skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The iPhone Cables are the only ones that does it without some sort of strain relieves, which means they have a far higher rate of failure.

I brought Anker PowerLine II and III ( Not the + version ) for my family and friends and so far apart from one connector failure ( Not the cable ), all of them have survived the years of usage with no signs of cable damage. It is such a relieve knowing your cable should last years if not decades.

We used to joke apart Apple made the cable so bad because they expect us to buy a new iPhone every two years anyway, which is when all of our lightning cables somehow failed.

I am also wondering, if it is really that environmental friendly to make your cable free of certain material but they break 10 times easier and end up so much more in landfill. Compare to make one that last literally forever. Lightning Cables are sold in hundreds of millions unit a year. And Apple earns money and commission from lightning chips, connector and MFi.
This design solves that as well. If anything, it orients the phone in a slightly more convenient angle.
Thanks for your recommendation, I pre-ordered it =)
> Double the rate of similar eu countries ?

According to [1], the UK is on the average. Right between France and Belgium, the two closest countries, that's what I call comparable.

> If you look at this[1] chart, I think it shows that the UK was in lockdown for longer than most (all?) nations in europe.

Lockdowns are hard to compare. Eg: my country is technically not on lockdown right now. But I can't get married, and my best friend who's a DJ hasn't had a single gig for 2 years now. The UK has had several periods where all these were open and possible. Including now.

As a an employer, I can't really start talking with my employees about returning to work yet. The current recommendation in the UK is to start gradually get back to the normal state. I can't stress how much of a difference these stuff make, even if "technically" both countries aren't in lockdown.

> GDP.

Don't forget the impact of brexit here, which is supposed to have massive impact on the country import and export, thus GDP. The full effect of brexit will be seen in a few years, but england already suffered from massive import delay due to customs.

I am not saying that the UK strategy was "the best", but just dismissing it and considering that basically every other country did it way better is just not true either. They made slightly different tradeoffs with slightly different results.

[1] https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
When'd they become a shady flea market putting laughably little effort into policing the wares sold thereon, while still showing "amazon" branding all over the page and generally not making it clear enough that they weren't taking direct responsibility for the listing, and then keeping that up year after year because it made them a whole fucking bunch of money and no-one made them stop, despite knowing that lots of their income was a result of fraud, borderline-scams, and unsafe or unfit-for-use-but-too-cheap-to-bother-returning products?

I'm pretty sure that was way before 2015. That's when they became indefensibly-bad actors, IMO.
and yet where would society be without them?
I love seeing those M & M words!
Asperger's is just the old name for it, it was split into autism and social communication disorder.
You can't nab people with market rates, but you can get new hires with market rates
Amazon’s anti-union conduct made free election “impossible,” NLRB officer finds
Thing is, at this point Amazon has mastered the art of getting away with employee-hostile practices.

Take, as a separate example, their PIP culture. The bar to get into amazon is fairly low (compared to peer companies) and so they tend to use PIP to maintain a high turnover and filter out unproductive employees. There's no shortage of engineers wanting to apply to Amazon (increasingly from overseas) and this churn seems to be OK because they have very good systems in place to onboard employees fast. For an engineer early in their career having AMZN on their resume can be worth the pain. At least among my peers in senior and staff/principal levels there's very little desire to jump ship to amazon though.

Similarly, they can treat warehouse workers like crap because there are others willing to line up to take their place. Regardless of the conditions.

What it boils down to is that many of amazon's employees simply don't have a better choice. And I'm not sure what can really help with that.
I understand what you are trying to get at, but the holding you described occurred after the interception (the turnover). So Team B can accept the penalty and would still have the ball.

A slight change of ordering makes your point. Team A drops back to pass and holds a Team B player going towards Team A QB. The QB then throws an interception. In that scenario, Team B would decline the holding penalty, upholding the interception.
Is it plausible to build a tunnel from China to the US through the ocean? Just a wild idea.
It's essentially a technological breakthrough. That charger uses GaN (Gallium Nitride) instead of silicon for the switching transistors. Gallium Nitride has various advantageous properties over silicon (higher bandgap voltage, higher breakdown field, faster electron mobility) that make it more efficient in chargers.
This design does not look like it will seesaw or rock more than any keyboard with angled stands. And the bump prevents scratches to the lenses.
That's because the left in general prefers not to talk about crimes committed in their name as it undermines their perceived moral superiority.
If you are using your Macbook like a desktop, you are unlikely to have any problem. If you are on the other hand a mobile user, ie, you move around between school, work, home, coffe shop, etc, yes, it's slightly more than an annoying issue.

