skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We could also honestly say he's talented and be pretty sure he weighs at least 75 pounds[1]. It occurs to me that part of the problem is the analogous thinking in the first place, but even I (someone who was planning to take a vow of poverty at one point) have to admit that monetary worth is supposed to indicate how valuable/good of a person we are in normal circumstances; it's the reason to reward. Where it loses meaning to me is where there, like sjk alluded to, isn't even money but the assumption of it. There is nothing to actually show for it as stock options, money in the bank (unless it's really a vault), even Federal Reserve Bank Notes if you want to invoke the significance of them historically as essentially checks that could be cashed for silver and gold: it's all imaginary and kind of delusional to think it is really Wealth. As a result one of the more interesting things happening in the Financial sector to me right now is the Royal Mint's introduction of Royal Mint Gold as it challenges the entire idea of Fiat Money by using blockchain tech like a deed for gold ownership. It makes me think of Gringotts.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talent_(measurement)

edit: I'm inclined to add that I view gold and silver as actually valuable in part because they're physically useful in production of at the very least Artwork, which is what a coin is. There is an interesting division in the United States between the Mint and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing that draws a line between the purification of metal and the printing of bills that carries a lot of significance: purified metals represent purity whereas printed paper money is always being thrown out and burnt as it falls apart and has little material worth. One is timeless Art in that it is an actual indication of purity and the other is a mashed up pulp of cotton and flax with ink strewn over it that absorbs our human filth (oils and such) until it falls apart.
This looks valuable. Good job with the tags. Even better if there was a way to do a full-text search of all articles from the front page.
Blendle tries but is struggling. It does not seem to work, not enough subscribers, unhappy papers ( uhh, advertisers ).
I had the previous generation of MBP (late 2012, retina) and am now using the latest (mid 2017), both of the 15" variety.

I have had zero problems with my keyboard, though I acknowledge that this might just be luck.

I actually really like that all the ports are Thunderbolt 3/USB-C... but I wish more things supported USB-C to match. Like if the phone were USB-C, and if flash drives were USB-C, I'd be set. It's frustrating to have to carry dongles around, for sure. I loved the SD card slot and HDMI port on the previous generation because I used them somewhat regularly, so lacking those is a disappointment. I'd be much happier if I had four T-3 ports plus the SD card slot and HDMI port. The ability to charge out of any port is actually nifty, though; I use both sides regularly.

There are a lot of things I like better, though. I actually prefer the new keyboard (I hated how the previous generation's keys wiggled). The new screen is really phenomenal. The larger touchpad is really nice. The lessened weight is also a plus. Touch ID is pretty cool, though I'm very uninterested in the TouchBar (no strong feelings either way). And otherwise they're practically the same, except for moderately improved internal specs.

For me, the new model has been a net positive. I think if I were having keyboard issues like so many others, that opinion would change, but with my present luck I am happy with it.
They still sell the 2015 new, it's a bit hidden, but available. We bought one a few months ago for a dev, after his second MBP had failing USB-C ports.
The new MBP seems like such a weird step back. Sound is worse, keyboard is arguably worse, unnecessarily reductive (and often faulty) ports, gimmicky touch bar, no more magsafe, etc.
Are cotton totes better for the Earth than plastic bags?
The OP linked to a set tweets from Joe Beda (author of Kubernetes) that read "When you create a complex deployment system with Jenkins, Bash, Puppet/Chef/Salt/Ansible, AWS, Terraform, etc. you end up with a unique brand of complexity that you are comfortable with. It grew organically so it doesn't feel complex."

Kubernetes is a convention over configuration framework for operations. And by doing that it allows you to easily build on its abstractions.

At GitLab the Kubernetes abstractions allowed is to make Auto DevOps that automatically builds, runs tests, checks performance, diagnoses security, and provisions a review app. We could have made that with gitLab CI and bash but it would be much harder for people to understand, maintain, and extend.

