skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not what the article says. It says that, thanks to its unusual axis of rotation (it's lying on its side, with the axis more or less parallel with the ecliptic, unlike every other planet), it spends decades in solstice (sun mostly shining on a polar region) and decades in equinox (sun mostly shining on the equator). During periods of equinox, the day/night cycle rapidly rotates the surface of the planet into and out of the sun's light which causes all kinds of interesting weather phenomena.

During solstice, where the sun just steadily warms one pole, not much happens.

The article concludes by saying that it's boring, but only some of the time.
It really is a language by language basis. Many languages adopt features insanely fast, many insanely slow. JS for example has as of late has a very fast rate of change[1]. Or you could look at how Java has changed from 8->10 and all the new features added there. There are other languages like C that haven't changed much at all (to my knowledge). It isn't relevant to take the rate of change of other languages and apply it to another as an expectation. You would get a better metric by taking the rate of change of the current language in the context of the last year or two.
I think you may have misspelled @bradfitz. :)
Thats hard because you can easily blame that on consumer credit rating agencies like Equifax. Because their number doesn't weight length of credit repayment. So if you only have had any debt for 1-3 years you can have the same score as someone who has had debt for 10-30.

It was a cop out though. I think no one in the banks thought to challenge that. Now they do but previously they didn't
Huawei phones automatically deletes images downloaded from Twitter app in China
It depends on what I'm trying to accomplish. If I'm trying to build something quick to prove that there are interested people out there I use a static html page with JQuery and Form Gadget (https://www.formgadget.com/) to handle form submissions and integrations. Sometimes this is enough even for the product depending on what it is.

If it's something that includes a subscription model, etc, then I like Akka Http (Scala), Slick, JQuery or React + Redux. More importantly though go with what you know well and can make progress in quickly, unless you want to learn something new.

Disclosure: I built Form Gadget.
Yeah, there’s a pretty thriving resale market for Ritalin and Adderall at any given college.
>I couldn't understand the fascination with the integrated environments though.

The only thing I can recommend it watching some Alan Kay videos or Pharo demos.

Windows and Linux UI conditioned everyone to think of UI as a crutch for incompetent users, rather than a tool useful in its own right. This cannot be undone in a single reply, no matter how elaborate it will be.

Traditional tools are definitely more polished at the moment, but they are exactly that - traditional, shaped by historic accidents, rather than design. Software development is currently running on a set of highly refined steam engines.

For example, what are the chances that a simulation of a teletype is the best interface for interacting with an operating system? What are the chances that the best conceptual model for a unit of information is manila folder or a phone book ("files", "directories").

Also, IDE came to mean "bloated monolith for editing and compiling code". But it should really mean that application interface is the development tool. Tools that are integrated into OS and applications.
My background is in math and physics. While studying those subjects in college, I learned programming on my own. Today, I develop technology for fancy measurement and control equipment. When I say I don't program for a living, I mean that it's not my job title, and my managers may actually be unaware of the role of programming in my work.

I use programming extensively as a problem solving tool, for things like data analysis, modeling, automation of experiments, and prototyping. Almost all modern equipment is electronic and computerized. To be capable of rolling out an MVP on my own, I program.

You will rarely see my computer without a Jupyter notebook on the desktop. ;-)

In addition to working in a computerized field, program code is just a super powerful way to express ideas. And the disciplines of good programming practices (yes, learn them) provide ways to organize the innards of complex things, so they actually have a fighting chance of working and being right. Plus, it's fun.

People who work as full time programmers may make more money than me, but I'm not sure that I can do their jobs. When thinking of any profession, a person should not only look at the cool, fun stuff, or the money, but what the actual daily grind looks like, because that's what you have to survive.
Here is an example of Pharo style TDD.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOuZyOKa91o
I didn't get that it was a version of Smalltalk from the linked page. I have heard of Smalltalk and it does get a lot of positive attention.
An Open Source UI Builder for React
that's a building block, not a good ~interface. Kinda like redirections before pipe were added to shells
From the text itself, in the words of Lou Gerstner. "You always get more of what you measure" could be the root of a solution.

I think that's the idea behind the Gross National Happiness. You find a metric that mostly fits in with the capitalist model but has fewer negative externalities.

Great read in any case.
I wonder if something like HTTP’s content negotiation is a good model for this.
probably the closest solution.. thanks
Future Will Be Documented
Or Age of Empires II
Part of the problem is that our discoverability mechanisms on the internet now massively favor monetized content. I for one would happily use an 'indie' search engine that favors lightly monetized/non-monetized content.
This is the lump of labour fallacy. Rest assured that life will be harder for young people if a sizeable portion of the population is old, out of the labour force, and needs to be supported by a rising share of taxes from a small number of young workers.

