skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The unasked question here is why we even have the idea of special treatment for nonprofits? Nonprofits pay the same as for-profits for their utilities, computers, payroll and the like. Yet their existence permeates and distorts the tax code.
I don't have experience doing a native Linux install on the Surface Book, but I use(d) VirtualBox and use Linux every day for development (on Surface Book and Mac). With virtualization technology being as advanced as it is, I don't think there is any appreciable performance difference to a native install assuming you have enough RAM for the extra OS.
Send yourself back in time to when less than 1% of the populace is using petrol cars to get around. In that timeframe of the early 1900's, it would've been incredibly hard to get around the rural areas as well, since they'd still be dominated by horse, foot, and perhaps bicycle traffic. Now, send yourself forward 100 years: it will be nearly impossible to use petrol-powered transport, and EV will be the standard.

Saying the current infrastructure is inadequate for a new mode of transport is a truism. Infrastructure takes decades to build out, of course EV's will not be expected to have huge charging infrastructures while less than 1% of cars are EV.

Long term, It'll be just as easy, if not easier, to get around in the future. Consider all the new transport tech that's emerging: electric bikes, scooters, fully self-driving vehicles, drones which can carry people, VTOL aircraft, hyperloop, etc. They are all more interesting and promising than the current noxious fume spewing transport. I'm excited for even 1/3 of those options to come to fruition :)
Why would you choose a financial instrument that's only a few years old to replace the US Dollar?

There are some primary use cases that crypto solves in regards to international monetary transactions, but there are big questions in terms of technological maturity, and most especially around governance.

I love crypto, I think its potentially transformational. But it just isn't a contender yet. It needs to scale and it needs to mature.
Multi-desktop is controlled by gestures on windows 10 also... just 4 fingers instead of 3...
Yep, I started a consulting venture ~2 years ago. Funny enough, the guy who "let me go" also said I should start a consulting business.

https://www.gotemstl.com/
Why is having a "dedicated" HDMI port a good thing?

Do you understand that USB-C is also an HDMI port and you just need a USB-C to HDMI cable if your monitor/tv doesn't have yet the USB-C port (which they are starting to come with)?

What's so good about having a port that can only serve one purpose and not be generic purpose?

What if you want to connect two monitors to a computer?

What if instead of a HDMI port you need to plug another Ethernet cable or another USB hard drive?

Are we going back to the times where we had a single serial port at the back and we used those switchers (mechanical ones, for those who remember the stuff)?
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That link crashes firefox.
There are a couple fixes in 63 beta specifically about OS X performance. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/63.0beta/releasenotes/

> On macOS, WebGL power preferences allow non-performance-critical applications and applets to request the low-power GPU instead of the high-power GPU in multi-GPU systems - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1349799

> Faster tab switching in the majority of cases for our macOS users - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1481519

> Improved the reactivity of Firefox on macOS - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1265824
How many years since you used windows 10?
You can turn off icloud in china and your phone is secure (presumably). And apps such as wechat have less abilities to read data on an iphone.

Apple had a choice: icloud in china or leave china. Would chinese citizens be better served if android was the only option?

As for data, apple collects less of it. You can verify that with a data request: https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-data-collection-stored-r...

And much of their data for apps like maps is anonymized.

On what basis can you reasonably equate their data efforts to google's? Everyone needs data, but apple does legitimately seem to take privacy more seriously.
Aside from the battery issue you described, which is 100% spot on. Most of your other gripes sound like Windows 8 and would be resolved or different on Windows 10.
Nothing wrong with riding on a cheap bike of course, but your latter statement doesn't really ring true to me.

The "extra" money into more expensive bikes may partially be marketing/name brand but most of it either goes into making things lighter or stronger (and sometimes both). A real touring spec bike will tend to be on the heavier side (at least, compared to race bikes) but be much stronger than a typical bike. They really are pretty robust. I don't know if your friends were just unlucky and you were lucky, but it might just be sample size, as you'd really want to measure this over much longer times/distances.

I have friends who pretty much always ride cheap bikes due to losing them semi-regularly in the city. The main differences between them and more medium-price bikes seem to be: poor brakes and clunky shifters, and occasional catastrophic failure of components (i.e. not repairable without replacement). Oh, and they tend to be heavy.
My big concern is that we still don't have a solution for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome. Lots and lots of small satellites brings us closer to that potential catastrophe.

My big hope is that SpaceX's BFR can potentially launch and maneuver cheaply enough to take dead satellites out of orbit in a cost effective manner. Hopefully they manage to launch, and someone is willing to pay to make it happen...
I had my Surface Pro 2 dual booting.

