skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Universal out-of-the-box support in almost every language. The actual performance impact is subtle - for most core/front-end interactions, the messages are very small (because we put so much effort into minimizing the deltas). It's also the case that there are ridiculously fast JSON implementations out there. We did discover that Swift's is not one of them though. I have a prototype of a faster one using Codable; I'd consider upstreaming it to Swift but just need to find the time.

I'd consider a different serialization format, but it doesn't seem to be on the critical path for either performance or functionality, so I feel there are a lot of other things ahead of it.
the side effects of a battery that could no longer provide the voltage required to hit those Geekbench scores

The thinnest device is also an Apple thing. The decision to have a smaller battery to achieve that is also very obviously deliberate
Why is there not a true rival to Google Adsense?
> Won't those unskilled workers return if there is no work, just like we've had seasonal migration of farm workers in the past?

It isn't that there are zero jobs, it's that there are more workers than jobs. Add even more workers and some of the new workers will get some of the jobs.

And they could get a disproportionate share of the jobs by being willing to work for less money. Which compounds the problem, by both reducing wages for the entire class (increasing the consumption of need-based services) and reducing the government's tax receipts from each lower-paid worker's social security and other taxes.
Goodyear certainly seems to have a big piece of the responsibility here. But I don't hold the RV manufacturers blameless -- they were the ones selecting and buying a low-speed commercial delivery vehicle tire for a passenger application.

Also I'm inclined to believe that many owners didn't inflate them properly. A high load range tire will have a much higher pressure than passenger car owners are accustomed to. Most people just inflate their tires to about 30PSI and that's generally fine for a passenger car.

Most consumer tire pumps or inflators would probably have difficulty getting to the proper pressure which can be twice that more than a normal passenger car tire.
Obligatory Fight Club reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiB8GVMNJkE
As a US citizen, I can no longer access Bitfinex. My personal experience, when I could, is that you are never exposed to USDT on the site at all except as an option to transfer your deposited USD to another exchange via tether. They may have changed that, but I don’t know.

As for withdrawing, you can’t withdraw to the US any more, but you can still make international USD wires to banks in other jurisdictions, specifically Taiwan and Hong Kong. I have not heard anything contradicting this, and have seen a fair bit confirming it.
That's quite subjective. It's not as "fancy" as other cars, sure. And not as much as some people would expect, given the price.

What I'd like to know is: how well does it age? Many "luxury" cars have fancy materials which get damaged rather easily.
Looks like file.io deletes the file after it's downloaded once.

Here's a link good for 24 hours https://dropfile.to/JBt2vu7
Amazon already forces you to see what are effectively ads. Every page you visit has suggested items based on either similar search results, purchase history, current page content, content other users purchased after viewing a product, etc.

They just don't look like ads because they are indistinguishable from the rest of the amazon interface.
> unwarranted assumption rooted in confirmation bias

I'd say it's rooted in statistics:

1. Take this tire. If you know that there's a high chance it will blow up, then ... the more you sell, the more tires blow up in the wild; the more tires that blow up, the more injured & dead. The more injured & dead - the more likely you are to get caught. The end-to-end equation is "the more tires you sell, the worse your chances to get away with it".

2. Dieselgate: it's different, in that nothing "blows up". But still, the more cars you put on the road, the higher the chance one owner/mechanic will notice it. Maybe your "chance of detection" doesn't increase dramatically with the success of the product (though it definitely does increase), but the impact of it being detected increases linearly with the number of cars sold! This is still a very bad equation, since VW had zero deniability - once the cheat was detected in one car, it could be easily reproduced in all.

It just doesn't seem to work out, from a risk-benefit perspective. Maybe only if you're looking very short term?
Super easy to move between modes of transport if you don't have kids.

Moving the car seat alone makes car sharing a huge pain. And it's true now more than ever since now there's a social/safety expectation to have children in a full seat or booster seat until they're at least 10-12 years old.

