skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to get weird phone calls all the time for people having trouble with their phone service. Weird part was that I actually worked for the telecom, but making software in some obscure department, not as customer support. I was so confused the first few times how people knew I worked for the company and how they got my personal cell number.

What happened was that my cell phone number was one digit off the corporate switchboard. And people kept dialling me. I don't even know how they got the switchboard number, I have no idea where that thing would have been published. It certainly wasn't published on the company's website under customer support.

You don't have to publicly post your number to fall victim to this. Sometimes, you just have really bad luck that your number is similar to something that someone sees. Then they dial the wrong number twofold (first in that the company's support number is completely different or nonexistent, and second in that they couldn't even properly dial the number they were trying to dial).

I guarantee that there are people out there who had this guy's number, but one digit off, and they were receiving Facebook complaints too. I like to give benefit of the doubt to humanity, but when you get a steady stream of these calls, you tend to not want to give it anymore; you just end up wondering how stupid everyone can be. Logically, you know it's just a statistical quirk, but that's small comfort. For me, it stopped when I finally switched my number.
They do. It's called inheritance.
Excellent example. When we're blowing the whistle on our own authorities, we turn to out community.

Private firms have coopted our communities, but they are not beholden to our welfare.
This really is a study on the political consequences of an underregulated free-market economy and the result of political demands for more libertarian ideals as applied. The consequence is the poor cannot afford to live.
I wonder if my house plants are suffering socio-chemical isolation by being potted solo...
> Men burned more than women, at about 100 calories versus 69.

I chuckled.
Umm, Facebook owns Instagram.
Be warned that in PostgreSQL, WITH is an optimization barrier, and is planned to remain that way to serve that purpose. If you can, prefer using views to enhance readability (and testability as a bonus). PostgreSQL views (unlike those in MySQL) do not prevent optimization across them.
There is no reason you shouldn't be able to use this hardware 10~15 years from now. People use old Apple IIs and C64s from decades ago. The trouble is the locked bootloaders, secure boot and all the binary blob drivers.
Chernobyl has become a refuge for wildlife 33 years after the nuclear accident
macOS has the support and has had the support for decades for this stuff whereas there are very few high end Chromebooks (i.e. mostly Google Pixelbook) and none with high end software.
I've been doing this for a little while on a cheapo chromebook.

It works, but it is brutally slow and clunky (this is on a 2018 entry-level intel celeron n3350 + 4gb ram chromebook) to run something like firefox. It is usable, but you'll get frustrated fairly fast.

Unfortunately the same can be said about the chromebook in general - have more than one browser tab open on a javascript heavy page (e.g. large google doc + gmail + calendar) and its really slow there too anyway so I guess I cant hope for much.

I feel like web apps have got significantly more complex, while the compute in the entry level chromebooks has more or less stagnated over the past few years. Just doesn't feel like there is enough power to make things comfortable and seamless to use. I've used a couple of intel i5/i7 chromebooks and they've been lovely to use with snappy performance, but the price for that performance is approaching/exceeding that of a "real" laptop (sometimes wildly exceeding the price of a normal windows laptop, or even a mac for the case of Google's chromebooks) so it kinda defeats the point in my mind.

I used to recommend chromebooks to all non-tech savvy people who asked me (parents, relatives, friends etc), now I hesitate to do so because the performance is just not there unless you really pay huge sums.
The liver converts protein and fat to glucose in small amounts as needed. look for "gluconeogenesis".
> You can vote to change the government in most countries, you can't with Google

There's a point for the government. Google is basically beyond my influence. They can do whatever they want with nearly no public oversight.

Google might leak my data. Just like countless other private companies have leaked my data.

> what do you think google will do with it

god only know but the government already has all my sensitive information as it is. Warn about leaking SSN or tax information or addresses...but the government knows all that already. It's nothing new to them
I've heard that having shared libraries like glibc allows for commonly shared hotpaths to remain in the CPU cache, making it faster. Whereas in musl, since the binaries all have their own copies of procedures, they are more often kicked out of cache. I don't imagine it has a big impact on a container where you are only running one or two binaries. Perhaps in a desktop environment with hundreds or thousands of different programs running, it might make a difference.
Ray Dalio Had CEOs Like Bill Gates and Elon Musk Take a Personality Test
A Man in Kazakhstan Held Up a Blank Sign to See If He’d Be Detained. He Was
There are two clipboards in X11. One is the middle-click-paste, selection clipboard that gets clobbered when you highlight something. But C-x, C-c, and C-v (in CUA applications) operate on a different clipboard altogether that doesn't exhibit this behavior.
Why are you booing magduf? He's right.
Interesting, can you elaborate, I'm considering a switch.
Which would be exactly $0 in Texas as we have no income tax whatsoever...
Just tested: uMatrix detects the site being a threat, preventing to load the homepage in the first place.
CAD tools are a fair point, but those seem much more niche than video games and creative. I'd assume that industry uses high end workstations anyway, and not laptops?

