skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Welcome to American politics.

What does this non-sequitur have to do with anything written so far? With you alluding to be a liberal, you've just proven that racism transcends American politics of left and right.

> I hate racists too which is why I prefer not having them in my state.

I am sorry that somewhere along the way you were hurt so much that it would push you to blame all of your misfortunes on another race or ethnic group, similar to poverty stricken members of neo-Nazis and the KKK; but you need to have a hard look in the mirror and do some serious self-introspection.

Let's re-read your comments.

"_You_ go to Idaho and Wyoming. California is our state."

I didn't understand it at the time, but you were telling me that CA only belonged to members of your own ethnic group.

"My qualms are more with the demographic changes these massive migrations brought. Just very greedy overly ambitious and pretentious people. To me they make terrible neighbors and have zero regard for the land, nature or the people here. Some I assume are good people but I haven't met any."

Your comments in just a single thread, really just this specific comment, already meet the textbook definition of a racist. In fact, I can attribute what you just wrote to a white supremacist, and it wouldn't seem out of place.

racist - a person who is prejudiced against or antagonistic toward people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group with the belief that groups of humans possess different behavioral traits corresponding to physical appearance

If you can't reconcile this and change, then I agree with your statement. I also prefer not having racists in my state and I like diversity because life is richer with it, so it would be nice if racists like yourself left California or the United States entirely, regardless of whether they think they are conservative or liberal. In fact, please leave HN. People with your ideology need to either change or leave.
This is another purported benefit of serving AMP pages but doesn't this imply publications weren't already using CDN's previously or that Google's CDN is much faster than competitors? I would guess neither of those are true.
Self-driving car <> electric car.

Being successful at building another electric car would be certainly interesting.

Being successful at building a self-driving car would be one of the biggest achievement of the century.
Wildcard blocking the following domains will break/disable AMP pretty much everywhere, leaving only the header bar (from which you can click to the original page):

- google.com/amp

- ampproject.org

I've been including AMP in my blocklist for quite a while now, and while I've occasionally felt like I'm tilting at windmills, it's honestly not much more inconvenient.

Before blocking AMP, I would get confused for a few seconds by a broken page that looked like a real page. Now I just see an empty page immediately, prompting me to get to the real page more quickly.
When Aston Martin CEO Treated Elon Musk Like an “Amateur Car Builder”
When life was literally full of crap
As long as it's a micro video (a few seconds with no audio or introduction)

I won't watch a longer video just to understand what random product does.
Related: For doing the opposite, Ragel is able to translate regex into a graph, visually depicted courtesy of Graphviz.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphviz
I remember a story about how when competitors opened the first iPhone, they were surprised to see how the entire phone was more or less a battery with a screen attached to it.

I do wonder if Apple building a car would generate some sort of similar epiphany, related to batteries or not.
Good excuse to try the Insight beta instead :)
If this is true, it's interesting to see the difference in approach between Google/Waymo and Apple. Google is pretty clear that they don't want to build cars, but rather develop sensor suite and software for self driving that can be installed in partnership with manufactures. Producing cars, on the other hand, is a much more complex operation than producing consumer electronics, even though Apple can afford it. Battery, setting up service centers, repairs and so on are complex. But I really hope they can pull it off.

Not to mention when it comes to self driving technology Apple probably lags Waymo by a number of years.
I don't mind that when the industries they're expanding into are uncompetitive and controlled by a small # of incumbents.

When companies with the resources of a FAANG enter industries like that, they're able to make it price competitive quickly.

For example, what Netflix did to the cable industry.
I'm curious as to why they would enter it. Sure, they have Carplay, which seems to be better than other in vehicle UX systems other than Tesla, but the automotive industry is littered with companies that simply couldn't hack it even if they had a lot of money behind them at one point. Plus, the auto industry is very low margin when compared to tech.
>I'm really curious what Apple's differentiators will be.

There's room for more than one car company like this. If Apple brings high quality, tight fit and finish, elegant design, software focus, vertical integration (including their new M1 processor tech), logistics support (charging station network, maintenance, etc), and "next-level batteries" to the mix, then I'm sure they'll find space in the market.

If Apple can execute with electric cars as they've executed with consumer electronics, then they'll be competing not just with Tesla, but directly with Audi, BMW, Mercedes, Lexus, etc.
Utilizing the knowledge they've learned in the last 10 years, by developing their own SoC, their machine learning efforts, and integrating their product ecosystem into a vehicle could be a pretty big differentiator.
There are two in the Computer Museum - one on the left side, you can sit on this one :-). And then one in the actual museum area, this one is opened to show the insides.
Just did a quick check. Apple can buy GM AND Ford with cash, and still have nearly half their reserve left over. $191.83 billion cash on hand end of October[0], GM is 59B market cap[1], and Ford is $35B market cap.

