skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to see what the endgame of this is when taking the reasoning to the maximum, look at visual dataflow languages such as Max/MSP, PureData, Reaktor, LabVIEW...

Like always, simple stuff will be simple (http://write.flossmanuals.net/pure-data/wireless-connections...) and complicated stuff will be complicated (https://ni.i.lithium.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/96294i...).

No silver bullet guys, sorry. If you take out the complexity of the actual blocks to have multiple small blocks then you just put that complexity at another layer in the system. Same for microservices, same for actor programming, same for JS callback hell...
But here's the thing: if I really like it, and you have any business sense whatsoever, then I'm going to want a subscription. But if I don't know up front what that subscription is going to cost, then I'm not going to bother to download an app, figure out how it works, get really into it, and then find out that the functionality I'm going to want long-term is $895/year.

It also makes me think you're not telling me for a reason. I guess I've purchased too much "enterprise" software over the years. :-)
Even ignoring the "couple mm will add battery life", what about a couple of mm actually allowing the fucking machine to breathe and not thermal throttle?

My largest complaint with laptops is their performance just cannot match that of a low end desktop, and you're certainly not helping your customers by releasing a machine that (let's face it) is designed to not run at its fullest potential. It's the equivalent of buying a v8, but after you get past 35mph a couple of the cylinders shut off.
HGST look like the best, but they don't have the quantities of the Seagate, makes me wonder if these numbers are skewed :/
It seems debian testing and unstable are still vulnerable:

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-3462
I know he's not a perfect human being, but damn do I enjoy people that speak clearly, logically and challenge assumptions.
> It appears that Apple mostly views the critique of people like us as outliers or else they would have changed this focus on thinness if they saw it was affecting sales.

Apple seems to have a very insular culture. They seem very resistant to even acknowledging external feedback, let alone changing course based on it.

> I think it really comes down to software -- MacOS -- which is still significantly better for certain kind of work than Windows or even Linux.

That, and the Apple brand still has a lot of premium cachet. The utilitarian fact that MacOS is the most successful desktop UNIX only really matters to developers.
I remember doing it before from my macbook. I'm not sure if that's a feature or not in os x anymore?
If you're interested in the Dart VM, I also recommend taking a look at Vyacheslav Egorov's Introduction to Dart VM (https://mrale.ph/dartvm/).
I dunno,
You are bringing 5 cores to bear and there is no global interpreter lock which is not a bad start
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r/churning for those who are interested.
Crossover office has been the key product for helping with that.
I guessed what it did before even clicking the link, I would take this clap trap with a grain of salt - EDIT should note I actually use ngrok a lot for this so it clicked to me immediately - oh, ngrok with an app ui. I installed it as well. Long story short, your target audience will know what's up.
Someone please make a crowdsourced browser extension for news articles that answer clickbait titles, similar to:

https://twitter.com/savedyouaclick
> are these standalone binaries or can I create libraries or code which play well with other languages and systems?

Traditionally Pharo could only create standalone applications, but the minheadless builds are making good progress on stripping the windowing code to facilitate it being embeddable.

A platform specific VM runs on Windows, Linux, OSX. All those VMs run a single application binary.
I can’t speak to any of the philosophical content, but the design and layout of poster itself is absolutely beautiful, in my opinion.

It has the feel of a 16th-century world map with a modern twist.
Are you sure you're not spending more than you otherwise would be? That's the real kicker with bonuses.
It is impossible to over-water this plant. It will grow in only water, without soil, provided the water is rich in nutrients. I stuck a tiny sprig in the corner of my aquarium, hanging over the top edge, and it has now grown almost across the entire room ( https://1drv.ms/u/s!AvN2CzyomlrtiddUmysi3I51CdE39A ). Make sure there are several sets of "nodes" or bumps on the stem that are under water or soil level, and keep soil really moist in general.
This generation was the one that made me finally give up on MBPs, and now I'm even more glad. The lack of 8th gen intel, removal of magsafe (an innovation they were previous, rightly, proud of), lack of actual touchscreen, and ever increasing prices. Other friends who do a lot of photography (a key market for apple!?) were miffed at the removal of the SD card slot.

I went for a HP Spectre and have been very impressed. touchscreen changes things entirely - reading papers is a joy. Giving a demo is easy with a 360 degre hinge so i can prop it on the table... oh and it was half the price, for better specs (the resolution is crazy).

I'm still open to MBPs in the future, as I loved my 2010, 2012, and 2014 versions, but they need to look at what made them great for the 'pro' market, and think about how to servie that, not just turn them in to a more expensive version for the image conscious.
Rent seeking is rampant, and capitalism is unwilling and/or unable to figure out how to productively employ more and more people. e.g. decisions to buyback stocks instead of investing in anything of fundamental value, including productivity improvements.
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> The card payment industry duopoly (in europe at least) is a really weird one that seems to go mostly unnoticed.