The Magsafe chargers were among the worst rated products on Apple's own online store until the company removed all user ratings & reviews in Nov, 2019.
No. But isn't it ironic for someone to complain about armchair psychologists and then start talking about a condition that's not even recognized anymore?

DSM-5 replaced everything with autism spectrum disorder.
There was a famous case about 6 years ago where Google didn't hire the author of Homebrew because he couldn't whiteboard a leetcode type question. He posted to Twitter, then it was discussed heavily on tech sites:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/39d0u1/google_...

In my opinion the problem has gotten worse. I spoke with a former Microsoft Product Manager early this year and he mentioned "Highly experienced engineers give the worst interviews" .. based on the current environment. He mentioned it's because the questions that come up are stuff people learned 20 years ago and never used in real-life.

I was invited by several FAANG companies this year to interview and did one interview (and turned down others) but had to cram for 2 months doing leetcode.

I realize it's a game but have mixed feelings. I think the interviews are bad if it's the only option but part of me knows the interview process is so bad it will likely discourage people from being Software Engineers and keep salaries high for many more years.
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You know that both of these companies are profitable, right?
> It is hard if not impossible to attribute an individual employee's performance to company growth. Many variables can impact company growth - so even if engineering does their job,product many not and vice versa.

A somewhat related anecdote that I love: In an online lending company where I was a manager before, I had the Data Science team reporting to me. At some point, one of the interns created a variable that improved the ML risk scoring model in such a way that the loan default decreased in about 2%. That is HUGE for a portfolio that has something like 10% default. This intern's variable saved the company a tremendous amount of money... yet the company did not give him anything for an improvement that was 100% measurable in $.
> That is a shit-ton of stuff to set up (and potentially screw up) which will take a small team probably months to complete.

Agree! This is why that "Kubernetes Hardening Guidance" is for NSA, not for startups.

Resource needs aside, keeping basic AppSec/InfoSec hygiene is a strong recommendation. Also there are tons of startups that are trying to provide solutions/services to solve that also. A lot of times, it's worth the money.
Look at SpaceX/Starbase. The dude is crazy. He accelerated development over a week or two and the time series of photos of the site show epic progress. They installed 29 (!) Raptor engines in a single night with incredibly complex plumbing. They had 23 people working inside the diameter of the rocket.

Granted, he is rushing the SuperHeavy orbital build with reckless abandon, and a bad weld or connection somewhere means a multi-kiloton bomb blowing up on the launch pad (See Russian N1 launch), but you have to admire how fast SpaceX does things compared to ULA.

I mean, how many decades were people promising satellite internet? Iridium? Bill Gates Teledesic? OneWeb? etc. Starlink has put up satellites at a record pace compared to those projects. Again, with problems no one considered 10 years ago, like fucking up ground based astronomy.

Blue Origin hasn't even made it to orbit yet, but SpaceX has landed boosters 100 times, created the Falcon Heavy, the Crew Dragon, etc How many times has Starliner failed and been delayed? It's not even as capable as the Crew Dragon either.

I'm just saying, Musk has a "move fast and break things" iteration approach, the opposite of waterfall. He develops cars and rockets almost like people slap together websites. And it seems to be working, despite being a dickhead to employees, he's created a huge EV car company, and a huge world leading aerospace company.
> Are you a psychopath for driving your car for a holiday trip, even though there's people dying in 49 degrees heat in Greece? It's really not that different from Jeff Bezos flying his spacecraft.

I don't think this analogy is reasonable. Let's evaluate what is observable and controllable in both scenarios.

Scenario A: I don't observe anyone dying as I drive. I have no control over people dying in Greece.

Scenario B: Jeff Bezos was frequently reminded of more down-to-earth problems (before and after his space trip). As Amazon CEO and richest man in the world, he's had a lot of control and influence over the wellbeing of others.
The bulge is where the cable has been repeatedly knocked or compressed into an extreme angle. Of course that will happen at the strain relief. It happens on Amazon Basics lightning cables, Lenovo laptop power supplies, anything if you exceed the min bend radius of the cable.

Regarding dangling it over the edge of the table, you're pulling it down. That's one of the problems. It should lay flat on the table for a few inches at least and then drop.

