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> Why do we focus so much on Apple?

Apple has (like many successful companies) into a bad habit of being evil by default. Identifying where the market has born a bad actor is par for HN.

It isn't widespread knowledge that Apple is actively engaging in practices they market against. It's also interesting to note that they seem to get worse each release and people still haven't been acknowledging the reality.

The knowledge that Exxon is promoting anti-global warming hand waving is ubiquitous.

The perspective presented is to the point that it's marketing is laughably contradictory. It's good fun for both those who visit Apple stores (and didn't realize what happened) and those who don't for various reasons...like avoiding planned obsolescence.
I've heard the Assembly vs. C analogy a couple times now, and find it hard to apply:

Assembly languages come in many flavors whereas C is a single, standard abstraction over these.

DOM is a single, standard API whereas frameworks/libraries come in many, ever-changing flavors and provide different abstractions over the DOM.

It's a very different situation. Also, the level of abstraction that C provides over assembly is amazing. The level of abstraction that React provides over the DOM is comparably low (they are based on the same programming language).
India and USA to share high-quality satellite imagery and more under new pact
I feel like 80% of the US population has a vitamin D deficiency already...
Four Hong Kong activists seeking asylum in US consulate ‘turned away’
And this guy earns more than all of us to say things like that.
I have to agree. I don't mind the triangular Drive icon as it's distinctive, but the others are far too similar to one another and the identical color scheme simply exacerbates this fact.
I’m short on google long term - they’re feeling more and more like yahoo to me. Lots of random projects, often killed, little direction - no overall vision.

They better hope the ad revenue keeps printing money.

It’s possible they could fix this (Microsoft did), but the direction doesn’t look great.
The lightning port does support USB 3 speeds, the old iPad Pro (pre-USB C) models supported USB 3 over the lightning connector and Apple even released some adapters that took advantage of the speed: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MK0W2AM/A/lightning-to-us...

But for some reason Apple has never brought this support to the iPhone's lightning port.
> after you will have both usb c and a bricks so you will be set for whatever future devices you get

Looking at Apple's track record, this is a ridiculous statement.

There is no future proofing planned obsolescence.
DOI 10.1021/jf073398s @ sci-hub (not sure what the rules are about linking directly from here)
Other than SF, Reddit now has operations/offices in NYC, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Dublin (Ireland), and London (UK) (as of last month: https://redditblog.com/2020/09/28/reddit-launches-london-ope...).

It's a bit of a mess, but you can see most of these inside the "Location" dropdown on their jobs page: https://www.redditinc.com/careers#job-info
This was originally about grouping single file header libraries into compilation units that wouldn't need to be changed often. I'm not sure what your point here is, since most would have C functions for their interface or use templates. Even if you were using a C++ ABI it would be trivial to recompile. Qt is the furthest thing from a single file library.
I don't think you should regard ZFC's purpose as proof verification. If you want verification, by all means use something else, as discussed in the link in my original post (which also addresses your scheme point – that's a problem common to most approaches so far!).

If HoTT helps you prove theorems, great. In particular I could see it being of interest to people working in higher category theory (and such people have responded in other comments here!). My remarks were meant for the other 99% of mathematicians – most of whom go their entire lives without ever writing the word "category" in a paper.
a bunch of fools running around in a company, creating shitty tools with wizards. we've seen it all before, and it will be the scientists and engineers who will have to clean it up and put out the fires, after they are long gone.
Making a Real-Time NYC Subway Map with Real Weird NYC Subway Data
The US (and Canada) have much weaker consumer protections for debit than credit.

If a merchant posts a fraudulent transaction against a credit card, you'll most likely get your money back. If a merchant posts a fraudulent transaction against a debit card, you might not get your money back.

More dangerously, if your debit card credentials are skimmed and used to withdraw money from your account by any means other than the retail debit-card payment system, you won't get your money back.
Can what? Care about precisely which 75+ year old movies I can watch without paying $2 for the privilege? What makes you think this could ever be a serious motivating issue for the electorate?
Something doesn't parse for me in your second paragraph - CAN HI and CAN LO are 2 parts of the same bus (each bus has 2 wires per the differential spec) and so of course they go to the same device on different pins. Am I missing something about the Jeep architecture?
That only applies if you are a US citizen or permanent resident. For others, it is very inconvenient to have their income tied to a foreign country and/or foreign exchange rates.
None of that has the slightest bit to do with how brains work to weave the activity you have chosen to noun as "consciousness". Minding is activity brains perform, exactly as motion is activity cars perform. To imagine that mind can't come out of brain cells being brain cells is woolly mysticism that is pointless even to write: rejecting reason, you reject language and communication, and there is nobody to talk to and nothing meaningful to say.

