skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like you could easily get something like that in the form factor of the 3rd generation (pre-touch bar) MacBook Pro, which was under 5 pounds.
it seems curious that someone would sign (and pay for) a service provider contract that's largely pointless, but maybe there's a non-obvious loophole.
How would an indictment prove or disprove whether it was planted?
We do customer support over IRC, on Freenode and OFTC. Particularly with the availability of web clients on Freenode, casual IRC users can reach us with minimal hassle while long-time users idle and voice when they're highlighted or the discussion interests them.

My experience of Freenode is improved since PIA's involvement. Staff lurk in our channel on-hand to help if something comes up. Last month when services went down a developer put their head in to talk about the outage and share the patch developed from the experience.

I don't think there is another chat platform with that kind of robust community. The tooling for IRC makes the experience more like an auditorium than a parlor. I'm optimistic about this announcement--if IRC has a future I believe it will be due to the social scale at which it is capable of operating.
The best train conductor knows best how to get a train somewhere at a specific time. If said conductor wanted to save some money on keyboards at the expense of quality because he thought it was in Apple's best interest, I wouldn't be shocked. Just because you understand Ops doesn't mean that you necessarily want to produce the highest quality at the expense of all other things.
You can sell the house after the kids have been educated. You can't sell their education on second hand
Which cover did you choose? Does it make the screen dirty? My wife had a cover on her MacBook many years ago, and the oil from the cover would imprint on the screen, leaving keyboard-shaped marks all over.
> And if everyone did their research, they wouldn't accept it either at current rates.

This would be true if there were better-paying alternatives out there that were accessible to most people, but there just aren't for many.

One thing that gig companies have going for them is the (relatively) low barrier for workers to earn money in an economy that hasn't seen significant and consistent wage growth in years.

If you're struggling to get a job in the first place, doing all of the planning you've outlined could feel like premature optimization.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/mar/07/wikileaks-cia-...

>no actual evidence was ever provided implicating North Korea - just unsupported allegations.

No actual evidence has been provided implicating Wikileaks received anything from Russia either - just unsupported allegations. If you disagree, I welcome you to link below actual evidence that has been provided. Despite the exhorations of many, claims made by spooks, spies, employees of think tanks and 3-letter agencies is not proof of anything, in any context, ever. Its extremely troubling, and very revealing, that this simple fact is an anathema to so many.
I'd be curious if having to upload textures is just a feature that's a hold-over from a history discrete desktop GPUs.

Videogame consoles have been doing "zero-copy" textures since they existed(except if you're on the PS3, but we won't go there). You also have things like EGL_image_external[1][2] that get you the same thing in OpenGL ES.

[1] https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenGL/extensions/OES/OES_E...

[2] https://community.arm.com/graphics/b/blog/posts/eglimage---u...
Unity partnering with Google Cloud
Student loans discharged through bankruptcy should also include repossession of your degree -- that is, make it criminal fraud to represent your degree to any employer upon bankruptcy.
My 2012 MBPr had every part replaced at least once, and a few (screen, keyboard and top of main body) replaced twice, fortunately all during the 3-year AppleCare.

A consistent problem in my 2010, 2012 and 2017 MBP's is reliable (i.e. not crashing) switching between the discrete and integrated GPU's. It was the death of the '10 after 2 logic boards, caused 1 logic board replacement on '12, and now on my '17 I still see regular (every couple weeks) spiral-into-non-responsiveness and core dumps exactly when those switches happen. I wish MacOS could still force to integrated GPU, I'd rather have slow graphics than give up battery life.
It's also a strict liability crime, so intent doesn't matter. The evidence can't be viewed except by very few people approved by the justice department, so CP might just be pictures of a 17th year old that the person didn't even know was underage.
> And the debt is nondischargeable in bankruptcy. It's a societal failing that we're letting people take on this debt.

