skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe not false, but hitting diminishing returns.

I used to carry a 7 lb laptop (3 kg). Now it’s 3 lbs, plus dongles.

Getting to 2 lbs is barely noticeable. Thinner by 3-5 mm is imperceptible. Longer battery life is very noticeable.
I was at a gas station in Grand Forks, ND in the middle of winter at 2AM fueling up. I had traveled this route and stopped at this gas station at about the same time of night multiple times when I was going from ND to MN and back. The card (Citibank Visa) had a large open credit line, but it somehow got rejected because (and I quote) "they installed new software"[1]. This was a bit before I had a cellphone and luckily I had taken my Dad's advice and always kept cash hidden in the car. They promised it wouldn't happen again, and I remembered to make sure I had an emergency stash of cash in the car. I have no clue what I would have done if I had to only use that card.

1) I do get a little sick of companies feeling that "software" is a complete explanation for why something has gone wrong.
Why couldn't you send your friends crypto currency?
https://changelog.com/ has many very interesting developper podcasts

Look for previous posts in HN about this subject
JVM Memory Settings in a Container Environment
Things Nobody Told Me About Being a Software Engineer
Is it useful if it makes no difference to the user?
> Not only are perceptual uniform models like CIE Lab*, and the derived CIELCh or CIEHLC mindbending to understand and code

Conversion from srgb to lab and back (through xyz) is a handful of functions, all under a dozen lines of javascript. Lab to lch and back are a pair of functions, about two lines of code each.

If you're implementing a user interface with sliders, you might also want to clamp the values to avoid producing out of gamut colours. The weird shape is probably the hardest thing to understand (user point of view), but the controls remain very intuitive.
In the context of developing React webapps, what advantages obtain from ReasonML over TypeScript?
KDE is somewhat similar to Windows, because that general UI layout works well, and has worked well since Windows 95, ie. for literally 23 years. Other systems have used similar GUIs, including OS/2 Warp.

We are now at a point where KDE is vastly superior at this type of UI than Windows 10 is. They've been doing it for almost as long as MS (KDE 1.0 was released in 1998). The settings UIs alone are so vastly superior, it's kind of embarrassing for Microsoft.

So why has KDE stuck doggedly to this UI style? Because it works. MS spend countless millions and hours on UI research for Win95. It's a very pragmatic decision, and they've made progressions based on the original design, rather than throwing everything out the window and trying to re-invent the wheel, like the Gnome devs did.

As a result, KDE is focused, straight-forward and doesn't get in your way. It simply lets you get on with what you actually want to do. Yet it is also extremely flexible, perhaps even more so than famously customizable UIs like FVWM.

The problems czei002 mentioned are absolutely problems with Gnome. Some of them are specifically Ubuntu problems, but generally they are inherent to bad UI choices from the Gnome devs. Not being able to change permissions in Nautilus? User switching not working? Not being able to create shortcuts from the UI? These are all signs of a bad UI.

You can't even set focus to "follows mouse" without raising windows when clicking inside them. I want focus to follow the mouse, and I only want windows to raise if I click the frame or title bar. KDE lets me do this right in the settings UI, with just a couple of clicks. In Gnome (or Cinnamon), you have to alter gconf settings, akin to registry fiddling in Windows. That's not cool.
You can boot, but not install, as Linux won't see the internal storage that's controlled by the T2 chip.
We chose ReasonML after a previous project of working with JS, React and Flow. We started using Reason back in May. The plan was to use typescript but after some great experiences with Rust on personal projects, I really wanted a language closer to Rust.

Our team loves using Reason and for me, it's been such a breath of fresh air. Working on front end code is a lot more fun because many of the frustrating things with JavaScript/React has been removed. The compiler is VERY fast and the language is well designed.

With that said, the learning curve is a bit much due to the lack of beginner friendly documentation. If you do not have experience with a ML like language (Rust, Swift, Scala, OcamL, F#) AND React, I think it will be painful. Despite that, it is totally worth learning.

The good news is that the core team realizes this and things are changing fast. React was originally designed for an ML based language and you can see the stark difference between JS React and ReasonReact. ReasonReact really is an eye opening experience.
This is a major societal change. I for one believe there needs to be a tangible method of payment where a 3rd party is not requried for transactions.

I don't care if it's cash or some digital payment coin/card. The point is,people nees to be able to transact without a 3rd party and be able to buy physical tokens(as opposed to wire transfers and digital tokens).

People are too careless when changing fundamental aspects of their society. Payments can be made convenient,peer to peer and have a small amount of participation barriers.
It's not accurate. Looking at the arxiv link (https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.02325), the idea is you fix some elliptic curve E, and you look at its "twists" E^d, where the parameter d is a nonzero integer.

