skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm probably in the minority, but the negatives don't seem that bad when compared to the benefits we get from the tech companies: free email, free or cheap access to information on almost anything you could be interested in, junk entertainment that people seem to enjoy. The negatives are less tangible: giving up your personal data (this is complicated by the fact that the data didn't exist until you used their services), targeted advertising, I'm not sure what else there is.

It's easy to criticize things, but it's harder to come up with an alternative system that would provide many of the same benefits. I'm not defending the current legal and regulatory system that large corporations operate in. I think they receive large amounts of corporate welfare from the government that are harmful overall, but that's an economy wide problem, not one confined to the tech industry. It also has more straightforward solutions: begin eliminating some of the subsidies these businesses receive.
Those bezels look real ugly compared to Huawei Matebook X Pro and other innovative companies like Dell.

I guess it comes down to if developers keep wanting MacOS. New MacBook is faster and supports 32 gb of memory if you want to pay astronomical sums of money.
PS: you do get some leeway when you just joined a company, enjoy your honeymoon grace period.
The iPhone SE was just as fast as the flagship phone (6S) when it was released. It didn't have the faster TouchID or 3D Touch, but neither did my iPad Pro, so I don't think they were trying to hold the phone back.

Now if they only kept updating it...
Good god almighty that easy window dragging is getting installed right tf now. Thanks for putting this list together!
I hope you also publicly shame services that only offer 2FA in exchange for your phone number.

My phone number identifies me much better than my email address and/or cookies ever will. As someone who cares about privacy, I don't give it to anyone. And yet, publicly shaming me for not enabling 2FA would shame me by proxy for caring about privacy.
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I'm about to do that with my mid-2015 MBP, although I'm probably going to get an mSATA off of Amazon.
Would you like said evidence? I can put you in touch with someone.
The feel of the keyboard is certainly a matter of preference, but the reliability issues are prevalent enough Apple has a special repair program (again):
https://www.apple.com/support/keyboard-service-program-for-m...
I wonder how much of this is introvert vs extrovert? All sales people are extroverts and most managers are. Most programmers are introverts. Guess which group likes open offices?
Fast.ai's courses start at a high level with working code right off the bat. Then they break it down and show you how the parts work. It's much more motivating when you don't have to wait a long time to see any results. [Edit: and you know you're going to get something good instead of putting a lot of work in and getting something mediocre or plain not working.]

See this paragraph in the article: https://www.zerotosingularity.com/blog/fast-ai-part-1-course...
Some variant on this idea would protect projects that have decent code review practices.
Yes, I agree they are helping people. But who are they helping? They don't seem to be helping the little people like that Tanzanian hospital the way the developers did who found a free software solution. It seems we weaponize situations of desperate need in order to accomplish our own means. If these companies truly cared for the people they are helping, they wouldn't even bother with the PR side of it at all. Their help certainly makes a huge difference, I agree, but intention is everything, and if they intend to aid their own purposes, that is what will see the most benefit from their efforts.
"The loss of focus follows mouse is what really drove me nuts."

This is a killer for me and I am trying to solve it currently ...

I ran Snow Leopard from 2009-2018 and had FFM due to "mondomouse" but that is no longer published or supported.

Now that I have upgraded (my 2009 mac pro) to Yosemite, I sort of have a FFM solution with a tool called dwellclick and one modification[1] but it's not perfect.

HOWEVER, it appears that there is a new accessibility option in High Sierra that allows you to turn on FFM without third party software. Not helpful for me because I can't install High Sierra on a 2009 mac pro ...

[1] defaults write com.pilotmoon.DwellClick MoveDistancePixels -float 600
I've worked in open plan for the last 14 years, I've gotten used to it. headphones and zoning out just makes me the only one there...
Blogger is still around. So is Wordpress. So is Github pages. Blog hosting is a dime a dozen. If you want a Medium-like layout, you can probably get 95% of it with a couple dozen lines of CSS.
Aren't they supposed to be the same GPUs as before, but with a little overclock? Hence the _x_ branding to the name
> a Bolt EV/Ampera-e which isn't sold in my country

Going off of this I would assume the parent poster isn't in the USA. In other countries, the Tesla Model 3 isn't expected to start deliveries until 2019.
What's PO?
Fewer than npm projects, absolutely. Few enough to be significantly less vulnerable to this attack - I don't think so.
As much as I share your sentiment, fact is that these trivial savings show up nicely on someone's target and the deteriorating effect shows up somewhere else, if at all.

The open office I am in ATM is one such places where a handfull of people (loud, discussing totally not related to work, factually completly idiotic conversations) spoil it for all others. There is nothing to be done about these people since they've been with the company forever and a day and are thus basically exempt from all rules (be it noice or dresscode).

