skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wanted my Nexus 5 to do that. But alas, the wifi chip died, and replacing the whole logic board didn't make sense for a $200 phone.
Most of their money comes from hardware. And for the largest part of 2010s their services (Store, Music, iCloud) income were insignificant. Even now it's just around 20% of total revenue.
Sometimes you need to go for the win because of external conditions (last round of a tournament, or your chess team is losing and the captain told you to press on).
Last world championship qualifiers for example saw Kramnik tilting because he needed to go all in in order to still make a chance to qualify.
Now this is a project worth throwing some time and resources into. Kudos to the author for getting the ball rolling!
If you purchase a movie from either iTunes, Amazon Prime, Vudu, or Google Play, you can use Movies Anywhere to sync your purchases across all of the services.
seems it's updated quite regularly https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/news-polls/what-worries-the-worl... (and that the yellow vest movement didn't improve France optimis :D )
Habitual line-steppers, all.
> but there is no point to producing more than you consume -- not for long anyways.

Of course there is. This is the definition of savings and capital creation.

The more a society saves, the more we are able to invest in capital, and therefore produce way more in the future.

Capital creation is how societies as a whole become better over time. It is the definition of investing in our future.
I just got a battery from them for my 6p. It was the same model, but looked different. It was also sightly too large compared to the old one, and the circuit board was sticking out. I had to really cram it in there for it to work.
I bought used CPU & RAM. And no discrete GPU.
Not sure why people disagree with this. This is why there is a push to teach kids programming in school and the entire reason why large companies are pro-mass immigration. Lowering costs is a priority.

The "teaching kids to code" is more subtle however, in that it is an OBVIOUS good. Am I opposing learning for my selfish interests?

The question is poorly phrased intentionally, it ought not be "should kids learn to code?" But rather "is code what kids ought to be learning instead or X?". Personally, I believe that kids should learn personal finance or cooking instead, for example.
> Parent comment is referring to software vulnerabilities running on the box itself, not vulnerabilities in your website. When Apache or whatever it is that you use to serve your static website comes out with a vulnerability that allows RCE as root

Or you can opt out of this mess and run a simple server. Not as root.

The update & maintenance treadmill can be slowed down to nearly a halt if you're ok using simple software that doesn't have a billion features and just as many bugs. Which, I suppose, someone running a static site would be quite willing to do.
OWASP dependency check (https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Dependency_Check).
(Java)

Oh, and snyk for js:
https://snyk.io/
Looks like it was pretty well anticipated and planned
Russia -> Mongolia -> China -> Vietnam -> Cambodia (he might have cheated here and gone by bus, Cambodia does have trains but they're not really available for passengers anymore I don't think) -> Thailand -> Malaysia -> Singapore
The article seems unclear on the order of events. What happened after the prototype crashed? Was there another prototype? What is "successful final testing?"
Depression is a serious mental illness, in which 7-10% of the patients die (because of suicide). Not kidding. It is caused by the imbalance of serotonin and readrenalin neurotransmitters.

Depression is NOT a synonym for "bad mood" or "being tired", it's much more serious than that.
> Why are the rates of over-testing and over-diagnosis so high?

It is something health systems are aware of and working on, but if you go to the doctor with lower back pain and they say, get a better pair of shoes, take epsom salt baths, and deal with it, you might get frustrated. It doesn't cost the physician anything to order an MRI, but that procedure alone can costs $10k to your insurance, and may very well not reveal anything novel from the physical. But both the patient and physician feel more confident and there is no incentive against the physician for ordering the test. This particular example is such an issue, that a national quality measurement standards org has a measure dedicated to it:

https://www.ncqa.org/hedis/measures/use-of-imaging-studies-f...

And now that we are monitoring it (at some cases, down to the physician level), we can see awareness grow and individual physicians are changing their ordering habits. Very cool.
Good shout! Added. https://snag.gy/JHfXKT.jpg

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my website is run via containers that don't run as root...
True. To say nothing of the philosophy. Reading Plutarch's essays now. I find it soothing and inspirational.
i think there are definitely categories of risk, and knowing these categories is helpful. when can then analyse a software project in terms of which risks are relevant, which have a contingency and which can simply be ignored. then it's possible to focus on the risks that are actually serious and can be addressed.
The title is incorrect and misleading: the FTC has no problem with smartphone prices, they have only filed an antitrust suit against Qualcomm for taking advantage "of a non-competitive marketplace to overcharge Apple and other smartphone makers for use of its chips, technology, and intellectual property". Furthermore, the article says that 2018 iPhones were not made with Qualcomm chips, meaning that Qualcomm's chip pricing is not the cause of high smartphone prices at all.
This kind of logic is why we end up with anti-vaxxers and flat earthers. Not all opinions are created equal, and if you're having a hard time with mental health, mental health professionals are the best place to go for help.

