skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The batteries on 2016+ MacBook Pro are not Apple-replaceable, either. They replace the entire top case because they can't replace just the battery.[1] (If anyone has any source for the contrary, please provide it.) Assuming it's not user-replaceable nor Apple-replaceable, can we agree that it cannot be called a "replaceable" battery? Yes, technically it may be possible, but if even the company who made it thinks it's too difficult, it's not very useful or accurate to call it "replaceable". To be honest, I disagree that it should be called "replaceable" even if only the company who made it can replace it. It's a linguistic debate at this point.

By the way, the 2018+ MacBook Air does have a replaceable battery, in that Apple can replace it, so by extension, users can too (if they can track down a replacement).[2] Apple must adopt the adhesive pull tab approach on the MacBook Pro. The glued-in battery is completely unacceptable.

> I think your criticism of Apple designing disposable hardware is less true of them than their competitors, at least in my experience.

Keep in mind that, as the most profitable tech company in the world, Apple deserves to be held to a very high standard. Time and time again other companies follow their lead. Also keep in mind that Apple uses this profit to actively lobby against right to repair, making things worse for everyone in the long run.

Though laptops mostly don't care about repairability and any repairability they have is usually an accident, I don't think most other laptops on the market are quite as egregiously anti-repair as the MacBook Pro.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28637849

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28639234
Ah yes, that would make sense.
What I find interesting is that when browsing lists like these, more and more often I see names that are not from Europe or a rich English-speaking country. Nice to see previously-poorer countries getting online, the internet a bit more diverse, and the world a bit more connected. Though of course this is only empirical, perhaps it has always been this way and I just never noticed.
This is a great video on Lightning Network: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKdK-7AtAMQ
Hogwash. You did E2E testing badly, and now you’ve replaced it with something else. Which may or may not be as bad, but is certainly bad faster.
Ok, but to play in this space for a second: toward the beginning of the pandemic when these theories were flying left and right, where exactly was the "sufficient and meaningfully qualified evidence" to assert that it had natural origins?

Is the default to simply assert that, because it is biological, it naturally evolved? In the modern era we're in, I'm not convinced that is a sensible default.

The most sensible default is to say we don't know, and all reasonable possibilities are being explored. That is not the same as saying that its reasonable and responsible to downplay a completely reasonable theory; for all that's holy, the virus was first discovered in the same city as China's only L4 biohazard lab studying human pathogens, literally that evidence alone is enough to say the lab-leak theory is "reasonable". Not a smoking gun! But REASONABLE and not worthy of downplay.
I wonder if the future (or maybe present) of software development is a lot like construction trades. Many work for bigger firms, but there are loads of drywallers, carpenters, roofers, electricians and plumbers - though the latter two are a bit different, that are essentially independent, and get called in either directly by a customer or by a contractor to deliver part of a project.

This model works well for trades and notably is absent any real management - sub-trades are hired to deliver on an outcome, not to be "managed " and they take responsibility for the quality of their work.

Construction tradespeople I know would not be interested in demand generation or fintech software or whatever else this article is pushing. I'd expect the same from shrewd solo operators, that are focused on doing their trade well and not on getting caught up in management activities. I say this because although these sound attractive to the management class, I think selling SaaS management tools to solo operators is a tougher nut to crack than people realize
There is a specific regulatory pathway for this purpose written into law: section 505(b)(2) of the FDCA. It lets you use existing safety data from the approved NDA.

I have used this pathway myself and the FDA is quite comfortable with it. I don't really understand the fuss. Nor do I understand why the DAO matters.

https://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/search-fda-guidan...
> For decades we've been dealing with misinformation campaigns

Yes and no. Now that the labor for executing misinformation campaigns is outsourced and presented in a new way, the old wisdom of "don't trust the media", and "trust people you know" has become the new naïveté.

At least in the days of mass media, the centralization of messaging made it easy to identify and thus in some ways able to defend against. Now we're defending against brothers, sisters, aunts, and uncles who have been caught up in whatever nonsense happens to be most engaging. The commodification of social relations is rapidly progressing and there isn't any viable protection from it.
Anybody use Fedora Silverblue?
Can’t you just wait two minutes for it yo cycle through all open apps and click “don’t save”/“terminate” on all of them?
Jobs was mad at them for not coming in with more support when he went back to apple. also this.

https://bgr.com/tech/steve-jobs-iphone-adobe-flash-testing/

yes adobe and apple have histories tied together, but it wasn't always a rosie partnership.
A weird property of the described abstractions is that as you go tighter (interval -> zonotope -> polyhedra), the trained networks counterintuitively become less robust. Why does more precision in verification hurt training?

