skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a valid argument, but I think a more relevant question is: between the options of having a child, raising it happily to adolescence, and then killing it, vs. not having the child at all, which option is "better"? Which is more net positive in the world?

This is a closer scenario, since billions of e.g. cows would not be born and raised if not for our use for them as food. (Of course, in reality, they're mostly not raised happily).

When deciding the answer to the scenario, keep in mind that most parents who have children with e.g. terminally ill diseases, who die in adolescence, or even kids that die as teenagers from accidents, would probably not say it is better that they had not lived.

Also worth considering - we have children knowing that their lives will tragically end in death after 100 years at most. Why is that not wrong? Just cause we're used to 100 years being a lot, doesn't really change the fundamental argument does it?
WotC could price individual cards based on the price of a pack, and the chance of getting a card in a pack.

For example, if a booster pack costs $10, and the chance of including a given card is X%, then price the card a la carte at X% * $10 and allow people to buy it directly. I wouldn't be opposed to them selling randomized boosters as well, based on gambling concerns [1], if it were possible to buy individual cards for this price. You could additionally offer a bulk discount.

(OK, it's a little more complicated than that because the library of cards is larger than a booster pack, so it's not just a flat percentage chance to include each card, but you could normalize the probabilities to account for this.)

[1] I'm not sure that I'm actually opposed to this, but I understand the argument.
It's also in your nature to murder other humans, steal things, and participate in all sorts of mischief. If you're of a certain disposition it's in your nature to rape children, maybe hang cats, or try to destroy the lives of other people in other ways. I personally do not eat meat but I also don't shun those who do - my goal is only to do my best to reduce suffering as much as I can - but I think that to argue that it's in your nature to do something is a very poor argument. Being human means we can largely overcome our nature, or at least make rational choices about it.
I hope they do, because we are going to eat them.
Rights are fundamentally a social construct, or perhaps we should say a social compact. So far, animals have a much more limited ability to comprehend and reciprocate our social mores. I believe this may be related to the limits we place on animal rights.
Not volunteer for it alone, but try it as a part of a bigger package. Kind of like a more realistic version of a horror movie/game.

Do you think i am entirely wrong, and suffering is worse than death?

Do you think it is better to die, instead of enduring suffering and then getting to live some more?
Like nursing?

So do something about it, if it bothers you. Each person is free to choose how to prioritize their time and efforts, and is not required to solve every other problem (or even every other similar problem) in every other field in every other country on earth as a prerequisite. But we both know that, and we both know that you're running off a script of sound bites.

Actually, for a time "programmer" was skewed towards women.

Yes, that's exactly my point. The types of "scientific" "biological" "truths" people like Damore tend to cite don't change in the time frame of that observed change. It's almost like there was some social factor involved. Perhaps some social factor having something to do with the large number of men who suddenly showed interest. Though of course we have literally zero cases in all of recorded human history of men rigging a system to favor themselves over women, so we don't have to worry that such a thing could have happened. We'd only worry if, say, we had many, many examples of it from many fields of endeavor in many societies across a huge percentage of recorded history.

Oh. Wait.
Apple authored a tool called fsx (file system exerciser), but I doubt it checks for corner cases for loopback mounts. Maybe they should add such tests.
Ask HN: What was your SaaS breakthrough moment?
Ok, good to know. It seems mostly academic though, since using their iD fork with the slide add-on [0] is a better user experience, and someone from Strava mentions in the Github issue that it's approved internally. Of course I'm no lawyer and I understand that proper licensing is important, I'll just use their fork for now when tracing their heatmap.

I see that you're the iD maintainer, are there any plans on adding the slide functionality? Or b-splines which could get tessellated client side before saving to the database? I can take this opportunity to thank you and the other contributors, I probably wouldn't edit OSM if it weren't for iD.

