skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speculation on why Jony Ive pursued "thinness above everything":

- for the first x years of apple, everything was legitimately thick

- so each generation Ive wanted to make things thinner

- it entered the culture (of the design division perhaps) that you had to make each generation thinner than the last to please Ive

- Then when things got to a comfortable thickness for users, people kept making each generation thinner to please Ive

- Ive never told them to stop making things thinner so they didn't stop.

- snowball effect and we got those horrible products

- he had to leave to stop the cycle
the point is that humans (and life in general) have entirely evolved with varying levels of co2, so the excess levels found in a fairly closed room is unlikely to be a really serious risk (vs. a sealed room with much higher concentrations, where it's obviously a serious asphyxiation risk). this risk, according to research, is currently inconclusive at best.

the concentrations and types of particulate matter, however, is unprecedented, and as such, presents a higher inate risk, something that scientific research is really only starting to grapple with but so far is showing to be likely a serious risk to many (most?) species on earth.

with that said, i'm not trying to discourage your project in any way, just saying that for most people, addressing particulate (plus voc) risk is likely going to be the overwhelming majority of the benefits to be found in relation to indoor air quality. reducing co2 could be worthwhile if you have an especially airtight room/house, but nearly no houses are that airtight (passiv houses are meant to be so, however).
Yes. It is easy to forget over some bad keyboard or software choices that rub HN crowd the wrong way what they have done. It could have been very, very different.
What about reporters doxxing people in real life by going to their houses and filming it on TV.

Case of old lady in Florida accused of being a Russian troll.

https://twitter.com/cnn/status/966134015337140229

https://www.rt.com/usa/419571-cnn-florida-russia-trolls/
Companies often have a "fiscal year" that is their own made-up 12-month period that may not align with the regular calendar year: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fiscalyear.asp
This is exactly my point: none of your response is factually correct. You’re making value judgements and demanding others agree.

Don JR says covid is being blown of out proportion, you say it’s a big deal, these are subjective.

Conservatives say young people are relatively safe, you say they aren’t. What is the objective standard for relatively safe exactly?

You’re convinced conservatives stomp on all those groups, conservatives don’t see it that way and plenty of those in the listed group vote conservatively. What is the objective standard for advocating vs “stomping on”, and regardless of that: the conservatives argument is the above, attacking the conservatives who make it as disingenuous doesn’t contend with the actual argument at all.

I’m simply explaining to you what “the other side” with a different perspective actually says and believes, and you’re insistent that your value judgement is correct on the basis of zero evidence and more of “this is how I feel about the facts”. That’s precisely my point: all of this boils down to value judgements, and like I predicted: you’re so insanely ideological that you can’t stop to recognize that and consider these arguments to successfully refute them.

I’d suggest you go talk to a conservative and genuinely listen. You probably won’t change their mind and vice versa, but at least know what the real arguments are instead of the filter you seem to hear them through. Besides, you’ll likely find that your key differences are “same facts, different values”. Covid is dangerous in that it can kill or harm you or others. Perhaps you say that risk of harm demands closing done. Perhaps a conservative with the same facts makes their own risk assessment that softer measures are better. You drive your car everyday even with the risk of harm, others refuse to because of the risk of harm, who is objectively correct?
I thought Calibri was a great choice for a font to be the first sans-serif default font, replacing the iconic and ubiquitous Times New Roman. it had a softer look compared to Arial, idk how to describe it
It seems like this is simply the approach of any coder who's just trying to get X done without worrying about maintaining stuff. Academic code is often "crap" and it's written by smart people but smart people only concerned about getting the algorithm implemented.

Which is say to say, no one yet come up with an approach that combines "fast to write, fast to run, and easy to maintain".
and due to all the new tech since the 60s, theres even more chances of seeing shit you cant identify, flying around
Sweet mother of Capitalism. I did not see that coming.