5 Years ago I have actively stoped working from home to segrate work from family. Now I have found myself to do at least 1, often 2 days from home again and planning to change employer. No I will not tell them the reason since I can not affort to burn that bridge.

TL;DR Manager A makes a good impression by saving some office space, Manager B looses employees but will never find out why.
I have a newer MacBook too (work issued) so I have some experience using the touchbar. Two things I dislike about it -- the cannot mindlessly adjust the volume, I have to use the slider. Also as aforementioned, pressing the touchbar esc key is unsatisfying. Makes escaping in vim feel perilous.
Ctrl+F keyboard

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... but the DJ in the video can slide the volume up and down with his finger. Surely that counts for something big.
A famous example is Anne Frank, and how her father treated her diary, privacy and controversial content. It’s not at all straight forward.
How does that change anything whatsoever?
Tbh, a good pair of 'closed back' full size headphones with noise cancellation would do just a good job (if not better musically) as wearing ear defenders over earphones.
Execs of MNCs can be "nudged" too to do the right thing. That finding is one of reasons Thaler deserves his Nobel. Read his book.
The JS community encourages micromodules and leveraging NPM to a fault. We saw that with left-pad years ago, where such a basic function was used all over the place even though it was highly inefficient. That is a testament to how little people actually check their dependencies and just assume others vetted open source code
That theory was created by the government trying to "show" the people that most of all conspiracy theories are ridiculous and fake.
Doesn't matter. The crappier keyboard is probably .014mm thinner, which supersedes all other considerations because producing thinner hardware is really really REALLY important to apple.
Tesla isn't a car company, it's an energy company that is building the Model E on their energy platform. Reading their SEC 10-K[0] will show this.

Solar is 55% of all new installations in the USA and Tesla is the leader in solar installations with SolarCity. $/watt installed is only going down with scale.

Batteries are becoming the platform for transportation and Tesla owns 50% of the global manufacturing capacity. $/watt is also trending down with scale.

Charging stations will replace gas stations and Tesla owns a major percentage of the stock.

The question is over what timescale is Tesla over/undervalued? The genius is that there is always going to be friction between long and short term values. This shortsightedness is the weak link of Wall Street. But if it's overvalued then short the stock!

The Model E has already made Tesla an energy comany with a very successful product, "the Model 3 is selling more units in the U.S. than any comparably priced midsize sedan, including those offered by Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and Audi."[1]

I don't own a Tesla or Tesla stock.

[0] http://ir.tesla.com/static-files/0fbefe56-326c-412e-a33c-aa1...
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-12/how-tesla...
They can't pass US (and I would imagine European) crash test requirements.
Perhaps I wasn't clear; what I mean to say is "barely shipping at all to my country" [1]

[1] http://www.carbuyer.co.uk/news/150839/new-tesla-model-3-pric...
He is asking an infant who is incapable of speech whether he understands legal rights.

That’s an insult to the concept of justice.
I'm enjoying this; but it looks like a few of the levels might be out of order. In State Selector uses Decoder in the library but it is before decoder. Then in the Arithmetics the "Bus" comes into play before it's described (I forget exactly which ones are out of order)
Ars says: "We don't know the status of the 15-inch without the Touch Bar at the time of this writing." So I'm still holding out hope.
I suffer in an open office, but everybody on my team that I might collaborate with is actually in a different time zone, so there's absolutely no chance that the "open-ness" of the office will help me in any way.
There is a desire for "trustworthy sources of consolidated information about current events" and they are important, however, the economic demand for them is low and falling as clearly shown by the fact that people are becoming less willing to pay for that. If you look at what the majority of people do, instead of what some people say, then it's obvious that the willingness to pay for such information is definitely not huge, and now moreso than ever the demand for this is falling - the people choose to do without trustworthy information and prefer free news tidbits that match what they want to hear.
This article is annoyingly fluffy. Trees absolutely do communicate with each other, and with other creatures, and it's amazingly cool -- but you don't need to anthropomorphize them so drastically! It's OK for them to be a bit alien.

If you want a somewhat more solid take on the subject, The Songs of Trees is a lovely book. (Mentioned in the article.) It has digressions into geology and anthropology and politics but ties it all together, using specific trees as focal points. I don't know exactly how much of the chemical signaling stuff it goes into -- I'm still in chapter 2 -- but I found the chapter on ceibo to be fascinating. I particularly liked the section this quote is from, talking about how the natives of the area think about the forest network:

« The Western mind can perceive and understand abstractions such as ideas, rules, processes, connections, and patterns. These are all invisible, yet we believe them to be as real as any object. Amazonian rainforest spirits are analogous, perhaps, to Western reality dreams such as money, time, and nation-states. »

(I wish I had a quote with more context, but that's the best I could do on short notice.)
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Thing is, it is different deparments that save and loose. The link will never be made in an organisation > 1000 people.
i for one love the new keyboards, i don't give a damn about the touchbar and i dislike the battery usage, but the keyboard to me is near perfect. When i type on the old model now the keys feel overly mushy and inaccurate. Maybe people just give it a try for more than 20 minutes.
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> free email, free or cheap access to information on almost anything you could be interested in, junk entertainment that people seem to enjoy.