We should hope that older works stay in jobs as long as they're able. The coming demographic bulge isn't pretty.
I'm no longer at that company, I would rather not share more personal information, but the product was a sort of a marketplace implementation.
Absolutely, Wikipedia is my go-to for general information. Wikipedia doesn't answer questions like "how do I disable web searching in Windows 10 search," though. It used to be that googling simple technical questions would return a concise blog/forum post, but it's increasingly likely that all the top results will be videos.
Fragment.sh – Backup secrets using your social circle
No they're not (and not they don't). Snacks are inanimate objects that can't lead anyone to anything. People abusing snacks lead themselves to bad eating habits.
Hello HN, developer here.

I built DETA to scratch my own itch. I like to create small scripts and tools to automate my tasks but it felt awkward sharing them with my non-technical colleagues.

Any feedback regarding the features is very welcome!
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: “Skin in the Game” – Talks at Google
Is Self-Publishing Worth it?
Linearity and drift already covered by the other the other folks...

Offset: When something is supposed to read a specific value (usually voltage), what is it actually reading? Most op-amps (configured as buffers) won't actually read 0V if 0V is applied. Usually this offset is super small (10s of mV, or even way less) in modern op-amps. Sometimes it's offset current. Many op-amps specify both current and voltage offset.

Temperature-related drift: This is component value change specifically related to temperature. Multi-layer ceramic capacitors are especially susceptible to this. A 'good' MLCC might 'only' drift +/-20% across temperature

Aging: As a component ages, how does its value change? Electrolytic capacitors have this problem. If you've ever heard of people talking about replacing capacitors on old TVs or what-not, it's almost always those caps. The paste in the electrolytic caps dries out and affects the value of the capacitor. Once this reaches a certain point, the circuit won't work anymore.

Note I provided specified examples for each of those problems, but they exist across pretty much every type of component to various degrees. For example, linearity can be a big issue on ceramic capacitors. Their values can change as much as 80% (yes, 80%) with applied voltage which can cause some really weird non-linear behavior to some circuits. Most modern silicon probably doesn't have many problems with aging unless it's driven to the ragged edge of its performance or there's an actual defect, since typically chips are qualified to run for a minimum of 100,000 hours. That being said, eventually it WILL fail if it's running constantly. Electromigration affects all silicon. By comparison, usually electrolytic capacitors you'll be lucky to get 10,000 hours out of them. Less the hotter they get and the more the voltage applied is.
I'm no expert in the area of research IP and govt funding, but my interpretation so far has been that the government provides the funding with the expectation that the research will ultimately improve society (even if it is through a for-profit business). It also values the training of graduate students with the funding.
Does the Laser Egg 2+ monitor CO2? Looking at the kaiterra product page [1] I don't see it

[1] https://kaiterra.com/compare-page/
Hashicorp has a registered trademark on software named Consul[1] and started working on it in late 2013[2].

This is not a good name for software if it is already trademarked and was started before this project (by ~2 years).

[1] http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4804:z7n...

[2] https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/commit/0a7996bc4f504894d...
Interesting, I kinda agree about the need for redundancy at times (which is not forbidden by ML typing). But it rejected a very good idea for a decade.. A bit like lambda expressions. Damn Java
The iPhone SE is one giant counter example to everything you just said.
Does this affect only touch-bar MBPs or every post 2016 model?
I've seen people use UBI to mean "employment insurance" but that's misuse of the term.

From wikipedia: "A Basic Income would vary with age, but there would be no other conditions: so everyone of the same age would receive the same Basic Income, whatever their gender, employment status, family structure, contribution to society, housing costs, or anything else."

So it's not a small amount of money to do nothing, but just an "extra" small amount of money coming out of either welfare budgets and/or additional taxes.
Been considering upgrading my last-gen-design MBP to a new one... maybe I'll hold off on that.
Ok, so how are these things stable?

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=floating+magnetic+globe&t=fpas&ia=...

Yes, the base is an electromagnet, but AFAIK the field is static when energized.
In Norway we have 5 years of "reklamasjon" on products that are supposed to last considerably longer than two years, such as a laptop. It is sort of a government mandated warranty on top of the regular one. I have had 4 year and 11 months old stuff that I have gotten replaced or repaired free of charge.

