skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why a car though? I understand Apple are all about the mobile now, but a car? I suspect it isnt a car, but maybe some sort of information or auto navigation intergrations.
I can get Office 365 Family (6 people), each one getting 1TB, plus 60 mins of skype per month each, plus word, excel, PowerPoint, online and desktop. Dropbox's Family plan, includes only 2TB of storage and basically nothing more (I know about paper but who uses it?). Office365 costs 50 euros per year. Dropbox 200 euros per year! Four times as expensive, and much less features. They are crazy expensive.
The point of taking others' money really isn't relevant, as those investors have had their exit when Dropox IPO'ed almost 3 years ago. Today's announcement is a product of the company Dropbox is today, not then.
or Maps
He sounds like a real 'funguy'
Huh? I think you likely did a great job raising your children. Nothing in my post was intended as an attack on you (or women or mothers or homeschoolers).

In general, I find that this community is extremely receptive to nontraditional education methods. My concern was largely in what I saw as a priority mismatch when considering individual examples vs population-scale policy.
Also, the terms of whatever seperation gets figured out often includes keeping the exec as an employee (in a legal sense). They might not actually be doing any meaninful work, but but they still get the paychecks, extended time to exercise options/stock, health benefits, etc ...
Seems like the clock, RAM, and GPU differences there may have had an effect? Comparing between systems that different seems unusual.
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I'd be curious what the energy savings are like at smaller scales -- 80x at data center scales, but how about for a smaller machine, like a PC with phase cooling?
> It _may_ be a side effect of the discussions that occur here occasionally.

Occasionally? HN is obssessed with Google. Everyday there is at least one hit piece on HN front page. Out of all the problems in this world and the tech industry, in HN logic Google is the utmost priority.
Agree with all that!

Except:

> Lisp, and Lisp-like languages are the highest, and most compilers are somewhat mid-level

Most Lisps have compilers (except the toy ones), and have had compilers for several decades.
How workflow changes regarding storage when employees start working remotely?

People will just share the same way they shared while in the office.
haha, totally agree on this one!
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Panama Permanent Residency costs only around $3-4k in legal fees.

Panama has territorial taxation means you pay zero in personal income tax if your income comes from outside of Panama. (If you're US citizen then IRS will charge your for that privilege regardless).

You can buy 2-3 bedroom oveanfront condo in Panama for around $300-$400k
It's not the same thing. Continued healthcare means you are fully on the employer plan and afterwards, the COBRA timer starts. Paying for COBRA means the timer starts now.
In my opinion, what needs to end is tech companies feeling like they need to silence opposing views, just because they can.
Airbnb has every right to choose who they want to do business with. But I fear a world where there is only one option and I don’t have a choice whom I want to do business with, and where all my decisions have been made for me.
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One thing this article completely misses is the reliability of the WRT54G. It may be old but I have never picked up a used one that did not just work reliably. Never heard of anybody I know having one die.

Contrast that to the newer square black pancake linksys routers and after about a year or so they seem to develop hardware issues and even a reset won't fix them. (Always assumed the chips needed heatsinks and were slowly cooking themselves)
Even private companies should be held to a standard. Question is not if it prosecutable crime but whether you want to leave in a society which is dominated by entities who don't give two shits about free speech
Reddit is interesting: its default (?) sorting is by controversial.

Really bad universally unacceptable comments get buried.

But comments with mixed upvotes and downvotes ("controversial") are shown higher than simply upvoted comments.

This promotes interesting conversations and exposes readers to broader world views without shattering readers faith in humanity.
That minimum fee has recently increased. Like 1-2 months ago. You are not going to negotiate that down with VISA/MC. Talk to a bar/restaurant worker, who gets to see the transaction fees.
I agree, on top of that the animation while scrolling feels like scroll-hijacking. At first I thought the page is somehow laggy, when it isn't.
Exactly. Maybe he could have used the telex and fax machines, as that is the category where 'websites' 'blogs' and 'mailing lists' have been relegated to for a while now.

I'm not a fan of the man but in practice nearly all non media framed public discourse happens on FB, YT, Twitter and a few tier 2 services. If the social media conglomerate decides to nix you, you are done with reaching the broad public directly.
Do you mean Onedrive? It's not built-in but installed by default on Windows. It's still not as good as Dropbox. For example it only recently added differential syncing (for non-office files)[1] while Dropbox puts much more effort into syncing tech [2].

Most people probably won't notice the difference because the alternatives are good enough now. But if you have millions of files in deep folders, constant changes from multiple devices, or need instant syncing, then Dropbox is still worth the premium for the performance.

