skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So far I have spent over $5k ferrying my 2017 Macbook Pro (15" with touchbar) to and from Apple. Is this a super isolated hardware situation or have others experienced similar?

- March 2018 I start my laptop in the morning to find the screen doesn't go on. I take it to the service center in Bali where they inform me it will take 6+ weeks to service. I can't do 6 weeks without my primary work device. I fly to Sydney and visit the genius bar. They replace the screen and the logic board (losing all the data) ($750 flight + other expenses).

I fly back to Bali (battery's ~ 80%) open up the laptop and find that the screen is dead again. After a week of conversations with Apple they agree to give me a new MBP but I have to fly to Sydney to get it ($750 flight + other expenses).

- March 2019 screen stops working. I fly to Kuala Lumpur where the authorised service center says 3 weeks to fix. That won't work, so I fly on to the new apple store in Bangkok. They replace the screen and logic board (losing all data) ($1.5k)

- April 2019 (5 weeks later) the screen gets pink lines. I fly back to Bangkok, they replace the screen (another $1.5k on travel) and offer me $980 off a new MBP + free 3 year applecare.

So far 12 international flight sectors, over $5k in expenses (hotels / flights etc) and 6 weeks with no device.

To stay on Apple I'm having to seriously consider a second standby laptop. Or make the switch to Windows as Dell has fast domestic warranty repair.
That's a terrible first step. Usually when regions have done that, nothing replaces it, and you get a number of warring powers fighting it out for their vision of what the region should look like, which usually involves far more personal enrichment and domination than the corruption they had before.

First step is to figure out what you want instead. The American Revolution had a century of Enlightenment figures thinking deeply about the rights of man and carefully observing revolutions and social developments that were going on in Europe at the time. Even so it took America 20 years to get it right, despite the revolution having been led by some of the most educated people in America.

We desperately need a Locke, Smith, Rousseau, and Voltaire of this generation. Unfortunately it seems like many of the most vocal political philosophy voices of this generation are playing for the other team, advocating "Dark Enlightenment" or neo-fascist worldviews.
Sounds like a cool use case, it just sounds nothing like what WebThings does.
I think by definition it wouldn’t form a black hole, it would be a black hole. Gravitational waves are propagating disturbances through spacetime, so the kind of wave you’re describing would begin as a singularity. I don’t think (but am not sure) that the math allows for the emission of such a thing. It sounds non-physical, and I’d suspect that if you do the math you’d discover that you’d need to have giant black holes merging to generate such a wave, or FTL. In the former case I’d bet that it turns out the wave would form within the event horizon of the hole, and that’s a good as saying it would never form.
How did you end up managing 150 people a couple of months after dropping out of grad school?
I've seen ppl use it as key value store, time series database( i think they have some apm support too) , nosql datastore.
Category Theory: Lecture Notes and Online Books
Mozilla Firefox to Enable Hyperlink Ping Tracking by Default
Sea level rise would be no problem. Storms would be no problem. But it's hard to imagine how we could possibly adapt to the worst case scenario, which would be if runaway feedbacks triggered conditions similar to early mass extinctions...

This old article from ScientificAmerican still keeps me up at night.

http://burro.case.edu/Academics/USNA229/impactfromthedeep.pd...
I'm guessing that you really wanted _constructive_ feedback, correct? I have received lots of that.
English study companion that captures the word pointed to by the reader
> Lucene is 20 years old

Damn I feel old. I remember when Lucene was hot new kid in the block.
Most engineering is based on mathematics because proofs are a powerful support for any idea you plan to implement. It's one thing to throw something together and have it work, and a totally different thing to prove it is optimal in some way.
Yeah, the filter really turns me off. The number of matches going up as I try to narrow things down is frustrating.
Apple deserves a multi-billion dollar class action lawsuit over these keyboards. I don’t know why some ambulance chaser hasn’t taken this up As a cause yet, this would be the first class actions lawsuit I would support.
The Overcast podcasting app seems to be built by a single person: https://overcast.fm/skeptics_faq
Listen to her indie hackers podcast, exactly this discussion is covered extensively.
I remember years ago running the original MacPaint, ultra-optimized for the 8MHz 68000, on a Macintosh SE/30, and thinking "this is why the 68030 was considered a mainframe on a chip when it came out" even though at the time the 68030 was generally considered old and slow.

