skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue with the person with a full disk I recognise. A lot of people are so untechnical/uninterested that they have no idea how to maintain their computers/phones.

I have a friend who is an electrical engineer(!) no less, who bought a new Windows machine when the old one was so infected by malware (kids used it) that it became unusable. Most of my relatives have dedicated siblings or kids providing tech support. Some people don’t have this support and end up at the Genious bar.

The number of people I come across who admit to having no backup systems is mind boggling. People who depend on their computers for work.
I commented about the main point of the article: the trade war.

I don't understand what is the point of your reply...
Increasing the Scalability of Blockchain Platforms
> Taking less salary for years with the potential for an IPO is a lot less lucrative when your payout goes down by 50% due to taxes.

Since we're talking about an increase in the top marginal income tax rates, sacrificing regular income for a chance of a big capital gains payout would actually be more, not less attractive, unless this was pared with treating capital gains as normal income—and even then, would probably remain more attractive if also coupled to provisions allowing spreading income spikes (whether due to one-time capital events or otherwise) out via advance and/or deferred recognition options, which is probably necessary for basic fairness if capital gains are treated as regular income—and actually that helps with fairness for some regular income patterns as well.
Attribution Modeling vs. Marketing Mix Modeling
The benefit is not having the time change twice a year.
TL;DR;

"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."

[1] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/08/29/too-crowded/
RHEL comes with a price tag (although I think they now have free developer licenses.)

Also RHEL development moves sloooowly. This is a feature and one of the main reasons to go with RHEL instead of not only unsupported distros but also supported-but-faster-moving distros, kind of like on Windows LTSB (I know to little about both to compare them, but enough to know that in certain organzations the promise that it will stay the way it is and by default only receive security updates is a huge feature.)
Hi, I’m one of the founders of Nextjournal. I haven’t tried Domino Datalab so I can’t give you a comparison but I can speak to the vision of Nextjournal:

We market towards Data Science because our feature set (automatic versioning, reproducibility, collaboration, etc) applies very well to many pain points currently existing in the field. But Nextjournal is not limited to Data Science. We designed it as a general purpose literate programming environment that should be able to address many different use cases: generative art, cloud APIs, spreadsheet-like applications, molecular dynamics simulations, you name it.

The way we want to achieve this is by allowing people to extend Nextjournal eventually, by bringing their own languages and by implementing their own components that can be used in a notebook and shared with other users (e.g. a spreadsheet component or a task board component). We are already building some parts of Nextjournal with Nextjournal, like our component for cloning GitHub repositories into a notebook. We think this will eventually make the platform, as a whole, much more understandable and learnable and will give our users much more agency in what they want to accomplish.
At my local Apple Store there is now a flipchart at the shop front which features the new Apple products: iPhone, MacBook, iPad.

This is so sad, and reminds me of cheap and greasy sales people but not of Apple.

It looks more like a shop that went bankrupt and needs to sell its inventory ASAP. This impression is really sad.
The color choices are client-side. You can use something like base16-shell to customize it.
> No, that's wrong. What defines a monopoly is absence of competition in practice (the common test for which is pricing power, which demonstrates whether the market sees “competitors” in a named market segment as actual competitors or players in isolated adjacent markets)

Are you saying in practice Chrome has competition? Safari doesn't count by your definition since it's essentially an isolated adjacent market (with is also shrinking due to Android expansion).
Show HN: Lokalise – Automate your localization/translation process(web&mobile)
Normalization was always the concern for both those for and against same sex marriage. It was never about the benefits or the sanctity, not really.
World’s fastest supercomputer will be built by AMD and Cray for US government
> money amplifies the political voice of those who have it

This is an underrated point; capitalism with billionaires is crony capitalism.
For certain, I meant to imply "... without depending on online activation". As for copyright protection, most schemes can or have been defeated with emulators. Even pesky Apple Lisa can be run in emulators (no thanks to Apple).