Of course, if you have children, you're not using the car alone.
Ask HN: Are containers really more light weight than virtual machines?
I was talking to an expert on containers and asked them "what is the real benefit of containers over VMs" and he said confidently "containers are more light weight than VMs".

But I wonder is that true?

Is "weight" the core value of containers over VMs? And are containers more light weight anyway? My experience with VMs is that small ones are only 25MB or so - seems pretty light weight to me.
> But it won't take your USDT and turn it back into dollars.

that's... unlikely. mainly because if that were true, nobody would want to sell anything at bitfinex, and cryptocurrency prices there would skyrocket. this happened at mtgox when they halted withdraws, BTC prices skyrocketed there.
I must concur. With an equivalent vim setup and code files, nothing beats X11/suckless terminal on my OpenBSD machine. Comparing to that, even Alacritty looks like a slug.

I must say however that things are looking a bit better in iTerm2 when switching the Metal renderer on. It's just a shame that an Nvidia GPU on OSX is necessary to compete with my $1000 Lenovo with its crappy Intel chip on OpenBSD when it comes to text editing latency.
Why? Because Li-Po batteries don't maintain their peak performance forever?

Maybe Ford should recall their cars because the tires eventually wear out?
Who is going to sequence the human genome unless its for profit?
You know why we rate-limited you, since I've explained it to you in numerous email threads going back more than two years. But for anyone reading this who doesn't know: we rate-limit accounts that post too many low-quality and/or get involved in flamewars. On Hacker News, "low quality" means uncivil or unsubstantive. The standards are described in more detail at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

It's true that your recent comment history has gotten better overall (although this thread itself is pretty borderline). We'll try taking the rate limit off your account for now. To avoid it kicking in again, please stick to civil and substantive comments only.
Presumably a lot of people would still want to experience the sheer grandeur and atmosphere of being on the spot. I mean, plenty of people still regularly visit sites and monuments with little or no mystery. The excitement of standing before a millennia old structure can never go away. But yes, some of the current novelty will wear off.
Sure, or look at Obama, who is exactly as black as he is white(or, perhaps, even more white, since his father was little more than a sperm donor and his mother/her parents raised him). But he is considered by all, including himself, to be black.

I find it interesting that in the US, mixed race people tend to become the least 'privileged' race, whereas in Mexico, at least in this one case this woman identifies with the more privileged group
> maybe not "When you are away from your house" but you could not turn on the live beacon if that's a concern

people have schedules, their commute timetables reveal them. If I start appearing on the logs as riding in in a different part of the world then I'm away for longer. That info is visible to anyone you are in the same "club" as, even if you have enhanced privacy enabled.
Have you been inside an actual model 3? Or are you basing your comment on pics?

I got ours a couple of weeks ago and it’s definitely not like a Hyundai. The interior is very clean, modern, far superior to any other car I’ve been in. My first thoughts when I got in was— the BMW 3 series is dead. My second thought was, they better refresh the Model S interior to match this asap because the Model S looks dated compared to it.
This is weird to me. Does Facebook currently ban advertisements for commodities like gold? If no, then what's the difference between advertising for bitcoin and advertising for gold?
Copying data in memory between libraries is slower than actually getting the data across the network from the Kafka cluster itself? Seems like a strange bottleneck if so.
You are most welcome. Thank you for taking the time to leave that comment, it actually means a lot. It often seems as if certain content or research that takes months or years is met with nothing more than a 'meh' when published if it isn't applicable to the current fad-of-the-day :)

If you found that comment insightful, you really should read this: https://neosmart.net/wiki/mbr-boot-process/

Cheers!
> Native UI. Cross-platform UI toolkits never look and feel quite right. The best technology for building a UI is the native framework of the platform. On Mac, that’s Cocoa.

