skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I asked the same yesterday in another topic. I have mid 2012 MacBook Pro that behaves terribly with High Sierra, while it was fairly snappy with Sierra. Now it takes about 5 seconds to start any app, even for simple apps like iTerm2.

Since I can't find too much complaints on the web about laptop slowing down and the reply to my yesterday question was that some users don't see much difference, I am now downloading Sierra and will install it on another partition. This should answer this question precisely.

I can't leave High Sierra as is because it made my MacBook Pro unusable.
From experience (the last time slides for a talk by Stephen Diehl made its way to the HN frontpage), there's a lot of information in the actual (recorded) talk that the slides are going to be missing.
the resharper plugin to visual Studio or the rider ide will both do this. Only builds the projects required and doesn’t need to build dependent projects unless a signature changed.
This is the neutron bomb solution. I have to say I am sympathetic.
It is an alternative/replacement, and we plan to add issues/builds in future versions.
Agreed

It seems autocorrect developers and models fail to model anything beyond the basic "word exists or not" in the dictionary (and even then it gets some things wrong).
Behavioural economics isn’t very interesting really because it limits itself with describing the sub-optimal behaviour of humans and not approaching optimality. It’s analogous to a hypothetical branch of engineering that disregards physics and mechanics and concentrates on folk wisdom (of the ”heavier stuff falls faster” variety). Why bother if it just leads to no betterment whatsoever?

That said, economics (as opposed to physics) suffers from a dearth of conserved quantities, and thus few useful symmetries to build laws upon.
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I don't know, but I can't find anything that would support that statement. It is pretty normal that sometimes needs to buy some electricity - the European grid as a whole relies on it's interconnection. However, now - Germany has a ton of spare energy and it's evidently selling to everyone, except France... and it's winter
Agreed. This is tragic. These are the kinds of problems that I would have expected a military organization to have a pragmatic and robust solution to. I doubt you can rely upon a solid wifi connection in a field situation, so I bet they have some pretty solid procedures in place so that a human reliably find what they need without the need to google it.
This is the website I've been looking for!

Gathering together power generation and CO2 emissions for the whole world, albeit those that are publishing the data.

Strange that the data for Netherlands, Italy, and Texas are missing. Is this charged for, confidential, or just not collected?
An explanation of what makes AWS Lambda "not-a-server" would be helpful.
Heck, I spent years earlier in my career as a .NET dev and I also don’t understand their naming. I wasn’t totally clear on what .NET core is. It’s not the biggest problem but the way they name things is quite confusing.
Hidden backdoor in WordPress plug in affects tens of thousands of sites
Very interesting. For example:

"The guarantees of a formally verified system rest entirely on the assumptions of the system, including its trusted computing base (TCB). The TCB of a verified system includes the specs, which are manually written and hoped (fingers crossed!) to be correct, the verification tools (e.g., Coq engine, Z3, compiler), and the runtime infrastructure (OS, hardware). This should be a huge red flag. For instance, if you’ve used Z3, you’ll agree that it’s black magic to everyone except the developers, and my professors confess that they’ve found correctness bugs, especially in decidability theories that are not commonly used."
In the UK C# occupies the main enterprise language slot that Java does in America, that's why. Java just didn't get as far here. I remember in mid-2000s not being sure whether to learn Java or VB6/.Net, but a few years later I rarely saw Java jobs.

At least that's my impression from being on HN for the last decade, and working mainly in MS back-end languages in the UK.

The other one I never see mentioned in the UK is Oracle, I've only had Oracle mentioned to me IRL once, and that's because the local council is inexplicably moving from MS SQL to Oracle for reporting, but they're super incompetent.
Wikileaks is possible because of the blockchain. No question that the world has been changed by this kind of organization.

I’m happy that the cartel of financial institutions can no longer shut folks out arbitrarily, looking forward to seeing what else is made possible by the blockchain.
Honestly, it's been a while since our partisanship has spread to arguments about tech. It never suprises me to see people are going to extreme lengths to defend Apple, even when it's a life and death situation.

"Re check your work before you click submit or send. Don't place blame on Apple."

"It’s pretty easy for a sysadmin to disable autocorrect"

Educated people aren't immune from this effect either.
With UV unwrapping you can stretch the pieces, you may even want that to allow for more detail in the texture for specific areas.
Angular Top 50: What you should have read in 2017
Never thought of that. But, I'm very sure Apple will use those big.LITTLE chips and use a dramatically smaller battery to give you 10 hours of battery life and thinner laptop. /S.

