skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple had those for quite a while.

The problem is that a battery compartment has six sides. The lid is, best case, only one of the two largest. Square voids are very difficult to brace around. They started stir welding the braces to the unibody to improve stiffness not too long before they did away with the discrete battery. Then they started manufacturing (assembling, really) their own prismatic cells to substantially reduce the amount of packaging and gaps in the laptops.

The model where this all came together, by the way, got a roughly 2-fold increase in battery life. That is not a small compromise you are talking about. Sure, 30% of that was from OS improvements to manage peak power draw, but the rest was due to better, larger batteries by filling every void in the case with custom, higher density cells (with no shielding of their own).

I do not like that the batteries are bonded to a board that takes $400 to replace. You should absolutely be able to separate those, I just don't agree that it's worth having to carry a spare battery in order to have a spare battery.
this is great for all the people who hate gluing together boilerplater and pipes. in my opinion, the hardest part of development is the "natural language description". gathering requirements, making sure everyone is on the same page with what is being requested, etc. if we're able to quickly generate prototypes from that language that greatly reduces the cycle time from ideation to prototype. what I forsee is that companies will need less developers overall, but more companies will bring in technical talent they wouldn't have otherwise, knowing it's that much easier to get working code
You don't get quite this level of ambiguity with standard C, since it does not provide objects (in the object-oriented sense) with constructors, in contrast to C++ that is used in the Arduino environment (in C++, initialization order of global objects is indeed unspecified, inviting subtle bugs to occur).

However, many common C compilers provide methods to declare functions to run at initialization time, e.g. gcc's `constructor` attribute, opening this rabbit hole also for C programmers.
First off, the way they're describing the suppliers sounds different, and sounds like offsets.

Secondly, electricity used in facilities is not the whole of their carbon footprint. You've got all the shipping across the supply chain for one example.
Is contributing to the fund a taxable contribution? I would assume so since it's a diversifying event.
Everybody thinks they're the center of the universe. Sometimes they're right, for a time. When they decide they were wrong, they tear down the old statues, if only to make the new overlords feel welcome...
I never got a new phone because the battery was not good enough anymore (and it can be replaced, just not by yourself). Apple charges about $50, obviously 10x cheaper than a new phone.
This is true. A related post about discovering this, and some links to more info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18681745
Looks like it's non-cuttable in the same vein as unlimited data plans.
For every Capone there are thousands of people you never heard of successfully evading taxes
Personally when I finish a project I feel great. When I release a project to the world, that’s when the worry kicks in.
> 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.

Exactly — thanks!
The economics of a extremely large machine with thousands of parts are different than the economics of a $150 piece of electronics with 4 parts.

I'm not sure why this surprises people.
Yeah, but if you were Jeff Bezos why would you settle for a name on a building or a department, over Bezos University ?
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Pine is a very soft wood. Some you can dent with a pencil.

Our dining table was like that when I was a kid. You could see all sorts of writing in it from too much pencil pressure when doing homework.
I'm pretty sure that's exactly the claims being made here:

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/2020/0305/Are-forced-labor-U...

https://qz.com/1811305/nike-apple-linked-to-forced-uighur-la...

https://www.newsweek.com/religious-freedom-watchdog-amazon-n...
I wrote my diploma thesis 10 years ago and had to do a lot of pen and paper calculations. Actually it was kind of standard stuff (Lagrangians of Standard model, calculating parametrized decay widths) At that time I really hoped I could automatize the error-prone steps of plugging in and simplifying equations but I found nothing, except for isolated steps. Maybe this is also due to the fact that the most powerful tools for manipulating symbolic expressions are closed source. Not sure how it is now but as long as these tools are not expressive enough to work "end-to-end" with SM Lagrange densities, I doubt anything innovative could be done by automatizing that with AI.
I'm studying CS in Germany at a relatively prestigious institution, and I've gotta say that this online semester has been by far my most productive. Usually I have big problems juggling work, personal life (in 3 different countries) and university education, with everything moving online this has been far easier. Cutting out a 2 hour daily commute has given me a substantial amount of freetime, and the ability to rewatch lectures, pause them, make a coffee in between etc. has given me a much deeper understanding of the topics covered this summer.

