skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From 1997 to 1999 I had a contract with Caterpillar. Dealers used an AS/400 application called Service Advisor via good old-fashioned 5250 terminals [0]. For those not born when reality was rendered in shades of green, a real 5250 terminal weighed close to 85 pounds (including keyboard) and was built to withstand armed invasion (only partially joking). They were rugged. All IBM hardware of that era was durable. Caterpillar dealers fix large earthmoving equipment and the users of this application were mechanics and other shop staff. Grease, oil, diesel fuel, and any other kind of grime you can imagine were slathered over these terminals. They still worked. No mouse. No GUI. As is the case with most "green screen" applications, users had a mental map of every panel and could "type ahead" several screens and would do so routinely.

It was decided that this application would be "modernized". Y2K hysteria was ramping up and the nascent dotcom boom was brewing. I lost count of how many times I heard, "We need to put some lipstick on this pig." The new hotness was Java and applets. Yes, you read that correctly: the new front-end was going to be written in Java and deployed as applets. The AS/400 would remain as the back-end. For a period of time DCE [1] plus C and C++ shims (running on the AS/400) glued the Java front-end to the back-end.

The project did get "completed" but in name only. Dealers hated the new interface: it was slow, it required a mouse, it did not support any kind of type-ahead, and PC equipment wasn't designed for such a brutal environment. My last interface with these systems was in in 2001 for a very short follow-up project. At that time the green screen was still ruling the roost. Perhaps they eventually did kill off the AS/400 and all of the COBOL. Nah, probably not.

The AS/400 wasn't then (and isn't now) sexy. Green screen applications aren't sexy. COBOL, RPG, and other IBM-centric technologies like CICS [2] aren't sexy. That doesn't mean they don't work. Ironically, they tend to work too well.

This is but one example from oh so many over the years. Sometimes, very rarely, an old technology truly requires complete replacement. Often, calling something legacy is used as cover to cargo cult and "keep up with the neighbors".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_5250

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCE/RPC

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CICS

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That's actually a really good idea. It would make the obvious criticism (that they're doing this to help their bottom line, not the environment) evaporate. And I expect that most people would not request the things.
I think the safest dollar hedges right now are bluechip tech stocks and a forever home(if you need one and get take advantage of rock bottom rates)
As long as we are the world's reserve currency we can do practically whatever we want.
I guessed this would be a "make Uber but for plumbers" kind of thing, but I'm pleasantly surprised most of these are decent paths. They aren't ideas per se, but are specific places for finding them.

Well done.
> Apple says doing this will save 2 million metric tons of carbon annually.

Apple's forced destruction of traded in iPhones continues unabated on the other hand. I feel that this is mainly driven by economic and not environmental concerns.
MagSafe is really cool, but I'm incredibly disappointed they're sticking with lightning...
Still seems quite large, though.
I hear this argument all the time, but Facebook is one of the richest companies in the world so they could definitely afford to hire some more people that could look at complaints. They just choose not to because they don't care. If it suddenly would affect their bottom line I bet you they would hire people very quickly.
on TMO, 5G speeds are basically the same as 4G but I've that the 5G is actually a bit more pervasive
Meanwhile, there's a perception that machine learning is hardware-bound for speed increases, which just isn't true.

I work on a pretty heavy ML system, which a year ago took about a month to 'fully' train. Today we're down to 25 hours training time using the same hardware, based mostly on improvements to the model. The improvements are coming from a combination of signal processing tricks and tricksy model changes. Inference is similarly much faster, too...
It has been a lost opportunity not to take advantage of the extra size to improve the the features for the max.
Dynamic Blending – A private label cosmetics manufacturer in Utah
Rephrased: "Disruption is the justification for the evils that occur in hypercapitalism". They're really just mystifying "creative destruction" here methinks.
I am curious, what are your complaints about the new SE? I have a 2016 SE and am going to upgrade to either the 2020 SE, 12 mini, or 12. The 2016 SE feels a bit small in my hand (I have large hands), but I worry the iPhone 12 regular size will be too large.
All this money HAS generated a lot of inflation already, you're just looking at the wrong place. Look at the S&P over the last decade, and especially look at the "V shaped recovery" of 2020.
I think they are that expensive. The cheapest OLEDs are around $1500, which is a lot of money for a lot of people.
As it goes in America, bigger = better so that is what you get.

The bigger phone trend actually started in Korea, and spread to China. It was several years before large phones came to the United States.
Fair play for Apple on using recycled materials, though the new `mag safe` will sure bring confusion to some after they recycled that name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagSafe
Hey, there are iPhone users not only in US, but also in countries with cheap data plans!
Negative.

