skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Peru does this on the Inca Trail trips. There is a daily cap on the number of people allowed on trail (tourist + guides + porters/cooks), plus guides are required. While it certainly isn't cheap, it wasn't prohibitively expensive (i.e., if you can afford the airfare and hotels in a city, you can likely afford to hike the Inca Trail).

Having recently visited Iceland, I could see that the Reykjavik-area was near its limits. As was the airport (gate areas were overcrowded throughout the terminal). There's plenty of space elsewhere on the island, but the government and Iceland Air have done a really good job convincing tourists to do a quick stopover en route from the Americans to Europe.

And being a regular visitor to Scotland (Scottish by birth, though raised in the US), there are more and more tourists every time I go back. Skye is running into problems supporting the number of visitors at peak season - many showing up without planned accommodation, camping on roadside, etc. The NC500 route is similar - the area is desolate and lightly populated, but it's been pitched as a tourist destination - great to get people out of Edinburg, but facilities are barely adequate, at least at peak season.
I believe the i7 upgrade is only available in the higher model, with the base 256GB SSD.
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Not merge, but jq can diff, and it can also do a consistent dump (jq -cS) for you.

Edit: to clarify, jq -S does deep keys sorting.

$ echo '{"z":{"b": "second", "a": "first"}, "x": 4, "y": 7}' | jq -S
{
"x": 4,
"y": 7,
"z": {
"a": "first",
"b": "second"
}
}
We have knowledge of probability. The probability of the interstellar object being a light sail is equal to the probability of the flying spaghetti monster existing.

So in other words, the probability is not Zero. Meaning it is very much worth considering and this article is legit.
>I extended the original shutdown ritual with the last step because I've often found myself clueless about how to spend my evening after a day fully immersed in work.

This must have been the most depressing thing I've read in a long time.
I might pay the $5/month to a host a blog there, but I'm unwilling to require people who just want to comment on my blog to pay $5/month as well (or set up their own blog). There should be a way to add a response to a blog entry for free, without setting anything up. Maybe blog owner should have to approve them or something?
On top of that, kids develop differently at different ages. Pre-school is extremely important as it's foundation building time. Get the, addicted to tech from day 1 and they'll have lots of issues later on. But if they learn the ropes in a healthy way, they'll have a good foundation once they meet "Kenny" later on.
I could be wrong, buy they seem to talk about how the "free" part was important to combat Microsoft's costly licence, and how that isn't an issue anymore.
Yes, that is why I said it has some truth to it. Perhaps I could have been more clear in my criticism.

It is simply a very incomplete description for why some people have more wealth and income than others. It is one piece of a large and complex puzzle.
I know that I can easily guess the age of a person calling my business based on whether they can actually talk properly on the phone. Above about 35 they can all do it. Below about 25 they use the phone so little that they cannot place a professional phone call or leave a professional voicemail.
Just look at the btrfs commits in each new Linux version - the critical fixes never stop. And most of them are direct corner case fixes without systematic cleanup. The code seems to consist of corner cases without a robust framework to perform difficult operations.
He's using "VAT" as a generic term. Think "sales tax."
The reason we chose to make an SPA for the big project is that we wanted the back-end to work for multiple different types of front-ends, some potentially adding automations from the client side via the API. Who knows, were it not for that, we may have chosen a simpler HTML+jQuery design.
Resin.io changes name to balena, releases open-source edition
You might be right, but keep in mind that flash has been scaling due to the shrinking semiconductor feature sizes (and additional layers/etc). So a large part of flash's core R&D & production costs are being spread over all the logic being produced. That has been hitting a wall, so while the capacity/price curves for flash look nice, they likely won't continue, which leaves open the possibility that if rust actually gets a 4-5x boost in the near future the current market trends will continue. SSDs for perf/power/size and mechanical harddrives for bulk nearline storage, leaving tape where its been for the past 30 years, as an archival technology.
That is exactly how we do them.. you say the word and point to the item with the hand you will be using.