I completely agree that the actual paper of a license means nothing, and someone can know more than a licensed pro through their own research and experience. BUT, the replies here are from random people on the internet, and there's no way to qualify their level of experience. I'm not surprised to hear this "anyone can do it" perspective from fellow software engineers, because of the shape of our industry, but it's a mistake to apply that universally.
Apple should

Pretty much everything you suggested would result in lower profits.
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A hacked phone may have led killers to Khashoggi
> I really wish the EU or collaborating national governments would invest more in sleeper train services by taxing flights.

Why? If sleepers are so desirable, then the market should support them.
Yes, but that's a separate point isn't it? If the government spends every penny it taxes, that only moves purchasing power from one sector to another.
It's also dangerously easy to mistake professionalism with competency. There are a lot of incompetent professionals in absolutely every field and this includes mental health. Just like there are professional programmers who copy-paste code from stackoverflow, there are mental health professionals who copy-paste solutions from a favorite book or two. They don't actually have a deep understanding of what they're doing and will be hopelessly lost when someone's issues don't exactly match the examples in their books.

Now it's still probably true that the average HN commentator knows even less than the average mental health professional, but at the same time there are plenty of people on HN (including actual MDs!) who know more than the average mental health professional. Knowing how to identify these posts can be tricky, but even so I think there's value in seeking for these.
I remember seeing them go overhead once in a while. I hadn’t realized they ceased operations. Just a couple of days ago I saw a blimp overhead, I thought it was them, but it must have been the Goodyear blimp moving between football games. I believe Goodyear uses Moffet Field as a staging stop on occasion.
It would be really nice if we started using URIs / URNs more instead of URLs for everything, and did a better job of separating "what" from "where"
> Apple has still shied away from trying to defend its market share by entering the low end market. Like Github's decision (far too late, after Bitbucket nearly caught up) to offer unlimited private repos, Apple will eventually enter the low end market, but only after its lunch starts to be eaten by competitors.

They have rather a serious problem there actually. There are many people who buy an expensive iPhone for reasons that would be entirely satisfied by a less expensive one if it existed. It's hardly worth raising sales by 15% if you would have to lower overall margins by 50%.

They could produce an intentionally crippled one to avoid cannibalizing their high margin products, but that would dilute their brand, and anyway who would buy it over similarly-priced non-crippled Android devices?

There is a place in the market for a luxury brand, but Apple already has more of the market than luxury brands typically have. It's going to be difficult for them to do much better when the main thing they could adjust is the trade off between margins and volumes.
Learning Clojure: transducers
Why are you using DCGs for turing_//2? Genuine question, because I implemented a TM interpreter in Prolog, using "normal" predicates, and I can't see where they help you in this case

PS: I learnt how to use DCGs thanks to your website, thank you!
I would gladly buy a new phone if they stopped taking away features. I currently use an iPhone SE, and I treat my phone as an extension of my brain - I use it 5 hours / day. For me, the pros/cons of an upgrade to an iPhone XS are:

Pros: better camera, faster processor, water resistant

Cons: no headphone jack, too large for my hands

It's not obvious that upgrading would make my life better - it's more likely to make things worse, actually. I'm not paying $1000 for that.
I don't think victims ever "deserve what they get". Yes, he's responsible for the outcome. But outfits like GoDaddy exist because they're good enough at advertising and PR to fool the novice. People can't be experts in everything.

Blame should stick to the bad actor, not the people they sucker.
https://www.seat61.com/Malaysia.htm#London_to_Singapore_over...
This is an amazing game. I didnt play it in VR, but its fully VR ready. This would be a great party game
Right, but no-one is complaining about the "how to find a good professional" advice. People are complaining about the fact that these threads often have a mix of useful, actionable, advice that is somewhat evidence based, and then a bunch of horseshit.
U.S. Government Has Amassed Terabytes of Internal WikiLeaks Data
The iPad doesn't fit in your pocket.
Avatar Picks a New Font a Year After SNL’s ‘Papyrus’ Sketch
Just a guess, but it reminds me of a comment I heard a semi-pro poker player make about playing with amateurs (waaay casual amateurs, mostly playing to pass the time while traveling for sports competitions).

He said that he was commonly surprised when he'd make a move that would be immediately seen by his peers as aggressive, or strong, and cause them to back off or fold, while with us, it just went right over our heads and we'd miss it entirely...

Seems like lower-skilled players could simply not see some of the complexity that confounds a higher skill player, and an even higher skill player would handle. A sort of local minima anomaly for skill.

Or, maybe like tho old saying: "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread".
Yet its central “prediction”: that human travel into space would progress forward at a comparable rate to what was accomplished in the early 60s, was wildly off.
Why's that? My Moto G5+ bought in January 2018 gets updates of some sort or another every few months.

