skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much cheaper was your Hackintosh setup?
As did other versions of OSX[0]. This whole meme should get a law like Betteridge’s. Complaints about the current release of macOS are as old as the hills[1] and have become entirely vacuous. That’s not to say the complaints aren’t necessarily without merit; just that there is too much hyperbole around them.

[0]https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apps-that-wont-work-on-...
[1]https://youtu.be/GWxC8ezE4Dk
> surveillance a country cannot legally conduct internally is conducted by its "friends", sometimes resulting in relevant information being shared with its own intelligence services?

We know that this definitely happens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes#Domestic_espionage_s...

Whether that is the reason more isn't done against foreign intrusions is hard to say. It seems that in this case many people would have liked to punish the UK for it, but there weren't many reasonable options for doing so.
Sure, it's a new filesystem; it's bound to have bugs. However, one pain point I've identified is that the existing tools often have no idea of how to deal with APFS. I'm currently typing this from a Mac with an APFS drive that is almost certainly experiencing filesystem corruption–I have folders that suddenly lose track of their contents and become impossible to delete; however, existing tools such as fsck, diskutil, etc. can't do anything to fix the issue, because their idea of how APFS works is woefully inadequate.
It's a good encoder. It will give you more consistent quality and better compression than your bash script launching imagemagick.
The community deplores it but tonymac has some good resources on hardware compatibility.

https://www.tonymacx86.com/buyersguide/february/2018/
Slightly off-topic but does anybody know any services that you can pre-pay to store images long term? Say 10+ years.

Flickr only allow you to buy an account for the next 2 years.
Isn't the idea that you would run the 1080Ti in an eGPU enclosure over tb3?
This may be true for Facebook in the US and other developed countries.

Facebook is still making inroads in countries that are just getting connectivity (like Myanmar).

Revenues will come from developed countries though so I'm not sure if Facebook can sustain its business off developing countries.
I just tried this with 50k dimensions and 2 rows and it worked fine.
There's a crop of startups now that are incentivizing healthier lifestyles by gamifying healthy activities, routine doctor visits, etc. Insurance companies pay them per head to make their software available to customers, and reward customers with the most health points with lower premiums and such.

Insurance companies, by and large, make their money on the delta between the prices they charge and the costs to deliver service. If they can delivery service to a predominately healthier population, then they can deliver service for lower costs, meaning they can lower costs to be more competitive, while being able to make more profits and deliver better outcomes.

The notion that they want to drive up healthcare costs is kind of ridiculous. If that were true, they'd be rushing to sign up patients with terminal illnesses and costly pre-existing conditions, but the fact of the matter is that the government had to literally force them to for that to happen.
The improvements that our country needs are broad structural improvements that prepare us for where we are and where we're going. The idea of "bear your cross and accept suffering without malice" makes sense, but it also tends towards championing individuals as both causes of their problems and the ones capable of solving them. It IS a great philosophy when there is some meaning to your suffering, when your cross is something you want to carry, but these days that philosophy ends up sounding like "shut up and get a job" in an rapdily changing era where we have to rethink our basic societal organization and our attitudes towards work. It's an attitude that reinforces ones adherence to the status quo rather than recognizing that what worked for our parents doesn't necessarily work for us.
You can burn anhydrous ammonia in a regular ICE. If we adopt GP's hypothesis that energy is cheap, then it's also cheap to turn H2 into NH3. We already have a robust infrastructure for the manufacture, storage, and transportation of liquid anhydrous ammonia. It does present some dangers to human safety, but so does any fuel.

If cars ever run on hydrogen in significant numbers, they'll actually be running on ammonia.
At the risk of engaging in what-aboutism, I am amused that they think that right now is the ideal time to spend time thinking about the potential harm of loot boxes, when they're doing nothing to address the potential harm of gun violence. And have given up on protecting DACA recipients.

