skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm excited about everything mentioned in the rumors, except for the "flat edge design similar to the iPhone 12". One of my favorite parts of the MacBook design is how easy it is to pick up off of a flat surface with one hand. The tapers help me slide my fingers underneath the computer to hold on. I feel like if there is a flat edge, it'll be hard to grip on the side unless you're using 2 hands.
Fossil helps researchers decipher evolution of caimans, alligators
I actually like the feel of my M1 pro keyboard better than my 1015 15" macbook pro's keyboard. But... That weird lcd strip constantly flickering in the periphery of my vision makes me want to throw the laptop out of the window. Good thing it isn't my main working machine, just a device to make fat binaries of Krita on.
The only experience I had with the Singularity University is an exec at a client of mine who -- after studying there -- told everyone his company needed a moonshot. His idea of a moonshot was simply "triple profits by next year" by telling people they needed to believe it was possible.

So yeah, he probably did not grasp what he was taught, but then again, you'd expect a self-proclaimed university to teach its students better than that.

To me, the Singularity University's target audience seems to be execs who need to convince others they are capable of developing a vision.
It’s not a concern, the more powerful the charger, the better.

The devices that are being powered are the ones controlling the charging, the charging brick will derate itself if devices demand more than it can handle. It might hurt the brick, it will get hot or perhaps noisy if it’s a cheaper one.

It’s like openning every single faucet at your house, as long as the pressure and flow at the source are ok, the faucets will output the same as in any other case, otherwise each faucet will “slow down”.
Silence from Unison and Unite Trade Unions. Bcuhb
I used to carry around a 60W adapter, even though I had a device that required an 80W adapter.

The reason was airplane seats. They have a breaker that flips at 75W.

I wouldn't get fast charging with the 60W adapter, but I wouldn't run out of juice on a 14-hour flight.
From what I remember reading some comments from ex googlers some years ago is that if you can't quantity something nobody will be listening too serious. So designer have difficult times there:)
Agreed. When hiking in mountains, on some nights the sky is so clear, air so still and light pollution so low that I can easily discern eight or nine "sisters" there. Such nights are usually in summer, but less frequently also during other seasons.

Of course, in or near large cities, seeing five or six of the "sisters" is about the best one can hope for.
I wonder how much you get away with posting/publicizing RE of these things on Chinese blogs as a PRC citizen.

I would be very careful.
Interesting! Not trying to divert from Akka which is a wonderful piece of engineering, but your comment reminded me of Microsoft’s take at the Actor model with Project Orléans - which was used for the backend side of the Halo / XBox MMO [0].

I think the GA version of Project Orléans is now called Service Fabric, although I never had the pleasure to try it.

[0] https://youtu.be/I91ZU8tEJkU
What is “unnecessary feature bloat”?

Do you think something like “gosh, I _hate_ all these additional ports” about MBP 2015? There’s a reason it is still holds (not much, but) some value on second-hand market.
Seems to fit with Seveneves novel quite well. Seven woman escaping into space. Wonder if deliberate?
I don't follow. The logo literally has six stars, which is the subject of what we are discussing here.
PGP is incompatible with both forward secrecy and metadata secrecy.

If you only want to keep your message body confidential (or authenticated), PGP is reasonable. But it provides a strictly lesser degree of secrecy than modern e2ee messaging applications.

In fact, depending on your threat model, modern SMTP-TLS (which is not e2ee, but does provide some metadata confidentiality and forward secrecy) may in fact be an improvement over PGP.
It doesn't seem like this bill requires social networks to provide service to people in North Dakota, so due to the strength of the networking effect, if an inherently flawed law like this were passed I'd imagine that by IP blocking North Dakota users you could get the constituents to request their law makers to revert the bill immediately.

There's no market for a social network just for people in North Dakota, so North Dakota doesn't really have any leverage in situations like this.
If you really want or need MagSafe, as I do, you can have it with USB-C only Macs too.

