skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it even wise to design a system that uses un-encrypted backend traffic? The Snowden revelations did demonstrate that intelligence services are snooping on those.
I have heard term "sportsball" before. It seems that it is used mostly in context of making fun of people's addiction to their favorite teams.
things you will learn about javascript:

- hosting is cool and can help you arrange code more intuitively

- closures are useful

- knowing the actual language itself and not just frameworks is very good

- use a linter and style checker because the language is too flexible if working with a team

- chrome debugging console mastery is a boon

- code preprocessors like grunt and babel etc are annoying but can be useful

- reading the actual language specs is a very good way to be knowledgeable (i never did, but my coworker who did was super helpful because of this)

- using imports and modular patterns is probably a good idea (they got this one, kudos!)

- its very easy to bloat up a project with npm, making stuff yourself is often totally ok, and often very good

- most people do not know the actual language, and confuse frameworks and patterns with the language

- one of javascripts greatest strengths is its ubiquity, you can run programs on any almost any web connected device almost instantly. you can use this to great effect

i write those because i think this article is mostly making points that are generic and dont apply specifically to js. im sure i forgot alot, just freestyled!
They are likely incentivized to jack up the price on personal purchases so the big manufacturers can have more overhead integrating it with their consoles or pre-built gaming PCs.
Yup, this article should put the use into context of other legal and abused drugs like alcohol and opoids etc, as well as illegal drugs. I would bet that substance abuse is increasing across the board in the US due to the stagsperity of our current economics.
Here is a 9 videos playlist (that I find helpful) about the methods astronomers use to measure the cosmic distances: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEE8A6CB118FADED4
IMHO, the contamination of the food supply with rancid vegetable oil is a more important factor in the diabetes epidemic. Almost all of the vegetable oils at grocery stores are refined so customers don't realize they're using rancid oils. Vegetable oil is useful as biodiesel, and for making paints and stains.

A drying oil is an oil that hardens to a tough, solid film
after a period of exposure to air. The oil hardens through
a chemical reaction in which the components crosslink (and
hence, polymerize) by the action of oxygen (not through
the evaporation of water or other solvents). Drying oils
are a key component of oil paint and some varnishes. Some
commonly used drying oils include linseed oil, tung oil,
poppy seed oil, perilla oil, and walnut oil. Their use has
declined over the past several decades, as they have been
replaced by alkyd resins and other binders.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drying_oil
social interaction is how we cooperate as a species so from the species’ perspective this is a downside
Benzodiazepines: Our Other Prescription Drug Problem
"The majority of all water consumed in the country is sparkling, [SodaStream CEO Daniel Birnbaum] says"

Does anyone know what he's actually talking about? Is he counting all carbonated beverages vs. tap or something?
The problem is they need a story like self-driving cars to maintain the (inflated) valuation long enough for existing investors to get out. Taxi rides alone are not nearly enough.

Exactly. Uber still loses money on every ride.[1] They can't fix the losses without raising prices, which would lose their competitive edge. They've squeezed the drivers as hard as they can, and the drivers are pushing back successfully at last.[2] So Uber needs something they can hype. They already tried "China", and failed. "Self-driving" was next. That's not working out.
Uber is getting into bike/scooter rental and food delivery, which are already crowded, low-margin industries.

Self-driving didn't need to work, it just had to be hyped for investors.

[1] http://fortune.com/2018/08/15/travis-kalanick-uber-still-pos...
[2] http://fortune.com/2018/08/08/new-york-freeze-ride-sharing-v...
Amazon is removing ad-free viewing on Twitch for all Amazon Prime accounts
This doesn't really change much unless you spend much time in/around Philly.