Having an abstraction for a deployment is something that doesn't even come by default with Jenkins as far as I know. Now that we have that as an industry we can finally build the next step of tools with the usability of Heroku but the control, price, flexibility, and extensibility of self-hosted software.
I have several keys that randomly type twice, I hate it. Went through the tech support and at the end they wanted me to reinstall the OS.

But that is pretty much nonsense, as when I hit the key in a different place, it reacts differently.
Does this make any sense? Isn't Mars' atmosphere much thinner than Earth's? Wouldn't that count against using rotary wing crafts?
I'm not so sure Netflix picking it up would be a good thing, I've really enjoyed this series and don't want to see it go down the drain. I hope someone does pick it up though, I don't want it to end.
Hmm.. I didn't realise it wasn't there, sorry about that, will add it by Monday :)
I have a 2015 Macbook Pro and Im sort of anxious because if it breaks, I really don't want to get a butterfly keyboard one. Is there any idea when they will release a successor?
You really aren’t willing to avoid personal attacks, are you? It’s not doing anything productive.

The main thing I took away from that post was his belief that the static / dynamic divide was a false dichotomy. I do agree, however, that I was incorrectly remembering it too charitably: he and you are both willing to distract by accusing other people of acting in bad faith without bringing evidence to support such a strong accusation.
I'm curious -- does she use that newfangled Windows Surface Knob thingy? How does it work if so? And what's her setup if not (e.g., does she use a separate drawing tablet)?
The general case seems to be "constant stress" not poverty itself.
> I've broken the keys (in half) on the 2015 Macbook repeatedly just by typing

What? How?? Like are you just an extremely heavy typist or what?

I've been using my 2017 15-inch MBP for probably multiple hours a day (on average) since August, and I've had no problems. I get that there's a fair amount of luck involved there, but I don't understand how you can literally break the keys just by typing.
If you can't even spell out the name, it's too complicated.
;)

Well, I wanted to automate it, but the "AI" just so easily got fooled, though if anyone is interesting in working on it with me I'd be happy. Now that I've been running it for an year, I have some unique insights that would be helpful.
I think he's saying -40C and -40F are the same thing, and is complaining about the units being on the 40 and not the 30.

It's a rather extreme nitpick.
It sounds like that, however, if you check the root of that domain you will see that it's a forum for gore photos and videos from real accidents, deaths or medical conditions, so the domain name is somewhat proper :P
When it works, the butterfly is great. Feels a lot better than older MBP keyboards. However, it does have frequent issues. If Apple can fix that while keeping the feeling of typing, it would be great.
I received a DOA monitor from Dell last month and they tried to tell me I could only get it replaced with a refurb, after an hour on the phone they finally agreed to replace it. Then it took literally a month of waiting days between emails asking me to provide bits of info I already provided in the first phone call before the finally delivered it. Why is there PC support so different?
First things first, this is not remotely common from anything I've seen and I've reviewed a lot of employment agreements in M&A contexts.

Second, I'd be curious what they are referring to as "disparagement." Is that defined in the agreement?

Third, I'm not sure what state you are in, but that might matter. I haven't researched the issue and there may be case law already. But my guy instinct is that this would violate public policy in a state like California, perhaps depending on what "disparagement" is meant to mean.

I'll give you one reason why. California, as you might know, is very hostile to restraints on ability to pursue a profession (most notable example - non-compete agreements). If you cannot disparage your employer post-employment, that may make it impossible to compete with them.

Of course, this depends on what disparagement means. Absent contract, the main restrictions on commercial speech that "disparage" a competitor are in the world of defamation and trade libel law (on a state level) and the Lanham Act/unfair competition law (largely on a federal level). This is gross oversimplification, but good enough for the moment.

Those laws generally require proof of falsity or misleading nature of the underlying speech.

A non-disparagement clause, on the other hand, is a contractual obligation that goes further than that. It CAN, depending on the wording, extend to truthful speech. And it often does.

