skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I worry about reading every year or two, then I read some books, and then I remember that they aren't as interesting as they used to be

I read a lot and while I strongly disagree with your comment that books are less interesting than they used to be I will say that finding good books is very hard once you have read all the well regarded, widely recommended classics.

I often try reading new releases and New York Times best sellers and they often leave me frustrated because they are never as good as people hype them to be.

One recent example that I read was called "The Traitor Baru Cormorant" where I actually skipped closed to 60 pages of the book near the end and still managed to finish it without missing any plot related details. That book has a 4/5 on goodreads...
Using Typora for WYSIWYG markdown editing using inline LaTeX and a LaTeX-like theme (http://theme.typora.io/theme/Academic/) has been a nice middle-ground for my most common use-cases of homework and notes. Full LaTeX is wonderful but feels like overkill in many situations.
And the buildings in the ancient had much smaller footprint than 0.1 of a Manhattan city block. (Manhattan has ~2500 blocks)
And it's not even that "easy". Say you make $1mm from the sale of some stock in a startup. First off, this is incredibly rare. Second, your take home is roughly $600k in the U.S. after federal and state taxes. So even $1mm doesn't get you much. Good luck starting a business with only $600k.
Not dissimilar to freedom fighter/terrorist back in the day.
Yep! Moreton Bay Bugs are delicious :) http://www.claringbolds.com.au/produce/morton-bay-bugs/
The burden should not be on the people to justify every one of their liberties. Should a gay couple need justify to the state the merit, moral dignity, or in any way their choice to live as gay people to the state? No. It should never be that way. But to legitimize illegitimite authority you just need to win over the hearts and minds of the people that what you are doing is good, by first doing things that are, in isolation, good. Though its an awful path to go down.
Are we talking about facebook.com the website, or Facebook the company ?
Scientists Discover Particle Formed by Three Photons
Mathologer on Rupert's cube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAHcZGjKVvg
Istanbul is (by far) the largest city of Turkey and is mostly on the European continent. If you include the coasts of the Aegean (that were historically Greek-speaking), then you get several more major population centers. And historically, the Ottoman Empire was very much a major European power, controlling as it did most of the Balkans.

If Cyprus can claim to be a European country, then so can Turkey.
True! My disk-image-centered workflow comes from before APFS volumes were a thing; I haven't bothered to re-evaluate it. (It is nice that I can just schlep one of these volumes around by copying one file, rather than waiting for thousands/millions of small files to compress, copying the archive, and then decompressing on the other end, though. Do you know if there's an easy method of doing a block-level export from an APFS volume to a sparsebundle disk image, or vice-versa? That'd be killer for this.)
688M Chinese People Used WeChat Hongbao on Chinese New Year's Eve
I'm a sysadmin who writes tools. I like it because it gives me plenty ideas
for nontrivial tools for which I am in the audience (so I write for myself),
I'm not getting bored with tweaking the same application over and over again
(I switch between writing many different things), and because I'm not
nominally expected to program, so I'm not tied that much to whatever
language is popular in the company (nobody thinks about my tools that we'll
need to update and develop them for years to come, and thus I can choose
whatever language I deem appropriate).
Is blinding voting to remove not counter-productive? I feel like it would incentivise judges to act even more in line with popular opinion to swing the needle back the other way.
So should Penguin Books be allowed to copy every book published by Doubleday if they give all the copies away for free?
I don't know about PDP-10s. DEC's PDP-11 operating systems used a character set called RAD-50, short for radix (octal) 50, for filenames and various other purposes.

The (decimal) 40 characters were A-Z, 0-9, and four punctuation characters -- I don't remember which. Three characters could be stored in a 16 bit word, so a 6.3 filename required 3 words or 6 bytes. The '.' separator was not stored, of course.

The implementers of CP/M or one of those early PC OSes copied the idea but not the encoding and picked 8.3 as a slightly more usable size. Floppy drives were relatively capacious (!) so bigger filenames were reasonable.

