skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's probably because they look at customer service reps like me and just see "money pit".

They would much rather do away with the laptops, headsets, offices, health benefits, HR/Management layer, payroll, and so on etc etc and just use AI.

We are already very close to the days where AI schedules appointments, troubleshoots problems, books orders, routes technicians and etc without the need for a human customer to interact with a human support rep.

The day that this has widespread adoption (like robotic arms in factories) is the day where major corps cut 10-100 of millions USD from their expenses.
I bought a couple items from 51nb (the people who makes the X62 boards) before with good luck since they normally get their parts from scrapped computers. It seems like they shutdown their TaoBao site recently. They opened up a WeiDian site but I have no clue how that site works and how someone in the states buy from them.
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"it's very efficient, nobody would ever think to steal or break into it as long as there's pretty much any other car in sight"

My impression is that the most stolen cars usually fit that description, surprisingly enough. Old, reliable, nondescript cars are exactly the ones that have a thriving market for parts and are relatively easy to steal. I remember for instance, late 90s Honda Accords being on the list of top most stolen models at one time.

The other reason I see not to keep an old car forever is that I don't trust old airbags, especially since the Takata fiasco. Nothing lasts forever, and originally I read that airbags were supposed to last 10 years, so how do you trust a 15 year old explosive device aimed at your face?
Who is this "we" that you refer to?
Two of these things are fundamentals of VR presence (being able to move your head, being able to interact with your hands ) and one is a specific piece of high-performance silicon. Sacrificing some mesh and texture resolution is a completely different thing from sacrificing spatial movement.
> This would only be true if literally every demographic thought identically about every aspect of a project or product and brought the same point of view

Assuming that someone's demographic means that they think differently about a topic to another demographic strikes me as very uncomfortable. Basing an argument for diversity on the assumption that e.g
a black female programmer is unable to think about a problem in the same way as a white male programmer doesn't feel like a step forward.
They did it to load the keyboard faster.
You say that as if the people of Louisiana would have actually had a say in it or been able to stop this if only they would have voted differently. Unfortunately, most of this stuff is coming from federal agencies. Even if all of louisiana voted on a unified front against this, it would matter little.

Louisiana has 8 electoral college votes. 6 seats in the house and 2 seats in the senate.

This isn't enough to get any change done on its own. It doesn't take much to overpower Louisiana's voice.

Not to mention that they can't control the entire gulf to protect its share of the shore, nor does the state have the resources to actually do much about it (IIRC, there is a lot of poverty in the state).
I recently switched to iOS from Android after years on Android. I'm coming from being a daily macOS user for almost a decade. I would argue that iOS should no longer be considered the more "user friendly" of the two. That might have been the case years ago, but iOS seems to expect prior experience with what I can only guess are iOS paradigms specifically.

Almost every important action I need to take in an iOS app is hidden behind a gesture. In Android apps, gestures are value adds. They make on-screen actions or actions accessable through contextual menus quicker to accomplish for the experienced user. In iOS they're essential to accomplish some tasks.
while I agree with your analysis, why the throwaway accounts? It seems a bit suspicious.
Linus: I'm taking time off and getting help from people who are (probably) trained to understand people's emotions.

RMS: Armed only with email archives, I generated a novel solution from inside my own head and tested it against feedback arriving back to my own head from a smattering of individuals.

What every happened to, "Gee, I don't know the answer to that question. Perhaps I should ask an expert for help."
> I feel a very palpable rage when I envision a future where I buy a car and a few years later ads start popping up on its display.

How fun would it be if you had to watch a 30 second commercial before the car starts? Or even to open the car door.

Something like that would drive me insane.
They’re preparing for Group FaceTime.
Ah that makes a bit more sense. It it only for apple apps or does it integrate with 3rd party apps like signal as well?
Sounds absolutely awful, but I bet you could pitch this Magic-leap "big vision" "10-20 years out" style and get SoftBank to throw a few hundred $M your way
The FAANGAMUs acronym doesn’t have a lot of hits, what did you add Microsoft Uber and Airbnb?
Thank you for sharing the context. One of the problems we have with written interaction is that we don't have all the information that we have in face-to-face communication.

One helpful approach is to initially grant the benefit of the doubt to the person that you think offended you. I ask myself, "Am I certain the other person meant to be condescending" (or some other offense)? Do they have a history of this? If I respond harshly, will I get a listening ear?

I think Stallman did well by recommending to be kind. We want our collaborations to be productive. If we are quick to take offense, we will destroy relationships and collaboration.

My point is NOT to excuse bad behavior but rather to make sure I am not jumping to conclusions and breaking good collaborative relationships...