Thumbs up!
The article claims that "the primary goal of an aircraft seatbelt is not to save your life if the plane crashes; in that unlikely event, there’s not much in the way of conventional safety gear that would help you", which is too fatalistic. For example, in the crash of United 232 [1], 185 people (nearly two in three of those aboard) survived. It seems unlikely that anyone not strapped in would have done so.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JalfLq9QG3Y
> There’s internet censorship and there’s China. Nobody else is in the same league.

Give the U.S. time. We're trying to catch up to China as quickly as we can.
> I never bought into this argument that gangsta rap, violent video games, porn, etc have NO effect on our society.

I never argued that. So you are building a straw man. Of course everything has an "effect". But it didn't bring society down. That's the point. It isn't the cause of all of societies ills. If the media, people like you and others were right, then society would have collapsed a long time ago. It hasn't.

> You, yourself mentioned ads in your comment. What is an ad but a type of media? And yet, ads are so effective that they are basically the backbone of many of the largest tech companies in the world.

Sure. But ads are media specifically engineered to influence you in a particular manner. Gangsta rap, violent video games, porn, etc are meant to entertain. But I agree, all media influences.

> If this wasn't possible, advertising wouldn't be one of the largest industries in the world.

Once again, I'm not denying that media has influence. Advertising, news media, entertainment, movies, etc all influence to some degree. My point was about the scaremongering and scapegoating of certain things and how overblown it is and how people do it for money and influence.
I've seen a few comments like "that's a lot of money" etc...

I made ~$400k last year. I'm a consultant and I don't have a college education, any meaningful certifications or pedigrees and I don't even have a website.

The fact is, the money is out there. In my experience there is always a client out there willing to pay whatever you think is exorbitant, and most clients are terrible at judging which vendors are worth their rates.

If you don't get sick with fear inside when you name your rate then it isn't high enough. Keep asking for more money and I promise you will make more. It isn't unfair dealing if your client is happy to pay it, instead it's foolish if your client would have happily paid more and you didn't find out.

From an economics perspective it's an impure market. Nobody knows what the price should be for your services, including you. What makes you think the client is any better a judge of value than you?
I got a used Nexus 6 (in excellent condition) from Glyde for $185 which worked decently well. It was faster, but not super-snappy; and the battery life wasn't great.

But I purchased the iPhone X with AppleCare+ about a month ago. It was a huge purchase. The phone was $1,149, AppleCare+ was $199, and NYC sales tax was close to $120. In total, I spent $1,468.
How Google fights Android malware
Exchanges don't actually hold the things they're trading. They're just matchmakers who take a percentage when trades occur.

Anything creating high volume benefits exchanges, even if that volume is everyone trying to sell their tethers for other crypto.
Hey Rick, thanks for taking the time to leave that comment. It means a considerable amount; helping people out is the reason why EasyBCD is free (and with over 50 million downloads to date!)
I was taught the algorithms to do this stuff in my Computer Science class over 20 years ago (RE is equivalent to DFA). You weren't the first person to implement regular expression visualizations.
I think it's really a shame that Strava is taking so much heat. The heatmap was a really cool visualization and also useful to find out where people are running and biking, generally. And, it was created from tracks that people willing uploaded and made public, even if they didn't fully understand the privacy implications.

But it's also frightening that this data, stored indefinitely, is effectively a mass surveillance system. I was contacted by local law enforcement who had gotten my email address from Strava via an "official legal process" because I had ridden my bike in an area around the time a homicide occurred.

Chew on that. The police or the government have access to your whereabouts, just because someone stored them.
They updated the article several hours later with:

'The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission sent subpoenas on Dec. 6 to virtual-currency venue Bitfinex and Tether, a company that issues a widely traded coin and claims it’s pegged to the dollar, according to a person familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified discussing private information.'
Except for JavaScript performance: https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/954493740600578049
I think verbosity occurs when the language can't easily represent the paradigm. And rather than use the proper paradigm, programmers do what is easy to represent. Lightpost fallacy of hammer utilization.

