skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure who your "pro-people" are, but for tons of actual professionals (working in million dollar projects) this iMac Pro has more than enough specs for the rest 5+ years.
Why Don't More Female Figure Skaters Wear Pants?
Correct, but that happens to you every day on a minor level. You just don’t notice it because there are filters in your brain. Psychedelics remove those filters.

It comes down to inhibitory control. People suffering from depression lack inhibitory control of negative thoughts and emotions, which leads to a feedback loop of thinking more negative thoughts and feeling more negative emotions.
Heh. As a photographer I'm not sure what utility this would have for someone like me. The last thing I want to do is smash my glorious high-bit-depth RAW files with LR adjustments into 8 bit low quality JPEGs. And if I did, ol' Photoshop can do that with image macros, and Lightroom can do it with an export. Storage costs are so cheap now and continue to fall, even a guy like me with 5TB+ of images isn't panicking about how to archive this stuff. A 9TB RAID5 is cheap as dirt compared to the rest of the costs of photography, a few rotating externals to back up is also cheap, and cloud backup is mostly only limited by network speeds. Glacier will archive stuff for $4 per month per terabyte (and falling), there is zero need in most circumstances to archive at such a terribly lossy quality level, at least in my industry. Maybe there are other applications out there, I dunno.
The person I was replying to was clearly referring to people in the present ("most of us")
> AMP does not introduce proprietary browser extensions or syntax. It's a custom element framework,

That's not exactly true.

AMP is a proprietary Google product: All valid AMP pages must source remote resources from Google, and all 17 members of AMP's core team are employed by Google.

Specifically, the fact that valid AMP pages must load the framework from https://cdn.ampproject.org/v0.js creates a hard runtime dependency on Google servers. Developers are not allowed to self-host, fork, use an older version, or authenticate the library with a durable subresource integrity (SRI) hash while still remaining valid.

Meanwhile, AMP's governance ensures that Google maintains exclusive control as the sole arbiter of what is and is not AMP.

https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/534

https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/5846

> There's a separate issue if your concern is Google SERP giving preference to AMP [...] but that's a political argument

It's unreasonable to dismiss the relationship between AMP and Google Search as a mere "political argument."

Google owns AMP, and Google uses Search as a cudgel to force its adoption. Every product manager I spoke with at AMP Conf last year implemented it solely for the special treatment in Google Search.

AMP's (legitimate!) technical merit is not what's driving its growth.

> Otherwise common inaccurate statements are that AMP Cache is Google-only, when in fact, it's a spec others can implement

I don't think you quite understand the concerns people have regarding Google's AMP Cache.

The issue isn't about the existence of other caches, it's about how Google Search only serves AMP documents from its own cache, and sites cannot opt out of that cache while still remaining valid AMP documents.

Concretely: If I published AMP documents, traffic from Google Search would not hit my server directly, nor would it hit any other AMP cache.

> perceptions that if you create a fast site that is AMP-like, but doesn't use AMP, you don't know how it's going to be scored

That's not the complaint. People are concerned about the most prominent, eye-catching, and valuable placement on SERPs being reserved solely for AMP documents. No matter how high my non-AMP document ranks, it'll never have the rich presentation afforded to AMP documents.
Facebook, the company != Facebook, the platform

I think the arguments in the article, at least most of them, are focusing on the platform.
On HN it doesn't count as a dupe if the story hasn't had significant attention yet, and the convention is to only link to threads that got some comments. Otherwise people click, feel shortchanged, and get ornery.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
So, it’s like most clothing, and consumer electronics, jewelry, and so on?
That first video looked terrifying. Is the cable also twisting and tangling while that’s happening, or is the litter spinning freely around it?

Edit: I was expecting it to stop twisting and begin turning the other way, like string that I've played with, but it just ... never did. I can't imagine the tension that would put into the cable.
On HN, could you please not post this sort of shallow, predictable dismissal of other people's work?

What we're getting on an internet forum is not informed professional critique of sample sizes, but a clichéd reflex that is well past its best-before date.
> Your point about needing to erase all memory of the experience to not get mental illness is very interesting.

I actually didn't express that very well. I kind of meant that if you were to erase the mental illness, you've effectively erased the whole experience. Horrible torture isn't something you just leave behind you the day after. The influence it has is almost necessarily mental illness in some form or fashion.

If anyone did go through horrible torture voluntarily, I would expect they would do it to know what it was like. And mental illness is part of what it's like.
Anecdata != filesystem issue.

