skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's easy to see that websites want people to accept all unnecessary cookies, but are mandated to ask for it. So they'll give one big "Accept everything" button and bury the rest under as many clicks as possible. This is not an issue with the law, nor is it an issue with the users; you know how to make a better UX ? Remove all tracking content. You know how to make it as good as the way the websites owner want ? Make the "Reject all" button front and center.

The UX being bad is a _conscious decision_ by the website owners
At the end of the day, Europe is a country, not a company. It isn't about maximizing profits. It's about maximizing the equity among citizens.

I'd argue that the majority of consumers will take anything for free and not think about the consequences. Very much like an innocent child getting free food samples. Private businesses have no incentive to correct themselves.

At the end of the day, if I was Europe, as a government, I care less that my citizens can easily start a businesses of their own. Taxes are great and all, but it matters more to me that whatever option our citizens do go with (even if overseas) is in their best interest.

It's not about becoming a super power and spreading across the world. It's ensuring that your citizens are safe, protected and well-looked after even at the expense of increased starting costs. It's a better long-term win for the consumer.
Pagination Interaction in CSS3
FAANG companies can't move fast and break things like startups. If their services go down, it might be mentioned on the evening news, and it would certainly cost a lot of money. FAANGs have huge existing revenues to protect, large customer bases to keep happy, and laws to obey in all of the countries where they operate.

A "simple" feature change is not so simple for companies with those concerns.
Only adjacent to this conversation:

I wonder what will be the impact for blockchain- crypto-tevh adoption as these "splinternets" (regionets?) become reality.

I'm not saying it will be reality, but as Ben states I also sense forces that are adversarial to this "wild west" Internet.

I'm sure there's millions of blockchain transactions broadcasted or mined in China (inside GFW) but, could further tightening of control become an important obstacle to new decentralized networks?
Ah, ok. Looking at the composition on the side seems to indicate that it's two separate metals entirely. Which I guess is the case?
Fair enough, so far I only toyed around with the desktop version.

Just making a note that if you want to foster PWAs over native, or Electron workarounds, better not make us jump through many hoops.
Have you done this? Where I live its cheaper to rip it out and replace it with new wood flooring. Plus, the factory finishes are considerably harder and more scratch resistant than what you can get put down in place. I've actually wondered if a better plan for wood flooring is to treat it like my deck, a simple yearly oil based coating vs a hard finish.

Of course the out gassing from something like that is probably a health hazard.

Instead, I treat it more like carpet, aka I figure every decade or two it needs to be replaced. In my rentals I've been using an engineered laminate which is extremely robust. I picked it because I got a whole bunch of samples, took them home and then took a screw driver and started scratching the heck out of them until I found one that I couldn't scratch. I think its far superior and looks nearly as good as the real wood in the house I live in. I install it floating, but pull up the baseboards and replace them at the same time so it looks original. It has a bit of a hollow noise if you knock on it (despite being 3/4"), but I don't think there is a way to avoid that without glueing it down, which just adds cost when it needs to be replaced.
It's not clear to me either when exactly does the "cutting" start, but note that when he finally gives up the grinder wheel is an inch smaller.
They are notorious for "always" catching their criminals, too. Local law enforcement of many stripes in multiple states tried to catch Capone, but in the end it was the Revenuers that caught Capone on tax evasion.
Will Apple Solve the Longevity Problem?
Techstars does something similar.
And did we mention you can't run it yourself?
Which is totally backwards, as these classes are the point of contact where energetic, motivated new students get that magical passion that pushes them into an entire life in the field. When I was in grad school and expressed a desire to focus on teaching, primarily 100 & 200 level courses my supervisor said "that's the punishment we reserve for those who are failing in their research". Totally crushed my desire to work at converting tangential students into future leaders in our field.
75% of fire calls are false alarms. Is there a startup working on this problem
Is there a startup working on this problem?
We decided it is of interest to the founders in the audience and not necessarily as a show HN (which is in our mind a tool specific people like to play with)

Only three people are with Founderpool. me, manoj and geoburke
>I'm sure ES also has a vision for a modern university that has merit,

I don't disagree with any of your points. Cornell Tech in NYC is arguably an example of reimagining things with at least a somewhat clean sheet of paper but I haven't studied it in any detail. One thing that is probably be clear is that there's too much stovepiping in universities in general. MIT's new interdisciplinary Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing is another example of trying to bring more disciplines under one roof.
Huge props for this effort, I'm very excited to use this system. I'd advise you to think about the audience for this work. To my eye, that audience is the small and medium sized business leader, especially those with a technology focus. The problem this solves for them is getting the legal stuff done as quickly and cheaply as possible without sacrificing any important legal protections. They don't really care that the contract is balanced and readable except in as much as that speeds up the negotiation and let's them verify that they are not getting screwed.