Of course we address repeat offenses. Having been gracious initially, those discussions are more likely to be productive. I think Stallman's approach does that well.
Personally I find it easier to push a single key that's slightly up above the number row, than have to press both a modifier and a key in the lower right corner of the keyboard.
This also gives me more freedom for window-management key shortcuts.
Columbus never set foot on North America so part of that isn't on him.
I'll look in to it. Thanks
Yes, because some number of American citizens are in/near there in a dangerous situation in the employ of the US federal government.
Link to the study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30183512?dopt=Abstract

TL;DR: our perception of our performance in a meeting is lower than the actual performance.
It's not surprising at all to me that people who don't take the time to learn how to use the supercomputers in our pockets are unable to use them.

It's like typing. Learning to touchtype was one of the best things I've ever done on a return for investment basis. All I did was stick a little printout of the keyboard layout under the monitor, and committed to not look at the physical keyboard ever again. It was slow for a couple of weeks, but from then on I could touchtype. It was not such a massive burden. But most people I see are still painfully hunting and pecking, even people who use a computer all day long in a professional capacity!

I know there is much more that Apple and other manufacturers could do to make things better, and definitely they should be doing those things, but the main problem IMO is that people are just lazy. They want their phone to do complicated things, but they don't want to spend the time to learn how to do those things.

It would be good if there was easy training for these things though, maybe some kind of beginner courses? I know some community centres/libraries have courses for beginners and older people... But most people just expect to automatically be able to use a smartphone with no training, knowledge or effort.
This seems... a bit fast. Years (decades?) of bad behavior can't be changed in a month.
That's kind of irrelevant to my comment, unless you consider workers part of the "capital" that is being allocated efficiently.

Even if you do, allocating capital (and workers) efficiently usually eventually leads to better social well being than allocating it inefficiently. (Perhaps reversing the inequality makes the historical examples more obvious: allocating capital and workers inefficiently leads to worse outcomes.)

But note well the word "eventually". There certainly is room for doing better at helping with the social well being of those dislocated by this process...
Land mass to the south: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFM1X0o2pnc
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For what it's worth (I know you specifically mentioned HN), Lobsters has tags.

https://lobste.rs/
This is a completely and utterly ahistorical redefinition together with selective reasoning. The theological fantasy where capitalism is freed from its state component would not differ either with regards to these incentives, the state would just be replaced by "private-property lords" which you'd stamp as legitimate and welcome the voluntary toil of the propertyless masses.
Yeah, well -- LV is the original source of much of what we know today about data mining. So, it makes sense that they would still be decades ahead of the rest of the field.
I have been an android-windows user for the longest time, and using Apple devices is among the most difficult things I've had to do.

I have used windows phone, linux, chrome OS, Blackberry's palm-like UI over the years, but I have gotten the hang of each over a small period of time. Apple devices however, are simply counter intuitive for me.

Apple seems to design UI for 2 types of people.

1. Old Apple users
2. The person whose phone use is the same as it was 15 years years ago + an app launcher

Because of those, I have seen 2 negative trends in their UI/UX design :

1. Sticking to old but familiar (for Apple customers) ways, even if they are cumbersome. (itunes)
2. Front loading everything that is heavily used by a layman (their launcher and quick setting menu), and hiding everything else behind a bevy of menus in settings.

If you have not grown up thinking like an Apple user and want to do anything advanced (my demographic), then their interface is incredibly alienating. The only other time I have felt this way has been when using SnapChat. (although Snap's was a lot more egregious than Apple)

I used an iPad for 2 months this Summer, and swapped it out for a Fire HD 10. As much as the iPad was fast, I can't be happier to be back to familiar territory in Android (even if it is on 5.1 Lollipop)

Granted, that my demographic may be the minority, esp. in the US. But, I can't help but feel, that the incessant praise showered on Apple's devices is partly because of the greater familiarity people have with those devices. And, that Apple won't fare as well if they were to be evaluated by an audience unfamiliar with their brand and devices all together.
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This was one of the great things about the ol’ Commodore 64, decades ago: straight from the factory, power on, and a second later, you were in a fully set up BASIC developer environment/REPL. How did things get so complicated?
> for loops were harder to understand in the beginning

Hits home. Haskell is difficult but solid, mainstream languages are easy but based on arbitrary foundations.
So, you just made yourself the single biggest target on their radar, and you made absolutely certain that they will know exactly who you are and where you are -- at all times.

How exactly does that help?
Smartphones have a new batch of kindergartners joining technology each year. There's also another group of beginners a little further down the river that never really received the best onboarding experiences that are available today.