I still hated the device and eventually sold it, replacing it with an MSI. But in response to the questions, a Surface is just a standard PC with UEFI, so as long as all the hardware has kernel support, it should boot up fine.
Honda to invest $2.75B in GM's Cruise self-driving unit
Yes, but the Fed enables this behavior by loaning the banks money.

The point is, it's due to the govt that the money supply is increasing hence we have inflation.
I agree with all that. I just disagreed with GP's claims.
Correct. I am not a US citizen and a majority of my assets are USD denominated primarily because I believe in the system of government, recent obstructionism is part of it. Basically, stay out of the people's way and provide recourse. Decent job so far. Not perfect, but better than any other place I've had direct experience with.
" upon hearing news that a terrible disaster has stricken a distant country, killing tens of thousands, concludes that those victims must necessarily have deserved such a fate "

This happens, but it's barely a thing.

I've never seen or heard of such a thing in real life, it's something you only hear about on CNN.

Services in mainline Churches don't really ever go into this kind of thing, the congregation would find it as wacky as you or I would.
Reddit's ad platform provides standard metrics on clickthrough rate and the like. I'd be surprised if the TripleByte guys didn't have the impact of it modeled.
This is Heroku's post, the HN discussion about the CNCF blog post is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18131378

Pivotal's post for reference: https://content.pivotal.io/blog/peace-of-mind-for-developers...
At least there's not a new version of WiFi every 6-8 weeks.
I'm running the latest Windows 10. MSFT corporate IT makes sure of it.
I use Dropbox Paper for notes. It has the minimalism of Keep, but you can use formatting, and you're not limited to HTML exports. You can export everything (or just a few things) as Markdown or .docx files.
Understand that your junior developers will learn how to treat people from you. So, be humble, kind and approachable. Long term, that will yield an amazing culture full of people who like coming to work.
If you want Chrome-like features without Chrome then I would recommend the Brave browser. It's built on top of Chromium which is what Chrome is built on top of and it has built-in privacy protection by blocking all tracking and advertising code. Version 1 of the browser will be introducing Chrome extensions to the browser so the experience will be very similar.
A little radiation may be good for you, EPA witness argues for rule change
> As someone who moved halfway across the world and left family/friends to move to the Bay Area, it makes me sad to see how it's becoming increasingly difficult for people to move here. I believe this is the biggest thread to Silicon Valley's dominance as the center of the technology industry.

Yes, 100% this. The Bay Area's loss is rest-of-world's gain, so I suppose it's fine in that sense. But it's still really sad to see such completely and utter failure of leadership from our local politicians on housing, and our federal politicians on immigration.
netflix is the scourge holding the internet back. bandwidth is theft!
This is a bit of a terrible hack, but what I do is install an X server for Windows (I use VcXsrv, but there's a couple options), then from WSL launch Gnome terminal or whichever terminal emulator you like from Linux.
After more speculation about cause of ISS leak, NASA issues another statement
I fail to understand your reasoning: the people of Gaza voted Hamas in, much increasing the intensity of the conflict; Hamas then essentially canceled elections - guaranteeing that no one will try to reduce the conflict.

And somehow, that is of no consequence because they cannot vote in the Israeli elections?

And yet, somehow, before Hamas, and still in the places where Fatah rules (and elections were not canceled) the situation is infinitely better.
Does anyone have experience with Vettery? Seems to be a somewhat similar service and they will absolutely not stop contacting me.
Sure, it is relevant to the broader topic of invasive species. But starting a comment with a call to action like above ("We should get used to these massive movement of species"), isn't exactly additive to the content of the article. Rather it sounds like the commenter wants to sell something. I believe that in the political environment we have that can be counterproductive.

By the way, looking up the specifics of the Lanternfly - apparently it is skilful in laying eggs so that those survive even cold winters, meaning climate change at most have a moderate effect.
Very straightforward. Now, who's going to foot that bill?
Well, the government is controlling the money supply. The main way you get ripped off is when the monetary authority decides that inflation should be higher, and that devalues your money. Calling that process "printing money" seems like a reasonable metaphor.
Hi, in my role as professional gadfly, I have been involved with this tangentially for a few months and directly for a few weeks (on behalf of Pivotal).

