jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This sounds like hogwash.

It's the usual Apple stuff, "we've put so much amazing into this laptop that it doesn't matter that it's starved of RAM!". New phones have the same amount of RAM as this laptop.

You will never convince me that an SSD sprinkled with Apple magic is better than having enough RAM. NEVER.

Also you will never convince me that a non-replaceable storage is somehow necessary, or better in some way than replaceable storage, even if it shaves tens of nanometers extra thickness from the laptop. NEVER.

Apple has been doing this ridiculous stuff for decades now and its victims just keep on falling for it.

Punched in the face over and over again - from dongles, to batteries, to proprietary connectors that are abandoned the next year, to lack of headphone sockets, to overheating GPUs because of inadequate heatsinks, to unibody that isn't actually unibody and bends when you tilt the screen, to needing to replace your motherboard because your keyboard got a speck of dust in it, to screens that crack if you look at them wrong, to phones that don't work if you hold them wrong, ad nauseum. Please sir, can I have some more?

They've been punched in the face for so long that now they get a headache when they're not getting punched. It's some kind of bizarre form of masochistic Stockholm Syndrome.

THE WORST PART OF IT ALL is that the market success of this consumer-hostile garbage influences the rest of the industry and ruins other products like a cancer, so now it's super hard to find a phone with a headphone socket or replaceable battery.

Fuck this shit, FUCK APPLE, and fuck their customers for not using their wallets to demand better, and thereby encouraging and normalizing the terrible behavior of this horrible company.
Hi, thanks for kind words :)

I don't really see them as negative (or at least don't get offended). It seems that people are on a spectrum of organization from not even using a calendar and never taking notes ("if it's important I'll remember") to what I do (and maybe even more extreme??). And it's okay! Some people suffer from information overload, some people suffer from inefficiencies and forgetting things, and you can be productive/unproductive, or happy/unhappy either way -- there are many other factors at play too.
This assumes that political dissidents, whistleblowers and spies are using tor in any significant numbers. It seems quite unlikely to me that this is true. I think you'd find that the vast majority of tor traffic is comprised of people trying to mask their location for criminal reasons, people looking to bypass local firewall restrictions and people using it as a free VPN.
Absolutely. Let's not fall into false dichotomies here.

Yes, we developers sometimes focus on making the code perfect, beyond the point where there's an actual business case. So we need to be reminded that the code serves the business, not vice versa.

But really. Bad enough code is a liability to the business. You can't add features to make the customers happy, you get bugs you don't understand, it runs really slowly, etc.

The real trick is determining, with an intelligent conversation between developers and business people, what's good enough.
Same! Almost NONE of them are ones I intentionally flagged!
I don't think FB would make a move like this without feeling somewhat confident. My guess is they're leaning into the effect it'll have on small businesses if they suddenly vanish from EU.
"Returning to the market" were similar headlines when Dell went public again.[0][1][2]

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-dell-ipo-idUSKCN1OR14E

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/dell-returns-to-public-equity-m...

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/28/18159305/dell-stock-mark...
That is actually very smart. Right now we are limited to Netherlands and US mostly. Let me read about Canada.
Why not a WYSIWYG HTML editor?

At the end of the day Markdown is just an intermediary shorthand for the eventual output, originally HTML; and HTML is actually standardized. If you’re not going to use the Markdown syntax, then wouldn’t an HTML editor that hides all the HTML do the job?
The Putin thing - didn't he do that already, by inventing a govt position for himself where he doesn't get voted out?
There is still a lot of stuff that depends on weed being legal at the federal level, beyond just the consumer not getting arrested for buying small amounts. We're never going to see serious investment in the space until sellers can access bank infrastructure, there is no longer a risk of DEA raids, state laws are aligned with federal laws, etc.

It's not going to happen in 2015 though, unless it gets tacked onto some other crazy spending bill, which is unlikely. It'll probably happen sometime between 2016 and 2024.
I didn't say "die", I just said "trough of disillusionment".

It's not the OS support, it's all the surrounding tools. How do you monitor running Docker containers? How do you handle placement (i.e. let's make sure that the two sides of my MySQL replicated database aren't on the same physical host)? How do you handle hardware maintenance? What happens when someone has an app that requires local runtime configuration parameters? Do you even try to do configuration management on docker images?