Ex: When landing the plane: GUMPS (gas, undercarriage, mixture,prop,seatbelts ) say them all while pointing to each item.
They are selecting for people who are book smart, because most professionals engage in a system where memorization is a key component of the field. Engineering, law and other professions work similarly, to some extent. It's not necessarily wrong, I want my doctor to have a thorough knowledge of their subject area and be able to have the mental capacity in the right places.

But surely, we can be selecting for people who are better rounded as opposed to human robots. You actually see the same thing in engineering interviews. Regurgitating leetcode answers etc but ask them a question that's not exactly what they studied for and it all falls apart.

As you said:

> being selected for their memorization skills, not for critical thinking
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Disclaimer: I am not an expert in this, so any corrections are welcome. But here's my intuition.

XDP = eXpress Data Path. It is a new packet processing mechanism in the Linux kernel, which is in some ways an answer to DPDK and other userspace networking frameworks that skip the kernel in pursuit of high performance. It was originally proposed by Cloudflare, when they achieved poor scalability (in terms of packets per second) for something as simple as a packet drop rule in the kernel. The principle behind XDP is to leverage packet processing rules as early as possible in the packet processing pipeline (no wasted work). However, only certain types of rules are simple enough to be done in a high performance way -- complex rules would still be left to netfilter / ebtables.

The rules which XDP leverages, called extended Berkeley Packet Filters (eBPF) are a new take on an old technology. eBPF is a mechanism that allows userspace BPF rules to be inserted on-the-fly into the kernel. Essentially, matching rules which meet certain simplicity requirements (e.g. loop free) can be compiled into a bytecode that is executed by the kernel in a very efficient way. This is an extremely flexible technology, and one domain which it is well suited for is packet processing. BCC is just the set of compiler tools for creating your own eBPF bytecode.
Sounds like you just don't understand the challenges of what was demonstrated rather than a lamentation of modern software. Like reading kids on /r/gaming complain that a game doesn't have unlimited draw distance yet have no clue why there's a limitation.
It was not paid for and it was not public domain. I do try to support the main producers of this content where I can (buying BBC Blu-Rays even though I have them already downloaded), but am not super strict about it. I do pirate.
Good point, this surely makes some difference, although doesn't explain the entire amount.

You can get 2 extra years of warranty for $250 through an AppleCare product. I'd assume the third year is most expensive, so the first year would be less than $125, perhaps $100.

And I'd assume they make a bit of profit on this insurance product, meaning the true cost of the warranty is less than $100, say it's $90 (assuming unusually low profit margins for Apple).

Further this product offers discounted service fees for accidental damage too, which isn't part of a regular warranty. As such, the cost of the warranty itself is likely to be even less than $90.

All of these are assumptions pulled out of my ass but I think it's probably safe to say the extra first year of the warranty to cost Apple less than $100.

The VAT in the US averages $100. That still leaves a $250 gap with EU prices. Definitely not as big as it seemed to me originally. Still I'd hope that gap may narrow a little bit in future!

As for the specific keyboard issue, I believe the warranty on that (and some other big Apple issues) is extended by a few years everywhere, so shouldn't explain regional differences in pricing.
The hardware specs of the new iPad Pro read like the dream mobile machine. If only there were not too many software limitations in iOS which would prevent it to replace a laptop for many tasks, it could take over the laptop space in no time.

- Files is way too limited. It should be possible to exchange the system supported data types between all apps via files. You can't even add a audio track to Music or a video file to the TV app as it is right now.

- The split screen feature is a good one, but so far I rarely found it useful. Not all apps support it, many apps differ in their behavior. The 50:50 split is nice, but the other split ratios I fould less useful. For some tasks you need overlapping windows.

- On the same page, one of my favorite features is the picture in picture for playing video - unfortunately again, apps differ in behavior and I don't understand the size limit. I would like to be able to put the video to any size.

