skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No “Words Mean Things”. The original poster said Apple got sued for slowing down iPads. I said one sentence.

Apple never got sued for slowing down the iPad.

He claimed that Apple got sued that wasn’t the case. I never said that iPads didn’t slow down because of iOS updates. My first gen iPad became very unstable because of iOS 5. I didn’t buy a new iPad until 2017.

So how are two citations about Apple getting sued for slowing down iPhones relevant?

Not only that, the lawsuits were because Apple slowed down phones when batteries got old. The slowdowns on the phones when Apple was sued were caused by the battery not the OS.

The iPad has never had the power management features that the iPhone has for old batteries.
Video mostly made in a free, open-source 3D graphics software toolset
I think sponsoring invokes a feeling of supporting an individual person, or small group. It says this product in of itself may not be worth $X/mo but the feeling of the buyer enabling a creator to continue their passion is what compels the buyer to pay.
Show HN: Plataforma Industrial: Publicación de productos, servicios en Argentina
The latest vive changed my mind on VR. I guess I’m in that cohort
Red Hat's security program includes disclosing and tracking security vulnerabilities found in its products. As part of doing this, they obtain CVEs for any vulnerabilities which did not previously have them. CVE IDs are required by US gov't and many corporate security programs, as the broader point of the CVE system is not only to provide standardized identification of vulnerabilities but also assign certain metadata (such as a severity category) which is used by many vulnerability management programs. Basically, having a CVE ID assigned makes it much easier for the vulnerability to be included in automated tools.

Because Red Hat builds on open-source software and generally lags well behind the cutting edge, usually by the time RH identifies a problem in something like the Linux kernel it has already been found, reported, and assigned a CVE ID by someone else (unless it's discovered by RH's own kernel developers, in which case they would of course be working on a fix at the same time that they start the vulnerability process).

In this somewhat unusual case, the problem was found and corrected in the Linux kernel through a typical bug-fix process and not handled as a security vulnerability, so no CVE was assigned. When RH discovered the problem they made a determination that it should be handled as a security vulnerability, and so that triggered their normal process of disclosing and requesting that a CVE ID be assigned - in this case, even though the problem had already been fixed. It's not especially significant to this that RH had not backported the fix for this particular problem, as RH would generally go through a vulnerability process anyway because of the simple fact that some RH customers have not updated their systems, and so the vulnerability needs to be reported to them.

Overall the whole thing is not particularly interesting, really just a bit of security bookkeeping, except that it does expose that RH does not necessarily integrate LTS Linux releases, which means that they will sometimes not obtain security fixes included in such releases. Most of the time such security fixes would be treated as vulnerabilities by the organization that made them and the broader Linux community which would trigger RH's internal vulnerability management process leading to the fix being rolled out to RH products. However, many Linux bugs with potential security implications are not judged by the people finding and fixing them to be severe enough to merit a security vulnerability process... for instance, virtually every memory handling problem could be viewed as a vulnerability but requesting a CVE ID etc. is wasted effort if the problem is unlikely to be exploitable. The "unlikely" can be hard to tell. Ultimately this is sometimes a judgment call and different organizations will disagree, sometimes leading to situations like this where a downstream user chooses to treat it as a vulnerability after the fact.
What about some halfway point where you start with tests on your largest public interfaces instead of numerous tests and a growing list of tests?

I still believe there is some good that comes out of TDD especially on long term maintenance and future changes.
Not well, of course. Just passably.
That is really cool. I had never thought about (ab)using SVG in that way.

SVG is such an underappreciated technology that is in every browser. Why do icon fonts exist when you could just use SVGs just like you do PNGs and JPEGs? You can even inline them in your HTML so there isn't an additional HTTP request if you want.
George Zimmerman was not a police officer
Ask HN: Is there a wiki that contains all funded startups that have shut down?
Twitter slaps another warning label on Trump tweet about force
Of course they never admit the truth, that the only way they got rich/famous was by writing self help books and have never done anything real outside that.
mysteriously, the protests seem to be completely absent in the reporting. (yes, I'm aware of mask usage) it's blamed on Memorial Day gatherings, graduation parties, etc. or primary voting in Wisconsin.. which did not lead to a spike, and did not lead to a bunch of deaths.

The numbers are crazy in some areas, not in others. Texas has 254 counties, and probably 200 of those counties have had less than 75 cases each. many of them have reported 0 cases, and 0 covid-19 related deaths. Even some of the counties around Dallas are doing just fine.

This whole thing is bizarre.

