skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's open source, so the lock in shouldn't be an issue.. My first reaction when hearing about it was to wonder how good the ffi in Dart is. Would it be possible to interface to Flutter from different languages? Then I would definitely be interested..
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> There was a young Chinese woman there, who felt safer.

Why wouldn't she?

If you've installed a nuclear bomb inside a person's home and tell that person the bomb will keep him safe, he will probably feel safer either. That is as long as you don't tell him about the fact that the detonator is controlled by a nasty monkey.

In China, you can only see the positive news about the system. Even when a journalist are trying to tell you the danger, on the surface the writing will eventually boil everything down to privacy protection, not the system.

So, don't be surprised.
This has to be my favourite comment regarding the keyboard debacle.

I hope Apple is not seriously thinking that the laptop market isn't worthwhile because sales are poor. No, sales are poor because people were/are terrified of keyboard issues! Myself included.

Edit: At least you're guaranteed you won't have keyboard issues with the Mac Mini!
Blockbuster's demise was fairly widely predicted - at least among the tech crowd.
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Too right it's Black Friday: our relentless consumption is trashing the planet
Is there something similar but for positive reinforcement? Negative reinforcement (tough love) tends to make me want to crawl into my bed, cry and give up. (I know I should fix this, get tougher skin or whatever, but assume I've tried already. Just like this site works with chronic procrastination, rather than telling you to "just fix it".)
Handling ID Theft is certainly an area that could use improvement. It’s a total pain in the ass and the fact that we’re basically paying K&R insurance each month to hedge this risk is crazy.
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Get a secondhand Mac mini cheap. Then you can use the iPad to test Safari, and open the dev tools (for the iPad instance) in Safari on the Mac mini. The ability to remotely debug iOS Safari is a really nice feature of Mac Safari.
I think they really made this for companies with 100s or 1000s on shelves, a better GPU wouldn't be useful but the lowest-power GPU and keeping the old case sure would.

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Arguably, in many of the listed languages, similarly easy to read code can be achieved through different means.

For example, in Python, it's often simpler to just use keyword arguments, possibly with default parameter values:

def my_insane_constructor(a, b, c=1, d=False):
# ...

# Invoke it:
my_insane_constructor("foo", b=42, d=True)

As the article mentions, fluent interfaces become significantly simpler to implement with method cascading (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_cascading), which most common languages don't have.
I'm a zone 4-6 dweller of 40+ years and don't recognise this characterisation, I'm afraid. Three years ago Diamond Geezer published a map of all the places in London's boroughs which are more than 1 mile (yes, not km, but bear with it) from the nearest station, so you can see the "prisons" here: http://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2015/07/over-one-mile.html
subway stations from around the world, the second one is not Westfriedhof Station, Stockholm, it is in Munich Westfriedhof station!
I don't think there's much point in thinking about that change, because in the US there isn't the political will to operate and maintain such systems on an ongoing basis.

The NYC subway + DC metro, while far from perfect systems, are basically built on the desirable "traditional city" model. In both cases, actually maintaining and funding the system to operate to a reliable and acceptable standard, instead of running it into the ground, is a controversial idea with limited political support.

Unless and until such things can be operated as a going concern on an ongoing basis, there is no point building any more.
As someone living in London this is absolutely not the case for me. Mutli-mode transport is very easy in the era of Citymapper, I find myself on buses quite often; areas further from tube stations tend to have better bus services to compensate. Literally nobody I know has a car. Many own bikes and use them almost to the exclusion of public transport.

Is it less convenient to live further from a tube station? Sure! Is it a prison? Absolutely not.
By that metric taking a pee costs at least $20.
I don't know if you've seen The Gervais Principle[1] before.

It's a cynical but interesting way to think about some of the amoral behavior you see in corporations.

It touches on how middle management gets stuck with the short end of the stick between upper-level management and lower-level employees.

I'm not really sure how you could change the incentives to make things better for mid-level employees.

[1] https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
The pervasive monitoring reminds me of the villain in Snowcrash.
I have, it's quite a busy spot but I managed to get something similar
This scenario: I have my website on v4 and v6, v6 uplink goes off, v6 users are cut off. No monitoring. I see dropping user number of users in my analytics, being unable to determine what the problem is because the website is running fine.
Is this Open-sourced? looking at the website it doesn't seem like it
True the exact numbers are hard to pin down. My point is that articles gaining traction on social media is viewed as a major dimension of editorial strategy (as is obvious by the dramatic increase in clickbait headlines), because once a story goes viral it is all upside for the paper's own views and ad sales.

This was either already incentivized by the internal incentives given to editors and writers, or incentives have been adapted (by papers that have survived) to take this valuable channel into strong consideration when deciding how to phrase something.
> but for third worlders, $15 USD must be mana from heaven.