I feel like in the past few years, processors are remaining as fast but better power efficient, but the end-user never sees longer use out of them. Because manufacturers skimp on battery catching up with power efficiency :-(
It's not comparable whatsoever to how much faster Java is. In Eclipse it basically compiles in the background right after saving a file so you never feel the impact of compilation.
Have you considered Washington state as a tax-advantaged state? No state or capital gains income tax. Portland and Seattle are both accessible.
Somehow, this seems so much longer ago than it really was.
Hydro also has non-trivial enviromental impact - you are creating pretty big "lake" above the dam. And if you want to turn it on and off, you'll need one more to make the flow normal again.
My problem with piped music is not that it's not personalised... just that 99% of the time it's complete trash, it's so bad I actually find it offensive. I'm hardly a consumer so it doesn't affect me much but there are still other places you have to be where you can't escape it. Every time I go to the barber I get subjected the latest pop trash, it's so crap it sometimes makes me feel a little physically sick. I don't need it personalised, I just need it absent.
This article is about "empirical research" which means articles with titles like "Study suggests XYZ".

I avoid these type of "research" articles like plague. There probably exists a "study" that proves and disproves virtually anything. For example, study suggests coffee prevents cancer and vice versa. Such pseudo (and often badly done) statistical voting type of work shouldn't even be called "research" and people doing these shouldn't be called "scientists" (the word "surveyors" seems more appropriate). There is now a cottage industry of pushing out absurd correlations that would be immediately be picked up by media because, you know, so called "scientists" did that.
I don't consider proxy wars to be "better wars", I'd consider them even worse than conventional warfare because it's people, sometimes whole nations, dying for somebodies else cause.
Sure it can. One person's abuse can be another person's pornography. Disheartening but no less true.
Curious. Do older MBPs run Linux with better support? Perhaps longer battery life with the laptop project and stuff...?
Can we have a link to the actual talk please?
I've written[0] and spoken[1] a lot about .NET Core, so I understand that it can be confusing. The similar naming certainly doesn't help. To summarize (and oversimplify) there are three main varieties of .NET: .NET Core, .NET Framework and Xamarin.

The new open source and cross-platform one is .NET Core and it is currently suited to writing server-side web apps (e.g. ASP.NET Core) and command line applications. It is a reimplementation of .NET and more use cases are coming (UWP, CoreRT, native tool-chain etc.).

The Windows only one is .NET Framework and it is better for graphical desktop apps on Windows. WPF and Windows Forms are not open and are Windows only, so are not in .NET Core.

Finally, Xamarin is also open now and lets you build native mobile and desktop apps on Android, iOS and macOS. Full details of all these are on the official docs site[2] if you want to read more, or you could buy my book on ASP.NET Core 2 :).

[0]: https://unop.uk/book/

[1]: https://unop.uk/talks/

[2]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/dotnet/
Relevant to Python 3 as well: a lot of methods has updated to use iterators when they can making the lazy and much more efficient
It's all because with web applications, a browser becomes a (shitty) window manager.

> So if you want to use for example maps on one tab and read text on another, the best UX would be to have users resize their browser when changing tabs?

The best UX would probably for text and maps in this example to be in different windows, to be honest. But that causes other issues with the mental model people have about web sites. Still, having a website-provided width limit helps avoid a click or two required to split the site off and resize its window, at the cost of wasting huge amount of screen space.

Not sure what's the way towards a better UX, though. I myself like tiling window managers, in which I can efficiently position stuff with keyboard the way I like, but I understand this will be too complex for casual users. I also like grid window positioning, like http://windowgrid.net/ which I use on Windows, which lets me flexibly resize windows with the mouse while retaining a nice looking layout. I feel that a solution like this would be simple enough for regulars, too, offering them useful flexibility with little confusion.
364 days is going to differ per model though.

(Actually, reading the part of the article which I can, says: "[...] The initial sign ups are voluntary and usually set weeks before the busiest periods." so even here the peak isn't merely 1 day.)

For example, an apothecaries here are very busy in december (insurance-related) so they have spikes throughout entire december. That's when employees are expected to not take free days off.

We also got flex workers who are asked (practically demanded) to show up during peaks. During lows they stay home and don't get paid. The uncertainty attached to such (highly) fluctuating income, together with night shifts (in factories) is a killer. Bad for your stress levels and health.

My partner worked in an apothecary and the stress levels of everyone turned through the roof in december.

So it may seem we should applaud UPS to push their output, but I highly suspect that in reality these white collar workers are just supporting the overburdened blue collar workers. Even if it just mentally supports them because they know they're being helped.
They voted for Trump because he was saying he is going to bring back jobs while Clinton was not exactly sure what her platform was.

If I am a 50 year man who lost his job, I am going to vote for Trump.

