skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But that’s completely at odds with how most software engineers work these days. Most software is grounded in an open source development and deployment tool chain. There is a market for proprietary developer tools, but it had been dwindling since its prime-time in the 90s.

that is simply not true and a rather insular view. i build large complex systems, and all of it is done with proprietary software. in fact, it is practically impossible to do my job exclusively with open source software. most open source software is completely unreliable and ill-fitted for many domains. and just try getting good support for use cases only found in industrial use from most open source developers. i have tried, and it never works out. the response is usually "you figure it out and let us know".

furthermore, a lot of proprietary software is fairly open source in that you get access to a fair amount of source code. and it isn't dwindling at all.
Mexico has somewhere around 18 million tourists per year, about half of whom are Americans [1]. I can't remember any being murdered, but I suppose a handful have. U.S. media loves to publicize these kinds of things so I'm pretty sure I'd be well aware if it were more than a handful, certainly if it was more than a handful being killed by cartels, who commit most of the murders in Mexico.

So say, 10 tourists get murdered in Mexico each year. That's (very roughly) 10 per 18 million, or 1 per 1.8 million, or 0.06 per 100k.

BTW, adding "per year" to the metric would be misleading, add nothing, because it falls out of the unit analysis in the calculation, which is done based on

10 tourists 10 tourists
1 year murdered murdered
--------------- x -------------- = ---------------
18 mil tourists 1 year 18 mil tourists

This is not that helpful, because tourists stay just a short time, not a full year like local residents. If you want to somehow compare this to a metric of inhabitants murdered per 100k per year then you probably want to do more. Assume the average tourist stays 1 week. Then we need to multiply by 52 to get the number of tourists murdered per year of tourist time in Mexico, which yields result of around 3 (0.06 x 52) per 100k of tourist-years. This is significantly less than the U.S. average of 5 murders/100k per year. So it could be that U.S. tourists are safer in Mexico than they are at home. ;)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_Mexico#Statistics
They were warned by others that the speaker and her boyfriend are troublemakers:

> My team and I were contacted by different people to warn us that they were uncomfortable with the participation of a speaker and her boyfriend in our conference. They told the organization of the conference that this couple had caused problems to women in the community.
This is fantastic. Living in both the English and Japanese-speaking worlds, it'll be nice not having to go through mental gymnastics to remember how to call somebody in whichever language. I think consistency is preferable; it's surely not impossible for people to be educated on name order.
Is there a decent translation in English available?
When airbags first came out, only expensive cars had them. I wouldn't be surprised if side airbags are still only found in nicer cars.

This seems entirely different though. It's more like hitchhiking. When you pay for an Uber or Lyft, there's a level of safety expectations in the car. When you pay for a black car, there's a higher level of expectations. When you don't pay anything, you are using it at your own peril. Now, this could be a bad business model or poor mousetrap for adoption. I'm not arguing with that.
Why the boyfriend? do you really kicked somebody out because some persons didn't like her boyfriend?
this isn't a good analogy. message brokers by design are asynchronous and dont have a typical request/response flow of http.
Have you actually participated in a church community? If so, have you participated in more than one? What you're describing does not match my experience at any of the churches I've belonged to. At all.
If the author cared about "the truth" and "their side of the story" to "clear their name", names would have been named; details would have been detailed. The lack of those things might be a clue that it wasn't the point, but rather a warning to others that might follow the conference organizer path.

Believe the author or not, but there are some fucking Looney Tunes folks out there. If you go gathering a crowd of people above a critical mass, you're going to have to deal with a few of them at some point. That should be your take-away.
Put them before the start of the body and they'll go into the head. In

<!DOCTYPE html>
<title>title</title>
<style>body { color: #111; }</style>
<p>content

the title and style elements are both inside the head element.
Growing Diverse Product Teams
China doesn't block Amazon, FYI.

No foreign company has enough exposure in China for China to destroy them.
Khrushchev to Nixon in the 1959 Kitchen Debate, "...we will pass you and your capitalism in our advancement and wave to you as we go past..."

SOCIALISM... some people never learn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CvQOuNecy4
Mathematica is basically a programming environment for the Wolfram Language. You can think of Mathematica as a desktop version of Jupyter Notebook for Wolfram Language.
There are ways around this. I quite like what TimescaleDB have done, with most features OSS, and the more advanced features are under an open source license that permits use for those building a product around it, but preventing TimescaleDB as a service.
IMO they needed one transitional design where they replaced the thunderbolt (is that right? I get all their storm-named ports mixed up) ports, and maybe the charger port if they must, with USB-C, but kept HDMI and at least one USB-A. I use the SDCARD port all the time but I could see their getting rid of it. The other stuff? Gimme a break, going all USB-C from a state of no USB-C? WTF was I supposed to plug into it without an adapter or buying all new peripherals and drives?
There is a 'contact' link in page footer, basically email hn@ycombinator.com
“Maslow’s pyramid” is based on an elitist misreading of the psychologist’s work
>>Capitalism as we know it played a big role in the abundance we’ve had here, but it has also left the US with the most expensive medical care and alienated individuals.