So who do you trust?
And people who don't have an iDevice, probably won't buy a service from them. Because when you have an iDevice, you are a first-class civilian.

Nobody wants to be a second-class civilian.

My 2 cents, so a personal opinion. Would appreciate disclosing if you have a "iDevice" or not, if commenting :). I don't have one now, did buy the 3GS when it came out.

Edit: as I thought. Downvotes and no comments :). Nobody obviously remembers iTunes on Windows...
I do way more meaningful things on the internet with my laptop than my phone. Not all internet access is the same opportunity.
Still better than the 2n1 experience with either ChromeOS or any GNU/Linux variant, where one needs to rent a private cloud for any meaningful work.
Cargo exports from landlocked places with poor rail links, such as sub Saharan Africa. I don’t imagine you’d ship grain or oil this way from Africa all the way to Europe but you might ship it to a port.
What makes you think people buy phones as a status symbol? I usually hear this from people who don’t buy Apple products misunderstanding the motivation of those who do.
watched that video in the link, wondering why Airlander 10 is so noisy?
One negative aspect of yesterday’s web was bad links and lost pages. Since the web relied a lot in users and small businesses to host their own pages, it was common to lose content if its owner lost interest.

The social aspect was different. Only a few people had an online presence, but the engagement felt more real.
> Please make sure that you include an explanation of why it’s considered normal for a node application to have a thousand dependencies or more.

Don't be a dick. I wasn't trying to flame Python or turn this into an us vs them type of debate. I was legit asking a question about a technology choice people are making.
You can omit the closing tag.
Traditionally, airships have required large ground crews to managing mooring/unmooring operations. Have they solved that problem? Delivery to low infrastructure areas by definition means it would be hard to assemble a trained ground crew. I suppose you could drop cargo without mooring and go home again.
Edison made money off of selling DC infrastructure though.
It was like a giant phone book that could take you to magical places, hours would pass in an instant, and discovery was beautiful.
Foxconn revenues reach new record
Some of my teenager memories from the late 90s: suddenly finding communities sharing my niche interests (fantasy books, korg trinity sequences) that I never had access to. I also found Julius Smith's DSP book and several lecture notes from different universities which made a big impact on my career decades later. The only ads were for web rings, which seems quaint now. At least the DSP stuff was world class and freely shared.
?? It's not the opposite. It's exactly what I said. Follow the links on this site for explanation of what "legal guarantee" means. Particularly read the bit under "How to get goods repaired, replaced or refunded". It's only for issues which existed at the time of purchase. If an issue appears after the initial 6 months then you have to prove that it existed from start.
Look at all the parts of the Internet today that don't make any money. Now imagine that is the only part there is. Lots of IRC chats, BBSes, newsgroups, email, MUDs, FTP, fan sites, and sharing of software. Lots and lots of text. What few images, and later video/audio, there were was very low quality. Try the wayback machine and you can at least see the old web even though it would be harder to see the other old parts.
Success Is Not What You Think It Is
Of the limited number I've been to ( 2 ) each of them have multiple types of rooms. And they can shuffle the clues around to make it basically anew experience. Different people changes it up a lot and you can also add other elements too. Isn't there one variation that has a "zombie" chained up in the room with you?
>

I can't imagine every wanting a touchscreen on a laptop with a keyboard. I used to have one, and it constantly irritated me if I accidentally touched it.

I don't own such a device, but I can easily imagine how it could be very useful for entering handwritten notes with a stylus.
I baught Xaomi Redmi 5 for $150 a year ago. I could've easily bought the latest iPhone, but when I compared them, I saw zero difference except for the camera. This phone was pretty much ideal for me for the last year, until it broke down (turns out browsing Twitter while lying in a bathtub with slippy hands isnt the best idea). And because of how cheap it is, and the fact that pretty much everything important is synced in the cloud anyway, I'm about to go and buy a new one without stressing over it at all. Out of curiosity, I compared the latest Redmi with the latest iPhone and Samsung Galaxy, and I again don't see a single reason to buy the flagship phones, even though I'm exactly their target audience in term of income.

The problem with smartphones is that they've solved all their problems and the cheap devices are just too good.
The first time I rooted a phone and installed a custom ROM completely over the air while riding a bus I felt like a hacker god, but that was like 2012 or something. I'm honestly surprised everyone doesn't root their phone because at least on Android it really is trivial these days and fixes so many problems with the phone ecosystem. There's no excuse at all for someone honestly interested in running their own programs not bothering to figure this out.
When I got my first email address in college in 1991, I had no idea what to do with it cause I didn't know anyone else with one.

Ended up finding some lists where you could e-penpal with random people around the world. Chatted with some people in Australia (I was in Los Angeles), when their internet was working (the connection would go down or be slow for them quite a bit).

I ran an internet BBS called 'Dolphin Cove BBS' [1] which had people randomly chatting about stuff I don't even remember.