I'm sitting here with my M1 MBA on charge at the moment. Is it strained? Hell no:

https://imgur.com/a/lXGpj4E
Presidential elections.
I was an EV enthusiast in 2010. It was a very painful time to be an EV enthusiast. It was almost like a curse because the car companies would seemingly do the exact worst thing every time they made an EV. It was so bizarre to watch the global automotive market basically make such a massive oversight over and over again. There was always murmurs about an EV that looked like a normal car that had good pack thermals and longer range. It was so simple to do and yet nobody did it. That vacuum just sat there for decades. And then Elon musk came along.

Nobody knew who Elon musk was. Literally nobody. But people in the EV enthusiast community came to know everything about Elon musk in 2008+ because he was the person in charge of the only company in the entire world that seemed to have the ability and intention of filling that vacuum. I watched every single interview, read every article and every quote. And back then he wasn’t famous so there wasn’t a bunch of noise around his name. And for about a decade I did this. And all I can tell you is what I saw with my own eyes. He is a real engineer, that’s not a scam. He has the sensibility and knowledge of an engineer. That was very clear over the years. He did in fact make Tesla what it is today, it’s not some kind of scam. 90% of the times that people said he wouldn’t/couldn’t do something that he said he would do, he did it. People sometimes forget that this has been going on for a long time now, and the first time people said he could never ever make something work was the model s. And people really meant that.

Why are some people Tesla fans? Don’t they know Elon musk is an asshole? Consider this: an EV enthusiast starts out in 2008. Tesla, which is really just a proxy for musk, delivers the best EV maybe ever. Then he says he’s going to build the model s. Then everyone says he can’t do that and then he delivers the model s anyway, certainly the best Ev ever. Then repeat that one two three four five times and throw in basically the worlds charging infrastructure. People are fans because Elon musk delivers what they want, he fills those difficult vacuums that only exist because of the complacency of others. It’s no different than Steve Jobs really.

So you can say he’s an asshole and a psychopath… that’s not going to change anything because the fanboys aren’t as stupid as you think. They judge a person based on their verified history of behavior and Elon musk has a verified history of delivering. Nobody cares if he yelled at someone.

And for all the people who want to cancel him, shame on you. All you’ll be doing is replacing him with someone who’s probably more psychopathic, yells at more employees and doesn’t deliver anything in the end. If you don’t like him, don’t work for him.
We could all live on soylent powder exclusively... We could eliminate all kinds of unnecessary food production. /s
It's not just their cables. Their silicone iPhone cases suffer the same fate, sometimes after a year, sometimes after a month, just from moving in and out of your pocket. It looks like this: https://imgur.com/a/TMDdKNs
I'm only 10 minutes in and this is already amazing.

They will defiantly need batteries optimized for the booster. They are basically caring a bunch of car batteries around.
There’s a theory that glyphosate is the cause of many deaths from Covid…
Face ID works with something more like an XBOX Kinect with an infrared light projecting a pattern to understand depth.

https://www.macrumors.com/2017/09/13/how-iphone-x-face-id-wo...
Yeah, I'm still not sure how ethics should work in the face of not-(yet)-extant people, either. On the one hand, setting a bomb to scorch the face of the earth once everybody currently alive is dead… seems wrong? So future people's lives will matter. But on the other, I don't see anything wrong with not having children, so hypothetical people's existence doesn't matter.
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Labeling, as used in this article, is hardly even turnabout. The dominant group may not explicitly create a term to label themselves, but the act of exclusion requires separating out the "other," and so labeling the non-other isn't so much an act of "turnabout" as just putting a word to an already-created group.

The people originally assuming all white/male/heterosexual/whatever people can and should be lumped together are the ones who have and continue to try to restrict jobs, property, and liberty from being given to people outside that group.

People will go a very long rhetorical way to try to refute the idea that if you want to fix racism in the US you need to address the very real and still very powerful and connected white racists. That problem won't magically fix itself because the people who desire racism to continue actively pursue it. We can't even get rid of the confederate flag, for goodness sake.
Totally agree. That's why I'm asking if compulsively updating modules is a JavaScript, nodejs, whatever pathos.

This team pushed multiple changes to prod per day. And the load balancer with autoscaling is bouncing instances on its own. And, and, and...

So resource leaks were being masked. It was only noticed during a lull in work.

And then because so many releases had passed, delta debugging was a lot tougher. And then because nodejs & npm has a culture of one module per line of source (joking!), figuring out which module to blame took even more time.

I think continuous deploys are kinda cool. But not without a safety net of some sort.
https://icebergcharts.com/

Iceberg Charts are an information format in which an image is divided into tiers and things are sorted into this structure by how well known they are, with the most popular entries at the top and the truly obscure at the bottom.

