skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are mistaken, these aren't fads but buzzwords. Web 2.0 is the web of API, NoSQL existed well before the term was invented and microservices are a valid software architecture since it's not a question of size but an organizational concern. Even "severless" is just the good old worker queue system. And yes, buzzwords come and go but nothing behind these are fads.
> We can’t really use google maps in the Danish public sector where I work, because they track your data.

Perfect example of stifling regulations hurting the average person.
+1 for the Martian Chronicles.
> You can think of it probabilistically.

But probabilistically doesn't it make sense to skip insurance altogether?

If insurance manages to turn a profit despite having overhead expenses (salespeople, infrastructure, lawyers, etc) and assuming they don't have a special discount in whatever they're ensuring then there are more people paying without using than there are people who need it.

If I'm an average or above average driver, for example, then it doesn't make sense to have insurance, does it? Wouldn't it make more sense to save the money I'd otherwise be using for insurance and pay myself in case something happens? That way my money would go only towards my problem and not towards worse drivers and insurance company expenses.

Is the product that insurance offer really just peace of mind?
Sales numbers lag behind consumer satisfaction.

Meaning people may still buy this MBP but decide that their next computer won't be a Mac, this means the "lost sale" could be four or five years into the future.

Plus there's the magnifying effect of "influences." Are technical people still going to recommend to their less technical family members a Mac?

My point isn't "Apple is doomed!" rather, any company, has to look beyond yesterday's sales numbers to broadcast tomorrow's sales. Hopefully Apple has the data to know if these changes do more good than harm.
> I'd go further and say that Apple isn't basing their hardware strategy on the needs of any real person.

Real person here! I love the USB-C only approach. I love being able to charge from either side of my laptop, and I love having single cable to plug in at my desk for RAID/monitor/ethernet/charging/etc. I want my laptop minimal; if I want it to do more, I can add more.
> I think a lot of people miss that culture. But, it just doesn't scale to the general population.

I think that's the crux of it. It worked because it wasn't instantly accessible to everyone. There was a certain minimum level of tech savvy, or at least intellectual curiosity, required. Most people were emotionally invested, at least a little, and that helped form strong communities.

I love that the internet is so egalitarian, but I do miss the days when things were smaller and tighter-knit; when most services were run for love, not for money.
Start looking for something elsewhere, but stick around until you either find something better and/or know what's what where you're at. There's nothing wrong with looking in the meantime.
Show HN: Qt/Qml support for .NET
I want stackfull coroutines, with custom, fast user space scheduling and task switching with guaranteed optimisation to a single stack frame and no allocation where possible.

I also want the ability to convert internal iterators to internal iterators with no overhead and even (especially) if the internal iteration function has not been specifically marked (i.e. no red/blue functions).

Hey, a man can dream.
Australia is taking this rescue fairly seriously (there were two Australian divers involved, along with others) and up until now, had had a fairly positive view of Musk thanks to his battery in South Australia. It remains to be seen what impact this has on future PR efforts in Australia.
I suspect that Elon's whole magnificent house of cards (Tesla, Spacex, Hyperloop, Mars) is about to spectacularly collapse.

That's why he's overly twitchy.
> When an attempt to build huge (100k+) project with Python failes, it is

...because the skills of programmers and other employees hired for this were inadequate. That's it.

It's true for everything. It is possible - and it was demonstrated many, many times - that you can develop huge code bases and successful projects in basically every language in existence, including Asm, PERL, PHP, JavaScript, C, Visual Basic, Cobol, Lisp, Fortran, Prolog and so on. Obviously also including Python.

So if your project, in Python, breaks down above some number of LOC, it's, unfortunately, yours, and only yours, responsibility. Your architecture and/or programming skills were simply not up to the task.

Is it easier to write huge projects in some languages than in other? Yes, of course. Is that difference big enough to justify the claim that it didn't work "simply because Python"? No, not at all.
Serverless QBasic
Agreed, development on a single monitor is grossly inefficient for me if I'm doing any sort of serious work. It drives me nuts when I have to pair program with someone who doesn't use multiple monitors, or doesn't utilize multiple monitors effectively. Every time you switch a screen from one app to the other adds friction to your workflow in the form of keypresses and mentally keeping track of context. The more of your workspace can be laid out at once, the less friction there is and the more effort can be devoted to the work itself.
A strong point against the "deregulate everything" crowd, especially now with net neutrality under attack.
Blame Intel for the "nasty surprise" it had in its chips.

It's not just Google that have to fix Intel's flaw with software changes that degrade performance, but all platform and app developers (that care about their users' security).
If it's meant to be used at a desk all the time why does it have to be thin and light?
Yeah,we all have lol. Something about the critical development period (pre 13)
Lenovo Thinkpad: i7, 64gb ram, 1tb ssd, – $2,400
Management, Two Years Later – Values (Pt. 2)
It's decent when your employer springs for a "dock" type devices that allows a single USBC hookup to the laptop, including power, which is the setup I had at my previous role.