Don't get me wrong; I'm no fan of loot boxes. I just am amused (although sadly not particularly surprised) that this is apparently the most urgent issue on anybody's pile this week.
You’re right; I phrased that poorly. What I intended was “the value derives from a proof that an amount of work was done, independent of the hard problem that necessitated the work or the resources expended to solve the problem.”

The value in proving some amount of work was done is that it’s a mechanism for defeating fraud.
we use encrypted sparsebundle images to hold sensitive data: ssh keys, SSL keys, license files. I doubt I'm the only one, this is pretty important to our business.
In a math sense, the signal to noise ratio on FB became much higher over the last decade. At inception, it was a focused way to directly communicate with a close college circle. Now its effectively as open as Myspace, bombards you with ads, and as with all wide networks, the discourse has dropped to meme / quiz bot level

I think you mean "much lower" signal to noise ratio.
Circular reasoning. What kind of evidence can you have for some being "not smart enough" for any arbitrary experience? Nice essay though
Yes it is relevant, the point being that it's not a uniquely Islamic phenomenon.
I tend to create sparsebundles to clone my git repos within, to get around the overhead of having huge numbers of inodes on a volume. (Copying, deleting, unpacking archives, Spotlight indexing—all are way slower when you have the worktrees and .git directories from a thousand large repos splayed out across your disk.) So I was a little worried here.

Thankfully, I had manually been setting my sparsebundles back to HFS+ on creation, because I saw no reason to make them APFS containers.
Two bugs are described in this article:

1. An APFS volume's free space doesn't reflect a smaller amount of free space on the underlying disk

2. The diskimages-helper application doesn't report errors when write requests fail to grow the disk image

These are not even complex problems of the new format. It is just Apple forgot to have basic checks. It is like the root access with an empty password incident happened 2 months ago. Why these serious but basic problems happen? What is going on with Apple?
Books I used to develop a game engine
People tend to put their predictions over the same time-frame. How far something actually is seems to matter very little.
Unrelated (sorry for being opportunistic):

How do you like your Synology NAS? I’m considering it.
Sure, but the scientists at NASA didn't write code. They wrote down the computations that needed to be carried out and the women who punched the cards had to turn them into programs. And as we all know, transfering a formula to code and making it run efficiently is not trivial, even if you're working with a language "well suited" for the task like FORTRAN (which I'm going to bet was on the punched cards the OP's friend was editing).
Before I answer, can we at least level set that your your criteria / standards are pretty extreme? Unless you mean each individually and not the sum of them together -- but if you did mean the sum -- I want to live in this utopia you have in mind that has 100% this and 5 star that! I don't think that place exists, even in Scandinavia.

Washington D.C. meets your criteria on most but education. My brother and his wife all had their children at no expense. The Metro is one of the cleanest public transportation systems in America. It's one of the most walkable and beautiful cities I have ever been to.
No you can't. Powder is 60-70 USD, vial liquid is 120-140 USD. If you want to import from South Africa it can be that cheap but that stuff sucks.
What indication is there that they’re coming soon, or that commercial applications will be commoditized?

Commercial technology generally reflects cost savings to this day. Technology can run your assembly line at X units per day costs more if X is high, and even more if less people are involved in making X. It’s just technology got cheaper as a whole.

But I don’t think self-driving trucks will ever be that much cheaper since the computing power they use is on the same waning cost curve that brought us cheap computing today, and even if it does get exponentially cheap, the duty cycle of commercial applications will prevent savings from trickling down to commercial vehicles quickly (Just compare depreciation on normal cars vs big rigs).

All that being said, it’s intresting how quickly most people I see talk about this have gone from thinking about safety wins of self-driving cars to how much easier it will make driving. I think we’re headed for something ruinous if self-driving cars do come out and instead of solving the problem of excessive vehicles despite them, we all start thinking of fanciful new ways to constantly have more vehicles on the road.
Oh it's certainly in Apple's interest. I don't really care about their interest though. They have a large enough megaphone to take care of their own issues. I prefer to support the other side in such matters.