If you only look at twists where |d| < N, you can ask "What proportion of these are rank zero, rank one, rank two, ...?" The Theorem in the paper is that as you let N go off to infinity, these proportions tend to 1/2, 1/2, 0, 0, 0, ... respectively.

Here's the thing: this does not correspond to a measure on the set of rational elliptic curves, and indeed, there is no reasonable way to define a uniform probability measure on a countable set. Consequently, statements like "half of all elliptic curves..." are kind of misleading and meaningless.
If Trump actually cared about protecting America, he would be sending more resources towards the CBP officers who inspect and seize counterfeit products instead of security theater at the border.
You're fooling yourself if you believe nothing can be done about Bitcoin. If the powers that be want it dead they'll outlaw it, and that's effectively game over for any kind of common transaction system. The reason it hasn't so far is because there are too many rich and powerful speculators involved, but those winds could change in a hurry so I wouldn't get too cocky.
http://archive.is/FUakE
Anti-fraud may been the reason on that day, but who knows what will be the reason tomorrow (eg Capital Controls as it happened in Greece). The main point is that I still had to get permission. It's kind of like when I was a kid, I wasn't allowed to go outside the house unless I informed my parents, which was like getting permission implicitly.

When using cash, you do not have to inform the bank anything.
I like physical cash. I don’t always use it, and generally use my points earning credit card at places I frequent, but don’t at places I’m new to or have no intention of returning to (unless I don’t have enough cash on me). The number of times my card has been stolen has entered into the 10s, even in our new chip card era (I’ve had three chip cards compromised, but can only definitively attribute one of those to it having been stolen after typing it into a website. i.e. no chip involved). Apple Pay and its ilk are a step in the right direction (and convenient because they still work when the physical card is cancelled), but still traceable and beholden to additional parties.

If I’m somewhere where I think the transaction might be sketchy, I can pay cash and not think about it any further. Skimming, however, is still a thing and every time my card is stolen it causes me an inconvenience that would not exist if I’d used cash.

“Bitcoin/cryptocurrency will fix this!” some of you will say. Perhaps, but it’s got a long way to go. All the USD I have in my pocket still says “this note is legal for all debts, public and private”, I don’t personally think a sign saying “we are cashless” at the cash register after I’ve ordered my food is acceptable (those establishments I’ve encountered didn’t accept bitcoin, either).

I acknowledge what it says on usd currency is somewhat tangential to a Swedish cashless society, but I still think cash should be king, or at least always accepted.
Hackers (1995) is free to watch on YouTube
> Noone cares about thin laptops

I suspect that when you say "noone," you mean "noone except for all those weird people who bought the first generation of Macbook Air, and then another, and are now ready to buy a third Macbook Air."

Like me. And judging by recent Apple history, I am not an outlier. They have sold a LOT of Macbook Airs, to people who could have bought a "more powerful" machine with a different form factor.

Yes, absolutely I love its light weight. But I also like its profile, and the entire "thin wedge" design principle is to increase the appearance that it is thin.
>Sometimes you wonder whether growth is really what you want with a company, why do all of those adverts on the back of the legendary Nick Park stuff? Why spread the brand out so thinly and why get the consultants and venture capital in to make the brand go big?

The question to me is, given a set of goals and missions what is the ideal scale. I often reflect on a particular essay on organizational scale:

"You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away, provided that the ground is fairly soft. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes. For the resistance presented to movement by the air is proportional to the surface of the moving object." - On Being the Right Size by J. B. S. Haldane http://irl.cs.ucla.edu/papers/right-size.html
> You can write a perfect function that adds two 32 bit integers.

how ? the problem of adding two 32 bits integers is itself imperfect since you may at some point have big integers to sum, so any solution is inherently flawed, too
While probably not for the average user, my father is using a mac pro and mbp quite heavily for photo and video, and he's using a synology nas with time machine enabled. It's been working for a few years now without problems.
Lime issues recall for a scooter model after reports that they can break apart
If you'd like to read a thorough, technical introduction to quantum computing, Ronald de Wolf's Quantum Computing and Communication Complexity is very good. It's de Wolf's PhD dissertation, published in 2001. You can find a PDF online[1] but the author will send you a bound copy for free if you email him :)

Obviously any introduction from the early aughts is going to be noticeably out of date compared to the current state of the art. But since the core fundamentals remain the same it's still a very good place to begin learning about the subject. It's also good reading to gain some perspective of what the cutting edge looked like at the turn of the century.

In particular, de Wolf's work lays out a cursory introduction to quantum mechanics before giving a walkthrough of several early quantum algorithms (Deutsch-Jozsa, Bernstein-Vazirani, Simon, Grover, Shor). Then he moves on to fundamental quantum computing and complexity theory, and finally to quantum communication. An appendix gives a refresher to the linear algebra you'll need to follow along (i.e. you should have familiarity with linear algebra before reading this, but you don't need to be adept with tensor analysis).