Physical media + online DRM is as bad as online-only.
Ok, so there's no far-right murders happening NOW. Because NOW is an instant, a single point in time.

Which means you need a time range to care about.

And 'relevant'?

Is a murder in Sri Lanka relevant? New Zealand? Venezuela? Just the US? You seem to be being as obtuse as possible.
One defense is to make a missile that spirals around it's trajectory so it is hard to stay locked on.
what freaks me out is it's almost as if someone planned this.
Title is very inaccurate clickbait. Killing affiliate marketing would be a very bad idea for Google.
'Unlike any other organisation of its size, government is never held liable for efficiency, nobody ever questions government for "return on investment", even though it's the largest one all of us make.'

Seriously? Every time there's an election the right-wing parties promise they're going to balance the books or pay for taxes by cutting the fat from all those inefficient government services. It's their mantra, and they fail to do so every time they get elected.
Also discussed 2 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13549877
So, my two reactions:
1) duh
2) but, proving cause vs. effect seems tricky here, since which states legalized was in no way assigned randomly. An accelerating decline in antigay bias would be exactly what we should expect to happen around the time the legislature or courts see which way the wind is blowing, and legalize gay marriage. Not that I disbelieve the conclusion, but this doesn't seem like it would be very convincing evidence if I weren't already convinced.
Baumeister had a pretty interesting idea on where antigay bias comes from: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016748701...

> Men compete to amass material resources, with the goal of getting a good sex partner.

> Men compete in groups to amass resources, so men see other men not just as sexual rivals but also as coalition partners.

> Male homophobia is often not about sex but rather invokes the stereotype that a homosexual man will not be an effective coalition partner.
The absolute worst thing about going to the Apple store is figuring out how to flag someone down if they're busy. For that reason alone, I've stopped recommending Apple products to my older relatives. Once upon a time, the dominant factor was that the walled garden allowed them to feel less intimidated by their technology, which left them feeling like their devices were vastly more capable, even when they technically had fewer features. Now, the dominant factor is that, when they need help, they need the ability to talk to a human, and Apple is no longer supplying easy access to humans, they've put all the certified resellers who did offer that service out of business, and I personally do not scale. Best Buy and Microcenter, on the other hand, still have a place right at the front of the store, next to the entrance, where you can go get help from a human without having to make an appointment on a cleanly-designed-to-the-point-of-being-confusing-for-many-people website first.

I'm sure Apple believes they've streamlined things immensely by getting rid of the whole "here's a place you can wait in line to do X" thing, but, like you said, at least some of the benefit they're seeing is probably illusory, because it leaves them with no great way to measure how long people have to wait to talk to someone in the first place, or how many people are giving up without ever successfully talking to someone. What they really need to do is put a triage desk right by the entrance of every Apple store.
There was a 2017 study that looked at people's attitudes related to Obergefell:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28758838

One of its interesting findings:

> a five-wave longitudinal time-series study using a sample of 1,063 people found an increase in perceived social norms supporting gay marriage after the ruling but no change in personal attitudes. This pattern was replicated in a separate between-subjects data set.
I wonder if this has a solitaire game that was in some random CD of various games I had way back when.

I believe it was called Thieves and Kings, but essentially, you had a 4x4 grid and your stack of cards. Jacks go in slots in the 2 center top and center bottom slots. Queens go in the 2 center left and center right slots, and Kings go in the corners. At this point, you flip a card one by one and fill up slots. Non-Jacks/Queens/Kings you try to get into the center 2x2 square as they're unimportant, but in time, you're having to judicially place cards into Jack/Queen/King slots in the hope you won't draw one of those and bust because their slot is occupied. After the 4x4 grid is filled, you then pair up non-Jacks/Queens/Kings by pairs that add to 10 (2+8, A+9, 5+5, etc.) and then repeat the process until you have the outer frame filled with Jacks/Queens/Kings.
Not to mention that people wont blink at paying Amazon hundreds of dollars a year for services, but make memes on the Internet about paying for YouTube Red.
Extending Gotests for Strict Error Tests
WSL1 yes, but not WSL2, this is the what this article is about.