It is just amazing that lot of people including you and Clinton don't understand this simple point.
Tsunami in Germany would have to be caused by a meteorite in the near sea, so you are not safe :P
How to crack the industry you love in 2018
Amazon itself is a middle man these days.

With technology I forsee a future were people directly order from the factory line. But today we already see the rise of Chinese websites undercutting Western webshops. And in my own country it is quite popular to buy mobile phones straight from Samsung and others bypassing telecom operators and retail.

The internet has really slaughtered traditional retail space.
Why Anti-Corruption Strategies May Backfire
I've read the books, and frankly it's freaky. It looks a lot like anthropic selection, which is a conclusion I don't want to come to--and which should be false, it's not like nuclear war would cause extinction.

I don't have a good explanation for that number of coincidences, though.
Good for them, but that doesn't reduce the maintenance burden for anyone trying to write database agnostic software. I guess that's a good business strategy if you are in oracle's position.

In any case your original quote was "Because it was lacking a tiny piece of syntactic sugar?", and I was merely pointing out that it is a bit more than some syntactic sugar.
Aargh. Life doesn't proceed by proof. Not all that counts can be counted.

William James (paraphrased): "James acknowledges that in our scientific age, there is something dubious about the voluntaristic view that, in some circumstances, we can legitimately choose to believe in the absence of any objective justification. However, he claims we naturally do so all the time, our moral and political ideas being obvious examples. When you believe that your mother loves you or in the sincerity of your best friend, you have no conclusively objective evidence. In addition, you will never be able to secure such evidence. Yet it often seems unreasonable to refuse to commit to believing such matters; if we did so, the pragmatic consequences would be a more impoverished social life. Indeed, in some cases, believing and acting on that belief can help increase the chances of the belief being true." http://www.iep.utm.edu/james-o/#SH4a
Of course, didn't think that one through. Yeah, I prefer that.
Ask HN: How would your life change if Facebook/Twitter disappeared?
Thinking about the big tech giants, it's quite obvious the world would pretty much fall apart if Google disappeared overnight. On the other hand, I wouldn't lose anything if Facebook/Twitter were to meet the same fate. We then have the likes of Netflix/Amazon/Uber who provide useful "convenience luxuries" but nothing life changing in my opinion. Curious to get the HN perspective on this, specifically, a view on the company valuation in the context of obsolescence.
It's a good point, but it's not a full counterargument.

Regular users don't optimize their work environment strongly, but that doesn't mean they don't care. And current situation is that full power over site layout is in hands of site designers. I believe this is a bad balance, and needs to be strongly shifted towards good and easily configurable defaults client-side. That is, I believe the situation will improve meaningfully for regular users if we could seriously dumb down HTML5/CSS - while responsible creatives will be saddened, the reality proves that the commercial web in general can not be trusted with so much power over layout.
> And finally, how likely is Microsoft to fuck free software developers over with proprietary extensions in the future? This is Microsoft we're talking about, after all.

There's a radical change in public behavior of Microsoft since Satya Nadella became CEO. While at first I was skeptical, it's now been three years we have had to observe whether Microsoft's actions match their promises.

So far, I'm impressed. I think their new vision and approach to doing business is much improved from that of their previous two CEOs - it's better for consumers and developers, and frankly it was necessary for the long term survival of MS.

I don't expect to see nasty behavior from them like we have seen in the past.
At Google, Eric Schmidt wrote the book on adult supervision
It is possible to do it "the hard way". In 2012/2013 I consulted on power consumption measurement of one communications app where separate measuring jigs were built for iPhone 5. Little bit of custom electronics and automation made wonders -- IIRC the app shipped with 4x lower power consumption than initially measured. There are really no barriers to doing this the same way today for web apps. On platforms where you have a good access to the battery monitor and high res RTC, you may even get along without extra hardware.
Arch runs pretty well out of the box on my 2013 Air, it falls down slightly on battery life (3-4h rather than 8-10h with macOS) and CPU fan running wild with no load.

Both things are much more configurable under Linux than macOS of course, and you should just be able to set it up once and forget it. (Or keep a note, in case you want to replicate it on another machine...) But the flip side being that it is something you'll have to configure.
> If one is willing to use their hand to provide abrasion, merely poured water enables far superior waste removal than toilet paper.

Trouble is, you then have excrement on your hand. So perhaps there is a trade off between having a clean butthole and a clean hand?

Another benefit of toilet paper is immediate feedback - you can wipe and inspect the paper, then repeat with clean paper until you are satisfied with the result. With poured water, how do you know when you are 'done'?
Link to the recording (slides and audio): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=garlskQb8BU
Who’s the bigger fool? The idiot or the one who tries to reason with them?