An online university would have probably been a better fit for me in the first place, but at the time I didn't want to do it due to the reduced prestige associated with it.
You could argue that we could use better schools or schools that have more of a focus on subjects needed by a modern workforce. But there's no real shortage of colleges and universities. Yes, existing universities come with lots of legacy entanglements (which can be good as well as bad) but for the most part you're probably better off investing in those schools than tearing down and starting from scratch on a prairie somewhere.
For raw 0-60 times a big "advantage" of the Teslas are actually their massive curb weight. There's no shortage of gas cars that can also spin their wheels at launch (or even after shifting to 2nd gear). The limiting factor for a launch is mostly friction, and you can get more friction by either increasing the tire's contact patch (such as wider tires) or by adding more weight. Yes that's now more weight you need to accelerate, but assuming you have enough power it's still a net-win.

That weight is terrible for all sorts of other reasons, but that massive ~4,900lb curb weight combined with all-wheel drive is a major factor in the Model S's 2.3 second 0-60 times.
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Sorry, maybe I misunderstood or misread the article. The source article makes this claim:

> It “makes” “the” “html” “that” “is” “already” “cluttered” “enough” “even” “less” “readable”.

So other than 'makes the html less readable', the other content of the article is "I was devastated to have to update my src" back in 2000, and "by the way, run your html through a validator, see lots of stuff isn't valid!"

Because of the lack of content and compelling argument in the 'article', I feel like my assertion that it wasn't useless was just as substantive as "I don't like it" that the article proposed.

I wouldn't have much to add that the original author didn't already say with this sentence:

> I write <div class="multiple words"> if I have to in HTML
> something that isn't evident in the video

What is or isn't evident in a video is very often subjective. It's a mistake to believe that somebody who is certain of something which contradicts something you are certain of must be illogical or acting in bad faith. Two people can view the same video with different perspectives[0], perceive two sets of mutually exclusive facts, and from those contradictory perceived facts logically deduce contradictory conclusions.

[0] It's arguably impossible for two people to have the same perspective, since they have lived different lives and had different experiences.
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Wouldn't a D-Wave quantum annealing computer be even better for this sort of thing?
> "epic shits" aren't even a recognised symptom of COVID.

http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/04/stomach-compla...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7172493/

And thats just two, there are many more. Bear in mind they were _all_ covid positive. It wasn't someone saying "I had the snuffles". Lab confirmed covid cases. They are also medical, either nurses or doctors.

> In reality lock down has caused some deaths. The virus has caused some - or slightly accelerated some, it's not really clear how much life-years reduction has really taken place given the absolutely on-average mortality profile.

excess mortality in april was ~880(with smoothing) people a day. but sure, its all just a conspiracy.

Given that the normal causes of excess death have been significantly truncated: driving, drinking and sports, its fairly reasonable to assume that standard causes of death have dropped. We can expect significant spike in deaths from chronic conditions such as cancer, diabetes and copd, but that takes time.

> ultra-lax reporting and suddenly changed death certificate standards that the UK has introduced.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

actually its been tightened up, and been told to be more specific. Normally an old person dying in a home is put down to "old age", or, if they fall down the stairs: "terminal event" (falls are a massive killer) before you start talking about attending doctors, none of that happens in practice. Its whoever needs the ash cash that certifies the death.(it depends on the consultant. I know of one who managed to buy a porche with the ash cash. Although I think the payments have stopped now) Or if its outside hospital, who ever answers the phone.

Look, I'm never going to change your mind, but just look at those stats. Something caused a huge spike. That spike started dropping before lockdown ended. That looks like a standard epidemic curve to me. I don't see how it can be reasonably read differently
> I feel like every Stratechery piece on Europe is just plain bashing because Ben Thompson is allergic to regulation. Somehow extrapolating from one Indian company, Jio, to some sort of global vision of an internet while completely disregarding the European continent (which in pure market value obviously still is large) just seems like bad faith.

But he actually makes a very specific point:

> This Internet, though, feels like the worst of all possible outcomes. On one hand, large U.S. tech companies are winners, at least relative to everyone else: yes, all of the regulatory red tape increases costs (and, for targeted advertising, may reduce revenue), but the impact is far greater on would-be competitors. To put it in allegorical terms, the E.U. is restricting the size of the castle even as it dramatically increases the moat.

He's saying that under Europe's model, giant US tech companies are going to be even more locked in to dominance. The market will be less competitive, and have less room for European-grown companies to rise up. It's pretty hard to see how any regulations Europe might impose are going to substantially ameliorate the harmful economic effects of US companies dominating tech, and Europe's economy being relegated to the 20th century.
As you get older without an exit, you start to freak out a bit about your retirement. At least that was true for me.