>Otherwise devs would just rely on compatibility and people would get used to the idea that iPhone X is the one where apps don't really work that well. Almost nobody would question whether that's dev's or apple's fault.

Microsoft spends their own money to make sure apps work with a newer version of Windows. I'd say that is the right choice given the enormous disparity in resources.
Facebook’s Fake Account Problem Is Getting Bigger
loeg is politely pointing out a large, recent, discussion. That's a useful thing to do.
I have had downtime with their email on many occasions but never their web hosting.
Which was blocked (the app) because Amazon distributed it outside of the play store, which is against the TOS iirc.

I believe it's still possible to access YouTube through a browser, but can't test anymore because I flashed lineage os on my Kindle tablet.
> Every single one of their products is made for "use it two years, throw it away when it breaks and buy a new one"

That’s absolutely rubbish - totally false. I got six years out of one of my MacBooks - it still actually works fine as a web browsing machine but is a bit slow. The next went well for four years but was taken out by a faulty graphics card. Luckily Apple replaced it free-of charge with a model four years newer, which is still going strong after three years. I don’t foresee having to replace that for at least another two or three years either.

I’ve got three years out of each of my my iPhones too, whereas many of my friends with Android phones seem to replace theirs as often as every year and a half, which is about how long they tend to get updates, unlike iPhones that keep getting them for years.
I said medical to differentiate it from street k which comes as a powder and is usually cut which is bad for injection.

And there shouldn't be a difference between animal and human ketamine.
I'll ask around. I had started to learn Oracle in my spare time but moved on to entrepreneurship and starting a business, electrical engineering, etc. At the office, I only know what I need to know :-/
I'm a non native English speaker. Which one is more suitable for "less quality"?
Gun control provokes intense whataboutism: "Thoughts and Prayers" "What about mental health!" "What about MS-13 and immigration?" "What about drugs?" What about everything except considering restrictions on ownership, licensing, etc.

A terrorist can kill a few dozen people once every few years, and suddenly we need a massive surveillance state, hundreds of billions spent on military and intelligence, "extreme vetting" of immigrants, travel bans, etc. But domestic mass shootings can happen on a weekly basis and it's business as usual.
Yep, that's the one - I'm in the studio apartment - quite big though.

When you book you can ask the owner which floor it's on, so I knew I'd be on floor 32. They also usually have photos of the view as it's often a selling point.

Last place was floor 31 (Currency Services Suites). Was also up about floor 10 I think at St Francis PLace Shangri La - lovely apartment complex that is right opposite St. Francis church and Lourdes school.

Twin Oaks building goes well over 40 floors though I think. I can see the second tower through the large window here (that tower doesn't appear to have been completed yet). It goes way above me (at least 10 or 15 floors). I think if you are above say floor 10 you'd get a decent enough view. Warning though - even at floor 32 the traffic noise is noticeable, but not too bad.
Yes, it works but you'll be limited by the 4x PCIe lane speed (Max Thunderbolt Speed).
My AFPS volume got corrupted probably during the upgrade to High Sierra. No data lost, but my disk is missing almost half the disk space. See https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/311843/26185
Is it in common use as such? Meaning 92 octane is 88 buffered with methanol? If it’s just in those little octane booster bottles, I would not consider that a “substantial additive“ in the context of the trillion dollar petroleum industry.
Hypothesis: since it does _get to_ the login screen, the OS does think that the disk is in a consistent state.

Maybe your unclean shutdown forced the async conversion from HFS+ to APFS to become forced-synchronous? Try leaving the drive in the Hackintosh machine, spinning at the login screen, for a few hours. Maybe it’ll “finish.”
I‘m not convinced that killing plants is creating less suffering than killing simple animals like shrimps or insects for example. Listen to the latest radiolab episode for example. Given their capabilities I find it reasonable to assume that the level of consciousness is about the same (which includes the very likely possibility of them being not conscious at all).

