skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe but the person's point stands. Facebook has multiple datacenters with probably some kind of backups. It keeps things for years at a time even when it doesn't need to. It likes to because it helps the business model. Hardly anyone's pics and stuff will disappear.

Compare that to their experience at home with personal gear. Many like the convenience and reliability of Facebook over their own technical skills or efforts. You'd have to convince those people... a shitload of people... that they should start handling IT on their own. Also note that there's many good, smart, interesting, and so on people that simply don't do tech. Anyone filtering non-technical or procrastinating people in a service will be throwing out lots of folks whose company they might otherwise enjoy.

So, these kinds of issues are worth exploring when trying to build a better social network.
> you'll sell units

Not just sell units, and probably not sell (many) more units, but you can sell units at a way higher profit margin. As pretty as the new Mac Pro is and as amazing as it is as a piece of technology, I have to believe that the one-time R&D costs of the Mac Pro are huge and directly contribute to the stagnated pace of upgrades.

While the cheese-grater Mac Pros weren't nearly as slick-looking as the oversized coffee cans, Apple could effectively throw out the whole internals of the cheese graters every year or two, put a mostly generic motherboard in it, with a wholly generic GPU and completely vanilla CPU/Memory/Disks and have a whoppingly fast machine with relatively minimal R&D cost, even while upgrading it in lock-step with external (intel/Nvidia/etc) evolutions. With the coffee cans, every single upgrade will require a huge redesign at a huge expense due to the tight integration.

While I understand the benefits of and necessity of tight integration in basically every single other product that Apple sells, its antithetical to the point of a Mac Pro.
Between the rest of that Destroyer Squadron and Carrier Strike Group 2, there's at least 6 other Tomahawk capable ships in the region.
We have to be vigilant, lest our enemy, the good, get the upper hand over the perfect.
It's an experiment from 2013.

I remember reading the details when it originally appear. I was not convinced, but it was a nice experiment, without an obvious flaw.

My bigger concern was that the difference was too big and obvious. I was expecting a small difference between the seeds with the wifi and the control group, but as the images show the difference is extremely easy to see. Also, the experimental setup was well explained and looks straightforward.

This are usually good features of an experiment, but in this case the problem is that if the effect were so easy to measure I expect that during this 4 years many independent research groups many independent groups would have reproduced the experiment and published in a few peer review journals.

Are seeds of all plants affected? Which one are more susceptible?

How does the distance affect the result? It would be nice to see a graph of % of viable plants vs distance. Does it have a 1/r^2 decay, 1/r or a sharp step?

Is this affected by the temperature or humidity? Wifi spots are a week source of heat, so temperature and humidity may be important variables.

All these questions are too much for a science fair experiment at a school, but they are interesting questions for a peer review article. If the effect is real I'd like to read the answers for the extended version of the experiment.
I have felt this way for my entire life. You let go, eventually.
I tried this a year or so ago, my only stumbling block was getting iMessage/iCloud working properly, which was very difficult, has that improved?
> for instance, on a Mac system via an eGPU setup

This is one of my biggest feature requests for Apple. I want a tiny little laptop with an integrated GPU when I'm on the road. But when I'm home I also want to be able to run simulations, play games on a big screen & do VR. And for that I want a desktop class GPU when I'm at home. And I want that GPU to be upgradable - CPU speed isn't improving anywhere near as fast as GPU speed, so it makes sense to keep the rest of my system across multiple GPU generations.

The laptops are already there. The RAM fiasco aside, the current laptops are fine little machines. And with thunderbolt 3 they should have no problem supporting external GPUs.

All thats missing is an official apple egpu enclosure and software support! People on the internet have already gotten them working via injecting kexts into the kernel. But first party support would make the whole thing way better, and way more stable. C'mon apple! We're so close! Take my money!
I don't understand the ending of your story...

So basically if the world stops depending on USA, their will start launching nukes?
A lot of times when I start getting frustrated about low quality discussion, I try to reimagine the noisy participant as a kind of "human fuzzer". They have randomly wedged themselves into a corner with some of the unspoken rules of the community. Then it's (usually) sufficient to explicitly and (politely) articulate the expectations for participation and collaboration.
As a company/organization, Twitter is dysfunctional. I've had a friend quit from Twitter because all the other smart folks around him were leaving...leaving only the rent-seekers. I'm not saying all the smart folks are gone, but there has been a brain drain and it's been well deserved. Jack Dorsey hasn't done a thing to fix Twitter and yet they keep him on.
> So, what, you're opposed to people talking about how they think large organizations should work instead of how they actually work?