I'm 1000x better as an entrepreneur at age 42 than I was at age 27. But I'm also 100x more worried about some basic financial things like whether I will be able to retire, maintaining a mortgage, keep up financially with my spouse's career and her changing life expectations.

And what helped stabilize me was some advisor shares that hit or I expect to hit, Beyond Meat (realized) and Calm (expected).

So I would 100% trade my own equity for equity in another startup just because of the size of returns. A 0.1% equity stake in a startup that ends up hitting is life changing.

And if you're about the entrepreneur life, then a hit on an advisor stake can set you up to never have any pressure to leave this life. One of the common patterns in my own circle of founder friends is how often they need to take a job in between companies. I've, so far, avoided that, and just moved on to swinging at the next thing.
Does "allocated elsewhere" imply not at the company or performing another task? Those are quite different.
I've heard from people who worked there at the time that as part of the stack ranking system, it contributed to a culture of mediocrity and stagnation. The high performers did not want to excel in fear of retaliation from teammates that this was putting at risk, and no one wanted to be at the bottom. So the result was that everyone tried to be mediocre, do exactly as told, not more and not less. I would never want to work in such a culture.
Other technologies are slow and insecure, and I have disabled them on my system. Too much memory usage.

Please ensure that if you mention your service or system on HN it works over telnet and outputs plain ascii.
I'm on HN. I like Bitcoin. Surely, I am not alone
Typical use on PCA/SVD on image, what you do is treat each image as a vector, create a matrix out of a collection of images, and then do PCA/SVD on the matrix to analyze the distribution of the images, normalize, get the eigen-images (principal components), etc.
These machines are limited to 64GB RAM AFAIK, or maybe 32GB.
There may be a subtle distinction between a demand for university-trained workers and a demand for universities. The latter produce the former. However, more universities may not be the as efficient a way to train more people as expanding existing universities.
They have been generating annual, detailed reports for years on the conditions at their suppliers and their programs to remediate problems.

As far as I can tell, they are going much farther towards enforcing humane treatment than anyone else in the computer business, but I’d be curious to hear who’s doing a better job.

https://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/01/16/microsoft-will-b...

Microsoft plans to be carbon negative by 2030. I think it's via offsets. For example, if Apple planted a tree for every iPhone sold.

This is probably much more difficult given the consumer nature of their physical products, but it's not like they're short on cash.
Could we finally get closer to safety gloves that work for table saws? As much as I would love to use own, that thing just scares the shit out of me. And yes, I know about the saw stop.
As a one-volume introductory book, I’d suggest any of the last few editions of Groover’s Fundamentals of Modern Manufacturing: Materials, Processes, and Systems. The coverage is fairly broad, not just metalworking, and it’s written for advanced undergraduates—rigorous enough to be useful, but still accessible to non-specialists, with many figures and tables.
What about Draper University in San Mateo?
You need an intranet job at a corporate with on prem servers and firewalls. Its much simpler.
That does not look much like a Mustang, more like they are going for a Tesla Model X
I'm sure there is no shortage of universities which would rename themselves to Bezos U for enough money. It's not even a particularly radical notion. I don't know any examples of entire universities but Cornell's Business School renamed itself after a very large donation and MIT's new computing school is named after a very large donor.
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What does "being an Islamist theocracy" have anything to do against becoming a tech hub or finance center? They're not mutually exclusive in any way.

> executed homosexuals

Claims like this make it hard to take these comments seriously.
How does multi node works with Postgres? Does TimescaleDB create its own Raft layer on top and just treat Postgres as dumb storage?
Microsoft will be carbon negative by 2030:

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/01/16/microsoft-will-b...

To reach that they mention actively investing and deploying carbon removal systems.
Heh, yes, Miata is always the answer. 1992 in my stable.
For true mass adoption and real progress to happen, you have to overcome the notion that electric power is for "sissies".

It's a real problem that is very prevalent, especially in more rural areas.

I agree with you that building a bunch of electric supercars isn't the ideal long-term plan, but you have to admit that Tesla's roadster and their very fast cars have had an enormous impact when it comes to driving adoption and combatting the negative perceptions around electric cars.

Psychology is a huge factor when you are talking about progress and convincing an entire population to switch their way of thinking.
> I've never cracked the case.