You can’t teach everyone. You can’t save everyone. You can’t please everyone.

If you’re forced to be around these people (because say, they’re family) use your intellect to create positive happy memories rather than battle their world views. Turn it into a joke, and just enjoy Christmas
Wow this debate is funny. Imho the blame is solely with the user.

To rely on your phone for autocorrecting difficult medication brands and then blame the phone manufacturer when it doesn't work is really a 1st world problem.

I'm not saying that Apple is unable to remedy this situation. I'm just saying the users are unrealistic in belieiving that Apple has thought of this situation beforehand and made any changes to aide in the autocorrecting of medicine brands.

Because they are brand names. And there are thousands of them.
I think http://altheamesh.com answers your concern as related to security. It uses wireguard,vpn, establish tunnels for packet flow .
I'd say that would also be scary..!
CAP theorem
This is an opportunity for us to innovate and improve on the technology.
Your comment sounds like speculations and gross generalisation. Do you base your say on things that could be discussed(if yes, please share them)? Or is it a frustrated rant?
Veterans Affairs is a cabinet level department, it isn't part of the DoD.

It serves former military but it isn't military.
Do you know your isp?
How about everyone else providing you the access to online content?

I for one find no difference between random people and.. Random corporate people.

Neither can/should be trusted, ever, this is why we have cryptographic means of keeping our business between us and the content provider, no one in between should be able to provide you with false content.
Sadly this isn't perfect, but this technical challenge must be strived towards, no law can ever protect you as effectively as a good technical implementation.
I pay 29c/kwh in a country with abundant solar, wind, coal and uranium. Perhaps there is something more at play here?

Public education about grid engineering and its challenges would be a good thing.
Oh I see. You were talking about a compiler for software talking to hardware. Well, I don't see why talking to hardware is any different to talking to a CPU or main memory or a disk.
Meh I want information not design. I'll happily block any third party font in favour of what my native browser can do.

What's wrong with Times new Roman? I can read it just fine.
ahhh memories...
Damn, no comments. I’m super interested in this space, but would like to see the latest.

Maybe we post again after Xmas to see if we can get some experts in the field ...
.NET is pretty popular in the UK and elsewhere (particularly in finance) but you also see Java/Oracle in the same space. There are moves towards JavaScript/TypeScript for modern front-ends though.

The only place .NET appears to be discounted is in SV, at least from those I've talked to. Outside of that it's fairly mainstream but obviously you see more of it if you work with it and write/talk about it.
https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/30/washio-on-demand-laundry-s...
Isn't it because economy studies systems composed of human beings rather than idealized homines economici? What's the point of describing a system that doesn't exist in the real world?

To give a concrete example, being from the Ostblock, I've lived through the "voucher privatization" that was very much based on the idealized homo economicus model and failed to account for sociological factors. The result was a decade of Mafia-run state. Shrug.
> Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.

> In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

― Michael Crichton
Absolutely, its the second most used language on github: http://githut.info/

that list is a nice guide on what you should learn in general.

Once learned compliment it by learning Scala.
Don't forget the Unity3D, most of the people who use Unity uses C# to make a game. Recently, Godot Engine also added C# support. So .Net is not just about web development.
I think .NET's vision is get people using Azure. You could say the same about VS Code. MS want to gain developer mind-share and get them using their cloud.
What? You do realize that lots of schools start entry level programming with "enlightening" languages(scheme, haskell etc)? You can write simple programs very easily with enlightening languages.
Nuclear plants are only economically unfeasable to build because coal plants still are. The world is still building lots of coal plants all over the place (lots in my backyard - China is building lots, and now Japan is planning on replacing their nuclear with coal). If coal plants had to pay for the externalities of their generation you would see more interest in nuclear.
Yes, when I got the Macbook battery needs servicing thing couple of years ago, the processor was permanently in a low power state of 800Mhz. You can verify it using the Intel Power Gadget thing or terminal.
Speaking of naïveté, it seems that nuclear energy is arguably renewable, and thus “was never considered a renewable source of energy” is at best, naive.

For example, http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2012/ph241/chowdhury2/
I was a consultant in SF, we had plenty of huge Fortune 500 customers running .Net. The bigger problem was most of their desire to try to outsource everything to "save" money.
Would be good if you could substantiate your comment by linking us to the published version.
This happens to a first gen retina macbook pro. So not sure if they stopped doing this.
Right, but can you ensure that the only thing that ever connects to your datastore (even to perform auxiliary/admin actions or quick data tweaks) is using that code in strongly typed mode? Otherwise you can't be sure what's in your data.
> or terminal

How?