skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about the higher wattage ones for the 87W or 96W chargers, but for the 60W adapter there are tons of 3m cable options including companies like Anker that make better cables than Apple does. For example: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0832DC7W8/

And anyway, compare this to before USB-C. "My MacBook's magsafe cable isn't long enough, can I get a longer one?"

No, it's soldered to the power brick, comes in only one length, costs $80 to replace the whole thing if the cable frays, and no reputable 3rd party options exist because it was Apple's special sauce patented power connector.

I'll take USB-C over that.
They don't want to sink the company. They want them to stop doing this, and send a message to other companies who are also doing things like this.
21st century capitalism is a total house of cards just waiting to collapse
Start here,

"Object-oriented programming: Some history, and challenges for the next fifty years"

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089054011...

Than read on BETA design for example,

https://beta.cs.au.dk/

Follow up with "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol",

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/art-metaobject-protocol

and "Xerox LOOPS"

http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/interlisp_...

Then "Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming" (the 1st edition with Component Pascal)

https://www.amazon.com/Component-Software-Beyond-Object-Orie...

"Applying Traits to the Smalltalk Collection Classes"

https://rmod.inria.fr/archives/papers/Blac03a-OOSPLA03-Trait...

"Self – The Power of Simplicity"

http://media.cichon.com/talks/Introduction_Self_Language_OOP...

https://blog.rfox.eu/en/Programming/Series_about_Self/index....

How about this for starters?
“making money” from your business has nothing to do with the valuation of your company...
Huh, I thought I'd done that in the past. Maybe it was a different site.
I think the software probably did what it's designed to do, right? She talked, it said she was talking. I haven't seen the interface, but I doubt it said (or cared) that she was talking to herself.

The entire point of these tools is that the prof or a TA or someone should have reviewed the video.

Blame the wielder of the tool, not the tool.
This is very relevant to my personal experience.

I've always had a very, very poor sense of direction. Even if I I've been down a road countless times, if I approach it from a different direction I can easily become lost and turned around, so I've just relied on my gps to get me anywhere.

This is something I always figured must be due to something with how my brain is structured. Just a reality of how I've developed.

Then one day I travelled to cuba on a whim. Spent a week there with no phone service. Within just a few days, I had most of Havana memorized and could easily navigate it without a map, even intuit where I was by the position of the sun. It's like I unlocked a new super power I never had.

Then it hit me... the reason my sense of direction has always been so poor is because I offload that part of my brain onto machines.
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Disagreements on which company owns the IP generated by the employee might end up costing both companies more than the value the employee generates. Legal costs quite a bit.

Another consideration, if this person is able to complete their work in half the time then this person was brought on at a responsibility level that was too low. Theoretically, the job should be taking 40 hours. It's the company's responsibility to load balance the tasks for their employee's to fill an FTE's schedule.
"Why are we tracking parts using a pen and paper? There's a much better way to be doing this..."

Cut to five years later when your former-plumbing shop is now selling an inventory control PAAS to other plumbers and you're now trying to learn swift so you can port to the latest ipads.
How unusual. I did follow the link from the TOS to the application.

Would you like me to try again/do anything else to help debug?

Edit: turning on noprocrast because I have work to get done. I'll check back in an hour or so.
Any good links?
That seems a bit xenophobic. Why not SkyPennies or SkyMeters?
If you're not a frequent flyer you're probably not missing out on much, insofar as points collected via flying. However, if you're not taking advantage of credit card sign up offers that give you travel rewards (aka. churning), you are missing out on hundreds of dollars of free travel per year.
Creator here.

The project was created as part of my role as artist within the Sherpa consortium. It's a Horizon2020 research project whose goal is to figure out what Europeans believe are the biggest issues around AI that we'll experience in 2025. Most of the other partners are universities, and I'm the lucky one who gets to translate what we learn into art pieces.

Learn more about Sherpa here: https://www.project-sherpa.eu/

All the other works I've created / am creating for Sherpa can be found here: https://www.sherpapieces.eu/

Besides working as an artist I also work as a privacy designer, which means I specialise in creating things/products that protect privacy.