As it currently stands, there is no direct interstate highway between Philly and New York. If you ever take a Bolt or Megabus between the two cities you'll notice it usually takes exit 4 on the Turnpike and drives through suburban Cherry Hill NJ to get into Philly. To get between the two cities you have to exit and take a more local road through NJ for a couple miles. This interchange will connect it so you can go directly from "Pennsylvania 95" to I276 to "NJ Turnpike 95". (Except now all called "95")

If you are driving direct from New York/Boston to DC, you'll in all likelihood never see this interchange and continue take the NJ Turnpike all the way down to Delaware in order to bypass Philadelphia traffic and construction.
To be clear, the above examples are used when the function is designed to accept any such argument and only relevant info is the type.
> Or the "pedo" tweet last month when he decided to accuse that diver of being a pedophile because he's resident in Thailand.

I don't mean to be annoying with this nitpick, but I feel it's important for details to be as precise as possible these days - my understanding is that Unsworth isn't a resident by any definition, but once-per-year visitor to Thailand (specifically because he's a cave enthusiast/specialist). I feel that this fact somehow makes Musk's unjustified attacks (ultimately retracted, but not before doubling down) all the (slightly) worse.

Also, I realise that some continue to believe or justify that Musk was "right" in his escalated response, but as an outsider I can't help but notice that Unsworth's original video interview response was filled with normal British humour that Musk completely overlooked and subsequently went full thermonuclear on. Messy.
Minecraft Global Warming
It would be very strange for Apple not to considering the functions of the T2 chip.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208862
The server use case for Mac Mini is a huge compromise. Sonnet Tech [1] makes a 1U rack enclosure with a PCIe riser connected internally to the Mini's Thunderbolt port.

Internally we had one used for our company's OSX Server running profile manager before going to Jamf Pro.

[1] https://www.sonnettech.com/product/xmacminiserver.html
Tricks to visualize and understand how neural networks see
I'm strongly suspecting this new "low cost" MacBook will be the first to have an Arm chip
I'm pretty sure Apple also collects your data.
Kinda disappointed that there is no improvement—in fact a small reduction—of the raw GFLOPS computing power, compared to Volta:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_proces...
"It should be trivial for 99% of companies to anonymize and scramble user data so that employees do not have access to it. There's no reason for it."

It isn't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-anonymization

I advocate for in practice behaving as if it is not possible, and simply saying that production data must be restricted. Exceptions can be made for certain types of aggregate data, but one of the lessons of a lot of people's work is that it's really, really easy to cross the line back to the data being identifiable again without you even knowing you did it.

Also, I don't mean that wikipedia link as a complete explanation per se, but the starting point for a journey, if you want to take it.
For video professionals doing ray tracing this upgrade would likely be a must-have. This assumes the improvement (i.e. 6x or anything in that ballpark) is real and their software supports it... if so, hell, nVidia could double or triple the price of the card and it would still make sense for them. nVidia is just cashing in on a lack of any real competition at the high-end currently... hopefully we'll see AMD get back in the game at some point re: GPUs.
> It seems no argument can take place then, because every argument is then shut down with "Someone else does X, therefore what Y does is inconsequential".

That's not close to what the person you replied to said though. They simply said that Amazon is not alone in doing this. That it's a much larger problem.

> How would you argue against such an argument?

I wouldn't. I would see anyone saying: "Someone else does X" as providing additional evidence this an even bigger problem. So Amazon isn't the only one doing this? Walmart is also doing this, as well as other companies. What can we do to stop this all-together? Because focusing on Amazon won't solve the problem. In fact, in some ways it becomes easier when there are many "someone elses" doing X, because then it comes a general problem, and not a specific attack on any one company someone might have an attachment to for some reason.
I'm intrigued, still the sceptic in me thinks that most victims of type 2 diabetes are probably just victims of the simpler answer, which is occupying a body that has been exposed to too great amounts of fat (from especially oils and other processed foods) over too great a time period.

