skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's never really struck me as a shill so much as a lazy writer with nothing interesting to say. Every time somebody sends me a link to his site I know that by going there I can generally expect to see something along the lines of "marketshare doesn't matter and just to prove it I'm going to write another 5000 words about marketshare which say something altogether very different than the last 5000 words about marketshare I wrote three months ago when it also did not matter," "BBEdit is the best web development environment for people who do absolutely no web development, like me," "Somebody's using Markdown wrong and this matters (unlike marketshare, which does NOT matter)," "I'm bored so I figured I'd namedrop some pseudo-famous indie Mac developer with whom I occasionally exchange tweets to remind myself how cool of an old timey software greybeard I think I am even though I have produced nothing of even marginal value since Perl had lots of marketshare (which does not matter)," "Acorn is better than Photoshop at everything and I can say this comfortably as a tasteless dilettante who has absolutely no idea how to use Photoshop in any meaningful way let alone do so professionally," "every journalist in the world should be writing the way I do even though it would make them just as unemployable as I am," "somebody at Apple told me a secret and I can't tell you what it was but it's really amazing knowing somebody at Apple because I like to imagine myself having a job again," or "boy am I lucky to mysteriously be able to pay for all these Epi-Pens without doing any actual work ever James Bond Stanley Kubrick Trump sucks marketshare."

When that's all you have going through your head, lots of incredibly uninteresting things probably look like "triumphs" and you're probably going to annoy everyone in earshot about them over and over and over. I'm glad I never worked with anyone in any department he had ties to because I imagine he'd be quite the annoyingly needy third wheel when grown folks was talking.

Marketshare.
Have you tried taking your phone to the Apple Store? I haven't noticed issues like that with mine.
> To me you are consenting the moment you decide to use services and websites that cost millions of dollars to maintain and expecting and paying little to nothing compared to the real cost of those services.

That's not how consent works, if it was then I would just claim that by establishing a connection to my computer, the remote website consents to my rules including ad blocking. My computer is mine, I have the right to display the content sent to my computer however the fuck I want. If my doing so ends up putting some company out of business because their tracker revenue dries up, that's perfectly fine, that's literally the free market at work and the consumers signaling to providers that this business model is not viable.

I'm not obliged to be a source of revenue to these companies.
Kid or no kid, the Tenderloin is fine as long as you "fit in"... but if it looks like you can be scared out of some cash, you will get the predatory stare.
No no, not at all! One of the key things a manager needs to do is create a culture of mutual respect within the team, between everyone and everyone else. If the manager doesn't actually respect people, that's going to be a disaster.

This is tied to one of the core categories of soft skills: getting a group of people to work together as a team and trust each other.
>to profile you and optimally manipulate your behavior to sell you shit.

...by showing you ads.
For regular x86 PCs you can use secure-boot and load your own signing keys, then sign your own linux kernel.

As far as I know, chromeos has no option for that. Either it has only google's signing keys, or secure-boot is entirely disabled via devmode.

That's clearly a massive step down in security from most modern x86 laptops.
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The convention with the Python C API is to return a non-NULL pointer to a python object on success, and return NULL and set the exception global variable on error. Yes, global variables are also alive and well.

PyObject *fout = _PySys_GetObjectId(&PyId_stdout);
stdout_encoding = _PyObject_GetAttrId(fout, &PyId_encoding);

The python equivalent of this is `sys.stdout.encoding`. The StringIO object was constructed without an encoding, so this is None.

stdout_encoding_str = PyUnicode_AsUTF8(stdout_encoding);

This tries to convert None to a C string, which fails.
I believe a drop-in replacement called Bulletproofs is being developed to reduce the transaction size. It's been a while since I looked into what else is being worked on.

Smaller transaction sizes with adaptive block sizes seems like a good scaling solution. Is there something I'm missing?

The fee in terms of XMR actually reduces when there's more transactions. However if its value in terms of USD rises, then the fee in terms of USD still might go up with more adoption. Perhaps that's something the developers can adjust in their regularly-scheduled hardforks.
Yes. :)

Sound engineering judgment typically implies a good understanding of the full context of the problem ("is this a good tradeoff?"), which often involves things beyond the merely technical. And without all of the other things you mention, which are definitely in the category normally called "soft skills," the best engineering judgment in the world will go to waste.
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I have around hundred books to read. But I can not make time for reading in this busy and distracted world. What are your effective ways to read books effectively and faster to retain information?
Search turns up way more, but these were the recent stories that came to mind:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15978252
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15477048
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15508714
How will search engines make money if not by ads? How will free webmail providers exist?