When we have better language creation tools we will get more outsiders, who will bring more paradigms.

One thing I wished was addressed in general in all of education was in the style and analysis on the ways of solving problems. Something like solution formulation aesthetics.
You named some random things that have been around for short periods of time and claimed that "they won". I don't get it.
those libertarians have been expecting this and have traded their tether-pumped btc for gold, land, etc.

it's the late to the game profit seekers who have bought in over the past few months who will get killed by this. even if the tether founders have made off with whatever cash deposits they had and there's nothing in the vault, cryptocurrencies will still have value and will rise again.
The Case for Ethereum
That is 9 deaths directly attributable to the tires. It's not like there were just 9 fatalities in car accidents where the cars just coincidentally had that tire.
Those in glass houses. Faith-based healing, in paticular 12-step programs, are common in the US. I would not equate the two, but the idea of treatment through prayer isnt just an africa thing.
> The US doesn't need a Shenzhen

When the US was a manufacturing superpower for most of the 20th century, it provided a way for ordinary people to earn a good living. Workers and suppliers pumped money into a wide variety of local businesses.

Starting around the early '80s, the manufacturing started moving overseas, especially to China. The Rust Belt region (where I'm from) never really recovered economically, although there are a few bright spots if you know where to look.

What did we do wrong and China do right, that the economic prosperity left us and went to them instead? How can we learn from their formula for success and adapt it for ourselves?

It sure seems like having a piece of the growth industries of the 21st century located in your country is a big piece of the puzzle in terms of providing well-paying jobs to our citizens and promoting their quality of life. Which should help with some of the political problems we've been having recently. How do we make it happen?
Mostly aesthetics and ergonomics. Proto messages have an interface [1], but equality is strangely not part of it. Having it be a method would make it discoverable — most editors/IDEs would have Equal() show up as an "intellisense" autocompletion if you typed "msg." or similar.

Having it be a package-level function means you have to read the documentation to find it. The fact that they single out reflect.DeepEquals() being used instead implies perhaps that there are people who didn't read the documentation.

You could also argue that if Equal itself were an interface, it could be extended to other code beyond Protobuf. Many languages do this.

Such an interface could also conceivably be leveraged by the language to support arbitrary objects as map keys and hashing in general. Rust does this [2], but requiring that a map key implement the traits Eq (which provides equality semantics throughout the language) and Hash. Traits are similar to Go interfaces.

(As an additional point of elegance, Rust can generate the implementation for you, via an annotation, so for many types you can simply write #[derive(Eq, Hash)] and now your type has "==" and hash() with no additional effort.)

I'm sure Go's designers wouldn't want to go down that rabbit hole, though. The only built-in interface I know about is "error", but the language itself doesn't know about it, and I don't think there are any interfaces that are leveraged by the language.

[1] https://godoc.org/github.com/golang/protobuf/proto#Message

[2] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/collections/struct.HashMap.htm...
> ...Apple screwed them.

The "slow-down" that no one talks about, which in my opinion is much more offensive, is that Apple creates new OSes that target a particular hardware platform and then push that same OS out to older handsets that don't have anywhere near enough horsepower to handle it. In particular I have an iPhone 4 running the last supported iOS. The device is effectively unusable. Everything is less than half as fast as it was out of the box. Gestures have to be done very slowly or the device misses them. Pressing the home button is not detected over 50% of the time.

I don't use this device having upgraded handsets twice, but it'd be nice if apple would put older iOS versions into maintenance and provide bug fixes sans feature updates so that customers aren't given the choice of buggy and insecure software vs. effectively unusable hardware.
> If it were due to battery lifetime…

It's not due to battery lifetime, it's due to older batteries' reduced ability to deliver high power quickly enough.

> …Apple wouldn't slow down the devices when they are plugged in.