Your basic one liner might be something like "Create real, legally valid contracts over email"

Expanding on that you could say "Use our standard library of legal clauses to build your own contracts in a safe and legally defensible way. Each clause is designed to serve a single purpose and offer each party fair, battle-tested legal protections. The library itself is free, open source and licensed under the Creative Commons. It can be used by simply referencing the clause by name in any document, even email. Every clause is annotated with plain English explanations, so it is easy for all parties to understand what your contract says. Go _here_ for a quick tutorial on how to use library, including a primer on the top N most important clauses for business deals"

Later you might want to explain why you made this
"I/we made this because we spent thousands of hours reviewing the same boilerplate contract language, fixing the same mistakes and watching the same disagreements play out between the parties. Taking a good idea from software engineering, we set out to create a trusted standard library for building legal contracts that would solve these problems once and for all. The library was created by professional contract lawyers and academics with decades of experience, so every word is backed by mountains of case law and legal precedent. We're confident that the library can be the legal backbone of your next deal."
Jio was created with the premise that "data is the new oil" (its parent company Reliance Industries is huge on Oil & Gas). This is seen from the time the company was created and named. The way "Jio" is written officially is a mirror image of "Oil", alluding to the fact that the data collected (or usurped) by it is the most valuable thing.

Jio also collects (or said it would collect) information about its users and their habits through traffic analysis and deep packet inspection. This would feed its ambitions in its other ventures in retail, entertainment and other market segments. India does not have a data privacy or data protection law. So this is all fair game for a company that's close to the government and is good at lobbying.
And liquid nitrogen. Extreme heat and cold are usually the easy ways around these materials. I wonder how the ceramic would hold up.
Why bother? Competent professionals already know it's true, even at companies that pretend otherwise.
Google reached carbon neutrality in 2008 I believe. What did it get out of that? How does that motivate the others?
Pagination Interaction
Almost. 10% are put into a "Dev List" which starts with some coaching on how they should improve. It then likely leads to a "Pivot" where the employee is given the option to take a 3 month pay severance, or go on a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) (likely biased against the employee, as manager and manager's manager have already put a lot of work into getting here and have made up their mind). Failing the PIP, they are likely going to be terminated soon and only get 1 month severance. So, they start with 10% but they target about 6-8% actually getting terminated.
Please share the link if you can find it, it sounds very interesting.

...not that I have any safes I'd like to crack, incidentally.
Keep reading from page 18. The good news is that they're using the same strategy for all their suppliers, which is putting renewable energy onto the grid.
I believe founder institute does as well, but in their case they divide uo the pool into 4 parts, 3 of which go to FI, they local chapter, mentors and one back to founders if I remember right
If it's a desktop CPU then there will be a graphics card, which will have the hardware, unless you run truly headless.

If it's a desktop APU then it has the hardware.
don't you think the demand still exists today ? the economy seems to be in ever increasing need of a highly skilled workforce, in addition to reskilling existing ones.
You're not wrong, but I'd still rather see phones that aren't thin slabs fully touch sensitive ob one side. This design is but no means ergonomic. I'd kill for a Blackberry again. The Q5/Q10 really hit the sweet spot for me.
Using causal graphs to understand data missingness and how to deal with it
I don't think laptops should be designed to optimize relatively rare events like battery swaps over day-to-day use. My MacBook Air is 8? years old and I've never cracked the case.

If it's common for MacBook batteries to last 3 years as it has for you, that's a far bigger concern than the fact that it's difficult to replace. I think that's pretty uncommon though, I don't have numbers either way.
I have read about mathematician Abraham Wald's operational research for the US on WWII aircraft armor placement. Wald challenged the instincts and conventional wisdom of military commanders who thought that more armor should be added to the places on airplanes that had the most bullet holes upon returning from a mission.

Wald instead flipped it and recommended armor be added to the areas with less or no combat damage on returning airplanes because the shot-up areas were the parts of the plane that COULD withstand damage, since the plane had made it back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Wald
You are pointing to price volatility. The comment is talking about inflation. Price discovery occurs in all markets with varying degrees of volatility. Speculative bubbles, crashes, etc result occur when new information causes price discovery. Its an ongoing process in an ever-changing world. Inflation is specifically price increases from change in the amount of money in a system. The delta in money supply for Bitcoin is entirely predictable and that was the claim
Thinner, lighter and overall smaller footprint also have noticeable environmental impact. You have to ship these products and at millions of devices these things add up. The battery is also replaceable by Apple. People also recycle their computers, in which case a lot of these raw materials are recovered too.
Did they ever try catching it mid air? Something like a hook to helicopter perhaps? $6 mil is big number not to try.
80% of Dubai's food is imported, so can you label it already uninhabitable? Habitable is just a matter of how many resources you're willing to pump into making it so. With the holy sites in the middle east, it will remain populated for long to come.

