They'll just buy the second cheapest one.
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I've always been amazed at how important it appears to be to lie about selling crap. I find that invariably, businesses who compete on price make it iff they say it's good stuff, even if everybody knows it isn't.

Eg Holland has a number of cheap shoe chains. Schoenenreus and Scapino both breathe an air of cheapness, and one went bust and the other is struggling bad. Their direct competitor Van Haren sells exactly equally crappy shoes, and everybody knows it, but they are thriving, simply because the store feels like a proper high quality shoe store.

Or take ALDI, which competes on price and nothing else. In every country I visited has the words "the ALDI principle: low prices, high quality" printed on every storefront and on every page of their paper promo flyers. Granted, little of what they sell is "total crap", but little is of truly high quality either. Their bread goes stale faster and their coffee is bitter. This surprises nobody.

It appears to me that this weird dichotomy is the only way to successfully compete on price. Make it perfectly obvious that you're cheap and of mediocre quality at best, while loudly shouting that the quality is high. Nobody believes you, but nobody wants to buy from you if you're honest about what you're selling.

I find this surprising because blatant lies don't generally work that well in the long term, so why do they here? I generally hate dishonest messaging. Why don't I mind here? I buy ALDI and Van Haren all the time.
Tom Clancy and the Dubious Comfort of Boomer Dads
"I don’t think my app is deceiving Google Play Store".
I feel like there's more to this story.
> At any rate, I think helmet use is required for kids in the Netherlands.

I'm from the Netherlands, and unfortunately wearing a helmet is not required for anyone.

I don't always wear a helmet, for me it depends on the ride. I wear my helmet when I ride fast or through a busy city.
I know, and I can't follow your conclusions. (Btw. come to Handmade Seattle, he will give a talk there ;->)
MIPS and RISC-V based working systems are relatively hard to come by for early software porting. However, you can buy second-hand POWER-PC and Apple PowerMac systems cheaply.

Will be interesting to see if a market for refurbished PowerPC systems will emerge to cater to software developers.
Successful companies know that UX design is never done
From the article: “The Talos II server with dual IBM POWER9 22-core processors ended up delivering performance around that of the EPYC 7551 previous-generation Naples processor. But overall the Talos II POWER9 had quite a respectable showing compared to the x86_64 CPUs.”

Not exactly int the “not at all” range imho.
I have a hypothesis that fracking sometimes causes impermeable rock layers to become permeable, and dissolved methane ends up in water underground. Over years, that water ends up in tapwater/rivers/oceans where it isn't under pressure, and the methane comes out of solution.

Anyone who knows the field better able to comment on my hypothesis?
Every shell can make its own version, but here's a wrapper in fish which I named pstl:

eval (echo "pastel $argv" | sed 's/ | / | pastel /g')

Now you can

pstl "random | mix red | lighten 0.2 | format hex"
You could just imagine a working keyboard.
My money is on the gaming battery life thing triggering some automated test

Sorry to hear mate. Seems quite unreasonable
Well, it's still worse than 10 times as bad because there are elasticity effects. You can see this on your nose. There is a force you can use to squeeze it that won't do anything but much more and you can break the blood vessels in it and give you a bruise. You could do that first thing many times but there's a threshold effect.

Or a balloon. It recovers from lots of pressing, even repeatedly. But there's a pressure from which it's never going to recover and crossing that threshold has binary outcome.
If I'm understanding correctly, you seem to be criticizing negative failings rather than the much more dangerous and trust-dampening positive failings. I could also name plenty of things beyond not anticipating the Soviet Union's; e.g. improper response to intelligence warning of a possible attack pre-9/11. I think failing to predict or be aware of something is very different from proactively claiming something which turns out to be false, as with the Iraq WMDs.

The question that's being asked here is not how often intelligence agencies actually gets intelligence or gets or recognizes accurate intelligence, but how often an intelligence apparatus proactively provides a report or claim which isn't true. In those cases, the stakes are usually higher, and the burden of proof is entirely on them. I was asking about examples of those kinds of failings.
There's a wonderful book out there called "Different" by Professor Youngme Moon [1] which details a few cases like what you said. Her book is about how companies can be different

One case that comes to mind is Ikea with this DIY approach. Is it the most convenient way to buy furniture? Not really given the work you need to do. Prof Moon argues that this paradoxically creates a stickiness to the brand because you have invested something (time and effort).

Another one is the "In-n-out" burger joint(Forgive me if I have gotten the name wrong). Apparently, it takes a full 15-20 minutes to get a burger here but it is thriving in-spite of this difficulty because people know they're not getting some frozen processed food.

