skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The iPhone SE that the author discusses reminds me a bit of classic sony design, particularly the flat sides and the volume buttons. It's probably my favourite iPhone from a design perspective. But the Sony phone you link to just looks like the current round of generic looking smartphones with horrible curved/rounded edges - not only do those look worse, imo, but they make a phone much more awkward to hold.
Makes the like beta males
“That’s probably enough about Apple. They forgot about good design a long time ago”

A few years ago it was anathema to say this, even as a designer yourself — how could you even think of beginning to criticize Apple?! But now people and the press are coming to terms with reality.

I honestly don't understand how they can fail so badly with the bazillion dollars at their disposal (MacBook keyboards, phone notches and bumps, mouse charging port underneath, the power pack for phones... etc., etc., not to mention software issues). It's mind-numbing and such a disappointment that they greenlight blatant mistakes and proceed on to selling them for an embarrassing premium.

Apple made a huge ton of cash since <insert major event>, coasting on their hard-won reputation's inertia; but there's a reckoning coming if they don't sort their internal mess. Virtually any major tech is miles and leaps beyond in almost every respect, except profitability. For how long, though?
'Pacifist' does not imply no defense spending. Swiss neutrality is arguably a very pacifist foreign policy, while Switzerland has a very well funded military for a country of that size.
Because there are hard problems to solve. I'm into computer science not capitalism.
Meme Culture Changed the PSAT
>but in other parts of the world you can't call yourself an Engineer unless you are a P.E.

I've been told the same is true in some US states--or, at least, the licensing boards would like people to believe it is. (e.g. Texas) But, in my experience, hardly anyone pays any attention.

You do need a P.E. for certain things--mostly when dealing with regulators, etc.--but my understanding that in software specifically, the exam has been discontinued because essentially no on e was taking it.
120 degrees fahrenheit is around what your hot water heater is probably set as. Run the tap all the way hot and see how long you can leave your hand in that and then imagine putting your genitals in that for 45 minutes every day for three weeks and then repeating that every 4 months to avoid a gap in efficacy. That's just a terrible idea for practical contraception.
Razer Blade 15/17
> No. Run your own DoH server, point your DoH client to your own DoH server ...

Except when the client ignores what you tell it. Per Paul Vixie:

google, this is bogus as hell. my dhcp server gives you dns servers to
use. please don't make me route and answer 8.8.8.8 just to watch youtube.

> [71] 2019-02-13 16:39:40.548137 [#68 vtnet0 4095] \
> [24.104.150.186].56915 [8.8.8.8].53 \
> dns QUERY,NOERROR,7357,rd \
> 1 lh3.googleusercontent.com,IN,A 0 0 0
> [71] 2019-02-13 16:39:40.548210 [#69 vtnet0 4095] \
> [24.104.150.186].56915 [8.8.8.8].53 \
> dns QUERY,NOERROR,49247,rd \
> 1 lh3.googleusercontent.com,IN,AAAA 0 0 0

(no, this device i've paid for, will NOT be allowed to send you any
information, other than what i personally approve, which will never
include DNS traffic. if you don't like that deal, buy it back from me
and i'll find some other video appliance that doesn't twist my arm.)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19170671

Of course with DoH you can't just do a UDP redirect. With DoT, which uses tcp/953, you can at least block access.

But with DoH, you have just lost control of your network. (Unless block 443 and force everything to go through a (Squid) proxy?)
wtf is wrong with the f?
We discount the bits of intelligence that we don’t have
Same here. And every women I know who stopped taking the pill would rave on how good it made them feel in general, and specific things like an increased sex drive. I was there when my current GF stopped taking the pill and can attest to that: an improvement on many fronts and seemingly no disadvantages. But yeah, billion dollar industry, people are used to it, convenient, ... so I don't see this getting better soon.
At least in Europe, success rate is 10-20%.
If you spend money, and we're talking 1-3€/hour, it reaches 80%-100%.

Public, municipality-sponsored Wi-Fi is usually a joke (slow, non functioning, requiring you to like a certain facebook page or follow a twitter account, etc.)

In Greece I suggest trying the business' phone number, you can find it on discarded receipts on the ground or on tables.

It's always worth it to try and snoop the password hanging by the counter.

