jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>Can someone explain why they would buy a Mac and install linux?

One reason is to devote an older machine to Linux (M1 models are still new, but they wont be in 3-4 years. And in 6-7 years they might not be supported by new then MacOS releases at all (only security fixes). When someone gets the M4 or MX, they might want to retire the M1 models, or use them for server/supportive roles with Linux on them.

Others just prefer Mac hardware (Linus Torvalds himself was a big fan of the early Macbook Air, which we used with Linux, and has welcomed the M1 model as well) but Linux software for various reasons.

I, for one, ocassionally wish to boot to full native Linux for some stuff. I have several Linux computers I use too, but I usually use those headless, whereas a Mac laptop would be great with a good supported Linux.

>What are you guys doing that you have to install linux instead of running a VM or remotely connecting to a linux box? If it's just for the sake of knowledge I can understand it.

Besides repurposing an old Mac, even running a desktop environment as your primary or secondary driver is much faster and usable with bare metal (as opposed to a VM) and, of course, impossible with remote boxes (X forwarding aside, which is not workable as raw native desktop).
I still don't get how it's different in practice than something like the budget feature in Mint?

Basically it's pre-allocating the money instead of just watching what you spend and bucketing it as you go. But unless it's actually going to overdraft the account or decline your card somehow when a bucket is empty instead of taking it from the total amount, those are equivalent.
If you read TFA, you'll find that it was suprising, for the simple reason that the Taycan cannot use the Tesla supercharging network.
> They might have okish EVs, but no plans to truly mass manufacture them

Isn't the renault zoe selling better than tesla cars in europe?
This is mostly it. The floating head, plus the much smaller head size is what allows a more dense packing of tracks per inch on the disk. It's almost like having a mini HD where the platter is removable.
I think SMRs are very different from RTG. SMR is an essentially a small and fairly complex reactor design, like a molten salt reactor. It heats water or other liquid, turns it into steam, steam spins a turbine, just like a regular power plant.

An RTG is just a hot piece of radioactive material surrounded by thermocouples that directly convert the heat into electricity.
Greenland is actually very windy. I was surprised when playing with

https://model.energy/

that in some scenarios Greenland has the cheapest power in the world.
> have all existed before the "fear" (whatever it is you mean by that) was dealt with.

I'm talking about the basis of the US Constitution, its "spirit", so to speak. My reading of the Federalist Papers is that one of the main reasons-to-be of the Constitution was to avoid tyranny, the men that wrote that thing down put things like respecting private property or even what form of government to use after that. I admit, maybe I'm wrong on that interpretation (I've read them about three years ago), but I've recently started reading a selection of Anti-federalist Papers and I stand by my opinion.

> FB's and Twitter's constitutional rights

Again, there was nothing in the Federalist Papers (nor in the Constitution) about respecting the rights of private, abstract, soulless entities. Yes, I know about the relatively recent decision that gave those corporations a "political soul" (so to speak), but that decision had nothing to do with the original spirit of the basic law on which the USA was founded.
The attitude you have is the one that eventually drives you to be a 10x. If you think you are awesome at what you do, that is when you probably are not.
I see an additional service waiting to be sold.
I think that was part of what was brilliant about facebook. They gradually went from restricted to Ivy league universities, to restricted to people with an .edu domain to open to everyone. When I was still in high school I used a facebook clone by some local company restricted to high school students. The same company had equivalent sites for university students and the general public, once facebook became generally available outside the US they rapidly lost market share. At that point facebook was still considered "cool" in my social circle because it was the place where american university students hung out.
The imperial senate should investigate the true reasons for the poorly performing clone copies. Maybe we can get the reclone bill passed.
trump stupid!
At one point (30 years war) Sweden was a major military power
> We have cryptographic protocols for honest, verifiable, anonymous elections, which we don't bother implementing

We do?
Um he incited the mob in the first place and his message also praised the mob; he’s a liar and manipulator and this isn’t a time to pretend that his second grade wordplay-cleverness deniability double language actually fools anyone.

He’s the fucking President of the country. He has responsibilities to defend the Constitution and the government and the country. He clearly failed those responsibilities today.

Shame on you.
Signal is run by someone who hates repeatable builds and open platforms. Telegram is to the russian government what whatsapp is to the US government.

That is to say, both options are bad. Of course it is conceptually better to spread your information over many separate information silos so that your data is harder to correlate. That should not be the bar we aspire to though.
Is this true for just MacOS or do Linux (GNOME specifically) and Windows also work the same way?

I don't know anyone with an ultrawide so I can't try this myself.
Is it common for that to happen while the legislative is meeting to confirm the next head of the executive? Were these protesters in Germany or Taiwan taking selfies with the police there? Were they also there with the expressed intent of convincing their legislature to overturn the results of the election?