- And of course, coding and running plain Unix utilities. While I am happy about the security the app model with sandboxing brings, for a "Pro" machine, this is too restrictive. Apple should allow something like Termux on the iPad, even if it were limited to a sandboxed file system, it would make the iPad soo much more useful as a computer. Apple might even release a lightweight Linux-VM as an app.

If Apple could remove these pure software-restrictions of the iPad, they could attract a lot of "Pro" users, I think. Disclaimer: I am an iPad Pro owner, fully in the Apple universe :). iCloud sync already makes it a much more useful device, but I keep hitting my head against the limitations. Running "Blink" to connect to my Linux server makes it almost a laptop, but is very limited.
RMarkdown and Knitr are dramatic improvements in terms of final outputs and VC relative to notebooks. Notebook believers (Satan worshippers, imho) would suggest that notebooks are best for developing in and not primarily made for use as final outputs.
see my edit.

as to your first point, it’s not sexual harassment make a sexual advance. It’s harrassment to do it repeatedly in a harassing way.

If “something bad might happen to me if I say no” is all it took for any advance to be harassment - then every sexual advance would be harassment! you don’t need to be someone’s boss in order to have the ability to do harm to someone.

Not hiring someone over a sexual denial, stalking, rape, spreading false rumors about people - these are all illegal for a reason - so that we can deny people without constant fear of harm.

What this google exec did was not harassment.
Would you mind elaborating a little on your workflow / apps used here please?
It's not impressive if it's not doing it with ideal sharpness in real-time, which it wasn't.

Tiled zooming into arbitrarily large images is otherwise rather easy to do. Go plop the largest image you can find onto your nearest Android phone and it'll zoom & pan that image at 60fps with nary a stutter or issue. It will take a while for it to re-snap the sharpness as you zoom in, though, but so was the iPad Pro. How fast it was re-decoding at the new scale factor & crop is the interesting question, but one which wasn't covered.

Otherwise we're just talking the same basic tech behind gigapixel viewers. Which isn't interesting or significant in the slightest, and has been used on mobile for years and years and years.
Exceedingly minor correction: Lua does use == in the way you'd expect it to.
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> My point is, this mismatch between how flexible the technique we're using is versus how much flexibility we actually need

well, most of the software I use every day have some sort of plug-in interface which is done at some point by loading a .dll at runtime and getting derived instances of a base type defined in the host app.
The author recommends that as an option as well

> Third, if you’re implementing a very complicated component then you can use React just for that component. For instance, if you’re building a chat box then there’s really no need to implement your login page in React. The same applies to Vue.js and the rest of the pack.
Apple revels the new iPad Pro
I'm the complete opposite. Touchpads not using reverse scrolling feels so weird to me.
Did you move, by chance? I ask because I haven't seen lightening bugs in years. Not because of environmental disaster, but because I moved from Indiana to the West Coast. I kinda figured lightening bugs were everywhere. Turns out...
Slightly wider aspect ratio... 1.43 close to the square root of 2, isn't that new for iPads? They were 4:3 for a while.

One of the things I think this industry gets backwards is aspect ratios. I primarily use my tablet to watch movies/tv and 99% of them are squarish. I primarily use my laptop to work, and almost all of them are now 16:9. PCs anyway.
First of all, as an aside, I think a silver lining to all of these controversial accusations is that many people are becoming more educated on standards of evidence and discussing what standard to use when. I think a better understanding of these concepts is probably the best way to find common ground.

> I don't think it's at all reasonable to presume that all of those should have a threshold of "beyond a reasonable doubt". Would you require "beyond a reasonable doubt" before you'd even apply the slightest caution? Or do you see the benefit of taking proportionate steps based on lesser probabilities?

I absolutely agree. The question is, what standard would you use? Likewise, what standard would you want used by your employer if you were accused of something?
>For me it's like saying "sure you won't remember to fasten the seatbelt on your car, ride after ride, once you are an experience driver?". Well, you can be damn sure I will ;)

I'm not sure about this example. All around the world tons of people don't fasten the seatbelt (and many more wouldn't do it if there weren't fines).
It won't be a MacBook. They'll just sell you a $200 keyboard for the iPad pro and expect that to be good enough.

