skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually he's 62 (I know, I was surprised too!)
The MBP with the new keyboard has been a bad experience for as well as a few of my co-workers. I switched back to a 2015 version we had laying around.

When I am forced to move to a new machine I am strongly considering grabbing a Dell or Lenovo and throwing Ubuntu on it. Experience has been that bad.
This scene of ex machina describes what human intelligence is really about:

http://www.criticalcommons.org/Members/ccManager/clips/the-t...

"imperfect, impulsive, chaotic, fluid, patterned"

This is where the politics of emotion and marketing are winning the most. Rational economics are only serving our moral standards, sense of merit and our fascination with order.
Everything in biology is the result of a combination of evolutionary selection and physics, I don't understand where you're going with that.

These are both instances of restraint hard-coded in DNA. Not growing/reproducing in some circumstances is part of the program.

Contrast it with cancer, or breakthrough, overaggressive infectious agents that kill their host quickly (but gradually give way to milder versions of themselves).

Some cancers grow so fast that part of the tumors die of necrosis (and off course most often the host ultimately dies).
The Nash equilibrium in this case being immediately taking the larger stash, instead of waiting (or even cooperating) with the other player for much higher payouts.
> Python 3 breakage and async turned out to be prescient, fantastic decisions.

Python 3 implementation was a step in the right direction, but the decision to allow the old language co co-exist with the new one and to break backwards compatibility between the two (for instance 'print') in places where it didn't need to break makes no sense to me.

A lot of goodwill got burned with that.
My particle physics is bit fuzzy, but isn't the energy level of photon directly related to wavelength? So you could do a simple frequency shift (+compress) to visible light spectrum and map them to colors that way? Of course that is the naive approach, and might not be useful from medical perspective.
How much momentum was lost in the transition though? I know that with the pain of 3 at the time a lot of people started looking at languages like Go or even Scala.
> Hypothesis: Apple's low-profile MBP keyboard is just a temporary stage that should prepare us for solid state keyboard.

> What is that? A non-moving keyboard where a feedback is faked convinvingly enough via localized haptic feedback.

> See iPhone home button and MBP trackpad.

https://mobile.twitter.com/keff85/status/1011350819210498050
The star of my favorite "mystery illness" article:

https://www.damninteresting.com/the-curse-of-konzo/

“Polio outbreak. Memba District. 38 cases. Reflexes increased.”
I think this is like cars that market themselves as capable of racing and/or off roading, but people use them to commute in stop and go traffic. Majority of people don't select products for rational/practical reasons.
Facebook is just the first step, say Russians (2010)
>These are people who chose to opt into a career where they perpetuate security theater on to millions of fellow citizens, waste our time, offer no tangible benefit, and collect a paycheck and pension for the privilege of doing so.

These people took an open job because they needed one. Do you believe the people serving you burgers at McDonalds did it because they believe in the corporate mission of the restaurant? Also, all of the things you listed are not things that can be equated with child molestation. At worst they are inefficiencies in our system. Calling someone names does not get rid of those inefficiencies. It just creates more animosity.
They are the shit tech that will be abandoned with the next fad. They are a huge boondoggle, solely for the immature leads who have not been coding for decades and know better. This industry is filled with stupid fucks that don't know tech history.
Organic Animations in Web Design
Consider vagrant.
The client in this case is Maven, SBT, Leiningen, e.t.c., so I don't think I can get that kind of control over how Maven would upload the files.
Reading the comments here a persistent theme seems to be that the documentation is lacking. Something that might help is creating a "dog-fooding" team mostly filled with interns. This team will be responsible for creating samples with the public APIs. Why Interns? Because they will move on to better things around the time when their brains learn the patterns required to navigate the Google cloud API efficiently.
Adam Schwab: Embeddings: A Matrix of Meaning
I hadn't considered the problem to be solved one of trust (which I agree can't be solved with technology), but rather one of coordination/ social choice. Technology again is a valuable assist in this sphere (e.g. evaluating the results of theoretically-nice-but-computationally-heavy voting methods like Schultz or Kemeny-Young).
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Will an 18th-Century Giant Finally Get a Burial at Sea?
Over the years I have worked for a fair few companies that have invested considerable expense and time creating brand guideline books for them to not be used in practice.

The most recent one that I was subjected to was interesting but it did not apply to the web. At no project meetings, e.g. for that new carousel (!) on the home page for that new season of products did anyone rock up with the official brand guideline book and refer to it. This did not mean that things were inconsistent on the site, it just was not what was needed.