You may want to pop it open and blow the dust out of the fans. They need annual maintenance to run at full efficiency. You might even notice the speedup in your computer if the CPU has been running slower to keep the heat down.
From what I have seen, the internal tooling is usually worse than what is publicly available. Often times it is only used because it was built before there was anything publically available, and now all of their tooling and workflow depend on it and they can’t easily change. Plus no one wants to rock the boat and suggest throwing out a tool that likely employs a bunch of people.
Easy proxying means rate limiting doesn’t really help all that much to defeat bots. And then if you do something like blocking or severely restricting something like Tor (the world's largest open proxy and hence, primary abusive traffic source; something which it would make sense to throw extra bot walls in front of), privacy and accessibility advocates jump down your throat.

This is a no-win situation. I’m not convinced it’s possible to have ones cake and eat it too, here. Someone upthread said “security, privacy, accessibility, pick any two”, and I have yet to see any evidence of a third option.
This is the 15th time this has been talked about, but the reason they starve independent repair is because they can only guarantee a quality repair and/or replace a bad repair when they perform it (or when someone that has gone through their training and certifications has done it). If a customer goes to a repair shop that uses off-brand parts and is sloppy with their repair to the point that the issue re-surfaces in a few months, the customer is likely to blame Apple again instead of whoever did the repair.
You're underestimating the egos of billionaires and how they love winning compared to other billionaires. A name on a building is nice. A name on a university that's mentioned with Duke and MIT...now that's something you can brag about. The owners of NBA teams - all billionaires, most willing to lose money year-to-year in order to win and beat the other billionaires. The women's basketball league in Russia - teams owned by oligarchs who all lose money on the league but spend lavishly to beat each other.
If you type your name (it can be fake) on https://www.partitions.io/video-tour it will let you try out all of the functionality without needing to provide an email/password
Usually there is a wording in a papers that need to be signed in order to get severance - if rehired, severance won't be paid (plus reject the right to litigate). This is easy to implement as severance might be paid in be-weekly cadence (like salary).
Two cores that are twice as fast would be preferable to four slower cores. Since PCEngines wouldn't be powering up the GPU side of the chip, they could probably make pretty good use of the new CPU's boost clock capabilities. That plus the microarchitecture advantages of Zen over Jaguar, and the higher DRAM bandwidth should make the two-core Zen parts competitive. But I could also see them waiting for 7nm embedded parts.
I find it sadder that people talk such glaring nonsense and are taken seriously. Extremely sad.
That's not inside the food. It's next to the food.

I suppose you could argue the same thing for this drink too, but I imagine it was just hard to get the spring loaded mechanism to be sterile and food safe.
Duke wasn't founded by James Duke, it renamed itself from Trinity College after his donation.
These are not repurposed laptop parts being used in desktop systems; these are desktop parts because they fit in an AM4 socket, laptop parts don't. The CPU parts (CCX, IO) are the same, but that is the commonality with laptops, Threadrippers and Epic server parts too.
What you describe is exactly the property of Bitcoin. Have a look at how many forks have tried to create "Bitcoin2". Some even with overwhelming support from powerful actors. If they fail like they have during Bitcoin's infancy, later on they have no chance.
Genuinely curious. Tell us more.
Blocks VP9? Maybe it doesn't support it but blocking would imply it is built-in but forcibly disabled.

It does look like they're testing it since it's in tech preview [1] so once it's relatively-bug free they'll probably release it.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/safari/technology-preview/releas...
Possibly a government sanctioned third party “content moderation board” then? This is partly a cynical take on how FB can offload an impossible task to somebody else.
This is one of those things you can't tell anyone¹. You just learn it by trying differently and failing.

¹ http://habitatchronicles.com/2004/04/you-cant-tell-people-an...
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"Palo Alto-based Stanford University ... and MIT have historically been the primary talent pools for the tech industry"

This is far from true. If you look at the total workforce in tech, the majority is by far from much larger, public schools, like Berkeley, Michigan, Illinois, Washington, Texas, Wisconsin, etc., etc. MIT and Stanford have had amazing great people, but they are far from the "primary" source of talent.

(yes, a bit of an aside, but it rankles)
The comment I was replying to pointed out that accurate observations are indisputable facts. To paraphrase the next part, determining causation from observations can be a matter of fact (where you understand the mechanism of causation very well), or of deciding that we're satisfied that the experimentation we've done demonstrates causation (which is not at all the same thing as proving causation). We can also do something like offer a plausible mechanism for causation, which, while often useful, is not particularly close to a fact in the vein of the Earth orbiting the sun.

You're obviously correct that belief doesn't make something a fact, but what to do when a fact hinges on a study? Who decides if the study is good enough? Obviously there is an objective truth, but is the study enough to find it?
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