You could equally well say that, being in the car, you can't experience the motion. But that is also nonsense: you do.

There is nothing profound about noticing yourself noticing. Brain activity is not distinct from other activity, just because it can react to itself. Individual, nanoscopic transistors do it all day long.
i am usually the last to complain about these kind of redesigns, but when my mail notification icon changes from a universally standard envelop to an awkwardly-styled M, i think it's fair to say something is off.
Maybe qualia is generational knowledge; Certain distinct objects developed differentiation and over time wee learned to associate it visually with color. Initially in our evolution we only had two wavelengths of color differentiation, but somewhere along the line a mutation caused a third, offset wavelength to appear. This is what color blindness is - my third mutated wavelength is just slightly closer to the second wavelength.
I mean. Tesla has a looooooooong history of making claims like this and never following up, so... I wouldn't get my hopes up.

Ctrl+F for "tesla" here: https://elonmusk.today/
Studies show that a Month after a megadose of 60,000IU blood levels revert to base level, - so it does, in fact, change significantly over a few days.

Furthermore, it’s possibly the body uses more for some processes when in distress, which would complicate reasoning.
If anything, it's a good way to get PR. "Journalists" entertain the most banal stories as long as they're attached to name brands.
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Oops.. C in Rust.
I agree with this.

I bought an iphone 12 this year because my iphone 6s+ is 5 years old at this point, and I wanted to spoil myself. My new phone feels basically identical to my old phone, and despite 5 years of innovation I think it was a waste of money. Most of the improvements in iphones in the last 5 years has been in software, and the 6s (for now) still gets all the updates anyway.

There's some differences - low light photography is much better. My new phone is also physically smaller with the same screen size and much snappier. But its also missing a headphone jack, force touch and it can't be unlocked with a face mask.

I think next time I'll keep my phone until it dies - which I'm hoping will be ~6-7 years. Given that sort of longevity, the price seems pretty reasonable.
Speak for yourself.

I could subscribe to 3 or 4 premium streaming services and be spending less than I was on CDs 20 years ago.

Don't have to spend hours ripping them all, either.
“Close” in a relative sense. They implied we’ll have the cure for death in the next 2000 years or so, with the 99% and humans having existed for roughly 200K years. Sounds plausible to me.
I'm guessing $99/mo for 50mbit+ is faster and/or cheaper than a lot of people in rural (and even not-so-rural) America are paying.
Surely the ram variants use the same chips. Why cancel those because of yield? I wouldn't expect total demand to change by a significant amount...
Wouldn't the neutral solution be to pick a target standard of living (roughly approximated by something like a 75th percentile market rate salary, or whatever metric you chose) and pay that for any given location?

I'm aware of several teams that have done this with success in the past. Everybody, no matter their region of choice, gets compensation enough to enable an appropriately comfortable standard of living desired based on the actual costs of living where they choose. This is what we're talking about when we advocate for adjusting salaries for COL. It creates incentive for your employees to live where they actually want to live, work, and be happy - rather than wherever they feel like they can extract the most cash value from the company.
is it wrong that i hear about these attacks and i am utterly disgusted? i get that american CIA operatives aren't exactly the cleanest of the clean, but he was on a diplomatic mission and basically had the rest of his life ruined. is that just how life goes? same goes for the Havana cases, which are so obviously connected that it hardly even needs further evidence to substantiate at this point (and seem even more dubious than this one from a moral standpoint?).

i guess what i'm saying is that if i knew Putin were doing this to my people i would be apoplectic-- what am i missing? are we up to dirty stuff like this too? i mean, i guess something like Guantanamo counts as "dirty", but seems somehow in a different circle of hell from this... (maybe this is just my own ignorance talking).
Not the same John Gray.
On the other side, I've never herd of Google Keep.
you can squeeze any law into other laws, they are called riders. in some cases the barrier of entry is extremely low because the host-bill is required to open the government or something very time sensitive.

the point is that the electorate doesn't care and you don't want them to.
What is the expected behavior when holding down two keys on a keyboard?
These are more icons than logos, and they serve a very different (and functional) purpose.
Yes: having CoL-adjusted salaries. Maybe you left this as the obvious answer, knowing that the people who frequent this board would downvote it.
When I open Slack it takes a few seconds for the messages to come up.

When I open Mimestream (a new native gmail app), I see my messages in an instant.

That’s enough for me to dislike Slack.
This is a reasonable summary that roughly answers your question.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gabrielshaoolian/2017/02/07/log...

tldr; when your designers tell you it’s out of date with current design trends and that they can evoke a better brand response with a new design.
> Now I have to migrate all my notes off to another service :(

> Now I have to migrate all my notes off to another service :(

I'm glad I started migrating to one note.