I'm definitely excited to see how this goes.
I'm skeptical; GC is closely tied to programming language run-times. How is some accelerator going to know which pointers in an object are references to other GC objects and which are non-GC-domain pointers (like handles to foreign objects and whatnot)? How does the accelerator handle weak references and finalization?

People aren't going to massively rewrite their language run-times to target a boutique GC accelerator.
Yea I feel like this article is pretty misleading. It would be better if Google officially supported removing the entire ChromeOS and doing a full install of any Linux distro you want. This isn't really running Linux on your Chromebook. It's running a chroot of another distro under their Linux kernel/GUI layer. It's pretty different.
> But what if someone gambles away their {salaried | welfare | annuity | retirement | pension} income, or has it scammed from them? Tough luck, back to the streets?

This is exactly what happens today, and it's ostensibly the problem that UBI is attempting to solve. If UBI doesn't solve that problem then it's just a very expensive waste of resources.
The 2012 retina was released mid-2012, and the 7 year rule starts when it was last produced. So it hasn't reached obsolete/vintage status yet.

(I used the same MacBook, replaced the battery a couple of months ago, and have no plans to replace it anytime soon.)
Any service that favors self-designed moral and ethical values over business sense should be ditched quick and now. Yes, this is PayPal.
> "should void doing vigilantism", "monetary services must not hold opinions"

That sounds like a very interesting idea, but how about this one?

> "You must follow PayPal's terms and conditions or should expect to have your account terminated"

Because that's how every payment processor in existence works. Don't like it? Use bitcoin.
The article talks about people being uninsured, but this is a misunderstanding of the problem. I'm type 1 diabetic, and the reasons for this are pretty straightforward.

In thus US, insulin (of the types people actually use) is very expensive (~$300/vial), and requires a prescription which expires after one year. In Canada, the exact same insulins from the exact same manufacturers are literally 10x cheaper, and are OTC. Being without insulin takes about two hours to turn into a life-threatening emergency.

The prescription requirement creates ample opportunities for logistical errors that turn into life-threatening emergencies. And there's no legitimate reason for prescriptions to expire. And the cost is such that, if travel were free, you'd often be better off paying the full price in another country than just the co-pay in the US; the price is so insanely inflated that insurance is just compensating for the dysfunction, it isn't better than a sane uninsured baseline would be.

Insulin is cheap in every country in the world except for the United States. This is completely insane. It needs to be OTC in the US, and the import restrictions need to be removed so that US diabetics can have it at the international price instead of the gouging price.
How to start your own delivery-only food venture
Yeah, sugar is pretty addicting. I used to be a cigarette smoker. Limiting myself to just a few cigarettes a day would never work. Cold turkey worked just fine though.
CrossOver has a beta Android version that I use to run IE, Adobe Reader, etc.
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Why does Jenkins have blue balls? [2012]
This is the closing.
The mass media is there to damage Facebook as much as they can, because Facebook is taking them out of business. Never forget that.
Not owning the .com, letting this happen, and then letting your users get fucked for a year is so incompetent that it's less of a reach to assume the Keepass devs are simply in on it.

If you're buying a .info or adding "Origin" after your name, then it's time for a rebrand. You scrape together pennies in your stubbornness at the massive expense of filling the coffers of the bad actors and screwing your users with confusion. Especially for security software.
Is it still possible to boot from usb stick, blow Chrome OS away and install proper linux distro?

Like on a normal computer.
And then we get programmers that only know those languages claiming that inheritance if bad because the only language they know only supports an useless simulacra of it.
The previous post was the announcement of the two companies merging; this post is an announcement that the merger is now complete.
Hardly; it leaves file descriptors open that are not marked close-on-exec.

exit() is the world's most efficient garbage collector.
Macbook Pros cost far more than Chromebooks. MBPs are 4x to 10x the price. They shouldn't be compared apples to apples.
It reminds me of the days I was reading Knuth's quote "97% of the time premature optimisation blabla" every time someone was trying to make something faster.

CPUs are not getting faster, yet it seems using tools that makes things run faster are somehow taboo.

Wirth's law:

Wirth's law is an adage on computer performance which states that software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.

