skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't disagree, but the wealth disparity is different than the income disparity. On the one hand, a wealth disparity can be directly passed down, and repealing the estate tax will only deepen this trend. On the other hand, reducing income inequality may help with the here-and-now, helping families to BUILD wealth while not also living paycheck to paycheck. So, IMO, we should tackle both income inequality via progressive taxation, and we should tackle wealth inequality by instating a much stronger estate tax that prevents a landed gentry, a permanently wealthy and insulated class of millionaires and trust fund babies.

There is also something to be said for personal choices of the non-wealthy. I see many in my lower-middle class city with new luxury BMW or Benz ($30-50k) vehicles, who are living in $120k condo units. I see many people with shiny massively spec'd out trucks that they never used to haul anything and just park at their office job. What would the country look like if average people saved more and invested some of their lifestyle splurging?

So, while the tax structure and skill gaps are big, we can also say consumers need to be much smarter and more modest if they want to build wealth and improve their station.
PEAR server vulnerability found
It affects the touch-bar generation of machines. So even the poverty model with real function keys suffers.
Ergonomically speaking, you should not be resting your wrists down when typing or using the touchpad. Your wrists and palms are supposed to be aligned and hovering over the keyboard.
I tend to defend Apple because I believe their commitment to "quality" as a being defined by every possible angle of hardware and software design as opposed to one, simple, established measurement, is something computer/device design needs (i.e., putting "unmeasurable" quality aspects like good UI design on the same level as measurable ones like processor speed). But they fuck up, sometimes. The one-button mouse made no sense, for example. But in terms of raw hardware, it's their over-commitment to thinness. Like, who cares?

I think there was a good movement to at least try and make laptops thinner, somewhere around the late 00s. There's a point between 4cm and 2.5cm that really made sense to me, in order to make laptops more portable (their main feature). But then, it got ridiculous. They shaved off a millimeter every year and at one point, it started to negatively affect the products. You could probably heighten the battery life quite a bit by adding 2 or 3 millimeters of thickness, you would prevent the keyboard rubbing onto the display (see "staingate"), and now this shit about cables being so goddamn thin they literally break.

This is their "Pro" line, as in "professional". I use my MacBook Pro professionally. I could not care less about whatever millimeter they shaved off the thing at the cost of making it more brittle. Sturdiness is a very "professional" quality and it looks like it's not in their list of priorities anymore. Meanwhile, MacBook Pro prices reach the $3000 mark.

It seems obvious enough to me for Apple to realize they've fucked up. Just like their last iOS update – oh wonder! – focused on speed rather than gimmicks, I hope their next MacBook hardware update will re-discover sturdiness as a selling point.
Same here, This thing doesn’t show any signs of breaking down. I chalk it up mostly to the ssd instead of a spinning disk which always seemed to be the part that wore out on my previous machines.
In this case being careful means not opening and closing the screen.
At first glance this comment feels more reddit than HN, but the amount of times the logos look real weird is staggering. (Just google for "inappropriate logos")
64?

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?form_type=Advanced&...
There is always an option. People die of cancer choosing not to treat it every day in every part of the world.

I think opinions like yours above always stem from the naive assumption that all life is worth infinite at any point, so any obstacle to prolong it is a failure. Well, its not. Some treatments are expensive and cost is definitely something to take into account.
If you get cancer and the treatment to save you is 100 million dollars, you better have them, because other people should not pay for that lavish expenditure.
KGO and KSFO both discussed the fires in their news updates, providing details about the arson in each case. In the "camp" fire, there were thousands of bullet casings at the base of pg&e equipment. This vandalism has been happening all throughout the bay area. Linemen I spoke with said they believed it was a former pg&e employee, but that is just their opinion.

A similar vandalism occurred at a couple sub-stations, again with thousands of bullet casings found at the site. There was no vegetation, but the shooter knew which oil coolers to take out to destroy the sub-station. They also knew how to cut communication back to pg&e so they would not get the heat alarm.