So much for pandemic effects on ad buying. Maybe related to stimulus? And if so, that means all that stimulus money is gonna wind up in the same pockets 99% of the world’s wealth already does. Or maybe that’s inevitable.
Accounting calendars do not always align with the "normal" calendar. Companies can choose their own cycles (generally)
Apple's fiscal year (internal accounting year) ends Sept, 30th instead of being aligned with the calendar year.
Thats a good point. I hope that would be enough to get funding. It was certainly a good idea to collect the samples even if they dont make it back to Earth anytime soon.
This company has been slowly developing vertical wind trubines:
https://windside.com/

They are not (yet) for mega installations, but since they are almost silent and maintenance free they can be used both in urban areas and in sahara/antarctis where things just have to work.
You need to know what the computer is doing, down to the chip level. This often includes things like how actual protocols are working on a hardware (electrical) level, and how different parts of the board are connected to each other.

It's sort of like writing Linux drivers for custom hardware, but without the Linux libraries, or Linux.
Pretty unlikely, firmware development is programming for controlling a machine, that can be a industrial machine, toy, a car, a car ECU (Engine Control Unit), a drone or parts of an aircraft. Embedded systems involves bare metal C or C++ programming, RTOS (Real Time Operating Systems), embedded Linux, assembly, electronics, micro-controllers, application processors, DSPs - Digital Signal Processors, ARM core, SOC peripherals (ADC, SPI, I2C, PWM ...), control systems, Matlab Simulink toolboxes. Most companies that deals with embedded systems are not startups or tech companies, they are manufacturing companies from several fields, such as home appliances, radio equipment or car makers. That is the reason why we rarely hear about embedded systems. Most embedded developers are electronic engineers degree holders, even in the CppCon C++ conference, most speakers about embedded systems are electronic engineers.
There was also a good discussion on HN [0] about a new paper by Melanie Mitchell "Why AI is Harder Than We Think" [1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26964819

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.12871
Short-term energy consumption on a 5 hour hike would be from stored glucose, fat breakdown IMHO would happen slower. A 20km hike can consume 1000-2000kcal depending on how hard it is (climb, terrain, weight of hiker, weight of pack matter) so that would be 0.25-0.5kg of carbs - so potentially that loss could be 50/50 carbs and water.

But hydration definitely is a big aspect of mass simply because of how much you add and lose. I once did a ~90km hike in 24 hours or so, and I believe I drank something like 15+ litres of liquids during that.
In the emulator, err, simulator it does, doesn’t it?
Standardizing Automated Security Testing for IoT: Bluetooth LE
Improving the Wikipedia Desktop Experience
It's my understanding that vertical turbines need far less height to be effective. If you can get away with moderate towers on various existing structures, then the amount of available land increases dramatically.
I used a MacBook Air in early 2020, and I thought the keyboard was broken/damaged due to the lack of give in the keys, is that what you are describing?
> I don't know how gcc generates its approximate 2-adic reciprocals. Possibly it uses something based on the Euclidean GCD algorithm. I wasn't able to find the precise line of source in a reasonable time.

It's 0x1FFF...F / 7 = 0x249...249249249.

Just about the oddest thing I've seen; I guess, if I were the author, it'd be my "1 in 10000" day?
As GOOP discovered...

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/mar/19/experie...
Using inductive reasoning, they're probably still deploying first-stage malware en mass that activates under certain network conditions. Truly scary stuff.
The real reason is government tried to help. Cabinet minister reached out to help[1] . Sent cops to help . cops ran around calling, tracking and finally found the truth. Since there was no real need for oxygen in this case, cops suspect he tweeted to sensationalise.[2] if there was a need for oxygen then we could expect there would have been no arrest.