Part of the problem in this incident was that the person that slaved away at the brand guideline effort was from a print background. You just have realities of minimum font size and how tall your logo can be when designing for the web. After a while that expensive, paid for (and therefore developer unfriendly) font gets binned and beyond the logo some system fonts with no funky kerning get used instead. Having colours specified in CMYK is fine but where was the RGB hexcode? I could be wrong but I think there was also this 'point size' going on, which is interesting if you are using ems, variable width fonts and whatnot, pixel measurements being almost as quaint as 'point sizes'.

So this was a well meaning anecdotal company style guide, written by the lorem-ipsum shapes-on-a-page posse and handed down to the web team and other departments for nobody to use it.

In this incident I would like to have changed things around a bit, however, at the time, due to technical debt, on the web team we had strictly 'add to' CSS and that was based on bloat that some agency had burdened the company with. Really the best option would have been to have ditched the print emphasis and legacy thoughts on what brand guidelines should be, to then make a fresh start with a company CSS stylesheet instead. This no longer needs to be bloat for legacy browsers it could be succinct, designed for accessibility and with 'print' being one of many media queries that it caters for. Need a box for the products? Design it with some tool that loads the stylesheet and use the styles.
Better still, a SCSS stylesheet with lots and lots of comments in it and version control. Then the brand guideline book could be something that prints good and is also accessible online.

I know that the lorem-ipsum department would question this and how that they really need CMYK to get that special gold foil embossed on the box with 'bleed' and stuff set according to how Quark Express did it in 1983, I would also fully expect management to go with that established opinion. I would also imagine that the lorem-ipsum department would not understand 'CSS variables' or 'CSS Grid margins' or want to hear about 'CSS variable fonts', none of it is shiny. But design is how it works and the venerated manuals of yore were very much about design, design being 'how it works' but in the medium of the day. Today's pastiches by lorem-ipsumists are not with the times and not for the medium of the web. Companies are smaller and just don't have the inclination to get a proper agency to do a proper job.
Media content storage and delivery is an advertised use case [1]

> ...highest level of availability and performance is ideal for low-latency, high QPS content serving

And the cost using Google Cloud CDN isn't necessarily going to be a major improvement over Google Cloud Storage. Egress cost is similar depending on usage, plus you pay for cache fill and api calls.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/storage/use-cases/
Popular software VSDC official website was hacked and used to distribute malware
One option is match statements. Great way to make this sort of inline assignment unnecessary
If a malicious actor has access to change the npm module (therefore can change the public key used to verify the module code signature), how does signing code help? Now the malicious actor is signing their malicious code.

Code signing still allows the fire to spread. What we need to be talking about is how to prevent the spark that starts a fire.
I didn't downvote, just trying to explain how post came across and why that might be a reason for downvotes.

Open source works because working code is working code. Wikipedia might be an edge case, and even there politics and lobbying are pernicious. Citizen news sounds good, but it seems like people prefer consuming filter-bubble, prejudice-confirming clickbait, so I'm not hopeful.

Vouch shows when you click into a flagged post and have enough karma.
Be fair here. The software world is slowly recreating technology. Being even more fair, they do often add to it. Usually UX capabilities, but sometimes full on features. Yes, often the features require more resources than were available before. Such that previous versions couldn't have offered some of these things.

That said, it is not limited to any one set of our industry. It is likely not even limited to our industry.
As much as I agree with detractors comments here, this could be close enough. Use capslock for esc rather than ctrl and maybe someday the touch bar will have a use for me. The alternative of using Linux on another brand is fine too, so for me might just come down to configured pricing. The only minor downside is no Xcode for iOS apps. I tend to use flutter now anyway.
Which technologies were those?

I’m only vaguely familiar with FreeBSD, and not at all with Solaris.
or you just run a monero node and programm against it for free :)
Mmm, possibly; I cut down to taking the dog only once or twice a week because she took a non-trivial bit of maintenance and, well, I have work to do.
Thank you, this is very helpful because these little things are the stuff that you can’t find in any documentation but end up biting you in production.
Hey, that's a valid opinion. :) No code is ever sent and I would not even want that, but I understand the concern.

This code base won't convert easily into a native application, but if you don't mind installing some dependencies, you can run your own version on your own computer. All the plugins have the possibility of changing the API URL, so you can point them at localhost or your own instance if you wish. The instructions to do that might not be the best, though, and there's a few different things to install that are required to run it.
> Not all apps minus terminal.

Note that you can change terminal to use ctrl-c and ctrl-v for copy/paste. Then if you want to interrupt a running program, use ctrl-shift-c (which as far as the shell is concerned is the same as ctrl-c).
In what parallel universe are you and how do I find the next wormhole to get there? :)
They minimize where they can. They would pay $25/hr if they could get away with it.