Stack ranking is based on forced rankings of employees by managers who are familiar enough with them to theoretically be able to provide an ordinal rank of their performance. There is no way this works in large groups, it only works in small subunits.

If you have actual objective measures of business-meaningful performance, you have to throw away a lot of the meaningful data to reduce it to a ordinal ranking and use it for stack ranking, which is why organizations that do have such measures use them for more useful accountability than is provided by stack ranking.
I'm not a Mac user, so I am not sure if there's something fundamental I am not appreciating, but I do not understand why releasing a high-specification desktop computer requires a year or more of design and planning. I do recognize that Apple has a reputation for making uniquely-designed cases, and I suppose there is some merit in that, but ultimately, a desktop computer gives a great deal of flexibility to design.

On the easiest side of the spectrum, Apple could take the previous-generation desktop case (I believe Mac users lovingly call it the "cheese grater") and install a modern motherboard, CPU, memory, disks, and GPUs. There's virtually no design effort needed. Maybe a SuperMicro Xeon workstation board, a couple Xeon E5s, 64 or 128 GB of memory, a bunch of SSD and disk options, whatever GPUs work well with macOS. (These parts are roughly what I've used in my personal workstation with great success; but I don't run macOS.)

Hackers do this every day that a Hackintosh is booted for its first time; but such hackers don't have the luxury of battle-testing device drivers for their grab-bag hardware. So they nervously worry about operating system updates. Obviously Apple would spend a month or two ensuring the drivers are bulletproof and boom, there's a new high-specification Mac Pro.

If reusing an old design is simply too uncouth to contemplate, they could design a new nice, minimalist case sized for industry-standard components. Dozens of PC case designs would pass muster. I suspect most people who actually want a Mac Pro don't care if it's ultra compact or a mid-tower that sits on the floor. Why invest so much engineering effort in making it compact? Take away the size constraint and the required engineering effort essentially evaporates.
We have no security imperative around the use of chemical weapons in the Middle East. Remember, Assad is fighting ISIL. The salvo shows various states the United States is willing to act unilaterally. Knocking out some MiGs is a cherry on top.
Well if this Syria thing becomes a WWIII then its going to get much worse than 1929.If we have a nuclear war with the level of weapons we have now we can damage the planet beyond the ability to sustain life of any kind. If this is a "Hollywood War" for show that is well coordinated then we may see startups spring up to take on these lucritive military contracts, but the economy will just shift. With a modern nuclear war the earth will be so damaged it will no longer be able to sustain life of any kind for at least 30 billion years or more. We have enough nukes to wipe out all life on earth many times over within only a 15 minute window.
Whoa, yeah! This is awesome! It's basically the kind of peer review I think we should be operating with in all branches of science. Good job to the creators!
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Name one that hasn't at this point.
Same here. 40, no family. It's very difficult for me to relate to the idea of being afraid to risk a day job. I leave jobs as often as possible to do what I want to.
Unlikely. This was ordered by McMasters. He wouldn't strike to cover for Trump. This is on the geopolitical board.
-People are more important than anything else but they come and go. They are still more important than anything else.

-Don't get lost in the weeds. It's easy to let small things that are immediately interesting take precedence over more important things.

-You won't be what you are now in 10 or 20 years. You'll think differently and have different abilities. Age comes before you know it. Remember this always and don't think you have it all figured out because you never do.

-Work hard but take it easy. Don't let stress over little shit destroy your long term productivity (see lost in the weeds section). It's a marathon not a sprint.

-Things change fast. Plan for the future but do so loosely because you are probably going to have to re-asses shortly enough.

-A little a day for 10 years is worth more than a lot for 1 year in terms of what it gets you. Saving, learning, all those thing. Don't plan on big windfalls.
No idea sorry. I put the system together to tinker with some iOS dev, but lost interest after a few months. I don't use any of the rest of the Mac ecosystem, so not sure how that functions.

What's special about iMessage/iCloud which poses an issue on a hackintosh?
Start there, then check out https://github.com/mjhea0/flaskr-tdd
No difference between 20 and 35. You only live once.
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Thats awesome. Congrats to your nephew and you and your family for sticking with him. Addiction is not easy; with marijuana people tend to push it to the side, but its just as important as the other drugs like opiates. Maybe not as addictive, but I need rehab, thats how I feel, so I just have to stay clean to avoid that type of repercussion. Realistically, because I have been so successful in the industry, NO ONE, even my mom (love you mom) would tell me I have a problem, but I do. And its tough on the soul to know that I have that type of problem.

The best I have ever felt was when I beat the addiction and took 6 weeks off when I entered college. First fall break I got hooked on the ganja again, and really thats been the story of my life since. But I had this thought that I literally just have to do nothing to get back to feeling that way. And for now, I feel like the terminator, "I'll be back." ha.

