skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you listen to the folks over at Terminal Talk (http://terminaltalk.net), they routinely question the wisdom of all those server folks having to build out and maintain infrastructure that just comes built-in to the mainframe. And from what I gather a lot of those server folks (or at least their bosses) may be starting to question that now, too.

As for Facebook and Google and Netflix and so on, you have to remember that for all their claims of reliability and such, their stuff really only needs to be "good enough". But good enough generally just doesn't cut it when dealing with things like financials and such.

BTW, I have a colleague who works for a massive corporation - one that is still recovering from a ransomware attack which has so far cost them at least $300 million. They have thousands of servers, and she says that it has now become IT's full-time job just to keep those updated and patched. (There's apparently little or no time these days for silly little things like development and testing and code loads and such.) I didn't ask her if they are still planning to replace their few remaining mainframes (I'm guessing they're in no big hurry now), but she did tell me that upper management currently thinks that "The Cloud" may yet be their road to salvation.
The MacBook Pro gets all the hate because is the only model even worth talking about...at this point if you buy a MacBook Air with its 4yo internals and 8yo screen you end up feeling they took you for a chump, so you buy a $2000 machine when you only needed a $1000 one but then the keyboard breaks.
Hi, thanks for the comments. My name is Vineet and I am a co-creator of this project along with Ask.

We do plan on adding support for Kafka exactly once semantics to Faust. As @dleclere pointed out, streaming apps are simply a topology of consumers and producers. We will be adding this as soon as the underlying kafka clients add support for exactly once semantics.
OMG this is so true. Should be a HN bingo.
There aren't millions of users freely choosing to use this system. There are millions of speculators hoping that some day billions of users will freely choose to use this system and that <insert giant leap of logic> these particular instances of this system won't be replicated ad infinitum and somehow all economic activity on the planet will settle on these initial implementations.
NT doesn't have a hovercraft full of eels though.
They released updates to the Macbook, Macbook Air, Macbook Pro and iMac last year [1]. The year over year comps aren't as relevant.

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2017/06/05/apple-macbook-lineup-cp...
Do you have a link to the bugs? I had never seen that before.
It absolutely isn't sufficient to look at the number of page requests. How do you discern like-reads vs hate-reads? How do you determine whether someone clicked on an article, read the first line, and then bailed vs read the whole thing? There are a heap of metrics used to determine engagement which factor into the material decisions referred to in the grandparent.
It wouldn't let people know it was prepared by Microsoft Word in the PDF info.
I love this idea. I don't see it being implemented because I don't think it's in Amazon's best interests, but I'd love to see someone do it.

Goodreads does something similar, at least out to the first degree. When you're looking at a book, it shows all of your friends' reviews (if any) before all of the reviews by randoms. It's really useful because there's some of my friends whose opinions I really trust, and who I know have similar tastes.

Goodreads is owned by Amazon now, it's worth pointing out.
I'm not in academia so maybe I'm being flippant, but what is even the point of a paper whose results can't be reproduced? Are you really advancing knowledge in any meaningful sense if someone can't repeat what you did?
Also, see HappyFox

https://www.happyfox.com
It may not seem as noteworthy to the HN crowd given the demographics, however his age makes it all the more impressive.
Yes, it's messed up. Just as you describe, nobody should get the Developer Edition. The vanilla edition is regularly on sales for hundreds of dollars less. Also, many attractive configurations aren't available at all with the Developer Edition. Biggest example is obviously the 15" XPS, because why would developers care about screen size for a development workstation, right?

I'd have hoped Dell realizes this, and doesn't make the braindead assumption that only DE customers are interested in Linux. Most people I know who bought an XPS bought the vanilla (Windows) edition, and then installed Ubuntu - which is easy.