It goes unnoticed to the consumer because it didn't go unnoticed to the lawmakers. The EU caped the fees those companies can charge to merchants to 0.3% for credit card and 0.2% for debit card back in 2015 [1].
In the US it's less ignored because those fees to merchants are on average 10x bigger! (2% on average [2])

[1] http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-15-4585_en.htm

[2] https://www.hostmerchantservices.com/current-us-interchange-...
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That's all true, but as a consumer I think a percent or two is worth the conveniences that cards offer. I pay for virtually everything with cards. I rarely even carry cash. Cash is bulky, dirty, inconvenient to get, and has absolutely no loss protection.

I pay my balance in full every month, so I don't pay finance charges. If you can't do that, then don't use cards. They will eat you alive. Understand that most of the benefits/points that are offered are paid for by people who carry a balance.

If you can manage them and keep the balances paid, the points are just icing on the cake. I rarely pay for hotels anymore, for example.
Sure, but very rarely can you pay less by not using credit cards. There are some exemptions like "cash discounts" but in my experience they're rare.
No. That would mean less then a day heads-up from the researcher.
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They overpaid for:

salaries

No one in the restaurant business makes the salaries that restaurant logistics companies pay.
Also in the Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/22/dyson-to-...

"The Dyson chief executive, Jim Rowan, said the move from Wiltshire to Singapore had “nothing to do with Brexit” but was about “future-proofing” the business. The move of Dyson’s legal entity from the UK to Singapore “will happen over the coming months”, meaning it could take place before Brexit."
“the remaining half of the CO2 was recovered from the electrolyte as plain old baking soda“

This means for every C (carbon) molecule we remove, we need one Na (sodium) molecule right?
Seriously don't. I have a 2013 MBP that's my own, then a 2018 MBP that's my work machine. I alternate between working on both and I can't stand the '18's keyboard, it feels similar to typing on mouse buttons, tactile but doesn't register well

Zero difference in the track pad that i've noticed either. This is 3500 GBP machine that is basically just pretty looking and sleek. I do enjoy the touchbar though, although I never expected to - some things are easily done on it, such as changing the colour of terminal windows, or having Spotify constantly live on it (which is great!)
> easily replaceable service

> to compete you'd need an entirely new card system that would be incompatible with the others, and thus your card would be unusable in most places

That's basically the definition of hard to replace.
Is there any service that actually is fair? When Ubisoft makes Forbe's "Best Places to Work" I don't feel like I can trust anything to make an objective measure other than organic word of mouth and simply experiencing it for myself.
I think I understand the exploit but I don't understand whether apt using https would prevent it or not. The author says:

> Yes, a malicious mirror could still exploit a bug like this, even with https.

and:

> I wouldn’t have been able to exploit the Dockerfile at the top of this post if the default package servers had been using https.

So which is it?
Everything everyone buys is a percent or two higher. This behavior should really be considered antisocial. GP is taking advantage of the system for their own personal (moderate) gain to the (very small) detriment of everyone else.
... has it ? most people using macs never ever open a terminal.
Good to know. Then i am still wondering why there seems to be wider adoption of CC in Germany. Or maybe we are only reaching the CC adoption that other EU countries have already seen a long time ago...
BackBlaze spent ~12 million dollars on 12TB Seagate drives (at full retail)
A tax paid by those without the same strategy, presumably. For instance, I hate the idea of CC points and do not participate. I still use my card and pay the same prices.
Facebook hijacked friendships/acquaintances and made us talk to each other in a different way that we would have in person. That's my primary beef against them.

As for the internet, they've consistently closed off integrations so as to become a closed platform that benefits from the internet but does not give back:

- APIs closed

- Integrations with other services: closed

- Hyperlinks to posts: hard to find for sharing and bookmarking.

They've become the new AOL (the kid on the block that doesn't play with others unless they have a toy he wants to steal from them).

Having said this, the closed platform may end up being a blessing in disguise, making it easier to cut off facebook from habits altogether.
Turns out that lots of dishwasher manufacturers provide a free warranty with the purchase of a dishwasher. And as a customer I have the choice to decide if I get a cheap dishwasher (from a cheap manufacturer) without warranty or a more expensive dishwasher (from a better manufacturer) with warranty.
I'd rate it a grab bag of google, twitter, and InstaFaceSnap.

If you forced me to choose just one that was the absolute worst, I'd probably choose Google. Google is definitely the "patient zero" or the "Typhoid Mary".
I pay my rent with my credit card when I need to meet a certain level of spend to get a sign up bonus e.g. I’m not actually buying things I otherwise wouldn’t buy just because I opened a new card
With the new Windows Subsystem for Linux you don't even have to use PuTTY anymore. The new improvements from Microsoft have come close to convincing me to switch back to Microsoft as my daily driver.
So the difference between humans and parrots (who can make all of the same sounds as humans) is that parrots simply have different life experiences?