Seriously tho, thanks for your comments. Means the world to me. Funny how your nephew getting clean can flow into hn and affect users like me that are real humans with real lives.
It feels like the roaring 20's. All this cheap money is subsidizing a lifestyle of well paying jobs, high rent, and cheap Ubers. People want to live in cities where all the jobs are and where all the fun new development is happening so that they can Uber and Lyft to the newest restaurant.

Personally, I love it, and I hope we're just in an era of profound economic growth. But every time I go out and see cranes in the skyline and I see that I just paid six dollars to be driven across town, I can't help but think that none of this is real. It's all just a temporary playground being propped up by cheap VC cash.

I really hope I'm wrong.
"he early web (when I entered and before) wasn't for everyone. And thats OK for me. Actually I think it is a good way to start."

It got where it went by doing the opposite of what you're suggesting. The walled garden for smart elites were mostly working on OSI from what old timers tell me. The TCP/IP, SMTP, etc involved lots of hackers trying to avoid doing too much work. Much like the users you prefer to filter. Then, it just went from there getting bigger and bigger due to low barrier of entry. Tons of economic benefits and business models followed. Now we're talking to each other on it.
I believe the issue is in building high performance types that are both secure and that fit in with the rest of js.
And you know, I'd be willing to bet she's beaten herself up over that enough without people on the internet trying to make sure no one ever forgets it.
Tech is already in a correction: VCs have pulled back on capital, unicorns are dying, and folks in this-is-a-terrible-idea startups are getting laid off. It's happening in slow motion because most of these companies are privately funded and they run out of runway at different points in time.

I'm actually betting that in the broader economy, we get a bubble as Trump's tax plan & infrastructure spending kick in and Yellen doesn't pull back on interest rates hard enough, then a short 1-2 year period of absolute mania as SOX & Dodd-Frank are rolled back and ordinary people can invest in the stock market again, there'll be a massive wealth transfer from poor to rich, and then a very hard crash when they run out of suckers. Then the government will panic at the crash, dump money into the economy, and we'll get hyperinflation. Civil unrest follows, with mass protests, a government crackdown, and the eventual disintegration of the U.S. as a nation-state.

Hard to predict the timing of such an involved sequence of events, though. The tax plan is under works right now, and maybe we'll get infrastructure spending in the first year of Trump's presidency. That'd indicate the bubble beginning around late 2018, reaching crescendo just after re-election in 2020, and popping around 2021.
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> does not represent the Kurdish mainstream

Neither does the PYD. Mainstream Kurdish nationalism involves Kurdish independence (which the PYD is opposed to) and are largely capitalist (see Iraq).

> As for the rest, the pro-Assad forces are mostly Alawites

Really? The overwhelming majority of Syrian soldiers are Sunni. Alawites are overrepresented in the Syrian Air Force, but underrepresented in the general military. Pro-government auxiliary forces like the Lebanese Hezbollah are certainly not Alawite, neither are the Iraqis and others that support the Syrian government.

> and Christians

"Christians" what? There are Christian Arabs, Kurds, Syriacs and Armenians. They're not a single group. Even between the Syriacs we see pro-government and anti-government divisions (Sutoro vs Sootoro).

> organized along ethno-religious lines

No, they're not.

I don't think the Syriacs in North East Syria want to be forcefully relocated to Lebanon or Coastal Syria, I think they want to stay at home. I also don't think ethnically cleansing Sunnis from Coastal Syria is any sort of move, let alone a justifiable one.

I'd like to continue this conversation but I'm afraid I'm going to withdraw myself here.
I haven't and likely wont forget Debian for their SSL mistake... security people have long memories when you mess up THAT badly.
How can I follow this thread?
Easiest question ever....."you have a brilliant idea and you have the capability to execute it".

That's the secret sauce that's super hard to get right. I think most people who FELT CONFIDENT they had a brilliant idea and FELT CONFIDENT the could execute it -- would quit very quickly
That's not at all true. For rare, undiagnosed disease we have to sequence the entire genome in order to look for the causative variants. For well understood (common) genetic disease we have small panels, but to say that only a small portion of the genome is informative is not correct. Additionally, there is no way to know a priori which loci will have the variation without sequencing the entire genome.
Apple is no longer a cult, so it is natural that its leaders act more like normal business people than like prophets who come down from the mountain heights, once or twice a year, to enlighten the world with product revelations. Apple is the market leader, and its pro customers are losing faith. Giving some assurance about the future is the least its management could have done. In my opinion, it should have happened even much earlier.
I think he's talking about Java
Mini has had a center-mounted speedo for many years. It works fine.
Only if I truly wasn't worried about succeeding, had an excellent plan and timeline, and enough money to reverse course if necessary.