This website was a very cool challenge to build, a testament to the power of javascript.
It's not $10-15 for any premium co-brand card.

Back a few years ago the rough book value of a mile was 6/10th of a cent per point. Credit card sign-up bonuses are easily in the 25-100,000 point range, so every premium co-brand card pays $150-600 to the airline.

Further, breakage is high in the airline loyalty space, something around 20-30% if I recall correctly.
Strike One: Only works on Google-branded phones. Which among other things means Google harvests data from it, because otherwise they wouldn't do it.

Strike Two: Stupid kludge. The right solution is a DTMF code that plays iff a real human answers, so it only requires two transistors rather than a 50-kilowatt tensor network to recognize. That would have to be legislated, of course.

Strike Three: Hiring Mechanical Turk to "wait on hold for me" is probably easier.
It's a beautiful scam. They convince consumers to turn their cash into an in-house quasi-currency that they can devalue whenever they want. The only limits are consumer frustration.
This is a really honorable and amazing occupation you've found for yourself and I'm glad folks like you are out there changing people's perspectives and lives. Do you have any resources you'd recommend for learning welding? That's been a skillset that I've wanted to pick up for awhile.
If manufacturing+using a Tesla (on average on all lifespan) is indeed greener, and price per pollution credit is well balanced, then the credit machinery economically nudges the equilibrium towards greener overall. That's the theory behind freely exchangeable pollution credit.
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I negotiated for a friend in a small ransomware case. They paid $2k. Yes, reputation is important, I did some research to check whether others had successfully negotiated. If you get a reputation for not delivering nobody will negotiate with you. Likewise if you have a good reputation the amount of money people are willing to risk on getting their data back goes up, and that's good for business. It's also a reason why the ransomware was very clearly branded.

It's criminal but the principles of business still apply.
> Mainly that all the usb-c cables you sprinkle across your house might not have the same functionality.

If you buy decent cables they all do. The reality is that whatever devices you're plugging the cables into might not support every feature you're looking for. Instead of blaming poorly built devices or ignorant consumers it must be the shape of the cable that's the problem surely.
Provided he/she can manage it, Why would someone not do that ?
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I don't understand the question. Just make it illegal. That's the legal grounds.

Are you asking for a court precedent or something? IANAL. I assure you that if there was a federal popular vote question for "should airlines be able to advertise to you on the airplane where you can't turn them off after you paids 100s of dollars for a ticket?" there would be a unanimous NO.
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Also because there is no meaning for the first value (there is no “synchronicity” between separate clocks).
When trying to teach somebody how to do X i always avoid telling what exactly to do. instead i try to hint at my reasoning without giving the conclusion. otherwise i would probably just teach them to ask me what to do.
> is perfectly valid C++

we're in 2020.

$ clang-tidy -checks='cppcoreguidelines-*' foo.cpp
/tmp/foo.cpp:10:3: warning: initializing non-owner 'Thing *' with a newly created 'gsl::owner<>' [cppcoreguidelines-owning-memory]
Thing* thing = new Thing();
^
/tmp/foo.cpp:12:3: warning: deleting a pointer through a type that is not marked 'gsl::owner<>'; consider using a smart pointer instead [cppcoreguidelines-owning-memory]
delete thing;
^
/tmp/foo.cpp:10:3: note: variable declared here
Thing* thing = new Thing();
^
Like those that Google does for Android?
It does make you wonder how much of the tweet is true. Could entirely be a thought experiment.
> Accenture, a leading global professional services company, is exploring quantum, quantum-inspired, and hybrid solutions to develop applications across industries. Accenture recently conducted a series of business experiments with a banking client to pilot quantum applications for currency arbitrage, credit scoring, and trading optimization, successfully mapping computationally challenging business problems to quantum formulations, enabling quantum readiness