Ad supported content provides a wealth of information for people who otherwise wouldn't have access to it.
My comment is specific to New York City. There is an independent system
—311—through which reports can be made and hence documented.
It's not at all a no-go area. The Tenderloin is one of the most expensive and desirable neighborhoods in SF. It's no worse than the Mission or 6th and Market. It's definitely the best place I lived in all of SF, including the Mission, SOMA, and the Sunset. No wonder people are paying $3-4k a month for studios there. Yes, there are drug spots and such but it's definitely not a place to fear or avoid. That's nonsense.
At least the aging MacBook Air, while not retina, is still available and is evidently the last machine with the "old" style (good) keyboard.

I've used the new keyboard, and the reduced travel doesn't bother me, but the numerous reports of failed keys to the degree of "I just wanted to clean the fan"[0] level[1] is keeping me away.

My 2013 Air is still an excellent machine though...so is the Mac Mini, if only a cheaper NUC wasn't a better option in every regard other than it doesn't (natively) run macOS. :(

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpCJzdWxEbQ

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdS3tjEIqUA
Or the ads with sounds. Even just auto starting videos. News sites are bad at this.
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Firstly, none of those examples are subtle. I'm not sure when the actual words fear, temptation, sin and guilt were redefined to be 'subtle' manipulation, and these words are literally used in the advertisements.

Secondly, the indulgence food industry doesn't care about cultural inclinations in the way you argue. They didn't set up a culture of considering fatty or carb rich food bad for one's health, or sinful. They'd be happy if everyone considered eating cake to be a wonderful thing, that rich, famous, inspirational people do in great quantities.

> Decadent no longer has its original meaning of severe depravity any more because advertisers co-opted it in the mid-70's to apply whenever you eat a candy bar.

Sin based language has been fading in intensity for generations. We have a show on the Disney channel celebrating "evil" during Christmas.

However the association of candy bars and decadence didn't come from advertisers originally. Gluttony is a deadly sin, and for puritan American settlers indulging in such pleasures of the flesh outside of special holy days would have been seen as downright decadent.
The new keyboards are totally defective (especially v1)
Galaxy S5 was waterproof with a removable back. All the current waterproof phones have SIM card trays, mic holes, cord connectors, speakers, etc, so it might not be as 'extreme' as you're thinking. Just need a continuous rubber gasket and a tight fit. Of course making your phone out of materials that bend or shatter instead of flexing becomes a bigger problem, especially since the former offers no practical benefit beyond 'feel'.
According to the table of contents on Amazon, it looks more like an encyclopedia of x86 and PC platform minutiae.
No, because Google advises their advertisers not to creep out their potential customers.

AFAICT an ad from Google is chosen based on the reams of data Google has about me, but the content of the ad seems generic (or at least seems like it's meant to come off as generic so as not to creep me out).

The hypothetical adtech I'm describing would of course choose the ad based similarly on reams of data about me, but the content of the ad would itself also be worded using invasive data about me.

Google ad: "get some cheap technical degree"

Creeperville Ad: "climb out of your 35,000+ debt with a technical degree"

There are even more convincing examples wrt pornography but I'd rather not go down that rabbit hole.
Lol. You can't just violate battery physics because you want it to be so.
Ah, I have not fully read this person's claim that lead is the cause for crime. I have taken a personal liking to the theory, since it at least has some causal capabilities to it. (Specifically, we know it directly has an effect on brain chemistry.) So, to that end, I am probably arguing a different take. Even if I expect it to be a majority parameter, I would also expect at a local level there will be major variance in how influential it is.

I'm still not sure how your argument is working, though. The size of the baby boom would be mostly irrelevant, at a major numbers position. Unless you are arguing there is a saturation point for how many males a population can sustain, not a percentage that it can sustain. (You specifically claim ratio, though.)

Which is not to say I am trying to shoot it down. I'm very interested in exploring the question. My strongest suspicion is that there is something else we were putting people in contact with. Would be amusing if it was DDT levels or some such that we know is bad for other reasons and stopped completely.

That said, I fully acknowledge this as a bias of mine. That I suspect it is not the direct things people think they did that caused something to improve, but something else that happened to happen at the same time. Lead is attractive because we know it is terrible for you.
The article took 7.8 seconds to "fully" load for me, however the text was readable in under 300ms. Loading ads of screen doesn't bother me.