Context is important.
Writing defensively is great! There's nothing wrong with that.

If you're writing code to defend against "dodgy RAM" whose symptom is a corrupt SHA then it's super trivial to test that code: have a valid JAR file and adjust its content so that it will still "load" but isn't the file you expect. Then verify that the program refuses to load the JAR.
I hugely agree with your sentiment. But I think this case still stands. As opposed to the human "resources" that do the work, which management feels it must direct & organize & lead & regulate, the financial department often speaks the same business school language, is already aligned to the board-level/business-school goals of raking in barrels & barrels of money.

It's also largely a question of what change is required? I've seen a parent company move itself to become a subsidiary of a holding company which is now landed in another nation. It had almost no effect on the day to day. It was paper work.

Megacorps are filled with paperwork. But that doesn't necessarily mean they are bad at it, slow at it.
> Probably because all conversations (1-to-1 and group chats) are E2EE.

They are in WhatsApp, too. At least Facebook still claims that after the Snowden leaks :) And: Did you verify this? Did you check the source code at signal's android/ios client repo? Did you also verify that no untrusted third party receives your backed up private keys?

Why do you trust Google more than Facebook? [1]

[1] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/d74e9f74103...

I'm not trying to troll here. I'm trying to point out that babbling about crypto is easy. Verifying it, and actually caring about it is another thing. Most users are probably also the wrong audience for early adoption of TOX.
What is wrong Ruby? Which language would be "cool" choice?
A note to remind that latest revision is from 2014 and there are even graphical enviroments,

https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/products/visual-cobol/featu...
Even disregarding tne very good points about code defending from memory errors mentioned by others, I imagine a realistic time frame for such coverage for a project the size of Firefox or Windows to be no less than a decade, with 0 other development going on. I find it absurd to imagine it would be worth it, even if it reduced bug count to 0 (which it wouldn't).
Except I'm offended by it, but I'm not a law enforcement officer, but did have many dealings with them in my youth due to my wayward ways - some police officers were massive dicks (dog handlers seem to be rather unnecessarily aggressive), but then some were amazing and gave me chances that let me turn my life around.

Hence my objection to the pejorative term often applied to all police offers equally - it only advances a "them vs. us" mindset, which is not at all true for my country if you're not an active criminal, a country I share with the user I was replying to.
The politicians are bought off by the large corporations.

Its not like the corporations haven't been using their financial influence, particularly after Citizen's United, to influence the rules.
I tend to agree with your assessment; 'classically liberal' is a good way to put it.

> free markets but some government is useful, climate change is real, anti-trump, anti-woke.

yep that describes me. However as a 'classical liberal' I personally like Obama's politics over Biden, Macron, Trudeau, and Merkel. Also I enjoy reading both Marx and Rand.
I'm a current PM, previously a developer for a number of years. Here's what I would do:

Create a portfolio of side projects / sample applications in whatever language /framework you'd like to work with. You'll learn something, and have something to talk about in interviews. Then the interview process for a developer position is easy: show them what you've done and talk about how you built it. If your skills and approach are a good fit with the company, they'll hire you.

Another idea: create a profile on oDesk / equivalent and take small paying programming jobs. They may only pay $20, but you can gain experience, contacts, and credibility.
Pollyanna. Think about a generation of teenaged boys with nothing to do but watch television. The carnage!
Come to think of it - I just now realized why Hillary Clinton is not planning on running this year. Interesting. I'm guessing they're going to hand off this particular political grenade back to the Republicans, just like the Republicans stayed away from the election in droves last year.
I think Apple Retail is a separate chain of command from the App Store. There's a website for dealing with App Store purchase problems specifically: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204084
Gavin, I don’t know you but let me just take this opportunity to say that I think you’re an incredible person and a smart talented hacker. The idea that software maintainers do indeed have some responsibility to their users rings true and consistent with reality.
Yes, a genetically different brain model.

https://web.mit.edu/fustflum/documents/papers/AshkenaziIQ.jb...
One interesting thing I learned about Etsy from my experience: you can only open an issue/case once on any given order!

So in my experience, I opened an "item not delivered" (as opposed to: some other problem with the delivered product) case when nothing showed up after 1.5 months; THEN the merchant sent the item; THEN when it arrived I closed the issue as it had been delivered. But five seconds later when I opened the packaging and noticed the item was total garbage, I could not open another case on the order. Bah.

I think the scam sellers on Etsy know this, and intentionally induce customers to open a case they can cheaply satisfy, but will prevent contesting real problems with the purchase later (on the Etsy platform).