Constantly people are bringing up that MS should switch to the Linux kernel. It makes zero sense.

You lose the ABI to run all the old Windows binaries out there when you can keep that AND run Linux binaries.

Also people seem to forget that the NT kernel runs on multiple platforms, on my XBox One with x86-64 CPU I can run old XBox 360 RISC CPU games. Windows 10 can run x86 binaries on ARM CPU:s. How is switching to a Linux kernel ever going to help with that?

Consequence of that argument is that Microsoft needs to support TWO flavors of Windows, one with the NT kernel & one with the Linux kernel. On top of that you get all the editions as a multiplier.
A Brief Explanation of Project vs. a Product
AMP-shopping is next
I wonder if any of this is implemented in OpenVDB[0]?

[0] https://www.openvdb.org/
Awesome! Thanks for sharing :D
In Quebec our electricity can be lower than 0.05$ CAD/kWh (3.28¢/kWh based on the Rate L [1]). Our courrent lowest price is 1.384$ CAD/L. So considering that 1L would be 8.9 kWh. So all it would need is an efficiency of 33% to be profitable with an electricity cost of 0.05$ CAD/kWh. That's excluding any tax incentive to do so or any deal made with HydroQuebec to use excess power.

[1] http://www.hydroquebec.com/business/customer-space/rates/rat...
We need to legalize polygamy now. Anti-muslim and anti-mormon bigotry has gone on too long.
With military conflicts moving into space, we may see masers mentioned again as a potential attack vector.

There are days, driving along streets filled with all too many of those LED advertisements, when I think about building a small one for the purpose of "turning off the lights." Never will, because law, bad things. But I think about it. And that thought makes me happy.
It is a little bit more than that.
That seems more a handslap, not a deterrent.

Technology advancement (e.g., remote changes to blackbox products) makes many abuses easier than they used to be, and market forces don't seem to be working well enough, so I think we need strength of law as a check on abuses.
About the author:

"Professor Joseph Yi-zheng Lian is a Hong Kong native. He obtained his first degree from Carleton College, Minnesota. An economist by training, his Ph.D. was earned at the University of Minnesota.

Prof. Lian taught at the University of California, Riverside and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and was Chief Editor and lead writer of the Hong Kong Economic Journal before serving as a Senior Policy Adviser for the Chief Executive at the Central Policy Unit of the first administration of the Hong Kong SAR government, from 1998 to 2004. He was dismissed from his advisory post after a profiled participation in a pro-democracy sit-in in Central, Hong Kong."

which sounds very different to the NYT bio:

"Yi-Zheng Lian, a commentator on Hong Kong and Asian affairs, is a professor of economics at Yamanashi Gakuin University, in Kofu, Japan, and a contributing opinion writer."
You're kidding, right? There's no situation in which the far right is better than the far left? Even when the far left launches a terrorist attack?

It sounds like you're defining 'far right' to be worse than 'far left', and then presenting that relationship as your conclusion.
Yes, we're actually agnostic on CO2 source. To get to scale we'll need to use CO2 from direct air capture, but we could by the collection from someone else.
Amazon to Disable S3 Path-Style Access Used to Bypass Censorship
Some colleagues at work started to use https://hackmd.io/ for collaborative editing of markdown text. It works great.
It fucks over the minorities living in rural China.
The linked article does a poor job of convincing skeptics, it only looked at nominal rates, not effective rates, and additionally confused the issue by looking at the first derivative of the top marginal rate. Finally, it didn’t even fix the marginal rate to an exchange-rate fixed income ceiling across countries.

Sloppy methodology with a conclusion in search of evidence.
> what freaks me out is that it's almost as if someone planned this.

Why would prior planning freak you out? This is a bit confusing to me.
Where was this?

I’ve noticed most apple stores are super friendly and fast all over the world.