[0] https://labs.strava.com/slide/
Chromecast is a feature that you develop on your own apps - i.e. Amazon can add it to their Prime App. Google isn't preventing Amazon Prime from having Chromecast support.
This is good and long overdue, hopefully we can come up with something effective unlike the regulations in China/Korea which are skirted by publishers gifting the loot boxes with other purchases instead of outright selling them.
The amount of money at play here is no joke, Activision/Blizzard alone earns $13.4m daily revenue (2017) on just in-game microtransactions. They've even re-organized their financial results to downplay the dominance of microtransaction loot box revenue if you compare 2016 to 2017.

http://investor.activision.com/results.cfm

Should be framed as an extension of existing laws regarding child gambling.
This is by far the best explanation of what’s happening at Apple and why we’re noticing these bugs and problems: https://www.imore.com/understanding-apple-scale
Stress Testing React Easy State: Powerful React State Management
It's pretty disturbing this whole thread doesn't currently mention PM2.5 the entire point of the article and one of the big killers in the world.

But that's HN, lets talk about scented soap instead.
The iPhone X is the best device I've owned. The notch quickly became unnoticeable but took a few days to get used to lack of a physical home button but that's also become natural to use and going back to use my wife's iPhone now feels more mechanical/primitive.
A wolf-eaten chicken also gets courtesy parasites.
>How do you know that?

Can you point to any other APFS issues that were reported before this one?
You could make the comparison of compressions a bit more interesting by adding 100% crop to say the lips or any area with intricate detail. Also, if you do a recompression wouldn't jpeg2000 be an option?
Ireland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_the_Republic_of_Ir...
The logic here is slightly backwards. The reason there's a water crisis in California is because it's a fantastic place to grow things.
I believe half is even optimistic. I'd venture a gamble that at most 25% are unique and original people.

Even my non technical friends often have 2-4 accounts. For work, for friends, for forgotten passwords, etc...

And then of course bots and bots and bots.

Of course it depends on how they define a user and an account. If I logon only 1 of my accounts in a given month or 10. Do they count as 1 or 10 in either case?
I'd not recommend it if you don't have patience and time to spend.

I didn't build mine to save money, I did it because it's fun to learn and test.

I tried the beta of many Windows even the Georgia and longhorn ones. It was a lot more frustrating than this
Source? Last I checked, AppleTV has Prime Video and Google is not blocking Amazon from adding Chromecast to Amazon apps. Amazon is choosing not to add the feature.

>But it’s Amazon’s own fault that Prime Video doesn’t work with Chromecast. Amazon has the power to make it happen.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/5/16738752/google-youtube-a...
He draws no distinction, and I believe that's his point.

"Reminder: cryptocurrencies are still a new and hyper-volatile asset class, and could drop to near-zero at any time. Don't put in more money than you can afford to lose. If you're trying to figure out where to store your life savings, traditional assets are still your safest bet."

He's not saying everything but the "real" cryptocurrencies. He's speaking to the industry, not just scams. Pretty clear he's including BTC, ETH, etc in his statement.
All coins in presale were sold at a fixed price, will be same for second round then on curve for future tokens
While that's certainly another possibility, the most common cause of depression is purely chemical, as a symptom of magnesium deficiency. (which is common, and hard to diagnose, since it doesn't show on blood tests until you're suffering from muscle spasms and hallucinating)
Apple killed ZFS on macOS nearly 10 years ago. It wouldn’t make sense on a watch or a phone anyway: http://www.zdnet.com/article/mac-zfs-is-dead-rip/
> What's he playing at here?

Right now there are two major known risks overhanging the market:

- The Tether situation (https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7xae98/unde...)

- SEC / CFTC action against ICOs

Either of those scenarios could send the markets down 85% within minutes or hours. In addition there are the usual systemic risks of 51% attacks, core infrastructure getting pwned, etc.
> If you tell Alexa, "buy me a chromecast", it orders you an Amazon fire stick instead.