The only reason I know this PDP-11 trivia is that end users could recompile the RT-11 kernel to save space, and DEC distributed the OS sources to enable that. The distributed version was written in assembler and had had comments stripped, so it wasn't quite like reading the Lions book, but you could read it if you really wanted to.
Agreed on all counts. I generally skip "it's all in the video" unless it's a very high quality production.

For tweetstorms, threadreaderapp.com is a life-saver.
This is the definition of clickbait. "I've forgotten how to read" does not mean "I feel like my reading habits have changed" or "I can not defend myself from the invasive world of social media and online content". Valid concerns these are, but easily dealt with: reflect on your usage, uninstall the app, delete the account, make a decision and apply it to your life. Nowhere near being unable to read. At this moment writing this comment I'm procrastinating too, but distractions existed since time immemorial. You decide to let them enter your life, you kick them out.

An example: on my free days I tend to stay up late and get up late, and when I wake up I tend to check some funny/interesting subreddits, losing lots of time. But knowing also that reddit is very useful at times, I remove the app from the phone, and restrict the subs I'm subscribed to to ones that are useful. I see that I'm checking my email too much on my phone when I'm bored, I remove the mail app for some days. All notifications except calls are silenced on my phone. I don't use any social media, except Reddit and HN, if we count them as such (reddit is definitely trying to be, which is annoying, but you can have your niche still). These are my solutions. Each and every life has many problems, and we try to fix them. Introspect, reflect, decide, do. No shortcuts there.
Reminds me of a scene in n House of Cards;

“These ribs are good!”

“Yeah, got me a new butcher. Has a sound proof room in the back. Slow bleeds em’”
I think you'll find that this kind of thing started with making slavery illegal, a.k.a the actual use of force by the government to take away people's freedom to own other humans. The idea that all authority is immoral because authority can be used for immoral purposes is a simplistic slippery slope, and frankly anyone arguing that is just arbitrarily picking one ingredient of tyranny and saying that it should be banned. Tyranny also requires people. Let's get rid of people!
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Fascinating thoughts, maybe you shouldn't live in Switzerland.
I hope one day drones are regulated similarly to guns, i.e. de facto banned unless some exception applies, such as:

- you're in the middle of nowhere

- you're doing it exclusively on a property you own (and the property is large enough)

- the use case is in the public good (e.g.: police can use guns)

In other cases, the downsides are large given potential for abuse/voyeurism/sabotage, and upsides seem nil.
Exactly. Look at the unbelievably pathetic Android Tablet apps! Except for top 10 games and some of the video streaming apps, most of the apps look like crap.
If that is what you want, then I think, perhaps, you haven't learned Blender deeply enough.
A source that most people can live and be healthy without eating meat? I don't. I looked for one and I can't find one. I seriously think that it's too self-evident to have warranted much study. There are hundreds of millions of vegetarians and they seem to be doing okay.

I'm not arguing that it's healthier or you can live longer, just that most people can be healthy and live.

Do you have a source that most professionals believe that most people can't live and be healthy on a vegetarian diet?
It’s your opinions vs Jony Ives whether its good design or not. Most people here seem to side with Jony and not you, of course you are entitled to your opinions.
>Not to be a dick

Do you consider the phrase 'not to be a pussy' inappropriate?

Edit: did not mean to detract from the conversation, just see this phase used fairly commomly here, and I don't see why one is acceptable and one is not
SaaS, consulting, niche product, recruitment, report generation, user onboarding optimization, marketing optimization, APIs... off hand
> But that's not freedom, that's socialism.

