skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a card with the buttons named, and a few lines of small print on the back in silver grey print on grey, that is so short of contrast it's almost impossible to read in perfect light. 50% of the space is unused so a much larger font was possible. Hardly a mini user guide though - a card with one image and 3 or 4 sentences on the back.

Only other things in the box were a sticker or two, and a single sheet of absurdly microscopic print with warranty and regulatory info etc.

My recollection, which may be faulty as it's been a while, of the tips app is it included mostly bits of trivia but nothing particularly useful or substantive. Basically just tips - not especially surprising.
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"Microplastics — defined as pieces less than .02 inches long, roughly the size of a grain of rice — have become ..."

The author does not know that .02 inches is NOT the size of a grain of rice.
"Moon hoax not" by S G Collins: https://youtu.be/TYFMU7XfyzE
That's only an American phenomenon due to severe market consolidation. The model works when there's competition. In Europe, even the for-profit radio stations are far more diverse and play a wide variety of songs and genres. Plus the public radio stations blow anything stateside out of the water. They bring lots of innovation/musical diversity and aren't afraid to push boundaries, unlike the pure news/talk/tepidness that defines most NPR stations.
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> Even my car’s tire rim has a fucking key

That is because some people think it's okay to take the wheels of the car when you park it.
> Quite honestly, most companies don't care about one's compiler theory knowledge or ability to build shell scripting interpreters, nor should they.

Right. Like how you don't care about the persons' physics knowledge when hiring an architect. /s
> Meritocracies fundamentally excuse bad behavior

This may often (?) be true in practice if you remove "fundamentally", but not always and it doesn't have to be. In an environment where people work together to produce an outcome, the ability to interact positively and productively with others is a valuable behavioral merit. It keeps one talented asshole from chasing away all the other talent. You can have a meritocratic organization where "works well with the team" is a requirement. Where this breaks down is when talented people sit back and allow abuse (or worse, start to emulate it) because they're all starry-eyed about an offender's other talents and achievements.
Yes, because they desire speed.
A truly web-browser-centric development/deployment workflow is slowly but surely becoming a thing. I call it "Linux on the Web":

Easy as A-B-C /
Or 1-2-3 /
It's L-O-T-W ~dot~ X-Y-Z!
Having recently owned an Onstar equipped vehicle I had my ire raised early in the year when they revamped their terms of service and such. They were basically telling their customers how they would expand usage of their driving habits and more and then charge us even more for the privilege.

Just look at their plans, https://www.onstar.com/us/en/plans-pricing/compare-plans/

Starting at $25 a month just for crash reporting and stolen vehicle assistance. I am of the opinion that if ANY manufacturer can detect a crash that they legally be required to render assistance. This assistance can simply be calling local authorities and up to informing the occupants through the in car system that that has occurred. Even if you don't pay they know it happened.

Onstar isn't the only plan but it certainly is the most expensive I have encountered. Then again BMW will charge you not only for map updates but to use Apple's Carplay.

Manufacturers have realized that if people buy cars and keep them longer then they need to find means to turn that into a continuous stream of income and too many are willing to exploit the safety side to do it.
Though here it is an error, it could have been correct: 12 metre yachts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_Metre) can be more than 60 feet long. For example, Stars and Stripes was 66ft (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars_%26_Stripes_87).
Good thing the gun emoji doesn't kill people anymore.
I have Capisco 8106 for about a year now (previously Aeron).

The nice thing about Capisco is there are quite a few ways to sit on it so you end up using different muscle groups during the day rather than constantly using just one. You need a height adjustable desk to pair it with this chair.
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There are others that actually like 1-based indexing languages.
I'm a lover of WinForms, since I cut my teeth on VB6 and MFC... it's surprising how decent you can make things look with a little polishing.

It's nuts that visual layout editors for the web have, if anything, regressed from the WebForms editor in Visual Studio 2008.
> Imagine spending 5 years working on a startup, where in reality 8 hours passed by.

That would require you to be able to process information dramatically faster, by at least a thousand or more times (even cutting out non-work time).
Thanks!

And I don't wish people to stop using less common words - I do enjoy an expanded vocabulary, just for the record. The comment was just to save others a couple of clicks :).
> Is LispWorks the only currently-available IDE you'd recommend?

For some stuff Clozure CL is useful enough. An interesting Lisp IDE for music composition was developed with it:

https://opusmodus.com

Allegro CL would be a good option on Windows/Linux - on Mac it is not native. But it's also commercial and expensive.

> Perhaps you were running it in DrRacket

yes, and when you resize the window the program stops while resizing...
The board has a set of rules, that is the CoC. However as in any case where people are involved, they will have to deliberate and discuss to reach a conclusion.