This is not true. I just tried it.
According to my psychiatrist, you are paying for the malpractice insurance of a doctor performing unestablished medical treatments.
No. Alexa runs on it's own hardware. Where did you hear that?
Having Spotlight ignore .git directories and the like is probably wise, I would agree with that. But it's text, even if it's basically garbage text (from a user perspective). So I can understand how a sparsebundle is a decent end-around.

The Finder in general ends up basically being useless for me for similar reasons; I have dozens of random dependency files I don't even recognize pop up in "All My Files".
John Siracusa said something years ago that’s often repeated. Apple’s priorities are Apple first, customers second, developers third.

I’ve read on the official Microsoft blogs how many special case hacks are in Windows just to maintain compatibility with one app. Can you imagine how horrible that code base must be?

I am a developer and have been one professionally for 20+ years. I have a hard time for feeling bad for developers who have to actually do their job and keep up with technological changes.
After reading the article I did some research into the background of the author. I was surprised to learn that he was a diehard socialist and later Communist, describing Stalin as "a very great man who did a very good job" as late as 1962.
It's actually a thread about someone who didn't state that. You can only emotionally impute that to him.

we are supposed to understand the differences among four or five distinct fringe right-wing ideologies

No, you're supposed to be informed, and you're not supposed to impute views on others they don't actually have, just because you think you can get away with it. You know, intellectual honesty?

refrain from general remarks based on the behaviors of one group or another.

Yes, please don't tar people through stereotypes or anything which is not factually or rationally founded. Furthermore, judge people on the merit of what they do and say as individuals. Don't lump people into groups because you are incensed and you feel like it. That sort of behavior is precisely the moral downfall of the Alt-Right.
> Apple and Google in these instances for not allowing Prime Video on their platforms.

They're allowed. Amazon is choosing not to support it...
You understand that, in much of the country, you can be fired simply for being a Democrat or a Republican, right?

The law recognizes the rights of the owners and managers of companies to organize them out of like-minded people.

If that's problematic for you, you should lobby for employment laws to change. It's arguably not the NLRB's place to come up with new protections; they're an agency largely unaccountable to the voters.
I deal with that by keeping the separate logical commits, like you said, and I squash only the commits that don't add any historical meaning (like "fix a typo" or "forgot to update the changelog"). I put the issue number in the comments so you can view the history and see a group of commits are all related to a single issue.
Not my point. My point is that the poster I was replying to is talking past the initial poster, rather than responding to them.

I don't think vegans/vegetarians do so because of their singular impact on the world. Worth saying that (presumably) you and I choose not to kill other people, knowing that our taxes might be funding wars, our gadgets might be built in sweatshops, etc.
> (Myself, I'm kind of grossed out by shellfish).

Ah, and I thought I was the only one. They look too damn similar to cockroaches!
I think the idea of contracts mindlessly enforced by a piece of silicon is a ill-conceived idea and quite a few people would agree with that. It sounds like a good idea at first glance, but it isn't. Various kinds of mistakes and errors happen all the time, situations change and unexpected events occur. This makes it necessary to deviate from what contracts says all the time and that is just not compatible with what something like Etherum is able to provide. But maybe I am just unaware of a good application of Etherum or a similar technology where setting things in stone is actually a good idea. What is the best existing use of Etherum, how does it benefit from its features and why is it not negatively affected by them?
Not the person you replied to, but I want to make a case for ZFS on a generic small motherboard. You wind up with Linux or FreeBSD so it's a general-purpose server, unless you want to use something like FreeNAS. And with ZFS, you get snapshotting, RAIDz, checksumming, etc, as opposed to "oh it has RAID 5 woohoo".