There are many magnetic adapters you can buy, the good ones working better than the original MagSafe 2, which easily fell off when using MacBooks on your Lap, due to the connector being T shaped (instead of MagSafe 1 being L shaped, which worked great).

I also hope they don‘t bring back SD card readers and big clunky HDMI ports into the MacBook lineup, potentially reducing the amount of USB-C ports and making some models thicker.
I totally know what it's like when the Paxil runs out on Sunday.
There is no "either-or" data type in Golang. That's why.

It can only be accomplished by inefficient functional hackery.

In C, you just make a struct, have a type present in the struct, and then cast the struct pointer to extended object types to gain additional functionality.

In this way you can easily accomplish all sorts of fun things like inheritance. Message passing type designs can easily be accomplished also in C.

In Golang? Well... no. You are essentially forbidden from doing any simple casting or extension. You are essentially stuck with hardcoding the crap out of everything or making your own vcall like system build out of Golang types... which you can't really use in the way you want unless you use reflection.

What I can't understand is why anything thinks that Golang does support polymorphism. They admit it themselves. They are working on it. Only the new alpha test versions have a solution for it. The current released version is not polymorphism no matter how much you want to fucking label it that way.

You can't just go "hey it supports a little bit of what everyone knows as polymorphism". That's like saying alcohol is like orange juice because they are both bitter in some cases.
The Still Face Experiment [video]
None. Mcedit. I'm not even kidding.
Ooh how exciting.

The north of Pakistan is where my grandparents come from. However, being an Indian I can't really visit the place easily....
Having been spammed by them out of the blue, a couple of times already this year, my feeling is that like most businesses, I already know what changes I'd have to make to improve.

Paying someone to give me a list of problems isn't at all useful until we have nothing else to do. Appreciate there may be others out there without the same understanding of Infosec, but frankly that's a greater risk to companies without those resources.
You are worrying unnecessarily. These devices use USB-PD to negotiate how much power it wants with the power adapter, and a well-behaving power adapter would refuse to output anything above the minimal current without the negotiation happening.
(Googler)

You are only focusing on the negatives while completely ignoring the positives here.

Here are a few questions to consider that may give you better perspective:

1) Do you know the magnitude of financial and psychological damage caused by malware, phishing, etc on the web?

2) Do you believe that it is possible to have a human review every piece of automation generated malware on the internet?

3) Do you believe it is possible to build an automated system that provides value with zero false positives?

4) Do you think an open standards body or government bureau would perform any better at implementing protections from the threats described here?
Not sure if this fits your needs, but I am maintaining this project here: https://github.com/bbernhard/signal-cli-rest-api
Special interests can be assets, not hindrances, for youth with autism
How does this work? does this run inside the browser views inside the QQ app? Does Instagram do the same?
Automated Tests Should Build Confidence
Worrying unnecessarily. The USB PD spec requires negotiation of delivered power - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_hardware#USB_Power_Deliver....
I started using Yandex image searching. It's objectively better than Google for many queries. So is Bing/DuckDuckGo.
> I wish Apple would find a way to make a 16inch MBP weight 3lbs

This could be reasonably possible with Apple silicon—well, maybe not 3lbs, but noticeably lighter than the current model.

Part of the reason the 16” is so heavy is the 100Whr battery (which still manages to be woefully inadequate due to how much power the CPU sucks, let alone the GPU).

The 13” ASi Pro has a 58Whr battery for “up to 17 hours” use, which seems to pan out to about 12-14 hours real-world usage. They could put that exact battery in an ASi 16” and it would still be leagues better than the “up to 11 hours” battery in the current model, which in my experience is actually 3-5 hours.
Clone is a subset of familiar — you don’t need to call your story about a wizard school “Barry Trotter and the Alchemist’s Gem” just to set your audience’s expectations, for example.