You're right though, we'll see unprecedented mass migration. What's worse is the middle east has some of the highest birth rates in the world. With that excess population and constrained resources it is inevitable there will be continued conflict.
Fork of bitcoin is not bitcoin. Only 21 million bitcoin will ever exist and that’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. Whether that 21 million bitcoin branch will remain the dominant in terms of use and hashpower is under question, but there will only ever be 21 million bitcoin.
...and no religion too

[cue John Lenon at the piano]
I'd say that the most effective DevRel folks do a bit of all three: marketing, engineering, and product. The marketing aspect has already been discussed in great detail, so I'll address the other two areas.

If you aren't a practitioner of some sort you usually can't speak credibly on the topic of the product. If all I knew was the marketing lines about a product that doesn't build credibility. I maintain my engineering credibility by building at least one non trivial application using my company's products every year. This serves both a marketing purpose and community outreach purpose by serving as a real world open source example for developers to learn from. Often my example app is one of the first open source applications out there demonstrating how to use a new technology, and many people learn from it. This also serves a product purpose by giving me first hand experience with pain points that customers face. It also helps me find places where there are confusing things that need to be better documented, often leading directly to me contributing docs or blog posts about the product to fill those gaps.

Also on the engineering side when I write a public facing blogpost about a new product from AWS, it is always written based on my first hand, personal experience using the product in preview internally. Often in the early days of using a product that hasn't been released yet I find bugs and user experience issues that need to be fixed before it goes live. There is no way I'm going to write an article or do marketing for a broken product that doesn't work when I test it out. So there is a bit of engineering QA in the mix for a dev advocate as well.

On the product angle one of the best ways to get a deep, long lasting credibility with your audience is to listen to them and get their problems fixed. I love being able to go back to folks I've chatted with in the past and say "hey we just released a feature to solve that problem you told me about". Additionally some of my favorite products that I've done marketing for are things that I personally pushed for getting funded and built. The marketing message is so much more genuine and meaningful when its something that you were involved in designing. I don't get any satisfaction from marketing something I don't believe in, but when I get to tell customers about a product that I had a hand in designing and influencing the product direction of, then its a genuine recommendation and I think that comes through to the audience as well.
The supply of dollars is a function of the monetary policy. Are you suggesting you can predict what M2 will be in 5 years, or even 6 months? Please share your expectation.
Nothing, but if I earn $1 on January 1 and anticipate 30% tax on that due April 15, saving $0.30 guarantees that I can pay that debt. If I earn 1 mBTC on January 1 and save 0.3 mBTC, then that might be worth much more or less than my tax liability come April 15.

The tax argument for the value of USD is because people have future debts denominated in USD (taxes), and they become aware of the amount of those debts in USD before those debts are due. If those people want an asset perfectly matched to that future liability, then they want USD. The demand is from that saving period, not the actual payment (which you correctly note is brief, just however long the transaction would take). Most discussions either express this distinction unclearly or miss it altogether, including the linked article.
While I believe this 'error' was corrected, this only goes to show you the power big tech companies like Google and Facebook have over our lives and all future elections.

Russia's influence is nothing compared to the regular censorship and manipulation of the information we see on a daily basis.

Many may be fine with it, because current big tech companies agrees with their point of view.

The danger is when they don't.
I upgraded the RAM, did two hard drive swaps, and replaced the battery in my 2009 MBP. That laptop case also had less flex to it than the 2018 MBP I'm using today. I would much rather have a thicker but upgradeable/maintainable/solid laptop than the current models.

Thermal management on the 2018 models is also not great. Ambient temps on my house didn't really impact the 2009 model, but they definitely do for the 2018 version. I think most of this comes from processor improvements over those nine years, so there's a tradeoff, but don't know for sure. Only ARM will tell.

Totally agree that the efficiency and power management on the iPhone line is amazing. They've done a lot of work there. So far, the batteries in my iPhones have lasted about as long as the rest of the device, typically four years.

The possibility of a convergent device, like an iPhone I could use with an external display and keyboard (see https://youtu.be/yBeza4UNOm8), is intriguing. I would like that. And I would be more likely to accept the compromises for that form factor, because I can get down to one computing device.

