skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because you're blindly assuming we'll have a break through in battery technology in the next 100 years. Shrugging off a shortage of lithium as a non issue because we'll just come up with something better is irresponsible.
Whenever my MBP gets slightly hot (if for example I turn the room heater on, instead of opening a window to let in cold air, or if I dare to have too many tabs open in Chrome), the whole system grinds to a halt and becomes totally useless, while Activity Monitor shows the "kernel_task" pinned at 400% - 700% CPU, with the CPU LOAD graph showing a mostly red mountain of system time being burnt by kernel_task.

I think it may be "SpeedStep" shitting all over itself and putting the CPU into a death spiral.

I've had several generations of MBP that continuously fail this way, so it's not something new to High Sierra.

I'm really disappointed that Apple keeps making each model of MBP thinner and thinner and hotter and hotter, instead of making it thicker with better cooling and ventilation. I don't fucking NEED it to be that thin! What I NEED is for it not to fucking freeze all the time.
Was hoping that Orson was going rip of his shirt and bodyslam Andy. But, alas, that sort of comedy wasn't his thing.
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For a better understanding of consciousness, thinking, knowledge, I would refer you to a short thesis correcting some of the errors of ideas about same:
http://wn.rsarchive.org/Books/GA003/English/GC1981/GA003_c03...

"ALL PROPOUNDERS of theories of knowledge since Kant have been influenced to a greater or lesser degree by the mistaken way he formulated the problem of knowledge. As a result of his “a priorism” he advanced the view that all objects given to us are our representations..."
Because it is the "British Approved Name" of the substance apparently:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin#Names
I think that an "increase in wealth" tax might be accomplished by taxing income, but deducting all consumer spending. If you earn $70k and spend $60k on rent, utilities, groceries, car repairs, and such, then $10k is taxable. If you earn $40k and spend $40k, essentially living paycheck-to-paycheck, $0 is taxable. If you earn $300k and spend $100k, then $200k is taxable. Purchase of financial instruments and equities are not deductible.

If you add to that an exemption of the higher of 5% of income or $20k--so as to not punish people for having a reasonable savings rate--and progressively tax the remainder, that seems pretty "fair" to me (aside from the question of whether any tax can be truly fair). Those who end up paying it are only the ones who can afford to pay it, and they pay in proportion to the extent to which they benefited from the economy.

This kind of tax, like any other, also has possible unintended consequences.
Cars can stop much more easily than trains. Trains can take one or two miles to stop. That's hard to do with LIDAR.

There have been failures of automation. BART was fully automated. Then one train misread a speed command from a trackside gadget, and sped up to over 60 MPH when it was supposed to be slowing down to 20 to prepare to stop at a station. Unfortunately, the station was the end of the line (Fremont), and the train ran off the end into the parking lot.

On the other hand, that was in the 1970s. Some new systems have been fully automated. The Las Vegas Monorail is fully automated. At the end of the line, it asks you to exit, but there's nobody there to make you, so I didn't. Then it runs out on this dead end to switch over to the other line, where it will fall off 20 or 30 feet if it doesn't stop in time. It's a bit scary, but it worked...
Not really, the locals in that area have never known good jobs.
Here is an actual implementation of trying to implement a general AI to play all NES games. It's pretty interesting, but his approach does involve the algorithm having access to the raw NES memory map:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOCurBYI_gY
See, for example, IEC 62304 and the EU and US regulations that require compliance with it.

That standard is generally considered to have arisen out of the deaths caused by the Therac-25 device and its faulty software and design.
This is an odd and vapid piece from Wired.

“PayPal only managed to become a valuable company under Thiel’s watch because eBay never could squash its tiny rival, thanks in part to the protection of the U.S. government.”

This is entirely untrue. Did the author do any research into PayPal? Was s/he even a user back then? This mischaracterized the struggle of PayPal v eBay.

I hate PayPal as much as the next person, but saying it survived due to govt intervention is an odd and inaccurate argument.

This is more like a huffpo or buzzfeed article rather than the Wired that I loved so dearly.
No need for artificial slow downs when you have Google play services. That thing requires more resources with every release.

Jokes aside, I don't think any other than apple does this. For one, android batteries are often larger giving them a bigger headroom.

On the other hand, maybe this is exactly what LG should have done to fix the bootloop issue (which seems to be due to a combination of bad soldering and excessive current draw during boot).
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I love the move to scoped packages.