If Dell slips up and, say, introduces hardware not supported by Linux, it will lose all these customers.
ZZT had a programming language called "ZZT OOP" and you could write scripts that would be performed by objects in the game. The objects could move around, change shape, and send messages to each other. It was difficult to get them to cooperate—they'd move at different times and fall out of sync—such that you had to add synchronization code to keep them working together. Thinking back on it now, this odd little environment actually taught me some lessons about distributed systems.
He’s not held in high regard by economicists or even economics. He has been proven wrong repeatedly. He’s held in high regard by socialists because he white washes the death and destruction their socialism causes. That’s his purpose. That and virtue signaling.

Your instincts are right. Go to Mises.org for real economics.
This comment made me think of black hat from xkcd.

(e.g., https://xkcd.com/496/ or https://xkcd.com/1243/)
You're demanding more proof about the claim (based on unverified models) that there's reason to believe that a previous (and equally unverified) claim may not be true.

That's a bizarre burden of proof, there.
A Long-Overdue Blueprint for Regulating Big Tech
Mine's a year and a half old now, no problems here. Works like a charm.

I should note that roughly 25% of that time has been on an external keyboard (Apple display, MBP lid closed), so it might not see as much use as others.
5 years ago he claimed bitcoin was evil. He hadn’t adapted. He can’t adapt. He’s just a fraud.
As I understood it, the Dragonframe controls the camera and the Arduino box controls the rig that moves the LED. (He describes this at around 8:08).
Wikileaks Refused to Publish Manafort Family Texts, So Someone Else Did
We have been using RocksDB for some time and it works fairly well. While we haven't seen any corruption yet, as you correctly pointed out, it is definitely a possibility.

We use RocksDB only as a cache and use log-compacted kafka topics as the source of truth. In the case of RocksDB corruption, we can simply delete the local rocksdb cache and the faust app should recover (and rebuild the rocksdb state) from the log compacted Kafka topic.
> "You actually don't need all that crap to serve adverts, or really even to do tracking: people managed without it in the 90s. It's just that it's more work to get the same effect without a buttload of JS in this day and age"

While I sympathize with this sentiment, this is also the entire history of computing in a nutshell. Moore's Law has driven us orders of magnitude beyond where we were when personal computers first came into existence; but Wirth's law[1] has kept pace. The laptop I'm typing this on right now has 8 GB of RAM, and that's already become pathetically tiny, pretty much the minimum viable for a consumer PC; I have to keep checking my memory usage or I'll spill over into swap (on a mechanical drive) and have to wait several minutes while my computer recovers.

Performance in computer applications fundamentally doesn't improve. Stuff gets prettier, sure, and applications do more. But things will still run about as slowly as they always have, sometimes a little worse. (There are exceptions - some things like loading programs from tape, or loading things from an HDD once SSDs were invented, were so painfully slow compared to their replacement that you'd have to actively try to write slow code to get anywhere near that performance.) It's ease of programming, flexibility, and freedom of design (in aesthetics and interface) that the advance of computing technology has always enabled. And all of those are extremely valuable in their own way, and can make applications genuinely better - even allowing qualitatively new things to come into existence that wouldn't have been feasible before - even if they don't run faster or take up less of your memory.

(To understand why, think about the development of - say - computer games since the 90s. For all that we mock poorly optimized games, how inaccessible would game development be if we required them to be coded as efficiently as Carmack built Doom? For all that mindlessly chasing "better graphics" has ballooned costs and led developers to compromise on gameplay, how many games simply couldn't be translated to 90s-era graphics without fatally compromising the experience? How many projects would never have been started if we set the skill floor for devs so high that a hobbyist couldn't just download Unity and start writing "shitty" code?)

(Or think about something like Python. Python is a perfect example of something that allows devs to massively sacrifice performance just to make programming less work. If we kept our once-higher-by-necessity standards for efficient usage of resources, something like Python's sluggish runtime would be laughable. But I think you, and I, and everyone else can agree that Python is a very good thing.)

[1] "What Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away."
> Moby Dick is 1.2mb uncompressed in plain-text

How many times did you read moby dick online.
Todo and tasks client for your cli
Judge Blocks Attempt to Post Blueprints for 3-D Guns
Thank you rubicon33. Did you fill out the survey linked above? If so I'll let you know when it's ready.
> As long as the central bank is full of thoughtful economists, I trust them to print money when they "feel like it" will be good for the economy.