(I’m not a lawyer so have no idea if this JingOS legally OK or not, but there is a difference between familiar and clone).
I think this one of the important, good reasons. Others range from NIH to runtime considerations to strategic ones.
IETF isn't disinterested in solving the spam problem. If that were true, why would they have published multiple RFCs to fight spam?
I'm typing this from a 2019 16" MBP keyboard. And I can say without a doubt that it is my favourite keyboard of probably 10 macs I've ever owned. There is a Macbook Air sitting nearby which I just tried for comparison. It's pretty good too. But the MBP 16" is just lovely. Quiet. Enough feedback.

The only gripe is, and this might be true of all Mac backlit keyboards. Is that I can see light coming from under the keys when viewing it at a low angle such as when I've got my feet up and it's on my lap. Not just through the letters, but little slivers of light under each one.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and claim that humans have been able to count since before you'd consider them human.

Lots of animals are able to count and it's ridiculous to assume that any individual with even a rudimentary language wouldn't be able to.

With which I mean to say that you don't need a formal understanding of 'mathematics' to count.

Further there's nothing mathematically super special about the number 7. You might say "it's a prime, and also X, Y, Z", but there's pretty much an infinite number of properties you could find for any number you choose.
He might be using two different password manager accounts, one for passwords and one TOTP? Although it doesn't help much if he logs in from the same machine anyway.
CAD design tips for 3D printing
Paxil is an SSRI. They are ineffective in treating what is wrong with me. They also make me feel suicidal. I can't take them. The doctors who recommended SSRI in my youth have no fucking idea what is wrong with me.

The only thing I've even seen that addresses my issue is benzos but they are extremely dangerous.

I was told by multiple psychiatrists that I should be on a heavy dose of benzos for life but I don't take them because I think they are too dangerous.

A dose of benzos that is enough to knock a normal person on the floor passed out just makes me feel normal.
Wikipedia's costs do not grow linearly with the amount of people accessing it. Signal has to run servers and store the data for every user it has.

Also, if the wikimedia foundation closed tomorrow, Wikipedia's content would live on mirrors and IPFS gateways. It would still be useful - perhaps even more efficient than it is. Signal's outage yesterday that this logic does not apply for them. If they run out of money or infra, everyone is out in the cold.

> This is the best arrangement for users.

I'd argue that the best arrangement would be to stop hiding the operational cost per user and charge them for it. Donations can come later to cover users who can't afford the service. WhatsApp was doing just that with their $1/year fee and subsidizing market growth markets before Facebook got them.

I'd also make the case that part of the reason that we (as users) should not accept a centralized solution is due to the fact that a distributed/federated system gives room for competition and diversity. Switching from WhatsApp to Telegram or Signal or iMessage brings us no real progress in the aspect that we are still at the mercy of one single monopolistic entity.
> Or am I worrying about this unnecessarily?

You are. Provide a lot of amps. Each device will take just as much as it needs. So err on the side of more watts - it will even help your batteries charge faster.

The only thing that can be diminished with fast charging is the number of battery cycles (the battery lifetime) so set a low charging engage (only charge if <= 50%) and a high ceiling (stop charge if >90%) in your bios: this will increase your battery life.

Source: all my devices use USB-C. They all share the same AC adapter with power delivery, and a Lenovo Dock also USB-C with PD.

No USB-C charging = I don't buy.
You realize elementary os exists right? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary_OS
GB traders having to use 25 year old software to continue their old trades
After BREXIT, all of GB trade has to be declared to customs using CHIEF, a government software created ages ago. New version called CDS is beinG rolled out as we speak.

I am a software developer, 1 man company who has been working to integrate to CDS for the past year. The most challeging part has been learning about customs.
Ask me any thing :)
TMTP is not federated because federation is a security hole, except in certain circumstances. There are other ways to connect with people outside your current circles. See my other comments herein.

I've been asked to create a doc describing the architecture and infrastructure of TMTP. That should clear up the Q's you and others have raised.