Healthcare is one of the least capitalistic parts of the economy, in the US and the rest of the Western world, and consequently, suffering from increasing costs.

In contrast to the increasingly regulated and subsidized major medical fields, the most capitalistic fields of medicine, like cosmetic procedures, have actually seen prices increase at below the rate of inflation over the last several decades.
Sounds like the same reason the Derbycon organizers aren't doing it again: https://www.derbycon.com/blog/derbycon-9-0-every-beginning-h...
I can confirm. Also, in many cases, French names are last name first, e.g. in the military, but there is a comma to separate, e.g. "Lacombe, Lucien"
Not the writer of that post, but maybe they're pointing out the difference between "lending a helping hand" and "deplatforming".
Good luck with mcguire. ;-)
There was a rumor about a new 16.5 inches mbp. I guess that would be another year then.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/02/17/apple-plans-new-1...
Mathworks' revenue is $1bn, it has doubled in the last decade. Someone may be using Matlab.
I too am still waiting for the mythical bitcode powered 100 core ARM MacBook here.
Pelamis
What makes you believe the OP’s story?
Do you realize he is harassing them back, writing this post and posting all around internet?
Ablating the surface will deflect the missile from its course. Not as good as destroying it but will probably reduce its effectiveness quite a bit.
It also has to be the right other people. When someone says they're lonely, what I hear is a lack of connection to peers and others like them. I'm not sure how generic volunteering would help with that.
1. Few human organisations nowadays promote values as bad as most religions.

2. You can be a member of several overlapping organizations, but only one church, normally. So, the problem of losing a community is exacerbated with church.
A responder to this wrote "Sometimes fairness requires stepping in and lending a helping hand to right an imbalance.", which is definitely the answer that lots of people would give. Obviously this is an ideological stance, and it sounds like you probably disagree with it. But I think it's also pretty obvious, even before asking, that the only answer is going to be an ideological stance. It's one person or group's perspective of what is decent and right to do, and it happens not to be yours. So the answer to why they included that part is, of course, "because they wanted to".

My point is: on the one hand, if you disagree with the ideology, then... that's just that. You disagree about what is most decent to do. But I don't believe that you are confused about what other people's ideologies are -- you know perfectly well why they are doing the things they do, what value system informs their actions. So what's the point of protesting it here like you're bewildered about it? The only result is people shouting their stances at each other -- not a debate, or even an argument, at all.

I mention this, and risk making things worse, because I think it is important to recognize this thread as one of those pointlessly destructive ones, which changes nothing except to make people more annoyed at each other. It just amounts to people saying what they think and trying to make it sound abundantly reasonable so the other side sounds wrong. It's a fake argument; what's the point of starting it?
I've got no stake in this, but I'll note that from the claims Wolfram has made, they've got a 30 year track record in which notebooks going back to 1.0 still run in the latest version.
I've seen this convention used by English-speaking academic mathematicians (who perhaps picked it up from the French).
I drive a Ford with those blindspot mirrors and they may be the best feature on the car. I'm baffled as to why integrated blind spot mirrors haven't become standard.
I can't answer your question, but what will happen to the property market after sea level rise is a central part of Kim Stanley Robinson's book New York 2140. It is fascinating and I can highly recommend it.
since python 3.6 you can use static types in python if you want.
> Well the crux of my argument is that they don't need Facebook, thus it is not a problem.

2.3 billion people use Facebook. Many of them say they need Facebook. Many of them use Facebook even though they don't like it -- why would someone do that unless they must? Your claim that no one needs Facebook is not just wrong, it's absurd.

> Not having access to Facebook might be very inconvenient, but nobody has a right to convenience. At the end of the day you can't prevent Facebook from regulating the use of its own private property.

Something doesn't have to be a right to be desirable. And nobody has a right to private property.

> Facebook users don't pay fees to keep the network running so I can't fathom any sane regulation that could prevent Facebook from arbitrarily limiting user access to their network except where it relates to the user's control of their own personal data.

I can't fathom any regulation more insane than letting His Autocratic Majesty Mark "Dumb Fucks" I. of Zuckerberg do whatever he wants with his kingdom.

> The idea that Facebook is the only option for communication is very clearly not true.

Sometimes it is and you don't have a choice. Thus whether Facebook is a monopoly is merely a semantic question: The issue with monopolies is that individuals cannot chose. The issue with Facebook is the same, so it should be treated the same.
>The MacBook Pro keyboard mechanism has had a materials change in the mechanism. Apple says that this new keyboard mechanism composition will substantially reduce the double type/no type issue. Apple will not specify what it has done, but doubtless tear-downs of the keyboard will reveal what has been updated.