But just having a sleeker design is not enough for the tradeoffs I see with the vintage vs. modern MBP line.
The idea of something being outside the control of the Nanny state terrifies them. One of his primary arguments is that cryptocurrencies "facilitate crime".
Context matters.

A bad actor towards spammers and a bad actor towards your legitimate customers are not the same thing.

A bad actor towards spammers, is being a good actor towards their legitimate customers.
Well there's utility and then there's legacy.
> It's not an easy task to make an extremely efficient and sleek design, and still make it easy to disassemble/reassemble/upgrade/etc.

If we're just talking about the battery, that's bullshit.

1) They could use Phillips or even Torx screw heads instead of Apple's Pentalobe screw head. The back already comes off relatively easily.

2) The batteries are already connectorized, but they could use a pull-tab adhesive or a thin screw plate to secure the battery instead of fucking epoxy. There's zero space for the cells to move... they're not going to slide around. The only thing the glue does is guarantee that you're going to destroy the cells when you attempt to remove them.

3) They could sell replacement cells on their website like every other manufacturer.

Socketed mobile CPUs are probably never coming back, but RAM and SSD sockets are still a trade-off for pretty much every other manufacturer. Nobody is surprised by Apple's direction here, but it's absolutely possible to design a nice, high-end thin and light laptop with socketed RAM and storage, and many manufacturers are doing just that.
"Regular people" don't make policy. Still, give it a cycle or two to let the current crop of politicians rotate out of influence and it might work.
Here's a good review (sorry for the paywall) [1].

Basically, Jack Welch was in the right place at the right time, probably (almost definitely) played semi-legal accounting games to beat analyst estimates (a practice which later led to accounting fraud charges [2]), and pretty much mortgaged the company's future in exchange for short-term boosts by selling off many of its business units and focusing on GE Capital, which basically got annihilated a few years after Jack left. So he was also a master of leaving other people holding the bag. Also, the man was apparently (according to many people who worked with him) a massive asshole with a huge ego problem and would epitomize every negative stereotype of white male executives if he were still alive today [3].

[1] https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/leaders/jack-welch-infl...

[2] https://www.cfo.com/accounting-tax/2009/08/ge-settles-accoun...

[3] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-jack-welch-wont-be-missed/
That’s precisely what this is, including what he got right &c — “10 Years of Clojure” https://youtu.be/2V1FtfBDsLU
It's just laziness. The interior of modern laptops is mostly space that can be filled by batteries. Laptop packaging is far easier than it was 25 years ago. A screw on cover and a pluggable cable aren't going to ruin anybody's precious design.
I think many people here (me included) just don't know what LinkedIn is doing. Apart from "having a website", that is.
You can do that relatively easy in the context of Apple and Microsoft platforms.
For long term retention, look at VictoriaMetrics
The 100-Percent Rule
This is something nobody's ever done before, and which nobody could have done before. How can you dismiss it so easily? If this is a step back, what does a step forward even look like?

Generating code with guaranteed validity, safety, and performance are worthy goals, but how can you work on them without having an AI that can generate any code in the first place?

I'm just endlessly confused by this mindset. If you wanted a palace and someone built you the foundation, would you deride it as being nothing like a palace and in fact a step AWAY from a palace?
Crossing Your Rubicon
I find the problem with monitoring is not a lack of options, but an overwhelming abundance of them. It’s almost impossible to evaluate all of them realistically, so you just wind up using the most popular one.
Agreed about the mocks and stubs. I dislike it too, but it's unfortunately pretty necessary if your frontend and backend are written in separate languages. If you are writing in the same language, you can actually wire up the frontend and backend together and you don't need to use test doubles! That's an architecture I've been playing around with, but unfortunately not at work.
Sure, so here are some examples:
- Password to laptop + encrypted drive
- Email passwords
- Domain registry + live sites care instructions
- Recurring charitable donations I would like to continue
- iCloud account and phone passcode

There’s plenty more, but as I dig deeper there’s a lot that I’d like to make sure my wife has access to.
A similar principle from the ancient boardgame of Go is, "Your opponents best move is your best move." i.e. sometimes it can be hard to see what the most advantageous move is for you. but if you can see your opponent's most advantageous move, then just steal that one.
I think they do give some consideration to that. For example you can send any Apple device back to Apple, or drop it off at one of their stores, and they will recycle it. In the U.S. at least, they will send you a prepaid shipping label to ship it.

https://www.apple.com/recycling/nationalservices/

And if that doesn't happen, and the machine ends up in a landfill, that's where their standard list of "made without arsenic, lead, etc" can help. In terms of the shell, aluminum and glass, while energy-intensive to produce, are arguably more benign substances to have in a landfill than plastic.