RAID (including the software RAID in Linux) doesn't actually do checksumming for file verification. AFAIK, ZFS is the only open system to do so.
Ask HN: Which companies' tech blogs do you read?
As well as every version of every OS ever. Windows 98 was the best, Windows XP sucked with it's Fisher Price UI. Then Vista/7 came around and the outcry of "if you want the latest DirectX, you have to upgrade". And then Windows XP was discontinued to much wailing and gnashing of teeth, because XP was the best. Then 8/10 came out and everything was terrible and we're just going to stick to Windows 7 because it's the best.

To many techies, version n-1 is the best thing ever created, until version n+1 comes out and the "best ever" shifts up one revision.
Sorry, that sentence was structured poorly and it's too late to edit my comment. Let me split it in two:

1> In most EU states, some speech which is protected in the USA is illegal (e.g. pro-nazi statements which are understandably forbidden in certain countries).

2> Another example of something legal in the USA is abortion, while some countries in Europe are more restrictive (Malta 100%, Andorra, Italy, Ireland and Poland almost so, usw).
How do you trust anything you get on the darknet?
Not to mention property taxes on empty buildings.
Yup, it just re-compresses the photos to save some space potentially sacrificing the quality of originals. Nothing to do with the backing up the files securely. And also not something any photographer would ever do to photos, but I guess it can be useful when you have tones of holiday snapshots where maximum quality or ability to edit raw photos in future is not a concern.
The headline makes it sound like Vitalik is warning that the entire industry could collapse soon, when the actual thing he said was just that if you invest all your money in a cryptocurrency you need to realize that it is possible for it to drop all the way to 0, so don't do that and instead invest responsibility with money you can afford to lose, which is a statement that I think everyone would agree with without thinking it is going to induce panic. (Essentially: this article is horrible clickbait.)
I don't believe a book or anything similar can keep me "motivated" (that depends on one's will and outlook), but some can definitely help. A very influential text that helped me advance quite a bit in shaping my world view was the Anarchist Banker of Pessoa. It gives an interesting answer to the question of "existing in a world as a single individual that can hardly ameliorate the world on his own". Combining that with a reading of "Existentialism is a Humanism", and general free thinking, do help to build a strong defence mechanism to the facts of the outer world that can demotivate you. I'm quite an outlier in this community of mostly engineers and entrepreneurs, groups with which my thoughts usually conflict (especially the latter ones), but reading philosophy and philosophically-charged literature can furnish a sort of critical thinking, skepticism and/or quasi-nihilism that can actually boost one's confidence in pursuing some ends.
We're probably off-topic by now, but do you also believe that demand for meat products causes a net increase in joy/enjoyment (whatever you call the opposite of suffering)?

For instance, I keep chickens and let them free-pasture until the day I butcher them. I think they enjoy their time out there as much as any animal would. Depending who or what you believe, the end is very quick for them, so the suffering is minimal.

I realize this isn't the norm, though. I'm sure the "joy" experienced on many factory farms is some kind of dystopian thing, like being happy you got extra gruel last Tuesday.

But it doesn't have to be that way. Just something to think about.
I have no idea and honestly, at this point, I don't really care. For some reason, politics has become a game of zingers and one liners. Actual respectful discourse has gone out of style.

It's precisely this sort of apathy which far-left ideologues are using. Given that you are an advocate of good old fashioned rational dialogue, it might not be too long before they come after you next and try to lump you into the "Alt-Right." They're already doing that to people who are basically just Republicans, like Ben Shapiro.
When I'm in a nursing home and suffering from dementia, I hope I can go back and play some of the games I know so well. A whole second time around.
Glacier is $0.004/GB

https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/
and 51% attacks do not require you to have 51% of all nodes on the network. Just 51% of all Active nodes on the network.