[1] https://twitter.com/smritiirani/status/1386763271835774980?s...
[2] https://twitter.com/indiantweeter/status/1387293380212715524...
The fiscal year is not necessarily equal to calendar year. Apples Q1 starts in October.
Thanks for the feedback. I would love to add better generalization for international use; so far it's just been out of scope for a solo dev to account for all the intricate tax rules that differ from country to country. If you have further suggestions though on additional features that might help to start bridging that gap, feel free to shoot an email to projectifi.io@gmail.com!
Many people who invested in Doge assured me that this is definitely not a pyramid scheme.
I don’t want to live in this alternate world
Physics is usually pretty rigorous. In the context of science for a general audience, or printing pretty T-shirts, I get why it's omitted. I just find it funny that when it comes to E=mc^2 physics suddenly lack some rigour even in the college physics classes I've taken. It's probably OK to skip it I'm just curious as to why. I don't think I've ever seen the delta mentioned except in Einstein's original paper.
Sure the donation isn't taxed, but why wouldn't the original (fraudulent) sale be taxed?

Selling an item at auction and buying it yourself isn't exactly a charitable contribution.
Then, there is more runway there. But still...

Foundation work is not going anywhere on any construction method except for smallest homes.

Framework work is probably easiest to eliminate, but you will still have to count one most basic.

Even if you have 4 fold work hours reduction, and 2-3 fold in materials you save $300k on a $1m home, and end up with a very basic house.

Apartments are better than trying to improve upon a single family home.
> it seems even scarier than Armstrong's and Aldrin's jobs. [...] When he was on the far side of the moon he was truly alone in a way that no other person had ever been in human history.

This was used by Naoki Urasawa in his "20th Century Boys" manga series. The main villain, who has effectively isolated himself from his humanity, keeps repeating "I am Michael Collins", to describe his delusion of being at once the loneliest being ever and the one from which everyone else will eventually depend.
Honestly the ratings used to be brilliantly accurate. They've been making them less accurate ever since, to the point where I think there's next to no content-awareness going on and it's just purely fueled by marketing initiatives.
Antropoceno – Music and Science
probably the likes of arfa khanum are not of interest to modi.
I have always found it a bit odd that their management perspective holds so much sway when it is built upon their experiences managing what has always been a very small organization.
I was wondering what happened to those I figured he was just writting book of them now so he wasn't going to post them for free.
> People are successful when they decide to be. Are you successful?

That is some sort of Politically correct thought where you give everybody participation trophies and everybody is successful (which means that nobody really is)

Like everything there are metrics, Linus doesn't figure in any of the polls which ask people who they admire the most.

Even those going down to #500.

People like Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Larry Page, Sergey Brin...they all figure into those standings.
I’ve been considering dropping Spotify for the “Apple One” plan, looks like I’m not the only one from that huge jump in services.
That’s what testing is for. We can’t really reason globally about much smaller codebases either
Software is complex.
In feudal times, merchants were often derided for supposedly charging a price different from the "true price" of products.

So perhaps not in any serious modern economic philosophy, but people definitely arrive at this idea in naive ways.
And yet, Apple just released its thinnest iMac ever last week.
Discussion of “are these aliens?” aside for a moment, I kinda feel like tech (I’m assuming „Silicon Valley“ is just a stand-in term there) does take them seriously?

Whenever these articles come up on this website there’s a good amount of discussion that goes in a number of interesting directions, be it determining what they actually are or theorizing about the likelihood they’re of exotic origin (terrestrially developed technology or otherwise) and assigning probabilities to those explanations.

The article seems to come from a false premise, that unless scientists entertain non-terrestrial explanations they’re not “taking it seriously”. Okay, but who says that this should be the standard? NBC?

There’s plenty of scientists within the broader Defense space, who, I think we can assume, take this very seriously. It’s just a different definition of “serious”.
Ask HN: Clubhouse vs. Twitter Spaces, which one will eventually exists or both?
> They should have all known.

Before Washington state we had the clear data from the elderly homes in Bergamo Italy where they made the exact same mistake over a month earlier with catastrophic results. Before that we knew from the Wuhan data that CV19 is a highly asymmetric threat and it was critical to protect elderly and immuno-compromised.

The history is still to be written but the U.S. policy choice to go with broad lockdowns of everyone instead of the "focused protection" plan may go down as the worst public health error of modern times. Since they were hit hard and first, Hubei Province and Northern Italy at least have the excuse of no priors. By the time NY got hit any serious analyst knew and many were recommending circling the wagons around the vulnerable.

