skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends. I think a Chromebook is ergonomically a better choice–the keyboard, while worse in quality, gets points just because it has travel can actually function on my lap. Plus you can slap Linux on it and get a nice lightweight machine that can actually do quite a bit. But for most people I think an iPad is a better choice, and personally I feel the same for myself–anything really advanced is better off on my Mac rather than on a crummy 11" (or really nice 10.5") screen.
One has to give Alex Jones one thing...

Mr Jones is the one subject that every single field can study.

From business to political science to marketting to psychology and perhaps psychiatry and journalism.

He is a fountain, sometines a geyser, of never ending supply of data to further advance the sciences.
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What is the "added value" the society brings? If there was enough value add for researchers, then it could be incorporated into the membership fees. Conferences can be funded by commercial booths or higher attendance fees (most academic attendees are already paid for by grants); student conference scholarships can be paid for by a trust estabilshed by and promoted to senior scientists. The only other added value I can think of is political lobbying.
True, but the iPhone SE copies an existing model. The existing models of Macbook came in both sizes (and 17", but that one was discontinued).
My services are very highly valued on reddit and I have the comment karma to prove it.
Cheap before it went under seems to be the consensus I’m aware of.

There is no real disincentive to sign up, and if you saw any movies you saved money - I think it would have probably made financial sense to sign up before buying tickets and just use it as a discount.

The important thing though is that it does not cost those customers when it fails (unless they haven’t seen a movie since their last payment) as the break even for customers was afaict a single movie.
You might have been a bit lucky there. As we've discovered after making the mistake of buying one to try ourselves, the XPS series has also had plenty of problems.

We bought the Developer Edition, which is the official Linux model. The supposedly supported Linux has been throwing up error messages from moments after we first turned it on that have survived all software updates so far. The machine itself had some sort of battery failure after just a few months of occasional use, then an SSD that was corrupted to the point of being unbootable even when we had apparently recovered from those battery issues. More generally, the over-sensitive trackpad that has been widely criticised was an irritation for us as well, and the keyboard doesn't feel particularly good.

For a supposedly professional-grade laptop from a big name, that's obviously a long way short of the quality standards we'd expect. But then recent Macbooks have had their issues with both hardware and macOS, and we won't go near Windows 10 until Microsoft fixes the same complaints about updates and privacy that everyone keeps raising. Where's a business supposed to get professional-quality laptops that just work any more? :-(
On the same note, sometimes when I introduce two friends who don't know each other, I get the conversation rolling by (not overtly) getting them both to poke fun at me.
A passenger can potentially be just as rude as a driver.
This is super cool! Nobody else seems to be writing about Wayland in a luicid and straightforward way.
CloudGoat: The ‘Vulnerable-By-Design’ AWS Environment
Machine readable as well as machine washable[0]!

[0]: http://cypherpunks.venona.com/archive/1995/10/msg00317.html
Thank God for the arxiv and SciHub
VMWare Fusion however works like a charm, and while it costs a little money you get a lot more bang for your buck.

VirtualBox on MacOS is absolutely shit.
I don't think it's very surprising. Advertisers won't let publishers serve ads directly because that requires trust in publishers to not misrepresent stats like impressions and real views. I don't know how you'd solve that trust problem when publishers are actually incentivized to cheat advertisers.
When it was released, it kind of was–it had essentially the internals of the flagship iPhone at the time (iPhone 6s), just in a smaller form factor. So think of it as what would be a 11" Retina MacBook Pro that was a clone of the early 2015 13" one internally, if one ever existed?
Data caps are like your city bus. You can buy a bulk number of rides per month at a discount, and everything over that is billed at a regular rate.

The bus doesn't magically add more seats when you make extra trips on it, but it still costs more to take the bus three times a day than twice a week.

Even though the marginal cost of your body on the bus is minimal, having the fee serves to reduce crowding (demand at that price point) as well as fund the infrastructure. Data caps are the same.

Now, you can argue that data caps are surrounded by deliberately misleading marketing and that overage charges are unnecessarily steep. But you seem fundamentally opposed to the concept of data caps.
look I always get downvoted for saying mandatory school busses for k-12. But seriously its summer now, and theres no traffic in my Bay Area town. you can go where ever you need to in the mornings.
That's an interesting phrase, "densely developed", because it's very much not the same thing as "densely populated". The African continent between Morocco and cape Town contains a hell of a lot more people than the lower 48 does.
I’d assert that nature == universe == god is an incredibly sober rationalization. As a literary interpretation, it’s acute.
Maybe the issue is that it required that many repairs in the first place.
You may wish to re-read the article, right from the beginning. Mobile phones are already faster and better than the author's computer attached to his 56K modem way back then.
De-layering networking layers
That graphic at the end is a great way to explain how much area is used for our meat eating habit. Think of all the land which is not being used for... anything else. We are truly ecologically privileged to be able to create such a huge impact in order to eat meat.