If someone finds a zero day exploit and manages to crash a large number of ethereum nodes they could do a 51% attack with a relatively small number of nodes.
Whilst the reminder of not investing more than you are willing and able to lose cannot be repeated enough times, I do reckon it is important to put things into perspective: A very significant majority of traditional start-ups eventually fail, e.g. these articles from Forbes listing 90% (https://www.forbes.com/sites/neilpatel/2015/01/16/90-of-star...) and 80% (https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericwagner/2013/09/12/five-reas...), respectively. I consequently do not think a statement like this should be viewed as anything other than a simple and healthy reminder of how failure is inherent to entrepreneurship - something which naturally carries a risk for any investor. It is, however, also worth stressing how this, still largely unregulated, world attracts fraudsters. It is therefore not entirely unreasonable to assume an even greater percentage of projects will eventually hit 0 compared to traditional start-ups, and that investors thus ought to pay even closer attention to what they buy.

EDIT: Downvotes, why?
I'd love something like this but for video formats that come off consumer cameras and cell phones. Especially old ones that used Motion JPEG, you ought to be able to compress them quite a lot without losing much perceptual quality, but I've no idea what the best way to do that is.
I don't think most people are reaching for LaTeX to write to-do lists or other ephemeral notes (which can be pretty effectively written just in .txt), but because they'll need some feature that is simple in LaTeX but difficult or impossible elsewhere.

However, I doubt anyone who argue with a modified premise of "Reach for Markdown, not LaTeX, when writing blog posts." But that wouldn't produce as many clicks, either.
> People hardly ever demolish structures to keep the lot empty

What up property tax? In my city you get reduced property tax (but not zero) if it's commercial building that is empty and unused, but I can imagine there are cities where demolishing an empty building is more cost effective than paying property tax on it every year.
> it requires 140 liters of water to produce 1 cup of coffee

Not to mention the milk that people usually add, which is even more water intensive
> Sparsebundles are capable of over-provisioning the storage below them _by design_.

According to TFA, HFS+ sparsebundles reflect the limitations of their underlying volume, while APFS sparsebundles do not. Seems clear to me that this is a bug.
I would say "See: IBM" but sometimes their documentation is brokered by their sales division, so there isn't anything to see for many.
some things take courage...
I'd point out it was deployed to iPhones - devices where the underlying physical disk won't get smaller so this bug would not have appeared.

iOS devices are extremely constrained in a number of ways that MacOS isn't - who knows how many other bugs have failed to surface because Apple thought their iOS test was a 'job done' moment.
I don't use anything but basic detergent and I've never felt the need for softener. It's just another pointless product nobody would want if it weren't advertised to them.
Maybe I shouldn't have replied but he was basically trying to start a mob against me.

This is precisely how they operate. They are trying to use a tactic of persuasion by repetition simultaneously with a tactic of tarring by association. Far left ideologues are currently engaging in this behavior towards DC Comics artist Ethan Van Sciver, claiming he's an actual Nazi based on his drawing the Green Lantern villain Sinestro with a Hitler mustache and titling it "My Struggle" -- ten years ago. It is conscious and deliberate. And it has been going on that way since 2012 or so.
Thanks. Your approval inspires me with confidence and determination :^)
No, APFS must be usable on USB drives and so on. That would be a fatal design flaw.
+1 SmartOS

Underrated.
Yeah I'm with you here. I think people could either interpret what you're saying as "they're hypocrites" or "this is absurdly pervasive."
Back in '88, in my final semester, I was only registered for 5.11( or 5.41? Who can remember) as I had somehow never gotten around to satisfying the freshman chemistry requirement, though I had otherwise enough credits to graduate. I was checking my paperwork and the registrar's office told me I could not graduate unless I passed the swimming requirement.

I didn't even live in massachusetts any more though I came back frequently to make sure I took all the chemistry quizzes. Turned out they were closing the pool early to renovate it (I don't know if it's still there but it was behind building 26 IIRC). Apparently I luckily came by a couple of days before they closed it, right under the wire for the pool and registrar.

Back then there wasn't a swimming class requirement, you just had to take n semesters of PE. I remember doing ballet, badminton and pistol, but don't remember what else. Though I love to sail I didn't want to go anywhere near the charles or the harbor in those days.