I guess there is a premium you pay when acquiring a public company, but still astounding numbers.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/29/apple-q4-cash-hoard-heres-ho...

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=GM+market+cap

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=Ford+market+cap
I can highly recommend The American Dollar band.

https://open.spotify.com/artist/5r4OqYJL7JrtZlffx7FJlb?si=aE...
Thoughts on Clubhouse
The belligncat guy just did an interview and mentioned that some of the other guys immediately recognized Navalny's voice and hung up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCGHepzBzUc

The one they got to talk was in the cleanup crew, so probably not as familiar with him.
Their cash on hand is higher than the market cap of any automaker other than Toyota, Tesla, and Volkswagen.

They spent about 3/4 the market cap of Mazda to buy Beats.
Wait until AI hits camera, like DLSS. It will be all over then.
I can't imagine that it didn't stand up to very extensive lab testing, before getting approved for mass production across Apple's laptops. It would be very interesting to hear some inside accounts about what went wrong there. I wouldn't at all be surprised to learn that the mass-produced parts didn't quite measure up to the prototypes, whether because of less consistent materials, part manufacturing defects, slightly off assembly, ....

To be fair to the designers, the height budget they were working with is an extremely hard target to hit for a part that gets as much physical abuse as a keyboard. I was pretty impressed with how passable the keyboard was for typing on, given the height constraint. (However, I was not impressed with the dropped actuations, double actuations, inconsistent key feel after a few months use, broken keycap that my 1-year-old keeps removing and hiding around the house, etc. Overall it ended up being a catastrophically bad design based on poor reliability.)

The biggest problem at company scale was that they couldn't revert to something like their previous keyboard in a shorter time frame. The lesson is to avoid completely locking the whole rest of the system design around a brand new untested part for which there is no alternative. It would have been better to test the new keyboard design in a context like an external iPad keyboard where if it turned out to be a dud there would be an obvious path to an alternative, and customers wouldn't be left with a broken $2000 machine.
People are still using Java?
Credit scores are very much a "thing" in many parts of europe.

A big difference is a lot of the credit scoring systems outside of the US doesn't take into consideration positive actions - only negative ones. So paying off a loan won't help you show you are a responsible borrower, but failure to pay it will hurt you.

There's also varying definitions of "fine" in "everything works fine." The USA has way more of a variety of financial products and the most qualified borrowers pay much less. One can argue that's a good thing, or a bad thing. (It's a good thing for me, personally.)
You can only use iFuel energy cell with your iCar. And of course you can't use anything but iTires with it and navigate with anything but iNavigator monitored by our iAI. Have a nice day and enjoy your iRide.
interesting. that huge transparent block is here for aesthetics only?
Have you tried isympy? It handles your factorial expression easily.
Debugging performance problems is the reason I stopped using `cljs`. Those stack traces are so painful.
Car free cities are super obtainable but seem like a total impossibility. We will never trade safety, health and solitude for convenience.
The Indian queens who modelled for the first vaccine
BUT THEY MOVED THE CENTOS 8 FREE CHEESE. I WILL NEVER FORGIVE THEM. /s
I don't think any real small businesses will be going out of business due to this change.

The only "small businesses" that are threatened by this change are dropshippers who have built a business around whitelabeling cheap Chinese goods with some fancy marketing and selling it at 5x the price.
Your criticism is fair, except the camera access. It's a video chat tool, of course it's going to ask you to use your camera. What do you expect?
I'm not criticizing your generalization because you're basing it on two books. I'm criticizing your generalization from books that are mainly about one context (the legacy of the enslavement of Black people) to a different context (American skepticism of foreign food). I disagree with your basic premise that the two things arise from the same "phenomenon"--generalized "racism."
Price: $250k

Battery life: changes depending on if we have a new model

Color: Rose gold or black
Having recently sold my Tesla Model 3 I can say there is a lot to be desired with that car. The biggest lesson from Tesla is that cars are not cellphones. Having one display off to the side, without buttons, that does everything is an awful experience in a car. I hope that Apple learns that lesson. I think if they had gone first they might have made that mistake too, but now that it's been tried they can find interesting ways to innovate that don't break the experience.

I also don't think they will try for self-driving out of the gate. I know a good number of the experts in this field and no one thinks full autonomy is ready. The moat that Waymo has built with their particular kind of testing and iteration is diametrically opposed to how companies like Tesla, Lyft, Uber etc have tried to do self-driving. Even they are going to be restricted to the easiest of locals for years.
> Apple is fundamentally now a company that can move immense amounts of capital into new industries with the underlying ethos of user experience.

Also: insane supply-chain management chops, a skill that is more and more transferable - especially for electric cars.
You must not be using iOS.
The Emoji Master
Why are they so confident existing vaccines in development will work against the new strain? Isn't that why we get a new flu shot every year, because vaccines don't work against mutated viruses?
Use any period 2^32 PRNG, which can easily be done with 4 bytes of storage. He used 8.