(I am the author.)
I mean mostly in the sense that it takes mathematically modelling programming and the machine being programmed very seriously and it allows you to build tall towers of abstraction on top. Compare this to C++ for example where many of the mechanisms for building abstractions are accidental or C where abstractions are not really possible.
We do not need new email. We need a way to authorize messages sent and also a way to enburden senders for the content they send. In pre-internet era UUCP was widely used to deliver messages, UUCP providers used to charged their customers for each message they sent which made spam broadcasting quite costly. What I see is a kind of distributed message transportation system that takes currency from sender and shares a fraction of it with recipient. I.e. sender always pays for sending their stuff, recipient gets paid for interruption. SMS messaging is very close to this.
LibreOffice is not my go-to choice anymore for office suites on Linux.

FreeOffice from SoftMaker is my choice now.
If China wants to use protectionism to wage digital economy warfare, let's respond in kind. No more Wechat, TikTok, Alipay, or League of Legends or Valorant, until China gives equal treatment to foreign internet firms.

Note: Valorant installs a kernel driver as part of the "anti-cheat" system; described by many as a rootkit: https://www.osnews.com/story/131665/riot-games-maker-of-leag...

Valorant's parent company is Tencent, the same company mentioned in this tweet.
They have dominion of the word “Apple” in the context of consumer electronics, and “Pad” is easy to misread in context as “iPad”, leaving open the reasonable possibility of customer confusion. That’s basically what trademarks are both for and there to prevent.
What would I have given for a second iteration on that device and form factor. Next to the 2nd Chromebook Pixel, the Pixel C was the most perfect device from Google.
The in game song "Sea Shanty 2" has been one the bigger memes in the "Old-school Runescape" community ( a bigger community than you would expect)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJhF0L7pfo8&ab_channel=OldSc...
> except maybe irc, but except for a few nerds, it's hard to get anyone on there anymore

Well IRC isn't really meant to be used for persistent communication anyway
What is your idea about?
The team size required for a modern day AAA title is significantly higher than that of HL days.

I'm often left unconvinced by statements like this. Is it that the team size for a modern AAA title is required to be so large, or is it just that they are so large? The diminishing returning from making teams ever bigger makes me wonder if having such large teams are just a sign of low-level, dragging general incompetence somewhere in the chain of people running the whole thing.

I don't have any hard evidence either way, but every so often when I see a small, well-run team of competent people turn out something really good, I wonder.
I'm typing this on a MagSafe laptop. I don't like MagSafe.

The cables fray and the MagSafe tips wear out, that means buying an entire new charger (or soldering on a donor cable), I'm on my 5th or 6th. The surfaces get dirty, and because they just butt up (rather than sliding) they become high resistance and heat up.

If MagSafe 2021 doesn't fuse the cable to the charger brick, then I might consider it. The fickle electrical connection is inherent to the design though.
Obviously, working in an environment where you are not appreciated would make you feel bad. If you think praise is going to make the difference for your employee between being appreciated and not, that is insulting.

Celebration is important. But praise is cheap. Maybe some managers think its okay to just say "great job" + more praise, and then implicitly say next piece of work please, but I don't think it is.
That will happen regardless of the language.

The same people were doing that with C, SUN RPC/DCE, C++, CORBA, COM/DCOM, and will do it with Go gRPC or whatever else comes down their path.
Gmail has done this. I often follow up e-mails from my personal domain with a copy from a gmail account since it gets guessed as spam randomly.
> except the purest of pure self-supported alpine expeditions

Do these exist? From what I understand Sherpas are the ones building the routes every year... So even if you hike alone, pack all of your stuff into base camp alone (good luck! many trips), carry all your own ladders and ropes, and pack all of your stuff up to each subsequent camp alone... you're still hiking on routes that Sherpas built at the beginning of the season...
That's my point in the other post. Is that 1 second boot time gain really worth the money? Not arguing against it for heavy duty enterprise workloads. But as a consumer, at one point the extra performance is wasted on them.
Chromium based browser save history in sqlite file
If Apple can make a Magsafe cable for USB C that would be the best of both worlds.
(I know third parties have made them but Apple would probably do a better implementation)

I also can't wait for the removal of the Touchbar. This prevented me from buying previous Macbooks because it was just one compromise too far for such an expensive machine.