Other good combos are companynamewifi, wirelesscompanyname, wireless, internet, internet123.

t. scrooge that never wastes money on mobile internet subscription and survives on leeched public Wi-Fi
Startup is saving crops by making 'super bees'
Why hotel businesses? There are many different hotel brands to choose from, pricing is transparent, photos/reviews are available on many websites, customer service at the chains take care of complaints pretty well, and there has been a ton of new hotel room supply added.
Coke is fighting legislation that would make their product more expensive? You don't say!
I switched to a Dell XPS 15. Didn't think the convertible form factor would matter... but touch and stylus are really useful. Oh, and Dell's take on a slim keyboard is much better. Linux just works and Windows is serviceable.
Isn’t that the very problem with the iPhone, though? Apple has sacrificed a 'better design' (no camera bump, better battery life) for one that is a fraction of a millimetre thinner.
It's funny because their website is pretty basic in features. Also try dragging multiple pictures to upload , there is no progress bar, no feedback nothing. It seems to upload 1 or 2 of them and then stop. Anyway good thing you can just copy the image URL and send that one instead
I have made the jump from one language to another several times on the job. It’s considered lower risk to use someone on the team than higher someone new. It’s also going to take a while to higher someone and get them up to speed. After a year you might not be as experienced as someone using the same stack for 5+ years but the difference is not that extreme.

Further stacks tend to share quite a bit. Knowing SQL, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, jQuery etc takes a long time and has little to do with Java vs .Net.
Marketing is a huge profit center.

Improving efficiency in marketing spend can bring in millions in new business value.

If you can do that, it will definitely be noticed by the business.
As much as a tutorial on how leaving your front door open lets burglars in your house.
You don't care to optimize those ? Don't you guys realize that snappiness is one of the core reasons people keep using a webapp?
Used this in my last project. If you're curious, a lot of databases support Soundex searches natively.
OP here. My beef wasn’t and isn’t with the ads or monetisation: it’s with the engineering decision to bury the product’s primary content in a 1.2MB JS application. The image itself just needs to be an `IMG` element in a server rendered page—ads, tracking, comments, upvotes, etc. can and should be all loaded as secondary content.

My beef is with a ‘mobile-optimised’ image hosting platform taking over 40s to display an image on mobile.
In the UK there is a tax on sugary drinks so people pay more which is a good thing. Just shows if this tax is adopted how much of a nuisance certain companies are for the health and environment
Probably this is a side-effect of translating JS unit-testing techniques without adequate thought and reflection. I am sometimes amazed at the extent of trivial tests that do no more than double-check the compiler that I see from web developers that move up the stack.
Make sure you're running an up-to-date kernel [0] because the version shipped didn't support the wifi card shipped in the 7th gen.

[0]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1733369
It really depends. People with well-defined specific skills can often get jobs through essentially keyword searches.

WRT "networking" I agree if, by networking, you're referring to "networking events" which, as you say, probably tend to be attended by people passing out business cards and looking for jobs. But every job I've had since my first one out of school has come through emailing people I've known professionally at aa company I've been interested in working for.
> Rather, it solves the problem of e.g. your ISP intercepting, logging and/or modifying your DNS request.

So does DNS over TLS (DoT). But the Mozilla folks don't seem to be interested in implemented that for some reason.
> A T490 caps out at 40gb

48 according to the spec sheet.
It's because -- especially since the iPhone, but even before (cf. Sidekick) -- the phone is a consumer fashion item as much as a tool. So it's the same as people talking about whether a pattern in a dress is hand-stitched or machine-stitched etc.
I don't think so. If you swap gender roles in the text its not demeaning and is still a cheeky commentary on married life. Mentioning a woman or their relationship to a man (in this case) doesn't automatically make it offensive.
Wow. That’s surprisingly a very low quality article from TechCrunch. Good old unsubstantiated Apple bashing by users who never even touched iPhone 11 Pro Max. And, of course, iPhone is ugly and googles pixel is beautiful. Yuck, the author either blind or TechCrunch sold its soul to google.
I bet the company you work for is “into capitalism”.
I'm a Christian, I think you misunderstand us.

My church sends people out go dig wells, build medical clinics, supply aid after storms, etc. Last weekend we had an outreach program, my family helped paint an at-risk pregnancy clinic.

Like the kooky Oklahoma church we sometimes see in the news, there are a very few that are just plain crazy. But I've never met anyone even close to that crazy in several decades of church-going in several states.

Meet a couple of real ones. Talk to them. If it suits you, join them on a few outreach programs. I think you'll change your mind.
Why It’s So Hard to Make a Better Baby Formula
I really like that argument and I feel when interviewing I am in that position often, but if you leave money on the table and leave have you ‘won’ the negotiation?
Potentially there are greener pastures out there but that’s hypothetical.
Looks like it's available at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/Wes-sweggy
> Run your own DoH server, point your DoH client to your own DoH server, and your DoH server can then provide any responses you want.

What DOH client would that be? Where would I configure it? How do I configure a systemwide DOH setting?

Right now none of those questions can be given a simple answer. DOH is a rogue technology.
As another post on HN argued a few weeks ago and as is stated in this article again:

> After you do the DNS lookup to find the IP address, you still need to connect to the web server at that address. To do this, you send an initial request. This request includes a server name indication, which says which site on the server you want to connect to. And this request is unencrypted.