A simple LCG is of the form

seed <- A*seed + B

Start with any seed, in 32 bit unsigned int, assume 32 bit wrapping like in C/C++, etc. (or do mod yourself), pick good A and B, and away you go.

The Hull–Dobell Theorem tells you how to pick A and B for this size m=2^32: A and B are both odd and larger than 1 and A-1 is divisible by 4.

Finding nice A and B is a bit tricky - in which case look online for good choices or related theory.

Of course, a LCG may not be as random as you like. In that case one of the PCG variants solve the problem elegantly.
>logistics support (charging station network, maintenance, etc)

Honestly, if Apple bought out the existing non-Tesla charging networks and dedicated even a sliver of their UX talent to improving the charging experience, they would really push things forward. This is, of course, assuming that buying the charging networks would make it past the anti-trust people.
It's still stupid: they could be prosecuted for murder, because if they were wrongly convicted for a murder that allegedly happened in 2003, a murder that happened in 2020 would be a different offense, even if it's the same alleged victim.
why? they have the experience manufacturing huge numbers of vehicles and apple has the experience manufacturing products with good experience and build quality. Get gm to build the drivetrain and the body to apple spec, apple builds the interior themselves.
look into DMARC ASAP to fix your email

make sure you get taken off freely available spamlists that adblockers sync with

then if I were you I'd talk to a Google exec to speed up the domain reputation cleansing process a bit (get some articles up in your blog asap)
From what I understand, lithium iron is actually less power dense than the latest lithium ion, but it can handle more charge cycles and it’s less volatile nature allows manufacturers to break away from the commoditized cells paradigm. It’s not considered a good choice for eg ebikes because of the density issue.
They tried that, but the Indian government put tarrifs on their products and prohibited them from opening stores to induce them to use local contractors.
related, in Seattle it's generally only illegal to not wear a bike helmet if you're homeless

https://crosscut.com/news/2020/12/nearly-half-seattles-helme...
I have looked at Prepack! I was wondering if it would be revisited. I certainly understand that lack of confidence, though I think I'd worried more about the false negative: something should be available to the client, but for whatever reason the compiler couldn't identify it. That said, I think tooling could go a long way to address the false positive. For example, in Next.js dev mode, there's an indicator that says whether a page can be statically rendered. If there were tools that said "we've automatically marked this component for the client bundle" and allowed the dev to manually opt out if they're sure the component shouldn't be sent to the client, it's still nice to have for the non-pathological case.

Anyway, thanks for filling in more detail!
No need to buy an automaker, there's companies that have a car factory to build cars on contract for auto companies.
One example is VDL in Born, Netherlands making BMWs. That contract ends in a few years iirc, so they could produce Apple cars by then perhaps.
Which biotech Twitter accounts are worth following?
I always get a feeling of existential dread when I read these kind of news.
A big differentiator will obviously just be the apple brand. There's going to be a huge number of people who just want to be seen driving around in an apple-branded car. And a lot of those people are currently tesla fans
I know people like to hate Java because it's to enterprise, but I've found Java with Spring Boot to be very pleasant to work with to develop a REST API. Nice dependency injection, nice to implement port and adapters, same with Kotlin, probably similar with C#.

More of a mess to do it with NodeJS.
Nikon is the worst performing of the big 4 and has been on a death spiral for years at this point. I wouldn't be surprised if they will stop photographer camera & lens production 5 years from now.
I don't think so. It is notable that many monopolies sprung up in the US in the late 1800's/early 1900's before there was significant regulation, which is what in fact lead to the first significant laws related to monopolies and "trust busting".

There is certainly the danger of regulatory capture that increases the costs for competitor to enter a market, but that is different than regulations on how large corporations are allowed to wield their power as market leaders. You need to distinguish between regulations that increase the costs for new competitors vs. those that prevent bullying/price fixing etc. For example, it was anti-trust regulation that gave rise to popularity (not initial creation) of Unix, and interoperability regulations that further expanded competition in the telecom industry.
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> “There is a hint that it has a higher propensity to infect children,” said Neil Ferguson, a professor and infectious disease epidemiologist at Imperial College London and also a member of NERVTAG.

Yeah, we all remember who he is. Forgive me if I take any quotes from Neil Ferguson with a spoon of salt.
> but I feel that Apple management, and its shareholders, have no idea what it means to build a car

I feel like people pretend that building a car is way harder than it actually is in 2020.

All the components to build a car are readily available. A person can buy the parts on their own and put them together in their garage. It isn't like they have to go get a pick axe and start mining ore to create everything from scratch. Apple just needs to buy the components that already work, and then do what they do best and perfect that parts that haven't been perfected. In this case, the battery, the motor, the onboard computer, and the software. And based off what Apple has built in the past, these are the things that Apple would be REALLY good at.

