skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah. Glad to hear I over-interpreted. Would rather err on the side of empathy than not.

Context can most certainly influence my happiness. There's still at least one step between context & its influence, though. You just named it: interpretation.

The trick is changing the thought pattern for interpretation. I changed mine on New Year's Eve & it's made all the difference. Here's my take...

Every moment is meeting some set of needs of mine. In the shittiest of moments, the potential needs being met, regardless of my awareness of them, are:

- learning how to better meet my needs and/or how to better empathize with those going through similar shit
- gratitude for either of those needs being met
- gratitude for the opportunity to learn how to better meet my needs

That last one is the default. I can always meet my need for gratitude. And gratitude produces joy, meeting a second need.

I avoid having a single point of failure in my system through also defining a purpose for my life to tie each moment to. There's other bits to it, but these are the most relevant ones here.

When I say needs, I'm referring to needs/wants, as described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_human_needs

This is also a handy list: https://www.cnvc.org/Training/needs-inventory
Oh my goodness man, have you managed Amazon instances? Setting up VPCs, IGW, IAM, DNS, EBS Snapshots (and deletions until recent lifecycle), custom metric in coudwatch, and Security Groups is a seriously challenging task just to learn the basics, much less do it right, much less automate it.

It's not a bed of roses in the physical world either, but you're simply wrong to say it's easy in the "Cloud" and hard in a DC/Bare Metal.
I call that enacting the nuclear option. It's almost guaranteed to win the war with ad-tech! It should be enacted for sites with run-away ad engines that spin up your CPU fans and make scrolling laggy.

Of course, the problem with nuclear is collateral damage. Drop the bomb and ads don't work, but neither does a lot of other stuff. E.g., the site shows a blank screen, images are invisible or blurry, drop-down menus don't drop. And, of course, the deal-breaker: videos don't play.

The remedy for killing JavaScript is more JavaScript (and CSS). But supplied inside a Chrome extension targeted at the offending site. An injected stylesheet makes `<body>` visible again, hides assorted useless junk, and styles injected UI elements. Your content scripts load the missing images, drop the menus down, and play the unplayable videos in button-activated pop-over windows displayed at superior resolution.

Of course, the problem is, there are a lot of sites out there, and they change unpredictably, requiring your extension library to change in response. That argues for crowd-sourcing the extension library, but the crowd needs to be proficient in HTML, JavaScript, and CSS and know the ins and outs of browser extensions and care and have time.

You can completely change how a site presents. E.g., change a slide-show in a static slide window that barely moves due to the background ad-tech load changes into a set of `divs` that roll upwards as your finger swipes.

It's a hobby at best. Disabling ad-tech components by origin is the practical option.
A Scientific Argument for Making Bold Product Decisions
32-Bit Apps No Longer Supported in iOS 11
We can change the environments we participate in to correct for measurable bias, though, and it is reasonable for people being discriminated against to expect us to.
Good luck hiring someone on a demand hourly basis that knows your stuff and won't break your stuff.
The large unsafe call inside pivot_root is much larger than it needs to be. It only needs to encompass the mount() call in that function. It's a pretty trivial change to have it only wrap the if. (Though it could wrap less, but that would either look uglier or need a variable binding the result, which honestly wouldn't be that bad either.)
That's correct; I got that reversed.
Yes, I do have a Patreon, which I completely suck at promoting: https://www.patreon.com/MicheleinCalifornia

I also have tip jars on multiple sites: http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/p/my-sites.html

And I hope you don't think I was trying to be snarky or shoot you down for asking. That wasn't my intent. I have spent a lot of years studying such problem spaces and I was just trying to delineate some of the issues you face when you are trying to solve anything in earnest.
The point of the starving artist isn't that they are starving. They point is that they didn't compromise their vision for money. They didn't sell out.

That's what I assume it is about anyway.
Corporate influence supports corporate ends, as opposed to individual or societal influence and ends.

Corporate ends are profits for that corporation, which tend to lead very different policy than societal or individual ends, especially regarding topics like climate change and net neutrality.
Lots of reasons for this.

Actual generally-applicable critical thinking ability is an exceptionally rare skill. So rare that I think it'd be damn difficult to find faculty who could even start teaching it. I don't think most faculty come close to being solid critical thinkers.

Whereas most beliefs are life-long emotional self-indulgence parties (my tribe good! their tribe bad!) critical thinking is a life-long struggle against your own lazy and thoughtless mind. It's very low-entropy so it takes intense, endless, focused effort to maintain, especially in a group.

--

Another big impediment is that teaching critical thinking would go directly against many professors' big goal, which is to spread whatever memeplex controls their mind, because they think that's the biggest moral command for an educator. Higher education is now a political orthodoxy. Free-thinking, questioning of accepted ideas, and consideration of "dangerous" ideas are now often considered not just factually incorrect but morally incorrect. e.g. In the social sciences, professors lean the same direction politically in a ratio of 15 to 1 now. Students who speak or write against the orthodoxy become the victim of outgroup psychology and are punished socially, academically, and professionally.