The Napa fire was also believe to be arson. AFAIK, they caught 3 of the guys driving down to San Diego, but that went quiet really fast. I assumed they were trying to avoid copy-cat crimes.

For the news reporters on this thread, please consider calling KGO and KSFO to ask what information they have.
It's a commodity until they extend it with stuff that locks you in, like (to be fair) Gitlab is also doing eg. CI, hooks etc. The whole playbook has always been to quietly remove compatibility and take the most locking-in possible approach. (proprietary standards etc etc).
It's funny you say that. I've killed two in the last few months. I've tried super low light, normal light, and my succulent shelf. I've tried watering regularly, and never watering. The leaves just reliably turn this soft brown and then it dies back to the vine itself then entirely dies off. (Seattle, indoors)

Nothing makes me feel quite as incompetent at gardening as when I'm able to kill the plants everyone else says should be foolproof ><
It wouldn't take more space. That decision was made for the same reason as the decisions to make as much hardware locked down as possible - So you have to pay Apple more to replace them.
> list.select { |x| x.foo > 10 }.map { |x| x.bar }...

Forgive me if I'm misreading this syntax, but to me this looks like plain old function composition: a call to `select` (I assume that's like Haskell's `filter`?) composed with a call to `map`. No monad in sight.

As I mentioned, monads are more about collapsing structure. In the case of lists this could be done with `concat` (which is the list implementation of monad's `join`) or `concatMap` (which is the list implementation of monad's `bind` AKA `>>=`).
I think that's exactly it. They don't know what to do without Steve. So the company runs off of memories of him, which aren't enough.
There's also a recently released documentary about him: https://www.hustwit.com/rams/
Quality is only one of the measures patients use to select a doctors, and it would be fine to doubt patients can even gauge quality.

I would tell you location beats quality every day.
DeepMind announces StarCraft 2 demo on Thursday
Observation: college graduates are more productive laborers in the work force.

Hypothesis A: college coursework actually increases a student's future work productivity.

Hypothesis B: the least productive laborers are unable to be admitted to a college, or unable to graduate. The admissions and graduation filters thus raise the productivity average in the pool of graduates.

Hypothesis C: businesses with the most productive workers tend to prefer college graduates. Workers without degrees appear to be less productive because the only jobs available to them have inherently lower productivity.

Hypothesis D: productivity is measured differently for some workers, based in part on whether they have college degrees.

Hypothesis E: some workers are able to influence the measurement of productivity, such that productivity originating from other workers is reassigned to them, and those cheating workers tend to have degrees.

Hypothesis F: workers with degrees tend to have debts, and are forced by necessity to be more productive in order to first pay them off, and then later save enough for retirement with a shorter savings window.

Hypothesis G: workers with degrees are more productive because the past correlation generates an expectation that they be more productive.

The observation could have complex cause, and all of the above may be true.
What is your problem with the hardware? The current MacBook Pros has an 8th gen. i7 and up to 32 GB Ram. Pretty good hardware if you ask me. Would I pay for it out of my own pocket? No. But I wouldn't buy a current ThinkPad either. It is just too much money for a mere mortal.
> The number of unexplained but apparently natural heart attacks in middle aged people with disgruntled partners would sky rocket.

Are you saying that insulin has to be prescribed to prevent murder?
What I don't get is why not just replace the headphone jack with a smaller one? e.g. a 1.5mm one?
Cyanide is bad for you and can lead to death.

"No it's not, it's an inanimate object..."
I wrote my own feedback below but left out this crucial piece you've mentioned here. I think to add to it, my family treats it as if I'm not there. I can't watch the kiddos for a few minutes or help get the laundry during work time. It's easy to do a lot of small things and have a completely disjointed day.

And the opposite is true, when I'm off work I'm off. My team can't treat me as always available because I'm remote. That takes time to establish.

