skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
computer advert in 2018, truth in advertising version:

"stalk your ex on Facebook, 37% faster"

"Cat videos on youtube look great in Retina full screen"

"Your stolen music files sound fab thanks to deeper bass response from the stereo speakers"

"chat with your dumb friends for hours, with a new longer-lasting battery"

"call in sick without removing your phone from its case, thanks to bluetooth."

Other than dying batteries, or physical damage (broken trackpad/keyboard) I seriously wonder why the average person needs anything but the most basic laptop when a $99 android phone is in all measures more powerful than a 10 year old laptop but we're doing basically the same activities: surf the web, chat, email. Very, very few people create content. Most consume.
Benevolent: "well meaning and kindly"

You can do something that people disagree with, even something that you think is the best for them, and still be benevolent.
This has got to stop people. I'm serious. We need to take collective action and do something before this stuff gets out of hand. Anyone got some resources on getting involved?
Looks like it has been dead for a bit now.
Maybe I'm part of the minority (or since Apple's sales are still doing pretty good maybe the minority is just louder), but it's just weird that the line in the sand is being drawn at "the uncommonly-used keys are still there, but now they can be customized too, but only if you choose to use the default keyboard instead of an external keyboard".

For me when I switched to a Mac, the hardest thing to get used to was the lack of a forward delete key (the Windows-style use of the delete key) and having to use a key combination instead. Even today I still struggle with the lack of pgup and pgdn keys, and the lack of home and end.

In light of commonly-used keys that are actually missing, I just struggle to accept the idea that the Esc key being a touch button but still existing is a hill worth dying on. Especially when, since the touch bar is customizable, everyone can now swap their (relatively) useless F1-F12 keys for the (relatively) more useful Home, End, Forward Delete, Page Up, and Page Down keys. Or whatever else they want it to be.

To me, it's like the digital equivalent to swapping a workshop's dedicated phillips-head screwdriver with one that lets you switch ends to be phillips or flathead or torx or whatever. Some small number of people may complain "but it's not the same way it's always been!", but it sure does make life a lot easier for a lot more people.

"It's not the same way it's always been" has been Apple's driving mission since... well basically forever. Think Different, right?
Yes, but they are only controlling core forms of communication that they themselves built.
13" is still capped at 16gb.
I'll never again work someplace that can't even be bothered to provide private cubicles for engineers. Open offices are a shit show.
No, this is one of the greatest arguments for small government or no government. People are more rational when the cost to them of being irrational is larger. Voting for good policies is a public good. When a voter is one among three hundred millions of citizens, only 1/300,000,000 (on average) of the benefits of the vote befall the individual voter. This gigantic externality means that the democratic market will severely underproduce votes for good policies. Simultaneously, social desirability bias means that voters have a strong incentive to believe in policies that are harmful to them but that make them look good to other people. Since the cost to them of being wrong about politics is so small and the benefit large, voters have gravely irrational beliefs. This conclusion is consistent with the results from social science that show that voters are ignorant about politics and with the widespread agreement with protectionist tariffs, price controls, restrictions on immigration, and many other policies that cause great economic harm.
To be clear, I'm talking about the design of the thing here. There are two different conversations being had - one is about a dislike of the design, the other is about the hardware reliability of the thing.
>The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it.

-John Kenneth Galbraith, Money: Whence it came, where it went (1975)
I would say we are transitioning from early adopter to early majority phase. Electric cars are not new fiddly technology for rich folks who like to dabble. They're not toys that the youth are wasting their money on. They're here and people are buying them en masse.
No, the bad decision was treating bytes and strings interchangeably in the first place. 99% of the hardest to fix breakage was due to that, and it was the right call to pay that price all at once.
But when the non World Cup watchers are in the minority then you have it exactly backwards. You're asking all the football fans (which at World Cup time is nearly everyone) to accommodate your idiosyncratic personal desire to carry on working.
"Apple lives on with only memories of Steve Jobs."

I think that remains to be seen.
And get 3 times the does of radiation? Seems impractical, but possibly true.
Funny factoid. This neutrino had an energy equal to a flying house fly (kinetic energy of 12mg at 10km/h is around 300 tera–electronvolts): http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=(12+miligrams+*+(10+km%...
> The Earth is obviously round, but the reaction is really, _really_ funny. I don't get why that isn't obvious.

Ah yes, the ol' "endlessly repeat a position you know to be false as if you believed it". Clearly, the highest form of humor, the very pinnacle of the art form. How foolish were we to see that as childish behavior instead of marveling at the very essence of comedy.