They say it's improved. But check back in a year or so to see if it works, because the 3rd gen revisions didn't end up fixing it before.

If you have a 3rd gen butterfly keyboard, replacements will now use the 4th gen.

If you have a 1st or 2nd, they'll continue to replace the failing keyboards with more failing keyboards. Lucky me!

In other news for the 2016 MBP, there's a new repair extension program for the "Oops we made the display ribbon cable too short" issue. Haven't had that problem myself, but this was an expensive goddamn laptop and I'm not optimistic about its resale value or lifespan after the 4 year repair window is up. Multiple known design flaws that cost $600-$800, and in the keyboard's case are just putting in more of the same failure-prone parts.
What's outlined in the article doesn't meet the burden of proof. There was a conflict and OP solipsistically experienced it as a big deal. Meanwhile, there's plenty of oppression and destitution in the world, but let's all focus on some low-level drama because it's more entertaining.
The violence in asking “What's the goal?”
Why not use Firefox multi account containers[1] for this use case?
Having one banking container or even one per bank would have the same effect, without the annoyances of private mode?

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
I realize that. But what I said was that I'm not clear on what the 'Wolfram Engine' is and what it cannot do. It doesn't seem like a full implementation of the Wolfram Language for free, but I don't actually know.

Or is it that it's missing the Mathematica front end but has a full backend kernel implementation?
I’m not saying it doesn’t exist, but I am claiming it’s uncommon to use closed source developer tools (compilers, interpreters, standard libraries, etc.). The mere fact that the most popular programming languages in the world are provided as open source implementations is a testament to that. There are some stragglers. I think K is closed source. Commercial implementations of APL are closed source but somewhat popular.

“Source [partially] available” and “open source” are generally considered distinct concepts these days. See for instance [0] or even look up what Google’s dictionary says about the term.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Open_Source_Definition
I just upgraded my 13" 2015 Macbook Pro's SSD from 256GB -> 1 TB for ~100 USD. With 16 GB of RAM, a great keyboard that's given me no issues, recently replaced screen lamination under warranty, and now a faster and larger SSD, I see absolutely no reason to upgrade to the new generation of Macbooks in the next few years.
Having one desktop-powerful machine that can turn into a laptop when you unplug it from its dock and go with me anywhere is well worth the extra $100. And I'm saying this as someone with a dedicated desktop just for rendering/games. The desktop gives me customization and upgradability but the fact that I lose portability is huge and I'll never, ever own just a desktop machine. I'd prefer to own a laptop that can do my desktop duties when docked.
One person cannot speak for an entire gamut of people. There will be people for whom the way one says their name is not a simple matter of grammar but of identity, pride, family history, etc. The Japanese respect the rest of the world enough not to reverse our names — Brad Pitt doesn't become Pitt Brad — so there's no reason why we cannot accord the same back.

There may also be great personal meaning or even simple wordplay in their name, said in a specific order, that is lost in translation.

One (admittedly fatuous; ignore that I'm choosing a fictional character, it's merely for illustration) example is the main character from the manga The Disastrous Life of Saiki K — the name Saiki Kusuo contains a pun (the first three morae sound like 'psychic'), but this pun is lost whenever the name is written or said in Western order.
Apple is well-known for never talking about competition. They like to pretend it doesn't exist and only compare their products to the previous series.
I've been using pinboard.com since the open beta, almost ten years ago. One of the hidden (?) gems of the internet.
In the name of improving equality, many conferences are turning to censorious tactics, removing anyone who receives the slightest complaint on ground of even minor disagreement with those claiming to be fighting for equality.

To clarify, I don't think that's what's happening in this story. This is more a response to the GGP post.
The "Last, First" convention exists in English as well. To me it reads as something you'd see in the index of a book, since indices are usually ordered by last name but they'll want to show the first names as well.
Volunteering has several things going for it, though:

1) There is something other than simply socialization going on, which means there isn't the same pressure to be "on" and hold up your end of a conversation.

2) There is a built in topic of conversation (whatever you're volunteering for).