Point is, if you want to just reduce suffering while staying healthy (e.g. no iron / B12 deficiency) there may be better answers than just to restrict oneself to the one half of living creatures that happens to generate its own food from CO2.
That usually only happens to scamcoins, especially when there's some sort of exit scam (see Monero Gold). So let's hope he's not talking about Ethereum..
I admit, I didn't read the article, but that's primarily because upon seeing it my first thought was exactly along the lines of yours: "wait, how can that be true, California doesn't have the climate/conditions to grow good arabica coffee. Is this going to be some robusta nightmare?".

And it's not even just water, but temperature, soil, the whole works.

Glad to see my intuition seems to be on target...
How can a government that has effectively unlimited power be trusted?
The Long, Strange Legacy of One of the World’s Earliest Fake Mermaids
What's he playing at here? The founder of a cryptocurrency should now full well the power they have saying words like this; I know he's young, and I know there's validity to the "don't invest more than you can afford to lose" but a statement like 'could drop to near zero' is almost BEGGING the market to go bearish when you're the founder of a currency.

Buy the rumor, sell the news has never been more apt than it is right now.
I've been wondering this for a long time - what's to stop a terrorist from flying and attaching a drone with an explosive payload to a large commercial flight? Especially at night while the plane is taxiing?
I don't understand this. You don't risk anything by opening a loot box. If you're going to ban loot boxes because they cause kids to play more video games, why not just ban video games entirely?

Also, the definition of loot box seems like it could be very fuzzy. For example, in the pokemon games when you walk through grass you run the risk of running into a wild pokemon. Sometimes the pokemon you run into is a rare pokemon that you want to catch and sometimes it's something you've already caught and don't care about. Is this a "loot box"? I know I sure spent a lot of time walking through grass on those pokemon games as a kid.
Musk's view of the world is flawed but he's found a following by making very hard things happen. Getting to where both Tesla and SpaceX are is hard. People say that he's being extremely subsidised by the government. True, but money does not always produce results. Musk has a product and he's not stopping. He's leading the way.

In reality, if he really wanted to help the planet he would find ways to reduce cars and their impact on the environment. Replacing gas with batteries is only slightly better. Also, SpaceX's colonization of Mars sounds great but a moon colony is a better bang for the buck.

Most people are followers, so what we really need are leaders that are willing to make hard decisions and lead the way.
It's an election year. Promoting "gun control" of any kind will cost you votes (not to mention the non-stop attacks from the NRA). While promoting "loot box/gambling control" will gain you votes.

It's just that simple.

Now if I were EA (and other publishers) I'd throw 1/2 million at this senator. The best way to get him to shut up.
How would you then detect that there is a bot net messing with your service? How would you discriminate between bad actors from Romania? Are you going to mass ban huge chunks of possible customers because you dont have granulary enough data?
The hard problem is that most of the data logged about you has very "good" uses, but in the same time it can be used for bad things. And there is no way to properly enforce only the good uses. Mass banning groups will only cripple the tech advances we see happening today.
A backpack made with ‘energy harvesting textile’
Lion actively screwed up normal people's workflows with the botched "Save As" replacement. I still want an explanation of why they thought that was a good idea. We skipped that one after one of the admin assistants discovered the new joy.

The whole California-series of OS has had a broken Finder. I see some fixes in High Sierra, but its still buggy as heck for large file moves and broken scripting. I'm hoping they take a long hard look at Mac OS like they seem to be with the next iOS. I can forgive removing some UNIX commands, but the general bugs and unexplained crashes are starting to get on my nerves.
Yet another reason to stick with El Capitan.
This is why I go to Ace over big box. I can walk in with 2 parts and say I need to connect these. They'll page the right person and a minute later they will be finding the right parts and get me set in a few minutes. This would take nearly an hour at Lowe's or Home Depot unless you lucked into the right employee. It would be a total time waste to try to do the same on Amazon. I don't care about paying 10% more for the convenience. Ace is also a retail co-op.
The Vegetarian Myth https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003PJ7JXY/
Don't think it'd be worth the trouble.