Am I doing it right? Is this not hilarious?
One of the pycon keynotes (by Brett Cannon) was on civility in open source:

https://youtu.be/tzFWz5fiVKU?t=2785

If you're a little abrasive (as I am) then I recommend giving it a watch. There's nothing wrong with being right but you don't want to jeopardize the respect and community by not recognizing others in a response.
> This is probably the greatest argument for big government

The article talks about institutional inertia. The advantage of a market economy is your Blockbusters get replaced by Netflix. Imagine if film renting were a public agency. It would be much harder to disrupt. Governments are, by design, immortal. A crucial design decision is choosing what, in our society, we want to be immortal and what we want to be replaceable.
1) Folders date-labelled when the files were moved from camera to computer 20180712 and files date & sequence labelled 20180712-005.ARW 20180712-005-1.tif as variants are created

2) Edit mostly via RawTherapee (with special help from MS ICE & photoFXlab masks & Silver Efex Pro)

3) Distribute & Share with Google Photos (jpgs down-sized below 16MP) [upload with web browswer interface avoids all the confusion around auto backup and deletes]
Did I say it is OK to disrupt others in the workplace? Of course it isn't, regardless of the event.

I was responding to a comment that compared watching a movie to following the World Cup live. The two are not comparable at all. I was also responding to other comments that were somehow dumbfounded by others wanting to watch the World Cup in general.
True about "think through the problems before writing your 1st line of code". The reason that "why should you being bitter about trying again?" maybe about the rumor of "three-interview limit".
We don't even have a handle on what constitutes rational incentives/behavior, let alone irrational ones.
This feels like a real black swan event to me. I guess I just assumed that black-and-white x-rays were as good as it gets, and that there wasn't any room for improvement. I've never even thought about the idea of a color x-ray. It's very exciting to see something that could change the entire field of radiology.
There's a fair amount of VR porn already. It's maybe not quite entirely fair to associate porn with new display technologies, but I can see why people might. And in this case, who knows what you're really looking at?
I get the point for an Engineer. There the chances to endless promotions are far higher if you stay nice and calm all the time. Hard earned experience, never got a promotion but always more money and "crazier" jobs over time.

But I mean for anyone with team responsibility: staying silent is bad for you, which is okay if you're in for the career. I totally respect that, people should be ambitious if they want to. But this is the recipe to make workplaces toxic and bad for the whole team.
Sorry I am missing something here.

I just looked up my laptop's info: 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7 from 2012. So you are telling me 6 years later, I can get a 2.9GHz 6‑core 8th‑generation Intel Core i7 processor for ~$2800. So Moore's law was incorrect?
Toronto: The Hottest Tech Job Market in North America Right Now
Did anyone fill a CVE already?
At a previous office we did a survey regarding our open office space.

The answers were extremely polarized, with about half the office loving them and half the office hating them.

The separation was pretty clean: people whose jobs involved focusing for extended periods of time hated it. People whose jobs were mundane/mindless/entry level, people whose jobs involved multitasking across a lot of things, and people whose jobs involved constant interruptions, loved it.

This is broadly consistent with the thesis "open plan offices are very bad for focus and concentration"
There is a very annoying bug that causes a component to get stuck (output triangles disappear) and if you try to move it a copy is created.
Can’t do this. The moment I introduce work at home, I have a much harder time not thinking about work.
The fact that this is the top-voted item here scares the hell out of me.

eval() should be removed from the language. Period. Dynamic code like this is a gaping security hole. There an infinite number of ways to get around eval() detection (see some comments below).

eval() combined with a hole-ridden package manager is the perfect storm; the equivalent of an open door for hackers to manipulate a potentially huge number of code bases.

And the top-voted comment is how they used a stats counter to stuff the hijacked creds... WTF.
The way they pass the content of the npmrc file via the Referer field in the headers is pretty clever, in my opinion.
Consensus approaches are terrible ways to design languages. It's why Java took so long to evolve, where C# rapidly adapted to changing needs; and why C++ lingered in a long state of crappiness until Stroustroup came back and is now pushing improvements every three years.

Languages generally do well when there is a sense of leadership and vision for where it is going. Consensus is terrible at providing both.
Waymo offers a sneak peek of its new all-electric self-driving Jaguar I-Paces
I'm sure your car mechanic, doctor, electrician, plumber, etc feel the same about you. You can't know how to do everything.
The reason I slack people who are ten seconds walk from my desk is mostly because, if I walk up to them and talk to them, I'm generating noise which will disrupt the other hundred people in my open plan office
The $2 billion in the article you linked seems to refer to NV Energy's "latest tranche of renewable projects totaling over 1 gigawatt." The cost of the Eagle Solar Mountain Solar Farm does not appear to be broken out specifically in that article.

The Moapa Band of Paiutes is presumably not dedicating most of their reservation's land to solar generation. Most of the Topaz Solar Farm's land is dedicated to solar generation. That's why you see a much lower energy density if you're calculating areal production using the entire land of the reservation as the denominator.