If you have more information about the problem you encountered and how it implicates/interacts with APFS, please do link to it. Otherwise, bug reports via circumstantial evidence are, while not inherently false, certainly suspect.
A click to get to our site through partner events of few brands as they used our product for content marketing

Early users who created content and shared it on social media

Some initial content seeded by us garnered a lot of visits
I always find claims of morality interesting, especially if they are of the non-norm-derivative kind, and presented without any ethical argument whatsoever. Very convincing indeed.
I guess you and I are reading a different hacker news then. I can hardly go one thread here that doesn't devolve into petty power jabs for internet points. I don't know how you can read the comments in this Damore thread and not agree that's the case.

Of course, that's against the HN guidelines, but it's not exactly hard to follow the letter of the guidelines while breaking the spirit of them.
Many flavors of Markdown support math extensions. Many do so in a way that degrades gracefully when the extended Markdown is opened in a standard Markdown tool.

Typora is a great WYSIWYG Markdown editor that uses MathJax to render LaTeX mathematical expressions.
> It basically short-circuits due process and the necessity of proof.

No, it doesn't. Like many torts (and a few crimes) the things that have to be proven for harassment may not (there are several different patterns that qualify as harassment) include any particular mental state on the part of the alleged harrasser, but it still requires probing the elements of the offense and isn't any differently situated than other civil wrongs when it comes to due process.
We know that because it was deployed to almost a billion devices without a problem. If there was a problem that affected even a fraction of a percent of people, it would have been all over the news given how many devices that is.

Edit: Thanks for the downvotes. If you disagree, please tell me why. Apple's deployment of APFS to iPhones was so flawless, most people probably still don't even know they did it.
> there's nothing ethical about marketing and profiting from children gambling

It's not "gambling". Using the in-game currency (which you get for free by playing), you purchase items directly. The mere existence of uncertainty somewhere in the process doesn't make it "gambling"

Ironically, the randomness serves to decrease the pressure to spend money on the game. If you just purchased the items directly for real-world money, as most other games do, you'd end up in a situation where people would feel pressured to spend money on the game, because obtaining skins actually would be a direct function of money spent.

Additionally, framing this as "children gambling" is pretty suspect. Blizzard doesn't publish official demographic data, but all players have to be over 13 by law, and according to third-party data, the majority of the player base is over 18. Given that teenagers already have less easy access to digital transactions than people over 18, and that they already form the minority of the player base, the burden is on critics to provide concrete data that teenagers are actually being negatively affected by lootboxes. (Which I doubt anyone will, because I'm skeptical that it's even true. Of course, the reason that this issue is continuously framed as "children gambling" is because talking about anything affecting children is a great way to pander in politics, and this whole issue isn't about loot boxes in games anyway.)

> Blizzard and Valve don't get a free pass for being slightly less evil than the competition.

On the flipside, by focusing on loot boxes at the expense of actual, actively predatory business models, you are giving the companies that engage in those other business models a free pass.

You might think, "well, the answer is that we should go after both". Except, that's not going to happen. It's not going to happen not only because people's attention for games-related issues is pretty limited, but also because this isn't about ethical business models at all; politicians like Hassan don't actually care about that. They care about scoring political points, and it's much easier to score political points off lootboxes than pay-to-win or abandonware.
No, you aren't. You're saying that you liked the iPhone, which is evidence neither for nor against the parent's claim.

"we can infer given the iPhone X is Apple's top selling phone that most people prefer the iPhone X despite its higher price."

Maybe, maybe not. But that's not what you said. You said merely that you liked the iPhone X.
"Literally" formally means exactly, but informally it can be used as a form of emphasis or to mean "figuratively".

Many people think that the informal use is a recent development, and perhaps a sign that the speaker has a poor grasp of English.

They are incorrect on both counts. Examples of older use by people who undoubtedly had excellent grasps of English are found in the writings of F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, and others going at least as far back as 1769. More on this in this article from Merriam-Webster on the angry comments directed at them by readers who think MW is corrupting the language [1].

They note that most other major dictionaries agree (in a middle finger to the critics, they say "Literally ever modern dictionary includes this definition"). They also note it has been in MW since 1909...I think they are trying to imply that the people who just noticed it there and were writing those angry comments are slow.

Sadly, this means people like you and me, who would prefer it to just have the formal meaning should really give up correcting or making fun of the informal usage, lest we literally look like idiots.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/misuse-of-lite...
>But if they really would care about waste reduction and the environment then they would have switched over to USB-C for their phones (one truly universal type of cable = less waste), they would have kept the headphone jack (bluetooth earphones are a waste of precious resources), and they would produce laptops and desktops which are serviceable and upgradable by the user.

All three things sound inconsequential regarding the environment. First, there are so many iPhones out there and there have been hundreds of millions of lighting cables sold before USB-C was a thing -- you suggest throwing those is better for the environment? Besides, each iPhone comes with a free such cable. If it came with a free USB-C cable it would have been better for the environment because?