Houses, cars, businesses, etc. can all be surrendered. Knowledge cannot. A degree cannot. Why should it be dischargeable if the recipient cannot discharge the benefits?
That reminds me of the IBM "Black Team" QA group story where a guy writes a perfect tape drive driver, formally verified and everything. The "Black Team" was annoyed they couldn't find a problem with it, so they wrote a program to spin the tape at the cabinet's resonant frequency, until the cabinet eventually fell over.

http://www.penzba.co.uk/GreybeardStories/TheBlackTeam.html
You don't think the CIA would be able to fake the lingo, tone, and character of the scene? I mean, they certainly have access to a ton of real IRC logs about the subject, would probably be pretty easy to swap out some usernames.
That's not how justice works. The indictment is the prosecutor's claims, not established facts that have survived subject to cross-examinations. The listed evidence could be fake, could be real but linked to the accused, or could be real and linked.
I'd be okay with a larger/heavier machine. The last gen retina display is IMO the best combination of size and power. Given they've been able to cram more performance into the thinner current gen, I imagine getting 32gb and adequate battery life in a slightly thicker form factor is doable.
Does rail infrastructure matter (at the prices we pay for it)? Maybe it would be better if these projects just never got done, because at the inflated prices we pay there are better uses for that money.
Such an underrated project. IMHO if this one was launched by Facebook or Google now things would be different like 15k+ plus stars on GitHub and tech news sites posting articles with titles like "a new game changer language" and stuff.
A Ghost Army of Workers Is Paid to Do Nothing in the Gulf
On that path after 12 years of blood and sweat as a HW engineer in various FAANG companies. Self teaching myself Algos so that I can eventually leetcode the day light out of my life and take a crack at the same FAANG this time as a SW engineer. The problem with the whole EE landscape is much beyond the Mandarin syndrome. It’s systemic. In fact the canary in the coal mine is Berkeley where the enrollment in graduate level EE courses in analog circuit design and RFIC have been falling rapidly as more and more grads prefer the “deep learning” bandwagon much more than the traditional popcorn chip design and manufacturing which was the mainstay of the local Silicon Valley economy until I was in grad school. Back to my BFS study from clrs :-)
Except, that most scientists (physicists that I know) who independently checked the issue seem to agree with Lubos.
There are different levels of emoji support - and I totally agree that "not crashing when emoji enter your systems" is a vital one to have these days - as is preserving those emojis unmangled.

For me the parent commenter's phrasing of "first class emoji support" goes rather beyond that, e.g. with friendly emoji pickers, maybe reaction emojis, custom emojis, different skin-tone emojis, etc.

I'd view that bigger level of support as extremely optional for a transaction processing company like yours, though less so for a chat system intended for broad appeal in 2018.
Not to mention the waste of an important non-renewable resource.
I'm glad to hear this. I've already been in once because of an up-arrow problem, and I'm headed back tomorrow because my space bar sticks.

Does anyone have any feedback on whether the cleaning they do in-store is as good as getting a new keyboard installed (or how long the installation takes)?

My guess is a lot of folks will be taking their MBPs in right before the four years is up to get a new keyboard going-forward.
I hate function call syntax with parens. It makes code much more difficult to read and, if it supports calling functions, calling functions with args is harder than it should be.
Thats true, since its clearly an overall design flaw, not a problem with some units.
But even that they will state ‘small percentage’ to not make it clear.
does anything necessarily need to be 'untrue'? (a lot of propaganda is 'true')
> the culture that creates new tech is something that china can't steal and it can't replicate it without giving up authoritarian rule.

I've seen this trope repeated here, and it needs to die (IMO). Where's the evidence for this assertion?

The soviet union with it's command economy saw plenty of innovation coming out of its design bureaus (weaponry, rocketry, aerospace engineering). Present-day China seems less authoritarian than cold-war USSR, but I could be wrong.
I read the indictment, but I don't see how you can be certain it was not planted.

He apparently saved IRC logs of their entire quest to obtain child porn....?