A recent work not mentioned in the last chapter "Adversarial Training with Abstraction" is [1], which kind of explains this issue using the notions of continuity and sensitivity of the abstractions.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.06700
funny

I was using an iPad Pro and I thought something in the Apple Notes app was good. Poof. Never found the file after.
Fossil fuels being used to fill demand of any sort is its own problem. We need global carbon taxes on a Montreal Protocol level to incentivize any excess demand (investment) to target renewables. -But with this, crypto would be a great boost to renewable technology, guaranteeing a minimum return for business investing in Research and Development.
The government is not a monolith. The US Congress could do this and individual Congresspeople don't have an obvious interest in covering this up.

Edit: the problem looks like partisan politics to me. Republicans have been agitating to pressure Daszak, and therefore Democrats are against it.
Starlink needs to be reliable with just one shell; they can't wait years to become good enough.
> Privacy!=security. It’s not that hard to understand

The very basics of security are Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability. Privacy breaching is a breach of Confidentiality.

Please spare us from the FUD and the patronizing tone.
This was my attempt:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28646279
Would you prefer that a party never change its views over time? Because I doubt that standard would work out for modern morality if it were applied across the spectrum.
Maybe. Hard to say what "a lot" means.

But anyway, assuming there is some connection between things like child poverty, later life income, incarceration, taxes, welfare usage, entrepreneurship, etc., etc., it's entirely reasonable to hope this could be a net benefit even in purely monetary terms, which of course is not the only way to measure its success.
For sure without regulatory clarity very simple and magical rules based tests apply pretty much universally. I hear the SEC is short staffed.
>For some reason people are loath to downvote an early answer without competition, even if it's rubbish.

Yeah, that's because downvoting answers cost reputation. If not for that, people would be waaay more willing to downvote

... but that would also bring a practice of downvoting good answer made by others to boost your own
> dollars are created through work.

[citation needed]

You seem to have a fairy tale level of knowledge about how dollars are created. One of the Fed's favored way of created more money is simply buying treasury bonds with newly created money. Care to explain what work is done there (other than the work done by individuals at the Federal Reserve)?
it's not random "people" , it would be ycombinator, an entity with considerable weight which they would use against me. Second, stossel's job is to generally be credible, as he's a journalist. Doesn't the attack on his credibility by a major news medium (FB; regardless if it's disguised as third party for which we have no guarantees that they re impartial) carry more weight than if some random person shouted at him on the street? What if he got fired by his employer because they consider his reputation to be tarnished now? Why is it OK that people have no recourse against such action with social media companies?

Anyway i understand the thing about the high bar of the US. But, if this comes to the point where facebook has to prove they did not have intent or that they were not stating false things, then stossel will still have "won", because from then on facebook will have to do that for all their future "labeling" of information

(i think that "misleading" can very well taken to mean false. and the fact that it's not applied automatically by an algorithm makes it carry more intent)
Donny, is that you?
For the former, you can find reasonably general forms of it in mathematical statistics books. For the latter, I'd love to know too.
Ok so according to your theory, we could make this hypothesis: if we applied a neural network to an unseen example (for example, a validation dataset), then we would get accuracy that is equivalent to randomly picking a random label. Well surprise, surprise - we obviously don't get that. So there is clearly more going on than "neural hashing".

You're not answering this problem with unseen data so it's really hard for me to follow your reasoning here.
Ask HN: Are any of you still unvaccinated? If so, why?
We are an open minded community, right? We're curious.

Let's listen to those who have chosen not to get vaccinated and what are their reasons.
It’s likely they will all look back at this particular period of a hundred or so years as one of the most pivotal times for at least one really big reason: that’s when we set the climate on a path of destruction
A mechanical winding disconnect seem to be an easy solution
"And then what's more, they sat on the fact that they had requested funding for this research for the last 18 months, when the world has been desperately trying to find any relevant information on the virus' origins. The fact that they did not put this forward themselves in in and of itself suspect."

They didn't just "sit on it". EcoHealth and Peter Daszak deliberately and aggressively attacked anyone who pointed to lab-leak origins as conspiracy theorists and bigots. They did so in an article in The Lancet journal where they also stated they had no conflicts of interest.

Reading this statement, knowing what you know now, and it becomes very clear how sinister and calculated the misdirection was:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

And look at the end of the letter, at the sentence: "We declare no competing interests." That's a blatant lie, as we now know.