It's different, but I'd still say it's a form of freedom - the government frees you from having to take care of certain things, even if you are unable to do so yourself. There are more axes to freedom that just freedom FROM the government IMO.
What app are you testing? Most of the UI can be perfectly tested on the simulator. In fact the iOS UI guys on my project never see the app on native hardware until release.
Are You a Bad Parent If You Rely on Parenting Tech?
i can imagine heavily armed lobster police bursting in the kitchen of an unsuspecting cook.
It's how we got 64-bit apps!
The last time I looked the iOS app had the worst user reviews I’ve ever seen. When I looked at it a few months ago it had a 2 Star average, but I just checked and found its shot up to 4 stars. Curious, I read the user reviews and ...

Just as bad as ever. Can anyone say “gaming the app ratings system”?

Specifically to Apple?
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Michael Abrash's Black Book is a very enjoyable read. The material is oriented towards a much lower level than people are working with today, but there's some great information in there. I feel that it does a good job of teaching one how to think about approaching a problem; not just DOS graphics techniques
Why Boards Are No Friends to Women Workers
How do you make a note? Underline a phrase or mark a page? Refer someone to a certain passage of the book? When you want to find something, what's the equivalent of a table of contents or index or skimmint through pages? How do you return to the phrase five paragraphs ago that, hearing a certain sentence at present, you realise that you actually misunderstood, and now are confused about the story/subject/topic/&c?

Nothing wrong with listening to podcasts or audiobooks per se, but it's nowhere near reading when it comes to fruitful interaction with a source of information, and to transmission of knowledge. Written/printed/digital text is the biggest, most important invention, ever.
I can’t speak to my fathers grave: it is disconnected from him, by definition the one place he most certainly never was.

I can’t speak at the sky; I’m not any sort of believer.

Despite our never texting, though, I recently found some great comfort in texting my thoughts to him. Texting is already such an asynchronous form of communication, it didn’t feel like talking to myself.

Apparently the phone company has reassigned his cell number, though. So it really didn’t feel like talking to myself when I got a text back asking me to stop.
What seems to have happened here is that the six nines up-time was calculated/predicted on the basis of no common cause failures, of which it appears this scenario depicts.

Taking into account common cause failures (which are often as a result of root causes by human factors) your six nines can very easily be more like three or four nines.

As a functional safety engineer that applies IEC61508/61511 for a living this is a common problem and addressed by diversity in systems, achieving the same goal in redundant systems by different hardware/software means.

Airbus and Space Shuttle flight controls do a similar thing with multiple CPUs of different types with software implemented to the same spec by different teams, in some cases different languages.

Not saying this is what they should be doing in their case as the mission is not so critical, but if you really want five or six nines this becomes extremely difficult with limited diversity in hardware and software.
for a sufficiently narrow definition of "major issue" that excludes

- the encryption password hint leak ("that was Disk Utility, not APFS")

- APFS volume erasure issues ("also Disk Utility")

- Adobe, Unity (editor and games built with it), Steam, Source Engine, and FCPX crash, performance, and asset loss issues on APFS volumes, all of which went away when moved to HFS+ volumes ("those teams should have adapted their software during beta")

- performance and incompatibility issues with spinning-disk drives ("platters are bad, APFS is designed for SSDs")

- RAID kernel panics, even on supported RAID 0 configurations ("that's corecrypto, not APFS")
Here is the course 'authors' page https://www.udemy.com/user/niharika-23/?src=sac&kw=master%20...
Interestingly no domain name or author name.
Let me quote the article I referred to:

>"My attempt to install an alternative browser ended with this message: Firefox requires iOS 10.3 or later."

A Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 2013 - same age as that iPad - has Android 7.1 with all the latest bells and whistles (Firefox).

I expect to upgrade to Android 8.0 (LineageOS 15) later this year.