And so on and so on.
Would someone actually looking through those entries trying to find a problem fail? Or is it just "first glance doesn't show any problems" stuff? I thought it was 2.
Care to flesh that out a bit?
General Motors makes 58% of its entire profit in the Chinese Car market. Ford makes 18% of its profit from China. So clearly, US gains by trade in cars. This is clearly one example. The broader point is that a whole lot of US companies make money in China.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/detroits-road-through-china-narr...
> the more polite way to phrase it is that the rich benefit from societal structure 1000x more than the poor

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal loaves of bread."
> Where is the free money transfer over country borders?

I use a major US bank. They offer $0 wire transfers to EU accounts. Wire goes out same-day.

Would much rather do that than transfer to a crypto exchange, convert to crypto (with fee), send crypto (with fee), exchange crypto on the other end (with fee), and the transfer to other bank.
What a classic! Back in 1999 I wrote the networking infrastructure for a distributed, evolutionary, fractal art system for Steven Rooke (maybe you remember the fractal absolut vodka bottle on the back of Wired magazine) and I learned everything from Beej's guide. This brought back great memories. What a serious internet classic for so many software devs. Thanks Beej!
Also see: Show HN: Real-time multiplayer games with cubes. Early feedback on dev docs?[1]

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26109153
I came here for the comments but then went back and read the article. It's a deep dive into the cookie popup and all associated links, including 647 "partners" each with their own privacy policy. There are a lot of screenshots.

One thing I would like to see (and it shouldn't be too hard to code, using the example) would be a mirror of the entirety of text of all the privacy policies and everything else pasted back to back.

The screenshots and implication of having 647 privacy policies is bad enough, but I really want to see my scroll bar shrivel up and die.
Where were you the other day! Lol.

Excellent points. I think like with a lot of tech, if there’s a potential to liberate people, there’s also the potential for it to work against them too. The internet helped foster open communication when it evolved, helping with the fall of the USSR and the lifting of the iron curtain... but it has evolved now in many places as a way to spread more propaganda, and track citizens movements etc.

Crypto trusts sound like a good idea. I also like how the US targeted family’s and kids for savings bonds back in the day. Get people started in the direction of understanding financial instruments, and then teach them more as they go.

Ultimate I’m in the educate, educate, educate camp. If we can lobby our collective governments to start that earlier than later, so much the better. When people can see cryptocurrency working for them rather than just the financial sectors, then it’s no longer the “enemy”.

Maybe we can have a small fund of highly divisible crypto, or even a totally separate chain that schools can use. Kids in computer science classes then have an on ramp to learning how it works.

It’s already a mystery to most. I do fear what might happen when the vast majority of people don’t understand what may become a significant part of their economy.
> Inequality is bad, actually

Why? Is there any reason for this assertion? Or is it just that you feel this way?
I’m not sure how you can argue Fuchsia isn’t much of anything at all considering it’s mostly open source, you can see it’s development, and has came a long way since it was announced. You don’t want it to be much of anything but it is very real.
Interesting concept but this is completely illegible imo. I guess I could see it used for drop caps where the rest of the word can help you infer what the letter is supposed to be.
The problem with #2 is that a depressively expensive 1BR condo ceases to be a practical option once you have children.
lol

Battery life is 5-6hrs compared to Apple's "up to 8 hrs" for the MBP 15. That's amazing considering Razer runs a 1344 core GPU. What does a pitiful MacBook Pro have? Integrated graphics. Hahaha. And for the highest end MBP they have? A puny 750m. I'm sure you won't get 8hrs with that one. Compare the two on any graphics benchmark. There's the mudhole I mentioned. 870m is 2x faster than a 750m.

The Razer also delivers a higher res touch screen. The Razer is thinner. It's also black and green which IMO looks much better than those boring silver MBPs.

And heavier than a MBP you say?

https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/

2.06Kg

http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-systems/razer-blade

2.03Kg

Razer wins again. Seems you don't know what you're talking about fanboi. Face it, Razer makes the nicest laptop you can buy anywhere. Period.
Not a blog post, but one of the coreboot devs held a talk at 31C3 about one of those extra processors in AMD's architecture: http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2014/31c3_-_6103_-_en_-_...
Good way to get constipated and bored at mealtimes.
In this case you can be certain Stallman is not listening. That's the interpretation that any native English speaker would and should take from that reply.
Amazon's storage costs seem to be more directly marketed as the cost to store files, not to store music files. In terms of direct competitors in the web-based file storage offerings, Google Docs / file storage seems to be a fairly close one, if you ignore the music playback capability.