I encourage everyone to switch to scoped packages if possible, it gives you much more freedom over your name, reduces the chances of typosquatting causing your users problems, and can even help get your name out there a bit more!

It's a no brainer, and I'm surprised more people don't use them.
Sure, if you can ensure that you'll do that for your entire career and that you'll never be in a position where vulnerability has made you (perceptually or otherwise) a weaker candidate than your rival for a particular job, contract, or promotion.

The calculus is simple: do you gain more in your career by openly sharing everything, or by holding in reserve that which doesn't need to be shared?

It is always - always - to your benefit to be the advantaged party in any relationship with an information asymmetry. By over-sharing or not exercising discretion, you are voluntarily putting yourself in the disadvantaged position and should reasonably expect that position to be exploited by others around you at some point.

If you can avoid ever needing to transact with anyone that would exploit that asymmetry, more power to you. I'd wager that exceptionally few people have that luxury.
"Capitalism" is a label that's come to mean numerous different things to numerous different entities.

But some mix of laissez-fair, small-government, complete reliance on decisionmaking at the individual level (except where corporations can impose their preferences over individuals, communities, regions, states, nations, or globally), very strong defences of some kinds of property rights, and an exceptionally high level of un-accounted externalties, seems to capture much the flavour.
A lot, actually.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Anglo-Saxon_Protestant
Grandchildren, then?

As we live longer, we're also able to have children later, and I know many people in their twenties who have had parents pass away or expect it to happen soon.
I like to think of nutrition as education. The more time you spend working hands-on with the food you put in your body, the greater the understanding for and tendency to seek nutritionally-rich ingredients.

Following this mindset leads to better farming practices and land management as well. However it's important to recognize the privilege of those able to do so.

Our society would greatly benefit from better nutritional education.
The people who are dissatisfied invariably ask opinion based questions.

I never ask questions in SO. To be honest, I'm not dissatisfied either, I just gave up. When I saw a question for which I knew the exact answer, I was unable to answer because... I don't know. I wasn't reputable enough to answer and I couldn't get a reputation because I couldn't answer. Or something like that, I don't remember or I don't care. I just google for answers.

So I would reconsider the "invariably". But that's just my two cents.
If you make yourself vulnerable, a competitor can exploit it.
I think there is a lot of reason to believe that we have a uniquely ineffectual government. Excluding defense expenditures, and counting all levels of government, Canada spends less public money per capita, while having cheaper healthcare, education, better transit, etc. For example, we spend more per capita on education than any OECD country except Switzerland, and get worse results. Our federal system (where states aren’t mere administrative bodies taking direction from the central government) makes things particularly difficult. Which means the aspects of government closest to the people (roads, schools, housing, transit) are often the worst managed.
All of the questions in the top are the Game Designer's job.
TypeScript is very effective as a JS to JS transpiler for newer ES features. I've used the compiler many times without using the language.
Why are developers reinventing the wheel for each release (seemingly)?

The fix in my experience is to build a baseline between the low level framework and the UI, like a business layer in most web applications or the HAL in Windows.

I'm not a game developer though, so just my stab in the dark :-)
If you like this you should check out Nim. Its CTFE is arguably even better. :)
I agree. This is a human rights issue happening right under our eyes, but we're so wrapped up in opiophobia and supposed benevolent paternalism to see it.

The people who use them for dealing with chronic pain have been devastated by this war against them and their medicine. Many are committing suicide rather than face the pain without their medicine, and yes the medicine is being taken away, with "stopping the opioid epidemic" given as justification. It is truly sick what we're doing out of ignorance as a society. I've seen very few profiles of people in the media (beyond the Pain News Network), so most non-pain patients have no idea about this world and what they are doing to their neighbors.
I was responding to what I believed was a 100% tax being suggested. Not 'only a percentage'.
It's just a button. This was the joke at my old job.
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I've been an apple fan since the '70's. My first Mac was a Mac Plus. At that point, I truly was a diehard fan because I viewed it as 10X better than the PC world. The engineering was amazing, both for hardware and software. It did have practical problems based mostly on not enough memory being available, but I forgave it because it was so darn beautiful in so many ways. I would tell everyone who would listen to get a mac, and a number of people who would have otherwise been using PC's got into the mac world because of me.