But their San Francisco flagship store is utter shit. Understaffed, too small, absolutely mobbed by people. And it makes sense, it’s a single store serving a city of 900,000 people with millions driving in every morning for work. They desperately need more locations.

The Palo Alto store, for example, is pure delight. I’ve had nothing but great experiences the few times I visited their NYC stores as well.

If you know exactly what you want I think they’d prefer you buy it online tho.
On average IE 11 is around 2% in the US, obviously it'll vary based on the type of site but I would have expected ProtonMail to be even lower.
I always liked, 'People Can't Memorise Computer Industry Acronyms'.
Hyper certainly looks cool, but “looks cool” doesn’t cut it when it comes to winning me over for what might be the #1 most important tool I use on a daily basis. Is there a page telling me why I should use this over my current terminal (iTerm2, FWIW)?
Apple got too popular and needs 5x the amount of store they have near me in Durham, NC. I can still get service, but it is a chore. Show up before they open, or book an appointment 2 weeks in advance. The only good part is that I used to need to talk to a repair person ~2x a year and now I've gone in like once every 2 years... (still too busy though)
Last major update for IE11 was like 6 years ago? Supporting anything related to this browser is painful and is blocking multiple new web features (or even not so new).

I would love to use CSS Grid without thinking whether it will work however it happens that IE11 has only partial (and buggy) support for it.

I believe that supporting IE11 blocks innovation.
It appears to have a Windows installer as well.
Thoughts on Facebook’s Blockchain Strategy
Good news: They ship PHP 7.2

Bad news: ...without ext/sodium

That's a frankly irresponsible decision for Red Hat to make.
Copywriting tips and growing a productised service from $0-18k MR in few months
>Frankly, this is not a new issue. It's just the effort by Google to use publisher content & data for their own profit continues to expand.

True. Publishers always hated that Facebook and Google would share too much of an article on their own platforms that no one would click through, and they'd miss the ad impression.

This thing is a similar issue but missing out on affiliate clicks instead of ad impressions.

I'm glad the author is keen and pointing it out, though.
Key points:

- GitHub support for Azure Active Directory
- Sign in to Azure and Azure DevOps with your GitHub account (this is a nice way to win over those without a Microsoft account)
- Pipelines integration with Kubernetes

Also:

- Simplified licensing model
- YAML-defined CI/CD (Azure DevOps has actually had this for a while now, so not sure why it's getting "announced" here)
More than 1% if the market will react with hostility due to this. Gamers are a hornet's nest when it comes to anti-consumer practices.
I saw the announcement several days ago, but I never realized the censorship angle. I wonder if AWS will reconsider. I also wonder if AWS knows exactly what they're doing here and are playing along with certain countries.
Etherpad has been open source since 2009, when it was bought by Google and immediately re-licensed. It stayed open source ever since. It was written in a mix of Scala & JS.

Etherpad Lite (https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite) is a port to javascript, is backed by the Free Software Conservancy and is not owned by any corporation.

Yes, if you do not mind using Google's infrastructure, Google Docs is easier & more featureul. There are some cases in which running on premises may make a difference, and Etherpad strives to fill that palce.
sad you switched to arch
"same as with self scanning tills at supermarkets"

Worse! You have to first buy the device and use their own payment apps. That's an expensive way to just feel cool/modern!
Are you trying to counter an argument based on relevant practice (the Linux kernel) with a newsgroup from the 90s? Without even giving a reference?
Hell freezing over? Microsoft readies its own Linux for Windows
It's hard to tell with Valve as projects come and go, but I Believe there is a coming launch planned. It was mentioned recently but I cannot remember the source.