Perfectly normal.

If you have a set of strict objective rules, some people will find a way to game them, and still harass people.
also worth having a read of "start small stay small" by Rob Walling
Is there any review which probes the binning of intel's new chips? Since the 7700k was 125mm² and the 9900k was 177mm² I suspect that there are more defects on average per chip. If that's true I'd argue that only some will actually be able to reach 5ghz.

Regardless, it's intel and they are well known for using every scummy trick in the book. From using a compressor to cool their 5ghz giga-chip to using videos to show "realtime" demos running on their products. I wouldn't put it past them to specifically tune the system to ever so slightly to starve comparable ryzen chips.
It can trigger psychosis in people prone to depression and anxiety, which is why it bothers me when people suggest weed as a remedy to those things.

Case-in-point: me.

I'm still in favour of its legalisation but I'm not naive enough to believe there are no downsides to the substance.

I've experienced many of them myself by abusing it for years.
"It should be taken as fact because I can't prove it."

How about no.
It seems mapsights.com was able to backup most.
It sounds like you are expecting junior hires to be senior, instead of training them. The average elite computer science student spends 3 years learning computer science before they start building professional programs.
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This story probably came from someone in the national security establishment who has zero understanding of the underlying technology but has a vested interest in the red scare..
Yes, and chess teachers will tell you, the way to improve as a beginner is through playing many many games quickly to get a wide variety of exposure and start developing intuition.
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The automatic emoji-fying is my most hated feature in Skype for Business. If you're copying code snippets around, prepare to get mangled
Here's a joke Arthur C. Clarke told me about the Navajo and the moon landings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NEh8nspzXw
When I think about iPhone useability issues I'm always reminded that it still doesn't have an easy way to undo autocorrect mistakes.

The best you can do is shake the phone and if you don't drop it it might undo for you ...or it might just redo the bogus autocorrect when you retype the word.

Whole websites are devoted to ridiculing people for sending text messages with "hilarious" autocorrect errors in. Still Apple can't or won't improve it.
Oculus stops offering movies on Rift headsets due to low demand
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I also use it every day, but for apps. Many of the apps I have on my home screen, have "shortcuts", not in the new siri way, but in the "do something/go somewhere quickly in the app" way. I used it to call a person, I use it to open a new tab on Firefox, I use it to add a new todo item, I use it to go to a specific tab on an app.
I would be very sad if it goes away at some point..
I've been using it at work and it's pretty great.

The performance is awesome, the REPL is super great as well. There's libraries that I'm itching to try out as soon as I've got a relevant project (Flux ML being the top of that list).

There's been a lot of situations in using it where I've just gone "this is everything I needed/wanted": the performance, the language features and API design, etc.

Plus there's a lot of very interesting things going on with the language and ecosystem, I definitely recommend trying it out.
If you read anxiously through the whole article like I did thinking: "Yeah I get it but what are the numbers?"

From 2015 article: "The Hillsong empire they founded (she, too, is a senior pastor) pulled in tax-free revenues of nearly $80 million in Australia last year and more than $100 million internationally."

https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/inside-the-hillsong-churchs...
Yup. "ASCII is mostly OK if you're USian and only use English, therefore no problem exists."
Would the pr team even know if it was true
So looking at their methodology, they chose the "high class" black names ("Anderson" and "Thompson") (EDIT: I misread, these aren't the black names) based on census proportions, but that doesn't necessarily mean those names are actually read as "black" by most people.

Moreover, using census results ignores exposure to foreigners with these names. My own strongest association for "Thompson" is the white police officers in Tintin, and more generally for white English people. (Although I'm British so that may not be representative.)

As long as "low class" black names are more readily associated with blackness than "high class" ones, this methodology isn't really isolating anything, just doing a slightly more intersectional analysis.
Why don’t experts need two factor authentication?
The problem is that the definite way to go back on the iPhone is to swipe over the screen from left to right. That gets you back to where you come from every time.

The other problem is that no application trains the user doing this with for example an animated hint.

Knowing and using that makes the back button for users without disabilities superfluous.
Being obscenly wealthy is so obviously wrong that many aspiring 'american dream' (TM) candidates can't even conceive of alternatives.

While Jeff has undoubtedly worked hard and he is probably even above avarage smart, he is has NOT worked 100'000x as hard and is NOT 20x times smarter than the average Joe.

Currently once you are rich it gets even easier to get even more rich. It should be the opposite. There should be a headwind making it harder the richer you get.
I recently had to help my mother with some tech support. One of the things I needed to do was turn off the device - I had to actually Google how to turn off an iPhone X.