[1]https://www.amazon.in/Different-Escaping-Competitive-Youngme...
Thanks a lot! Now it's perfect. I was able to hide mostly all of the UI elements I will never use.
Half the people in New York City don't own a car.

https://www.nycedc.com/blog-entry/new-yorkers-and-their-cars
And yet even in this story, there are multiple comments a la "Yawn. I can't believe this is an issue. Apple shouldn't be paying attention to niche complainers."
The exploit downloaded and executed code from some server, so there may have been targeted payloads that rooted specific devices. I hope I'm wrong, but that's the impression I get from the Kaspersky post:

https://securelist.com/dropper-in-google-play/92496/
Ah, in that sense it's almost certainly more efficient. Biological selection is undirected so progress toward the goal happens stochastically, so slow, but then sometimes fast.
Actually we do have an App Store in our city. But it took also 2 weeks to repair it. The staff at Genius Bar said they didn't have enough capacity.
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I think the incorrect propagation is actually from one instance of walk() to the next recursive invocation (which has been replaced by a loop).
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Two issues that I see as someone who frequently sends money abroad:

- I live in a country where Revolut is available so I generally pay nothing for international transfers. Perhaps this could be addressed by adding "country of residence"?

- When I need to transfer money between my own accounts, I often use my Interactive Brokers account as it gives market rate conversions and a free transfer every month. It has inactivity fees but if you happen to keep a large amount of money there, it's "free".
The only move towards "community" from big companies I've seen so far is that nowadays you can make a ruckus on twitter to make them care.
It's also possible that you're providing types that inference was capable of working out on its own. You shouldn't be seeing type annotations everywhere.
I'm Dutch, you're almost right. Most people won't even reach 15 mph. Speeds around 10 mph are more common.

Funny thing: wearing helmets is much more common in Germany. If you see adult cyclists wearing a helmets on upright bikes they'll speak German most of the time :)

Generally I wear a helmet if I'll be doing more than 15 mph, or riding through a city.
Interesting perspective on work-life balance, certainly contrary to the usual discussion online on these issues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udlMSe5-zP8&t=1h27m10s
The claim could be something related to interfering with their business.

"GOOG agreed to provide my company a service that we have reasonably relied on"..."GOOG struck my app for no cause causing my business damage..." and so on.

Though, in-real-life, people who use google services have probably agreed to terms to bar any such claim.
There's a part of mistrust because of the absence of independent judiciary in mainland China. Then, it's also been a pretext to trigger something much bigger.
People wearing gym clothes in their normal lives in Europe? Really not as much as in the US.
There is a huge graveyard of projects that companies "donated" to the community. Think of Solaris operating system, Google Wave. Typically, I am not saying that this is IBM case, but typically it means that a given product does not bring much value for the company and usually this means that a given product does not have too much value at all.

Enterprises are rarely giving something away, they should earn money, so if they do this, it rises suspicion that there is a product that has no value and a company gives away something worthless only for the sake of PR.
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>I take notes every week on every employee I manage to track specific instances of positive and negative things they’re doing. This is really helpful for tracking behaviors in one-on-one reviews.

This seems to be on the micromanaging level of things. If you have to operate at this level, you're trying to "control" the all of the elements of the team dynamics, instead of letting the dynamics work for you.

A team is a team because it operates together. It isn't just about the manager-employee relationship.

>Give specific expectations and behaviors that you want the employee to execute. Don’t be vague or use words like, “better” or “more”. Be specific by saying, “You need to complete all stories within 25% of your estimates this month.”

This seems a bit metric-driven and metrics with a distribution of disproportionate work is going to drive bad culture and bad habits. The low-hanging fruit will drive metrics high for one individual and, if they're gaming the system, it will be obvious; but if it's all down to metrics, they're getting the job done, right?
Or the 8088, 16 bits internally, but external buses (memory, port i/o) only 8 bits wide?
By far the worst UI choice in Excel, which has stopped many potential power users from forming, is that "Format as Table" is named like a visual formatting option, is stuck on the ribbon next to visual formatting options, and prominently makes you pick colors and border formatting.

Whereas the reality is that making a table is the on-ramp to many of Excel's more powerful features.
I have never seen or heard of someone using a Rolex for diving. As you said, maybe they used to. And that’s the point-they used to, so now that value that was utility is now purely style.
It's true that the language enunciation is very close for Cantonese speakers, but it's the phrases used that are quite different.