Why is java taught in university, and why is this language considered like some kind of standard? Most OSes are written in C, yet most of silicon valley frowns upon writing C because of arrays. Even C++ is getting a bad reputation.
The Death of Boredom: Search volume for “boredom” drops from 100 to 34
Agreed. I'm of the mindset that the government is me basically. Maybe I disagree with them sometimes but I have the ability to change their behavior. I have no control over private companies (even if they are publiclly traded)
Seattle has had them for half a century or longer too.
The article talks about pilot procedures, not engineering procedures specific to aviation.
You don't need a benchmark. Given any C code, you can make a C++ code that runs as fast (just use the same code). This proves that C++ is at least as fast as C.

From there, maybe you could use C++ features to improve the speed (and then C++ is faster) or you could not (and then they have the same speed).
I don't see why this is specific to Chromebooks. On x86_64/UEFI, I can sign my Grub EFI loader, load my keys into secure book (delete the stock/microsoft ones), re-enable secure boot, password it and now I have a reasonable expectation that I am booting the OS I think I am.

It'd be nice if Google opened up their actual bootloader so you could do the same with Chromebooks without needing 3rd party tools.
Isn't that what Facebook Messenger is doing though? I could be mistaken, I'm just commenting on how it seems from my perspective.
You can work remotely from Spain :). There are many tech companies that will allow working from EU.
End of Life does not mean it no longer works.

Also, you are still within your 7 years :)
I love NixOS, but you can't seriously think you'd get fewer support calls by using it.
My reply should be longer and more helpful, but I'm unable to write clearly right now, so I'll be short but regrettably not nuanced: if it involves other people and shared resources, I don't think you can make it non-political.

If you see politics — not being a politician or partisanship, which have different implications — as inherently bad, you are not seeing politics for what it is; you are seeing politics as some evil process, run by a cabal or by a mob, and your position as inherently logical and reasoned.

This is a bad idea even if you have a good reason to believe you're right. Rumsfeld's "unknown unknowns" are part of why this is a problem.

Let me add a weird metaphor: you are saying smell is something that only comes from perfume, rotten organic matter and certain chemical products. You may not perceive the toned-down smell of things you are surrounded by, like wood, plastics or the air in your office.
Good thing there's Stripe
Maybe we're a little fuzzy from too much fermented stuff.
I don't think emotion on its own is bad or good; but it's not something that a computer can emulate. You may get better decisions in some scenarios with certain stakeholders, and worse decisions in other scenarios.

When we talk about "programmed bias", we need to be careful because different subsets of the population hold different bias -- so the bias programmed in is reflective of the experiences of the team that developed the software rather than the population of users it affects.
Does anyone know if anything in the space can allow for P2P microtransactions? Maybe in batches: people send each other a few pennies at time and cash out at the end of the month?

From my review it seemed like this is hard to manage with money laundering regulation but I would love to know if a fintech company can make this work.
Recharging from these wires may not even be necessary to make this economically viable.

If a truck only needs to take power from batteries for the stretches it rides outside such highways, it can have much smaller and lighter batteries, significantly increasing its cargo carrying capacity.
AppStore Shared Transition – “Can It Be Done in React Native?”
> mental overhead that is removed by GC

and it is replaced by GC when your program behaves unexpectedly because, whoopsie, that's the one time the GC decided to run. Good luck debugging or even reproducing that.
Their definition of robustness relies on a pre-specified choice of which set of perturbations to be "robust" to. They use the letter delta for this set in the paper, IIRC. This is where the "human" bit comes in: to define robustness in the abstract you would have to establish which perturbations "should" change the categorisation and which ones "shouldn't", which they avoid attempting to do.
Nah I meant a literal holder made specifically for cups, with no disc reading abilities, a lot like the one posted in this comment thread
Not even a capital gains tax? I know NH doesn't have an income tax, but they do have a capital gains tax.
It's OK with CrossOver for Linux. I ended up just using Krita. If you're a heavy Adobe user Chromebooks are underpowered (except the Pixel).
> Naïve ARC is very expensive…

So is/was garbage collection, and we’ve spent thirty years trying to squeeze every possible bit of performance out of it.

Maybe it’s time to look at other approaches.
It is weird that IE 5 listed Mac OS 5.2.3 in the operating system. That's totally wrong for several reasons. First Mac OS was a name introduced since version 8 or so, and before that it was called System. Second I don't really think System 5.2.3 actually exists. Third and perhaps more importantly the Mac versions of IE were done by a completely different team within Microsoft, using a different rendering engine and having a different set of quirks. IIRC the Mac version gained full PNG support many years before the Windows version did; it was in fact the first browser to do so.