Good point to mention.
Leveraging Unannotated Data to Bootstrap Alexa Functions More Quickly
Yelp: A Neural Net Killed Our App…
PHP, Bootstrap, JavaScript (and jQuery), MySQL, Apache, Stripe for subscriptions, Mailgun.

I use Node for building it, WinSCP to upload it, and I just delete everything, and unzip the new build.
That's a bold thing to write... on Twitter.
"easily replaceable service"

Yeah. It's called "cash" and "checks".
But the question that's been asked 3 times now in this thread is what it would take for Google to be considered lying. If I don't establish that, how can we discuss whether this qualifies?
Automation replaces the need for labor with a need for capital. That's labor in the form of whatever has been automated (by definition of automation), and capital in the form of machines, software, or whatever - it's capital if you can buy it and keep it. This increases the power of capital over labor. Because the top 0.1% are all capitalists, not laborers, this increases wealth concentration.

This isn't inherent to automation, but it is how we've structured our society to respond to automation.
The best art is more like a laser beam than a flood light. It doesn't hit everyone, but those it hits, it burns.
If you go back and read Gropius' old books about the New Architecture, the original point of steel-and-glass skyscrapers was that by building up instead of out, you could devote the rest of the surface to other uses, like parks or shops. There would be enough space between buildings so every window gets sunlight, and there would be livable and walkable space all around. The taller the building, the more space you need between buildings to ensure every floor gets direct light.

We've totally butchered the spirit by packing them back-to-back-to-back, and removing all the green. It's like "We took a Beethoven symphony, and made it more efficient by removing all the rests!" No, you ruined it. The space between was part of the work.
Very cool.

I once attended a session at the Dayton Hamvention (TAPR group) that did a presentation on amateur nova finders. This must have been 20 years ago--I can't find any reference to it. But in any case, this group discovered some large number of novas.

But this sounds like a serious improvement in the methods.

Incidentally, your link doesn't come up right--it should be https://snfactory.lbl.gov/
"This, and Apple has shown over and over they absolutely don't care about gamers."

Not true. They advertize games very vocally in iOS AppStore. I know that's not what you meant, but in the largest context a "gamer" is not an enthusiast, but just a person who likes to play a game now and then.
Why would Brexit affect the EU's GDPR legislation that already exists? Perhaps it could change in Britain, but it would still exist in the EU, where the legislation was approved and is currently being enforced.
> The Nintendo cable are definitely not indestructible. There's a hell of a lot of broken DSs out there.

They may not be indestructible but the replacement flex cables can be bought for next to nothing and replacing them is trivial for anyone with basic electronics skills.
5 years ago if you'd told me I'd be buying a Microsoft laptop (not just Windows but Microsoft's own hardware) because of the hardware quality, I'd've laughed. Yet here I am.
Bad pickup line or clickbait title? Asking for a friend.
I’ve worked on electron microscope designs. But I can assure you I eat burritos and have lazy weekends watching Netflix like anyone else.
Starboard, Elliott Management Call on EBay to Shed StubHub, Classifieds
Fulltext search for "rce", which finds "resou_rce_", "sou_rce_", does not give a number of RCE vulnerabilities.
I think many people do realize this, but need macOS for various reasons.
From 1978, and still applicable to microservices today.
I've been using a MacBook Pro 13" or 15" professionally for the last 9 years. I wouldn't use anything else. I don't use the touchbar but I don't mind it. I also appreciate that they are getting thinner and lighter as I regularly carry them in a bag on my shoulder or on my bike.
>> "College education was something only upper class folks could receive ... due to it's expense."

> "This is not factually correct - tuition at non-state schools increased 10X in the last 30 years, way ahead of the pace of inflation."

You are only considering the monetary cost of college which has, indeed, skyrocketed.

However a more significant cost in the era you are both speaking of was the cost of not working immediately after high school - especially when that same social class very likely had started a family, or had a family they were coming from that needed support.