It will be a slower rollout due to the costs and infrastructure requirements, but 5g (from Verizon at least) will be faster than your home cable connection. That's a big deal.
I use JetBrains Rider, rather than Visual Studio, and the dev experience is excellent, just the same as with VS.
RDF* and SPARQL*
So like, my toaster can finally get hacked?
Okay. I actually thought the paradox was that wave collapses only if the photon is influenced by measurement activity but I’s been a while since I was reading up on this topic so I may need a refresher.

I suppose if we can calculate exactly how a given force would influence a photon, that would be essentially the same as “measuring” it.
> everyone who buys such an expensive phone already has one for each bag

What about people who are moving over from Android? For that price tag I’d expect to get a charging cable preferably one of decent quality.
Ah I see now, the only difference was screen size
That was a long shot but I too was disappointed
That's a best case scenario and feels overly optimistic. What are the chances it gets fully repaid?
I don't actually want to live in a world where everything with a battery is connected to the internet.

We all know that the manufacturer will stop updating the firmware after a few months, leaving botnets to pick them up.
I quite like the return of the iPhone 4 exterior design style.
Apple's putting me in a tough position here. My XS still works like new, but the Mini is basically my ideal form-factor.
It’s completely broken. You can’t even select text.

Might as well just make it one long-ass video.
It means US is one year behind in 5G adoption, as carrier tech needs Apple devices to be widely adopted in US.
Agreed that love of the craft seems like the general tone of their corporate culture as a whole, so that makes perfect sense too.
Which forced destruction is that? They recycle a lot of iPhone components.
Give it a year (or two)! They probably want to go straight to full MagSafe rather than USB-C. However, if they drop Lightning right now, nobody will be able to charge their phones. It'll take a year or two for magsafe/Qi/etc to be ubiquitous enough that they'll feel comfortable dropping lightning.
Android manufacturers are just switching to USB-C from microUSB. So, no, nobody has 15 years of USB-C cables lying around.
I always get a laugh reading the comments on a new Apple offering. This time - OMG! Mini! Until you go back and review the specs and style of the original iPhone SE which these new phones get their styling from. The original iPhone SE was also smaller and lighter.
I wonder if everyone being locked up at home will dampen the demand for new data features too. If I'm just sitting with my wifi at home, what's the need for 5G?
Wait till you start seeing health risks increase with more exposure to 5G radiation, now it's in your pocket.
For my close contacts, group chats (with notifications muted) have replaced social media sharing
No, there isn’t any irony. The question is valid regardless of the position of any country/country-like entity (US, China, Israel, whatever).

Anyway, the question is for people who do complain.
The Abilene Paradox of group making decisions
My bet is that wired charging will eventually disappear, you'll be able to get portable Qi charger.
I’m so glad to see these new devices bringing back the iPhone 4-style flattened aluminium edges.

I think the 4 was best-looking iPhone until now (especially with that new blue colour option!).
I've been looking for something like this for clean tech / solar, and "landscape map" seems to be the key phrase to search for this sort of overview for arbitrary sectors.
That would be incredibly useful
Now we're talking about humans doing data labor to help enable computer systems tell cats from dogs in imagines in a rigorous way. Now that we've rejected the AI philosophy and refuse to use the AI way of thinking and remember and center the human, what have we gained?

I feel like I'm talking to a college sophomore who has learned that framing and jargon are useful rhetorical tools, but hasn't learned that they serve useful purposes.
Well, for stocks, the P/E ratio is also extraordinarily high, so it's not inflation there. At least not mostly. The stock market is just overvalued and there will be a correction at some point in the future.
https://github.com/zerok/webmentiond has allow list and block lists :) I am very happy using it
In practical terms I absolutely do agree with you. People collectively respond to whatever incentives they're allowed to, you _do_ get riskier behavior when you reduce individual responsibility for actions. If you'll forgive me for going on a wide ranting tangent though, consider the following:

>Because they aren't making the choices that result in the deaths.

I've yet to see compelling evidence that "free will" actually exists, I think it's just a convenient moral abstraction we've developed to grease the wheels of the world. Supposing it doesn't exist, how could we make a just high-functioning society? One that recognizes my hypothesis regarding the illlegitimacy of absolute individual responsibility while also resulting in equal or better collective behavior?

Going back towards the car example, I don't think hammer manufacturers should bear responsibility for the apocryphal homicidal misuse of their tools since removing a hammer from a toolbox just means the crime would be committed with a knife or rocks in a sock. This argument gets blurrier when you consider firearms manufacturers where the explicit intent of the tool is often to kill. You can make a solid argument either way there.