I wouldn't really consider IE for Mac together with IE for Windows. They are more like two different products with a same name.
Of course people have asked about things that seem weird. I'm not saying accountants never use the word "why." I'm saying that's not their role. The function of a public accountant is to gather enough evidence to be reasonably assured of management's assertions. That's it. They aren't investigating the company, they aren't looking for fraud (though sometimes they find it), and they aren't looking to poke holes in the story they've been told. They're looking to confirm it.

If you think about the type of person who tends to become an accountant they're usually more of the box-checking/completionist type rather than the model-building/creative problem-solver type that become engineers. For the most part that's a good thing.
He talks directly about the effects that anti-trust action would have on Google and Amazon near the end of the article.

This is a piece about Facebook specifically. You shouldn't expect that he address every monopoly that should be broken up.
Even if you're not responsible for something that would need to be reported, how certain can you be that none of your bosses or underlings are? Pretty safe to assume the worst.
Think most companies resist using lower level languages due to their ultimate purpose being to build products that provide value and sell them. They are generally far less concerned with the technical details and conciseness of the implementations. "Good enough" is a very squishy term but for most companies, for better or for worse, that bar is pretty low. There are plenty of industries that focus on lower level langs and use them pretty well but it's not the norm for big corporations who value rapid turn around over all other factors.
Given that there is pile on of negative comments about Paypal already I figured it be nice to share that I have never had a single issue with PayPal in about 15-20 years or so.

Neither on my private account nor business accounts.

Not even with the paypal account for my burning man camp.

Just my 2c
He also joined Lyft as a "Support Associate"[1] where he, presumably, got a stock grant that was much much smaller than those for more in demand roles.

He would not have been able to get a stock grant from FB or Google like you describe. It's fine to talk about the risk premium, but you're making an apples to oranges comparison here.

1. https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathan-rodriguez-05653226/
Interesting. Having trouble with one minor point. When a local datetime (in a known timezone) is converted to UTC, won't it know the proper DST setting for that datetime? Seems like it should still get the right answer, with the even smaller exception that a law might be passed to change DST in the meantime.
a what? /s
I don't understand the downvotes here. Yes this is the "the process has finished" post. And? It doesn't add anything, we already knew this was going to happen.
My 2012 iMac was not supported by the osx release last year.
This is not "help", but a flippant answer not addressing any of the interesting points brought up in the parent comment.
>And Zuck asking for weak regulation is such an obvious ploy to stave off stronger action like a breakup that would threaten dominance.

Regulation can often help incumbent businesses by raising the barrier to entry for competition, which allows higher monopoly rents.
> The Catholics tried that for a while but could hold progress only for a few hundred years.

The Catholic church is more vibrant than ever, and still holds substantial sway over many many people. Most modern organizations are unable to hold as much sway over members as the Catholic church does. If anything, the church is a case study in how to make an organization relevant over the course of millennia.

Your point on scientific progress is especially obtuse, given that the entire reason for the study of science in the West was at the behest of Christianity. I can't think of any time the church sought limiting scientific progress as an end unto itself.
There is no other useful meaning of "correct code" apart from "matches specification/design". There is no notion of correctness for design. The design may not be consistent with safety requirements for example.
Well, you can use weak pointers appropriately in a safe setting. It's not fun though. Alternately, you can use a layer of indirection, such as throwing all your graph nodes in a big vector and having them use indices to refer to one another.

So I would perhaps revise that statement to "easy cyclic data structures, memory safety, memory management without tracing, pick two".
If you're not planning to run Chrome OS, I'd definitely recommend making the effort to flash a 3rd party bootrom from https://mrchromebox.tech/ or the no longer updating https://johnlewis.ie/custom-chromebook-firmware/rom-download...

I had better luck with booting FreeBSD on an Acer C720; but I think Mr. Chromebox's bioses keep getting better and better.
True, but as long as there are rules, somebody is going to find a loophole or a way to game the system. I'd personally be more concerned with Google improving their product or with society's increasing reliance on a single company's service and our unwillingness to consume information critically.

PBNs are garbagey, but trying to put them all down is unrealistic. And even if they could be stopped, it would only be a band aid fix, not addressing the real problems.
I'm sure that's what they thought about 3000 years, 3000 years ago.
Looks like a 3rd party licensing reason. Meaning, older versions of those apps may include some component for which Adobe no longer has a license.
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I bought a 2008 aluminum Macbook recently. Runs great on El Capitan on SSD. Does everything you want. Awesome keyboard, USB port. Under $200 bucks.