Note that, until encrypted SNI is in place, DoH does not actually increase your privacy. Your ISP can still track all domains you connect to by analyzing the SNI header. The only thing they cannot do anymore is block or redirect any of the domains.
There's a fantastic book that just came out in ... 1954 ... that I'd highly recommend. John Kenneth Galbraith's The Great Crash, 1929.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/great-crash-1929/oclc/3136579...

The tech and land booms of the time involved Florida real estate, railroads (a/k/a airlines), airlines (actual aircraft involved), "Radio" (RCA), new alternative energy source and distribution plays, and of course, Goldman Sachs.

I'd first read it following the 2007-8 global financial crisis. It's still relevant now. Short, highly readable, entertaining, and informative.
I believe ORBIS was created in 2011 and launched in 2012 - a time before many of today's browser capabilities had been made available. It's amazing how far web browsers have come since then.
Ha, that's pretty smart.
Where is this simulation model, and (here's hoping) is it cross-platform?

Also, is it anything like http://www.visual6502.org/JSSim/?
Was surprising to see so many quakes in Oklahoma, which led me down the rabbit hole to this:

quote "The 2009–19 Oklahoma earthquake swarms are a series of human activity-induced earthquakes"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%9319_Oklahoma_earth...
No, I'm coming from the other way - if I have 6700k OC'ed to 4.6Ghz, 32GBs of RAM and an SSD, i want all these basic apps to show up instantaneously. I think I've payed enough money for this kind of experience not to suck.

Also time matters for me because I am mostly using my keyboard, chaining commands, so I start imputing stuff right after I open it and if those commands are missed because the application is still loading it sucks.
You're right, you have a good point there.
My current Acer laptop has always been reliable. So are other windows/pc manufacturers like Lenovo, Toshiba, basically any brand. Reliable laptops are a commodity. I am surprised an Apple product would not be reliable. I'd be hesitant to recommend Dell. They crash. But that might be because i only encounter them as corporate laptops, which get reused a lot and carry additional risks like the corporate 'onboarding' software.

I'd recommend just sticking with windows and not overwriting it with ubuntu unless you have some very specific needs. Some important desktop applications like photoshop do not work on ubuntu and WSL takes care of almost everything ubuntu can do.
This is awesome!!! (Ultra)SPARC CPU's are a joy to code for in assembler, and modern T3, T4 and T5's are number crunching monsters.

How about synthesizing the GPL-licensed OpenSPARC T2 now?

https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/systems/opensparc/openspa...

I'd love to have SmartOS backported on a FPGA-based, OpenSPARC T2, 19" 1U rack mountable server someday. Free hardware and software all the way.
React Native Firebase Setup – Android Platform
British government considers creating Darpa-like agency
deposit != more expensive.

same rule would apply to their competitors.
> But with DoH, you have just lost control of your network. (Unless block 443 and force everything to go through a (Squid) proxy?)

Expect “enterprise” network equipment using an approach like this to provide a “DOH firewall” in the near future.

Net privacy gained: negative.
Languages are easy. But do you think you could jump from systems programming in C to mobile programming on Android “easily”.

I’ve seen people jump from Java to C#. You can see the difference in their coding style, them not taking advantage of the features of the language, reinventing the wheel because they didn’t know there were popular packages that would do it for them, creating horrible inefficient queries and practices using EF etc.
How could it be something other than linguistic? Do you think it's genetic?
article not silly, it’s just a promo ad for googles pixel. Taking this article seriously - that IS silly.
If you want a flush back and more battery life you can buy a battery case.

But you can't do the opposite, if you like thinness and don't care that much about battery, you can't thin a bulky phone.
The irony is that packaged goods companies generally promote and love recycling because it distracts from reducing, as in reduce, reuse, recycle. Getting people to think recycling helps, rather than mildly mitigates pollution, keeps their sales up.

Since their products are nearly all unhealthy and all pollute, "reduce" suggests we all benefit from no one buying their products at all. If they thought about how environmental concerns will affect them, they'd promote recycling wholeheartedly, not half.
How does column select mode work with a proportional font? Is it ever an issue?
I don’t misunderstand you, I’m also a Christian. But I’m also critical of how I have seen other Christians act. My words aren’t a slight against all Christians because I know real ones are out there.

But I also am not only referring the to the nut jobs you see in the news. I’m referring to for profit pastors and politicians. There are many who claim they’re Christian but are not.

“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's
clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.“

(Lot of quotes from me today, lol)
They will push notes up and down to make them sound more "right" in the immediate context.