Edit: The author tried to install Firefox because Safari had become so slow it was unusable.
> a regressive tax on people who don't understand probability

This is precisely why I support lotteries etc.
Find something you want to do, then find some big government or enterprise who wants to move away from Cognos or Crystal Reports to something sexy and pay for it by doing that.
And then there are crawfish, which are intermediate in size. Indeed, smaller than some southeastern cockroaches.
Of course the burden is on the state to justify the intrusion of liberty, but providing they can do so (i.e. the proposed action in isolation is a good thing), I'm not seeing the issue - preventing the government from making good interventions because of hypothetical future bad laws seems like an even worse path to take. Ultimately, how can you govern if good actions are just treated as a means to legitimise unspecified abuses?
There’s also a JavaScript impl of K, one of the ASCII APL-like languages:

https://github.com/JohnEarnest/ok
If the miners are financially motivated and rational they wouldn’t refuse to mine the most valuable fork. They have a large investment in hardware and would lose a lot of money.

If for some reason they did refuse, or worse, attacked the network (with double spends or censorsing transactions) then the users could emergency fork to change the proof of work and attract new miners.
Nice job! I made some interactive visualizations to calculate something very similar:

https://www.workfortime.com/investment-calculator/

https://www.workfortime.com/retirement-calculator/

I tried to show how age and length of investment really impact how much wealth you can create.
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I'm also of Irish descent and am usually the last person to start sweating.
I am alarmed that they will jump to conclusions about how many building were there from a lidar image. Maybe they are trying to get funding of some kind by exaggerating the numbers.

Just like the native americans their homes were made from materials that could easily have been destroyed by weather and age.
> Just having a Facebook account that you “don’t use” allows a massive amount of value (from an advertisers perspective) to be unlocked.

Increasingly, this is not the case: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-belgium/facebook...
A web browser with the latest security patches. Read my other comments in this thread for anecdotes.
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You probably don’t drop them often. Every dell laptop I’ve owned broke when dropped. Ive dropped the glue and aluminum MacBooks dozens of times and nothing ever broke.
>It’s also worth noting that Amazon has said as soon as those products support Prime Video apps they’ll allow them back on

source? IIRC amazon claimed it was confusing for its users if they sold the chromecast and their firestick at the same time.
Coming to HN less and less with shitty clickbait like this on front page.
In Richard Morgan's Takeshi Kovach novels, virtual torture typically drives victims insane. And for me, I fear prolonged illness and pain more than death.
Stock market trading robots... everything automated and running from the cloud...
That still applies.
The hardware is not obsolete even without an "alternative browser".
You can make the "just getting started" argument for just about any company.

What you describe does not seem to require the involvement of Facebook. It doesn't even seem to require cameras. Just ask them to swipe their credit card to start using the automated ordering system.
Fair enough. My wife uses Adobe tools for typesetting, she is a professional (she pays $100/month for her CS subscription, however). I'm not a professional, I've looked at the amount of effort needed to refine output in these tools and they make LaTeX look usable...
I don't agree that it's clickbait. It's simply a title with two potential meanings.

Perhaps you have forgotten how to read much as the author of this piece claims they themselves did. Perhaps I have as well, when I reflect upon the magic of human language.
Virtually no Android users know how to install LineageOS, as a mobile developer all usage stats show that Android fragmentation is real and awful. Huge percentage of Android users never get updates.
If people start abusing other tranquilizers, will universities also start studies on them? I don't think this would be something the universities (or a single university) would focus on had it not been for druggies.
My own, incorpated into my cloud based trading robots...
The “better resale value” thing needs to be addressed. People keep using this as evidence of the Mac or iphone’s longevity, but I hardly doubt that’s the cause for the better resale value. Broken, non-working Mac products also have better resale value than the equivalent Windows products. It seems far more likely the better resale value is simply because
(a) Their parts have higher value due to Apple using proprietary parts, rather than cheap openly available parts, making them valuable for repairers
(b) Apple does not sell products below a certain price range, so if someone’s kid wants a portable Mac, but they can’t afford to spend more than $500, they have to go the second hand route. In the Windows world you have a plethora of new devices available at a fraction of the cost of any new device, therefore making it impossible for the old device to hold its value since it isn’t competing only with its original price.
That means cats must have a daily visual contact with other felines, and hamsters or guinea pigs must be kept in pairs. And anyone who flushes a pet goldfish down the toilet is breaking the law.