It all depends on exactly what software you're running on what hardware.
video of apparatus in action [0]

[0] https://streamable.com/7j95b
> It's a little cyclical of a thing though, right?

I think most of the cycles we see here are due to the mental gymnastics performed to indict capitalism for the fall of every sparrow.
> better for some narrow use case

The examples you gave boil down to 3 narrow use cases:

- The retention project / intellectually stimulating activity of writing your own operating system.

- Licensing.

- Some really specific hardware, where in some sense you're building an operating system in name only. Might as well just call it an application.

I think what OP means by "interesting socially" is that the new Linux isn't going to succeed on any technical or economic merits.

My guess would be the next Linux innovates in some way concerning national or ethnic identity, environmental conscientiousness, or radical politics.

For example, an operating system written in a non-Latin alphabet programming language. Or an operating system that is only delivered for solar-powered hardware. Or whatever is going to be the radical anarchism or communism of the software world (if you think GPL / free software is that, it ain't).
Turns out it was deeply creepy, so we stopped using it quite quickly. There was talk of setting it as a Pagerduty ringtone, as it was juuuust disturbing enough to get your attention.
City level result here. Do you happen to live close to a center point of something?
Is it accurate to say this is the Russian equivalent of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum? If not, what would be? I'll put it on my bucket list.
anyone want to resurrect Scoreboard Guru? https://blog.evantahler.com/goodbye-scoreboard-guru-40daaaf1...
Oh right, "Lattice" is the word I was looking for. It's been too long. Would that be considered a subset of category theory, a precursor to it, or another field that it somewhat "unifies"?
I second this sentiment
So your complaints are that you couldn't use your preferred commercial services on an open platform. But if you zoom out to Smartphone Global Scale, the vast majority of people don't use those services anyhow. Netflix has 155 million total subscribers globally, which means it doesn't have about 3,745 million other Internet users.

Smartphones are far, far more about communication and collaboration than passive content consumption. 'Functioning' in our digital society isn't about everyone individually watching the same movies on a 5" screen on the bus. Most people use their phones as a glossier smartphone with navigation capability and that's just fine.
The app they created is for government officials only :
"Only official French government employees can sign-up for an account".

But they open sourced the code, so you run your own version of the app. But not sure how useful it will be if no one else is using your app. The network ( millions of users ) that whatsapp and telegram has generated is the primary draw now for them.
You might enjoy some Scholagladitoria videos covering just such topics. As with most things the question of “what wins” between various swords is rarely straightforward, and always involves a lot of context. A shitty katana vs a splendid saber wouldn’t be interesting, but there were plenty of garbage pieces of both, along with lots of masterworks. Given even quality swords and equal skill, the determining factors seem to be the kind of fight. In a 1-1 unarmoured duel a rapier is hard to beat; no surprise since it evolved for just that reason. You’d hate to use a rapier on an armored opponent, one on horseback, or multiple foes though. A katana has less reach, is better at cutting and worse at thrusting, and is weighted more towards the blade. That’s a plus in some regards, and a minus in others. A saber is a very fine cutting weapon, but terrible in the thrust; it excels on horseback and on the ground. A saber will generally have the benefit of more protection for the hand and forearm, while the tsuba on a katana is pretty minimal. However a saber vs. armor is a disaster, while the katana can punch through some plate in the thrust. For thick armor you’d really want a longsword with a bodkin point, or a bludgeon.