My affection for Apple has been slowly diminishing over the years. At this point, the fact is that their software is absurdly unreliable and isn't even well designed in the UI department, even though great UI was their main way of attracting fans.

I do still use all the built-in apps, including iTunes. They enable me to do what I want to do even though I regard some aspects of iTunes' design as ridiculously bad. I don't have a lot of motivation to change. I've figured out that, for instance, in order to do a search of Apple Music, you have any of the iTunes tabs selected EXCEPT Store. I can use it even though I find the design to be very lacking.

I have pretty much lost all my loyalty to Apple at this point, between the unreliability and the poor design. The main thing that's keeping me in the Apple world is the fact that I just have to believe that reliability has gotten so bad that no matter what kinds of blinders they've been wearing, they're going to have to see that something is seriously wrong, and start to seriously work to address the situation. And I'd rather not have to adjust to new OS's, and I'd like to be able to stay familiar with Apple software so I can keep helping people I know who are using it (in many cases, due to me). I am hopeful that in a year or two, reliability (if not UI design) will be decent again. I'm even hoping that this will be explicitly addressed by Tim Cook in his next keynote. The reliability situation is so obviously bad that he really should discuss it. I think Steve Jobs might have done so if things had gotten to this point--but I don't think they would have gotten this bad under him, even though there were major problems under his tenure.
That's the deal though isn't it?

They pay me real money - I do real work for them.
Thanks for clarifying. That was my takeaway as well.
Hi Edmond, is “high leverage” a phrase you use in the book? From the notes, “leverage” is defined as “impact / time invested.” Why did you choose “leverage” to describe this concept? “Leverage” suggests to me that it is grown with the idea of using it to climb a career ladder, but I’d like to hear your thoughts on this, as I have read just these notes and not the book yet.
Upgrading for me left me with missing apps and having to fix homebrew and a bunch of other CLI tools and their deps. First time I've ever run into problems upgrading my macos, and will definitely wait a while and look for threads like these before installing the next one.
It's nice to see an exceptional paper like NYTimes bring this issue to light. I look forward to seeing more ground breaking reporting from them.
Not open source. This disappoints me a lot. I've never seen paid compilers or languages take off.

Would have been nice to have some details about the runtime, does it use LLVM? What's the GC like?
Yours is a very shallow reading of Marx. A common, but nonetheless shallow reading. The only thing I can really do is refer [0], sections 5 and 6 starting on page 35 as an answer to such an interpretation.

> From top to bottom, this is a network built on voluntary exchange with no extraction or exploitation.

I mean, this is just preposterous. Are we going to ignore how capitalism developed with enclosure, forcible transformation of the commons into private property, and colonialism? Do you really want to make the claim that, say the Dutch East India Company's involvement in India was based on voluntary exchange with no extraction or exploitation? Or how about today, when the computers we use to write these messages rely on conflict minerals? Give me a break. Your analysis is ridiculous at face value. My only question is how you could type that out with a straight face.

[0] http://digamo.free.fr/mandelik.pdf
> Having said that, the typical undertone on HN of "regulation is bad by definition" really irks me.

I think you just notice that undertone more because of your predisposition. I notice just as many pro regulation as anti regulation comments, and I think of myself as a capitalism moderate (since there are negative externalities that do not get included in the price, regulations act as corrective measures to move markets slightly in the direction they would be if those were included correctly, at least when done well).
>JS gets a shit reputation for being mountains of config before you can do any work

But... that has nothing to do with JS and everything to do with the unnecessary complexity added by the ecosystem.

Are developers no longer aware that they can literally just open any text editor and write JS and it will work? That no one actually has to use NPM or Babel or anything?
>>For desktop/mobile apps, they need a UI framework

Then use FreePascal/Lazarus for your client. Don't know about the state of the mobile libs, but Delphi/FP perfected desktop UI development a long time ago. Decouple backend into whatever you want so you have an asset that is UI agnostic.
> ... If one party's not on board, then it's going to end up being a problem.

Yep, that's why he says prominently: "Change jobs if you have to."

Idealism, IMHO, acts as a motivator and helps folks get through the obstacles that inevitably block progress.
You're saying that more evidence makes something less likely to be true? I suppose Elvis is alive, too.