Using his name as a handle?

Impossible? No, but do you really think this is not questionable at all?
What you are proposing would require massive taxation in the US and the typical HN reader would be the income range expected to bear the brunt of the costs. The US already taxes corporations to a greater extent that many other G8 nations...you won't be able to fund your utopia based solely on corporate profits.

What does renewable energy have to do with the bleak finances of a generation?
Given this, is it fair to sue WB? It seems to me that it isn't, unless you can show they knew.
2016 MacBook Pro

2015 iMac

2014 MacBook

2011 MacBook Air

2009 MacBook

2005 iBook

2005 PowerBook

Plus an iLamp I can't properly estimate the year on. All chugging along. Let me know when to expect my MTBF.
Honestly i would say that is true. People on hn seem to be very smart, much smarter than the average person by far. I would also not be surprised if most people here worked in tech making 100k+.
Producing simple text descriptions for AI interpretability in radiology
> votes there are worth less than votes elsewhere for reasons

139 million Americans voted in 2016's general election [1]. Of that, 34 million were millennials, or 49% of millennial eligible voters [2].

69% of Boomers voted [2]. If a similar fraction of millennials voted, we'd have had 48 million votes [a]. That would bring our share of the vote to 31% [b], the same as boomers [c].

Geographic effects act on the margins. Bringing 14 million additional voters to the polls will change outcomes and change legislative priorities regardless of how they are distributed.

[1] http://www.electproject.org/2016g

[2] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/07/31/millennials-...

[a] (34 x 10^6 / 0.49) 0.69*

[b] (48 x 10^6 - 34 x 10^6)/(48 x 10^6 - 34 x 10^6 + 139 x 10^6)

[c] 48.1 x 10^6 / (48 x 10^6 - 34 x 10^6 + 139 x 10^6)
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Confirms my suspision.
You can tell the truth and still be deceitful. Claiming to have had evidence on Russian corruption and publicly declaring an intent to release followed by silence and unwillingness to do so indicate two things, to me anyway.

1. The original claim is a lie. There is no evidence of Russian corruption and the claim was made for attention or some other purpose. Remind me, again, how many lies it takes to make someone untrustworthy?

2. The original claim is true, but something or someone prevents information from being released. This is the more insidious reason. It means that the organization will only release "the truth" that jibes with the messages/agenda they want to push, which is propaganda. Regardless of whether or not Russia has a direct influence of the release is unknown, but it becomes propaganda nonetheless.

My personal opinion is that Assange is virtually inseparable from Wikileaks and appears to have a god complex, using the platform as his mouthpiece on his view of the state of things while enjoying the comforts of avoiding consequence.
I have always counted groups of things in threes, cards most commonly. The patterning takes more practice to get used to because the last digit doesn't repeat the way it does when you count by twos.

I also count coins by 5s if I have a bunch of them flat on a table - it's faster that way.
Yes, it was before the internet was popular; reading books was basically all there was.

My favorite manuals of all time were the original printed Inside Macintosh volumes. They were amazing compared to, say, the documentation for the Amiga OS.
The typical HN reader is firmly entrenched in the establishment or wishes they were. What does a developer making $200k stand to gain by demanding economic justice?
I took my laptop (macbook pro 15 2017) into the store today because the 'i' and 'f' keys are now only held in place by gravity. I was surprised to hear that not only would they replace the whole keyboard but that they've resolved the issues in the replacement that I'd be receiving. Anyone know if this is true?
>You may want to look into deferring or forbearing your student loans

Politely, no, do not do that. Instead look at enrolling in an "income-driven repayment plan."[1]
With this, even if your required payment is $0, you will receive credit toward the total # of payments required for your loan term.

https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/repay-loans/understand/plans/in...
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll take a look at it.
I wish we could address both at once but recent history seems to suggest that we can't. I think the problem is with how these issues interact with other issues when projected down onto the demographics of the voting population.