It just depends on context and skill.
The core computing needs of the vast majority of people has not changed in the past 10-15 years or so (perhaps even more). Text processing, image/video editing, web browsing, spreadsheets, presentations, etc are all fundamentally the same. Sure, videos are now 4K instead of VGA, and webpages now weigh tens of megabytes instead of kilobytes; but the fundamental, underlying modes of creating and editing are the same. The worst part is that the experience was often better a decade or two ago! This is why you have professionals like GRR Martin using WordStar to do their deep work.

Even for programmers, the fact that many are still living in vim/emacs shows how little the core operations of computing have changed.

I would love an OS that focuses on offering stable, well integrated, well designed functionality and interfaces, and does not change every 12 months because the marketing/design people were bored. Releases would instead focus on stability, performance, and bug fixes. Adding support for new data formats as they appear would be required, but not in a way that needs to change anything on the end user side of things (your photo editor can now open/export HEIC, great!).

I know that most of my family would be happy with something like this, because I hear them complain all the time about how some software update changed where everything was, or even worse - removes functionality they needed.

In a weird way, I think the closest thing to this that exists today is Mathematica - reading interviews with Stephen Wolfram about how he uses it is fascinating. I’d want that, but for everyday users, not geeky mathematicians :)
Selective Empathy Can Chip Away at Civil Society
I am qualified to fly several types of small planes, none has an AoA. I was able to fly with a faulty Pitot reading (airspeed), but I would not do it often; I had never felt the need for an AoA sensor, not even when I was flying in "unusual attitudes" (intentionally).
I don't agree with your assessment; parens are not giving a list literal since (1 <+ 2 3> 4) has been reduced to (1 5 4). Calculation cannot take place in a literal, by definition.

What this is doing is binding the parentheses to a list constructor. I.e. (1 2 3) is really something like <list 1 2 3>. It's more like a quasiliteral (like Lisp's backquote).

Unfortunately, the fact that the printed representation of a list is the same as the code which calculates it makes things somewhat "muddled", pun intended.

What if we have this: '(1 2 3 (4 5 6)). What is (4 5 6) here? It can't be the list (4 5 6), because (4 5 6) is code that constructs that list. Using the same printed rep for both is a very bad idea.
While some of it it's true, especially the longer breastfeeding cycles, hunter gatherers were very exposed to natural dangers and groups were very small and vulnerable: a sickness or an accident could whipe them away overnight.
Pre-Carly Laserjets don't die. You should gift it in your will.
Not to mention the touchid sensor is completely terrible. It never - ever - works for me. I never had this level of problem with touchid on the iPhone ...

The new iCloud Keychain password prompt, which shows only touchid with password prompt hidden behind a button is fucking terrible — along with the auto submit behavior after filling out the form - which very often results in extra password required popups.

I’m starting to wonder if anyone at apple is using this stuff — maybe corporate disabled all these features for security reasons and apple developers actually aren’t allowed to use in practice ...?
I thought it relevant because you don't want the US to help him even though he's not in trouble with the US, which makes me curious whether you want the US to help those that are in trouble with the US.
Stealing a line from others, but: That's the difference between the US and Europe. In Europe, 100 miles is a long distance. In the US, 100 years is a long time.
This is funny to think about, I'm no expert but probably far more dangerous unless your moon propulsion is dramatically restricted.

You need a fullbody suit to maintain it's integrity, so taking even a minor spill is not a good idea. There's no terminal velocity either so if you go up a reasonable amount and lose power you'd make a visible crater. You just keep speeding up until reaching the moon's escape velocity (2.4km/s)
He does not. Let's read as it is written.
Replying a little late, but we are discussing

"technical conversations I have had with my colleagues where I can go to recover details I might not remember from a month ago. Then again email also does this just fine, and doesn't cost as much."

For static instructions like setting up a dev environment? Sure a wiki is perfect. But I don't use a wiki for technical conversations like "Hey icedchai, I'm getting an error message that the COM port is not detected and I remember you said something about solving it in yesterday's standup. Can you point me to where the fix was?"

That message is better suited for slack or email than a wiki. (Your solution might be in the wiki but I'm contacting you because it wasn't easy to find, or searching for the error message didn't turn it up).

