skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't partial commits run the big risk of commiting code that may not work, since the partial commit on your own computer will be tested against your working tree, wheras after it's committed it run with a different view of the files?
To those of you that complain about battery life. I noticed that using Safari as my browser gives me almost an hour extra compared to Firefox.
To me it seems that newer CPU may be more efficient overall, but they seem to consume more power under medium to heavy load.
Never was when I was there (2010-2013), and I wrote widgets that deployed on the global website home page.
I've stopped shopping at Amazon for most of the day to day things that I need for exactly the reasons the author brings up. Paper towels? I'll pay the extra $1.20 to know that I'm not accidentally buying a 500 pack or ordering from China and it'll take nine weeks.

The toothbrushes I'm buying on Amazon might be $4 with free shipping but I immediately question its authenticity. I've bought enough junk that's turned out to be a scam[0] that it's just easier to buy the same thing in a store. At least 15% of my one-off purchases have turned out to be regrettable. Hell, I even poked my head into one of the Facebook groups of sellers and "buyers" gaming the algorithm to see what it's about, and couldn't be more astounded to find that _everything_ on Amazon is being gamed. Everything you can buy is being replaced with knock-off junk.

Amazon's greatest asset, its convenience, has become outweighed by its low quality bar for me. It's a real disappointment. The massive influx of utter garbage has made everyday purchases risky, and it's an easy risk to avoid.

[0] I once bought a shirt that was physically impossible to put on for any human being with a head diameter greater than 10cm.
One of the reasons Amazon has been able to achieve so much diversity around what you can do with their cloud systems is because they allow the individual teams to build and manage their own services.

I'd argue that if they were building towards one, big, consistent UX (a UX they'd prefer to use the APIs and command-line tools directly anyway, rather than the GUI), that they wouldn't have the amount of functionality, breadth-of-coverage or marketshare they have today.
Ya, you are right older versions of existing social networks were actually good, until ads came along. Curious to know why do you think Google+ failed?
Related, dadgum.com's article "How much processing power does it take to be fast?" commenting on an arcade machine playing Defender with very low latency 30-40 years ago - https://prog21.dadgum.com/68.html
I miss Google reader as well but it’s demise gave me opportunity to check out Apple News. I am actually surprised how much better it is. They aggregate from opposing news sources very nicely (for example, Fox vs MSNBC) so you get to see two sides of each story. Apple News app can really open your eyes to things you don’t explore while Google Reader seem to kept recommending similar things over and over.
I haven't tried it, but I'm curious if this game works offline.
You probably won’t make it to the top
I would agree with your general theory, but your scale is way off. The cars you mention are going already be worth tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, except for 3), which would be a once in a lifetime incident and thus even more rare.

This car was for $1600 with 7 days left. Let's just say it went for $3200. Even an intermediate home mechanical could put maybe $5000 into it and sell it.

Then do a few sly reddit, Twitter or FB posts with people of an interest in astronomy with a picture of the car like, "Wow, I saw this great old Porsche today and it actually used to belong to Carl Sagan. And it's for sale!". Wait for it to go viral--understanding that that virality is going to be an a small niche of the internet--and wait.

And for what it's worth, have you met race fans? Jeff Gordon's minivan would certainly get above going rate on eBay. It's just a matter of much more and what the current owner paid for it.
I think what buboard is talking about is that CAs can revoke certificates that they've issued, and can refuse to issue certificates to particular sites. Someone might pressure CAs to do this for a content censorship purpose, much in the way that people pressure other kinds of intermediaries and technical infrastructure providers when they find some online site or content or activity objectionable.
It's far easier to point fingers at bad actors than to address the systemic causes of corporate malfeasance. And quite frankly, most people on HN don't really want to do that. Biting the hand that feeds and all that.
Interestingly, this hiring ad from the JS console :-)

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NYTimes.com: All the code that's fit to printf()
We're hiring: developers.nytimes.com/careers

update: Those 0s and 1s formed an ascii-art style nytimes logo. The format is messed up.
Great advice. I got RSI from poor wrist position on a laptop, using a desk that was too high for me.

One element to fixing the wrist angle was actually a sit-stand desk. Most desks were too tall for me, the sit stand let me lower the surface to a good height. And I can use another programmed height for eating and writing.
Several have been mentioned already, but I'll add one more rust library to the mix: https://github.com/maidsafe/crust
The main reason I've stopped shopping on Amazon so often: Counterfeits.

I'm still a loyal Audible user, I might end up cancelling Prime soon, since I no longer order from Amazon enough to justify it. I've been a Prime user since 2009, since they were giving for free to students around that time. Now I'll just walk into Target or Walmart, or if I'm buying a PC/game/console getting it straight from the OEM such as Microsoft.
You assume that the system has a notion of 'a computer', let alone 'a cpu'.