1. https://office365itpros.com/2020/04/28/onedrive-differential... 2. https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/rewriting-the-heart-of-o...
Or a drone ;)
You say cow dung as if you think that rich, picky concoction of nutrients (vegetation processed by a ruminant animal and then shat onto the ground) is an example of it being the opposite of picky.
Congrats on launching. Page is only working intermittently for me, and the demo hasn't managed to load.

I've been tracking my own time for the last ~month using progressive versions of my own in-development app that has a similar reporting style but is meant to innovate on the data entry, making it much more flexible and convenient (for people who happen to think like me and want the kind of tracking I want, anyway!)

Hopefully I'll be "show hn"-ing it soon.
Was the COO a bad fit? She was only in the role for ~1 year.
I think this is correct. Students who thrive in a lecture environment make it to Universities. Professors who are fantastic lecturers get jobs at Universities.
A PI4 compute unit with 8GB of RAM instead of 1GB (faster, DDR4 instead of DDR3 too) and 32GB eMMC and a quad-core 64-bit CPU with much higher IPC while only costing $90 which is around $50 cheaper than a BeagleBoard AI (the same comparison exists for the Black too). You also get direct PCIe access to do what you want.

Beagle just doesn't offer anywhere near the same value.
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Except it matters to users. When you’re trying to collaborate in real-time with folks, poor sync gets noticed.
I know what you're saying, but for some reason it makes me uneasy. I guess because anything trying to categorise people as either X or Y is fundamentally tribal.

The HN readers are good at moderation overall, not perfect but definitely good. Maybe it would be enough to have an "agree/disagree" button as well as a "good/bad" button.
I was pretty dubious about it as well, but after thinking about it more I'm fairly bullish. I don't see the coming out with a better product. But there's a lot of people out there that will buy Apple products even if they are "objectively" worse. An Apple car will appeal to certain people and will probably be a status symbol. I think it will sell decently well.

And looking at Tesla's valuation it will be great for their stock price. Even a mild success will add 100s of billions to their market cap.
Do you understand why your comment has been downvoted? If not, it's this part:

> Someone who wasn't stupid

Being bipolar/depressive doesn't make someone stupid, or necessarily ignorant. Not knowing the individual I can't make any judgements regarding this. But I have experienced severe depressive phases. During those (and similarly with manic phases) you can lose control of your mind and understanding/beliefs about the world. You may act stupidly (but do not become stupid) based on how your beliefs about the world change or the general loss of control over yourself you're experiencing.

You're being downvoted because there is a qualitative difference between these statements: "Someone is stupid" vs "Someone is acting stupid" or "Behaving stupidly". Though many people don't hear the difference when it's directed at them, there is a difference in sentiment and intent. The former is about the person themselves, the latter about their behavior. The former is hard to correct if true, the latter is something someone can alter about themselves (assuming they have some degree of control over their faculties and behavior).
They’re a core piece of regular office work as well. Apps like Zoom were not part of the office life, while Dropbox was.
So great for big computing centres and such? CERN and other should be happy with it.
Unfortunately that poses significant justice issues. If every city-state can impose their own form of justice, you would have an exponential increase of injustices where a legal act in one city-state could be illegal in another. While the current system may be imperfect in that regard, there are more safeguards in the form of federal level standardization that limit the inter-state legal issues. Yes, a common set of rights could be established by treaty, but it would be less likely to be universally applied or accepted when silos have the power to make their own rules and change them on a whim.
For who? My mom uses her laptop at home 99% of the time, if the battery gets low she plugs it in. She needs a battery that will last 1-2 hours for the 3 times a year she flies.

You can find a place to plug in at basically any coffee shop or library you go to. My mom isn't spending 10 hours in a datacenter, so it doesn't really matter to her if the battery life is 3 hours or 12. For the average consumer, battery life has just been another stat on the spec sheet for years now.
And no one really believes corporate communications to start with, when it comes to motives or feelings, so it's a double dose of "yeah right"...
No, that’s wrong again. It’s not on the order of seconds.
Well, marking posts as spam or off-topic isn’t the same thing as blocking someone though, so there should be a middle ground.

And in any case, it seems pretty straightforward to forbid platforms from banning PEOPLE, it should only be possible to ban utterances. At the very least, Trump should have a legal right to be unbanned as long as he doesn’t post things that Twitter doesn’t allow.
Not entirely accurate. I didn’t even realize this was a thing, but on the Dropbox web interface you can now open docs, slideshows and spreadsheets in either Office365 or Google Office without accounts on either.
My biggest realisation was seeing students undergo a realisation that the information is the least important bit about university. Now that its all so digestible, repeatable theyve either realised theyre not that talented/important/capable and that a lot of what makes a successful graduate is personal skills, applying themselves, being strategic and attitude.
This is kind of weird though, but aren't developers also users? Or are they just small enough fraction of the users?