> giving up your personal data

You just described precisely why it's not free.
Interesting idea. I have to say though, it would be far more useful to me if you were helping me reinforce my knowledge of which fonts these are (which is what I initially assumed the game would be doing).
Um, maybe it wasn't update when you looked but the entire homepage is dedicated to: The MacBook Pro, The iMac Pro, and Mojave in that order. There is no reference to iPhone/iPad anywhere other than the top nav bar.
Technically speaking that's not a zero knowledge proof, because it requires what would be considered a trusted third party (the service being logged into). Ostensibly that service "knows" the password (or a functional substitute), and the prover is only proving password possession insofar as the third party service can be trusted.

In your Where's Waldo example, this would be like having a non-playing third participant whose trusted by both players. When one player wishes to prove they've found Waldo without ending the game for the other play, they'd demonstrate this in full transparency to the third party verifier, whose word would then be trusted by the second player.
Would Asking People to Hack America’s Election Systems Make Them More Safe?
> -1 to this. while 2FA is a no-brainer for most of us, publicly listing (or showing status) not only encroaches individual liberty to make a choice, it would open such users to be targets of an attack.

Saying that you refuse to enable 2FA is the information security equivalent of saying you refuse to wear a condom.

Of course people are free to make their own choices but I personally wouldn't take anyone who publishes software seriously if it's not enabled. This isn't like securing access to a social media or shopping account. The ramifications of a breach can quickly cascade and 2FA is low hanging fruit to stop a lot of that. It's far from perfect but it goes a long way.

> Enforcing 2FA in an organization seems more appropriate. Perhaps npmjs.com has implemented that since last I looked, but I know in the past that enforcement was not available.

The nested nature of dependencies makes partial enforcement pointless: A (2FA) > B (2FA) > C (2FA) > D (no 2FA!)

> I also greatly dislike the trend of public "shaming" that's so prevalent today. The internet has made us cruel.

I wholeheartedly agree with you on both points and, outside of security, I can't think of any other example where I'd be open to it.

I like to think I hold myself and people in our own industry to higher standards than the Internet at large.
“We know that worrying and giving attention to pain ultimately increases it. Staying active and moving is better than rest when it comes to chronic back and neck pain.”

This, this and this!

Hurt my back while working out in the gym and got scared since people in my family has been dealing with chronic back pain which has limited them in their life. So What did I do? I stopped working out. Took a long break and only did light exercises like the plank and other stuff. My issues stayed with me for some years until I decided to take up lifting again and dedicated myself to re-learning the lifts with focus on form and doing a strength program.

Also a good read on pain:

https://startingstrength.com/article/aches-and-pains
I guess titles are meant to attract and provoke a little at the same time...

Fast.ai uses a top-down approach, allowing students to get awesome results with a minimal set of instructions, and start to dig deeper from there. If you look at the takeaways from the first lesson, you can see it's more than just three lines of Python and you're done, It's a solid and fresh approach to learn some actual practical deep learning.

Additionally, it kind of depends on what you want to do, we are all using things other people built, depending on the level of abstraction we care for or are willing to deal with...
ESLint maintainer responds here: https://github.com/eslint/eslint-scope/issues/39#issuecommen...

> One of our maintainers did observe that a new npm token was generated overnight (said maintainer was asleep). We think that token was likely used but are awaiting confirmation from npm. This maintainer has changed password, enabled 2FA, and generated new tokens.
..the difference being, Apple can send the hardware, other companies often have to pay for product placements.
I did a recent stint in a central government office (London, UK) and having your dog with you in the office seemed quite normal... to them. To me, as a seasoned IT contractor... not so much.
Apple can definitely do this over the phone. I believe they will require a deposit to be held on a credit card though to cover the cost of the machine in case you don't send back your old one.
Real offices would have more furniture and such than a bunch of tables or even cubicles.

Faster to deploy, wire, etc.
That's very succinct and I agree.

It does make me wonder, however, about the case of a psychiatrist or psychoanalyst who keeps paper notes on what his private patients have spoken about, and then dies suddenly in an accident together with his immediate family, so his next of kin and heir turns out to be a distant cousin, who happens to be an irresponsible teenage drug addict, say. Could anything be done to block the transfer of those paper notes in a case like that?