Second, "bluetooth earphones are a waste of precious resources". Doesn't that contradict your first statement, about the waste of resources cables represent? Not to mention that old headphones can be used with new iPhones with a tiny adapter.

Lastly, "Every single one of their products is made for "use it two years, throw it away when it breaks and buy a new one", nope. In fact it's the opposite, Macs have a better lifetime, and more resale value than your average PC. And people use old iPhones and iPads perfectly fine. And of course, when you're done, they can recycle the whole thing.
I apologize, and I’ll make sure that future criticism is. Ore detailed and less cliche.
My gut feeling is that you do very little work with your hands, because your pain-o-meter seems to have drifted in a very unrealistic direction.
You roll the dice, having learned the odds are in your favour.

"The primary sources of street Ketamine in China include diversion or theft of legal pharmaceuticals from medical or veterinary licit trade with some supplies also manufactured in clandestine laboratories (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2010). It is therefore believed that the purity and the quality of street ketamine is high (no research data available) contributing to its increasing popularity among drug users in China." (2014)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4004368/
I worked around the inline math issue by doing:

md2 = x => md([x[0].replace(/\$(.*?)\$/g, m => tex([m.slice(1,-1)]).outerHTML)])

I do appreciate you adding support for ${tex`...`}, but it's still a bit more verbose than I'd like to type.
I would like to see somebody write their PhD thesis in markdown.
>Only a couple of days ago there was a NY Times article posted here on how the iPad has become obsolete just because the software isn't being updated anymore.

Like with the WMDs, don't believe all you read on the NYTs. And generally, don't get your tech news from the mainstream press.

The iPads that are left behind are those released before 2013 -- so like 5 years ago. And even those will still function just fine, just wont get any new updates.

Now, consider how Android phones and tablets often don't even get an official update to the next version of Android than the one they came with for comparison...
Firstly, when did prediction and conjecture become news? Would be great if the news industry stuck to actual news.

Secondly, lets hope so and lets hope that will finally put an end to the crazy amount of hit pieces by the media on facebook and social media. Has anyone older ever witnessed anything like this before? The media, both in the US and the UK, has been obsessed with facebook and social media for past year. It's like someone declared war on facebook/social media and ordered the entire industry to attack them. The only thing I can compare it to is north korea's media's rabid attacks on SK, US and Japan.

Anyone else "entertained/exasperated" by the media blitz against facebook.
That tool has been around for ages, I think it might originally be from SGI.
A system of near instant global communication has no intrinsic value. Calculus has no intrinsic value. A token providing access to a borderless, Permission-less, decentralized, censorship resistant ledger has no intrinsic value. Double entry bookkeeping has no intrinsic value.
I'm pointing out that my anecdote is no more or less relevant than anyone else's anecdote.

"The sales figures prove that it has been seen as largely successful."

Demand for the X has actually been pretty weak:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-to-curtail-iphone-x-produ...

http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/26/investing/iphone-x-weak-sale...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-iphone/apple-suppli...

https://mashable.com/2018/01/22/iphone-x-discontinued-predic...
> Believe it or not, so long as you are generally clean, you are fine

I've lived 40 years in fairly hot climates and I do not believe that "most of us don't need daily showers" holds true of them. How do you know that, for most people, the regimen you describe would be sufficient?
From my experience, my wrists start hurting if I don't use any wrist rests (despite the name, you're supposed to rest your palms on them)
Also, tilted or high profile keyboards are less ergonomic IMHO.

Don't worry about switching back to the laptop keyboard on the go. You won't be less productive, you will just enjoy it less :)
Drake gives almost a million dollars in music video of “God's Plan”
That would be hilarious.

Taken to an extreme, we could have those animals be humans that are somehow born masochists, desperate to get consumed by cannibals.

Hmm. I think it's morally dubious to make them in the first place. Past that, we're talking about fulfilling their desires. If someone wants to die (say they're suffering from some slow, terminal illness or maybe incurable depression), is it ethical to keep them alive and deny them euthanasia? That seems like the same scenario. I say no; you should have the right to die if you want to in the most painless way possible. I think the Universe suffers a loss with the loss of your consciousness because it's an amazing thing, but your subjective suffering is more salient. I make that call on absolutely no rational ground; it's just my silly emotions. Silly emotions from a silly consciousness. :3 And it's that element of silliness that makes my position on this itself, or anyone else's, PERHAPS EVEN ALL THOSE MEAT ANIMALS' SUFFERING, seem sickeningly irrelevant in the grand, inscrutable, uncaring scheme of things. But that's morality for you.

We've gotta be careful here.

I'm so close to bringing up how maybe the self is a lie and how moral relativism justifies the worst levels of suffering imaginable.
I imagine this tool served a need to store lots of images online and that there are wider use cases for image libraries and ecommerce stores where lots of porduct images are needed to be served efficiently.