Not all of the stringed players. One of the harder things on violin for me, after years of fretted instruments, is still intonation. Makes a mandolin seem like a push-button version of a violin. (We will save that infernal stick-and-horsehair thing for another discussion.)

The flip side is that when the mandolin gets out of tune (and oh, it does), you just have to live with it until the next opportunity to fire up the tuner.
The crux of my argument is that if self driving cars were safer than human driven ones, their adoption would still be thinner than expected because why would I accept potential fatality and give up my agency to a machine for something I can already do fine myself? (even if just perceived).

You'd have to convince people they were terrible drivers and that driving was super dangerous to get most people to put their kid in a self driving taxi in traffic. I'd agree there is a cultural change effect in play, as cars were farcically unsafe (and yet still 1000x safer than horses) for the first 60 years of their use, but the business model where people switch to self-driving is optimistic.

That isolated individual decision making will be the thing that scales. It's a question of perception of risk/reward, which is very different from statistical risk modelling.

The AI/ML will be great, the products? Whole different class of problem.
FYI they fixed the nose cam in the new models
cppreference.com

The Standard Library algorithms explicitly implement such a taxonomy.
I believe it is something to do with having the centre point on all three lenses very close so switching between them is a smooth transition.
Not as many pervert, I mean, "security" cams in the hotel rooms either.
That "directly" is carrying a lot of weight, though. The salesmen have nothing to sell without all of the work of the other employees. I prefer the conception of profit and cost in "The Goal": you have throughput (money from sale of your product), inventory (goods in the system not yet converted to sales), and operating expense, the cost of translating raw materials to goods or services (e.g. payroll, cost of electricity for your buildings). In that model it's obvious that salespeople are an expense like everybody else, and the profit from their sales is a reward of the effort of the entire system, not just the salespeople.
> His whole business is about repairing Apple laptops so he has all the reasons and incentives to defend Apple and downplay their issues.

How does this follow? He has developed a following around posting these types of videos which seems like a pretty sweet incentive for making them.

Not to say he's being dishonest or something, it just seems like a stretch to say that some random repair guy somehow has more to gain by (A) hoping 0.000001% more people buy Apple products by forgoing these videos so that he can repair a few more Macbooks than by (B) making these popular videos that net him subscribers and attention.
> Aside: I've never understood how DNS is decentralized.

I use my ISP's recursive DNS resolvers (or not); you use your ISP's recursive DNS resolvers (or not). Anyone that wants to track "everyone's" browsing has to track a whole bunch of ISPs (and 3rd party DNS operators) if they want to keep a database of activity. There is no central facility that has everyone's DNS requests, unlike (e.g.) MSN Messenger back in the day where all traffic was transferred through the central system.

Further, because of caching, it is impossible to get exact numbers on people querying DNS. So while the records for www.youtube.com are in a central place, the exact number of people sitting on their couches at home asking for the A record is masked by people's home routers doing caching and also their ISP DNS servers (which the home routers talk to) doing caching.

So there is no "central DNS" server that does hostname-to-IP mapping: there are (tens of) thousands--millions if you count people's home Linksys/Dlink/Asus routers running dnsmasq (or whatever).
I guess they were thinking they'd be using very expensive FPGAs in the the first VC-funded iterations, and then move on to something cheaper. But they never got there...

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/blog/2012/11/pano-logic-...

"... the company had doubled or tripled its revenue every year since 2008, when it had about $1 million in sales.

...

The company was backed by about $38 million in funding from investors including Goldman Sachs, ComVentures, Foundation Capital, Fuse Capital, and Mayfield Fund."
All that’s happening is that the market is calling BS on companies that lack sound business fundamentals. The days of valuing companies sky high that are deeply unprofitable but “it’s OK because we’re a tech company so it doesn’t matter” are over.

This is ultimately a good thing for companies with real businesses that were for much of recent history valued far less than those that had no clear prospects of making a profit. See all the writings about IWG vs WeWork on some of the previous insanity there.
This is entirely company dependent. My team is primarily Ruby and we hire folks with no ruby experience all the time.
I've hired for the stack specifically and it really narrowed our applicant pool. Lately I've relaxed this filter. We're a Rails app, but what if there was a really great engineer that uses Python or Node?

They might not know the right libraries to use, but would probably know there are libraries, have a good concept of application design in general, and know how to ask the right questions. And we're hoping to hire someone for years.
me too, I purchased a 3rd party battery from amazon and so far so good...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0748BRHH4/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...
Dupe from 14 hours ago.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21301440

Also 24 hours ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21292800

Don't you read hackernews before posting?
I have personally not used a remote for my TV in many years.

These days I use the apple tv remote and CEC let me control volume in my AV-processor as well as power on/off.

The remote for my projectors and TV’s for the last 15 years never left their packaging.