Probably it just seems bigger here in Hacker News where most of Apple users are also developers...
I don't think Apple would do this, but I also don't think the "uncool" claim is necessarily true: https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a13990/polaris-slingsh...
This is still the same phenomenon. In your example it is the seller who has to decide to accept (or not accept) your currency and the buyer is incentivized to give the lowest value currency.

To use the car salesman analogy, in your example the buyer is selling lemons and the seller is deciding to buy.
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> There are potential reasons for that: financial problems, ...

Does it really count as an addiction if you're doing it because of genuine financial problems? I always thought of proper workaholism as an unhealthy addiction to the dopamine rush you get when you're successful at your job. I've experienced a mild version of this in the past when I didn't have enough else that was fulfilling me in my life; like many addictions, it was a crutch against depression.
1. Nothing, because the maintainers have the last say because it's their time and they don't owe anyone anything

2. "Aight I step up to maintain the feature"

I seriously don't understand the expectant attitude of some users. You get what you pay for.
...way easier to assess once you have such tracking in place.
The most important point from the study:

> We found that job demands could be the most important factor that can develop work addiction risk. So this factor should be controlled or should be investigated by the organization's manager, for example, HR staff, psychologists.

My last job could be described as “workaholism” but what was really going on was

1) my manager had a toxic relationship with their manager and were unfairly overworked

2) they passed this attitude on to their subordinates

3) the really ugly part: although my manager had high expectations, they were not very good about actual enforcement, so work from “underperforming” (< 45 hr/week) teammates was dumped onto “adequate” (> 60 hrs) employees, without any planning or accountability - or, crucially, any flexibility. I had never had a boss who took less responsibility for their worker’s projects.

Speaking for myself: I have a serious mental illness and not a lot of economic stability. So although I am a decent programmer (when I am well) I am very susceptible to stress-related illnesses. In November and December I ended up losing about 20% of my body weight, entirely due to work stress, and had to resign. I really tried my best to get my boss to listen and didn’t have the heart or strength to drag them into HR :(

Just an ugly situation when managers don’t take responsibility for the health of their employees. Especially when the issue is their own stress and inexperience versus greed.
It’s probably confusing because it seems absurd, in how many western democracies is it legal to discriminate based on race?
FYI it's simply called .NET now, as of the release of .NET 5. Which is the successor to .NET Core 3.1.
> Coming from a different country I don't really know why remote is not the default option.

Purely online courses have large failure rates - even when students pay and are comparable to in person ones. For whatever reason, people do better in person course and do badly in online ones.
Why was larrabee considered a fiasco?
You can have it in any color you like so long as it's Bondi Blue.

Steering wheel? There's an app for that.

Dashboard has only one button.

Charging by lightning port (charger and USB-C adaptor extra).

$99,999 for the basic model, tires available for an extra $9,999.

Top speed Mach 2 (on a sufficiently large salt-flat).
Tesla consistently annoys me with the "Musk Math" hyperbole. Solar is a simple ROI calculation, you are not "printing money" until you payback your initial investment, your basically making a lump sum payment for electricity and the longer the system last the less you're paying per kwh in that lump sum.

Edit: SREC credits do make a lot of difference wow, unfortunately my state (FL) does not have them.

Solar systems do not last forever and can break, my dads SMA inverter just went out after 5 years and he is having trouble getting a warranty replacement as his original installer is out of business, meanwhile he's paying a normal electric bill again while its down. Panels lose efficiency over time and need to be cleaned from time to time as well.

I will probably be doing solar on my house at some point because it will probably save some money in the long run, but mainly because I want to help reduce carbon emissions right away, plus I like the tech aspect of it. It does however add complexity and equipment that will eventually fail and have to be dealt with and replaced.
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Electron will do that to you...
The standard practice of hiring close to you and in "famous" hubs is dying a slow and painful death as companies realize that after you skim the cream of the software engineers, there's no measurable difference between an engineer living and working in Africa vs US and (western) Europe. Hopefully they re-orient and change their processes to benefit.
An interesting consequence of the "safe" possibility. You would not be able to just come and watch some events out of curiosity.

Several years ago, my GPS coordinates would indicate that I took part in a certain rather weird demo. The thing is, I just stood a few meters away taking photos, because some of the participants were ... bizarre to say the least.

I am not sure if this excuse would help me in 2021.
Apple’s size and small product portfolio means they can only enter or create huge markets. Automobiles are among the few eligible, already existing huge markets, and Tesla has shown that bringing computing to the car is a valuable endeavor.
I said this in a sibling comment but, there are also plenty of examples of feature requests that were not rejected:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests?state...