People notice when the purity spiral goes totally insane like at Evergreen recently, but this is a universal phenomenon at this point. The quiet damage of self-censorship is constant and massive, and destroys critical thinking education not just by ignoring critical thinking, but by actively teaching students wrong critical thinking and tricking them into believing it is critical thinking. They'd be better served with a pile of books and an anonymous Internet forum.

There is some pushback from organizations like Heterodox Academy [1] but it remains scattered and ineffectual. Until the academy re-embraces freedom of speech, diversity of viewpoints, it'll continue to be a moralizing seminary school and thus will continue to teach to moral conclusions instead of teaching thinking methods.

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And the final reason that seems obvious is that most of the people in university these days just shouldn't be there. They're not mentally prepared for higher education; they don't have the IQ. It's like sending a blind person to a school of visual arts. But they're sent there because it sounds good in politics, provides false hope that everyone can become high status (the Lake Woebegone dream), and provides for the endless expansion of a very lucrative government-money-milking educational establishment through subsidized tuition.

Education is in a sad state and a growing number of people think the model has to collapse and be replaced by a more decentralized model aided by technology (e.g. YouTube lectures, etc).

[1] heterodoxacademy.org
If you miss those days you can install a driver to get your camera working on a MacBook with Linux. It worked fine for me but took about an hour or so of fiddling: https://github.com/patjak/bcwc_pcie
I got my numbers mixed up--Apple pays developers 70%, so the total revenue is "only" $100 billion and not $233 billion.
If you like this story, I recommend reading How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World. Its a quick read and very interesting. And, yes, "cold" is one of the six.

https://www.amazon.com/How-We-Got-Now-Innovations/dp/1594633...
Only on the first load ever.
When modules are compiled to their byte code, they could get a "clean" flag if they don't execute code, which means they get loaded lazily next time.
HEIF is actually very closely related to MP4 (or really, the ISO Base Media File Format (BMFF); and historically, QuickTime which is what they are both based on).

You are right -- the main difference is that BMFF was originally designed for time-based media (video, audio) but isn't in itself well suited towards media that isn't time based, like images and their associated metadata (e.g. Exif).

HEIF extends the ISO BMFF so that you can have untimed media -- one or more photos, a collection -- or even mixed media comprising both untimed and timed media. Apple's live photo is a good example of mixed media, comprising a photo and a video.

But the HEIF container format goes so much further. You could have image sequences -- for example a higher-quality version of Animated GIF (using I-frames only, or P/B for more compression) with looping -- tiling, auxiliary images like depth maps and alpha channels, or even stereo images with a left and right channel.

Though originally HEIF came out of the HEVC standards track, hence the words "High Efficiency" in the name, it was later extended to include other codecs like JPEG, AVC. There's no reason it couldn't be extended to include VP9, PNG, or any other codec.

Think of HEIF as a versatile, extensible, standardized container format. The media coding scheme is separable. This is a big deal for the future of image/media coding because we're no-longer locked into "yet another format" that's tied to the codec. With the ISO BMFF box model, HEIF can grow to adapt new constructs and codecs for some generations to come.
An m4.16xl has 8 physical cores; what hypervisor does AWS buy that only has 8 physical cores?

My smallest physical servers have 8 physical cores.
You can store data in it sure.

You can store data in text files too.
Apple did definitely make the smartphone cool, but I'm dubious that they've made smartwatches cool. They're still very niche. I can see these glasses being the same, if not more so.
Planets: so hot right now.
I'm not a fan of sharing a giant auditorium with the entire company. I am a fan of having a large room with a group of 5-7 people sharing it.

That said, noisy open rooms suck.
Which hardware vendor did you go with?
Hill Climb Racing Game- How to Win This Game?
Compression is worth it if it saves even a GB on a 128 SSD, or a few hundred MB on a 16GB iPhone.

In an alternate universe where all Macs come with at least 512GB storage, things might be different.

Footnote: Apple still sells 16GB devices: http://www.amazon.in/Apple-iPhone-5s-Space-Grey/dp/B00FXLC9V...
> This is _really_ basic English

That's both incredibly condescending and wrong. "One mega company owning every industry in the world" is not the only way to have a monopoly.

You can have monopolies on specific industries or in specific regions (e.g. AT&T and Comcast split up towns in a state and each one is the only provider in that town).
Have you played Contra? The weapons are about as realistic as Mega Man's.

