skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're arguing for the personal right to act a certain way as I understand it.

I'm arguing that such an action has terrible ramifications on a large enough scale.

These are not mutually exclusive. There's no reason that we can't construct places where public discourse of controversial ideas is possible yet people are not forced to engage in such.

It's certainly something we haven't succeeded at yet, and a hard problem altogether, but we do need it otherwise we're doomed to that one dystopia where "nobody is questioned yet nobody is right".
I wonder when he switches back in a year whether the time will feel like a worthwhile investment or just happy to have really showed them and their Touch Bar.
Typical Verge sleaziness... they use Link shorteners to hide the fact that they put affiliate tags in all of the urls:

tag=vergeprimeday2018
Climate change is behind the global heat wave. Why won't the media say it?
I used thinkpad nipples for 5+ years.

Macbook took a couple months of adjustment. But there is almost no use of muscle whatsoever when moving the mouse on a macbook. Thinkpads feel incredibly straining in comparison now. And scrolling on a macbook...completely effortless. There is nothing like it.
I think it is CEO's job to keep investors hope high. A engine doesn't work like magic anyway, you are always going to customize it. Thinking TensorFlow as a engine. I don't see anything wrong with that. Anything can be boring, and CEO has to make it exciting. I have this experience with my recent project that I am in charge of, the team facing a lot of doubts and pushes because I didn't draw the picture sexy enough for management. CEO takes on the task of making sure investors are happy to keep the company going and making sure team members are happy as well. What you see is 80% of the value of your company, and the CEO sees 120%, that's the difference and it is the right thing to do.
In "a world where the technology exists to make atomically perfect copies", people would still pay a huge premium to have the first instance. Some forgers have managed to produce copies that were, at the time, indistinguishable from originals. But that didn't lead collectors to ignore the distinction. It just made them more nervous ;)

Edit: Another issue is that objects aren't immutable. Let's say that we could make "atomically perfect copies". But those copies would remain "atomically perfect" only briefly. And then they'd be historically distinguishable. And OK, I borrowed that from Hoffstadter's I Am a Strange Loop.
"The Kims are worshipped as a God-King hybrid"

I see thats done in the US as well, different Kim though
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You don't need to deal with the configuration for 80% of the use cases. If you need something custom, it's a good investment to learn the tool you are depending, and I don't think it's inscrutable: https://webpack.js.org/concepts/
The original one is the reversed one. Fingers go up, content goes down. That’s wrong as anyone who has used a phone or tablet can tell you.

They fixed it, so now it is indeed “just right”.
Usually when people set me up for high expectations, I end up getting disappointed. In the case of the Macbook touchpad, my expecations were actually exceeded. I use Bootcamp a lot for some of my projects, and the touchpad support in Windows is so bad, I can't wait to go back to Mac Os (other than that, I'm pretty much OS agnostic).
>Human lifespan has increased since ancient times, but not by that much. The idea that adults died at 30 is absurd, but persists everywhere anyway, mostly because it flatters us in the present.

This is bollocks, and not what the article is talking about anyway.

There's a good 20 year difference in life expectancy for a 20 year old between countries still.

http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/your-life-expectancy-by-a...

And between these days and the olden days -

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...

The past was a awful awful place, everyone was in slave/war type conditions and simple scratches killed.
isn't deep learning engine a set of scripts to solve some problems anyway? Are they trying to build PyTorch and TensorFlow? If they are proving solutions for customers, it does exist. Sometimes developer don't see the value of things because they are dealing with it everyday. For us it is scripts, for other people, it could be magic.
"They’ve also started rolling out a cell phone network, but all of the hardware is tapped and all of the info comes straight from the central gov."

North Korea is seriously closest to "1984" we have right now.
It would also be amazing to have a linux distro that has excellent, first-class support for recent Apple computers. No such thing has existed for years. It’s terrible that we are all trusting closed-source FileVault.

I would donate to such an effort.
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I grew up bilingual outside the US, and speak English with a hybrid British/Indian/Middle Eastern accent (with some of my personal quirks, and mixing increasing amounts of Californian over time). I can understand English in nearly any accent (Singaporean, Chinese, Vietnamese, Indian, Nigerian) as long as the words involved are globally used and the grammar is passably queen's. Especially after hearing it for about an hour. And people who natively speak English with these various accents usually can understand my English better than they can an average American accent. Yet in this country, my accent is mocked, despite being perfectly understood and more versatile. Even by others who don't speak with the American accent!