Also, I'm not sure where the irony is here. They're talking about anti-adblocking, so it's hardly ironic that they use advertisements themselves.
I'm not opposed to ads per se but simply the extra workload it puts on the browser. What baffles me though is the across the board negativity and Robin Hood-like mentality here from people who are, to a large part, directly or indirectly monetizing their work by means of advertising.
It's html5 video, press right mouse button over it.
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I disagree.

An engineer with soft skills, but no hard skills, isn't an engineer – but their soft skills may be usable elsewhere. (I find that engineering managers need to have a decent amount of engineering skill to be at all effective)

An engineer with hard skills, but no soft skills, is somewhere between unproductive and an active menace. The bare minimum soft skill is the ability to work effectively with others in a team. Someone who lacks this skill contributes more negative value, by harming the operation of the rest of the team, than any one person is able to create, no matter how good they are. And a system built by one person in angry isolation (which is where people quickly end up if they lack those skills) is a disaster from other perspectives: for example, production maintenance and operations, where ultimately only one person understands what they've built.

An engineer with enough hard skills to function in a team, but only that, is a net positive, but I'd hesitate to describe them as "solid" – rather, I'd say that gets them to be an effective journeyman, but means they'll never be able to lead anything, even something small.

Conversely, the "engineer" with lots of soft skills but minimal hard skills can be a manager – but not of anything too complex. Again, their career is permanently limited.

So there's a real law of the minimum at play here. But notably, the place you drop to at zero soft skills is way worse than the place you drop to at zero hard skills. The latter, you can find a use for; the former, you need to get out of your organization as quickly as possible, because they do active damage every day.
Although I take your points, I disagree that JavaScript is more auditable as-is. In either case I will need tools to unwind/flatten/de-obfuscate the code and audit it. I believe it would take me about the same amount of time in either case, depending on the scope of the audit.

Regardless, it’s a trade off. Although I agree we should have a web that doesn’t need JavaScript to function - I believe that is a separate argument - I think in this case, while we already have it, I’ll take WebAssembly for the speed and new applications it helps support.

I certainly wouldn’t want to see “Web Assembly” blobs in my browser that I’m not allowed to inspect, which again is another argument, IMO.
Worse, the transaction rate decreases as the data size of each transaction increases, and the data size increases as more transactions are done.
I haven't voted on your comment in either direction, but if I had to guess why someone else did, maybe it's because you're speculating about what coin to buy in order to make a profit.

HN seems to me like the place to discuss the tech behind a coin, not whether or not to speculate on it for monetary gain.

Personally, I wouldn't say Monero "isn't fast or scalable." Perhaps it's not compared to other coins, but compared to Bitcoin it sure seems fast and scaleable. (Again, I didn't downvote your comment for disagreeing with that.)
https://vincentgarton.com/2017/06/12/unconditional-accelerat...
I guess my point is you’re also not obliged to use their services. I don’t understand the entitlement of “I shouldn’t have to play ball by their rules but I also want to use the ball until it deflates”

Your response is just a variation of the “They returned status code 200” argument which I explain as really just supporting the system albeit half-heartedly.

If you really hate them so much (I mean, you’re fine with them going out of business so at least, you don’t love them or rely on them) why even make the request? Why put their filthy ad-tracking blood money funded content on your PC. If it’s so repulsive to you on such a deep level but you also don’t rely on it or need it or care if it goes away, why even get near it?

Edit: And I’ll add my take on it. I think you want to have your cake and eat it too and the “their server responded with content” argument is just trying to romanticize the concept. I honestly don’t have a problem with people trying to fight ad blockers, my issue is when they try to paint it as anything more than wanting something they act like is absolute poison for less than it costs to make. It’s like I give you a bite of my sandwich and you decide to lick the whole thing because “I can consume it how ever I want”. Sure you can, and I willingly gave you the sandwich, but I’m not going to be able to give you bites of my sandwich if you insist on licking them and leaving them unpalatable for me. If you really don’t like my sandwich why not refuse my offer and show me that the sandwich is flawed, not the conditions I’m offering you a bite under.
I think I am fundamentally misunderstanding the appeal of these devices, which is why I don't own one. I don't want to use iCloud, iTunes, or anything else to lock me into an ecosystem that is expensive and restrictive. I don't want to buy exclusive hardware to use an operating system. I run Linux and use rclone with Google Drive and it is still supported. Why? Because Google actually has an API. What about Apple?