Those of us who have been seeing this for a long time were attacked, bullied, and tarred as bigots because of these irresponsible scientists desperately trying to cling to their grant funding. My comment history on HN has numerous comments, from months and months ago, where I was attacked, downvoted, and called an anti-Asian bigot for saying what is now obvious. Talking about this before the 2020 election resulted in immediate accusations of being a Trump sycophant/white nationalist, along with banning and deletions from social media. As a lifelong heterodox thinker, I always sort of shrugged my shoulders at being surrounded by people who predominantly just go with the herd on things. But this entire situation has now made me actively despise the "herd". After being a lifelong liberal Democrat who got demonized, bullied, and yes, beaten up for opposing the Iraq war in the conservative area I grew up in, I was shocked to realize that the other side isn't any different. Just a little more sophisticated. They don't physically assault you, but they'll try to get you fired, and equate you with a Nazi in a heartbeat.

As a result of this pandemic, my mother-in-law and aunt are dead, a friend took his own life when his charter fishing business went under, and my wife's mental health has been crushed. I myself was infected a month before I was eligible for the vaccine. Luckily it was a mild case, but I still don't have my sense of smell. Billions around the world had it worse than me, and it is unforgivable that the media, big tech, and the scientific community have colluded to obfuscate the true origins of this manmade disaster. The Soviets would have dreamed of having this kind of cover as Chernobyl spewed radiation into the atmosphere.
Sending Slack Messages with Images Using Go
That might happen if people can get good Internet. I read an interesting theory once that there was a huge shift away from cities in the U.S. after WWII because of the interstate highway system. It was now possible to commute much further distances to city jobs because the roads were better, so people migrated to the cheap land.

We could see the same thing happen again, but instead of roads it's Internet. Living in the country sounds nice, but I can't imagine myself going back to dial-up. And I don't know if there's all that much cheap rural land anymore unless you're in a sparsely populated state, though. I grew up in the country, and awhile back I drove the old school bus route I used to take. Some things were the same, but there were a lot more fancy big houses than I remember twenty to thirty years ago.
Huh, surprised me to see how many run along the coast. I would've thought it would be cheaper to run cables by land if they weren't going to cross the ocean. I can see how that might not be the case though, as you can't just lay a cable down along the ground on land like you can in the ocean.
generalized regular expression processor ?
No, this isn't the case at all. I attended UCSC (ucsc.edu), and then UCSF (ucsf.edu) and was a postdoc at UCB (berkeley.edu). They are fairly integrated in a lot of ways. The term itself "Berkeley" can be used in context so that people can tell you mean the University, not the city. That's rarer for the other schools.

Also, Berkeley was the first real UC campus.

I think Berkeley has its own bare domain because their name was registered before the UC naming conventions were established. I'm pretty sure it was the first or second name registered. https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/v9_16_5/history.html

Not sure of that, though- in the old HOSTS.TXT predating DNS, UC Berkeley was called UCB, and the server ucbvax became ucbvax.berkeley.edu.

I think it's funny now they teach classes at Berkeley about stuff (DNS, nuclear energy) and the research was done just 30-70 years ago right on the same spot!
I never understood why this is considered a dunk. You get taxed on compensation, surprise!
I find most comments here misplaced.

Art + COM build something awesome, way ahead of their time.
Did Google steal it? A US Jury court sayed no ... I mean even Apple won in the first instance about their black rectangle patent (it took the second to rectify that). People here seem to forget that courts are not about justice, they are midigators.

Was google so inspired by it that they have the same setup (with the same interactions) in their headquarter ? Yes.

Shouldn't our society value more people who build awesome stuff?
Ah, no.

NO scientist is qualified to make claims about what can be ENGINEERED "at scale". ANYTIME you see a scientist or research lab or academic lab make such a claim, the first truth and first thought should be "Bullshit!"

There is the "20 year rule" which says there's a MINIMUM 20 year delay between a laboratory demonstration (which this is) and any chance of economic viability. That's how long it takes ENGINEERS to validate the claims of lab discovers of scientists and actually engineer a viable technology.

And even then: the failure rate on exiting this 20-year pipeline (which must be funded the entire 20 years or more) is still 95%; most ideas do NOT SUCCEED.
> Why can't we just assume the worst and take action based on that?

Because they might require vastly different actions?
This was an OS that did not support hard real-time GC.
> because they got a massive government "grant"

It means they had money to fiber the rural area AND the city. They just chose not to.
1. We can do two things at a time. Investigation of origins does not block anyone from making and following policies to stop the spread.

2. I don't know about you but I have lost more than 1.5 years of my life to this. World around me has changed fundamentally in many ways. Just for closures sake I would like to know why this happened to me.
'tech bro' is a pointless pejorative here. Misplaced, too, since it doesn't have anything to do with this.
A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Americas
"Overpriced" and "the best choice" can not be used in a single line. Looks like this premium goes not for nothing.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187350612...