Solar has become cheaper than coal quite recently. It takes time to build new projects. The "cheaper than coal" qualifier is also so far true just in areas with reasonably good sun resources. Much of the US population lives in areas where there's not enough sun for PV to be cheaper than coal. New York and Pennsylvania aren't there yet, for example.

Finally, the US federal government is trying to prop up the coal industry. That includes invoking "national security" to keep uncompetitive coal plants running. The present administration has also raised the prices of solar equipment with a slew of tariffs. There's a risk for project developers that they could submit a bid for a new solar project, sign a contract, and then a year later see their costs rise above profits due to another round of tariff fights. There's a risk for project buyers that they'll lock in an agreement for a new "cheaper than coal" solar project but be forced to keep buying coal power anyway due to outside forces.

For example, Arizona's excellent sun resources now make PV generation significantly cheaper than running a 1970s-era coal plant in the state, but the federal government may try to force the coal plant's old customers to keep buying its electricity:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-coal/us-interior-depa...
I'm disappointed: no USB ports that I can use (I don't have a single peripheral that plugs into USB-C and it's unlikely that any of my peripherals will be "updated"), useless touchbar instead of the function key row, the same "ultra-thin" form factor sacrificing battery life and keyboard for "thinness" (which I don't need), and keyboard which is still an unknown.

I wish Apple had serious competition. As in: competition that makes an integrated hardware/OS combination that is comparable to what Apple makes.
Heaven forbid that someone responds to a point made in another post. On a public internet discussion forum. In a discussion about the context and effects of divisive and difficult decisions. /s
Try solving social problems without technology.
IceCube Neutrinos Point to Long-Sought Cosmic Ray Accelerator
> "Have the banking giants grown too powerful?"

The New York Times never asks this question because it doesn't make for news and the answer has basically been the same since the emergence of banking giants. Asking if banking is too powerful will always yield an affirmative, and the discerning NYTimes reader will react with a justified, "No shit Sherlock".

> I am also not sure why the NYT feels compelled to bash the Bay Area

The issue is cultural. Folks from the Bay Area tend to couch their money-making schemes with nonsense about making the world a better place. Finance workers in NYC have no need to sugarcoat what they do and are unabashedly trying to make ludicrous amounts of money. In New York, calling people out on their bullshit is deeply culturally ingrained, and the Bay Area is clearly full of it. :. The NY Times gives its primary demographic what it wants.
The price says it all - totally not worth it. There are a lot better options available.
Intel Launches Xeon E-2100 Series Workstation CPUs with Up to 6 Cores
They are, but they're adults who work in completely different environments and thus have wildly divergent needs.

One contrast:

You have some people who in business and want to do keep an old code base working forever.

You have some people who have no business experience and have no idea what a bottom line is, but might need a feature for a critical open source project that many others will use.
No, it's one persons decision to help make their part of the world so, excuse it with "that's how it is", and ignore all the people living in the same "world" and having completely different outcomes, because they retained the integrity others got tricked into giving away.

My experience with honesty is sometimes some added initial challenge, sometimes less challenge, and always a long tail of payoffs. Meanwhile, some people cheat each other and themselves in the hopes for some material gains that they hope will give them some charisma, because they threw the natural charisma that comes from a fully developed person away in the beginning, as a price of admission -- and then it never does.

Of course, if everybody went the same route, if everybody also sold out their own person, then nobody would realize what shadows of their potential these people have become, and that's why they try to drag everything into this pit of cowardly dishonesty. But even if everybody suffered from their affliction, their suffering wouldn't be lessened, therefore it's better to not join them in their suffering.

Oh, and that's not being cynical either, it's just being cold. Being cruel would be working on "immortality", so people can get what they ask for, forever. You know, as in the curse variant of "may you live a long life (as the pathetic person you are)".
My experience with liberal arts education is that it teaches you how to talk and what to say, but not how to think.
In nearly all cases where parenting is present, children are inferior to their parents in both intelligence and judgement.

This analogy does not work in software.
> I don't think so. I get angry occasionally. I don't intend to, nor do I like it. However, my anger is communicated to those around me.

You're distinguishing conscious intent and latent or subconscious intent.

Your body and instinct are very much intending to communicate that you are upset.
God, I can empathize even if only at a much less prominent
vantage. The skills, will and effort involved are at a level far more than a 50+ can reasonably sustain into the early 70s (if that is the prospect).
At the same time, you can also fight back against companies that would seek to cut corners with milk production.
1. If I want to subscribe to something that could have a recurring payment, I use a burner card to make sure that the recurring payment won't go through.

2. Less often, I use it if there's a trial that catches my eye but I don't want to give them my actual info. I use a single use card in this case.

3. On perhaps less reputable sites where I certainly don't want to give my info. Again, I use a single use card in this case.

4. I use it across all my subscriptions because I can easily see how much I'm spending in a given month (specific to subscriptions).