Then your trust should be severely eroded by the events of the past decade or so in the US, since the Fed is full of "thoughtful economists" who utterly failed to predict the crash of 2008, even though their policies helped to cause it, and utterly failed to predict that printing massive amounts of money from 2009-2014 would not stimulate economic activity.
> Faust is extremely easy to use [...] Faust only requires Kafka, the rest is just Python

Kafka is still a pretty chunky dependency.

Have you thought about getting this to work with the new streams stuff in Redis? https://brandur.org/redis-streams

Redis is SO MUCH less hassle to get running (in both dev and production) than Kafka.
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Thanks eblanshey. Let me know if you have any ideas about it!
That is in fact why the mods boot many of the most-upvoted comments to the bottom of the thread. I think it’s incorrect to say that half the time you’ll see such comments at the top.
Keto can be very effective if done right. The best resource on the web for it that I know of is https://www.dietdoctor.com. I'd recommend looking at that to see if perhaps you were doing something wrong with keto first. Good luck!
I initially read this as "a virus that infects all browsers that already have ad blockers" because of the ambiguity of "with".
Krugman is both an intellectual and neither a leftist nor a socialist (he's somewhere, economically, between centrist and center-right), so even if HN was a leftist camp of socialist anti-intellectuals, that wouldn't explain a fondness for Krugman.
About 15 of them are talking about it.[1] About five have demoed.[2]
As far as I can tell, nobody is shipping in volume. There are lots of rotating-scanner devices now, still expensive.

LeddarTech is shipping 1x8 and 1x16 pixel flash LIDARs now.[3] That's too low-rez for self driving, and they plan higher resolutions. Velodyne's big scanner is 64x400 (full circle scan). BrashTech, which sells drones for inspecting towers, bridges, and other hard to get at infrastructure, has Continental's flash LIDAR on drones.

So we're at "expensive niche product", waiting for somebody to order in volume.

[1] https://www.tetravue.com/news/ces-2018-summary-of-15-solid-s...
[2] https://www.motortrend.com/news/2018-ces-tech-six-budget-lid...
[3] https://leddartech.com/modules/leddarvu/
> Chinese govt. could have given preferential treatment

How do we know they didn't? They could have just decided "Now that Taobao is up and running, we can get rid of ebay". They've done worse before, so it's not a stretch.

It's interesting that there are no massive web properties in China with the bulk market share (google, facebook, ebay, amazon, twitter, etc) that aren't Chinese owned. Yet, in the entire rest of the world, those same websites are #1. That's not just some coincidence or one-off, that's clearly governmental manipulation and control.

If it was just one or two web properties, I could understand. Like how it is with Yahoo! Japan. But all of them? Sorry, China doesn't want western companies running the show within their country. Articles like this are moot since there was no future with eBay in the #1 spot thanks to the CCP.
Sounds like an Economist position, to focus on minimizing pay.

Reminds me of the Pony Express.
> There's simply never going to be any point at which it makes sense for me to scrap everything I have so far and do a complete rewrite for a different platform.

Yet people still often claim that it makes sense to go to all the time and trouble and expense of moving off of reliable legacy platforms onto other platforms which aren't naturally anywhere near as reliable. Imagine that!
Ctrl [ is nice.
My name is Ask and I'm co-creator on this project, along with Vineet Goel.

This answer sums up why we wanted to use Python for this project: it's the most popular language for data science and people can learn it quickly.

Performance is not really a problem either, with Python 3 and asyncio we can process tens of thousands of events/s. I have seen 50k events/s, and there are still many optimizations that can be made.