Wonder how products would have been designed if this was a thing globally (or at least in the top 3 biggest markets). Anyone else who thinks "a whole lot more durable and repairable" is a reasonable guess?
Flarewell
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16221563
That's why Apple sells applecare+ for these machines. Expect the lifetime of these new MBPs to be 3 years.
Development is entirely via the most integrated GUI you've ever experienced. It runs on MacOS, Windows, and Linux.

For deployment, you can run it headless.

You can also deploy as Javascript for Node/Browsers via a tool called PharoJS (http://pharojs.org - full disclosure, I'm one of the principals of PharoJS), but it's a work in progress (with a Slack workspace to support it).

GNU Smalltalk can deploy to a standard executable, so you could do most development in Pharo, and then switch to GNU Smalltalk, but you'd lose the fabulous IDE.
And they're often abandoned well before the Windows version has its last patch, and many cannot play multiplayer with Windows players.
Go to a local Walmart/Target/Lowes etc. Hardware stores and even some supermarkets have them. If not, literally just post a photo on facebook asking friends for some or ask around at work. It's extremely common because you really can't kills it unless you actively try usually. I water mine once a month usually and it's happy. The only thing I would say is if you get a cutting, try to multiply it as fast as possible so you can experiment with which windows/light will help it grow the best.
Really?

What kind of hash are we talking about here? And generated from what?

I could imagine the opposite, generating 2 hashes from the 'same' article, due to different markup being stripped. Not what you suggest though.
Financial System Should Be Less Than Half the Size of Today
> I didn't read anything anti islam in his post.

The Janissaries had been around for nearly 5 centuries, 463 years of history.

Yet he chooses to only talk about the devşirme system and only that. Completely ignoring that at one point it got phased out, and over the course of these nearly 5 centuries, the Janissaries evolved from "slave soldiers" to become the most influential political caste in the Ottoman Empire, dominating the Ottoman government.

We are talking about people who, at that point, already lived in the Ottoman Empire for generations, not 8-year-olds who just got abducted from their families.

> In my opinion he is strongly against you normalizing a kind of slavery.

So much about "thought killing cliches". Nowhere did I normalize anything, I'm merely pointing out how these practices changed, turning the Janissaries into something completely different than slaves.

While acqq keeps on insisting all the Janissaries had been forced converts, always living in servitude, which is factually wrong, as recruiting practices heavily changed over the centuries. So all that remains from his comments is pretty much just an appeal to emotion along the lines of "They abducted Christian children!" ignoring pretty much all other content from the submission, and every other angle on the Janissaries, like that's their most defining factor, but it isn't.
The other side of the coin is that college has become increasingly more and more expensive and there are now many times more people with bachelors degrees, so college is no longer the sure path to middle class it once was.
The problem is not really subscriptions, it's being able to enter and leave a subscription without hassle, something that is increasingly difficult these days. If you're paying for an ongoing service, then it makes sense to pay a monthly fee. But if you're paying for an app and don't expect significant long-term upgrades, then yes, a one-time purchase makes sense.

In theory, iOS implements this well by allowing you to unsubscribe with one click. In practice, it's a terrible UX. Just try finding the subscriptions page in Settings and you'll see what I mean.
Thanks for your feedback! I can definitely see why that's a deal breaker. Admittedly, I just thought people would be stoked that it was free to use and download it.
The most important quote from the article:

> But the bigger problem is that, in an apparent effort to make the display as thin as possible, Apple designed the cables as part of the display, so they cannot be replaced. This means that when (not if) those cables start to fail, the entire display unit needs to be replaced, as opposed to one or two little cables—effectively turning a $6 problem into a $600 disaster.

This is beyond crazy. How much more space would it take up to make the ribbon cables replaceable?
Sure, I'm not sure anyone actually denies this. College education was something only upper class folks could receive (especially a liberal arts degree with dubious value in society) due to it's expense. With the emergence of things like state schools, the barrier became lower. But the fact of the matter is higher paying jobs required college degrees, and the best chance for most people at a middle class lifestyle are those jobs. Well now, wages have stagnated for most jobs, the true value of a non-STEM college degree has becoming glaringly obvious, and opportunities for people to maintain a middle-class lifestyle are rapidly declining. The MBA has been serving as that proxy for how upper class you are especially from expensive prestigious universities. When the highest value of a degree is "the opportunity to network" that should tell you something. Now with the pressures of off-shoring manufacturing, automation, and growing immigrant populations willing to do low-skilled labor to survive, is it really at all surprising that many people are being shut out of the economy? It all comes down to a fundamentally broken economic model that values growth above all. Our population grew in tandem with our economy. Once automation of manufacturing processes took hold, we quickly started to need less people. The reality is we probably don't need 7 billion humans anymore, and we need to transition to a more efficient sustainable economic model that isn't aiming for growth above all.
Can't read the first one, but the second one focuses on foreclosure rates which seems more indicative of an economic shock rather than general low affordability.
Obviously it's unfinished work, but my critique of it would be that so far, he has only attempted to identify individual words.