If masks work this well and protesters aren't spiking, I'm not really seeing a good case for allowing more fans at outdoor sporting events.
Ok, but why? There's barely anything useful that can't be bought for cash, cheaper and with less hassle.
Its a shame of your bankrupcy, but I do wonder what all the other ideas really are, Tupac on Coachella, Carrie Fisher in star wars, Trump's face on a baby, and maybe like in the old movie Simone true virtual stars (sim one, get it), what the real ramifications are. Maybe I don't get it but it is not anything different than those Elvis lookalikes on Times Square.
Germany and weak unions? Lol, I get they're not as solid as French unions where bossnappings and violent riots are the norm not the exception, but still. We have legally protected unions and employee councils ("Betriebsrat"), the US and many other countries in the world do not have these at all.
Not great, but I can always switch to Elementary.
For example if I run something that can take advantage of AVX512 and my current CPU doesn't have that but a new CPU does. Same goes for TB2 vs. TB3, very useful when you want to connect an external GPU. It does work on Thunderbolt 2 but the extra bandwidth of Thunderbolt 3 is a nice improvement.

Say you change your workload model there might be ~20% improvements between bare metal, virtual machines and containers. If you simulate a part of infrastructure using containers you may not need more RAM, but more CPU would be nice. But when you then want to do a lot of recording/capturing and process that, RAM gets more important. Just upgrading the RAM wouldn't help much because without a CPU to generate the data you might as well offload the whole thing.
To flip that around, if you cannot make them grapple with the problem, you’re not actually teaching them. You could coerce/persuade them to follow the process and hope they get it soon enough, but you might likely be flushing all that effort down the toilet, from a long term perspective (if they don’t grapple with the problem soon enough before they forget about the process). For the really important few processes, you could try to encode them into rituals.
A lawsuit is threatening the Internet Archive
I think Plex is great. It features a nice mix of rounded and sharp edges to not look boring, yet is not too funky to be inconvenient to read. It looks good both on screens and printed with toner. I usually put a \usepackage{plex-otf} in my documents which handles all font variant selection for me.
Now to what extend is Haskell already boring and old? :)
Vehicle dynamics is a fairly accurate science these days (50/50 for the tires)
the reason was grid scroll using touchpad on OSX, when you swipe the grid from left to right there is 50% chance of losing web console due to back button being triggered by the same motion.
So maybe if We The People give up the paltry remnants of our right to self-defense, the cops won't attack us so severely? This is such a tired argument, and it's completely refuted by the lack of police riots against the tacticool protestors a few weeks prior.

The police are supposed to be civilians, and the government is supposed to be subservient to the People. If the police have access to a type of weapon, the general population should as well. If someone cannot handle being a police officer in this society, the answer is simple - find another job.
And Deutsche bank too :)
DeuBa Univers

Even Insurance company's have there own
That's why scientific projects are still judged by panels. It's not like money is thrown at any random project. It must have merit and be judged to actually be able to test a hypothesis.
> it works because we as a society have a visceral negative reaction to some labels.

Do you know why we have that reaction? Because of millions upon millions of dead, innocent humans. That is what those ideologies lead to. We learned this lesson once, and we learned it very well. We don't want that to happen again. We don't want to let those ideas spread again. We don't want to see the mass graves again they lead to again. We learned that.

Some people have forgotten, though.
You must agree there is a difference between, "if I know this person's blog I can find their real name in under an hour", and "if I search this person's real name I can find their blog instantly on the NYTimes".

The first type of anonymity he does not currently have. But he does have the second type.

And it's true there is some truth to him being emotional. If he didn't possess any anxiety or fear then he wouldn't be worried and scared that if it's easier to find him more people will harass him (which has already happened). Lots of people have lost their jobs because they said something people didn't like on the internet so this seems like a reasonable fear.

Nothing about this seems illogical or disingenuous about this. What part of this fairly simple straightforward explanation doesn't make sense to you?
I don't like to pick on other people, and I'd dearly love to go out and do something other than stay in my house. But that poster two up who went to a restaurant - you are putting yourself at risk if it is indoor. And you put at risk the other people around you if they aren't wearing masks. The choices of the politicians is contraindicated, it's against what the scientists tell us is safe. Yes, people want to go out, but you are engaging in risky behavior for everyone around you, not just yourself.
To turn your argument on its head - why being successful would make a life worth living? "Being successful" is only a small factor our overall living experience. Plenty of successful people kill themselves, plenty of unsucessful people have great lives.
Selling in Covid-19
> If the officer was calm and professional I don't know what more you want from them.

I said calm, not professional. I consider his failure to notice her distress and panic to make him totally unsuited to work with the public in pretty much any capacity. It was blatantly obvious that she was in distress. Had he seen someone acting like that towards someone not a police officer, he'd have run to assist in what would have seemed like a dangerous situation on the basis of her reaction.