And how do you explain the fact that humans can only gain native fluency if they learn a language before a certain age? Or the fact that zero instruction is required for children to learn to speak a language fluently? Or that children of immigrants will always prefer to speak in the language of their peers (rather than their parents)? Or that children of two separate groups of immigrants, when mixed socially, will spontaneously create a creole language?
Not OP but I haven’t found the digital escape to be an issue.
> This happened at my previous company when they had bad glassdoor reviews. Every new person through the door, was sort of forced to write a glassdoor review. They would be given a nice welcome, some schwag, sell them on the company. People inevitably wrote good reviews, alas once the honeymoon period ended, they were in for a rude shock.

There is no harm in disclosing the company at which this occurred. If anything, there should be a website cataloguing the companies that do this.
Didn’t know that, thanks
HTTP is the null hypothesis, since it's simpler. Usually there is a great reason to reject this null hypothesis - it prevents security vulnerabilities. But if there is no added value, then there is no reason to do it.

Consider, why not double-wrap your stream? Put TLS on top of TLS on top of HTTP?
> providing real value for companies to be able to connect with tribes of people

Listen to yourself holy shit
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In what world is this not the case? One without a search engine at all?

Any world where a search engine exists, people are going to try to do what ranks best. I would argue the world is better with a search engine (and these side effects) than without one.
I'm guessing most people who don't like influencers would rather have newspapers than provide more value to companies and create an industry for people whose main talent is popularity.
I think you phrase the grandparent's comment much better than he did. That is much more clear. Appreciated.

But on housing, there's a major issue you're not considering. This [1] is a list of US city populations in 1950. This [2] is the list for 1960. So we're looking at the sweet spot of the housing boom and a period where the population also dramatically grew increasing by about 30 million (~20%) in those 10 years. Now you might notice something funny. Nearly every major city shrank in size!

The housing boom did not involve building up (rather literally as is the desire of some people today) in desirable areas so everybody could affordably live there. Instead people sacrificed some comfort and moved outside of cities and started building houses in uninhabited areas outside of the cities. Houses were cheap because people were developing in areas where there was nothing and that nobody wanted before. In turn this movement away from city centers helped keep those prices within the city reasonable, as it had a depressing effect on demand.

The reason prices are so high today is because of simple market dynamics. People are less willing to live in less desirable areas. This is driving the prices in desirable areas into crazy land. There is still immense cheap housing available outside of these areas. Some cities are so hungry for new citizens that they're literally even giving away land on the condition that you put or build a house on it.

[1] - https://www.biggestuscities.com/1950

[2] - https://www.biggestuscities.com/1960
Researchers have tried using different names for it and comparing people's reactions. Terms like "national dividend" or "citizen's dividend" got the most favorable results.
There's a few reasons. First, your average consumer is not going to understand x GHz faster or y GB more RAM. They are going to understand that the new Macbook Pro looks thinner and sexier than their old, crappy Macbook Pro. Thinness is a dumb obsession, but it works on everybody. It transcends language, specs, bugs, whatever. It "just works".

Second, all these damn "flexgate", "signalgate", whatever, won't even make the radar of a person who doesn't follow tech blogs. Even if they do get this problem (which, let's be clear, won't happen to the majority of people), they'll go to the Apple store, where a human being can diagnose the problem and fix it. Name another laptop company that can do that. The only case where it truly can hurt Apple's bottom line is if the store can't fix the problem. And even in that case, this person won't exactly take to the streets against Apple. They'll probably just grumble and buy a different computer. I guarantee there's some internal model at Apple that shows that the projected losses from "flexgate" is a lot less than the projected revenue from a thinner form.

Finally, there's something to be said about thinness. Even one or two models back, I had to think about taking my laptop with me. If I wanted a laptop that I could carry everywhere, I'd have to consider a Macbook Air, which would be less powerful, have less space, blah blah blah. Now, I can pretty much slip my Macbook Pro into my bag because it's so damn light. I can palm my laptop and walk with it through an office. I can hold it under my arm like a magazine. Sure, there's some issues, especially if you're an actual professional. But it's been pretty obvious for the past few years that the "Pro" in MBP is a very loose term.
SSH remote port forwarding is your friend. You just need an ssh server somewhere thats publicly accessible.
The 2 worst thing to happen to the internet is too much advertising and data collection services masquerading as free products.
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also, the apt way to fix this would be to a) move release.gpg out of the package path and b) require the release.gpg to be wrapped and signed with the previous valid key instead of being accepted blindly
Or it is a luxury good for those who can afford it for their children, like in the old days.
That's an outgrowth of the same rise in general competency.