Since the music playback capability it just an add-on to the file storage aspect, it seems reasonable to compare them to me.
...and then multiply that cost by the probability that this will happen to find the expected payoff. If the work costs substantially more than the payoff, don't bother. If substantially less, you're negligent if you don't do it. (The Learned Hand Rule http://aler.oxfordjournals.org/content/7/2/523.full)
We have something like that in Italy, except financial institution were made exempt to protect them from the housing mortgage crash of 2008, and now are holding on empty houses waiting for market price to raise again.

They can't sell at a loss because all mortgages given were put in books at the 100% repayment price and now they need to wait not only for the house to recover the price lost since the crisis but also to raise in value to match the expected mortgage gain written in books, to avoid negative impact on their ratings
Only english, right ?
Any plan for other languages ? (spanish, french, ...) ?
Poland as a nation didn't exist until the end of WW1. Difficult to colonize when you don't exist as a nation.
wget -r 'framework.docs'

Get as much of the documentation you can find downloaded.
I am anchored at $2500 because I currently pay $1775 / month (just bumped to $1875) for accommodations I moved in to late 2019. To find a similar situation on the open market I would have to pay $2500.

I am surely in an outlier market so your point stands, I'm just speaking from where I sit, not trying to muddy the waters with hyperbole.
The chair of FAS, Gilman Louie, is also an associate of Schmidt’s who most recently served with him on the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, which Schmidt chaired from 2018 to 2021.

It's worth reading the NSCAI final report (2021), https://www.nscai.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Full-Report...

> ... our leaders confront the classic dilemma of statecraft identified by Henry Kissinger: “When your scope for action is greatest, the knowledge on which you can base this action is always at a minimum. When your knowledge is greatest, the scope for action has often disappeared.” ... AI systems will also be used in the pursuit of power. We fear AI tools will be weapons of first resort in future conflicts. AI will not stay in the domain of superpowers or the realm of science fiction. AI is dual-use, often open-source, and diffusing rapidly. State adversaries are already using AI-enabled disinformation attacks to sow division in democracies and jar our sense of reality.

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/12/07/ex-google-ceo-e...

> “... it has become clear that one of blockchain’s greatest advantages – a lack of connection to the world outside itself – is also its biggest challenge,” Schmidt said. “I am excited to be helping the Chainlink Labs team build a world powered by truth.”

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/11/04/value-secured-b...

> “Without trusted price data to trigger smart contracts, it is impossible to build DeFi applications .. the rate at which Chainlink has been able to bring new market data onto blockchains has been the rate at which developers have been able to build exciting new DeFi apps,” said Sergey Nazarov, co-founder of Chainlink.
It has been both taboo to the point of the death penalty, and widely and openly practiced all the way through to outright championed (Relevant Futurama quote: "Let us party like the Greeks of old... you know the ones I mean!"), by any number of societies throughout history.
I think you should be very concerned ahead-of-time if your software isn't compatible with newer versions.
The book sounds interesting, but unfortunately it won't be published and available for purchase until March 4th. I don't understand the point of reviews and marketing like this when you can't actually buy the book. I suppose 5 days isn't that much time, but after reading this article I am interested in the book right now. Are they really still changing parts of the book right now, this close to the publishing date? If not, why not just release it now? Perhaps it takes more time to get all the physical books ready at bookstore points of sale, but surely the e-book version is good to go.

I am also interested in how many people read the article, get interested in the book, find they cannot purchase it, and then never bother coming back to check it.
Bloc's apprenticeship teaches Android Studio :)
Then it's time to buy new or upgrade software. Apple give developers years of warning for EOLing APIs
I have. They accused me of offering a bid to myself (I didn't) and made no recourse to defend myself.
I assume you're referring to the 30% of Windows users (XP) that will be left unsupported and unprotected in April of this year?
Tracking is much less useful than people believe (except for measurement of campaign success and retargeting).

Google's search ads work so well because Google has very good and reliable demographic data (i.e. "personalization") and the users literally them what they're looking for.

None of that requires tracking.
The packets might be encrypted, but Facebook/WhatsApp _could_ still hold on a master key.
The painful irony of this comment.

The view of the person you replied to is the view of a person who has information generally considered "above your pay grade"

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Also generally your comment doesn't make sense, what does "compensated accordingly" even mean? How does it rebut the idea that compensation comes from a pool?

If anything it affirms it, you're saying the deal was worth millions, do you think your employer just had a check for the millions of dollars and was prepared to divy it up for bonuses?