Say what? So in Switzerland I can go to jail for not making a play date for my cat, or buying a little friend for my hamster?

What's next, you can't kill a spider that's creeping around your house?

People need to understand that there's always intended or unintended consquences for all laws. And laws like this have a tendency to make nasty precedents for other stupid-ass laws.

This is just more anthropomorphic emotional immaturity.
refs (microsoft's new filesystem)'s deployment went along much better. i haven't heard of any major issues since it came out in windows server 2012.
For AI to thrive, it must explain itself
Not a chance. Costco is actually heading toward failure, not success.

People want to shop online, people want to at the very minimum look up prices online.

People want to just go in the store, get what they need, and get out.

But Costco keeps moving things because of their "treasure hunt" atmosphere" (to force people to go searching) and "store experience" that they are trying to cultivate.

It works - for now. Until it won't. Low prices won't save them forever.

Costco is on the record saying they refuse to have online shopping because they want people in their stores having a "treasure hunt".

Costco has a record of every item a member bought - it would so very very very easy for them to make an online "reorder this" shopping list. And a "you might like" section by data mining and correlating with other shoppers.

They have so much potential, but they are going to be like Sears, and they are going to blow it.
Jesus, I need to learn how to read faster.....
One practical advantage of using free tools is that everyone in your company can use it, you can write automation that uses it, etc. I'm not going to defend LaTeX in particular, but there's a lot of value into using something (like Markdown or reStructuredText or whatever) that anyone in your company can propose edits to, where you can automatically publish nicely-formatted (e.g. HTML) documentation when anyone in your company makes a change, and so forth.

Another way of gaining this advantage is to use something you're already paying for like an internal wiki.
The downfall of the Greek economy occurred in 2008/2009. The immigration problem came later after the economy tanked. The immigration problem made things worse but the economy had already been wrecked by the time the refugees arrived.
AI Recognizes White Men Better Than Black Women
Which kde distro would you recommend for stability?
You are right, of course. But I think it's disingenuous to call all hyperbole clickbait.
FWIW, I am not claiming the law to be right or just, but it _is_ the law as it currently stands. Also, prior to 1994, GCHQ operated entirely outside of the law (hence the Act's wording "There shall continue to be [GCHQ]"; for a long time, the existence of the agency wasn't even publicly acknowledged), so in some ways it is a step towards respecting the rule of law.

Also, strictly speaking, the King is above the law - the Monarch is the source of all law, and even Parliament acts through that power in its activities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen-in-Parliament
I'm severely disinterested in regulated social media, even moreso than social media under any other conditions.

If I can't write fiction, then why write words ever? Be it on the internet, be it on a website, be it on an extra special website that people seem to find more important than most other websites.
> Not having to pay taxes

Amazon pays (collects) taxes nationwide: https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/24/15055662/amazon-us-sales-...
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The problem we're experiencing is what I've been calling "humanity at scale." The vast overwhelming majority of people can be perfectly fine, courteous, thoughtful, engaging, but if just 0.1% of the 3 billion internet users are lacking empathy, argue in bad faith, harass, threaten, etc., we're still dealing with 3 million people. And if those people don't particularly have much better to do, and can post pretty often, then you have the worst segments of humanity having a magnified voice.

The recent focus of troll farms and political interference increases that number by introducing people who wouldn't be interesting in doing it for free, but will gladly do it for a paycheck.

And then you have the social influence of all these voices saying and doing the worst thing and modifying the behavior of internet users who otherwise would never consider doing these things at all. This behavior becomes normalized where it wasn't before.

We used to think it was a matter of anonymity, but I don't think that's it, we've all encountered plenty of people willing to do these things under their real (or easily traceable) names.

I think it's just good ol' fashioned peer pressure, where the worst elements get the most influence and the best elements are easily ignored.