However, I can only imagine the amount of harm continued consumption of plastic over a long period of time will do to a body, and I foresee that it will become clear that an increasing amount of people will be dealing with problems from precisely that in the next couple of decades.
JS is probably the language most junior devs are familiar with, these days. And, partially due to that, also probably the one with the worst and hackiest real-world practices.
As easy as it would be to dispel this as something only low IQ / low capacity for development people would fall for, teleological thinking tends to slant towards schizophrenia-spectrum nervous systems. If you plot schizophrenia on a continuum from subclinical (one symptom) to clinical (threshold for diagnoses) you see teleological thinking / religious zealotry / conspiracy and paranoia in all parts of the spectrum, where it mostly gets worse as it progresses to clinical levels. Those of us on the autism spectrum tend to have the opposite neurology, with a low capacity for teleological thinking and more capacity for reductivism. Neurodiversity is interesting because whether you fall into one camp or the other (or somewhere in between) doesn't change much through your life, or affect IQ or other conventional measures of development capacity. The future is going to be interesting as evolution selects for more extreme traits in each of these domains.
I thought this is completely pointless nowadays:

- Gmail USED to block images unless you do "allow images"

- Gmail changed to a system where gmail pre-fetches the images and runs them through safety checks.

- Gmail only does this check if you open the email.

- Even if you block the pixel, you only block the gmail cache of it. NOT the original.

Unless I misunderstand.
So does this mean the future of soda drinks is making them at home ? If not, why? What's missing ?
Any links? I don't use webforms, just MVC5 with razor pages.
I get Tripit Pro through work and I find that I usually get push notifications through the app before the flight information displays in the airport (!) have updated. YMMV.
Ok. But then, which Mac would you use as a build server? Mac servers no longer seem to exist, iMacs and Mac Pros are not stackable, you can't build iOS/OSX apps on a standard linux box, and laptops have the same issue as the Mini. That's why a Pro-focused Mac Mini, with even a mid-end desktop CPU and reasonable RAM would be ideal here, and a Mini with a modern laptop CPU would still be a vast improvement of the current situation.
My workload is also unique, but interestingly has a lot of similarities.
The MacBook Pro overheating problem was completely fixed with a software update a month or so back if I remember correctly.
1. The number of cases where a one-character variable name is a good choice is small, and those are usually limited to the scope of a single loop, a lambda parameter, etc. A good linter should understand that.

Though naming is hard, and coming up with a descriptive and short name is often not easy. It's a worthy exercise, though, it makes you think about what this thing really is, and can even uncover bugs.

2. Test the public interface. Don't write, rewrite, or remove tests that test specific implementation details, to say nothing of trivial things like getters / setters. In a a good test suite, 20% of tests break during a big refactoring, but the remaining 80% show you that you're still on the right track. Most of the broken tests are often easy to fix mechanically, and those that need thinking, would need thinking anyway. They test the actually changed stuff.

3. Commit more than daily; commit with every change worth looking at, or reverting to. Spend these 15 seconds thinking up a good commit message.

Squashing on development branches is both counter-productive, hostile to code reviewers, and needless. Git can auto-squash commits on a merge for ages. Github has a checkbox for it, so does Bitbucket. Use that.
Why Serverless Is Being Adopted at a Faster Rate Than Expected
In what world does it actually make sense for Intel to use such a license with microcode firmware applicable to improving the security of desktop computers?

Is this just an attempt to limit distribution during a teething period, in case there are bugs in the new microcode?
The underlying problem is home rule though.

Local jurisdictions can and do give steep tax (and other) discounts to attract businesses and stadiums (just two examples). You would have to revoke local governing authority to prevent these sorts of venue shopping (IANAL; if you have better suggestions, I’m all ears). I don’t believe that is realistic, so I don’t argue that as a legitimate solution.

Maybe you could tax at a federal level where you can overrule local taxing policy (similar to new SALT deduction constraints in federal tax policy), negating the benefits of venue shopping.
Ebay API bug resets all developer query limits
the problem is the limited amount of money one can make off of a random market.

makes it less appealing to some (or many) and less efficient in determining an outcome

yes assassin markets and popular political events can now be traded in the US even if the Augur company gets sanctions, but for everything else this is an inefficient system.
I think it's evolving. For me it definitely used to be that way. I am a semi frequent Delta flyer and in the last year or so their app has become so reliable and useful that the only reason I need the airport monitors is that it is often a second or two faster to just look up at a big display rather that going through the clicks and swipes to get to the data in my hand.