This is the problem of the "default accent" anywhere being referred to as "no accent", and therefore anything deviating is considered "having an accent". This makes "accent" a negative trait, scaling from 0-bad to heavy-bad. But if the vernacular were such that we said "American accent" instead of "no accent", then noone's accent is bad, just not used to.

This isn't directed at parent in particular, but just voicing a pet peeve:

It's extremely offensive to imply someone's command of a language is bad just because you aren't familiar with their accent. Most of my non-American peers who were raised on English have a better command of the language than my American ones, yet they are mocked for their accents as if they don't know the language, when in reality it's the Americans lack of familiarity with the language (as its used globally) preventing them from comprehending the language.

So yes, put in more work, the world is shrinking and English is the global language. What you're saying is spoken from a position of privilege because the culture allows you to mock others' accents rather than the other way around.

Remember, every time you hear English with an accent other than British, American or Australian, it usually means the speaker knows at least one entire other language as well, probably one that you would sound like an idiot if you tried to speak it. Don't be rude or dismissive of their intelligence.
You are right about one thing: If you are not in the 1% being 95%-99% is being out in the cold. Debt being a cold bed fellow.
>I could understand the outrage if this was a service you were paying for.

So, if Gmail was closed to the free tier European users for 2 months+, they should be OK, because "they didn't pay for it"?

>But this is a Free service being provided to you. Why do you believe you have the right to dictate how someone else uses their time when you're not paying for it?

That's an argument for the 1950s economy, this is 2018. We have other models, such as ads, user profiling, even pure eyeballs as a M&A/IPO monetisation strategies. Just because the user doesn't paid doesn't mean money aren't made from the user using the service. Except if one believe they run it from the goodness of their hearts at a loss, but then they probably also believe in the Tooth Fairy.

Not to mention that Instapaper used to actually charge too. If someone paid for the app or premium later for years, is it ok if they "make it free" and then deny access to their account for 2 months?
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Interesting that touchpad problems affect _many_ users, it's been a source of pain and complaints for many years and the community can't throw together e.g. $100k to pay a dev to develop a good enough driver.
It does make sense, I just always thought that new models had to be crash-tested before being allowed on the market. I'm clearly wrong in this assumption.
Wow, this actually makes me want to go watch Moana. Great to see collaboration between big animation studios and the open-source software community. Also, Matt's analysis of his own code is unabashed and honest. In the end he managed to make some solid performance wins for pbrt!
Your bracket notation in effect works the same as mine. The difference is that -+- could be any of [-+][--] or [--][+-] by symmetry and so leaving out brackets. In my notation "+" is a character which does not occupy space. Hence [-+][--][-+][--] is the same as -+--+-.

Sorry about the error earlier: "...-+-+-" was a typo that I couldn't edit anymore.
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If only it were merely a cold bed fellow. It's downright vampiric.
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Right, I am not talking about the peasants of the time. 'We', as in the masses, more readily associate with the peasants than the aristocracy but in reality the average person today lives a life that's certainly more luxurious, in terms of things, than the aristocracy of the time. In terms of objective luxuries, people today have vastly more: reliable indoor plumbing, easy and rapid transportation, consistent and practically unlimited running water, air conditioning, practically unlimited access to whatever sorts of food (even exotic) you care to purchase, and much more. So entitled have we become that it feels kind of silly to call those things luxuries!

The life of the luxurious Ancient Greek would have likely been more interesting due to power and prestige, but they did not have objectively better lives in terms of 'things' than even an average individual today. And now a days I think it goes without saying that the average person exerts substantially less energy per day than even our luxurious Ancient Greeks did. Lives are much easier.

Another interesting thing is also not all of the Ancient Greeks you know were living lives of luxury, even by standards of their time. Socrates was born to a stonemason, served in the military, and lived his later life in voluntary poverty - offering up 100 drachmae as a punishment for the allegations that would lead to his execution. 100 drachmae was 1/5th of his entire life's wealth. For some scale, an unskilled worker would earn around 1 drachma a day, a skilled worker would earn around 5 drachma a day. He was executed at age 71, still in extremely good health.