Competitors need to be able to distinguish their products and services from each other - most notably in ways that promote their own services as "better" than the other or by noting flaws in their competitors products and services. This is part of healthy competition. Defamation, trade libel, and unfair competition laws all permit this.

But it's not necessarily possible with a non-disparagement clause. And, therefore, the ability to compete fairly is materially diminished.

I would note that even in California, there are exceptions to the public policy ban on non-competes in the M&A context. And that might be read to extend the public policy concerns around a non-disparagement clause. But the contractual terms need to be narrowly tailored. It has to terminate at some point. Perpetual restrictions are not enforceable.

TL;DR: This isn't normal. You're not overreacting.
How would you propose having a communist nation without a dictatorial and authoritarian government? What do you do with people that do not want to work their offered tasks? What of people that feel that they do more and thus deserve more? The solutions here in capitalism are perhaps not ideal, in the sense of utopia, but they enable society to continue functioning with a relatively small restriction on liberties.

It's interesting talking to individuals who lived through the USSR. Many of the things we take for granted simply did not exist. Hearing a 40 year old man speak so fondly of silly things such as Donald Duck and Disney - not in and of themselves but of the advent of freedom and open culture they represented, is something that's really eye opening. And while you might argue that that's because it was not a real, or a good, communist nation, at some point I think you have to consider that this might be a case of the no true scotsman fallacy. Ultimately, I don't see how you so severely restrict the liberties of the people without having a government that is extremely oppressive.
They still sell that model new.
I guess Netflix might be interested. They already have broadcasting rights for The Expanse for a lot of regions outside of the US.

And they really are in need of something to put against a GOT-scale series based on the Tolkien universe over at Amazon's Primevideo service, which will definitely start streaming around 2019/2020.
It is a remote company; our devs are all over the world. So people travel and move around a lot, and as a result use their laptops “naked” a lot of the time. One guy on my team likes to set up a desk in a forest and work outside most of the day using cellular internet.

Maybe it matters less in a co-located space where everyone is at a desk all day.
What’s remarkable in the case of America, however is its reps’ very voluble profession that it is somehow better than other countries, more freedom-loving, more just, etc. with a straight face.
Apple fell [...] Mac Pro was probably the ultimate expression of this.

You should take a look at, well, Apple's 30-odd-year catalog. Various industrial design screwups pop up fairly regularly and they're invariably interpreted as a profound insight into whatever it is people think Apple is doing horribly wrong at the particular time.
As written below, we've done the same for some devs here. The 2015 model just as too many useful features that are now missing for no apparent reason. The new MBP has tinny sound, no magsafe, no hdmi, crappy keyboard, failing usb-c ports, the whole dongle fiasco.. it's just not a good value proposition for the price, compared to the predecessor.
Macbook Pros still have best screens, best touchpads and unix operating system that just works and is perfectly compatible with the hardware.

The only thing that comes close is XPS oine from Dell. Thinkpads with linux just can't compare (bad screens, software trouble with "reasonable resolution", no MS office, etc). Anything with Windows can't compare, since who would want to use spying os with ads in start menu?

I would love anything as good as MBP but there just isn't anything.
fuckedcompany.com

I don't know how @Pud was able to get all of the dirt that he did and wrap it up into such funny headlines, but he did and it was great while it lasted.

Sample from 2001: https://web.archive.org/web/20011108145149/http://www.fucked...
> Kubernetes isn't giving you anything you couldn't have already built with configuration management.

Configuration management does not give you loadbalancing. Configuration management does not give you rolling upgrades.

I mean, sure, you can do this stuff with CM as well, but with k8s, there's nothing to build. It's already there
So is kube-lego.
That’s pretty sad, but I don’t see what that has to do with my questions.
I actually used to occasionally feel weird about helping people because it made me feel good. I would sometimes even go out of my way to make sure I didn't feel good when helping, to try and do it in the most painful way possible.

What swapped me on that was that I realized I was often a more generous, effective helper when I could feed off the positive energy that came along with it.