So what about cars? They are involved in roughly 100 fatalities a day in the united states. Were cars designed to kill? No (although we do have the case where a manufacturer decided it was cheaper to keep selling unsafe cars and just pay out lawsuits rather than fix their screwup). Manufacturers generally do what they can to make them safer with each passing year. Despite that though, society still has to bear the cost of tens of thousands of deaths per year and two orders of magnitude more injuries. Those injuries, fatal and nonfatal, would _not_ have happened in a world without cars. A portion of them would not have happened without car ads and popular culture that makes driving fast and irresponsibly look cool. It's convenient, sure, to place absolute blame on the people who don't think just watch cool car go zoom in tv then buy cool car on credit and go zoom into building. Doing what we do now and removing those people from society at that point is a viable solution, but what if we put more effort into not letting industrial psychologists develop good little consumers like that in the first place? The US is the "land of the free" with high levels of individual responsibility and we've got astronomical household debt and the world's highest proportion of our population incarcerated to show for it. I think we can do better.
He does. Perhaps not in this article but its position he's had in previous talks and articles.

Here's the talk I attended:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qpB9v-OrAU
If curious see also

2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21673423

2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19487476 (1 comment)

2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12641425

2014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8417882

2014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7398245

2013 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6037276 (1 comment)

2012 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4682951

2010 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1639149

2010 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1190508
My big question is... does the new "Ceramic Shield" mean that I won't need a screen protector anymore?
1-10% into crypto is fine as long as you invest in the bluechips (Bitcoin and Ethereum) depending on your risk tolerance. Don't go all in, and dollar cost average.
“Car fax” for homes Here's a sample for 2 homes in San Jose
He/she/it's right. I tried:
https://adequate.life

It doesn't work. Too many variables in life to capture all of them.

I'm imagining 20 years from now someone making IntervieweeBot, who will pass all the tests and STILL not get the job because the interviewer didn't like that indignant look in the robot's eye. Or MLHire, a machine-learning algorithm that reliably fails to predict what the employee will want to be doing at the end of their contract. It will make millions in a Series A, become hugely popular, then promptly forgotten after [Elon Musk-like in 20 years] fails to deliver.

EDIT: 80% chance of male pronoun considering the industry, but wasn't sure.
Me too. I just read that it’s likely delayed until 2021 though: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2020/08/12/new-macbo...

Minor MacBook update possible in Nov or Dec.
From March
We think so! The feedback mechanism will be public, giving people the ability to voice their feedback on a broader scale
Remember the Samsung Note. My first big smartphone was the Samsung.
This was an interesting take about the counter acting deflationary effect of technology. Maybe this explains it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8lfLqnhuGs
Sure. I’m just curious as to why.
I think it comes with a USB-C to lightning cable, just not the charger “brick”.
> how would you propose to do syntax highlighting

Of course you'd use spans to do syntax highlighting, just like you'd use JavaScript to do interactivity. You know what the commenter means–using these in places where they aren't necessary at all.
That's such a shit take. This thread is so full of shills and I don't mind eating the downvotes to call them out.

https://euobserver.com/science/144538

Every smartphone manufacturer agreed to use a common charger except Apple, who mumbled something about "advanced functionality". They continue to exploit legal loopholes to allow themselves to be the only ones who have their own charger and, thus, the only ones who can massively profit off of their adapters (sure, others can make them, but they still have to pay the license fee). This isn't the first time they've tried to lock down their proprietary adapter - remember FireWire?

We're only here because Apple made sure to obsolete everyone's cables from before they implemented Lightning. It's fine if you genuinely prefer the Lightning cable but don't pretend that this is pro-consumer when it's really Apple screwing consumers to make a quick buck.
If it's that onerous to download the zip, maybe we should build a tool to browse .zip/.tgz source links instead of pressuring everyone to centralize all source code on the planet into just two web sites.
I don't know why you'd say tech stocks (where volatility is high) but land and safe equities are the traditional hedges yes.
The Fed is only creating bank reserves, which does not create more money. Therefore, the Fed has not been printing money.

When the Fed buys assets (government bonds, Fannies, etc.) from a bank, the bank gets back 'bank reserves', which are just a number in the bank's Federal Reserve account somewhere.

Those reserves can't be lent out. The bank can make no change to its lending, because it's a one-to-one swap (highly liquid government treasury -> bank reserve). A bank's constraint against lending more is its equity reserve ratio, which is unchanged by Fed asset purchases.

Again, this is not printing money; functionally speaking, US Treasuries are already 'money' to a bank (they are extremely liquid, widely traded internationally, safe, and in many contexts actually preferable to cash), so swapping a US Treasury with cash is just turning one type of money into another; no net creation.