But if I use email, then when we hire a new employee a month later who gets the same error, your answer will be in my records but not theirs.

Another poster suggested a mailing list, that is a good option that makes email viable for this.
I imagine the history of that single person might not be so relatable to people reading this thread :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Arment
The real surprise here as that he got to 27 without realising this.
That didn't really say much. Don't store file content in your databases, otherwise your backups will balloon to massive size.
NiteFury M.2 FPGA – Revised Funding Goal and Heatsinks
This sounds almost similar to the exhibit at the Museum of Jurassic Technology on Nikolai Fyodorov?
That is, to pass for a human, the AI should imitate humans. This includes imitating their mistakes. AI's genuine mistakes would likely be different enough to help humans tell an AI from a human.

That is, the best strategy for an AI to pass the test is to be perfect, and perfectly imitate a perfect amount of human mistakes.

This definitely requires an ability to lie, to knowingly tell untrue things.

This ability is also required by much simpler circumstances: when directly asked, an AI should be able to lie and say "No, I'm a human", else it will fail the test instantly.

This likely means that a robot following the Asimov's three laws would never pass a direct Turing test.
Good point but it also means that if you can keep it precisely in the 2.2K to 4.2K range then nothing strange happens.

That's a pretty narrow band to operate in.
I eventually decided to subscribe. But luckily my work has a discounted subscription rate.
Is this weird guerilla marketing for The Outline? These articles aren't really very good.
Bekant Ikea powered sit/stand desk, dual monitors both on adjustable arms.

Layout-wise, 70% of my desk is clear for keyboard+mouse; I have a large format mousepad though admittedly it's mainly for gaming.

The other 30% is 2-4 piles of papers and/or books depending on what I'm working on at the moment.
I wonder how far down this diversity goes. Perhaps the outer few km of the entire planet. That'd be very hard to kill off.
The D programming language now supports tracking of lexical lifetimes. For a simple example,

int* foo() {
int i;
int* p = &i;
int* q = p;
return q;
}

is detected as an error. This tracking is even done across function calls:

int* bar(scope int *p); // p doesn't escape bar()
int* abc(return scope int* p); // p doesn't
// escape abc() but is returned from it

int* foo() {
int i;
return bar(&i); // ok
return abc(&i); // error
}

The annotations can be explicit, or can be inferred by the compiler by analyzing the function bodies.
Indeed. I have never had a problem getting commercial gigabit fiber pulled when the business was willing to spend $20k-$50k up front and a few thousand a month. And at enterprise scale, those costs are minimal.
The new computer will probably stop working in <10 years. The silicon will self-destruct in 50. The old one will survive the collapse of global civilization.
China has plenty of professional journalists, musicians, authors and artists. China's newspapers are heavily censored and vehicles for propaganda but people still write for them. Musicians make money in China the same way they do in the West, gigging. Rampant piracy doesn’t stop people trying and occasionally succeeding in making a living as authors or artists either, anymore than the small chance of making a good living at it in the West does.
Most GA pilots are not reliant on sensors, we learn to fly with no instruments. Most airline pilots fly on instruments and almost never without.
My instructor told me in the school I will have to learn to know the speed without looking anywhere but feeling it from the way the plane flies. He is right. Flying too much on instruments is taking away the feel of the plane, there are skills you can train and hone and there are skills you loose due to lack of use.
I'm talking more raspberry pi range than MBP, which is also 1000x more powerful. (or more; aka could probaly emulate all of the BBC Micros every sold at once)
A year ago I moved from Chattanooga, TN (mentioned in the article) to Bellevue, Wa to work in “Cloud City” Seattle to take a job at AWS. It used to cost me a total $59/mo for 100MB fiber up and down, no contract, with _amazing_ customer service (I seriously have stories to tell about how great EPB is).

My only real option at my new residence is Comcast at $79/mo which went up to $94/mo after 1 year for a hypothetical 100down/5up, with frequent network drops.