People coming from a high SES background could afford four years of non-earning, etc.
I had a 2011 MBP that died in 2015. There was a defect with my models Nvida GPU where the solder would fail over time. My machine wouldn’t run Apples GPU test due to the GPU failing completely. There was an open recall but since it wouldn’t run the test I was SOL.

Haven’t been able to pull the trigger after the price increase for Retina display and Touch Bar. Didn’t want to after the new keyboard issues and now after these display issue I’ll pass again.

I can’t spend $2-3k on a laptop and get less than 4 years out of it. If my 2011 MBP was still running I would still be using it. I built a $700 desktop that crushes most Macs and I can remote into when I need power.
>$2581 in Norway, while I get the same model for $1999 in the United States.

Norway tax is 25%. You should compare the net value.

> I'd rather have the choice to decide myself if and how much I want to spend for warranty

True, but the problem is the final price doesn't include the cost of recycling and environmental impact (extremely hard to price it correctly).

What EU should do it to force 5 year warranty for most of the equipment with an option to opt-out to 3 years mandatory warranty.
It's sad that this duopoly is controlling so much of the market, especially that merchants can't make customers pay the fees (in which case mastercard and visa would quickly lose their market share).

Especially considering that many european countries such as Germany had (and have) independent systems with often orders of magnitudes lower fees, faster transaction times and more safety and security.

I'd rather see girocard become a monopoly on the european market than to see this mastercard/visa monopoly continue.
Welp. I went to sign in again after three days and my account was suspended. I have to find a 6 month user of WeChat who hasn’t approved too many wechat users to approve me.

I think it may be because I didn’t upload my contacts. Or possibly because I didn’t add anyone and start chatting. But maybe it was because I’m in the US. (Or a bit of each)
Zynga founder is raising $700M for new investment fund
Venus is also bland in visible light. However, in ultraviolet light, Venus has interesting cloud patterns. I wonder what spectrum range Uranus shows the most? The article suggests infrared.

As far as the funny name, scientists are planning on renaming Uranus to avoid all the embarrassment. The new name will be "Urectum". (Swiped from an animated Sitcom.)
Enjoy a slice of QUIC, and Rust
Thanks for your feedback. Maybe it would be better to show the three tools in separate screen shots rather than overlapping.

One aspect of simplicity is its minimal syntax...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pharo_syntax_postcard.svg
The article literally proposes and refutes that hypothesis. No, the longer answer is that:

1: The Voyager shots featuring a featureless orb were shot near the Uranian solstice, so each hemisphere was getting nearly constant illumination (Uranus is tilted on its side). If you look at it now nearer the equinox (where it has a day/night cycle) you see storms and clouds. And...

2: The cloud patterns are always there anyway, they are just hidden by a methane fog that blocks visible light during the solstice. The heating/cooling cycles of the midyear break up this haze and it looks more transparent.
Which lines? I mostly use the red, purple and expo lines whose schedule is fairly frequent and easy to schedule around. Also, I have not really noticed these concerns in my rides. The worst thing so far were some people selling incense on the train and some drunk people arguing on their way home.
Honestly, I won't mind that extra 40% if it meant that I could use the device for a few more years. Weight for me is a hard compromise, but the pre-touchbar Macs weren't necessarily heavy.
This has been my experience as well. Quite a few old games have become buggy or simply unplayable under recent Windows versions, but play fine under Wine. The most common symptom is the game becoming extremely slow on more modern DirectX iterations, which can ironically often be solved by using Wine DLLs.
That seems extremely dubious, given:

> during my fast I refrained from any physical activity – no workouts or sports

and:

> for this experiment my Omron scale had to do since I didn’t have access to more accurate body composition tools
Differentiating between bugs and non-bugs using machine learning
Tutorial for navigation paths with ARKit
Leading the Way in 2019
If the order is your concern, you can also put the <read at the beginning of the line.
<file grep x
works the same as:
cat file | grep x
Are there any screencasts or similar videos out there? Looks promising but it probably "clicks" more if you see it in action with a more complete example.
Part of the reason it exploded though is there seems to be a bottomless supply of student loans, I am guessing because of how hard they are to forgive unlike regular debt. So many teenagers are encouraged to borrow whatever the schools ask by virtually everyone they know so that they can get their degree, and lenders will gladly give them 30k a year to study zoology or some other field with a rough job market.