He was blinded by a failure to understand that someone could react with that kind of fear to the police, and as a result proceeded to completely counter-productively escalate a situation that need not have been escalated at all.

> It's not the job of the police to hold the hands of every paranoid individual and shush them back to a state of tranquility.

A large part of the job of the police is to deal with people in distress; often with mental health issues. If they are unable to deal with people in distress with empathy they're not suitable to do the job.

> Is Theresa May some sort of authority on policing that her name keeps being mentioned here? As an external observer it seems that she was a complete failure at everything during her tenure, surely there's someone more appropriate that offered an opinion on this topic.

The point is that even she accepted the report that Cameron commissioned that demonstrated extensive systemic racism in the Met, despite the reluctance of her party to deal with racism in general. Someone else posted a bunch of links about systemic racism in the UK. At this point it is willful ignorance to suggest this isn't a real problem.
Well, "luck" is a phenomenon of perception, not reality. Since it's people who perceive, being anthropocentric makes sense. On the other hand, that also makes it subjective, hence describing it may reveal more about the describer than the effect.
I think there are huge differences between Cardboard, Gear and Go.

I believe the Go was a good step to get many people into VR in the first place. I know it pulled me in. But now is a good time to move on.
Would be happy to hear more about motivation and/or funding.
That's especially for people like you that love to find an easter egg.
Exactly. I feel more of us should speak up like this and not let ignorant users or shills try to sell this message that soldering down components and making it extremely difficult to replace parts like a battery is a "great thing" being done for the benefit of the consumer.
> But the police aren't law enforcement if they refuse to enforce the laws.

Sure. That's obviously true. However, not very helpful to the discussion as you don't state what percent of police officers "refuse to enforce the laws"

Do 100% of police officers refuse to enforce laws? 50%? 5%. Surely that's more beneficial to talk about than simply saying "the sky isn't blue if it isn't blue".
1. If you aren't careful, you are killing people

2. First amendment rights do not apply in an emergency

3. Don't compare covid19 to terrorism

4. Keep calm and carry on working from home
Nit: Big Sur is a marketing name, not a codename. Apple has their own names for this things ;)
macOS 11 will support Intel and ARM.
Usually each party would provide a list with their preferred representatives that can be modified.

Where I life, you can give up to 2 votes per representative.
You don't need to choose 54 different politicians because "empty" votes will still count for the party.

Most people will just use the list of their party and maybe remove some that they don't like or vote double for someone they like.
Segway announces it is killing off the classic self-balancing Segway PT
There was an article in Dragon magazine back on the 80s about hypercube dungeon layouts.
https://humanvarieties.org
And Lisp Machines were wire wrapped! There was a robotic wire wrapper at the AI Lab on the 9th floor of 545 Tech Square.

Lynn Conway's VLSI design course was the first time students designed and fabricated their own integrated circuits!
> Ads everywhere, surprise

This is actually a good point.

At Microsoft guys around here: Please tell your folks that nothing says quality like when your paid business OS tries to upsell you like a really cheesy salesman /s
Interestingly in iOS 14 the feature that lets you change your MAC address labels it as your "Wi-Fi Address".
That's like saying the Palm handhelds should still be supported.
Already under discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23617229

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23616422
The content degrades into becoming ads for their books, seminars, shovels for gold miners, etc.

By the time get-rich advice becomes even moderately popular it's either applicable only to saturated markets, selling the dream, has hard requirements outside the reach of most (birth, luck, credit, liquid assets, etc), or some combination of those.
Maybe? The Intel DTKs had a very different boot process with a normal BIOS instead of EFI.
Only 60% of murders are solved. https://www.vox.com/2018/9/24/17896034/murder-crime-clearanc...
George Zimmerman was part of neighborhood watch, what do you think will replace police?
it bothers me that we are arguing about this when we know that you and I have probably put more though into this than Trump. I don’t believe a crackdown on H1B abuse would have been half as bad as what is going on now and the “strategy” adopted now is just pure failure. Failure that is going to impact everyone in the long term
I think it's one of the major problems in the entire structure of the educational system... it's all telling people solutions to problems they don't have yet. Sometimes this is just unavoidable; I'm not sure how to turn geography into a problem you have. (I mean, you can fake it, but people's brains know when it's a fake problem.) But a lot of times in math and science I think we'd be much better off leading off with the problems, and giving the students time to grapple with the problems without the answers, because then the answers would stick.

This is known in educational psychology as 'generation' and is considered an effective strategy for learning.
As a point of data, Animated PNG is finally (as of ~2019) supported natively among all major browsers.

https://caniuse.com/#search=animated%20png

Edit- I was unaware the recently-announced Safari 14 Technical Preview adds support for WebP too! Making both formats viable for all browsers, finally.
I would argue that their UNIX focus was a major contributor to the popularity of the (post-OPENSTEP) Mac.