That said, Faust is not just for data science. We use it to write backend services that serve WebSockets and HTTP from the same Faust worker instances that process the stream.
So, how does the NYT style section fit into your idea of 'actual journalism'?
At least they used the Mac version of Word! It's prepared on a computer running macOS 10.13.6.
> - When you attach an iOS device to a computer, expose a file system (not the file system) with "folders" that represent each apps local storage and let you copy files back and forth instead of forcing you to use iTunes to copy files into the app's local storage.

That's pretty much how iCloud Drive works, except it's not over USB.
I'm with you in that I love the HN input, but it's nice to see links to the 'awesome lists' for reference. I generally bookmark these types of threads under 'hackerNews BestOf', to come back to later on. Doesn't hurt to share them in a comment, just ignore if it doesn't benefit you directly.

So, while today I'm not interested in the 'lists', when I come back looking for x,y,z I might be.
> A central bank injects the money via the banking system because they cannot give it to arbitrary winners and losers

No, a central bank injects the money via the banking system as a hidden subsidy to banks and other financial institutions.

If a central bank really wanted to make printing money neutral (i.e., not picking any winners or losers), it would use newly printed money to increase every single person's dollar holdings by the same percentage.
> NYT needs to know how long you spent, on which articles, etc. They need data to produce the product and you can only achieve that with javascript tracking pixels (Server logs aren't good enough).

That's analytics. The marketing stuff that is causing the bloat isn't doing that much in comparison. Trackers are often coded very wasteful and are redundant by nature. You can have easily dozens to hundreds of them all doing the same stuff just with different APIs. It is insane and out of control and has absolutely nothing to do with gathering insights about your app and improving. It is pure external 3rd party marketing.
I think the more provocative question than "why are Mac sales down again" is: "how do people work? What IS work today?"

For me, I really truly cannot imagine working on anything other than a real computer. I need a lot of text and number input for really any kind of work. Anything that could be called work.

So what's happening with people? With the economy?
How LeBron James’ new public school really is the first of its kind
Do you have any memories/experiences of feeling confident and open, like AFTER being with people a lot or after public speaking?

My social anxiety is 100% when I am in my personal zone (working at desk). Its very hard to step away and deal property with people without being awkward. but after being w people or breaking the ice a bit, i feel more normal.

further: i was thinking karaoke meetups would be great for ppl to create a good/positive experience that would carry over for the rest of the week until the next karaoke.
You're imagining that courts will sign up directly with your startup? Have you ever actually gone in and paid bail for someone? Do you have any idea how archaic the process is?

Also, the blockchain side of this is completely and utterly pointless. Use a database.
"Faust" is a name-collision with another piece of software that does (audio) stream processing: http://faust.grame.fr/.
It's an amazing lifespan for anybody who has ever operated a windows laptop.
The only ones buying Macs are those stuck in the ecosystem. Not good, Timmy Cook.
Legitimately curious: What is your plan if they never do?
Prob. does not have the margins Apple wants
Payroll Startup Gusto Raises $140M in Funding from T. Rowe Price and YC
I saw the same thing for the only Adirondack entry on the list; there's on spot that is technically private property surrounded by wilderness that probably drops the distance in half. Sure somebody could put a road there, but the effort would be insane.
Kroger is the shit. I get so many cheap steaks. I also only have Visa though...
I also would be interested in GCP and digital ocean
I loved ZZT! I can't remember which was first for me, that or QBasic, but I have many fond memories of being 8 years old and hacking away on little games. I think I started with both at about the same time, and they instilled a love of code. The idea that you could just type in a few words and make the computer do what you wanted was pure magic to my young brain.

In hindsight, the limitations of ZZT were very freeing — with such a limited palette of options, you couldn't bite off too much more than you could chew, and you had to get creative to make anything work as intended.

My palette has increased since then, but the principles are still the same. I haven't touched ZZT in years, but in a way my career has been built on it.
Here's what did the trick from me: learn how a plane works. In detail, every piece. What are flaps, what are ailerons, what is lift, etc. etc. Read all the Vanity Fair articles explaining famous crashes. When you understand it all, it demystifies flying, and it's a lot easier to feel comfortable in the air.