This is after me owning 3 generations of iPhone (3S-4S) and an iPad AND the family owning one of every main iPhone since 3S.

Is turning off the device an advanced feature?
Have a look at our portfolio (at tandemlaunch.com). It includes two of companies listed in the article - wrnch and fluent.ai - as well as 20+ others all working on pretty interesting technical challenges in computer vision, AI, sensors, robotics, etc..

Regarding pay, Montreal has a pretty low cost of living so wages aren't huge. If you are looking for Valley-style salaries then you are simply out of luck. But if you are looking for "paying well" in the Canadian/Montreal context then some of our older companies might fit the bill. Airy3D, Aerial, SportlogiQ and a few others have all raised Series A or beyond in funding so wages are fairly competitive. If you are looking for equity stakes instead then of course the younger ones might be a fit for you.

I build startups and teams in Vancouver and the valley, so here is my perspective on Montreal for what it's worth:

Great city to live in. French is a wonderful personal gain but not a professional necessity. Taxes aren't a big deal - especially with the tax holidays for foreign technologists - compared to the social benefits that you are getting. The winter is rough but survivable with the right clothing. The startup scene is growing in leaps and bounds. Super exciting to watch all the progress everywhere.

Overall, I would give it a shot :).
And they already have Julia!

Looks like you can't joke with array indexing...
Also for Intel you almost always have to get a new motherboard.
It's still justified because Apple prides itself as the pinnacle of usability. It's one thing if $RANDOM_ANDROID_OEM builds a bad UI. It's a whole different thing if Apple builds a bad UI.
Well sure if this is your first time installing programming environment it might seem much. Now compare the same to C++, Java, Python, Go etc. They all have their own set of problems. Rust, well Rust has a good package manager. But I wouldn't go beyond that suggesting it be "beginner-friendly". That's a high mountain to climb even for experienced programmer.

And npm is always installed alongside Node.js which I suggest installing by nvm. I guess this depends a lot on the level of assistance you can get with the installation process. Using sudo is almost always a dumb idea for installing anything.

I admit frontend development with JS/TS is tricky business that I myself also abhor at times. When everything works it's fine but when it doesn't well. I'll be pulling my hair for a while, then trying to Google the issue which often works btw. The one of the biggest perks of a big ecosystem (with many beginner programmers) is that there is plenty of help for almost any problem.

Once you get past your guttural "Node.js/JS sucks because of this and this" I find it to be (with TypeScript) a productive and fairly simple ecosystem. I haven't noticed big of a problem with newbie programmers starting to learn Node.js once you give them good enough tutoring. Webpack is not something you want to introduce them to for a long time (unless necessary) and yeah, it's a pain in the ass.
> or any other kind of offset that you so desire

This is too often the attitude of Julia people. But zero-based indexing is not just some arbitrary offset. Programmers just like it. You say that many things are more intuitive with one-based indexing, but many things are less intuitive too. I don't think python ever would have become popular without zero-based indexing.

The thing is, we really don't know why people prefer certain types of language. All we know is that they do. Computer languages can't evolve gradually like natural languages, but if they could I really don't think we'd go to one-based indexing.
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> First of all, it's Silicon Valley. Check your ethics at the door.

Why would we do that?
on the maps front it annoys me they're all silos, and there isn't, at the very least, easy switching between map apps for the same coordinates&zoom. The location api exposes a notion of 'here'/'location', I want a shared notion of 'there'/'destination' (useful not only for mapping, but eg transport apps).

Pipe dream level: Apple Maps gains api-accessible import/export of geodata, (POIs, tracks, layers...?), so opening any compatible map app can both open at the 'there' location and can display the shared geodata.

(typically I use google maps for urban stuff, maps.me for pre-downloaded offline maps and POIs, ordnance survey for uk outdoors, michelin maps for france (the search is terrible, but having roads marked as scenic is fantastic), bikehub for cycle routes... and more. I switch maps a lot...but never to Apple Maps)
Are you saying they are...holding it wrong?
Isn't that a Ferengi Rule of Acquisition?
Wait, tax-free? Surely this is a for-profit business, not a "church".
Meritocracy doesn't require structuring power hierarchies around merit.

Furthermore, there will never be collective or universal agreement in any remotely complex issue, which means some block of the community is inevitably being coerced into accepting a communal choice.
> but by being a mediocre straight white male promoted and supported by other mediocre straight white males.

That sounds kind of nice actually.

If that was actually the case why would the mediocre straight white male feel threatened?