This model is waning. Eastern Europeans now flock to East Asia in swathes, and are way way more aware of global job market.

This also creates a factor of negative selection: talents leave right after graduation, and remaining labour force is not suited to "evolve" and progress without a guiding force.
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Medical device, need RX.
Does anyone here use Siri on their Mac? I can’t seem to find a good use case for if however hard I try.
Why does Iran need to ditch their theocracy to be our ally, but Saudi Arabia gets to keep theirs?

That’s what I don’t understand. The Iranian government is a bunch of oppressive fuckheads and stands for many things we oppose... but that’s even more the case with Saudi Arabia, so we treat like kings.
I know!

How is that going btw?
I believe that's partly a government issue. They're considered a prescription medical device. So they can only be sold by specialty stores that can validate the prescription.
With all the whiteboard interviews we do, I can't imagine why…
Oh, I agree with you m8. I'm terrified with the surveillance stuff. I'd exchange then my "safe(r)" with "more sense of "safety"" (double quote deliberate).

Side note, that colleague originates from Bucharest? Just wondering if it's the same with my wife who feels unsafe in Berlin while she feels safer in Krakow.
They shouldn't be equated exactly, but the difference is one of severity, not of kind. It's important to keep in mind that the western credit system has victims too, and is a tool for behavior control too, just not nearly to the same severity, but should be carefully tracked for fear of scaling up to the exact horror the Chinese one represents, if not worse.
I mean, as long as your ECC is built directly into the silicon
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Yes! that is why I would never trust my cloud infrastructure to GCS... who knows if they will discontinue their S3 copy in two years.
Flutter looks good, the ‘goods’ out weighing the ‘bads.’ I am “retiring” next spring, and I look forward to getting back into user experience development. I wrote successful commercial UI heavy products for three platforms when they were first released (Xerox Lisp Machine, 1984 Mac, Windows 1.0 beta) but mostly people pay me for AI development, but I would enjoy getting back into UI. I used RubyMotion to convert Cookingspace.com to simple iOS and Android apps a few years ago, but RubyMotion hit a road block, I think, when it was sold to an individual. Flutter seems more secure longer termed.
I'm just saying its a bit different in US than China in that there's systems to push back and freedom for documentary makers to expose this.
Adding to other snarky comments about The Economist here, if it is published in The Economist it probably is the crowded view. I read the magazine for years and I'm not sure if I gained much unique insight about anything.

Certainly Facebook is not Yahoo. I think you are right, Facebook is almost exactly the opposite of Yahoo in every way, from the founder sticking around to how acquisitions were picked and managed.

I don't particularly like Facebook or agree with it. I prefer the communication platforms on the internet looked more like the internet, decentralized. Unfortunately for both Facebook's proponents and critics we are now in a negative news cycle echo chamber.
$85,000 on Facebook ads. Surprisingly small amount, that.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/05/10/w...
>People get bad credit because they acquire debt and then fail to service it and think ignoring creditors is the way to go.

Or they are born poor and don’t have access to credit. Thus have limited access to jobs and housing. That continues to prevent them from establishing credit and keeps poor people poor. Also there are plenty of studies showing credit scores in fact are inheriently biased against minorities.

“Just Pay Your Bill”. Exactly as I said the majority loves it, and the majority in China will love it to and say “Just be a good citizen”.

Edit: I realized I’m talking about the dystopia of using credit to limit ones ability to get a job and housing, and you’re talking about ability to buy cigarettes and video games.
A power brick is sort of like a real brick - a big chunk of plastic which should be out of sight/mind and can be placed just about anywhere, as most people tend to do, often on the floor/behind the desk, etc... generally communing amongst other forgotten cables and dustbunny colonies.

External GPUs + enclosures are larger and more expensive than power bricks and therefore are probably best kept somewhere relatively safe, especially while connected to a tiny Thunderbolt port - I've personally seen plenty of bent/broken USB/FW ports due to cable management "issues" among friends/acquaintances/colleagues.
One thought that I have had is, would NNTP nowadays be a good place for discussion? There are still news servers (mainly used for piracy last I remember), but maybe September has actually ended in Usenet given that all the 12 year olds have moved on to facebook.
Yep. We all want them doing this service. They are truly obligated both on a local, personal level, and then in a wider sense by society.

Everyone is happy that they are providing this, and we all agree that they are definitely experiencing this real need, and not projecting something into the world that's actually just going on in their heads.
They've already had parts of this in place for awhile. My aunt-in-law's friend has had difficulty traveling in China because she's mistakenly listed in the system as being some kind of Falun Gong leader through some kind of clerical error. She found out when she was on a bus going on vacation, and they pulled her off the bus once they scanned her national ID.