To really be successful, he has to start looking for syntax and grammar in the text.

He admits he's not an expert in the language he has deduced the manuscript is written in. Maybe somebody else who is an expert in that family of languages needs to pick it up from here.
I recommend holding off. I actually sold my 2017 and went back to a 2015.
Reminds me of the old plastic iBooks (white ones) which would either snag the cables in the housing, or have the backlight power lines crack in the logic board.
Uploaded a copy of the site to Imgur as a mirror in case you are unable to read because you've exhausted free reading credits.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/uE1rOOs.jpg
The farther this goes the more I just want my 2012 body with 2018 specs.

I'd actually pay more for this option.
We Are a Republic, Not a Democracy
As some cities have started banning employee cafeterias in new buildings (to encourage workers to eat in the vicinity), there could be a return to catering and meal delivery services. I think Munchery was a little too much too early. They needed to establish a following before digging deep into VC funds.
Those cables add quite a bit of weight though.
Forex tends
Ironically, I find that the older a game gets the more likely it is that I'll get it working on Linux with greater ease than it would be to run it on Windows 10.
If there was a rule that functions could only return named variables (vs expressions that evaluate to a value that is returned) it would get closer to "this function accepts paramName1 and paramName2 and returns sumOfParams".
Science as an intellectual “safe space”? How to do it right
Honest question, but how much would you pay for this model? $7000 USD?
Hopefully more regulations will come forcing the manufacturers to think about reparability.
Not sure where the EU right to repair ended up, but it seems more to be optional and just give better labelling.
Show HN: LazyHabit – A habit app to tackle procrastination
Traditional City Is the Densest City
This only provides what is available for free?
I often hear people proudly say, “I’m not technical...” but this is an anachronism. We live in a technical world now. If you’re not technical, you’re a dinosaur and you might as well die off. There’s no point pandering to dinosaurs.

The way you wrote your product page and app description is fascinating not because it was so oblique as to be completely meaningless, but because you appear to have been so thoroughly unaware of that fact.

This is an extremely common problem with technical documentation. We find pages and pages of description of frameworks and libraries created without simply answering the fundamental question, “What does this do?” And those pages could be easily replaced with one brief annotated example.

Technical people are often unaware that they have created a desert of meaning and substance.
For self-hosted Pocket, there's already Wallabag, you might want to take a look.

It would probably be easier to add IPFS archiving to Wallabag than to roll your own Pocket.
After reading this line:

> Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful environment, focused on simplicity and immediate feedback.

and seeing the initial screenshot on the announcement, I thought that this was a joke post. How you can call this "focused on simplicity" while showing that horrific hodge podge of a screen shot is beyond me.
I just can’t see any sane person buying these machines with their own money. I am still on my 2015 13” rMBP, but boy if I had to upgrade to a new machine, I would probably look elsewhere. And mostly because of the hardware, what an irony...
With a wide 23-27" horizontal display, you can have multiple code windows arranged next to each other on the same monitor. Vertical displays let you see more text on one listing of course, but they're not as good for putting two code windows next to each other.
It’s unclear, considering that the Touch Bar was mentioned in the article, but I’m guessing that it affects all models since the display cabling is not specific to the Touch Bar design.
Indeed. I couldn't get more than a few pages into Joyce, but Dostoyevsky's works are a joy. Very relateable human drama. You can enjoy it even on superficial levels, and catch more later on a reread.
I really don't understand Apple's obsessions with thinness. Do they really think that a few millimetres off the depth of a laptop is worth sacrificing reliability like this?

I thought the same during the last iPhone keynote where they touted "an extra 30 minutes of battery life" as a major feature: just make it slightly thicker and you could add hours to the battery life.
There are papers that use SMT over RNNs to prove smoothness of the output functions. You can absolutely apply these techniques to ML.
I didn't know about these courses, and have been contemplating getting some certifications for a while. This looks like it might really help. Thanks for posting this!
Tsk, just updated during the holidays. Now I have to be extra careful with it.
Thanks for your feedback... why not indeed? I've updated it within product page (and In-App Purchases). It'll probably take a little bit for the description in the App Store to update, though.
Not a very exciting answer, but I think it's just that; cost vs. benefit.
Pro tip: Try to keep the swastika:penis ratio below 0.25.

https://boingboing.net/2019/01/16/slacks-new-logo-is-a-playd...