Many of the items outlined in this article could be included in the phone setup wizard like other settings.
It's a weird blog. As well as the Claudia tooltip and throwing around 'autist' as an insult, the title bar at the top also has the 'title' attribute set to "Analogous to allowing transgenders to rewrite gay history. (Ask a Millennial who started Stonewall)", and it looks like there are a bunch of links/rants about "trannies" in the archives. Not that that should necessarily detract from what seems like a pretty reasonable article about usability, but it doesn't give me a good feeling.
Try to use less. A lot less. Like a whole lot less. One puff only. MJ can intoxicate you and its effects are nasty and very non enjoyable in high doses. Try one puff and wait for 10 minutes and if you want more try another one. Once buzzed learn its effects. Don't look for more unless experienced. Also, i remember when i first started using it, it took me a month of smoking to get to enjoy it fully. Same goes with alcohol. Remember the first time you got drunk? Im sure it came with some consequences...
Apple clearly needs to hire this guy. The only thing I disagree with is forcing people to learn many features during the setup process when you get your new phone. Pretty much nobody I know likes to sit there and read user manuals or be forced to watch videos or however that'd be represented.
I'm not trying to force anyone to do anything, and I'm not sure where you came up with the idea that I am. If someone wants their OSS project to be appealing to the 1/6th of the people in the world who consider themselves to be Christians, that's fine.

If they want to try to be appealing to, say, 7/7ths of the developers out there, they might want to do something different.
Actually I've been googling around since you've said this, and I can find WHO and CDC booklets indicating that PrEP is generally safe. In fact, the WHO indicates that PrEP is as safe as placebo in the populations that have been studied.

http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/197906/WHO_H...

It's interesting because some of the gay men I spoke with about PrEP seemed to think there were significant risks of kidney damage from long-term use. I wonder where they got their information from.
The hairstyles in there look totally suitable for the cyberpunk 2077 45-minute preview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjF9GgrY9c0
It should be pointed out that Bloomberg authors get bonuses if they write stories that move the market:

https://www.businessinsider.com/bloomberg-reporters-compensa...

Not saying that was necessarily a motivation here, but it's worth pointing out.
async/await is the big one :)
Is Rocket still on track to run on stable by the end of 2018, as per your comment here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16543914

Anecdotally, I've been hearing claims that Rocket will run on stable "real soon now" for quite a while now. It just doesn't look like it's going to happen.
Last Black Friday they had some good deals up.
Now you know the REAL reason that they banned Segways everywhere!

;)
I bet you'd be screaming hell if chrome would have done it.
>but it is a significant time investment

No, it really isn't. Place organic matter on the ground in fall or early spring. When the last frost has passed, plant seeds through it onto the ground. To do grow enough for a family of four is not even one day of work for one person. During the summer and fall, pick food and eat it. That's it. A robot isn't going to save enough time to be worth it. Using your palm-top to tell your robot tended garden to pick 300 grams of lettuce for you and then going out and picking it up from the robot isn't noticeably faster than just picking the lettuce yourself.

>but the work in the 'vertical farming' market.

That is not a real market. It is just techno-dystopian sci-fi. It has no purpose, there are not enough benefits to offset the huge downsides.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24411797
I'd prefer it if it used some kind of way to proxy traffic through WireGuard instead (which ProtonVPN does not yet support while they should if not just for performance reasons alone [1])

[1] https://www.wireguard.com/performance/
Or AT&T, GM, Amazon, and all the other biggest members of the Fortune 100.
> Though, clearly there is a huge market for China-hating technopanic, no matter how little evidence or credibility there may be, since some people will literally believe anything if they think it's done in China.

China has only itself to blame for this.

If you threaten the nuclear option over an airline listing Taiwan as a country on their US website, what will people expect from you over an issue that could cost you billions in business?

It opens them up to exactly this kind of story, because it gives people reason to expect coerced speech. The price of censorship and coercion is a complete loss of credibility. Which means the debate continues over a story where the denials could otherwise have put the matter to rest already.
The BP oil spill released more total oil in just a few months, it was a real disaster (estimated @ 4.9 million barrels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill#Vo...). And the dispersants that they used to hide/sink some of the spill were even more toxic then the oil itself.
A "silver-level" contribution, not literally a contribution of silver :)
While compile times can be slow, the rust system is checking so much for you, so that you can have a predictable @scale runtime. What was the issue with tokio?
Plus, with async/await Futures coming in soon, already on nightly right, this should become good if not already?
Rust went down the Kotlin route of not including coroutines/async/await initially and allowed Lib devs to build, but now have included as we all know. But anyways, keep at it, I have found Rust to be very helpful, using it at the startup I am at, and will keep using it deeper and in more complex scenarios.
I have to agree. We tread a fine line here between being honest and being assholes. Let’s try to stay on the right side of that line.
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That is how IBM i, IBM z, Unisys ClearPath work, how a large majority of Android and Windows apps, some iOS ones (mostly watchOS actually), Garmin devices, SIM cards, Blue Ray, Ricoh copiers, ...