They used to break the law to do it (anti-poaching agreements).

edit-to-add: Why do you think they ignore the research that says open offices are not healthy or productive? Because they can get devs to stay using less expensive means, such as, increased compensation and treats.
Except "tapioca" in NA can also mean "sago", which is a totally different plant.
Hi! Here are links to Parts One and Two of the series if you missed them, let us know what you think!

https://articles.fti.bi/postgres-10k-connections-part-one

https://articles.fti.bi/postgres-10k-connections-part-two
You have a point about hype, tech cycles, and solutions being pushed out of ignorance vs tech superiority if you change the language to be more civil.
Notice how you've only added noise in the discussion, and made a casual comment on something somebody wrote a 10+ comment meta-thread?

Plus rudely assigned intentions ("flamethrower" etc) to others?
App Engine is really awesome! There's a few caveats I would add if you're using it for Rails or Elixir which requires the Flex environment.

* No integration with Standard APIs

* Slow / build deploy times

* Minimum pricing of $40 per machine / month

Overall, I feel like the direction App Engine is headed makes it purely better than other PaaS services but if you're running a low traffic website that isn't standard environment (Java 7/8, Python 2.7, Node 8, PHP 5.5, Go 1.6/7/8/9), Heroku is probably still more economical and better developer ux.

I hope they add Ruby and Elixir to the standard environment. I don't think any other PaaS would compare.
There is a fundamental difference between the extreme of stuff like GnuPGP, OpenSSL and other extreme of stuff someone created over the weekend and was nice enough to make available

I dont want to know, how much of core infrastructure is resting on the shoulder of overworked and burned out BDFL. This isnt a ego complex in most cases, but the knowledge that without someone with their commitment working at the project it will crumble.
Obfuscation via personification. It's funny how chemical communication can be sugar coated to such an extent. There's an old rule for teaching quantum mechanics -- avoid low-hanging "honey-pot" analogies, you'll just lead people to a false, but easy misunderstanding. Does that apply here? Is personification really useful here?
It depends. My experience has been that contractors usually don't mind working on vacation while on a cruise whereas salaried people are like "I'm dead; don't reach me."
I'm not saying you have to a Bright Ray of Sunshine all the time. But it might not work out so well of you are the office grouch because it wears people out.
> more of a science than an art.

Given the rest of your sentence, I think you mean the opposite.
Which package managers are properly made, and how are they more secure? As far as I'm aware npm's security model is shared with almost all of them.
Intersting. Seems kind of along the lines of Rework.
lol, if my migraine was still raging on then it probably would have been because of me :P
I believe the text on the spine is upside down. :) vs (: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1539/1721/products/British...
What's your best online resource for figuring out how to do and, more importantly, maintain that?
Oh nonononono please no, no black swan event. The highest voted comment in this thread is very right.

I've worked on an X-ray machine during my second internship as an embedded engineer (fantastic internship!).
My task was to optimize the way images and colors are presented to the viewer, given the measured X-ray data.

What I learned there is that whatever is presented to you on the screen is _completely arbitrary_.

When you have can measure a higher range of X-ray frequencies, you have more room to play with the colors. What colors you actually assign to the data is _absolutely arbitrary_, and technology similar to this has existed for a long time.
h264ify [1] will save you power on Chrome. It does not support 4k however.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/h264ify/aleakchihd...
"The business has been selling the new version.."

But it's not built yet? IANAL, but make sure they're doing this correctly. There's a fine line between selling and outright lying aka fraud especially if the "new version" doesn't exist.

Serious question, are there any adults around that can help your team?
Thanks! I've just updated the post with that.
I don't know if it's necessarily a NY vs. SF thing. I see it as the NYT trying to push a conversation.

Everyone knows that the financial sector is too powerful, and attempts have been made to take action on it (i.e. regulation, albeit relatively unsuccessful). I think this is the first time we're really seeing a public conversation about the power of software fueled by advertising and its implications on privacy and speech - discussion about regulation and policies is coming around for the first time, making it pretty important news to cover.
Could you please elaborate more on what you mean by match statements? Is it an already existing feature of Kotlin?
Why Amazon deletes your reviews
I'm pretty sure "normal people" don't have such a strong opinion about the TSA. I'm also pretty sure these "normal people" don't have the skills or capital to just change jobs on a whim.
You know, there's a certain classist dismissal here of people who just plain did not attend university, let alone take "liberal arts classes" (someone please tell me what the normative value of my Chinese mythology course was!). How about we stop assuming the working class can't think for itself, eh?
>There's no need to put out information that oversimplifies the problem women have in technology and reduces it down to an analogy

There's literally less qualified women than there are men. Fact. Period. End of story.

That means fewer applicants.

That means fewer hires.

Should Facebook go hire unqualified people then spend considerable amounts of times training them like some military occupational training where you're i class all day every day getting paid for 3-18 months while you learn what is necessary to do the job?