The mortgage isn't going to pay itself with my dreams.
The Fejoa project (https://fejoa.org) actually targets this problem. It aims to make it possible for users to change their hosting server without losing their contacts.
The key idea behind the argument is that money is created by the government as a soft policy-enforcement tool, and it can and does create as much money as it needs to induce its policy choices (by funding them), while raising demand for the currency by raising taxes. (Even if you were paid entirely in "Liberty Dollars" or whatever last year, and have no other need for US dollars, in the US the IRS is going to tax you on the fair market value of your income - and the bill will be due in US dollars. This is a demand-side advantage which no other currency can match, unless it's also backed by a credible military/ police force.)

This means that any debt which comes due and is denominated in the national currency could theoretically be repaid by simply creating more of the currency. Therefore, when a government raises debt denominated in its own currency, it's not trading on the credibility of its currency- denominated national income. That's the key difference from the financing of a typical household or business, which can typically raise debt according to its perceived ability to bring in disposable income. National debt is instead trading on the nation's commitment to refrain from printing money which it can't credibly raise demand for by raising taxes.
Steve talked about a lot of things - and even more to his direct reports. But the only people who would have proof are also people who would never talk about it. I also worked for a direct report of Bill Gates and a direct report of Larry Ellison. They did the same types of things - often illegal. But everybody who was involved is very motivated to never talk about it. I may be one of the few people who turned down executive positions when offered - I didn't like the "business values".
Time will tell I guess. The greater Israel thing seems a bit unlikely.
I see more risk in not trying to.
Especially when hardware makers make money off it. I'll need to replace my phone soon, and I'll make an effort to buy something that doesn't use broadcom.
Sure, it's worth the time if it pays off with a decent chance of a job. What percentage of programmers in the U.S. who aren't already working there have a decent chance, would you estimate?
Probably this was not something Apple wanted to do, but felt they had to do. While the pro segment is small, it is very vocal. Without this expectation management maneuver, we would have been waiting for something to happen on the Mac Pro side at each of the following launch events - and then the feeling disappointed when they did not deliver.
It really depends on your savings, mortgage, kids and what your spouse makes. That said, I don't think age has anything to do with it and maturity has many advantages too.
1) Equivalently specced 15" MacBooks are equivalently priced (versus when I bought my 2012 15" MacBook Pro Retina)
2) When the first MacBook Pro Retinas came out, they only shipped with dGPU. Only after they had been out for a while did a non-dGPU version ship.
3) A $10 USB-C -> USB-A dongle is, IMO, not too much to ask to have four future-orientated ports that can all charge my computer
4) "Giving me nothing in return" -> So you don't want a dGPU, but somehow require 32GB of ram? Seems like a strange use case.
5) Battery life has been shown to be equivalent or better (in most cases better), even by Consumer Reports who retracted their previous critical report and then posted a very flattering article praising the battery life.

There are some problems with the new macbook pros, and I'm all for having a frank discussion of the problems, but your critiques are misguided and poorly reasoned. It's like you just did a survey of critical clickbaity article headlines and smashed them into one specious diatribe.
Boostnote is an open source note-taking app made for progammers just like you
I just wish they'd admit the same for the latest Macbook Pro where they appear to be optimizing for things that pros don't care about and removing things they do care about!
I wouldn't risk my day job, but I'd definitely attempt to launch a business were I able to as the outcome of a side-project. I'm about 40 years old, have a wife, and two kids (one in school, the other not yet).
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/235357

For years, people have tried to correlate an entrepreneur’s age when they launched their startup, with the ultimate success of that startup. Many studies have been done on the topic, including reports by the Kauffman Foundation, Duke University and the Founder Institute, to name a few.

The collective summary of their learnings is: the average entrepreneur is 40 when they launch their startup. People over 55 are twice as likely as people under 35 to launch a high-growth startup. The average age of a successful startup with over $1 million in revenues was 39. Age was less of a driver to entrepreneurial success than previous startup and industry experience.

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Well-roundedness is overrated. Focus focus focus.

Invest as early as possible. Don't throw away money on flashy material crap.
Stop working on random side projects after work.

Do what you enjoy in the evenings.

And if you still want to do a side project then work on it and market it for maximum of an hour every day but for, at least, a year before starting a next project.
His essay "The Use of Knowledge in Society" is short and worthwhile.

I think I got more out of John Gray's "Hayek on Liberty" than reading Hayek in the original. Look for it on libgen.