I want to help people because they have inherent value, not for my own gain or status. So I asked myself, 'would the type of person who is completely selfless make themselves less effective as a helper just so that they could be assured that they were selfless?'

And of course they wouldn't. Being selfless is about considering other people to be more important than you. I was falling into the trap of treating my own moral status as the end goal; I was still considering other people to be less important than what I felt my actions said about me.

It's like when people assume that the opposite of pride is self-deprecation and then spend the exact same amount of time and energy obsessing over why they're bad at something.
This is what turns it from a minor issue to a severe one in my mind.

I've killed a few keyboards on older Thinkpads. The replacement part was maybe $50 new, and considerably less for a used one on Ebay. It's not integrated with any other component and can be changed in 10 minutes with only a Phillips screwdriver.

I'm sure integrating the keyboard with the expensive machined aluminum upper case, trackpad and whatever else is built into that component resulted in a laptop that's 1mm thinner.
Lua based audio/visual toolkit suitable for small games and experimentation
The whole idea of GPS is to turn a very good time reference (an atomic clock) into a space reference, by using multiple such references with known locations at once and then to send out time stamped signals. If you can't distinguish arrival times the signal origins collapse into a point. The travel time of the signal from Earth to Mars is anywhere from 4 to 24 minutes (assuming you have line of sight, which isn't the case when Mars is on the other side of the sun), with flight times that long the difference in arrival time between the signals is meaningless.

The difference in position between the satellites is at best 40,000 km (MEO orbits and satellites in opposite positions around Earth would give you the largest baseline), the difference from Mars to Earth is > 50M kilometers. So when viewed from Mars this would be like trying to triangulate your position in the United States based on signal sources spaced a very short distance apart somewhere in Moscow.

(sorry for the strained analogy)

Another problem with the approach is that of the two possible solutions that are the result from computing your location from GPS satellites one of the solutions is deep inside the Earth, which for both radio related reasons and reasons of practicality can be safely ignored. From a location in space very far away that trick no longer works so you will end up having to pick one of several answers.

Of course you could stick a GPS like transmitter into every Mars orbiter we launch from now on so that at some point there will be enough coverage locally to allow navigation, but that's a pretty expensive trick, besides that you'd also need a bunch of base stations in order to properly compute the orbits of the satellites to the required precision so that you can tell the satellites where they are.
Thinkpads are #1. System76 and the XPS 13s are also a hit.
At the start of the year I bought a full spec 15" MBP. Two weeks in the B key stopped working so I took it to the Apple Store and they literally gave me a brand new one. Why did the B key stop working? Apparently it was a crumb. So I had a total system replacement of a £3000 laptop because of a crumb. Insane. Yes I know the broken one will be repaired and re-sold as a refurb but still that is just crazy.

I ended up returning the MBP for a refund anyway as I really didn't enjoy the new butterfly keyboard. I found it quite painful to type on for more than about 20 minutes.

I strongly feel the latest generation MBP is a step backwards in what a "professional" wants and needs from such a machine. Sure make the consumer MacBook model as thin as possible but don't butcher the Pro model to save 0.2mm by introducing a god awful keyboard and removing a bunch of crucial ports so we have to rely on bloody dongles!

Ninja Edit: Forgot to mention how much I hated the TouchBar. What sucks is the actual idea of the touchbar is pretty nice but replacing the function keys with it on a Pro machine is idiotic. They could have easily added the touchbar while keeping the function keys but decided not to probably to be minimal/simple.
Which is exactly the point. $500 is very competitive with the cost of the Galaxy/Pixel -class phones.

At $200, the 1-2 generations behind used iPhone is very competitive with the slower, cheaper Android phones that you can buy new.

The phones you're comparing the iPhone to are second-tier phones. But, as I said in my original comment, second-tier iPhones are resale, not new.
Type hints aren't checked or enforced by the compiler. They're really just special-syntax comments to help the developer (or IDE, as the case may be). I wouldn't call this "type checking".
It will be nice when someone discovers the next step:

A catalog of topical subscriptions, which you only offer after the user has signaled interest in a specific subdomain.