A big improvement has been wifi availability and stability on the plane. Not so much because I can browse the web in flight, but because regardless of whether I get in flight wifi, the airline's app uses it for free. So now that wifi is reliably always there, I know what's up and where I'm going before I walk off the plane.
Dated Mac Minis were the thing that pushed me over the edge with Apple, and back to Windows. Then multiple reasons lead me back to Linux, and finally back to Mac :P.

Much too late to save me from trying every other OS again, but I'll still be happy to finally have a modern Mini.
The Ten Rules of Schema Growth
Huh? The only thing I'm assuming is that sellers try to get the highest price possible and buyers try to get the lowest. If the existence of loans made buyers stop caring about the price of homes then it would be relevant but everybody I've seen homebuying still cares deeply about the price despite paying for it by loan.
I took the more control to mean React gives you more choice over what libraries you want to include in your architecture, whereas Angular/VueJs. are more opinionated.

HTTP call libraries are a good example. Angular comes with HttpClient in the box, and while it might be possible to use something else, Angular is really going to prefer if you makre your HTTP calls using HttpClient.

As I understand it, React does not have a parallel. React shrugs its shoulders and says "use what you want," whether it's just using fetch or some other JS library.

Total control is maybe an extreme way to put it, but React certainly more "fill in the blank" than the other frameworks.
> why does the data link itself have no fallback?

It's Gatwick, not Heathrow. Whiteboards are good enough. If every airport the size of Gatwick (and busier) implemented digital fallbacks, I wouldn't be surprised if the fallbacks took out the primary system more often than external causes. (I can’t remember the last time I used those screens over my phone. In a certain sense, the screens are now a backup.)

More precisely, if you consider the number of situations which (a) take down the primary system but (b) don't take out the airport, and try to cover those as cheaply and robustly as possible, for all but the world's busiest airports you come up with whiteboards. Localised power failure? Whiteboards. Surge? Whiteboards. Limited fire or flooding? Whiteboards. Fibre-optic cable gets nicked? Whiteboards or alternative digital system. Now compare the costs and risks of the digital system. Whiteboards are the work of a smart operator who probably saved their airport years of technical debt.
The Chicago-St. Louis route would be almost entirely over extremely flat agricultural land. If routed correctly, the only challenges would be crossing some rural highways and floodplains. In order to really take advantage of HSR, one would hope that politics wouldn't require silly stops in e.g. Springfield or Champaign. Chicago seems to make a lot of sense as a hub for a new rail network of this sort, but one suspects third-city bias will prevent that.
> Their technology is stuck in 2009

If it ain't broke, why fix it?

Do you really need tens of files for a hello world? No. No you do not.
This is a bit like women fighting against being relegated to secretaries in the work place in the 80s being told that maybe the problem is firms are discriminating against male secretaries.
Meltdown is completely Intel-specific, and Spectre is ubiquitous.
A Better Look at Asteroid 216 Kleopatra
Yeah, I'll definitely use it from day 1 for new greenfield projects, but quite a lot of concepts have changed to make migration trivial.
Hiawatha Service (Chicago<->MKE) does not seem to have issues with freight traffic. It does occasionally have to yield to Metra but is overall pretty reliable.

The long pole for speed is lower speed limits in some parts of the route for the benefit of neighbors living along the tracks. Those politics are unlikely to be affected by the technical infrastructure.

At ~90 minutes, the journey from Milwaukee is better than the commute from many parts of Chicagoland.
I've tried pot a few times and my subjective experience was vastly different from all the comments here. It must affect people very differently, because I couldn't fathom being high "near constantly". I had trouble doing basic things like remembering to keep chewing the snack that I was eating or keeping track of the sentence I was in the process of speaking.