Mine was also charged to a Chase CSR, amusingly enough! The merchant disputed the chargeback, so I've had to supply evidence to Chase, and they're still deliberating internally. I don't care about the money lost (~$80), but I really don't want the fucking scammer to get it!

Totally agree that Etsy should own refunding when they detect fake stores and scams. I don't know what their relationship with Paypal is, but it's the right thing to do as a platform.
The battery will die within months and you risk a house fire.
Other than that yes, laptops hardware makes a good small server. See my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26298116
The bigger problem, in my view, is that Apple demands a working email address and phone number (and a street address which is thankfully not verified) even to download $0 apps.

It also, of course, transmits your fixed and unchangeable system serial number to Apple to obtain any apps. You can't opt out of this.
That was the point of the lecture talking about how their system /could/ do this. I get the impression that scheme was one of the first languages that mandated that, though I suspect someone with a better view of history can correct that.

For common lisp, I thought it was just not required, but that it was common to do so?
Lars and most of the other original people in the LPMud scene were heavy BatMUD players. :)
I haven't noticed any other bank which had the same practice.

Also, not all online merchants use CCV. Also consider the risk of creating fake physical CCs, no address or CCV necessary.
For some reason this reminds me of the quote from Dune:

"Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens"

To me, travel is definitely one of the most interesting kinds of change.
Kind of railing against the dying of the light isn't it?

Yep, people are a bit superficial and things might be a bit better if they weren't but if you want to change that you need a fairly fundamental change in the nature of society and what it rewards rather than a plea to people to act in a way which, the way things are structure at present, doesn't work in their own best interests.
I wish dropbox was opensource.

I would like to sync via my home server, not cloud.
Hey guys,
I've heard about Mashape before (tagliaerbe etc.) but never really had a chance to get a closer look at it.

As a developer myself, I can see what the whole thing is about, but it's not super clear what are the advantages of using that, from the API owner/developer standpoint. How can you help me increase visibility/traction? Should I fear getting exceedingly tied to your architecture? This should be clarified imho.

I also wish the API library were public and searchable without having to register, but maybe this is just an alpha version restriction.

The guide is clear and well redacted, but before getting started with the documentation, I'd rather see more real use examples, show me how to use the library or create the api.php/xml file.

All in all, very good execution. Keep up the good work!
This post seems to overgeneralize things and in the process paints an inaccurate picture of the state of things in India. There are sections of people who focus on superficial things, but they're a very small demographic(the super rich in a few cities like Pune and Mumbai).

The majority of the people(including teenagers) live within their means and splurge on things only occasionally.

India does not have many entrepreneurs and risk takers but that's an age old problem, not something that sprung up suddenly.
It seems like there are two (or more) issues:

1) Any inviting target will be ... targeted and so likely breached at least at some points. The article is correct that expect a single target to invulnerable is a mistake.

2) US (and other corporate) systems download untestable binary blobs from third parties as standard operating procedure, not because no one understands the risks but because they aren't concerned with the eventual costs (and happy with the immediate benefits). Similarly, everything gets connected to everything in a whole variety of systems (the sabotaged water system and the cars sabotaged by auto-maker-server-sabotage are just things coming through in the last few days or weeks).

It seems like a critical analysis should look at point two so the article's nothing can be done implication is here not appealing. Here, the problem seems hypothetically addressable. This may also be unsolvable but it seems closer to solvable. If the US imposed cyber security standards, a solution would seem more likely, etc.
Wasn't "cinder" already the name of an OpenStack component ?
The problem with BLE is they make huge Bluetooth standards but forget the things people will actually want.

Their first revision was 20-23 byte packets. The first thing anyone looks for when doing BLE is “how to send larger data”. BLE 4.2 and packet length extension helped this but it’s still pretty rough because you aren’t promised any specific MTU size by spec, just hope you can the packet size you need on connection.

I have a BLE product in the wild, but the amount of work I did to get around packet limitations was probably not worth it all said and done.

BLE is good for event based data transfer of flags and small data, but you outgrow that pretty damn quickly.
Yeah I've been using yourcompany@mydomain.tld for ages to track who's sold or fumbled my data. Since haveibeenpwned I can even approximately separate the two groups. Surprisingly up to now nearly all incidents (that I know of) have been breaches. Not that it makes it any better.
Is there no exchange rate from your country's currency into Bitcoin?
Great. I welcome this!

[continues to hold my Proof-of-Stake Ethereum]
I think ethics is important and it's admirable to help others during a crisis, both as an individual and as a company. But I don't think this kind of stuff belongs in research. If you want to bias or overrule your algorithm to perform charity or social change or whatever, pay some engineers to develop a product that does it. Social goals and priorities are simply not science.