I have no idea if fault lies with Cuomo personally or someone he delegated this to, but someone in NY seriously fucked up. Hell, in Bergamo prosecutors filed charges against some city/regional administrators for negligent manslaughter (or similar).
Some patches yes, but it also says that systemd will not carry shims for the missing glibc APIs.
> In addition, now my JavaScript files are actually just JavaScript and I can be pretty sure that it will work with any new tooling without any problems.

That's been my feeling for years, too: if your team is less than, say, several dozen people there's a significant amount of merit to having something which doesn't require continous care and feeding for anyone to work, especially when it's combining a number of complex libraries with independent development teams.
“Quality products at Lowest price possible” you’re probably being sarcastic. Just look at wired AirPods, among the most maligned earbud headphones and quite expensive within their category.
M1 is a very impressive chip, but it can't compete with the Threadripper/Xeon club. It really has trouble with the high-end laptop club too.

You can say "16gb is enough if you swap efficiently", but I run models that need 100+GB on the regular. I'd love to see what a super high-end Apple core can do to that workload!
> Software, not so much. Design they have gone downhill.

I mean, maybe compared to Apple 2011. But compared to Microsoft 2021, Google 2021, Linux 2021, Android 2021, HP 2021, Lenovo 2021, Dell 2021? They're definitely on top.
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it is blowing up.

something something, longer than you can stay liquid
I don't know why twitter does this.

From https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/25/business/india-covid19-tw...

One of the tweets removed from view was posted by Moloy Ghatak, a labor minister in the opposition-ruled West Bengal state, where Mr. Modi’s party hopes to make big gains in an ongoing election. Mr. Ghatak accused Mr. Modi of “mismanagement” and held him directly responsible for the deaths. His tweet included images of Mr. Modi and his election rallies beside those of the cremations and compared him to Nero, the Roman emperor, for choosing to hold political gatherings and exporting vaccines during a “health crisis.”
Another tweet from Revanth Reddy, a sitting member of the parliament, used a hashtag that blamed Mr. Modi for the “disaster.” “India recording over 2 lakh cases everyday,” it said, using an Indian numbering unit that means 200,000 cases. “Shortage of vaccines, shortage of medicines, increasing number of deaths.
> The developers don't understand what the realities and difficulties are of operating a hospital or operating a school.

Why not just focus on this issue? Is this expectation correct?
Why People Are Afraid of the DOM?
I can remove babel in my code?
Do you mind elaborating on this? Are you assuming that the client has the know-how to be able to choose the right resource to execute on the project (if the project scope has actually been defined)?
Why bullying is such a successful evolutionary strategy
All of humanity in one picture except for Michael Collins:
https://www.reddit.com/r/spaceporn/comments/63ztoy/all_of_hu...
> lowest price possible

You got me until this point ngl
Yes, but then I never expected someone in HR to fall on the sword on my behalf and risk their livelihood because I’ve picked a fight with the boss. Perhaps others did?

I think we agree on the role played by HR. You need to be aware they serve the organization first (as do we all). I just wanted to point out that in the day-to-day, they often provide real benefits to employees, which may be self-serving but there’s no rule that self-serving behavior can’t be mutually beneficial.
> Personally I don’t understand why violent horror as a genre exists, and literally cannot empathise with people who enjoy it.

What's wrong with it as entertainment?
AMD was up 5% last night and finished down 1% today, so don't order your lambo just yet.
Agreed that New York City is an outlier in a number of ways, but there does appear to be something interesting going on with regard to rising U.S. costs for a variety of things besides just construction (e.g., health care and education). Slate Star Codex did an interesting though definitely inconclusive piece on this in 2017: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost...
I would assume it has to do with relativistic mass, which used to be somewhat commonly used (m used for relativistic mass, m_0 for rest or invariant mass), but which is now disfavoured. For m as relativistic mass, E = mc^2 holds.
I think Mac Air 16 GB seems an ideal choice
When last did you perform the tests for NMO? In the last decade quite a few new tests have been developed.