It sucks when you have to attach and detach a whole bunch of dongles each time you sit down at your desk, as with my current role.

I could buy the dock thing myself I suppose, but then it's personal property I have to worry about and could disappear, etc.
I don't want a totalitarian society, but I also don't want to live in a world where the poor and the sick are left to die in the streets, and I reject the notion that there's no possible happy medium.
Posting youtube links without explaining why anyone should watch them is not considered useful by most HN people. I looked at the start, and it didn't seem useful for the issue at hand, which (to me) is that the Republic of Ireland and the landmass named Ireland are two different things.

The Republic of Ireland doesn't include Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom.

The landmass named Ireland does.

I'm surprised to see that you are still missing that, but, ok, as an American maybe I'm not really understanding what's going on.
When I ramp back up on actually doing side work. iOS Development is on my bucket list along with more web work and I’ll probably need to be running a Windows VM.

I want at least 32GB of RAM.

My ideal iMac setup - 5K, 32GB of RAM, 2TB fusion drive, 4.2Ghz i7 - is $3099

A similarly equipped MacBook Pro would be $3000 with 512GB of storage (that would be enough). But I would still want a 5K external display - adding another $1300.

The last time I used a MacBook Pro to run a Windows VM, the battery life was so bad, I stayed plugged in most of the time anyway.

But back to iPad development. Can you really get a good feel of the UI usability of an iPad with a scaled display? I haven’t done any iOS development before.
Every Mac user I know has had their Mac purchased by their employer. I think that creates a certain price insensitivity. An employer knows that the cost difference between a Mac laptop and something like a Dell or Lenovo is inconsequential compared to the cost of the person using it.
Farmer in the Sky by Robert Heinlein [1]

The Complete Robot by Isaac Asimov [2]

The Wrong Unit [3] wasn't a bad little humorous tale.

Pretty much anything by Timothy Zahn (sans Star Wars novelisations) [4] or Robert Sawyer [5] floats my boat.

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North [6]

Barsk: The Elephants’ Graveyard by Lawrence M. Schoen [7] made me care about sentient elephants.

Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi [8] is very funny. Audiobook version narrated by Wil Wheaton.

Of ones already mentioned:

The Bobiverse was surprisingly good (including the audiobook version).

The Expanse is good.

With regards to Dune, there are some like myself who only ever liked the first book in the series. (Also there is a good audiobook version out there.)

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet and sequels are great world building and characters, although the plots seem to meander about with not too much purpose.

The Martian is great.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50851.Farmer_in_the_Sky

[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50091.The_Complete_Robot

[3] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30959279-the-wrong-unit

[4] https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/12479.Timothy_Zahn

[5] https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/25883.Robert_J_Sawyer

[6] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18295861-the-first-fifte...

[7] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25667916-barsk

[8] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11167622-fuzzy-nation
Also worth noting that APL isn't totally foreign. Numpy, Mathematica, MATLAB etc. draw inspiration from APL in their array manipulation. Maybe not so much syntactically, but logically.
The best thing the Tesla board could do is to remove Elon Musk from the CEO position. He is dangerously unstable and unfit for the job.
I haven't met anyone saying nice things about the missing ESC key... And the touchbar is too fiddly and situational to be useful, even to power users.
I've been using a lot of H.265 (aka x265/HEVC); some pirate scene TV and movie releases come out in it. It's fantastic. About 1/3-1/4 the size of H.264, which makes a huge difference both with download and with archiving. The downside is that there's not a lot of hardware support for encoding or decoding. Doing it on the CPU isn't bad but definitely not as energy efficient.

The problem with H.265 is the IP situation is a mess. AV1 looks to be better in every way. Looking forward to its adoption. So far the pirate scene doesn't seem to be using it at all.
The api is mandatory; it’s how async/await works.
Ironic that there was plenty of oil under Sakhalin island, it just hadn't been discovered yet.

The North African campaign was similar in that it was partly an attempt to get to the Arabian oilfields, but fought over the top of at the time undiscovered Libyan ones.
I am in a similar situation as far as work experience and opinion of course material.

My reasons for pursuing my degree:
1. Significantly easier to get a visa to work out of the country
2. I don't want it to be used as an excuse to pay me less
3. I don't want to compete for a job with people who have one when I don't

It's pretty sad that "becoming a better programmer" isn't in the top 3 reasons. The truth is that the courses I have taken just haven't improved my programming in any meaningful way. I have 2 semesters left, so maybe all the good stuff will be there?

So my answer is: yes I think it's still worth getting one, especially with degree inflation in overdrive with no sign of slowing down, certificates are probably not worth very much to employers, especially for somebody with experience already.
Wanting to know this too!
Its still using a processor from 2015. The 2017 updates were a minor spec bump.
> For a family of 4 or 5?