The cap and single use is the one of their best features; you can assign it any value you want and if it hits that, it won't allow other transactions.

While I'm not familiar with it, I've heard that Citi cards also have the same Virtual Accounts, so you could use that as well.
The Success Sequence is bunk, here's some reading on it[1] but the basic idea is that in those three points you laid out number 3 does basically all the explanatory work, number one does a little work and number 2 does almost nothing.

>This is a problem of culture and a lack of personal responsibility.

Okay then where does that culture problem come from? Does it just emerge from the ether to grab black people and wipe away their "personal responsibility"? No, that culture emerges from the same society you're desperate to exonerate. There are many factors that influence that culture and systemic poverty is a huge one. You want to fix poverty in black America? Great, then hire them.

[1] http://www.demos.org/blog/8/5/15/economic-institutions-shoul...

http://www.demos.org/blog/8/13/15/success-sequence-extremely...

http://mattbruenig.com/2017/07/31/the-success-sequence-is-ab...
But people are sorta dumb, on average. It's all relative.

Meeting and talking to an IQ 100 person (by definition the average IQ) - after just a couple of minutes you realize they are kinda dumb.

Many of us have spent our entire working lives working alongside other people that have been selected for basically an above average IQ. What I'm trying to say is that many of us live in bubbles of high intelligence. We only breach this bubble when we interact with "normals".
I know I've gotten into heated arguments on here or on Reddit with very well-known figures in the tech world without realizing who they are until after the fact. Luckily I don't think I've every argued with a developer about their own product before... that I know of.
> While I don't believe the earth is flat, i haven't done any real research, and i assume that's true for most of the people laughing at flat earthers.

I've gone up in a high building and used binoculars, which... honestly, is sufficient.
I personally like open offices because of their casual nature. I used to work at a cubicle like setting, and I was suffocating from the upright and stricter mood they bring.
A list (but Guido is the original): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_dictator_for_life
Yeah I'm unsure how to clearly communicate how the connectors work.
Privacy is awesome - one of the few services I highly recommend to anyone who makes purchases or pays bills online. Slick interface, product just works (except once when I pre-ordered something from Best Buy and that's because Best Buy had a very weird authorization flow that did two charges, instead of an auth + charge) -- and the benefits are great. Best of all, merchants cover the costs, so it's totally free as a consumer (edit: meaning, no monthly fees, etc -- of course merchants have to cover their card processing costs still). Their support is great, too.

I do wish their referral or spending perks were a little more enticing but the privacy benefits are still great overall.

Will be thinking about how I can effectively use the API...

EDIT: Woah, this is REALLY cool:

> Similar to the transaction event, auth stream decisioning will allow your system to dynamically approve and decline authorizations.

https://developer.privacy.com/docs#auth-stream

I smell a two-factor purchase flow in my future... (edit again: maybe not)
It seems like a completely unattainable standard to me. Can you give me an example of a situation in which "genuine diversity of intellectual approach" has been a net positive for an organization, rather than a divisive detriment to morale?

IMO if your organization has a "genuine diversity of intellectual approach" that is truly genuine, then you will soon no longer have an organization — you will have two different organizations, each ideologically homogenous but definitely "genuinely different in intellectual approach" from one another.
That polish has slipped of late, at least with MacOS itself. I used Macs professionally for 14 years but switched to a Thinkpad+Ubuntu 4 months ago and haven't missed much. If you're going to invest time in the switch, I'd recommend giving Linux on desktop a try, as MacOS has been trending the wrong direction for years.
But can he solve a whiteboard coding question in 30 minutes?
Enjoy your well deserved holiday! Send us a postcard ;-)
To answer your question, it is because Apple is an example of a company where the design people have run amok.

They don't want to improve the keyboard, because it would make the laptop slightly less thin, and the people with the power, (the design department) don't want that.

Just because Apple has lots of people working there, doesn't mean that the RIGHT people are in charge.

No company is perfect. And although apples religious focus on design has helped it in the past, this time it seems to have hurt thebl company.

And maybe they will learn from their mistakes or maybe they wont.
I'll probably never switch for personal use. The print statement change is intolerable to me. It would have cost them nothing to just leave the old syntax in. It's supposed to be a quick and convenient scripting language and they're actively working to make it more verbose and less convenient. I also still don't like not being able to use "string" objects as dumb byte containers, like I do with an IRC bot that doesn't crash with an encoding exception trying to write IRC control characters into a text file. Yes, I know I can work around that wrapping everything up nice and pretty to tell python "this isn't a real string it's okay you don't need to throw an encoding exception ssh." I just don't think that's good design.
The World's First Full-Color, 3D X-rays Are Freaking Me Out
Heaven, sadly, cannot forbid poopy responses but we can encourage others (and ourselves) not to post them.