I'd love to know more about that... Incredibly dubious on the claims
Elons probably not an employee, directors are different
I'd label the salespeople "wielders" not over-pressured teachers.
It isn't inconsiderate because I am not talking about actual living people and the problems they have or the suffering they may be experiencing. They are conscious and are worthy of our concern. What isn’t worthy of concern is the abstract idea of “X number of would be people” because those aren’t actual living things, they are just a concept in someone’s head about a possible alternate reality where these hypothetical people could have existed. 8 thousand, 8 million, or 8 billion hypothetical imaginary children mean less than 1 real child. But the suffering of 8,000 real people that could not have a child that they wanted would be worthy of concern. The concept of the possible child, in and of itself, is not. Otherwise every month would be a genocide of “would be children” lost to the menstrual cycle.
I also have a wife, kids and excercise two hours 6 days a week.
> Physical connectors previous encoded information about data/power transfer mode support. When USB C unified the physical connector, that information was lost.

this is not strictly true, at least for USB. you can use a USB 1.x to connect USB2/3 endpoints, but you will only get 1.x speeds. there were power-only cables that didn't transfer data at all. they are all physically compatible. unless you're familiar with the pin layout, there's no way to distinguish the different flavors of A ports.
It's the artifice of presentation that gets me. The color's not real, the filled in scratches aren't real, and once upon a time a photographer sat and composed the shot in the first place. It's an artist illustration of history. Which is fine, those are important to have. But it's too easy to forget that it's not reality.

As the production value of video gets better (in general, not just historical film), people forget the little bit of McLuhan they once half-understood. And the more time we spending looking at screens, the more we WANT to forget that the pictures on the screen don't reflect reality. For example: go tweet what you really think about the world. About politics, about sex, about all the white lies we tell eachother to keep society functioning. Don't want to? OK, now ask yourself why you treat anything you read as less artificially constrained than what you, a relative nobody, are willing to tweet.
At least on an accounting basis though, airlines do actually make remarkable profits on their frequent flyer programs. In 2015 or so United disclosed their FFP business was earning ~67% margins, as against ~2% for the rest of the airline. I don't think they have disclosed more recent numbers, but margins are probably higher now.

That said, these profits are in part an accounting artifact. This is because up until very recently airline accounting rules only required carriers to realize the marginal cost of carrying a passenger when frequent flyer miles were redeemed. Since the marginal cost of a passenger is only ~$20 or so, this yields great margins.

These days however the overwhelming majority of airline miles are awarded for credit card spending rather than actually flying, though. As your second article notes, for United the split is 70/30 or so.
Sub-division being built by my house right now. They paid $500k for the land a few years ago. Paid $1.1m this year to get the earthworks done ( underground power, water, sewage, irrigation,etc) plus they will pave the street and do curbing. The land was the last expensive part by far, prepping it cost double.

There will be 19 lots, however he will not sell any, he will build every home on spec(ulation) and sell them himself. It's purely a profit driven decision and he will make million+, after spending years getting everything aligned and tying up capital. $80-100k in outfit per lot, plus another $100k per house. He will do quite well. However if he sold those lots and more builders were involved, we would have new housing faster.

This is true for at least 4 sub divisions being built in my town. Greed/capitalism is creating/exacerbating a housing shortage, everyone wants to maximize profits in a slow moving business, instead of just facilitating the creating of housing as efficient as possible.
Increased load on e.g. Teams from widespread customer adoption of WFH did pose a challenge at the start, but they absorbed the load fairly well (some other workloads were de-prioritized) months ago.
> Bad news: even if you get the bitstream out, there isn't full reverse engineering of what it means for anything other than a few Lattice Semiconductor parts.

This catches so many new people. Bitstreams are not firmware. They are configuration.
I believe you. So check your filters. Filters can do a lot more than just move stuff around.
I'm really tired of people who claim the result of a psychological study is "obvious".

No, it isn't obvious at all and your example doesn't even correspond to the paper in any way. [1]

With GPS, it's easy to simply not pay attention. And if you're not even paying equal attention, then you're not even trying to learn. But that's not even what the study's about.