There's a simple reason the Fed doesn't clear up this confusion: the central bank prefers people to think they are printing money, because credibility is important to their effectiveness. And the Fed doesn't actually print money, because they don't have the legal authority to do so. This is why Powell is regularly getting in front of Congress to urge more stimulus spending: he knows it's the only way to get dollars directly into the hands of ordinary Americans.
(Not poster) Agreed, but it does have some interesting information regarding the use/history of Lidar.
Show HN: Monte Carlo Analysis of 'Chutes and Ladders' with Python
My understanding of Chinese (the language) is limited, but having learned Hanja (essentially traditional one) first then learned Japanese later the divergence was already significant. Or, more quantitatively, the Joyo Kanji has 364 simplified characters out of 2,136 (~17%) [1] while the mainland China simplified probably about 2,000 out of 7,000 common characters (~28%) [2]. This divergence is not the biggest deal, but still big enough to refute the claim that Japanese is easier to learn because it's "non-simplified" (there may be other valid reasons though).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinjitai#Simplifications_in_J...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_characters#...
The glaring grammatical error in the opening statement diminishes the perceived value of the site.
Does anyone have any industry data on comparative failure rates between the lightning port and USB-C?

Anecdotally, I have had multiple failures of USB-C female sockets and male plugs, even with high quality products. I have not seen a lightning port fail among my friends. The lightning connector physical design appears far more robust and reliable to me personally (fewer pins, not as fragile).
It seems to me that the configuration space of which you speak essentially explains the wave/particle duality. My B.S. Physics education from years ago never explained it as such as far as I can recall. I'm far from any expertise understanding, but this makes much sense. Any further pedagogical commentary would be most appreciated!
Well, I hope so too!

But it's in the intermediate stage when things are scarce that the price matters, or rate-limiting/throttling/etc matters.

You go to South Korea, and they would laugh to think that the US has monthly bandwidth limits, or is talking about net neutrality. Speed and pipe size take care of all issues some distant day in the future.

Yet here we are, living in the past.
> "The iPhone mini fits in the palm of you hand" lol.

Proof that Americans will use anything but the metric system. Haha
12 Mini is roughly 1cm taller and 5mm wider than the original SE.
An alternative telling:

Allende's form of socialism was distinct from the centrally planned soviet style economy, focusing on responding to problems and creating high level economic goals, but otherwise focusing on a self organizing, bottom up, worker led economy extremely distinct from the Soviet system.

This idea started actually working, and the United States fearing, in the CIA's own words, "a successful socialist experiment" tried everything they could to remove Allende and push the country away from socialism. They even looked at the idea of invading the country, but couldn't because of the public opinion of how poorly Vietnam was going. The most successful intervention was, in the United States government's own words again, "making the economy scream". However despite this Allende still kept being elected clearly in elections that no one has disputed the validity of.

So enough being enough, the US government backed one of the most brutal dictators ever, Pinochet, to illegitimately take over the government, killing Allende in cold blood and beginning a reign of terror. Theyd do stuff like rape your wife and children to death in front of you, so that when they took you out to sea on a "helicopter ride" to dump you at sea still alive, you welcomed death. We as the United States trained his staff in torture in the School of the Americas at Fort Benning, and provided an immense amount of funding. Over 10,000 people were killed.

To rebuild the economy after the intervention, they brought in the Chicago Boys, a set of Chicago school economists, to "unleash the economy" from the socialist practices of Allende, but it didn't really work. Chile's growth trailed the rest of South America's until those practices were rolled back.

And even now the scars of all this still exist in Chile, with the massive protests that have been going on for over a year focusing on demands to replace the terrible Pinochet era constitution, and state security forces openly killing protestors.
Having only 50k employees is something they control. Their Net income is ~20B/year at that’s enough to pay for about 1 million low level customer service agents.

I am not saying they need to do so, but the solution is to make it unnecessary to call not simply to have nobody to reach.
They have literally had 2 adapters for the entire history of the iPhone. "Continually changing" is flat out wrong and changing it to USB-C on the other end would support the opposite point you're making.
Because everywhere else is a little worse.

You can loose 2% in the US, but 10% in Italy.

So what do you want to do?

If this crisis were specific to the US, things would be different.

Also, with seigneurage of the US dollar, it gives a lot of elasticity to the process. Put another way 'The USD is also a big international currency that everyone else depends on somewhat'.
Comparing to other static site generators, you might as well ask how we ended up in a place where we "need" Jekyll, liquid templates, and ruby to build a static blog. Static site generators are great for maintaining static sites with many pages that share templates and commonly-reused components, and React specifically is basically an HTML templating language that just also has the ability to run the same code on the client and update the page while it's open, which is really useful if you have any dynamic bits on your page. It's true there's some stuff downloaded and processed on the client that's dead weight if you're not actually using any dynamic features, but it's asynchronously downloaded and the page successfully does its initial render before that and it's about the size of an image or a font, so I think worrying about it in most cases is a bit overblown.
I'm not sure how Palantir counts as "without the CIA".
It makes a lot of technical sense to solder SSDs to the board given the insane speed of modern SSDs. Solder joints are much better than a connector for a high bandwidth link. Even tiny parasitic capacitances become a major headache.
Netflix is using H.265 with adaptive bitrate encoding if your device supports it, what codec is Apple using? Simply comparing bitrates is outdated.