We will see over the next year I guess.
If systemd works to start linux software with windows, before desktop login and the features PodMan needs are there, I'm looking forward to it.
It will be interesting to see what happens when China no longer eats US inflation, so hurray for an interesting future!
Yep, there is no right answer in this. In our case, a partnership where we built something together or on top of a framework is working very good for us, as we create new products. So we have 2 options, we either work on new products from scratch or we partner to create something better. Don't know if Paul Graham talked about this way of working, I think he was thinking of partnership = "a big enterprise said something about you". Hope I understand right his tweets.
Hyper 3 Is Here
I lived in Cancun for a couple of years and even indoors with AC my 2015 MBP ran too hot. Very often it was unusable on my lap, and even a simple Skype call turned on the fans at max speed.
The top marginal tax rate is already 37% and kicks in at $510,300 for a single person. So if your payout is a million, say, then what happens is that your "less salary" (let's pretend you've slaved away for a pittance of, say, $200k) is taxed normally, and then the first $300 or so of your imagined payout is also taxed normally, but the last bit, the amount over $510,300, is taxed at an additional 13% over what happens today.

So if by "a lot less lucrative" you meant "13% less lucrative," then okay.
I tend to not give political leadership much credit in that area...(successful planning and execution)
To what end? Xi Jinping can just wait until the next president to negotiate away the tariffs. The public certainly hates them. Right or left, I don't see how anyone can see these surviving through another administration.
Huh? Self checkouts are great! Rather than having 1 or 2 tills you can have many times that manned by the same number of people. If you don't have any alcohol you can use it without interacting with anyone at all and its much faster.

That coupled with contactless payments make it super quick to buy just a few items.

A "proper" checkout is still king for large shops but for people I know (late 20s), that is becoming less common for more frequent, smaller shopping trips.

Edit: I should say this is for someone based in London.
Lance Armstrong was one of the most evil protagonsts in sports, ever.

If he only would have cheated for himself that would be one thing. But how he threatened and destroyed others for personal gain is pretty much unforgivable.

Here's something to chew on :

https://deadspin.com/the-ridiculous-saga-of-lance-armstrong-...
I run a bunch of websites. Basically, I do some surveys and provide information for consumers. I monetize it through affiliate links. Adsense won't make it profitable enough and people is not willing to pay for that info.

If they drop me in the search results because I use affiliate marketing they are basically cutting 50% of my income. That's a pretty hard hit, specially when I'm not a computer scientist and I can't just look for another job that easy in my country.
The fact that the national (and international) media's narrative about Trump and company might be wrong?
Didn't the Laffer curve on bond markets invert recently?
That experience sounds like 'virtual embodiment'. Researchers are using it for a bunch of different things as it can be quite powerful. So powerful, in fact, that some of the researchers have been advocating for limiting access to the technology and establishing a 'code of ethics' around its use. Basically, how you see the world is tied to an internal mental model of your own body that establishes where each limb is, how big you are in relation to your environment, etc... and virtual embodiment seems able to alter that very easily. With lasting effects.
It's Cockpit.

http://cockpit-project.org/
Good point - it's been a while since I've bought something like that in-store. I did buy a console, though, and that's a pretty smooth experience for a similar item (some stores even just have them out, otherwise you just find someone to grab it and then go to the cashier).

The rest of my experience was still abhorrent. The store was practically empty (though that might be an illusion since the store was huge and not visibly mobbed), some employees were just standing around just to tell people to wait in a corner. There was no real system to ensure your 'connection' would actually find you, since you were just told to loiter around the store.
It has some with the "DIY" attitude and "authenticity" rejection of norms but doesn't seem quite societally linked in ethos to qualify - even by the less typical strands like Cryptopunks.
I agree. Many people (perhaps those without religion or some other mechanism that provides an external moral code) just adapt the law as their moral code: if it's legal, it's moral; if it's illegal, it's immoral.

Of course, this fact is always obfuscated when talking about drug legalization because it is harmful to the legalization effort to suggest that legalizing a drug will lead to increased usage/acceptance of said drug (usually the opposite claim is made - that legalizing the drug will reduce usage)
Heat exchangers are problematic due to increased drag and radar observability.
True. Like in Pineapple Express when he doesn't like his drug dealer thinking they are friends.