I've long been convinced the intention is to kill off the MacBook lineup.
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Fair point!

But average sales tax in the US is about $100. It's still a $350 difference.
I had that same cable before and ended up going back to the normal usb c cable for charging my Pixel.

It worked, but it seemed to take 2x - 3x longer to charge using that cable than a normal USB C cable.

I never tried it on anything else though, so I'm not sure if I had a bad cable or not. It worked, it just charged very slowly compared to normal cables.
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I started a new job yesterday where I have to use macOS. I'd prefer to use GNOME.

I haven't been using macOS for any serious work yet, but so far it feels a lot clunkier and messier. It's like an idiot butler.

I'm making an effort to use it with the default settings, as it was designed, rather than trying to bend it towards my workflow.

I'll see how it goes, but so far macOS is nowhere near competitive with Fedora in terms of polish.
Ask HN: What is/was the most significative perk you had at work?
Hi HN,

I see more and more employers nowadays offering "free parking", "located near public transportation" or "foosball tables" as "perks" at the workplace. No disrespect, and I know that some of these cost money too, but what happened to the real ones?

One of the best perks I had at work, was that I had the freedom to work on my own schedule - as long as I put in at least 8 hours per day. The only downside of that was that I had to "step in" if there were issues, regardless of the hour of the day. I would still start the day at 8:00am at the office - it was nice to have the option to start later if you wanted so.
The loss of MagSafe for me wasn‘t as bad as expeced, especially given that magnetic USB-C cables(1) are a thing now.

1) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Looyat-Magnetic-Cable-Macbook-Black...
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IMO Jupyter notebooks are popular because it's open source, they are convenient and they help a lot illustrating an idea.

The results of a notebook can be shared more easily than a plain repository(via nbviwer or binder) and more importantly the science there it's reproducible.
Google adds AI fairness lessons to its machine learning crash course
To me, the shift to USB-C signifies a fundamental change in how Apple is approaching the iPad and computing going forward. Those stupid "what's a computer" ads make a little more sense. With USB-C, developers will support whatever I/O standards they need to in iOS, and the ecosystem of monitors, keyboards, and peripherals we all bought for our laptops/desktops will now begin to work with iOS too. This feature alone grows iOS into a much more powerful OS.

By this logic, it's pretty clear Apple is killing macOS x86 dependency (and macOS itself) in two ways. 1. Shifting compute intensive workloads to A level chips. This started with the small stuff around "security" and ApplePay but today the video encode/decode functionality in the T2 is a huge leap. This will extend into graphics next year (thank god cause fuck Intel's integrated graphics) with APIs like Metal and going forward almost anything I/O, Display, and every function outside of the CPU. #2 strategy is the iPad - by offering a compelling device that has all the features and capability of laptops without 2 decades of baggage.

We've all been so worried of the convergence of iOS and macOS, but after today I don't see a macOS future. Sure it will move to Apple's ARM chips, it will last another decade, but the shovel is out of the shed, it's called the T2.

(Jailbreakers, we need you)
I like this one very much: http://sql-ex.ru/
Major part of questions is based on MS SQL Server though.
Oh no. I was hoping that this would not be the case. In your opinion, is there any service that can do this for me? I mean, I am sure other people have this problem as well, someone must be solving it?
Two year olds should NOT have iPads or any such devices, period.
Global vertebrate populations have fallen by 60% since 1970
I think it's confusing to generalize about fat/cholesterol being good or bad. In a complex system, labeling an actor as good or bad depends on multiple factors.

If you're obese, have markers of inflammation and eat a poor diet high in carbs and fats (i.e., a standard american diet), you're probably high risk for developing cardiovascular disease, type II diabetes and other chronic disorders. An alarming majority of adults in the US fall into this category (60-70%).

Under this scenario, when a patient's diet and lifestyle factors remain unaddressed, prescribing statins seems to yeild little benefit.