I will make mistakes, but ... AMA.
You simply cannot be leader of the free world if you are attempting to do such as a country in decline or ruin. The first order of business is to restore American economic strength. The world must wait.
Cities will sue FCC to stop $2B giveaway to wireless carrier
> You can't be the leader of the free world by saying "I only care about my country" and expect others to follow you

There's no evidence of that. The President is a citizen figurehead (with limited powers) which has to fight a monumentally massive bureaucracy made up of other branches and citizens. Trump is not a godhead or even going to be considered important in the long run (a generation+). Curb the sensationalism.
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Aren't they just shell scripts? Last time I looked inside one anyway. Heroku makes a big deal about them, but most Unix people have similar things floating around in ~/bin.
Just curious, what's the state of the art of global ecology modeling? How well, if at all, could we model, for example, what'd happen if the Laternfly landed in Italy? Or what'd happen, for example, if we CRISPR gene-drived these bugs out of existence as so many are suggesting?

I get that this is very computationally and scientifically hard, in so many ways. But how good are we at this, at this point? How much harder should we be trying?

Given how critical this is for us to sustain life and adapt to the changing environment, it seems like a no-brainer that we should be pouring vast resources into ecology modeling. Maybe instead of building rockets to "make life interesting" (Musk) or to "build solar panels in space because people can have a right to consume exponentially more energy every year" (Bezos).
Php took the approach of implementing many of its libraries using existing C libraries. They may change the parameters and packaging, but they are only reinventing the interfaces, not the implementation. It's one of the reasons for Php's early success, despite being a somewhat clunky language.

Therefore if anyone out there wants to invent Yet Another Language, try to piggyback on existing C libraries to speed up library creation.
I never understood how anyone possibly felt the ridiculously extremist state of affairs of automobile/fuel regulations/subsidies etc in the United States is appropriate. The rest of the world isn't that great either but the United States is one of or the most insane example (memory isn't clear on if there's another major country that's even worse). One of the things that makes me ashamed to live in the USA - owning and operating a car in a spectacularly wasteful way doesn't pay for its own externalities, even anything bigger than an efficient people-mover with any less than 50mpg.
The i9 initially had throttling issues, although some of those issues have been solved. A lot of recent reviews have shown that almost every PC/Mac i9, that isn't built with gaming laptop style heat pipes is going to have throttling issues. That processor is really not meant for a thin and light form factor.

There are plenty of PC laptops that can give you similar specs to the high end Apples though. Lenovo recently released another Carbon, and I see constant reviews for pretty high end gaming/workstation lappys.
My thinkpad BSODs regularly from the horrible AV the IT department uses. All I want is anything that isn't Windows...
That's definitely a breach of security, but it's a bit different, too. It's not (so far as we know) exploitable. That is, an attacker couldn't use it to get all the documents stored on Google docs. They could, maybe, trigger it to see one random other document. That's still a security breach, but it's not in the same league as exploitable attacks.
That is true. It should be noted, that there aren't many in the ultra-portable/ultrabook range which are repairable. Even looking at Thinkpads, the ultra-portable models aren't repairable, but the more traditional form factors (like the T, P, ranges) remain so.

At some point in the thinner/lighter push physics start to dictate what you have to give up to get it. In this case we're talking all soldered/glued parts made to order to fit into the space available.
This is the case that the USD is, in fact, stable. Instability to the USD therefore represents the greatest systemic risk ever encountered in the history of human value. It is a double-edged sword.
> I think existing schemes have just been pretty weak.

Most existing schemes seem to have been cleverly designed to avoid hitting certain industries with large enough lobbying power.

Taxing/banning/regulating specific polluters rather than pollution itself is just ripe for regulatory capture.
I would argue willingness to say no is what separates junior from senior.

In my experience it actually leads to Juniors being abused a lot of times being given dumb projects someone should have said no to. Then code review rolls around and the seniors are like “what is this” and there’s a dumb fight. Lol. Maybe that’s just the places I’ve worked.
anything involving the GPU (including desktop environment compositing) is dreadfully slow in a VM.
Worldwide, transport energy use is about 150% total electricity use — 30PWh/y vs. 20PWh/y.

I’m not saying we can’t upgrade production (I’m actually significantly more optimistic than the best case IAE estimates), but it’s not as trivial as just installing some new wires and transformers.
I like u/Retric's comment on this too:

> A second issue is in Time 0.0001 seconds the observable universe is only a 0.0001 light seconds radius which limits how much mass could form a black hole.