Or do you think they budgeted a certain percentage of the cashflow for retention to ensure it landed smoothly? Like any competent business would?
I've definitely heard the negatively correlated variant of the meme. I'm not sure it's the predominant one or always explicitly expressed, but it's out there.
I really want to stress: it's excellent science, and that's why they hold their code tightly. You can say 'no, a true scientist publishes everything' but---says you.

As someone in the field let me assure you: everything, of course, is more complicated than you make it out to be. I understand the absolutist position. But in a world of finite and ever-shrinking resources (grants, positions, etc.) it's fair to try to push your advantage. If funding were plentiful, adopting standards of publish-every-line-or-it-doesn't-count would be fair. People would have plenty of time and resources to get that done. As it stands there are basically no incentives to behave that way and being strapped for human resources puts the issue at the bottom of the list compared to actually getting results.
I’m surprised that estimated weight is used at all - surely the plane knows the actual takeoff weight, wouldn’t that be the number that’s checked before taxiing starts? Same with actual weight distribution
If we do a field test of browser usage, do we expect the result to leave anything standing that allows typical power user workflows such as HN readers to work?
Couldn't recommend laravel more and especially with VUE!!

Great community, help and generally a great experience.
> Unbridled data collection is a requirement for a startup?

Well, yeah, most of the time? Can you name a unicorn that doesn't collect and use data en masse?
Product page: https://devmesh.intel.com/projects/bleep
All this is very sweet for some reason. I mean, its not the guyfs fault, right, its just the way he is wired?

Now, if it would have been 'young kids' instead of 'feet' it would be rather more unsettling. And I don't think many would think "its not his fault".
I started using my real name online when I realised it was better than things that I control come up when you search for my name, rather than whatever someone else posted online with my name next to it.
That's fair. I guess maybe it's different when you have a group of people who actively use it.

It's certainly not the IRC/Discord/Slack replacement that I was hoping it'd be, where lots of "randoms" can join and a community develops.

The UX is still going to be unacceptable for most non-technical people, so I definitely can't convince my friends to switch from Discord, even for our private group.
Flawed weight and balance procedure, so a "nothing bad happened" situation, but "something bad could have happened". So serious in the sense that changes needed to be made to avoid a real issue in the future.
>Yes there is they need a channel, which costs $20 to open and $20 to close.

No, they don't need to open a channel via the blockchain. They can have an account with a third party, for example.
Fair enough, I was being snarky. But throw yourself back to your younger days. You've said worse, but how much of it did you really mean?

Now back to today, how much of what you say do you mean?

Read and listen to his words on how he feels about privacy in the digital age. Especially with regard to "expectation" of privacy in a sharing site (silly concept, this privacy business there, isn't it?). If he's grown as much as you believe he has, and if how much Zuckerberg means of what he says is any way comparable to you today in terms of how much he means it, I'd still worry.

Does that still sound like someone you want guarding your basket while you put all your eggs in it?
Plastic is kind of a terrible word: people often just use it to mean any squishy organic material.
If I do that, normally that`s the time for a market collapse
Did your attorneys discuss fees with the opposing party prior to the suit? If not that’s why. This is common practice. It’s also why Google sent Oracle an extremely large legal bill when Oracle lost its first lawsuit over Java APIs.
> too hard to notify users

Legally seen.

The way privacy protection laws are, especially in Germany, is kinda stupid. On one side they often doesn't protect you in practice, on the other side they effectively hinder and sometimes prevent reasonable usage.

Just a view examples:

- A local government couldn't properly inform elder people that they now can get Vaccinated for free because the interplay of various privacy protection law (and stupidity/inflexibility in other areas tbh.).

- Germany has a privacy respecting anonymized blutooth based contact tracing app (wrt. Covid). But if you do a test you first have to physical sign of that other people are anonymized informed that someone they likely had contact with has covid, then when you get the result you still need to agree again to share this information. And even this was only possible after changing regulations. (I.e. why is one initial agreement not good enough?)

- The government most likely not being able to inform the victims of such data breaches.

- ...
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Historians publish their history in books, even the history targeted at other historians.
> You will have to use violence, because nice obedient people don’t cause trouble. People that cops are called on will likely fight and resist and you will have a high chance of breaking someone’s bones (or kill someone).

Just checking are you aware that this isn't how it is in most other countries?

The people in similar countries manage to get by with a whole lot less violence just fine.
"The Facebook spokesman said the social media company *was not confident it had full visibility on which users would need to be notified*."

@Facebook here you go: https://haveibeenpwned.com