On the other hand, when a patient improves their diet/lifestyle and gets their weight under control, in most cases the patient can return to acceptable cholesterol levels without statins. Obviously this is the ideal outcome, but physicians have little influence over patients eating habits and lifestyles. Standard medical protocol directs primary physicians to treat these risk factors proactively with statins.

So is dietary fat good or bad? If you are at a healthy weight with no/low markers of inflammation or other metabolic disorders and follow a balanced diet (meat and veggies, avoiding processed foods), fat is fine. Yes fine. Fat intake should probably be moderated due to its high calorie density, but other than that it's fine (note: excepting deep-frying food with polyunsaturated oils). Animal fats: fine. Nut oils: fine. Vegetable oils: ok provided you don't use in a fryer (or cook at high temps).

In sum, the countering theory is that cholesterol is benign-- it's not the enemy. Cholesterol has many important functions in the body: It's a key part of the body's hormone production, cellular repair and energy regulation systems. In the overall picture it's a passenger and not the primary driver of cardivascular disease. Its presence becomes a risk when other negative health markers are present.

The "deniers" believe that the prevailing lipid hypothesis fails to adequately explain the causes of cardiovascular disease, and statins not strongly associated with positive outcomes. They assert that inflammation is a marker of arterial stress, with cholesterol being implicated in heart attacks and strokes due to its role in the formation of plaque (i.e., cholesterol repairs damaged artery walls which contributes to plaque buildup). In this hypothesis, the underlying cause of cardiovascular disease is more closely tied to inflammation rather than the sole presence of cholesterol in the bloodstream.
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Shame that people think this way or rather that people focus so much on the negatives they miss out on the positives.

I travel quite a bit and always encourage / force the people with me to visit museums and cultural highlights of the location because the truth is that only by being in a new city/state/country can you expand your horizons. The only thing I see coming from this anti tourist attitude is more xenophobia from residents and ignorance from would be travelers.

I honestly can't imagine people learning history just by scrapping wikipedia pages and not actually going to the sites that history happened.

I went to Venice during the Winter and the reality is that if it wasn't for tourists the city would be half empty outside of hyper wealthy individuals who own a vacation home there, it's a shame that every other store was a souvenir store but the only other stores there seemed to be Luxury Brand stores that probably wouldn't exist either.

I don't know, I come from a country that thrives on tourism and I definitely understand the hostility, but in the end of the day many cities wouldn't exist without this new wave of low cost tourism.
So this is a level above Chisel [0] seeing that it can emit Chisel as output?

[0] https://chisel.eecs.berkeley.edu/
So...WINE with 'fancy' UI design?
> USB 1.0 and USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 managed to all use the same connector,

No, they didn't.

USB 1.0 used A and B connectors

USB 2.0 added Mini A and Mini B

USB 2.0 Revised added the Micro A and Micro B connectors

USB 3.0 modified the A and B connectors, and the Micro A and Micro B connectors, and deprecated the Mini A and Mini B connectors.

USB 3.1 added the C connector.

USB 3.2 didn't mess with connectors, for once.

(And it's even a little more complicated if you talk about sockets, because then you need to talk about the Mini and Micro AB sockets, as well as sockets corresponding directly to each of the connectors.)
Any idea how these compare to the 2.9Ghz dual core i7 in the 2015 MacBook Pro 13"?

I'm expecting these to be slower, but have no concept of what an apples to apples comparison looks like there since clock speed can be so misleading between generations. Ditto the UHD 617 vs. Iris 6100, for that matter.
A liberal is a person who supports the law no matter what.

That's so wrong it's not even relevant. It's like if you looked up "dog" in the dictionary and the definition was "a leafy plant."

Are you sure you didn't mean a "literal"?
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Wild honeybee colonies used to exist, though granted they were a new import.
If we send a Voyager-sized probe to Alpha/Beta Centauri, could we use a similar gravity assist to slingshot around one of the stars?

How good is our aim across 4.4 light years?