I occasionally dealt with the Amazon catalogue. It's a great example of 'garbage in, garbage out'.

This is also the reason I never bought computer parts on Amazon, even when I got a staff discount.
This post resonated with me.

I'm in my mid-20s and just a few years ago I would memorize grocery prices and track the value of the items I had in my shopping cart. Chicken breast at $2.99 per pound compared to beef flank at $8.99 per pound...I guess I'm eating chicken. Yellow onions for 79 cents each...since the store isn't charging by the pound, I'll dig through the onions and find the largest one.

These days I can spend the occasional $15 on a cocktail or $40 on a meal without thinking twice. I believe growing up in a lower income family gives me a greater appreciation for what I have now. Happy Thanksgiving!

Edit: Most importantly, I'm grateful for my (immigrant) parents' hard work and the sacrifices they made to provide me with the opportunities I have today.
Just to play devil's advocate, to achieve this always-working guarantee you could: stage, commit, stash your working directory, test your code, and then unstash.
I've loved my 2011 Air ever since I got it, but now it's 2018 and call me crazy but I'm seriously considering making my own computers and possibly software.

I'm really hating the direction that tech is taking lately, getting colder and colder, more hype less substance, arbitrary choices (no more headphone jacks), making people disconnected from the real world, and overall just freaking me out with all those fingerprint and face recognition sensors getting ubiquitous.

I can't seem to find options that fit me now and I don't like it.
Can we talk about BradFrost's choice of TB3 dock station[1]? It looks capable with the single exception of the miniDisplayPort for video. In particular, no DisplayPort/HDMI connector. Isn't that a problem?

[1] https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/docks/owc-thunderbolt-3-dock
This isn't really about spying. The reality is that Huawei's equipment is the best in the world for the money. It's not even close. Given a free market (remember that?) there's really no doubt that Huawei will go on to completely dominate this market over the next decade. It's already the largest telecom equipment maker in the world [1] and its size only makes its products and architects more and more competitive with each day. It's a virtuous cycle at work that nobody can deny anymore. The numbers don't lie: what you have here is a technologically sophisticated market where the West cannot compete with China at all. This is supposed to be impossible!

Now there is a legitimate national security concern about having the world's telecom equipment manufactured by a single company. But there's only so much can do under existing trade treaties. It's also really not a good look for the US and the West to be seen actively trying to disrupt the free market at work. And so we get this concocted story about spying. It's concocted because nobody, despite spending millions and millions of dollars investigating Huawei and studying its boxes, has ever shown the company participating in anything like espionage. Most people can see through this blatant protectionist hypocrisy [2]. Ironically all the security research on Huawei has only served to make their products much more secure than the competition.

[1] https://www.caixinglobal.com/2018-03-19/huawei-now-worlds-la...

[2] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/11/comment_huawei_usa/
This is a huge red flag for me. Maybe if you made your own bootleg flow cells and reagents? But even that seems like a stretch.
Cashless is an utopia, pushed by disconnected from reality liberal arts academics and humanities majors. Sweden is famous for having way too many of those victims of Plato virus.

Cash is a major innovation in evolution of societies and not for some weak-minded progress-cosplaying idiots to abolish it in order to be popular an re-elected.

Let them visit some overpopulated asian country to see why cash is absolutely essential.

Also look no farther than bitcoin - anything which disrupts or even increase transaction time will be a disaster.
After you name a system that decided to switch from a Raft-based consensus implementation to Tendermint, sure.
To elaborate on how Google can track your users:

The user's browser downloads the font off of Google's server, which gives Google their IP address, and the browser also tells Google's server what webpage it's currently visiting, via the HTTP referer.

And given that almost every webpage ships something from Google, Google has an almost complete browsing history for every public IP. There's generally multiple devices behind one public IP, especially for corporate networks or VPNs, so they still have to demultiplex that with further tracking, e.g. Google Analytics, Chrome Sync, Android, but that's rarely a problem either, as even if you're carefully avoiding these, everyone else under your public IP using them would be enough to single you out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_oxygen_generator#Oxyg...
Two things:

We had a lot of non web developers writing JavaScript. No idea if it's like that any more, but I can certainly say that that was responsible for some serious performance sins!