If anything the industry is increasingly adopting bytecode as distribution format, kind of returning to the early 60/70's designs with microcoded CPUs just with another approach to the final execution.
There is no current English term for this practice because it is not within the experience of any significant number of English speakers.

"Blood money" is sometimes used for the concept, as you can see in COCA ( https://corpus.byu.edu/coca/ ), but that is certainly not the normal sense of "blood money". "Blood money" is routinely used to refer to money that has been morally tainted.
>Bezos has no problem with liquidity

Not for any sensible things he may want, but he certainly would if he were to do everything OP implies he can do with his wealth
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What's so wrong with engineering a novel solution to a difficult problem? Are you suggesting that hackers cannot hack behavior and must rely on the medical community?
People asked themselves how the GDPR could come into effect... well, here is the answer. Pure, unrefined capitalistic greed led the companies to milk the people more and more, up to a point where governments with a robust mandate "protect our people" were forced to intervene.

The ad industry, especially "adtech" only has themselves to blame for having their business model "disrupted" by regulation.
Who is this guy and why he is so oblivious to his own bias ?

He says that few people understand AirDrop, Apple Pay, iMessages Apps. Even though we have numbers on Apple Pay adoption (people do understand it) and we know how much Apple invested on Animoji (many younger people love apps).

Also does he know Apple has anonymous telemetry ? They don't guess what is popular or not. They know.
I wouldn't say that they "often break" considering that we never had a single issue with our software that could be linked to any of our threading abstractions in the 4 years of rigorous development and testing. But rather it's important to be clear about how your abstractions are to be used, and that you don't inject a lot of special-case logic into it. In our case we had to accept significantly reduced performance in exchange for the abstractions, but in the end it was worth not having to debug everyone's thread-safe code separately. A lot of it came back to choosing an abstraction that was simple enough to be well-understood and about not pushing the envelope too far.
There's the identification during the event, and there's the identification many, many years later (even 2012 was still 30 years after the event).

> I think it's much more likely that Kavanaugh was lying to protect himself than it was that an assault victim randomly mixed him up with her assaulter.

I agree. And if it were 1982 that would weight heavily.

On the other hand, delaying charges for multiple decades, then bringing them out within a narrow several-week window that happens to have the greatest possible maximum political effect...what are the probabilities of underlying motivation?

Unfortunately, either way there are some incredulous events.
Do sensor fusion of the IR-sensitive and non-IR sensitive cameras, and now you know who your biggest targets are, and they make themselves so very easy to follow!
We could get a dataset of images and see how each one does. Mine is very simple. It uses a histogram as features and could use the width and height of the image as well, if you pass the flag -s
This article contains so much nonsense its hard to comprehend how this is not an attempt at satire.

It seems the anther has read some Keynes and has defined a whole new history around it.

I highly recommend people against reading this text, it represents the worse kind of historical rewriting and reinterpretation to serve the needs the person writing it.

I would also point out that a lot of the insights that Kaynes made popular and enjoyed wide popularity from the 1950 to 1970s has since gone away. The theories today called 'New Keynesian' really are far more evolution of 70s monetarism.

> Keynes’s development of the science of macroeconomics goes largely unacknowledged by a profession still

So all of this is wrong. In no meaningful way did Keynes develop the science of macroeconomics.

There were working on the exact same topics as him for a very long time before him. One might argue that he was the most well known macro economist in England at the time, but that's about it.

Furthermore, the idea that Keynes is 'unacknowledged' is unfathomably wrong. There are macro economics schools today that refer to themselves as 'New-Keynesian', 'Post-Keynesian' or 'Old Keynesian'.

> by a profession still steeped in classical microeconomics

I don't even know what he is referring to. Nobody does 'classical' economics since the 1870 (except some forms of Marxist economics).
Because many don't know any better.
True, but once you're using WASM, you probably don't need to hold references to JS objects that point back to the objects created in WASM.

We've been interfacing C with e.g. Python without needing a garbage collector that crosses language boundaries. So why would we need one now?
The parallels with the Destroy All Software talk "The Birth and Death of Javascript" [0] are crazy. Seeing the section where they address the possibility of Node modules and system access from WASM is like seeing a flying car advertisement in real life.

[0]:https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
Here is ProtonVPNs blog announcement [1].

I haven't completely read it but I did spot one difference:

"These subscriptions will be billed directly by Mozilla and the majority of the revenue from these subscriptions will go to Mozilla, directly supporting Mozilla’s mission."

Mozilla was less clear about how it'd be distributed.

[1] https://protonvpn.com/blog/mozilla-partnership/