This makes them an interesting structure to share ones' interests and explore and learn more about topics one isn't too familiar with.

I liked the format very much so I created this site that makes creating them easier and adding descriptions and links to the entries possible.

The most relevant for this site is probably https://icebergcharts.com/i/Python_Syntax
I think the term you may have been looking for is "anchoring."
Ah, if only there were still 'workers' left in the Marxist sense. But automation has eliminated them (in the West anyway). So all that's left is managers, engineers and other professionals.
Knowing your location relative to the satellites is only so useful if you’re actually standing on the surface of the earth (or trying to fly to a particular point on its surface). You also need to know which way the earth is facing right now. And to do that you need to know how many times it’s gone round since some reference time - which varies, but amounts to ‘number of days taking into account smeared leap seconds’
The headline is tricky there. It's only higher than almost any of the institutions that they are asking about in that poll, which only includes three private companies (Amazon, Facebook, Twitter) and a bunch of government organizations or civil movements. I would guess a lot of private companies and most of big tech rate higher than Amazon, specially if they are thrown in with a bunch of things like ANTIFA, BLM and Israel or Palestina when they ask the question.

Here's the poll, page 15: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OgPzcB75uxXiFmTjUUb-ITIr7BF...
Yes, the amount of ingratitude you have to see after changing the world. "You shouted at a person. You said the F word!"

If I had to summarize the internet in one feeling, that would be jealousy
"well developed economically (punching far above its tiny weight)"

I am being a nitpicker here, but I think there is no correlation between country size and level of economic development. Many of the richest polities in the world are quite small. Places like Singapore & HK come to mind.

I think bigger countries, even if they are "1st world," can sometimes look rather rough, because there is a lot of variation between different regions / municipalities / neighborhoods. It can be surreal sometimes, but it is what it is.
I don't know for certain, but my hunch is that it streams the output to multiple waiting clients as it receives it from the origin. Would have to do some testing to confirm that though.
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I did enjoy reading through his updates about the situation as it was developing, pretty interesting stuff.

I don't remember the exact line Matt Levine wrote, but he made a point of stating normally you couldn't get away with being this over leveraged, but since Archegos was a family firm it avoided some scrutiny. Interesting to think there will probably always be a way to avoid scrutiny when you're moving that much money around.
What makes you think they have incentive to make themselves look good?

The entire point of the thread is that they have incentive to fan the flames of fear to increase the budgeting.

After all, the police aren't nearly as exposed to the effects of angry constituents as elected politicians are.

So police love to pitch any sort of crime increase as a failing of budgeting or something
They were evil, not stupid.
So you think it would be ok for Honda to show up at your house and say "You can't have this anymore we're taking it" and then take all the stuff that happens to be in the car, even if you are using it for free?
Especially in Silicon Valley, there seems to be a lot of itchy feet in tech that leads people to changing jobs every 2 to 3 years because some people get bored easily and get the impression it's almost required. Historically it wasn't. And it still isn't in most industries and most places (including tech jobs elsewhere). The two larger places I've worked, 10+ year stints were, if maybe not the norm, extremely common. I've spent most of my career in three jobs +/- 10 years each.
Tech industry is ripe with managers who cannot manage without abusing their employees in some form or the other. Like pushing people constantly for years, interrupting their work, make them go through hoops to straight up name calling, heckling, bullying and demeaning them. Applying faulty logic when it suits them, gaslighting and destroying employee reputation is on a daily todo list for some companies, orgs and managers. Don’t go looking for rosy big name companies with high profile job opportunities- the same thing that happens to a lot of Hollywood hopefuls will happen to you. Aka you will fucked and forgotten. What I’m trying to say is, if you happen to work with people you like, and they respect you , it is better for you in the long term to stay there. Or Find and develop filters to screen places, teams like these so you don’t get caught
Thanks! Yeah, articles like this I would have studies in greater detail in the past but this year I realize In need to improve my leetcode/algo times so long term I'll keep focused on security and important topics. But in the meantime ... time to zig-zag a binary tree :(
> Regarding dangling it over the edge of the table, you're pulling it down. That's one of the problems. It should lay flat on the table for a few inches at least and then drop.

And if you suspend it in zero gravity and never touch it then it will last forever. Being able to baby something into lasting doesn't make the product durable. The fact remains that Apple's cables are demonstrably and notably more prone to fraying than every other manufacturer's cables even when the same people use them in the same way.
Systemd conquers. “InitWare” (Systemd fork) runs on OpenBSD for the first time