Is this Apple's "Coke Classic" moment?
It just reads the history file off of the disk directly
There are scripts to help you export from FreeOTP (and transform to the FreeOTP+ format), even without a rooted phone.

The opposition to export features by FreeOTP maintainers is idiotic, because there is no contract that TOTP seed never moves or lives only on one device. The only expectation is that it is not shared with 3rd parties and is carefully kept secret. At the same time, migrating to a new phone and having to change 30 different 2FA codes individually is untenable.
Design patents can not be applied to purely functional aspects, so no you can keep you wheel round and on the for your country correct side.

But you can have a design patent for the "looks and feel" of your headsup display to some degree. You can't make it cover what is one the display or that important parts are highlighted. But you can potentially cover the color pallet and how exactly you arrange information of the same not high importance level.

I.e. in context of JingOs the way they cluster settings especially combined with the used color schema and similar aspects are very likely covered by design patents.

Similar that notifications are a list of swipe-able settings in a box can't be covered by design patents, but that it has that graish color with that level of transparence, rounded corners, and similar might very well be covered.

I personally don't like design patents but they are a thing which exists.

Lastly the copy is so close that it might not just cause conflicts with design patents but also with copyright on the visual parts (not the underlying code!) of iOs.
On a related note: what are you using for designing your 3d prints?
This behavior isn’t unique to Chinese companies.
"Note that Twitter appears to be intermittently suspending certain accounts that raise questions about Tether."

What is the reason for Twitter suspending these accounts?
I had to search what you meant. What is wrong with having the possibility to use your own server to communicate with friends? I have the server, they pay me for electricity and hosting.
I agree 100%. I just don't share the sentiment that poorly written software is caused by a lack of detailed low-level understanding of the hardware.
“Krebs Has a Posse” Swag on Redbubble. Proceeds Go to Voting_works
To clone Chinese OSS, you need WeChat account or OTP+Phone in China. This feels totally against the principles of good faith in OSS dev. They can clone and take advantage of the rest of the world’s efforts while returning nothing back. Asshole, is the term for such entities.

To be fair, some cool Chinese developers do have repos on GitHub. They’re not the majority though.

Edit: Hold on folks, I need to find source of this.

Edit2: I am pretty sure I was using Zhaodao.
First I ran it native, and after 5+ hours, it failed right at the end. So I restarted with Rosetta2, and after 2 hours, I gave up. I just downloaded the tensorflow_macOS fork that apple made to use the M1 GPU anyway.
I hope they don't bring back USB-A, but the SD card slot and hdmi have been sorely missed. If you do anything with photography, being able to just plug the card directly into your laptop makes a world of difference. Same thing with walking into any meeting and already knowing you'll be able to plug into a projector if needed, without having to run out and grab a dongle.
GDS: Using authenticators to protect an online service
> ... May Reach Back 100k Years

Or may not.

One important fact: people get accolades and sometimes even direct monetary incentives for finding something that is supposedly "oldest of".

Nobody gets famous or rich by revising "oldest of" dates to a more recent timeline.
Thanks for this. Would that "slowing down" harm the device though? Obviously, I should err on the side of higher wattage, but if the power adapter provides lower wattage than is required, would that harm the device?
yup true that, I have been bootstrapping so for me I found frugality very important.
theirs is based in scientific knowledge, yours is based in ignorance of that knowledge

"molecules are not the same as elements"

now repeat it with me

"molecules are not the same as elements"
The downside to this approach is that you're unable to know what fields you can use in your query without reading the GetTask function, and changes to the GetTask function can silently break all callers, since it's now a runtime error.
Not just google. e.g. Reddits new interface is in the same league