Modern browsers ... hahahahahahaha. I suspect parts of the website still fully support IE6.
"Built to Burn" is a great podcast episode from 99% Invisible that talked about wildfire prevention and mitigation techniques. It mainly comes down to proper home and surroundings design to prevent the spread of fire, letting it burn itself out.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/built-to-burn/
The documentary shows that there are several other posters in the same series, which all of have some kind of color against black and white. All of them are realistic in some way (for example, yellow taxicabs in New York and a red double-decker bus in London), but not all of them are red.

https://www.google.com/search?&tbm=isch&q=ikea+vilshult
This is compounded by the fact that you cannot in fact build more lanes to handle traffic. Supply just meets demand.
https://www.wired.com/2014/06/wuwt-traffic-induced-demand/
It sounds like we’re at or past the “peak job”, now that there are services telling us what we kind of need to work on... bc we really don’t have to work on any of that BS.
Toronto Counselor Proposes New Timezone (STD-T)
Different voltages
Not having a headphone jack is the farthest thing from arbitrary and making that claim proves your opinions aren't based on facts.

https://smartphones.gadgethacks.com/news/what-every-major-ph...
“Just get married” - my wife when I told her about this
Subuser – Docker on the desktop
TIL Carl Sagan didn't have particularly good taste in sports cars.
Interesting experience. Personally, I'm moving closer to ditching my personal MacBook Pro for an 12.9" iPad Pro. I highlight personal to emphasize that I don't expect to be doing development work on it (although the more I look into ways it could be done, the closer to "never say never" I get). But in a lot of ways, the iPad paired with a Magic Keyboard is just a better combination. More portable, terrific battery life, at least as powerful, better keyboard, better screen, even better speakers.

It's kind of strange, really: all the complaints you may have read about iOS holding the iPad back at this point are absolutely true; there are a lot of nitpicks I personally have with it (mostly relating to automation, scripting, and system-level text editing capability); there are slightly questionable hardware decisions (did you really need to take out the headphone jack from something this large? is this just a vendetta against headphone jacks? did a headphone jack kill Jony Ive's pet poodle?). But when I pick up my iPad I keep thinking this is the best computer I've ever owned. I'll see if I'm still thinking that six months from now, to be sure, but so far I'm surprised at how much I do not regret this purchase.
Then again, at the end of the day, you have companies with strong links to an adversarial government and which has been proven to have conducted economic espionage for the benefit of domestic companies, regularly violated (and violates) human rights, overthrown elected governments, invaded countries under false pretenses, and sentence people to death without a fair trial. If that's your line of logic, then there's more than enough shit to go around. Both sides are shitty.

The point being made is that industry-level security is not real evidence of malicious behavior on huawei's part. If you want people to avoid huawei, present proof.
I actually think it's one of the better ones. Not because it's actually good, but because online shopping somehow remains persistently awful.
Check out Bruce Dawson's blog, he works for Google and he writes articles on investigating slow application performance on Windows, e.g.

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2015/09/24/etw-central/

Over the last few years I’ve written over forty blog posts that discuss ETW/xperf profiling. I’ve done this because it’s one of the best profilers I’ve ever used, and it’s been woefully undersold and under documented by Microsoft. My goal has been to let people know about this tool, make it easier for developers and users to record ETW traces, and to make it as easy as possible for developers to analyze ETW traces. [..] The purpose of this page is to be a central hub that links to the ETW/xperf posts that are still relevant.

Some of my favorite blog posts are those that tell a tale of noticing some software that I use being slow, recording a trace, and figuring out the problem.

They go back a few years, he recently tweeted that Windows Performance Analyzer / ETW Trace Viewer is now available in the Microsoft Store - https://twitter.com/BruceDawson0xB/status/106039652215040819...
Well I don't think they did anything new/novel. Snapchat succeeded because the concept of _just_ sending dumb photos/videos to close friends didn't exist.

Adding friends to circles was also too much work for the user I think. On top of all that, it just wasn't very "cool" or fun
My take on GCP is that they have focus areas like Kubernetes, Spanner, Firebase that they do very well on, but for more generic offerings not so much.

For instance, our app uses Postgres 10's native partitioning features, it's REALLY strange to me that Cloud SQL is still on PG 9.6. They also don't communicate effectively on when / if they'll add it which makes planning difficult. AWS on the other hand is already testing PG 11 and has an open schedule in place to their customers can plan ahead.
> At the end of the day, you have a company with strong links (down to its founder) to the military

This sort of pure propaganda just undermines your case. The founder of Huawei was never more than a low level engineer in the military, was forbidden from joining the CCP for many years [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren_Zhengfei
Imo yes; the ability to match dna to individuals without their consent should belong to law enforcement only. I am holding out hope for legislation that makes this work.
That's kinda the point... Instead of using more energy efficient new gen CPU to add ~3 hours of life, Apple used it to make the already perfect laptop insignificantly thinner and lighter by reducing the battery size.
How is the infant financially liable?
Earlier post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18513249
Beeminder has written a lot about this. The daycare fine needed to be higher. Beeminder starts at a $5 fine and roughly triples with each consequent failure. Everyone is willing to fail until the consequence hits their limit, and then the behavior changes. I don’t know about Stikk, but Beeminder has a premium feature that lets you skip the cheaper fines and go straight to the big ones so you can start changing your behavior sooner. I’m guessing the daycare’s fine was timid and had no mechanism to ratchet up to each parent’s pain point.
Yeah, likewise, the lack of arrival date filtering is pretty annoying.
They're completely different scenarios. Commuting is usually one-directional towards the center of the city and business areas with the working population.