The problem is that these issue cross-cut each other in almost exactly an X pattern. The majority of the working class is socially conservative, traditional, and religious, so any culture war issue tends to be a fault line that neatly divides the voting bloc that would otherwise care about economic equality.

I would like us to have racial and gender equality but unfortunately it might mean we get to all be equal and poor.
Lenovo should be all over this with their Thinkpad marketing.
A while ago someone posted https://tabler.github.io/tabler/docs/index.html which I quite like. But in most of my work I've used UI kits like https://ant.design/ and http://element.eleme.io/#/en-US.
Annoying that Apple pretended there wasn’t an issue for so long but they have a decent track record of doing right by their customer in the long run. I’ve seen this keyboard issue first hand on machines and it’s both legit and highly annoying.
> if it supports first class functions, passing around no arg functions is harder than it should be.

Can you expand on that? How does no parens make it harder to pass around first class functions? In Gluon (and in Haskell, Purecsript, Idris, etc), you just pass around the function name. If you have "inc x = 1 + x" and you want to pass that to map, you just pass it by name: "map inc [1, 2, 3]"

What could be simpler?
"Fastest growing" doesn't mean much. It doesn't mean there are actually enough opportunities.
That and the whole that it makes corporations into people talking point. One of the historical purposes of corporations is to give them some aspects of individuals. If I'm the CFO of a company and I enter into a contract with you, you don't have to renegotiate it if I leave the company. Because you entered into a contract with the company as a unified entity.

Are companies people? Of course not. But opinions on specific campaign finance laws notwithstanding, they have rights that should look a lot like individual rights in areas like speech because they effectively represent the collective action of that company--however that specific company is organized.
What is the detection limit?
Human brains seem to be suited to verbally counting in base ten however. I mean, languages as unconnected as Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Finnish, Hungarian, Italian, German, English, Navajo all count in base ten. There are of course outliers, but those tend to be very small isolated language communities. I think the ease of communication in base ten for humans outweighs any arithmetic improvements. You can always count things in groups of 12 or 60 if you want to be able to easily divide the group, but keep the numbers in base ten.
When creating spacial geography point in sql server, the longitude comes first (lng, lat). I always thought it would be latitude then longitude.

Interestingly, some points that I've inserted passed the validation, but later I realized the values were swapped when I tried to query nearest neighbor and the points were no where near.
"teh" is a basic spelling error, but I bet you've let it slip through somewhere before
At least how we organize work today, it sucks tremendously hard. Someone might pretend he likes it, but no one likes waking up at 6am, commuting both ways, and effectively losing half his day doing something he might not enjoy. There's no real reason most work needs to be like that either besides the momentum of the status-quo.
Is there any value in b-school curriculum? It seems like networking and university name are the two big selling points.
Always cool to see ATS in the wild. Higher-order functions on an 8-bit CPU makes me happy. :D
> why my generation is pathetic.

Your generation is not pathetic. Your generation has had the deck well stacked against you economically before you were born.
Create the 1979 Atari game Asteroids using vanilla JavaScript. (video tutorial)
Sorry! I just meant the mistake in which people equate freedom with not having other people “controlling” them. The conflict is usually in that with what is considered freedom comes the restrictions of responsibility.
On the Rise of FinTechs – Credit Scoring Using Digital Footprints
Talking out of your ass doesn’t make you an expert.
My parents paid for the first year and a half, and then I got a job and paid for the rest. Tuition was like 10K per year at a public state school. I also tested out of a couple classes due to advanced placement in HS.

One of us was doing software/web development and another was financial accounting (CPA). This was not a small town, it was a suburb of the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. The farther out you move from the city, the lower the cost of living, but we had a 30-40 minute commute.