The study is about people actively trying to learn, first of all. It's about the rates of people who are trying to solve something from trial and error, not people trying to memorize a route they research or look up or are told.

But the study is specifically about discovering that choice confirmation bias appears to lead to higher learning rates, which is entirely non-obvious. In layman's terms, why would "assuming I'm right" lead to better learning outcomes? Traditionally, common sense tells us that prejudice or bias leads to worse learning outcomes.

So this is actually a quite interesting, non-obvious result.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-0919-5
It looks like the accessibility score went down, too.
It's not illegal to have two jobs, but usually for a FTE salaried job, you employment agreement says must tell your employer about any other jobs you have, including part time and hourly. A big reason why companies don't want you to have another tech job is that you might not really being doing either job, you outsource one or both of them. That breaks confidentiality laws when you give your subcontractor access to documents, data, source code, names of your coworkers, etc.
Clearly business travel is its own thing, and not related to the rest of us unwashed masses
Not really because what you would have learned is that it's better to plot your route beforehand thus freeing your mind to listen to your audiobook.
Funny joke but Jesus wants actually known for his carpentry ability. He seems to have abandoned that career for godhood.
But all schools do?
GitHub doesn't support push options, sadly.
My cynical take is that there are no historians saying that we shouldn't upscale images. There are historians who are warning that lots of the information in the upscaled images are ahistorical (blue jeans in the 1910s) so people should view this images as interesting but not accurate views of history. The journalist is the only one saying anyone should stop anything. None of the historians in the article ever say the youtubers should stop. They're just saying pretty much: "Hey, history cares about the context and accuracy of sources and these images are worse sources than the originals, they're good entertainment but bad historical sources". Pump it through a journalist and this is what you get. It's at this point I make some ironic point about how the journalist is using his neural net to upscale the story, inserting innaccurate information to the picture to create a more entertaining piece than the underlying facts.
This is exactly it. If you want anything that actually works and is reliable, you pretty much cannot buy it on Amazon, you need to buy it directly from the company that makes it. I have a Henge Dock for my older 13" MBP and it's worked perfectly for years over USB-C, and on my newer Touchbar 13" I havea a 2-port USB-C microdock from HyperDrive. I use Anker PD/IQ3 chargers and cables, and I have no issues whatsoever.

There are companies making good products, but you have to be willing to pay for them and you have to buy them directly from that company usually. Even if you find that product on Amazon, due to SKU commingling you can assume most of the inventory is counterfeit.

Too many people go to Amazon, type some generic keywords in, and pick "Amazon's Choice", which is some "brand" off AliExpress with no QC. It's not just electronics, this is true for things like car parts and tools as well. It's somewhat shocking how much Chinesium-grade products have infected every aspect of American life due to the ubiquity of people buying through Amazon and Amazon's complete lack of inventory QC.

Friends are amazed that so much of my stuff works, and it seems the only way people find out about good stuff now is via word of mouth because you can't trust online review sites which are mostly just reformatting Amazon star rankings with affiliate links. The state of ecommerce in 2020 is appalling.
> No GUI config is one, and I can't be arsed to go through multiple cycles of changing a config file, checking if it is alright, then going back

I recently switched to kitty precisely because it's portable and can be configured with a dotfile kept in git.

Doing the same with putty, iTerm2 or gnome-terminal would require automating the import/export of platform-specific config formats that I'd honestly rather not learn.
What you don't see here are the tens of thousands of shots that didn't work out so well. Look through an unedited roll from someone like Garry Winogrand and you'll feel much better.
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Yup, the expected value of the key is P(valid_key) * savings_from_decrypting. So if you're known to negotiators as providing a valid key, it makes the likelihood of paying higher.
I have taught newcomers quite a bit and until you've done it you probably shouldn't trust your intuition about what non-programmers will and won't get hung up on.

Also like you mentioned, in even the medium-short term the thing that will get people learning the fastest is the thing that gives them a reason to code. Pretty much always right now that's going to be JS or sure maybe python.
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