It was quite disappointing to find zero options for fiber, and this convinces me that this kind of corruption by ISPs and legislators needs to be severely curbed.
It’s an interesting contrast with, say, sovereign citizens in the US. Law enforcement basically doesn’t care what they think about their sovereignty, they just treat them like any other person.
Sure, that's an audiogram. It tells you what your threshold of hearing is at a certain set of frequencies. Additionally, sometimes they'll do bone conduction, which can characterize whether your loss is conductive (for example, trouble with the bones in your inner ear) or sensorineural (for example, cochlear damage from noise exposure). But that's just a starting point for fitting a hearing aid -- it's not like a glasses prescription that tells the optometrist exactly how to cut the lens.
WGA launches new tool to connect writers with employers amid agencies fight
They did not. If you dig into reports about “subsidies” to Bell Atlantic (Verizon’s predecessor), you’ll see that the “cash” is actually “excess rates” resulting from telecom deregulation. There is no economic substance to the argument, it’s based on the idea that the rates and profits of Bell Atlantic should have been the same during the period when broadband demand was exploding as it was during the period when a phone line was just a phone line. (Then you call any difference between the two a “subsidy”).
Whining Chinese are not human reveals only that you’re a loser.
I had an old PowerBook that hadn't been used in years, which had a PowerPC chip, and I had the impression that it was useless, because you need a new web browser to view current websites, and Apple does not provide updates for such machines. However, I did find a distribution of Linux that booted to a GUI, although as usual there seemed to be issues with power management which might have been software or hardware.

So, I'm saying you can't forget that any computer is probably more useful than you think, given suitable software. These days, it should be easier than ever to make an interface for something weird, given the resources for hobbyists like FPGAs. I remember 15-20 years ago, when I had access to a "Fat" Mac 512K which had pretty much no software including an OS, and I wondered if I could do something with it, because I had recently been learning about Linux. I didn't go very far with the experiment, but I copied some minimal hand assembled bootstrap code to the boot sector of a floppy (avoiding any problems with the drive being unreliable at reading large amounts of data) and then I rewired a Mac printer cable to connect it to the PC serial port, and I got the Mac to download an image to its framebuffer. I didn't have the motivation or stick-to-it-ivness to continue, but I had the vision at the time of a Mac as a terminal for Linux.
Had a grandfather who was a cookie salesman and lived comfortably, even buying a cottage and boat.

I suspect it was just a bubble though since his parent's generation were mostly farmers working 12 hour days.
Hah! I get the reference. What do I win?

https://youtu.be/rcKxS2rbEdg
Go for it!

I'm working on NanaGram (https://nanagram.co) solo and bootstrapped. Although I'm not making a full-time income yet, it's generating a profit. It's mostly automated.

NanaGram is the 3rd greatest generator of happiness and fulfillment in my life (after my wife and my dog). I get a constant stream of good vibes from customers, most recently voicemails from grandmothers! (https://nanagram.co/blog/feedback-by-vm)

Good luck :)
It's a curiosity item. I would buy an anonymous one if they were $30 or less. It's interesting to have around, a conversation piece. The anonymous one increases the interest, because it better demonstrates the danger, the precariousness.
When it happens, it will result from one session. Whether it happens in any given session is a statistical question.
I think that's where I first heard the term "intentional" in this usage! It fit exactly what I was doing, so I adopted it as a name.

I did a little bit of research on their prior work, but I get the feeling that they fell into a bunch of traps. For example, they seem to refer to "compiling" programs, which is enough of a conceptual mistake as to sink their project from the start.

Still, the overall idea that the focus should be on intent, rather than how that intent is implemented, seems apt.
This would help, but findings and audit reports aren’t enough. You need to revoke clearances for pen testing findings that aren’t resolved in a timely manner, or repeated failings. I would also like to see claw backs and penalties for data leakage considering the sensitive nature of the data.

You get what you measure, incentives matter, and all those cliches.