Although it does feel like there is space for an app between one note and keep.
Empathy in Artificial Intelligence (Dec 19)
Okay, then.

"Programming by successive approximation" is more polite to say that "flailing randomly", but it would be a mistake to imagine one being more orderly than the other. But it was good enough for our protist ancestors, so it would not do to say it is wrong, as such.
But maybe this is enough?
I do this too, but this gives me time to actually read the repo name twice. It's way better than a confirm button for me.

I'm sure it would also wake me up from autopilot. But I don't do this often so I can't really know. It seems like this is good enough for many people, who don't perform this action too often.
In a practical sense but not intentionally so most JavaScript work is no code. Original work is not expected and developers are both terrified and bitterly hostile to writing original code. The result is frustration for everyone involved, including the end user.
https://www.bellingcat.com/uncategorized/2020/08/28/cholines...
When the intern learns figma.
I am not sure HoTT is your best bet if you want to get away from obscure notation and naval-gazing.

Just kidding. But seriously, ZFC is probably the easiest foundation you can have for proper mathematics. Anything else is more complicated (if you think otherwise, you probably just don't understand it).
> Don't live in an imagined future.

Congratulations, dear philosopher. "Living in imagined future" is called motivation. You just told people that they shouldn't have any motivation beyond primitive impulses (hunger, fear, lust) such as those found in a cat. I'm not sure this is good advice for humans, however.
> are we up to dirty stuff like this too?

Yes.
This is a great explanation for why I'm not a particularly huge fan of things like Create React App, Angular CLI, etc.
Google's design language is amazing, but their color recommendations are terrible. The problem is that they require lots of contrast to help people with visual impairments, at the expense of making content ugly and unreadable for everyone else. It's unclear why we can't just have a media query to increase contrast to AA or AAA for those who need it, while leaving apps nice looking for those who don't benefit from the extra contrast.
Lambda is far from archaic. I call them lambdas all the time. Python explicitly uses lambda as the keyword. Java, C++ and Kotlin all use "lambda" to describe closures in the official docs. Rust uses both closure and lambda. All of these languages except python either are new (Rust, Kotlin) or have had lambdas added in the last ten years.
FWIW, I'm also visually impaired and mystified that this very critical article even exists and further befuddled that it resonates with enough people that it has made the front page of HN.

I don't get where all the hatred is coming from beyond the knee jerk reaction that most humans hate to change. Most people tend to hate change and tend to react negatively to anything being changed.
we will always opt to view and live through our imagined future, it's how we issue priority in the plans and contingencies of our lives, the best we can agree is to spend more time living in the moment and not otherwise in a loop we call regret where the decisions(past) is being redo in our minds to better imagined outcomes(future)
. as well
Or perhaps being stuck inside without sunlight for a few weeks after being afflicted with a serious covid case, may cause vitamin D deficiency?
> The thing IMO that really killed Sketch

Are we just accepting that Sketch is “dead” now? Genuinely curious. I realize Figma has been doing great things, but wasn’t under the impression that Sketch is over.
I suggest everybody to search the older news stories which quote the said “officer”. He seems to be very active in giving his opinions on many issues and, it appears to me, seeking media attention under any possible premise.

Often, the background story to a mystery is: there’s a motivation for presenting it as such.
Inter national politics is a cruel mistress. I think this is just a way to deter peaceful missions from the US without being actively aggressive.
I totally agree. I think the new logos look nice and I don't have any issue distinguishing them by their silhouettes.
Ask HN: I need help finding a job that fits my current mental situation
I'm not in a good place mentally.

The pandemic has taken a massive toll on my mental health. Not only because I can't socialize like I did before, but also because I had to stop practicing my sport. My sport was one of the main things that kept me sane. I work out at home now, but it's nowhere near the same thing as going to practice 3-4 times a week.

On top of that, my wife left me in January before the pandemic hit. We're now going through the legal stuff, which is pretty stressful.

And I'm potentially dealing with some health issues. Still waiting for an appointment with my primary care provider.

I'm doing therapy. It's been keeping me barely sane. My weekly therapy session is the thing I look forward to the most during the week.

I'm a senior engineer at a large tech company. I'm paid a very handsome salary and quite a lot in RSUs to care about some of their systems. Given my position as senior, I'm expected to make big, important decisions, and to mentor people in the team.

I can't do any of that right now. I've been feeling like I'm scamming the company, because there have been entire weeks where I literally didn't work. And it's not because I don't want to, but I sit in front of my laptop and feel totally overwhelmed by everything and completely blocked mentally. My manager is actually aware of that and has been very understanding, but I still feel really bad about it.

I don't want to quit to take time off though. I feel like that'd be worse, and I'd probably just spend my days in bed not doing anything. I can still code - I do my own coding in the evenings, and that's been going quite well (nothing that will make me money though). I just can't be expected to care about stuff and to be involved as if my life depended on the services we build. There's no space in my head for that.