If you'd like a more recent and accessible (if not as complete) introduction to the subject, de Wolf also published the lecture notes for the graduate course[2] he taught in 2011. This has been continually updated with errata and additions through 2018. The lecture notes for this course largely take the survey material from his dissertation and build upon them with research results from the past 17 years.

_____________

1. https://homepages.cwi.nl/~rdewolf/publ/qc/phd.pdf

2. https://homepages.cwi.nl/~rdewolf/qcnotes.pdf
1. Stop working remotely. If you’re in an office, talk face to face more.
2. Theres “anti-social media” and there’s “maybe I’ll just use social media minimally so I can use dating apps and not die alone.”
>> users around the world would abandon it and point their miners at more trustworthy pools.

This is not as easy as you try to paint it, because mining requires hardware, and you can't just move it around the world at will - most of it is physically located in China, and that's not gonna change.
You can use CSS variables, no preprocessor necessary for newer browsers:

:root {
--palette-blue-light: blue;
}
background-color: var(--palette-blue-light);
Machines That Play Chess
Subreddit for the given language. Any kind local meetup for given language.
The parent explicit talks about iPhones.

Even so, the same logic must be examined. It cannot be assumed that electronics designed for repairability have a lower environmental impact.
It would only be acceptable if the cashless society supported both anonymity. It's the only way to avoid discrimination and enforce fairness.
Probability theory is based on measure theory. You can think measure as abstraction of the size of a set. As others point out in different ways, probability 1 and zero-probability don't mean exactly what you think they mean.

Simply put: it’s possible to have a non-empty set with zero "size".
To back up my last claim, let me prove that 100% of positive integers are even in the same spirit:

Fix any odd positive integer x, and consider its "twists" x{d}, which for positive d I define to be x*2^d. Every integer is of the form x{d} for a unique choice of x and d. Now, for fixed N, if I consider all "twists" for which d<N, the proportion which are even is (N-1)/N. Thus, as N tends to infinity, the proportion tends to 1.
The staff in the local branch of our bank know who we are without asking (no, this isn't because we're particularly good customers, just regulars)

I can just go up to the counter and ask to withdraw some of my money and (against my signature) they'll hand it over. No ID required, really handy if you've mislaid your wallet.

I realise this one can't really scale (!) but it is definitely a nice feature.
Most of those generators are showing you sets of colors that all compliment each other. When you're designing an interface you have different priorities, you need a more of a fill and accent colors, as well as other colors that give contextual clues (like confirmations or warnings).

I think both concepts are useful, but this article is a way better approach.
The Minds of Men
Isn't china's cashless move bearing similar problems?
You don't have to guess, you can do the math.

While you're at it, watch this, it's fun (and related): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sENgdSF8ppA
Looks like it's been available since October 1st, this isn't an illegitimate upload either.
https://gitea.io/en-us/ is a fork with some additional functionality and more open to outside contribution[1]

[1] https://blog.gitea.io/2016/12/welcome-to-gitea/
Maybe it will make a big difference once the software is way into its useful life, and it needs to be maintained and evolved.
My experience with ODMs at Shenzhen was that it's usually ten days for engineers. Could be down to one week when production was halted.
But yeah that means workers only had 7 days.
I didn't witness five days though. And they shut down power for the whole building, so people couldn't really get there early
You can embed raw js in reason/BS easily with [%raw ] iirc. Check the bucklescript documentaton, where the interop docs are located.
As someone who' seen both the cashless and society with cash. The cash one is better.
The only reason it is a "platform" is because of lock-down. Imagine if Jobs' original vision of HTML5+JS runtime as the iOS app runtime engine had come true.
Apple's unit sales for iPad were declining YoY for a few years (after rocketing out of the gate) before they stabilized. iPhone unit sales have been more or less flat for the past 3 years (with YoY declines against comps). They still reported units during that period.

It's possible that they've decided to stop reporting unit sales because they're anticipating that they'll decline from here, but it's unlikely considering that this has already happened and they reported them anyway. The actual reason why they've stopped reporting units is because they're retraining the shareholder base to look at Apple and the ecosystem of products holistically.
There doesn't need to be a rationale or incentive. It's electronics combined with software. At some point it will shut off or break down, probably at a time most inopportune.
The whole class component story in Reason felt kinda clunky, but with hooks this will probably not be a problem anymore.