https://github.com/ncw/rclone/issues/1778

I don't even want to get into AirPods that are excessively marked up pretty much like every Apple accessory and product:

http://a.co/h3yPiSv

If it isn't about status, then I don't really get why people would choose this path. It doesn't make sense to me. I work in the tech industry and watch people spend $3k all the time for Apple computers and equipment that I can get the same or better specs for half the price by choosing a different company. Maybe I've just never felt it was very ethical to support a business that overcharges for devices that can help educate and provide tools and training to people. I always felt it was the responsibility of companies like this to make their equipment and software as equally accessible as possible, not actively exploit people through social engineering. Not everyone will agree with this, but that is my perception.
They probably are 14-16.
Going through the trouble of clicking/closing a few ads is not the same as having your information being added to an ever-growing file that major corporations have on everyone.

And you can't say "just don't visit the site" because pretty much every site does this. You might as well say "just quit the internet" which obviously is not a solution.
Is there a direct statement of explanation or at a section staying exactly how they solved the problem or what their approach was. I understand they have done years of research and have multiple papers, but isnt it reasonable that the article at least provide some explanation or discussion of their methods.
I've always wondered this about insurance company's business model. How is it fair or legal for them to pass on the increased costs to their customers? Providing insurance is a risk that companies take, for which they get rewarded if there is more inflow of cash (premium) vs outflow (payouts). If they have a bad year where more customers are to be paid out, then how can they increase the premium on everyone, just to ensure that their profits grow or remain same?
> I would go so far as to say that someone carrying an infant through that area might be endangering the child.

This is nonsense. You must be extremely easily scared. For normal people, it's perfectly fine.
Yeah fair call. Although I’ve never met anyone who has actually done that.
Maybe seen as a shill.
Robert can save the life of Johnny, a five year old who needs a liver transplant, but the transplant procedure will cost the hospital $1,000,000 that could be spent in other ways, such as purchasing better equipment and enhancing salaries to recruit talented doctors to the hospital. Johnny is very ill and has been on the waiting list for a transplant but because of dire shortage of local organ donors, obtaining a liver will be expensive. Robert could save Johnny’s life, or he could use the $1,000,000 for other hospital needs.

Robert was said to either find this decision easy or difficult:

“Robert sees his decision as an easy one, and is able to decide quickly,” or “Robert finds this decision very difficult, and is only able to make it after much time, thought, and contemplation.”
This is great stuff. Are there any currently available programmable routers in the market ?
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But only in the US there is overprescription and a crisis. Why?
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He likes Eero like the radio DJ likes Comcast and Sleep Train. There is no attempt to justify his recommendation, certainly not the massive effort and contortions he puts into recommending every Apple product.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/12/10/eero-wifi-syste...

https://daringfireball.net/feeds/sponsors/2017/12/eero
if disasters provide information about risk, then the lack of disasters should also provide information. which means that insurance premiums should be steadily decreasing in years where there aren't many payouts. does this happen in practice? feels like insurance premiums only ratchet up (at least on a personal level).
Funny you mention much of the good Italian provisions go to Spain and on the other hand Spain is sending much if its Jambon Iberico to China, pricing out some of the locals who cannot now afford the high prices.

Speaking of East German food, how have you found Walzwerk's [in SF] fare to be, IIRC, they are/were East German.
This article is from 2016. AT&T already won and California was last state to opt in: http://urgentcomm.com/ntiafirstnet/it-s-unanimous-california...
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Taking redundancy and linkbait out of submission titles is standard here. "On Earth" was redundant because where else would the subway track be? And it was hyperbolic, therefore linkbait, which is presumably why they put it there to begin with.

That's not editorializing because no particular interpretation is being pushed; we're just being good Strunk-and-Whiters and omitting needless words.
I wouldn't take it personal because I don't like Apple. Maybe it came across that way, but it really is more about the company and culture as a whole.
I grew up in Brooklyn. Still live here. You are most likely a transplant because all of the borough's are extremely safe now. It's kind of ridiculous how much safer it got. No offense.
More leverage in adapting existing structures, such as lava tubes and roofing over meteor-impact cracks and fissures? Much larger volumes at much reduced construction costs.
Interesting perspective. Yeah, video games, netflix, cheap food, weed and welfare definitely seem to keep many poor people in couch lock stupors. And maybe violent video games add some kind of aggression sink effect. Wow.
Doesn't fit the context.
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Shitting onto the escalator? How exactly? Is it moving during the process?
Bitcoin Cash is closer to the original Bitcoin implementation in code, philosophy, and community. Same thing that worked since 2009, until the blocks ran out of space.