Incredible.
Because it’s impossible to guarantee that an algorithm will be 100% effective in preventing deaths. So, you either are for driverless vehicles and are willing to accept some risk, or you are against driverless vehicles driving on roads. It has to be one or the other.
In one of the places on this list, quite near the stated "most remote spot", the realization, "Whoa, we are considering bailing off this route because of poor/dangerous conditions, and the shortest bail is about two days' walk." was quite a revelation.

When terrain and conditions are challenging enough, a few miles' distance might as well be the distance to the moon, when it comes to isolation.

If that notion pulls at you, follow it, but take small and reversible steps.
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Something to digitally doodle with e-Writer
Could you point to info about them using RAFT?
"In Citus, we looked into the 2PC algorithm built into PostgreSQL. We also developed an experimental extension called pg_paxos. We decided to use 2PC for two reasons. First, 2PC has been used in production across thousands of Postgres deployments. Second, most Citus Cloud and Enterprise deployments use streaming replication behind the covers. When a node becomes unavailable, the node’s secondary usually gets promoted within a seconds. This way, Citus can have all participating nodes be available most of the time."
He cant be arsed.
I'm not an expert in keyboard, I'm just a software developer that spends a bunch of time in front of a computer: I had some adjustment period to the new keyboard but now I'm used to it and it feels perfectly fine.

What is the problem with "touch-typists" and the new keyboard? Is the layout different in such a way that confuses you? Is it the lack of feedback from the touchbar?
I'm actually in Vancouver right now for a public transit conference and have been incredibly impressed. Such a great system!
TBH, I don't think Facebook can prevent "coordinated inauthentic behavior," as they're calling it.

The only solution is for users to be more aware of who they're online "friends" are, and to be aware that they can't trust everything they read online.

In a way it's funny this problem snuck up on them like this. They make money by social engineering people to buy stuff. It should be a no-brainer that the exact same techniques can be used for other purposes.
Waymo is largely unknown by the general public. Tesla and Uber are well known, largely because of negative incidents and marketing.
That's not how Apple designs their computers–they grow battery size proportionally with power consumption.
Murder trial delayed for 'unprecedented, critical' Apple Watch evidence
> With the costs of college education & textbooks rising exorbitantly, less people are able to afford to get the skills to move up [2].

It is cheaper in most fields to skill up than it ever has been.

It's just more expensive to get a piece of paper....

> I expect "low skill" jobs to keep up.

Then I hope you are against all low and semi-skilled immigration.
Hey, I made this! There are Arduino solutions for motion control with Dragonframe, but I opted to invest in a used DMC16 because it can handle in/out triggers (which I tapped into with my custom control box), it has DMX out for lighting control, and it does motion control signals faster than Arduino can, and it's all in a nice package that I can rack together with the rest of the gear. It might be a little overkill and I'm sure a custom solution could work, but I'm usually more interested in results than process, so I tend to take prebuilt approaches when practical.
Chasing the Muse
You need all worker nodes to be available for 2pc to succeed. So the solution you have a standby for each node which is not very viable for a large cluster.
My mental framework to study this issue is equally simple, just a single question:

Is President Trump the type of dude that would be into golden showers?
It strikes me that, if people want web developers to load less stuff, there have to be ways to reduce redundancy. It might also make privacy easier.

For example, some sort of self hosted standard based framework for tracking common things like scrolling or ad clicks or page visits that supports multiple consumers, both internal to the site publishers for detailed analytics and logging and ad view tracking, and less granular access for external companies that can add value can get information from. Your user's data stays on your self hosted user data server, and analytics can make server to server requests for aggregate data with GraphQL or a standardized api at least, improving user privacy.

If you really needed additional functionality, there could be standardized add-on modules, or updates to the spec.
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It shows how fast the assumption that "everybody" has a drivers licence may have to be revised.

It seems to be backwards now anyway. You need a state ID card to get anything done; a license to drive whatever vehicle class can just be a detail on the card. Driver's licenses are usually designed to be easy to carry around, while passports are too bulky.
For some, it's heresy to express such opinions, and confirmation that the speaker of such blasphemy is a no-good terrible person.
It was 99% not because of deprecated method, unless they explicitly told you so. Deprecated code detection is compile/build tools job, not yours.
Problem is finding a headphone that:

1. Sits just outside your ear; maybe softly hugging my ears but preferably not touching at all.

2. Doesn't at all press against the ears.

3. Doesn't press too hard against your head either

4. Doesn't feel heavy or slide down

5. Kinda affordable.
Yes, publisher profits - especially for places like Elsevier - are ridiculous, even for the costs involved.