Add this to your proof of conspiracy: my daughter's stock 12-inch MacBook, purchased this summer, updated to 10.13.1 and started having exactly the same problems. The only reason I know is she recently started borrowing my non-macOS computer to get her homework done.
Apple makes 90% of their revenue from iOS devices. The answer to "why the decline" is it's not material to their business or stock market performance.
Not really though. Look at his SNL bits. Like the Mighty Mouse one. Really he was just trying to push people in any way possible. Not just the crowd but the people involved in the show, everyone was his audience, from fellow actors, to stage hands and producers.
France is killing itself. It has nothing to do with the euro.
In many ways, it was similar to building a startup product.

I quit my full-time job at Quora and spent ten months full-time on the book (with bits of traveling). Like any other project, I drastically estimated how long it would take. I estimated one year; it ended up taking almost two. I finished the book while working full-time at Quip.

At times, it was an amazing adventure. I loved going around Silicon Valley and interviewing people like Mike Krieger or Sam Schillace to get their stories and their most valuable lessons.

Other times, there were also intense periods of self-doubt. The first person I shared a chapter draft with was my wife. She's also an engineer and by default can give quite critical feedback. And, wow, did I feel shut down after my first round of feedback. It's confusing! I don't understand the point of this! etc.

I ended up spending two months iterating by myself on my next drafts to build up more confidence before sharing with more engineering friends -- they then really gave me the support I needed to feel confident about writing the book. The experience was a great lesson in how new ideas need to be nurtured, and you need to either find supporters who will nurture that for you, or ask for the type of feedback you want (which is what I now do with my wife). It was also a valuable lesson in getting feedback sooner on your project before you are too emotionally attached to feel comfortable about asking for feedback.

All in all, it's one of my proudest accomplishments in my career.
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IMHO there is a strong slant in both directions. Even HN is not immune from the current political stratification in the US.
I think your right. But if the idea is the halo effect that keeps me in the ecosystem, they need to do better on the OS/laptop front and on the Siri front. Both are slipping.
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It might be a bit of hyperbole, but I think Babel is a big part of why JavaScript has become the powerhouse of a language that it is today.

Not only did it slingshot the usable version of the language to the latest version at a time when standards were languishing for years, and it also provided some much needed documentation.

And I genuinely believe that babel had a large effect on the improvement of the language. The process for proposing new language features and getting them proposed was streamlined by babel, and after having looked into the process, it's honestly simple enough that anyone that knows Javascript well enough would be able to submit new proposals.
Sure, but if you're not going to use TypeScript, why use its compiler over Babel? I find Babel much nicer to work with.
Yes! Perfect example, added to my comment :)
That aggressiveness gets noticed and picked up by lots of different outlets -- from tech aggregators to mainstream business publications looking for "punchy" topics. E.g. look at who appears on CNBC programs.

Unfortunately, people have made that into a marketing strategy -- I'm not sure it is something to really hold against Mattermark in particular.
You need to STOP these BAD developer habits NOW
I had also heard that many companies were moving contracts out of India due to the inevitable rise in cost and the existence of other regions willing to work for less. I've no clue how prevalent that is, though. It makes sense and should have been expected. Once a region handles anything (IT, manufacturing, whatever) for awhile, they get more experienced and skilled and start demanding higher rates, so if the low cost was the attraction in the first place, they eventually price themselves out. It is good to hear that India is responding in the right way, by forging their own path rather than relying upon contracts from foreign business. I look forward to see what develops personally (as a US developer)!
Was that the Paradroid journal? He kept a diary for Zzap!64 magazine called Birth Of A Paradroid:

http://www.zzap64.co.uk/zzap3/para_birth01.html

He also wrote a diary for his Morpheus game:

http://www.zzap64.co.uk/mentalprocre.html
I'd also like to attach some information to your comment for other people that might forget opioids have a valid use.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChronicPain/comments/7k34y7/cdc_gui...

Also reading the comments at
https://www.regulations.gov/docketBrowser?rpp=25&so=DESC&sb=...

can put things into perspective. I know it's hard for people who have never experienced chronic severe pain to not understand why these medications are needed. the same as I look at normal people and can't remember what it's like to not be in pain.
I suppose, it's worth nothing to read an article, which compares benchmarks of Ubuntu and CentOS. It's too bullshit. Be honest, compare comparable things.
IIRC the paper referred to was updated at some point to accommodate for this, and I think it's a relatively trivial change.
no I mean the reverse! A random rich person looses all their money