Perhaps a self-employed psychiatrist ought to have appointed a law firm as their executor and left instructions that patient notes should be destroyed rather than transfered to the next of kin, but if they'd forgotten to do that?
If you're implementing links with a JS onclick event of some flavor, instead of an <a href="...">, you should be hung up in the street by the toes. There's no excuse for making things more difficult on yourself, in a way that breaks the way things are supposed to work.
BGP hijacking is pretty obviously bad-actor from the perspective of companies trying to give internet access.

I do see your argument for a slippery slope, but in this case the example given is clearly in the core competency of the company. There's no morals needed; this is how the internet is supposed to work, and you've bypassed that. Kick him out.

We don't think about slippery slopes when a renter starts burning the house down; it's clearly within the homeowners rights to start evicting.
> I haven't a clue what unzip is in this context, because it isn't standard library and the definitions are buried.

When all we have is a GitHub link, sure. If I was actually working on this code I'd have it in my IDE and click through to the definition.

> If you haven't found its definition you don't know either, you're just guessing based on the name and assuming.

Sure, but I've found that to be a reliable strategy when I see standard function names when working on functional codebases. No-one is going to deliberately give a function a misleading name (I would hope). I expect unzip to behave like standard unzip just as I'd expect an addUser method to add a user.

> The most likely-looking definition was commented out, so I can only imagine it's coming from somewhere else. I have little confidence that it would simply be aliased to List.split. I would also guess it's not simply returning ([], []).

I'd lay money that it behaves like the commented-out one (it may be a generalisation of it, but I'd certainly expect the same behaviour on lists). Of course it's possible for someone to make a mistake or do something misleading, but one advantage of the "weird" functional names for function is that it's unlikely anyone has used them by accident: if someone has called their function "unzip" that's almost certainly because they think it is the standard unzip function.
It most likely can't be replaced by pure crowdsourcing, but that doesn't mean that newspapers will stay as the mans for "people being paid for the express goal of gathering such data in as unbiased way as possible", all it means that such activity likely will not be properly replaced as newspapers and journalism declines.
The current fashion is subgenes (domains): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3258039/
ControllerMate is another really powerful tool, though not just for keyboards but for USB devices in general. Interface is a bit funky but it's really worth checking out, not just mapping but conditional reactions, timing, scripting, for any key or arbitrary combinations of keys or non-keyboard devices (I made a DS4 work with a Mac at launch except for the touchpad part of it for example).
I've used typical ear plugs plus headphones playing whitenoise.
Probability of propagation is just a proxy for consuming energy gradients more efficiently.
For easy tasks it's silent, it's very rare the fans roar, but they do roar when doing something that pins cores at 100%.

(example: compressing things for more than 3~ minutes with xz)

Once the fans are spinning it's rather loud but around the same level as a 15" macbook pro (which my colleague has)
You're missing the point that the people configuring the office (most of the time) do not take productivity as a major factor, unless is something extreme and unrealistic like your example. Now it's more like: "everyone is already used to this configuration, and it's 50% (or some big %) cheaper to setup now"
It may not be obvious from the context and the limited excerpt, but in the book Sapiens, the author is careful to make the point that this is not an invitation to revert to the hunter/gatherer lifestyle, in fact, we're past the point where that's a possibility. Rather we have to innovate our way out of the predicament we find ourselves in (the irony of fighting fire with fire is not lost on me). But in my mind, it makes this a perfect quote to consider on a techie site.
The machines released today were obviously in the pipeline long before the most recent wave of Mac backlash, so it's probably a mistake to call them a response in any way.

Still, when Apple spec out their base configs like this, at these prices? I find it hard not to get the message.

The entire line is under-specced by about 50%, or $500 too expensive. Fix that, and I'd still mutter about the Touch Bar, but I'd do it carrying it out of the store. Now? I'll hold off upgrading for at least a few more years.
This is probably the greatest argument for big government. If we were to eliminate the supervision of the establishment over the safety and security of everyday life, it would be very time consuming to handle every single aspect of it.

There is always the issue of an overreaching government, and that's where the left/right party split comes in. Each party either creates more regulation and protection or take some away. As voters, we have to recognize this duality of our system and embrace it. It's our only way to control the people we elect.
Found and fixed a couple of bugs; should be more usable now. Please enjoy and thanks!
When was the last time you heard of a Debian package being compromised, for example?
I think that's right. Our only two options are the Linux desktop with its high-maintenance potential of timesink, and Windows that, while it has improved, suffers from an authoritarian approach to things like reboots, updates, ability to customize and so forth. I use Windows 10 + MobaXTerm after moving off of the increasingly annoying MacBook design choices.

But there's something far worse: killer apps (for some professionals and hobbyists) only exist for Mac OSX and Windows. I'm looking at you, Adobe.