It looks more like using bubbles to pop an endless stream of bad guys, Bubble Bobble-style.

https://media.giphy.com/media/DpXqHdILXRRDi/giphy.gif

So, no, I never worried about anything in an NES game having a negative effect on him.
My specific criticism is not against the OS (AFAIK it is good even if I don’t like it[0]. )

My criticism is against mindless repetition of the idea that it is somehow always better or more userfriendly than other modern OSs.

[0]: I swap a lot between programs. I swap using alt-tab. I frequently used to/will have some web-based tool running in in one browser window and the docs for the tool running in another browser window. I prefer keyboard. If I hit the mouse or trackpad I often feel I (or the OS) has failed to learn / adapt.

From what I saw people who enjoy Mac OS X worked at a slower pace than me (although possibly more efficient). They had multiple overlapping windows. They enjoyed using the trackpad and didn't feel the pain of the hunt for the global menu bar.
In Kuala Lumpur my wife booked her Pilates classes over WhatsApp. That's how everyone communicates with the studio. If they ever have a bot platform I imagine a reservation system would be a killer app.
Bootyland
I recently started a new gig after having been at a remote startup for several years. New gig is very formal from both process and business perspectives, yet I can still wear jeans and tshirts when I go into the office. I much prefer it over your typical startup experience.
Home screen apps have gotten worse and worse over the last few releases of iOS. Glad to hear someone is paying attention, though it brings us no closer to service workers...
Have a look at Datacamp's Intro to Python for Data Science?
I think its a good introduction to programming

https://www.datacamp.com/courses/intro-to-python-for-data-sc...
I don't have studies to back it up, but my anecdotal experience with growing up with video games is that it's not a good use of your youth if you take into account the opportunity cost of doing other things. I noticed this once I stopped playing them, and I didn't even play them that often to begin with. Of course, I'm sure there are plenty of examples where video gaming led a kid to having a fulfilling life (even ignoring the sample who actually turn it into a professional career), but in general it feels as though games are not the optimal conduit for this as the skills gained by playing them are generally not transferable to anything else other than titles in the same genre.

The boost in mental acuity comes at the price of many hours spent. They say time enjoyed isn't wasted but I've found that there are different types of enjoyment and some are more rewarding than games in terms of pound for pound satisfaction. Looking back, most of the time I spent gaming yielded relatively few memorable moments and periods of personal growth, and all of these were actually more about the people I played games with than the hobby itself. As I said, it's all anecdotal, but I think worth investigating all the same.

That said, I'm sure the author's kid will be fine as he seems to be a smart lad. I also wonder how he would fare against "I Wanna Be the Guy", although I hope the guy doesn't put his son through that!
Thanks for sharing Apple's rationale, but I disagree. The bottleneck is space, not speed, of SSDs. Few people need a GB per second of read or write more than they need space. If compression gives me even a GB of extra space on a 128GB SSD, I'd take it.

In fact, a 7200RPM hard disc is adequate for me.
The correct URL is:
https://theintercept.com/2017/06/05/top-secret-nsa-report-de...
Would the land really be as valuable as it is if people weren't able to borrow money to purchase it? Someone would still own it and yet the price would largely be capped by the amount that people were able to save, not the amount that people are able to promise to repay. Just like it's been shown that the availability of student loans increases the cost of education, the availability of mortgages increases the cost of real estate. And the banks collect much of that increase by, through financial hand waving, loaning out many times the amount of money we give them to watch over.

Somehow we've institutionalized a system where banks are able to leech money off one of society's most basic needs, shelter, while providing little-to-no benefit overall.
The downside of air conditioned homes is that houses are now built with very little regard to insulation and intelligent use of the sun (to warm the house at winter) and the wind (to cool it during summertime).

My house has a large, paper-thin southern wall and during the summer it gets so hot that it radiates heat into the house at night. So I have to air-condition my bedroom at night. And the windows are stupidly designed, so when the wind blows in the winter I can feel it enter the room - and again I must use electricity to keep the room warm.

Thankfully, "green" building methods are starting to change this wasteful attitude.
Something smells fishy here. How did the Intercept maintain enough opsec to stay in contact with Snowden (who would have dropped them like a hot potato if they didn't seem competent) and then do this, with the same general staff in place?
I'm interested in this as well, as I haven't dove into service workers.

But I'm still failing to see why you can't pull the local data from local storage and show it, then render the data from the server (should you get new data)?
Lots of assumptions.
I am actually surprised this article made it to the front page on hacker news. It presents a very narrow view of a much larger war. It almost looks like it came straight from the British propaganda machine.
It's sad how deterministic our lives really are.
I've never had a problem
I managed to completely miss that, sorry.
> font and fixed width window from cmd.exe

Both use console host. Before it was horrible, but they've improved it recently: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt427362(v=ws.11...
First, let me say that I sort of agree with you. I say "sort of", because I think that the way you define rich only sounds like slightly higher up the chain of upper middle class to me. If that's the case, then I completely agree.