It attracted UNIX nerds, which attracted other nerds and all those nerds spread the word to family, friends, and coworkers and helped spur adoption in a significant way.

That's how I seem to remember it, anyway.
I think you hugely underestimate how critical corona could have hit us.

Or/and you forgot what happened in New York? Just imagine that in every bigger city at once.
Both pixelation and blurring are used to anonymize faces, which this very article is about, so I can see the relation.
Are you suggesting that, because of this, the existence of the police is not the main deterrent to crime?
The only alternative I can imagine is so uncharitable and goes against everything an institution as famously progressive as the Times stands for that I dare not utter its name.
Modern Chinese is typically more dense than modern Japanese (which is partially phoenetic), and ancient formal Chinese is even more compact than modern Chinese.

However it's worth noting that Chinese characters are analogous to entire words in English, and are composed of components much like English characters are composed of letters.

For example "thanks" is spelled "t h a n k s"

"謝" is made up of "言 身 寸"

(Of course, the components in Chinese have less correlation to their pronunciation, but the main point I'm making here is that there is a LOT of overlap in the common components used to assemble the entire Chinese lexicon.)

It is really not a fair comparison to compare languages in terms of their number of characters needed to represent something.

Better measures would be the fastest time (in seconds) needed to use speech to convey a concept intelligibly to an average native speaker, or the square centimeters of paper needed to convey an idea given the same level of eyesight.
Thanks a lot! I've spent like 2h now reading his blog. Just amazing.
You are fixating on SUSY, not CERN. A new collider is needed to find out what's beyond the Standard Model, whether it's SUSY or something else entirely.

Your statement that "it certainly won't be with a larger collider, especially since the last search failed" frankly makes no sense, and the claim that "the higgs was already found before" is incorrect.

This is mostly true though: "the main thing behind the LHC was to see SUSY or general new physics beyond the SM" (I say "mostly" because the energy range was chosen to ensure that either the Higgs or something else would be found; if it existed, it had to be in that range, and if not, something else had to do its job).

And that statement remains true about the next collider. It will look for "SUSY or general new physics beyond the SM".
Sounds like one of the principles in Nat Greene's book "Stop Guessing". It has 9 principles of problem solving and one of them is called "Smell the problem." He has an example in the book of a machine which was wrapping packages of toilet paper and they could never run it above a certain speed and that was limiting the output of their factory. Eventually they had to look in the machine while it was running faster than it normally could to see a screw would extend out into the path of the plastic sheet only when it was running above a certain speed. So they were able to fix it for free, when the alternative workarounds were to buy a whole new machine.

I use that a lot at work and often it involves packet captures and other low level tools to observe hard problems at the lowest available level to see what's happening, instead of guessing and coming up with possibly expensive workarounds based on guessing.
In case you're not into VR but is curious about it from time to time: DoF means degree of freedom and you can easily imagine the tech leap from 3 to 6 (X, Y & Z axis of movements of the head plus surge [back and forth], sway [sideways] and heave [vertical] movements of your body).
My understanding is that webp is video. That is, it's a still frame using the vp8 codec.
Writing, as opposed to speaking, by its nature conveys a degree of anonymity. Historically, anonymous writers are very common.
Ex-Googler becomes China’s second-richest person
> Embedded in your response is the general attitude one hears when concerned about not being able to do "a thing" in the Apple ecosystem: why would you want to do that?

Funny, that's a quote I hear a lot in Linux Desktop ecosystems as well. I think it is just the nature of people so accustomed to a certain way of thinking that any other use case that comes along is automatically considered to be doing it wrong.
It does not. Anything that's obviously politicized in a way that relates to the culture wars (including "Blue Tribe vs. Red Tribe" topics) is inappropriate outside CW-specific spaces. And obvious calls to harassment, violence, blatant bigotry etc. have always been off-limits altogether.
I gave up trying to explain and started answering questions with the same thing back. What will having a CICD system accomplish? We will get a complete CICD pipeline.
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Very accurate!

Regarding the theme of joins, I would just add that QuestDB also has a concept called SYMBOL which allows to store repetitive strings into a table as an integer in the background, while letting the user manipulate strings. This means that instead of storing something like 'sensor_id' and then looking up the corresponding 'sensor_name' using a join, you can manipulate 'sensor_name' directly and skip using joins.
I remain stunned by the people who think they will not endanger themselves and others. I wish the OP diner in the restaurant would explain why they think this is safe? Let's assume he is a programmer or some kind of educated person who thinks basic science, math, etc works. Why would they think it's safe to go to a restaurant where it is an enclosed space.