I setup a CU-SeeMe server (early video chat room software) and found out from some other people that it had been used for... oh gawd... porn!, over the weekend while I was gone.

I remember when it was frowned upon to advertise for business purposes on places like usenet. I setup a gopher and ftp server and put information about my school on it. That didn't last long because Mosiac came out not too long after that.

finger was a big thing to share information and snoop on people.

The green terminals were so slow that you could read the letters as they formed words on the screen.

There used to be a lot of well maintained FAQ's hosted on usenet. The information there was quite good and informative. The early days were filled with the smart people who were focused on building the early internet, so I think the information was a lot more trusted.

[1] http://bio4human.fortunecity.ws/jang/bbs.htm
I agree with this.I had the same experience. It really takes a lot of effort to find someone you feel comfortable with. To be honest the best support I got was from a bunch of total strangers on the internet, that went trough a similar experience as I did. I felt mostly disconnected with professionals that had steady lives that were paid to listen to. With the total strangers on the internet we were at least exploring our issues and trying to find a way out and reporting to each eachother as a sort of journey.
I don't even think most of these supposed "tech" companies are actually tech companies: Uber is a cab company, Airbnb is a holiday lettings company, WeWork is a commercial real estate company. None of them makes their money by building and/or selling software.
Had Steve Jobs not brought Apple back to its roots, and there wouldn't be a company to bash about.

I remember how it looked after the amazing Copland launch.
It's not wars that stopped Greece from further advancement. It was religion. Same happened to all of the Western world in the middle ages. Since Christianity took over they did everything in their power to fight science. And up to this day they still do.
I was there, but barely.

Sites were generally labors of love regardless of accuracy or credibility. There were cold hard facts and hard science. There was also a substantial amount of wild theorizing about UFOs, parapolitics, or bigfoot, but almost all of it was presented in this basically honest way. It was just people putting up information that interested them.

There were political sites but they were mostly straightforward and honest, even the extreme ones. If a site or forum was for Nazis or Leninists, it said so.

Ads and other clutter were more minimal. This was before the dynamic web so documents were just hypertext except for a few forms and little basic widgets.

A condensed description of the early net would be: uncluttered and mostly honest.

IMHO three things killed this information (relative) paradise: spam, gamification, and manipulative propaganda techniques.

These are listed roughly in order.

Spam came first and killed all the open federated systems like usenet, free blog comments, trackbacks, etc. Anything not gated became deluged by spam. Email almost died too but in the end was too valuable to abandon, but it was "saved" largely by being taken over by a small number of providers with the resources to fight spam. To this day running your own mail server is a big PITA.

The next blow was gamified social media and the algorithmic timeline. Social media started to eat the open web quickly, but social media itself was still mostly neutral until social feeds started to be driven by engagement maximizing algorithms and popularity started to be gamified. Humans started getting trained to optimize the content they create for the algorithm, and since that is optimizing for engagement that means divisive, sensational, or click bait content wins. The algorithms have basically nudge theory trained us all to be tabloid copy writers.

Last came firms like Cambridge Analytica and their ilk that view the net as a way to do con artistry at scale. Now you can't even trust that the content is real at all or that the "people" posting it are honest or are real people. I also call this "spam 2.0". Spam 1.0 was the same message blasted everywhere. Spam 2.0 is spam personalized by AI and content mills.
Nuclear war with North Korea would unfold (2017)
Everything was always under construction.
Ah, there are some in SL, and I'm told they're popular.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFGZ7UFCYKs
EA announced at remastered version few months ago. I’m both excited and anxious about it.
I don't think poker is the best comparison. It has hidden information so psychology is a much bigger factor, which machines are not as good at understanding.

Regardless, this doesn't seem that surprising to me. Highly skilled players have developed a set of tools, techniques, and analysis that they are very familiar at applying. If a game enters a particularly strange but still complex position, one that would never really arise under usual high-level play, it is plausible to imagine unexpected errors may occur from time to time, as the standard high-level heuristics may not work exactly the same. Especially if the higher-level player is not being very careful.

The lower-level player, not having those heuristics, must look at the situation, like they do all positions, with a fresher perspective and far less expectations. They won't make the mistake that can come from misapplying the heuristics and tools of higher-level play, because they don't even have those heuristics.

Of course, these are specific, uncommon situations. In general, the advanced player will almost always make much better moves than the less-skilled player.
Cats are ameizing
This. Jobs and Co. brought iTunes to Windows (reluctantly) because people were not willing to buy a Mac just to use their potentially new iPod. The underlying philosophy was that people who used the iPod would be more likely to buy into Apple's ecosystem in the future (such as buying a Mac). Seemed to work pretty well, but a million other factors can also be attributed to increased Mac sales post iPod.
I mean how could you see anything but beauty in that magical little MP3 player :-)