They could do that, you'd have to sign a contract though guaranteeing so many years of service or repay the money if you self-terminate.

When 20% of the people pursing the degrees are women, you can't expect 50% of the new-hires to be female.
Lighting is certainly trickier, but if it's that big of a deal, work with the people around you and/or your manager to move to a darker part of the office where you can set up your own lighting.

I have worked in multiple open offices where people didn't want harsh fluorescent light and they worked with the team/facilities/whoever to get the lights dimmed/removed/changed to be more compatible with what people wanted.
> Considering that people joined in sometimes when they saw the "dancing plague", it doesn't seem like a weird mental issue.

On the contrary, the expressions of underlying mental problems, which we call mental illnesses, are highly contagious. The DSM has a list of non-Western illnesses it calls "culture bound" syndromes, but we're becoming increasingly aware of how true it is for mental illnesses in general - even diseases like schizophrenia manifest differently in non-Western countries.
It occurs to me that we haven't quite done away with cubicles, we have instead shrunk them down to the size of our heads, in the form of noise cancelling headphones.
McDonald's Says Goodbye Cashiers, Hello Kiosks
Eh, that kinda boils down the entire social, political, and technological arc of Asimov's Galactic Empire into the caricature we later got in the form of the Adeptus Mechanicus.
Oddly, I think if you were to take that in a slightly different direction, you'd get more traction. Specifically, take your * and have it say * by "people" I mean collections of people. Individuals often show remarkable intelligence.

Even that, of course, ignores that there is some wisdom in crowds. I'd guess there is a sense of "inertia" in how people behave/think. With more people, more inertia. Slower changes and seemingly slower progress sometimes.
This is a great overview! It's a shame this sort of thing isn't taught in schools (from my very own anecdotal university experience).
> this age of constant outrage

And entitlement.
Is there a quick way to migrate from Bootstrap 3 to 4?
First, they'd need to have a willingness to license "encumbered" codecs, drivers, etc, even if it meant charging for a version of their product.

Second, it would involve a ton of product testing, and tedious ironing out of rough edges. Every single time an installation or upgrade fails, or runs into a strange error needing obscure forum searches to fix it, that's a problem.

Third, they'd have to seriously cozy up to proprietary software vendors for application support. This one is unfortunately an endless time and money sink, and can't pay off until they have enough users that they don't need to do it anymore. Thankfully F/OSS options provide some limits on this, but not entirely. Many times there are F/OSS options that are usable, but the proprietary ones are better (and worth paying for).

This is just a few thoughts off the top of my head. Its not well researched or thought out, but a starting point for a conversation.
The Haskell School of Music – From Signals to Symphonies (2014) [pdf]
It could be that the keyboard is actually amazing, that the concerns are overblown, and that the engineers, developers, journalists, and consumers that have been complaining about it are either lying for some reason or lack the perspective to realize what is and isn't important to their workflow.

It could be that it would be a huge public image loss to admit that they were wrong about this. No matter how Apple phrases it, it's always look bad to say "we've spent the last 2-3 years telling you this was a technical achievement, turns out we were wrong." One of Apple's biggest marketing angles is "we put the work in and get it right the first time." That's going to be something that people mock them over, regardless of whether or not it's the right decision to make.

It also might open the floodgates on more expensive litigation and warranty requirements in the future. Apple's current warranty that they just rolled out is only valid up to 3 years after the initial purchase. Is a judge more likely to force them to extend it if a lawyer can argue in court "they lacked so much confidence that they reverted their own design?" Are their significant investments into blocking Right to Repair going to be hampered by that kind of public admission?

They've also invested large amounts of money into the current manufacturing process and design. Their recent decision to discontinue the 2015 model might point to this being about manufacturing costs - you could ask the same question of that decision: "why not allow the holdouts to keep purchasing the older model?"

Along with that, it could also be sunk-cost fallacy at play. One way to check if Apple has a problem with sunk-cost is to look back in the past to see if they've exhibited a pattern of doubling down on controversial decisions and rejecting criticism or blaming customers for issues.

It also could just be that the keyboard looks sexier in advertisements, and perhaps Apple optimizes for advertisements over extended customer experience because they have enough built up goodwill and reputation to do so. The devices might sell better right now when marketed as futuristic status symbols, rather than as practical machines.

Finally, don't dismiss the idea that it could just be the result of designers and engineers running wild without enough practical input to reign them in. I'm all for giving companies the benefit of the doubt, and I understand what you're getting at. But you should apply your philosophy in moderation or else someday you'll find yourself defending Microsoft Bob. Companies are made of people after all.
The biggest performance boost I have had is going from an HD to an SSD. I don't think I need that much RAM anymore because of that.