But it's easy to overlook important costs in the publication system. One, as others have observed, is editors (and some administrative staff). Their value is certainly up for debate; I have had colleagues ascribe significantly more value to them than some of the other comments here.

Another, though, is archival and continuity of access. The publisher I am most familiar with is the ACM; they have contracts with archivers in place so that should they go insolvent or otherwise be unable to continue providing access to the published papers, these firms will take their archives live so the work remains accessible. By the very nature of the business, the fees they collect now need to be sufficient to keep the work accessible in perpetuity with no further payment.

As with other societies, ACM's journal revenue also goes to fund conference development, outreach and advocacy activities, student grants, etc.

There is a lot of rent-seeking in scholarly publishing, even (in my opinion) from scholarly societies. I personally believe that many of our needs could be better met by investing the funds we currently spend on commercial publishing in university libraries and rehoming the scholarly publishing enterprise there. However, sustainable open access is not as simple as just running a web server.
It might not work, but I like what it caused movie theatres to do - compete. Cinemark now has some $8.99/mo thing that gives you a free movie ticket each month, they don't expire, you can roll them over, and you get discounts on concessions.

I don't have MoviePass but this has already been worth it.

In the end, it's gotten me (and friends) back into movie theatres again. Then we still end up buying/renting the movies from iTunes later.

I thought it would work too, though. The gym membership model. People subscribe, forget they're paying for it, get too busy, and don't go. Then MoviePass rakes in a bunch of money. Clearly that didn't happen.
Oh yay, another article complaining about all the bullshit modern websites want to load, and then also complaining about the best solution so far.

Yes, it sucks that amp requires loading a chunk of js from Google. But you know what? It actually makes things better. It solves a real problem, better than anything else is solving any similar problem. Nobody else is successfully convincing publishers to slim down their pages.

If you have a better plan, let's hear it. But bitchy blog posts aren't going to convince your local paper to improve their page speed.
Exactly right. And I made the jump and bought a USB-C monitor which plugs right into the MBP and charges and connects video in the same connector (which is awesome). Then I bought the USB C to Lightning cable, which fast charges my iPhone. I wish Apple had gone with USB C for the iPhone instead of Lightning, but I think they are too deep in with Lightning at this point.

I have the HDMI/old-USB to USB C dongle, but I hardly ever use it these days.

I'd gladly support an all USB C future.
Thank you!! One can hope, maybe someday I'll get hired. But on the other hand, it might be funner to stay indie and build a personal audience.
$99 is pretty good value for what it is, especially if you're using it for a scalable core database.

For us the bigger issue is the steep jump in price for prod level plans and the lack of GCP hosting.
>But in any case, the title is still misleading because people do have books in them. Even if they’re not profitable. Even if the ultimate reading audience is in the single digits. It’s still a book that means something to the author and that small but critical audience of readers.

One of the most fantastic things technology has given us, really only in the last 20 years or so, is (unlimited) space to store all of these "minor" works and the ability for the 9 people to whom these works will have meaning to find and obtain them.
True, but sadly no relation in this case, it appears.
Confessions of a former Mac lawyer
Seattle all my life and I've never heard of Mazama or Pasayten Wilderness -.-
That quote is actually from the passenger criticizing the self driving car as being "too polite."
I program, operate and two cnc machines, a bridge saw and a line polisher alone. I lift large pieces of stone all day alone. I have to complete a certain amount of work in a day no matter how long it takes. Machines fuck up a lot and when they do it puts the whole schedule behind. I have to manually cut things to 1/16" precision. The only person I have to help me has a tendency to make things more difficult. My coworkers speak poor English making communication difficult at times. Setting up new tools is finicky as fuck and I mostly just figure it out as I go and hope for the best. I work with expensive, fragile materials that break when you look at them sometimes. A broken piece can be worth up to $10,000 or more depending on the material. Interior designers are fucking idiots. Customers ask for impossible things and fail to understand they must work within the limits of geology for their products. Miter cutting stone that crumbles at the slightest glance. Writing programs that do things i've never had to do before on expensive material with a day's notice that i'm not even sure is possible at times. My shop's been at least 35°C for the last 3 months now and in the winter it can get down to just above freezing. Digging out trenches full of mud. Carrying hundreds of pounds of sand to load the waterjet. Trying to grap slabs of stone with a crane on a forklift that's tucked in the backcorner of the fucking lot behind god knows how much shit while the forklift is this close to tipping over because the forks are as high as they go and you're on a full forward tilt on a slope.

And I guess the most difficult of all...is spending most of the day alone with my own thoughts and the roar of industrial machinery and constant whine of air polishers working stone.

But I love my job though. Every day is different and I get to make beautiful expensive things every day.
All of these things can be done already without self driving cars.
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Anyone else notice that after hours trading puts em a few mill shy of a trillion?
I've never run a full marathon, but I have run a half.