The result is college is more attainable to people across the social stratum. And then degrees are less rare, commanding a lower premium while the people holding them have more debt.
A Survey of Recent Architectures of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (2019)
Where are those sweet sweet licensing fees they enjoyed from the proprietary connectors?
Ubuntu Core Doubles Down on Internet of Things
>Is that what you are seeing on your end? A pivot to a Blue Apron like meal kit? For me it seems to be a prepped food delivery service still.

Interesting, for me it's showing "The Plaid Box", a weekly subscription box.
Look at how much people are paying for equivalent specification ThinkPads and you'll have your answer.
That would almost certainly require a dongle in all use cases anyway...
Well, my anecdotal experience includes five different MBPs over the last nine years and I haven't had trouble with any of them. I'll continue to buy MBPs and ask for them at work.
> What I don't get is why not just replace the headphone jack with a smaller one? e.g. a 1.5mm one?

Before the iPhone, traditional cell phones already had smaller headphone jacks: a 2.5mm one was pretty standard. One of the innovative things the iPhone did was replace the smaller port with a standard 3.5mm jack, which allowed people to use regular (potentially high-quality) 3.5mm headphones with it, rather than a crappy 2.5mm headset. The decision eliminated pointless proprietary-ness to integrate with a more vibrant ecosystem.

Job's decision on the iMac to embrace USB and drop the Mac's proprietary ports could be seen in a similar light.

I wish those kinds of decisions were the ones present-day Apple decided to cargo-cult.
As body mass increases, the caloric intake required to maintain said mass increases. Likewise, as body mass decreases the caloric intake required to maintain said mass decreases. Fat people need to eat like the not-fat version of themselves in order to both lose weight and maintain their new mass. If "balance" is 2400 calories for their fat body, resuming eating 2400 calories will lead to them becoming fat again.
> But everyone talking about just making the iPhone a little thicker and adding lots of batter life need to realize their use patterns are out on the edge of the curve.

Maybe it's you and I who's out on the edge of the curve?

I also usually get a whole day of battery out of my iPhone without difficulty, but I know many people who don't, none of whom fit the HN-dwelling power-user stereotype. Also, any time I do things outside my usual routine, my battery takes a pummelling too — be it because I'm out and about on my own for longer than usual and all the spare battery goes towards Spotify, or I'm somewhere I don't know, and it's Google Maps/GPS that eats it up, there's many ways in which that "always lasts me the whole day" thing can go out the window.

> And if you aren’t going to get like a week or a month then what good is a little more battery?

Battery that lasts a whole weekend if, say, you miss the last train and need to stay somewhere overnight would be quite useful. Or, as above, battery that lasts the whole day for more intensive use.
TL;DR: Because, methane makes it look that way in visible light.
I actually do see it as solely sustainable, in the scenario I outlined.

If the world gets to a point where it doesn't make sense for everyone to have a job—because there aren't enough jobs to be done—we'll want to let some people live in relative comfort without working, at all. Less comfort than the people who do still have jobs, but enough that it's a real choice.
well, within capitalism, there is a massive amount of capital trying to find profitable investments of any kind. university research represents a promising source of such investments, so as long as private capital exists and is doing this, there will be all the socioeconomic pressure in the world for it to capture and exploit public research for private profits. sometimes this pressure results in useful things being made and sometimes it results in privatization of healthcare or research, public interest be damned. increasingly over time it is the latter.
Let's talk about what makes a great logo. Shows the exact classic examples everyone talks about. Now look at these logos! Shows two mediocre logos and calls them good. See what I mean?
Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and Pressuring Employees
So, gypsies.