Sadly it is not 'jpeg-and-png' and you do need to keep some images in PNG becuase you cannot have transparency in JPEG.

Much can be done with 4:2:0 colour and the optimiser tools Google recommend. In PNG world I like pngquant for some images but not all. It is also possible to prepare images in Imagemagick to suit an optimiser.

However, storage is cheap and there are better ways. Google's Pagespeed for NGINX and Apache works wonders at serving optimised images. This abstracts the problem away from code so there is no need to be worrying about image sizes over the web, size in pixels or bytes.

I don't think this tool is about providing a professional archiving solution, just efficiently processing an online image library so that you have an extremely practical archive regardless of what compression ratio images were originally uploaded at.

The use of all cores to quickly process all images was instructive. However, in real life it is more useful to have a cron job that just updates all images to correct standards slowly in the background, not using all cores.

I would like to see some comparisons against more commonly used jpeg optimisers.
Overall, I think your point is excellent.

But what about selling books at a loss to make it up on higher-margin items, which contributed to putting bookstores of all sizes (mom and pop up to B&N) on the road to bankruptcy?

That example is sufficient for me.
A blast from the past. Amazing language for math. My friends and I tried to write entire programs as one line of code, something possible in APL.
Facebook Loses Lawsuit Against Belgium, Fined €250,000 a Day Until
> and Kunfermann said offenders could land in a lot of hot water

Is there serious journalism being made anywhere these days? I feel like these subtle puns everywhere detract from the reading experience - not everything is for entertainment.
Articles don't have to be news in the narrow sense to do well here. They need to gratify intellectual curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Did the course have a text book? If so, which one/ones?
“https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658691

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=392347

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171”

Ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314
Given how easy the markdown specs are, it is unbelievable how different the text is rendered using different engines.
Body parts “fall asleep” in English. What about in other languages?
Unfortunately this seems like a good reason to never release something to the public domain, but only with something like a creative commons license. If she'd done that, she likely would have retained some control and possibly won that law suit.

IP law in the US hasn't functioned as intended for a very long time now. People seem to be starting to pick up on that more. I can only hope that continues and we eventually see some real reform.
> It seems strange that the filesystem driver would cache 500 GB of sequentially written data in RAM.

That was the most interesting/worrying part of TFA, and I would love to see how the checksum tests were conducted clarified in the text.

Presumably, the "md5" commandline tool has no special fallback to the filesystem checksum cache (if it does, rather a lot of my life has been a lie, I'm afraid). Since that's the case, could we assume that, if the "lost" writes totalled $X GB of data, that any evil memory-caching of the file will only work in the presence of at least $X GB of free system memory (RAM plus swap).

I'd also be interested in learning what happens if there's less than that amount of memory available. Will the checksum fail? Will an error occur elsewhere? Will the system have some sort of memory (and swap) exhaustion failure/panic?
Native Esperanto Speaker – Esperanto, a Natural Language (Part 2)
Ask HN: What is your programming niche, and why do you like/dislike it?
Actually not really and I would challenge you to say exactly what he says that is alt-right.

He is a conservative who knows how to provoke that's about it.
Don't companies over $100 million use almost every major stack?
I don't think USA Today's target audience wants "serious journalism"
A Few Notes on Medsec and St. Jude Medical
It’s not surprising—there’s a deep relationship among concatenative languages, Hughes’ arrows, combinator calculus, category theory, linear algebra, logic, even topology. I haven’t read through this but I guess the ⊕ operator would be “* * *” (parallel composition) in arrow notation; in Haskell it has the type “Arrow a ⇒ a b c → a b′ c′ → a (b, b′) (c, c′)”, or “(b → c) → (b′ → c′) → (b, b′) → (c, c′)” specialised to the function arrow.
We also benefit - by learning to treat animals better, we'll learn to treat each other better.
Eh, it's a minority but not an "almost nobody" minority. There are plenty of pieces of software even besides CCC that rely on/give prominent options for the use of sparsebundles.

It's more like "the latest OS update leaves you vulnerable to malicious javascript everywhere, but only if you use Opera". It's a minority of users, sure, but it's still really important information to note.
JavaScript Cardio [Session 1] – Reversals, FizzBuzz, MaxChar
You can view "most recent" posts and that will do exactly what you're saying you want.
99% of my code is comment free. Mostly api code is documented and special constants or ordering requirements.

How? By means of SRP as exemplified in section 4 of http://firstclassthoughts.co.uk/Articles/Readability/Optimal...
Why use a big rig? Why not an RV? Or a van conversion on something like a Sprinter? The entire premise you're proposing seems very wasteful and morally irresponsible if you care about stuff like global warming and believe in physics, but why try to optimize waste? Seems shortsighted.