I've almost entirely lost my fear of flying since, even in turbulence. I take about 100 flights a year and 150k miles a year.
Is 5 years really that amazing? I had 7-8 years on an Asus laptop I just recently replaced that I traveled with and used all the time.
Macs used to be cool. The magnifying effect on the Dock was one of the coolest things when I first saw it a few years ago. Windows has completely caught up and I am happy using a PC with Windows Linux Subsystem. I still like shiny new things, but Mac isn't it anymore. I think Apple needs to put more shiny and new in their OS like the magnifying effect used to be. Spice things up a bit.
My parents are still using the absolute garbage quality Acer gaming laptop I bought in 2009. The durability is awful, the design is not very pragmatic, the less said about software and drivers the better... But it's still working.
I was a very fearful flyer, couldn't stop visualizing possible accident scenarios while on an airplane, sweaty hands, grabbing the arm rest, all that. Today I rejoice the experience so much that sometimes I consider buying a ticked just for the sake of flying. I even get excited for simple short haul flights on economy, flying new airplanes, airlines etc.

At the end, it all came down to three things:

1. Learning about aviation as a hobby

As software engineer, it was very easy to get invested into learning about these wonderful machines and how everything around them works. As soon as you understand what is going around you, all the safety measures, redundancies etc., you feel more in control of your environment. Weird noises don't come as surprises anymore[1]. To help you with this I'd suggest following some aviation related channels on Youtube.[2]

2. Flying a lot

I had to spend a couple of years flying 4+ times per month. Having a ton of positive experiences on airplanes does wonders to your uncouncious fears.

3. Flying upper classes

This is a lot harder to do, depending on your financial condition. I do my best to pick a good seat for my flight, hunt for upgrades, use miles to get business/first tickets. Flying on upper classes does wonders to "soften" your experience.

[1] Some examples:

- Airbus flap actuators are usually very noisy and you can hear them if you sit close to the wings.

- Hydraulic actuators on some Airbus models make a barking noise.

- While sitting upfront on smaller planes, you can get some vibration right after liftoff due to the front landing gear spinning before it is retracted.

[2] Suggested channels:

Captain Joe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC88tlMjiS7kf8uhPWyBTn_A

Mentour Pilot: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwpHKudUkP5tNgmMdexB3ow
The market is a more efficient mechanism to allocate capital than a single set of executives at a company.

As an Apple shareholder, you don't want Apple deciding where to invest your gains. You want those gains so you can decide where to invest them yourself depending on your risk profile , investment thesis, etc.
> A central bank injects the money via the banking system because they cannot give it to arbitrary winners and losers

The banks are no less arbitrary winners than anyone else.
>I would say that it often has the same outcome as a meritocratic system.

Doesn't that seem even a little bit condemnatory of your conception of merit? Your meritocracy is frequently indistinguishable from aristocracy. That once in a while they differ isn't a great credit, it's damning with faint praise.

>I feel like what you are saying is that merit is independent of the training and experiences you receive. I define merit as the ability to perform the given task well. With that definition, you have to include training and experience because they have effects on ability to perform. So if you exclude training and experiences, what do you mean by merit?

Then why call it a meritocracy? Call it a knowledgocracy or something of that sort. Again, I find merit to be something that comes from within not from without. The asian girl's advantage over the black girl is entirely from without so it shouldn't be considered - they should have an equal chance to be admitted.
That I understood; I am talking specifically about the fee described previously. That is clearly to cover costs for the service and I don't see why that would be returned even partially to the holders.
Yeah, I want to see what their internal “Xcode on iPad” project looks like. You know it exists.
Currently yes. They actually require a land line to be connected to the base, but the technology exists and can be adapted to use mobile networks instead.
Qt and Java can do cross platform software, however it's not possible to make a UI that's usable on desktop, tablet and mobile. You will end up creating separate apps.

Qt is actually really impressive in my opinion, it's possible to recompile a desktop software for mobile, sometimes without any code change at all.