She has no appeal and no way to correct the mistake. None of the police or officials she's talked to have done anything. She's just stuck with it.
> And if you're a suspicious sort who wants ECC in their build farm, then a Xeon or an AMD processor of some kind would be a better fit.

What does ECC refer to?
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I don't think many people see Zuckerberg as a fool.
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The resemblance of this guy to the protagonist in “sorry to bother you” is almost too on the nose.. get ready for life worry free!
Did they ask someone with a negative rating whether they felt safer too?
There is collateral damage in china's war against its terrorists, and I'm sure they justify it the same. It's bullshit, when you are making up a foreverwar.
Well, isn't Iran "the biggest sponsor of terrorism"? While the Saudi Arabia is "the greatest ally" of the West in fighting it?
They do use the phrase "deadly serious" a curious number of times...
Thanks! I was wondering if I had the wrong king there.
I’d like evidence or sources for the statement that Saudi Arabia spending money and being wealthy would lead to corrupt officials (plants) in the USA. To me it sounds like an extraordinary claim.
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I've been a nomad for the past few years and I expect this trend to get bigger in time as more people moving to work remotely.

I'm looking to start a business around this area - what do you think are the biggest opportunities for remote work?
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The west has always been kissing Saudi ass. It’s just a lot of money to give up. But we as common people also have weaknesses. All the times you preferred Emirates is one example. I actively avoid any Middle Eastern airlines. Never flown Emirates.
That's a good point. When I look at some stuff that's done for cyclists here in California I also have my doubts if any of the planners ever have used a bicycle.
Is there some reason you don't just get two Mac minis, one for home and one for work? I used to bring my laptop back and forth between work and home frequently, but now I just have two work laptops, one that lives at work and one that lives at home (and comes with me when I travel). I find it a lot more convenient. Everything is in the cloud these days anyway, so it's not like I need files stored on the local machine.
> Side note, that colleague originates from Bucharest?

Yeap, she has lived her entire life until this summer in Bucharest (she's approaching 30 now), and she hasn't grow up and live in the "posh" parts of town, so to speak.

> Just wondering if it's the same with my wife who feels unsafe in Berlin while she feels safer in Krakow.

It's funny because said colleague (and friend) has moved out to London for a Polish guy, I guess that's where the better-paid jobs are.
Pedantry: That's more of a Ponzi scheme, pyramid would be if the buyers got more people to sign up so they could get their DNA results or money or whatever.
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Sure, but a blog is how you get a social media following.

I don't buy that Medium can do a better job of connecting you with people. For programming you can just take that link and post it on Reddit and you'll get plenty of visitors.
Internet cafes in developing countries are abundant, and you might be surprised how fast the connectivity often is.

They cost a tiny fraction of $15/hour so I don't see how this is a capital-constrained job for anyone.

The theoretically necessary self-employment paperwork is not going to be a meaningful barrier to action in most developing countries.
This is outside my wheelhouse of history, but the citations on Wikipedia claim the Ramayana is at most from 7th century BC. That's a big pretty difference from your claim (which I find extremely suspect to begin with).
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One thing these articles nearly always gloss over is that these beautiful, clean metro systems stay that way partially because they close down for maintenance at night. The New York system runs 24/7, as does most of the "sorry crap" in Chicago. I presume there's an article here scolding Americans for staying up too late or something.
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Your argument is solid, and I can identify with it. But you'd find a better audience if you typed "you are" than "u r".
Because the elevator decended 84 floors doesn't mean the cable snapped immediately at the start -- express elevators are fast and shakey, there's no way to determine at what floor the cable actually snapped.

It could have accelerated too fast, and the cables snapped only when it started to slow down, which it probably would have anyways for the remaining 10 floors. they may have only free fell one or two floors, if at all. Cable probably snapped just before they started to hear the clack clack clack
my advice would be that you do have to consider your own life as well.

I think this is an excellent thought.

I am told by someone who is a professional counselor that therapists who have patients with borderline personality disorder have to reduce their other caseload significantly.
Your point is taken, and I agree that very many folks are not being reasonable about what they want. The money has to come from somewhere.

That said, I think I'd be perfectly happy if most websites went under. What we're getting out of it (novelty, entertainment) isn't worth the cost (attention span, loss of privacy) in most cases.
Because their theocracy refers to US as great satan? That complicates any possible alliance a bit. I think that they may also hold grudge for US support of US' best buddy Saddam Hussein during Iran - Iraq war that cost them a nice chunk of a million lives.
That makes sense though I still feel there is a huge conflict of interest and the system is broken. I do see your point regarding insurance being the all seeing eye so to speak. Thank you.
You haven't appreciated MacOS until your entire family has hosed windows 10 laptops that they've been saving up to bring around so you can fix them at Christmas...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECC_memory
I think it's clear what Apple is doing here.