Honestly that would be a pretty powerful safety net.
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Take a look at her comments on github and judge for yourself.

https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941

She wants to tar and feather an OSS contributor for views expressed on a personal twitter account. Further down searches through his ~400 git repositories, finds two with potentially offensive names (which have rational explanations, including being non-native english speaker), and uses that as basis to continue witch hunt.

Eric Raymond did a good write up on what's happening here that I certainly found insightful. He gives a description that perfectly describes what you see in that github issue:

"What’s there is totalitarianism in miniature: ideology is everything, merit counts for nothing against the suppression of thoughtcrime, and politics is conducted by naked intimidation against any who refuse to conform."

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6918
My sister's involved with Hillsong. A scam if ever I saw one. I no longer have anything to do with her.
She is not wrong the author that coined the phrase in the 50's said basically the same - he did not in any way "meritocracy " was a good thing.
That was easy.
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Which makes it so odd that they don't use member cards, whereas every casino in Atlantic City does.
That's not the full story. From iOS 12 you can do the long touch on the spacebar and get the same functionality as the 3d touch on the rest of the keyboard.

Great for me as 3d touch is so flaky on my iPhone since I got the screen replaced.
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Yes, reminded me the communist show-trials in the 1950s.

They said "WE decide what is YOUR intent and context". Unbelievable.
While this article doesn't appear to present any new information, it does a great job summarizing the conversation. It shows the allegations readably (unlike Bloomberg's, which tries to tell a thrilling story)and adds valuable extra information from the discussion around it.

I recommend this for people new to the story.

Also: I quite enjoy the WP reading experience. Yes, they block you at first and make you agree to things, but after that they don't attempt to ruin your day by throwing pop ups and ads and pop ups with ads at you. The ads they do show are quite tasteful and mainly for their own stuff. Also considering the disclosure that they're owned by Bezos and their generally seemilgly dilligent journalism, they've earned a good bit of sympathy from me.
I guess it depends on your definition of large...
Swiping on the screen from left to right is the iOS back button.
This is why, for me, it's actually better to go for private label brands. They don't tend to bother
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Inspiring !!!! Thx
> taste like the inside of a shoe

I had no idea what the author drank, but it certainly wasn't chicha.
I think the very first rule of life is to live. If someone helps you live when otherwise you're going to die, you should tolerate more of his weirdness. If someone helps you live better when otherwise you're going to be quite miserable, you should also be more tolerant. I think this is the logic of meritocracy, and the logic behind capitalism.

You either believe in capitalism and thus meritocracy as its twin, or neither. Why do capitalists get to take away so much profit, and why should we award patents to inventors, if we don't reward those with "merit"?
We've adopted the Saint Benedict rule too: http://dailyprog.org/rule/

We will adopt similar codes from different traditions of the world.
To me on the other hand, it was obvious that he would be back as soon as 4.19 was released and the 4.20 merge window opened (the kernel release cycle has two phases, the merge window where new features and the bulk of the changes come in, and a phase where only bug fixes are supposed to come in). He took advantage of the time when the merge window was closed, since it's a less hectic period, and handed over maintenance to someone who already does something similar (Greg KH maintains the "stable" trees, which also accept only bug fixes).
This only makes sense if you assume the organisation's interest is only to maximise productivity in the short term.

An open source organisation may explicitly be interested in attracting marginalised people into the tech sector, to improve equality in society as a whole.

Or even from a cynical perspective, a profit-led corporation may desire to increase their ability to hire competent but undervalued (and thus cheaper) employees in future.
>Jon Corbet, kernel developer and editor of LWN, thinks the Linux community will become less of what was once a "Wild West world with dueling developers and more of a professional developer community."

Well, that's what all this has always been about right? Power-washing the personality out of open source by subverting the popular movement of the day. A group wants something but there are very few actionable steps to achieve it, and the ones that do exist are long term investments. They're turned into unwitting campaigners for a different goal when someone provides them an easy answer that's really a thin veneer over a different purpose.
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One more final point while I was thinking. I am a fan of both languages, Go & Rust. Go is in-fact still my recommended languages for teams, and until Rust hits a maturity level that wont change, but I am a big fan fo what rust is trying to become, I am using it for new code because of the problem fit, and I believe both ecosystems can co-exist. Go is also introducing some nice long awaited features (hopefully) in a decent way.
With the new FaceID features, I could see it being a nice touch if iOS were to ask users if they want to increase text size if it senses the user always holds the phone ridiculously close to their face and/or constantly squints.

Beyond that, I don't know how much of a responsibility it is for the phone to push its accessibility options on everyone after initial setup.
For other reasons _in addition_ to that one? Many people make decisions based on a weighted linear combination of criteria.