My training consisted of maybe a dozen 2 mile runs, and a couple of 6 mile runs, in the space of about a month.

I didn't do any exercise other than that. I wouldn't say I'm naturally athletic either. Sure, I was pretty slow at 2:30, but I managed to run the whole thing without resting or walking.

I reckon that I could smash out a marathon with less than 6 months of training, running 3 days a week. It certainly wouldn't take over my life, and it wouldn't take a year of training.

A similar endurance event I did once was riding a century (100 miles). Sure, riding a bike is a bit easier than running, but my total training for that was about 6 months, riding 25 miles 4 times a week, plus a single 60 mile ride. I managed to complete the ride in about 5:30.

Humans are well adapted to long distance endurance activities. A person of average fitness can walk 12 hours a day for a week with a 15-20 kg pack.
+100 for GCP
I was going to mention: the article sort of begs the question of how to get an appropriate dose of melatonin. I’ve found a source of 1mg pills, but even that seems to be a bit too much for me — as if my body takes the dose as a sign I’ve already been asleep for 3 hours and insists I wake 4-5 hours later.
Indeed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
> I'm often sent stories that are way too long or too short for the publishing industry. The average novel is at least 50,000 words.

I find it fascinating that there are sweet spots for the length of an economically successful book (50,000 words), movie (90-120 minutes), or song (3 minutes).

For whatever reason, even collections of short films packaged together as a feature-length movie are rarely successful. Likewise with short written works packaged as a full-length book. I guess songs were the exception in that multiple songs sold together as an album did work (at least until recent years).

It's interesting to think about how attention span, delivery mechanism, costs of goods, and who knows what other factors, created these target lengths.
It’s doubtful that the results would rank well because they bin sort people into types of movies, which is what most algorithms likely did anyhow. In fact, the results are probably awful if it’s not built to be optimal for such a challenge. Deep learning / similar ML would take some CPU but likely outperform all brute-force or even non-ML quantum algorithms because it’s able to elucidate knowledge of likes and whatever else ephemeral metadata or movie semantic analysis can be shoveled in.

Unfortunately, this seems like a “look at this trained mammal can eat out of a plate, wow!” story. Kid probably had to endure those innane 6x6 and up IQ red/white triangle blocks tests over and over. He won’t get much of a high-school life or college dorm/party experience.
I assume their regular driver is always willing to wind down the window and yell at pedestrians, or use the horn.

Perhaps passengers in self-driving cars should have a horn button.
I get your point. Although (as I have touched slightly upon in the article) several crypto-based donation systems exist and some companies are already working on crypto-based lending.

BTW: the only term I can think of is "leaving behind"
I'm an Australian die-hard Apple (computer) user from my first personal computer being a Macintosh SE, to owning almost every single desktop Mac, and lots of the MacBooks, from then until I couldn't afford (justify) upgrading to the 5K iMac. I loved my last 27" iMac like it was one of my kids. That thing was a huge part of my life, and one of the most memorable PCs I've ever owned, so having to bail on Apple was deeply upsetting.

Friends convinced me to build a monster Linux desktop PC, which I've been using ever since and have grown to love it. BUT, I'd switch back to an iMac INSTANTLY if I could a) afford it, b) justify it, c) mentally get over the fact that they've broken decades of love and trust, and treat customers like shit while cranking out increasingly crap products then telling us we should still lick their feet and hand over our first born.

How about making a desktop computer that can actually... compete? I don't care if it's expensive if it's GREAT. I don't mind stuff not being perfect if it's cheap. I won't buy shitty products for premium money though.

Soldered internals, thinness and lightness over performance and quality, sky rocketing prices with snail-pace development, increasingly shittier support and corporate "personality" (? Not sure if that's the right word, but they're becoming easier to hate due to constantly dropping the ball, pissing customers off, releasing shit products, ignoring issues, etc).

I miss the old Apple. I'd love them to turn things around. Release a thicker heavier MacBook that actually performs really well, is built rock solid, and costs $1k USD, even if that means having fans and vents and stuff. Apple has incredible designers, I'm sure they can still make it look good. Release an iPhone SE2 with a modern-era camera, 128GB storage, and make it $500 USD. Release an actual Pro/Geek friendly desktop like the old days, something around $1500 USD, comparable to a mid-to-high (not extreme high end) modern gaming PC, so we can actually render videos and do WORK without it crumbling like the Colosseum every time you ask it to break a sweat.

Yeh my prices and specs probably aren't "correct" but the idea stands. Increase the performance and quality, drop the damn prices, and stop being such a depressing shadow of your former self. Your piles of cash don't make us love you, good products we can actually afford do.
Why the Next Silicon Valley Will Probably Be Outside the U.S
Huawei shipped more smartphones than Apple in the second quarter