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests?state=me...

If you're going to look at the pattern of historically rejected requests, please also consider looking at the pattern of requests that were accepted.

If you'd like, I can give you a more thorough explanation as to what is actually happening in any of those issues you've linked.
I'd love to hear more about the potential future of gross margins on any automotive Apple products. I've heard auto manufacturers have notoriously low margins, but in reality they seem just as fine as any other business.

That being said, those same margins are not at all within the realm of what Apple current enjoys. That all means unless some further accounting engineering goes on, it spells a less attractive future for Apple in terms of overall margins, but one would hope a better future in terms of free cash flow. Apple already obscures some details from shareholders in ways that I find less than scrupulous.
Why a watch? Why (ear/head)phones? Why a phone in the first place?

Rumors are that Apple is working on VR Glove & AR glasses.

They're taking things that people use every day and cramming as much functionality into software as their hardware will allow.

Sort of joking sort of not: Eventually there will people wearing full sets of Apple accessories, getting into their Apple car, driving to an Apple home... And all the technology will be seamless (or as seamless as they can make it based on their current track record.)
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> Apple should be losing devs in favor of other better platforms, not the other way around.

So far, good hardware, close-to-*ix-OS software, and penetration are kind of make them a hard competitor to beat.

What other "better" platforms are you thinking about?
> On the consumer side, storage will become an appliance, like a (stick of butter sized) fridge. Or just included in your centralized home + family control center.

You can already get an inexpensive Synology NAS with a slick UI and backups to a cloud provider of your choice, or Nextcloud, although there's probably room on both for one click import from your existing Dropbox account using your auth and their API to migrate contents.
What is your take on "inverted" classrooms?

My perspective from talking to younger people (I haven't been a student for decades) is that traditional classrooms were better for some learning styles than others. Inverted classrooms are better for some students that had trouble with the normal approach, but are worse for students who thrived under the normal approach. It's not a clear net win in terms of "helping more people".

But that's my experience from talking to a very small sample. Do you have an opinion?
As an aside, I really wish that these boards would include more than two PWM outputs. The Raspberry Pi has two as well, and it feels really limiting. Analog control instead gets farmed out to microcontrollers, when you could probably make it work with a single board if there were more pins to work with.
It's a good question. I imagine they envision a lot of potential for integration in their ecosystem. iPhone in your pocket, HomePod in your home, MacBook at work, Watch while you exercise, and Car for your commute. Presumably opportunity to seamlessly integrate your infotainment, navigation, Siri, etc in a way that other vendors can't while charging a steep premium?

I guess the theme is "things which exist but could be made better by integrating the Apple ecosystem (esp in ways that other vendors can't compete against for lack of a comparable ecosystem), and for which people will pay a premium".
Wouldn't the need to feel productive in order to avoid meaninglessness/depression be considered escapism?
It's probably mostly due to legal liability. Real or perceived. It's gonna be risky to convince a jury you did your fiduciary duty to either consumers or stockholders when opposing lawyer is saying "so you subjected my client's data to you didn't even write? Code anyone one on internet can change at anytime, etc. etc.

legal is not about what is true or right or fair or probably it is about risk reduction/mitigation. A 20% chance to lose court case is too much. Or even chance of bad PR is something to be avoided.
My main concerns as a "technology buyer" are (from what I found online with a rapid search): lack of funding, currently only two main committers (the original author not among them), project apparently in bugfixing-only mode, and the original author online attitude.
> Everything you just said could be equally said about worker's unions, so why do we have worker's unions either instead of just using the government?

Why not ask the reverse question? “Why do we have a government instead of just having a workers union?”.

This is actually the political project of anarcho-syndicalists [1]: workers could self-organize the production and the collective life through democratic federalist instances.
The idea has been theorized since at least 1906 in the Charter of Amiens [2], an historical text of syndicalism [3]: https://www.marxists.org/history/france/cgt/charter-amiens.h... where we can read “the union, today a resistance group will be, in the future, a group for production and redistribution, the basis of social reorganization.”.

At least in France, the biggest workers union (CGT) is still organized in a way that would allow this, by having both geographical and per-industry-branch instances (sorry I lack the proper words to describe this in English).

It is also what the Spanish CNT did during and after the Spnish Revolution of 1936 [4,5].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-syndicalism

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

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndicalism

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Revolution_of_1936

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Catalonia
What's common among the rest of the commenters is that the rest of their life was rendered emotionally uninhabitable. If you had nothing positive outside of work, maybe you would see it the same way they did.