3) You will often see the same group of people repeatedly, which breeds familiarity and allows relationships to develop slowly over repeated interactions.
I think the author makes sense with that. People should be comfortable and feel safe, but then the author goes on to explicitly talk about gender and what I assume are racial minorities. I don't think that race and gender are the only disadvantaged groups in the world. Things like disability, mental illness, and country of origin can have a much bigger impact on whether somebody could become a speaker. Depending on how you slice it, you can end up with an enormous amount of these groups and I think the best way to promote fairness is to sometimes give them an advantage, but it should only be a portion of the whole. Eg a disabled speaker could have some very interesting insights on tech, especially when it comes to UI, but that doesn't mean we should try to make the conference have an equal amount of disabled people as speakers. It makes more sense to pick topics and technical ability in the vast majority of cases, because that's what people are there for.
Right after saying “there will be conflict”, Ren said China and the US will eventually hug each other on the “summit of technology” and make contributions to the humanity together.
Same. Also Cortana or any other thing like it which is really sad seeing how useful they could be. To have to choose convenience or privacy sucks. I wish there was a middle ground. I would happily pay for a voice assistant that lives on my machine and respects my privacy.
That's awesome that you are doing that. Sounds like a worthy venture
How is it non-standard?
Huawei's controlling ownership structure is opaque. They might be controlled by the PLA, or maybe just the Ren family by themselves. Employees get shares, but nothing in terms of controlling ownership, and it is all cashed out when they leave.

On the other hand, even if Huawei is controlled by the PLA, so what? They are under Chinese jurisdiction anyways, so the Chinese government could already do pretty much whatever it wanted to with it. The same for an American company under American jurisdiction.
It's not just this new high-end option that is missing, they haven't updated the 13 inch non-touchbar model _at all_. They completely skipped it in the refresh a few months ago and it is still using 7th gen processors (the touchbar model was updated, but only to an 8th gen processor. All 15 inch models were updated to 9th gen).

I don't believe the non-touchbar model has received a single spec update since it was announced (though I am having difficulty determining that for sure)
Inventing things like this is needless. We don't put commas or grave characters in Chinese and Korean names.
One could restrict it to the first mentioning in any (con)text. Would that be acceptable?
Capitalism also funded the research and development of that medical care you're complaining about being too expensive. Better that it exists and is expensive rather than that medical care not existing at all.
The name can be found by searching for 5 min on twitter, starting with the name of the conference and going down until you reach posts that are not announcements.
I have this problem, but the reason I think it's a problem is that I have to switch back-and-forth between a number of machines, some with touchbars, and some without.

Just this month I got matching external keyboards for all, and it's been much easier having one set of muscle memory no matter what I'm doing.
Facebook does not have a monopoly on communications just as Standard Oil did not have a monopoly on fuel -- you could always choose coal or wood instead. Communications is not just one monolithic market in which everything is substitutable for everything.
I'll buy one after they remove that touchbar. Please remove the touchbar.
Oh but don't worry, Cali boomers think about the environment: they're forcing all new constructions (not their own properties, mind you) to have solar panels on their roof - another thinly disguised NIMBY policy to make construction harder and more expensive, under the pretense of helping the environment... When increased density would be a much more efficient solution to this problem too.
You replied to a different question, and declared that question nonsense.

My question is: do you use Google?
As someone whose (bog-standard American-style) last name is also a common first name, this convention would save me a lot of trouble as well. It’s a consistent source of confusion for secretaries, receptionists, and so on.
> what a junior software engineer costs in the bay area

What. Not even close.

> I've also seen three entries for "Thomas G McKenzie" on the first few pages of this source

The incompetence of Transparent California is the incompetence of the state.
It's probably time to start banging the ThinkPad drum again, but first they need to put their RAM back in sockets.
He said at one time they signed the deal to sell Huawei to a US company (Motorola, I believe) and were waiting for the buyer’s board to approve the deal. He said they wanted to succeed as a US company (“wearing cowboy hats” in his words). After the deal fell through, his younger colleagues voted to not try to find another buyer. He warned his younger colleagues then that there would be conflict with US if they succeeded too well. Interesting tidbits.
https://github.com/mmatera/iwolfram
That's a funny claim. I know welders of all ages. The older ones seem to tend to migrate to other work which requires less physical exertion, but that's true of every job I see.

I don't know any old dancers, but that doesn't mean dancing is lethal. It means they tend to shift to choreography or teaching or something else as they get older.
This sort of "upgrade" nickel and diming is true of every laptop vendor, but Apple is definitely one of the worst. It's like their pricing structure is stuck in 2012
Probably very similar to my desire to climb mountains. I just wanna see what it looks like on other side... aka curiosity.

If you’re only doing things other people tell you that you should, it’s worth taking some time for self-reflection to figure out why, and to find out what you _yourself_ are interested in.

Nature walks are great for that kind of thing :)
It hasn't hurt me so far.
All the USB-C ports on the new MacBook Pros double as Thunderbolt 3 ports — IMO this is a big advantage over other laptops where some ports are USB-C only.

I've only ever had a 2016+ MBP as a work computer so I didn't mind the USB-C stuff too much (especially with a dock that I didn't have to pay for). The lack of dedicated ethernet port and SD card reader is vexxing though (on my personal 2015 MBP).
Crashplan bans particular filetypes and removes them from customer accounts
Certain churches are definitely filled with very judgemental people and full of cliques.
We're already writing it in the Roman alphabet, but using the associated punctuation would offend you?