Evacuation is outward to completely leave the city, and includes everyone and their luggage, while being squeezed through suburban areas to just a few interstate highways.
Where Huawei got the IP? From Nortel? How much royalty fees it paid? None? That is why.
I'm not sure what you mean; Siri only activating on a single device at a time is absolutely a core design goal.
DIY microfluidics is possible with shrinky-dinks circa 2014; but for-real genomics is a little harder TBH
I often want 1 or 2 increments more volume. With real keys I just tap up volume once or twice. With touch bar I have to carefully slide it one or two volume units.
This is really interesting - I didn't realize you could use a proper keyboard.

Is there virtual desktop support?
Brilliant idea
great copywriting and site

perfectly priced product with well crafted terms.

BRAVO!
You can get external batteries if you are prepared to carry things.
What's the alternative, exactly? It's an arbitrary choice in the sense that plenty of people enjoy and rely on headphone jacks and that the benefits of switching aren't exactly major.

Besides, just because the removal has some factual claims doesn't mean there aren't facts supporting the other side of the story. So it seems like it comes down to opinions now, what do you know.
You must have some exceptional project managers.
Lol - although you’d end up working on stuff you never knew even existed or had any use for until you got married.
Yep, I basically agree with all of that. To clarify my main point, I don't think the marginal benefit that Gitless provides for working around these rough edges outweighs the disadvantage of not learning the underlying git functionality and thereby being unable to utilize advanced techniques that are inevitably required in the course of a serious software engineering career.
Still more work than quickly tapping once or twice. With the slider I have to carefully slide to get the exact amount, all without any tactical feedback.
> was forbidden from joining the CCP for many years

He was banned and then “selected as a delegate from PLA to attend the National Science Conference” all before founding Huawei.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren_Zhengfei
I'm thankful for all the extremely improbable things that had to happen for me to have the experience I'm having.

I am thankful

- To have been born to loving, educated parents

-To live in a time and place with economic and social liberty

- To have a loving and growing group of friends and family around the world who live interesting and inspiring lives

-To live in a time where so many of us can travel at the speed of sound and communicate at the speed of light

-To be able to ask any question, purchase any common object, or want to see any loved one face-to-face, and have my wish fulfilled by a vast global network of machines that do our bidding

-For the millions of seekers, of wise men and women, who created wonders from the energy of the sun and the materials of the Earth, and showed us the way through the darkness

-That after 1000 trillion creatures and eons of failed attempts, one particular hairless ape on one particular wet rock evolved a 3 pound mass of flesh into the most sophisticated computational apparatus in the universe

- That it feels like anything at all to be thinking meat.
The sample file they provide lists 12 errors, so likely at least that.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/dantelabswebsite/Dante+Labs+Genome+...

EDIT: Unless I'm reading the results wrong
Sadly, they are not part of the MGM or Caesars system. But they do have a link with Marriott’s rewards program, so you’ll earn points with Marriott. Also, Cosmo is fairly generous in terms of comped room offers, even for people that give them very little play. Make sure you sign up with their player’s club as soon as you get there and attach your card number to your room so you get credit for your full trip spend, not just your casino play. Charge all your meals etc to your room to get points for those as well. After a trip or two, they’ll usually give you a few free nights.
My biggest concern would be hypertension and damage to my heart.
Seems like it is impossible to buy a genuine PS3 controller on Amazon these days. Amazon is great for delivery, but lacks the tools needed to determine if a product is genuine or not. It aggregates hundreds of sellers for one product page, meaning going back and buying the same item from your history may result in a counterfeit the second time.
Could Miami’s Ultra music festival be so loud it’s bad for fish?
Thanks. I may be an outlier but I won’t download the trial until I know the cost. Appreciate you taking the feedback.
I believed this until I bought a cheap laptop Windows laptop to try it.

It works, technically. But it lacks all kinds of integration with core Windows, to the point where you can't run VS.Code against Python files in the WSL world.

It's easier to run a VM and sync files over SSH, sadly.
> How is the FISA court independent?

While FISA courts are technically under the judicial branch, I agree they’re an affront to the rule of law. Most cases don’t go through the FISA courts, however. In China, everything goes through the equivalent of a FISA court. (Arguable worse, since China’s courts report to the party.)
Does it work in the lap? I tried tablet-with-keyboard before and found being able to type in my lap is an indispensable feature for me.