They'd more likely produce the powder as that's easier to conceal for shipping or more likely just make DCK which is still legal.
I'd up-vote you twice if I could. Well said!
How do you know that? Filesystem corruption is frequently silent, and every-time it happens customers don't get on the phone and send the disks to apple so that they can root cause the problem. Its quite possible this bug has happened an untold number of times before it happened to someone who went through the effort to reproduce and isolate it.
> Hell, you have nuclear power plant reactor operators making > 175k/yr and they don't have any degree whatsoever.

Experience is required in lieu of a degree. But, to your point, no degree is required.

We should be finding every opportunity to get people into jobs that don't require a degree but require specialized skills, as it sidesteps an inflated credential gate (Sidenote: I don't think college is entirely useless, but its value has been drastically disconnected from its cost for some time).

"A reactor operator license requires 3 years of experience as an operator for a nuclear reactor. This can be as a field operator, or can include military/naval time. No college degree required. A certain amount (Typically 1 year) must be at a similar plant design and 6 months must be on site before starting license class.

A senior reactor operator can be "instant" or "upgrade". The upgrade process is a reactor operator becoming a senior reactor operator and requires an RO to have at least 1 year of licensed experience. For instant candidates, you need an engineering degree, or certain types of naval experience as a watch officer, plus on site time, plus 3 years experience in the industry (or naval experience).

These time requirements are time required PRIOR to starting license class. The class itself is around 18-20 months."

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/energy/comments/3nm9ox/whats_it_lik...
Around here it is used (in solution!) as ballast in tractor tires.
What layer of the filesystem it should be handled at can be debated (a tar with separate PAR2s? a single archive split into multiple ZFEC shares?) but that sort of thing is precisely what a long-term archiving tool should be handling for you. I don't want to mess with par2create by hand anymore than I want to try Imagemagick on multiple settings to get an acceptable tradeoff.
I wouldn't trust it for injection unless it came in medical vial. It's on the darknet, though more expensive than powdered Ketamine.
> jimmy1 comment about immigration breaking the Greece economy seems factually incorrect.

My 50+ relatives that are there right now experiencing it would say otherwise, but who knows they could all be wrong.

Populism and anti-globalist sentiment is on the rise in Europe on a whole due to immigration concerns.
Frameworks vs. Libraries
In contrast coffee in general is vastly underpriced. In a shop you are lonely going to pay a premium but beans are generally produced by an underpaid labour market that allows for coffee to maintain such a low value.
There’s reason to believe that Octupus are as conscious or more so than chicken. Certainly among non-mammal seafood they have the most intelligent behavior.
I saw that a ton as a teen. I always felt sick at the idea so I had a built deck at a set price. But friends would buy a pack. Then just one more. Just one more. Okay last one.
It also thermally throttles under the sort of heavy loads people buy workstations for and that's using the lowest spec one.
I think that's ridiculous. Pilots are correctly very reluctant to hit things. Historically, we have wanted them to do their best to avoid that.

You could argue that we should now train pilots to carefully pause and consider whether the thing they are about to hit is safe to hit. But for that, you'd have to show that the additional reaction time in avoiding collisions is really net safer. And if you did argue that, you couldn't judge the current pilots by your proposed new standard.

For those interested, by the way, in really thinking through accident retrospectives, I strongly recommend Sidney Dekker's "Field Guide to Human Error": https://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Understanding-Human-Error...

I read it just out of curiosity, but it turned out to be very applicable to software development.
And yes, our entire profession is clownish. We produce shitty, unreliable software using ad-hoc methods no two teams agree about, our management processes are folkloric, our hiring procedures random.

In other words, it's exactly the kind of milieu which runs off of ideology, and is ripe for ideological hysteria. I mean, what in the heck do we think language flamewars are?