What’s galling about the immediate ask is the site knows literally nothing about my intents and is deigning to suggest content to me.
My work laptop is a 2015 manufactured late 2017, but I haven’t been able to figure out how/where to buy this directly. Is it only available through business channels?
I'm on my second 13" MBP, after this exact problem. The first one had this problem pretty severely on the 'n' key, the new one has it on 'j' but not as bad.

Anyway, this helps prevent the accidental double taps on the bad keys:
https://github.com/toothbrush/debounce-mac
The laptops I see most often mentioned as competitors to the MBP are

Lenovo X1 Carbon

Dell XPS 13 (inc. the developer edition which ships with Linux)

HP Elitebook 840
>And with regard to that website, I would strongly encourage you to get all your information on ancient history from university-press publications instead of amateur websites. There is just too much a risk of encountering crank material on websites, but as that website itself notes, there has been plenty published on this theme by actual scholars.

I pointed to a given list and provided the source I got it from (nothing more, nothing less).

Anyway:

https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ElAnt/V1N4/thompson.htm...

The Aethiops while not "common" did exist in Rome, different from "dark skinned" North Africans, and characterized by:

>Petronius and the elder Pliny offer crucial information on Roman perceptions of Aethiopes and on the Roman concept Aethiops or 'black African' (Pet. Sat. 101f.; Pliny HN 7.51; cf. Mart. 6.39.6-9): first, mere blackness of skin did not suffice to ensure categorisation as Aethiops, for the categorisation depended on possession of the concomitant characteristics of black African hair, lips, and (according to Martial) nose;
Not really; I had an issue that silently broke renewals. When I found the open issue that corresponded to it the maintainers were herding people to cert-manager. There are a lot of issues where they are doing that (besides very obviously at the top of the README with warning symbols).

At the very least it's eventually going to break on newer versions of Kubernetes. Maintenance-only != LTS.
I think replacing the proprietary magsafe plug with standard USB-C is a good idea, but not if the implementation is failure-prone. Tangentially related, I wonder why they haven't replaced the proprietary plug on their phones and tablets with USB-C.
I have come to appreciate the new keyboard, primarily because the keys feel more stable under fingers than the older keyboards. The shorter travel doesn't bother me, though the additional noise is slightly annoying and the arrow key layout is sub-par. But, on the whole, the keyboard is fine. I've only had mine for three months, so it remains to be seen how it holds up.

It's the other parts of the MBP design that suck: USB-C induced dongle hell is real. The touchbar is a useless gimmick. Battery life isn't great.
1.0s needn’t be profitable.
I would argue that those were benefits of switching to any containerised infrastructure with an orchestrator, though. You could probably obtain most of those benefits with Nomad or Mesos.
It ignored lots of things. I have no idea how we could even get in the right ballpark even if reparations were morally desirable.
Indeed. Same thing when I was a hardware engineer. However, I think the GP loves it due to the use of Pi and 'e' as the constants. We used 3 I seem to remember, but we included some amount for assembly and test, which I bet would come close to Pi.
I understood the objective to be for each streamer to run their own site where only one person or group does the streaming and people just watch and interact. I think keeping the text chat clean is pretty much the same as keeping a forum (like based on discourse) clean. Thoughtful defaults and good tools for moderators should be enough for many cases.

From what I've heard it is bandwidth that costs the most? Like $20 a month gets me a droplet on digital ocean with 4TB transfer, 4GB memory, and 80GB of storage. If you have 25 concurrent viewers each watching 100 hours of Livestream every month and each hour of 1080p60 is 1GB, how much ___ will you need?

25 * 100 * 1GB = about 2.5TB? Does that sound about right?
> and unix operating system that just works

There were some pretty devastating security flaws in the recent version that are eerily reminiscent of the kind other OSes saw in the 80s and 90s (Plaintexting passwords)