Mainland Mandarin vs. Taiwan Mandarin for example ~ there are a ton of phrases, especially for modern things like "credit card", "take out"..., that people use different words/phrases for. This is also the same for HK Cantonese vs. Cantonese used on the mainland where there was no British influence.

It's like UK english vs. US english.
how is my logging server being attacked from outside my network?
Unfortunate you use the word arya and then fud it just like the Aryan invasion theory that is stoked up to prop up the Dravidian nationalism. The word Arya is different from the racial Aryan.
Arya in sanskrit means , the seeker of truth. I dont want to go into the details here , but there are places where seekers are called arya or arya-puthras (kind of ties down to oh-sons-of-truth as referenced in the Gita).
Understandable, it must've had a big impact.

Good luck and I'm glad the optimism paid off!
They obviously care that you use and only use the solution they control, so their products, both through explicitly private apis and through undefined behavior, can have all the support they want while their competitors have to make do with the more limited public apis and unsupported behavior.

That way their product will always be better and more stable while they can claim to support competition.
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If we go into questions of what a maximally malicious phone could do, rather than a question of what a normal phone actually does...

The Faraday cage would still leave the accelerometer fully functional. Now you might say "but because of drift it will rapidly diverge". Yes and no. It turns out that it's possible to detect based on "gestures" where you might be. Works better for winding irregular streets than in a gridlike street network.

If we go full Sherlock Holmes, the microphone might also overhear trains and music from stores giving away the location.
Monetizing our work is not strange. It might require some contortions compared to the most direct approach (step 1. write software. step 2. git push), but that doesn't make it a bad thing.

Here is Charles Dickens writing about his own contortions to monetize his work:

There must be a special design to overcome that specially trying mode of publication, and I cannot better express the difficulty and labour of it than by asking you to turn over any two weekly numbers of "A Tale of Two Cities," or "Great Expectations," [...] Notice how patiently and expressly the [serialized novel] has to be planned for presentation in fragments, and yet for afterwards fusing together as an uninterrupted whole.

I think holding onto bugfixes and feature enhancements and letting Patreon subscribers have first dibs on these makes sense.
One of the very useful things Typescript has for a dynamic-language-turned-static is smart casts, union types and dependent types union types.
Things like these are possible:

type Animal =
{
type: "Dog"
dogtag: string
name: string
} | {
type: "Cat"
name: string
allowedOutside: boolean
}

function f(a: Animal) {
console.log(a.name) // always allowed
console.log(a.dogtag) // compile error
if(a.type === "Dog") {
console.log(a.dogtag) // Allowed
}
}

I believe Typescript is fairly unique in this capability.
Thank you for sharing your experience and I'm glad that you are OK. I currently have a MIPS helmet and was thinking about "upgrading" to the WaveCel. The one concern I have is that the WaveCel design looks like (I can't find a local store carry them to actually try them out) it will cause a lot more sweat on my head, and I'm a pretty sweaty person. Do you find it more sweaty than traditional helmets?
My company wants to move to open source to reduce costs.

IP based software = High level management get involved and balance against other costs.

FOSS software = Engineer tells management there will be no cost, so management goes out and spends on other things.

A single site where a company can go to contract a maintainer for a single peice of work or consulting may be a good start....
Indeed. I switched to a 2017 MBP and thought the keyboard was honestly fine, until after a while the keys gradually started chattering and eventually just outright not working.
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Same here, I've been looking to leave Hong Kong for a few years already, but was always comfortable enough to stay. The protests didn't have me worried a lot, but the response from the government has been disappointing to say the least. They're not looking to improve the situation, and treat people like they're babies. There's also a lot of personal reasons for me to leave, and a lot of minor annoyances in daily life that add up over time.

With that said, if any restrictions come into place, I'll definitely fast track my plan to leave, probably before the end of the year.
Well at least they did not deny patent issues. As for the driver, a community one is already on the way so they'll probably just piggyback on it.

Or, if they want to contribute an official driver, they should have contribute it at the same time as the spec, IMO.
For me, the exciting part is to understand how the "blackbox" can learn and to find a representation of the data that makes this box to learn.

For instance, I've been working in users profiling and it's been a challenge to find which features and in which representation allow the model to learn. It's fantastic when you make a little change in a feature (for instance, use the median instead of the mean) and your model suddenly gets a +5% acc.

The field in the real world is not as simple as to make an API call. The data in the wild is really complicated. To get value from this data is the real challenge.
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