There are two antibody tests you can perform to determine if you have NMOSD; Anti-Mog and Aquaporin-4
The $19 EarPods?
MmWave 5G coverage still is Rare in U.S.
I bet what 2/3 non-Intel? That means an extra (complete stab in the dark) 1/2 a billion ish $ in extra profit every quarter, maybe more!
What you are alluding to are different observations of the truth. The concept of reference frames depends on the universality of the laws of physics, which by definition means that there can only be one version of the truth. By the time your reference frame catches up to another, the observations converge.
Well, there are the environmental costs of tearing down and building new vs upgrading an existing structure.

There are also economic concerns. Most houses in the US hold some value beyond 30 years. A house build in 1990 in the US is usually still worth something but in Japan a lot of houses from that era are worth nothing. The land may be an asset still, but the structure is not.
You could provide evidence or other kinds of arguments to bring that claim from the realm of beliefs into the realm of facts.
> In the third and fourth quarters of 2021, we expect year-over-year total revenue growth rates to significantly decelerate sequentially as we lap periods of increasingly strong growth. We continue to expect increased ad targeting headwinds in 2021 from regulatory and platform changes, notably the recently-launched iOS 14.5 update, which we expect to begin having an impact in the second quarter. This is factored into our outlook.

This isn't the best time to depend on an anti-privacy business model, it seems.
Isn’t Lenovo (at least Thinkpad series) being a good steward of that legacy and doing well with it?
What’s a “censorship resistant social network”? Would Trump be allowed on this platform? Would it be hosted on AWS? One person’s censorship is another person’s moderation.
Indeed it is. I don't care about lying politicians getting uncomfortable for a brief moment. Those peaceful protests on the other hand got normal day-to-day people hurt and killed.
Coincidentally last night I re-watched one of my favorite episodes of "From the Earth to the Moon," "Galileo was Right," which focuses on the Apollo 15 crews getting field training in geology. Their instructor (along with backup LM pilot Jack Schmitt, a geologist, who then flew on Apollo 17) emphasized identifying and collecting the "right" rocks, not just "any" rocks, which led to some of the more interesting samples, including the "Genesis Rock."
Also author of some symethric cyphers with funny names.
Really? I think we are a bit hungover from 5 years of pro/hacker neglect. Which operating system would you recommend to friends and family?
maybe that's what happens when you give designers too much power. They will create something beautiful at the expense of daily usability.

You need some balance. The key is to produce the best looking product without compromising functionality or usability.
Oh that’s easy. Focus and take hard decisions that are unpopular in the short term but mostly right in the long term.

Examples

- first iPhone doesn’t support
MMS

- cut the headphone plug in new iPhones

- stop supporting Adobe Flash

- load apps through the App Store only in iOS
Who did it right? Ron DeSantis did. He did the focused protection.
Which keyboard(s) do you use currently?
I think that is a fair assessment but what about compared to their peers? Could you say the level of excellence from 2011 to 2021 Apple has deteriorated at a higher rate than Facebook, Microsoft, or Google?
This is what people who defend censorship when it comes to their own opinions of Dems Vs Reps support.

You can't pick and choose your censorship and government intervention.

I don't expect to convince those who are used to make "rules for thee but not for me"
At the very beginning it was winter in the Northeast and treatment protocols were being development. Is it fair to even compare the virus that came into NY during Jan to a state where it came after 6 months of study, data and summer weather?
You can also just check browser locale, show a warning if != US as early setup step. Offer to take their email and tell them when more countries are added (and capture all the traffic to reactivate later).
Kaspersky himself is a 1987 KGB school alumni. The naïveté of Westerners is sometimes astonishing.
Ok, I took your advice. It was a trigger for a lot of unprocessed events, and this made me realize there seems to be a lot of trauma related to bullying indeed. Thanks.

If you have any further suggestions, they are welcome.