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And yeah, on the boiling - I was stating that they did on occasion genuinely purify their water. However, the sniff/taste test was the norm with boiling the occasional exception.
I think it's because robocall is still one of the cheapest and most converting marketing trick for them. I have just read an article that talks about how we could sue them and maybe get some money from them at http://www.whycall.me/news/consumer-wins-massive-229500-robo....
yeah if you're going through the trouble of selling and buying a new mac it really seems a drive wipe is more than sufficient but I may be missing something. in general traveling without a computer is easier than travelling with one.
The touchpad experience of the Mac is where vertical integration really shines. The touchpad is so good precisely because there are not hundreds of hardware variants to support. Just the one that Apple used in their past X years of MacBooks (so never more than a hand-full). And they make their own OS and drivers.

Doing this for all laptops Linux could possibly run on is almost impossible. It’s a shame that touchpad (or laptop) vendors do not see good drivers as a competitive advantage. Sounds like a lot of people would buy a laptop just for its touchpad (though probably not enough to justify investment from manufacturers, so it seems).
>He refuses to come back and fix your cabinets for free next time

First, Instapaper is a continuous service. If you store something, you want access to it again. It's not a series of one-off, independent services.

So, no, they didn't just "refused to come back and fix your cabinets for free next time". They gave you a space to write your notes and store your links, and then they denied access to that for 2 months (and counting).

Second, you forgot the part where Instapaper had paid services for years, and that many people who are denied service today, had paid good money and stick with it. They weren't asked if they wanted it to br made free and unreliable either.
What part of the text are you referring to exactly?

There was a sentence that Amazon's metric isn't influenced by big fonts or other formatting choices (they probably just use a plain text version of the text to define what a "page" is) and 'that the KENPC system (Kindle Edition Normalized Page Count) recorded pages read with “high precision”' - which doesn't actually mean that much.

Did I miss the interesting part?

My point was mostly based that I know it was that way for a long time, and that things like stuffing or those newsletter signups or competition in the back of the book wouldn't have any influence if it still wouldn't be this way.
> gender roles were not always the same in early-human cultures, and there's nothing that predisposes either sex toward certain kinds of work.

Except the biological differences in strength, speed, etc. Unless they're arguing that these came about after agriculture, but a look at our close relatives would suggest it's always been there.

> In the Philippines population

Correct me if I'm wrong but I didn't think the Philippines had much in the way of large game, this and the general geography (mountainous rain-forest) could be negating the advantages men had in other parts of the world.

> and I'd suspect the tendency to believe it was men is simply a result of assumption based on modern gender roles

I'd suspect it's based on the belief that you'd want the stronger, taller, faster people doing the work the involve strength and speed. This won't always be men, but usually it will be.

We are a sexually dimorphic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_dimorphism#Humans) species, it shouldn't be at all surprising that we divided labor based on these obvious physical differences.
When you suffer from depression or just have a miserable life that feels like a very cruel and direct rejection from others. I'd suggest to complement that with "can you make the person life better or make the person happier?"

I can tell from your comments in this thread that you are exactly the opposite of a mean/cruel person, so this is a good example of what you said yourself: that even trying to be nice with others you might still come across like all the opposite.

Of course your point is still equally or more important, as it becomes harder to help others when you can't even make a good life for yourself. But giving can be many times life changing for others.
Yes, definitely.

Depending on the distribution, touchpads on Linux are between unusable and bad.

False touches are expecially annoying while you're typing a paper and you palm touches the border of the touchpad.

I often disable the touchpad completely, or at least while a key is being pressed, with a few milliseconds delay.
Lying to investors is not okay, and OP describes a CEO who they believe is flagrantly lying.

This is a kind of "excitement" no company needs.
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I see. I haven't tried the Thinkpads since before they were sold to Lenovo, so perhaps they are superior.

I am in the market for a new laptop, so perhaps I should give them a chance. Not really for the pointers, but they do seem to be fine laptops overall.
OffTopic: How did this story get let through when I submitted the same story with the same url ten hours before? Should the second submission have been caught?
Again, just DON'T VISIT THE SITE. It won't steal your attention, use up your data cap, or slow down your machine. Problem solved.
This is similar to another comment here [1]. Responding here in case you'd like to add something there. I find this a really interesting issue.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17548032
Scalability but at what COST? [pdf]
It took me about two days to adapt to "natural scrolling" (reversed) and I would never go back. :)

You can reverse the scroll direction on Windows with a PowerShell command:

https://superuser.com/questions/310681/inverting-direction-o...
Yes, I would say that typescript is the best way to do JavaScript in 2018. I just converted a Babel es7 project to typescript. I feel like I ended up with a simpler build system in addition to type checking and working source maps. I needed to add a few type declarations to make it build though.
I don't think so! Their privacy policy states that:

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Funny, I've done a lot of good for other people while failing to make a good life for myself. Part of that is due to lack of reciprocity: Often, people I did things for didn't do anything for me in exchange, in part due to toxic sexism in many cases.
No. OP has described a liar. A truthful version would be "we don't have this but my team can build it". This is not what's happening.
Workflowy? Best way to organize my thoughts.
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Hm, that's a good point. Doing the math on that would make an interesting exercise.
Yes, I agree with having my privacy protected. Do I think the legislation is perfect? No, but I think I already made that clear.
Yes, but creating YouTube videos from the ground up still gives you a valuable skill set. Even if no ones see your videos.

I learned to use After Effects. You can write your own expressions with JavaScript straight in the video editor.
What’s the ROI of UX?
Very cool. First time I read a recipe on GitHub, too, and it's incredibily efficient without 2 pages of introduction.
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Business Wars

Scaling Postgres

Startup Secrets Lecture Series

These pretty much have me occupied on all my commute time.
I found it an interesting approach to an incentivised tutorial of sorts it's very easy to install Dropbox on your desktop and just forget that it's there. By offering you free storage space by introducing you to features, such as their mobile app, sharing, etc, they're making you curious and interested in what else they have to offer you.

You could call it growth hacking I guess. I think it's an interesting alternative to idk, a weekly "did you know that?" e-mail (e.g. Evernote) or a tooltips-driven tutorial, or Clippy.
Yeah, In my experience Parcel is nice, but Meteor does a better job at offering a zero-config build system than parcel. Because it also provides the node server (which may of course be seen as a drawback to some) it allows to do stuff like multiple bundles for multiple browsers, exact code splitting using dynamic imports etc. with actual zero-config.
Moore's Law is merely a side effect of a larger law of accelerated return. You can see it with solar power, CPU's, disc storage, etc.

Every aspect of human technology is growing exponentially and the rate of growth itself is growing exponentially.

Population, overall education level of people, scientific inter-connectivity, the mere fact that entire new scientific disciplines can appear overnight pretty much indicate that we will face enormous advancement everywhere.
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Better than C++ build systems is a very low bar.
Jordan Peterson has some good advice on this (not sure if he is liked around here). "Be Friends With Those Who Want Best For You" and "Be careful who you share good news with".

Some friends don't want you to try to succeed, because they are not trying. They would rather see you fail and say "see, that's what happens. That's why i don't try, as it just fails anyway". Its hard to tell such friends, good news. It makes them feel bad about themselves.
I thought it was clear that this is about laptops...
Tell that to all the companies implementing them. Now, if you click on the option to configure your cookie options you're presented with an often bewildering list of different cookie types that companies use for a variety of purposes. By either clicking "yes to all" (or similar) or selecting individual items from the list (or deselecting all) you're supposedly providing the informed consent that GDPR requires. Frankly I think often this is so confusing as to make a mockery of the whole process.
I am not sure how it is related to my comment? You argue that we have better lives now. I argue that you cant use back then elite and use it as argument for length of average person back then - because non-citizens, slaves and peasants back then were majority and had very different lifestyles and likely lifespan.

They seem to be two different topics that are not in conflict with each other.
None of those sources contradict the common understanding that men primarily did the hunting in hunter-gatherer societies. They certainly point out that there have existed societies where women hunt, but even one of your own pull-quotes states that normally, it was men.
I've read the blog post and the comments, nobody says what are the features they're talking about. I've only understood the "cursor nudge".
> You can thin the profile and increase the # of chassis, compromise on redundancy, etc

No, I wouldn't suggest more chasses, as that's almost always more expensive (it's tough to break even on that $1k minimum buy-in on a server).

I believe your workload needs the resources you say. It just happens to be a remarkably rare ratio, hence my remark.

> No large vendors used in this example - thinkmate or aberdeen supermicro re-brands for due diligence and warranty.

The vendor doesn't have to be large to jack up the price.. Any re-brand is super suspicious. To me, a large part of the point of a commodity server product is the reliability is predictable (and therefore easy enough to engineer for/around). Paying extra for "diligence", warranty, or hardware support is just flushing money down the toilet.

A fee for custom assembly and/or a basic smoke test is fine, but it had better be a flat rate per server and on the order of $100. Technician labor isn't that expensive.

Larger or "enterprise" vendors are merely the extreme version of this, with upwards of a 10x premium on something like storage arrays, especially if one includes