If I could get a job where I'm basically assigned tasks to code things to spec, done, next, that'd be perfect.

Does that even exist though?
I'm surprised a company as big as Google didn't spot that in trademark review. Or they did, but decided they'd just walk all over it.
What a wanker.
I hate sketch because of this. I don't use Mac, never will, and because of Apple's stubbornness about not running in a VM, there is no remote possibility of me ever being able to use sketch.

So when someone hands off a sketch, I usually have to pester them endlessly to decipher certain parts of it for me. It's their punishment for buying into platform lock-in.

Sketch is a cool app but it sucks and I hate it.
The proposed mechanism of microwave or sonic waves is completely implausible, to the point of absurdity. The only way either could incur brain damage would be through either heat or mechanical stress, both of which would be readily apparent.

If this is a genuine issue then the mechanism is almost assuredly completely different, and personally I don't think it is some scary communist death ray that they would, for some reason, use on US and Canadian diplomats.

Unless the diplomats are all actually covert staff, in which case there would be a motive, but then some kind of chemical is much likelier.

This is IMO so implausible as to put the entire story into question. There is no way this is a microwave or sonic weapon. A microwave or sonic weapon could not cause occipital nerve damage so specific and without leaving any obvious traces of mechanical trauma and/or heat damage. It would also very probably be quite notioeable.
The article really hits home when describing the benefits of having a native Mac app vs a hybrid or a web mess.
I'm a stutterer. As a child a could hardly finish a phrase with out getting stuck on a word. I distinctly remember being ridiculed for the way I spoke. I think about 2nd grade I discovered that I could tell when a word was going to be trouble. I would try to pronounce the word but if I could not get it out in one try, I would stop, think, and replace the word with a similar meaning word. If I couldn't think of a word, I would replace the phrase and move forward. At times, it was a bit awkward but most of the time it was no big deal. Trying to fight through a trouble word is next to impossible so it's just easier to replace it.

As an adult, I do the same thing to stop my stuttering but it's gotten way easier to find a replacement word. I still have trouble when I get nervous but I have to remember to slow down. I don't think any one notices or cares that I've slowed down so it's worked for me. I also find myself previewing what I will say in my mind before I say it. So I usually don't say something with out thinking it first.

I don't think stuttering can go away for everyone, but for some it does go away, but it's something you can manage. I never had speech sessions but I suspect that a few hours a week is not enough. In the past, I had to constantly be aware of what I was saying and making sure I practice my word replacement. The more I did it the easier it got/gets.

I don't think anyone knows that I'm a stutterer now. I do a good job to over come it. I think it helps to know that it is something that can be managed. It's just something that you need to constantly try to over come.

I feel for your kid since I know what he is going through and what he will face. I also know that it can be managed so I think you'll need to work with your four year old, now. You need to constantly help him to make sure he understands what to do when a word is a problem by having long conversations with him to help with what he needs to do. Good luck!
There is a really useful free tier - I think the paid tier mostly includes collaboration features.
I'll just share the phrase I think on an almost daily basis, when I see whatever latest thing has been changed for no reason:

Change for the sake of change.

This change provides exactly zero value to users, and in fact I see it as a step backwards, just as the article author suggests.

The previous icon for Google Docs was clearly a _document_. The new one is essentially an abstract rectangle that I _might_ recognize as a document, if I am really paying close attention.

The Hangouts icon previously conveyed the text chat nature with the speech bubble. This important distinction is gone, now implying that Hangouts is strictly a video chat platform.
I love ice cream. But if I had to eat a billion gallons of it, it would lose its appeal. Life is like that too: if we had it in infinite supply, it wouldn't have much value.

If I could extend my life by 50 years of good health I might take that offer. If I had to extend it by 500 years, I'm pretty sure I'd decline. If I had to extend it 5000 years I'd certainly say no. 5M years of existence would be torture.

When people express the desire to live forever, either here on earth or in an imagined afterlife, I wonder if they have really thought through the consequences.
Former NSA employee Bill Binney talked about these weapons. He said there are acoustic versions and electromagnetic versions of such weapons/devices. Apparently, the sonic versions work both inside and ouside the range of human hearing. Similarly, the electromagnetic version of the device apparently also works on a wide variety of frequencies.

As for defense, it seems that detecting full spectrum weapons requires highly specialized and expensive equipment. It may not be practical to deploy such equipment in the field.

As for treating the inflicted officers, it seems strange that our premier front line agency would not err on the side of caution and allow these patriots to receive treatment from Walter Reed. Could there be more to the story than DCI Haspel remaining skeptical as justification to decline such treatment?