Neither of us wanted to pay for cable so we saved like $8K over a number of years skipping out on that.
Yeah but people don't care. They will find a way to demonize it which would likely be throwing it in with GMO's. I'm not against GMO's personally. A lot of lies spread about them.
People actually trust banking institutions with their complete purchase histories and spending habits?
It's certainly a revealed preference for allowing denser development and reducing square footage of housing when land is expensive...
The review is worth reading but the conclusion's succinctness struck me: "In other words: If you want self-esteem, earn it."
That sounds kinda nice to me, actually. If I see someone going through a turnstile and their birthday is announced, I can shoot them a smile and a nice “hey, happy birthday”.

Little things to invite positive personal interactions between strangers can be a good thing. That is, perhaps, not the intended purpose, but it at least seems like a welcome side effect.
Equating China with Japan is totally asinine. Japan long before the 70's had always been considered as a culture that respected quality and efficiency. In fact, every major manufacturing industry in the world today adopts some form of Japanese manufacturing principles. From airports to cancel hospitals; systems such as Kanban and Kaizen have been universally adopted.

Name one thing we have adopted from China in terms of manufacturing principles/philosophy.

Saying that China is what Japan was in the 80's is totally absurd and impossible to reason with. Not to mention, immense difference in Japanese and Chinese culture.
I do this when I need to know how many elements are in a spreadsheet list that spans (say) row 18 to 33.

"well, if it spanned to row 19, there would be two elements, so N elements end at row 17+N, so 33-17 is 16, so there are 16 elements."

That's painstaking and I should fix it, lol.
TLDR:

-lets eval() this random piece of bytes we got from non secure connection

-lets curl | sudo sh
I hate parens call syntax with or without functions. It makes code much more difficult to read, and if it supports functions calling first, arguing with functions and passing is harder than it should be.
That's a hardware issue.
Seconded. Try to get on the "REPAYE" plan, I feel that's the best one. Only downside -- when they forgive your loans after 20 years, you pay taxes on that as if it's income.
I completely agree with what you are saying. People like to live in this world thinking that only government can solve problems but the truth is most change has come from a few visionaries who decided it was time for change and worked diligently to make it happen.

You want free universal Healthcare? Build a system that does that.

Free university? Build it.

Solution to global warming? Solve it by inventing new technology.

Be the change you want to see in the world and dont let anyone tell you that you cant do it because history is filled with the tales of those who have done what was once thought of as impossible.
The Snake Oil of the Second-Act Industry
> what would happen to that metric if you exclude NYC, SF etc. ?

It wouldn't budge much: when you leave big cities, houses get a lot cheaper, but work quickly dries up too, so you're right back where you started. It's the nature of the economy at present that the cities are where the jobs there; that's why everyone keeps moving in despite the skyrocketing rent.
As you acknowledge, the human was only the secondary driver. That meant that Uber put a primary driver in the car that was designed to not stop for pedestrians.
Rust 2018: an early preview
I cannot wait for the day where slack will just die.

Or better, the day where people realize that Slack-style communication is most of the time completely useless and actually hurst productivity.

I now see that people start to realize this more and more. Slack was so much hyped a couple years ago that everyone had to use it to be cool. Now, people reflect on it and they realize that it mainly brings constant buzz and unneeded notifications.
There is a use case for it, but for 99% of any serious discussion, email is usually way better.
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 10 – Key Components – Locking Solution
I'm talking about having the biggest gun to make sure we can defend ourselves against any threat. You're talking about who uses that gun and for what. That's a fine debate to have, but it's not the same topic.

I agree foreign policy needs work, and there is harm caused, but that has nothing to do with military strength. Perhaps this conflation is the real issue with these threads as people can't seem to separate power and capabilities from its application.
Also, being positive solely for the sake of being positive short-circuits our ability to process a decently large chunk of life. This isn’t to say that being a whiny grouch is good, but that sugarcoating things is not a healthy way to look at the world. Sometimes life sucks. Sometimes shitty things happen. Sometimes people are assholes. Take away the ability to credibly discuss those things as negative, and you take away the ability to comprehend and solve some very real problems.