Presumably for the "young, urban professionals" the GP referred to, which I'd expect are, at most, a family of 2 (in the GP commenter's eyes).

Even given this assumption, even that may be debatable, since it assumes the Uber/Lyft model is sustainable without self-driving cars.
Ah, so the sisal rope is just a simple filter, and not a "continuously self-cleaning" filter? I presume it's eventually fouled and must be disgarded? So this must not have been to which the ancestor was originally referring.
You’d still need to specify and/or have a default executer, neither of which are trivial tasks to design. Somewhat ironically, the go runtime is the closest to this and has the most explicit invocation of async behavior of the languages that have seriously tried to tackle this problem.
Leaked info about you having that insurance will surely paint a target on your back.
Ask HN: How do you keep checklists?
Like the title says,do you use any software or methodology to keep up with checklists?
Kind of like pattern matching in Elixir?
I think you're probably chewing on this because it feels similar to a ZKP setup. But ZKPs don't really work in meatspace, as meatspace lying is not perfect. Thus, your belief in the validity of the statement will leak, and so telling you can never actually be zero-knowledge.

A proper ZK analog would be the company being prohibited from giving you a signed statement saying they had said coverage, as if you were kidnapped the kidnappers would force you to turn over this signed statement to know you represent a nice payday. So they type out a statement, then sign it with an X in front of you. If the kidnappers see this, they cannot be sure you didn't just type up the statement and sign it with your own X - only you know it was signed by the company.

But back in the physical world your kidnappers will just "prove" the fact to themselves by beating it out of you. Which is why the K&R policy prohibits any sort of telling you, not just written - your knowing is the liability.
Not too dissimilar from The Unnoticed American-Russian War of 2015-2018.
Has Apple fixed the layouts? I found the arrow keys particularly vexxing (in addition to wanting more travel, less noise, and more durability). When the keyboard died on my old black MacBook I bought a box of top cases on that auction site and replaced it.

Has Apple started bundling cables with their charges? With my mid-2012 MBP I can buy a gen 1 MagSafe charger and it'll have everything it needs to work with the computer. Last I checked the USB-C chargers aren't any cheaper, but they don't come with a cable that will connect it to a computer. The cable, of course, is another $30 or so.
you're extolling the benefits of USB-C not the lack of USB-A. The presence of a USB-A would not affect your listed benefits in the least.
Is this similar to DNR schemes? Because that's a lossy process that reduces find detail, and is notorious for having been misused in many bluray releases of analog film remasters.

And adding digital grain "back in" doesn't sound very authentic to the original analog source.
what's ironic about it ? 33 mail ia sn alternative disposable email site that certainly works better than mailinator
First of all, the centralization of credit, which is the source of all of the problems cited in the video, was one of the ten planks of the Communist Manifesto. Central banks are the antithesis of a free market.

Second, capitalism can be replaced in a free society if a superior model is introduced. No one is stopping people from starting up worker cooperatives, communes or non-profit organizations.

By all means try to replace enterprises that are motivated by remuneration, but don't do it by violating people's right to freely contract. Do it by making a better model that people freely choose to switch to.
But the ransom amount is unknown before hand. It's not like you can easily compare the market and pick your vendor.
This is pretty cool, is that a react stack?
Hire an hacker from the dark web
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Because I go to meetings and work from home sometimes. Only thing I'd use a standard USB for would be charging, which isn't really something I do in meetings, and I have plenty of chargers at home.
That's a valid perspective. I absolutely concede that the type of experiences you can have on IG is very different, and I can completely understand the Midwest -> NorCal transition.

To contextualize, my experience was of someone already living in the big "fashionable" cities in California. I was even living in the same building of influencers with millions of followers, having a completely different "perceived" lifestyle experience than most of them or even of my social circle in the same area.
Replaced with what? And I suspect you may as well try to replace gravity.

Capitalism isn't going away I don't think, but rather the reverse. However it could be managed a bit better.
Keen in mind that Blackmagic sells a massive array of pro audio/visual equipment. From cameras to capture and playback, to format convertors etc.
I like this idea, in theory. But it feels it aligns with the trend to apply overkill to lots of real-world security scenarios nowadays.

I'm sure that in some situations this kind of approach would be up there on the drawing board. Lots of money pitted against unknown trust, or military projects (the super-super expensive kind) immediately come to mind.