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.26.428212v1

https://www.independentsciencenews.org/commentaries/phylogeo...

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2020.5847...

https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/j...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21240-1

https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-871965/v1
Only if you're assuming Windows laptops all have the same issues. In my experience, they're all different.
Bitcoin is a 1.0, a beta version that caught on. Anybody who knows better wouldn't use Bitcoin as money, that's true. They've moved on to Monero.
Would be interesting to see the overlap in answers. It may be that instead of closing as duplicates, he’s just answering them and his SO cred keeps folks from chasing duplicates.

As an aside, he was also a big reason why I stopped participating in the network as we had a few run-ins over nuances where his support was “I wrote a book.”
I see. I thought you were worried about them changing it soon and making existing cables obsolete. If you're instead upset about waste caused by having too many kinds of cable, sure I guess. For the USB cables I've personally retired, it's almost all because they wore out, so I'm not notably worried about that kind of waste personally. I'm just worried about how long I can keep using the cables I have. And changes like the 3.0 expanded ports don't bother me for yet another reason, because the old cables always worked fine for charging new devices.
Sure if you look at it from a purely mathematical point of view, but we can anchor ourselves to something which is (relatively) constant - the human lifespan. We're one of the first generations to feel the effects of the exponential curve within our lifetimes.
I think you underestimate how people perceive quality. I am by no means a professional, but I did take a lot of pictures with a 2015 smartphone and assure you that using a more recent camera phone makes my pictures look way nicer.

Just because people are not submitting photos to competitions doesn’t mean they can’t see noise, blurriness or plain having completely dark pictures when in a dim room.

The quote, as I understand it is mainly used so people don’t invest into expensive and heavy gear they will ultimately rarely use. (And as a personal anecdote, I wish I have followed it and bought a lighter camera instead of a dslr back when mobile phones still sucked at taking pictures)
It's an ugly case with no winners.

It showed that the CCP will hold Western hostages pending a court case involving one of their royalty, and that the US and Canada will cave in when there's a Democrat in the White House.

So don't travel or transit in China.

BTW, Meng lived in a mansion during the proceedings, not a jail cell. For some reason she has multiple residences in Canada, though a Chinese citizen. Wonder why.
My son has the same model. The keyboard is not that bad, I even like it. But issues with the sleep mode and with the trackpad - they overweight everything and I’ve bought an M1 Air for him.
Sleep and wake up have worked flawlessly for me across many machines over the years.
you mean figuring out what caused a global pandemic, deaths of millions of people and trillions dollars of economic damage is of no consequence?
My experience is that most bugs are found by randomisers / fuzzers. I’m consistently surprised they aren’t used more often, because they’re insanely good value for the time spent writing them.

Eg, a b-tree has a bunch of invariants: Leaves have equal height, data is sorted, nodes have between N/2 and N values, they contain everything that was inserted and not deleted, etc. So write a test which makes random changes to a b-tree in a loop, and makes those same changes to a simple sorted list. Every iteration, verify the invariants hold and values match. Every 1000 iterations, throw out the object and start again with a new seed. If the test ever fails, print out the seed for easy reproducibility.

In your unit testing suite, run this fuzzer for about 100ms or something. This catches lots of bugs. And occasionally leave the randomiser running overnight looking for rare bugs.

This sort of thing is so humbling, for the sheer volume of “obvious” bugs you find in otherwise working code. It’s hands down the best value testing code I’ve ever written.
I actually had windows go so far as to start a laptop inside a tightly packed backpack around 3am for updates or whatever and restart chrome and start blasting YouTube advertising full volume when I needed to be up early the next morning. Disrupted sleep or potential house fire...Microsoft is beyond shameless and have been brazenly so for at least 20 some years now.
Reductive application of "externalities" to promote tyranny over people you don't like.
Yes, I have an open mind about natural vs lab origin, but either way, Daszak seems to have been engaging in a cover-up.
Someone told me the other day they name the premium stuff with Swedish names and the cheap stuff with names from the surrounding countries.
Check out this prescient article from 2017, when the ban was lifted:

Critics say these researchers risk creating a monster germ that could escape the lab and seed a pandemic...

Marc Lipsitch, an epidemiologist who directs the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at the Harvard School of Public Health, called review panels “a small step forward.”

Recent disease-enhancing experiments, he said, “have given us some modest scientific knowledge and done almost nothing to improve our preparedness for pandemics, and yet risked creating an accidental pandemic.”

Therefore, he said, he hoped the panels would turn down such work.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/health/lethal-viruses-nih...
I didn’t call you toxic, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28645997