Each time I come away thinking, "well, that was an awful experience". I've thought I was getting too high, but I've either under shot and felt nothing, or had the same high experience, never managing to just "be relaxed" or "think more deeply" or be "more creative" or all these things in the comments here. I'm not sure there is such a state for me on marijuana, so I just don't try anymore.

I've always felt a little duped by the pro-pot messaging I hear, which makes it sound like no big deal and tons safer and better than, say, alcohol or cigarettes. Alcohol impairs me with a noticeable dose effect, so it's fairly easy to moderate, and the way it impairs me kind of twists or stretches my reality, while I haven't noticed a dose effect with marijuana and it just utterly breaks my reality.
Too inebriated to read a sign but safe enough to drive a metal box at high speeds?

Not saying the signage was clear, but that is a very very weak excuse to not understand them.
didnt they make a Silicon Valley episode about this?
Isn't this just an implementation of Microsoft's DirectX Raytracing API?

If so, only video games are really going to use that API. I doubt that a software renderer (or CUDA-renderer) would leave raytracing / light calculations to a 3rd party.

There's a rumor that Dinsey bought a bunch of real-time raytracing equipment for their theme parks (the Star Wars section in Disney World). So high-quality realtime computation is needed for high-tech entertainment / theme parks / etc. etc. So there's definitely a market, even if gamers don't buy in.
As an unscientific experiment, compare the rate of spelling and grammar errors in the comments on this article to the error rate in HN comments overall. I think I see a pattern, but it may be that all I'm seeing is my own biases.
Just a different form factor for the new macbook without a display, maybe $700?
The author was my undergrad classmate. She did biology or biological engineering IIRC, glad to see she’s hitting the big time.
WhatsApp Google Drive Backups no longer count towards your quota
I'm glad you quit, because that's what you needed to do for you, and that's always the right thing to do. However, even though your comment is anecdotal, I do feel the need to point out that your concerns weren't because of the pot, but rather because of your decisions. If you smoke in moderation and learn your strains (sativa dominant for social situations, indica dominant for Netflix and chill), then it's a highly enjoyable plant with little to no downsides. From your comment, it looks like you overdid the indica, and you wouldn't enjoy sativa if you have anxiety to begin with. That being said, were I you, I certainly would stay quit, especially since sativa may be out of the equation for you.
A fair point. At this point picking up front-end technologies is a thing I can fairly easily to. React was definitely hard because it was a different paradigm, but once I got over the hump, I'm solving the same problems as before.
Given schools are more segregated than they were in the 60s [1] its perhaps not surprising that people do not notice the lack of diversity.

And of course if there is an empathy gap and people are focused on themselves they will not notice all the service jobs are done by minorities or if they do not think too much about it.

[1] https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/segregation-worse-in-sc...
After legalizing it in Vegas I've noticed a constant lingering smell from a couple neighbors in my neighborhood. Its gotten to the point where its getting to be annoying cause most of them don't want to make their own house smell bad so they smoke outside. I'm for pot legalization and thought it was a fair idea, but like with regular smoking if your doing it within 20 ft of someone who's not and doesn't want to smell your acrid smoke your just being an asshole.Kids don't want to swim cause it smells gross outside all the time. I can't even grill in my backyard anymore cause the smoke from my bbq mixes with the pot smoke and just ruins it.
A Primer on Bezier Curves: finding y, given x
It's still my favourite machine ever. Mine has dual core i7, the MacBooks don't look like an upgrade in any way.
Would be interesting. We see they're going that direction, but I somehow doubt that'll be the case. People won't buy MacBooks* and a lot of them want something like an Air. Not quite a pro, but still a full laptop without strong compromises.

Still, would be interesting to see that. I think that's more a 2020, 2021 thing.

*: I mean of course some will. Apple sells things and people buy a ton of it. But a lot of people I know personally waited for years for a real Air refresh. Also many won't buy new MBP (like me) cause of reliability and usability concerns. So there is a market there for an updated product that doesn't have these issues.