But even then, in the theoretical "high risk / untrustworthiness" scenario, surely one payout event wouldn't provide enough confidence to predict similar behavior in the future, and causing multiple events is suspicious enough you wouldn't be able to rule out whether the adversary was paying out each time because they'd caught on.
May be satisfied people are not very vocal on forums. It's hard to judge without significant statistics.
I think Shanzhai in many ways is a better representation of the hacker spirit than open source these days. Many successful open source projects are essentially copies of other software, including things like Linux and Git. It is only these days, when people get paid to work on open source and abandoning things on Github is more the rule than the exception, that copying has become a bad thing.
This new smaller design solves reliability and cost issues of older bigger designs.
Very true and exactly my point! Maybe “showing up” by logging in to Facebook to socially influence others and increase your employer’s followers is just as effective at giving young people life skills as flipping burgers was back in the day. Let’s not constrain ourselves to burger flipping because that was a thing once upon a time.
Getting healthcare depends on where you live, not just how how successful you are. I live in California, and even before Obamacare, I could already buy healthcare for a family without being "very successful". Most Europeans are probably scratching their heads at the entire concept that you introduced. And yes, that's a part of the reason I no longer live in South Carolina, which doesn't have Obamacare.
Why not keep the bitrate higher? Or are you re-encoding already over-compressed video? In which case re-encoding and adding noise only reduces the amount of detail and bloats the encoded size with, well, noise.
I'm saying the issue here is how affected you are by something like losing your job, and how likely it is to happen.

> the path of least resistance is for your company to announce that you are no longer with them.

This is kind of the issue. There's no room for reasonable discourse, or taking a risk.

Realistically, someone saying something about you on social media should be uninteresting, and a company shouldn't have to worry about that as much, but things got crooked and somehow it makes sense for a company to be very jumpy about these things. That doesn't actually make sense, and we should examine how we got here. This is not the only place this shows up, a similar problem is it being very difficult for someone to get a job if they had a criminal offense.
2015 was the last model that I would consider your statement to be true. The cost-cutting since then is evident.
The Fear of White Power
Dell and Lenovo both come to you if you choose the right warranty plan. It beats the heck out of the Genius Bar.
Swift recently moved from a mailing list to a forum (Discourse). Honestly I'm not sure I prefer it. Sure, we get niceties like better search and Markdown formatting, but those only really work if you use the website, which breaks often (especially when it tries to do things like track clicks). So now I have to keep a tab open for the forums, which I really dislike as opposed to the native, more performant, and more customizable experience Mail gives me.
The name for this is the "Genetic Fallacy"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_fallacy
It would increase the thickness of the laptop.

Apple is design driven.

I also hate the new keyboard but couldn’t care less about using dongles if I get a thinner laptop.
Source? It's a 3 year old laptop at this point.
"Limits to Growth" was from 1972, but Mathus' idea dates back to 1798, and he was certainly not the first to bring up the concept.
There is a hack to disable this for the FHD matte 9350. I applied it to mine, and it's successfully disabled.

Your mileage might vary, there are a few different panels apparently.

https://github.com/advancingu/XPS13Linux/issues/2
Elixir on GCP https://cloud.google.com/elixir/
Proposition: IF safety features increase AND safety features cause drivers to behave more recklessly THEN there will be an increase in traffic fatalities.

This does not hold if the reductions in fatalities caused by the safety features are larger than the (alleged!) increase in fatalities caused by additional recklessness.
Making the assumption that someone operating at his level plans most of his public actions in relation to some strategy...

What would be a plausible purpose for publicly embarrassing himself like this?
Elon Musk just called one of the Thai cave rescuers a pedophile
I bought a 2017 model in February.

It’s already had one keyboard replacement.

The . Key stopped working.

Can’t wait to have this thing replaced because the keyboard breaks regularly enough before the three years of AppleCare runs out.
It's "help" or be banned. China's too big a market to drop out of and keep your job as CEO.
And yet we somehow don't acknowledge the fact that this is just do-notation for some specific monad--yeah, that powerful abstraction that can't be expressed in Rust because we don't allow higher-order polymorphism. Don't get me wrong, i'm bitter because i feel like Rust really is almost in the right direction for the future of language design. Yet there is a long time before we get a language with a really precise type system (linear, "pure") and thus with highly efficient code generator (~rust), that at the same time has all the higher abstraction goodies, maybe even dependent types (cf quantitative type theory [1]). Of course they took that into account, it's even explicitly mentioned in the rfc, and it got turned down for being too experimental, but at some point you gotta make a bold step forward and force people to actually care about abstractions.

Now that Rust is getting some maturity i worry that it gets too complex in too much direction just because it's not powerful enough to express the few common abstraction, of which several instances are being added as distinct concepts (async&try, const datakind, higher-order poly--especially for lifetimes, named impls, before-after memory state for references...).

[1] https://bentnib.org/quantitative-type-theory.pdf
The biggest downside is not energy efficiency IMO, it's speed. The speed difference between h.264 and h.265 encoding can be easily 10 fold. More-so on CPU reliant servers without GPUs. There is a big upfront sacrifice to get the small video size.