No, because power is always pulled from the battery.
How a Quake in Alaska Moved the Rarest Fish to Spawn in Death Valley
Alas it only happens often enough to invalidate any generalization. But if you know of other specific examples it would be interesting to see them.
From the article

> Those numbers are almost certainly higher in reality: in court, Goodyear admitted it has received at least 98 injury and/or death claims over the tire.
Why certainly! This is as good of a place to start as any:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTVfAMRj-7E
I wonder if this all started with Apple buying the company behind this PowerPC processor:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PWRficient

I rarely see that company mentioned when people talk about Apple getting into hardware. What I dont know if it's because they were uninvolved in ARM-related stuff done later or just not well known.
>they believe (IMO wrongly, but hey) exempts them from know-your-customer laws.

but you need to be verified on bitfinex to withdraw both tether and (real) USD.
> Separation into front-end and back-end modules.

That solves a lot of the Emacs trouble iiuc. (Same for the Async first design).

> The xi editor will communicate with plugins through pipes, letting them be written in any language,

That's caused a lot of trouble for vi/vim, has it not? I get the separation of concerns, but intermingling the concerns has helped emacs in a certain way.
fwiw, study was conducted in Barcelona, which like the rest of Europe but notably unlike the USA, is dominated by diesel vehicles; accordingly, the study focuses on particulates resulting from diesel-based pollution which may or may not translate to gas/petrol cars.
Your account isn't penalized, and if you stick to posting only civil, substantive comments from now on, you'll be fine.
> People should look at FB for what it is. A big shopping mall where everyone goes to walk around and hang out.

That rather sounds like Amazon's Whole Foods with its gazillion cameras. [1]

As for your other advice: that counts for any company, and why I boycotted Microsoft for a long, long time.

[1] https://dzone.com/articles/why-amazon-and-whole-foods-will-c...
The problem aren't ads for Bitcoin, its ads for Shitcoin scams.
Well one difference is that bitcoin has no intrinsic value, ie, it's online gambling in disguise. I believe that Facebook currently bans ads for online gambling.

Don't agree? Ask yourself, why don't you see ads for other commodities, like rice or iron? Because there's no money in that. So how come there's money in ads for bitcoin? Could it be because bitcoin is not actually a commodity?
Or look at the Asiana crash in San Francisco. One of the fatalities was thrown out of the plane and then crushed by a fire truck. I believe that was a seat belt failure, but how many others were kept safely in the plane because theirs worked?

I wonder where this idea came from that plane crashes are essentially unsurvivable. It’s not even remotely close to correct!
The SEC isn't coming down hard on gold mines?
oh, another funny one - was heading to the botanical gardens in hamilton (a pretty big and highly populated city!) and it navigated me to the gated employees-only service entrance, not to the public entrance about 2km away on another side of the park.
Stuck with Aetna as they have lowest rates. Blue Cross was $200 per month more.
Highway of riches, road to ruin: Inside the Amazon's deforestation crisis
Would you mind backing up your claim? To my knowledge, ARM is one company that licenses their designs to other companies, who are free to parameterize and modify as they please.
Facebook bans ads promoting cryptocurrencies
Did the RV manufacturers know it was a low-speed commercial delivery tire?

Goodyear apparently marketed it to the RV industry:

In a lawsuit filed later against Goodyear, the Woods family accused the company of selling a defective tire that had been marketed to recreational motorhome makers, even though it knew the G159 couldn’t handle highway speeds when equipped on an RV.

What's not clear is whether or not the speed rating was known.
So Linux (there is no GNU/Linux kernel, but a GNU/Linux OS) is more popular than how much you'd like it to be, and is that the problem?

That's a huge problem for me, because I get stuck dealing with problems solved in traditional UNIX operating systems anywhere from 30 to 20 years ago. It's extremely depressing to have to regress. If the future is Linux, then I want no part of such future.

But in the end-user space nobody is forcing you to use Linux

No? Then why do most companies today force me to work on Linux by insisting on running it? Why am I told in interviews "nah, they don't want to try ZFS or SmartOS... they're Linux people".