And even the hospital example isn't so simple. People who are willing to pay more to get to the hospital are also customers who should be prioritized higher.. since they're willing to pay more. They would get better service. And how does the A.I. know they don't just work in the cafeteria or just need a checkup or whatever, causing it to lose out on thousands of customers who aren't in emergencies? It would need to offer two tiers of prices, those who want high priority service and those who can wait for normal service. Seems like it could end up being a benefit after all.
> you have to find the first and then do more work to find the second.

Isn't this typical scaling problem though? I wasn't imagining they go one by one. I guess your Implication here is that because there only one warren buffet. I guess that makes sense if Berkshire is ultimately one man Buffet show that can only scale as much as that one man can perform. That probably explains the recent under performance, age catches up to everyone.
An Amiga outputs either NTSC or PAL, depending on the region it was made for. So with the right cable, you can just plug it in to a TV made before the mid-2000's. Later models also supported VGA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_video_connector
Hooks themselves may not be good FP examples, however I meant the resultant functional components that you develop yourself usually are.
I didn't look into how it works yet, but you're likely right. Does the IRS have an open API like that? I was assuming it generated pdfs or something.
can confirm

source: won the IOCCC
Also in the rules, just a bit lower :

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

That's why I answered to one comment but not to the other. It's really sterile ground for an argument. Which I'd hoped that by carefully wording my first comment we could all avoid.
I think there goes my weekend, Lazarus looks... interesting!
That's what I mean. It ticks my boxes (of which you find most in FP langs). Though a list of langs ticket the boxes, the language that actually has a serious mainstream following is not FP.
I'm in Austin and my heater uses gas. Every house I've had has used gas. It's incredibly cheap around here.
Well for #2, I can think of one solution having dealt with it myself. Generally for every person suffering dementia there is a family member taking care of them that is under a massive amount of stres. Sometimes having someone else to lend a hand, for even a few hours a week, is a huge difference. That person could either be a volunteer or paid, but having $$$ would always help the situation. If you find the organizations near you and donate to them, that would be a good use of (a portion of) a million dollars to help other people currently going through #2.
Since they just copied another company, it probably was easy.
http://flavors.me/
Okay so this is a genuinely terrible idea because then nobody would be a police officer. Malpractice insurance exists specifically because doctors will make mistakes that harm their patients in hugely expensive ways either in the costs to fix the problem or suffering their patient now has to live with. Everyone makes mistakes at work and so this scheme just produces a workforce with a high luck stat.

Look, I have no sympathy for police officers who intentionally do harm but this isn’t the way to weed them out.
I like this idea, but no, clip is about as simple as you can get. Direct greedy parsing one token at a time.

It seems like you could get something like your examples by doing option aliases, so typing "complete" or "metadata" would be parsed as `-l`. However even something this simple starts to complicate parsing quite a bit (e.g. where are the option boundaries?) especially if you allow multiple tokens in an alias, like "with all" --> `-a`.

And at the end of the day, it just helps to learn through repetition. I have no idea what the "plant" means in `netstat -plant`, but I know it generates the output I want. Similarly it's much easier to type `ls -latr` than "ls complete all sort oldest first".
Some may disagree but the reason we did not have WW3 was because of nukes. Had there been no nukes, I firmly believe we would've had WW3 (or even WW4).

Because both leaderships of US and USSR knew starting WW3 would mean end of civilization on the planet, they controlled themselves.
That seems backwards to me. Why is the onus on the company being accused? Surely Uber in that case has to provide the proof. Otherwise it seems to me like a case of trying to prove that a unicorn doesn't exist. I'm not well-versed in legal protocol but I'd hope in any case that it would be reverse.

And finally, would other parties using pricing tech already, e.g., airlines, be able to sue for issuing a bad patent, e.g., [1], on the ground of prior art?

[1] http://patentlyo.com/patent/2012/12/suing-the-uspto-for-issu...
Why do people like to hate on PGP? It’s a pretty great project.
Perhaps cats are just cute?
All true, but practically speaking I don't know how complete the spec needs to be. Looking at the HHVM project, they fail a lot of the basic PHP unit tests, yet also have 100% parity with nearly every major CMS/framework there is. PHP is just old, and as gone without a spec so long that there's a whole pile of code that nobody ever touches anymore. Simply implementing a subset of the spec, like HHVM has, is really all I need.
* 1 billion...
I used to get pretty annoyed that Zoom made download the stupid client to join a video chat but now that I’m using it constantly I’m learning that there’s a pretty great reason, the native app is so superior in terms of user experience.
https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/20/aws-ibm-launch-programs-to...