It isn't like they have to invent tires and drive shafts.

I know I undersold the difficulty of making a car in this comment, but come one, Apple is 87 times more valuable than Ford. They have enough cash on hand to buy Ford 5 times. Money might not solve all problems, but it really really helps.
CAL was the most programmable (and readable) assembly language I ever got to use, and the machine encoding of the instruction sets of the Cray-1 and Cray-2/-3 were so clean that one could read code straight from an octal dump. I think that something important has been lost since those days.

My favorite anecdote of 25 years on those machines is what we put into the 64-bit word at address 0 on the Cray-2. In ASCII, it read ~Z~E~R~O. If you jumped to it, it worked as four no-op ("PASS") instructions, and at word 1 was a jump to the library's routine that dumped registers and said "hey you jumped to a null function pointer". If you ever saw ~Z~E~R~O in a dump, you knew that a load from null had taken place.

I still wish a modern ISA would implement real vectors; SIMD is still a distant second-best.
They do not have to buy an automaker.
There is for example "Magna" a canadian-austrian automotive supplier [0][1] which also produces complete cars for their customers (contract manufacturing) [2]. Magna has started producing electric vehicles recently, for example the Jaguar i-Pace.

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

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Steyr

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Steyr#Production
Microsoft has a patent issued in 2012 for this very topic...and as you predicted, there were many news articles and questions about ethics brought up. [1]

Given the market share Google Maps has, the economic fallout from them suddenly avoiding certain areas deemed "unsafe" could swing billions of dollars annually from one set of businesses to another.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2012/01/25/145337346/this-app-was-made-f...
The same way you go to making phones. Or own CPUs: huge upfront investment, buying the best people, companies and partnerships.
That’s very true. When you use a decent distro, the main apps are themed properly and somewhat cohesive. But the illusion falls apart the moment you wander a bit from mainstream applications. Having consistent themes and behaviours for Qt, GTK 3, and GTK 2 (so, the common denominator, which is the bare minimum but not many fancy features) only gets you partly there.

So, by “properly configured” I meant “with settings tweaked over a couple of years until the apps I care about behave sensibly”.

What I like with macOS is that the easy path produces the most consistent UI across the platform. It does not prevent stupid developers from reimplementing everything (hello, non-standard text fields in Adobe software, non-standard notifications in battle.net, and overall appalling window themes). But at least they have to go out of their way to do it, and applications from developers who care are great for not much effort on their part.
(GM's market cap is $58.98 billion right now, for comparison's sake.)
It's funny because it's true. The door handles are among my least favorite parts of the Model 3, along with the control stalks on the steering wheel (both their mushy feel and lack of physical wiper controls combined with the crappiness of the auto wipers). Apple could certainly improve on those, although Tesla does have better handles on their other cars already including fully automatic doors on the Model X.
But lately Apple has been trending towards not including the charger.
I personally have a similar problem with the Spotify generated playlists, but I have persnickety preferences in electronic music so it often whiffs. But on the spectrum of recommendation engines it is on the side of honest effort (whereas Netflix is not). And for most users and musical palates I think it works great. Just yesterday my mom complimented me on my Christmas music DJ skills, but it was just the generated continuation of her own playlist.

Nothing really beats the recommendations of a human curator with exquisite taste, and just listening to new music nonstop and plucking out the gems as you go.
Also you can only take your car to the Genius Bar, which has a three week wait time.
How should you talk to friends and relatives who believe conspiracy theories?
> USA's highest tax state?

That is another myth that is floating around the US. CA actually has progressive tax brackets (i.e. the rate changes quite a bit from bracket to bracket) and only few get into the top state brackets, whereas most of the other states that have income tax, >90% of people are in the top bracket as the top bracket is around $10k (looking at https://tax.idaho.gov/i-1110.cfm).
Similar at my uni. Our particular system handled tracking computers by MAC address. For absolutely no reason other than being a bored CS student working in IT I scraped the MAC addresses of all the uni-owned lab computers from the hardware inventory list, and configured my linux install to pick a random one to spoof at boot.
It really shouldn't. Read the Wisconsin section of that article to see why.
> People usually don't want a "full experience" when reading news.

But the question is do they want news sites to get promoted over the actual content they were looking for because news sites can be amped and dynamic content sites can not be amped?
That's all well and good when you're browsing search results, but then people copy and paste shitty amp links all over the place when they no longer have any advantages (because they're not precached).
Superstars are necessary when you just get started and you don't really care too much who's doing that magic thing that pulls off the whole ship a few hours later. However,at some point the superstars need to go and be replaced by more common people. This isn't unique to the software world.