Compared to the Rust compiler's performance, BuckleScript is a moloch, but as long as you don't try to run it on a t2.micro it works okay.
I agree with you. We have a more stong Guaraní presence in Bolivia and Paraguay today, about 280 thousand people living in four countries from a study in 2017 [1], which 85 thousand living in Brazil, which is neglegible comparing to the population numbers in that regions.

The reality is that those communities are very poor, having even cases of institutionalized racism, where children were separated from their parents at their Guaraní and Kaiowá communities by the brazilian state and sent to child safety services, atrocious. [2]

[1] https://mobilizacaonacionalindigena.wordpress.com/2017/04/27...

[2] https://cimi.org.br/2018/03/racismo-institucional-justifican...
Note that the article is about Sweden, which has a VAT, not a sales tax. One great property of VATs is that they encourage reporting.
I have heard about pushers using mobile payment services. Some even advertise their business on facebook.
Simple, operate in the appropriate mathematical ring. Just because there is overflow doesn't mean it failed.
Thin is not “completely artificial.” I replaced my MBP with an X1 Carbon and am really enjoying how thin it is. I can stick it in the papers pocket in my briefcase, the map pocket in the seats in my car, easily carry it one handed.

I’d love for laptops to keep getting thinner. The X1C is almost thin enough to easily carry around with a stack of papers, but if it were thin as an iPad that’d be even better.
Well everyone there has the same holidays, and yes they mostly assume everyone they work with are well aware of it.
So just ask them nicely every three months what are their next holidays
Euler, Fermat and Primality Test
"accidentally" shared my ass. What a butt licker.
Meta-discussion is also against the guidelines. Being a rules lawyer is bad enough; don't be a rules hypocrite.

P.S. Yes, I know I'm also engaged in meta-discussion now. I can afford it.
It has nothing to do with disagreement. It’s that downvotes are used to silence people.

You can make an argument counter to someone else’s without mini-censorship, but that’s hard, you need knowledge and experience for that.

Whats easy is just to try and hide anyone else from seeing a counter argument at all.
There's a certain irony that the presenter quickly dismisses exception-based error handling, and then the first example handles an error by printing a message and exiting -- exactly what an unhandled exception does.

This is more than a small piece of irony with a somewhat artificial example. Often, there simply isn't very much you can do with an error. In a SaaS world, you might not be able to tell the user what wrong, in order to not disclose some private information. You can log the error, but only if the network is available, and you can only log it to disk if the disk isn't full.

And then there are cases where you could try to explain the error to the user, but the reasons are very complicated and/or require intimate knowledge of the architecture to make sense, and/or require intimate subject knowledge to understand, or even obscure legal reasons.
Also Apple recently removed a data recovery connector on the motherboard which was used to access the ssd even if the rest of the board was dead.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/362635/data-recovery-connector-re...
I see. The question here is not if there will be proprietary software: there will be. The question is which of that proprietary software runs on the CPU.

Is the idea that all of the software in the kernel to interface with these devices is open source?

I also don’t get the hangup over PCIe (vs USB). DMA with an IOMMU can be made fairly secure (and has obvious perf benefits).
As far as I know, Reason is sound and the pattern matching is very streamlined.
What does it take to become a good developer?
There’s a big club in NYC that does this (Brooklyn Mirage), except they link your credit card to the bracelet and you don’t have to load credit.

Makes the lines for drinks move so fast, it’s really outstanding.
> accidentally made public.

Sure
Good coding requires good habits. Learn how to develop them
But don't you want to reduce their bandwidth usage?
Sweden was never a "utopia".
What's stopping non-white immigrants (presumably residents of Sweden staying there for a nontrivial time) from getting a Swedish bank account? If there are significant barriers to that then the "getting into a club issue" is a trifle compared to the broader participation in society. E.g. how are they getting paid for their work if almost no legal employers will pay salaries in cash?
I've always been suspicious that "seller refurbished" items on Amazon or eBay are simply used items wiped off with a damp paper towel.
It’s not a requirement. You don’t have to tell them.
I want to be able to move my swedish currecy around without relying on visa/MasterCard and preferably not even banks.

One solution is simply charging cards like public transit cards instead of using credit cards which are connected to an account.

That’s where a cryptocurrency is needed.
The device tree is the magic feature for describing the hardware layout of a device, thereby moving "wiring"-related modifications out of the kernel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_tree
Not necessarily aimed at white people, but also security-conscious people as well. I am white, and feel excluded due to not having Swish at many events where everyone is "swish me this swish me that", and all go high horse "cash not accepted".
This is from 2011. 7 years ago.

It would be nice to see if there was a change at Google since then to orientate itself towards more of a SOA thing like Amazon? I don't know what state Google Cloud Platform was back in 2011 - I am guessing it is significantly more now than it was then, so would be curious to know if that has stemmed from a "transformation" internally, or if they just started from scratch for GCP?