Inside a company programmers such as my self have been assigned to work on React without ever having seen it before with the expectation they will pick it up. It's only when looking for new employees that these differences have much weight.

PS: I have been told to pick up low level network programming, frameworks such as React, new langues, even jumped into web programming from nothing. I can only assume this is generally the norm.
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Sadly, that pretty much describes most successful businesses on the internet today.
Those food-type benefits are precisely the type of benefits provided by their competitors in the space – Facebook, for example. An incompetent VC who wants to double down could easily be persuaded to consider them necessary for poaching to succeed.
I seem to remember that the store did transfer the costs to the customer in Denmark at least,
Maybe 12 years ago. It led to an oproar by consumers faces with paying ~4cent per transaction, and some stores not allowing card payment on purchases less than ~3$.

There was quite a reaction against it, but in the end I assume they dropped this because they say usage numbers drop, though that is just speculation.
The ICO won't be a member of the EDPB post-Brexit which will definitely have an impact, but not a catastrophic one.

The bigger problem is that the UK won't be able to be certified as having adequate protection due to the Snooper's Charter (or, rather, any adequacy decision will be almost instantly sent for judicial review).
Are there any consumer benefits, ala rewards, for using this card?
Wherever there is parking, there ought to be charging.

It’s just a chicken-and-egg problem if your parking is controlled by a council or building management, etc.

Need enough EVs to justify spending money on installing plugs. Need enough chargers for people to buy EVs...

But we’ll get there.
China has UnionPay, it's accepted at quite a few places in Zurich, so it has some international adoption. No way for Swiss People to get a UnionPay card themselves though.
Isn't this only true if you assume profits are constant (hence competition effectively not happening)? They could we be paying for some of it by sacrificing profits, and judging from the fact that some of the best deals get discontinued, I don't assume they all end up making money.
> This post shows exactly what I mean: editing Lisp with a good editor is nice, however when you're bootstrapping a system sometimes the only tool available is vi (no even vim, just vi).

Then I think you misunderstood. My point is that if you don't like parentheses, then don't use parentheses. Lisp doesn't care. Denote structure in whichever way you prefer, and convert that to/from s-expressions programatically.

Guix runs on Guile Scheme. I-expressions (which use indentation instead of parentheses, which I linked to in the post, https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-49/srfi-49.html ) contains an implementaion for Guile right there in the spec. Likewise the code repos for Sweet expressions and Wisp (which also allow mixfix, braces, etc. and I also linked to in the post) seem to provide explicit Guile support too, alongside other systems (e.g. Racket) and standalone conversion scripts for compatability with any other s-expression system. Guile also has a built-in implementation of "curly-infix expressions" ( https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/guile.html#SRFI_00... ).

That's 4 ways to use Guix without reading or writing any parentheses; one of which comes built-in. It's also pretty trivial (thanks to the simplicity of s-expressions) to make up your own alternative if you don't like any of these.
So maybe a replacement for the Back to My Mac feature that was removed (or is no longer supported) in Mojave?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_My_Mac
I think the bonuses are primarily paid for by the interest charged to people who carry a balance, since the entire point of the rewards programs is to create customers who carry a balance.
Let them finish what they were doing. Give them a 5 minute warning and set a timer.
> So the difference between humans and parrots (who can make all of the same sounds as humans) is that parrots simply have different life experiences?

I didn't say that, and I think you know I didn't say that.

I'm not going to engage in a discussion where you beat up on your imagined strawman.

You can go read the literature on language acquisition at your convenience. My understanding (as stated above) is that this is an unsettled question and research is ongoing.
This project is wonderful. Dozens of cities over the world are opening their doors to its citizens thanks to it. In Madrid, inhabitants have a direct vote on how to spend _millions_ of the city budget.

I wish the future of our society goes in this direction.
Before Facebook, if I lost someone's contact information, and drifted outside of their social circle for a long enough time, chances were I would never ever see or speak to that person again.

Before Facebook, if people wanted to organize conversation and cooperation on an information technology platform, the options were to pay $X00-$X000 for a proprietary system, get lucky enough to know about mailing lists, have someone who knew sysadmin do it basically for free, or have everyone learn how to use something like IRC.

Social networking was an enormous pain in the ass. Facebook was the first platform that actually worked for people. Every subsequent social network took their cues from Facebook, it was a veritable sea change in the state of the Internet.

The problem here isn't Facebook, you'd be having these growing pains with any useful social networking technology platform. It's the unintended consequences of Facebook's universal accessibility. Anybody can use Facebook, and so everybody will. It's the story of technology all over again. Technology is invented, we have a honeymoon phase, then the real marriage begins. We're in the "just had a baby, now we need to get it to a year old so we can all relax" phase.

It'll get better.