That said, I personally define rich as being part of the capital class rather than the worker class. My perspective (note that some of these are a bit hand-wavy since the levels of money needed sometimes differ significantly and sometimes the lines are not clearly delineated):

- You don't sit on a commercial airplane. You own your own plane or take charters. Slightly lower on the totem pole is taking commuter jets (something akin to semi-charters).

- You typically/often don't drive a car for the purpose of transportation. Someone drives you. That said, you may own one or more cars. Some of these cars may not even be street legal, but they can be delivered to the track for times that you want to take them out for a spin.

- You do, in fact, listen to better music than most people. This might be in the form of live music. It might be in the form of a very well-designed high end music system in a listening room -- music you thought you knew well will sound completely different.

- You don't actually need to use the internet -- for the most part, you have people do those things for you. That said, if you need fast internet, you will probably live in an area that can accommodate your needs (depending on where you live in the US, access to fast internet is not a given even if you have the money).

- Any "work" that is done is done because it is an interesting problem to work on. Other than that, there is very real unofficial work of building and maintaining social capital. Sometimes this is the ugly kind of social climbing that is dramatized on TV. Other (often?) times, it is cultivating relationships and having experiences with people you like somewhere between a little and a lot (more time with the latter). Since money and (to a lesser extent) time are not limiting factors, incredible experiences can be had.

- Most things that people would consider "chores" are not a necessary part of your everyday life. No grocery shopping. No carpooling. No cooking. No restricted schedule due to child care (nanny almost always available).

Those a just a few things that I think are or can be different/better for people in the capital class. Some things that are worse is that often times folks born into the capital class have existential crises. Avoiding this type of crisis comes down to good parenting (and perhaps good parenting advisers and nannies).

Just my 2 cents...
GitHub cricized for hosting a male-only speaker conference
Great points! I preferred Django over Rails honestly.
> Learning how to write so that others can understand me

I'm in the middle of the book Towards Style and Grace and it is fantastic. It is everything that High School-me was trying to find an education about.
But you can't create a compressed volume with APFS, that's the point isn't it?
The takeaway from this thread is that some colored/women do not feel comfortable around whites; and expect a support network for this status? Maybe the problem isn't that Charl's over there has white skin, but that you cannot see past this?

Maybe if the only whites that you (maybe not the OP) are comfortable around are ones who identify themselves as "allies" and walk on eggshells around you (like the ones in this thread) is a bad sign for your tolerance of others.

But maybe im wrong... I'll score an HR job and start my line with: "Hi yes at my startup, we have women's chairs ;] for diversity. There is also a chair that black people feel more comfortable sitting in, which we also have." I cant wait to get all that diverse tech talent!
In a sense, yes. What I'm getting at specifically is that:

- Although we teach people to read, we don't necessarily put enough focus on comprehension and understanding.

- Although we teach people to write, we tend to focus on mechanics rather than on writing clearly and in a way that emphasizes our meaning.

- We don't just focus on functional math, but teach much more complex math to virtually everyone that goes through high school.

You can argue where exactly to draw the line on math (and don't get me wrong I loved math and was very good at it, at least the way it is taught in the US), but I'm not sure everyone needs to become as highly specialized as we attempt to make them in that area at that age.
Yup, looks good although the processor selection is questionable performance-wise, sadly its not available.
As someone looking to buy a 15-inch Macbook Pro with Touch Bar, is it worth waiting for this?

Does the faster GPU help with VR?

How much more battery life does it get?
Fair enough, I imagine it largely depends on peer group as well. Literally everyone I had anything remotely in common with growing up played video games, watched adult-ish TV, saw PG-13+ movies, etc from a young age. My parents outright refused to let me have any of those things, and as a result no one wanted to come over and play at my house, I always sucked when playing with the other kids at birthday parties, I wasn't allowed to see any PG-13+ movies with them, etc. It got to the point where I actually started academically teaching myself the rules of video games by reading websites and strategy guides, and memorizing summaries of TV shows and movies just so I could participate in conversations at lunch. I'm not saying it was the only issue (I was meh on sports and shy in general), but it was definitely a big hurdle. Like being the only one forbidden from playing cards at a poker tournament where literally everybody else is playing.

If my peer group's interests had been more varied maybe it would have worked out differently. So I imagine it depends on the school/neighborhood.

Edit: At any rate, I appreciate your perspective as well. An upbringing without TV (let alone the rest) where it wasn't a hindrance is about as alien to me as it gets, pretty sure both my parents' families had TVs growing up. :) As it stands I see such things as ultimately harmless, but I'll admit that if I didn't experience media as such a crucial social lubricant, I'd probably strictly limit (although I'd stop short of forbidding) my kids from the more violent stuff as well, at least until they were 8+, just in case.