That is, if you imagine all that mass-energy springing into existence in a vast universe (but with every point much closer to each other than today), there was not enough time for all that energy to notice the gravity of the surrounding mass-energy density and collapse into a black hole. Add to that the expansion rate (inflation), and the extreme uniformity of the young universe (which means gravity would have been pulling every thing in all directions rather than "inward" towards a soon-to-be-black-hole-center), and a collapse was impossible.
> They have many suppliers and different arrangements to cover the risks

Doesn't that push up integration costs ? For every new product there is data migration from the old one, installation costs, API changes (maybe not this) and just cost due to downtime.
#DontStopWorking
Don't just accept the API you're given and throw your hands up when it doesn't work. As far as is practical, understand how things work all up and down the stack.

Writing some React code and it doesn't work for Chrome on Linux?

You should in principle be prepared to debug not just your own code, but React's internals, the Chrome JS engine, and the Linux kernel itself until the problem is identified.

Obviously that sort of thing is a last result, but you should in principle be prepared to do it.
This is a good insight. Many a time I've offered a fix to a bug and the response was "how did you figure that out?"

My answer was that I looked at the error message and then, if it was available, scanned the backtrace to figure out which files/method calls were involved. Otherwise (particularly with JS), I set up some breakpoints in the browser to help visualise things better.

I've come across plenty of senior developers who ignore what the machine says. The thing is, most bugs aren't solved through intuition, so approaching the problem as if your gut feeling is completely accurate is going to turn a 10 minute debugging session into something that could last a full day. As, in my experience, it once did.
But you have heard of it.
It would seem automated coding would be right up "Ditching Hourly" Jonathan Stark's alley... It would instead require a shift in attitude about value and time. It follows in the lazy (automate it) ethic.
Hadn't heard of buildpacks before.

Where do they fit into packaging picture?

How do they compare to (1) VMWare images (2) Docker images (3) Debian packages? And when would you use them instead of one of these.
In your question you call it 'public money', and while it's true that there would be more tax revenue without the deduction, it's not obvious to me that money that goes to a society-agreed-upon charitable cause instead of you personally is really part of your 'income' which is what is being taxed. A similar question applies with state taxes.

One possible answer to 'why' question: Assume the tax rate is 50%. If the deduction encourages someone to give money they wouldn't otherwise, now 100% of the donated money is being used for a society-agreed-upon cause instead of 50% of it. In those cases, you could view it as a spending boost if the goal is to have more money spent publicly.

To me the more important reason is the different structure of public vs private money. If the government was perfect at directing money wisely, there would be no need for private investment or businesses at all. But sometimes there are advantages to a few people directing a small pool of money, instead millions of people directing an enormous pool of money. You can have a greater variety of projects since not everyone needs to agree. And huge organizations can be less efficient/less likely to be held accountable, since even though there are many stakeholders their attention is limited (relative to the scope of what goes on).

I think it's valuable to have a pool of 'risk money' for charitable causes in addition to the much bigger government-directed pool. And keep in mind that money is still directed some by the public with restrictions on what it can be spent on - if those are too lax it might be better to tighten them up than get rid of them all together.
> Aren't they just shell scripts?

They can be written in any language. I have personally worked on buildpacks written in bash, golang, ruby, python and I forget what else.

> Heroku makes a big deal about them, but most Unix people have similar things floating around in ~/bin.

I don't know that I agree. Could you elaborate a bit?
That's the future that governments are trying to avoid by subsidizing electric cars and/or restricting gasoline-powered cars.
I agree that course completion might be a very flawed metric.

I made a career transition to software development and the resource that had the most impact, by far, in my learning was freeCodeCamp.

At the time FCC had only 3 certificates (now is 6 I guess), but I only completed the first one - Frontend.
If useful, I asked a similar question a while back — with some great responses:

Ask HN: Senior developers, what would you tell a younger you?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13168798
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For two million cars?
The Crate Review System (2000)
Why the sadness? As a "Car Guy" I'm thrilled about electric! Instant torque and acceleration, way more responsive than ICE. Just the other month there was the story where an electric shattered all the previous Pikes Peak records: https://www.teslarati.com/vw-id-r-electric-vehicle-pikes-pea...

I mean, yeah, it doesn't have the same growl, but if you want raw performance, I'll take my spaceship whirl over rube goldberg-like thousands-of-tiny-explosions any day of the week.
> I am dreading the day I need to upgrade my 2014 MBP

Ditto, but with a 2015 MBP

I'd buy another used 2015 MBP before I bought anything in the current lineup
It sounds like he's arguing not that the policies have been lacking oomph, but that the policies could never really hope to handle all the nuance. If you could only set up the incentives right, you'd get the right outcome, but maybe that's a perilous & incredibly difficult task.
Airponics is even better, but requires high pressure pumps. You can grow pretty much anything, as long as you feed the right nutrients and control the temperature and the pH.