The smartphone market is saturated, the tablet market is saturated, the laptop market is saturated, the desktop market is almost dead and Apple doesn't have (a lot of) users in the workstation market.

So why put a lot of effort in designing new products every year?

What we now see is that Apple is focusing on people with money and on paid services.

And it works. They won't tell you how many iPhones they sold but the profit will be huge.
At this point, someone should just make a Space Grey Mac Mini Casing, with 1 or 2 NVMe housing on the side, along with 7nm Radeon Vega. Stack them up and connect the two via Thunderbolt, upgrade the Mac Mini yourself with 64GB Memory. Done!. Apart from the CPU limited to 6 Core, I think this is about as close to "Mac" as most people want.

The only problem is I am not sure about the performance penalty of eGPU, may be two Thunderbolt connection instead of one will help?
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Error correcting code memory https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECC_memory
Also: it would be cool if Flutter was extended to support macOS, GTK (Linux), and maybe even Windows 10. Give small dev teams more market reach.
In that case you need to do the exact opposite i.e. avoid the obvious optimisation of returning data early if no correction is required.
TLDR is that there is no compelling reason, if you don't find the concept interesting from a scientific curiousity standpoint. It is likely that someday the information will be useful, but right now it is mostly more of a luxury/curiousity thing. Having your full genome would allow you to (in theory) look up if any upcoming discoveries about the impact of various genes, applies to you. But if you're not wanting to dive deeply into genetics out of personal curiousity, I don't think there's any reason to do this (right now).
That's one thing that concerns me about the US in general. Other than military it seems the country has given up on acting on any issues society faces. Be it gun violence, health care, immigration, retirement or infrastructure, issues are just used as material for never ending political fights but nothing gets solved. Pretty sad.
There's something about this that resonates with me, in the stark reality of the intersection / tension between art and commerce:

“Finally, I got in touch with the lead designer at IKEA who had picked the photo more than 10 years ago. I ask him why he picked the photo, and he told me that the first thing they design at IKEA is the price.

This photo was just very, very cheap, and that’s why they picked it.”

We {makers | artists | artisans} want to create something that's great, or beautiful, or complete. But commercially, what's viable is the (forgive the cliche) Pareto solution. This photo is 80% of a great photo, at 20% of the price. I tend to forget that the 80% solution is an option to consider when I'm working on a project.

I coincidentally live in Amsterdam and also have been learning photography, not because of any intrinsic interest but because my wife said "buy an SLR because we'll be having kids in a few years, and I want to have nice photos of them." We now have a baby (and many wonderful photos), but I find myself really frustrated that I've put significant effort into learning the technical part of the skillset and she has not. But when I really consider the imbalance, it's true that she can get the 80% result with point and shoot auto or my presets, and there's no reason for me to get judgmental that she doesn't make more of an effort.
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>France

Only Texas and Alaska are larger than France. I give you Alaska, due to the geography and low population, but Texas is just slightly larger and has half the population of France - not a massive difference.

I think it could be reasonably fair to compare countries to single states at least?
The british relationship with the kingdom of saud predates ww2 by decades going back to the ottoman empire. The british were instrumental in supporting saudi and arab nationalism to destroy the ottoman empire. Hence the tense relationship between "britain and turkey" and "saudi arabia and turkey" today.

Actually british have a long history of using nationalism to destroy the ottoman empire. Some of the foremost british romantic poets supported greek nationalism to free greece from the ottoman empire.

Interestingly enough, 40 years after nationalism destroyed the ottoman empire, nationalism would destroy the british empire.
This is like saying, in 1939, its sad because it sure seems like the Germans would make far better allies for us. There were plenty of people who said that, but With the Nazis in power, they were very wrong.

The Iranian government is a police state controlled by a bunch of fanatical fascists, who are one of the most successful terrorism exporting states ever. Just recently they were caught attempting to kill people in Belgium and France. And those are just the recent catches.
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Does the person screening the code for backdoors get paid more than $15/hr?
I'm a bit surprised that people in this thread don't seem to understand the parallels between social and economic status. It's not some grand revelation either - it's pretty much common knowledge. There's obviously a distinct difference between these two systems, but to say "China's social credit system has nothing in common with America's financial credit system" is pretty ignorant to how important having good credit is to being successful in America.
I'm a huge fan of gorillas - would you be able to recommend the tour company that you used? This would be a bucket list item for me. Appreciate it.
I have been to Greece and I have friends who live there, and I can say that living in Greece is normal. I am really not sure why would claim that living in Greece is significantly worse than living in China or any other western country.
> “the undo feature”

What do you mean? The persistent undo?